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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
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| 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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.’
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941
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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
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of pleasant relations, we pause
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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
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