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BATTLE OF BULGE This photo, mad in through to relieve unit trapped in th town.;
January, 1945, shows vehicles of the U. S. This was all part of tha Battle of th Bulg
Fourth Armored Division in th main squar 13 years ago.
In Bastogne, Belgium, after a column broka . (UPI TlpKtc.)
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Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Washington-President Eisenhower, speaking at Andrews
Air Force base, Md., on his return from a 22,000-mile, 11
nation tour: i . ' -
"Every what wa want people sent this back: A massaga
of Marry Christmas and good will to all xha poopla of the
United States. In that message I join myself." t
' Pinar Del Rio, Cuba-Miami Herald reporter James Bu
chanan, after being told by an interpreter that his 15-year
sentence for allegedly aiding an American to escape had
been suspended:
"Thank goodness I didn't understand anough Spanish to
know I had bean sentenced to 14 years hard labor on the
Isle of Pines."
New York-The total English vocabulary: of 5-year-old
Wilton Larangeira, whose parents did not know he was ar
riving from Portugal and did not pick him up until nine
hours after his plane landed:
"Smart .... Nuts."
St Louis, Mo. Animal trainer Robert Tomarchin, of
Miami, believed to have taken back "Mr. Moke," a "talking
chimpanzee" he sold to the St Louis Zoo, in a not on a
check left in the chimp's cage:
"Dear Sir: Mr. Moka is unhappy in the soo ... Pleas ac
cept tha fact that Mr. Moke is a subhuman child in nd of
all the lov and ears dua him."
Travelers Face
Work Delays on
Stale Highways
Salem-(UPD-The State High
way department today re
minded Christmas travelers
of the following construction
on Oregon highways which
might result in delays:
Sunset Highway, U.S. 26:
Construction between mile
post 70.9 and 72.9. Possible
minor delay.
Rowena Chenoweth Creek
section, U.S. 30; Bridge work
1.5 and 2.6 miles west of Tha
Dalles.
Ontario-Idaho line, U.S. 30:
Grading, 3.5 miles a half mile
east on Ontario. No delay.
Speed Reduced
Glover-Perry and Perry-
Oro Dell section. U.S. 30:
Speed 35 mph over 3 miles
of the line between Spring
Creek interchange and La
Grande. No delay.
Highway 99W: Construc
tion between milepost 7.0
and milepost 7.8. Possible
minor delays.
Highway 101: Detour
around embankment slide
3.3 miles north of Gardiner.
Speed 15 mph.
Fremont highway, U.' S.
395; Construction from mile
post 123 to 127.5. Possible
minor delays for short dis
tance, v
' Wasco-Hay canyon section,
Oregon 206: Short detour
near Hay Canyon.
Retail Food Prices
Decline at Portland
San Francisco (OPD Retail
food prices were . down 0.3
per cent in Portland, Ore.,
last month from October, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics
said today. The decline was
mainly the result of lower
meat and egg prices. .
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Aviation Mechanic
Delivers Twins Again
Denver - (DID - Aviation
mechanic Clifton Umctead, 53,
delivered his third set of
twins,- his wife's 11th and
12th children, in their trail
er home Monday night
"After I delivered the first
pair of twins," Umstead said,
"my wife decided she didn't
need a doctor."
ME
Rusty Sherman Tank
Of War II
Eitor' Bote: It was Inst IS 7ears
as this momth that German forces
launches a murderess eounter
offensiTe against the Allies in Bel
tium. What foUowed became known
as the Battle of the-Bulre, one of
the bloodiest and proudest colo
urs in U.S. military history. The
climax of the battle took place in a
town- called Bastogne, where Gen.
Anthony MeAuliffe said Kutt!" to
a German surrender demand. The
following dispatch tells what It was
like for the people of Bastogne is
Sean ago . . and what the town
i like today.
By WILLIAM ANDERSON
Bastogne, Belgium - (OPD -An
ancient, maty Sherman
tank with two ugly shell holes
broods in the main square al
most 15 years later.:
Occasionally, GJ.'a f rriiti
European base com to exam
ine 1h relic and exclaim:
"Gw. did they really fight in
old tin eans like that?"
Not many other 'visitor;
come to Bastogne because it's
off the beatn tourist path to
Brussels and Paris. They miss
seeing Baatogn today.- a liv
ing monument to the most
famous and tragic battle
fought by Americans in
Europe during World War II.
In the main square, near the
tank, is a . bust of Gen. An
thony MeAuliffe. It's hard to
believe - in the midst of the
bright homes and the prosper
ity of today - that 15 years
ago, MeAuliffe flashed from
Bastogne the surrender reply
heard 'round the world: .
"Nuts!"- . : -
Cellar Nearby .
. "ot , far frc-m th main
square now known as -MeAuliffe
square is- the freez
ing., cellar from' which ; the
general directed U.S. forces in
the battle that was to claim
76,000 Americans in killed,
wounded and missing.
The cellar has been, made
into a museum, although it is
now temporarily closed to th
public. '.'
' Leon Jacqemin doesn't need
any of these reminders. Now
65, he was in Bastogne when
the Germans surrounded it
and called upon the 101st Air
borne Division to ."surrender
or die" thre days .befor
Christmas, 1944. - , .
General Eisenhower order
ed Bastogne held in the face
of German General Von Rund
stedt's brutal offensive aimed
at splitting the Allies armies
in two.
Coldest Winter
It was the coldest winter in
years, recalls Jacquemin:
: "We just huddled in cellars
night and day. It was after
all a blessing that it was freez
ing. Otherwise, with all those
bodies around ..."
Appointed acting burgo-
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All Medford Automobile Dealers Will Be Closed
Saturday; December 26
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Battle of
meister in Bastogne ' during
meister in Bastogne during the
to' move about the town. He
remembers seeing wounded
soldiers being carried to first
aid stations on sleds mad out
of broken doors.
Just before Christmas Day,
food and ammunition were
parachuted in to the heroic de
fender. "The Gli," says Jae
quemiQ, "were jumping up
and. down in their foxholes
cheering like mad when the
food drops were successful."
On Dec. 26, the tide began
to turn against the last great
offensive of the Warmacht in
World War II.
. Gliders arrived that day
with more supplies and new
manpower to pull freezing
triggers. And General Pat
ton's forces managed to break
through German lines and slip
a small column into Bastogne.
But the siege wasn't broken
until Dec: 28 and the fighting
continued until Jan. 18, 1945.
Bedshaats for Jackets ;
Jacquemin recalls that dur
ing the battle, Bastognards, as
the residents are called, gave
up bedsheeta to be made into
camouflage jackets. Up from
the cellars came hundreds of
precious coverings.'
Years later, grateful Bulge
veterans gave every Bastog
nard a: pair of bedsheets.
.Because of the combined
Belgian and. American will
power to stop the Germans in
the Battle of. the Bulge, the
Germans never got closer than
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Bastogne. -
This spot is marked by
another wrecked Sherman
tank.
When the GIs left th blood
ied ground of Bastogne and
moved into Germany for the
final kill, th residents climb
ed out of hiding and took up
their old way of life as shop
keepers and traders.
A thousand persons have
since been added to the town's
pre-war population of 5,000.
New houses have been built
and trees planted.
But rather than heal all the
scars of war, Bastogne keeps
the Sherman tanks and a star
shaped monument - dedicated
to th thousands who have
mad Bastogne their horn for
eternity,
Police Get Request
For an 'Extra Man'
Corning, N.Y.-New York
Stat Police have been called
on for many things, from re
trieving lost horses and
babies to rounding up crim
inals and checking on stolen
cars.
But' recently they were
called on to perform a job
that they just had to turn
down.
A Steuben county house
wife telephoned the nearby
barracks and said she "need
ed an extra man" for a din
ner party that night!
. "That's a little out of our
line," she was told. .
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Cardinal Spellman, Roman
Catholic archbishop of New
York, arrived Monday on his
annual Christmas visit to U.S
troops stationed abroad. The
cardinal is scheduled to go to
Africa next Sunday.
Ptarmagans in northern
Norway change color from
white to brown as spring ap
proaches.
Hens Lay Eggs to
Music Cha-cfia-chaf
Prentis, Miss. For two
years Martin Jones, Prentis
poultryman, treated his flock
to radio music to boost egg
production. Then the music
went bad and egg laying fell
off.
Jones called Robert Clin
chy, power company service
man, and Clinchy determined
that electric tools being used
on plumbing . repairs at a
nearby school caused inter
ference with the radio waves.
He solved the problem
neatly and quickly by loaning
Jones his record player. And
the hens began laying again.
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