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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1962 A 9 Stars Are 'People7 at Christmas By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Corretpondani Hollywood -d'PD- On Christ mas day almost all (he Holly wood tinsel is on the trees, leaving the glamour suyj and dolls pretty much like human beings anywhere, yet some how different. Ii is like this: Jimmy Stewart walking al most a mile each way to at tend church with his family In Beverly Hills. Bob Hope, accompanied by Lana Turner and Janis Paige, off to entertain American j servicemen at bases In the I Orient. j Ann Blythe and her doctor husband surrounded by their brood holding open house for all their relatives. Peter Lawford off to Palm Beach to spend the holiday with the nation's first family. A million lights - at least -strung along the hedges, out lining trees and trimming gables In countless homes in ' Bel-Air, Beverly Hills, Brent- j wood and Holmby Hills. j Debbie Reynolds with her i two children and husband opening presents In a Las Vegas hotel suite, unable to interrupt her night club ap pearance here to return home for the day. Edie Adams returning from location shooting In England to spend her first Christmas without Ernie Kovacs, but with his two daughters for whom she fought so hard In court. Man-of-the-world Frank Si natra exchanging gifts with his ex-wife Nancy and their youngsters. Elvis Presley winning a new car in a Christmas char ity raffle, and returning It to a veterans hospital in Long Beach to be raffled off again. Director George Stevens, on location in Wahweap, Utah, chartering four air liners to fly more than 350 members of the cast and crew of "The Greatest Story Ever Told" back to Hollywood and their families for the holiday. Carol Burnett boarding a , plane to return to her New j York home, hoping she would j find a Whits Christmas back j east. Shirley Mactalna Jetting j over the Pacific Ocean for j only a two-day visit with hus-1 band Steve Parker and daugh-; t?r Stephanie. ! Donna Reed and husband Tony Owen entertaining Don- n's parents who journeyed ! 1, "'ii Iowa for the holidays. Danny Thomas and his hrood spending an old fash ioned Christmas around the tree after a visit to church. Janet Leigh, spending her first Christmas with her new husband Robert Brandt and her two children, Kelly and Jamie, skiing in Aspen, Colo. The palm trees and brilliant flowers of sub-tropical south ern California frame an in congruous setting for the tra- , rlitional snowy American' Christmas scene. But even in 1 this land of glamour and tin- j sel, the spirit of Christmas : pervades this day. Christmas Trees For White House Was Pierce Idea The first While House Christmas tree was Introduced bv President Pierce In 18SR, but the first "National Christ mas Tree" did not make Its appearance until 1923 when President Coolirige lighted the huge sprurs on the White House lawn. One legend about the ori gin of Christmas tree tinsel goes like this: Long ago, a poor widow who could not af ford ornaments for her chil dren's tree, awoke on Christ mas dav In find a spider had anun its vch over the tree, t-unlicht had turned the webs to silver! The Scandinavians railed their mid-winter festival the ' jul" and lighter their Jul log end carried il along with a beat's head in honor of their Nin Bnar or Sun God. Hence, our wurd "Yule."' Starling December 17 and rnntinuinc for seven days, the eni'ient Romans feasted and rude merry celehral ing then .Saturnalia in halls and ban riuct rnnns decora'ed with latucl and greens. 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