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4A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Thursday, December 23, 1938 In. Spite of Winter Weather You'll BUY Wisely, by Checking the Classified Ads! ,.. m . 1111 1 1 1 Tfc. - -7" A I SATELLITE MESSAGE Undersecy. of Defense Donald Qaarles (left) presents President Eisenhower at the White House with the tape recording made at Cape Canaveral of the President's historic Christmas message transmitted from the Air Force's Atlas ICBM satellite. Scandinavia Nations Devote Two Days To Observing Christmas Oslo. Norway-(CPD-In Scan dinavia, Christmas is more than just a one-day affair. From the snowy ridges of northern Finland to the fish ing villages of western Den mark, Christmas is at least a two-day holiday devoted to family gatherings, good food, presents, Christmas trees, and a good tme. In bygone days, Christmas often lasted until Jan. 6 Twelfth Night and a Danish refrain says that "Christmas lasts until Easter." In any event, the Big Day now is Dec. 24, a short work day. The big Christmas Din ner is held on the 24th not on Christmas Day itself, or "First Christmas Day," , as Dec. 25 is called. Variety of Games Christmas Eve is also the time when presents are brought out. by red-c lad, white-bearded men who bear . a variety of names. The Finnish child knows him as the "Joulupukki" or Christmas Man." The Swed ish boy or girl knows him as "Jultomten" or Christmas elf." The Danish youngster knows that its the Jule mand" who brings his gifts. The Finnish "Joulupukki" may come with sleigh and Saint Who Gave Santa Claus Name Buried in Italy Bari, Italy-dTD-The Roman Catholic saint who gave San ta Claus his name lies buried here beneath an altar of solid silver. St. Nicholas of Bari is hon ored by the faithful of the church as the patron saint of children. Youngsters pray to him on Dec. 6, his feast day. The name "Santa Claus," now associated with a jolly old man in a red suit, comes from the Latin version of St. Nicholas' name-Sanctus Nico laus. But little else is known of Nicholas, a fourth century priest from Asia Minor. He is known to havebeen a generous and saintly man, and tradition says his gene rosity included dowries to the poor girls who wanted to get married but could not afford the traditional gift to the hus band. Italian fishermen were said to have heard of Nicholas open heartedness and some seven centuries after his death brought his body here from its original resting place in Patara, Lycia, his home town in Asia Minor Star Over Crypt A silver altar was erected over the crypt where his re mains were place and Pope Urban II, in the midst of plan ning the first Crusades, trav eled across Italy from Rome to consecrate the tomb. Although the American style Santa Claus with Christ mas day gifts has caught on along with the Christmas tree in some Italian families to day, the traditional day for giving presents is Jan. 6, Epiphany day. Epiphany in church tradi tion is the day the Three Wise Men appeared at the stable crib of Uie Christ child, bear ing gifts after following His star to His birthplace in Beth lehem. For Italian children, Epiph any means visits from a good, grey-haired witch called "Be fana." Befana swoops down on a house on her broomstick, slides down the chimney just like Santa Claus and deposits toys and goodies for young sters on the kitchen table. reindeer while the children are taking their Christmas Sauna bath, then disappear before anyone spots him. The Danish Santa Claus often has little red-capped elves as his helpers. And in Sweden, just as fa miliar as the bearded fellow is the straw figure of a goat often life-sized-found in every living room. The Christmas Eve dinner varies boiled ham in Fin land, roast goose in Denmark, roast pork, cooked mutton or a codfish dish in Norway, and ham or codfish in Sweden. There is plenty of drink, to, whether it be the tradi tional Danish "Christmas Beer," a sweet non-alcoholic drink, or the steaming potent glog of Sweden. In rural areas, it is still a custom to put a sheaf of grain outside for the birds. In Denmark, a dish of rice por ridge is placed in an attic for the little Christmas elf. Religious Services Ti. '-ough out Scandinavia, Christmas is also a time of re ligious services, with churches filled on Dec. 24 and again the next morning. , The Christmas tree forms the center of the family ob servances on Christmas Eve, with members of the family singing carols and reading Christmas stories, or dancing, hand-in-hand, around the candle-lit tree. With Christmas Eve behind him, the average Scandina vian whether he's a Finn, Swede, Norwegian or Dane 1 can look forward to two solid days of enjoying life. This oft en means heavy lunches on Dec. 25 and 26, family visits, coffee-and-cake sessions, and a few hours now and then to rest up for the next round. Germans Start Early Behavior Frankfurt, Germany- (UPD -German children start behav ing well several weeks before Christmas. The reason is that their version of Santa Claus arrives on Dec. 6. ' But St. Nick-Nikolaus in German-does not bring the kind of Christmas presents he is associated with in America and elsewhere. In Germany, he merely distributes candies and nuts. It's the Christkindl who brings Christmas toys. These arrive Christmas Eve. Christ mas day is devoted to playing with them. But it is up to Nikolaus on Dec. 6 to decide if the chil dren have behaved well enough to receive any pres ents at all. He comes with a bundle of sticks in one hand and goodies in the other. If the child has been well behaved, he gets the goodies, if he has been mischievous, it's the stick. Needless to say, it's always the goodies !that are handed out. Governor Reauests Appointment Ruling Salem -UPD- Gov. Robert D. Holmes has asked an at torney general's opinions concerning the right of . ap pointment of the next Oregon secretary of state. The opinions are expected within a few days. The governor announced last month that he would ap point Dave O'Hara, former state elections chief, to the post. He said he was asking the opinions because newspaper reports indicated a conflict between the legal advice giv en him and that given Gov. elect Mark Hatfield. Papa Noel Due In Argentina On January 6 Buenos Aires - (CPU - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring except the mosquitoes. On Christmas Eve in Argentina, where it's summer, it's too hot for anything else. The children are n bed,, some of them perhaps peering cut the windo w for 'a glimpse of Papa Noel darting among the palm trees, but most of them dreaming of the Three Magi Kings, although they don't arrive until Jan. 6, Epi phany Day. Papa Noel (who bears a striking resemblance to Santa Claus with his led suit, white beard, shiny black boots, rud dy cheeks and fat belly) is growing in popularity south of the equator. But, said Miguel A. Alcaide the father of two "it's the Kings' Day (Dia de Reyes) that the children still wait for." Letters To Three Kings Most of them write letters to the Three Kings ahead of time and, on the night before the Kings' Day, they leave their shoes on the doorstep. If they've been good, they will find the toys they wanted in their shoes. Though eclipsed by Jan. 6 as a holiday, Dec. 25 is still the most important holy day. Manger scenes are assembled in many . homes and, begin ning with midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, the day is one of considerable reverenca in this overwhelmingly Catholic country. But only in the English speaking sections of Buenos Aires are homes decorated with Christmas lights, and there are no popular Christ mas stories or carols. In the stores, though, Christ mas is getting more and more attention each year. This year, in fact, most of them featured a Papa Noel although this caused some confusion recent ly when Papa flew infrom the U. S., Spain and Uruguay by different airlines to differ ent stores all' within one week. Is That So? The common housefly you occasionally find buzzing around a room in the winter months; though probably man's oldest nonhuman assoc iate, is still definitely the most dangerous. The source of the danger is Pure Flattery 9118 SIZES 12-20 -fir Soft, feminine lines a style that looks beautiful in any fabric, on most occasions. Base a year 'round wardrobe cn this sew-easy dress three sleeve versions are included. Sew it now! Tomorrow's pat tern: Teen. Printed pattern 9118: misses' sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 3?s yards 39-inch. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send THIRTY-FIVE cents (coins) for this pattern add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Martin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11. N.Y. Print plainly NAME, AD DRESS, SIZE and . STYLE NUMBER. t 'til n Vv.' vsy INGRID MARRIES Actress Ingrid Bergman has mar ried Swedish millionaire Lars Schmidt in London, in a quiet civil ceremony. Here Schmidt and Miss Bergman are shown in a file photo made during a vacation in Sweden last summer. Legality of the marriage has been challenged in Italy, which does not recognize her divorce from film director Roberto Rosselini. Russian Novelist Sure All To Be Well With Him in Future i By ANTHONY AUSTIN . Moscow-flJPD-Boris Pastrnak says he is sure "all will be well" with him despite the blaze of anger which lit up high places in Russia when his novel, "Dr. Zhivago," won the Nobel Prize. The white haired, craggy faced Russian poet and nov elist talked animatedly about his book and the flood of mail it brought him from abroad when this reporter visited him at his home at Peredelkino By OLGA BURNS his feet-he has no bite or sting-and the reason is that he transmits a variety of dis- 13-17-5 eases by walking on food. Throughout the major part of the country today he does not seem much of a menace, ostensibly because of mod ern methods of sanitation and thr invention of insecticides. However, important as sani tary practices are, much cred-j it must go to the invention of the automobile. The auto, unlike the horse, provides no means whereby the housefly can lay and incubate its eggs. What the housefly requires for that. is decaying matter which may include anything from m anure to old rags. The time the fly requires is comparatively negligible. During the summer months its life cycle, from birth to procreation, may take no more than 12 days. In other words, that is all the time re quired for an egg to develop into a fly and lay eggs in turn. It is true that the average number of eggs a . housefly lays is only about 120, but because of the speed with which the insects reach ma turity it is mathematically possible for one female's de scendants to total over five trillion during a single season. That, coupled with the amaz ing adaptability of the crea ture, is the reason the inven tion of powerful insecticides has proved of only temporary value. The fly can breed new strains of insecticide-resistant stock faster than man can invent. Eggs Not Injured But if the life cycle of the fly is so short, how can it sur vive so well in climates where there are severe winters? So far as I can find, it is mainly because the eggs or larvae are not injured by the cold. Freez ing merely arrests their devel opment, pending the return of warm weather which restim ulates the life process. While the life span of the fly may be three months, and though it is known that some adults do manage to go through the winter in houses the majority of students seem village, 15 miles outside Mos cow. He said "hundreds of let ters" had come thus far from Europe, the United States and other countries, and about half of them would need an swering. After, that, he said. he intends to start another "major work" although he is not sure whether it will be another novel. No Sequel To 'Zhivago' Anyway, he said, it will not be a continuation of "Dr. Zhivago" which is banned in the USSR as anti-Soviet. Pasternak also made it clear that anything he writes hence forth will never see the light of day unless it is publishable in the Soviet Union. Pasternak laughed often during the interview and said he was in good health. Only in his silences, when asked about details of his daily life was there any hint of what he has gone through. He was asked how he plans to spend Christmas Day. By those who still mark Christ mas in the USSR it is cele brated Jan. 7 in accordance with the old Julian calendar "The same as always," Pas ternak replied evasively. Will he go to church? There is a . beautiful one nearby built in the days of Ivan the Terrible. 'Sometimes I go to that church," he said. Will he and his wife have guests over? "We may have a Christmas tree on New Year's Eve," he replied. Pasternak apparently felt that in view of bitter attacks on him and his explusion from the writer's union he must be circumspect in talking. To Meet New Year What are their plans for meeting the new year? he was asked. He laughed ex pansively. "We won't be meeting the new year, exactly," he said "We'll be sort of getting ac quainted with it, seeing what it brings." He gazed out of a window across a snow covered field "All will be well eventual ly, I'm sure," he said. Soon, he said, he intends to resume the two and three hour walks throueh the woods ! around his home which is set in the writer's colony. He in dicated that he has been keep ing pretty much to home late ly, just taking short walks to the village and waiting for the storm caused by his Nobel Prize to blow over. to agree that the overwinter ing fly is not a major factor in developing the new crop. In that case, the problem of eliminating the insect from (the temperate zones should consist mainly, of destroymg the egg and larval stages be fore the return of spring. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Sorry, I simply cannot an swer your many friendly let ters individually, but I will be glad to answer letters of general interest through the column. Please address your letters to: Is That So! in care I of Medford Mail Tribune, box ' 1069, San Francisco. Congress Will Be Asked To Up Debt Limit Washington -CQ)-Congress will be asked to raise the debt limit once again in 1959, to $290 billion or more. Here are the fiscal "facts of life" that make this a near certainty: -The present ceiling of $288 billion approved by Congress in August .automatically re verts to $283 billion "-xt June 30. -A deficit of billion in the first five months of fis cal 1959 pushed the debt out standing at the end of Novem ber to $282.7 billion. -Although Federal receipts normally- jump in the January-June period, there is little prospect this year that they will greatly exceed expendi tures. Even a $10 billion defi cit for the full fiscal year, the official forecast is still $12 billion) would leave almost no airspace next July. -No matter what happens in fiscal 1960, the Treasury is certain to dip into the red A Bright Note! 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Send 25 cents for your copy of the book. 7337 CftjjC' The Shortest Distance Between Buyer and Seller- A Classified Ad in The Maofl Tribune Convenient Order Form For Quick Results Write Your Ad Mail Now to Classified Ad Dept., MAIL Please run my Classification NAME ADDRESS Jjl. m " 3 T nT - " " To $290 by S6 billion or more between July 1 and next New Year's Eve. Lagging receipts have produced July-December defi cits of $5.7 to $9.3 billion every year since fiscal 1953. -Add $6 billion to $283 bil lion, allow some margin for flexibility in the week-by-week job of refinancing the debt, and you get a minimum ceiling of $290 billion. Budget Outlook Raising the debt limit is perhaps the least onerous of the several fiscal and eco nomic tasks awaiting the heavily Democratic 86th Con gress. Few men in Congress think that total spending next year can be held below the $80 billion outgo now forecast for this year. Defense outlays are Land Withdrawal Sought by Service Portland - The U.S. forest service has requested with drawal of approximately 152 acres of public land in Siski you National forest according to Virgil T. Heath, state super visor of the bureau of land management. Hhe land is along or adja cent to the Illinois river a few miles upstream from its confluence with the Rogue river in east central Curry county. The land varies in elevation from 300 to 1,200 feet, Heath noted. Other than sand bars and beaches along the river, the lands are rough and moun tainous. The forest service said the purpose is to preserve the natural scenic and recrea tional values of the land for the public. The withdrawal will be subject to valid exist ing rights, existing withdraw als, and will bar the future location of mining claims. A period of 30 days from the date of publication of the notice of the proposed with drawal in the Federal Regis ter is provided for filing com ments or protests of the pub lic, which should be addressed to Heath at 809 NE Sixth ave., Portland, 12. Salem -(DPD- Word is ex pected in a few days from Vice President Richard Nixon on whethehr he can attend Oregon's 100th birthday next Feb. 14. Below - 1 Word to a 1tears-a-plenty t Wonderful Eating j 4 I I T but do not qualify. pnUw I I I for our gift boxes. II I V U Per Lug Week Days & Sundays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ( BEAR CREEK ORCHARDsN 2 Miles South on Highway 99 , J An Average Word Contains S Letters. Name and Address Count the Santo as ad for.. 5 S i aror"r " " " ' IX Billion expected to continue rising, interest costs win climb as credit tightens, 'and the chances that Congress will agree to cut back civil bene fits and services are almost nil. Budget receipts will depend on the rate at which economic recovery, proceeds. Each in crease of $1 billion in per sonal income, for example, is worth about $150 million to the Treasury. Right now there is more hope than conviction that recovery in 1959 will maintain the pace experi enced after the 1948-49 and 1953-54 recessions. Even if it does, revenues under the pres ent tax structure probably won't suffice to cover spend ing in fiscal 1960. Tax Reform Under these circumstances, higher rather than lower taxes appear to be -in order. Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, Chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has gone on record is opposition to raising present rates. But, he says, "a great deal of revenue could be provided by a broadening of the tax base. a removal of some special de ductions and preferences, and an increase in rates on some specially favored incomes Tax reform is more likely to- be studied than to be en acted in 1959. But Congress will have to make up its mind on four specific revenue mat ters: . -Present rates on corpora tion income and certain ex cises will drop on June 30 unless Congress agrees (as is expected) to a sixth one-year postponement. -A temporary formula for taxing life insurance com panies must be revised or ex tended. -The sagging Highway Trust Fund must be replen ished, either from the general fund or by an increase in the Federal gasoline tax, which the President is expected to propose. -An increase from 4 to 5 cents in the first-class mail rate is another step likely to be recommended, since a pay raise absorbed most of the in creases in postage approved in 1958. Inflation Worries Some of the growing pres sure on Congress to take a new look at Federal income Space - Cost Appears to TRIBUNE, Medford, .DAYS in THE MAIL I enclose $ PHONE City or n : r. : and outgo arises from renas cent fears of inflation. Al though price levels have re mained fairly stable for the past six months, many observ ers see the prospect of another wage-price spiral in the near future, fueled by the heavy deficit spending now in prog ress. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas), who is sensitive to the Presi- d e n t's characterization ot Democrats as "spenders." has proposed a "searching" Con gressional inquiry into the causes of inflation and its remedies, if any. Previous ex cursions into this uncharted field suggest that any new study will reveal more dis cord than agreement among the business, labor, and aca demic economists to whom the inquiring Congressmen will turn. No law to be passed in 1959, it seems safe to say, will serve to stay the course of inflation when the upward movement of prices and wages is resumed. Copyright 1959. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) Delicious, Spitxenberg & Newtown APPLES and COMICE PEARS Fresh from cold storage, washed & graded, small, medium, large. 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