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Harvesting Trees Is Big Christmas Business While the sale of Christina* trees a to the consumer is conducted en tirely in the few weeks just prior to Christmas, the harvesting, pro cessing and shipping of the trees may begin as much as three months before Christmas. Approximately 23 per cent of the retail price of a Christinas tree is the stumpage price; trees retail ing for about 25 cents per lineal foot will be worth about 8 cents on the stump and could wholesale for from 10 cents to IS cents per lineal foot. *Total number of trees distributed in the United States is about 30 million. There are at least 10 important Christmas tree associations and * "" BEST OF GOOD WISHES I life I&ii&nofidlciuS w? ? fJ I |- <Hare's a wish for you: good cheer *# in abundance in this most festive holiday season. HOME FINANCE CO. 302 S. Main St. GL 6-3522 Waynesville - ? ^Ve're coming your way to wish you a good old fashioned Merry Christmas abounding in the great gifts of health, happiness and contentment. CLARENCE MUSE USED CARS AND SERVICE STATION 1123 N. Main Street Yule Foil Decorations 1 ivewsuatures YOUNGSTERS can have lots of fun making Christmas decorations from foil, newspaper (papier mache) and food staples such a3 cranberries. A jaunty skater about 10 inches high for instance may be made with a series of little balls made of crumpled foil. To make the head crush alumi num foil to form a ball about 2 incites in diameter. Nose, mouth and eyes are tiny Christmas beads attached by threading with wine and inserting ends into foil. For the body make a larger elongated ball about 3 by 4 inches. Run the end of a 4-inch piece of semi-stiff wire into head and opposite end into body, pushing it together firmly. String five small foil balls less than 1 inch in diameter on wire for legs; add flattened ball for foot. Run wire through the body, add four balls for arms and bend into dcating position. Bend tip ends of wire over foil to hold firm. To make skater's costume, form a lit tle stocking cap of colored alumi num foil gift wrapping. Attach it with common pins. Cut buttons ind belt from same paper and at tach it with cement. Use red ribbon for a scarf. Attach skater's foot to styrafoarn or other base and cover with foil. A pretty wreath may be made by bending a coat hanger into a circle and covering it with crush ed foil around and around. Deco CHRISTMAS CENTERPIECE ... A skater made of foil may dec orate the holiday table. rate it with tiny Christmas balls, ribbon bows, artificial (lowers. Com mon pins may be used to attach decorations to foil. A candle holder may be made by standing a candle upright and crushing foil around it. Decorate with beads and glitter. Safety Council's Magazine Records Unusual Accident CHICAGO?A gopher threw a time bomb at a man. A dog shot a dogcatcher. And a Dallas woman told her husband. "Honey, there's a car in your bed." These and other accidents that hardly ever happen were rounded up by the National Safety Council in the current issue of its maga zine. "Public Safety." All of the screwball mishaps occurred during the last 12 months. The bomb-throwing gopher lived in a gopher hole on a tfarm near Las Vegas, Nev. When farmer Paul Thomas shoved a lighted concussion bomb down the hole, the gopher indig nantly shoved it right back. Thom as fielded the bomb and heaved it away. It landed near his barn, exploded and burned up 12 tons of hay. The dog catcher-shooting dog also struck a blow for animal lib erty. John Beyreis, the Pawnee City, Neb., dog catcher, picked up the pooch, locked him in his truck, and started for the dog pound with the intention of shooting him. The dog beat Beyreis to the draw. He spotted Beyreis shotgun, reach ed out a paw to the trigger, and winged the dog catcher in the foot. groups representing the industry in the United States and approxi mately 5.000 individuals and firms are registered as retailers and wholesalers of Christmas trees in the United States. In Dallas, Mrs. Edward Lee Cowart peeked into her hotel bed room to investigate a strange noise and then reported to her husband that there was a ear in his bed. It was only too true. The car had missed a turn in a skycraper parking garage next to the hotel, jumped six feet, and crashed through the wall of the Cowart's third floor room. In a reverse switch, a house col lided with a car near Alpena, Mich. The house was being moved along U. S. 23 and clipped the side of a parked car. Other strange happenings report ed by the Safety Council included: Mrs. Mary Hastings Bradley, who survived six African safaris with hardly a scratch, tripped over a lion's head and broke her arm in Chicago. Four cars piled up in a Des Moines, Iowa collision. No one was injured until patrolman ElriVSr Van Note arrived to investigate and slammed a car door on his finger. Sandra Shilling, getting ready for a 4-H Club fashion show at Salina, Kan., broke her arm yank ing at a balky zipper. Her dress won second prize, anyway. Pitcher Chuck Trosper used his head when a batter hit a line drive at him in a Lansing. Mich., base ball game. Trosper fielded the ball with his forehead and the first baseman caught It on the rebound and made the putout. Richard Fleming, Woodland, Calif., lost his head?figuratively ?while driving. A woodpecker started tapping away at his skull and Flemming's car left the high way and rolled over twice. Mrs. Paulin Ellison, in contrast, used her briefcase in another auto mishap. She was thrown from her car near Richmond, Ind., landed on the briefcase, and skidded 200 feet along the icy road. Then there was the case of the window washer who washed too well. Janitor Leroy Henderson had just finished polishing a window at the Yyoming state house when he saw some boys running across the lawn. He stuck his head out to yell at them?right through the spotless window pane. A man named Safety First was charged with driving through a red light in Los Angeles. And, in Knoxville, Tenn., Golden Gibson reached for a cigarette and picked up a two-inch firecracker instead. He swore off smoking from his hospital bed. Edison Mbde First Talking Doll In 1889 This Christmas little girls will be opening packages containing dolls that say anything from "Mama" to "The Lord's Prayer." But this isn't a new invention ?the first talking doll was made by Thomas Edison and made her debut at the Paris Exposition of 1889. She could recite "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater." Her talking Apparatus was in stalled in the galvanized tin tube that made up her torso, with the horn mechanism of the phonograph placed in a kind of grating under her chin. Wax cylinders or record ings were placed in her back and she required a few cranks to get started. Edison's talking dolls are on dis play in the Edison Museum at the Thomas A. Edison factories in West Orange, N. J. The Christmas Spirit i I am the Christmas Spirit! f I enter the home of poverty, causing pale-faced chil dren to open their eyes wide in pleased wonder. I cause the miser's clutched hand to reflex, and thus paint a bright spot on his soul. I cause the aged to renew their youth and to laugh in the old, glad way. I keep romance alive in the heart of childhood, and brighten sleep with dreams woven of magic. I cause eager feet to climb dark stairways with filled baskets, leaving behind hearts amazed at the goodness of the world. I cause the prodigal to pause a moment on his wild, wasteful way, and send to anxious love some little token that releases glad tears ? tears which wash away the hard lines of sorrow. I enter dark prison cells, reminding scarred manhood of what might have been, and pointing forward to good days yet to come. I come softly into the still white home of pain, and lips that are too weak to speak just tremble in silent, eloquent gratitude. In a thousand ways I cause the weary world to look into the face of Got!, and for a little moment forget the things that are small and wretched. I am the Christmas Spirit! ?E. C. Baird. SEEEMS I 4s w( [ celebrate the day of His birth, may its ir ispiration bring you the peace and love I le wished for the world... may all the blet sings of Christmas dwell in your home and your heart always. KAYWOOD FURNITURE STORE H.'omer Justice, Owner Main Street Say I Saw It In The Mountaineer ? tj TPIT^TPTFTfTT)) (ftQ Ji ^ 111 V? >L-JnLA^3^\d&<O r Jv, ml wO*T- v!; our 'family9 of chorishe d friends, tee wish the joys of a 4 good old-fashioned Christmas, And along with Our greetings, we'd like i to fend our sincere ^ thanks for the > *? ^ opportunity of serving oil our patronA j CHARLIE'S Charlie Woodard ? Jimmy William* a To all our valued patron*: flf our warmest tliants for tlie privilege of j4^ serving you during tte year now drawing In a close | IT. and our very test wistes for your happiness an*l success in j tte new year now dawning a ||jdyson ????? ????i????????????????
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