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Newspaper

Biddeford Saco Journal

Location

Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Date

Dec 23, 1967

Page

10

Dear Abby Advice From a San Francisco Reader

Dear Abby counsels clear communication about plans with visiting guests. In a separate note, she criticizes a dinner where the National Anthem is played for elderly attendees, suggests alternative songs, and answers about repurposing postage stamps from old cards, clarifying regulations.

Coal House Serves as Chamber HQ in Middlesboro

A house built of 40 tons of coal stands as the headquarters of the Middlesboro Chamber of Commerce in eastern Kentucky, illustrating local resourcefulness and a unique landmark for the city.

Middlesboro Chamber of Commerce Kentucky

Soviet Secret Police Focuses Resources On Spies

The 50th anniversary of the KGB marks a shift toward espionage abroad and counterintelligence at home. MOOP expands security duties, while border troops remain under KGB, as Pravda notes the force adapts with the party’s development.

Henry S. Bradsher Associated Press Moscow Stalin Committee For State Security KGB Soviet Union Harold A.R Kim” Philby Manny Secret Police Novocherkassk Pravda Communist Party Izvestia U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation John Doe

Robin the Christmas Card Robin A Legend in Yuletide Decor

A Hallmark card highlights the robin as part of the Bethlehem nativity scene. The legend says a robin perched above the manger watched the Magi present gifts to the Christ Child and later signaled the flame of the stable.

Jeannette Lee Hallmark Cards Bethlehem Christ

Pelsnickle the Coal Giver in Christmas Lore

In Greenwich Connecticut the Pryor International Doll Library houses over 8000 dolls including Pelsnickle a Santa like figure who punishes naughty children with coal and switches. Curator Mrs June Anderson Douglass explains Pelsnickle’s German origin and fur coat linked to pelz meaning fur. The custom persists in some Pennsylvania Dutch homes.

Pryor International Greenwich Conn Persnickle Pelsnickle St. Nicholas St. Nick Santa Claus June Anderson Douglass Pryor Holland Germany New Book of Knowledge

Dolby Engagement Announces May 11 Wedding

Miss Hannah Esther Dolby plans a May 11 wedding to Paul M. Whittaker of Riverside R I. Daughter of Mr and Mrs Lawrence T Dolby of Saco she attended Thorn ton Academy and Katherine Gibbs School and works in Boston. Her fiancé a URI and Northeastern Graduate holds a position with Lybrand Ross Montgomery.

Hannah Esther Dolby Paul M., Whittaker L. Raymond Whittaker Riverside R. L Lawrence T. Dolby Harrison Ave Saco Dolby Thornton Academy Northeastern Graduate School of Professional Accounting Lybrand Ross Brothers Montgomery Aunastasoff

Married Alive musical fades after troubled Broadway preview

The pre-Broadway production of Married Alive at the Shubert Theater opens with Vincent Price as a painter who assumes his servant's identity, amid misdirection, fraud and romance. Critics describe the show as dreary and a big-scale disaster, with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by E Y Harburg. The piece runs four weeks.

Nuward R. Angione Associated Press Boston (Ap London Shubert Theater Vincent Price Patricia Rutledge Westminster Abbey Jule Styne E. Y. Harburg Steven Vinaver Lee Theodore Samuel Hirsch The Herald Traveler Kevin Kelly the Globe Elliot Norton Record American Price Norton

Holiday Greens Create Festive Scene of Christmas Decor

The article describes greens used in Christmas decorations from wreaths to trees, noting pagan origins and mystical attributions by ancient cultures. It cites widespread modern use regardless of religious meaning and mentions legends about the first Christmas tree possibly being pale and linked to Egypt.

Victoria Engay al- Pi Egypt Encyclopedia Americana

Daily Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues

A full list of across and down crossword clues across themes includes overwhelms British West Indies abbr dashes blind poet journalist Dreyfus girl of song beast Fr it It s sometimes bitter quartz at all scrape fowl European polecats sine non Batman s nemesis coughdrop ingredient curtain material sixty years before Hastings Rom punch s partner active force odd do without type of container immature insect magnolias river into the Volga Eucharistic fate queen of I Kings about half of us friendly relations Sam of baseball pref used with 24 Across derisive sounds slang unrestrained peak near ancient Troy Swiss language make-alls gefilte fish Buffalo waterfront excel Berlin time something of value balsam Bosnia s neighbor something to do for yourself Gravstark for one piece of tobacco take apart of Eastern gulf talks slang Steinbeck character potter s device ist cen poet American patriot paint ings of an early Italian master theater sign Arizona abbr depend upon old European coin saw air race marker silly Borodin hero Parisian parent darkness and gloom island Japanese style it goes after status new code

British West Indies Plato Hastings Punch The Volga Berlin Bosnia Eastern Gulf Arizona

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