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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1955
Page
2
The fragmentary note notes radio schedule items for a Wednesday with PS AE and Pe Aen listed. Limited readable data prevents full event details or entities beyond generic program abbreviations.
The readable text lists a 1% payment note for Thursday and Friday with a reference to Sunday as a pay day. No full context or entities beyond these terms.
Christians around the globe marked Christmas with hopes for peace and goodwill. In Bethlehem a vigilant security mood accompanied midnight Mass plans at St. Catherine's Church near the Church of the Nativity. Queen Elizabeth II gathered at Sandringham with a royal Christmas broadcast to the Commonwealth.
Pope Pius XII makes his 17th consecutive Christmas Eve appeal for peace and goodwill carried in 28 languages over five days. The Vatican will also broadcast the annual midnight mass at 6 p.m. EST. In Germany 70 000 German children enjoyed pre Christmas events as 300 000 U S troops stay nearby. Operation Candy Drop uses motorized Santa patrols to bring candy to border villages. Radio Free Europe airs Christmas messages to Iron Curtain states. Eisenhower asserts American support for freedom and political liberty in satellite countries.
Refu ge manager Harry Stiles will lead six staff members in an early Wednesday field survey at Crab Orchard Lake to count species and individual birds. The nationwide effort tracks bird populations and species hardy status. Counters include Gene Crawford Larry Sheffield Al Manke Lee Bush Bill Meneese and Stiles.
The Justice Department identified 42 convicts granted Christmas pardons by President Eisenhower. Pardons restore full citizenship rights. Warner F. Hamilton of McLeansboro Illinois is listed as having pleaded guilty in 1927 to using the mails to defraud and received two years.
Fatally injured Danville December 24, Robert Bridgewater 26 of Belgium Vermilion County dies in a head on collision about three miles south of Danville on Route 1. The other driver Donald Thomas Steine Covington Ind. is treated for a leg fracture at St Elizabeth Hospital Danville.
Wayne E. Cantrell 34 of Harrisburg died when his car left Illinois Route 1 and struck a bridge abutment north of Carmi in fog. He had been laid off from coal mining and worked at a Hammond Indiana steel plant. Cantrell leaves four children aged 6 to 11 who were staying with relatives. his brother-in-law Garret Rice was critically injured.
William DeWitte 27 of Carterville leaves the Egyptian Council January 1 to take a district executive post with the Wabash Valley Council in Terre Haute Indiana. Since 1952 he has served in Alexander Pulaski Union Jackson and Williamson counties. Newt Williams and Gordon Hansen will share service to the Pharoah and Pyramid districts until a replacement is named. DeWitte begins January 3 in Terre Haute.
John North, 45, of 203 Elles Ave Carterville, was injured Friday when he left the road to avoid two other cars north of Colp. He suffered a broken right leg and a scalp cut and was admitted to Herrin Hospital about 5 30 p m.
Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll relieved Vice Admiral Alfred M. Pride as commander of the U. S. 7th Fleet on December 19 in Buckner Bay Okinawa aboard the heavy cruiser USS St. Paul. Jack L. Phyne, pipe fitter second class USN, husband of Joyce A. Ogden of Herrin, was aboard the St. Paul. The ship had hosted a three day fleet exercise in mid December with Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas aboard to witness.
The Southern Illinoisan publishes Sunday and daily except Saturdays and holidays by Southern Illinois Publications Inc. at Carbondale and Herrin addresses. It is entered as second class matter at Carbondale and Serrin Murphysboro post offices under March 3 1879 act.
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