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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, December 21, 1955
A Nkhol's Worth of , ....
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Pt- Future Wier
Washington 'V.P.i What's
(ew in Washington:
In this congested city, the
Washin gton
Parking Asso
ciation has
done s o m e
thing pretty
nice. Anybody
who wants to
drive down
town for
church can
park in any lot
or garage free
on Sunday.
The program
v.. runjgast the yuletide from
now on.
Harn.Qn NichoU
The Farm Bureau news letter
reports that if each of the 50,
000gp0 families in our land
serves just a single kraut, pork
and apple dinner, a 100,000,000
pound dent could be made in the
pork supply. The suggestion
originates with the kraut pack
ers, naturally.
Maybe you never heard of the
Peripophthalmus barabusus.
Well, according to the Smith
sonian Institution, which knows
most everything, it is commonly
known as the Mudskipper, de
scribed as a "pop-eyed aquarium
fish that can sigip, or jump as far
as 20 ftSt. It has two large eyes
with an extension on top of its
head that allows them to be
raised or lowered at will. Each
eye is capable of independent
sight. One may be looking under
water, while the other is observ-
n ine out of the water." You learn
O something every day.
The National Democratic
O Committee received a letter ad-
aressea 10 .rresiaeni or oeu.
Adlai Stevenson." There was no
signature, but there was a $5 bill
inside.
taxes, and redistribute the
money? Turned out the senator
was just talking, not proposing.
That was a joke, folks. But it
happened here.
The postmaster of the House
of Representatives, Hap Morris,
says that mail going out of the
House Office Building is heavier
than usual this Christmas time.
Packages and cards and letters
back home. The incoming mail,
for some reason, isn't so heavy.
Vice-President Richard M.
Nixon has a Christmas card from
a little girl named Judith in
Tucson, Ariz. "I know we have
never met. You are my vice
president and I feel it necessary
to give you a Christmas card."
Reporters covering the Joint
Congressional Economic Com
mittee hearings on tax policies
stopped loafing and put pencil
to pad when Sen. Paul H. Doug
las, the Democrat from Illinois,
started to spiel. Why not, he said,
let the government take over
collections of 11 state income
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Nixon also had a long hand
printed letter from a young fry
in New England who said he
wished the vice-president would
"pass a law so we could have
school a lot longer. Maybe 14
months a year."
Mr. Nixon is giving that one
more than considerable pause.
Indians Pessimisiic
On Beaver Dams
New Delhi, India (U.PJ An
Indian woman politician today
failed to convince the govern
ment that American beavers are
dam builders of the highest
order.
Mrs. Kamlendumati Sha, mem
ber of Parliament from Tehri
Sarhwal, said beavers should be
imported from the United States
to help fight erosion. But the
deputy minister for irrigation,
Jaisukh Lai Hathi, said no.
Mrs. Shah asked the follow
ing questions:
1. Whether it is a fact that
an animal called the beaver is
used to construct dams in the
United States.
2. Whether it is a fact that the
above animal can finish an 18-foot-long,
six-foot-wide dam in
about three weeks.
3. Whether it is a fact that
beavers have been credited with
saving thousands of acres in
Northwest America from ero
sion, and whetner tne govern
ment proposes to import these
animals for a similar purpose.
Hathi replied that "it is under
stood beavers are used as such
in logging areas," but he said
he had no information on parts
two and three, and did not plan
such a program.
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Russian People Go On Shopping Spree
But There's No Christmas Celebration
The two largest cities in Mis
souri St. Louis and Kansas City
were linked by railroad ser
vice for the first time in 1865.
By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Staff Writer
Moscow Of.R) Tall, fir
trees, strung with lights and cap
ped by shining stars stand in all
the principal squares of Moscow.
Figures of Santa Claus are in
every store window.
People shopping for gifts
crowd the big department stores
and the scene looks just like
Macy's basement.
But all this has nothing to do
with Christmas.
There is no Christmas, offic
ially, in Soviet Russia. This sea
son of exchanging gifts is the
celebration of the new year.
Grandfather Frost
The decorated trees are not
Christmas trees but something
called the "yolka" which Rus
sians have used for generations
to. mark the mid-winter season.
The star on the top is the five
pointed star of the Soviet flag.
, And' the man who looks like
Santa Claus is really "Ded Mor
roz," or Grandfather Frost, a
character of Russian folklore
dating back to pre-Christian
times.
It is Ded Morroz who, on New
Year's Eve, descends from the
North Pole with a team of rein
deer bringing cheer and gifts to
Russian children and grown-ups.
His companion is "Segurocha,"
the snow maiden who helps him
decorate the yolka.
Grandfather Frost and the
snow maiden were in disgrace
for a few years after the Com
munist revolution but by the
mid-30s they were welcomed
back by Soviet officials. But as
symbols of the new year, not
Christmas.
Dec. 25 is an ordinary work
ing day on the Russian calen
dar. The Soviet encyclopedia de
fines Christmas as "The birth
day of the mythical founder of
Christianity."
Devout members of the Rus
sian Orthodox church quietly
celebrate Christ's birthday. But
for the great mass of Russians,
the occasion for giving gifts and
general merriment is New
Year's Eve.
As in the West, Russians are
advised to do their holiday shop
ping early. They have been jam
ming department stores to buy
anything from inexpensive toys
to prohibitive priced television
sets.
Popular Trees
"Yolka" trees are on sale
at 10 to 30 rubles, depending on
size. Yolka decorations can be
bought anywhere. There is prac
tically no home in Moscow with
out its yolka tree on New Year's
Eve.
Moscow's 48 restaurants are
advertising warnings to custom
ers to make reservations early
for gala midnight dinners cost
ing from 50 to 100 rubles.
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ing to jazz orchestras in
restaurants and hotels
around yolkas in city squares.
The big event for many chil
dren will be a public party at
the Kremlin, in one of the Czar's
palaces. Dancing will take place
around a giant yolka tree stand
ing in the middle of St. George's
hall where President Klimenti
Voroshilov usually entertains
the diplomatic corps.
Court Records
DISTRICT COURT
Lawrence L. Clark, reckless driving,
S40; operator's license suspended 20
days.
Clarence G. Hedgpeth. overload,
S153.
David H Griffiths, drunk in public
place. S15.
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Helen Good Solomon, both Jackson
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and Monnie King, Glendale.
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Western Germany Television
American TV Aces All Rolled
Star Like
nto One
By WILLIAM EWALD
United Press Correspondent
New York U.P.) The
chances are you've never heard
of Peter Frankenfeld, but he's
Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan and
Hal March all rolled into one.
In West Germany, that is.'
Frankenfeld, says Franken
feld, is the No. 1 TV star on the
network that links Berlin, Stutt
gart, Munich, Cologne. Frank
furt and Hamburg.
"West German television," ex
plained Frankenfeld as he
whirled through here last week
is on only 14 hours a week. I
am on two hours each Sunday,
one-seventn of that time. And I
am also on radio six hours a
week."
Offers Everything
Frankenfeld's TV program of
fers everything but free beer. It
combines singers, dancers, an
18-piece band, magicians, dog
acts, Frankenfeld telling jokes,
Frankenfeld chatting with the
audience and Frankenfeld run
ning a quiz game.
"We have a different kind of
audience' than Amercian TV
shows," said Frankenfeld as he
tried to explain this cornucopis
of razzmataz. "They pay to get
in as much as $1.50. They ex
pect a much faster show, some
thing always has to be happen
ing. The name of Frankenfeld's
two-hour extravaganza, ' which
originates in Hamburg, is "One
To Zero For You."
"It is like the score in a foot
ball game," he explained. "It
means you can win, you will
win if you come up here," he
added enigmatically.
Toured United States
Frankenfeld, who recently
completed a six-weeks tour of
the United States, saw many
things he liked on American
television.
"Some of your comedians are
very fast like Bob . Hope and
Milton Berle. They are much too
fast for Germany. We have not
reached that stage in our com
edy yet. , But your Abbott and
Costello," Frankenfeld shrugged
"we passed that stage sometime
ago."
Jack Benny, said Frankenfeld,
is the sort of comic who would Knows Best.' If some American
get the yoks in Germany. "Also writer could write something"
your situation comedies like like these for Germany, he
'Life of Riley' and 'Father would make a fortune." ,
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