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LONDON - No annual festival i value of 321.000. Although Mr. has as many strange and diver- . Hopkins. at the time he made gent customs attached to it as the it, envisaged only three poor Christmas season. And in Bri- .men and three poor women being tsin. these customs are at dif- its beneficiaries, hundreds of terent as m the accents spoken l persons have now received need- in different parts of the country. led garments through his gen- F‘rom records "compiled over ‘erosity. the years. some these old cus- The town of ()kehampion. in mm“ hue been handed down to Devonshire. is the scene of ano- present-day generations.

ther curious custom on the Sun-

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yule- in'hab-l ury. in Staf- s a strangel ritual started by the will of a‘ citizen by the name of JOseph gopklnsh. Olga provided a fund1 :om.w i coats and gowns src neces for this u u dig-“bum t9 need-V PSH'SO’“ l 'I‘hosesagythe fair sex wh: (ll? not after the Christmas servxce Il‘wish to be kissed by “me wedm-‘Sbm‘y P “151‘ Churc‘h- istrangers are usually advised to Thanks to wise investment. remain indoors. or stay away this bequest has now reached a from Okehampton for the day.

consists of virtually an invitation for any young man to speak to. and kiss. any young lady he wishes. The usual mistletoe bough is n t

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. 'I‘he "iblether-headed" bands.

.ronsrsting of a motley collec-

ltion of instrumentalists. w o» insed to enliven the festive scan lson in many Yorkshire town-

'ships not so many years ago.l fare now rarely seen. But ini ’most towns in the West Ridingl ‘of Yorkshire. at least one brass! band tours the streets on Christ- 1 mas Day and Boxing Day. play- ‘

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nes. l Pickering. in North Yorkshire, . adopts a unique ritual in relation 1 to its strolling players. Thel custom combines the usual act- . ivities of an outdoor band wliht the old-time streetl

crier. The instrumentalists are; accompanied by a "shouter". whose duty is to call everyl h older by name after ‘ Christmas carols have been play- ed in front of his house. The. lshouter also announces the time; of day and the state of the wea- ther. Locally. this custom is, known as “shouting the waits.”

MUMMER TROIJPES l Secretary Dean Rusk ' has disarmament. conference Both Yorkshire and Cheshire wound up a ore-Christmas j” resumes "l Geneva 3" 21~l continue to have troupes of diplomatic swing at RUSk does not P18“ (0 “lend. ‘

mummers. and Christmas sword dancers still 20 the rounds of some rural places. The best— known troupe of mummers in. Cheshire is that which appears each Christmas is the Alderly Age neighborhood.

Like the Hampshire mum-

plays in the open air. and the oggerel verses are handed down by word of mouth from genera- tion to generation.

Durham children celebrate Yuletide in their own traditional way. ' Yule "Don" or Dough. It is the image of a baby made of dough. with currants for its eyes. nose and month. These confections. re-i presenting the Ohristchild. are! confined to n few localities inE the county. 1

FIRE DANCES .

One of the oddest of local cus- i toms at Christmas seems to. have a direct connection the Druid days. At reel, in Somerset. a bonfire is lit on Boxing day. and the inhabitants toast sausages on the end of hazel sticks.

Allendale. Northumberland. observes a similar custom. al- though dancing and m‘errym lng take the place of the toast- ing of sausages. These festivi- ties iast as long as the fires stay

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have been. however. ada Christian usages. and they have

‘\ I R“ i I iv E we’re old-fashioned enough to get sentimental about Christmas . . . to waive up visions of happy reunions, stockings hung by the hearth,

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Traffic booths Are Forecast

. OTTAWA r0P> -— The Cans-i ldian Highway Safety Council has forecast that there will i be 5 road deaths in Canada during the Christmas holiday and 20 in the New Year period.

Both periods begin at 6 pm. on the holiday eve and end at midnight Wednesday night Dec. 7.

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. the traffic death tolls were 85 for Christmas—the ac- tual holiday fell on a Tuesday a was considered part of a .tour-d~ay holiday by the council l—and 22 for New Year.

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viet Union and thus maintainl ' h the momentum obtained with 'speakmz only for the Brltlsh

treaty. was hearten of the Atlantic alliance minis- terial conference in Paris ear, lier this week London talks with Prime Minis- Secretary

-Washington with the feeling of

. problems from the Western side

WA tCPi Fisheries with regard to salmon. halibut m

0 A . .— Minister Robichaud said in the. and herring on the same basisl

Co in m o n s the time is ‘as agreed to by Canada. United 1 not opportune to press for Rus- States and Japan- i

sia‘s participation in the North: The fiSheries minister. speak- Pacific fisheries convention. ‘lng during resumed considera-,

However. he added that it’ the tion of his department's 1963-64 ' Russians were to exploit sal- spending program. said Canada‘ mo. ibut and herring would be glad to ten-operate! schools in the North Pacific. it . with Russia in marine fishery might be necessary to bring.ies. . Russia into the Canada-Unitedi Mr. Robichaud said there had States-Japan agreement. ‘been an exchange of notes be-l

Mr Robichaud said that so tween the Sowet Union and (fan-

. ada on the North Pacific fish- far there has been no change in i eries in 1961 and 1962' ! Russia's attitude which does; Russia at me time had sam‘ not accept the right of anylits fishing operations were not; B county preserve fishinglon a lange scale in the North‘ rights on the high seas. ‘Pacific and said that if it went _

There was little likelihood of into commercial flshln it. it 8 getting Russian co - operationlwould cooperate with Canada.‘ g

Rusk Winds Up l Diplomatic Trip

LONDON lAP'I — US. State (tion to Butler‘s plan to visit the. when

i'l‘he British foreign secretary. hopes to meet Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko there.

it. was stressed. however. that Butler in any talks with the Soviet foreign minister. will be

steering the Western allies to- ward a cautious reexamination of the c‘liches of the cold war. V

Rusk'is object is to keep seek- i lng new agreements with the So- . Montague the nuclear

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Rusk headed by plane for having conducted useful busi- ness with U.S. allies. American sources said. He was described as having. at the moment. a highly-qualified sense of opti-

mism, FAVORS HARD LOOK President Johnson‘s adminis- tration favors taking a hard look at all the aspects and prob- lems of the cold war. The as- sumption is that 15 years of rig- idity have produced few solu' tions of world problems and that ma be a new look at the

and a reasonable attitude from the Russian side would bring so- lutions closer. .

Several areas for possible lim- ited agreement are believed to exist. Among these . a pro- posal to establish observation posts on both sides of the Iron Curtain to guard against sur- prise attack.

PREFER SOVIET LINE The NATO meeting made it ptain that the Western powers favor Russia's version of coex- istence—imperfect though that may the revolutionary militancy of the Chinese Com- munists. However. there is no disposition by the U.S. or any other NATO power to'become directly involved in Moscow's worsening dispute with Peking. Rusk and B u t l e r. meeting Wednesday night and Thursday. found themselves in substantial agreement on the broad outlines of the world situation. Dispiie some reports to the contrary. American sources said the U.S. government is raising no objec—

PREDICTS RAB VISIT

OTTAWA tCPl—British For- eign Secretary R. A. Butler is expected to visit Canada “in the . relatively near future.” Ex- DINGWELL FUNERAL HOME Martin said Saturday. He tofd the Commons at he issu the . invitation when he met Mr. Bul- Ier at the recent NATO minis- Sourls 1 terial meeting in Paris. He also

invited Italian Foreign Minister! , Guseppe Saragat to come his convenience.

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