The Charleston Daily Mail from Charleston, West Virginia • Page 2

Yule Trees Costing Nation $50 Million WASHINGTON Duringl uus flouday season, Americans are expected to buy more than 40 million Christmas trees worth $50 million. Will this huge harvest of trees harm the nation's forests? Not at all. says the National Wildlife Federation in its current issue of "Conservation News." "Trees harvested in the wild are generally cut to release belter trees, or high valued species, from undesirable competition. As such, the harvest of natural grown trees is a vital tool in good forest management." Most trees harvested for Christmas are grown in forests. About i 13 per cent come from commercial! I Christmas tree farms.

Some 12 million trees will be' Leave Spares Navy Officer Fire Hazard LOGAN Wl His wife's insistence that he apply for a Christmas leave saved Cmdr. W. A. Bowes from reporting for duty on the USS Constellation before the; fire which took 46 lives aboard! the aircraft carrier at Brooklyn; Monday. Bowes recently returned from! a cruise aboard the Ub5 An tares, a supply ship with the 6th Fleet.

He was to have reported for dutv as a weapons officer on the Con steilation earlier this month. But Mrs. Bowes insisted he ap ply for a leave so he could spend the holidays with her and the four Bowm children at their home gift for sfl own REMINGTON imported from Canada. Almost alt toe others wih come from West Coast. Northeast and Mid idle Atlantic states.

Here are some tips from the I federation on selection and care I of your tree: Choose a fresh one: saw butt end orf at least one inch I above the original cut; keep uie duu end in water; be sure it lis well supported and away from fireplaces, radiators, the TV set i and other sources of heat: keen. lighted cr ndles safely away; make sure electrical Fixtures arc not: worn; use non combustible dec (orations, keeping metal tinsel out of sockets; do not leave wrapping paper or electrical toys under the irree; aon't overload electrical circuits. W.Va. Farmers' Crops Decline West Virginia farmers harvest ed 2 per cent less land in i960 than they did last year and the value of Weir crops was down 4 per cent, according to the Federal State Crop Reporting Serv ice. The farmers produced crops vamea at 552,355.

000 from 893.001 acres this year, the service said. at Pecks Mill, six miles from Logan. He got the leave and his reporting date was delayed until uec. 30. Bowes spent Tuesday, the cou ples ixn wedding anniversary.

at home watching television cov erage 01 tee fire disaster. Bowes is a 1944 graduate of the Naval Academy. coHen 01 VE tfce ses HOUrA MAn?" Ttw and Koflvr that adjutt an? and iktrrl REMINGTON Auto at in car an tVit boatl Ws Giva TOP VALUE STAMPS PRESCRIPTION DRUG STORES DRI EH OF ALL Mistaken Dead, Air Stewardess Leaves Hospital MILLBRAE. Calif. The American Airlines stewardess who mistakenly believed dead last month after a freeway traffic col lision was released from Penin sula Hospital yesterday.

She returned to her home in New York. Mary Hawthorne. 26. suffered! i severe head and facial injuries in jthe crash on the Bay shore Free I way. In the confusion that fol lowed the Nov.

7 accident, Miss; Hawthorne was reported dead and! Joan Frost, 26, of Philadelphia! was nsieo as a survivor. When the body believed to be; that of Miss Hawthorne was returned to New York for burial, it: was louna to oe Miss Frost. By SOL PADLIBSKY EYE AND EAR DEPARTMENT: Hats off to the driver and passengers on the early Beech Avenue Charleston Transit bus They pitched in a flock of coins to make sure needy kids at a nearby school have a turkey dinner this happy season Everett Stone, the paper products man, still retains his Boston accent after all these years in our town A la John Fitzgerald Kennedy Warm up those Salvation Army people in those drafty downtown booths by filling their pots with moolah to make sure that there will not be any "forgotten children" in our territory All I want for Christmas from the traffic department is some loud color to set off the crosswalks downtown, like green maybe "Cinderfella" at the Kearse is made to order for Jerry Lewis devotees The color is dazzling My pick for male "Oscar" winner is Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry), and female titlist, Elizabeth Taylor (Butterfield 8) Betcha there'll be full scale confab on handling traffic for the afternoon (Feb. 4) basketball game between and North Carolina State Last Saturday night's bumper to bumper snafu was no less than a nightmare Among my holiday greetings is one from Tony Galento in Sydney, Australia (name dropper). 'BOOKIE' IN PRO DANCE DEBUT Florence Adele (Bookie) Sterling, daughter of Mrs.

0 Pushkin, 1615 Virginia £., is making ber pro dancing debut Christmas eve at the plush Mo mart Hotel in Miami Beach. Bookie's spouse, Dick Sterling, is a singer, and has been signed as emcee at the hotel. The cute gal was tabbed for her debut after she was auditioned with a flock of classy kickers. She'll among a quartet of dancers in the opening of the Norman Brooks show at the Momartc. Bookie and Dick have two children, Mindy, 6, and Mark, 4.

both showing signs of future big names in show biz. HOMEWORK GETS TAXI RUSH Taxi drivers transport all kinds of people and things, viz: chicken dinners, forgotten store teeth, etc. Newest wrinkle for a cabbie the other morning was a call to a South Hills home. Lady of the bouse handed him a notebook and a request to rush it to a mid town address Arriving at the destination, the Thomas Jefferson Junior High at Morris and (Juarrier, he looked around for someone he was told would pick up the notebook from him. A cute 14 year old girl dashed from the school entrance.

She grabbed the notebook. Mama had paid the fare. Here's why she had to have the notebook: When she arrived at the school that morning, the teacher warned the class that pupils who didn't have their homework with them might flunk. That's when the girl excused herself from the room and phoned her mama. The two settled on a cab to haul the notebook, with the homework, to the school.

Smart people, females. CONGRATULATIONS, COLONEL Offer post birthday congratulations to Col. Charles E. Morrison of Parkersburg. who reached his 95th birthday anniversary Dec.

19 the oldest known member of a selective service board anywhere. The colonel, wbo served In the Spanish American War Mexican border clash and in World War II, is chairman of local draft board No. 20 in Parkei sburg. It was when he was with the Second Infantry, West Virginia National Guard, in 1900 that he got his colonel rank. Philly Orchestra Conductor, Wife Injured In Crash EGREMO.NT.

Mass. tfWEucenel jOrmandy. 61, conductor of the fnnaaeiptna Plnlharimrnc Orchestra, his wife and their hoiiKp. keeper, suffered cuts and jruises1 1 a three car collision yesterday, Ormandy, his wife. Marsarct.

51, and Miss Lydia Haldcnwanger, were neio overnight at Fair rw Hospital, Great Harrington. They were en route to the Or mandy summer home in Monte rey when the accident occurred. The house formerly was the prop erty 01 violinist zino rancescatti. Mr. and Mrs.

Ormandy suf fered head lacerations, and shock. Miss Haldcnwanger suffered a ait on the head and! an eyelid and bruises. open night 'til 9 sometimes even Santa has a special name or two whose gift defies description just what is he to do? he calls us, here at Woodrums' our answer's stilt the same. A Gift Certificate, of course would please most any name west Virginia EMI; WtQ DEC. 21, WO Race Recount CHICAGO wi abandoning all hopes of revers ing President elect John F.

Ken nedy's slender Illinois gies and funds into a recount of the Tnok fViiinfT. attnmnv gies and funds into a recount publican Benjamin Adamowski, no lost Uie race to Daniel P. Ward by about 26,000 votes. Ad amowski said he will file a pe tition for recount Circuit Court. William H.

Fetridge. Nixon re count committee chairman, pre dicted Adamowski the recount 'inner. He said he foresees lit tle difficulty in raising some $100. ,000 for the court action. He said some $30,000 remains from the $70,000 collected for a proposed isixon recount.

In Illinois Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the Nov. 8 election by less than ,000 votes. GOP efforts to block certification of Kennedy's elec tors failed in the courts and before the Republican dominated state electoral board, hich certified Kennedy's election Monday, Alayne Steiger and Louis Theil ing. First performance will be staged Dec.

30 at Civic Center Theater, and the next one on New Year's eve. Others will be Jan. 6, 7, 13 and 14. A special performance will be; presented at the St. Albans Little! Theater on Jan.

18. The largest hospital in the 'Southern Hemisphere is the Bar agwantha Hospital for non whites in Johannesburg, South Africa. It has 2.3S0 beds and treats nearly a half a million out patients ear. 13 Pet. Auto Outout Decline Hurting U.S.

Economy look Aiiorney WASHINGTON' i.ft The Com In spite of all this, the depart merce Department predicts a 13jment said 1961 would be a good per cent drop auto production year for the auto industrv. Even I in 1961 and says such a decline! with a 13 per cent drop in pro would stow down the nations en it said, sales will be tire economy. by a "favorable public Another factor that could fur attitude, high personal income, ther increase the impact of the 1 the continued trend toward subur auto production decline is the 'ban living, better roads and ade say they will channel their ener jiarger share of the mark liquate financing ofLi Two For Seesaw' Tickets Will Go On Sale Friday Tickets for the Kanawha Play production, "Two For the Seesaw," will go on sale Fri day at Galperin box office. In the two member cast are claimed by compact cars. These; The report said in one respect 1...

race. cars require less raw! I960 was an abnormal production The Nixon recount committee 50 that tho cffect on Because of the steel strike! announced yesterday it will dis j' he industry's use of raw mate jin 1959, dealer inventories were! band. But a new group will be might be even greater than down 30 per cent. To make up: formed, aimed to recapture the', Bn(. jrnn for this, the industry added' state attorneys' office for Re influence on the gross national general economic activity.

The Commerce Department in; its annual outlook summary yes 1 terday, said 1961 output will total' about 3,800,000 cars compared; with the 1960 total of 6,700,000. It said the decline wlil have its 1 Hp Bietueai uj iiiiL nan; 1961. Such a decline in auto produc i tion would be the first since 1957 58 recession. The 1961 fore cast was based on big dealer in ventories of about a million un sold cars, as well as the high unemployment situation and unsettled business conditions. Infwrtot Compounded SEMI ANNUALLY DOLLAR SAVINGS AND LOAN CO.

OWN FMDAT tVENINOS 5 JO TO PM. 7th Aw. ft St. SOUTH CHARLESTON 400.000 autos to normal jwodttc the first three Give Her comfy from 228 CAPITOL ST. Optn "til 9 SW I isfl Corduroy Jeans 188 Rugged ounce thickness corduroy Double Knees Trim Half Belt and Cuffed Bottoms Machine Washable Navy, Brown and Green, Sizes 4 to 10 Boys' Downstairs i Vi fc PINT Give your friends a 6 year old bourbon give Old Stagg Sour Mash, They'll appreciate its old mellow flavor arid it is handsomely wrapped for holiday giving..