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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, April 18, 19S7 Easter Means New Clothes, Eggs; Can Also Mean New Life and Joy Editor! note: Thic 1 lh thi.it , four articles by ltading Protestant and Catholic theologians on the meaning of Easter for modern man. The author is America' best known woman theologian, a member of the faculty of the Methodist Pacific Di vinity School, Berkelev, Calif., who Is currently on leave teaching at the Internationa Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. By DR. GEORGIA HARKNESS Written for United Press Tokyo (U.R) What does Easter mean to you? New clothes, Easter eggs, bunnies, spring flowers? These are part of our traditions, and there is no need to abandon them. But much deeper than these lies a great fact. Easter can mean new life and joy and peace, triumph over pain and even over death. Easter always follows Good Friday. But let us not forget that the first Good Friday, when Jesus hung with thieves on Cal vary and was crucified for sins he did not commit, did not seem very good! His closest followers, with the exception of John the beloved disciple, were conspicu ous by their absence as far as we can learn from the record His mother Mary and some of the women were there weeping, as well they might at an event so terrible and so undeserved. Most of the disciples, apparently afraid of being implicated, disappeared, while Judas who had betrayed him was so horrified at what he had done that he went out and hanged himself. The whole situ ation was very dark indeed. Hope Reborn Then came Easter morning! Mary Magdalene, whose life had Christians Observe Easter Throughout World This Week By UNITED PRESS Christians throughout the arlj celebrate Easter this week to tfhurch and in a variety of dfcaditional ceremonies in homes a outdoors. 98tt in Jerusalem, where, by (Sistian teaching, Christ was a-VMcified, buried and rose again (gfeww the dead 1,957 years ago, tffce tensions among Jews and t&tfiB have cast a shadow over JtJEfe Christian pilgrimages of TjpoJf Veek. fPns number of Easter visit- Sjg& is the smallest in a long Only about 1,500 persons Jjgwe come from overseas, com ligred to about 15,000 last year. ,But the familiar ceremonies ill be observed. 'J&Mssands To Carry Crosses "Phis afternoon a procession Ojfcakes its way to the room in jyhich Jesus is said . to have erjgrved the last supper to his disciples. Good Friday thous ands will carry crosses in pro cession down Via Dolorosa, the route Jesus carried his cross to Golgotha. On Sunday, sunrise services will be held in both the new and old cities of Jerusalem, with a united service taking place in the Garden of The Tomb out side the walls of the old city in Jordan. The Jerusalem newspaper El Jihad reported Wednesday that Jordan has barred the French and Dutch consular corps from crossing into Jordan to take part in the ceremony. , A United Nations spokesman In Cairo said 100 U.N. soldiers would be flown from their posts in Egypt to spend Easter in Jerusalem. In Rome, capital of the world's 430 million Roman Sei of Seven! Puppy tries to help with chores and his amusing antics make gay decorations for tow els! So easy, a child can help you embroider these for gifts; bazaars. N Pattern 7286: Transfer of sev en different motifs about 6x7 inches; one for each day of the week! Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS In coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune. Household Arts Dept.. P. O. Box 168, Old Chel sea Station, New York 11. N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, and PATTERN NUMBER. A bonus for our readers two FREE patterns, printed in our new Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book for 1957! Plus a wonderful variety of designs to order cro chet, knitting, embroidery, huck weaving, toys, dolls, others. Send 25 cents for your copy of this exciting NEW needle book now! V Catholics, thousands of tourists and pilgrims jammed all avail able hotel space. Pope Pius, who granted an audience to 30,000 pilgrims Wednesday, planned to spend Maundy Thursday in pray er and meditation. In London, Queen Elizabeth followed ancient tradition today in distributing token "Maundy money" to the aged poor of her kingdom. But she broke a 300- year-old custom by taking the ceremony out of London, to St. Albans Abbey. Processions were being staged throughout Spain today. The marching crowds chanted pray ers and carried religious statues. The whole nation will go into mourning from midday until Sunday. .et the Jef Plane Makes 'Hole in the Sky' Knoxville. Tenn. U.R). aircraft made a "hole in sky" here, a federal weather ex pert says. The explanation of a publi cized cloud formation seen here Feb. 22 was offered by Howard T. Orville, chairman of the U.S. Weather Advisory Committee on weather controls in Washington. The phenomenon consisted of a big perfect circle of blue sky in a blanket of fluffy white clouds. The effect was .visible to the naked eye and showed clear ly on photographic plates. Pictures were widely pub lished and inquiries have poured in from across the nation, Or ville said. Orville said ice crystals from jet vapor trails "dropped" through a lower cloud layer leaving the dark blue hole. Mother, Children Stabbed Before Blast Binghamton, N. Y. U.R) Autopsies showed today that a mother and her two children had been stabbed before a mys terious "upstairs'-' explosion re duced their two-story frame home to rubble and critically injured the father. The father, Woodrow Mat thews, 42, who suffered severe burns in the early-morning blast Wednesday, also had stab wounds which police said may have been self-inflicted. District Attorney Louis M. Greenblott expressed the belief that the explosion was set off intentionally, but he deferred questioning of Matthews be cause of the seriousness of his condition. The dead were identified as Matthews' wife, Ella, 40; their son, Carl, 10, and their daugh ter, Alma, 14. "It's all very puzzling," said Coroner Vincent Maddi. been made over by his love even for a sinner and his faith in what she could bcome, was early at the tomb to pay him a last trib ute of devotion. And there He spoke to her, as He had spoke before in words of. assurance that made life different. One of the pictures I treasure most is a photograph of Gutzon Borglum's rock hewn "Mary Magdalene." The light of glad expectancy and renewed hope in her eyes as she turns from the empty tomb to confront the living Christ. In one word, "rabboni!" are compressed her gratitude, her enduring de votion, her joy. For her, triumph was shining through grief and hope had again been born in her. Easter Repeats Itself Now the great thing about Easter is that it did not happen just once, long ago and far away. Of course, it did happen once, the climax of the supreme event of all history, which is God's revelation of himself in the life and death of his son Jesus Christ. Yet because it happened once, it keeps on happening in the lives of persons just like ourselves. Because Jesus Christ is not simp ly a memory, or a person to read about in the history of Palestine, but a living presence, our lives can have the same hope and joy th-t came to Mary Magdalene. The last words of the gospel according to St. Matthew are those in which Jesus says, "Lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age." Had not the resur rection occurred, this promise could not be ours. But it is ours. Presence of Christ Have we sin, either a gnawing consciousness of guilt or a dull indifference to what is right? Jesus Christ is with us' to forgive the penitent and give us new life. Have we pain, physical or mental, for ourselves or for those we love? Christ's living presence will see us through. Do we face death, soon or in the dim and unknown future? Indeed, we all must, but it need have no terrors, for He has risen and has promised eternal life. Does the world look dark? No darkness can blot out the light j that shines from Him. The story of His coming opens with the shining of a star; it ends with "Peace be with you, and the asurance of His presence with us forever. In Kim was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." So this is the message of East er, not the interesting but incon sequential things we often asso ciate with it, but life, life abund ant, life eternal. This is God's Easter gift to us, the greatest gift His love could offer us, the greatest gift ever given to the world. Annual Sunrise Service Scheduled Sunday The annual sunrise service of the Sams Valley Community church will be held at 5:30 a.m. Sunday near the O. W. Rob ertson place on Day lane in Sams Valley.- - Gilbert Mack will be speaker at the service, church officials announced. Weeks Sewing Buy oacH Utte WS'-H LjW 'BP &. ONE SIZE MEDIUM InAG 9361 JIFFY-CUT Printed Pattern! Paper pattern is all one piece; just pin to fabric, cut complete apron at one time! It's sew easy, thrifty one yard 35-inch fab-ic is all. you need for each of these pretty little serving styles! Printed Pattern 9361 includes three styles: Misses Medium size only. Each apron: 1 yard 35-inch. Jiffy-Cut pattern is easiest to cut and sew. All pattern parts are printed on ONE tissue piece! Send ..Thirty-five . cents in coins for this pattern add a cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send to, Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, AD DRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. FIRST OF THE MONTH Central Falls, R. I. (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Pate- naude's children have these birthdays: Jan. 1, 1954 daugh ter; Feb. 1, 1956 son; March 1, 1957 daughter. PROSPECT Navy Man Home From Guam GENEIL SPRUILL Prospect Kenneth Struck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Struck, who has served with the U.S Navy the past four years, re turned home from Guam on Fri day The Calorie Counters plan on having their regular meetings this summer. Their next meeting will be held at the home rf Mrs. George Govonor on April 25. Everyone is invited. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Colley have announced the engagement of their daughter Sue, to Durwin Bean, son of Mrs. Marion Bean. No date has been- set for the wedding. The WCTU met on Tuesday, April 19, at the home of Hope Hedgepeth where they worked on a quilt for missionaries. A pot luck dinner was served at noon. The ladies will meet again on Tuesday to finish the quilt. Mr. and Mrs. Robert White have returned to their home after spending several days at Chico, Calif., where they visited at the home of his mother! The then spent some time at Grants Pass at the home of his brother Miss Bonny Gay Holmes who is employed as bookkeeper for the Red Blanket Lumber co- t Eagle Point, entered the Sacred Heart hospital Thursday for minor surgery. Steve Garrett celebrated his 13th birthday on Friday by hav ing a party for his friends. Mrs. Fred Middlebusher of Medford, and Mrs. Richard Tub man of Grants Pass visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Brown on Wednesday. They were also guests at the Home Extension meeting held at the McKillop home on Wed nesday, April 10. . The Lloyde Moore family drove to Lakeview last weekend. The small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyde Acery is feeling better after her recent kidney infection. On Saturday the Prospect High school senior class spon sored a car wash. The last work day at the Com munity club was a big success. Many improvements have been made and one more work day should complete the present projects. It has been Frank and two weekend. reported that of his friends Ernie Lee Klenner, former Prospect resident, now living t Fortuna, Calif-, visited in and around Prospect during the week. L. : McCullum and Raymond Artmire, now living- at Eureka, Calif-, are presently employed with the forest service there. SOC Faculty Member Returns From Meetings Ashland Miss Seraphine J. Scanlon, Southern Oregon, col lege, director of dining services, has returned to her college duties after attending the North west Restaurant exposition in Seattle, April 9-11, and the Ore gon Dietetic association meeting in Corvallis April 12. Both conferences featured lec tures, exhibits, and the reading of papers relative to the most recent research in foods, equip ment,, and nutrition. CANCELLED BY FIRE East Haven, Conn. (U.R) Firemen arrived early for a testi monial dinner for one of their officials, but the affair had to be postponed. The restaurant where it was to have been held was de stroyed by fire a few hours before. Pageant Scheduled at Central Point Tonight "The Dawning," a pageant of the resurrection produced by the Cave Junction Community church will be held at the Cen tral Point Community Bible church at 7:30 p.m. today. The pageant was given at the Provolt Grange hall last Sun day when some 400 persons attended- qq API i ni like Lay Members Will Take Part in Service Today . Four lay members of the Con gregational church will partici pate in . the holy Thursday ser vice at 8 p.m. today. Mrs. F. C. Ayres,, George G. Moore, Duane Richardson, ind Miss Nancy Miller will read from the scripture from Luke A women's trio will sing "There Is a Green Hill," and the Rev. Thomas McCamant will preside at the service and the serving of communion. DOG BLAMED Fitchburg, Mass. 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The three veteran's groups in the valley are in charge of In depedence Day activities, which will include an open air dance at the Veterans of Foreign Wars grounds near Cave Junction, booths and concessions, a parade and a carnival. Under considera tion is a queen contest, with a "Spirit of Liberty" and her court to be chosen by popular vote. Six organiations were repre-1 sented at the Jubilee planning i session at the Legion hall. Chair- man Don Adams asked the com- ' mittee to formulate plans for I presentation at the next meeting April 24. i CHUCKS MARK ET GRAND OPENING 838 W. McAndrews Rd. Phone 3-1666 FREE M.J B COFFEE SERVED FREE PONY RIDES FOR KIDDIES SATURDAY ONLY MJ.B COFFEE U 98c 2 ihs.sias STARTING EARLY Lee, Mass (U.R) A well filled hope chest, given as a door ; prize at a card party in St Mary's parish hall, was won by two-year-old Steven Consolati. I FRIDAY & SATURDAY SPECIALS OPEN 8 A.M. to 7 P.M. i Always serve doubly-fresh BLUE BELL Potato Chips BEEF SPECIALS FROM NALLEY VALLEY BANQUET DILLS miL 35 3 for Lumberjack Syrup STEWTsl.ErT,3 1 24- 00 oz. For n.oo FREE Basket of Groceries Each Day JJIM'S MEATS We Feature Government Inspected Meats Money Back Guarantee on Every Purchase HOME SMOKED Easter HAMS WHOLE or SHANK HALF 53 lh. JIM'S ANNIVERSARY SALE SHOP and SAVE HERE HOME SMOKED - y Do18 DILMFADDEF jorgensen'S BACON Mswf0MMJ "fV 11 s?ftA Milk-Butter PIECE or CC NoCans $j QQ SLICED JJ lb. ggj'.Li SfTS 2,,17 SweetPotaloes229 LETTUCE lb. 17 rwhi,e 2doz.Og BraEE' ?.r'oin " " ' " f!!e!j?- crisPH.ads " FRIDAY and SATURDAY Rib - ..... 59e lb. SNIPER'S SERVING FREE ICE CREAM LOOKER BEEF aSEsSfc This Market Will Be Closed Easter Sunday J
