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Churches Mark Christmas With Yule Services Special Christinas services including Yuletide sermons and music were attended by large con-

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on Sunday, and special Christmas entertainments and other services are scheduled for several

churches this week.

At the First Methodist, Cape Island and First Presbyterian Churches large congregations participated in special Christmas ser-

vices last Sunday.

At the Church of the Advent, there will be an evensong and Holy Baptism at five ©dock Thursday afternoon, and a solemn song service and celebration ol Holy Communion at midnight Thursday with congregational singing of Christmas carols. There will be special music by the choir and a short address by the Kev. Wilbur E. Hogg, Jr. On Christmas morning at 10:30 o'clock there will be a Holy Communion service, with the congnggation singing Christmas carols, and a special Christmas service. On St. Stephen’s Day, December 26, there will be a commimion service at 9 a. m., and on December 28 there will be a Christmas party for children of the parish at the parish house; The Church of the Advent will l>e appropriately decorated for the

holiday season.

At the Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea there will be a solemn mass at midnight Thursday with a sermon by the Kev. Andrew L. Doran, of the Redemptorist Order. Celebrant of the mass will be the Rev. Paijl N. Fairbrothcr; deacon will be Father Doran, and sub-deacon will he Father Walter E. Kelly. Low masses are' scheduled for eight and 10 o'clock Christmas morning, followed by

benediction.

Confessions will be held Thursday afternoon and evening. 'There will be a midnight mass at the Cape May Naval Base and at the 113th Infantry camp at Woodbine Thursday. A children’s Christmas party will be held Wednesday evening,

December 23.

At the First Presbyterian Church the Church School Christmas program will be presented this evening (Wednesday) at 7:30 o’clock. The program will be built on the theme, “Christmas Around the World”. On Sunday, December 27, the Rev. Albert W. Lens, pastor, will preach at the morning service on “Star-Guided Living". At the evening service the Christmas pageant, "The Message of the Magi”, will be presented by a cast from the church. The pageant will'Tie'’ directed by Miss Helen L. 'Porter. The Cape Island Baptist Sunday School Christmas entcrtain ; ment will be held Thursday ever, ning, December 24, at 7:45. Special Christmas music presented first at last Sunday's services will be repeated next Sunday by .request. Because bad weather prevented many members from attending the pre-Christmas ' , church officials this week

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Morton Lyle, a student at Duke University, Durham, N. C-, is home for the Christmas holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander C. Lyle. Steve Stevens, of the Roosevelt Training School of Aviatioiy is home for the holiday vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.

Irwin Stevens.

Miss Mary Lou Wilson, of Newark, Del., is enjoying several weeks here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. - Leroy Wilson. Miss Clara Fidler, a teacher in the Cape May public schools, is enjoying the holidays at her

home in Audubon.

Mr. and Mrs. T. Alfred Stevens are entertaining their son, Thomas Stevens, a student at Lehigh University, Lewisburg, for the

Christmas holidays.

Miss Catherine Stanton has left Cape May to spend Christmas with her parents V Trenton and will visit friends in Chicago, 111. before returning to resume her teaching in the Cape May High School. ' , _ Walter Trout, Jr., of the Roosevelt Training .School of Aviation, at Mineola, L. I., is spending the

holiday season in Cape May with _ his parents. **

Mrs. Charles R. Hoffman, her son Charles and daughter Miss Doris Hope Hoffman are spending the Christmas holidays in Bainbridge, M<L with Mr. Hoff-

an.

Ensign Thomas S. A. King, of Washington street, Cape May, was a recent guest at the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City.

Local Salvage Units Lauded By N.J. Chief Local salvage committee chair..ien in all New Jersey communities this week were commended for their efforts by Clinton M. White, executive secretary for New Jersey of the General Salvage Program, Conservation Division of the Office of Civilian

Defense.

“As you know, the state of New Jersey has a quota of 492,000 tons of scrap iron and steel under the 17,000,000 ton national

music.

Special Christmas sen-ices were held Sunday morning and evening at the church,’ at which time special Christmas messages and music were presented.

Woolen socks — 700.000 pairs; heavy woolen underwear—338,000 suits—were purchased recently by

the Navy for its men.

Mrs. Mary Ballanger has gone = to Staten Island to spend- Chnst- = mas with her son-in-law pd daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William

Kelly, and their family.

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Utz are enjoying the holiday vacation visiting Mrs. Utz* parents in Roxborough, Pa., and Mr. Utz' par-

ents in Williamsport, Pa.

George Stone, of Haverford College, is home for the Christmas holidays with HJs parents. Dr. and Mrs. R. Walter Starr, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Wu„jn and their daughter, Mrs. Howard R. Hough, have as their guests for Christmas Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Rider and Mrs. Robert M. Parker, of Germantown; - Miss Mary Sproul, of Philadelphia, and Robert A. Grant, also of Philadelphia, and now attached to the Cape May Section

Base.

“Sandy" Moon, a student at the Roosevelt Training School Aviation at Mineola, L. I.. home for the Christmas holidays with his father, Dr. Alex C. Moon, and Mrs. Moon. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Koenig are spending the holidays with--th«ii- parents in Denton, Md. Ensign * and Mrs. T. Powell Hughes, of Philadelphia, will spend Christmas Day in Cape May as guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Hughes. Miss Helen Ryan will spend Christmas in Trenton with her sister. Miss Ryan is spending several months in Cape - May. Miss Geraldine Spare, a student at Wilson College, \Chambersburg, Pa^ is enjoying the holidays here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Spare, of Moylan, Pa. and Cape May, at their New York avenue cottage. "n Mr. and Mrs. Howard Reeves, of Philadelphia, spent part of the week in Cape May. Miss Doris Hoffman, a student of Lebanon Valley College, at Anncville, Pa., is home for the Christmas vacation with her mother, Mrs. Charles R. Hoffman. Mrs. Margaret Keenan will spend the Christmas holidays in Philadelphia .with .her mother, Mrs. Catherine Shea. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Stevens are entertaining for the Christinas holidays- their children, Richard Stevens, of Boston, Mass., Miss Mary Ann Stevens, a student at the New Jersey State Teachers College, Trenton, and James Stevens, of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.

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WASHINGTON ' The ban on enlistments in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guards has been lifted in order to allow additional time for perfecting the allocation of manpower into these branches by Selective Service. Until “approximately” February 1, men between the ages of 18 and 38 may continue to apply for voluntary induction into the armed services. However, through the local draft boards and must not be engaged in an essential occupation for • which they are deferred. It was also indicated this week that enlisted reserves in colleges may be called up for active service in the very near future. In the event that the Army and Navy call up college men, it will not mean that all will go into active training immediately.

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