Teen Santa Rose Surprises Lonely Sentries at Bunker Hill AFB
A 17 year old in Santa gear visited all night guards at Bunker Hill AFB Indiana on Christmas Eve. He handed out cigarettes and cigars, lifting spirits on the flight lines and in the control tower. Airman Donald Campbell and Airman Robert Phillips praised the surprise and cheerful act.
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Bunker Hill Afb
Ind
Santa Claus
Bunker Hill Air Force Base
Bill Jones
North Pole
Alaska
Nick
Jones
Bhase
Donald Campbell
Kansas City
Santa
Robert Phillips
Boston, Mass
Woman Hurt In U S 40 Crash Near Rose Polytechnic
Poneto Indiana woman Mrs Bessie Oswalt 55 in serious condition at Union Hospital after a Friday afternoon crash on U S 40 near Rose Polytechnic Institute. Her son Ronald 21 and Mrs Mary Mann 34 treated and discharged. Trooper Lloyd Heck said the Oswalt car and Manns pickup were westbound when the truck tried to change lanes to left turn farther down.
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Poneto
Ind
U. S. Highway 40
Rose Polytechnic Institute
Union Hospital
Bessie Oswalt
Reno police chief volunteers for Christmas day duties
Rabbi Phillip Weinberg, serving as Reno chief, says he wants can spend holidays at home. He took over for Chief Elmer Briscoe on Friday afternoon, marking the second Christmas in a row he volunteered to work.
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Reno, Nev
UPI
Phillip Weinberg
Reno
Weinberg
Elmer Briscoe
Fire damages Paul Deal garage on First Avenue
A garage at 1645 First Avenue sustained about 150 in damage from a fire of undetermined origin shortly after 3 p.m. Friday. Fire units Pumpers 3 and 8 Truck 3 and Assistant Chief Ray McManus responded to the alarm.
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Paul Deal
1St Ave
Ray McManus
Rugged Kentucky mailman recalls snowbound routes and aging
Irvan Pratt, 62, has made about 1,560 horseback trips delivering mail across 22 miles weekly on a route through Pine Top to Pippa Passes, Kentucky. He recalls blizzards, subzero cold, and horses weighed down with ice as he weighs retirement amid pension options and high horse prices.
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Irvan Pratt
Hindman
Ear Eee
Pine Top
Pippa Passes
Post Office Department
Pratt
Flora Honeycutt
Fice
Kentucky
Archbishop Cody to Receive Justice Cardozo Award
Chicago archbishop John Patrick Cody will receive Tau Epsilon Rho’s 1965 Justice Cardozo Award for “ardent and effective advocacy of individual freedom and the dignity of man.” The honor will be given at a December 30 dinner during the fraternity’s national convention.
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Chicago
UPID
John Pattrick Cody
Justice Cardozo
Tau Epsilon Rho Law Fraternity
Archidiocese
Cody
Fatal Newark Fire Leaves 11 Dead on Christmas Eve
In Newark New Jersey a Christmas Eve fire in the Military Park Hotel lobby killed three attendees and injured 30 others while a separate apartment house fire in a nearby neighborhood claimed eight more lives. Fire officials credited a snorkel device for mass evacuations as most guests were evacuated. The arson squad opened an investigation and authorities noted the hotel blaze was unrelated to the apartment fire. Victims named include Anita Priesman John Balla Edmund Floyd Grace Basile and others.
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Newark
N.J
Military Park
John Caulfield
Tel
Anita Priesman
Verona
John Balla
New Providence
Edmund Floyd
Summit
Balla
Floyd
Lydia Houghwait
Grace Basile
Nine inmates walk out of Linn County Jail in Christmas gesture
In Cedar Rapids Iowa nine inmates escaped custody Friday as Sheriff Walter Grant granted a court order releasing them as a Christmas gesture. The unusual clemency drew little protest and acknowledged no reported injuries or harm.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Linn County
Walter Grant
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Chants National Bank
Kigotinda
Wabash
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S. 3Rd
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