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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1955
Page
13
Family dinners and Christmas celebrations fill Princeton and nearby towns. Residents including J F Iing Brenner Eggleston Tarbet Weiss Atchison Lantz and others hosted programs, trees, and parties at homes and churches with visitors from Seattle Topeka and Ottawa.
A 20 year old Dodge City waitress from Dodge City the Cowboy Capital of the World was named winner of a $25,000 top prize in a national sweepstakes. Ramona Mitchell, a cafe worker, learned of her win while in a New York radio studio on the Arthur Godfrey program. She and her mother traveled to New York as guests of Lever Brothers, unaware she had earned one of eight top awards.
Thursday gatherings at the Bronson home include Abe Lantz and Nora Witt. Wav erly visitors John Ore and Carl Coltrane spent Sunday with Coltrane family. Shaffers host dinner for Calvin Shaffer. Ella Lantz visited Lantz home. Sunday school at Christian church set for December 25 with services at 8 and 9. Visitors from Mt Pleasant Tennessee arrive to spend holidays with Pearl and Jim Hull. Coltrane family in Ottawa January trip. Schaub family attends Cedar Point funeral. Donald Oswald of Fort Belvoir Virginia arrives for Christmas holidays for three weeks of visits.
World-Wide News Briefs reports Crown Prince Akihito's upcoming 22nd birthday in Tokyo. Far East Naval Forces announced a call for enlisted volunteers for nuclear powered surface ship training, with reports of July 1956 reporting to the Idaho Falls unit for about two years. In Formosa, 42 people were arrested on Communist conspiracy charges from July through November, Gov. Yen said. Arlene Dahl, film star, was rushed to a London hospital for emergency appendicitis surgery, with stable condition post operation and continuing film work.
Air Force Academy cadets welcome guests from across the nation for the first formal ball in Arnold Hall at Lowry Air Force Base. The Christmas dance runs from 9 p.m. to midnight with the academy dance band providing music in the cadet recreation center temporary quarters.
Using canned berries for a pie, juice from a tall can yields about two cups enough for an eight inch pie. The filling must be thickened before baking.
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