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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1951
Page
5
Elm Street School cancelled two Christmas assemblies planned for students and parents as weather forced early closing. The program featured Dickens' Christmas Carol themed scenes, slides, and Picasso inspired light drawings of Santa’s reindeer along the balustrade.
Smelser brought the plane down half a mile from the lake and a mile west of Cobourg. The craft cleared a house and fence, skidded in snow to within yards of a farm home. Passengers included American servicemen, businessmen and wives, and four children. They waited in a farmhouse before bus transport to Tren ton, 30 miles east for onward travel. In 1919 a British dirigible took 108 hours to cross the Atlantic.
In Cobourg Ontario a transcontinental plane forced a belly landing in a farmer's field after both engines failed in a snowstorm. The 47 aboard were uninjured, with two babies sleeping in arms. the unscheduled trip from Burbank to Newark had one engine fail and radio cutout before the second engine failed as the aircraft neared Lake Ontario. Pilot Bruce L. Smelser of Burbank landed without tragedy.
Rudolf Goethe, husband of the former Lutheran minister in Wiesbaden, says he will become a Roman Catholic priest to unite Christians under one church. He received papal permission from Pope Pius VIII to be ordained in Mainz on December 22, one day before his 70th birthday, with L Osservatore Romano noting celibacy rules remain unchanged.
A German Protestant pastor, unnamed, has been granted permission to become a Catholic priest and will remain unmarried during three years of study before ordination. Vatican sources note the prior marriage and the conversion request are valued by the Church and non dissolvable. Ordination of married men is rare but possible, a practice dating to early church history and briefly allowed in Western rites before Leo the Great ended clerical marriage.
Burbank California December 20 Barton Yarborough known for portraying Cliff Barbour on radio's One Mans Family since 1932 died at his home. The Texas native trained with Eva Le Gallienne before radio work. His first wife Vera Vague was Barbara Jo Allen. He is survived by his second wife Janet and daughter Joann. Marine draftees scheduled for induction postponed until after Christmas following Rep Javits request to Gen Cates.
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