Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - December 25, 1960, Zanesville, Ohio PAGE SECTION THE RECORDER OHIO SUNDAY DECEMBER 25 1960 Crouch Not Grouch HOUSTON Tex UPI Roy A Crouch child and marriage counselor on University of Houston faculty has received literature for years from a book publisher in Dallas but has never placed a single der with the firm And I never Dr Crouch added until they stop sending mail to me address Dr Koy A Grouch Round with d g KATSAMPES 21 North 5th- St Phone GL Candy Makers For Over Half A Century D car Santa Now that you've done your job and begun lo rest on your laurels for another year I think this oy Me season lift your your lift and be with you for o ft come COHEN JEWELERS THE DIAMOND CENTER OF ZANESVILLE 44 NORTH 5TH ST LIND ARCADE BLDG tut one with for you this it be better than any you're ever had before f 205 North Fifth St No doubt you consider it odd i that I should be so late with my letter but it occurs to me there's a certain amount of prestige con- with being the last one to write to Santa in 1960 Sort of ties in with the time I rode the city's last streetcar and the time I helped close the old theater in I the Schultz Opera Block where i Penney's store now stands Anyway it seemed to me you'd I like to have something to read i after you and the reindeer came a roaring stop this morning It must be pretty sad not to get any mail after with letters for nearly a month 1 may write to you often don't count on After I got home from shopping the other night and sorted through my bundles I sat down to relax a little before calling it a day It was then I got around to some serious thought about you Santa and I smiled as I remembered our pleasant in I CANT QUITE recall when you sir but it seems a little confusion developed pretty early in our friendship I talked to a big ment store and the next time I bumped into you in another store an hour later you leaned over and patted me on the der and And what's your name I didn't like that kind of ment I'll The pat on the shoulder was all right but how come you re- member my name? I was con- fused right then but rather than take a I was all jness and light as I answered question and through the years I decided my manners paid you were always awful nice to me Looking remember one Thank You for your response to our GOING OUT OF BUSINESS Merry Christmas and a very Open lo 6 P.M Happy New Yeai WATCH FOR OUR STILL GREATER PRICE CUTS FOR FIXAL GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE THIS is the best time of all for me to speak my piece First I have a complaint I will not hesitate to admit that I am a heel but I think you were somewhat less than erate to breathe down my neck so hard because I put off my shopping until the last minute You can save your Ho ho for somebody else you old You've known for that I am the world's champion j middleweight procrastinator and 11 think you are aware that 1 I never will change close call I had That was the time I searched the clothes ets the week before Christmas and got the jolt of my life when I saw something closely bling shiny black boots in the cor- ner of the dark cubby hole They were exactly the kind you wear and about the same size I thought I know I shut the door in a hurry but the boots haunted me for a long time You'll never know how real those boots looked and to tell you truth I've them through the such vivid memory years with that I'm not sure now just what I did see or when IN 1919 you gave me my gest thrill and I talked about for days That was the year 1 was a first grader at Lincoln School and one day through the cold air shaft that opened into our cloak room you called my name My eyes must have been popping as I stood there rattling off my Christmas wants and when I returned to my seat I was breathless with excitement Your voice reminded me a little of a kindly janitor we had at Lincoln in those days by the name of Joseph Dodds He had a twinkle in his eye and it always seemed to me he twinkled a tle more after I'd told Santa what I wanted I wondered the other night if school janitors still help you out when You and I developed a pretty prolific correspondence years ago even though it was a bit one- sided I never was much at ting out a midnight lunch for you but didn't I leave you some notes that were real Re- member the one I left giving explicit directions for placing the tree in our living The still around the house somewhere tucked in a box of odds and ends that mother looked upon as collectors items It says the side of the has no branches against the so it won't show You did and I'm sure no one ever knew what an ugly tree that THROUGH THE years you brought me little dolls and big dolls some that closed their eyes and some that didn't Dolly Mary you might like to know is almost as pretty today as she was when I found her beneath my Christmas tree She's carefully wrapped and stored away in a chest along with another doll that came much later but was loved by another little girl as much as I- loved Dolly Mary After the dolls came the Prudy books and finally a Christmas when there were no toys but in- stead a pretty blue dress with a tightly pleated skirt and fancy smocking on the blouse I had jrown up Santa and wise old man that you are you treated me accordingly Well enough of the tions Santa You're weary I know from the all night dash What I really wanted to tell you was that when I finally doused the lights the other night and climbed the stairs I thought the house seemed even more quiet than usual It was when I opened the clothes press door to put away my clothes that I spied your boots there in the comer and what's more I got n glimpse of your red sleeve ioo I didn't mean Jo slam the door in your face old boy and I want lo you I'm sorry I was rude Bui you sec I didn't want you lo get away this time like you did before II was of you come back after so many years and since I didn't get Jo say H the other I'll say it MERRY And honestly how if Most Yule Trees Grown In U.S NEW YORK UPI About 25 million of Ihc 37 million Christmas used last were felled in United Stales for Ihc most part in slates along the Canadian border The remainder came from ada The most popular kinds are Douglas Jir balsam fir eastern red cedar spruce and scotch pine in lhat order Scotch pine is a rown tree that has almost bled in use since A Child's Christmas In The Holy Land would It br like lo celebrate yen after in the Holy mur very where the first Christmas took Mrs Jewry who kern in and if new a citizen did just that -In this story from Arub World she recalls the nostalgic of the majic of these experienced by the Christian children who lived in the Middle By MARY JOURY The Christmas tree came to Middle East in the second of the century and was enthusiastically adopted by many of the three million Christians of area and by many Moslems as well To Moslems Jesus Christ is a revered prophet To many children in the Mid- dle East Christmas has also come to mean Santa Claus mi- nus the gifts piled un- der the tree and stockings hung up at the bottom of the bed ically however Christmas con- to be a lime for worship and family reunions In our family a typical middle class family of Jerusalem the excitement would start building up weeks before Christmas reaching a climax on Christmas Eve which was the children's special evening Two weeks before Christmas the house was given a thorough cleaning This was a bad for us children for we always managed to be in the way How ever we were allowed to help with the Christmas baking Two special kinds of smal cakes or pastries are ly baked at Christmastime Sem the finest wheat flour anc boiled butter with the froth skimmed are used to make a firm dough This is stuffed with two kinds of fillings One of pressed dates pitted and rolled into small circulai strips The other filling is a of walnuts fine white sugar and cinnamon A large quantity of these small cakes have to be baked for along with Turkish coffee they served to all the visitors who come at this season With ure serrated tongs we pinched the soft dough to make simple designs This was a slow ness and everyone's services were impressed Two days to find put whether the long item wai among them Exhausted and intoxicated by the excitement the gifts the rich food we were finally dragged off to bed Christmas Eve was over Of course Santa would make another appearance that night as we slept to fill our stockings and tomorrow after mass in St cob's Church in the Holy chre we would have a ful Christmas dinner at ther and grandmother's But and we sighed a little sadly as we dropped off to sleep we would have to wait another year lo re- peat the exciting evening Grant Made For Teaching NEW YORK UPI -A grant of million for a program aimed at promoting the t e a c h i n g of American history and literature in European schools was announced by the Ford Foundation last week The grant awarded to the American Council of Learned will be used primarily in two to provide fellowships to European scholars who choose to leach American studies and to establish teaching posts in ican subjects at European silies before Christmas he tall fragrant pine tree most reaching the ceiling would standing in a corner of the iving room On that evening we would io help father and mother with the decorations a larger assortment of They came to Jerusalem from all parts of the world which liked best the birds with real feathers for tails or the cluster of little opal bells with their delightful tinkle Not all the ornaments were imported Our most treasured Christmas possession was the beautiful carved creche set fashioned put of olive wood by the highly ed artisans of Bethlehem We spent the larger part of Christmas Eve watching the clock for the excitement did not begin until late afternoon when muffled up very warmly father and my two brothers and drove to the Shepherds Field ust outside Bethlehem to take in the annual All Nations Christmas and carol sing arranged by the YMCA The Shepherds Field is a y small patch of grassland with olive trees where according lo the angel appeared to he shepherds and brought them idings of Christ's birth The ce is held in the open Pilgrims tourists and visitors rom all parts of the world join native Arab Christians in singing Christmas carols each n his own language Standing in he icy cold air of a late icm afternoon with the sky clear waiting for the ning star to make its appearance I was overpowered by a feeling of exciting oneness with all the universe The Gospel According to St Luke is first read in Arabic then in English More carols are sung And then the simple is over Strangers turn to each er smiling wishing each other a Merry Christmas in a score of languages Sometimes at Christmas there would be several inches of snow on the ground And then our ex- had no bounds for snow is not a matter-of-fact enon in the Holy Land We might have a snowfall once in every three years and then the snow lasts for three days at most Christmas Eve after the herds Field Service was spent either at our home or at the un- cle's next in seniority to father The whole extended family of grandfathers grandmothers un- cles aunts and cousins attended A magnificent spectacle us as we entered the ing room Gaily wrapped gifts were placed under the mas tree Crepe paper ers colorful balloons and paper lanterns with lighted candles hung from the ceiling Jerusalem es are built of a beautiful red or white stone and the danger from fire is minimal In the center of the room stood a beautiful ed brass brazier or charcoal er with chestnuts resting in the Radiation By Is Dangerous LONDON UPI Britain's Medical Research Council said last week there is greater man danger from natural tion than from all past nuclear est explosions The scientists reported their studies show the mutations to which nuclear fall-out might give rise will be few in relation to those produced by natural tion The report titled The ards to Man of Nuclear and ied was contained in a government white paper issued by Lord Hailsham minister of science We have carefully considered the possible genetic consequences of the fatal dose from fall-out whole from test explosions that already taken place the report said The conclusion was that tion which occurs in nature such as that brought to earth as cosmic believed to cause or less of the newly arising in any ation embers First we had delicious homemade fruit lots and lots of cream beaten to a frothy lightness dried nuts almonds raisins bananas from Jericho and juicy oranges from the northern coastland a varied assortment of cookies and cakes chocolate bars small ages of candy and of course roasted chestnuts When everyone had had enough it was our turn to perform It had become traditional for us children to sing the most iar Christmas carols in Arabic What a discordant din we must have produced for not one of us could keep a tune But the plause was always enthusiastic As we finished our ance the front doorbell would ring Who could that Our elders asked the same question every year feigning wonder and surprise But we as we rushed be the first to open the door On the threshold stood the fattest jolliest Santa Claus He would around shaking hands with member of the family the children inquiring in his deep voice whether they had been good and whether they had done well in school How does he get we would ask father and mother Why he comes on camelback across the eastern would be the answer Santa Claus would distribute the had been ed all evening to the curious con- stares of us all Oh the these AGENCIES INSURANCE Dial GL Complete Coverages 14 S FIFTH ST Pioneer Our Sincere Beit Wishes to All Our Fine Patroni for a Very Merry Christmas Electric 56 N 5th St Christmas of joyt of I POINT APPLIANCES PENNEY'S ALWAY S FIRST OPEN TUESDAY to COME IN TUESDAY r i i
