PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 25&#8212;A six&#8208;inch concrete barrier atop a levee kept the flooding Willamette River from pouring into the downtown Portland business district today.

Flood Nears Top of Levee Protecting Portland, Ore.

If drivers have been confused by the traffic lights along Fifth and Madison Avenues in recent days, it is understandable.

5TH AND MADISON TEST SIGNAL PLAN; But Mew Progressive Pattern Fails to Speed Traffic in Intended Direction

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec. 25&#8212;A raiding party of 22 Indonesian guerrillas was captured in the Strait of Malacca late yesterday by the British frigate Ajax.

Indonesians in Boats Caught Off Malaya

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 20&#8212;Brazil's revolutionary regime is gathering strength and momentum in its struggle to overcome the huge problems that beset it.

MILITARY REGIME OF BRAZIL GAINING IN REFORM DRIVE; Unity Enables It to Push Unpopular Fight Against Inflation and Corruption

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25&#8212;Americans have received a $40 billion lift this year. American and foreign analysts are awakening to just how big it is.

U.S. ECONOMY IS UP ADDED GAINS SEEN; Increase in Gross National Product to $624 Billion Is Hailed by Analysts; 1.5 MILLION NEW JOBS; Era of Fast Growth Believed Opening for Country as Labor Supply Climbs

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Dec. 25 &#8212; Stringent security measures went into force here today to prevent a repetition of the Christmas Eve bomb blast that killed two men and injured 98 in an American officers billet.

SAIGON SECURITY TIGHTENED BY U.S. AFTER EXPLOSION; All American Quarters Get Heavy Guard—Blast Toll 2 Dead and 98 Injured; ARMS CHECK IN STREETS; Urgent Meetings Held With Vietnamese Authorities to Discuss Safety Moves

JOHNSON CITY, Tex., Dec. 25&#8212;President Johnson enjoyed a warm, sunny Christmas today. He went to church, played with his dog, joked with reporters and ate turkey with about 20 relatives.

The Johnsons Enjoy A Family Christmas

It would have been a splendid Easter but meteorologically speaking, it was an absurd Christmas.

Balmy 60° Weather Sets Relaxed Tone For Christmas Day

RIPLEY, Miss., Dec. 25 &#8212;The spirit and inspiration of Christmas reached into the red clay back country of northeastern Mississippi today.

FIRST RITES HELD IN RIPLEY CHURCH; Northern Students Worship With Mississippi Negroes at Site of Rebuilding

LONDON, Dec. 25&#8212;Queen Elizabeth II appealed to the young people of the British Commonwealth today to hang onto the thread of freedom that binds them together.

QUEEN BIDS YOUNG DEFEND FREEDOM; In Commonwealth Broadcast She Calls for Discipline to Maintain Rights

COLOMBO, Ceylon, Dec. 25&#8212;Reports from northeastern Ceylon today put the death toll from Tuesday's cyclone there at 750. The figure was based on the number of bodies recovered from raging seas and on the dead counted in stricken cities land hamlets.

TOLL PUT AT 750 IN CEYLON STORM; Damage Believed in Millions —U.S. Cables Aid Offer

TANSONNHUT AIR BASE, South Vietnam, Dec. 25 (AF)&#8212;Air crewmen of the 315th Troop Carrier Group, known as the Air Commandos, blinked in surprise at the Christmas eve scheduling board.

Colonels in Vietnam Fly Mission to Give Airmen the Day Off

SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 23&#8212;Efforts by Bolivia and Chile to set aside their territorial differences and resume diplomatic relations have come to a standstill, according to diplomatic sources here.

CHILE AND BOLIVIA STALLED IN TALKS; Hopes to Resume Ties Fade After Demand on Port

LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo, Dec. 25&#8212;This capital city was sunny and peaceful today after last night's military alert.

Christmas Is Calm In Congo's Capital Following an Alert

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Dec. 25 &#8212; This Christmas week has brought demonstrations of ill will toward the American presence in South Vietnam not only from foes but also from men once considered friends.

Ill Will in Vietnam; Demonstrations by Friends and Foes Point to Difficult Days Ahead for U.S.

MANILA, Saturday, Dec. 26 (Reuters)&#8212;United States personnel and their families will be restricted within the Clark Air Base Compound from noon today until midnight tomorrow &#8220;to prevent untoward incidents,&#8221; a United States military spokesman said.

U.S. Base in Philippines Restricting Personnel

ROME Dec. 25 &#8212; Pope Paul VI urged today that mankind restore the &#8220;authentic spiritual value&#8221; to Christmas so that it may be celebrated with &#8220;true happiness.&#8221;

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT IS URGED BY POPE; Pontiff Calls for Restoral of the ‘Authentic’ Values

MOSCOW, Dec. 25 (Reuters)&#8212;More Soviet factories are going to try to use the profit motive as their main economic criterion, the Government newspaper Izvestia said today. For the first time, the paper said, profit&#8208;motive experiments are to be extended next year to heavy industry and mining.

Soviet Industry Will Try More Profit‐Motive Tests

BETHLEHEM, Jordan, Dec. 25 (AP) &#8212; Pilgrims worshiped, church hells pealed and hawkers did a thriving Christmas business today in this old town where Jesus was born.

PILGRIMS FLOCK INTO HOLY LAND; Christmas Attracts 5,000 to Place of Jesus' Birth

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 25&#8212;Little Christmas spirit was evident in the closed&#8208;in world of the United Nations as the delegates began their brief holiday recess.

Glum Holiday at U.N.; Work Impeded and Vacations Short Because of Impasse Over Arrears

LONDON, Dec. 25&#8212;A 23year&#8208;old reporter was stabbed to death here early today when he went to help a man being attacked by a gang of youths. His friend and the attacked man also were knifed.

Reporter Stabbed to Death By Young London Vandals

BOSTON, Dec. 25 (AP)&#8212;Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, today urged Roman Catholics to read the Bible &#8220;at least five minutes each day.&#8221; In his Christmas sermon at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, he said: &#8220;For some reason or other, Catholics are reluctant to read the Bible. But Protestants not only read the book but they study it. I met a woman who knows the Book of Psalms by heart. And to be

Cushinq Urges Bible Reading

VIENTIANE, Laos. Dec. 25 (UPI) &#8212; General Phoumi Nosavan, the Laotian Defense Minister and leader of the right&#8208;wing faction of the Coalition Government, returned today from Saigon. He was reported to have gone there to discuss with Vietnamese leaders the possibility of VietnameseLaotian air strikes against Communist guerrilla supply routes to South Vietnam.

Laotian Back From Saigon

PNOMPENH, Cambodia, Dec. 25 (Reuters) &#8212; A Government communique declared today that helicopter&#8208;borne troops from South Vietnam attacked a Cambodian border village yesterdav.

CAMBODIA CHARGES VIETNAMESE ATTACK

ROME, Dec. 25 &#8212; Christmas was celebrated in a minor key in Italy this year as the unsettled political and economic situation reduced the festivity from the &#8220;boom&#8221; years of 1961 and 1962.

Italy's Holiday Dampened By High Prices and Politics

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December 26, 1964

Headlines from December 26, 1964

Flood Nears Top of Levee Protecting Portland, Ore.

5TH AND MADISON TEST SIGNAL PLAN; But Mew Progressive Pattern Fails to Speed Traffic in Intended Direction

Indonesians in Boats Caught Off Malaya

MILITARY REGIME OF BRAZIL GAINING IN REFORM DRIVE; Unity Enables It to Push Unpopular Fight Against Inflation and Corruption

U.S. ECONOMY IS UP ADDED GAINS SEEN; Increase in Gross National Product to $624 Billion Is Hailed by Analysts; 1.5 MILLION NEW JOBS; Era of Fast Growth Believed Opening for Country as Labor Supply Climbs

Billboard 200

Beach Boys In Concert

Roustabout (Soundtrack)

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People

Where Did Our Love Go

Notable Births

Historical Context for December 26, 1964