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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1956
Page
6
CHICAGO The National Safety Council warned that holiday traffic deaths may hit a new peak during Christmas weekend from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Tuesday, with an estimated 660 fatalities. Last year’s three day toll was 609, and officials urged drivers to act cautiously in a “drive for life.”
A federal grand jury charged three Kansas City area men with the $1,052 bank holdup of Mullinville First State Bank on Oct 23. Indicted are Charles Wade 25 Willie Hendren 19 and Robert Anderson 16. The panel also charged Glenn Kiuken 50 with evading $33,517 in federal income tax for 1950 54. The 22 indictments name 28 defendants including several fugitives and cases of theft forgery and fraud across Kansas Missouri and Louisiana.
World-Wide News Briefs report new earthquakes in northern Chile causing some material damage but no fatalities. In Niigata prefecture Japan five people were killed in avalanches during heavy snow. Russian shipping from Black Sea ports through the Turkish Straits nearly doubles 1955 totals, linked to oil and military shipments to Egypt and Syria. A fusillade in Nicosia wounds two British soldiers collecting newspapers urging constitutional proposals for Cyprus. Presence of the attack marks first direct assault on Britons in ten days.
The record notes 21 days for the Katy and 13 days for the Hotel Parsonian during intermittent periods when unemployment pay was obtained between June 12 1954 and August 8 1956.
In Los Angeles last week a body kidnapped Santa Claus and his reindeer from a front lawn. Cyrus Ligier responded by planting a sign that read theyve stolen our decorations but not our Christmas spirit. Merry Christmas Everyone.
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