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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1972)
Thur«., Dac. 21, 1972 (Sac. 1) S A N D Y (Ore.) POST - 5 M an sentenced Ellis F . Long, 45, Gresham was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday for negligent homicide after a probation revocation h earin g before Circuit Court Judge Phillip Roth. Long was convicted in July, 1970, of negligent homicide in the death of Robert J Conway of Portland Conway was killed in March, 1969. when the car in which he was a passenger was for tim e to come. struck by an auto driven by This Christmas, ward the evi Long from your house with Holly Long was convicted of drunk and rejoice under the Mistletoe driving in the accident and SEASON'S GREETINGS placed on five years probation with conditions that he spend one year in jail, that he not drive an auto until he could obtain a license and that he attend an alcoholic rehabilitation program Poodle Grooming Long was convicted of being drunk on the street four times d irin g 1971 and 1972 He was also convicted of drunk driving in April 1972 Judge Roth also found that Long violated terms of his probation by not attending an alcohol rehabilitation program by Appointment 668-5365 evenings t Puppies — Stud Service ------- 1 CHRISTMAS MEAT SPECTACULAR HONEYSUCKLE BASTED TOM TURKEY Shank P o rtio n HAM k65* C BUTT HAM lb .69* Whole Shank Ham <.s73c M orrell CANNED HAM A m e ric a n H olly C hristm as is a C hristian H o lid a y ! At least, modern civilization regards it as such Yet, some of our Christmas customs have their roots tnn- Pagan cultures Two of the widely used plant materials of Christmas are examples The oldest fables of the Mistletoe come from Norse mythology It occurs in Druid rites also, but it could be they absorbed it from the Norsemen who raided English shires and set up colonies there The p a ra s itic fa m ily of plants known as m istletoes are prevalent the world over Each host tree species has its own species of mistletoe to infest it There are a number of genera in the fam ily and some of these have hundreds of species Only a very few are showy species Two of these are the ones used for Christmas greens Biscum album, the Mistletoe used in E urope, and Pharadet flavescens. the M is tle to e o d in America, are very s im ila r Both have rounded hick leaves with a texture of Scotch grain leather T se ire yellowish gi , , berries are st icky Birds are the agency for dissemr ion of the Mistletoe Nature haU u purpose when she made the berries sticky Birds eat the berries and in the process get some of the sticky m aterial stuck on their beaks They rub this off on crevices in the bark of the trees, inad vertantly leaving a few of the tiny seeds sticking there also H ere the seed g erm inates, sending a rootlet into the cambium of the tree, which feeds on the sap of the tree The visible growth is postponed at first as the plant becomes an absorbing pad of root material lodged in the host's cambium Eventually twigs and leaves grow out of this pad until you have a shrub growing from the side of the branch As the birds mainly use the high branches of the trees, most mistletoe is found growing high up in the host trees Much commoner, but not usually known, is the dwarf m istletoes habits These species are much commoner, but the external or visible part of the mistletoe is so minute, it is not noticed On coniferous trees, the results of dwarf m istletoe infestatio n is noticeable The host trees may form dense clusters of ad ventitious buds which develop into heavy bunches of dwarfed twigs It is from these witches brooms on some species that some of our dwarf horticultural forms have arisen In the Strawberry range, south of John Day, more of the native Christmas Blessings Douglas Firs there have w it ches brooms as a result of dwarf mistletoe than do not. But. to get back to the C hristm as M istletoe, the kissing feat ure of it comes from Norse mythology The life of Balder. god of the sun. had been threatened His mother had e x tra cte d prom ises from everyth ing on e a rth that nothing would harm Balder She overlooked the Mistletoe All the gods had great fun throw ing things at B ald er because they knew nothing could harm him. That scheming mind of the Puck of the Norse gods, a devilish creature called Loki, had been underestimated He knew the Mistletoe had not been contacted He made a spear of the Mistletoe wood and persuaded a blind man to throw it into Balder The death of Balder caused great sorrow, for without him there was no sun. no warmth, no sum m er Even the M is tle to e , unw ittin g ac complice to the deed, wept Her tears took the form of the white sticky berries So impressed was the god of the nether regions that he released Balder Once more there was sun and warmth and sum m er B a ld er's m other, overjo yed , kissed everyone The M istletoe hanging overhead also rejoiced Thus the custom arose to kiss under the approving gaze of Mistletoe at all great festivals Holly was originally used in the home by the Druids It was thought to have m ag ical powers to ward off evil spirits and witches with their spells To a Druid, every tree and bush had a spirit of some sort, and many of them were evil, so the powers of Holly were important to ones well being The Rom ans, great borrowers in all matters of their religion, borrowed the Holly myth when they invaded England, and took it back to Rome, from where it spread over Europe It is just con jecture, but it is probable it carried over into the Christian celeb ratio n of C hristm as because of ripening of the berries and the harvest of the Holly boughs came just prior to the Christmas season When the North American continent was settled, people found another species of Holly with leaves and berries sim ilar to the old world kind For two centuries the American Holly, Ilex opaca, was the com mercial holly of this country. It was not until the successful cultivation of the English Holly, Ile x A q u ifolia, becam e a commercial operation in the Pacific Northwest, that this old world holly began to supplant the American species Now, the English Holly dominates the C hristm as tra d e . In the Eastern United States, the market is still shared with the American TTie American is more slender and graceful in the longer sprays The bark is a soft grey The berries are spaced out over a greater part of the branches and each is held away from the branch by its own stem It never has the crowded burches of berries as the English does Many cultivated forms of the American Holly are grown in the Southeast, just as many cultiva)**d forms of the English Holly are grown in the Nor thwsat Both seem sure to be commercial crops HAM SLICES 4 Ik. Tin RIB STEAK RIB ROAST Small End 1.29 lb. CHEESE S m o k e d E d am s 8 o x. 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