Rockefeller Choristers Bring Small
Town Touch (>f Xmas To New York
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By CARLE HODGE
(£>) Newsfeatures Writer
NEW YORK—At Christmas, as
at no other time of the year, bust
ling Rockefeller Center strives to
fulfill the boast that it is an over
grown but neighborly village sur
rounded by Manhattan.
Just as they ring through count
less small American town squares,
carols echo up from the cement
valley between the Center’s tow
ering grey office buildings.
The 150 red and blue-robed
Rockefeller Center Choirsters
sing, and thousands—late shop
pers, tourists, servicemen and
weary workers fleeing homeward
from their desks—stop quietly to
listen.
This year, as in the past six,
they will give two after-work can
dlelight Christmas concerts at the
foot of a giant spruce in the Plaza,
familiar to sightseers and movie
goers as the sunken ice skating
rink. Millions will hear them on
a nation-wide broadcast.
Even in a city of oddities, the
Choristers are unique. They are
stenographers and office boys and
physicians and executives, all
handpicked from the 30,000 who
work in the Center’s 14 buildings.
They rehearse scrupulously
each week of the year, although
their performances, except for
special occasions such as V-E Day
or the visits of dignitaries, come
only on Easter, Flag Day and
Christmas.
When a member ceases to work
in the Center, he must resign
1945 INCOME TAX
BLANKS BEING MAILED
Mailing of blank 1945 forms to
federal income taxpayers in the
Washington-Alaska collection riis
trict was started in Tacoma this
week. Internal Revenue Collector
Clark Squire announced today.
The first shipment of Forms
1040 was received Tuesday from
the printer, and a crew of deputies
began immediately the task of
stuffing envelopes for mailing
Letters are going to the 618.000
persons who filed Forms 1040 in
reporting their 1944 income. Each
envelope contains a set of instruc
tions and two Forms 1040.
Other taxpayers who wish to re
port their 1945 income on Form
1040 may obtain copies later at in
ternal revenue offices, post offices 1
and banks. Supplies will be ship
ped to those places in the near fu
ture. Only persons who used Form
1040 a year ago are to receive
blank forms by mail.
CHUNGKING, Dec. 26—^/P)—
Leaders of the Democratic League,
third largest political group in
China, presented General Mar
shall, American Presidential en
voy, with views of the current
situation in China.
Phone Local News to Main 125
from the chorus. Energetic John
R. Jones, former collaborator in
Cornell University’s state music
program and USO musical advis
or, is the director.
Truman and
Congress In
n
Ritter Row
WASHINGTON —IV)— A ne’»'
bitter row between President ’T'r”
man and Congress over the U. S.
Employment Se^v’ce. in
evitable when the law makers re
sume work January fourteenth.
The President provided fuel for
the fight when he announced he
was killing by pocket veto the leg
islation which would return USES
to state control within one hun
dred days.
He said he was withholding ap
proval of the measure because it
would “immeasurably retard our
reemployment program,” and reit
erated the request that the action
be delayed until June 1947. The
government took over the employ
ment services early in 1942 in an
effort to channel more workers
into war production jobs.
The Presidential move brought
immediate reports on Capitol Hill
that new legislation would be in
troduced to do away with Federal
administration of USES. New leg
islation is required because a
pocket veto is not subject to over
riding by Congress.
Tetra Cresyl Silicate has been
found far superior to water for the
transference of heat. By its use a
temperature of 800 degrees could
be piped around the house from a
central plant and could be used to
heat stoves, irons, water tanks, or
small appliances. Connected in
summer to a refrigeraitng plant,
it could also cool the house.
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A “LIDDLE MIDDLE”
Interest is centered at
the waistline this fall.
And there’s a good reason
for it. Style news began
to come out of Paris just
about the time the G.I.’s
were going in. And both
carried enthusiastic re
ports of the doll - sized
waistline of the Parisienne
beauties. The G.I. ex
pressed his approval with
a long, low whistle. And
American designers con
centrated attention on the
waistline in their styles
for the new season.
Here’s a clever bit of
magic in wool jersey.
Fashion Frocks’ magician
designer used an elastic
ized midriff to make a
waistline disappear into
thin air! Broad shoulders,
a bloused bodice, and full
skirt aid the waist-disap
pearing act. And full-cut
sleeves, deep and winged
at the armholes and fit to
the waist on an elasticized
band, are part of Fash
ion’s softening-up process.
INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Dec. 26
—(/P)— Relaxed after what he de
scribed as a “pretty rough” six
hour plane flight from Washing
ton yesterday, President Truman
played a belated Santa to his
mother, 93, when he drove twen
ty miles over icy roads to her
grandview, Mo., home to deliver
the family Christmas gifts. He did
not have them with him when he
called on her last night. The Pres
ident’s trip to Grandview was fol
lowed by a breakfast at the home
of Nat Jackson, an old friend, one
block from the Truman residence.
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