Tucson Daily Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • Page 24

Poles Observe Holy Yule By KICHABD C. "Christinas for us in Poland used to be a really holy day," said Mrs Martin Zytkowski of 2118 X. Euclid She was recalling her childhood spent in Tarnopol, Poland, seven miles from the Russian border of pre-World War I days. "Everybody believed in the spirit of she said. When Christmas finally came after weeks of anticipation and preparation, there 'would he three-day i a Christmas eve.

Large groups of revelers would bundle up in sleighs and go from town to town, singing songs en route and meeting warm they visited. Everyone was ready for visitors during the festive season, Mrs. Zyt- kowsM a i would prepare special Christmas delicacies in large quantities awaiting the arrival of neighbors or friends from nearby communities. When they came, stomping off the snow that was a part of Christmas in Poland, there would be gay laughter, caroling and plenty to eat. Many Customs Gone Many of the old Polish 1 CKristmas customs have passed, she said, but others have carried over into the lives of Polish people today, both in Poland and elsewhere.

The twinkle in Mrs. Zytkowski's eye told-better than words that her childhood memories of Christmas land were happy in her native ones. Most of the people of Poland are embers of the Roman Catholic members --Drawing by nick Calkins HEAPEVG TABLE FOR A POLISH CHRISTMAS lights, she recalled. Many of the decorations were made of sugar and starting on Christmas day the children had the privilege of occasional raids on the tree's Composer Is Given Pardon Banker Harrington Promoted Harry Harrington, Tucson banker since 1931, has been promoted to vice-president of the Valley National bank liere, the bank's board of directors announced today. Harrington has been assistant NASHVILLE, Dec.

21. 6P) vice-president since 1948. At the same time, the directors said William Frank M. Grandstaff, who corn- G. Johnson of the installment loan department has been promoted, to posed the 70-page "Big Spririg Cantata" in his prison cell, soon courses to it, all of them prepared with great pains.

Incidentally, it was the only time of year when nany of them were served. Menu Described 'Included on the menu were such things as "barszez" (beet soup), a Mrs. ZytkowskJ doesn't know I Big Spring centennial, popular vear-round dish; about how Christmas is ob-j Grandstaffs record. will be a free man. It is believed he will be the first ever pardoned as an habitual criminal in Tennessee.

Before an announcement by Gov Gordon Browning last night, the 49-year-old convict-composer faced the prospect of spending the rest his life behind prison walls. Will Gire Xciv Chance Browning said, "I am giving him a pardon to let him get out of the state. All the iratters for which he was convicted were very small offenses and I am not satisfied to leave him there." The governor said he would sign the pardon papers today or to( morrow. He added he understood randstaff will go to Indiana or Texas. The cantata was the key that unlocked prison doors for Grand- staff's week of freedom in Big Spring, in October, 1949.

It by a book written by Druggist Earl Philips. Grand- staff was guest of honor at the "pirogi," a kind of cake with various ingredients inside; served in Poland any longer, but she said the old customs she re- with "kaszy" (cabbage calls have long passed. Such life sentence stuffed with buckwheat); "gzybM" as the "oplatek" have remained, I can believ offonses, mostly larceny. It was a Memphis' larceny that brought him 10 years ago. mushrooms); "makownlk," a poppy seed cake; a kind of doughnut ca'lled "ponczki;" a raised, twisted egg bread called "kolacz;" and many other dishes.

One of the beverages for the oc- -u-ac mnrie church, and there werelcasion was a wine made manv tangible evidences of religion with black cherries and many tangible evidences of religion In their Christmas observances. Perhaps the most unique was the "oplatek," Each Christmas seascn the "ko- scielny" (older brother) of the church parish, a layman who per' formed a variety of tasks in the -latek" to each family in the parish. The "oplatek" was a rectangular For dessert, always, there was "pszenica," something like a pud- cling that Mrs. Zytkowski remembers as "very'good." Those who did not attend midnight mass would be served the meat courses right after the clock church, would send put one "op- tru 12. Then, on Christmas afternoon, there be another lavish meal with plenty of the however, and even in this country there are Polish communities where the wafers are distributed and broken around the family circle.

They were pleasant days--those days of simple village life--sha said, and these were pleasures of community comradeship sadly missing in our modern, commercialized world. wafer, similar to the communion. more conventional delicacies, suchj wafer but larger, which had been as chicken, turkey, ham, collect Christmas toys for childr riest. It was the overseas will i Dec. Second Drive For Toys Starts On Dec.

26 WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. ()-- The -American Legion announced! 'The "girl," he said, is Mrs. Mil- today its second annual drive toj thing has happened to me," Grandstaff said when told the pardon was coming. "I have tried to analyze myself, to search my soul.

I know I have made errors. For those who stood by me, I can say there will never be a time when they will feel ashamed of me. For those who doubted me, I must prove them wrong." Grandstaff said the first thing! he'll do is go to the Catholic I cathedral here "and drop on my Knees in Then. I'll get in touch with the girl I should have married 30 years ago. Then I'll go to see my again." assistant cashier.

Johnson has been HAERY HARRINGTON dred McConkey of Wayne, Ind. He said they.plan to marry. At Ft. Wayne, Mrs. McConkey, 47, a "swing shift" worker for General Electric, said she could hardly believe the news.

She added that when Grandstaff is freed, "I am going to marry him." Each has been married twice before. I' In Hollywood, Douglas Morrow, I author of "The Stralton Story," said Aspen Productions is preparing a movie on Grandstaff's life. I Its title, he said, will be "Cross-! with the bank since 1944. Before that he was connected with the state highway department and Pima county assessor's office. Harrington is a Globe, attended New Mexico A.M.

college at Las Cruces, was in the automobile business eight years and was connected with the Royal Hawaiian hotel in Honolulu as well as Hotel Westward Ho and Adams in Phoenix before starting his service with the Valley National hank. In addition to his work, he has been active in the American Legion, serving as junior and senior vice commander and is now its finance officer. He is also a member of Masonic and Elks lodges, the Kiwanis club and Tucson chamber of commerce. He is treasurer of the Tucson club and the American Legion Luncheon club. Dozen Dogs Poisoned In Few Days At 'Tempe TEMPE, Dec.

21. (U.R)--Tempe police said-today over a dozen dogs lave been poisoned in the city in the past few days. Rewards totaling $300 for any nformation leading to the arrest and conviction of the poisoner lave been nested. Search Planes SeeJs, Missing Bomber SEATTLE, Dec. 21.

(U.PJ-- Search planes droned over the north Pacific ocean today seeking some clue to the fate of a missing navy patrol bomber with 11 men aboard. The Canadian naval corvette Clifton was sent out to investigate a black object sighted about 150 miles fflitfzrti Dec, 21, off Vancouver island, which at first was" thought to have been wheel from the missing plane. A navy plane-reported later, however, the object had vanished. Seven naval aircraft and one Canadian plane participated in the search. The plane vanished Monday.

For the "Little" SPORTSMAN Baseball Gloves $3.95 Boxing L7 Football Pants and Jerseys COPPER STATE Sporting Goods 1846 Broadway Open Eve, Tfll blessed by the priest. It was the center of a Suniuue ceremony each household. Host Shares It With guests assembled for Christmas dinner, the host woul stand and raise the "oplatek" fo all to Then he would utter special wish, perhaps for the we fare of his family and friends, an bite oJf a small piece of the wafer The caremony would not be com plete until he had passed the "op latek" around the table for all take a small bite, thus sharing the wish. For several days before Chris' rnas, Mrs. Zytkowski said, ther would be abstinence from eatin meat.

And on Christmas eve, ir until midnight, -the abstinenc would be observed. Immediate! after midnight, however, meat dish es--all sorts of them--would go the table. The Christmas eve- dinner, ever meat, was one of the hlg lights of the year, Mrs. Zytkowsk recalled. There were usually 1 sauerkraut stuffed cabbages.

26! PHOTOSTAT Symbolic of the hay and throughout the nation. di i Court Backs Robeson Ban NEW YORK, Dec. 21. (IP) A itate supreme court justice rulec yesterday that a Bronx hotel had the right to cancel a-reservation for a meeting at which Paul Robeson 'vras to receive a peace award The American labor party, spon of the gathering, then shiitec the affair to another hall las' night Justice Samuel Dlckstein reject ed a motion by the American labor party for an injunction to prevent the concourse Plaza hote from. cancelling the arrangements The singer was voted the award last month 'by.

the Communist dominated second world peace con gress at Warsaw. The award--a bronze plaqui did not arrive here In time. So it was presented to Robeson sym bolically before an audience of 500 Counsel for the hotel, opposing the injunction plea, told the court that sponsors'Of the meeting "tried to put something over on us by concealing the real purpose of the meeting, which was to echo the second world peace congress The lawyer said the Daily Worker, Communist newspaper, carried advertisements of. the meeting. The court was told that the reservation was cancelled by the hotel because of fear of rioting, injury to guests, damage to property, and unwillingness of the hotel to allow its facilities to be used "in furtherance of the propaganda of a nation actively hostile to the United States." Magazine Acquires Sports Periodical PHOENIX, Dec.

21. '(UJ9--Th publishers of the Arizona Farmers 1 announced today they have ac quired the Arizona Wildlife-Sports man magazine from the Arizona Game Protective association. Ernest Douglas and Ciarena Powell, veteran publishers, said the magazine now becomes a strictly commercial enterprise Articles of incorporation for the company, Arizona Wildlife-Sportsman, have been filed with the Arizona corporation commission, they announced. Ralph 0. Brown, Phoenix, longtime Arizona and southwest newspaperman, has been appointed managing editor of the publication.

in Christ's manger, Polish women i would decorate their houses with these common materials. Straw drive brought in for The dren. This'year it will be enlarged) chil PUBLIC RECORDS TUCSON BLUEPRINT CO. 40 W. Congress Ph.

2-4647 would be strewn on the floors to include the Philippine islands! and hay would be laid on the tableland the children of veterans fight- under a special Christmas table cloth. Santa's Mission The Same Santa Claus Is known as "Swi- enty Mikolal" in her native land, Mrs. Zvtkowski said. His mission when she was a child was essentially the same as it is today in the United States. Children would hang their stockings by the chimney and "Swienty' 1 would fill them with various gifts.

The Christmas tree was always a good source for additional de- ing in Korea. King George Receives Ambassador Gifford LONDON, Dec. 21. (ff)--Walter S. Gifford took the traditional ride in an open coach to Buckingham palace today to present his credentials as the new TJ.

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