2.4 Million Pounds of Turkey for U S Servicemen
Americans serving worldwide will dine on a Christmas menu including 360000 pounds of shrimp 24 million pounds of turkey 675000 pounds of sweet potatoes 360000 pounds of cranberry sauce and other items. Total cost 4227300 dollars with a per man value of 1 41. The Defense Personnel Support Center in Philadelphia coordinates wholesale purchases for delivery to troops via designated points. In Vietnam the Army's 1st Logistical Command handles requisitions for 372000 personnel with similar menus.
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Defense Personnel Support Center
Philadelphia
Vietnam
Pupils Gift Mrs. Loy A Kitten From Shelter
Mrs Barbara Loy a Parsons Junior High School teacher at Parsons Kansas receives a kitten chosen by her 7th grade social studies class The pupils learned she had lost a pet kitten to poisoning and returned with three options for her to select from This is the one she picked AP Wirephoto
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Barbara Loy
Parsons Junior High School
Parsons, Kan
Foxy the terrier rings alarm when owner falls in Gate City
In Gate City Virginia AP report, 84 year old Mrs. W Z Robinette breaks her hip on a concrete walkway. Foxy leaps three feet to grab a bell rope and creates noise that brings neighbor Mrs Clay Stapleton to summon aid. Robinette recovers in hospital.
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Gate City
Foxy
W. Z. Robinette
Divining rod leads workers to sewer pipe in Charleston
In Charleston West Virginia a sewer line break could not be located during initial construction. Foreman uses divining rod to guide digging and locates a functioning sewer pipe twenty two feet down, not the damaged line.
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Charleston
W. Va
Statue Returned After Theft With Apology Note
In Provo Utah thieves returned a Nativity statue of Joseph with an apologetic note a box of chocolates and a Christmas card. The note blamed curiosity for the act and said they would have placed the statue back atop a mortuary column if not for a missing ladder.
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Provo, Utah
Joseph
Christmas Peace Messages Across Nations In 1966
Joyful Christmas observances spread worldwide as Christians mark the nativity with prayers and family gatherings. Pope Paul VI hopes for a miracle of goodwill to end the war while leaders like Prime Minister Lester Pearson urge love and understanding. Flights and trains run heavy despite a crippling snowstorm and Muslim pilgrims cross borders to Bethlehem. Queen Elizabeth visits Windsor while Johnson plans hospital gifts in Texas and Vietnam services accompany Cardinal Spellman and Billy Graham. In Florence floods affect 3000 homeless and 2000 in unheated shelters.
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Pope Paul VI
Lester Pearson
Canada
United States
Oklahoma
Johnson
San Antonio
Tex
Vietnam
Johnsons
LBJ
Muscatine Journal to skip Monday issue
The Muscatine Journal will not be published Monday December 26 and its office remains closed in observance of the Christmas holiday.
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Muscatine Journal
Christmas Scenes Show Bethlehem Born Again in Local Pageant
A church pageant depicts the nativity with the Holy Family the shepherds and the wise men. The Seiler family portrays the Holy Family with baby Shelley while Grace Lutheran and First Baptist church groups portray shepherds and wise men. Junior choirs sing as Denise Loy leads a child choir in Christmas praise.
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Nazareth
Judea
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Bethlehem
Mary
Holy Family
Ron Seiler
Shelley
Seilers
Wae
Evangelical Free Church
Maria Kitman
First Baptist Church
W. J.cullen
Brian Askam
David Hurlbut
Danny Erickson
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