Gazette Party Set For Tonight
The Gazette's 36th annual Christmas party will be at the Masonic Temple tonight at 7:30. Dr. Joseph Owen will give the invocation, followed by remarks to workers. Montclair The Magician will perform. Mish under F. C. Michael and Bennie Joe Michael will direct. Gifts will be exchanged and bonus checks issued. Dinner features fruit juices, hors d oeuvres, cranberry salad, roast turkey, sides, oysters, rolls, mince tarts, and mints.
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Gazette
Masonic Temple
Joseph Owen
Main Street Methodist Church
Wil
W. J. Keeter
Pioneer Girl Scout Area Council Annual Meeting Set
The Pioneer Girl Scout Area Council will hold its annual meeting January 18 at 7 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church Belmont fellowship hall. Dinner by church women. Mrs Fox Young and others named to committees. speaker Mrs Paul Maulden of Kannapolis, Juliette Lowe Regional Chair. Tickets from Mrs Carl Rusta or the Gastonia Girl Scout office.
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Pioneer Girl Scout Area Council
First Presbyterian Church
Belmont
Fox. Young
Boy
Dety Nims
W. J. McGinty
W. P. Dunsin
Mt. Holly
Paul Maulden
Kannapoli
Juliette Lowe
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Carl Rusta
Gastonia
Girl Scout
West Second Avenue
Woman's Club
Cramerton Vets Banquet Sunday
Cramerton Vet’s Club hosts its annual Christmas banquet Sunday from 4 to 6 30 p m with a 4 to 5 15 p m field house Christmas party, barber stop quartet and girls choir, door prizes, turkey dinner at 5 30 p m, principal speaker Stanhope Lineberry Mecklenburg Rural Police. Tickets available from Neld house and from members at Cramerton Mill.
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Cramerton Vet's Club
Field House
Trin Wil
Cramerton
Stanhope Lineberry
Mecklenburg Rural Police
Neld House
Cramerton Mill
FHA Opens Exemptions for Camp Lejeune Rentals
Greensboro dispatch reports the federal housing administration began accepting concessions from bunkers for exemptions from credit restrictions on 300 new rental housing units planned for Camp Lejeune.
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Greensboro
State Office
Federal Housing Administration
Camp Lejeune
Death notices for two infants and Elbert Lee Hannah
Graveside services were planned for Sherry Sue Hudspeth, two days old, at Memorial Park Cemetery in Lowell, with Rev. Pete Millen officiating. The infant died at a local hospital early morning, survived by parents and four grandparents. Funeral arrangements for Elbert Lee Hannah, who died suddenly, were set for 3 p.m. at McLean and Son Funeral Home chapel, with burial in Hollywood Cemetery. He is survived by wife Alice and children D L Hannah, Robert Harmah, Ervin Hoffman Jr., along with five grandchildren and siblings.
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Oeton Memorial Park
Sherry Sue Hudspeth
George Robert Hudspeth
Lowell
Pete Millen
Friendship Baptist Church of
Gib‘son
G. R. Hudspeth
Elbert Lee Hannah
Nome
South Columbia
T.K. Cashwell
Fast Baptist Church
McLean and Son Funeral Home
Hollywood Cemetery
Hannah
Alice Ferris Hannah
D. L. Hannah
Cramerton
Robert Harmah
Fort Mill
8. C
Ervin W. Hoffman ,Jr
Gastanla
Claude Hannah
Kannapolis
Ed Hannah
Elkin
Methodist Bishops Meet In Charlotte
The Southeastern College of Bishops of the Methodist Church meets in Charlotte North Carolina tomorrow. The agenda includes planning for the general conference in San Francisco April 23 to May 6 and the Southeastern jurisdictional conference in Moanoke Virginia June 25 to 30. At the jurisdictional conference bishops are assigned for four year terms in the jurisdiction.
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Atlanta
Southeastern College of Bishops of the Methodist Church
Charlotte
N.C
San Francisco
Moanoke
Christmas Word Sent To Front From General Matthes
General Matthes sends a Christmas message to United Nations and Far East command members. He notes it would be inappropriate to wish a Merry Christmas given current tasks and dangers. He praises their indomitable courage cheerfulness and faith and asks God to guide and keep them.
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Matthes
Ridgway
United Nations Command
Far East Command
Enemy General Dean Reported Prisoner In Korea Front
In Korea a report lists General Dean among prisoners, stating he was wounded and captured after Taejon fall. The note says Dean, 32, helped blast Red tanks, led rear guards, and was last seen protected by insurance when his party left Taejon. The fire at Taejon erupted Sunday morning, with no loss of freight shipments reported at the company. Georgia Tech cross country won the AAU title in Atlanta.
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Geral
Taejon
Iaok
Ceat
Unser
Korea
Clude
John Derr and His World Series Flight Record
John Derr, noted journalist and serviceman’s newspaper writer, began on the front page for CBE Round Up. In 1944 he flew from India to the United States to cover the World Series, the longest trip on record for a baseball reporter on a single assignment. After the war he joined CBS in New York as a radio script writer in the sports division.
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East
CBE
Serviceman
Derr
India
United States
CBS Sports
New York
Italy Rivers Flood Disaster Threatens Northern Lands
The Po and Adige flood the northern Po valley causing massive damage and displacing thousands across cities like Rovigo Ravenna Adria and surrounding farms. Historic coastal changes shift ports inland as cities on high ground brace for ongoing inundation. In Italy the Po basin hosts Turin Milan and Bologna amid centuries of river control and military routed towns. Two youths from Pennsylvania face execution appeals in South Carolina after a 1949 murder.
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Washington
Italy
Malian
Adriatic
National Geographic Society
Rovigo
Adige
Ittaly
Alps
Adriatic Sea
Ravenna
Adria
Ra- Venna
Turin
Milan
Bologna
Apennines
Viscontis
d’Estes
Sforzas
Medicis
Borgias
Florence
Rome
Peninsula
Cold Weather Schedules and Low Temps Across States
Officials hoped to resume schedules late this morning after a cold snap. Gastonia reports 27 degrees, with tonight's low forecast 18 to 25. North Carolina cities show 16 to 25, while South Carolina towns range from 27 to 32 degrees. A humorous note mentions a man asking for a special license number tied to calcium and magnesium in hard water.
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Gastonia
North Carolina
Mount Mitchell
Rocky Mount
Hickory
Greensboro
Raleigh
Asheville
Charlotte
Lumberton
Elizabeth City
New Bern
Wilmington
South Carolina
Spartanburg
Greenville
Anderson
Columbia
Florence
Myrtle Beach
Charleston
Paich
Omaha
Auto
Rural Mail Men Are Given Bird
Rural mail carriers in Wisconsin helped with a wild life census as part of a 871 dove counts effort. The effort accompanied a broader strike threat by the CIO United Steel Workers over a 15 cent hourly pay boost and other concessions. The dispute tests wage ceilings and potential price increases as government mediators seek to avert a nationwide steel strike.
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Pittsburgh
Tec
CIO
United Sites
Philip Murray
Murray
Madison
Wis
NEA
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Union and steel groups clash over average steelworker pay
The Union cites $1.92 per hour as the average earnings of its members while the American Iron and Steel Institute counters with $1.97. Murray's Steelworkers note five postwar raises but say wages have not kept pace with inflation, as veteran union chief warns.
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The
American Iron and Steel Institute
Association of
Steel Firms
Murray
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