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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1976
Page
7
The council urges families to safety prove their homes before children visit, offering a room by room guide. Lock up medicines cleaners and poisons in kitchens baths bedrooms and basements, unplug hot tools, turn pan handles inward, store chemicals and solvents, lock liquor, and keep tools and sharp items out of reach for a safe holiday.
Newsday reports Arcay scientists simulated biological attacks at multiple U S military and civilian sites from 1950 to 1966. Serratia marcescens was released in New York City subways. one hospital patient died in San Francisco. Other tests occurred in Key West Panama City Fort McClellan Mechanicsburg and a Navy facility near Mechanicsburg.
Four seventh graders at Saginaw North Intermediate School joined a health study to simulate aging. Using eye patches gloves and bandages they experienced vision hearing mobility and taste changes to better understand the challenges faced by older adults and how others react to them.
In Dubuque Iowa Nancy Hussie Retest recycles the same Christmas card yearly with her friend Mrs Britch now living in Centralia Illinois. They write two lines each year about the passing years and their long friendship. The practice began during nurse training and has become a cherished Christmas tradition for them.
Medford Oregon newsman Bill Murphy cut his own Christmas tree to save money. The effort cost about 175 dollars including a forest permit, a 100 mile round trip, a borrowed bandsaw that failed, a dermatitis visit for his wife, and damage as their German shepherd chewed the tree stump.
In Edinburg USA firemen, led by Hidalgo County's Operation Christmas Outreach head Noe Diaz, plan a Santa visit to McAllen Pharr Edinburg area barrios delivering oranges candy and toys. Two fire dept sleighs will bring gifts to children in need amid the region's very low per capita income.
A reindeer on loan from Oregon to a Christmas skit escaped after a hole was cut in its corral fence. Police tracked Prancer through Vancouver streets until a tranquilizer shot halted him. The animal was taken to Stanley Park Zoo with a cut near its left ear and one antler missing. it will be returned to Redmond, Oregon.
On this date in 1783 George Washington resigned as Army Commander in Chief and retired to Mount Vernon. Other events include Maryland ceding land for the U.S. capital, Joseph Smith birth, Hideki Tojo execution, Bay of Pigs prisoners arrival, and price doubling in oil. Birthdays include Jose Greco and James Roosevelt. Thought for today notes farmers versus politicians. Bicentennial note recalls Washington's Delaware cross attempt.
Reader asks where to buy Beatrix Potter animal figurines and if they are made in England. Henmeberger's Gift Shop at 19 W Frankfort Ave, Hagerstown stocks some figures and can order others. Also explains how Miracle Slicer orders were handled via WHAG TV broadcasts and a Dial Media supplier in Warwick, with checks processed through Providence hospital.
Harold Brown, poised as defense secretary in the Carter administration, says there is no intent to cut U S military capabilities and that increases may be necessary. Russell Train, head of the EPA, calls the Liberian tanker spill off Massachusetts the biggest offshore disaster in U S history.
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