Stubborn Peasants Demand Freedom From Collectivization
Polish peasants revolt against collectives using pitchforks and firebrands as resistance spreads nationwide. Government reports estimate 6 to 70 percent of collectives dismantled as farmers reclaim old land, with predictions of further dissolution. The movement traces to former leader Gomulka and anti-M Moscow policies, drawing on church anti-communism sentiment.
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Martin
Hayden Warsaw
Nana
Stubbort
Wladyslav Gomuka
Jal
Moscow
Gomujka
Religious imagery drives surge in Christmas card sales
Two billion Christmas cards are exchanged this season with a shift toward religious themes. Milton Harrington of Chapel Art Studios notes religious cards will exceed 2 to 1 this year, led by Holy Family and Nativity illustrations as buyers seek to “put Christ back into Christmas.”
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VOR
Milton K. Hertlngtoh
Chapel
Art Studios
the Holy Family
Harrington
Christmas in US Hungarians Welcome Peace on Earth
The Graebner family in Milwaukee rejoices as their Christmas gifts arrive for three sons, Frank Jr, Joseph, and Thomas, after years apart during Hungary’s turmoil. Mrs Graebner recalls earlier years spent away from home while revolts and the Iron Curtain divided families. this year’s holiday brings relief and hope as they celebrate in the United States.
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Sjulwaukee
Frank Graebner
Frank Jr
Jososeph
Thomas
Areland
United States
Grasbner
Hungary
Tourists Beware Inter-American Road Delays Reported
Costa Rica news notes travel barriers for North Americans hoping to drive the Inter-American Highway from the Mexico border to the Panama Canal. It cites U S Congress funding aimed at accelerating construction and boosting traffic, with ongoing restrictions affecting crossings and road use.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Central America
Panama Canal
Mexico-Texas
U. S
Congress
Christmas music starts too late for new songs
New York disc jockeys and songwriters discuss a shift in Christmas music timing from prior decades. Songwriters like Johnny Marks recall early end September hits, while today new Christmas songs debut late and often fail to gain traction before December. Radio and TV bans slow premieres and push reliance on established tunes.
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Marks
Harvest Retail Tree Sales Reach Fifty Million Dollars
Washington reports Christmas tree sales total about 50 million dollars in retail value this year with eight million dollars in wholesale, most trees grown near the Canadian border. Montana and other states lead production, Canada supplies roughly one third of the harvest, and about a dozen firms handle distribution from private lands and plantations across the Northeast.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Montana
Canada
Newfoundland
Labrador
Dominican Republic
U. S
Pennsylvania
New York
Man Sees Santa For First Time at Milwaukee Parade
Fifty year old Ernest Eft, long taking his children and grandchildren to Milwaukee’s annual Christmas parade, finally glimpsed Santa Claus and his reindeer after a rare eye operation restored his sight. He had suffered from scarlet red cornea and near blindness, turning the season gray until this year’s breakthrough.
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Wilwaunee
Ernest Eft
Milwaukee
Santa Claus
Stalinists Meet to Plan Campaign Against Tito
EAST BERLIN NAN A dispatch says five Stalinist party chiefs Ulbricht Mastiny Gheorghiu-Dei Chervenkov Hosha will meet in Bucharest to coordinate a violent campaign against Yugoslavia leader Tito. Sources say they aim to strengthen measures against Titoist ideas after Polish and Hungarian actions and may seek French and Italian Communist support.
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East Berlin
NANA
Bucharest
Yugoslavia
Tito
Walter Ulbricht
East Germany
Antex Mastiny
Czechoslovakia
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dei
Romania
Volko Chervenkov
Bulgaria
Enver Hosha
Abania
Gies
Policy Feud Still Divides One Big Union
Paris reporting on the Middle East oil crisis suggests it may trigger an industrial atomic energy program for Western Europe. Pierre Guilaumat, head of the French high commission for Starner clergy, says Europe will lead nuclear energy to meet big industry needs, boosting Euratom. The crisis could accelerate European atomic collaboration rather than U S. leadership.
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Paris
Nana
Middle East
Western Europe
Preench High Commission
Starner
Suex Canal
United States
Ing
Pierre
Guilaumat
Euratom
Collaborative
Organization of European States
Confusing Antarctic Has Poles To Spare
McMurd o Sound dispatch by aviation editor Le verett G Richards examines polar terminology. The piece explains multiple poles used in geography and navigation such as the map pole, geographic pole, spin pole, balance pole, and magnetic pole. It notes the magnetic pole lies about 1500 miles from the geographic pole in Wilkes Land with Russian plans tied to the international geophysical year.
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Leverett G. Richards
Mcmurdo Sound
Poland
Wilkes Land
Lincoln Christmas turkey spared by Tad in 1863
Springfield reports that Abraham Lincoln’s pet turkey Jack, gifted from Springfield, avoided being eaten on Christmas 1863 after Tad Lincoln pleaded for its life. Lincoln explained the bird was a gift destined to serve for Christmas, and a card noted it should not be killed. The record ends with uncertainty about the family’s Christmas dinner that year.
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Springfield
Jack
Abraham Lincoln
White House
Lincoln
Tad
Factions dispute under Meany and Reuther after merger
In New York a year after the AFL-CIO merger, George Meany and Walter Reuther clash for control of CIO policies. The rift centers on foreign affairs, ILA reintegration, and the pace of full AFL CIO unification. A Miami meeting on January 28 previews renewed power struggles.
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Martin Avance
New York
Afl-Cio
United
CIO
Reuther
Menny
Jim Afl
Leonies
Meany
AFL
Wil Tam Schnitzer
Miami
Fls
Cired
Afl-Cio de
Inder
Neiru
Nine
International
ILA
AFL and Cio
Swedes Like Christmas Smorgasbord In Minnesota
Many Swedish descendants in Minnesota gather for a Christmas Eve smorgasbord featuring bread and butter, cheese, pickled herring, head cheese, jellied veal, sausages, pig’s head, ham with mustard, potatoes, sauerkraut, beets, carrots, prunes, and a large kettle of “pol liquor” for dipping bread slices.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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