Christmas Eve in Illinois Brims With Joy and Worries
Snow offers hope for Christmas Eve as Illinois communities share warm acts and sorrow. Mrs. Kathy Williams, age 113, receives three gallons of vanilla ice cream from a Chicago distributor. Ed Clinch in Peoria gets his annual coconut via a parachutist. a cherished 12 year old spruce is stolen from the Pakosta family. Archbishop Cody prepares a Skid Row Christmas dinner and a prayer service, while Mrs. Trimble in Decatur speaks with her son Sgt. Larry Trimble in Viet Nam. A Rockford home holds a tree and gifts as a missing 11 year old girl haunts the family.
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Aurora
Chicago
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Clinch
Elmer Pakesta
Pakosta
Florence
John Patrick Cody
Skid Row
Thomas Calkins
West Side
Oak Park Hospital
Calkins
Mearl Trimble
Decatur
Paul Douglas
D-Ill
Rockford
Brady
Susan
Kitten Reunited With Lynda Hoge After Two-Week Loss
Lynda Hoge the three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hoge of Ridge Crest Subdivision got her kitten back just before Christmas. A front page Morris Daily Herald story prompted a call from a Claypool Subdivision resident who found the cat after it jumped into her car in the Kroger parking lot on Division Street. The finder’s child had grown fond of the kitten, but happiness prevailed as the pet returned to Lynda following her Christmas request to Santa Claus.
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George Hoge
Ridge Crest Subdivision
Morris Daily Herald
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Morris
Kroger
Division St
Hoge
Lynda
Santa Claus
New Jersey
James Monroe
United States
King Street
Abraham Lincoln
Green Room
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Mary Todd Lincoln
Weather forecast notes potential Christmas snow
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts snow possible by tonight with nearly an inch on the ground by Christmas morning. Temperatures will hover in the 30s through the weekend with a 30 degree low. Collins station logged 55 high and 44 low Thursday and 45 at 9 am today with 1.14 inches of precipitation.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins Weather Station
Morris Daily Herald skips Saturday issue for Christmas
No Saturday edition this week due to Christmas holiday. Publication will resume Monday.
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Morris Daily Herald
President in Texas to Open Gifts Tonight
President Johnson and family traveled to his renovated boyhood home in Johnson City to hear Christmas carols by choirs from three local churches. Lady Bird Johnson sang along as Lynda and Luci joined the family on the porch, while townspeople lined the scene for greetings and a festive mood.
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Texas
Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
LBJ
Warn of Holiday Driving Hazards
Millions head for the highways as the first part of the Christmas weekend opens with warnings of hazardous driving. At least 80 deaths occurred in early holiday hours including 10 killed when a Greyhound bus left an icy Interstate 5 north of Medford Oregon. The bus en route from Spokane to San Francisco went off an embankment with 30 injured. Stormy weather, snow, rain and gusty winds affected wide Western areas as NSC projected 560 to 660 deaths by Sunday midnight.
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Greyhound
Medford
Oregon
National Safety Council
Spokane
Wash
San Francisco
Portland
Christmas cease fire holds amid heavy fighting in Vietnam
The 30 hour Christmas cease fire began at 6 p.m. with both sides observing a 12 hour Viet Cong truce. Despite the pause reports show U S B 52s, mortars, and ground offensives continuing around Da Nang Hue and Phu Cat as officials warn fighting will resume after the truce.
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Guam
Saigon
Lac Son
da Nang
Peace on Earth Remote for Men Serving in South Viet Nam
AP dispatch recalls Christmas in wars past from 1776 to 1965, juxtaposing memories of Bethlehem and Bastogne with today's Viet Nam front. It notes how soldiers face danger while longing for home and peace as the nation marks Christmas amid ongoing conflicts.
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South Viet Nam
Saigon
Brink
Bethlehem
America
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