Yule Business
Beats Last Year
NEW YORK, UR — “Christmas
business will equal last year and
may toe a little better. But it’s not
running away.”
This cautiously phrased com
ment from M. E. Arnett, vice
president of Bullock’s Department
Store in Dos Angeles, typifies the
attitude of hundreds of retailers
across the country interviewed by
the Associated Press in a survey
of Christmas business prospects.
Most are confident of beating
last year’s record totals, thanks
in part to slightly higher prices
and an extra shopping day. But
few see anythisg that resembles
a real boom.
“There’s more cash in town
this year,” says Charles E. Boyd
of the Detroit Chamber of Com
merce, “but people aren’t spend
ing the money.”
Brightest spot on the 1958
Christmas scene is Texas.
“There’s no doubt but that the
buying public has the money and
a disposition to spend it,” de
clares a merchant in Fort Worth.
“To say business is good is put
ting it mildly, for if it gets any
better it will be terrific.”
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sustain the weight of four of the
largest locomotives.
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Dept. Of Health
Warns Of Hazards
In Holiday Foods
JUNUEAU, — Some advice and
warnings about the “hazards of
holiday foods” came from the
Alaska Department of Health nu
trition division last week.
The “hazards” referred’ to were
not the extra pounds put on
around the nation’s waistlines
during the Christmas season, but
threats of contamination to the
vast quantities of good foods that
tend to overflow available refrig
erator and other safe storage
space.
Improper handling of foods, es
pecially egg mixtures and dress
ings, may bring an uninvited guest
to holiday parties, the warning
states. Some bacteria, particularly
staphylococci, multiply in great
numbers and very fast when food
is allowed to stand at room tem
perature, the nutritionists point
out, and every year much need
less misery and serious illness is
suffered because of these bacteria.
Some recommendations offered
for avoiding “food poisoning” in
clude:
1. Stuff the holiday bird or
roast just before it goes into the
oven. The ingredients can be
measured the day before, but
should not be mixed and used un
til it is time to put fowl or meat
into the oven.
2. Always refrigerate leftover
food as soon as the meal is finished.
The hour or two spent talking be
fore the dishes are done gives the
bacteria just the heat and mois
ture they need to start growing.
3. Remove leftover dressing from
the bird and store it in a sep
arate container in the refrigerator.
OPTIMIST
NEWARK, N. ., UP) — A letter
to Santa Claus was opened at the
Post Office. It made a list of not
unusual requests, and concluded
with: “I hope I get most of these
things. If not, I will try again
next year.’
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VATICAN CITY, UP) — Amid
glittering and moving medieval
pageantry, Pope John XXIII yes
terday placed the red hats of their
high office over the heads of 20
of the 23 new Cardinals of the
Roman Catholic Church.
More than 35,000 cheering per
sons filled the vast Basilica of St.
Peter for the glittering public con
sistory, the climactic event in the
ceremonies this week which have
increased the College of Cardinals
to 74 men, largest in history.
The new Cardinals approached
the Papal throne singly, hands
folded in prayer. Their bright
scarlet trains trailed nine feet
behind across the green velvet
carpet.
Tenth in order was one of the
two new American Cardinals,
Archbishop Richard Jgpaes Cush
ing of Boston.
The other, Archbishop John
O’Hara of Philadelphia, was 13th.
Chop Suey Bowls May
Give Off Lead Poisoning
BERKELEY, Calif., UPl — Do
you have any brightly colored,
inexpensive Oriental dishware
such as chop suey bowls or other
food containers?
If so, and if you acquired them
within the past two years, maybe
you should give them the vinegar
test for poison lead, two Berkeley
city health officers said yesterday.
Some, but not all, of these
dishes give off lead from their
color pigments or even from their
glazed surfaces when they come
into contact with acid food, the
health workers said.
This dissolved lead can become
a source of poisoning.
They have advised doctors and
health workers generally to be on
the alert for lead poisoning in
cases where the cause of vague
intestinal or nerve ' illness is not
apparent.
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Forest Ranger Killed In
Runaway Calif. Brush Fire
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO,
Calif., UPl — A forest ranger has
been trapped and killed by
flames in California’s devastating
brush fire, now in its sixth day
and still out of control.
More than 100 square miles of
brush-covered mountains, valleys
and fields in three southern Cali
fornia counties have been black
ened by the fire.
Joe Adams, 34, a forest ranger
of Clarksdale, Ariz., was scout
ing fire conditions Thursday when
flames shot up a mountainside and
engulfed him as he stood on a rock
outcropping.
The fire started last Sunday.
Inflation Robs U. S.
Of Buying Power
WASHINGTON, UP) — Although
the dollar income of Americans
will set a record in 1958, real in
come in terms of buying power
has declined from 1957 because of
inflation.
The Commerce Department said
personal income for the full year
will exceed 353 billion dollars, up
more than five billions from 1957.
But it observed: “With consum
er prices about 2Yi per cent higher
and personal tax payments sub
stantially unchanged, real pur
chasing power did not quite
match the 1957 aggregate.”
M.I.T. Scientist Says
U. S. Outstrips Reds
In Missile Science
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., UP) — The
feat of the Air Force in placing
the Atlas missile in orbit shows
the Soviet Union is not so far
ahead after all, and means we
now have forged ahead, in the
opinion of a Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology expert.
H. Guyford Steever, former
chief scientist for the Air Force,
and now professor of aeronau
tical engineering at MIT, said to
day the early Soviet advance in
satellites arose from their use of
“military hardware.”
He said the United States sep
arated its military missile program
from its space satellite program.
Navy Provides
‘Hotel’ For
Statehood Parade
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SEATTLE, UPl — A Navy trans
port will be sent from Seattle to
lie off Juneau as a floating hotel
during next month’s Statehood
ceremonies.
Gapt. N. A. Lidstone, command
er of the Military Sea Transpor
tation office in Seattle, said the
Defense Department has placed
the transport James O’Hara at
the convenience of the Alaska
Command for the Statehood cele^
bration.
Date of the celebration is yet
to be set.
Once that is announced, the
O’Hara is under orders to pro
ceed to Kodiak and Whittier,
embark passengers then proceed
to the Alaska capital for the cere
monies. En route back to Seattle,
the O’Hara will return passengers
to Whittier and Kodiak.
The O’Hara now is on the way
back to Seattle from an Alaska
troop run.
Her normal capacity is 275 cabin
passengers, 600 troops.
The Alaska Command has not
announced who will ride the
O’Hara to Juneau or who will be
housed aboard her during the week
of the celebration. However, the
O’Hara would be ideal for the
bands and marching units the
Alaska Command plans to bring
into Juneau for the eyent.
Her cabins also could house fed
eral military and civilian person
nel, and relieve the crowding of
Juneau hotels.
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