The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 184, Ed. 2 Monday, December 24, 1951 Page: 16 of 48
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A B THE AbiLEaE Keruninws
4-6 Abilene, Texas, Monday Evening, Dec. 24, 1951
EVEN CHRISTMAS CARDS GO
RED IN COMMUNIST HUNGARY
BUDAPEST. (——Things have changed in recent years
in Communist-dominated Hungary—even to the Christ-
mas cards.
The Hungarian citizen will have to do a lot of rummag-
ing around in a few privately owned stationery shops to
find any typically Anglo-Saxon greeting cards.
However, in the big state-owned stationery shops there
is a great variety of Christmas cards, none of which con-
tain even a hint of Christmas as a religious holiday.
The up-to-date cards show such things as a tractor
bringing presents and a tree.
Most of the postcards are dull, multi-colored things.
Some show the happy faces of children wishing pleasant
holidays, a distinctly neutral form of greeting. This card
would suffice for any holiday.
The only old timer who is still persona grate here is
Santa Claus. And even he has been persuaded to wear
the Red Star on his cap.
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SERVICE GUIDE
Pinf of Blood Good Christmas
Gift for Your Man in Service
(This information is furnished by
ara concerned with the protection
the Abilene Armed Forces Exam- that is being supplied the troops
is Korea against the cold and wet
ining Station.)
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"Tis Christmas time, and the
finest gift you can give a Yank
who to “giving for you" is a pint
of blood. That ha and his buddies
may have a chance tor survival
to the Korean War, it to your Amer-
Icaa duty. Call the American Bad
Cross nearest you tor aa appoint
ment.
“American troops in Korea will
be well clothed and protected from
the elements, should a second
winter of fighting prove necessary,”
say Generals Ridgway and Van
Fleet “With the advent of winter,
we realise that the people at home
— AS ANOTHER
Yuletide season arrives,
with all its friendliness
and goodwill, we pause to
add our Greetings to each
of you with whom we have
come in contact since last
Christmas. And to those
of you whom we hope to
serve next year, the same
genuine Merry Christmas.
It has been a genuine
pleasure to serve you and
we trust we may continue
in the same capacity in the
months to come.
Good luck and Merry
Christmas!
CENTRAL ROOFING
& MATERIALS COMPANY
1
1649 Pine
Phone 4-8628
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weather. We would like to assure
them that our forces will be well
clothed and protected from the ele-
menu."
Of the 55,000 men that will be
inducted in February, 14,000 will be
assigned to the Marine Corps. The
prospective inductees should visit
the nesrest military recruiting sta-
tion early and volunteer for the
service of their choice.
So many people have asked about
living conditions in various over-
seas areas that Headquarters U. S.
Air Force to making a final study
of a proposed regulation detailing
procedures for compiling and dis-
seminating information on all
phases of family living to foreign
countries.
Question: When a serviceman’s
enlistment expires, can the goyern-
ment add an extension?
Answer: If your enlistment ex-
pires after July 1. 1953, it cannot
he extended under existing laws.
The President's authority to extend
enlistments ends on that date.
Those whose enlistments already
have been extended cannot have
them extended a second time.
Bottled Messages
Answered at Last
NEW YORK, Dec. M. «- After
M long years it finally happened—
Arthur Wagner, a ship's steward,
finally got an answer to the bottled
notes he's been tossing into the
ocean these many years.
He’s been using one-gallon bot-
tles for the notes which ask the
finder to write him or Sam Finkel-
stein, another steward. When the
Constitution docked recently in New
York, Finkelstein received a letter
from one Donato Gigianto of Mar-
aala, Italy, which said:
"My dear Sam: I’ve found it,
your bottle with this message in it
where you wrote to get it back and
I'm doing it as you sed. Well, I've
founded it at the seaside, I should
like to know why you did it because
1 never found it anything, but thia
I think it must be something very
important."
Sam and Art aren’t ao sure now
just what the point of the whole
thing was.
Engineers Punish
Sleeping Sentry
Iron, Malaya, Dec M. Wn—The
Appeal Court has reduced fines of
MO imposed on two engineers who
locked up a sentry when they found
him sleeping on duty at the Perak
hydroelectric company's dam.
The two company engineers felt
they were wrongly convicted of con.
fining the special constable. They
felt it their duty to see that Com-
munist terrorists don't damage the
dam and a sleeping sentry with his
sun at his side was not of much
protective value.
• APPLIANCES
•CONTRACT WIRING
•PLUMBING
GENE GALBRAITH
owner
J. E. McCALEB, Jr.
R. B. GALBRAITH, SR
Thanks To Our Patrons!
ALBRAITI
ELECTRIC
1231 South First
Phone 2-7822
CC OFFICIAL#--Henry L. Smith,
upper, to the new secretary-treas
urer of the Throckmorton cham-
ber of commerce succeeding
County Attorney Dale Condron.
He owns and operates a dry goods
store. H. P. Powers, lower photo,
to a new Throckmorton CC di-
rector. He to superintendent of
schools.
Our
Very Best
- Wishes
for a
Merry
Christmas
ABILENE MACHINE CO.
1334 FINE
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two C
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J. B. DALTON, Owner Ph. 2-3861
TO ALL OUR FRIENDS
Our favorite season is here again! For it’s Christmas
Christmas time — when colorful lights and holly
wreathe brighten every window — when the carefree voices
of carolers break the silence of the night, and to wide-
eyed youngsters dear old Santa Claus is the
“man of the hour ”
Beyond all these pleasures our greatest enjoyment comes
from the opportunity to wish all our friends a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 184, Ed. 2 Monday, December 24, 1951, newspaper, December 24, 1951; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1648763/m1/16/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.