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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1949
Page
12
The Chicago Adventurers club announced plans for a around the world flight via both poles in January. A Lockheed Constellation will cover about 26 000 miles with Richard S. Johnson 31 of Chicago as pilot and former air transport command pilot.
Christendom again sees the Star of Bethlehem and rejoices at its symbolic light as scholars debate historical and astronomical theories about Jesus. Writers note the star’s enduring power to illuminate faith, peace, and restraint over tyranny.
Finnish customs avoid evergreens as home or church decorations due to mourning symbolism. Christmas features heaven mobiles, candlelit churches, and pre dawn services at six, followed by sled races and festive breakfasts. Gift giving is limited though some gifts may be given by the Kalevala hero Vainamoinen. Pumpkin Center and Pumpkin Chapel are two Kentucky towns.
Rangers in Yellowstone Park started culling 500 elk from the northern herd of about 11,000. Carcasses will feed Indian reservations in Montana Wyoming Utah and the Dakotas and state institutions. Montana will receive roughly 250 carcasses as park officials aim to reduce the herd to about 6,000 with winter migration and outside hunting reducing further.
In San Pedro California George Waters says he won 1600 dollars from Frank Billings in a poker game and was paid with a 2400 dollar check that bounced. Waters pursued Billings for 400 cash and 408 check and his car, while park rangers plan to shoot 200 buffalo to reduce herds this winter and 1500 may be shot in the park.
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