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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1953
Page
2
Born today you show leadership with original ideas and the drive to complete them. You blend diplomacy with restraint yet may blame others when disappointments occur. Quiet and charming you prefer meaningful conversation and excel in scholarship diplomacy and public life in service of justice.
A South Korean politician slipped at a banquet while toasting President Syngman Rhee. He toasted North Korean Premier Kim Il Sung by mistake. The public prosecutor sought death, but the court sentenced him to seven years in prison.
Randall Hall, hospitalized in Middletown after a road crash, was joined by his wife who delivered a baby boy in a nearby ward, marking a joyful family moment during his recovery.
Five Toledoans died when a speeding car crossed a Cherry Street Bridge guard rail and plunged 40 feet into the Maumee River. Victims named Pvt. Richard Szczepanski William West Carl Boettcher Paul Laudich and his wife Susan. The vehicle settled inverted in 25 feet of water trapping all. Funeral services planned for the victims amid a grim Christmas holiday tragedy.
The Agriculture Department reports October farm exports rose three percent from September yet remained nine percent below October 1952. Four months ending Oct 31 show a four percent year over year rise, with gains in nonfat dry milk beef tallow grapefruit oranges tangerines dried prunes canned fruits corn grain sorghums soybeans seeds leaf tobacco dried peas and white potatoes.
Igor Gouzenko, who exposed a Red espionage network in Ottawa, says hundreds of Soviet spies operate in the United States and Canada. He notes million-dollar telegram budgets and independent agents with direct radio contact to Moscow. He advises offering incentives to defect and reveal documents.
Al Werder from Camp Iss-See-Kes will direct the YMCA art room this week. He will guide boys in ceramics clay finger painting watercolor and other arts. A series of contests is planned for the week’s end while the group works on a New Year mural.
James Duncan a 17 year old in Barrie Ontario desires a single iron tooth for next Christmas after losing one in a hunting accident on Christmas Day. He was struck when his .22 rifle fired as he stumbled the bullet entered his mouth and ricocheted off the tooth leaving only a minor wound to his upper lip.
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