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Medford and Jackson County
Hlitory from the filet of Th
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40
md 50 year ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25. 1949 (Sunday)
Nearly 50,000 persons at-
; tend St Peters in Rome to
bear Pope Pius celebrate first
papal masses of 1950 holy
year.
More than 2,000 Medford
youngsters placed phone
calls to Santa Claus Thursday
and Friday nights, report
Jaycees' who answered phones.
20 TEARS AGO
Dec 25. 1939 (Monday)
Adolph Hitler is spending
Christmas with his troops on
front lines in France.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column; f'Only
' 385 days to Christmas, shop
arly."
, 90 YEARS AGO
; : Dec 25, 1929 (Wednesday)
Post office here to deliver
. Christmas mail by midnight.
Local man fined. $300 for
possessing a quart of Christ
: mas moonshine.
; 40 YEARS AGO
., Dec 25. 1919 (Friday)
Heavy Harvard line will be
- chief worry for Oregon in
Rose Bowl game. .
City observes Christmas
with many family reunions
and muct rejoicing.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec 25. 1909 (Saturday)
Today is most prosperous
Christmas in Oregon history;
bank clearings set record;
record high railroad construc
tion in progress.
Christmas shopping in Med
ford sees more and better
goods for sale, more money to
buy with, and more goods
bought.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine at tan correct is superior;
aevea at eight is excellent; five et
ti it feed.
, CHRISTMAS QUIZ
1. In what country did the
' idea of Santa Claus originate?
2. What ancient priesthood
' in Britain used mistletoe in
i their religious rites?
; 3. What were the shepherds
doing when the angel of the
I Lord came down?
j 4. What does the French
word Noel mean?
j 5. What does the holly
' wreath and its red berries
I symbolize?
6. What number month was
December in the Roman calen
j dar?
7. In Charles Dickens'
"Christmas Carol," how many
i ghosts did Scrooge see?
8. In what country did the
i idea of placing lighted candles
t in the window originate?
; 9. Can you name Santa
f Claus eight reindeer?
10. Of which state is Mistle-
! toe the official state flower?
Answers: 1. Holland. 2. The
? Druids. 3. Keeping watch ever
, their flocks. 4. Christmas, lit
! erally "birthday." 5. Crown of
; thorns with drops of blood. 6.
; Tenih. 7. Three. (Christmas
? Past. Present, and Yet to
; Come.) 8. Austria. (To light
' the Christ Child on his way.)
; 9. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer.
j Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder.
' Blitsen. 10. Oklahoma.
The first electrically oper
' ated fire alarm system in the
f United States went into op
' craiiaa ia Boston in 1852.
'Small
All that needs to be
gin of Christmas, all that
been said before many
far richer and more meaningful than we know
how to employ.
Over the years it has taken on a warmth and
universality throughout Christendom so that even
the unbelievers, the unchurched, the agnostics
and even atheists, feel the aura of charity and
warmth which it bnngs
Men of genius over
have added to its traditions as have the poor
and lowly, the little people of the world, whose
folk legends and traditions have added much to
making Christmas the
today.
PREOCCUPIED as we
bration, it is easy to
observe Christmas as a holy day are in the mi
nority in this world.
In much of Asia, for instance, Christmas is
regarded as nothing but a "foreign" religious
celebration, and there is
standing of the significance of the day, which
has grown to be more than a purely religious
observance.
To remember this should not detract from the
joy and wonder we feel at this time of the year.
But it should remind us that the world is small,
and getting smaller, and if we are to retain the
world's respect for our customs and traditions
and beliefs, we owe at least an equal respect to
theirs. E.A.
Asian View of Christmas
An example of the sort of thing we were talk
ing about above, is contained in a column in a
little paper called "The Asian Student," publish
ed in San Francisco for students from Asia now
studying in this country.
Parte of it are quoted below:
"Around this time of year the air is filled with .
Christmas music ranging all the "way from 'Adeste
-V Fidelis'. to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.' Which .
might be called the sublime to the ridiculous . . .
. "One of the more tuneful is called 'Good King
Wenceslaus.' Unfortunately, having a somewhat warp
ed sense of the niceties, we cannot help but remember -that
it was probably this same Good King who got
clobbered, but good, by Kaidu, the grandson of Gen
ghis Khan, some 750 years ago.
"This is not the true Christmas spirit, we. must'
admit, and we should think of the Good King going
out on a snowy night, presumably before his unfortu
nate encounter with the Golden Horde, and perform
ing noble deeds. It hardly seems fitting that living in ; '
a predominantly Christian land we should associate
one Of the more beautiful Christmas songs with the
horrible defeat of a Christian King at the hands of
the 'heathen' Mongols.
i "You must admit, however, that it shows our erudi-
tion and knowledge of Asian history. (Did you know
that Genghis sent a pleasant note to the Pope saying
that if he-the Pope-acknowledged his-Genghis'-mas-;
tery over the earth and sky, they could live harmoni
ously together and that the Pope could continue his
practice of ruling the Christian world with Genghis'
blessing? Genghis never received a reply, but then,
mail service wasn't what it is today.)
; .".; . . If any Christian reader of ours thinks that
we are displaying a certain amount of levity about
themost holy of Christian days, we hope he will read
on a bit further before dashing off an indignant let
ter. The point we are trying to make is that an awful
' .lot ' of people who celebrate Christmas don't know :,
what it is all about ...
- "To a great many Americans and B-itish and
French and Filipinos and other Christians, Christmas
is truly a holy day, the birthday of their Savior. They
go to church or they attend midnight Mass, depending
on their denomination. But to others less religiously
minded it is an excuse for a celebration.
"Nonetheless and let us be serious for a moment
-to every Christian, be he Catholic or Protestant or '
agnostic (and that is not facetiousness, for many are
born to a religion, but reject its dogmas) Christmas
is a special time. You will notice, we are sure, that
people appear to be a little kinder, a little more un
derstanding, a little more companionable at this time
of year. Unless you are made of stone we are sure
that you will notice a subtle change. We think you 1 '
should enter into the spirit of it yourself. If your
religion forbids you to recognize that this is the birth
day of the Son of God, then think of it simply as the
.. "divali or oshogatsu of an alien culture. You would
wish the Americans to feel the same way about your
holy days, we are sure.
"There is a beauty in this season, and only the
most arrogant could fail to see it. As millions before
us have remarked, if only people would keep the
Christmas spirit (the unbottled kind) the whole year
around, it would be a much better world in which
to live ...
"Again, we would like to reiterate at the risk
of protesting too much, that we do not hold up Christ
mas against Chanukah, Idd or any other religious holi
day. ."We understand from our learned friends that
Christmas is really the pagan Yule, far antedating
the Christian holiday. Fine. The pagans generally had
" a good time at their festivals. More power to the
Christians for conveniently coupling their most holy
day with a pagan festival. Makes everybody happy.
"To end this column, we shall borrow from
- Dickens . . . for we feel he put it rather better than -we
would be able to do.
" 'My best of wishes for your merry Christmases
and your happy New Years, your long lives and your
true prosperities. . . . Here's a final prescription added:
"To be taken for life". " ,
, ' . E.A:
Eisenhower Names
Guatemala Envoy
Washington -UPD- President
Eisenhower Thursday named
career foreign service official
John J. Muccio, who was U.S.
ambassador to Korea during
the Korean war, as ambassa
dor to Guatemala.
Muccio, 59, was ambassa
dor to Korea from 1949 to
1952, and is presently serving
as ambassador to Iceland. He
was born in Italy, but became
a naturalized U.S. citizen at
th age of 21. i
World
said concerning: the ori
is really important, has
years ago and in words
each year.
the past two millennia
universal holiday it is
are with our own cele
forget that those who
little or no real under
EXPLOSION IN ALGIERS
Algiers -(DPD- Two persons
were killed and 41 others
wounded Thursday when a
booby-trapped automobile ex
ploded in a busy shopping dis
trict of. downtown Algiers.
The bombing, attributed to
Algerian Nationalists, shower
ed a 100-square yard area with
splintered steel and . other
debris, sending hundreds of
last-minute Christmas shop
pers ducking for cover.
Emperor penguins - largest
of the' penguin species - may
live for 35 years in the genn
fres air of tha Antarctic
Dennis the Menace ,
GUBS5 WHAT. MaU.' 30EYGOT A GREAT BG 7EUDY
fOlZ CHRISTMAS, BUT AFRAID & rp
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
HUMPHREY LOOKS BACK
Washington-The long, long
shot in the field of Demo
cratic Presidential .aspirants,
Sen. Hubert
H. Humphrey
J of Minnesota,
faces the new
year hoping
most of all
that the poli
tical calendar
can be turned
back to a far
Veiter dav.
vmt.m c
white ' Humphrey,
the most liberal of all the can
didates, has a single real-and
thin-chance. This is that the
Democratic party can be per
suaded to return to the tone
and purposes it had in the
days of the New Deal and
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Curiously, therefore, this
outstanding "progr essive"
must depend, in the end, on
looking backward.
. His hotly intensive cam
paign has of late taken him
into some 30 states. Even his
friends do not claim that all
his amiably frenzied exertions
have set the public aflame.
The polls, for what they may
be worth, are not kind to
him. Campaign money and
the importance of this folding
stuff . is undeniable - is not
flooding the Humphrey head
quarters. BUT some silver linings are
wn Tnv thp TTiimnhrv ruw.
ple. These are rising from
among "the politicians" rath
er than "the people." And
for purposes of -the coming
Democratic" National Conven
tion, "the politicians" are far
more useful than "the peo
ple." '
A good many former back
ers of one of the most authen
tic, of the old New Dealers,
AvereU Harriman, are lining
up for Humphrey, particu
larly in" the Middle West.
Some former "Kefauver men"
those who gave devoted sup
port to the past Presidential
hopes of Sen. Estes Kefauver
of Tennessee-are now moving
in the Humphrey direction.
It would be all too easy
to overestimate the value of
these quiet marches into the
Humphrey movement. For
neither Harriman, a defeated
ex-Governor of New York,
nor Kefauver, who is concen
trating now on re-election to
the Senate, will be greatly
important at the Democratic
convention, in and of himself.
rpHE Humphrey advisers are
-- among the most realistic
politicians in the business and
have absolutely no belief in
Mister S. Claus. And even the
principal link to the Roose
velt era among these advisers,
James H. Rowe Jr., is quite
aware that 1960 is not 1932
Try and
l:- ft
-By BENNETT CERF-
TVTILLIAM FEATHER has come up with the 1879 Christ
' mas dinner menu of the Maxwell House, which still
does business as a hotel in Nashville, Tenn. For that holiday
spread, diners were of- - .
fered a choice of over
130 items and all this
for a fixed price of under '
three dollars! A few of -the
more exotic dishes
included oysters in
champagne, salmi of
prairie grouse, 'boned
wild boar's head, buffalo
tongues, Tennessee opos
sum, saddle of Minnesota
venison, broiled pheasant
and "old fashioned"
New England pumpkin,
pie. - -
Under roasts and game
were 21 items. What puzzles historian Feather is how all
tK . " as possible in the gadgetless kitchens and pantries of
8' is ago. How was the food kept fresh and tasty until
ti vO cook? Were the gourmets of those lusty days im
mune from ptomaine, indigestion, and other related ills?
. CUS9bySeUwttCo& BiitribuUd by XiBf letfatrw SyadittU.
S. WHITE
or '36 or '40 or '44. These
men are the first to concede
that the road is still uphill all
the way.
Still, though not leaping
with joyous confidence, they
have drawn some heart from
the - continuing recruitments
from among the old Harriman
and Kefauver people. For
these incidents do show at
least this: Humphrey has got
enough of what it takes to
begin, at least, to draw up a
party mosaic basicaUy similar
to that which served Frank
lin D. Roosevelt so well.
Roosevelt made and sustain
ed a thoroughly improbable
but effective coalition, run
ning from aristocratic Delta
planters to Detroit auto work
ers. Neither Humphrey nor
anybody around him sup
poses for a moment that the
South will give him so much
as the time of day. The Hum
phreyites do believe, how
ever, - and apparently with
some justice, that he, too, can
raise a pretty good farm-labor
alliance everywhere but in
the South.
HE HAS the first require
ment, the undoubted good
wishes of most of big labor,
He has the second require
ment, the passionate loyalty
of minority groups whose
chief political interest is in
civil rights. He has a part of
the third requirement. The
liberal big-state farm groups
like him, even if the South
ern farm groups surely . do
not.
But beyond all this Hum
phrey needs something else:
to be able to prove in due
time to the Northern party
bosses that he can gather
about himself the old New
Dealers and become in their
eyes- the one true heir to
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
And every local or regional
Harriman or Kefauver leader
who comes into the Hum
phrey camp will help in some
degree to build up the argu
ment that he is really the
FDR of 1960.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Importer's Widow
Challenges Will
Los Angeles -TOPD- The wid
ow of wealthy steel importer
Robert P. Oldham challenged
Thursday a will leaving half
his estate to his pretty blonde
secretary.
Mrs. Ruth P. Oldham, 47,
asserted in her contest action
that the secretary, Bonnie D.
Baker, exerted "fraud" on her
husband, who died Saturday.
Mrs. Oldham previously had
named Miss Baker as co-re
spondent in a separate main
tenance suit.
Stop Me
.D-AUFoK TUBES "
saf .
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Wilson Lists Wants,
Politicians, And All
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington-TOPD-This Christ
mas morning would have been
a lot better for these persons
if
Vice Presi
dent Richard
M. Nixon had
found in. his
stocking a
pre- conven
tion pledge of
support from
President Eis
enhower. Lyia c. wusoa aen. j o n n
F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) had a
note from Mrs. Eleanor Roose
velt saying, "AU is forgiven.
I'm for you."
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
had found an I'm-for-you note
signed by .one or two Repub
lican pros.
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson D
Tex.) had found in his stock
ing as many as one big name
northern Democrat as his
pledged supporter.
. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
(D-Minn.) had gotten some
mash notes from a few south
ern Democratic leaders.
Adlai-E. Stevenson had re
ceived promises from every
one to keep his name out of
the 1960 Democratic national
convention. . .
Sen. Stuart Symington (D
Mo.) had fished from HIS
stocking a solid pledge of one
or more first ballot votes at
next year's convention.
President E l s e n h o wer's
stocking had yielded assur
ances that aU of those cheers
during his travels really
meant what they seemed to
say.
The common man's stock
ing had been overflowing
with pledges of tax relief, sta
ble money and, in general,
less government, rather than
more.
. Among things unwanted in
their stockings by anyone this
Christmas were these:
Publicized political support
by Jimmy Hoffa and some of
his teamsters associates.
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bear the name and address ol
the writei although under cer
tain circumstances tne use of a
pen name oi initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words
Concerning Drinking
To the Editor: The Dec. 20
Mail Tribune carried two news
items that seem to clash a bit.
Chief of Police Champlin
gave some sound advice to
holiday drivers. He stated that
drinking reduces one's ability
to react quickly and make
proper judgments. Also that
two cocktails can impair one's
vision as much as dark glasses
do at night. He suggested that
at parties where drinking was
done, for the nondrinkers to
drive the others home. He was
not trying to dampen the
Christmas spirit, but merely
trying to eliminate a source of
accidents which disrupt many
family holidays.
In the same issue, a jury
returned a "not guilty" ver
dict for a man who had only
several drinks." It was stated
at the trial by a former bar
tender that this was not
enough to affect one's driving
Who are we going to be
lieve, the bartender or our
Chief of Police? It was stated
that the man in question was
abusive and did not react too
well to tests given at the 'po
lice station. It makes one won
der. Do we have to call the
undertaker before we can
prove an individual unfit to
drive?
The Oct. 27 Mail Tribune
carried a very interesting
item. The 10th annual conven
tion of the National Licensed
Beverage association was in
session in Grand Rapids. They
were addressed by the radio
and TV director of a large re
ligious organization of the
city.
This pastor told these dele
gates to get rid of their "in
feriority complex" because
they are in an "honorable pro
fession." He told them, and I
quote, "to stand up and fight
the bluenose enemies of the
liquor, industry." "You have
every right to take your legiti
mate place in your community
as a man who provides a legal
and honorable service." "Con
trolled drinking," he said, "re
lieves tensions and relaxes."
Because drinking creates a
problem for a relatively few
people we should not consider
depriving the vast majority of
normal adults," he added.
It would seem that our law
officers, along with other
clear thinking individuals, are
going to have increasing prob
lems, in view of the fact that
a representative of one of the
world's great religious powers
has taken such an open stand.
God. in His inspired word
has warned against certain
soul destroying practices.
Read and study its precious
words and you'll obtain wis
dom far above man's warped
conceptions.
Henry Johnson Jr."
2400 Highway 66
Ashland, Ore. v
ff
Specific credit for the de
cision whereby the Allied
armies pulled up and permit
ted the Russians toward the
end of the war, to roll far
into western Europe.
Another war!
Another Summit confer
ence like that 1955 blooper
in Geneva. .
More big industry -wide
strikes.
Any more cocktail invita-tions-at
least for some time.
Responsibility for solving
the traffic snarl on land or in
the air. ' . . ' . : "
Hi-fi recording by teen age
torch singers.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS.
Returning to Washington,
President Eisenhower laugh
ingly told the crowds that had
waited up to greet him that he
"had had breakfast in Madrid,
lunch in Casablanca and still
reached Washington at' an
hour which by our getting up
time is six o'clock in the
(same) morning." ; .
THAT is to say:
The President and his
party ate breakfast in Madrid,
took a side trip to Casablanca
(which is in Africa, almost due
south of Madrid) stopped there
for lunch, and came wierdly
close to ARRIVING IN
WASHINGTON BEFORE
THEY LEFT MADRID!
REMEMBER, please that the
- President and his party
were traveling by jet liner.
The big jet liners don't travel
as fast as the smaller bullet
like jet fighters. A jet fighter,
if it could have carried fuel
enough, would have made the
trip much faster.
And-
A missile travels faster than
a jet fighter. The post office
department is already talking
of sending mail BY MISSILE
If they send mail by missile,
you can bet your bottom dol
lar that it won't be long before
somebody will be TRAVEL
ING BY MISSILE - figuring
that if a sack of mail can do
it he can do it.
riOING ON from there -
You've read, I suppose.
these shivery nightmares of
the space dreamers to the ef
fect that if a man were shot
into space in a space vehicle
and kept on traveling in space
for a million years and then
by .some hook or crook got
back to the earth time would
have died for him during these
million years and HE WOULD
BE NO OLDER THAN WHEN
HE LEFT.
Imagine THAT!
If, that is, you can.
TTMMMMMM.
It's getting about time to
turn this off. When one gets
started on such a subject,
there's no telling where he'll
end. It isn't impossible that
he might wind up in the hands
of the boys in the white coats.
So -
Let's close on a hopeful
thought:
In a world as cockeyed as
this one sometimes seems to
be getting to be, THE IDEAL
OF WORLD' PEACE ISN'T
TOO FANTASTIC TO BE
CONSIDERED AS A POSSI
BILITY.
Let's look at the doughnut
rather than the hole.
Queen Extends
Best Wishes
London -(DPD- Queen Eliza
beth wished her subjects a
merry Christmas today in 126
words.
Her annual radio message
was the shortest she has ever
given. It consisted of only
seven sentences.
"I do not want Christmas
to pass by without sending
my best wishes for a happy
day to aU of you who may be
listening, and especially to
my own peoples in the com
monwealth," she said.
"Wherever you are and
whatever you may be doing,
you have my constant interest
and affection. I am particu
larly grateful to the many
kind people all over the
world who have sent me
their good wishes at this time.
I am glad to have this chance
to thank you all very warm
ly indeed.
"As the old year passes, let
us celebrate Christmas with
thanksgiving and carry its
message of peace and good
will into the year ahead. All
of us at Sandringham wish
you a very happy Christmas.
May God bless you all."
The Queen, who is expect
ing her third child early next
year, was on television. Her
speech was recorded.
Jerusalem, Israel -JUPD- An
Israeli soldier was killed
Thursday when his border pa
trol clashed with a group of
armed Syrians near Tel Tak
zir. " The two governments
later issued official state
ments blamin; each for the
incident.
Don't-Wants, for
the Rest of Us
Invitations from the Inter
nal Revenue Service to stop
by and add it up all over
again.
Dull steak knives.
Confederate money.
Invitations to dinner timed
for 7:30 but at which the food
Old-Fashioned Time
Marks Holiday at
Washington - (DPD - Christ
mas was an old - fashioned
family affair for the Richard
M. Nixon family today with
early-morning gift opening, a
waffle and sausage breakfast
and carol singing featuring
the vice president , at the
piano.
There was a big tree with
gifts aplenty and a traditional
turkey dinner with cranber
ries and all the fixings.
Nixon, his wife, Pat, and
their two daughters, Tricia,
14, and Julie, 11, planned to
make it mostly a quiet day at
their ' big Norman-style stone
home in a wooded section of
northwest Washington.
Brother's Son Visits
Visiting them for the holi
days is Donnie Nixon, 14,
Prisoners Give
Spare Time To
Helping Qiidren
Washington (UPB Prison
bars cannot lock out the
Christmas spirit or keep it
from touching the hearts of
the men and women inside.
"There is treasure, if you
can only find it, in the heart
of every man."
James V. Bennett, director
of the Federal Bureau of Pris
ons, used that quote from
Winston Churchill to tell how
Christmas revealed the "treas
ure" in the hearts of some of
the nation's most calloused
criminals. . -Toys
Repaired
In his annual report to At
torney General . William P.
Rogers, Bennett said inmates
of several federal prisons de
voted their spare time through
November and December to
preparing ' thousands of toys
for needy children. '
The Marine Corps collected
playthings and sent them for
repair to penitentiaries at At-
1 a n t a, Tallahassee, F,I a
Greenville, S. C, McNeil Is
land, Wash., and Terminal
Island, Calif.
The same sort of repair
work was done for the Salva
tion Army by inmates at
Petersburg, Va., and for the
Veterans of Foreign Wars at
El Reno, Okla.
In the reformatory at Chil-
licothe, Ohio, prisoners made
strings of Christmas lights to
decorate the city, and helped
repair existing decorations.
Checks Contributed
Atlanta prisoners distribut
ed checks of $7 each to 660
children of federal prisoners
whose families could not af
ford gifts.
Women inmates at Alder
son, W. Va., used their leisure
time to make toys and cloth
ing for children in a nearby
school for the retarded.
Some prisoners have taken
on the support of orphans
abroad. Leavenworth inmates
have been supporting a French
boy and a Korean boy since
1954.
At the institution at Seago-
ville, Texas, inmates are spon
soring two underprivileged
boys in Dallas. Prisoners at
Milan, Mich., are supporting
a 6-year-old Kentucky girl.
The Toy House
EXTENDS THE
to
May Your Joys Multiply
Help in Making This
THE TOY HOUSE WILL BE-
Closed Saturday
DECEMBER 26
Toy
The
will not show up until near
ly 9.
Opportunities for sure-thing
investments.
What everyone really want
ed for Christmas: '
Peace, life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. -
rd Nixon Home
Whittier, Calif., son, of the
vice president's brother, Don.
The Nixons would not di
vulge what presents they gave
each other. But their gifts to
other members of their fami
lies included a new photo-
Pat, and the girls.
Christmas came early in the
Nixon household. The two
girls like to bound out of
bed at an early hour and
awaken their parents for the
gift opening.
The schedule then called for
a casual late breakfast, cooked
by Mrs. Nixon and featuring
waffles, a family holiday tra
dition, and country sausage.
Guests Invited
The Nixons invited their
usual Christmas dinner guests,
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Full
er and their son, Bill, old
friends and former neighbors.
. Fuller, a Washington pub
lic relations man, and Nixon
are old friends from Califor
nia. The families were close
neighbors when the Nixons
lived in the Spring Valley
section of Washington and
usually dine together on
Christmas.
After the big dinner, the
program called for carol sing
ing around the piano, with
Nixon at the keyboard ac
companied by young Bill
Fuller on the ukelele.
Iraq Premier
Under Attack
Tehran, Iran - (DPD - Radio
Tehran today attacked Pre
mier Abdel Kartm Kassem ol
Iraq as a "Red servant of
black imperialsm," and prom
ised that Iran would unmask
the present Iraqi rulers before
"the loyal and decent Iraqi
people."
The radio broadcast claim
ed Kassem had not shared
Iraqi oil benefits with the peo
ple but instead used the mon
ey to serve the "oil trusts' in
terests." The attack came as unoffi
cial reports in Tehran told
of further troop movements
to the Iraqi-Iran border. The
troops and artillery are being
moved up adjacent to a three
mile region, rich in oil, which
Iraq now claims as hers.
The reports said Britain and
the United States were trying
to settle the dispute because
they fear the Abadan oil re
finery might be destroyed if
fighting broke out between
the two countries.
Despite the troop move
ment reports, official circles
in Tehran discounted reports
of the possibility of fighting
and said there would be no
war between Iran and Iraq.
They said that Iraq had been
bluffing.
DEBT MEETINGS OPEN
Washington -(DPD-The Unit
ed States will open negotia
tions with Russia here Jan. 11
in a new effort to settle the
Soviets' big World War II
lend-lease debt. The United
States provided Russia with
$10,800,000,000 in supplies
during the war.
Everyone
and Thanks for Your
a Successful Year
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