Christmas turnabout: Hope hears a concert
Air Force Capt Quincy Collins, a former prisoner of war, calls in a Christmas concert to Bob Hope from a Fisherman’s Wharf motel. Collins, home after seven years in captivity, sings POW hymns and messages of freedom while Hope calls his wife to listen. Collins is with Chip Chuck and Corky in California for a brief visit from Dobbins AFB.
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North Hollywood
California
Dobbins Air Force Base
Atlanta
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Artesia Family Welcomes Quadruplets on Christmas Eve
Margie Segura of Artesia gave birth on Christmas Eve to four boys each under three pounds. The infants, weighing 2 lb 3 oz to 2 lb 14 oz, are in incubators at Ariss General Hospital. The couple, including 4-year-old daughter Segura, did not use fertility drugs and learned of the quadruplets before the delivery. Florencio Segura, a truck driver, said he felt shock but recovered as the news settled.
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Trader Ed gives away 500 silver dollars to children
LAKE Minn AP 61 year old antique shop owner Ed Herman of Eds Trading Post in a town of 1500 handed out 500 silver dollars to local children on Christmas Eve. He spoke of poverty as a boy and recalled newsboys receiving dollars from a stranger, calling this his chance to help. Local ministers spread the word before the 10 am event, drawing a line of youngsters at the shop door.
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Ed Herman
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Des Moines
Herman
Long Lake
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