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
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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
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