Silent World of a Child Sheds Light on Hope and Challenge
The Akron Beacon Journal profiles Clarence Stephen Hathaway a 30 year old? No 4 year old boy in Stow whose deaf blind parents shape a silent world at home yet he finds noise and friendship at nursery school. He balances caretaking tasks and learns to communicate读 in a bustling classroom with about 300 youngsters aiding his growth and resilience.
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Akron, Ohio
Clarence Stephen Hathaway
Stow
Clarence
Russell W. Thomas
Highway Traffic Poses Danger On Long Weekend
Louisiana troopers begin a special highway patrol at 6 p.m. focusing on speeders and drunk drivers as Christmas weekend starts. Police say city traffic should be quiet but highway enforcement will continue outside Monroe city limits with marked and unmarked cars on duty.
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Troop F
Louisiana State Police
M. E. Kidd
James C. Kelly, Jr
Monroe
Arabs Travel To Bethlehem The Long Way
A Palestinian carpenter from Nazareth joined 1 730 Christian Arabs in Israel crossing into Jordan for Christmas in Bethlehem. He traveled twice the distance of Joseph and Mary, crossing no man’s land at Mandelbaum Gate under war strife, while Sen. Stuart Symington joined tourists in visiting the Church of the Nativity. Christmas services abound in Manger Square with Catholic and Protestant observances amid Arab Christian communities.
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Bethlehem
Jordan
Nazareth
Joseph
Mary
Israel
Jerusalem
Palestine
No Man's Land
Mandelbaum Gate
Stuart Symington
DMO
Cloudy Christmas Eve Foretells Quiet Twin Cities Weather
The Twin Cities area expects cloudy overcast skies with no precipitation. The statewide forecast through Saturday shows similar conditions as temperatures drift between 46 and 52 tonight and 64 on Christmas day with a potential rain threat.
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Twin Cities
Selman Field
Eisenhower Urges Peace as Christmas Message
President Eisenhower delivered a Christmas message calling for open peaceful partnerships and aid to needy nations. He spoke at the pageant of peace after returning from a trip to Africa, Asia, and Europe and lit the National Christmas tree in a White House park.
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Washington
Eisenhower
America
White House
Africa
Asia
Europe
FBI Recovers Stolen Arsenal On Lake Pontchartrain
FBI agents seized an arsenal recovered from a boat house on Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. Seventy two guns stolen June 1 from an Oxnard National Guard armory were found wrapped in blankets. three air cooled 50 caliber machine guns and 34 M-1 rifles among the weapons. Four men indicted in the theft were named. Pendley captured in Florida and others arrested in Texas and California. No New Orleans arrests were made.
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New Orleans
FBI
California
Lake Pontchartrain
National Guard
Oxnard
Calif
Horace Jackson Pendley Jr
Decatur
Pendley
Jacksonville
Fla
Uns
Federal Grand Jury
Los Angeles
Florida
Billy Jean Knox
el Paso
Tex
Manchaca
Gerald Lucia
David Morris Pendley
Horace Pendley
R. W. Bachman
Bachman
Lonely Christmas for U S Servicemen Worldwide
The article recalls U S service members stretched across remote posts for Christmas. Air Force personnel on Resolution Island guard a radar line near Labrador and must air drop a Christmas tree. Navy scientists at the South Pole plan candlelight dinner at Alpha and Bravo stations on Fletcher's Ice Island.
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Washington
Shemya
Aleutians
Canada
Greenland
South Pole
Alpha
Bravo
Fletcher
Ice Island
Man Dies In West Monroe Auto Smashup
A 43 year old man, Carl C Brown, died in a single vehicle crash near Cypress Claiborne street in West Monroe shortly after midnight. He was alone, died en route to St Francis Hospital. Funeral arrangements are with Riser and Sons Funeral Home of Columbia. Burial at Hebert Cemetery. He is survived by a widow Opal and six children, plus parents and many siblings.
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West Monroe
Carl C. Brown
Cypress-Claiborne Street
Cypress
St. Francis Hospital
Riser and Son
Columbia
Hebert Cemetery
Opal Brown
Carl C. Brown Jr
Virginia McLemore
Betty Brown
Debbie Brown
M. D. Brown
Lottie McDonald
Randolph Brown
Hebert
Roger Brown
Monroe
Payton Brown
Tullis
Lawrence
Otis Brown
Maurice Brown
Pine Bluff
Ark
Three Men Die in Fort Worth Plane Crash
A Cessna 195 carrying Thomas Butcher 23 Dallas James Cummings 36 Garland and Edward Bristow 48 Dallas crashed in fog near Amon Carter Field while attempting a radar landing. Butcher company owner and Space Corp subcontractor, en route home for Christmas from Cheyenne. Immediate search launched as visibility remained poor.
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Fort Worth
Apc
Amon Carter Field
Department of Public Safety
Thomas Patrick Butcher
Dallas
Carter Field
James Herbert Cummings
Garland
Tex
Edward Oliver Bristow
Cummings Process Piping Co
Cheyenne
Wyo
Butcher
Cummings
Space Corp
Warren Air Force Base
Butcher Electric Co
Texas Department of Public Safety
Love Field
Drive Concludes as Goodfellows Distribute Toys
The Goodfellows drive around the Twin Cities sent 440 sacks of toys to needy children. Trucks loaded at 5 and 8 a.m. as major gifts arrived, including a full toy line donation from the So-Bo pet shop. Appeals continued until last night and may resume after Christmas.
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the Goodfellows
Twin Cities
So-Bo
Goodfellow Drive
Goodfellow
Donations and memorial gifts listed for community fund
The records show numerous contributions totaling several thousand dollars from individuals and groups. Notable gifts include 4848.99 in donations, 18.00 from Delta Air Lines Buck A Month, 10.00 from LGW, and 5.00 memory gifts for Darwin Nichols from Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Martin. Other donors include Cass Walker, Sharon Godwin, the Rhodes family, and Brownie Troop No. 83.
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Delta Air Lines
LGW
Southside Wesleyan Service Guild
Darwin Nichols
E. B Martin
WCS
Cass Walker
Michael Brown
Lake Providence
Sharon Godwin
Linda Rhodes
Shelley Goodwin
Kathy Goodwin
Ladd Rhodes
Kevin Rhodes
Kim Rhodes
Becky Rhodes
Jeff Jasper
Carol James
Ricky Jasper
Steve Jasper
Joe Abbott
Anonymous
Bill Earl
Mr. and
Mrs. A. H. Gerson
Delta Airlines Pioneer Laigh Parker Dies at 57
Laigh C. Parker helped grow Delta Air Lines from a crop dusting service to a major carrier. He died of cancer at 57 after a career spanning 1934 to 1950s, serving as senior VP and assistant to the president. He served as a captain and colonel in the Army Air Forces, and leaves a widow Kate Landreth and three brothers.
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Atlanta
Laigh C. Parker
Delta Air Lines
Parker
Delta
C. D. Woolman
Army Air Force
Air Transport Command
Jackson
Kate Landreth
Water Valley
Miss
J. K. Kirkland
Quitman
Mattie Langley
Robert N
New Orleans
James A. O. Dallas
Charles S
Memphis
Holly Ridge Boy Dies In Blaze Rites Today
A Holly Ridge boy died in a Christmas Eve fire that destroyed his step brother’s home when he poured oil on fuel in a wood heater causing an explosion. Services were held at Shady Grove Church of God with burial in Knight Cemetery. Survivors include his parents James A. McGrew Sr. and Olav Clifton and several siblings.
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Franklin Lee McGrew
Young McGrew
Shady Grove Church
Chuckle Success Formula Promotes Tiny, Habit Forming Product
A tongue in cheek note urges inventors to create a product costing a dime to make and selling for a dollar, described as habit forming and highly profitable in a humorous aside. The piece frames the idea as a playful success formula.
Christmas Miracle Boy Rescued From Debris Filled Well
A 3 year old boy fell into a 100 foot well on a Texas ranch. Mexican worker J Manuel Carrol crawled head first into a 70 foot pipe and pulled the child out with a rope tied around his ankle. Family credits prayer and quick action for the rescue.
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F. W. O'Bannon
Lord Halifax Dies Marks End Of An Era In Wartime Service
Lord Halifax died at his Yorkshire country home at 78 after a chest ailment. The former viceroy to India and foreign secretary helped persuade the United States to aid Britain in World War II and served as wartime ambassador to Washington. In Washington Acting Secretary Dillon praised him as a staunch friend who strengthened Anglo American relations. London officials highlighted his integrity and public service despite early appeasement labels. He led Britain’s wartime diplomacy and declared in 1940 that fighting would continue until freedom prevailed.
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York
England
Lord Halifax
Yorkshire
United States
India
Washington
Halifax
Lord Irwin
Douglas Dillon
Dillon
London
Selwyn Lloyd
Hitler
Munich
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Britain
Roosevelt
Annapolis
King George V
Five Die in Patterson Auto Crash
A two car collision near Patterson Louisiana last night killed five people including James C Letney and his son David Letney. Also dead were Edric Gautreaux 22 and his wife Barbara 16 of Morgan City. Letney’s 3 year old daughter Sandra died today from a skull fracture. Mrs Letney remained in serious condition in a New Orleans hospital with a cerebral concussion.
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Patterson
Here
James C. Letney
David
Edric F. Gautreaux
Barbara
Morgan City
Letney
Sandra
Wide Christmas snowstorm toll climbs across Midwest and East
A pre Christmas blizzard blanketed the northern half of the country with up to a foot of powder in the Midwest and Great Lakes. The system caused transportation disruptions and 38 deaths, many from traffic crashes and shoveling-related heart attacks, as Chicago and Wisconsin counties reported multiple fatalities.
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Midwest
Plains
Great Lakes
Wisconsin
Chicago
One Sour Note Christmas Depression Shift in U S
A psychiatric research team from the University of Utah says Christmas can trigger depression and problematic behavior in some people. The study notes societal pressures for happiness and gift giving, with 30 to 90 percent of patients in university clinics exhibiting distress.
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San Francisco
United States
Nyla J. Cole
Herbert B. Fowler
University of Utah
Orla M. Shaw
Helen Ratcliffe
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O'Bannon
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Juarez
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