Yule Festivities Grow in Atheist Soviet Union
In Moscow, Grandfather Frost replaces Santa as New Year’s Eve gains festive flavor, with toy deliveries by motorcycle and planned door-to-door meals. Flour rations reach 4.4 pounds per person amid lines, stores stock toys but prices stay high. Yolka trees light department stores, Gum signs gain complexity, and overall holiday spirit is modestly livelier than past years. In Saigon, a U S advisory Christmas Eve communique details ground action, air strikes, and proclaimed and recorded casualties.
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Moscow
UPI
Russia
Santa Claus
Grandfather Frost
World
Red Square
Ho Chi Minh Peace Feelers Helped Defeat France Recalled
The piece argues Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnamese repeated wartime tactics to push the United States toward leaving South Vietnam. It notes French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, compares to Vietnam, and cites Soviet and British involvement in Geneva talks. It also links U.S. prolonged role back to Truman era and reflects Hanoi’s hopes for talks on its terms.
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Ho Chi Minh
United States
South
Viet Nam
France
Geneva
Korea
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
China
Peking
Harry S. Truman
U.S
Bao Dai
Saigon
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Hanoi
Rhodesian sanctions hit Britain and air refueling
Salisbury reports Rhodesia imposes its own sanctions on Britain in retaliation for Britain's oil embargo. Telegraph rates rise and British airlines lose refueling rights. private telegraph wires taxed. BOAC and BU A affected. impact seen as severe for Rhodesian business, though officials urge resilience.
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Salisbury
UPS
Britain
Ian Smith
Rhodesia
Rhodesian
British Overseas Airways Corp
BOAC
British United Airways
BUA
Salisbury Chamber of Commerce
New York
Chamber of Commerce
G. J. Sichel
Central African Federation
Explosions Hit Santo Domingo Amid Christmas Appeal
Two blasts rocked Santo Domingo after Archbishop Beras pleaded for peace, with 34 killed this week as fires burned until dawn. Gunfire and bombings have surged since last Sunday’s clash in Santiago, where 28 died in an air force conflict. Officials report 33 to 40 deaths in political violence.
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Santo Domingo
UPI
Octavio A. Beras
Diego Brothers
Santiago
Msgr. Beras
Volpe Outlines 1965 Massachusetts Accomplishments
Boston notes Governor Volpe lists major 1965 achievements including a $320 million highway bond program, a $63.35 million capital outlay plan, relocation services, a Boston branch of U Mass, coasts wetlands protection, civil rights measures, welfare reforms, river harbors funding, court facilities study, and state takeover of Rutland Heights Hospital with a tourism campaign.
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University of Massachusetts
Paul A. Dever State School
Taunton
Pondville
Bureau of Relocation Assistance
Department of Commerce and Development
Massachusetts
Boston
Rutland Heights Veterans Hospital
Crowley Nativity ewe births lamb at church pageant
Crowley Louisiana officials at First Methodist Church found a ewe had given birth to a lamb during the live Nativity scene check on Thursday morning. The accidental birth adds a new member to the church pageant flock observed by pageant officials and attendees.
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Crowley
Shepherds
First Methodist Church
Santa Claus Banned By a Methodist Church
In Shelburne Falls Massachusetts a local Methodist church banned Santa Claus from future Christmas observances. The church board affirmed a policy stating Santa represents getting rather than giving and does not align with Christ’s teaching that all are God’s children.
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Shelburne Falls
Mass
UPL
Santa Claus
G. Alfred Hess
William Butler Memorial Methodist Church
Jesus Christ
Santa
European Air Defense Gets New Army Head
Maj. Gen. George V. Underwood, five year chief of Army information, to command all U.S. Army air defense units in Europe. He will report to Kaiserslautern, West Germany, about February. Underwood is on an inspection trip to Vietnam with Gen. Harold K. Johnson. no replacement named for the information post.
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Washington
George V. Underwood
Army Information
Europe
Pentagon
Kaiserslauten
West Germany
Mass. Faces Emergency Water Curbs in 69 Cities
Massachuset ts drought tightens as 69 communities impose emergency water restrictions amid record low rainfall. State official Coogan warns numbers will rise by summer while Wareham residents receive water aid via portable storage tanks and Army-supplied containers due to private wells drying up.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Gloucester
Newburyport
Weymouth
Braintree
Holbrook
Randolph
Fall River
Fitchburg
Leominster
Gardner
George J. Coogan
State Health Department
Division of Sanitary Engineering
Coogan
Wareham
Fort Devens
Ayer
Socialists Name Salah Bitar As Syria Premier
In Damascus Syria the Socialist rulers named 43 year old moderate Salah Bitar to head the government. He has served as premier three times before and replaces Youssef Zayyen whose government was ousted after a clash between Gen Amin Hafez and ex army chief Gen Salah Jedid.
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Damascus
Syria
Salah Bitar
Youssef Zayyen
Amin Hafez
Salah Jedid
IRS Names Director for Massachusetts
William E. Williams was named head of the Boston district of the Internal Revenue Service, succeeding Alvin M. Kelley who moves to regional commissioner in the Midwest. The Boston district employs 1,300 staff and collected 2.3 billion dollars in federal taxes in 1964. Williams, a World War II veteran, began as deputy collector in Belleville Illinois and rose through the IRS including posts in Buffalo Albany and the Boston district.
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Boston
Albany
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Massachusetts
William E. Williams
Alvin M. Kelley
Kelley
Midwest
Chicago
Williams
Internal Revenue
Belleville
Ill
Apartment Fire Fatal to Eight in Newark
A suspicious pre Christmas fire on the third floor of a Newark apartment at 197 1th Ave killed eight people, six from one family, and displaced twenty others. Fire Arson Squad Capt. Joseph O'Brien leads the investigation as authorities consider arson. Victims include Gracie Basile, 30, her sons Thomas 19 Victor 21 Ralph 23 and Ralph 1, Margaret 16, Marie Melinda 23 expecting mother, and Felix Fernandez 21.
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Newark
UPI
Newark Fire Department
Joseph O'Brien
Gracie Basile
Thomas
Victor
Ralph
Basile
Margaret
Mso
Marie Melinda
Felix Fernandez
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