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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1964 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA. OREGON PAGE SEVEN Desire for Old-Fashioned Christmas' Reflects Nostalgic Mood of Season Nearly IO Feet Tall! “Tis the season to be jolly.” But then there are minority opinions on everything. Plenty of folks are complaining that Christmas isn’t what it used to be. They say stacks of Christ mas cards, frantic last - minute shopping, “Amahl and the Night Visitors” on TV and “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Rein deer” on the stereo don’t make a Christmas. “We’ve got to get back to*'-------------- ---------------------- - the old-fashioned Christmas,” found “pitching ye barr, playing they cry. at stoole - ball and such like But we’d better not go back sports” in the public streets too far. To put it bluntly, the caught what - for from Governor Puritans were against Christmas. They labeled it a “wanton Bac chanalian feast” and spent their first Christmas on these shores pointedly rejecting joy and doing carpentry. On the second Christmas sev eral “lusty young men” who were Adrian News By Mrs. G. E. Mackey Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Adams and family of Boise, Mr. and Mrs. Art Norland and family of Caldwell visited Sunday with their sister, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ausman and family. Wayne Sparks arrived home Saturday from OSU in Corvallis to spend the Christmas holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Long. Mr. and Mrs. Forie Martin and Clyde Cartwright were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lennie Martin and sons. Mr. and Mrs. K. I. Peterson at tended a Christmas dinner and gift exchange Sunday in Vale for veterans of World War I. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Willis and Marsha were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ward and family. Tami Winn was hostess at a surprise birthday and slumber party recently at her home in honor of Becky Wenke. Sopho more class girls were guests. Bradford, in person. So the oldest of old-fashioned American Christ mases will hardly do for a pre cedent to be followed in 1965. Devil Steals Christmas By 1827, however, Christmas had evolved to the point that an Episcopalian bishop was com- plaining, ‘The devil has stolen from us . . . Christmas, the day of our spiritual redemption and converted it into a day of worldly festivity, shooting and swearing.” And by 1876 “The Youth’s Com panion, a popular magazine of the time, was lamenting the pass ing of the old-fashioned English Christmas: “We in America have received many, if not most, of our Christ mas customs from our parent country, ‘merrie England;’ but in England, Christmas is no longer the day of games and fine old traditional ceremonies it once was. It is rarely that the yule log is burned nowadays . . . and whereas the Christmas game, in the times of good Queen Bess, lasted for more than a month, a week is all the modern, money making English can devote to it.” Bygone Pleasures Recalled Could it be then that this per ennial dissatisfaction with present customs and longing for “the old- fashioned Christmas” merely dis plays the power of this season to evoke nostalgic memories of hap py childhood, bygone pleasures and the joys of Christmases past . . . the exchange of greetings, the singing of carols, the tree, mistle toe, the festive meal and the out door fun? One last dip into the yellowed, crumbling pages of “The Youth’s Companion” gives an even better reason to wish for a simple cele bration of Christmas. “It is right for us to derive all the innocent pleasure possible from the happy season, not for getting, the while, how solemn and glorious is the event which we thus joyously commemorate, with its beautiful lesson of ‘Love to our fellow man’.” a Yuletide Tree? FROSTED AND FRINGED FARM BUREAU Why Why a tree at Christmas? One Christmas cards of 1870 were early legend says that all the frosted and fringed with heavy FURROW trees burst into bloom on the j silk. The folder - type card, so By SCOTT LAMB Information Director AMERICAN CHRISTMAS GIFT If all the world's 2 Vi billion people could be compressed into a representative community of 1000 people, we would have a community made up as follows: Sixty would be Americans. Eighty would be Communists. Three hundred and seventy would be under Communist dom ination. Three hundred and three would be white. Six hundred and ninety seven would be non-white. Three hundred would be Chris tians. Most of the non - Americans would be poor, hungry, sick and ignorant; about half would be able to read or write. THIS PHOTO WAS SNAPPED Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 9, on the front lawn at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Bert E. Ross after the children built the "nearly 10-foot tall snowman." The youngsters are (left to right) Patty, Steve, David, Nancy and Pai, who with the assistance of Mrs. Ross cleared most of the snow from their front lawn and that of a neighbor in order to construct their large white friend.—Staff Photo. Women of Two Organizations Meet For Holiday Parties in Area Homes By Mrs. Wilson Witt Members of the Happy Dozen NEWELL HEIGHTS — Eleven ! Card club held their Christmas IN APPRECIATION members of AKH Home Exten party and gift exchange Friday I take this opportunity to thank sion unit met last Thursday at the afternoon at the James Phifer Drs. K. E. Kerby and K. A. Dan- home of Mrs. Dick Kriegh for a home with Mrs. Bill Toomb as ford, also the staff at Malheur potluck dinner and gift exchange. hostess. Memorial for their many kind Guest players were Ima Bege- Mrs. Mary Laan was in charge nesses and patience during my man, Laura Brock and Mrs. Phi of the program on Holland. She stay in the hospital. I also want showed a map of the section of fer. Prize winners were Minnie to thank those who extended that country where she grew up. Stam, Mrs. Phifer, Mrs. Brock words of cheer by card, letter or She also showed pictures and told and Mabel Piercy. visitation. I especially appreciate Next meeting will be Jan. 8 at of living conditions and customs the many prayers offered in my the home of Mrs. Pete Vander- in her native country. behalf. I feel that I have so much Using the map, she pointed out Oord in Nyssa. for which to be thankful. land where the Germans had —Mrs. W. E. Maze. opened a dike and later reclaim Visit in Hammon Home Mrs. Thelma Hammon returned ed. She displayed items of Hol land silverware including a table recently from Bremerton, Wash., spoon used as a teaspoon on the where she visited her daughter, Mrs. Stan (Kay) Parsons. She was table. A variety of baked dishes, made accompanied home by Mrs. Par from Holland recipes, were served sons and daughter, Terri, who at the dinner and were prepared plan to spend a month here. Lt. by Mrs. Laan and Mrs. William Stan S. Parsons is on a cruise in the Pacific. Billy Hammon, a Mantel. student at Oregon State univer sity in Corvallis, arrived last Thursday by bus and will spend the holidays at the home of his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Eason of Homedale were Sunday dinner guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Simpson. The Simpsons were Sunday evening visitors at the Bill Holdt home in Sunset Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stradley K. E. KERBY, M. D. and Kathy of Big Bend were Sat K. A. DANFORD, M. D. urday afternoon visitors in the Physicians and Surgeons Rollo Fenn residence. Dial 372-2241 See Overturned Auto Hours: 10 to 12 and 2 to 5 p.m. Mrs. Gladys Newbill and Mrs. Here’s Daily Except Saturday and Anna Pratt of Newell Heights at Sunday; Saturday, 10 to 12. Santa with tended the Delta Kappa Gamma meeting held Friday evening at our very best MAULDING CLINIC the Nyssa school library. Enroute home they saw an automobile L. A. Maulding, M. D. wishes for all. Physician and Surgeon lying on its top in the road near Oregon Trail hall. Mrs. Pratt re By Appointment Only” ports that they did not learn Dial 372-2216 names of the occupants, but heard Hours: 9 to 12 and 2 to 5 p.m. NYSSA . . . GLADE CHADWICK, Manager that no one was killed. Daily Except Wednesday, Satur Mr. and Mrs. R. D. McKinley lawat&iaiawaianawiaiwatawiaw&iaiatiawi day and Sunday; Wednesday were Sunday dinner guests of his and Saturday, 9 to 12. brother, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Mc Kinley and family in Boise. DAVID W. SARAZIN, M. D. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Pratt and Physician and Surgeon younger children and Mrs. Anna Hours: 10 to 12 and 2 to 5 p.m. Pratt attended St. Bridget’s Cath olic church party for children held Saturday, 10 to 12 Noon. Sunday afternoon at the parish —Phones— Office 372-3365 Res. 372-3173 hall in Nyssa. Pauline Butler, a student at Office: 213 Main Street Oregon College of Education at Monmouth arrived last Thursday evening by plane at the Ontario airport. She plans to spend the J. R. CUNDALL holidays with her mother, Mrs. DENTIST Helen Butler. 17 South Third Street Dial 372-3538 STUDENTS ARRIVE HOME Miss Tone Wahlert, a student Nyssa Oregon at Gonzaga university in Spokane, and Billy Wahlert, who attends J. W. OLSEN, D.M.D. OSU in Corvallis, arrived Sunday DENTAL OFFICE to spend the holidays with their Seventh and Bower Ave. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wah Dial 372-3311 Nyssa Oregon lert and family. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY night Christ was born. much in evidence today, was not Folk tales or ancient times tell popular during the 19th century of a huge tree in a forest, lighted when single cards were more with many candles, some of which frequently seen. were straight and some bent. At the top was an Infant with a halo. The tree was meant to repre- I sent humanity; the candles, peo ple good and bad; and the Infant, the Baby Jesus. Another explanation links to day’s Christmas tree to ancient ■ feasts of the winter equinox, | when trees were adorned with' trinkets. St. Boniface, an English mis- i sionary to Germany, is said to have told converts that the fir should be their holy tree, replac ing the oak, sacred in Druid tree worship, and thus beginning the custom of a decorated fir. Many are the legends, but one thing is certain. Nowadays Christ 118 Good Avenue mas wouldn’t be Christmas with out the tree. The 60 Americans would grow 16 percent of all the food. They would keep 1 l/a percent in sur plus for their own use but would give or sell 20 percent of their food production to other members of the community. The well-fed Americans would have 12 times the electric power of the rest of the community, 21 times as much petroleum, 22 times as much coal, 50 times as much steel and 50 times as much general equipment. Some 450 people in the commu nity would be berating the Am ericans as decadent and imperial istic and would be engaged in movements calculated to destroy the American system of gaining wealth. Even so, the Americans would be busily engaged in producing more to share with the hungry and depressed peoples of the community. Without the Am k erican know - how and hard work, there would be a disaster in the community and hundreds of people would starve and die from lack of production. I Americans do share their wealth, their know - how and WHEEL BALANCING and ALIGNING SERVICE All Work Guaranteed! Phone 372-2288 Classifieds Bring Results! To our friends, a holiday wish that they may enjoy all the best of the season NYSSA FURNITURE CO £ Christian principles with the rest of the world. To millions of peo ple, America performs in the fin est tradition of Christmas . . . America is the Magi. JEROME RITES CONDUCTED FOR JAMES STANLEY LOWE Funeral services for James Stanley Lowe, 74, were conducted this week in Jerome, Idaho. Mr. Lowe succumbed Saturday, Dec. 19, at Malheur Memorial hospital. Among survivors is a son, Dave Lowe of route 2, Parma. Lienkaemper funeral home was in charge of local arrangements. KOHL EXPRESSES THANKS I take this opportunity to thank all my friends for their many messages of cheer and visitations during my recent hospital stay and while recuperating at my home. Your thoughtfulness will never be forgotten. And I wish for each and every one a Joyous Christmas and a Prosperous 1965. —W. W. (Bill) Kohl. ^ou anAj^eoLCC- May your Christmas be blessed with the joy and peace of that Day, when the angels sang the glory of God whose Son lay sleeping in a manger. HOWELL TAMARACK TV SALES and SERVICE VERNON TOOMBS, Manager Physicians and Surgeons Oregon Concrete Products I ! I I i I r I | i ? i » Dentists I VISITS NYSSA PARENTS Miss Lynn Jackson, a student at the University of Portland, is TREASURE VALLEY spending Christmas holidays with ANIMAL HOSPITAL her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilton On Alberta Ave. Dial 372-2251 Jackson and family. Nyssa, Oregon Dr. B. E. R om DEVINS HAVE DAUGHTER Nyssa — 372-3552 Mr. and Mrs. Carl Devin are parents of a daughter born Dec. Dr. D. R. Mason 18 at Malheur Memorial hospital. Parma — 722-6332 The infant weighed 7 pounds, 4 Large and Small Animals ounces and has been named Ann Lea. Veterinarians Here's wishing you a bright and merry Christmas and a Yuletide season sparkling with good cheer. FANGEN FLORAL much happiness and great joy of spirit to you and those dear to you. S THE MERC Department and Variety Store