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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1955)
II ,'YJ' . , i - - 1 Alex Agatnonos, South Salem Blfth exchange student frost. Athens, Greece, examines i replica of the "fat and Jolly" America Santa, mack different from Greece'i Saint On the blackboard Be hind him, he hat written a "Merry Christmas" in Greek to tome of hi fellow students. School Reporter NORTH SALEM HIGH The North Salem choir topped off the Christmas activities Fri day, when they marched through the halls singing. Under the di rection of Howard F. Miller the choir sang the traditional Christ mas songs. . The North Salem choir and drama class also performed be fore an audience of 1,200 at the State Penitentiary Wednesday evening. This it the first time in several yean that any outside group has been asked to per form at the penitentiary. The Valkyries and the Harmonettes also sang. A violin solo was played by Pamela Clayton. " carf from Smyrna," a one act play was also presented. This same play was given at the home coming assembly. Miehaelis Elected Jim Miehaelis was elected hon orary Rotarian for the Month of January at the monthly student council meeting this week. He will represent North Salem High at the weekly Rotary club lunch eon meetings. Jim is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Miehaelis of 2220 Ellis Avenue. He is president of the Senior class, president of Arthur Cotton Hi-Y and vice-president of the North Salem chapter of Young Life. He is a member of "S" club, National Honor Society and of National Athletic Scholar ship Society. Jim is a three sport letterman and, manages to keep a high gride-point average. Jim's plans or the future in clude attending Stanford Univer sity where he plans to study ei ther engineering or accounting. Fund Drive Set At the same Student Council meeting the home room repre sentatives elected Debbie Lamb and Corkie Meisinger co-chairmen of the coming polio fund drive. A "Night Before Christmas" homecoming dance was held Fri day after the North Salem-Hudson Bay basketball game. Chairman of the affair was Judy Wolfe. Assist ing her with refreshments was Ruth Hornschuch. Helping with the Christmas like decorations were Sandie Gregory, Bob Fussell, Charles Crase, Caroline Cushman, Sue Todd, Phil Goulet. Joyce Brown, and Barbara Woclk. PARRISH JUNIOR HIGH A special Christmas program was given for the parents of Parrish students early this week. A play "The Humblest Place" was given by a drama class. The characters were: Gary Kesscl, Patsy Willis, Lloyd Earles, Janice Messmer, Carma Jean Eldriedge. Rob Cheek, Lynne Shepard, Kathryn Beaty, Paul Keller and Terry Chancey. The eighth and ninth grade choirs, under the direction of Mrs. . V( a -isria O t. V A wvmli thai .'ijvii, w u w, V mm ' j orchestra completed tne program with several numbers each. The annual Christmas assembly was given before the students Thursday. The ninth grade choir sang several numbers and were able to fill requests for others. A play ' Room for Mary" was given by a dramatics class. The charac ters were: Carol Shelton, Dona McCue, Marjorie Ball, Sylvia Jes sop, Ethel Walker and Pat Adams. The orchestra also took part In tha program. LESLIE JUNIOR HIGH Leslie presented its annual Christ mas program Friday to the stu dent body. ' A pantomime of tha Nativity was presented by eighth graders,' Bon nie Barber as Mary, Fred Jones as Joseph and Dennis Fitch, Jerry Riewald, Ralph Shepherd, Wallace Belt. LaMont Perman. Richard Salsbery, and Jim Haynes as the Wise men and shepherds. Background music was provided for the scene by the eighth and ninth grade chorus. A brass quartet consisting of Larry Schendel, Robert Hill, Bill Urgent, Kim Clark and Pete Mel-' in played 'Good King Wenselas" and "Deck the Halts." Leslie orchestra was next with "Christmas Carols Fantasy" by Sopkln, followed by tha triple trio, singing "Holy Night" and band playing "Christmas Moods." .The program closed with the eighth and ninth grade choruses singing sev eral Christmas carols and the audi ence Joining In. WARM CHRISTMAS SYDNEY, Australia UP - Christ mas down under means- basking in the sun on beaches for thousands of Australians. The holidays out pourings from the cities were cheered by weather ranging from the 70s to 100 degrees. The Grcelts Have a Word fork Greek Youth Says U.S. Holiday Customs Like Those at Home By BARBARA BONIFACE States ran School Reporter Although he won't be able to travel the approximate 10,000 miles to Greece for Christmas, Alex Agathonos, Greek exchange student attending South Salem high finds many of the holiday customs here are celebrated much as they are in his native land. The Greeks believe that St. Bas il (the Greek Santa Claus) was a rest person living in the 4th cen tury A. D. In Asia Minor. He is said to have been a poor man, who devoted his life to serving mankind and died fighting for Christianity. St. Basil is pictured as being tall and thin, but in the past few years the American obese Santa has replaced this pic ture in the minds of the modern generation of Greece. There is much religious activity from Christmas Eve to Jan. 6 and on the final day of observance, a golden cross, which the children dive for. is thrown into the sea. The youngster recovering the cross is said to be blessed for that year. Keeps Traditions "The trouble with the new gen eration of Greece is that it wants to keep what traditions it hts and add the traditions of other countries," says Alex. This is best shown in the adoption of opening presents, not only on Jan. 1 the name day of St. Basil) which is the tradition of the old genera tion, but also on the American Christmas Eve. - When asked about the green ery and decorations, Alex simply remarked, "We don't hsve the mistletoe, habit. This is quite, new to me." Greek youngsters carol on Christmas, New Years and Jan. 6 in the eve and day when they are given candy or money for this, much as are the American youngsters on Halloween. Not Successful Parents tell their children that with the coming New Year they will forget all the "nasty words" they knew and upon the striking of midnight on Dec. 31, the windows of the houses are opened and the children are forced to speak all the nasty words they know. Ex periment has shown that this method is not entirely successful, A typical Greek New Year's resolution would be, according to Alex, the resolution of the wife "to show respect to the husband," while here you say that the hus band "must show respect to the wife." Now staying with the Reynolds Aliens, Alex has his parents and t susofl . happy hlJy ITATIONIIT tU DfSKI 441 (MM SI. Kw 71'" la sister back in Greece. His fa ther is a retired General of 35 years service in the Greek En gineering Corps. Nat Ce-Edacatlaaa! Dates were quite new to Alex as the schools in Greece are not co-educational and there is no dat Ing until after high school. His biggest shock was arriving Thurs day night and "through the kind ness of my new 'sister 1 had a date the next evening." The Greek school system con sists of six years of elementary school, after which students are given an exam to determine whether or not they go on to high school. Even if these students do pass the exam and attend high school for the full six years, only about a fourth of them graduate. Heavy Scbedale An average of twelve subjects are taught to the Greek student with languages, mathematics, sci ences and social studies predomi nating. Alex s most prized possession he hss received since his arrival in Salem is a letter for his work on the swimming team. The Salem Rotary Cub gave him for Christ mas a South Salem Jacket on which to display this letter. The crew cut he sports, he labels "strictly American" and if pos sible will keep it when he returns to Greece "if he can find a bar ber to cut my hair right." U.S. Troops Plan 'Operation DoliV LEGHORN. Italy If) - U. S Ordnance Co. 76M of NATO's Southern European task force will be concerned with dolls instead of guns Christmas Day. On the third year program of "Operation Doll" a committee headed by Eugene G. LaVigne of New Bedford, Mass., each child at the Casa Firenze orphanage at nearby Ardenza will get socks, sweater, shoes and a doll. PRINTING-ADVERTISING SPECIALTIES PROMOTIONAL AIDS I GIFTS-PERMIUMS lowest National Wholesale Prices If v nil wttt M dmyt hrdwsV irfy f my W Him. iHrnt. Wo can save you as high as 50 Bedsaul Bros. 1721 Center Ph.2-9172 GllEETirJGS At tki joyeul Qiristmat . we exeend t tvcryteJy . tar heartfelt wishes (or a prwPr New Year. it 0ICI SUmiH CHAIIS lAfll 1 - I4IS Wm, 0im Police Plan Yule For Children of Extortionist PORTLAND W Their parent i will be missing, but the five chil dren of Mr. and Mrs. William Clarence Peddicord will have aa happy a Chrlatmaa aa Portland po lice can provide. The father, 38 and blind. U In Jail, charged with bombing the Meier and Prank department store in a $50,000 extortion attempt last April. The mother. S4. distraught ever this, voluntarily committed herself to the state hospital at Salem last week. The children are with friends. Portland police and firemen have collected many toys for them. In addition anonymous donors have sent in 807.46 for the children. Also sharing in this win be the three children of Mrs. Joyce Kel ler. 2. accused of helping Peddi cord carry out the plot. She is Mrs. Feddicord s sister. Bandits Yield Yule Money ATLANTA 11 - "To hell with Christmas, Uke it." said one of the tw masked teen age bandits to his companion Friday night wnen Edward Blackstone, night manager of a shopping center, pleaded that his wallet contained his son's Christmas money. "Were not taking anybody's Christmas money," said the other stocking-hooded youth of about 11, "that ain't right." And be handed back the wallet. But after forcing Blackstone and his brother. Roy, to remove their trousers, the young robbers locked them in a back room and , fled with the store's money, between MOO and 500. Blackstone didn't say how much money was in his wallet. I J it 1 t.:t 7 .J I.. 1 .. . (Jt , . V r ' - , - r " ! i V LONGFELLOW !..'' I. . " j ,M ";Vv ,v " h V,t -;..v r-v M '4 j. ''''1T ' ' '"'' s i ' , to .. ; ' . ' 1 . - . h , ' ; ; K . -. , ' ' . . , . '-. " , , .,,-..- Church Group Head Talks at Arctic Base . ., - . , THULE, Greenland OP) la an Arctic Air Force chapel where the sun never rises at this time of year, a leading American church man said Saturday night the "light from Bethlehem" Is burning stronger in the world. "Again and again, we see Ks flashes,' said Dr. Eugene Canon Blake, president of the. National Council of Churches. ; , In a Christmas Eve sermon for airmen at this lonely, northern most outpost on the nation's de fensive frontier, Dr.. Blake said that the world politically is la "a black night," but he added; "Against, that dark curtain of this political moment, there is set the light of the kingdom of Christ, and the darkness has not over come, it. . .The light from the spirit of Jesus Christ is abroad in our world today."r It caa be seen, he said, in Amer ica's action to supply food to "chil dren of our erstwhile enemies.' In the motive behind friendship trains, church world services and congressional action for relief." WESTERN FRONT. Korea UF -As he has for rive years, Francis Cardinal SpeUman came to the Ko rean front and held Christmas Eve mass among the snow-powdered hills. ' "Peace will come on earth only when men and nations know, re spect and follow the command ments of God," the 07-year-old Catholic archbishop of New York told a Jammed chapel. "Only by exemplifying in our everyday lives the lovt of our fel low man be he white or black, yellow or brown can we hope to achieve peace, the cardinal said. A't . , . , . . 0 t lice 'To Propose Pay-as-You-Go Road Program' WASHINGTON HI Sen. Byrd (D-Va) said Saturday the Elsen hower administration has aband oned its- bond financing plan and will propose a pay-as-you-go inter state highway program at the next session of congress. Byrd. who heads the Senate Fi nance Committee, fought President Eisenhower's proposal earlier this year for' issuance of bonds by aa independent agency to help finance sr 3a-billion-dollar, 10-year road building program. The Virginia senator said la an interview that the administration's decision to reverse its course rep resents something of a Christmas present to the taxpayers. ly support For the many courtesies and cooperation which you hate us during the past year. ft thank you sincerely. fj$ M e a ry 7 for your friend' a, "pj . on Christmas day, .Alt' - '' st K .f " flit i'. - v, r ,.; 4 . ' . w- ylie "tyros repeat; . rUooamu-ioJmen: - - "i Statesman, Safari, 6re., Attack Kills Ohio Woman TOLEDO, Ohio I A pregnant mother, walking home from a Ca tholic hospital where she had gone to confession, was fatally stabbed Saturday night by an unknown kill er. . Doctors at Mercy Hospital later delivered a baby girt by Caesar ian section from the victim's body. The infant, which had been ex pected in January, was givea only a 50-50 chance of surviving. Police said the victim. Mrs. Jo Anne Burla ge, 29. staggered into her second floor apartment where her husband and two children were waiting near gaily decorated It to celebrate Christmas Eve. Blood was streaming from a knife wound torn across the front of her throat , , , hearty given Lffi&7'' ii aV tjiaan a, ' 7 i' ; - i. :-.:-7 n vni i in niir vr a w V -a" , f vr CC Oil WiCil,. . Sun., Dec. 25, '55 (See. 1T t Her husband, Robert, manager of the Ohio Steak and Barbecue Co. here, phoned police and shout' ed, "Send some help quick I Mf wife's been (tabbed and she's preg nant!" ( A police ambulance took Mrs.' Burlage to Mercy Hospital tha same Institution where she had at tended confession about half hour earlier. . PLANNING BIG DINNER SELB, Germany uB The Rosen thai chinaware firm has aa order from King Saud of Saudi Arabia for a gold-trimmed dinner service for 1.000 persons. The 10,000 pieces will cost around tUs.000. YolliyTiU vision I Ciafir i WAun-HKL-an 1 JiWATS 1141 Crtlie thd. Pa, t-ltt)1 ) 5 1 ( i f r - s i ' . J I J V- $ . "f k - ! - i 1 vQidity Expensive? y NO! Vtojf pfcoJw PfWP krsWHsjieg I bojs ly (RMlity ' A ! l i: i