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.
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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
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W hen S an ta arrives we hope he
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son. M any th an k s for your fine
friendship.
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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 . . .
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Nehalem Service Station
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