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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1954
Page
7
The piece humorously contrasts plastic synthetic Christmas trees with traditional evergreens describing their colors smells and modern trends. It recalls family memories of real trees cats as ornaments and the mother’s stubborn insistence on keeping the holiday alive past January.
A mix of nostalgic holiday memories and Cold War era anecdotes. The piece reflects on burning a Christmas tree, 1000 hours of unused Civilian Aeronautics Administration sick leave, Jimmy Stewart before the FCC, and shifting congressional voting patterns. It also covers a lone soldier at Fort Carson, a Western bridge tournament winner, and claims about prisoner exchanges and Red China.
In Washington a British Broadcasting Corporation story describes a U.S. post office confusion over colonial postage rates two pence and a half equaling about three cents. The piece notes Pan American Airways calendars, September missing, acetate Christmas ornaments at the White House tree, and Civil Service sick leave usage.
General Mark W. Clark said Americans held by the Reds have been exhibited under Russian control in Port Arthur and Vladivostok. Radio host Henry J. Taylor quoted Clark as saying 13 Americans recently sentenced as spies by Red China were treated harshly and shabbily in the same period.
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