11 Dec 1957
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Newspaper
Portsmouth Herald
Location
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1957
Page
1
Plans were made to hold a contest with prizes for best decorated houses and windows. Judges will visit the area the week of December 15. The Woonsocket Kiwanis Club has chosen a Man of the Year for 1957, noting ten candidates. The house on Deer Street, central to the story, later became the Old Ladies Home.
Santos Olvera, paying 40 pesos monthly for a cave room in Mexico City outskirts, battles rising rents as district court rules against him. He remains unable to afford living in a ravine cave, while the owner faces no arrest on a squatter charge. The case highlights harsh housing conditions in a capital of over four million with many natural and manmade caves rented to the poor.
A blaze gutted the Windsor Hotel's upper floors in Montreal, injuring more than a dozen and prompting rapid rescue of about 30 people. Firefighters sprayed 49,500 gallons a minute despite smoke, steam, and a heavy snowstorm. This 650‑room hotel, undergoing renovation after a recent sale, suffered its second fire in a week.
A series of births reported at Portsmouth and Exeter Hospitals notes daughters and sons born yesterday to the Arnoldy Davis Adams Loranger Felch Averill Dow Walker Norman Moore Edwards Suppleich and others. Parents include S. Sgt. Charles Arnoldy USAF and Mrs Arnoldy, Mr and Mrs Frank Davis, Mr and Mrs Donald Adams, Mr and Mrs Alberic Loranger, Alfred Felch, Mr and Mrs Richard Averill, and Mrs Sup pleich. Hospitals cited are Portsmouth Hospital Exeter Hospital and Portsmouth Naval Hospital.
Fragmentary chat recounts a Marconi hook up to a Marine unit in the South Pole area and a St Clair Shores ham operator. Mrs Mulchings answers a 1 30 call hearing South Pole calling then Gerald Dubois’s voice. The piece notes Republican activity and a Washington speech by Adams amid puzzling cross dispatches.
Hampton contracts an engineering firm to map 1,800 acres of marsh to consider reclamation for town expansion. Anderson Nichol Co. of Concord will complete mapping to determine cost and feasibility, aiding the reclamation committee led by Alfred Janvrin.
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