De Gaulle Plans
Visit To U. S.
PARIS, <JPi — Premier De Gaule
has begun plans for a trip to the
United States early next year,
. sources in a position to know
said yesterday. The U. S govern
ment has invited him twice to
make a state visit to Washington.
De Gaulle’s press spokesman in
sisted that no decision has defi
nitely been taken. But he said De
Gaulle wants to go to Washington
and confirmed that plans are being
made with this in view.
No formal announcement can
be expected until De Gaulle’s new
status as President of the Fifth
Republic becomes official.
NOTICE
The City Ordinance governing
the control of loose dogs will be
strictly enforced.
All dogs must be kept on the
owner's premises. This also in
cludes pups.
All dogs, 10 months and older
must be licensed. Therefore, after
deligent effort has been made to
capture any loose dog, whether
licensed or unlicensed, they will
be shot. In accordance with Code
of Ordinances, City of Nome, Sec
tion 4-15, part (C).
JOHN MARVIK. Chief of Police.
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Airliner Crashes
In England
CHRISTCHURCH, England, UP)
— A Britannia airliner crashed in
a cattle pasture on a training
flight near this south coast city
today and killed nine of the 12
persons aboard.
The huge Britannia, a four
engine turboprop plane of the
British Overseas Airways Corp ,
(BOAC), was on a training flight
from London Airport. All the 12
occupants were company em
ployes.
SNUFF AND BEERS
INCREASE YOUR YEARS
ST. LOUIS, UP) — Want to live
to be 100 plus? Try a daily ration
of snuff and beer, says Mrs, An
nie Seifert, who was 101 Monday.
Mrs. Seifert topped her snuff
and glass of beer with some ice
cream and cake at a birthday cel
ebration at the Little Sisters of
the Poor home. Among the pres
ents was a good-sized supply of
snuff.
Candles derive from an old
Irish custom of putting a lighted
candle in the window on Christ
mas Eve to light the Holy Fam
ily’s way. The candles denote a
house where the Holy Family
would have been welcomed, not
turned away as at the inns in
Bethlehem.
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Christmas Tree
By Two Tykes
Teddy Roosevelt almost rode
roughsho d over the Christmas
tree in his drive to conserve the
nation’s forests. But two little boys
put the Christmas tree and the
Christmas spirit — back in the
White House.
The Christmas tree was well
established in the United States
when TR became president.
Research experts with the World
Book Encyclopedia say a Harvard
professor named Charles Follen
set up one of the first known trees
in America in 1832.
President Franklin Pierce put
up a tree in the White House in
the 1850’s to entertain the Sunday
School of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church. And Presi
den Benjamin Harrison contin
ued the custom in the 1890’s.
But some modern-day Scrooges
convinced Roosevelt that the cut
ing of Christmas trees would soon
deplete the nation’s forests. TR
promptly banned the tradition at
the White House.
However, the Old Roughrider
forgot to consult his young sons.
Archie and Quentin cared little
about Presidential edicts — and
less about conservation. They
smuggled a tree into the mansion
on Pennsylvania Avenue and set
it up in Archie’s room.
The 'President relented, and
ever since, the White House has
had an indoor Christmas tree.
TR’s concession also sent the
Christmas tree industry soaring
beyond the dreams of one of its
founders — a Catskill farmer who
brought his trees to market in
New York City in 1851. And it
helped pave the way for a new
custom — the community Christ
mas tree.
In 1924, a Norway spruce was
planted near the White House and
later dedicated as “a national liv
ing Christmas tree.”
Two years later, a giant Califor
nia redwood in King’s Canyon Na
tional Park, named General Grant
after the Civil War hero, was
dedicated as the “Nation’s Christ
mas Tree.”
Reaching 267 feet into the sky
from a base 40 feet thick, the tree
is th second largest in the world.
Every year, nearby towns
people and visitors join in a hol
iday service and sing carols at
the base of the sequoia, which was
growing on the mountain slope
when Christ was born in Beth
lehem.
MONEY FROM NAZIS
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, UP* —
Alexander Lazarevic, an official
of the Belgrade City Transport
Co., received a call from the Red
Cross to come get some money.
Puzzled, he went to Red Cross
headquarters and received a sealed
envelope containing four coins
which totaled two dinars (2 cents!.
It was the money he had.given
up to German troops when he was
taken prisoner in 1941.
The coins returned to him are
now worthless since the currency
has been changed. He said he will
keep them anyway for a souvenir.
OLD UNCLE PUSS
ok: AHOMA CITY, Okla., UP*—
If Uncle Puss lives until Christ
mas Eve, and he appears to be
in fairly good condition, he will
be 20 years old, which is quite
a life span for a cat.
Owned by Mr. and Mrs Edgar
F. Percival, Uncle Puss has lost a
few teeth and his sight isn’t what
it used to be. He sleeps on a heat
ing pad and is fed choice tidbits
from his master’s table. He re
fuses a doctor-prescribed low
protien diet of baby food.
The Changeless Christmas Storv...
Christmas is here now, and
every day of the busy week ahead.
It’s the music of cherished carols
hovering like a benediction; it’s
the wide-eyed wonder and unfal
tering faith of children; it’s the
gleam of candles, tinsel and fra
grant evergreen; it’s the joy of
planning and sacrificing for some
one you love; it’s the remem
brance of friendships and antici
pation of families united; it’s the
prayerful renewal of faith in all
that's good; it’s the spiritual
awakening that comes to each of
us as we hear the Christmas story
“For unto you is born this day,
-in the city of David, a Savior,
which is Christ the Lord. . . .
ICE CREAM KEEPS BETTER
OVERWRAPPED IN TINFOIL
Ice cream stored in a home
freezer does much better if it is
“overwrapped” in aluminum foil.
“The use of the overwrap pre
serves the fine quality and tex
ture of the ice cream,” it was
noted by the University of Alaska
Cooperative Extension Service.
“The foil keeps the tempera
ture down and reflects the radiant
heat from the warmer surfaces
within the cabinet,” the Extension
Service said.
WHAT A SYSTEM !
GREENWICH, Conn., [Sh — A
letter addressed to Santa Claus,
North Pole, came back to its youue
sender, stamped in purple ink:
“Returned to writer. Insufficient
address.”
Glory to God,•'in the highest, and
j on earth peace, good will toward
( men.”
This is the changeless Christmas
story to a changed and changing
universe. It has been our hope in
the past and it will help us now
to live in an insecure and bewil
dered world. It is the unifying
element that can help the United
Nations achieve one world of men
of good will, which is the only
foundation for lasting peace. Yes,
there is peace, yet there is sor
row — there is peace, yet there
is suffering — there is peace, yet
there is hunger, and there is want
for human necessities.
The Christmas message comes
with a special significance to par
ents and teachers in whose keep
ing lies the future of mankind.
We pray for powers equal to our
tasks in solving the problems that
crowd upon us from day to day
with the rapidity with which all
things are moving and changing.
We pray for the spirit of “peace
on earth, good will toward men”
that will endure all through the
year like a prolonged Christmas
Day.
“So remember while December
Brings the only Christmas day,
In the year let there be Christmas
In the things you do and say;
Wouldn’t life be worth the living
Wouldn’t dreams be coming true,
If we kept the Christmas spirit
All the whole year through?”
— Anonymous.
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