Science is Big Christmas Aid
By Howard W. Blakeslee. Christmas dawns brighter thanks to science as penicillin lowers pneumonia deaths and arthritis pain eases. For 60,000 American babies, Christmas arrives earlier due to improved survival and medical advances. The piece notes science brings relief and longer life, contrasting with the critic’s view of science as only wartime tech.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
New York
G. I
Joe
Grandpa
Grandma
Science gifts and risks of progress in a Christmas tale
The passage argues science brings saving cures, better food, synthetic Christmas trees, fireproof Santa beards, and booming TV sales, while countering a view that material advances erode spirit. It asserts science expanded life and moral strength, comparing past beliefs to modern understanding and faith.
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Rockfeller Center
New York City
Rockefeller Center
Joe
Earth
Bricklayers Here Elect Officers
Monroe Bricklayers and Plasterers union elected officers for the new year. Joe Hibbard is president, Ernest Venable vice-president, Marty Dray recording secretary, Jeff Clark sergeant-at-arms, Charles Norton secretary and business agent. C. M. Dray re-elected international union deputy, Bobby Clark chosen alternate deputy. Norton said the union closed one of the most successful years in its history.
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Monroe Bricklayers and Plasterers Union
Joe Hibbard
Ernest Venable
Marty Dray
Jeff Clark
Charles Norton
C. M. Dray
International Union
Bobby Clark
Norton
Girl killed and nine hurt in Alexandria crash
A 20 year old girl Julia Corley was killed and nine people injured when a truck with church pic nickers was hit by a car just outside Alexandria. Elmer O Sowers 54, driver of the car, faced charges per state police.
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Alexandria
Julia Corley
Louisiana College
Elmer O. Sowers
Student Night Set Aside by Presbyterian Church
The seventh annual Student Night honors college students in the Presbyterian Church U S A. On December 25 at 5 00 p m First Church Monroe will join other churches in honoring young church members at college. Westminister Fellowship groups present reports on Christian students at work locally and globally, followed by a fellowship hour and guest visits. Everyone is invited to attend with friends.
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Presbyterian Church
U. S
Westminister
College
First Church
Monroe
Westminister Fellowship
States Join Fight for Segregation
Texas will be joined by North Carolina Tennessee Georgia and Louisiana in its Supreme Court fight to uphold Separate schools for Negroes and whites Attorney General Price Daniel said. North Carolina AG Harry McMullan advised they will file supporting briefs for oral arguments set January 30. Heman Marion Sweatt of Houston seeks to have Texas segregated system declared discriminatory and unconstitutional arguing segregation is unconstitutional even with equal facilities.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
North Carolina
Tennessee
Georgia
Louisiana
Supreme Court
Price Daniel
Harry McMullan
United States Supreme Court
Heman Marion Sweatt
Houston
Sweatt
Midnight Mass Announced At Grace Episcopal Church
Grace Episcopal Church will celebrate a midnight mass on Saturday, ushering in Christmas 1950. The service includes Bach organ preludes, Lehmann Introit, Mozart readings, "Jesu Bambino" and "Tidings of Joy" solos, a sermon by Father Jones, and Holy Communion with Hymns No. 43 and 42.
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Grace Episcopal Church
Jesu Bambino
Camille Hancock
Father Jones
Zion
Bach
Hundreds of Small Voices Call Doctor
New York physician Dr. Herman B. Zurrow began receiving 400 daily calls from children asking for Santa Claus. The toy shop that had hired a Santa last year had its number reassigned to his office, Murray Hill 8-2551, after the shop dropped the idea. He recalls writing a blistering letter to the phone company.
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New York
Herman B. Zurrow
Santa Claus
58Th Street
Santa
Dr. Zurrow
Murray Hill
Santa Claus Gets Disconnected In Phone Directory
The article notes a quirky scene where dialing Murray Hill 8-2551 yields an operator who directs callers to Dr. Zurrow for his new number, but when Santa is requested the operator calmly replies that Santa Claus’ number has been disconnected.
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Murray Hill
Dr. Zurrow
Santa
Santa Claus
Man from Bend of the River Helps Deaf Blind Girl See
In Talladega Alabama an 18 year old student Bernadine Pressley at the Alabama School for the Deaf and Blind gains sight with special glasses funded by an anonymous donor calling himself the man from the bend of the river. He also provided 100 shares in Edison Company worth more than 2000 dollars to the school.
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Talladega
Ala
Mobile
Chicago
Bernadine Pressley
Alabama School For the Deaf and Blind
John E. Bryan
Alabama
Dr. Bryan
Edison Company
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