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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1956
Page
6
Continental Air Lines announced future dividends will be paid in stock rather than cash to fund a $62 million expansion. The airline also noted plans to acquire new airplanes including jets, launch additional services, and push a route expansion program.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon returns to Washington after a four day trip to Austria to assess Hungarian refugee aid. He urged increased admission of refugees and streamlined immigration rules, plans to push a presidential commission on the issue, and noted the United States has agreed to accept 21 500 Hungarians. He met Austrian leaders and visited refugee camps and a border area. During a stop in Prestwick Scotland he helped hand out Christmas cheer to air force families.
The Veterans Administration says nearly 8,500 people will spend Christmas in twelve New England VA hospitals with chaplains conducting Protestant services and Catholic masses. Patients will receive turkey dinners, entertainment, and family visits as gift shops and elaborately decorated trees offer free presents for families.
In his annual Christmas message Pope Pius XII denounces communism and calls on the United Nations to have the right and power to prevent aggression. He supports Hungary’s resistance, defends defensive war, and urges UN observers, arms reduction, and police force to uphold peace under international law. The radio message was broadcast worldwide.
Sing Sing prison in Ossining New York will host an overflow house for Christmas dinner as 1 938 inmates, 18 above normal, are counted. Wardens ship felons to Sing Sing before the holiday to avoid arranging separate meals and reduce costs.
Moscow reports joint Sino Soviet hydro projects for 1957 aim to give Russia a warm water outlet to the Pacific via a diverted Amur River channel reaching near Vladivostok. Plans include a 10 mile canal linking Komsomolsk to the sea and direct Amur Pacific link with hydro aims across Siberia and Manchuria involving 50 expeditions and substantial power generation.
Secretary of State Dulles says the postwar decade holds promise for peace but may bring danger as tensions rise. World figures including Menzies, Rhee, Pineau and Ben-Gurion share mixed views on risk of major war, with some warning of growing Communist pressure and another possible global conflict in 1957.
Melvin Crowe, 31, told officers he fired a nine shot revolver at his estranged wife Mary, 29, and her parents during a Christmas gathering in Houston. Mary died from four wounds. her mother Mary Riley, 56, was critically injured. father Charles Riley, 56, was shot three times. Crowe surrendered an hour later and faces two counts of assault to murder and one count of murder. He claimed his actions were to punish his wife for not returning and due to her father's interference. The couple had separated multiple times in nine years of marriage and Crowe said he warned her Saturday he would kill her and himself if she did not come back.
A 21 year old Hungarian born GI Pfc Victor Laczo flies home from Korea for a month long morale reunion with his parents Karoly and Gizella Laczo and their adopted daughter Erika. They arrived at Camp Kilmer New Jersey on December 13 and are staying in a Bethlehem apartment arranged by Mrs Frank Bessenhoffer.
A smoky blaze yesterday at a Bronx pet shop killed about 1,000 pigeons. Only four survivors remained a single pigeon a canary an Italian finch and a cat.
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