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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1951
Page
2
Buffalo fire commissioner Harold R Becker visited Mayor Joseph Mruk to discuss a fire hazard after spotting the mayor's Christmas tree with too many lights on a single circuit. Becker ordered the lights unplugged until additional outlets could be installed.
In West Minot Maine villagers gather at the Grange Hall to honor a music loving cheese maker who died 26 years ago as Jairus Hiscorn would have turned 100. A will left $30 to pay fiddlers for an annual hoe down until his centennial.
Heavy rains flood Israel immigrant camps housing 65 000 families in makeshift dwellings. Week of wet cold weather brings hardship for tent and hut residents with thousands of children evacuated to towns.
Christmas Seal funds will be used to rehabilitate local tuberculosis patients, said Ives Jacobs treasurer of the Onondaga Health Association. Local funds last year supplied typewriters sewing machine and materials and personal services at the Onondaga Sanatorium. The program also includes health education case finding and research in tuberculosis.
Cape May New Jersey reports a controversial marriage case tied to a first husband listed as missing in Korea. Agnes Sasser 22 and Pfe William Sasser 22 travel from Atlanta to Cape May with plans to reunite with Newton D. Sasser, a Coast Guardsman, amid uncertainty over Agnes first husband Walter Dixon’s status and a $10,000 life insurance. Officials weigh whether Agnes must repay insurance if Dixon is alive. The saga, nicknamed the Enoch Arden affair, unfolds as the Sassers press ahead with their plans for Christmas. Local relatives describe the couple as upset but resolute while cautioning about possible legal outcomes.
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