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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1949
Page
5
The hectic weeks before Christmas bring shopping, wrapping, mailing cards and gifts, ribbons, baking, and cleaning as households prepare. Many people are caught up in the bustle without knowing whose birthday is celebrated or finding time to learn.
An original school play titled What Is Christmas written by Miss Mary McManus depicts Mary and Joseph as war orphans in the United States. A large student cast under 18 faculty directs, with Marjorie Morse and Margaret Biggs contributing music and staging. The PTA event featured scenes from Santa’s workshop to Bethlehem and a manger scene with named cast members and child performers.
WHO reports plague remains a grave problem in Asiatic areas with 95 000 Chinese and Indian deaths in 1947 48 and launches an international demonstration of eradication next year in India with expansion to Morocco the Belgian Congo and China. The plan calls for five to six year field work, sanitation improvements, deratization and DDT programs at ports aircraft and on goods to prevent spread.
Chicago report catalogs odd mishaps from 1939 showing Americans injured or amused by bizarre events. Includes Norman Lawrence chasing fly balls igniting matches, a deer on a motorcycle, a piggy bank striking a child, and a box of cookies triggering a house fire in Bridgeport.
In Houston a Christmas party brightened the day for about 40 Veterans Hospital patients. Baytown Wavy Mothers delivered gift bags with fruit nuts candy sun matches and combs. The event featured bingo accordion music by Susie B Ammons and treats of ice cream and cookies. Decorations included poinsettia donations and five afghans for wheelchair patients.
The article reviews how December 25 was not fixed in early history and cites authorities Her men Usener and L Duchesne. It notes January 6 as a competing date for Epiphany or baptism feast and theories on why December 25 became the Christmas observance.
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