Christmas Observed Across World Amid Faith and Strife
The article notes Christmas as a global church festival rooted in Rome’s pagan ties and 4th century adoption, recounts Puritan suppression in the U S, a Bobbi Slape Bible verse challenge offering $1000 in Jerome Idaho, a resumed United Airlines holiday strike settlement, and forecasts a white Christmas with snow across the Great Lakes Ohio Valley Missouri and Wyoming, ending in Bethlehem with wreaths and olive wood figures outside an Israeli police station.
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United States
Rome
Jerome
Idaho
Marian Slape
United Air Lines
What Kind Of God Is This What Kind Of God Is This
Editor notes reprint of Louis Cassels meditation on the birth of Jesus Christ. It asks what kind of God would come as a humble baby in Bethlehem, choosing love and forgiveness over power, and invites reflection on belief amidst fear and doubt. The piece emphasizes divine love over judgment.
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United Press International
Louis Cassels
Cassels
Bethlehem
Dallas Firefighter Riley Hurst among two killed in Athena condos blaze
Dallas Fire Department says Riley C. Hurst 29, of Plano, and Captain Ralph T. Lack died after running out of air while searching for people in dense smoke on the 14th floor. Sylvia Duce 57 is listed in critical condition after a stairwell fall during escape. Fire began before 3 a.m. and was under control by 4:57 a.m. The loss exceeds 150000 dollars. Hurst survived by his wife Debora and infant son, with services set for Friday at Restland Memorial Chapel.
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Riley C. Hurst
1708 Meadows Dr
Plano
Dallas Fire Dept
Athena
Dallas
Hurst
Ralph T. Lack
Parkland hospital
Fire Dept
Sylvia Duce
Presbyterian Hospital
McKinney
Debora
Restland Memorial Chapel
Restland Memorial
Holiday Closings To Be Numerous
The final assaults on local groceries, retail stores and service stations are expected tonight as virtually all businesses will be closed tomorrow Christmas Day. Government offices and financial institutions will close on Friday for a long weekend. the U.S. Postal Service resumes Friday. Plano garbage pickups and the sanitary landfill pause Thursday and Friday. The Daily Star-Courier will not publish on Christmas Day.
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U.S. Postal Service
Students Run Repair Shop in Plano High School
A new auto repair shop staffed by 30 students training as auto mechanics opens at the rear of Plano Senior High School. Instructor Glen Fuller notes a long-standing mechanic shortage and explains the program trains students for hands-on repair work, with most time spent in shop practice and supervision.
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PAM TROBOY
Plano
Glen Fuller
Fuller
Williams
Vocational Industrial Clubs of America
VICA
Mike
Marley
Daily Star-Courier
Mike Newman
Routine Police Activity Reports Thefts Burglaries
Police logged routine activity including two thefts a bicycle and tires three motor vehicle burglaries and three criminal mischief reports. Officers answered 49 calls arrested two suspects one on traffic warrants and another on out of town warrants and investigated three minor accidents. A hit and run on Avenue K near Parker Rd involved a 1970 Mercury owned by Pebba Young Attaway.
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K Ave
Parker Rd
Pebba Young Attaway
Tarkio
Pontiac
David Alvin Schramn
Garland
Oldsmobile
Veda Kirby Catalano
Yosemite
Avenue K
Park
Carol Lee Seallorn
Dallas
Chevrolet
James Chefford Richmond
Hawthorne
US 75
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Merrill Hendrix
Charlie McElyea
McElyea Automotive
Gene Wray
Plano Auto Supply
Steve Sanders
Henry Butts Oldsmobile
Don Dudley
Self Service Auto
Andy French
Oklahoma Oil
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