Opera Tickets On Sale For Rio Grande Valley Festival
Reduction tickets offer 20 percent off if bought by December 31. La Traviata is the spring opera with Victor Alessandro conducting the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra during the festival week. Tickets range from 15 dollars for Choice seats to 4 dollars for the cheapest group.
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Rio Grande Valley
Music Festival
la Traviata
Ain
Victor Alessandro
San Antonio
Prnze
Christmas Is A Family Event
Christmas centers on family with Mother as the hub who makes the season live for everyone. The article suggests two factors for enduring memories: family involvement and shared activities, including decorating the tree and attending church services. It also urges helping others by visiting shut ins and visiting homes for the aged or orphans to add meaning.
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Toy Smith
Pan Am Sets Spring Registration at Pan American College
Registrar Nelia Mai Smith announces spring registration for Pan American College students on January 29 and 30. The procedure mirrors fall and groups register by surname alphabet order with Z through L on January 29 and K through A on January 30, with mailed instructions to all students.
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Nburg
Pan American Colge
Nelia Mai Smith
Cary
Danish American Society Christmas Party Planned
The Danish American Society plans its annual Christmas party in Donna on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Attendees will sing carols in English and Danish, form a circle around the Christmas tree, and bring food for their own families. Tablesware and hot drinks provided. Danish dishes and American foods promised. Rudy Beddixen, president, invites Danish origin residents and winter visitors to attend.
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Rio Grande Valley of Texas
Donna
Rudy Beddixen
Iie
Celebrating Christmas in Soviet Russia and Poland
The article explains two Christmas observances in the Soviet Union and Poland. It notes the old-style Orthodox Dec 12 and new-style Dec 25 celebrations, the New Year emphasis under Soviet rule, and the figure of Dyedushka Moroz versus the Babushka gift-giver. It also recalls Poland’s Christmas as a religious event amid possible government plans to nationalize religious activity.
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Russia
Kremlin
Santa Claus
Dyedushka Moroz
Grandpa Frost
Soviet Union
Tethlehem
Poland
America's First Christmas Card Sent to Albany Merchant 1853
The first American Christmas card was sent to R. d. Pease of Albany New York in 1853. Pease a dry goods merchant designed printed and mailed this card which also served as an advertisement for his products.
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R. d. Pease
Albany
N.Y
Pease
Plans To Improve Floodway System Moving Rapidly
Rapid progress in studies for the Lower Rio Grande Flood Control Project is reported by U S Commissioner J F Friedkin. A January end target for recommendations on basic improvements is set as the Consulting Board reviews concepts in El Paso.
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Rio Grande
United States
U. S
J. F. Friedkin
International Boundary and Water Commission
Consulting Board of Engineers
el Paso
Raymond A. Hill
San Francisco
California
Royce Tipton
Denver
Colorado
W. T. Bradley
Southwest Division
U. S. Corps of Engineers
Dallas
Texas
John Vandertulip
Texas Water Development Board
Austin
Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam, Inc
Houston
Leeds, Hill & Jewett, Inc
U. S. Weather Bureau Meteorological Branch
U. S. Section
Mission To Hold Dakotas Picnic In Mission
Plans are finalized for the All Valley Dakota’s Picnic in the Mission Community Center on Saturday January 13 1968 from 10 00 AM to 4 00 PM Free morning registration and a bring your own picnic lunch at 12 15 followed by singing entertainment and door prizes Bees and other stinging insects are likely in the weeds near the bank and snakes may hang from limbs over the water
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Mission Community Center
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Pan Am
W. E. McMahon
ANT & Roach Control
Sunset Drive
Brownsville
Hormel
Kimbelli
Kimbell Olec Folger’'S Coffee
Kimbell Pork
Kimbell
Ocean Spray Cranberry
Pillsbury Flour
del Mont Peas
Pork Gausage
Ocean Spray
Cranberry Shop
OUR Ice
Dr. Berrie
Penthouse
Peaches
Asselma Applesance
Naphins
Mellorine Kimbell
Petit Olives
Vienna
Polger
Ivory
KRAFT
Hunt
Louisiana
S&h
Soviet Russia
Sam and Leon Perl
E. Elizabeth
Port Fisheries Incorporated
Port Isabel
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