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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1955
Page
7
Ensho Fukuyoshi a 59 year old executive priest from Enraku temple on Mt Hiei visited Camp Otsu in Otsu Japan during Christmas week. He said he wanted to learn about the West and was surprised by what he saw while expressing admiration for the soldiers.
Jon enters the quiet post chapel and declares his intention to attend the Christmas services, an unusual encounter for a Buddhist priest amid rifles and other implements of war in the setting.
Burlington County Bridge Commission announced no tolls will be collected December 25 on the Tacony Palmyra and Burlington Bristol bridges. The gesture serves as a holiday present for motorists traveling between Burlington County and Philadelphia area.
West German authorities arrested Dr Otto John in Wiesbaden on suspicion of treason. The former intelligence chief joined East Berlin Communists in 1954 and returned to West Germany days later, where he has been held incommunicado amid treason charges.
Cab driver William McCormick picked up a man who then brandished a gun and demanded money. McCormick had no cash, and after a search the robber released him. In an apparent Christmas gesture the assailant pressed a dollar into McCormick and told him to return to town.
A $1,000 Christmas tree from St. Paul Minnesota is on display in Savannah Georgia at the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low founder of the Girl Scouts of America. Ornaments from across the nation accompany cash gifts intended to fund renovation of the national Girl Scout shrine.
At Cleveland Hopkins, three airliners refused to land claiming a plane was on the runway. A patrolman on the field revealed a police car with flashing red lights at a nearby road accident. After the light was turned off the flights landed safely.
A scanned intelligence test by Dr George W Crane presents five scored questions on containers lines starting signals and major league cities. The left column lists Fame names matched to fields such as religion writing football music baseball and a final mixed word puzzle with scrambled letter pairs.
Churchill will spend an old fashioned Christmas with family at Chartwell Manor Westerham Kent. A mid day lunch and a traditional dinner with turkey and flaming pudding are planned. The family prefers spontaneous celebrations rather than fixed plans.
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