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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1968
Page
5
Television previews list Gunsmoke featuring Mother and a young fugitive plot alongside a CBS rebroadcast of Here's Lucy and Mayberry RFD guest Ned Glass. NBC offers Tiny Times with The Avengers as Christmas season opens while ABC starts holiday reruns including Tara at Cypher HQ.
Advertises Blue Lustre carpet shampoo as a quick home cleaning solution for holiday prep. Claims easy use from vacuum to dry, no residue, and fluffier carpets. Promotes rental of a light-weight shampooer for $1 per day and lists local outlets: Dunlap Company and several stores in Odessa.
Alfred V. Morro athletic director at Classical High School raised funds for a scholarship by selling 1,000 old bricks to alumni for $1 each. The bricks from the razed building would serve as keepsakes and practical items, with proceeds supporting the Alfred V. Morro Variety Club Scholarship Fund. Morro noted orders reached as far as California.
Otto's Stores advertise rich eggnog in half gallon plastic containers for 98 cents. Weekend deals include peppermint ice cream half gallons for 59 cents and hot fudge sundaes for 29 cents. Milk at Otto's is 99 cents per gallon and 25 flavors of ice cream are 5 cents for single dips.
Presidential mediator David L. Cole calls for focal-issue bargaining in Boston Philadelphia and Hampton Roads as the International Longshoremen's Association strike halts ports from Maine to Texas. Talks resume in Manhattan with 140 New York Shipping Association firms. No cargo ships have left New York harbor since the walkout began.
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