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JANUARY 17, 1974 letter To The Editor Dftar Editor* Dr. Martin Luther King was an outstanding Negro leader and I am proud to put something in the paper in honor of him. We all know the things he did for the black people were good and we never forget his birthday. Just as he has said* If we are children of God wi_ all join hands one of these days and that means to love white like we love black and not have prejudice in our hearts for one another. Mrs. Charlotte Barnett The first beaver hat to appear in London caused such a'disturbance the wearer was arrested. S VASELINE ■ INTENSIVE \ CARE 9 1 10 OZ. I I Reg. $1.25 |T ) 790 I LISTERINE I ANTISEPTIC ■ H 880 I fRIAMINICIN TABLETS Wk Common Cold/Hay Fever? Fast relief... R| L Triamiiiicin ml I Reg,51.19 UUy | I—IVOS I II HAIR | SPRAY Q Reg. $1.50 I » 99c I " REGULAR iBl HARD-TO-HOLO SPRAY FOR GRAY * mm BAYER ASPIRIN 1 Tablets jp 100 s . A j s 79p | . Additions To : Gallon Club The Yancey Unit of the Mayland Chapter of the Amer ican Red Cross proudly announ ces, with gratitude, the follow ing additions to its Gallon Club: James E. Gardner is eleva ted to membership in the Two Gallon group and Robert V, Hoilman has qualified for en rollment in the One Gallon group. I BUDGET SHOES I PASS F ALL LADIES J i BOOTS i iWj NEXT TO THREAD & NEEDLE Northwestern will pay you 7%% on a *I,OOO minimum, _ 4-year maturity Certificate of Deposit. < Northwestern continues to pay the highest legal interest rate to its customers by offering this new higher-rate Certificate of Deposit. Federal law and regulation prohibit the payment of a time deposit prior to maturity unless three months of the interest thereon is forfeited and interest on the amount withdrawn is reduced to the passbook rate. Stop by or call any Northwestern branch. THE NORTHWESTERN RANK Member FDIC A JfoTk-\\liys and J^k-^eeclj Sr of SOUTHERN APPALACHIA with Roger* Whllrnrr Vml \o«r |«m • ulsm «4l«rtitl lo flup-n, Kkiirtcr. Iluh 17l». llomhu , K. C, 2MOI Read'us who have abided the meandering? of this col umn over a period of time may recall that I recently asked for information about the observ - ance of Old ChrNtmas in the Southern Appalachians. There were no such respon ses prior to the conventional Christmas vacation, and I had about decided that January 6 now means little more than a day when the December 25 trappings are put away for ano ther year. But In the After-Christmas mail there appeared a letter and an enclosure from Roy L. Sturgill of Bristol, Virginia, in dicating that Old Christmas tas not been forgotten even if not observed. A portion of his letter and the enclosure follow. If the latter at first seems ami-climac tic this far into the new year, a reading will show that is has a timeless charnj. "Dear Mr. Whitener: After reading your article in the Bristol paper this morning, I recalled having a story in one of my many scrapbooks con cerning Old Christmas. It vas written by a very dear friend of mine: Mr. Henry P. Scalf of Stanville, Ky., and was carried in the Floyd County Times December 24, ! ~*53. Am enclosing you a copy I have typed. Thought you might want to use it in some future article. " THE CATTLE LOW AT MIDNIGHT The little boy sat upon his fa- fvtdd 'D'ucpStwie 32-2146 Burnsville,N.C PHARMACY COMMENTS EALTH NEWS Your Rx Specialists: Charles Gillespie. Jr., Mike Eudy, and Ferril McCurry Pharmacy Week Theme Pharmacy has selected an important health subject for its theme during National Pharmacy Week. January 20-26. It goes like this: “Before you self-medicate. consult your phar macist. For over-the-counter intelligence your pharmacist has it.” ' f 1 Home remedies, or over- ; the-counter drug products are important to self-medi- i cation. Obviously, we can't call a physician for every ail ment. "Morning-after” I headaches, upset stomachs, minor rashes, do not merit troubling a doctor unless pain persists or is unbear able. Unfortunately, most people know far too little about self-medication. The average person knows only what the advertiser wants him lo know. This is where your phar macist is important. Con- The above comments appear each week to air thoughts, opinions, and information we believe to be important to our Inends and customers your comments are welcomed. . ther's knee, repeating the stor ies grandmother had told. He was four. His leg swung back and forth, keeping time, it seemed, to the w;'.xing and wa ning of youthful talk. It was long ago, he said, when men rode camels and fled wicked kings. Grandmother had told him of the birth of the Christ child how Three Wise Men came to bring presents. Other stories too, she told him, of olden days when there were brownies and elves and, oh yes, there was the story of Old Christmas when the cattle knelt in the bam and lowed and prayed, for that was when the Christ Child was born. He talked on, the swinging of the leg ceased and he stared at the Yule fire. He was soon asleep. Now there are people who are grown and pretend to be wise by not believing the old legend. Os such was the child's father. He told him when he was aval ? again, that only a few of grand- •kFUdShU Txiay. though over me-courrter drugs are yP"S£ r covereol by certain laws can sti llbe dangerous w "cproperiy used RSL © p isan expert onthe safe and proper usePfußT ofalldrugs.ConSMli-»TWJf J your pharmacist / about the medicines you take. And useover-Y'¥» i .2f 1 - ! (Oiecounter intelligence fide in him for better “intel ligence" of over-the-counter products. And make it a habit! j m jd j mother's stories were true, that cattle did not kneel on Old Christmas night to low and He tried to explain that Old Christmas was just a day that older people remembered from a change in the calendar. "But Daddy, you said the story of the Three Wise Men was true. You said Jesus was born on Christmas Night. The Wise Men bowed to the Christ Child. " The little boy was puzzled but mostly he thought that Daddy did not believe grandmother. That was wrong. Everybody ought to believe grandmother. When Christmas Day was over the boy was full of wonder at how Santa had come down the sooty chimney to leave such glistening toys. Wonder yielded to the pleasure of the nour. Nights he fell asleep on grand mo theA lap, dreaming of the Wise Men, and of hearing the cattle low at the bam. To him it was not merely twelve days between Christmas Eve and Old Christmas. It was an interlude of play and dreams. Old Christmas Eve came, grandmother had gone, and the child went to sleep, think ing of her and of how father did not believe all she had said. It was wrong, he knew, not to believe grandmother, she was so nice and good. Itwas wrong. Dreamless sleep comes to cher ubs, be they of earth or sky. Sometime in the night tin father, awakened by the patter of little feet, saw his child ap proach the outer door and open it. The moonlight silhouetted the tiny figure as he stood in the doorway. The father threw back the cover, moved along to stand at the open door with his little son. The child reach ed up a chubby hand and they stood together, staring into the moonlight. Down in the valley, in the pine trees, the moonlight had yielded to darkness. Down the slope where the barn housed the cattle not a stray moonbeam pierced. They stood in the doorway, these tow, one older and wiser, the other a young chi Id who clasped his father's finger. Silence reigned in the moonlight, silence pervaded the darkness that covered the bam and trees. Both tensed with the sound of a low that came from the darkness--a soft low that came from near the barn under the great pines. The child leaned forward, staring into the night, pulling at his father's hand. "Did you hear it, father, it is like grandmother said. " It was strange, the father thought when he awakened in the morning, that he did not remember going back to bed f.f ter they had stood in the door way. He thought it must have been midnight when he heard the soft low from the barn. Strange, why he thought itwas midnight when he had not look ed at the clock. THE YANCEY JOURNAL Box 667 Burnsville, N.C. 21714 Ed Yuziuk -Publisher Carolyn Yuxiuk- Editor Patsy Randolph Manager Hubl.ahod Every Thursday liy Twin Cities Publishing Co. 2nd Class Postage Paid At Burnsville, N.C. 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