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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

es. WET H IR

Christmas Is
A Wonderful
Season
Christmas 1955

Christmas presents.”

For sheer unadulterated gaiety, there is
like wrapping Christmas

nothing

- “Let us be happy”... .
And so one cold dreary afternoon, Mother
said “Come, children, and we’ll wrap our

presents

with two small children. One hour later, after

locating Grandma’s present un-
der the stove, explaining at long
Iéngth to a tearful Elaine why
she couldn't keep cousin Susan’s
spinning top, and rescuing Ward
from cutting his throat on Uncle
Bryan's knife, I was desperately
trying to wrap the last gift on a
two-by-four space by the kitchen
sink. Ward sat on the table
surrounded by crumpled paper
trying to eat red and green rib-
bon, the floor was littered with
stickers, paper and ribbon and
Elaine was happily affixing
stickers to the stove, refrigera-
tor and herself. Mother was
mumbling to herself.

I later discovered I had sev-
eral extra parcels, and found
the egg-beater, an old whistle
and an orange gaily wrapped
ready to give away.

And then there are the other
happy events such as making
‘shortbread with Ward dumping
the cherries on the fiocr and
mashing them to a sticky sodden
mass while I was on the -phoze,
and Elaine eating the delicious
uncooked mixture until she had
more shortbread inside her than
in the cookie tin.

Or going shopping and trying
to balance Ward on one arm,
hold my purehase with the other
arm, and get my money out with
the third arm; Ward screaming

for the bright toys, Elaine beg-
ging me to buy this, that and
everything, and all of us being
generally “ratty” in our heavy
clothes in the warm stores.

And like a lot of other moth-
ers, I wonder what I’m going to
do when I can’t threaten them
with ‘‘be good, or Santa Claus
won't come.”

“Let nothing us dismay"...

As I write this Monday night,
the editor does indeed look for-
ward with dismay to what the
week holds. With a fourteen-
page paper plump with Christ-
mas greetings to produce, it
looks like an around-the-clock
effort to make Thursday's dead-
line.

Our boys in the back shop are
probably dreading this Christ-
mas week too; and that -feeling
is no doubt geing duplicated by
hundreds of employere and
workers slike. Long hours, hard
work, and rush, r
Ul Christmas Day da
are dead tired,

It doesn't seem the right w
to celebrate Christ’s birthd

“Bring as glad tidings”... .
With Elaine and Ward both in
contact with the mumps two
weeks ago, we sit anxlously won-
dering what the weekend will

ta Lanes

fuyung.

Pork fried rice,

A peaceful, joyous holiday is
our sincere wish for all, May good will

and good fellowship be yours,

THE
LAKEVIEW CAFE

We Invite You to Enjoy Our
Chef’s Special

SPECIAL GROUP DINNER OF CHINESE FOOD
Dinner for five $9.00

Egg swirl soup, Chinese style deep fried egg roll,
special fried rice, diced almond chicken chop
cuey, pineapple sweet and sour pork sparerib.

Dinner for four $7.00

Breaded almond chicken,
special chow mein, pork fried rice, shrimp meat

Dinner for three $5.00

Chicken chow mein, deep fried prawn, Chinese
chop suey, pineapple sweet & sour pork sparerib,

A LA CARTE
Crushed almond deep fried chicken

Deep fried jumbo prawn with
sweet & sour sauce .....

Special fancy egg roll, shredded lettuce ....
Dragon eye chicken, sweet sauce

sweet & sour fish roll,

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bring. Gently I press Elaine's
ueck and enquire anxiously if it
hurts, doee she ha: dache,
does she feel hot?

‘The prospect of being in quar-
antine with two sick children

during the Christmas holidays is| Miss Mary Kartner, popular . = Base
not exactly appealing. And I hate | Public Health Nurse here tor the
to think of Elaine’s tragic dis-| past 2% years, left Frida é | OVER F EAE

appointment if she isn’t able to
go to her church concert. The
costume is ready and waiting,
and every day we explain a hun-
dred times that the concert is
not until Wednesday. B
eareaaatyd a

“Twas the
Christmas” . . .

night before

Public Health

Nurse Leaves

for her home at Lulu Island.

leave for England wher
pects to stay for at least a year.

was presented with a travelling |

clock

& parting itl. |

i: EA

In January, Miss Kartner will

she ex-

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The staff of the offices in the
orkowski Block entertained at
farewell party for M

Well, how does he get down
the chimney, Mommy? It’s not
big enough. And how do his
reindeer run across the sky?
And how can he carry enough
parcels for everybody? Why does
he wear a red coat? Are h
whiskers real?

“Goodwill towards men”... .

I wonder how many of us in
the rush of Christmas buying,
Christmas cooking, and Christ-
mas cleaning take the time to
read their Christmas cards- Of-
ten the sender picks them out
with care, wishing the verse to
convey a personal message to a
dear friend.

But too often we rip open the
envelopes, glance at the name,
groan sometimes when it is from
someone we have crossed off our
list, and then toss them aside.

T usually read mine in Janu-
ary as they are consigned, one
by one, to the fire.

une bo:
approached the editor asking if
we Wished to buy a Christmas
tree. ‘‘No,” replied Clive in his
annual buret of enthusiasm for

PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY
1955 ESSAY CONTEST

The sincere thanks of the Pulp and Paper Industry goes
to all school principals and their teachers whose co-
Operation helped make this, our ninth annual essay
competition, an outstanding success. Professor F. M.
Knapp, Mr. Howard T. Mitchell and Mr. E. W. Campbell,
who acted as judges, were impressed by the high stand-
ard of entries submitted. Very close judging was necessary"
°

Our Yuletide best to all our friends to select the winners listed below.

... for a season packed with all the
wonderful things that Christmas means! -

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aeneols Dawn F. Si if :
usTon g encies ~ 2nd Anns A. Ratctifte, Kamloops, 2rd Prncaton fanengerinestons
SSraloa ps Junior-Senior High reel
KENNY — WALT — CLAUDE 3rd Gail C. Kenester, Creston, SI Eisen t+ Goresky, Castlegar,

Prince Charles High School. Senlor High School.

ZONE 2

tradition, “we take the kids and|

JUNIOR SENIOR

get our own,”

And so Sunday, the only day
available for the big adventure,
dawned crisp and cold with the
thermometer hovering around
the 40 below mark.

Father sat over his morning
coffee mumbling about getting
Christmas trees, awful weather,
awful country, and why hadn't
he bought one (inferring it was
all our fault).

We still haven’t one, and the
chances of our ending up with a
two-foot specimen on the radio
jare looming strong.

In spite of it all, ’tis a won-
derful time of the year and I
wish you all a very Merry
Christmas,

Gregorian
Calendar Unified
Our Timekeeping

Our present calendar — the
Gregorian was the first cal-
endar to achieve any semblance

1st Retph Estensen, South West-
minster, Queen Elizabeth High
School,

Charmian E. Westphal, Lad-
2nd per, Delta Junior-Senior High
chooks

1st Normandie K. Burlison, Lad:

er, Delta Juntor-Senlor High

School.
Carolyn P. Jones, Langloy,

2nd Conatey Sankar Sense BIS
School,

3rd G2relyn R. Richards, South 3rq Gerbara J. Galbraith, Chilll-
Burnaby, “McPherson Park :
Junior High Schools Seiesie mnekcsanloeeh

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SENIOR

Geoffrey H. Mott, Vancouver,
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School,

Wendy Kellond, Vancouver,
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3rd Verneta L. Thompson, Van- ° Beverley Donaldson, Van-
TO couver, John Oliver’ Mign 3rd Bever! Wicsilane Juntor-seaior

School. High

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Keith Howatt, Van- gt StepHanie €. Ockley, North
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Ron Kydd, New Westminster,

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minster,

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Bonnie L. Hztiday, Vancouver,
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Karen M. Gourley, Vancou
2nd Sonn Oliver Hie ae

School,

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“When the poor man came in sight
I gave Royal City to see his delight !”

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Como Lake High 3rq Carol Maud Rice, Vancouver,

St. Ann's Academy,

ZONE 5
JUNIOR SENIOR
Jacqueline A. Nichols, Victoria, Carolyn E. Wall a
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Sharon J. Whetlams, Victoria,
3rd Senter Junior High School,

of world unity on the time front.

The coming of this calendar,
instituted by Pope Gregory in
1582 Jaid the groundwork for

aniversal celebration of New
Year’s day.
Europe, which for centuries

had celebrated March 25 as the
first day of the year, was the
first to adopt the Gregorian cal-
endar. But it was not a complete
adoption until 1752 when Great
Britain joined the other Europ-
ean countries recognizing Janu-
ary 1 as the first day of the year
and instituting use of the Greg-
orian calendar.

Of course, the date of January
1 is not celebrated by everyone.
The Jews observe a 10-day New
Year season at the time of the
autumn equinox. The Moslem
calendar, which dates to 616 AD
has 12 months that begin with
the approximate new moon with-
out any intercalculation to keep
them geared to the seasonal
equinoxes.

And, the Gregorian, although
it performed a great job of uni-
fication, still doesn’t satisfy
everyone that uses it. Periodic-
ally some one comes torth with
what they consider a better way
of merking time.

Christmas Was Once
A Moveable Feast

Christmas was once like Ras-
ter in that it was a moveable
fe » celebrated on a diiferent
date each yesr

St. Cyril, bishop of Jer
is responsible tor establishment
of the univereal date we cele-
brate today. In 329 A.D., with
the permission of Pope Junius 1,
St. Cyril appointed a commission
to determine, if possible, the pre-
cise date of Christ’s nativity. The
theologians of the Church finally
agreed upon December 25, and
since the year 354 this date has
been celebrated,

lem

i all of you, whose friendship and loyalty have
made this such a happy season for us, we send
our warmest Holiday Greetings...and a sincere
wish that the New Year may prove memorable for

the many joys that it will bring to you and yours.

from the Stat

of the

OVERWAITEA LTD.

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