anaheim-gazette 1952-12-01

B-8 Anaheim Gazette MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1952 ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA ALL ABOARD for a boat ride—Sgt. Nunes and charges. PIED PIPER IN REVERSE—he leads German youngsters away from the hazards of playing along the river. U. S. Sergeant Plays Santa Claus To 600 Orphans on Danube River By TOM STONE Associated Press Writer REGENSBURG, Germany — A rugged American military policeman, with a heart bigger than his pocketbook, is father, mother and Santa Claus, all wrapped up in one, to hundreds of little German boys and girls. He has bought 600 candy-packed Christmas stockings. "When I see how much money is left from my paycheck I'm going to buy toys," he says. Twenty-eight and unmarried, Staff Sergeant George Nunes spends most of his monthly army pay on his "adopted" German youngsters, who are nearly all orphans. He buys them candy, ice cream and sodas—and takes them riding in his battered 1939 coupe, dubbed "The Good Ship Lollipop." And What a Ride! "Fifteen to 18 can ride in it at one time," he claims laughingly, "and they're all comfortable. Of course, they're little fellows." The sergeant, a handsome, six-footer with black hair, hazel eyes and a mustache, got interested last year in making the life of German children happier in this war-damaged city: "I was driving along the Danube river here one day when I saw about 50 kids playing on the banks. I thought myself that if they the PX (post exchange) and bought some candy and went looking for the kids. The first ones had told others and, well, there were almost 150 of them by then. "So, I started making a habit of it, every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We'd meet at a certain place and I'd buy them some candy and take as many as I could riding. "Once, we went boat riding on the Danube. I got a boat. It held about 15. And I'd fill it up and take them out and come back for another load. "At first, I was spending between $50 and $80 a month on them. I make $200 a month. Then, after three or four months I was spending $150 a month on the kids." Other soldiers here once donated $200 which was spent on a holiday river excursion for 150 of the sergeant's proteges. As a rule, he foots all bills himself. Why He Does It What does Nunes get out of it? "Well. I'll tell you," he said. "When I was young I had to leave school and go to work before I completed high school, and I said then that if I ever got a chance to help others I would. I'm getting that chance here." And this the way it pays off to And What a Elide! "Fifteen to 18 can ride in it at one time," he claims laughingly, "and they're all comfortable. Of course, they're little fellows." The sergeant, a handsome, six-footer with black hair, hazel eyes and a mustache, got interested last year in making the life of German children happier in this war-damaged city: "I was driving along the Danube river here one day when I saw about 50 kids playing on the banks. I thought to myself that if they had some place to go and something to do they'd be better off. "Anyway, they might fall into the swift current. So I decided to take them under my wing. I invited all of them to an ice cream parlor and we got some candy. A Stampede Was Started "The following week, I went to Demand for White Meat Produces Chicken that's White to the Bone LAFAYETTE, Ind.—Public dislike for dark pinfeathers on dressed poultry has led to the development of a new strain of white meat chicken, the Purdue dominant white. While the new strain itself is reported to produce superior meat, its greatest value is expected to be in breeding even better meat chickens. Dr. B. B. Bohren of the Purdue poultry department, who spent five years developing the Dominant White, says the strain has the dominant white gene that is rare among meat strains. Cockerels of the new Purdue strain will produce 100 per cent white chicks when mated to Barred Rock, New Hampshire or Rhode Island Red hens. The new strain was developed from the Purdue Broad Bar, first released to breeders last year, and two strains of White Plymouth Rock. It has distinctive tight feathers and the body differs from its White Plymouth Rock relatives. WHITE outside and in — the new Purdue chicken. Israel-American Team Winning Battle Against Disease in Ancient ERIC GOTTGETREU AP Newsfeatures AVIV — Where the Crulost a battle against the as and through it the kingJerusalem 765 years ago Israel-American efforts are nning one: this time a batinst epidemics and dis20th Century Crusaders lost tle of Hittin in the Galllean hills between Nazareth and Tiberias, apparently because their enemy, Egypt's Sultan Saladin, was able to put more seasoned troops into the field. The new Israel-American push in the Hittin area consists of erecting hospitals. On the summit of one of the former battle hills a large number of prefabwards are being put up to serve all the sick of eastern Galilee and the Jordan valley. Near Naharya, right on the Mediterranean coast, a similar general hospital is being established for western Galilee. Both are being constructed with material supplied through American TCA (Technical Cooperation Administration) aid and by local labor paid out of so-called "counterpart funds" allocated by the Israel government to match the U.S. grant-in-aid. The two new Galilean hospi- tals, three smaller ones south in Israel, several saries, diagnostic clinics and cal laboratories are just samples of a whole series oceets conceived under the "can helps Israel and Israe herself" scheme. 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Other U.S.-Israel projects are destined to provide immigrant housing, to increase agriculture or to promote industry. Many of the 114 settlements now being helped with American grant-in-aid to improve irrigation systems, are in the Negev where Father Abraham tended his flocks or in the Acre-Haifa plain where the Children of Israel destroyed the army of Jabin, King of Canaan. In the same Acre-Haifa district TCA funds are helping to enlarge a reformatory for boys; near Yavneh, the former Roman Yamnia, to build a village for neglected girls; near Jerusalem to build a home for deaf mutes; near Kfar Yona, in the once Roman province of Caesarea, new houses for immigrants from nearby camps that were flooded last winter—a drama which must not repeat itself. The American aid which releases additional Israel counterpart money, came to $65 million for the year ending June 30, 1952. 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