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By M. McINTYRE HOOD CHESHAM. Bucks — Every Christmas Day the bellringers " of St. Mary's Church. Chesham. receive a special gift. Walter Glasgow. a retired manufactur- er of te. town. left $1500 on trust to the church, "to divide the income annually on Dec. 25 between the be11~ringers of the church performing such service during the year."

(‘AMBERWELL Camber~ well Hospitals m a n a gement committee has approved $300 being spent on providing Chris- tmas extras for patients an d staff at Dulwich Hospital. St. Francis Hospital. East Du 1- wich and St. Giles Hospital. Camberwell.

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FELTHAM. Surrey — A reg- ister of residents willing to en- tertain old people at Christmas has been compiled by Councillor Mrs. M.E. Nixon, secretary of the Feltham Council of Social Service. The idea arose from an invitation by a local couple for three lonely old folk to share their festive dinner. The three chosen were aged 70. 81 and 90.

‘ , WETMOUTH. Hants _— Hamp- shire anglers held a fishing cnmpetition to catch th e i r

Christmas dinners. But their fish will not be eaten on Christ- mas day. The two anglers with ‘the best catches each received complete Christmas dinners for four persons.

BOURNEMOUTH. H a n ts —- School children over 16 at Bour- nemouth were refused permiso Iion to be allowed time off foom school to deliver Christmas mail this year. The town's edu- cation committee rejected a proposal that they ;, allowed all from December for this purpose. '

GRAVESEND, Kent Ap- prontlces at a Gravesend .paper mill have collected and mended over 2000“ toys to be distri- hutcd to needy children on Christmas Day.

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1 GREENWICH — Greenwich po- .licemen and policewomen be- [came "barrow boys" for six .weeks to raise money for Chris- .tmas treats to handicapped chil- dren. .Every Friday they ran a stall in Woolwich market selling Christmas cards.

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’ KlRKCALDY. Scotland -—- Old .age pensioners in Kirkcaldy are lto have a free supply of coal to ikeep their home fires b u r ning Iover Christmas and the N ew iYear. Miners joined with busi- lness men in backing the sch- iemc. Each miner donated lhundredweight of coal. and the townspeople also donated gen- lerously.

GRAVESEND. .Kent— Grav- esend. which last year for th e first time put up Christmas i1~ luminations. has abandoned the idea this year. Only 25 percent ‘of the town‘s merchants an d .traders showed any interest in providing the necessary funds.

1 PORTLAND — The Christ- lmas pudding mixture for the ‘600 men based at HMS Osprey. ithe navy's shore base at Port- land, was made of 200 eggs. ieight pints of rum. and :pounds each of flour. suet. rais‘ iins. currants, sultanas an

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l LONDON — More American ivisitors than in any previous iyear will spend the Christmas season in London. Reports from 'London hotels indicate th a t. from the rush of bookings made ‘in advance. the number will greach an alLtims record.

BORROW SOVIET MONEY RHYDE. England (CP) — A Toryvdominated Isle of Wight council has borrowed £100,000 ($300,000) from a Soviet bank to build a school here The low- interest loan came from the Moscow Narodny Bank. whose ondon branch is run on free enterprise lines. Said a council official: “Much better to have the Russians spreading money around than missiles."

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By M. MclNTYRE HOOD

1 LONDON in all it ta kes some 150.000 extra people on‘ the staff of the British Post Of- fice Department to handle the .closed' and as man of the a“extra rush of mail during the. tients as are fit to do so willpbe i Chris‘mas spasnn’ and that .m' iallowed to go home to Join in i “Udm' - from me mm ""100 itheir familyI celebrations of the'smndpmm' the who“: month or .festive sea-son. This scheme islIDct-emhcr. Long In advance of being carried nut at the South tthat date. however. thousands London. Lambeth. South- west- lot apphcatmns were pm"an in em. The Royal Eye and the | mm- tvm'mg people in the "n" Annie McCall Hospitals. !V0r51l1(‘5. technical colleges and

There is. however a reason from foreign students anxrous behind all this other, than per- 1m Pam- thp Mm] money Whid‘ mitting patients to leave their lemmas m so handy at the {Hm/P hospital 3 u r r o u n dings and l seasnn‘ spend the Christmas se a s on There is a wide spread -in the with their families. It is being |ages 0‘ "195“ 9"”3 ChriStmas done‘ as a matter of fact as lemployees. A post office official an economy measure. These said that providing they have hospitals have been costing $75,- l the C0959"! 0‘ their headmas‘ 000 a year more man their bud_ ‘ t.ch prior to breaking up for gets call for. and catering of- 1"“? hOI'da-st boys and girl 5 aged 16 will be accepted. And i from there the age 1 wards to that of old 1sioners who are capable of do- i in: the work. 1 l

ficers in them have been told that they must cut down costs. The management committee says that this can be d o n e without lowering of standards.

Some bright official conceiv- The wage rates paid vary ac- ed the idea that there would be , cording to age. Boys and girls quite a substantial saving if as 101 16 are paid 35 cents an hour

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‘CPms an hour. with flower rates in t and slightly higher in London.

All persons over 21 years of lage are paid t a national rate [0164 cents an hour, with cents in inner London and down to 62 cents in the provinces.

in spite of the high total of 150.000 extra workers required. 40 there has been no difficulty in _ . securing that number. The total cents an hour in inner London. "f applications is always far in Young people between 18 and excess of the department's re- 21 receive an average of 48 miircmcnts.

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QUEBEC tCPI 7-» Hospital .authorities said Friday the con- ;dition of Most Rev. Charles- iEugcne Parent. Roman Catho- .lic archbishop of Rimtniski. Que. 'is satisfactory following an em- ‘ergency head operation Wednes- day. Archbishop Parent. 60. suf- fered a head injury in a traffic accident near Rome Dec. 11 as he was riding to the airport to return to Canada after adjourn- ment of the ecumenical council.

, ' CWD‘HON SATISFACTORY 'The Guardian. Charlottetown. Mon. Dec. 2-1. 111'?! 15 he provmces , - -r ~ .

many as possible of the pa- ‘ tients could be taken to th e i r homes for the few days of the Christmas holiday week and ‘ over Boxing ay, and as many .wards closed as would be con-. ' venicnt. Only patients whose. health condition will permit their being moved to their hom- es will be included in the mass exacuation of the wards. From the patients' standpoint. ithe change from hospital rou- ? itine at the Christmas season will be welcomed and the hospi- tals budget problems will be “ relieved _ accordingly. .

ANG SPIES tAPl—Two Egyptian-. born Armenians and an Egyp- tian were hanged Thursday for lspying for Israel. Jean Leon Thomas. 31. and Krapit Jae-ob. ’ 32, the Armenians. and Moham- imed Ahmed Hassan. 30. we

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