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Parades Are Commonplace In Downtown Washington By JANE FADS WASHINGTON?Americans love a parade, and in any o'ner town they'd close up shop and turn out en masse to do full honors to any one from a local 4-11 club winner to Santa Claus. But in the nation's capital the folks are so used to public dem- j onstrations in honor of kings and queens, heads of foreign states, in ternational heroes, politicians and conventions that they no longer get excited. A parade down Penn sylvania Avenue these days attracts about as much of a crowd as the Cabin John street car, which trav erses the same route. It used to be right embarrassing for the city fathers to whip up a full-dress welcoming reception, with flags, motorcades, bands, mili tary and police escorts and then have to move down town for the key-to-the-eity deal without a' crowd to whoop things up. But now most of the headliners ' seem to arrive at National Airport or Union Station around 4:30 in j th? afternoon. This may be just a coincidence, but it is the time I W'hen thousands of government workers are beginning to hot-fool It for home, and rumor is that it's I planned that way. Naturally, the' carefully-paced, slow-crawling pro cession has the right of way. All traffic halts, and the workers?at first resigned, sometimes grumb ling and often indifferent?at least make a sizable crowd and. being , Americans, before long are loving every minute of it. i How would you like a mountain retreat for a birthday present? That's what Mr*. H. F. Johnson of Racine, Wis., gave her husband, the new director of the Office of Industrial Resources of the For eign Operations Administration. The lovely spot is in the Andes in Chile, where the Johnsons spent some time before coming here. Mrs. Johnson says that every good fishing stream in Chile flows right into the lake on which the birthday house is situated. ? * * Mrs. John Farr Simmons, wife of the State Department's chief of protocol, whose life in the capital is one party after another, still has to go to market for the meals they do manage to eat at home. She's even written a song about her experiences in a supermarket where she rubs pushcarts with everybody, including Mrs. Richard Nixon, 'the Veep's wife, and the neighbor's cook. The title- "Super market Special". Christmas Services Set At Grace Church Two special Christmas services of Holy Communion will be con ducted at CSrace Episcopal Church in the Mountains by the Rev. James Y. Perry. Jr. A candlelight service starting at 11:30 p.m. will be held on Christ mas Eve: and the second service will be at 10 arm. Christmas morn ing for those who cannot attend the midnight service. 1ngs May the season's joys follow you throughout a happy New Year. Western Carolina Livestock Co. asheville. n. c. - - k UAGlf ftUftRJS f OI k im ichpsnauskasil ? . 1 MOfGUJ ? BROOKS W&*. .aft* J mTmkhi if PI? Cass a: |; guouhmJ McOONALDl nBOGGAN / H JNaI u 1 v-~ ? \ t?hmtmos, to be kept J fittingly, must bring to Sj "jn 4 5| us a remembrance fljj of Christ. Every true vision M of the day must show us 1| J ^?fy Child, with the light of divine love shining on His pj ' .face ? for Christmas with no thought of the love of Christ, is Kj empty of all sacred meaning. jL 9y In the spirit of this glorious Season we wish you fl f o Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Haywood Electric Service Authorized General Electric Dealer Dial GL 6-!>041 Main Street Hazelwood Mrs. Purcell Dies In Florida Mrs. Julia Hopple Purcell. a sum mer visitor to Waynesville f?r more than forty years, died last Friday morning in a St. Petersburg, Fla.. nursing home after a long illness. Funeral services were held in St. Petersburg and interment was in Cincinnati. Ohio. Mrs. Purcell was born June 16. 1876 in Covington. Ky. She was married to the late Eugene Pur cell, a druggist, and lived in St. Petersburg and Tampa, Fla. She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Colonial Domes. Daughters of the American Revolution, and St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church. She is survived by two sons, Woodson N. Purcell of Anona, Fla.. and James Purcell of St. Peters burg, and two grandchildren. Eureka! GREENSBORO (AP) ? Workers struck oil while drilling a well for water to be used at a bakery. Tripmphantly they marched in and told bakery manager Max Heath: "You have struck oil." "Yes, but it isn't free oil." Heath said. ."Its oil 1 have in a 4,000 gallon tank." New York Claims Santa Claus As Private Property While the claim may cause the rest of America to bristle, New Yorkers insist that Santa Claus is peculiarly New York's own. Not only did he land in Manhattan with the Dutch settlers, they point out, hut for almost two hundred years he never took his activities or pres ents out of New York state. The New Yorkers advance some interesting points to bolster their contentions. They declare that in the genial company of Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding and Clement Clarke Moore, Santa Claus giadually lost the grim, stern as pect he wore when he arrived with the Dutch settlers to the bulging benevolent mien he now offers. It was in New York, too. they assert, that Santa acquired his reindeer sleigh and his habit of I arriving on Christmas instead | of on the Dutch St. Nicholas eve (December 5). And thus. In his New York panoply, he fin ally found his way to all parts of the I'nited States, England and even Australia and India. Indeed, as the New Yorkers will tell you. New York, as New Ams-1 terdam in the beginning, was dedi-1 cated to Santa Claus. or St. Nich- ! olas. by its Dutch founders. For ! Santa Claus?or Sinterklaas. as it is sometimes written in Holland is of course only the centuries-old j pet name which Dutch children ' gave to their patron and gift bring er. the good Bishop St. Nicholas And it is said that the ship which brought the first Dutch children to | Manhattan island bore his face as figurehead. From the first, too. his special j day of December 6. was set aside 1 with Christmas, New Year's Easter j and Whitsuntide, as one of the five I chief holidays of the new colony, |flst as >t had been in Holland. 1 So. year after year, as regularly ' a-- St. Nicholas eve came around in New Amsterdam, in Breuckelen (Brooklyn), in Fort Orange (Al bany) and many other hamlets above the icy Hudson, the children in every good Dutch family gath ered in expectant circle. For weeks beforehand they had learned their lessons and helped with the milk ing and churning in an agony of good behavior. And now, all ready, they sang their song to Santa Claus. In the midst of Uie song would come a knocking at the door and in would stride Santa Claus. himself?not round and jolly, ?'ut solemn and majestic In trailing robes. ln one hand he might have a basket of presents or a purse, but in the other was sure to be a birch rod?an awful warning to a naughty boy. Santa questioned each child in turn about his behavior in the year just past and gave him a pat of approval or a warning shake of the head, as the record indicated. Then, bidding them all look for presents in the morning, the good saint sud denly flung a handful of lollipops into the room and, in the ensuing scramble, vanished into the night. Then the children set out their sabots, or later the great blue yarn stockings made for the purpose. However he did it?and the tale varies in many lands?Santa Claus got about, for in the morning over the hearth steaming with waffles and sausages and other good Dutch fare, were the blue stockings bulg ing with apples, balls, dolls and tops. AfoAH Numskull AfCKAMKClU -J ~if)eA&. AioArt ? IF BUCSLARS POW6D A PEfZPUHE STOKE, VJOULD THEV GET EVERy SCENT" ? CLVPE WWlTlNORTVf ir^ CUFTOH,M?U JtKS&y ^)pAR /NOAM ? is cA^-OMA* TUB KlMQ OP 3BRTM VOO G*r ON _ UAWAUAM TWAII4 r VjJNk SCVVSRB*, 0?. ... . AttartrouXJ, ***?? Porrc*?o Wt)4 WS't??/W?AA* Russian People Also Can Say Merry Christmas "S Rojdestvom Xristovvm." That's what a Russian would say ! to you if you were in Russia on i Christmas day and he wished to ex i tend the season's greetings. j The phrase is the Russian's way ] of saying: "Merry Christmas." In the past, the Russian's Christ - ; mas was closely associated with his church; but how the day is ob served no wthat the religious life , has been subjugated in the Soviet, i I one would have to be behind the! j "iron curtain" to know. But it was not always like that ! In other days, the Russian Christ mas was much like the L'kranian ! There was a Santa Claus known as "Dedusrtka Moroz" and there were traditional gifts of red boots for children and golden slippers for young girls. In certain parts of the country the "baboushka" (grandmother) was the legendary . dispenser of i gifts. According to one story, she repented ol unkindness and ever since has tried to make amends by distributing gifts to children at Christmas. Nicer To Eat Out PLEASANT HILL, Calif. <AP)? Poochie ate most of his meals at the home of neighbors. Stella and Howard Waite. So they asked his owners, Mr. and Mrs. Art Hakel, for the dog. The Hagels agreed but now the Waites never sec Poochie. He went back to scrouging meals from his original owners. Bethel Christmas Tree Program Set For Thursday The church Christmas tree at Bethel Presbyterian Church will include Christmas prayers, sing i ing. and a Christmas play, as well as Santa Claus, with presents tor j all, it has been announced. The Christmas tree is slated for j Thursday, beginning at li:45 p.m., by the Bethel Presbyterian Ses ' sion. The session worked out linal ! plans for Ihe event Sunday, togeth er with representatives from Sono ma Missionary Baptist Church, which will cooperate with the I Presbyterians in the service. I). D. York was appointed to see j I about getting Santa to town, and j I Clifton S. Terrell will obtain can ' dies, fruits and nuts for the occa sion. The ladies of the two churchea will be responsible for Christmas decorations, while a trio of young . men were appointed to select a tree. In addition, these parts were an-1 nounced for the Christmas play, j "Martin Luther's Cradle Hymn": j Hans Luther ? Clifton Terrell, j Jr.; Margaret Luther?Rheta York: Martin as a Child?Steve Rollins: : Martin as a Man?Lamar York. Priest?Billy Terrell; Frau Cotta? J Jean Mann; 1st Housewife?Jan-! nette Sheffield: 2nd Housewife ?j Rosemary West: Mrs". Katherine I Luther ? Pat Teague; 1st Child? Nancy Tat ham 2nd child - .McNeill; 3rd Child ? Jacki Cracken; 4th Child?Beverl tice; 5th Child- Carolyn J Reader?Annette Sheffield CPL. JOS1 I'll ('. M()KR()\fl nt Mr. .1 ml Mrs ( .n riill \||H limiti- I. Wavnexville, hasl named "Marine ot the \lfl While servins with a unit gl Fleet Marine 1'oree in liavl 'i in- tiii >omfl used ni I the distance it v as suppost I of oxi 11 cOlllcl plow without A one tin ' "" !l"i- or United S fl I billion ? ?* P<B more thi? ? Ivey' in Asheville Wishes You A Very Merry Christmas and the Happiest of New Years Si J* ^JOT: ~JSF: "JF: ??. '& 4 -?rc* ?*rv^ ^tva M ?? -- ? {J^fceeTckal. OF THE c>efU(Ui TO ALL OUR FRIENDS With the spirit of the Season we send you our sincere Greetings and Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year. L. C. DAVIS MAYOR and the BOARD OF ALDERMEN I TOWN OF HAZELWOOD
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