Dec. 11, 1954
Oakleys welcome their 20th baby
Mr. and Mrs. Rexford Oakley welcomed their 20th child to the world at the Carbondale General Hospital. Helen Oakley gave birth to a son the evening of Dec. 10.
The couple and their children lived on Madison Avenue in Childs, Carbondale Twp. Living at home were Rex, Jerry, Ellen, Eileen, Gale, Donald, Elizabeth, Thomas, Margaret, Sharon, Leon, Lawrence and Allen. The couple’s older children James, Jane, Louise and Ruth were all married and lived outside the area. Katherine died at age 10 and another child died in infancy.
City Hall Christmas tree arrived
It’s beginning to look a bit more like Christmas at City Hall in Scranton. The building’s 18-foot balsam fir tree arrived from an unnamed Pocono Lake tree farm.
Superintendent of Buildings Charles Murray and staff set to work decorating the tree in time for the start of City Hall’s choral performances.
Snowy owl finds new home
An unidentified man presented the Nay Aug Park Zoo with a new resident — a snowy owl. The man told zoo officials he discovered the owl in a field in the region.
When the owl first arrived at the zoo it had an injured wing tip but soon recovered.
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