Churches Plan Christmas Activities in the Washington Area
The Washington area churches outline Christmas week plans featuring cantatas plays and choral programs led by ministers and choirs. Highlights include the Presbyterian presentation of Song in the Air and the Methodist cantata The Story of Christmas with soloists, along with Ainsworth United Presbyterian and St Pauls cantatas and a free will offering for Handel's Messiah.
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Washington Area
Christ
Presbyterian
The
Presbyterian Church
Ed Letts
Mary Booth
Esther McCaslin
Charlotte Berry
Wanda Blattner
Wilma Hughes
Jim Letts
Richard Leavitt
Sara Griffith
Pauline Crone
Rodney Letts
Jim
Joe Schiebel
Bruce Lemmon
Francis Libe
Jacqueline le
Ainsworth
Ainsworth United Presbyterian Church
Harold Wortman
Edith Bell
Washington
Dorothy Koehler
Rosemary Jenkins Raridon
Karen Koehler
Marian Rich
Wade Raridon
Dean van Haaften
Allen Wortman
United Presbyterian Church
St. Pauls
St. Paul's Evangelical & Reformed Church
Antone Hotle
Robert Steele
Helen Harvey
Washington Christian Church
Trinity Lutheran Church
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Jesus
Christian Tabernacle
Baptist Church
the Nazarene Church
Christmas Church Programs Across the Journal Area
Churches in the Journal area announce extensive Christmas programs and services from Friday through Sunday. The United Presbyterian and several local churches schedule candlelight, pageants, choirs, and Sunday school programs featuring children and choirs across Washington Crawfordsville West Chester Kalona and more.
Three Million In Supplemental Aid To Iowa Schools
Iowa districts will receive 70 cents on each dollar requested as three million dollars in supplemental aid is distributed this year. The largest claims come from Pottawattamie Polk Linn Scott and Appanoose counties with amounts ranging from about 144 thousand to 248 thousand dollars.
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Des Moines
State Department of Public Instruction
Iowa
Pottawattamie
Polk
Linn
Scott
Appanoose
Polo Battle Mobs In Island of Cyprus
Riot police in Nicosia fired tear gas at mobs protesting Cyprus union with Greece. Two American Consulate windows were shattered while a British Union Jack was torn down. Demonstrators also attacked police in Lanarca Famagusta and Athens marching on the US Information Service office.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Greece
Lanarca
Famagusta
United States Information Service
Athens
Piraeus
Enossis
Union With
Christmas Train Crash Kills Twenty in Dortmund
A dawn collision in Dortmund Germany involving a Yuletide express from Kiel and a local train killed at least 20 people and left 60 injured. The northbound passenger train struck the local near Dortmund main station as the local pulled out for Hamm. Many victims were children and women as rescue efforts continued.
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Dortmund
Germany
Kiel
Hamm
Will Quiz Husband Of Murdered Woman
Brinkley Arkansas police plan to question Melvin Fuller again after the auto dealer’s wife was found beaten to death six days earlier. Fuller had been cleared of complicity but agreed to lie detector and mental tests if requested.
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Brinkley
Ark
J. B. Reed
Melvin Fuller
Fuller
Frank Henderson
Henderson
Reed
H. K. MecKinzie
Bill Lee
1954 Farm Production Fifth Highest in U S
Washington report shows 1954 farm output at fifth highest in U.S. history despite drought in the South and rust damage in Dakota. Corn and wheat under price supports fell from 1953, but gains in other crops kept total up, with soybeans, rice, sugar beets and orange crops setting new records.
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Washington
South
Dakota
Agriculture Department
Two Independence Men Die in Highway Crash
On Iowa 150 south of Hazelton two Independence men died when their car collided with a semi-trailer on a slick road. George Lower, 44, driver and owner of Lower Transfer Co., and Will Klinkel, 79, an employee, were killed. Willard Pearson, about 35 from Minneapolis, the truck driver, was hospitalized with a head cut after the empty truck jackknifed into the car.
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Hazelton
Iowa
Independence
Iowa 150
Here
George Lower
Lower Transfer Co
Will Klinkel
Willard Pearson
Minneapolis
Minn
Oelwein
Congress confronts Eisenhower manpower plan in new Congress
Congress split over the proposed military manpower plan as Defense officials outline a modified universal training concept. The proposal would cut active forces by 468000 in four years, expand a 500000 strong reserve, and offer youths three paths to service. Supporters say it will pass with presidential push. critics call it difficult to enact and administer.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Defense Department
Paul J. Kilday
D-Tex
House
Sens
Estes Kefauver
Dtenn
John C. Stennis
Dmiss
Senate Armed Services Committee
Defense
Charles F. Wilson
Carter L. Burgess
Wilson
Iurgess
Burgess
Deliberations Extend as Sheppard Murder Trial Probes Nine Weeks
In Cleveland Judge Edward Blythin notes the jury will likely need more time to weigh the mass of evidence in Dr Samuel H Sheppards first degree murder trial over the slaying of his pregnant wife Marilyn The panel of five women and seven men was sent to a downtown hotel after more than 12 hours of deliberation and the judge urged an early return to resume for further deliberations while the defense contends for a careful verdict.
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Cleveland
Samuel H. Sheppard
Commes Pleas
Edward Blythin
Sheppard
Marilyn
Carter Hotel
Blythin
Sam
Richard N. Sheppard
Fred W. Garmone
Spellman to Spend Christmas in Korea
Tokyo reports Francis Cardinal Spellman will spend Christmas in Korea for the fourth time. He arrives Tuesday and will celebrate a mass at Haneda Base chapel before saying two more masses for Army and Air Force units in Tokyo.
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Tokyo
Far East
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Korea
Haneda Air Force Base
Des Moines Auto Dealer Guilty on Mail Fraud Counts
Orville Stevens, 50, a Des Moines used car dealer, was found guilty by a Federal Court jury on nine counts of mail fraud tied to a $100 check kiting scheme. Jury deliberated about four hours. Stevens faces up to five years in prison per count. A bond increase to $3,000 was set after release on $1,000. Also named in the case were Harry Cairns and Guy Schooler.
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Des Moines
Orville Stevens
William F. Riley
Stevens
Cambridge
Iowa
Hartford - Carlisle
Carlisle
Cambridge Bank
Harry C. Cairns
Guy D. Schooler
Carlisle Bank
Cairns
Schooler
Pope Pius XII Takes Short Drive in Vatican Gardens
In a rare outing, the 78-year-old pope, recently attacked and seriously ill, left his Vatican apartments for a brief drive to the gardens. Doctors Galeazzi-Lisi and Niehans accompanied him as he sat in a chair, then a limousine, amid cautious Vatican optimism.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Vatican Gardens
Vatican Palace
Holy Office
Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi
Galeazzi-Lisi
Paul Niehans
Pope
Hiiecups
Vatican
Diplomats foresee China to free 11 American airmen
UN diplomats believe Chou En Lai will agree to release 11 American airmen jailed as spies. They cite Chou's cables mentioning conviction, not imprisonment, as a possible diplomatic loophole. Talks may unfold amid Hammarskjold's Geneva and Peiping moves. Hammarskjold departs for Stockholm to replace his deceased father.
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United Nations, N. Y
U.N
Chou En-Lai
Chou
Dag Hammarskjold
Peiping
U.N. General Assembly
Hammarskjold
Red China
United States
Geneva
New York
Stockholm
Swedish Academy
Hjalmar Hammarskjold
Sweden
Keng Pao
Hope for Peace Theme of Ike's Yuletide Speech
President Eisenhower delivers a Christmas message from a park near the White House promising that the United States speaks for peace from strength. He vows not to trade principle and honors, urges allied unity, and calls on neutral nations to respect choices while pursuing peaceful aims.
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Ike
Washington
Eisenhower
Prince of Peace
United States
White House
America
Rites Planned for Mrs Ed Hotle of Keota
Mrs Ed Hotle 68 lifelong Washington county resident died at Mercy hospital Iowa City after a heart attack. Funeral services set for Monday December 20 at 2 pm Federated church Keota with burial in Keota cemetery. Survivors include husband a daughter two sons six grandchildren four brothers and a sister.
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Keota
Ed Hotle
Washington County
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Federated Church
Elmer Bostow
Arnold Klick
Marsh Funeral Home
Mary Dorothy Mayer
Dutch Creek Township
A. L
Martha Luers Mayer
Old Washington Academy
Frank Roth
Cedar Rapids
Arthur
Antone Hotle
Seventy-six
Carl
Homer
Arthur Mayer
Walter
Des Moines
Carl Klein
St. Louis
Hotle
Pribilof Fur Seals In Vast Annual Gathering
In the fog bound Bering Sea Pribilof Islands a million and a half fur seals converge each year during the breeding season creating the largest wild animal aggregation seen anywhere. The treeless rocky shores host this monumental gathering as mating and pup rearing unfold.
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Bering Sea
Mrs. Etta Buxbaum Dies in Missouri Hospital
Mrs. Etta Buxbaum former Crawfordsville resident died at 11 a m today in Columbia Missouri hospital She was born January 19 1881 in Crawfordsville daughter of William K Wooley and Ann Cochran Wooley Survivors include a brother J C Wooley of Columbia Funeral arrangements by Jones funeral home with services 10 30 a m Tuesday December 1 at Federated Church Crawfordsville Burial in Crawfordsville cemetery
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Etta Buxbaum
Crawfordsville
Columbia Hospital
Columbia
Federated Church
Ernest Smith
Buxbaum
William K. Wooley
Ann Cochran Wooley
J. C. Wooley
Jones Funeral Home
Crawfordsville Cemetery
Weather notes show colder weekend with snow east
By United Press Iowa considerable cloudiness and cooler weather are forecast Sunday. Snow is likely east and central by afternoon with a low tonight of 15 to 23 and a high Sunday of 35 to 40. Monday will stay cold with possible flurries in the east.
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United Press
Iowa
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