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Interesting Job? Santa's Beats All At This Season Who has one of the most Inter esting jobs this time of year? That's easy. It's Santa. The rotund gentleman hiding be hind the red ensemble and the flow ing white beard learns a great deal about the nature of humans, espe cially children, at this time of year. However, after receiving thou sands of letters from all over the country, and talking to thousands of youngsters on street corners and in department stores, Santa usually comes to the same conclusion each year. Times and custome change, but children seldom do. Requests that Santa receives fol low a general pattern each year? , everything from bicycles to roller skates and cowboy suits for boys, with dolls and elaborate accessor ies the favorite with the girls. There are some exceptions. Lots of children make requests for use ful hems, typewriters and such, in the hope of becoming writers and stenographers. Last year one lad asked for a Bengal tiger. Santa, understanding human that he must be, promises to fill ail the requests that he can and ex plains tenderly why there are some that are out of reach. The marine service linked Eng land with Ireland and the continent operated by British Railways trans ports annual 3,675,000 passengers, 1.500,000 tono of freight and 200 000 head of cattle and 110,000 ve hicles. Swiss Brotherhood Sang At Christmas To End Plague One of the most Impressive cus toms in the world is observed in Switzerland where the "singing at the fountains" is done by the Se bastian! brotherhood in the pictur esque spa town of Rneinfelden. According to the Swiss writer Gottleib Wyss, the custom is more than 400 years old, dating from 1540 when a plague, sweeping through many lands, visited Rhein felden. Twelve men formed a broth erhood in honor of St. Sebastian, promising to pray to him to safe guard their town from further dis tress. They also undertook to nurse those afflicted by the plague and to bury its victims. If one of their own members died, the brethren acted as pall bearers, and up to the present day, by their own selection, the mem bership of the brotherhood has re mained at 12. Pestilence in the medieval period was ascribed to the evil spirits in the water, and when the Sebastiani brthren make their rounds of sev en fountains on Christmas eve, they start at the fountain in the "Froschweide" where the plague started in the 16th century. After singing for the seventh time near the town church, they join its con gregatio for midnight mass, first placing their quaint mounted lan tern. with its lighted candle, before the altar of St. Sebastian. For their Christmas eve singing at twelve, brethren are dressed in i dark clothes and black silk top hats. Around their lantern-bearer seasons : * - --Jk (Day your joy this Christmas Season be as continuous as the wreath /jt of holly. ^^^^^^happiness and good heath dur ing the coming New ^ Year be without end. wm, * i PARTON'S FEED STORE DEPOT ST. (iL 6-4581 If ? .. \ ?>y the old fashioned Christmas spirit of peace and joy embrace your home this glorious holiday season. And may the richest gifts?health, happiness and good will come to you and your i dear ones. Lj/ SEASON I WAYNESVILLE *$ AUTO PARTS jP HAYWOOD STREET GL 6-5321 ? French "Angel" Woman of the Year j By DOBOTHy ROE .is^ocutteu nuurciis fcchior i ii6aw O U i atf UCMCUCVC Ut. utftfuu " ittlauuvi liic aii^ci oa uicu uivii riiU, u<i3 uuu ifcaii?cu ?? Uiiiall Oa 41a*; ictu Ua uaC 4U4U ali UUcti WUHicil S CUiiOi pUi-4 Ol Al' lit wa^JiipCI'S. i 1AC 4UUA ui>e of i lie attractive, UJUC ? CjcUi ^9*)t'di"UiU I" icliWli ,,ut bf VViiU >lUC> to IWl pUal anu uuiiut?iiu 10 uie wouiiucu umu iue iasi shoi was nreu u> u? sie6e oi ioeu oien rim proviuea one oi me most dramatic news stories ol tne year anu proviuea nisiory wiui a new Heroine. Awaruea me rrencn n.egion oi nonor ana ine U. is. ivieuai ol rreeuoin lor ner heroism, me young nurse nas re turneu to ! ranee aner a recent , triumphal tour of the Loiied ' Stales at the invitation ol Congress. Others named outsianaing in their fields lor 1954 are: Business: Jacqueline Cochran, business woman - aviatrix - author, who this year added to her many honors an autobiography, "The Stars at Noon," and two new air honors: first woman to break the sound barrier, and first woman to set the jet speed record of 652 m.p.h. Sports: Babe Didrikson Zahari as, who went on to greater golfing honors In 1954 after winning a desperate bout with cancer in 1953. She was awarded the William D. Richardson trophy as the person who made the outstanding contri bution to golf this year, won her third Women's National Open championship, captured her fifth Ail-American Women's Pro title, was inducted into Texas Hall of Fame, won the Ben Hogan trophy for having overcome the greatest physical handicap in 1953 and was a guest for dinner at the White House. Education: Oveta Culp Hobby, secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, former head of the Women's Army Corps, also named on the year's list of the 12 best-dressed women in the world. Public Service: Clare Boothe Luco, first woman ambassador to Rome, who effectively quashed re cent rumors of her resignation. Literature: Pearl S. Buck, nov elist, whose autobiography. "My Several Worlds," has just been published. Entertainment: Audrey Hepburn, pixie stage and screen star, who won the movies' Oscar and mar ried Mel Ferrer, her leading man in the recent Broadway hit, "On dine". Politics; Margaret Chase Smith, reelected senator from Maine by a smashing victory. they stand in a circle and three times, as the name of Christ is mentioned in their song, they un cover their heads. On New Year's eve, between 9 and 10 o'clock, the Brethren make another round of the fountains, this time singing an old song winch concludes with the wish that St. Sebastian may intercede for all in the New Year so that they may be safeguarded from war, pestilence and other perils. ?nroi" a MARGARET CHASE SMITH ^ ? -W V ? ???*?%, < ???? ? >- ? mr. V JACQUELINE COCHRAN --????. ? "" v(w - v !> u.mm>i ??****'**5* AUDREY HEPBURN MIUHHRMBHI I EIIk^Si GENEVIEVE DE GALARD-TERRAUBF ? ? |mM| BABE ZAHARIAS r _^Mnniii PFARL S BUCK CI ABE BOOTHE LUCE tSBSmJ m OVETA CULP HOBBY People Yearn For Old-Fashioned Christmas Again "How I would long to see just one more 'old-fashioned Christ mas'." These are familiar words at this time of the year. Before the Yule tide season is over, some member of the family, grandfather or grand | mother, probably, is certain to pass that remark, as they have done each Christmas of the past. And yet, if we search back into the records . . . to the turn of the century, say . . , we find that, even then, someone was wishing for "an old-fashioned Christmas." It is then that we realize that the celebra tion of the birth of Christ has not changed greatly with the passage of centuries. Basically, Christmas is the same, year after year. It is only the world and the people who are not the same. He may not admit it, but when grandfather first began to raise a family, he overheard his elders musing over the changing Christ mas customs and heralding the approach to "complete commercial ism'' of the Yuletidc celebration. Even then they were worried. No one can deny that Christmas has been greatly "commercialized" since the days of early America. Yet. so has the entire nation. In the days of our ancestors there were none of the vast trading cen ters and commercial marts that we know today. Our very way of life bas been greatly changed with modernization. Our holidays, and Christmas is the principal one, have managed to keep abreast. Still, without reservation, Christ mas is basically unchanged in its true meaning as a celebration of the birth of the Christ-Child re deemer, come to save the world. No matter how great or how small the presents piled beneath the tree, each Christian heart never ceases to remember that Christmas is Christ's day. Chicago Recalls < Christmas, 1804 Surley there will never ba an- I other Christmas celebration like the one in Chicago in 1804. Captain John Whistler (grand- | father of the painter who painted the famous "Whistler's Mother") ' was in command of the garrison at Fort Dearborn and he decided that there should be a great feast?com- 1 plete with music, dancing and a 1 splendid Christmas tree. Soldiers from the garrison went a-hunting in the woods just north of the river and came back with a fat buck deer, some rabbits, a rac coon or two, a few wild turkeys, i Added to the roasting pig (con tributed by some festive-minded citizen' and the magnificent Christ mas pudding, these morsels provid ed abundance for all. Everybody ?the civilians and the military? trank a toast to Thomas Jefferson, the President of the United States. The punch was "dizzy" and there were fifes and drums and a couple of fiddles to play for the dancing. It was getting late when a watch er in one of the blockhouses gave a warning shout that Indians were approaching; but "they turned out to be friendly Indians who came bearing gifts to the feast. They I watched the white folks dance, and when the whites were exhausted, the redskins took the floor and be gan a wild, whooping dance of their ' own which climaxed Chicago's ' unique Christmas celebration in 1804. Dollar Saved HOUSTON, Tex. (AP>?Theyre telling this one about Jesse Jones, publisher of the Huston Chronicle and former cabinet member; He bet $1 with W.D. Owen man ager of Jones' Rice Hotel garage, { on a football game?and lost. "That's one dollar I'm going to ' frame,' chuckled Owen. I "Well." said millionaire Jones, "if you're not going to spend it, I'll just give you an I.O.U." Christmas Day Has Moved About On The Calendar Christmas was once a movable "east. The eastern branches of the Christian church usually celebrat ed It in April or May, Western Europe sometime in January. In 337 A.p., St. Cyril, bishop Df Jerusalem, set out to make the date universal. With the permis sion of Pope Junius I, he appointed a commission to determine, if pos sible. the precise date of Christ's nativity. The theologians of the Church finally agreed upon Decem ber 25, and since the year 354 this date has been celebrated. Members of the Greek, Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox churches in the 20th century observed the date of January 7. Bholiday^I j (^zee^^^T | At this liappy time we wish ell our friend* and neighbors a Merry Christmas, 1 replete with all the season's joys I HOWELL'S 41 HARDWARE Joe Howell, Owner ? y^^:.ec~r Main Street - ..*? ^..assn^^***.. Mistletoe Has Outlived Sinister Name Mistletoe, once used as a weapon jf death, is now almost a universal symbol of love and peace. According to Norse mythology, there was a god named Balder, who personified the sun. Loki, an ather god, plotted to destroy Bal der. Balder's mother, when she first learned of Loki's intentions to kill her son, obtained a promise from all living things that they would not harm Balder. All agreed, but the mistletoe, so it was with a mistletoe arrow that Loki induced Balder's blind brother, iloder, ot kill the sun god. Higher powers intervened, how ever, and Balder was restored to life. The mistletoe was placed un der Frigga's care, and the mother of Balda saw that it was never again used to do harm. The custom of giving a kiss of love or peace beneath the mistletoe is an assurance that it will never again be used as &n instrument of evil. Switzerland has electrified 94 per cent of its railroads. ixi I\u v.oum y tKn 1 spt'iicliiit; the holidays parents Mr, and Mrs. of ( l>de. After timshi^Bj boot training in San^B Calif.. In was Iransltrrc^^E man. Okla fur t isht is now stationed in Tenn. l DiM H | reciintl;- la-en ltrlroducedB ommended for trial pi^B North Caniii:.. May all the joys of the seuvui c'.l rin your heart and in your home \ on Christmas and throughout fted Uina I 9 -gift shop-/ i 202 N. Main Street Waynesville ( IJ( III /111 in ic \f)a 1 f (^hristtim 1h?V I abide Willi you ah mi KETNERSj i'ial GL I. J11'"*
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