Local Churches To Hold Special Holiday Services
Portsmouth churches invite all for Christmas observances amid war era mood. North Church plans 11 30 am Christmas service with Miss Anne C Withington directing music. Middle Street Baptist hosts a Christmas pageant aided by the Portsmouth Community Chorus under Norman M Leavitt. Catholic Masses run from 7 to 11 am at Immaculate Conception. Unitarian Universalist presents The Shepherds at 5 pm directed by Wilbur Cate. Court Street Christian youth carol after 7 30 pm service with refreshments at the parish house.
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Anne C. Withington
Middle Street
Portsmouth
Norman M. Leavitt
Arthur J. Reinhart
Leavitt
William Parker
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Unitarian - Universalist Church
the Shepherds
Wilbur Cate
Court Street Christian Church
Excess Profits Tax Of 77% May Pass On New Year's Day
Washington Dec 28 AP final action set for New Year s Day on a 53 300 000 000 tax bill. It would levy 77 percent on excess profits retroactive to July 1 1950 and raise the normal corporate rate to 47 percent with a ceiling of 62 percent of taxable income. The measure backs an alternate invested capital method and ends July 1 1963 unless renewed.
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Washington
Company
Congress
White House
Naval Base Holds Tree Planting Rite To Open Holidays
The Ports mouth naval base marked Christmas with a living tree planted on the mall. Arthur H. Lamson and Capt Leon N. Blair shoveled the first sapling as many senior officers attended. The event opened holiday observances at the shipyard followed by the annual Children's Christmas party for about 400 children with Santa arriving to distribute gifts. A junior assembly is planned next Wednesday at the Officers club with Mrs Blair handling invitations.
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Portsmouth Naval Base
Officers’ Club
Creig
I S
Blair
Auto Wage Freeze May Be Followed In Other Trades
The government pushed a voluntary pay control standard after setting wage ceilings for 1,000,000 auto workers and top executives. ESA aims for a nationwide policy by March, seeking a fair standard for all industries while considering mandatory limits for a few key sectors. A nine member wage board works on a general formula, with final action possible later, under a voluntary framework initially.
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Washington
Economic Stabilization Agency
ESA
Alan Valentine
Wake Stabilization Board
Cyrus S. Ching
CIO
AFL
Expensive Trash Pickup Leads to Court Costs
Harry A. Perkins of Collins Street paid £7.70 in Exeter municipal court after leaving a calling card in a trash load found on Drinkwater Road. Perkins was arrested by State Trooper John Marchand and Exeter Police Chief Benton J. Hoiti and arraigned before Special Justice Edmund F. Richards.
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Seabrook
Harry A. Perkins
Collins Street
Exeter Municipal Court
Exeter
Drinkwater Road
Perkins
John Marchand
Benton J. Hoiti
Edmund F. Richards
Battle of Sabers Lends Overtone To Yule Prayers
Prayers for peace will rise worldwide this Christmas amid a sense of dread recalling prewar holidays. The article notes joy and prosperity for many after earlier wars, but warns that threat of new conflict dampens celebrations. In the Holy Land Christians are urged to pray for lasting peace as pilgrims travel from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.
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Associated Press
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Theyrow
Joseph and
Mary
Scribe’s gift list hints at a wartime security bill
The article mocks a holiday list of political favors and names several officials, then shifts to a Senate vote on a wartime emergency bill. It notes McCarran objections and mentions stripping two sections to avoid court review and Fifth Amendment issues. The measure would empower a new administrator with broad powers before any attack.
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Senate
Sion
Senate House
House
McCarran
Two Men Drown When Car Plunges in Maine
Two men drown after a car plunged into water in Maine. Details are incomplete due to fragmented OCR text. the report references local authorities and police involvement but lacks clear names, dates, or locations. The readable portion indicates a fatal vehicle incident and emergency response.
Eighth Army Braces For Major Assault By Chinese Hordes
Western Europe urged to speed up defenses as Congress demands faster defense efforts to secure continued American military aid. Lawmakers, led by Secretary Acheson, attacked President Hoover's hemispheric defense plan amid a fierce foreign policy fight.
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Eighth Army
Washington
Europe
Congress
State Acheson
Headover
Hoover
Acheson
United States
Asia
National Security Council
State Department
Moscow
Tombs and echoes across a restless era
A garbled, fragment laden recap shows political chatter from Washington to Europe, a Maine highway tragedy raising Christmas fatalities, a Vatican note on St Peter’s tomb, and Acheson warning against U.S. retreat from global trouble. It sketches leaders Truman and Acheson, Pope Pius XII, and calls for renewed East-West talks amid Cold War tensions.
Portsmouth Man Shot in Woods
Clyde Timms a 58 year old woodsman of 152 Bartlett street is in critical condition at Wentworth hospital Dover after a shot yesterday in Berwick It passed through his chin and left eye according to Officer Charles Davis The incident is under investigation with County Solicitor Charles Smith Timms worked for Philip Rowe of York Village near Sanford road and other men at the site will be questioned
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Clyde Timms
Bartlett Street
Wentworth Hospital
Dover
The
Woods
Berwick
Charles Davis
Davis
Charles Smith
Timms
Philip Rowe
York Village
Sanford Road
Wounded Marine Chosen to Lead Big Rose Parade
Marine corporal Robert S. Gray, twice wounded in Korea, selected to be grand marshal of Pasadena’s Rose Parade replacing Gen Eisenhower. Recovering at Camp Pendleton with an arm sling and bullet fragment operation planned after Christmas. mother from Temple City expresses pride. Gray is El Monte Union High School graduate but has never attended the parade.
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Pasadena
Calif
Dwight Eisenhower
Robert S. Gray
Camp Pendleton Hospital
Fagaro
General Eisenhower
James. S- Gray
Temple City
el Monte Union High School
Graw
Garden Club Names Winners in Annual Decoration Contest
The Portsmouth Garden Club awarded prizes across four classes for holiday decor. First place tied on Spinney Road with Lynn J. Sanders, while Kenneth Caswell and Fred B. Severance won second and third in Class 1. Class 2 praised inviting porches with Louise Wood, Walter R. Gremitz, and Mrs Ben Berounsky among top finishers. Class 3 honored the Mark Wentworth nurses residence first and Andrew Jarvis second. Class 4 recognized Badger’s Creamery Gerald Shattuck for office decorations.
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Ben . Berounsky
Brackett Road
Mark H. Wentworth
Pleasant Street
Andrew Jarvis
Sherburne Avénue
Badgers Creamer
Gerald A. Shattuck
General Walton Walker Killed In Korea Jeep Crash
The U S High command mourns Lt Gen Walton H Walker after a jeep accident en route to front lines. Ridgway named to replace Walker as Eighth Army chief. Meanwhile UN and US air forces claim success against North Korean and Chinese forces with a major jet battle yielding Sabre victories and continued artillery action near Hungnam and along parallel 33. The front remains volatile as Chinese forces mass south of the boundary and across in Manchuria.
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Walton H. Walker
MacArthur
Matthew B. Ridgway
Walker
Eighth Army
Hungnam
Korea
U. S. Tenth Corps
Sea of Japan
Chongye
Kuhwa
Fifth Air Force
North Korea
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J. F. Cunniff
E. P. Cochran, Jr
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M.A. Barrett
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Santa Claus
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