Black Christmas Holiday Toll Tops Seven Deaths On Area Roads
The holiday period saw 676 violent deaths nationwide with 523 traffic fatalities over 78 hours from Friday evening to midnight. California Texas New York and Illinois led in auto deaths with 11 in Los Angeles and 362 drunken drivers arrested nationwide.
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South Koreans Clash With Chinese Reds South of 38th
News report from Tokyo on December 26 details fierce fighting south of the 38th parallel near Kaesong and Seoul as Republic of Korea and Chinese Communist troops clash. Lt. Gen. Ridgway arrives to lead UN defenses after Gen. Walker’s death.
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Formosa
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Chu
Peiping
Kyodo
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Stone of Scone Stolen Stirs Britain in Royal Heist
Police widen a nationwide search for the 336 pound Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day. Scotland Yard and English forces scan northbound traffic amid theories of nationalist involvement.
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England
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Westminister Abbey
Colder Clearing With Diminishing Winds Tonight
Forecast calls for diminishing winds and colder air with a low of zero to 10 above tonight. Wednesday mostly fair and cold with a high near 15 and a low around Mon 27. Temperature readings include 7 a.m. today 25 and 6 p.m. Mon. 51 high, 53 noon today, sunrise 7:23 a.m., sunset 4:39 p.m. Precipitation 0 inches from 7 a.m. yesterday to 7 a.m. today. Crab Orchard Lake 10 inches below spillway today. Little Grassy Lake 13 feet below spillway today.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Fire Levels Mine Buildings at Peabody No. 14 Majestic
A fire at the Peabody No. 14 Majestic mine east of Du Quoin destroyed a concrete carpentry shop and washhouse, forcing 110 night shift miners below ground to evacuate. Fire crews from Du Quoin Christopher and Pinckneyville fought the blaze as 300 day shift workers lost their work clothes. cause undetermined.
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Peabody No. 14
Majestic
du Quoin
Christopher
Pinckneyville
August Schneider
Du Quoin Soldier Jack Purdy Killed in Korea
Jackie Purdy aged 23 of Du Quoin was killed December 3 in Korea while serving as a radio operator with the Seventh Division. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Purdy of Du Quoin and previously worked for Virgil Eaton at Artistic Upholstery in Murphysboro.
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du Quoin
Murphysboro
Korea
Purdy
Lester Purdy
Virgil Eaton
Peoria Bakeries Raise Bread Prices by One Cent
Peoria on December 26 reports three large bakeries increased bread prices by one cent effective today. Housewives noted the hike from Saturday prices as the cost of a loaf goes up in Peoria.
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Peoria Bakeries
Peoria
Franklin County Buddies Sign Up With U S Air Force
Seventeen Franklin county youths enlisted together in Benton Saturday forming the largest single group signed up in the district. Recruiting Sergeant William Cook noted 15 from Benton, one from Ewing, one from Christopher. Eight left for basic training today, while the rest head to Lackland Air Base January 2.
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William Cook
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Ewing
Christopher
Lackland Air Base
San Antonio
Texas
Olney Receives Two War Orphans Home for Christmas
Two German refugee girls Erica eight and Ursula six arrived in Olney with their 12 member family fleeing German occupied Germany. They traveled from New York to Olney and met foster parents Roy and Mrs Hamblin and immediately decorated their first Christmas tree. The sisters speak only German while Mr Hamblin speaks English. Mrs Hamblin acts as translator.
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Germany
Erica
Ursula
New York
Roy Hamblin
Hamblin
Illinois Weekend Traffic Toll Reaches 34
Traffic accidents in Illinois caused 34 deaths over the Christmas weekend. Between 6 p.m. Friday and last midnight, nine people were killed in Chicago and 29 in Downstate areas.
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Illinois
Associated Press
Chicago
AEC Names Eight for Kentucky Area Office Roles
The Atomic Energy Commission appoints eight officials for its Kentucky Area Office to supervise uranium-235 plant construction and operation near Paducah. Kenneth A. Dunbar, area manager, announces the immediate appointments, all currently at Oak Ridge with 37 years of combined atomic energy experience.
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Kentucky
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AEC
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Wende
Buffalo
N. Y
Corps of Engineers
Buffa
Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute
Ashtabula
West Palm Beach
Fla
Corps
Massena
Miss
Georgia School of Technology
University of Mississippi
Frustration Machine At Illinois Lab Turns Speakers Into Wrecks
In a University of Illinois lab a padded cell houses a new speech study device by Dr. Grant Fairbanks. The apparatus delays self-heard speech through a microphone and earphones, turning confident subjects into gibbering wrecks in minutes.
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Helen Few
Urbana
University of Illinois
Torquemada
Grant Fairbanks
Robert Jeager
University of Illinois Speech Research Laboratory
Four-Fold Expansion of Air Strength Planned
The air force outlines a fourfold increase in emergency mobilization by 1953, doubling groups, personnel, and bases, with production ramping from 110 to over 150 planes monthly and plants repurposed from civilian output to wartime aircraft. The plan envisions up to 200 groups by end of 1953, aiming for a five million man force and a total air power capacity beyond current orders. It details repurposing plants like North American in Kansas City and Dodge in Chicago to build jets and engines.
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Korea
John A. McCone
United States
McCone
Kansas City
Kan
Dodge
Chicago
Pratt & Whitney
Douglas
Tulsa
Okla
Willow Run
Detroit
Cincinnati
Christmas Week Fatalities Hit Southern Illinois Roads
A sequence of Christmas weekend auto crashes across Southern Illinois left multiple dead and many injured. Notable cases include Sharon Burnham, 3, killed near Effingham, Bobby Popejoy, 19, struck by a freight train in Ava, and James Miller, 28, killed near Galatia after a skid. An inquest and funeral plans followed in Ava, Johnston City, and surrounding towns.
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National Safety Council
Effingham
Sharon Burnham
Johnston City
Bobby Popejoy
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio
Ava
Lela Simpson
Galatia
Ute
Andrew Pemberton
Eldorado
Frank Rogers
Dahlgren
Juanita Cook
Mr. Vernon
Buster Dunn
Harrisburg
Pemberton
James Miller
West Frankfort
John Paul Meek
Robert
Cummings
Scott Air Force Base
Moody Miller
Carmi
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Enfield
Eldon Roesselt
Greenville
Sharon Lee Barham
Lowell D. Barham
Monticello
Ada Barham
Johnst City
Sharon Lee
Phyllis
Carmen
Clara
Elston Hite
Cairo
Murman-Wilson
Rev
S. M. Foulon
Barham Family
Marion
Popejoy
East St. Louis
Kasterson McCoy
Murphysboro
Wilson Funeral Home
Missionary Baptist Church
Dwight Rushing
Evergreen Cemetery
Hildra Popejoy
Melba Heatherington
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