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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1949)
I PAGE SIXTEEN THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1949 Redmond and Vicinity Redmond, Pec. 24 (Special! Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Meyer and children plan to Send Christmas In Ueavorton wllh Mm. Mayors' stepfather and mother. Mrs. Vern Unssler and Infant daughter were released from the Medical-Dental hospital Thurs day. Redmond branch of National Honor held a mooting Thursday noon to finish up all business con cerning the labor enmp Christ mas party. Kenneth Viogas, vice- fircsldcnt, presided over the mooi ng In th? absence of Ray Shum way, president. The group voted to send Christmas curds to the faculty, to lend the Christmas decorations to the faculty, to mail courtesy notes to the organiza tions which had contributed to ward the Christmas project, and to begin planning Initiation cer monies, Mrs. Delia Nance and sons, George and Harold, will drive to Gresham Saturday to spend Christmas eve with Mrs. Nance's mother, Mrs. O'doll. The latter will accompany them to McMinn vllle Sunday where they will cat Christmas dinner with Robert O'dcll. Harold Gibson, Mrs. Nance's son, will spend Christmas day with his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gibson. On toon day the group will go to Salem to visit Mr. and Mrs. h.. A. Linden. They will return to Culver Wed nesday. Mrs. Bob Fries of San Jose vis l Ol NTAIX OF YOITH? Yokohama, IVc. 21 'tf--Javp.-ncse girls are more than usually happy this Christmas because ! Gen. Douglas MarArtbur is mak , lug them all one year younjjer during 19.V). Under occupation tutelage the i Japanese legislature recently 1 passed a law changing the age old system of age counting In Japan. Tie effect will ho to turn hack the clock !'! months for everyone beginning in IftV). Hitherto j baby twin in Javm i on I'ec. .11 would automatically ' become two years old on New ! Year's day because of the sys i tern under which everybody is 'one UKin his birth and becomes ia year older the following N"W j Year's dav. This has boon abol ished under the American oocu nation as illogical. Son Franciscans Recall 1849 Christmas Eve Disaster ;nnu n u n "7 4; n J TS good to know that Christmas holds the same old warmth, the same note of good cheer and good fellowship, that makes this season the most glorious of them all. Following a custom of long standing, we offer this message of good will in the same old friendliness that comes only from associations of long standing. itod her si.iU'r. Mrs. RussoP Washburn, Thursday night and Friday, en route to" Portland to spend the holidays with her par cms. Mr. and Mrs. I. Washburn of Bend will sx-ml Christmas day at tlv home of their son-in law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Rus sell Washburn. Mr. and Mrs. Hap Taylor and family are going to Eugene Fri day to slay ov.r the Christmas holidays. Robert P. Johnson, who is at tending Oregon Slate college, ar rived in Redmond Monday night to spend the holidays with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Pauls and Donna will spend Christmas eve in Bend with Mrs. Fnuls' mother. Mrs. Guy Sours, and her slsfr. Mrs. Orisa Abbott. Oiristmas day the Otto Pauls family will be guests of Mr. and Mis." Charles Pauls of Powell Butte. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hepner were Wednesday night guests of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Pauls. Donald Wolf will leave Satur day for Anacortes, Wa.ih.. to spend the holidays with his step father and mother. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Underwood. Underwood, chief aviation machinist's mate, will leave immediately after the holidays - for Kodiak for t"ire? months' srvice. Wolf will return to Redmond the first of Januarv. no JiL just isn't any better way to My Merry ChrUtmas than ta tay ... ECONOMY Food Market 204 Delaware Phone 885 -Cify Cleaners & Dyers ' fJl ''" v (mJBsssm William D. Grindle Ellen Oppegard Robert E. Wonser Lorene Singleton Emma Penson Mr. and Mrs. Marion Cady Annabelle Wuthrich Arie J. Smit 1 Bessie Stevenson Albert A. Jackson Crystal Sawyer Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wonser San Francisco illi Clirlctiuas day w not a happy day for mo rugged residents of the rude city of San Francisco, far from th -Ir homo and relatives, as they sur veyed the ruins of their town n hundred years ago, A disastrous fire, which broke out early IVv. 'J4, 18-t!). swept out of control through the wooden buildings in the heart of the tow n until explosives were used to tnakv a lire break. Principal casualty was the Parke; House, the leading hostel !. where the - Aigonauts had planned to hold their lusty cele bration amid the gaming tables, assisted by strung liquoi mid dance hall gills. Hut elsewhere the occasion w as not so desolate. At Mission Do lores, near to but hardly a part of the roistering city by the bay. Christmas was eolehraied In the ttaditioiuil manner as rough gold rockers re-enacted the Nativity. Tmdltlon Preserve"' And at old Monterey, a hundred miles down (he const, the celebra tion was rich with tradition and staged in splendoi. Ol it Walter Colton, first Amer ican alcalde, wrote: "As scon as the sun had gone down, the Christmas festivities commenced. While the bonfires blazed high, the crowd moved to ward the church; the ample nave wa.t soon filled "Before the high altar bent the Virgin Mother, in wonder and love over her new born balw. A com pany of shepherds entered In flowing robes, with high wands garnished with silken streamers. "They approached the manger and kneeling, hvmcd ihelr wonder and worship In a sweet chant which was sustained by the rich to les of exulting harps." Kim a lUmclnic Rut out at the diggings a now anonymous '-l!or wrote; "Several of us hail a camp on Rock crook and we sent word ui and down the crook we would celebrate Christmas at our camii and everybody bring son;? grub and a fiddle If hp had one. . "Christmas morning they were nil there demanding a showdown. We had a fat grizzly hour and a deer. Then th bundles were unwiapiMMl and there were w hoops of joy. One sack hold six bottles of port. "We all filled right up to the ears that Christmas day and a lot was wasted, and I g t a sink ing feeling In my stomach today when I think what that waste would have done f;r us a little later." WAKNINfi ISSlKO Washington, Dec. 21 mi The government has warned the Is brandtsen lino that the masters of any of Its ships which enter the Chinese communist Hrt of Shang hai may lose their licenses, It was announced today. The warning, the state depart ment said, was delivered to the master of the Isbraudtseii ship Flying Arrow at Okinawa Ins; Sunday and to the same ship In Jusnn, Korea, on Tuesday. II. J. Isbrandtson, president and owner of the New York line, told the United Pre that he bus no Intention of changing his ship ping schedule, which were made out many months In advance. KXAMINKK DI'K IIKItIC A drivers license examiner will be on duly In llend Thursday and Friday of next week al 1050 llond street, II was unnounccd i from t hi seereliiry of mule's, of fice, Office hours for I ha examiner will he I) n. in. to 8 P. m, ench .lay. Perron wishing license or per. mil to drive, are nuked In get n touch with the examiner well lihcod of I lie scheduled closing hour In order to iissuro comple tion of their application with minimum of delay. It Was ex plained, i I TO ASSIGN LEASES Montesnno. Wash., Doc. 21 Ui j Union OH company leases In the Grays harbor urea will 1h assign j ed to the Los Nltos company of California along with other leases In the slate, Union Oil compniiy officials disclosed today. I The Union comminy recor.lly purchased the I-os Nlcios concern and announced It would ass gn much of Its "wildcat" explorations to subsidiaries. We wish all of you the many pleasures and happiness which are deservedly yours. sHUHHbJ Bear Wheel & Brake Service KENNETH C. CAI.E "Across From Mid Oregon Farmers" 117 East Greenwood Phone 1243 v: 'May the Hoi if Season q the year ahedd yj;. .. krirjtj yjjuj much Kaipiness v OREGON EQUIPMENT CO. rf DEIS fit khupi r From Everyone at ... ' ERIK SEN'S STATIONERY and OFFICE SUPPLY WE ENTER INTO another. Holiday Season we wish lo extend oar pro. found thanks for the gra cious friendships we have enjoyed. May you enjoy the best of everything, not only this year and next, but during those io follow. May your hopes and dreams be fulfilled and may you enjoy Health, Happiness and Ccnuine Contentment. Congress Food Market to out cpacC fiUetd4 EDDIE'S SALES AND SERVICE CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH
