Christmas Eve service and children's program at First Christian church
The First Christian church will hold a candlelight Christmas Eve watch service from 11 to 12 p m with a candle bearers procession choir under Madge Utterback and Virginia Fisk performing The Candlelight of the Roses and The Christmas Die Miss Eugenia Bromberg will accompany with Messiah selections Rev Wesley P Ford will deliver Everywhere Everywhere Christmas Tonight after which Joy to the World will conclude the service Today at 7 p m the church children present a Christmas program directed by Mrs Ralph Barnhart featuring songs stories and a Christmas play Of the Least of These with cast including Richard Brown John Slater Barbara Nichols Elizabeth Williams Betty Briggs Mark Hobbs Carol Gilby and John Journey Santa Claus will visit after gifts are given to attendees
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First Christian Church
Madge Utterback
Konitz
Virginia Fisk
Sorano
Warren
The
Ralph Barnhart
Wilson and Fields
Richard Brown
John Slater
Barbara Nichols
Elizabeth Williams
Betty Briggs
Mark Hobbs
Carol Gilby
John Journey
Wesley Ford
Santa Claus
Bundles for America Christmas Cheer Effort Expands
Bundles for America Tucson branch volunteers led by Miss Nellie Kemp plan gifts for Marana hospital and veterans ward. Members made candy and cookies, added cigarets and playing cards, wrapped items, and prepared evergreen sprays. Gifts reach Marana, Ryland Home, and Pima jail. Grace Episcopal and Trinity Presbyterian auxiliaries join.
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Bundles For America
Nellie Kemp
East Fourth Street
Marana
Veterans’ Hospital
Mmes
Ralph Bilby
Frank Block
K. Cowan
R. A. Carothers
Diamond Cora Edminton
George Fisher
Lena Burgess
W. A. Hill
J. B. Henry
Edge Edward Henry
C. W. Hall
Louise Hillmeier
Dolores Howatt
Bruce Farmer
C. Swarthout
J. R. Bueno
S. E. Walker
B. F. Whiting
Henry Zipf
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Woman’s Auxiliary
Grace Episcopal Church
Bundles For
America
Tucson
Pima County
Mary Rogers
Woman's Auxiliary
Record Hitchhiker Logs 7500 Mile Chicago Run
Michael Dibulak a 32 year old metalsmith in the Navy claims a world record hitchhike of 7500 miles. While in New Guinea he learned his wife Eleanor 30 was seriously ill in a Chicago sanitarium. He got emergency leave and rode in a jeep to an airport then flew home. Four days later he reached her bedside.
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Chicago
U.P
Michael Dibulak
Dibulak
New Guinea
Eleanor
States
Earliest European tea reference ties to late 16th century
A historical note identifies the first European literary reference to tea as dating toward the end of the 16th century. This marks the onset of tea’s presence in European written record and cultural context.
Special Radio Features For America's Holiday Season
The 1944 wartime holiday season brings music from wartime zones as radio generously programs Christmas Eve and weekend broadcasts. Roosevelt’s Christmas message, Dickens's Christmas Carol dramatization, Tucson Boys' Choir from San Xavier, and 645th AAF band performances lead a wave of carols, concertos, and choral works on KVOA KTUC and CBS stations with performances by Menuhin, the Salt Lake Tabernacle choir, and New York Philharmonic among others.
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Roosevelt
KVOA
Dickens
NBC
Tucson Boys’choir
San Xavier Mission
AAF
Marana Army Airfield
KTUC
Snow White
The
Arizona Network
University of Arizona
Concert Hall of the Air
Arthur Fiedler
Sinfonietta
Gaetano Maria Schiassi
Giovanni Gabrieli
Harvard Glee Club
Radcliffe Choral Society
E. Power Biggs
Brahm
Marian Anderson
William Primrose
Franz Rupp
Joseph Dearest
CBS
Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir
Bluejacket Choir
New York Philharmonic Symphony
Nelson
Treharne
Karg Elert
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Nelson Eddy
Balthasar
Bethlehem
New York Philharmonic
Artur Schnabel
Trapp Family Singers
General Motors Symphony
NBC Symphony
Eugene Ormandy
Yehudi Menuhin
Victor Chorale
Menuhin
Mendelssohn
de Falla
Westinghouse
John Charles Thomas
House of Charm
Kate Smith
Radio Reader’s Digest
KTU
James Melton
Ing “White
Basil Rathbone
Char Laughton
Hel Traubel
New York Melssohn
Glee Club
Richard Crooks
National ange production tops 105 million boxes in 1944
National production reaches more than 105 million boxes for 1944, surpassing the five year old record. The figure marks a peak in output and reflects continued high demand.
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Santa
Tucky” Dunlap
Nippie
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AAF Training Command
Reid
North Stone Reid
Rancho Palos Verdes
Power & Home Equipment { CO
Sir Thomas Beecham
Ormandy
Joseph Victor Laderoute
Hector Berlioz
Christ
Mary
Joseph
Heaven
Marjorie Reynolds
Paramount
Marjorie
London
George Washington Shakespeare
Talleyrand
M.J.B
Town Hall
Stan
Ibsen
Francis Lederer
Dale Melbourne
Phillip Merivale
Jane Darwell
Talbot
Biltmore Theatre
Los Angeles
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P. O. Box
Steinfeld
Subway Cleaning Service
4Th Ave
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