Christmas Around the World Spotlighted in Agricultural Memo
A Christmas feature by SPOTLIGHT ON AGRICULTURE surveys customs from 40 countries led by Europe and Russia. It notes candles in Austria, Germany’s tree glow, Holland shoes, Italy shrines, Norwegian prep, Sweden lutefish, Czech Nativity plays, Soviet grain rites, French creches, Swiss Samichlais, and rural farm ties. A Christmas and New Year greeting closes with a wedding anniversary report for Mr and Mrs E E Owens marking 61 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holy Land
Siberia
Russia
Kremlin
Ussr
Grandfather Frost
Santa
Europe
Austria
Christ
Germany
Martinez
Holland
St. Nick
Italy
Norway
Mid-Prairie High News Highlights Holiday Break and Activities
Mid-Prairie High School begins Christmas break Friday December 21 at 1 20 p m and resumes January 2 1963. Future Teachers of America plan a college orientation at sponsor S S Statler s home with speakers from several colleges. January calendar lists sports games and club meetings, plus New Year resolutions from students and Student Council Prom proceeds funding a foreign exchange student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mid- Prairie High School
Mid-Prairie High School
Future Teachers of America
S. S. Statler
Junean Goschke
State College of Iowa
Tom Bauer
State University of Iowa
Jim Miller
Iowa State University
Dale Stout
University of Dubuque
Nancy Statler
Janet Haberman
N.E. Missouri State Teachers College
Kirksville
Bob Swartzendruber
Hesston
Curtis Cox
Westmar
Tama
Monticello
Mike Patterson
John Orr
Don Miller
Carmen Griggs
Gary Martin
Charlene Bush
Glenn D. Miller
Brad Kiesey
Mid - Prairie High School
Wellman
Nancy Lewis
Donna Schlabaugh
Ron Redlinger
Shirley Porter
Band of
Iowa City
Soviet Trials Report Jewish and Pentecostal Leaders
Soviet press cites two trials of fundamentalist religious figures. In Uzhgorod, Jehovah's Witnesses leader Potashov allegedly repented. sentence reportedly reduced. In a second case, Pentecostal members face charges for pacifist activities and refusal to serve in the army.
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Moscow
UPS
Russia
Trud
Jehovah's Witnesses
Uzhgorod
Gudok
Trad
Petashov
Jehovah's Witness
Brooklyn
True
New York
Potashov
United States
U.S
Soviet Union
Russians Leaving Havana by Ship
Russians, including families and children, are boarded onto the Admiral Nasimov in Havana for departure. Trucks laden with blankets and bags line the harbor as hundreds are moved by long convoys to the dock to sail away from the island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
UPI
Admiral Nasimov
Berlin
Germany
Fined Driver In Overloaded Truck Case
Albert Medusa was fined 215.03 in district court for driving an overloaded truck on State highways. Nancy L. Schantz granted divorce from John J. Schantz with custody of two minor children and division of goods. defendant ordered to pay fees and court costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Medusa
Nancy L. Schantz
John J. Schantz
L. R. Carson
Medicine Marches On About Senior Citizens
A compact health column notes aging, retirement, and activity age dynamics. It cites biology basics about egg and sperm cells shaping heredity, and estimates 5.5 billion cells fitting in 242 quart milk bottles, stressing the tiny but pivotal role of cells in population.
Christmas Visits Across States Highlight Holiday Gatherings
Mrs Helen Armstrong from Ithaca N Y spent Christmas with her father Andrew Kubacky. Mrs Homer Vincent of Keola visited Mrs Jennie Harris. Mrs Bruce Jones of Pleasant Plain called on Mrs Maude Staller and Miss Margaret Beveridge. Several relatives traveled from Columbus Ohio New Concord and Chicago for the holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Armstrong
Ithaca, N. Y
Andrew Kubacky
Homer Vincent
Keola
Jennie Harris
Bruce Jones
Pleasant Plain
Maude Statler
Margaret Beveridge
Dear Abby Simple Rules for Introducing People
Dear Abby offers a concise etiquette rule to ease introductions. Start by naming the lady first when introducing a woman to a man, from the elder to a highly important person, use the person’s name first. The column also answers letters on kissing and telling, wedding invitations after divorce, truth about doctor visits, and how to contact Abby for replies or her booklet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abby
Jane
Bill
Grandma Jones
Peggy
Bishop Pike
Plane Wrecks Found As Zuider Zee Reclaims Land
Dutch farmers digging the Zuider Zee reclamation have unearthed 94 World War II plane wrecks and expect about 200 total as the land dries. A German ME 109G was found with pilot remains, indicates it fought to reach a field and was shot down by a B 17 tail gunner. A parachute was intact in the cockpit. In Kansas Dr Higley who wrote Home on the Range lived in a log cabin later memorialized as a state site.
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Jcop Marmelsthin
United Press International the Hague
UPI
Zuider Zee
Royal Netherlands Air Force
Ing
Holland
Smith Center
Kan
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Red
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E.E. Owens
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Randall Owens
Des Moines
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Victor
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Thespians
Prairie
Cardinal
North Scott
Lone Tree
English Valley
Regina
Waco
Soviet
General Dynamics
Pomona
Calif
Washington Concrete Co
Ee Eningion Concrete Co
Donna
Burton H. Fern, M. D
King
The
United Presbyterian Home
Nana Neiswander
Columbus, O
George Schoenberger
New Concord
Joe
Maude Jackson
Jack Frame
Riverside, IU
Charles Price
Esther Grupe
Mr. Grupe
Winfield
Myrtle Horton
Leland Horton
Brighton
Miss Margaret Work
Chicago
David Kenage
Ames
Elizabeth Beveridge
George Kerr
Donald
Poughkeepsie, N. Y
Rod
Madison, Wis
Kay Ellen
Muskingum College
Louis J. Kehoe
Jeffry
Stewart & Shearer
Attorneys At Law
Richard A. Stewart
Paul V. Shearer
West Main
Livingston, Day & Bates
Robert Day
Robert Bates
West Main St
George F. Morrison
Gifford Morrison
Ira Morrison
South
Marion Ave
Morrison & Morrison
Edmund D. Morrison Jr
James E. Lloyd
West
Washington
John C. Owen
West Washington
South Side
Dale E. Garrell
D. D.S
Journal Building
P. L. Etter
Osteopathic
Optometrists
John W. Lemmon
Lemmon Jewelry
R. Q. Eastland
Journal
Firestone
Gevock
Dear Abby
Abigail van Buren
Sylvia
Sharon and
Joyce
Beverly Hills
North English
Rock Road
Ford Tractor
Ford
Aker
John Deere Barrow
John Deere
New Idea
Westendorf
Massey-Harris
M. P
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ED O'Brien
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