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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1955
Page
3
A French shopkeeper and residents of Armentieres dismiss the famed World War I song heroine as a myth with locals saying no such figure ever lived there. The interview touches on rumors, memory of veterans, and the town’s distance from Paris culture.
General Motors announced a new gas turbine passenger car named Firebird II, to be shown at the GM Motorama in New York in January 1924. It features a regenerator recapturing over 80 percent of exhaust heat to boost intake air and economy, with a titanium body and four passenger design. GM plans no immediate production.
Two Coast Guard cutters and an amphibious plane searched the Gulf today for the fishing vessel Sea Pilot, overdue near Fort Myers Florida. Last heard from December 12, the 67 foot Sea Pilot owned by Mike Bassatta was about 120 miles east of Meridia Mexico off the Yucatan peninsula. Captain Eugene Hamilton was aboard.
A Cleveland man, Eiglin Lubber, 47, received a one year suspended sentence in the workhouse for nonsupport of two children from his present wife. He was ordered to pay 80 dollars monthly for those two and six dollars monthly until a thousand dollars is repaid on relief allotments. When asked why he could not support the two children aged four and two, he quipped he had twenty four more. He claimed twenty two children lived in Portugal Trinidad Gas Ind., and with a former wife in Cleveland, then corrected himself saying twenty four total though he could not locate three. The report includes stray lines about enlistment of Negroes and a misdated reference to Lincoln.
The State Board of Insurance Commissioners revoked the certificate of authority of All American Home Lloyds, an insurance firm headquartered in Dallas, on Monday in Austin.
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