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CLOVERDALE Most elaborate aid detailed production la the
Community Christmas program held at Cloverdale School Friday
Bight wai playlet of The Littlest Shepherd which closed with
scene of shepherds and wisemen at the manger cradle of the
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CLOVERDALE Older girls of
at the conclusion of a wreath
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chool house Friday night Some 150 persons from
community affair. (Statesman
CLOVERDALE Stage angels may he pliies in the dressing room.
Here two Cloverdale School pupils enjoy a private joke In the
door of the dressing room while waiting to go on stage for roles
In the annual Christmas program held at the school Friday night.
(Statesman Photo.)
CoalRemains
Despite Try to
Give It Away
MIDLAND, Tex. m - Folks In
this oil and gas-rich west Texas
country who have never seen coal
should look In the basement of
the Midland post office.
There's a big heap of it there.
It's been there 17 years, despite
Repeated efforts to get it. moved.
Rep. J. T. Rutherford (D-Tex)
found the dust-covered -pile this
, week while investigating whether
jnore space could be made avail
able in the building by using the
basement. The coal was put there
in 1937 before the building was
converted to gas heat.
Postmaster N. G. Oates told
Rutherford local post office offi
cials have tried to get permission
to move the coal but that the gen
eral services administration al
ways tells him to keep it there
"lor emergency use."
Rutherford was at a loss as to
; what kind of emergency it would
1 be. The building's heating system
' was converted to gas in 1939 "and
, it would cost thousands of dollars
" and take several days to re-con-.'
vert to the coal beating system."
PACKAGE PRESENT
BERNE on The house of the
Swiss Federal Parliament wrapped
up a big package for itself this
Christmas time. It contained a pile
ef minor measures approved in a
package deal without debate to
give members an extra day for
shopping. Even the four Commit
nJ.j consented.
Christmas
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the two-room. Cloverdale School, near Turner, sing Christmas tongs
- decorated drill during the annual Christmas program held at the
six months
Photo.)
Morse Confident
Conirress to Give
Flood Victims Aidi(iveJPoliceinen were in-
WASHINGTON Of) Sen. Morse
(D-Ore) told President Eisenhower
Saturday he was confident Con
gress will provide any supplemen
tal appropriations necessary for
relief in the flood-hit western
states.
"All pf us in government Irre
spective of partisanship stand uni
fied in carrying out our humani
tarian obligations wherever trag
edy hits our people," the senator
said in a telegram to the Presi
dent. Expressing appreciation for aid
already granted Oregon, Cali
fornia and .Nevada communities,
Morse added:
"I am sure that you will exer
cise all of the emergency powers
you have in connection with I his
disaster and I am confident that
Congress when it reconvenes will
back you up in providing any sup
plemental appropriations that you
need for your presidential emer
gency funds."
Conference Planned
On Transportation
, WASHINGTON (VThe Chamber
of Commerce of the United States
is sponsoring a "Transportation
Outlook Conference' here Jan. 12.
Speakers will Include Rep. Priest
(D-Tenn), chsirman of the House
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee, and Louis S. Roths
child, undersecretary ef com
merce. , :
'Leads
Christ child. All children of the little two-room school participated
In the program which highlighted community activities of the yule
tide season. (Statesman Photo.)
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to the eighties gathered for the
Peru Cabinet
Shift Brings
New Premier
LIMA. Peru ( Political un
rest generated by an election still
five months away led Saturday to
a Peruvian Cabinet shakeup. A
new lineup Saturday night placed
a military man in every ministry.
Vice Ad. Roque A. Saldias re
mained as Premier.
President Gen. Manuel A. Odria
accepted the resignation of his eld
Cabinet in which both civilians
and the armed forces were repre
sentedand called in some army,
navy and air officers to round out
the new one.
Col. Augusto Villacorta was as
signed to the powerful Interior
Ministry, in which 'Alejandro Es
parza Zanartu had been a target
of criticism. -
A riot last Wednesday in Are-
quipa, the commercial center of
South Peru, touched off a chain of
events which caused Interior Min
ister Esparza Zanartu to present
his resignation Saturday morning.
The other ministers then stepped
out in a gesture of solidarity.
The fighting Wednesday grew out
of a raid by the restoration party,
which supports Gen. Odria, on a
rightist coalition rally called to
prepare for the national election
June S. Pnur rimnntratnr unH
The next day a general strike
paralyzed Arequipa, '
Workers demanded the resigna
tion of Esparza, who controlled na
tional security and, through that,
controlled political activity.
They also demanded reform of
the election law, greater freedom
for political activity and amnesty
for political offenders. '
U.N. Secretary
Holds Hope for
United Mankind
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JB -U.
N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold, Saturday night held
out the hope of "mankind united
in peaceful competition, free from
fear and free from want."
In a year-end message made
public here, be said this "great
dream" might demand "great sac
rifices," "but it deserves the deep
est loyalty of every man."
"Short of our unreserved devo
tion it will remain a dream, lack
ing substance." he declared. "If
this is not recognized, it may even
blind us to reality and become a
danger, though it should be i a
source of strength."
He said the year Just ending had
been one of achievements and dis
appointments in pursuit of this
dream. He urged a "resolve in the
year ahead to serve the cause of
humanity with the unswerving loy
alty and devotion that are demand
ed of tu." ,,..
Community9 to Cloverdale
Annual Yule Pageant
Attracts 150 Persons
,By THOMAS G. WRIGHT JR.
Staff Writer. The Statesman
CLOVERDALE The star of
Christmas led the shepherds and
the wise men and the kings of
this rural community to the little
Cloverdale Schoolhouse Friday
night for the annual and traditional
Christmas program.
Santa had a torn tunic (perhaps
caught on a chimney brick or TV
Morse Asks
Probe of Oil
Rights Policy
WASHINGTON ( Charges
that the Interior Department is
"giving away" oil and gas rights
in wildlife refuges should be in
vestigated by the Senate interior
Committee. Sen. Morse (D-Ore)
said Saturday.
The department under McKay
"has shown itself more than willing
to endanger recreational and wild
life 'values, whenever a piece of
the people's resources is coveted
by monopoly and big business,"
Morse said.
"The charges of the Wildlife
Management Institute. ..are very
grave," the senator continued in
a statement. "I have not heard
that the I'nited States is suffering
from a crisis in its oil supply.
Quite the contrary, our position in
this respect is excellent. Therefore
there cannot be the slightest jus
tification for this latest giveaway
on any such grounds.
McKay has said the charges are
political. He said his department's
new regulations give maximum
protection to wildlife reservations
in which oil and gas leases are
granted.
Morse said all but 12 of the 264
refuges have been thrown open to
private oil development. ;
Abducted Girl,
Mother Joined
NEW YORK Wl - A -year-old
girl, abducted three weeks ago and
then abandoned on a Chicago
street, rejoined her mother Satur
day night in a tearful scene at La
Guardia Airport. -
Anna Wolf Buckley dashed ahead
of a group of policemen escorting
her from a plane that brought her
here and ran into her mother's
arms.
Weeping, Mrs. Dorothy Buckley,
30, embraced her daughter" and
murmured "Annie, Annie, Annie!"
A few moments later, her step
father, Arthur Buckley, her sister,
Virginia, 13, her brother, Louis, 11,
and other relative greeted her.
Each carried a Christmas gift
for her.
Anna was abducted in New York
on Dec. S when she and her broth
er, Louis, were taken on a visit to
Times Square Amusement Ar
cades by Miss Janice Costanza, a
family friend. . , "
Louis returned home later in the
day and said Anna had decided to
stay with the woman.
Anna was found abandoned on a
Chicago street Friday after an
alarm was issued by police. Police
are searching for Miss Costanza.
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ine rnua maoe me trip aione
from Chicago after police placed
her aboard the plane Saturday
night.
Leaflet Defines
'Working Time'
WASHINGTON GrV-Tbe Depart
ment of Labor has issued "a
practical guide" on "what con
stitutes working time for em
ployes under the Fair Labor Stan
dards Act.
The , booklet discusses travel
times, waiting time, rest and meal
periods "and time spent in certain
activities at the beginning and end
of the workday."
LESS CRIME NEWS
ROME i The Italian Tress
Assn., in the spirit of the season,
asked editors U minimize news
about crime for the next week.
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CLOVERDALE The first few rows of seats are always reserved
for the children in the traditional rural school Christmas pro
grams, and here a trie of pre-schoolers aaeve in for a frolic of
their own while their elder b re iters and sisters sing as a, part
antenna), one of the shepherds in
the nativity scene displayed argyle
socks, and two babies went off to
sleep after vocally competing with
the carolers. But nothing really
detracted from the spell of Christ
mas.
IM Present J
The program, ja presentation of
all -the pupils of Cloverdale's two
room country school, brought out
over 130 community residents
(counting the kids'.
The grownups squeezed them
selves into the school's old style
desks and filled up the corners of
the school to watch the production
from . the - welcome,- by a lisping
blonde first grader, to Santa's
grand entrance.
In between, the pupils of the
eight-grade school, turned out joy
ful entertainment, all with a Christ
mas flavor. Proud parents and
friends and neighbors applauded
noisily for the plays, songs and
resitations.
Santa Arrives
Santa Claus, loaded down with
sacks of candy for everyone, ar
rived just at the right time when
the program was closing. Many
residents of the community linger
ed on, long after Santa had re
turned to mufti, to chat with neigh
bors and friends before following
the star of Christmas back home
again.
Station Break
Halts Carol;
Viewers Fume
NEW YORK lifPat Kirby. 20,
singer on the Steve Allen NBC-TV
show, "Tonight," was singing
Schubert's "Ave Maria" just be
fore 12:30 a.m. Saturday when she
was cut off by a station break
and a commercial.
Later she repeated the number
in its entirety.
The Incident resulted in a num
ber of protest calls from viewers'
of the prdgram, which at the time
was on a network extending as i
far west, as the Kansas City area, j
Gene Rayburn, sitting in for
Steve Allen who is in Hollywood,!
had introduced Miss Kirby's num-'
ber as one of the most holy songs i
ever written.
NBC officials said the incident
was due to "poor timing produc
tionwise." They explained that a
segment of the show took too much
time, and the program was run
ning behind schedule. Thirty-five
seconds before 12:30, chimes that
automatically reset a network
went off and cut into the number.
In New York a commercial auto
matically went on WRCA-TV.
SLAVS, RIBS SIGN PACT
BELGRADE. Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union
have signed an agreement for ex
change of scientific and technical
information. Tanjug, the official
Yugoslav news agency, said a
Yugoslav Soviet commission will
meet twice a year to promote the
exchange.
Yule Dinner Cleanup
For Husbands, SpecialisiWarns
By HAINES COLBERT
Miami Dally News Staff Writer
MIAMI, Fla. lift Husbands
who decline to help. with the dish
es after- a big Christmas dinner
aren't lazy.
They're protecting the future of
the family. '
Doctors, who mainly have to
look to wives to collect their bills,
don't say this in so many words.
But it's the obvious conclusion to
be drawn from a check with a
stomach specialist, the assistant
director of a big general hospital
and a professor in the University
of Miami's medical school.
Your wife haturally will want
you to be well fed. .
So, suppose she whips tip a little
something like salad, radishes,
olives, celery, soup, fruit cocktail,
turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes,
green vegetable, pumpkin pie with
whipped cream, coffee and , a
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U.S. Probes
Faulty Radio
Sets for Army
NEWARK. N. J. W) - The New
ark Sunday Star-Ledger said Sat
urday that federal authorities are
probing possible sabotage or gr.ift
at Fort Monmouth on radio sets
which failed to work in Korea.
The Star-Ledger, in an article
under the byline of City Editor
Arthur Heenan, said the FBI and
the General Accounting Office
(GAC) were investigating the mat
ter. A spokesman for the GAC in
Washington- said he had not heard
anything about such an investiga-1 C . . AT ? ml
tion. Harvey G. Foster, agent lnii3110W V CI11CIC
charge of the Newark FBI office.'
j saiu ne nnu nu comment.
1 A . Ft. Monmouth spokesman
said: "We know nothing about
this."
; The spokesman added that Mon-
j mouth is the Signal Corps' re
search, development and training
I center while the Signal Corps' pro
curement and inspection head
quarters is located at Philadel
phia. He said a branch of the pro
curement office is located at Mon
mouth
The newspaper said Rep. T.
james lumuuy u-nji would
recommend a full probe of the
charges by the House Civil Service
Committee, of which he is a mem
ber. Monmouth was probed for sev
eral months by the Senate investi
gations subcommittee of Sen. Mc
Carthy. (R Wis I in 1953. Later,
35 employes were suspended on
security grounds but 27 were re
instated by various loyalty boards.
Appeals of eight are still pending.
The Star-Ledger said it learned
that 60 million dollars worth of
contracts were signed and ap
proved for unworkable short wave
sets. It said the 1st Marine Divi -
sion complained about the failure
of the sets after communications
broke down in a Chinese Commu
nist attack across the Yalu River
in Korea. .
Inmates Buy
Candy for Tots
In Evacuation
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. . UB-Thirty
members of a San Quentin prison
honor camp near flood stricken
Weott scraped up 1121 to buy
candy and nuts for evacuated
children there, Acting Warden
Louis Nelson said Saturday.
The honor camp prisoners got
word back to San Quentin to with
draw the money from their slim
savings which are .kept for their
account here. The men get f 13 a
month, out of which they mu.it
buy their tobacco and other luxur
ies. (
Prison personnel . bought the
goodies and ordered them sent by
air freight to the Weott refugee
camp.
You don't want to be a pig, but
you do want to know it's Christ
mas. So you put away the dinner, and
after - a while you don't feel as
spry as you did.
That is the time when some
wives flying blindly In the face
of medical opinion, will say:
"Come on, let's wash the dishes.
It'll be good for you work off
that logey feeling." ,
Work-
Does she want you to commit
suicide?
When you eat a big meal, the
doctors say, blood flows to the
gastro-intestinal tract to help in
digestion. That's what makes you
feel sleepy
You're blood shy in the head,
to put it as far from Latin as
possible. '. ' '
The blood also drains from your
muscles.
You really are la lousy shape,
statesman. Salem. Ore.,'
School's
ef the program. Seats were vacated when the entire school enroll
meet joined voices for caroling and the little ones put en their own
program en the empty benches. (Statesman Photo.)
Yule 'Gifts' Showered
On Video Entertainers
By CHARLES MERCER
NEW YORK Wl - In this benign
Christmas season it would be nice
to remember everybody in televi
sion. But that's impossible, to let's
first simply give a pat on the head
and a shapely filled stocking to
everyone.
.Come to think of it, our numer
ous favorite girl friends Janet
Blair, Vivian Blaine, Kim Stanley,
etc., etc., etc. already have
Tilled their stockings very well. So
Spiral-Track
Demqnstratcd
WALLOWA, Ore. IP Leonard
Ferguson of Wallowa took his
spiral-track snow tractor out 'for
a test Saturday, and aaid it per
formed "better than we expected."
Ferguson said the tractor, pro
pelled by two, long revolving
drums with screw threads, made
up to 20 miles an hour over a
level snowiieJd, and climbed a hill
that would have been too steep for
a jeep in summer.
Ferguson said they would have
given an even more Impressive
display of the tractor's power, but
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automobile. The intent was to
have the tractor pull the car side
way across a road. Just as the
car began to move, the rope
snapped, Ferguson said.
For power there was a four
cylinder, 70-horsepower gasoline
engine, geared to the drums. Three
long pieces of two-inch angle iron
had been welded spirally onto the
i drums for threads to bite into the
'snow
The steel drums, made in Boise.
are 11 feet long, 30 inches in di
ameter. A number of friends went along
to watch the test, 12 miles north
of Wallowa. Snow was about 2'i
feet deep, -Ferguson said.
Also there was M. Sgt. Junior
Carper of the Idaho Military Dis
trict in Boise, who financed Fer
guson's construction of the tractor.
Carper says the tractor could
become an important development
for Arctic troops.
Waves Shift
Cargo of Ship
SEATTLE The freighter
Liberty Flag called for Coast
Guard aid in getting into the Co
lumbia River Saturday afternoon.
Winds up to 43 miles per hour
kicked up waves that shifted the
freighter's forward deck cargo.
The Coast Guard cutter Yocona
was sent to escort the freighter
into the river.
The Coast Guard said it did not
know offhand where the freighter
was from nor where she was head
ed. The vessel belongs to the Gulf
Cargo Carriers Corp. of New York.
Dangerous
so far as blood distribution Is con
cerned. Wash dishes? Do you want (o
have cramps?
- Don't even tell her "No" -In a
loud voice.
Those depleted muscles are In
no condition for strain.
Speak softly. Lie down. Go to
sleep. Take care of yourself.
In three or four hours, the doc
tors say, the worst danger will be
over. The muscles, with their nor
mal blood supply back, no longer
are so susceptible to strain.
By that time, in any well or
dered house, the dishes should be
washed and put away.
Your wife, of course, could get
a cramp from exercising after her
dinner but there's no use being
alarmed about it.
If she eats enough to get cramps
she's probably ruining her figure,
add tlja experience will be a les
son to her.
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Program
I a pat on the head, a chuck under
the chin and a merry Christ
mas, girls. t
j . There are a few of the kids who
I should be specifically mentioned.
I however. Under the tree they'll
find gifts useful and frivolous,
j To George Good we give the
big silver badge presented each
I Christmastide to th hra"
! best comedian who has ridden the
i hills and valleys of popi'lT t
ion. This is known m the Adult
Eastern Sheriffs Badge. ,
Sheriffs Badge
The Adult Western Sheriffs
Badge goes to worthlngton Miner
and his posse who weekly corral
"Frontier" on the TV screen. And
a badge only slightly smaller goes
to the "Wyatt Earn" gang.
Here's a useful gift for Red Skel
ton wrapped in cellophane. Four
new writers busting with fmh
comic ideas.
This giant-sised bottle of nerve
medicine goes o Milton Berle who
(word comes from Hollywood) was
briefly unhinged this season by the
scurrilous attacks of those vile fel
lows known as "the New York
Critics." ,
Well, well two gifts or "Jackie
Gleason. One is a shiny new script
for "The Honeymoonert" in which
our boy does not once yell at Aud
rey Meadows, "seme day, Alice,
you're gonna get yours!"
Small Package
Say. now, here's a small pack
age for a big show-"Omnibus."
It's a simple certificate statinc,
"To the consistently most Intelli
gent and entertaining hour and a
half weekly program on televi
sion." With this and a token one
of you guys can have a subway
ride.
This one is marked to "Famous
Film Festival." It's the silver mov
ie projector presented each Christ
mas to the best regular movie pro
gram on TV.
Phil Silvers, step up here,' please.
For you a diamond-plated drill
sergeant's whistle in honor of Sgt.
Bilko the character who looks so
remarkably like you and so re
markably makes several million
veterans believe the Army can't
have been so bad after all.
Steve Allen's package ticks. Not
a time-bomb, it turns out, but the
noisiest alarm clock in Christen
dom. This is so he'll .know how
several million viewers feel about
getting up in the morning after
he has kept us awake so pleasant
ly after midnight, -
Week's Vacation
What's this? A week's vacation
off the air with full pay for every
last single quiz program on tele
vision. Mighty magnanimous of
somebody.
If Betty Hutton will be quiet for
one minute and untie that bir
package that's it Well, what do
you know! Out ateps Perry Como,
tne most relaxed guy on television.
Tnere's a note attached to his
ear that reads: "Watch me for one
week and learn how to be
relaxed." Any girl should be glad
to receive Como for Christmas.
Quiet, please. Quiet! What a
noisy throng of strapping young
sters Just crowded in here. Can't
you kids read? Don't you know, this
show is on the air? Let s see, let's
see!
"Somebody's bound to be over
looked among these bustling dra
matic shows. Here's Playwrights
'56 and TV Playhouse; Studio One
Theater: Climax and Matinee The-
aier ana v. 9. aieei nour. , .
Okay, okay, so you're all clutch
ing for good scripts. And there
Just aren't -enough here, to go
around. '
So we ll Just throw these In the air
and you grab what you can. Ev
erybody else duck before the
Christmas tree falls over.
Top Russ to Get. i
Encyclopedia Sets
NEW YORK Five top Ru
sians, including Premier Nikolai
Bulganin, each are going to get '
complete sets of the Encyclopedia
Britanmca as gifts. . -
Publisher William Benton, who
got into an encyclopedic discussion
with the quintet during bis recent
visit to Moscow, says he asks
only that they read tor themselves
to see that the ' volumes do Jus
Ucs to SuiaiU' bi foy a"d LbbIb
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