50 years ago: Dec. 22, 2012
Dec. 22, 1962

Loma Manufacturing Company Inc. entertained its employees with a Christmas dinner party Friday night at the Brown-Proctor Hotel. Gifts were exchanged and each employee was presented with a turkey. Dinner was served to approximately 130 employees.

Pfc. Robert Samuel Ratliff, Fort Bliss, Texas, arrived Thursday to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Ratliff. West Lexington Avenue, and other relatives here.

LONDON (AP) — The agreement between Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy to provide Britain with Polaris missiles in place of Skybolt brought a wave of criticism from right and left today. It threatened to produce the biggest and most bitter defense row since the war.