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th? Franklin Pierce Introduced the Christmas •tree to the White House in 1856 Actually. Andrew Jackson had. for an 1835 White House Christmas

party, a "small frosted pine tree with toy animals around it"—one of his French chef’s famous

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the White House the Christmas tree came out of the closet. Teddy had put it there, fearing that the annual cutting of so many evergreens would deplete American forests.. The ardent conservationists decreed there would be no White House' Christmas tree. Like the New ^Fork times, Theodore Roosevelt could be wrong. The day after , Christmas 1902, he revealed in a letter: So their mother and I got up. shut the window, lit the fire, taking down the stockings, 4>f course, put on qur Wrappers, and prepared to -admit the

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children. But first there was a surprise for me, also fpr their good mother, for Archie had a little Christinas tref of hlw own, which he had rigged up with the help of one of the carperfters in a big closet, and we all had to look at the tree and each of us got a present off of it. OFFICIALLY, the White House continued to declare each year that there would be not presidential Christmas tree. Unofficially, the president allowed Archie to have a small tree in his own room, having been reassured by Gifford Plnchot, the forerrjost conservationists in the ccwntry, that proper cutting would not be harmful to forests. Conservationists, however, continued to point to the dangers of denuding the roadsides and rural landscape and urged Christmas tree cultivation. At Hyde Park, in the 1930s, President Franklin D. »* (Page 24 Please)

Dord Ward STUDENTS FROM sixth to eighth grade at Woodbine Elementary sing carols during Christmas presentation Tuesday evening which also featured a play and the school band. Seasonal Festival

WOODBINE . - The Elementary School welcomed the Christmas holidays with a Season’s Greetings Festival Dec. 15. The P.T.A. gave a Christmas celebration that included a play and a con- 1 cert by the band and a group of carolers. The play, Mugsy’a Merry Christmas was produced by Mrs. Dora Dixon and

presented by the students in the sixthf“seventh and eightth grader. THE CONCERT included seasonal selections by the band and the group of carolers and was directed by Ms. Carol Holm. Mr. and Mrs.. Thomas Mold provided intermissiop entertainment by , leading the audience in familiar carols. 7

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