European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hot and humid with wreaths of Holly n ,.,.Memphis Church mores Christmas to.Memphis Tenn. Up it was hot and humid outside the Whitehaven meth Odist Church Here. Inside air conditioners Laboured to Cool the air and keep the wreaths of Holly fresh. ". It was Christmas in july. The worshippers gave Little thought to1 the heat. They listened attentively As the Rev. F. A.  the age old Christ Mas Story. / the Rev. Flatt and his parishioners mtg been arranging the Christmas service for weeks. Outside the Church a nativity scene attracted the stares of passers by. Children Are being indoctrinated with Reindeer instead of divine raiment there. Flatt said. The main purpose of having Christmas in july is to get away from  commercial aspects the gift giving. We want to remind people of the real significance of the birth of  i did t b Egin to get the meaning until this morning said pretty Brune t Tor my Seacat 15 but today did seem like Christmas.1 it was different but Novie  meaning at  _   said it should not seem strange to celebrate Christmas now. Actually Bible scholars Don t know when Christ was born he said. Dec 25 used to be a Pagan religious festival for the Sun god the Rev. Flatt explained. Pagans built bonfires to give the Sun strength and presented gifts tothe Sun god to get it to return. Christian leaders decided to capture this Celebration about the year 400," he said. They presented Christ As the son of god the Light of the soul ,.theeternal  before that the birth of Christ had Boon celebrated on Many different Days ranging anywhere from november to july. Bible scholars believe Christ actually was born Between 8 and 4 . And that the birth took place Between the months of april and november because of the Shepherd tending his flocks. Sheep do not Graze in the open in Israel except during those  but the Rev. Flatt said it makes no difference when Christ was  what is important is what does Christ Mas mean to you what it should mean can be said in one word coming the coming of  cow town gets pump water new problem Roy . A mothers washed children and men took an extra Glass of cold water for the first time in More than a week in this Sun parched cattle town. Water once again was running through Leaky pipes from the town s Wells. A new pump was pushing the water through the wartime pipes faster than it could leak out. And the mayor Robert Keirsey was trying to find some Way to pay for the pump the town bought Asah emergency measure. He said it Cost just a Little Over a thousanddollars.". L what brought on the trouble More than five Days ago was a combination of two faulty pumps and seven Miles of worn out  had enough Money but there is a state Law which prevents the Intra City transferal of earmarked funds. Most of the Able bodied Popula Tion of about 750 persons worked putting in new sections of pipe arid installing the new pump. We have to have it Keirsey said of the pump. I bought it and now we Are going to have to figure out How to pay for  births in May dip from 58 Washington a births during May dropped under those in the comparable 1958 month the first time this had occurred in1959. An estimated 338,000 Jive births were registered in May 1.5 per cent less than the 343,000 in May 1958, the Public health service,.repprted. The year s total for five months however was 1,709,000, up 1.8 per cent from the 1,679,000 in the Simi Lar 1958  since the nation s population in creased Between May .1958 and May 1959, the birth rate for the month this year was 22,6 per 1,006 Popula Tion compared with 23.3 last year Down 3 per cent. For the five months in each year it was 23.5.marriages held steady 4 u ring May with 116,000 reported in each year. For the five months they totalled 507,000, up 2.8 per cent Over the 1958 figure o f 493.000. Does it Hurt. Rile Only when laugh san Springs v la. Up Biloy Wilson is an extraordinarily temperate Man. Working under his car he asked his wife to get in the car Ito steady a Bolt he was trying tojtiffhten.7 mrs. Wilson s weight lowered the ear s hot exhaust pipe ont Wilson s Chest. Sally a said Wilson please get Back out of he car Why asked mrs Wilson because dear Asiaf Huson this jilt exhaust pipe is press a ing t across my Opst pc 1-y smiling through the heat the hot weather has t spoiled 12-year-old Bonnie Jay s sense of humor. The los Angeles girl wearing a ,40-Pound plaster cast after Aspinal operation coolly sips a drink while letting the world know that it s "20 degrees hotter  press International photo paddle wheel satellite planned around aug. 7 Washington up t h . Plans to launch a paddle wheel satellite v from Cape canaveral fla., around aug. 7 to test feasibility of using solar Power to operate radio equipment aboard space probes to be fixed later  the planet Venus. Reliable sources said that if the paddle wheel shot is successful the National aeronautics and space administration Nas also plans to launch a 375-Pound" payload toward the Moon in Early october with the Hope that it will go into lunar orbit. To fire a deep space probe in no vember into trajectory which would take it to the Vicinity of Venus if the planet. Were in a favourable position. Actually Venus 84 hepatitis cases hit Village of 275 Posen Mich. A investigators from the state health depart ment arrived at this Village of 275 to track Down the cause of 84 cases of infectious hepatitis re ported in the last few weeks. Or. E. S. Parmenter director of the local health department asked state help in curbing the outbreak. The virus that causes the diseases spread through sewage. It rarely is fatal but can cause permanent liver damage and prolonged illness health authorities said . Restaurant robbed new York up two me posing As exterminators entered a times Square restaurant held up the manager with a gun and knife $20tooo 4a re won t be in shooting distance of the Earth again until 1961, disclosure of these plans Fol Lowed a report in London that  Are at Britain s big Jod Rell Bank radio station for an at tempt to put a rocket in orbit around the Moon Between aug. 1and 10." -.-., this report is wrong it was Learned. The americans Are at Jodrell Bank to help track the paddle wheel satellite and possible discoverer satellite shots. Other major tracking stations for this shot Are at Cape canaveral Hawaii and Singapore with Goldstone i California and the Millstone Hill station in new Hampshire assist  november probe if Success Ful will not come close to the planet but will wind up in orbit around. The Sun. It will carry solar cells to re charge its batteries and will test whether radio tracking is possible at distances of millions of Miles. The distance record to Date is held by the Pioneer in Sun rocket. It was tracked 82 hours to a distance of 407,000 Miles. Druggist guards broadcaster Busy up in Pennsylvania enforces 1794 Blue Law Bristol a. A Blue Laws in Pennsylvania ban nonessential business on sunday. A Justice of the peace has enforced the Law and surprised number of people. Among the surprised were two toll takers on the Pennsylvania Turnpike a radio announcer in the Middle of a broadcast and two guards at a chemical and plastics Plant. Justice of the peace Earl . Staged his Campaign against violators of the 1794 Lawin the Bristol township area North of Philadelphia. Marches in studio she entered a Turnpike toll Booth and handed notices of conviction on View to Roy Sassaman and David Frase. He also marched into the studios of station wbb in Levittown and handed a similar notice to announcer Mike Mayo. Two guards at the Rohm and Haas plastics Plant got notices too As did Jack Estes a druggist in nearby Croydon. Estes threatens to Stop filling emergency prescriptions on sunday. The notices of conviction tells the recipient he has been convicted of conducting business on Sun Clay in violation of the Pennsyl Vania criminal code. The notice Calls for a Fine of $4 and $9 in costs. The state gets the Fine and the Justice of the peace gets the costs. Dougherty who staged a similar raid last sunday on two big Dis count houses and handed out 66notices, also visited a newsstand operator and two discount markets. For Many years the Laws against sunday business were enforced Only sporadically. But with the growth of the discount houses there a s been pressure from Sab Bath abiding merchants in cities to tighten up enforcement. Depart ment stores especially have been hurting. This has won support from unions and some Church groups. Others favor repealing the Laws. Moral obligation a. Bill is now before the state legislature to increase the penalty for violation of the Blue Laws to $100 for the first offence and $200for each subsequent violation. Those favouring the Bill say the present Fine is insufficient an that violators simply charge it off As a business expense. Bucks county District attorney Paul Beckert has charged that Dougherty s Campaign against Sun Day sales is a Racket. All you have to do is multiply 66 by $9 costs and you have $594, a Good morning or afternoon work he said. Dougherty insists however that it is not Only my duty but my moral obligation to enforce the sunday sales  Faa to Survey bandied areas Washington a the Fea eral aviation Agency has announced plans for a Survey of the uses of the More than 500  areas in which civil Fly ing is prohibited or limited. Faa said the purpose is to 1provide for More efficient us of airspace. 2insure safety along the air ways the flight corridors that Are fitted with radio navigation aids. Many of the 143 million Square Miles of restricted areas have been assigned to the military service for flight training Aerial gunnery practice bombing ground firing and other defense activities. T some of the areas Are on a joint use basis which permits Faa to route civil traffic through them when they Are not in military use. A a said the Survey will cover the amount of use and types fuse of the restricted areas during the past fiscal year from july i 1958, to last june 30.  dad chained son to bed cops say Syracuse . Up an unemployed Auto Mechanic was held by police for allegedly Chain ing his 13-year-old son to a Bedfor 24 hours because of an act of disobedience. Police said the boy Alvin Mcewen was one of 10 children Liv ing in a junk littered condemned building. He was found chained to his bed after an Anonymous Call sent police to the building. The father Alonzo Mcewen. 51, was arrested and booked for investigation. Police said Mcewen chained the boy to the bed after the youngster told to remain in the House had gone out. Carnival operator fined for a attack Menomonie wis. Up carnival burlesque show operator was fined $250 for his a welding attack on a carnival Patron who ripped the clothes off his strip teaser  Gene me Williams 38, of Jack son miss., pleaded guilty to charge of aggravated Battery. He said he had a Fen with the carnival for 30 years and never had an trouble before. Mcwiliams whacked James score 37, of Menomonie on the head four times with the broadside of an a after score rushed to the stage and ripped the clothes off Mcwiliams wife Candy 33, billed As the show s top stripper. Score was not charged. I was very surprised Candy a curvy Brunet said in recalling the incident. That was the first time anyone has ver gone 1jhat fart they always yell and holler try ing to get me to take my things off but this is the first time i be been  eight stitches were required to close the wounds on score s head Candy said her husband beat score Only to protect her. " Candy was in the Middle of her act before about 40 patrons at a county fair when score rushed on the stage