'PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAIN DAILY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12,1954 PAGE TWO 'IliE MICIII(iAN flAil A SUNDAY, DEUEMBER 12, 195w FEW CELEBRATE: Christmas Just Another Day for Cops BOOKS TO BULLETS: 'U' Students Request Fantastic Presents Christmas? It's just another working day for the members of Ann Arbor's po- lice force. While businessmen are having office parties, workers having fac- tory parties and students just hav- ing parties, the ever-vigilant police are pounding their beats and an- swering complaints, just as they've been doing the other 364 days of the year. have one customary observance of yuletide, the annual coffee and cake hour sponsored by the com- mand officers every Christmas eve. A few lucky officers have one of their one-and-a-half days off a week fall on Christmas and New Year's. Some others are able to use their backlog time-hours spent on days off appearing in court and doing other special work-toward the hol- iday season. But to the averr ge cop on the beat, Christmas time has little extraordinary to recom- mend itself. Seasonal Problems There is always some seasonal excitement for the police. Already this year there has been a com- plaint that two 17-year-old ever- green trees in an Ann Arbor resi- dent's front yard were cut down and are now decorating someone's living room. The department is working on the case, but hopes are not high for the apprehension of the local lumberjacks. Main St. stores are overcrowded with holiday shoppers, and precau- tions are taken against the annual increase in shoplifting. For several weeks before the big day, a police sergeant parades the street as a warning to would-be-thieves. The presence of the law is always felt. So passes Christmas. Do the po- licemen object? As one 20 year member of the force cheerfully said: "We're getting used to it." Coffee and Cake The men behind the badges doI Buy and Use Christmas Seals WILKINSON'S Gchr NA TEST GIFT! Graceher - ~t ewels s- with3 -ji Old-World Beauty. gleaming3 tCANTERBURY 3 Jewel Case handsome 3 A handsome case-conven- ient for the traveling man to $495 keep his accessories neatly Graceful, Italian-influenced lines guarded . .. always ready for with delicate tracings of gold em- dress parade. Pigskin-grain bossing. A distinctive case - at Texol 0 in red-brown or tan. a distinctly low price. Leather No Federal Tax grain Texol® in rich Venetian No Fedeal Taxcolors : green, brown, red or ivory-. No Federal Tax LAY AWAY FOR CHRISTMAS $1.00 Will Hold Any Purchase Open Monday 9 to 8:30, Tuesday-Saturday 9 to 5:3C Initials will be put on at no extra charge. 327 South Main Street' SOLOISTS REHEARSE-Prof. Maynard Klein, conductor of the 400 member University Choir, leads the four faculty soloists in a rehearsal of the "Te Deum", by Anton Bruckner. This piece will be part of the program of the choir's annual Christmas concert performance to be held at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Hill Auditorium. 'U' Choir To Feature Varied Concert Program 4 Featuring a program of works by Vittoria, Gabrieldi, Johann Se- bastian Bach, Benjamin Britten, Vaughn Williams, and Anton Bruckner, the University Choir will perform its annual Christmas concert at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in Hill Auditorium. Conducted by Prof. Maynard Klein, the 400 member choir with faculty soloists Arlene Sollenberg- er, contralto; Harold Haugh, ten- or; Phyllis McFarland, soprano and Phillip Duey, baritone, will sing the "Te Deum", by Anton Bruckner. Clime Chang~e Detracts from Yule Feeling While many University students, reared in the tradition of the 'white Christmas', travel south for the holidays, others who are used to more temperate Yuletide climes will remain in chilly Michigan during the vacation. Students from the Hawaiian Is- lands and other tropical and semi- tropical areas who remain in Ann Arbor will miss the Christmas feeling just as much as Northern- ers who travel south. Whether palm trees or snow signify the Christmas feeling, the person used to them misses much when he's away. "Sing Ye To The Lord", an a cappella motet by Johann Sebas- tian Bach, will be sung with the Michigan Singers composing the first choir, and the Bach and other University Choir members singing the second choir part. Brass Quartet to Play Participating in the Gabrieli "Omnes Gentes", an antiphonal motet, will be a brass quartet, composed of Donald McComas, and Wesley Measley, trumpets, and Joseph Moore and James Har- rington, trombones. The three vocal choir parts will be sung a cappella by the Michigan Singers, Bach Choir and other University Choir members. Accompanied by pianist William Doppmann, '56 SM and assisted by flutist Nelson Hauenstein, Miss Sollenberger and the women of the Michigan Singers will sing Vaug- han Williams' "Magnificat". Other selections on the pro- gram are "O Magnum Mysterium" by Vittoria, and a contemporary composition "Hymn to the Virgin" by Benjamin Britten. An octet of students from the Michigan Sing- ers will sing the first choir part with the entire University Choir singing the responsory phrases. "St. Matthew Passion" Prof. Klein will direct the Uni- versity Choir for their spring con- cert March 25, when they will again perform the "St. Matthew Passion". He also conducts the 80-voice Michigan Singers, who will tour the New England States from April 1 to 10, climaxing the concert tour with a performance in Carnegie Hall, New York City. The Singers have performed two Christmas concerts during the last week in Eaton Rapids and Wayne, Mich. They also participated in the annual Ann Arbor Christmas Community Sing and Pageant. By LOU SAUER and BOB JONES Encouraged perhaps by the New York Sun report ('Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"), Univer- sity students are requesting Christ- mas presents which could be sup- plied by no one but St. Nick him- self. Seeming to believe in the super- natural powers of the bearded one, one harried freshman paused in his ten minute break between classes to say breathlessly, "I want a longer vacation. Say about eight months longer." Pausing first to observe the won- ders of the earth-sky, trees, and sun-Don Chisholm, '55, finally said, "Give me money! More mon- Brain Probe The influence of science has left its mark on the heart of Jim Mc- Donald, '56. He wants only "an electrocephalograph. This would enable me to penetrate the laby- rinths of my roommate's mind." Some students kept their requests along more conventional lines. Margie Denawetz, '58, had a strict- ly practical wish. Returning from the office of her English teacher, she looked determined as she said, "I'm asking for a set of encyclo- pedias so that I can pass Freshman Comp." This attitude was reiterated by a worried looking athlete crossing the diag, who said desperately, "A couple good marks on tests I've just took." Doodlyboop? Bill Johnson, '58, had an unusual request. "I'd like a doodlyboop, just like Tommy's!" Marie Borrbonnais, '57, replied to the query with a sly smile. "Nothing you could print in The Daily," she said. Interviewed under the Engineer- Doors Show Imaginative Decorations At some time in the past the custom of . decorating doors at Christmas time was established by coeds living in the women's dorms. Since then the designs which ap- pear as one goes through a hall or corridor have become more elab- orate and original. Of course there are always cheery red bows and candy canes in evidence, but the visitor is sure to see some truly artistic and unique designs as well. Many of the more talented and ambitious students have pictures of the Madonna and her Child in their windows, with lights arranged so that a halo effect is created. Another appropriate design is of an angel praying. The sign over the figure reads, "Pray for me, I have two bluebooks this week." On one door old St. Nick is pulling a transcript out of his bags. The grades on the list are all A's. s COED COGITATES-Poring over a set of borrowed encyclopediae, Margie Denawetz, '58, harbors hope that a benificent St. Nick will answer her wish for a set of 'brainery' all her own. She and many other Michigan students include practical gifts along these lines on their Christmas lists in hopes of improving pre-holiday grades after vacation is over. ing Arch a few seconds before mid- night, Cookie Schwartz, '58, was restless. "All I want's my mistle- toe," she chirped. A note of despair pervaded the words of Eugene Kreuzberger, '56. "Well," he said. "I already have a revolver. One bullet umuld suf- fice." Bernie Tolpin, '56, had only one small request for Christmas. "Let it be a 2S deferment," he said. "Just a couple meaningless little squiggles of ink." Yule Shoppers Step Up Buying NEW YORK, (R)-Christmas shop- pers stepped up their buying thisj week, according to Dun & Brad- street. Total retail sales throughout the nation matched the high level of a' year ago. Night openings helped. So did extensive promotions which lured holiday shoppers away from3 suburban stores into downtown. centers.I Holiday dresses, furs, accessor-; ies and coats sold well; demand for children's wear approached a, seasonal high. Men's wear sales were down slightly from the pre- vious week, but buying of gifts, sports equipment and furniture was at a higher level. Food stores showed substantial gains over last year. Small appli- ances sold well and television sales continued to soar. Demand for ma- jor appliances lagged. 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To all residents of QUADS & DORMS I Before you leave for _1 Christmas Vacation, leave your clothes at the house desk. Greene's will pick them up and have them returned all clean and fresh when you get back. '%, rD r!r Iit . .