4a Yh Bend Bulletin, Saturday. December 24, 19S5
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A-t tli is Lappy time we wish, all our
friends and cighbori a Merry Christmas, b
replete with all the season s joys!
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To all our friendi we wiih all
th good thinga that thim
gloriout time of year con bring.
I . Merry Chriitmas and a Happy New Year
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'55 Good Year
For Features
By HARM AN W. NICHOLS
; United Press Staff Corrtwpondent
WASHINGTON (UP) Actually
1955 was a prelty interesting year,
fcalurcwise.
Cute things happened although
they probably will be pushed into
limbo and be forgotten.
Like the headaches William H.
Brett had in trying to get the mint
working to correct the shortage of
pennies. The head of the mint
here know what was going on. It
was those hurricanes, which were
knocking over houses, Hooding
and pushing folks into the back
lands. States and cities were pass
ing emergency taxes extra pen
nies mostly. And pennies also
were going into piggy brinks and
bureau drawers. There they have
been staying. For a time Brett
didn't snore much. lie was too
busy ordering the mint in Phila
delphia to goose up production to
a combined eight million pennies
& day. I
It was Interesting to learn, too.
during the year, that Vice Presi-j
i dent Richard M. Nixon is like a;
;lot of us. He shines his own shoes.
Not only that, on world travels he
swipes buffers that are left in ho
tel bathrooms for souvenirs. 1 lit.
V.P. asked me if I thought that
was wrong and I had to admit
that I had a pretty fine collection,
too.
PulnlcNH I'HfUller
In the patent business, there
was a man in Virginia who took
all of the fun out of paddling out
Young by Inventing a stick that
wouldn't hurt children. With small
fry over knee, all a parent had
to do was to hit a kid almost
hard enough to make him "oush!"
and the paddle would collapse,
leaving the kid with a giggle in
stead of smarting from a spank-1
Ing, which they probably de
served. I don't suppose this gimmick
sold very well if, indeed, it ever
got onto the market.
President Eisenhower had a bad
time with the squirrels which!
were hiding nuts under his putting'
green on the front side of the
While House. Squirrel experts j
wen? called into play and it was!
learned that some squirrels werej
smarter than others. Some were
burying nuts. Others .were plain
old dumb. They didn't know a wal-
l nul from a golf ball. That has
been sir a inhumed out now. The
( f ending v RiuimlB huvo been
shunt ed ott 1o parts unknown
And a new family has arrived on
the White House lawn. They leave
the President's playground strict
ly alone.
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ANGEL IN DISTRESS Anything can crop up at a dress re
hearsal, including an itchy foot. These youngsters in Atlanta.
Ga., were rehearsing a Christmas carol for their school's Christmas
pageant when little cherub Suzanne Welch, foreground, developed
an itch. So what else could she do, but scratch it?.
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FROM V.P. TO SKY WATCHER John Nance Garner, former
vice president of the United States, has become a member ot the
Air Force Ground Observers' Corps. He's shown above in his
Uvalde, Tex., home listening as MSgt. Jack P. Russell explains
the Job. Russell Is stationed at, the San Antonio Air Defense
Filter center. ;
Knows Home Through Travel
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... To all of you whom wc have so enjoyed
serving: wc say thanks for your patronage -And,
may everything that's bright and gay,
Bless your household on Christmas Day!
GEORGE MICHAKLSON
Michaelson's Qrocery
BKRKKLEY. Calif. (UP) By
traveling away from home, a Uni
versity of California scientist has
found that he can know home bet
ter. .Paleontologist Ralph W. Chancy
claimed he has found that il a per
son wants to know what Califor
nia was like 70.000,000 years ago.
a trip to the Orient may reveal it.
Chancy, recently returned from
a trip to Japan, brought back new
evidence indicating that almost
identical forests flourished both in
Asia and in the gold gravel valleys
of the Sierra Nevada some 70.000,
000 years ago. He b tses his study
on fossils.
'Santa Much
In Evidence
In Moscow
By HENRY SHAPIRO
. .MOSCOW (UP) Tall fir trees,
strung with lights and capped by
shining stars stand in all the prin
cipal squares of Moscow.
Figure nf Santa Claus are in
eveiy store window.
People shopping for gifts crowd
the big department stores and the
scene looks just like Macy's base
ment. But all this has nothing to do
with Christmas. i
There is no Christmas, officially, '
In Soviet Russia. This season of
exchanging gifts is the celebration
of Hie new year.
The decorated trees are not!
Christmas trees but something!
called the "yolka" which Russians
nave used lor generations to marK
the mid-winter season. The star on
top Is the five-pointed star of the
Soviet flag.
And the man who looks like
Santa Claus is really "Ded Mor
oz," or Grandfather Frost, a char
acter of Russian folklore dating
back to pre-Christian times.
ft is Ded Moroz who, on New:
Year's Eve, descends from the
North Pole with a team of rein-1
deer bringing cheer and gifts to j
Russian children and grown-ups. I
Uis companion is "Segurocha," the!
snow maiden who helps him dec-
orate the yolka. j
Grandfather Frost and the snow
maiden were in disgrace for a few
years after the Communist revolu
tion but by the mid-30s they were
welcomed back by boviet officials.
But as symbols of the new year,
not Christmas.
Dec. 25 is an ordinary working
day on the Russian calendar. The
Soviet encyclopedia defines Christ
mas as "The birthday of the myth
ical founder of Christianity."
Devout members of the Russian
Orthodox Church quietly celebrate
Christ s birthday. But for the great
mass of Russians, the occasion for
giving gifts and general merri
ment is New Year's Eve.
As in the West, Russians are ad
vised to do their holiday shopping'
early. They have been jamming
department stores to buy anything;
from inexpensive toys to prohibi
tive priced television sets.
"Yolka" trees arc on sale at 10
to 30 rubles, depending on size, j
Yolka decorations can be bought
anywhere. There is practically no
home in Moscow without Jts yolka1
tree on New Year's Eve. I
Moscow's 48 restaurants are ad
vertising warnings to customers to
make reservations early for cala
midnight -dmners costing lrom 50
to 100 rubles.
There wM be all night dancing
to jazz orchestras in the restau
rants and hotels and around yolkas
in city squares.
ALARMING ESSAY The foreign agricultural servtct
METHUEN, Mass. IUP Be- ! the U. S. Department of Agri
cause she sounded a false firei culture reports that U. S. farms
alarm, a 10-year-old schoolgirl wa ate go to 65 per cent of all
ordered by the fire chief to write, , ...
an sy entitled "The Hazard. oftractOTS in agriculture .n the
False Alarms." world.
To All from
DOWER FLOWER SHOP
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As tne year draws close to Christmas
we wish to thank our many good
Friends and Customers for their
Patronage. We rccogniic that
wc have You and You alone, to thank
for another Successful Year.
To You and Yours
The Merriest of Christmases
EVANS FLY CO.
Sports Clothing
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Johntoo Motori
ON IUS LINE On South Hiqhwav. Phono HS-J OPCN SUNDAYS
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In the spirit of friendliness and good cheer
...we thank you for your many favors and
sincerely wish to each of you the blessings of
peace ... good will . . . good health and happiness
at Christmas time! noxo fii
THE
MILLER LUMBER COMPANY
"VOI R HOME FIRST"
126 Oregon Street
KRtE BEUVERY
Phone 166