Gift gifts stay lively this Christmas says Dawson
Dawson reports Christmas gift business for firms remains active despite weaker economy. Brown & Bigelow says more expensive gifts ordered for key accounts as top customers are courted amid slackening business. Sales Management cites 4,500 average spend per firm on about 1,000 persons. gifts split 35 percent to employees and 65 percent to customers. Executives note buyers rotate gift types but worry stopping gifts could hurt relations with clients and suppliers.
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Sam Dawson
New York
Brown & Bigelow
St. Paul, Minn
Tunisia Receives Egyptian Arms Shipments Confirmed
President Bourguiba announced in a weekly broadcast that Tunisia has received 2000 rifles and mortars from Egypt. He reaffirmed Tunisia's Western alignment despite the Arab aid gesture and regional arms competition with the United States and Britain rushing supplies to deter dependence on Egyptian stockpiles.
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Tunis
Mabib Bourguiba
Bourguiba
Tunisia
Egypt
United States
Great Britain
Santa Rides Boat After Reindeer Collapse at Franklin Square
Breezy weather toppled Santa's reindeer in front of Chester Delphey's store in Franklin Square yesterday afternoon when a cable broke. Santa was brought down and will spend the Christmas season aboard a speedboat inside the store.
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Santa Claus
Chester Delphey
Franklin Square
Mr. Delphey
Santa
Delphey
New Family Games Spark Fun Across Ages
A quick look at a wave of Christmas games designed for family enjoyment. Indoor versions of outdoor sports and cooperative play aim to engage mom dad and children, with pie fraction themes bells magnetic car play and long lasting companionship card games adding variety.
Fell-doors row over girls dress code in Urbana
Willie Houston pleads guilty to panhandling in Detroit. In Urbana Missouri guardians sue to allow three Langford sisters Jo Ann 16 Don na 15 and Leta 13 to attend classes in slacks. The school board defends its dress policy citing decency and authority. Urbana, an Ozarks town of 360 residents, lies 60 miles north of Springfield.
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Detroit
Willie Houston
Recorder’s Court
Urbana
Paul E. Krause Langford
Houston
C. T. Retherford
Rotherford
The
Guardian
Superintendent of Schools
School Board
Retherford
Ozarks
Missouri
Springfield
Baby Born Aboard Plane During Refugee Flight
Seventy-five Hungarian refugees boarded a plane from Belgrade to New York, but 76 arrived after a baby boy of seven pounds was born during a two hour stopover at Shannon Airport Ireland. The infant, son of Lajos Raics and Erzsebet Elizabeth, and mother were taken to a Brooklyn hospital in good condition. The mother, 22, said permission to go to America had been awaited for 12 months and would not be stopped.
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New York
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Shannon
Ireland
Lajos Raics
Idlewild
Brooklyn
Erzebet Elizabeth 22
America
Breeding Co op Reports Record Month In Nov
Washington County dairymen bred more cows artificially last month through the Maryland Artificial Breeding Cooperative than any month since 1946. Technicians bred 730 cows, 15.7 percent more than November last year, with Adin Horst’s dairy herd yielding the largest single herd total at 19. Other large numbers occurred in Keener Harshman and Izer herds with 15 each, Cavanaugh and Weber with 14, and several others ranging from 12 to 7. The cooperative and West Virginia Cooperative merged to form one bull stud serving both states, located in College Park, as sire selections committees pick top sires for the new US-based stud.
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Washington County
Maryland
R. E. Sheaffer
R. E. Weaver
A. T. Litton
Adin Horst
George Keener
Clarence Harshman
L. B. Izer
Charles Cavanaugh
C. H. Weber
McMullen
Graves
Roger Rowe
Russell Wolfinger
Paul Culler
Chester
Coy Price
Paul Showalter
Arthur Weller
Fred Downey
Amos Showalter
Hubert Toms
Fred Wintermeyer
Roy Wise
Elmer Horst
Stanley Horst
Lawrence Long
H. W. McElwee
A. W. MacDonald
William Price
John R. Stouffer
West Virginia
United States
College Park
Late Buying Hours Ahead In Hagerstown Downtown
Hagerstown downtown stores plan extended hours to finish Christmas shopping. Merchants announce tonight closing at 5 p m and a 9 p m closing time from Monday through Saturday next week and again on Monday December 23. Stores revert to 5 p m on Christmas Eve. Weather may spur a shopping rush.
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Hagerstown
Life Term Given To Knife Slayer
RIVERHEAD New York Eugene Harty 22 was sentenced yesterday to life for second degree murder in the August 30 slaying of Mrs Margaret Skiffington 30 and her children Maureen 8 and Robert Jr 5 Brentwood neighbor Harty admitted he killed Mrs Skiffington after she rejected his advances and he then killed the children who witnessed the crime.
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Riverhead
N.Y
Eugene Harty
Harty
Margaret. Skiffington
Brentwood
Maureen
Robert Jr
Harry
Skiffingtons
Five Die in Nelson County Infirmary Fire
Five people burned to death when a fire destroyed the Nelson County Infirmary near Bardstown Kentucky. The blaze damaged a distillery house and wash house, with three occupants rescued by patients and staff. The superintendent J Sterling Flanagan filed for divorce yesterday from Jeanette A Flanagan.
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Bardstown
Nelson' County Infirmary
Sterling J. Flanagan
Parkland
Hibbs
Jeanette A. Flanagan
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