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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1960)
And the Word Became Flesh and Dwelt Among Us ' Editor'! Note: The lory is really a love story-or, rather, two love stories, li's ih love story of Mary and Joseph.'clawed. Anft lk ... t . ji I ...... ... ...c UI o, uoas love,, But sceoter fall HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Friday, December 23, 19G PAGE I DEW Line Will Track Santa's Phrictmic'll.. I . it.- -1 t 1 , . .1 J t I J I I.- - k ! U..I ... .1.!. :U, 1L-1 1 l-.lll II I L:- t I I v,,"M nciuu ure ine crown 01 Israel, iireaieu ana siumoerea. unanare.iwas 115 use; n man is uui uusi. nm uu una infill, uiai uiuuuiy sun waihra, 111s icus secmcu mo the lords of power and gold, andluncomprehending, oblivious. Brok-jin the march of centuries. He barricade was swept aside, and tionless. He lifted a hand to his AlinUQl IIQllT tor these things men craved and en from its moorings, it drifted ml felt no all-surpassing love. To him, all the Minting, shadowy empti- face, but his aim did not seem TOPEKA, Kan, l'Pl Santa vague, lovelorn oisconieni. gross, nis uoa was aisiani, grana, oo- ncss 01 man was nooaea wnn 10 move, ine eann neio sun, ana cinus lias nollunc to tear from a rea Santa Cans, a liiile farm rhrisimas i-amk shnnl Sunt and heaped amorPnous. without daring or .cer-scure and rigidly implacable, be-the fact of love. ,hc beheld the heavens in amaze-the nation s defenses when he girl from the Arkansas Ozarks isMux Harber was there, and he Little' Girl Enlists Aid Of Caps In Finding Santa NEW YORK AP If there is j the town was in church singirig to irrant nian. Here drawn'gold narrows ,he eve. These faJ ! v ' "-zling goods do not reign. They do! canonical New Testament Apo-jnot win. Thev do not J tne rypha, is an account of how heart, nor fill the void in man. those two love stories became one1 n. . .1. u .that firs, Chrtmas , . . There w as no room in the inn. ' ,. The place surged with voices, By CtORGE CORNELL smokeF and smBes of Associated Pres. Religion Writer meat. Distressed. Joseph grabbed Love knows no prisons, ft rec-the halter rope and started off egnizes no defeats. It breaks again. Dogs barked; peddlers bab- through obstacles, overrides re-jbled and drays trundled in the buffs. It is sovereign. It prevails, deepening dusk. It prevailed in the case of a He led the donkey down a slope troubled husband and his young at the rear of the hostelry. In bride of Nazareth. It withstood the distant valley he could see the slurs and strange travail that the campfires of shepherds. Ear tain destiny beset them. It bound them fast. And it offered to bind up a dis traught world. ly stars blinked over the moun tains of Moab. He heard Mary moan, and quick- Men resisted it. They ionored.ly stepped back beside her. distrusted and defied it. But love' "Take me down." she urged, would not forsake them. They "for that which is within me press' lost their own capacities for love, es to come forth." Vet they wert loved. "Wither shall I take thee?" Love sought them, reached for) His voice was desperate, and them, bent low for them, so very I his hands closed over hers corn- low. ,miseratingly. They must go on, A lowly she-donkey plodded up, They could not stop here in the the red and rocky road toward open on this gravel-strewn hill. Bethlehem, carrying the young She compressed her lips, nod-, Jewess, led by her rough-clad: ding. He tugged the donkey on mate. They were tired, dusty.! down the hill, along a cliff, his But they bore the lost lustre of eyes straining to find the live- life, stock cave of which the innkeep' Other travelers paid them little I er had spoken. Night's sharp chill heed. The traffic was thick, and' settled over them. He dragged at ttndent with yells of camoleers the rope, and the donkey held and bluster of litter trains. No back stiff-leggedly, braying. one seemed much concerned with anyone. But love was infinitely concerned with everyone. It is hard to say why. Men 'Take me down," she gasped again, "for that which is within me mightily presses me.' At that moment, he spied the had straved and stumbled. In their dark opening in the wall of rock. willful arrogance, they had fouled, He rushed back to her, lifting her warred, plundered, falsified. They; in his arms and carrying her into were a hard, harried lot, tortured by dead dreams. The great vision had left them. But it would not let them go. On the road, the peasant couple paused beside a- yew tree, and Joseph looked worriedly up at his wife, fearing she was in pain. Yet, only moments ago, he had seen her smiling with deep satis faction. "Mary," he said, "what ailethj thee? How happens it that I sometimes see sorrow and some times laughter and joy in thy countenance?" She leaned on her arms, grip ping the donkey's mane. "It ' is because I behold two people with mine eyes, the one weeping and lamenting and the ether laughing and rejoicing." For there is joy in love re tained and mutually given, but tragedy in its .trampling down. Men would ever misuse, mock end crucify. But love would not surrender. Aueustus ruled the empire, and Where was its meaning? What j man arms. I jyond the stretch of scrawny hu- Joseph was pacing outside the leave, and suddenly, although he !c rosscs the Distant Early Warn-jout to find him. She has enlisted, said, sure, he knows Coleta. the aid of the New York City cops, Coleta Burns, II, has decided the warmer interior, moving1 slow ly in the blackness, hearing the grunts and breathing of animals about him He probed with his feet, found an open space and laid her down Groping, he collected some straw for a mattress and lifted her on it, rolling his cloak for her head He rushed back outside, gath ered dry grass and wood and struck fire with his flint,, blow ing until it strengthened into flame. He jerked the waterskin from the stubborn beast's pack, filled a basin and put it on the fire. Then he fashioned an oil torch and jammed it in a crevice on the cavern wall. He knelt be side her stroking her hot brow. "Art thou quiet?" She murmured, opening her eyes to look up at him, and then abruptly wrenched her face away, the cords tightening in her neck In a moment, she turned back, smiling weakly, and motioned him outside. The world slept now. It re- ment. The milky way blazed like a 'ng Line Dec. 24 on his annual hinhwav of silver. A warm tide journey from the North Pole. banished the chill of earth, and But the Strategic Air Command Santa either doesn't know where loosed the scent of grass and plans to track him and his rein- s,e ivcSi or ne-s dca( He hasn.t spring and Eden flowers. Veils doer from the time of their j caiiec on ner in iong limc of light draped the sky. A mil;rfcpa.'lure. ,.,s a rca, San(a jn New non Diras singing: ivo. An angci - """"""- York?" Coleta wrote in a letter army Glory ,rVu. 0vf.v ."- (0 le Policc Department. "You to God In (he highest, - ""'K "l sec, if there is a real Santa, he and on earth, peace among men "' " "' .a",,'uu"1. doesn't know where we live. I with whom He is pleased. ., ..,', ,T V. b,, Z '! thought I would write a letter toiSanta thousand miles awav, distin-,.': ,,M h .. him, and if he doesn't come this wise men suiaieo ine - ri n i io..i iWnncmi"""7' 110 ui ui uici A guished stars, and in the valley. ide-fol.ccs , aow , kind,y jd eycu MirHiicius uuuuicu ui c. . . jowpn n..,. ana saw ...e .im j he was on nis way, brilliance filling the cave. It I "You know," she went on chat- and to let children I1'1- "lle lll,sn't bccn to our house "She's in the sixth grade." ha said, "and she makes mostly A'l and B's. Her family's not very well off, hut they're good people, well thought of." Postmaster Jim Fcltz was at church, too, and he knows Coleta, "Her father is a farmer and a carpenter, and he works when he can," he said, "and I doubt if has been there lately. Things haven't been so good here lately." Fulton County, Ark., is a cattle growing area with a little corn blurred his eyes, and he stum bled toward it. And the word became flesh and dwelt among us. He was here. Now ! Theophany on earth! He had come. He cared. Was man worth it? That God should take upon himself the form of a helpless babe in a draughty, dung-strewn cave? Yes, man was worth it. He was loved, dear ly loved. He was important God's sight JOSEPH WHIRLED and saw the white brilliance filling the cava. Star Of Bethlehem Sfill Puzzles All Asfronomers Bv FRANK CAREY Inight and they'd only do such WASHINGTON (API Astrono- night watching when the sheep mers still have not pinned dwn 1 were having lambs. That is, in the liny scientific explanation for the'springtime.'' ttar of Bethlehem which guided j She said that in the early days the Masi to the crib of the Christ of the Christian era the Christians celebrated the Nativity in tne springtime but later changed this several times, finally settling on Dec. 25. One view, she said, is that the ultimate change was made be cause Dec. 25 was "the date of the Roman Saturnalia, when all the 300 years ago, says simone uaro itomans were wnooping 11 up, ami Gossner of the U. S. Naval Ob- Wry Peasant Claims He Has Total Insomnia MADRID, Spain (UPI) wiry peasant glanced through pic ture magazines and chatted with two' correspondents today in a wide-awake demonstration of his claim that he has not slept a wink in his life. , . ' " . . Valentin Medina Poves, 61, was still going strong on the second day of his 48-hour sample of permanent insomnia. "I will sleep the day I die," Medina said simply. And there appeared to he no rea son to .doubt he would not sleep before then. Twenty-four hours UPI correspondents Junior RC Sends Chile Gifts Chilean school children can't expect a white Christmas because it's always summertime at Yule- A; tide in the South American na- Little Orphan Girl To Spend Yule At Home SALEM (AP)-The little Greek girl had never eaten meat, never drank orange juice, never spent Christmas outside an orphanage. All that is changed now. Leah, 4, has a new nome here, a new for a long time. He must have!and nay on side- Mosl of the been dead for a lot of years. If hcPole depend on the rocky land is alive. I hope you will read this (or tne'1' Iivin8 letter to him " Colcta's letter was turned over Then Coleta systematically lisl-l'0''"' ,Policce Alh'etic ed the things her family needs h,CAP,layS Santa to many New from Santa York kids, and deputy Police Com- 1 hnn ...... hu... 'missioner Walter Arm answered eloped 1a for my big brothers. 'I have two sisters. They are 13 years old. They are twins. They want a old piano so they can learn to play at church. 1 ...n.,i .. t 1 1 u mnlher. Mrs. Knhoi't Leonard, ann , , , . " , .. . tana some owe jeans ana a cow. lwn npw hrnthnrii llnupi'pr shi . . Thai u-a llip mntivo till. mpan. r ., . iOO.V Hal. ing. tne reason lor 11 an. iiielkmH in . , .u nal. Mis. making, and health of man - thesoua Mon( 0cl 2S as nc was ;en route to New York to get the llgni Is newly-adopted child ' still has no father. Leonard was Divine embrace, Arise, shine, for thy come, and tne glory M ine Lord is risen upon thee. Men were precious, each bun gling, benighted one of them. And this world was dignified, too, its grime and its flesh and its musty stables. For this is "I have a little brother and sis tor. . . . They want a little car that they can ride in. "I sure hope you are still alive, for 1 hope we can have Christmas the child's letter promptly. "I am sure there is a real Santa." wrote Arm. "not only in New York but everywhere. "However, he has been very busy and, somehow, he must have overlooked you and your brothers and sisters. . . . "I hope he gels to Viola by Christmas day. If not, please ba patient he has a lot of territory to cover." Tllat accident delayed, but did at our nouse ycar where God came. grace was given. This is where Right in the not cancel, Leah's arrival here. She arrived in Salem Tuesday night, and Mrs. Leonard said to day: "They told us we should expect that the child might be quite shy and withdrawn for some time. But not her. She fits in as if she had midst of tha shabbiest, dreariest: always been bore. She's a tremen gash in the earth. Not in some jdous help in filling the void caused rarefied sanctum. But in the j by Bobs death. We just wanted seamy world itself, where man her so much." lives and works. During an interview, Leah Awake, awake, put on thy danccd a,ound '"e room and .ironrih. thalce ihvwlf from ikr laughed while Mrs. Leonard said after t w 0 , recreation. set up a tion, but they can look forward to a brightened holiday season be cause old Saint Nick is bringing them 100,000 special gifts from American Junior Red Cross friends. Reports received at the local Red Cross headquarters show Christmas packages valued at about $300,000 en route to Chile as part of the Red Cross youth-to-youth assistance program to help earthquake stricken boys and girls. Each includes about 15 items for personal care, education and Nineteen Red Cross chapters, including Portland, Ore. assisted in the packaging and shipping. An initial Red Cross grant of $10,000 was made from the Children's Fund at the time the earthquake hit, and the pro gram of rehabilitation is still con tinuing. Other types of assistance include grants of $15 per month to Chilean university students to enable them to continue their edu cation. These projects for Chilean youth are part ot a broad disaster re lief program, made possible by generous contributions from the dust. Joseph, shielding his f a c e, plunged into the argent radiance. It pulsed and simmered, and then tppmIaH crattprinlf likf. A iawpIpH. :. " .land came misi. lie couia see laimiy, ana then quite well. All was just as before, the dull stone, the lit tered floor, the torch on the wall. Except that now she was up and moving about, dark hollows beneath her eyes but smiling ln:handjca d chjl(lren rf u h her arms, she held her first-born j i, j,j . son. lmmanuel, "God with us, the child never had eaten meat prior to her arrival in this coun try, and had never heard of orange juice. Leah, who was born in Crete to this country from Athens, had spent every Christ mas until thir ycar in an orphan age, Mrs. Leonard said. Leah has a partially paralyzed arm. ' Mrs. Leonard said that she Coleta added that she lives five miles southwest of Viola, Ark." If Sanla is dead," she conclud ed, "will you write and tell me?" Viola is a town of 196 persons, nestled in the foothills of the Ozarks. Wednesday night most of Will Retire PORTLAND ( API-Theodore T. Swenson announced today his re tirement as chief of the Depart ment of Agriculture's livestock re porting service here. Swenson said he will step down from the post Dec. 30. He has been with the department 37 years. DROP by our slipper de partment and choose from the best selection in town. 617 Main 0 So this was He. The unsearch able, the Unknown. So now men knew. -This is what He was like. And He had come to show them, to make them see, and know for' ever, that He was with them, intimately near, intimately con cerned. Despite men's grievous ways, is was here. Despite their and her adopted sons, Casey, 6, and Tony, 3, are in school. Until then, she said, there arc her own three children. Then she turned to Leah and whispered: "S'agapo ( love youi." The. child replied "S'agapo." The Baldwin Organ Eoii.it Of All To Play! Most Authentic Tones and Percus sion! Two 44 Note Manuals! RENT PURCHASE EASY TERMS FACTORY DEALER BOWDEN MUSIC CO. 130 Mai - Atnn fnm 10 SMr Phwie TU 2-4MS American public. Local residents!. ,.,,, m, i. u.. lit , ... I blunted responses. He came. Hum-5 himself, offering himself, participated in the relief campaign by donations of money and sup plies during June. child, a naval astronomer said Wednesday. Neither have they come up with eny new theories beyond the three major alternative speculations which have cropped up since pro fessional stargazers first began to theorize on the subject more than sorvatory. These three possibilities are: 1. A supernova a star that sud denly flares up much more bril- watch over him at 8 a.m. Wednes day, Medina showed no signs of fading. As the newsmen kept w atch with bloodshot eyes, usual supper cheese sandwich and a bottle of wine. Medina even seemed to gain strength as the time wore on. He helped move a desk from one room of the office to another. The two correspondents took turns napping but one or the other kept Medina in view at all times. Mnrtina hae Kppn in nnmoriitc tne tnnsiians ten imu meir own;doclol.s most of whom have con. celebration ot a religious evenucIuded ,hal he actually has tola, coum piM unueuxicu 01 au.... "I insomnia. Piiis and injections. Licenses Are Running Out Oregon chauffeurs have only a Current licenses expire Dec. 31, Medina had his rcw more davs u renew their consisting of, ajjcenses for 1961, the Department of Motor Vehicles reminded today, WELCOME TO BRITAIN and the agency said applications are lagging behind the usual num ber received each year. Applications are available at all branch offices or from license LONDON 1 UPI '-One of tlv2 examiners 01 tne department, lhc advertising slogans the British"-15 Travel Association is using to lure lne Miue nas. approxunaieiy American tourists to Britain is:'" P' "censra as cnaui- leurs. time. Of the three astronomical the- liantly than previously. 2. A com-'ories offered to explain the star, t 3. The configuration, or appar- Mrs. Gossner said the config- of several ent close proximity planets in the sky. t Mrs. Gossner says the difficulty besetting any real attempt to link bling tenting in the slums and tribula-'S tions of man. This was God. The absolute, the invincible. Uie pow-jjj er that is constant, enduring, the ft ultimate. This was the Almighty. This was love. 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I PRESENT THE BEAUTIFUL NEW 1961 BUE.0VA l"JAMES LATEST STYLES FOR LADIES AND MEN usi wnsniio's mmoui lew iast cawir firms unlikely cliches." similes and frightful J f ; wine supplied by friends and oth-ift er home remedies all have failed ft to put him to sleep. S Dr. Luis Tomas Casamayor, who n k n 8 uration-of-planets concept conceiv-,examined Medina Wednesday, said! ably might tie in best. "apparently the man is not lying "The Magi" she said, "were Lj u ,,!! jnc., j , astronomers, but they also werei.i.n.. S the Maei's auiding star witn a.asiroiogers as wen. Ana me pos- R,lt h. r-,. final iurfBmpni Z specific astronomical event is lhatisible appearance of three brightunU he coM ..sludy tne case fori JJiaiieLA 1U1 CAciuipii:, vt-uua, uu- piter and Saturn in apparent very close position to each other in the heavens might well- have "neither the year of Christ's birth nor the season of the year wnen it occurred are known with cer tainty, a period of several weeks." THIKVES CUP OF TEA I)nOM ItJPlI A tnirk load- R She said ir, an interview tnat Deen consiaeiea a mysuc symooi cd with $2,800 worth of liquor and historians estimate that the ear- By tne mag,. ,wjne waa S0ien Tuesday Vhilej" liest possible year was 11 B.C.) Mrs. Gossner said that astrono-jthe driver stopped off for a cupjS end the latest, 4 B.C. imers nave computed mai jupi- 0f ea. "And." she said, "while the ter, Saturn ano venus iormeo a time of year when the birth oc- close triangle in early March of curred has not been fully estab-;the year 6 B.C. lished most probably it occurred, "This configuration," she said. In the springtime, rather than in "appeared in the constellation of December. I Pisces the Fishes w hich had al- "The Bible story speaks of ways been held sacred to the hepherds watching "their nocks by Jews." OPEN TONIGHT UNTIL 9 P.M. Open Saturday Night until you leave! We'll be cloied Sunday (Christmas) and Monday, Dec. 26. 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