FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 21
(AP) – The annual Christmas pageant given by the Fairbanks High School choir at the Ladd Air Force Base Hospital included a group of girls dressed in angel costumes.
The girls were walking down the corridor when a setviceman patient was wheeled out of the operating room still feeling the effects of the anesthetic.
The still-dazed patient saw the “angels” going by and cried: “Good heavens, I’m dead.”
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (P) – Mrs. Ola Bragg Minter’s automobile sideswiped another car Sunday. Police said Mrs. Minter continued up the street without stopping. A mile away she failed to make a curve and the car turned sideways, ripping up a street sign and 20-foot iron advertising sign. Righting itself, the automobile rolled through a service…
Day and night for more than 72 hours a beautiful black and white shepherd dog has kept vigil at a white post on the Pacific highway eight miles south of Salem near the Alder Springs club, Roy McIntire, who lives nearby, said Wednesday. Evidently waiting for her owner, she eats the meals McIntire feeds her…
Late in the fall of 1896, Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, scholars fresh from Oxford took the steamer to Cairo. They wanted to become Famous Archaeologists during a period when the British were fascinated by ancient Egyptian artifacts. So fascinated that said artifacts were disappearing from Egypt like sliced grapes from a toddler’s plate. They decided to dig…
Have you ever noticed that our expectations for ancient man are similar to those for toddlers? Hear me out:1. They aren’t allowed to use power tools.2. They can’t be motivated by practicality.3. They must believe in Santa Claus and bogeymen under the bed. Yes, I know, it sounds weird, but let’s look at Gobekli Tepe. Discovered in 1994, this site…
WACO, Texas (AP) – Mrs. Burgman Black, intent on a fine spring garden, purchased a sack of commercial fertilizer and stored in the garage. At the first opportunity she carefully mixed what she thought was the fertilizer with soil in her garden, did her planting, and then gave it all a good soaking. The next…
My review of The Tower by Evonne Krell, a Selah Award winning chapter book that follows the adventures of three children at the Tower of Babel.