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HO OUCH donated blood to the Lane County Blood Bank and then dashed AP Wirephoto backed to his Christmas Village post. Santa is Otto Crumroy of Eugene. Rasputin, Russia's Holy Devil, Aided Revolution By WILLIAM L. 11YAN AP Special Correspondent Soviet leaders, preparing for powerful Germany and doing badly. The nation had 14 million under arms, but morale was jubilee celebrations of their 50th Troops were i ec with year in power, are unlikely to mention one man who inadvertently helped the Bolsheviks tP take over.

The "Holy Devil" may be remembered by today's Soviet rulers, but probably many in the younger generation would have trouble identifying him. The evil spell woven by the wild-eyed, bearded Gregor No- vikh helped hasten the Bolshevik Revolution of March 1917. He may have helped to trigger it prematurely, by setting the Stage for the Bolshevik coup which seized Russia the following November. Perhaps it would have happened that way anyway, perhaps not. But in any case, the assassination of No- vikh 50 years ago Saturday set in motion events which have affected history ever since.

Novikh was his real name, but Superstitions Russians knew him as Rasputin, a term meaning the equivalent of low-down scoundrel. Nobody ever will know how much he contributed to the welling anger which brought the storm of revolution to Russia. Rasputin came from Siberia. In European Russia, many believed that people born in Siberia possessed mysterious hypnotic powers. Rasputin had a peculiar talent for casting his spell over women.

The pampered gentry of Petrograd--the proud city that had been St. Petersburg and is now Leningrad--heard of him and brought him to the capital in the days before World War I. In a short time. Grand Duke Nicholas introduced him to the imperial court. Rasputin made the most of th opportunity.

He unblushingly flattered Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna, comparing her with Catherine the Groat. He was aware the empress could dominate the weak and irresolute Tsar Nichols II, who had ascended the throne in She endowed Rasputin with enormous influence. For a while, Rasputin was almost dictator of Russia. The people, knowing the Tsarina's German background, suspected her of plotting with the Holy Devil and muttered angrily of treason in the court. Russia was at war against a the same restless spirit of revolt which spread on the home front.

The people were disgusted with their rulers. Officers cursed Rasputin as "a drunken, obscene satyr." The nobility was becoming desperate. Rasputin had to go, but if it depended on the emperor, there was no way to get rid of him. On Dec. 17, 1916, Rasputin was invited to a magnificent banquet at the palace of Prince Felix Yusupov.

There he was lured into the palace garden by Yusupov. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich and others, and as- Court News Marriage Licenses Donald Wayne Linton of Monrovia, and Linda L. Dixon of Jefferson. Donald L. Clabaugh of Thurmont, Phyllis A.

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Corea and wife to Leatherman, her mother and next friend, vs. Richard Delaughter bill of complaint for an absolute divorce, custody of minor child, maintenance and support of minor child; alimony pendente lite and counsel fees. Thomas L. Snyder vs. Laverne B.

Snyder, bill of complaint for an absolute divorce. THE NEWS, Frederick, Maryland Thursday, December 15, 1966 Page Ruth Thurston Myers vs. E. Linwood Myers, bill of complaint for an absolute divorce. Dennis William Cahill and wife, county.

Gets Texaco Grant Mount Saint Mary's College, Diaries R. Loy and wife to Emmitsburg, has received a Delauter, grant of $1500 from Texaco Aid-to-Educatkm Program. Jack Cox, regional representative of Jefferson Thomas county. Charles R. Wachter and wife to Ingrid J.

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The Tsarina at once turned to another sinister figure who had prospered through Rasputin's influence. At the insistence of the court, Alexander Protopov was named interior minister. The public was outraged. Protopov, an industrialist and landowner, was widely suspected of contacts with German secret agents. He was fanatically convinced that he had a mission to save Russia, and he concocted all manner of schemes based on total oppression of the people by the dread Okhrana, the secret police.

If things had been bad before, they were worse now. All this added to the anger of the people of Petrograd. The anger burst into flame in early March, and shortly after, the Tsar and Tsarina abdicated. As "citizen and citizeness Roma- nov" they were executed a year later by the Bolsheviks. So was Revolution." But perhaps it was too soon, its leaders in a country still at war unprepared to cope with the enormous job of creating a new order.

Within eight months that revolution was swept away and the Bolsheviks were in power. Texaco's Baltimore Office and Charles F. Stouter, Emmits- bcrg, made the presentation. The $1500 grant, awarded for the 196-67 academic year is the third such grant awarded to Mt. St.

Mary's by Texaco. The representative of Texaco stated that the Mount was among more than 250 United States Colleges and Universities included in their educational support program. Texaco also provides direct grants to some 150 privately financed schools and offers scholarship and fellowship assistance to 90 other educational institutions, both private and tax-supported. 70- OVER 74 74 Safest drivers of all are married women while single men have the unenviable distinction of having the highest auto accident frequency record, a newly released research project sponsored by the Automobile Manufacturers Association indicates. The intensive study, based upon California driving records for the year 1962, showed higher accident frequencies for all groups at early ages, with younger married men initially the highest but declining steeply over a five-year period.

At 25, single men, the bachelors, take over the lead and hold it for 50 years. Protopov. Russia had its "February UK.ASSIGNKI) lid Lt. Ronald H. Hoke has boon reassigned to duty i Co.

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