28 Dec 1964
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Newspaper
Pontiac Daily Leader
Location
Pontiac, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1964
Page
1
Household tips on Christmas decor and gift wrapping from Polly Cramer. Readers share basket roof Nativity ideas, evergreen liners, glittered gift names, and enclosure cards to avoid tags. Hair towel cape for drying, Venetian blind cleaning with clothespins, and antique mirror refinishing notes including safer silvering ideas.
Navy veteran James E. Hall, retired for a bad heart in 1926, turns 90 in St. Petersburg. He boasts of longevity after learning to live with his condition and recounts surviving the examining board. He notes only one board member remains from the retirement.
Forrest B Broadhead and 11 friends attended a Christmas party and co operative supper. Mrs Hazel Franklin and Glen Opie visited with Welch sisters in Normal. Lions Club held a Christmas party and turkey dinner at Fellowship Hall with 41 members. Various families planned holidays, church activities, and travel to Florida Maryland Minnesota and Peoria noted along with Legion Auxiliary Christmas plans.
In Collinsville Illinois a electric hot water heater exploded blowing out a side of a frame house and killing a 56 year old father of five as he slept. Wolff shielded his wife and their two year old foster son John Mathis who slept between them. The baby had minor burns and two of the Wolff children escaped unharmed. Police noted the heater safety valve in the bathroom had been welded closed. No fire occurred.
A United Nations study on water desalination noted that groundwater exists in desert areas, revealing that Kuwait spent 17 million dollars on a desalination plant before discovering unexpected groundwater supplies. The piece also mentions mid 18th century plank roads in the eastern United States.
Fairbury residents welcome a long list of Christmas visitors from Columbus Champaign Chicago Danville Waterloo Iowa Streator Watseka Peoria Ludlow and Decatur. Notable events include Chris Huette Jr and spouse marking their 50th wedding anniversary and local families hosting relatives during the holidays. The Wades plan to move February 1 to a newly purchased residence on Jon North First Street.
An Air Force helicopter crew tracing an SOS in the snow near a North Dakota farm led sheriff's men to William and Olaf Jorgenson who said they had no trouble. Traces of snow, farm implements, and bare ground formed an apparent SOS pattern.
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