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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.
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f Catholics as the Feast of the! "I'njust imprisonment, frightful
. irruincismn 01 me v-nrim ,niiu physical and mental torture, econ-
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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.
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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-
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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."
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