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- f I 'i 6-(Spc.1II) Statesman, SaVm, Ore., Man., Dee. 26 ,'.5.5 !fMA1,. T 1 Maine Have White Yule Now Year's Prayers Sought for Victims of Reiigious Persecution L WASHINGTON Oft The Catholic ! temporary struggle for bUhops of the United States Sat urday called for prayers on New Year's Day for victims of religious persecution "in Communist coun tries and elsewhere. " A statement issued by the Na tional Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC! said every Catholic dio cese In the United States jvi.ll take pari in the New Year's prop-am, the fifth since 19S2 the soul and bodies of men-are the millions who suffer bitter persecution for the cause of Christ. Countless numbers of them in both the Kast and. the West continue to he sub jected to inhuman treatment at the hands of tyrants and despots because of their loyalty to con science, their faith in God and their attachment to Christ and his church. t i. ...... i .. .1.. i j u., . ... . f Catholics as the Feast of the! "I'njust imprisonment, frightful . irruincismn 01 me v-nrim ,niiu physical and mental torture, econ- kail l . ii.l.. r. -r Akli....;.- : . ... . mnu ik a nuijr iMj m uuiiKmii"i. , om C rum are ne nnre h in. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A dusting of new snow gar nished the white Christmas in northern Maine and around the Crcat I.akcs; New York htrsked in sunny, 52 degree weal her, and new rnld swelled south and east thrnuch the heart of the nation. Flood-plagued California got more rains which threatened new flood destruction in the Central Valley. Lighter amounts of rain permitted streams to recede in the fiond-ravaped r...rth, nd in southern Oregon and eastern Nevada. Below rero weather in the north central part of the nation Corn Still Listed as Nation's Most Valuable Crop WASHINGTON (v-Corn Is till America's most valuable crop, the f stock industries. The bulk of the Agriculture. Department reported Saturday. This year's crop the sixth largest in history was valued at M.lfiB.Ma.lino compared with bone, so to speak, for the big live- grain is used to feed cattle, hogi and poultry. Other major crops in the order of the production values this year ncluded: Cotton $2,420,529,000 ges t28S.15S,000 compared with $245,845,000. In the field of fresh vegetables, tomatoes ranked first with a value of $141,032,000 compared with $4. .lot. M5. 000 last year. The sea-'compared with $2,301,212,000 last son s average price was SI .81 a year; hay $2,333,230,000 compared bushel compared with $143 last with S2.30.7Hfl,000; wheat $1.8n7, year. OfM.OOO compared with i2.0M.743, The importance of corn is nhown 000; tobacco $1,1R9.642.000 com by the fact that the total valfle pared with l.l.M.000; oats of 79 important crops was $111. 321.- $932,220,000 compared with fl.OM, 412.000 or only slightly more 1 S62.0OO; soybeans $779,165,000 com than four times the value of corn. Ip(ired wlA $juu 72,ooo; barley SUM7"ooorr''PS "'J ValUCd ,t'M,319,OO0 compared with $399, More corn is grown than any j M.m; potatoes $3!MI,S72,000 corn other commodity. It is the back- pared with $42.251,0nfl, and oran- Soiiiernet Maugham to Spend Winter, in Egypt NICE. France (P) Novelist W. Somerset Maugham, at 81, wilt spend the winter as proper, monied Britons did a couple of generations ago in Egypt. He plans to leave here Jan. 8, spend a fortnight in Cairo, visit the 78-year-old Agakhan at his Aswan Villa, and spend several weeks tojiring. $121,970,000 last year. But lettuce was a close second with a vslue of $138,934,000 compared with $124. 403,000. Smallest in value was kale at $792,000 as against $550. 000 in 1954. Ranking second to oranges among the fruits were apples with 'a value Of $20B,!W5,000 compareu with $246,241,000 the previous year, j Third In line were grapes with a total value of $!32.2SS,0O0 com- 'pared with $131,259,000. I In the value of its 19S5 crops. i California ranked first with St 585,000 compared with $1,6.908. iooo last year. Texas was second Iwith $1,238,353,000 compared with '$1,328,794,000. Illinois was third with $1,218,522,000 compared with $1,219,938,000; Iowa fourth with $1,061,722,000 compared with $1,. 249.280,000, and North Carolina fifth with $839,820,000 compared with $819,457,000. ALSO HAS CHASER TERTH, N.B. W) For either liquor or water, townspeople come to the New Brunswick liquor store here. A brook feed ing the town reservoir froze off the normal supply. The liquor more has a well that was dug to avoid water taxes on the premises and people wanting water have to ask the store lor permission to draw it. r. f, The Most Itev. Francs P.!nCent men, women and children ; "PrPf,d rn'f1 fr'n"p, """"ward to Keough. archbishop of Baltimore in mnv h.nri. m,.i nv fr ih 1 lr"" Temperatures wrre 15 fl nM .k.irn,.!, f th. wrujr ah. I i- . to 35 decrees lower than Satnr- 1 and chairman of the NCWC Ad ministrative Board, Issued a state ment saying: "Still deeply involved in the con- Buenos Aires Province Hit By High Wind BUENOS AIRES, Argentina W) Fierce winds ripped across Buenos Aires provinre before dawn Sunday, turning Christmas joy into tragedy for hundreds of families. At least l-wo persons were killed, many Were injured nd hundreds left homeless The twisting 40-mile-anhour winds, with even stronger gusts, flattened houses in Ruenos Aires, La Plata, the famous seaside re sort of Mar Del Plata and dozens f surrounding cities and towns. The roaring blasts from the j f ampaa uprooted trees and snap t ped power lines and telephone poles like matchwood. I Hardest hit apparently were I Lanus, an industrial center of 1 163,000, and Temperley, rail june j tinn of 25,000, both on the south 5 west outskirts of Buenos Aires. 3 An untold number of modest and I makeshift dwellings were imash Jd. V Mar Del Plata, Argentina's No. Bl resort whose normal 103,000 "population is swelled to 500.000 2 in the December-July summer $ season, was damaged heavily. puenos Aires, rspuai cuy oi about 3.000,000, was buffeted for 10 minutes at 2:30 a.m. .Tele phone poles flung across one rail road forced suspension of service between Buenos Aires and Tern- i perley. Some capital streets were J blocked by fallen trees. The weather bureau said the X; storms, which broke the Christ jmaa season's heat wave, roared out of thunderstorms which had formed along ihe edge of a mass of cold antarctic air. . f-rlmjl M Im'intr IhAlf ranlnr ri j r, j .Jt1fiv fr"m ,'akp Superior and the The NCWC said Red China and 1)pppr M,sslssiPPj Vallcv through Argentina inflicted heavy damage thr (entrB P,ainS- Th(1 en(i on the Catholic Church during the was rxp(.dcd t0 rMcn lhf Eas, past year, and unofficial perse- aP i,,, cution was widespread in India "! nemi Minn reported 20 be The organization reviewed per-j low and Grand Forks. N.D., 14 sccution in North Viet Nam, North below Sunday morning. Freezing Korea. Yugoslavia, Hungary, ' temperatures were reported as Czechoslovakia, East Germany, I far south as the Texas Pan Poland, and said. i handle. "The Catholic Church has been ' Thr rirrp South and Southeast almost wholly destroyed in Al ;hi,fl unseasonably warm weather. banin, Bulgaria, Estonia. Latvia.' Lithuania, and Romania, as well t as the Soviet Union itself. At-' ,1 f it 7. iflfl most 200 bishops hnvr been killed, ' " Vlfll I II- imprisoned or exiled since The the arc Kremlin s campaign against Catholic Church began. I'adrr Itrd ( onlrnl "Ahniil fill million Catholics under Communist control." j In Hungary, the NCWC said' "neither Cardinal Mindszenty nor Archhishhop Goesz enjoy real liberty despite the Hungarian gov-i ernmcnt's claim of their release.) Priests continue to be arrested or removed from their posts." ! In Argentina: "Despite the fact that Peron's power has been' broken in Argentina, the country's bishops felt obligated last month to warn against the de-Christianiza-tion of many people following the Peron regime." Soviet Concross To Open Today MOSCOW WJ'l The Supreme Soviet of the C.S.S.R. will open a special session Monday morn ing. No announcement has been made, but it is expected that Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist Party Secretary Ni kita Khrushchev will report on their tour of India, Burma and Afghanistan and that Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov will re port on the Big Four Foreign Ministers meeting in Geneva. Gmlmgv Can Disappears CH ICAd'O iif Daniel O'Rourke found a mink mat in his trash ran Christmas Eve. Lifting the mat he found an other valuable fur coat, some household silver and 'a leather shaving kit. The kit bore the in itials of a neighbor. O'Rourke returned to his house, railed police and told his wife to keep an eye on the garbage can in the alley from the kitchen window. He then hurried to notify the neighbor, Henry Her man. When he returned with Her man, O'Rrfurke's -wife reported three men had driven up, emp tied the can and fled. Police said burglars had ran sacked the Herman home, and apparently used O'Rourkr's gar bage can as a temporary cache. AT WOODRY'S . . . TUESDAY THRU SATURDAY! CANADIANS DESCRIBED MONTREAL lP) The new French ambassador to Canada, Francis LaCostr, arrived on one of Canada's coldest days from his former diplomatic post in Moroc co. After a piercing look at the situation he summed up Cana dians as: "hard-working people hardened by severe climatic conditions." hl'.rtnxtJ?--k?rH to,, "nee $Sd 7t :T Jl9&n ... -v Seat ... 21 c DOORS OPEN TOMORROW 9:30 A.M. DRESSES SALE ! $88 Formerly' $10.95 SALE! $88 Formerly $16.9$ to $19.95 SALE! $M88 Formerly J 17.95 to $22.95 SALE! $1495 Formerly $24.95 to $29.95 . ONI GROUP SKIRTS $88 ONE GROUP BLOUSES 6 Off Regalar Price 100 WOOL SKIRTS Dmfie Be dsclicnd PRE-INVENTORY Smort Shoppers Will lo Here wmwv Tomorrow When Our Door Open llt Vfilil or "ese Exciting Pick-of-tht- Se-oson Foshion Sotings! HURRY! SH0P WHIlE W SELECTIONS ARE COMPLETE! 1 C0MS mmW.- SALE! P Formerly "$39.95 to $69.9$ j lW $2S'5 P SAVE! ; ! : SALE! iffSf ''' Formerly $44.95 to $49.95 IMS W I (Si SAVE! : ALL SALES FINAL No Refunds or Eichengcs SALE! Formerly $69.95 to $89.95 $i4oo SAVE ! Jlic cjdillfe rcnclifSliojt 151 N. High Street - o Across From the Courthouse Ope Mendeys end Fridoyt Til 9 P.M. J I n , nil Tr'f I fSS-T7 II ;:l.'m, p : chichi Sn d rta " se kes' BI one 11 & f?P f Sale StarhTuesady at i 9:30 m ShrP! ' ' UmYm j : .
