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PAGE EIGHT THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON. the observance of these rules: 1. Pedestrians who are abroad af ter dark should carry or wear some thing white so they can be seen by A list of blackout traffic precau tions, approved by national safety drivers with blacked-out lights. Wom authorities, was released today by en are advised to carry a white scarf or shawl, men are advised to display Earl Snell, secretary of state. Warn- a white handkerchief or a folded ing Oregon citizens that three traf fic fatalities already had occurred in newspaper, children should be dressed in white raincoats or other light the state during blackouts, he urged colored coats. This procedure is im- I perative in view of traffic under blackout conditions. 2. Drivers with blackout lights should observe special speed limits established for blackout driving. In Portland, a limit of 20 miles an hour has been established by city ordi nance. Restricted vision due to such lights makes slower speed imperative, Snell pointed out. 3. At intersections, drivers should keep alert during blackouts because 6) | traffic signals will be off. Pedes trians also should bear this fact in | mind and proceed with due caution in crossing intersections. 4. Pedestrians should under no con ditions jaywalk under blackout con CREE 11NGS ditions. Always go to the nearest in TO ALL OUR FRIENDS tersection or crosswalk where motor ists will be expecting pedestrians. 5. Pedestrians on highways in ru ral areas should display a flashlight * We celebrate now the birth of covered with two thicknesses of blue one who gave us the Sermon on I cellophane. the Mount, the keystone of whose SECRETARY OF STATE WARNS PEDESTRIANS -.94 257 arch was the injunction "Love ye one another." Upon this firm foundation all human friendship is built. We have been proud to count you among our loyal friends for many years, and now renew our pledge of friendship. We also take this opportunity to extend to you all good wishes for a joy ful Christmas and holiday season. Saylor’s Merry Christmas 1541 Christmas trees PINE CITY NEWS Uy Mis. Hernice Wattenburger Mr. and Mrs. Fred Burk of Echo. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wattenburger and son of Pasco, all spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wattenburger. Gordon and Malcolm O’Brien re turned Saturday from Corvallis to spend Christmas vacation with their | mother, Mrs. Harold Wilkins. A pinochle party was held Satur day evening at Pine City. Three tables were in play. High score went to Mrs. Agnes Abcrombie, Marian Finch and low score to Frances Finch and Bertha Ayers. Mr. and Mrs. Marian Finch and daughters spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Eb. Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Moore re turned Thursday evening from Seat tle. They reported the black-out quite a thrill. Mrs. Bell, who has been cooking for Mr. Voglan left Friday for a month’s visit with her sister and children in Pasco and Seattle. Henry Voglan, owner of the Boy len ranch, has purchased a 180 herd of cattle from Lewiston, Idaho, and brought the cattle to the ranch to feed out. Jack Healy left Friday for Port land where he joined the navy. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Cox and family of Hermiston spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wattenbur ger and family. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Myers and family and Howard Myers, and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Ayers and son Ray were Pendleton Christinas shoppers Tuesday. Guy Moore of Pendleton spent Sun. day with his mother, Mrs. Roy Neill. !!F222291: 304 CHRISTMAS eve. Streets white — with swirling snow flakes. Marionetta, behind the counters of the five-and-ten, peered into one of the little ten-cent mirrors it was ner business to sell. Marionetta was crying because there was no Santa Claus. More than anything she hated to go back to the tiny basement flat that she and mother and Jim called home, and tell Jim the truth. Jim, or Jimmy, as Marionetta al ways called him, was crippled. Mari onetta insisted that he was too little yet to know about Santa Claus. She had gone without her lunch for days and days and saved her nickels and dimes to buy the things Jimmy wanted. That very morning she had started out to work, her precious savings tucked away in her purse, her heart all but singing out loud. Then, when she got off the car, someone in the motley crowd bumped her elbow and her purse was knocked from her hand. Marionetta dived for Jimmy shouted with delight. it, but another dived at the same time and when she straightened up a small, flying figure was crossing the street. That was why her feet lagged on her homeward way. Her hand on the door of the base ment flat; at the dirty tenement house where she lived, she noticed a big automobile drawing up at the curb, and an elegantly dressed lady slumming. Showing off ! She turned her back on the picture, flung open the door and stepped inside. "Hello, Sis.” Jimmy looked up brightly. "Tonight’s the night!” Marionetta looked dully at her mother. "I lost my purse,” she said tone- lessly. “Some kid snatched it this morning. It looked just like that McCarty kid that comes here to play with Jimmy so much but he ran so fast I couldn’t be sure.” "Don’t cry, honey," her mother said. "We’ll make out, somehow.” There was a knock. Mrs. Clancy went to the door and opened it. There stood the lady of the big automobile, her arms piled high with packages. "Is this where Jimmy Clancy lives?” “Yes, ma’am.” Mrs. Clancy stepped back. “Won’t you come in?” The lady stepped inside. She kept smiling at Jimmy, whose eyes were wide and bright. "I met Santa Claus down the street this afternoon, Jimmy,” she said, “and he asked if I would bring these things to you. He said he was going to be very busy tonight.” Jimmy was feverishly tearing at the packages, which the lady had dropped into a big chair beside him. As his heart’s desires emerged from their tinsel wrappings Jimmy shout ed with delight. Under cover of the excitement Marionetta drew near the pretty lady and whispered: “Tell me how you knew about Jim my?” “Why, my dear, it’s such a strange story! This morning I saw a little boy snatch a purse that someone dropped, and when he ran away I had my chauffeur follow him and bring him back to me. He told me he wanted to keep the money to buy some toys for a little crippled friend whose folks were too poor to buy things for him. I promised him I’d play Santa Claus to Jimmy if he’d promise me to wait on that corner for the girl who dropped the purse, every morning at the same hour, until he found her and gave it back to her.” “Why," cried Marionetta, “did you ever hear anything so like a fairy tale’ That was my purse, and it really was Jerry McCarty, mother! There was such a crowd he couldn’t see who dropped it. He'd never have stolen—but it wasn’t stealing. And just to think that a moment ago I was doubting the Christmas saint!” The lady laughed. Then in that clear voice she said: “Well, just to make you even more sure of him, I’m going to bring a famous doctor to see Jimmy the day after tomorrow, and I’m going to have him take Jimmy to a hos pital and cure that bad leg of his. The good Christmas saint doesn’t want to find him crippled when he comes back next year." (Associatesi Newspapers—WNU Service.’ priu THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941 * i We'd like very much to send each of you a gift to show our apprecia tion of your friendship and patron age during the year. As this is impossible, we take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Thompson Drug Store CHRISTMAS HEARTY GREETINGS! It's Christinas ... the season of genial fellowship and good will when men draw together in ties of common brotherhood. In this season of good will it is time to reckon the finer profits that cannot be posted on the ledgers . . . the best time in the entire calendar to express our appreciation of the many evidences of your friendship. To you and to those whose happiness is linked with yours we send our heartiest wishes for the merriest Christmas ever! Fred Scheer HERMISTON HERALD glowing frown windows and out of A appropriate most to your patronage, thank you for and to wish you n Merry Christ- mas an d a Happy Prosperous New and Year. HP IM (o) Dr. W. L. Morgan b.. 7 Christmas 2. t. * Afitumi ¡he bai Kgrcund of Christmas is the ideal of a world at peac f. This ideal btu nour ished the ('hrixtma» joy at count leu aüilion» since the day^ when hepherd» hru tended their floi ks on the plain i at old Judea. * It is thn pea< e at spirit tn all ite fullnee» that we wieh rou now, as, on nd ful af a whole rear of pleasant relations, we pause io express our appres ¡ahon. * May you ali en jar a truh Merry Christmas this season ' thristmus*1941 s IN THIS FORTUNATE LAND OF OURS ONLY IN AMERICA can you find so many such scenes of comfort and enjoyment—the complete absence of drudgery. And only in the Northwest do you enjoy electric appliances at such low rates. For Pacific Power & Light has reduced its rates again and again, until now the electricity you buy costs only about 14 as much as it did when Pacific Power & Light began business 31 years ago. IN SCORES ELECTRICITY IS HELPING TO Dr. A. C. Willcutt DEFEND AMERICA ELECTRIC RATES 34% BELOW NATIONAL AVERAGE „ // doors. time N
