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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1961)
Ancients Given Credit For Yule Tree Custom SCHOOL EVENTS Dec. 21, School Christmas pro gram. Dec. 22, Christmas vacation be gins, 3:00 p.m. Jan. 2, School reopens after va cation. You can’t eat your cake — and diet too. Many believe that Christ mas tree custom may be traced to pagan celebrations of the win ter solstice—the time when the sun ceases its seeming drift south ward and begins moving back north. The ancients knew great fear when the sun steadily moved away from them. They did not like the cold winds from the north, the shorter days, the disap pearance of wildlife and the bare, shriveled appearance of trees and plants. Accordingly, they designed cer emonies to lure the sun back. When the sun responded, in the natural course of time, they joy fully decorated their homes with evergreens, mistletoe, holly and ivy in celebration of the fact that warm weather would soon return. Love is blind -— but a diamond sparkler is sure an eye-opener. ! i I •SPOFFORD GARDEN} S& FLORAL SERVICE i Oernonia £a$fe B B W h e n th e Yule star shines upon our town we ho p e it brings io a ll g re a t h ap p in ess. Safety Seat Belts Considered Most Effective Single Safety Equipment Sun Used lor Keeping Time any collision, an automobile is stopped suddenly, but the people inside, unless restrained in some way, still have movement and are hurled into the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield, or worse, out of the car. Persons thrown from accident vehicles are five times more likely to be injured fatally than those who stay inside, according to a nationwide study. Seat belts should be fastened at all times when the car is in motion. Contrary to some notions, seat belts offer great protection The Oregon State Game Com at moderate speeds. More than mision has issued a clarification half of the accidents causing in concerning 9ome misunderstand jury or death involve speeds of ings of the hunter safety training less than 40 miles per hour. Fig law that will become effective ures also show that three out of January 1, 1962. four traffic deaths occur within Contrary to published reports 25 miles of home. the Certificate of Competency in Less than one per cent of all the safe handling of firearms does injury-producing accidents in not have to be presented to ob volve fire or submersion. Seat tain a hunting license nor does a belts greatly improve your person 18 years of age or older chances of remaining concious, so have to take the course of train you can get clear of a submerged ing. A person, 17 years of age or or burning car. A seat belt can be younger, is required to take the unfastened in an instant with one course of training regardless of hand. Seat belts belong attached whether or not he previously has around each occupant when the been issued a hunting license. car is in motion. This fact has Certificates issued by other been proven and supported by the states, provinces, or the National Oregon traffic safety commission, Rifle Association will satisfy re Oregon state police, and the Ore gon state board of health. You quirements of the law. The game commission also re owe it to yourself and your family minds hunters, 17 years of age or to install and use safety seat younger, that the Certificate of belts. The board of health urges Competency must be carried with the head of every household to them whenever they are hunting buy some protection by giving his with a firearm for any wild bird family seat belts for Christmas. or animal, not just the game spe cies. The only exception to this Calendar Originated would be when a hunter in these In Old Roman Days age groups is hunting on his own In ancient Rome, the priests land. Courses of training are given called the people together on the by volunteer instructors in al first day of every month, known most every community in the as Calends, and announced the state. All prospective young hunt sacred days and festivals to be ers should avail themselves of the observed during the month. The people checked the days on their training as soon as possible. “fasti,” marking the important Home is where you hang your feasts in red. Thus from the head, any henpecked husband “Calends” we derived our word calendar. will tell you. Sweethearts may be more in terested in the moon but for cen turies calendar makers have de voted plenty of attention to the sun. In fact, the sun caused the year 46 B.C. to have 445 days — the longest year in calendar his tory. The Roman Calendar, suppos edly created by Numa Pompilius, in the seventh century B.C., was revised several times. Yet, when Julius Caesar put his experts to work on the Julian calendar, they found the Roman calendar was two months behind the sun. This presented them with a problem: they had to catch up with the sun before the Julian calendar could take over as the official method of marking time. They solved the problem by adding two extra months to the year 46 B.C., inserting them be tween the months of November and December. The Oregon State Board of Health in the interest of saving lives and reducing injury urges every. Oregon car owner to in stall and use safety seat belts. Safety seat belts have been thoroughly tested and have al ready saved thousands of lives and reduced countless injuries. In Safety Training Law Explained Oernonia Eagle THURSDAY, DEC. 21, 1961 ith e m erriest ever and theX X 4 J New Y ear be filled with;;; all th a t you desire is ourX 4 4 ;«;wish to every one. X $ 8 4 Vernonia Federal I Credit Union | x 4 •J959 Rose Ave., Vernonia;«; F or Results Use Eagle Classifieds SEASO N S G R EETIN G S Bob's Union Service W hen S an ta arrives we hope he brings you a happy holiday sea son. M any th an k s for your fine friendship. Bob Thompson and Family Lester Shafer and Family Hudson Insurance Service HENRY & POLLY HUDSON & DEBBY re a c e and joy be yours this day and for all time to come. AL BURR Conductor >6 years of service apohene, Portland & Seattle Railway System ALL ABOARD FOR CHRISTMAS! You don’t have to tell an S. P. & S. conductor that Christmas is in the air. He has his passengers to remind him. The busy executive hurrying home to his fa m ily ...th e nice elderly couple with the pictures of the grandchildren they’ll soon meet for the first time . . . the crewcut college youngster who will be reunited with mom, dad and the kid sister. Yes, your S. P. & S. conductor knows that Yuletide is here. He joins all of us at S. P. & S. in . . . Standard Dairy Nehalem Service Station LLOYD CALLISTER 7 S P O K A N E , PO RTLA N D a id SEA TTLE B A ILW A Y SYSTEM
