Christmas Observances Grow as Advent Opens The Season
Churches plan Advent beginn ing with the first Sunday in Advent as Christmas observances prepare to unfold. The article recalls historic roots of Christmas customs from Puritan bans to St Boniface and Martin Luther and notes symbols like trees holly and the divine message that Christ Child brings.
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Bethleem
New England
Massachusetts
St. Boniface
Martin Luther
Christ
William M York to Speak at Green Street Baptist Prayer Service
On Wednesday evening December 1 William M York of Greensboro will speak at the prayer service at Green Street Baptist He chairs the finance committee of First Baptist Greensboro and is a native High Pointer His message will include a personal testimony on tithing.
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William M. York
Greensboro
Green St. Baptist
York
First Baptist of Greensboro
Week of Prayer at Green St Baptist Begins Monday
A Week of Prayer opens Monday at Green St Baptist with sessions in the church social room. Theme is Come, Let Us Adore Me. Program schedule lists leaders Mrs T A McFather Evangelism in Medical Work Miss Ruth 2 Y and others through Wednesday and Thursday.
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Green St. Baptist
T. A. McFather
Roger Bell
W. M
Pattern of vigilance drive signals Soviet internal nervousness
AP dispatch notes a renewed Soviet push to mobilize citizens to guard state secrets and a scare of British and American spies. It parallels pre death period tensions and coincides with absences of Zhukov and Sokolovsky. The piece cites party consolidation and military emphasis on productivity.
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Stalin
Communist Party
Moscow
Georgi Zhukov
Vasily D. Sokolovsky
Kerr Scott Heads for Capital With Branch Head Boys Visit
Senator elect W Kerr Scott of North Carolina arrives in Washington as reports of the Branch Head Boys from Stokes County spread. Voters planned a Stokes ham and eggs frying stunt if Scott is sworn in, with several additional supporters en route to the Capitol.
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Washington
W. Kerr Scott
Stokes County
Stokes Country
Capitol
E Scott
Lenoo Lennon
D-Nc
Scott
Stokes Counyy
North Carolina
U S Pilot Convicted Of Theft In Monte Carlo Case
Harold Whitey Dahl a 45 year old American pilot and adventurer was found guilty of stealing 33000 dollars worth of gold from a Swiss airliner en route from Paris to Geneva in October 1953. The jury of five men and one woman sentenced him to two years in prison. Dahl claimed innocence saying the package contained only two bottles of cognac. He and his Swiss girlfriend Miss Ella Eppenberger were linked to lavish Monte Carlo living with the stolen gold.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Harold
Whitey) Dahl
Monte Carlo
Dahil
Paris
Dahl
Ella Eppenberger
Swissair
Ton
Miss Eppeger
Riviera
Miss Eppenberger
Franco
Blbcan
Canada
Sidney, Il
U.S. presses international aid for release of 13 Americans
Washington issued a protest to Red China through Britain demanding the release of 11 military men and 2 civilians held since the Korean War. The note, backed by U.N. involvement and British denouncements, seeks global pressure as relations with Peiping are strained and sentences range from four years to life.
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Washington
China
Free World
Red
Red China
United States
U.N
New York
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Dag Hammarskjold
London
Yalu River
Storm Batters Britain Strains Crews As Vessels Sunk
Storm battered the British Isles with hurricane winds and high seas. Two ships sank and numerous crews were feared dead or missing as World Concord broke in two off South Wales and the lightship South Goodwin was driven ashore. Royal Navy support and U S helicopters joined rescues amid ongoing severe weather.
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London
British Isles
England
Midlands
World Concord
South Wales
Reril
Mlustrious
Mediterranean
Dover Harbor
English Channel
Coastguard
U.S. Air Force
Ramsgate
State Officials To See Senators Sworn In Monday
Governor Hodges and a delegation will fly to Washington Monday to witness the swearing in of North Carolina’s two new U S senators. Senator Sam Ervin will take the oath for the unexpired term of the late Clyde Hoey and Senator W Kerr Scott will be sworn in for the last two months of Hoey’s term with Scott to begin a full six year term in January. The party includes Thad Pure, Ed Gill, Gen John Hall Manning, John Larkin and Clarence Poe.
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Raleigh P
Sam
Ervin
Clyde TR. Hoey
Cleet W. Kerr Scott
Melville Broughton
Scott
National Guard
Hodgesafe
Thad Pure
Edwin Gill
John Hall Manning
John Larkin
Clarence Poe
The
Progressive Farmer
Coffee Study Sought at Inter-American Conference
In QUITANDINHA Brazil F1 teens from Latin American nations pressed the Inter-American Economic Conference for a study of the world coffee situation. They proposed an international coffee agreement to stabilize prices. The United States, a major buyer, has expressed dislike for price fixing yet may back a hemispheric plan.
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Quitandinha
Brazil
Inter-American Econemic Conference
United States
Hepce
World Coffee Itrees
Connanas —Y Comma Groups
Tomorrow in the Sunday Enterprise features a bicycle trip tale
The Sunday Enterprise offers TOm mistakes? Tomorrow ON BICYCLE THROUGH EUROPE a lively account by TLLentz, a Woman's College graduate and Enterprise Society staffer, tracing an American girl's Western Europe journey. Also a postmaster retires and a water-witcher profiled with city use of his skills. Parade pictures preview of Christmas floats and prize-winners.
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Europe
Tommie Lentz
Enterprise Society
Sunday Enterprise
Steve Clark
Poderas
Iself
High Point
Thomasville
North Carolina Sees 10-Year Highway Financing Plan
A Parsons Brinckerhoff study projects a 10 year highway program for North Carolina with 1965 population at 4.809 million and vehicle registrations at 1.675 million. The plan relies on higher fuel taxes and reallocations to cover an estimated $1.464 billion in highway needs, offset by $1.442 billion in expected revenues, creating a $22.5 million deficit.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Eye
Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hall and MacDonald
Department of Conservation and Development
Hiss Declares Innocence After Release From Prison
Alger Hiss, once convicted of perjury, leaves Lewisburg Federal Prison with his wife Priscilla and son Tony. He proclaims innocence amid reporters, saying charges were untrue and vows to refute alleged deception.
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Hiss
Alger Hiss
State Department
Lewisburg
Federa
Newseen
Whittaker Chameers
Apy
State Seguin
Prioecilla
Tony
A Lane
Robert M. Benjamin
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Smog and Fog Grip South California With Weekend Outlook
Southern California endures a fourth day of dense smog and fog with inland reach of 10 miles and 1470 crashes since last Wednesday. Two traffic deaths reported. Los Angeles and Long Beach airports closed. football games postponed amid low visibility. autopsies on three infants suggest pneumonia, not yet proving smog as cause.
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Los Angeles
California
Pacific
Los Angeles International
Long Beaches
Lockheed
Burba
Angeles
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