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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1956
Page
5
In San Pedro California two fire crews operate a pumper truck with one crew fighting the blaze and the other feeding a garden hose into the radiator to keep the engine cool during the effort.
The State Highway Department bought a tract for 5890 on U S 67 about five miles east of the U S 67 and U S 2 junction in Dallas county. This marks the first step toward widening U S 67 to expressway standards from Dallas to Texarkana as part of a 60 tract project funded 90 percent by the federal government and 10 percent by the state. The policy change followed the 1956 federal aid highway act.
Nanette Baldridge aged five, daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Baldridge, remained in critical condition after a .22 rifle discharged accidentally yesterday. The bullet struck her head as she sat in a pickup on her grandparents farm near Penales, the rifle firing from a rack behind the seat.
A cock pheasant swooped to rest on a decorated Christmas tree at a downtown Columbus intersection on Tuesday. A spectator, likely a frustrated hunter, grabbed the bird and walked off with it as a holiday oddity.
Senate testimony by Yuri Rastvorov, a former Soviet defectee, claims Prince Fumitaka Konoye was seized after World War II and pressed to spy in Japan. He states Gen Ivan Serov directed deportations and that Konoye refused, dying in a Moscow prison camp October 20 from kidney illness.
Oswald Jacoby explains how a rare opening three no trump bid signals 25 to 27 points and balanced distribution with stoppers in all suits. South's correct play after West’s four clubs leads to a sequence that preserves three clubs and top diamonds, enabling the contract despite North's poor hand.
South holds a balanced hand and must choose an opening bid or its reply. The exact distribution and suits are not provided, so the correct action cannot be determined without full hand details.
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