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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1952
Page
10
An Atlanta widow recounts the Christmas 1951 crash that killed her husband Jim and left her expecting a baby. She recalls skidding on a curved road, the car overturning, and the ensuing shock as he died. She urges careful driving this Christmas.
Indiana screens Million Dollar Mermaid with Esther Williams and Walter Pidgeon. Grand presents The Blazing Forest with John Payne. Liberty features El Paso and Frontier Marshal. Tate shows Ghosts on the Loose and Spooks Run Wild. Garfield offers Harem Girl. Swan presents What Price Glory. Virginia shows No Room for the Groom. Idaho screens Story of Robinhood. Best offers Rose of Cimarron. Fountain runs Frontier Phantom and Sound Off. Rex screens Magic Face. West shows Alcatraz Island.
Allen and Steen Acceptance Company employees gathered in the Green Room for the 14th annual Christmas breakfast held the day before Christmas. Thirty five attended as Morris Haehl led ceremonies selecting P. E. Allen to welcome guests and present Christmas bonus checks.
The Green Line Motor Express annual Christmas party and safety meeting honored 21 drivers plus maintenance staff at Bohanmon's in Terre Haute for 1,309,592 miles driven in 1952 with no chargable accidents. Theodore Bauer Jr. awarded bonus checks totaling 8678.72 and safety pins. Attendees included Frank R. Lee, Eugene Eller, and Albert G. Carle.
Clinton Indiana birth notice reports Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lands of 131 North Fifth Street welcomed a son at Vermillion County Hospital at 9 32 Tuesday morning. The baby weighed seven pounds eleven ounces and was named Robert Michael. The Lands and Sands work as technicians at Vermillion County Hospital.
After closing Tuesday, owner Harry Hornstein handed out bonus checks to each employee at Harry's Variety Store 424 Wabash avenue. The amount honors length of service and has been an annual tradition since 1945. Regular staff also receive an extra week's paid vacation.
More than 100 top entertainers from 18 Indiana counties will perform at Purdue University's Music Hall on Tuesday evening January 6 as part of the Rural Entertainment Festival during the Agricultural Conference January 6 to 9. Eleven acts are past district winners with 14 more high ranking entries. The program includes marimba and organ numbers, an accordion duet, vocal groups, soloists, a style show, roller skating, baton twirling and sketches. Vermillion county sends the Giacoletti sisters Marilyn and Esther of Clinton who play accordions and won Terre Haute district festival in October.
Oklahoma City readers report Ladosa Connellee sent three neckties as a Christmas gift to Assistant County Attorney Roy Semter with a card reading Noel. Semter had prosecuted Connellee last spring for forgery and sent him to prison for the tenth time.
In Oneonta New York authorities accepted 995 pennies and a slug to settle a $10 fine for a Christmas tree poacher. The unusual payment arrived on a Tuesday before Christmas.
Twenty eight full color lilac motifs offered for transfer to various fabrics. Instructions claim easy washability and gift appeal. Request twenty five cents in coins and address details to Terre Haute Tribune Needlecraft Dept. Box 5740 Chicago 80 IL. Include pattern number and sender information.
Barclay discusses evaluating multiple lines to nine tricks in No Trump. The example shows East locating two heart tricks, five diamonds, and potential two spade tricks, with notes on optimal lines and alternatives. It analyzes declarer decisions and defensive challenges to achieve nine tricks.
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