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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1955
Page
8
A monkey escaped from an express crate on a train between Missoula and Drummond, riding the baggage car rods for 49 miles before being recaptured at a passenger station. The creature was sent to the U S Public Health Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana.
Ten men armed with rifles halted a bus near Tlaxcala city and robbed the driver Alfonso Hernandez after forcing him to stop at a makeshift roadblock on his return from Santa Cruz with an empty vehicle.
A blazing lodge at Vermijo Park cattle ranch near Trinidad Colorado was destroyed Thursday night. Undersheriff Julian Cordova said the blaze raged over three hours before firefighting crews arrived. Estimated damage ranged from 60000 to 75000 dollars as responders battled to save adjacent structures.
A 10 year old boy Kenneth Thorne alerted a brakeman after spotting a broken rail as an eastbound mail train approached Sutton North Dakota. The train was stopped before disaster. The Great Northern president sent a note praising his courage and a $100 bond accompanied by a new bicycle. In Springfield Minnesota a Schwartz Sauer feast honors German roots with duck blood stew and dumplings. Laurinburg North Carolina a taxi driver was robbed but the bandit returned a dollar and left. Akron Ohio a woman donated a diamond ring to Billy Wines as he sat in his wheel chair. police seek the donor to recover the ring.
In an inner Manhattan court Magistrate Harry G. Andrews reduced 90 fines from 15 to 2 each. Defendants promised to do something nice for the less fortunate this Christmas to merit the lighter penalties for sanitary code violations.
Reports from Albany Long Branch North Kingston Quonset Point and West Liberty portray holiday goodwill. A Long Branch card thanks police for 1933 kindness. a Kentucky bandit returns checks. a Quonset Point crew funds a needy family. a pastor in North Kingston records a Christmas message. 104-year-old Aunt Justine Govedon cherishes tobacco over sweets for her birthday.
A $1,000 Christmas tree from St Paul Minnesota is on display in Savannah at the birthplace of Mrs Juliette Gordon Low founder of the Girl Scouts of America The tree is decorated with nationwide ornaments each with a cash contribution to renovate the home as a national Girl Scout shrine.
In Little Rock Arkansas the Internal Revenue Service received a $1000 negotiable bond in the mail with a brief note yesterday. The gift appears to be a Christmas present and the incident was reported to authorities.
A Memphis area radio station received a Santa letter from a girl asking for family gifts rather than herself. She mentions her mother wants pearls and a gray hat, a brother and herself want a colored doll, and she asks listeners to remember children who have no parents. She urges others to read the Christmas story and to be happy.
Sir Edmund Hillary remains noted as a premier climber and Everest conqueror while eyeing a different high objective in the Himalayas. Observers view the attempt as a significant but less celebrated mountaineering challenge.
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