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Show Christman Day Salt Lake City, Utah Vol. 252, No. 82 o Wednesday Morning December 25, 1985 o Christmas l)a 0 Spirit of Christmas Takes Many Forms o By Brian Friedman Associated Press Writer Shopping bags full of groceries, not sugarplums, were on the minds of hundreds of needy who lined up in Chicagos bitter cold tor a Christmas eve food giveaway, while thousands of travelers at Western airports waited out a thick fog that even a rednosed reindeer couldnt penetrate. Farmers were keeping a vigil at the state Capitol in Wisconsin to protest farm foreclosures, and some wise astronomers in the West planned to search the night sky for the celestial light known as Hailey's comet. A white Christmas was forecast for New England, the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, and the western Dakotas, but warm, easterly winds will keep sunny, Southern California in Cf o' o unseasonable tempera tures. All 15 flights for the day were can- celed in Missoula, and people boarded buses to other Montana towns, said Terrie Bodenhamer, executive secretary for the Missoula County Airport Authority. There were crowded air terminals especially John F. Kennedy International Airport, where extensive over bookings on Air Domini-can- a flights have stalled 100 to 200 people each day for the past five in New York, days. There were a lot of hot tempers," said Port Authority Police Officer R. Sheehan. "It is not unusual to have over bookings at this time of year, just some airlines do it a little better than others." Instead of wise men watching the Star of Bethlehem in the east, scien tists atop Mount Hopkins near Tucson, Ariz., on Christmas night will be looking to the west for Halley's comet, said Susan Wyckoff, an astronomer at the University of Arizona Wyckoff and UA astronomer John Black plan to observe the comet through the powerful Multiple Mirror Telescope to study light emitted from vapors boiling off the comet's core, or nucleus, to determine its carbon content. Moonlight will prevent good views of Halley's comet, although people in very dark Northern Hemisphere areas might see it through binoculars about an hour after sunset, before the moon rises, by looking high in the southern sky to the right of the constellation Pegasus. Carol Harsh, her daughter Janet. See A-- Column 1 In Chicago, Mary Jones was the first to line up Tuesday in temperatures and a biting wind off Lake Michigan that made it feel like 22 below zero for a bag of groceries given out by the Rev. Paul Halls boys club. It isn't so bad, and Lord knows, this is certainly going to help out, said Jones, a mother of three. Its going to make Christmas feel like Christmas, at least for tonight." Inside, the minister directed volunteers loading shopping bags with loaves of bread, chickens or turkeys, canned goods and celery, baking mixes for a box of cookies and a corn-brea- six-pac- k of soda. i i , The economy may be up. but we don't see that down here, said Hall, who has enough food to distribute to up to 10,000 people. Fog shrouded airports in Seattle, Reno, Nev., and Missoula, Mont., on Tuesday, forcing thousands of travel- ers to take buses, rent cars or just sit and wait, ; V . ' ' . Fog cleared momentarily at . Seat- - International Airport late Tuesday morning, but instruments showed it rolling in right away again from the north, and the number of flights in and out remained far be- -' low the normal of 650. Although travelers were socked in at the Reno, which has been shut down since Sunday, there was room at the inn t- - the Shamrock Inn thanks to owner Ahpie Olsen. She offered free .rooms there and at her Chalet Motel until the fog lifts be-- cause business was slow and "I know what its like to be stuck in an airport v . its not pleasant. v Lives in the Younger children more likely to believe than conservatives' offspring. Adults were not asked whether they believed in Santa Claus. In follow-u- p interviews, the more 8- -, 9- -, and sophisticated-soundin- g sometimes offered logical f. explanations for their Sara Rimer New York Times Writer "He's a big fat man in said Melissa Odell, an Missoulhf Mont. a red suit, in ' ; ' i "He loves children and he never dies," said Chad Scanga, 4, of Lower Burrell, Pa. "He's a spirit," said Katie non-belie- "One time I got a bike for Christmas," said Sara Oates, 8, of Burk, W.Va. "A bike can't come down a Nichol- son, 9, who lives on Whidbey Island in the state of Washington. "He's kind chimney. While other children particularly those who live in houses or apartments without fireplaces said Santa was smart and powerful enpugh to get around the chimney problem, Sara was adamant. He can t get in and loving.' "He's the guy who brings you your presents." said Cade Barbier, 8, of Gray, La. "He like's kids," says Allison from Pearland, a Texas-"H- e likes the color red. He likes food. He likes living in the North Pole. He has a heart. By Arthur Max Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM The Israeli government, easily defeating a motion, on Tuesday rejected demands to stop construction of a Mormon center near the Mount of Olives but vowed that no missionary work would be carried out there. The official statement, made by Energy Minister Moshe Shahal, was the first time the government had taken a position on the issue since Santa Claus among children through 10 years old, and found that 3 percent of them said they believed, although as Melissa, Chad, Katie, Cade and Allison showed, they may define him differently. The younger the children, the more likely they were to believe. Every ol the but only among 261 children polled by telephone from Dec. 14 through 18, said ttiey believed, 87 two-thir- controversy erupted over the Age was the only element that muttered much: boys and girls, Brigham Young University study center six months ago. It was a clear victory for the Mormon-affiliate- whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants were equally likely to believe, as were the children of Republicans and Democrats. Children from poorer families were slightly more chillikely to believe than were the and liberals' dren of the d school. The government beat back th'e motion sponsored by the Agudat Israel party, of Prime Minisabsence the despite ter Shimon Peres who was attending a Christmas eve reception in Bethleultra-orthodo- x well-to-d- hem. Todays Chuckle Christmas is a time when neither the past nor the future matters as much as the present h I Chinese Catholics Flock To Revamped Cathedral - the door, locked."- - PEKING (UPI) About 3.000 Chinese Catholics trudged through a light snowfall for a Christmas benediction Tuesday at Peking's newly reopened Cathedral of Our Savior that followed the traditions of China's breakaway Catholic Church. Peking Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan, dressed in silk gowns embroidered with pink and red roses, sprinkled holy water on the congregants gathGothic-styl- e ered in the cathedral. A white-robe- d choir sang Christmas hymns in Latin, following the she said. "The doors are . It, wasnt; just the absence of-- chimney at his house in West Babylon, N.Y., that influenced year-old -- Peter Fernandez. Last year I stopped believing in Santa Claus because there's nq way he can get into our house," he said. .Also, I saw my. father eating the cookies I left for ' l. Santa Claus. ; , Todd Matthews, 10,.' from Norton, Ohio, seemed to know the whole story.. "There is definitely not one," he said, In the stores they get paid by the company. They just give them the suit. Kids ask them the same ques: lions, and then they say, 'You've been See A-- 2, Column 1 traditions Todays Forecast ConSalt Lake City and vicinity siderable fog and clouds. Highs near 30; lows in teens. Details, B-. of Chinas breakaway Catholic Church, which asserted its independence from the Vatican soon after the 1949 Communist Revolution. Elderly Chinese men and women. who made up the majority of the 3.000 people in the congregation, mumbled Latin prayers from memory. Some worshippers grasped rosaries and wore metal crucifixes around their necks. Later Christmas eve. thousands of Peking's 30,000 Catholics were expected to flock to the cathedral for midnight Mass. The Cathedral of Our Savior, graced with new twin spires, a freshly painted facade and a bright red carpet running the length of the nave, is the third Catholic Church to reopen in Peking since China lifted a ban on religious activities in 1980. Since 1958. the cathedral had served as a school and a factory warehouse.. gray-haire- d Israel Rejects Demands To Halt B YU Center The common wisdom holds that children grow up alarmingly fast these days, in an age of television and computers that leave no time for simple beliefs. The New York Times tested that thesis by measuring belief in I UPfReuter Photo Chinese woman appears prayer as she clutches rosary of Our Savior in Peking. Cathedral a beads during service at deep in Only the two Agudat Israel members of the parliament raised their hands in support of their motion to bring down the The religious party claimed the y Brigham Young University annex will become a missionary center to try and convert Jews to the Mormon faith. Rabbi Menachem Porush charged in a speech that Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek had accepted money and stock from the Mormons to ease the licensing process, Kollek has denied the charge. In a stormy debate in which Porush and another religious party legislator were expelled from the chamber, Shahal said Israel had no legal means of stopping the building. seven-stor- But he said "the government opposes missionary activity and will guarantee that it does not happen." He said Brigham Young University officials had signed a commitment that no proselyting would be conducted at the facility. Shahal also disclosed that Israel s Foreign Ministry last year recommended approval of the universitys building applications because of the political clout wielded by the Mor- Column 4 Sec , A-- I H' i AsiooateU P LtNe'Ohoto The Same Close Up as Far Away SEATTLE controller Rush Jordan peers into the gloom from the con- Air-traff- ic K Internatrol tower of the Seattle-Tacom- a tional Airport. Visibility: l16th of a mile. |
