Dying Woman To Get Last Look At Britain
A young American mother, dying of blood cancer, will be flown to England by the Military Air Transport Service to fulfill her wish to die on her native soil. Her husband Charley and her nurse echo faith as Lt Gen. Tunner supports the mission. The story centers on a Manchester? hospital ward and promises a final homeland farewell.
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ST. Louis
England
Ore Dune Walter
Charley
Military Air Transport Service
Walter
Walters
U.S. Army
Cheltenham
Gloucester
Robert
Glenn
Dennis Wayne
Amonths
Frank Raynsford
MATS
Turner
Thomas Curtis
ReMo
James P. Dully
Top news round up of 1950s era political and social upheavals
The piece surveys major stories from editors including the Adams Golafine controversy and the Chicago Our Lady of the Angels fire with 87 children and three nuns dead. It notes the Nautilus Arctic voyage, school integration tensions and a Clinton Tennessee incident, De Gaulle’s return to power, and 1937 recession recovery signals. It closes with Mrs Walters flight saga and a family tale from St Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman Adams
Boston
Bernard Golafine
Chicago
Our Lady of the Angels Grammar School
de Gaile
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Episcopal Bishop Schedules Annual Visitations
The Rt Rev M George Henry bishop of Western North Carolina will visit three Episcopal churches Sunday Trinity Kings Mountain 9 am St Andrews Bessemer City 11 am and St Johns High Shoals 7 pm The Rev Claude A Collins priest in charge of these missions will assist in administering Holy Communion
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George Henry
Abishop
North Carolina
Trinity
Kings Mountain
St. Andrews
Bessemer City
St. John’s
High Shoals
Claude A. Collins
Jessentee City
Oldest Citizen Of Bessemer City Dies At 98
William Bi Andrew Jenkins 98, longtime Bessemer City resident, died Friday morning at his home. Born April 26 1860, son of Ephrian and Mary Jenkins, he outlived wife Annie Collins Jenkins. Survived by one daughter, eight grandchildren, 34 great grandchildren, eight great great grandchildren. Member of First Baptist Church for 58 years. Funeral at 3 pm Saturday at First Baptist Church with Rev A A Bailey officiating. burial in Mountain Rest Cemetery. Silk Funeral Home in charge.
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Bessemen City
William
Bi) Andrew Jenkins
Ephrian and
Mary Jenkins
Annie Collins Jenkins
Jenkins
A. W. Butler
Bessemer City
First Baptist Church
A. A. Bailey
Forney Lowe
Jenkin
Mountain Rest
Silk Funeral Home
Wilson
Fite & Bumgardner
Belmont
Caldwell
South Point
Belmont Gern
Chicago
South Haven
Mich
Ethel Ray
Charlotte
Masel Kerkman
Clarence Caldwell
Newport News
Remington Rand
Wer
Wil
Martha Caldwell
Entawha
Alop
Sand
Carothers Funeral Home Chapel
East Belmont
Frederick Russell
Dallas
South
Methodist Church
Ceme
Miss Wilson
49 Ways to Make Your Marriage More Exciting
A Reader's Digest January issue offers 49 practical suggestions from happily married couples to rekindle excitement in marriage. The article promotes spurring energy in the relationship and mentions 35 additional entertaining pieces in the issue available at newsstands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reader's Digest
Reader’s Digest
Champagne Heist Baffles Hartsdale Residents
In Hartsdale New York Mrs John Blake set three bottles of champagne outside her door to chill for Christmas. On returning they had vanished prompting a mystery. A possible link to a local Wartsdale tradition of giving sanitation workers a holiday gift is mentioned but unconfirmed.
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Hartsdale
N.Y
John Blake
Rebels In Cuba Pose New Threat
Government forces in Las Villas face intensified rebel activity led by Fidel Castro, threatening Batista’s campaign and hindering the push against Castro forces in Oriente. Castro’s base remains in the eastern mountains. Oriente is a rebel stronghold. Fair warning at Camp Elliott gate notes a danger area on a public highway.
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Havana
Las Villas
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Castro
Oriente
Castro J
San Diego
Camp Elliott Naval Prison
African Bananas to Be Sold in U.S.
Monrovia Liberia German interests push a new Liberian seaport to boost shipments of dried bananas to Europe and eventually export this African delicacy to the United States. The dried fruit resembles a fig but preserves banana flavor.
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Monrovia
Liberia
Ourope
United States
More About Tell Beginnings Front Page Casualties
A front page summary reports 12 fatalities across multiple crashes and incidents. Five killed in a two-car collision near Jackson North Carolina, four from a Danville Virginia family, three dies near Coats North Carolina, one on a head-on near Michigan City Indiana. A Greyhound bus crash near Sacramento California killed a woman and injured her husband. Christmas holiday traffic deaths totaled 235 in one day last year, with 27 fire deaths and 26 other violent incidents, summing 278 violent deaths.
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Jackson
N. C
Danville
Coats
Raleigh
Michigan City
Ind
Chicago
Crown Point Ind
Sacramento
Calif
Greyhound
Trooper Helps Birth After Crash in Atlantic City
In Atlantic City New Jersey a mother Mrs Waller Dredden delivered a baby girl after a car crash. Trooper Donald Mbert freed mother and newborn from the wreck and completed the birth by tying off the umbilical cord with his boot laces. Both mother and infant were reported doing nicely and unharmed.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Waller Dredden
Donald Mbert
Cargo Missiles To Supply Mobile Army
A futuristic concept imagines cargo missiles delivering aid across 1500 mile ranges to sustain mobile forces. Convair tests a small cargo missile, the Lobber, costing under $1000, carrying 50 to 150 pounds of cargo and designed for rapid, cheap production and reuse.
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KY Ray Cromley
Red Cross
NEA
Siles
Mosebey
Iso- Washington
Lebanon
U. S. Army
Women Vote Equal Men in Turkey Good News
In Ankara statistics show 314,520 women employed in professions and crafts with 55,111 in government service against 52,961 men. The latest figures confirm parity in parliamentary election female votes equaled male votes last year.
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Ankara
Turkey
Executive Hiring Jungle Woman Hunts Only Big Game
Miss Wilson heads a Los Angeles based executive search firm targeting top engineers and scientists. She places technical men in high level roles, charging about 10 percent of first year salary as firms seek the right fit for space, defense and industry. She notes scarcity of skilled technical leaders and emphasizes careful planning to match men with suitable organizations.
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Jungle Woman
Ralph Dighton
Wilson
Los Angeles
Key
Hi. R. Wilson
Hese
Miss Wilson
North American Aviation
C Instrumentations
Hughes Aircraft
Ramo Wooldridge
Space E Technology Laboratories
Belmont area obituaries recount lives and careers
Obituaries for Lonnie Baucom of Perkins Street and Davie Rabon of Gastonia detail sudden deaths, funeral plans, and survivors. Long profiles highlight Baucom’s abrupt passing en route to a hospital and Rabon’s residence on Dogwood Drive with four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
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Lonnie Baucom
Perkins Streets
Carothers Funeral Home
Dovie Jones Baron
Belmont
Davie Jones Rabon
Dogwood Drive
Hickory Grove Road
Gastonia
Mrs. Rabon
Bart B
Lucinda Huskins Jones
Haywood County
Lindsay M. Rabon
Vlsie Bennett
Mary
Bennett
Strike Widens As Airlines Report Daily Losses
Grounding of Eastern planes triggers a million-dollar daily loss while American pilots walk out last Friday. Mediated pact would cost 25 000 to 40 000 annually per pilot, aiming to top industry pay. New ceiling proposed at 2 362 monthly, 28 more than prior. Pilots seek 0 hours less flying time monthly for jets. Eastern flight engineers resist being reclassified as pilots.
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American
Shorter Montil American
Fastern
Pennsylvania Girl Becomes Kentucky Groom for Horses
Judy Oberhuber a 20 year old from Doylestown Pa works as an equestrian engineer for Mr and Mrs Lowry Watkins in Louisville Kentucky. She cares for six horses and acts as an amateur veterinarian while planning marriage and joking about society editors listing her as a groom.
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Louisville
Judy Oberhuber
Lowry Watkins
Judy
Doylestown
United States
Watkins Place
Russia warns of spillover to Americas in new front page piece
The foreign minister said future wars will blur distant and nearby theaters due to modern military tech. He allowed hearing proposals from the West if they aim to solve problems and do not reject Russia’s approach, but he rejected unofficial Western ties between Berlin talks and German reunification.
Lithium Front Page Scoop Signals Space Radiation Shift
Front page tease notes lithium coverage and Samoa tests as scientists from over 400 institutions gather for a convention. A potential report by Dr. James Van Allen at Iowa University concerns a newly identified radiation band detected above 250 miles during Explorer satellite flights and continuing studies by space probes.
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Apia
Samoa
Tast
Odishaw
James van Allen
Iowa University
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WSOC
Gpextonia Mutual Building
Loan Association
West Main
the Savings and Loan Foundation, Inc
Rceavy Yioleind
Convair Division
Convair
Landine
Islas Jt
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Chargy
H. B. Caldwell
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West Main Ave
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Tall
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Colgate Dental
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