White Christmas paralyzes Midwest with blizzard
A Midwest snowstorm stranded hundreds of children and travelers across Missouri Iowa and Illinois. Sheriff James Tucker reported up to 200 people near Maryville Missouri awaiting snowplows. Homes farms and service stations sheltered the stranded as drifts reached seven feet in places and snow spread toward the Great Lakes Ohio Valley.
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Maryville
James Tucker
Missouri
Iowa
Illinois
Plains
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Lightfoot
Tucker
Quitman
Grant City
Pickering
Inez Madsen
Hamlin
Madsen
Des Moines
Mystery balloon door found near Senseny Road
Mrs. Martin L. Bean reported a metal door from a balloon descending Tuesday night near the woods by Senseny Road. The door bore letters and numbers. A Weather Bureau official suggested the balloon could be a research flight from the Navy Air Force or Atomic Energy Commission. A local salesman offered trading stamps to a woman finishing 15 years of marriage and starting her first stamp book.
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Martin L. Bean
Town Crier
Senseny Road
Weather Bureau
Navy
Air Force
Atomic Energy Commission For Scientific Research
NO PAPER MONDAY Christmas Holiday Notice
The Winchester Evening Star will not publish on Christmas Day. The next issue will be Tuesday, December 26, and the staff wishes readers a joyous Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Evening Star
Braithwaite
OL Heat Inc
Peoples Service Drug Store
Gainesboro
Hazardous Roads Boost Christmas Death Toll
Hazardous road conditions from severe storms drove traffic fatalities up during the three day Christmas weekend. With 120 traffic deaths, 14 fires, and 6 misc accidents, total 140, as 76 million Americans hit the roads. The National Safety Council urged extreme caution amid Midwest blizzards and anticipated indoor travel.
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National Safety Council
Midwest
Plains
Cora Marcotte
Littleton
N.H
Rhode Island
United States
Train Car Plunges 100 Feet Killing 68 Shoppers
In Catanzaro Italy a railroad car jammed with Christmas shoppers and workers broke free from a three coach train and tumbled 100 feet into the Fiumarella river bed. More than 80 were aboard the doomed car as rescuers worked through rain to reach victims.
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Catanzaro
Italy
Calabria
Fiumarella
Mannelli
la Lila
Gulf of Skuillance
Motor Launch Sinks in Mindanao Bay with 100 Aboard
A motor launch carrying more than 100 people capsized in Panguin Bay Mindanao. At least five drowned and about 50 were missing with survivors reporting the Baby Anita overturned after large waves. An extensive air and sea rescue operation was launched.
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Manila
Mindanao
Philippine News Service
Anita
Panguin Bay
Swimley
Winchester
Mother saves Christmas tree for 11 years in Albuquerque
A New Mexico mother keeps her son Marine Richard Lopez's Christmas tree standing since 1950. The tree remains decorated and lit, moved to a special structure in 1953, as she prays for him and recalls his return and ultimate death in the Korea war.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Richard Lopez
1St
Marine Division
Korea
Salvador Lopez
Richard
North Korea
Chosin Reservoir
Lopez
International Red Cross Chief Found Dead in Katanga
The Swiss Red Cross leader Georges Olivet and his two aides were found dead in shallow graves near Camp Simonet in Elisabethville. The Dutch ambulance driver Madame Vroomen and Belgian nurse Nicole Vroomen were identified among the victims.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
Georges Olivet
Internation Red Cross
Camp
Smedding
Olivet
U.N
Olievet
Elisbethville
Camp Simonet
Red Cross
Oliver
Nicole Vroomen
S.S. Smedding
GAO: Civil Defense Funds Misused Across States
The General Accounting Office reports widespread improper use of federal Civil Defense funds from 1951 to 1960. Examples include a $70,000 training center used for dances, misapplied matching funds, police and fire communications gear for nonemergency use, and generators paid for twice. The OCDM program was moved to the Defense Department. The GAO urges suspending funds until safeguards exist.
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Washington
General Accounting Office
GAO
Congressional Watchdog
Forest Service
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
Congress
OCDM
Defense Department
Secretary of Defense
GOA
U S Commandant Cancels Visit To East Berlin
The U S commandant in Berlin Maj Gen Albert Watson II canceled a planned call at Soviet headquarters in East Berlin after border guards demanded that three civilian aides identify themselves The incident at Friedrichstrasse follows a similar refusal by U S officials earlier in the week and prompted a strong protest from Washington The episode underscores rising friction between Western and Soviet authorities in occupied Berlin on the eve of Christmas week.
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Howard Trivers
East Berlin
Trivers
Watson
Karlshorst
Friedrichstrasse
U.S
State Department
Season's Greetings from Virginia Livestock Market
The Virginia Livestock Market invites attendance for its usual sale on Tuesday December 26 and January 2 at N Kent Street. A coffee hour starts Wednesday December 27 at 10 am. Announcement by First National Bank of Berryville.
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Virginia Livestock Market, Inc
N. Kent St
First National Bank of
Berryville
Three Hurt In Icy U S 11 Crash At Bartonsville
Snow and multiple accidents plagued U S 11 near Bartonsville with three people from Winchester identified by Winchester Memorial Hospital as Mrs. Mary Morehead and her daughters Sandra and Genevieve injured. The wreck followed a collision involving a northbound car and a southbound tractor trailer, with the trailer jackknifed and blocking the highway. State police reported numerous other crashes as snow fell across the Valley.
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U.S. 11
Bartonsville
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Mary Morehead
Sandra
Genevieve
J. J. Hickam
Winchester
Bristol
Tenn
Charles Tait
Eugene Everhart
Cameron
Opequon Creek
U.S. 522
Hudson’s Fruit Market
Roanoke
Poor Mountain
Roanoke County
Richmond
Weather Bureau
Plains States
Pennsylvania
New York State
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