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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL TED M. BRAMMER, Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES NATIONAL THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1961 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON PAGE TWO EDITORIAL Single Copies 10c In Malheui County, Oregon, and Payette and Canyon Counties, Idaho: $3 50 1 Year $2.50 6 Months Elsewhere in the USA: Per Year $4.00 6 Months $2.50 9à a Sostia. QlauA.! (Editor*« Note—Back in 1897, little Virginia O'Hanlon wrote the following letter to the editor of the New York Sun: "I am 8 year« old. Some of my little friend* *ay there is no Santa Claus. Papa say*. 'If you see if in Th* Sun. if'* so.' Please tell me the truth—is there a Santa claus?" The editor wrote a newspaper and literary classic in reply to the childish plea.) Published every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon. Entered at the postoffice at Nyssa, Oregon, for transmission through the United States Mails, as a second class matter unde*' the act of March 3, 1879 “Yes, indeed! “Virginia, your little friends are wrong. “They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age —they do not believe except what they see—they think that nothing can be which is not comprehens ible by their little minds. “All minds, Virginia, whether Remember 'It' (Nyssa —And Do Your Part High Journalism Student) By PAT WRIGHT It gives no warning. Do you think you can escape it by ignoring it? No. It can sneak up on you, on a member of your family, or on your best friend, and without the kindness of conventional symptoms, it takes its crippling toll. The “it,” of course, is tuberculosis. During this Christmas Seals Fight TB season, we hear a lot about the disease. We hear that Christmas seals are being mailed to our homes. We are asked to contribute as much as we can to the fight against TB, to protect the family circle. We are told facts about And Other TB: that it is contagious, for example; that it strikes Respiratory Diseases people of all ages; that it gives no warning and can only be caught in the early stages, when it can be stopped, by chest x-rays and tuber- culine skin tests we so often neglect. But when we listen to the campaign—when we make our contributions and lick our seals—let’s not give our selves too many self-satisfied pats on the back. TB re mains an “it”. . . a dread disease that can cripple young lives and old without warning. It is not enough to merely listen. Nor is it enough to buy and use Christmas seals, if we let it go at that. Take the Christmas seal slogan, “Protect the Family Circle,” literally, for it applies to you and yours, to every family in the world. Tuberculosis must be fought by every one of us, and the battlefields are many. Only through check-ups, chest x-rays, skin tests, regular safeguards to good health such as good eating habits and sufficient sleep, and finally, through research supported in part by our Christmas seal contributions, will TB become only a has-been “it.” Nyssa Retreat Slated For Methodist Youth LUDLOW ATTENDS MEETING they be men’s or children’s, are little. ‘Hn this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth and knowledge. “He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give Jo your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Vir ginias. There would be no child like faith then, no poetry, no ro mance to make tolerable their existence. We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. “Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! “You might get your father to hire men to watch all the chim neys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is >no sign that there is no Santa Claus — that most real things in the world are those neither children nor men can see. “Did you ever see the fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there — nobody can con ceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world. “You tear apart the baby’s rat tle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest men, or even the united strength of all the strongest men who ever lived, could part. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, ro mance, can push aside the curtain Advent Season Begins Church Year— Story Behind Cross Sets the Scene A Time To Prepare for Christmas For '62 TB Campaign By JAN RINEHART (Nyssa High Journalism Student) Advent season begins the church year. This was a well chosen time, a time of preparation to allow the receiver to prepare himself through meditation and worship for the greater gift, our Savior, Jesus Christ. No gift should be received without preparation for the re ceiving of this gift. John, the Baptist, is the chief character of Advent, who came to pre-*------------------------ - —---- ---- pare the way for the Lord. Advent has, as any New Letters to Editor Signed letter« to the editor are Year should, three aspects: welcomed and will be printed H past, present and future. It they do not contain comment« of looks backward to the historical fact of Christ’s coming and pre pares for the commemoration of that event. It looks into our hearts today and prepares us for His continuous coming into our lives. It looks forward to His second coming and sets our gaze on the end for which all Creation is designed. Christmas Follow* Advent Following the season of Advent is Christmas. Christmas com memorates our Lord’s birth. The joy of Christmas is the rela tionship between man and God. Christmas now is a lost season. In our commercialized culture Christmas decorations go up and Christmas music begins to play just after Thanksgiving. The re sult is that we have our Christ mas during Advent and, conse quently, lose both seasons. Christmas is not a season of just giving gifts, but a season of giving ourselves to others and to God. Gifts used to be given on Epiphany, Jan. 6. Christmas is a season of rejoicing, and this re joicing should last until Epi-1 phany. The Rev. Paul Ludlow attended a meeting on development of the A winter retreat for Methodist Wallowa Methodist camp Monday older youth will convene at the | afternoon at La Grande. The (Nyssa church beginning Wednes meeting was held at the home of day, Dec. 27, at 1 p.m. and con Professor Floyd Hill of Eastern tinue until Thursday noon. Rep Oregon college, who is chairman resentatives from Eastern Oregon of the committee. and Western Idaho will be at The Rev. Ludlow reports that tending. the trip home was made in a Theme of the meeting will be “blinding” snowstorm all the way “Everyday Christianity,” and the from La Grande to Ontario. Rev. Paul I^aRue of Boise will be speaker. Harlan Sager of Nyssa local woman’s society and those is chairman of this annual retreat attending will bring sleeping bags for college youth. to retire Wednesday evening in Christian Year Completed Meals will be provided by the the church. The third season of the Chris tian year is Epiphany. This com memorates the first time anyone became aware that Jesus was a universal Savior. This occasion is called Epiphany or “showing.” The “Wise Men” who came from the East following the star are symbols of this season. Thirty years ago families would gather with the oldest member of the family, and they would cele brate as a group with the wor ship, feasting and fun. Now peo ple go away from home and have a vacation of recreation. There is no worship in the sea son for many families. As a re sult of these pleasures, Christ is becoming further removed from Christmas. Commercial exploita tion of giving gifts has dimmed the true Christmas light that shone so brilliantly almost 2,000 years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Chester, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Wilson were guests at a buffet supper Sunday even ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Greig Claney in Vale. ¡mMMMWCNMCtSCtCC«CCiCiCte^^'g%i<iCClMIK« Late Christmas Shoppers! We Still Have Beautiful Selections FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY! By MARION TALBOT (Nyssa High Journalism Student) tssäs&s. and view and picture the super nal beauty and glory beyond. “It is all real—ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. “No Santa Claus! Thank God! —he lives, and he lives forever— a thousand years from now, Vir- ginia, nay, ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of child- hood.” fjlit ¿4. a. (XaÀv*.? Modern Christmas Season Festivities Haunted by Over-Commercialization To further prove the fact that By CHERYL ZESIGER the true meaning of this holiday Little known to the general is fading, “Christmas” is now Christmas has become too com public is the long and noble his spelled “Xmas.” What kind of tory of the red double - barred mercialized! Some children aren’t ■ respect is all this commercializa- cross which, to most, simply sym even aware of the true meaning ! tion showing? bolizes the fight against tubercu of Christmas. With all the festivities, parents »•••••••••••«•••••••••••I losis. are to tell their chil Likenesses of this cross have dren forgetting why there is Christmas. been in existence since the first Maybe they don’t know them Crusade, when it appeared on the Make standard of Godefroy de Bouillon, selves! Recently aluminum Christmas Your Sabbath , a libelous nature or attacks on Duke of Lorraine. trees were constructed. These religious and racial groups. Pub The cross has played a part in trees have replaced the ever lication of the letters does nel many causes. The most recent j ( complete signify the agreement of thli cause which it served was the greens which represented life. newspaper with opinions ex- fighting French, under General Children no longer have the privi lege of making the decorations, pressed. Charles de Gaulle during World because, “Mommy can buy pret War II. tier ones at the department store.” Nyssa Gate City Journal Dr. Gilbert Sersiron, a French Christmas Eve is different to Nyssa, Oregon man, first suggested that the cross day than it was a generation ago. Illi Dear Sirs, be adopted as the emblem of the Now a few members of the family On behalf of the National Model modern crusade against tubercu decorate the tree. There are many Railroad Association and myself, losis. HURCH different activities and parties to I wish to express a hearty thank J, On Oct. 23, 1902, in Berlin the you for the publicity given by the International Tuberculosis con attend on Christmas Eve. The few who remain home spend the Nyssa Gate City Journal prior to ference adopted Dr. Sersiron’s evening in front of the television and during National Model Rail suggestion. set. road Week from November 26 By a resolution at their annual through December 2, 1961. Of course the children don’t meeting May 17, 1906, the Nation hang Your articles undoubtedly con al Tuberculosis up stockings, because Santa association made tributed to the success of the the red double-barred cross their brings ones which are already week. filled with candy. I official emblem. Again, thank you very much. They then proceeded to stan Obligation, instead of love, is Group Services at 7 p.m. Sincerely yours, dardize it. On May 8-9, 1913, a the main reason for buying gifts. Song and Evangelism, 7:45 W. A. WILT likeness of the cross we have to It is the price of the gift that President and counts, not the thought behind it. day was officially adopted. General Manager Bulldog staff members will be Hardly anyone makes gifts, be I South Side Lines wearing the symbolical crosses cause it is easier to buy them. Preparation of food for the Corner of Fifth and Good Ave. today. Dear Friends, holidays has been lessened. Now Nyssa, Oregon Since we are traveling from In the German Alps it is be- the housewife picks out the can place to place as well as in Old lieved that the cattle have the and pies at __ dies, , cookies, ______ cakes ____ __ OMAR BARNHOUSE Mexico and can’t have a definite gift of language on Christmas the bakery or super-market. This Pastor address, we think best not to re Eve. But it is a sin to play the decreases the old - fashioned at- new the Gate City Journal at this eavesdropper on them. | mosphere of the home. time. We have enjoyed reading the Journal for the past 14 years and miss getting all the local news of our many friends. We will probably be back in that area in about a year and will see you then. Until then, we ex tend to you and yours and the gentle people of Nyssa area our sincere appreciation and a Happy and Prosperous Christmas and New Year. Very truly yours, LILLIAN and BILL DUNN (Nyssa High Journalism Student) 7 SUNDAY NIGHT Nazarene Church SANTA Mr and Mrs. Paul House re turned Monday afternoon from a 10-day trip. He had attended a convention in Denver and from there had gone to Michigan on business Mrs. House visited rela tives in Denver and Colorado Springs. RETURNS TO NYSSA! JS Santa Claus Will Return to Nyssa Saturday Dec. 23, With FREE CANDY for the Kiddies OPEN UNTIL 8:00 P.M. THROUGH SATURDAY LOOK FOR HIM!! WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS • • • and • • • A HAPPY NEW YEAR1 He'll Be in Downtown Nyssa from 3 to 4 p.m « Wilson Bros. Dept. Store FREE SHOW The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm At Nyssa Theatre, 1:30 p.m.—Free to Children!
