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4m How I A huf!and is uncovering a) on how a t' ager and his jlogists at the Technology, tmonstrate 13 ig could occur they have learning of a i- rant from the ii Service, they tlgate further ingle cell, and jte this small tl learned be- u re studying the J. a spinal ani- .1BULANCE s. (UP) Mrs tJ hospital era prk by bus and ice. She was - place of em-bus-truck colli- i 5t Jff- HOPE r SCR ' IffiB I, aoon, December 22, 1949 Coals To Newcastle: Firs Go To Alaska SEATTLE (UP.-A shipment ..f Christmas trees from Alaska lad of the spruce, hemlock and other evergreens, is at least unusual Yet a consignment of i;ui hales of firs is en route from Orin Fan of Rexford. Mont , to Sidney I rir of Woodrow, Alaska, adjacent to Seward. Alaska steamship compum ntli shipment in the 'recollection t senior Alaska shipping men." Longshoremen at Pier 42, where the S. S. Denali loaded, nearly threw the trees off the dock "The boys thought there must bo some mistake," said Emil Han son, Alaskan terminal and stevedor ing superintendent. First I. awn Tennis Sit;' Famed Leamington !; V ; wiek, England, rlniir, t i be '.!:e site of the first lawn tenuis c'.ib in the world. Four !Ain pioneeis, in cluding one Spanish mercliar!. are said to have formed the cl'ib in 187:?. Lawn tennis w;:. intril -oil in Britain under the name of pe lota". - " " " t YOU ARE SURROUNDED . I HAYWOOD "ILECTRIC SERVICE Hazclwood sES aajaaal USCiH S-,jJhi,1J i j TO EXPRESS OUR CHRISTMAS JOY The spirit of love and kindness, generosity and good will creeps into every heart this Christmas season. With hope for the future we sing our songs and give our gifts. The lighted tree is a symbol to us that our faith is the light that overcomes darkness. In reverent memory of the Blessed Child born so long ago, we say, now and always . . . MERRY CHRISTMAS'. RST STATE BANK mber Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation HAZELWOOD, N. C. Herbert Stein Christmas In Author and Massachusetts did not celebrate Christmas until 184(1. It was! lMnl"11 ! the Pilgrim Fathers. Newcomers t ,u, ,.,,,, wh() pu uicir windows, 'ImI piscop.ils and were were criti- n'eti ia itieir neighbors. It is dil- icrent id., 1 ni;m villages carol : snmers mak,. the round on Christ-1 i.ias 1a,, The Worcester. Mass.. Oratorio Society otTers Handel's .o.sslui ,,, Christmas Day. Thc 1 onuigcse of 1io incetown, ccIcIiimU. with open house. Mass. F b i o Islands. Fla , n, ar Fort M;, Iris a special Christmas (clcbration on the beach; a barc lcol Santa Clus steos from a speed boat and distributes gilts to island children under the cocoanut palms. On January (i. the sponge fisher men from Tarpon Springs, Fla.. celebrate not only the coming of the Wise Mm hut the baptism of Jc-iis l: John the liaptist. Accord ing to their calendar, it is Christ mas Kve. a time both for prayer and rovclrv. Rumanian singers in Ohio go from door to door on Christmas Fve. Yugoslavians decorate their houses with ivy and scatter straw on the floor to symbolize Christ's birth in a manger. In Hilton Park, Wilmington, N. C, stands what is claimed to be the world's largest Christmas tree, a live oak festooned with moss, 70 feet in height, 15 feet in circum ference at the base, its limbs spreading 115 feet. This tree is always decorated for the Christ mas season. Rochester. N. y., gives a Flower Show on Christmas. The old fashioned community of Blanco, Texas, retains many of the customs of other days. On the night before Christmas (he men and boys gather on the town square, "divide sides" and stage a sham battle with Ro man candles. York, Fla, sees its Christmas feslivals opened by a colorful parade in which Santa Claus, es corted by the high-school band, comes down Congress Street on the back of an elephant. At Palmer Lake. Col., every year, the Sunday before Christmas, (he ancient cere mony of hunting and burning the Yule log takes place. Christmas is celebrated with firecrackers in the southern part of Missouri. There is a Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, a Jerusalem in Maryland. Christmas is the name of a little town in Florida which receives much mail during yuletide holi days, when more than 50,000 let ters are run through the cancella tion machines and relayed to all parts of the country. People throughout the world before the war mailed gifts "via Christmas" so they might be stamped with the "Christmas portmark. Holly is the name of a town in Colorado. At Christmas time the farmers from the upper Bear River Valley. Wyoming, put away their wheeled rigs and drive into Evans ton in bobsleds, where the Three Wise Men, their camels and the Star of Bethlehem, are outlined in electric lights on a snowy hill east of the city. Christmas brings the annual Community Sing and Pag eant to Aim Harbor, Mich. El Do rado, Ark., celebrates with a Christmas Street Festival. Roses bloom in Portland, Ore., at Christmas-time while the North and Northwest is covered with snow. In many Norwegian towns of North Dakota, Jule Bokke, or Christmas Fools, still make the rounds of the homes between jJItoly night $11 i calm All itf Unto CHARLES SHELL SERVICE Charlie Balentine, Owner THE WAYNESVILLE The U.S.A. Illustrator Christmas and New Year. They are young people dressed in cos tumes and masked, who call on the neighbors and are given food and drink at each home visited. In many of the villages along the Mississippi river the folk use the driftwood to make Christmas bon fires Huge sticks of wood, piled about tall center poles erected on the levee, are kindled with roscaux itall weed) which crackle like firecrackers. Agua Fria, New Mex., is gay at Christmas-lime, when the church is garlanded wilh paper (lowers and red bells and small bonfires burn everywhere on Christmas Eve just as they do in Santa Fe nearby. f Santa Claus is a tiny, quiet, community in Ohio which be comes a beehive of activity with the approach of Christmas. An even greater volume of mail than received in Christmas, Fla., pours in to be re-mailed and stamped with the Santa Claus postmark. On the highest hill of the village is Santa Claus Park, in the center of which a towering:, smiling granite statue of Santa Claus stands on a brightly silvered five pointed star. There is also a Santa Claus College which gives out degrees of B. S. C. (Bachelor of Santa Clausing). i Theriot's. La. inhabitants cele- ! brate Christmas in the middle of February. They are all trappers and December 25 is the height ot the trapping season which each year finds them scattered over the vast marshes, hard at work trap ping muskrat, mink and other fur- bearing animals. Instead of a Christmas tree the belated cele brants content themselves with live oak boughs or saplings, cov ered with Spanish moss, a native holly called yaupon, and winter berries. Milwaukee's Polish children be lieve in Gwiazdor, the Polish San ta Claus. Polish Christmas wishes are exchanged by "breaking with you the wafer": the head of the family breaks a wafer and gives half to his wife; both break their wafers and hand half to others and so on, each time the season's greet ings are exchanded. During the holidays colored lights are thread ed overhead in the streets. Alabama farmers, many of them, still loyally celebrate "Old Christ mas" on January 7. They solemnly affirm that pokeweed puts forth sprouts and all the farm animals kneel with their heads toward Jerusalem at first daybreak of the day. This "first daybreak" occurs, they say, about an hour before the usual daybreak and reaches almost the brightness of sunrise. Then darkness returns, the poke sprouts wither, the animals arise and ordinary daybreak comes. Sussek County, Del., still cele brates Old Christmas, observing it on the Twelfth Night, January 6. This goes back to the resistance of families of English descent to the change made in the calendar by Pope Gregory. The St. Mary's Choral Society of Burlington, N. J., still follows the old English custom of singing the "Waits" on Christmas Eve. Now put the first letters of each paragraph together and what have you? Thanks! And the same to you! Cotton In Automotive Trucks Enough cotton to make a new dress for every housewife in Amer ica is used each year in the manu facture of automotive trucks. MOUNTAINEER PLAY IT SAFE Don't Mix Gaiety With Danger When Celebrating Christmas While Chrislmos is the merriest of all seasons of the year It can also lx a time or tragedy if certain hazards aren't avoided and some particular precautions taken. Trie National Safety Council an mially points out that the Christ runs holidays are the most danger ous ot the year, usually replete with casualties, home accidents, (ires and falls The council has listed the follow In; "don'ts" and precautions which if remembered will help make this Christmas season a safe one: The Christmas tree shouldn't be placed near a stove or fireplace. Don't (five children any toy that could prove dangerous, such as those with sharp points. If toys are operated with elec tricity, be sure some grownup supervises their use. The Christmas tree should not be decorated wilh lighted candles. Carefully-wired electric bulbs de finitely are much snfer. " Don't leave a lighted tree un guarded at any time. One should be on the lookout for fire all the time the tree is lighted. Especially dangerous is the practice of some families in leaving the Christmas tree lighted and unwatched all night long. One should never use a rick 2)ruicL Uiril to Hia IVagic" of WiJefo The greens which are used for Christmas decorations found their way into early festivities because of certain virtues attributed to them by the ancients, and many of them which adorned pagan seasonal rites were later taken over to grace the ceremonies and celebrations of Christmas Day. In both England and America, the holly and the mistletoe are as sociated with Christmas as invari ably as are the plum pudding and Christmas tree. It was the Druids who first used the mistletoe. "Heal-all" was their name for it. The plant was supposed to have curative values, and grad ually they assigned to it all man ner of magic powers. Their priests, each year around the time when we now celebrate Christmas, would have high plat forms built around the sacred oak trees which, In a manner of speak ing, were "hosts" to the mistle toe. Robed In ceremonial vestments of white, they ascended these plat forms, and with golden sickles espe cially made for the solemn occasion they cut away the mistletoe. The Saxons also prized it and it was they who gave to it the name of mistletoe. Eventually the green came to be regarded as a symbol of peace. Opposing varriors who met near it woulo call a truce, and it was customary to hang it over the en trance doors so that they who en tered might be assured of friend ship. Electrical Note Do not kink electrical appliance cords or bend them sharply when you are storing the appliances. 1 OOQ ifiililipl-lliiiliiiiililiiiilj:-! Cjood 1 I is .titt1 t . .a. 4 1 it j 'JP m at i i CURTIS DRUG STORE ety, unsafe ladder In decorating the tree. Don't place Christmas candles near the tree, curtains, papei wreaths or any other inflammable decorations. Remember, the Christmas tree can be made fire-resistant. Accord ing to the United States forestry service, it can be done in this man ner: Divide the weight of your ire by four and buy that many pounds of ammonium sulphate Dissolve it in water one and one-half pints of water to each pound of ammo nium sulphate. Cut the end of your tree trunk on a diagonal Put some of the solution in a iar and stick the diagonal butt of the tree into it. Add more solution as the tree drinks it up. Don't be excessive about Christinas "spirits." Keep toys out of places where people might trip over them. Remove the tree from the house before it dries out. During Christmas you'll probably have many guests, so sprinkle salt or sand on icy steps and sidewalks. AND I WANT . . . This Is a candid camera shot of a little girl being Interviewed by a genial Santa on the subject of her desires In the line of Christmas presents. The rapt expression on her face Is typical of small glrl-and-boyhood, when a lovely crisis like this pre sents Itself. On Christmas While the litter from Christmas packages is still about, be partic ularly careful of smoking. Hot ashes dropped on tissue paper or a carelessly-tossed match could re sult in tragedy. Dece;nbr 25 was decreed as the date ot Christ's nativity by the Roman emperor Julian who began his reign as a Christian, but re verted to paganism before his death. Rise In Farm Values Farm land values in the U. Sy went up T per cent in the year end ing March 1, 1948 to equal the re- rnrrf Viiffh nrpn nf 1920. ir JLUC Ck m TMf t 1 iiiaiiiiii rV : -l W" Elk Or Bison Steak Offered To Public LAWTON, Okla. ( UP) Those who might relish a juicy hunk of braised elk or a sizzling buffalo steak can find it here. The Wichita Mountains wild life refuge for the past 15 years has slaughtered and sold bison and elk considered surplus. The federal refuge last year grossed $18,000 i from sale of meat, hides and by j products of the slaughtering. I An estimated 160 bison and elk will be butchered and sold this year. Bison sells at $75 for one half carcass and $150 for a whole carcass, dressed, ready for ship ment and delivered to trasporta- tion facilities. Butchered elk prices are $42.50 and $85. The usual buffalo carcass weighs from 240 to 500 pounds. Buyers' requests are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis during the slaughtering season each fall. Markets, shops, public eating plac es and clubs may buy one carcass each. Individuals can get one half a carcass. The National Press Club and the Anteaters Society, a scientists' group, in Washington, D. C, are among the customers They submit their orders far in advance, know ing the demand always exceeds the supply. Pepping Up Cottafe Cheese Bland flavor of cottage cheese can be pepped up with rkillful sea soning. Onions,, herbs like parsley and sage, chopped olives and pi mento, green pepper, celery and tomato are all tasty with the cheese. Any of these combinations could be used to make sandwiches or salads. RELIABLE WAYNESVILLE'S "It's Easy To Pay fteatet Wf toy fM Christmas 1S Pfl tit' TO YOU AND THOSE F Tl P'f ABOUT YOU May Christmas this year bs THE MOST CtORIOUS Of YOUR I -tIFE AND THAT TKE NEW Yea y MAY BRING FpRTONE we very much appreciate the opportunity you hm given W to serre you ia the past and even inore do wt appreciate Jtt 'as a IriendY I May wo deserve this faendsMp always, 1 WALKER'S ESSO SERVICE PAGE THREE (Third Section . ' Real Estate Men Report Home Sales Booming NEW YORK (UP) .Ballderi of 17 methopolitaa areas report hav ing sold more than 7,000 homes ' valued at about $68,000,000 during, national home week, whk w." . observed In September. ; ;' , The spot check made by Amerl- can Builder Magazine allowed the;? average selling price waa about . $11,000. In the methopolitan area of New , York, Long Island builders report- ed that 250,000 people inspected ti. the 300 houses on display and bought more than 2,000. The e rage selling price was estimated -to be between $11,000 and $12,000.' In the Chicago area and in other cities, builders reported sell ing 1.276 houses valued at morfc.i ' than $13,000,000. - , ' ' - Christmas Tree Bulbs, .... Again Plentiful BLOOMFIELD, N. J. (UP) Christmas tree light bulbs will,, glow their gayest greeting ever thU v. year, the first Yuletide that the bulbs have been plenttlul since , . pre-war. A Westinghouse estimate cated that American manufacture . ers have ready a mountain of 400, 000,000 of the colored miniature bulbs, enough to supply 11 to each of the nation's 36,500,000 electrl fled homes. Part of the bulbs are included with new strings of Christmas tree ; lights while the others are sold , across retail counters to replace ; old bulbs. Want Ads Bring enlck Results JEWELERS OLDEST JEWELER The Reliable Way" with ctttlJi It euti than. Ikltt YOU HEALTH, COOQ AND CREAT HAPP1NE.
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