28 DECEMBER 361 DAYS PAST Sunday 4 DAYS TO COME Dr and I attended Sunday school Dr gave up teaching the Adult class. We had dinner with Oertel and family. Sharlene has a cold & is in bed. Joe and the boys had started for canyon home but owing to heavy snow returned after reaching Huntsville We called at Cleones. Spent the evening at home listening to church and news broadcast. STRANGE DENTAL CUSTOMS Married women in Japan and unmarried women in Java, the women of the Maria Islands and the inhabitants of Tonkin and Siam, are among the people who dye their teeth black. Filing the teeth down to the gums or into points is another practice found among women in Sumatra and some people in India. Macassar natives dye their teeth red, while Peru savages knock out their teeth, believing the space to be an embellishment. Monday 362 DAYS PAST DECEMBER 29 3 DAYS TO COME Severe fighting in Manila & over the Islands. Many lives lost as Japs bom schools churches homes etc after U.S. troops move out declaring Manila an open City This afternoon I rested two hr. This evening Dr & I go to hear The Messiah by Ogden Choir Lester Hinchliff conductor, Cleone Rich Eccles concert master, Sammuel Whitaker organist, Austin segar as Baritone did fine as well as other soloists, Excess in nothing- this I regard as a principle of the highest value in life- TERENCE WARNERS CALENDAR OF MEDICAL HISTORY