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ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE JAYCEE PAPER SALES went to .the Salvation
Army for the Christmas Party to be held on December 25 and for family food bas
kets. Over 400 children are expected to attend the party and about 100 food bas
kets will be delivered. Owen Roberts, jr., Jaycee paper sales chairman, is shown
presenting the check to Captain Albert Steinhouer, commanding officer of the
local Salvation Army. Shown above, left to right, are: C. M. Ridlehuber, past chair
man of the Salvation Army advisory board; Captain Steinhouer; J. W. Matthews,
Athens Junior Chamber of Commerce president; and Mr. Roberts.
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A CHECK FOR THE AMOUNT OF $1,111.11 was
given the Salvation Army by the Athens Jaycees for
use in Christmas activities. The money was derived
from the sale of the special Jaycee edition of the Ban
SANTA’LL LIKE THIS XMAS
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Wide Area Gs Nation
CHICAGO, Dec. 24. — (AP) — Santa Claus will lika
this Christmas. Snow was falling over a wide area of the
country early today. Snow was expected today or tonight
in manv other portions of the nation.
~ There was sleet and snow in]to 55 miles an hour in parts of
Kansas and Missouri, where icy
roads caused many traffic acci
dents. Four deaths in Kansas and
one in Missouri resulted from the
weather conditions.
Snow already had covered
much of the Rocky Mountain
area and was moving eastward.
Heavy amounts were predicted by
tonight or tomorrow in the north
central states. In the east, snow
was expected tonight. The weath
erman said as much as five inches
of snow would fall in Pennsylva
nia starting at sundown today and
extending into Christmas Day.
The snowfall reached 16 inches
at Richfield, Utah. Winds were up
Churches Of Athens Hold Special Services In Observance Of Christmas
The majority of Athens’
churches planned special services
and other activities today, tomor
row, and Sunday in celebration of
the Christmas season. :
Christmas Eve services at sev
eral churches, early mofning ser
vices on Christmas Day, and ob
servance of the holiday this Sun
day at regular services marked
the general plan of the more than
twenty churches of the city.
Several churches have already
observed Christmas with «activi
ties held last Sun Gay and during
the week, and will not hold spe
cial services.
A caroling party by members of
the Christian Youth Fellowship of
the Chuirch will highlight holiday
activities at the First Christian
Church. No special seryices have
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
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' Cold temperatures also hit parts
|of the country. Salmon, Idaho,
|had 26 below: zero ‘yesterday in
i Montana, it reached 38 below
| zero. 5
A snow storm sweeping out of
’of the Middle West will hit sev
eral Eastern states today and to
night. Up to six inches of snow is
expected in sections of Kentucky,
Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsyl
vania. "
A special forecast by the Wash
i ington . Weather Bureau this
morning said:
been planned for the church, as
she annual candle-lighting servicel
last Sunday afternoon was the
featured service of the holidays.
Midnight masses, both at the
church and at the hospital, have
béen ‘planned“by the St. Joseph’s
Catholie Church. At midnight on
Christmas Eve, High Mass will be
conducted at the church by, Father
Francis Clougherty, O. S. 8., who
will also deliver the sermon. The
full choir will be conducted by
Byron Warner. Bl g .
Children’s Choir
Another mass at the church on
Christmas Day will feature a
children’s choir singing carols.
Mass will be conducted at the hos
pital at 8 o’clock that morning.- I
A pageant and Christmas carols
ner-Herald. Shown above is the check given the Salva
tion Army. Local Jaycee President J. W. Matthews
said, ““This is the best year we have ever had in such a
drive.”
Christmas Greetings
The Banner-Herald extends to its readers the heartiest Christmas
Greetings.
We acknowledge with thanks the fine support you have given the
paper during the year that is now closing. It has been a strenuous
year for all and full of problems that called for careful thinking and
loyal support. It is our good fortune to live in a city full of generous,
and energetic people who are devoted to the best there is in life and
who are going forward to the successful accomplishment of their best
endeavors., *We have attempted to back up every worthy movement
for the development of Athens and our State and you have worthily
Borne your part of the labors involved.
Qur city‘has a great future in which you and this paper have an
important part to play. We expect to do our part and are confident
that you will do yours. We believe that 1949 will be the banner year
in the history of Athens. Hard, consistent and devoted effort will bring
that happy condition to pass. :
“ Let us all close the year as becomes good citizens and put our
shoulders to the wheel and work harder than ever for the accomplish
ment of all worthy objectives. We have much for which to be thankful
for past achievements. May the coming year sustain a record fully up
to our desires and expectations.
at the Pentecostal Holiness Church
|last night ended special Christmas
services at the church. No service
will be held on Christmas Day, and
regular services will be conducted
Sunday.
A Christmas pageant this Sun
day night, entitled “The Little
Shepherd Who Found Christ,” will
be presented at the Bast Athens
Baptist Church. An early ser?ice
will be held” in the auditorium
Christmas morning ‘gt 7:30 and a
religious film entitled “Child of
Bethlehem” will be shown Christ
mas might in the recreation hall.
The First. Presbyterian Church
held special Christmas services
last Sunday and will resume regu
lar services ai ihe church this Sun
lday. No meeting will be held
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948
Reds Now Occupying All
China North Of Yangtze
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HOLDTURNER
. GRIFFIN, Ga., Dec. 24—
{(AP)—A $5 robbery indiet
ment may stand in the way
of freedom for Forrest Turner.
Resting against the one
“tithe * badman in Superior
Court here, it charges him
with a 1938 filling station rob
bery. <
Judge Chester A. Byars
wrote the Pardon and Parole
Board about it while the
board was considering free
dom for Turner.
Turner and the Rev. Bill
Allison, a prison chaplain,
came to Griffin to see about
the charge, Turner denied it.
The chaplain said the erst
while robbery and jail-break
er for years has been a model
prisoner. He added that Tur
ner, a prison dental technician,
is now completely rehabili
tated and “all we ask is a
chgfe for him to go straight.”
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Christmas Day.
Choral Service
The Emmanuel Episcopal Church
will celebrate the traditional mid
night choral service of Holy Com
munion on Christmas Eve. In
addition to the Christmas hymns
and Choral %ommunion Service by
T. Tertius Noble, the Emmanuel
Church Choir will sing Johann Sa
bastian Bach’s Christmas Can‘a
ta, “For Us a Child Is Born.” So
loists will be Mrs. Frances White
Yow, Miss Doris Echols, Mr. Er
nest Bennett, Mr. Harrison Heid
ler, and Mr. Joe McKee.
The Emmanuel Church invites
ithe entire community {o attend
the Christmas Eve Service, There
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Lull In Fighting Foreseen
As Calm Before Peace Moves
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press Correspondent Harold K.
Milks comp'eted a tour of North China yesterday, Hree is a repoct
of what he found.)
BY HAROLD K. MILKS
NANKING, Dec. 24.— (AP) —Write off all of China
north of the Yangtze. The Reds have it.
* The lull in the fighting seems permanent. It appears: to
be the calm hefore the peace et
| Peiping and Tientsin are jam
med with well fed, well armed Na
tional soldiers. But their with
drawal into those two large cities
has ended their active participa
tion in the war. They are as use
less to Chiang Kai-Shek as the
thousands he lost in Manchuria.
Today the soldiers in Tientsin,
Peiping, Kalgan and Tangku, Ti
entsin’s port, are waiting—with'a
pretense of defensive activity—for
a negotiated peace. »
A North China trip completed
yesterday convinces me that the
Nationalist will to fight is com
| peltely gone north of the Yangtze.
In Peiping and Tientsin a frantic
effort to build defenses and con
struet strongpoints apparently is
designed to keep troops busy and
out of mischief rather than to pre
pare to meet the Red Troops of
Lin Piao.
. There are repeated instances of
National Gen. Fu Tso-Yi’s units’
withdrawing into the large cities
without even a contact with the
Reds. In one instance a local com
mander, well installed for defense
in an um' outside of Peiping, re
ceiving the surprising order, “You
are being attacked by Communists.
Withdraw immediately.”
Puzzled, he complied. Three
days later there was no’ sign of
Reds in the area he formerly heid.
On the Communist side, too,
there appears reluctance to force
the fighting in the north. Lin Piao
and other high commanders evi
dentally prefer to await desertions
from the Peiping and Tientsin gar
risons rather than to fight into the
cities. Peiping is filled with his
torical treasures and the other
commercial and industrial prizes.
Chinese and foreigners alike in
North China do not question that
the Communists will take over
both cities. The only question is
when—and the majority seem
hopeful that it will be soon in!
order to save the people such suf—‘
sering as the peopie of Mukden
endured before it fell. 1
General Fu seems to have ample
food stocks to feed his soldiers.
But food prices for civilians are
zooming in Peiping, indicating an
approaching shortage.
Peiping has been without elec
tricity since the Reds seized its
power station and cut the supple
mentary lines to Tientsin.
Tientsin is facing a complete
lack of water from its municipal
‘lines because of the power short
age.
' WEATHER
|
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Cloudy and cool today
through Saturday. Occasional
light rains Saturday, possibly
beginning tonight.
TEMPERATURE
Highest o 0 00, .BY
SO s i iy
' MURR Y, e s s e
Normal CE e aiat L ke
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since Dec.vl .. ..7 202
Deficit since Dec. 1 .. .. 1.74|
Average Dec. rianfall ... 5.08
Total since January 1 ..,64.13
l Excess since January 1 ..16.ZQl
will also be a Service of Holy
!Co’mmunion on Christmas Day at
i 10 a. m.
| Regular services will be con
| ducted Sunday at the Church of
| Christ, with no special services
having been planned for Christmas
Day. /
The Prince Avenue Baptist
Church is not holding a special
Christmas program, but will hold
regular services on Sunday.
Special Christmas music will be
rincluded in the Sunday service at
the First Methodist Church. The
sermon in the morning will be on
“God’s Divine Plan” and at the
evening service the sermon will be
entitied “The New Year.” Miss
| Eloise Beckwith will rende
IQuick End To
Indonesia
nd
Fight Ordered
PARIS, Dec. 24 —(AP)—The
Security Council today ordered an
immediate end to the fighting in
Indonesia and prompt release of
lindonesian ‘leaders captured by
the Dutch.
The Dutch’s Christmas Eve vote
on these two issues was seven for
and none opposed. Four nations
abstained.
The Council turned down the
joint U. S.-Colombian-Syrian de
mand for withdrawal of Dutch
forces from areas seized since the
Netherlands attack on the Indon
esian republic started Sunday. |
Five nations voted for it and
none against, but six abstained.‘
Seven votes are needed for pas
sage in the Council. |
Russia asked that the Nether
lands be condemned as an aggres
sor.
Soviet Resolution
-~ Soviet delegate Jacob A. Malik
submitted the resolution, propos
ing that it be adopted instead of
a U. S.-Colombian-Syrian resolu
tion which he termed too lenient.
The Soviet resolution hays the
Security Council “condemns the
aggression of the Netherlands
government, which has again un
dertaken military action against
the Indonesian republic in viola
tion of the well known Renville
(truce) agreement.”
Britain announced supnort of
the American-Colombian-Syrian
resolution. France said she would
abstain because “sentiment should
not beallowed to take precedence”
over legal rights. Canada propos
ed to submit a resolution of her
own.,
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W. O. Pittman, 73, died in an
Atlanta hospital ‘Thursday night
at B:2C o'clock.
Services are to be conducted
Sunday afternoon at three o’clock
from Center Methodist Churck
with Rev. Newton Saye officiat
ing. Bridges Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
Mr. Pittiman is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Eva Barber Pittman;
daughters, Mrs. Asa Slaughter
and Mrs. G. B. Farmer, both of
Athens, and Mrs. L. G. Johnston,
Winterville; sons, C. D. Pittman
and: Allen T. Pittman, both ot
Atlanta; Raymond Pittman, Ath
ens; O. D. Pittman, Coiumbia, S.
C.; Emory Pittman, Elizabetn
City, N. C, and Edward Pittrman,
Jacksonville, Fla.; sisters, Mrs.
Willie Jarrett, Athens, and Miss
Alice Pittman, Atlanta.
Mr. Pittman was a native of
Crawfordville but had lived in
Athens and this community most
of his life.
Christmas musi¢ at both services.
There will be no special Christ
mas service held by the Christian
Scientists. The regular Sunday
service will be held with the ser
mon titled “Christian Science.”
Special Services
Regular Sunday morning ser
vices will be held at the Boulevard-
Baptist Church and eon Sunday
afternoon and night special ser
vices conducted by Rev. Jesse
Hendley of Atlanta will be held.
The afternoon service er;ill be held
at 3 o’clock and the evening ser
vice will begin at 7:30 o’%ock. The
special services will be Christmas
services and included will be Rev.
Hendley’s radio singers of Atlanta.
The Christmas programs oi ine
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FIRST VISIT TO SANTA CLAUS—l{'win sons of Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. Griffeth of Charlotte, N. C., made their
first visit to Santa Claus recently. Larry is on ‘“‘Jolly
'Ole St. Nick’s” left and Harry is-on Santa’s right. Mrs.
Griffeth is the former Miss Dot Crawford of Athens.
The twins will be eighteen months old the dayv after
Christmas. They were frightened when they first met
this stranger, but their ¢ryving quickly subsided and
smiles burst out on their faces.
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Christian Pilgrimage
JERUSALEM, Dec. 24.— (AP)—The strangest Christ
mas Eve and the smallest Christian pilgrimage since the
Crusades were in prospect today for Bethlehem, the
birthplace of Jesus Christ.
War and weather were to blame.
Sand-bagged gun posts, barbed
wire and mine zones laid out dur
ing Arab-Jewish battles barred‘
the Judean Hill roads that Joseph
and Mary traveled on their way to
Bethlehem 1949 years ago. The
Holy land, in uneasy truce, was
still without hope of real peace
soon. ./ (
Rain, hail, cold winds and fog
have swept this area for the past
24 hours. It was dreary weather
for travel.
Thousands have made the trip
in previous years. About 130
Christians in Jewish-held new Je
rusalem planned to go today. |
. Christian Arabs |
When the stars shine again to
night over the shrine of the man
ger and the bells of Bethlehem
peal for prayer at midnight most
of. the worshippers will be Chris
tian Arabs of Bethlehem. They
‘make up 9,000 of the town’s popu
lation of 11,000. ‘
. Gone will be the British troops
who last year went to Bethlehem
in armored cars and bearing arms
for their 30th and final observarnce
of Christmas Eve at the Shrine in
the Church of the Nativity. ‘
Soldiers will be there tonight,
but they will wear the red and
white head dress of the Arab Le
gion and the uniforms of the Egyp
tian Army few of these are chris
tians. ¢
" Under Gunsight ‘
The main road to Bethlehem
usually traveled by Christian Pil
Church and Sunday School have
Ibeen completed this’ week. In
’keeping with Christmas a special
service, “Student Recognition
| Hour,” will be held Sunday morn
ing. The students at home and
away will be recognized at this
service. There will be student
.| participation.
The Sunday School Christmas:
tree will be held on Christmas Dayl
at the Oconee Street Methodist
Church. On Sunday morning there
lwill be a Christmas service, The
sermon subject will be “What a
|Renef-cmistm3; Is Over.” That
evening ‘the sermon 'will be en
titled, “Are You A Dumb Bunny.”
On this day special recognition
[ will be given 1o college students. |
i Peculiar People l
Home
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grims from Jerusalem is* closed
vand under gunsight. This route,
| which passes the Jewish’ Shrine
of Rachel’s tomb, i§ 12 milés long.
l The Pilgrims going to the Shrine
today will pass through a no
man’s land info the Arab-held old
walled city of Jenxlem and then
travel by a roundabout dirt road
’ the Arab Legion built this summer
to haul up its siege guns.
| The rains have wurned the road
into a quagmire.
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Employes To
Get A Holiday
“, Following its custom “of
not . printing a paper_ on
Christmas Day, the Banner~
Herald will have a holiday
Saturday, when the Sunday
morning _paper customarily is
asgeinbled.
Because of the Saturday
holiday, there will be Ao
morning issue of the paper,
but publication will be® ve=
sumed ‘on Monday.
The management and staff
of the peper wishes for all ‘a
very happy Christmas.
oo AL IR R
- No special Christmas services
|will be held at the First Baptist
Church. The sermon on Sunday
Imorning will be on “A Peculiar
People” and that night the subject
will be “Closing The Year.” =
A play and pageant and"the
special Christmas service was held
at the West End Baptist Church
(last’ Sunday, but regular services
lwill be held this Sunday morning
and evening with parts on Churist
mas being included. R
Holly Heights Chapel will hold
no ‘services on Christmas w«'
Sunday. youlo
The Johnson Drive Baptist
Chureh held their m Christ
mas service last W y_night,
jout will hold icgilar, EVices
lSu_nday morning au‘ufi«,