Foreman Receives $10000 Award For $6.50 Gadget
Marvin E. Brown, a young mine foreman from Birmingham, received a $10,000 award from Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. for a scrap-metal gadget that speeds underground material handling, moving conveyor pans without removing nine props. Brown plans to use the prize to build a larger home for his wife and three children.
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Birmingham
Ala
Marvin E. Brown
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co
Brown
TCI
Two Virginians Die in Separate Route Collisions
A Wise County man Emmanuel Stidham 650 of Wise died instantly when struck by a car on U S Route 23 south of Pound. A Christianburg resident Andrew J Lester 55 of Christiansburg died Friday night after being struck on U S Route 11 near Christiansburg.
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National Ave
James H. Whiting
Charlottesville
Russell E. Brill
Route 3
Brill
Lester Shickle
Feed the Birds Urges Care in Harsh Weather
A local advisory reminds residents to provide food and shelter for birds during cold spells. Authorities emphasize consistent feeding, water access, and safe kerosene-free feeding spots to support wildlife when natural food is scarce.
Weekend crash toll reports 435 in damages
Over the weekend three traffic accidents caused 435 in damages and slight injuries. William Beverly Ritter and Charles P. Wilson collided on Woodstock Lane with two passengers treated and released at Memorial Hospital.
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William Beverly Ritter
Charles P. Wilson
Evelyn Shanholtz
Grimes
Patricia Smith
E. Leicester St
Memorial Hospital
Christmas customs and Hanukkah overlap noted worldwide
The piece describes Christmas Eve and Hanukkah observances, including Ded Moroz in Russia and the Bishop of Fulham conducting services. It mentions McCloy in Frankfurt hosting open house for Americans and Germans, and U S shoppers and postmen handling peak holiday mail.
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Santa Claus
Ded Moroz
Grandfather Frost
Kris Kringle
Prankfurt
U. S
John J. McCloy
Temple of Jerusalem
Antiochus
United States
New York Post Office
White Christmas Expected Across Northern U S and Midwest
The Weather Bureau forecasts a white Christmas for the northern third of the United States and parts of the Midwest and Appalachians, with snow cover in most of the region and temperatures remaining bitter along the Canadian border. Travel remains hazardous on secondary roads as snowbound areas dig out and planes deliver supplies to isolated towns.
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United States
Wee Bureau
Chisaid
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Milinois
Missouri
Kansas Nebraska
Rockies
Applachian
Rocky Mountains
Seaboard
New
Miami
Brownsville
Tex
Miles City
Bismarck
Janeau-Chaire
South Atlantic
Weather Bureau
South Dakota
Great Lakes
Chicago
Detroit
Columbus
Murray calls meeting on union contracts and strategy
The article notes Murray convening a group to discuss extending mill contracts past December 31 while the Wage Stabilization Board studies the issue. It mentions options including a no contract no work stance, possible undisclosed solutions with government and industry, and that Murray declined to speak to reporters as a union spokesman offered only a no comment.
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Ces
Murray
Wage Stabilization Board
USW
Homeward Bound GIs Delayed By Flight Mixups
Hundreds of returning soldiers faced holiday delays across the country as fog and misbooked flights stranded servicemen from the Pacific to the Midwest. At Oklahoma City 17 airmen waited two days for a plane from California. 40 total stranded there. In Burbank several hundred waited as non scheduled planes failed to appear. In San Francisco and Oakland about 1 500 were delayed more than 12 hours by fog.
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Pacific Coast
Chicago
Korea
Oklahoma City
Air Force
California
Oplane
Transcontinental
Red Cross
Los Angeles
C. A
Lockheed Air Terminal
Burbank
Calif
San Francisco
Oakland
Great Lakes
Reds Exchange Letter as Panmunjom Talks Stall
Reds or to U N negotiators by the Reds Monday in Panmunjom. The letter was put aboard a plane for Japan and will be forwarded to Mrs Dean from Tokyo. A former 24th Division commander was reported interviewed at a prison camp near Pyongyang. The POW subcommittee kept haggling over lists of prisoners exchanged last Tuesday and reported no progress in policing a truce. Both groups set meetings for Tuesday Christmas Day at 11 am local time in a final bid to break the deadlock.
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U. N
Reds
Panmunjom
Japan
Dean
Tokyo
24Th Division
Pyongyang
Service members stranded as Chicago flight returns to Midway
A plane with about ninety percent servicemen aboard sat for 14 hours in Chicago after diverting back to Midway Airport while en route from San Francisco to Philadelphia and New York. A derailment in Davenport, Nebraska, disrupted several southwest passenger routes including two troop trains on leave, rerouting many services.
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Davenport
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Virginia Loan & Thrift CO
Ccason
Buzzella’s Shop
Swimley Furniture Store
Peoples Drug Stores
J. M. Wert
Tment
Woodstock Lane
Ritter
Wilson
H. M. McFarland
Cameron and
Piccadilly Sts
John Denal Ambose
Piccadilly St
George Shaw
Route 1
Cameron
Piccadilly
Ambroses
Shaw
Ambrose
Fulham
England
The
Associated Press
Crista
Capper
Jewelry
Frances Rush
Pat Smith
Dick Rush
Rush Studio
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Hristmas
Henry T. Goode & Son
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