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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
Society
Clubs
Sally Miller Wed
In Phoenix to
Ii. w. J. Buss

Mr.. and Mrs. James H. johnson
of Ell Centre have announced the
marriage of their daughter, Miss
Sally Miller, to First Lieutenant
Wilbur James Buss of Edgemont,
South Dakota, the double ring cere-
mony having taken place November
% at the First Congregational
church in Phoenix.
The bride wore a grey wool suit
with black picture hat and black
accessories. Her only attendant was
Mrs. Donald E. Buss, while Mr.. BuSS
served his brother as best man.
Following the ceremony the we'd
ding party, with the bridegroom
sister, Mrs. Thelma Petty, with her
daughter, Marlene, and Mrs. Margie
Hooker, enjoyed a wedding supper
at the Corinthian Room of the
Adams hotel.
The couple arrived in Ell Centro
this week, where they are visiting
Mrs. Buss' parents. They expect to
leave next week for Quantico, Vir-
ginia, where Lieutenant Buss will
attend school, stopping en- route in
Chicago to visit his mother, Mrs.
Frank Finley.
The bride attended Central High
school and Junior college and was
formerly employed at Camp Lockett.
She was a prominent member of the
younger set here until going to San
Diego where she was employed by
the navy department.
Lieutenant Buss returned Novem-
ber "a from two years overseas with
the Second Marine Division and Is
a veteran CT the campaigns at
Tarawa, Tinian and Saipan. He was
stationed in the valley with the first
contingent of marines to arrive here
three years ago. He attended school
in Edgemont, South Dakota, and
the University of Idaho at Poca-
tello.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
Mrs. Whi+acre
Has Christmas
Party for Club

Mrs. w. E. Whitacre entertained
members of her bridge club at her
hone on Sandalwood Friday after
noon at dessert and bridge, fol-
lowed by Christmas party.
Figures of choir boys and white
candles lighted the table, which was
decorated with roses and chrysan-
themumS.
Prizes at bridge were won by Mrs.
Percie Thacker, first and travelling
prize, and MS. Robert Ware, sec
ond.
Gifts were exchanged after the
bridge playing for the groups an
nual Christmas party.
Members present were Mesdames
Percie Thacker, Don Paulus, II. j
McQuade, Robert w. Ware, Andy
Wise, and two guests, Mrs. Willard
Kellar and Mrs. w. j. Thornburg
and the hostess.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
Churches
SchuOls
Music Teachers
Plan Christmas
Sinq for Monday

The annual Christmas carol sing
sponsored by the Music Teachers
assc citation will be given at o'clock
Monday night in the lobby of the
Barbara Worth Hotel with the pub
lie invited, Estelle Livingston, chair
man, has announced.
This year the sing will feature the
so voices of the Presbyterian and
Christian church choirs, directed by
Grayce Burt and George Burt, re-
spectively. Accompanies will be
Emily Kaford and Estelle Living
ston. In the past several groups
have taken part in the program, but
starting this year, one or two valley
choral groups will be responsible for
the music each year, thus limiting
the program to an hour.
Zcna North, president of the
group, will open the program with a
welcoming speech.
Among the selections to be heard
are To-day There Is Ringing
(Christiansen), "The King of Love
Proclaim" (Stickles), Come Thou
Long Expected Jesus" tCane) and
christmas Dawn tKountZ.
A feature CT the evening will be
three songs by the women's trio of
Laura Mcfarland, Janet Lellelid
and Laura DeCelles. who will sing
Shepherds Chris tmas Song
(Dickinson), Carol of the Singing
Reeds" (Johnson) and 1.-The Sleigh
(Kountz). They will be accompanied
by Estelle Livingston.
Another highlight will be the sclo
"Cantique de Noel" (Adam, sung
by Darrell Dixon, with Emily Ka-
ford accompanying.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17

Hedrick.
Mrs. Scott turned the meeting
over to Mrs. Clarence McFaddin,
program chairman, to present the
entertainment, planned by Mrs.
Dorothy Armstrong.
The Christmas story was told by
the children in a play We'll of the
STAR" directed by Mrs. Winnltred
Wilson with Mrs. Armstrong dir
Getting the chorus of 65 voices. Other
Harding teachers assisted in pres
-, enting the program.
Between the four scenes of the
play, the chorus sang favorite
Chistmas songs, assisted by Mrs.
Gwendolyn Main and Mrs. Mar
garet Reshoft. Among the numbers
sung were christmas Morn" WAR
REM, carol of the Sheep Bells
(Slavic), Spirit of Christmas Rei-
bold, while Shepherds Watched
the Flocks" (Cooke) and Gloria,
an old French song.
1dhlIlS pdlC Ill Vic pidy WClc
Ralph White as David the shepherd;
Russell Kirk, Joseph; Robert Bar
nett, Michael; Danny Nuffer
Belshazzer; Bobby Ordonez, Mel,
char; Marvin Munson, Gas
par; Shirley Shaw, Mary; Phil
Livingston, Joseph; and Stanley
Rayburn, Douglas Haskell and jim
my Chambers as the three shep-
herds. The audience joined the
children in the singing of "Silent
Night" as the latter left the stage
Refreshments were served at {
table attractively decorated with {
Christmas scene and lighted by
red and white candles. Mrs. Arm.
strong and Mrs. Wilson, as director.
OF the program, poured.
Third grade room mothers were il
charge of the refreshments, in
Guiding Mesdames Cecil Johnson
William Ohmstede, August Saario
Ralph j. Lydecker, Art Davis and
Anita Colver.
Mrs. Armstrong; class, which also
took honors last month, won the
room count prize.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
Elliott, Bride
Leave to See
Famous In-LaWs

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. Is. (UPl-
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt and his
bride of two weeks. film actress
Faye Emerson, slipped out of town
quietly and Saturday were on their
way to visit Miss Emerson's mother
in Texas and her famous in-laws at
the White House, her studio said
Saturday.
The couple married December 3
en- the rim of Grand Canyon amid
a snowstorm were presumably NO.
ing the trip by private airplane, a
Warner Bros. spokesman said.
Length of their visit to the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt will prob
ably depend upon Colonel Roose-
velts orders to return to overseas
duty with an air reconnaissance
group.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
Nazarene Church
Plans Christmas
Can+a+a Sunday

The Christmas cantata THE Quest
of the Magi' by Haldor Lillenas
will be presented by the choir OF
the church Of the Nazarene at 7:3O
o'clock Sunday night with Miss
Margery Allen, director, Mrs. Roy
Main, accompanist; and Mrs. Doyle
Smith as reader.
Featured in the program will be
solos by Charles Bruce, Paul PAX
onin. Mrs. Woodrow Preece. Duets
will be sung by Helen Womack and
Tia. Mae Weeks and second by
Miss Womack and Mr.. Bruce.
A feature of the cantata will be
quartette Behold the Star" sung
by Helen Womack, Ila Mae Weeks,
Jackie Womac., and Barbara Weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17

Dumplings: Two cups flour cup
milk, l tablespoon fat, teaspoons
baking powder, 1l4 teaspoons salt.
Sift the dry ingredients together
and mix thoroughly. Cut in the fat,
add the milk slowly. Drop by table
spoonfuls onto the top of the stew,
place the lid on and steam for IL
to Is minutes without uncovering
Serve in large soup tureen if you
have one; if not, in a deep pottery
casserole or bowl.
Piquant Beef
One and one-quarter pounds util-
ity round steak, cut in hunks; l jar
either cranberry jelly, spiced plum
or spiced grape jam or Lingon (cb-
tainable at Swedish delicatessens)
l orange, sliced very thin, peel and
all and then cut in halves, salt
pepper.
Heat the meat slowly in copper
clad saucepan with the jelly, orange
and seasonings over a very low
flame for IA hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
CALENDAR
SATURDAy

Youth canteen, 7-IO, Methodist
church.
Varsity c dance, $3.50, high school
gymnasium.
Mission, 1880, st. Mary's Catholic
church.
Sunday
Services, IL, All churches.
Tri-Y vesper service, 4, Central
High school.
Girl Reserve vesper service, 1880
Douglass High school.
Christmas program, 1870, Metho-
dist church.
Christmas cantata, 1880, Church
of Nazarene.
Christmas music, 1880, Christian
church
Service canteen, S:45, Methodist
church.
Mission, 1880, Catholic church.
MONDAY
Chapter AV, 1, 665 Sandalwood.
Toastmasters, 6:15, California hote
Boy Scout Troop 20, 1880, Scout
hut.
Red Cross Board, 1880, 100 N. Fifth
street.
Carpenters, 1880, Labor temple.
Ell Centre Lodge No. 384, Fam,
1880, Masonic Temple.
Public choral sing, 8, Barbara
Worth hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
BY GAYNOR MADDOX
NEA Staff Writer

You'll need good food during the
holidays no matter how busy you
are. Here are tasty delights and
labor savers by Marian Tracy, gour-
met author of Casserole Cookery"
Beef Stew with Dumplings
One and one-half pounds utility
chuck beef cut in serving size
pieces, 6 medium sized onions, sliced
thin; 6 carrots, scraped and cut in
inch-long pieces, l tablespoon soy
sauce, tablespoon paprika, l tea
spoon thyme, l small bay leaf,
Glove garlic, salt, pepper.
Put meat, onions, soy sauce and
other seasonings in a Dutch oven
or other deep pot Ca copper-clad
StainleSS-steel if available), with a
quart of consomme (several bouil-
Ion cubes dissolved in water is the
easiest to use). Cover and stew SLOW
ly for hour, then add the potatoes.
Fifteen minutes before serving, add
the dumplingS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
THE PDST-PRESS

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Published Sundays as combined issue
of Imperial Valley Press and The
Morning Post, by the Imperial Valley
Publishing Company. 625 State St, Ell
Centre. California
Paul Jenkins, Publisher
and President.
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paper Publishers Assn, Holiday
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Rates, in combination with either The
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office as 2nd class mail.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
Methodist Choir
Concert SUNDAY

Repeating their popular Christ
mas concert, which won approval
of the audience last Sunday, the
senior choir of the Methodist church
will give the same program at 7:3O
o'clock Sunday night at the church
The choir, directed by Mrs. Eugene
Waterman, is accompanied by Mary
Jane Neal, organist, and Mrs. War
rem Brock, pianist.
Highlights of the program are
solos by Eugene Moore, S. P. Holli-
day, Mrs. William Walters, Wendell
Waterman, and Mrs. George Wash
burn. A duet by Dorothy Mae Hatch
and Patricia McEuen, and a trio OF
Wilma jerks, Carol Martin and
Phyllis Smith, are also featured
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
Club Meets at
J. D. Adams Home

Pyracantha and red candles dec
grated the luncheon table when Mrs.
j. D. Adams entertained members
of the Friday bridge club at her
home Friday afternoon.
Prizes for bridge playing were
won by Mrs. Minor o. Simms and
Mrs. Earle G. Davis.
Those present were Mesdames
R. B. Whitelaw, Dorsey Whitelaw
Earle G. Davis, Minor O. Simms
Warren Currier, Allen P. Nuffer
and Forrest Kutz.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
Service Sunday
Open to Public

THE annual vesper service to be
given at the high school at 4 O'Clock
Sunday afternoon by the TriY group
of the high school is open to the
public, according to Mrs. Marie
Welch advisor.
Working with the Tri-Y will be
the high scr:ool and junior college
music department. under the dir
ection of George Burt.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
Warren Currier
Is sHonored at
Birthday Party

Honoring Warren Currier on his
birthday, Mrs. Currier entertained
at dinner Thursday night at their
home in Len Rey.
Friends brought many amusing
presents for Mr.. Currier, which were
presented when his birthday cake
was served. The table was attract
lively decorated in a Christmas
theme.
Bridge was enjoyed by the guests
during the evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
Douglass GM
Reserves to OIv
Vesper Service

The Girl Reserves Of Doul
High school are presenting {
annual vesper service on sun
December II at $50 pm. The ]
gram this year will be on OPT
woven about the music of the |
cracker suite by Tschaikowsky.
Leading members OF the cast
Rosalee Washington, Lucille
berson, Jr., Mildred Davis, ql
Wyatt, Irene Murphy, Oh
Arellano, Irene Prince, Ban
Rainey and Leora Potts.
Preceding the progran1 . n
prelude will be played by y
Culberson Jr. The Christmas 4
soloist Is Ramona Webb.
The public Is invited.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17

Tobias Knight, colonial secretary
of North Carolina, was tried for
completely in the maraudings Of
Blackboard the pirate, but was abb
solved by the provincial council.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17
Pupils Give Christmas Play
At HARDING Fathers Nigh"

school pupils special guests the annual
Friday by the children the PTA
meeting Friday night in the kindergarten auditorium.
meeting, conducted Mrs L. Scott preceded the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-17

The asphalt roofing industry uses
approximately $4,000 tons of roofing
rags each month, War Production
Board said.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-11
BRICKER IN
 ACCORD WITH ARMY CAMPS

BREMERTON, Wash, Oct. II. (AP)-Gov. Bricker, COP vice. presidential nominee, today advo- cated here that the Americans maintain strong system of out lying military bases after the war, and blamed President Roosevelt for the failure to fortify Guam. Wake, nor Midway of Samoa"
 Brickre, setting forth what he described as his party's position in an address prepared for de- livery in the great shipyard, in the vicinity of Bremerton.
 He quoted the President as say ing, We are not allowed to for tify Guam, nor did we fortify
 The nominee referred to the val iant five-month stand of the American soldier at Corregidor and said that, "If ever there is any argument of retention after this war, to strong system of outlying military bases within the sphere of American responsibility in world security, Corregidor is that agument." ........ ........ -. ........
 As for Guam, Bricker said that available evidence warranted the fortification, put it was not in the Presidents program, be cause he was afraid of offending Japan. For the same reason he kept providing the Japs with oil and scrap iron. He didn't ask congress to fortify Guam, and the responsibility rests squarely on the Presidents shoulders.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-11
HIGHWAY TO BE GIVEN TO
 DOMINION

DENVER, Oct. 11.-(AP)-Clar- ence Werthan, secretary of the Rocky Mountain Tourist, inc, which is affiliated with the American Automobile Association, said today that he was advised in Washington recently that army planes will cease maintaing the Alaska Canadian Military High way after October 18th, and turn it over to Canada.
 He said that this organization asked the government officials not 10 drop it like a hot potato, but to arrange to study possibili- ties of keeping it open in a modest and econimical way.
 It is believed that Canada does not wish to keep and maintain it with Canadian funds and they are elsewhere in the Dominion
 From the aspject of immediate wartime necessity there are strong arguments in support of the belief.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-11
NIPS PROVE
 WEAK IN TWO PLANE STRIKE

The Japanese hit weakly by air at Morotai by sending two bombers in a pre-dawn raid and causing minor casualties. Anti aircraft batteries downed one raider and set fires that were vis- ible for 40 miles at Manado, a town on the north coast of the Celebes.
 The Liberators spread the flames along the waterfront of Koepang and Timor, with 66 tons of explosives. The power plant was believed destroyed.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-11
TROOPS STILL SLOWED BY WEATHER

ROME, Oct. 11.-(AP)-Amer- ican troops are still slowed down in their raid today, due 10 the deep mud.
 They have reached the southern outskirts of Livergnano, which is II miles due south of Bologna, on the highway.
 Sixty-five advance elements are meeting here in a fierce German
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-11

counter attack is setting the pace of fighting along the entire front, which is generally report ed as retarded due to adverse weather.
 After several days of bloody fighting, the British troops of the Fifth Army, shot the Germans off of Mont Cece and took possession of the little knob.
 The Eighth Army appeared to be making some progress in the hills on the Adriatic front despite the almost constant rain.
 The British Indian troops reached the summit of the new ridge extending from Montigallo to Mount Parneto, northwest of San Marine.
 The Germans attempted to hold the villages of Roncofreddo and San Paolo.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-11
AIRWAYS
Wien Alaska Airlines

Pilot Whaley returned from Lost River yesterday with Tom Christiansen and Robert Thorne of the U. s. Bureau of Mines, and P. L. Killeen of the Geologi- cal Survey.
 Alaska Airlines
 Pilot Norman Weaver made trip to Koyuk and Candle with Jack Armstrong, Connell Arm strong ad Louis Hadley for Can de and Annie Olton for Koyuk.
 Pan American AirwaYs
 Arriving from Fairbanks today were James Alves and Vincent Hmm. Departing were Ralph Rivers, Miss Alice Barnum and Robert Robertson.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-11

Tell them you saw it adver- tised in The Nugget.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-27

Well, boys, you can relax That kid did swell
job He did asked him and when ne spotted the tank
column. radOed back to two three of groups Who
were ready with their engines turning over"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-27
Nv WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. JUNIOR
Written Expressly for the Hearst NeWspApers.

LONDON, Dec. 26-The day the German
attack started in earnest on the Belgian-Luxem-
bourg front was Sunday, Dec. Il. The thought
passed momentarly through my mind that the
last big attack against us also came on Sunday,
Dec Z, 1941-three years and ten days apart.
On the morning of Tuesday, the 10Th, we were
scheduled to 60 up to Gen. Simpsons Ninth Army
headquarters and see about the same thing we had
seen at Gen. Patton and Gen. Hodges headquar-
ters-Gen. Nugent's 29th Tactical Air Force in
support of the Ninth Army
Inasmuch as these shows are pretty similar,
plus the fact that We had seen two already, added
to which had been working with the Ninth Air
Force for some time and while II was not exactly
an old story, it was beginning to wear little. On
top of this was very tired and decided not to go
with them.
slept fairly peacefully until $50 the next
morning, my sumber interrupted by the ferries
bombing the town. Buzzbombs purred overhead,
with occasional small arms fire.
Everybody but an old French lady cook and
couple of GIs had left the house when got down
stairs for breakfast The aforementioned lady cook
did me proud with couple of eggs on toast, butter
and coffee.
After breakfast had leisurely shave and by
1890 appeared in the combined air operations
room feeling pretty good thank you.
Col. Gilbert Meyer who brought in the origi-
nal thunder-bomb group with which | had spent
some time, is now operating chief of the Ninth
Tactical Air Force, under Gen. Pete Quesada, and
] noticed that he was not in the room nor was
Gen. Vandenberg who commands the entire
Ninth Air Force.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-27
Filler Did Swell Job

extensive operations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-27
William Randolph Hearst. Junior, Reports


all shapes and descriptions had cleared out two
thirds of the headquarters.
There was, of course, a certain amount of ex-
aggerated rlmoy and confusion but on the whole
| am proud to say that the movement went as
smoothly as if the men had practiced it 100 times
Anybody going into the control room for the
first time two or three hours later would never
have observed anything out of the way
Actually, we were the most advanced head
quarters at that time between the ferries and our
rear lines.
couple of British correspondents who had
just come up and had been shot at on the way, told
us that the First Army headquarters had been in
a more advanced area than ourselves, but had just
moved, in what the boys described, as utter con-
fusion.
The First Army press camp had also been
moved and there were no communications from
there back to the rear
Now, ordinarily this would have presented a
wonderful opportunity for me to get scoop as
was the only correspondent there, but naturally,
even had the censor permitted it to pass one just
does not tip off the fact that headquarters is
moving to the rear or why or even where Jerry is,
as sometimes his headquarters knows less about
the movement of their advanced unit than we our
selves do.
Gen. Kincairds household-he being chief of
staff and therefore charged directly with opera
ton of base OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES also moving and
so went up there and packed my stuff brought it
back and set it down outside the control room.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-27
Wanted Decent Weather

Then the time being about noon, we all went
to lunch with Gen. Vandenberg and Gen. Quesada
and their staff officers and shall never forget
remark that was made, along these lines-if we
only had decent weather we would be in favor of
sprinking X rations in front of the ferries so as
to pull them out of the Siegfred wall and into the
open where we could really give them going
over, and in that way we might end the war in
matter of few days.
Most of the boys agreed, but the only trouble
was that we did not have the decent weather and
air support so all we could do was to hope that the
ground boys had the situation in hand
neglected to say that on the previous night
trucks and tanks and tanks and trucks by the hun
dreds had been rumblng through our area bound
south, so never let anybody tell you that this thing
caught us with our pantaloons at half mast.
In the meantime, though, tension was mount
ing and so was the red arrow and we could not do
much about it.
The ferries were only about 10 OF II miles
away by now.
Back at fighter control headquarters, around
or in the afternoon, Gen. Quesada decided
something had BETTER BE DONE ABOUT IT.
He called up the pilot of one of the tactical
reconnaissance squadrons, whose job it is to fly
around and observe usually rather than photo
graphically what is going on, and then radio or
bring home full information.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-27

"Stick around the neighbOrhood and in case
the clouds break little, tell everybody you know
about il, including me, and we will send some boys
over there with bombs and rockets and machine
guns on their planes and see if we cannot do away
with these jerks.
II know it is tough thing to ask you to do
but il is really important so will you please do it
and when you get back call me up personally and
tell me how ii went"
Quesada told me afterward the kid said,
90 h, general; it is pleasure" and that thu
end of that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-27
German Thrust Toward Lieqe

went over and looked at the situation map
and observed an upward curving red arrow on it,
indicating the direction of one of the German
thrusts south of us, pointing up west of us and
towards Liege.
Col. Johnnie Johnson an officer with the First
Army, confirmed my worst suspicious by acknowl-
edgng that if this thing to be stopped that day
it was going to have to be stopped exclusively by
ground forces as there was possibility of planes
engaging in dive bombing because of the weather.
The German Luftwaffe had been out in pretty
good strength for two days, flying above the
clouds.
However, this was not what we would have
liked to have seen them doing-we wanted to have
them bombing and strafing the German ground
forces.
AS the day progressed our score of downed
German planes mounted but so did the curve of the
red arrow
But am getting little ahead of myself.
went upstairs to Gen. Quesadas office and talked
with Capt. Jones' Quesada's aide, and Capt. Bob
Martin, chief of staff and Gen. Kincairds aide, in
whose house we had spent the night
If everything had been under control had
thought of asking them for eep that might use
to go down to First Army headquarters and see
some of the boys had not seen since Normandy
days.