The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 22, 1950, Image 6
NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1950
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Pontiae
A look at the Car proves its Quality
Double Drool*
A look at the Price proves its Value I
Dollar for Dollar
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In the short time since it was presented, thousands of people have
flocked to see the great new Silver Anniversary Pontiac—few cars
have ever had a reception to equal this. Most people came to
admire, which is natural enough. But a great many people do
more than admire, they start figuring—they begin to compare
this wonderfully beautiful and desirable car with the modest
price tag it bears. No car, at any price, offers more for every new
car dollar you invest than a great new Pontiac! Drop in any time
and look at the car —then look at the price —you’ll be doubly sure
that dollar for dollar, you can’t beat a Pontiac!
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HAYES MOTOR COMPANY
1504 Main Street Newberry, S. C.
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NEWBERRY MILLS, INC.
NEWBERRY, S. C.
United Stated 3d
Chridtmad Carol
‘Meeting. Place
TN TOWNS AND CITIES through
^ out America, In churches, public
squares and along home • lined
streets, over millions of radios and
public address systems come the
strains of the world’s Yuletide melo
dies—old as bygone centuries, young
as ‘Tm dreaming of a white Christ
mas .
The United States, meeting
place of earols from all Chris
tendom, contributes yearly to
the traditions of Christmas
music by writing new songs and
popularising old ones.
The carols of Europe arrived
with die peoples who came to
America to settle: “O Come, All Ye
Faithful” (Adeste Fideles). even
tually translated into 119 languages
and dialects, belonged to no one
nation but was the common gift of
the continent. From Germany came
Luther's hymn for children, “Away
In a manger, no crib for a bed.
England sent “God rest you. merry
gentlemen, let nothing you dis
may. .** And France provided the
beautiful “Cant.que de Noel” or “O
Holy Night.”
Three American composers did
much to revive the ancient custom
by writing new songs which are, to
day. among the world’s best be
loved carola.
‘Tt Came Upon a Midnight
Clear** was the Inspiration of
Edmund H. Sears, a Massachu
setts Unitarian minister, in 1849.
Less than 10 years later Dr.
John Henry Hopkins, Jr., Epis
copal rector from Williamsport,
Pa., composed both the words
and mnsle for ”We Three Kings
of Orient Are.”
Perhaps the best-known Ameri
can carol, "O Little Town of Beth
lehem,” was written In 1868 by
Phillips Brooks in Philadelphia. The
young Episcopal minister, later
bishop of Massachusetts, was in
spired to write the poem by the
memory of a trip to the Holy Land
two years earlier The rollicking
“Jingle Bells,” though npn-religious
in theme, also came from the pen
of a churchman, John Pierpont,
and has enjoyed almost a century
of popularity.
More to Mistletoe
Than You'd Think
In America the high - hanging
mistletoe is treasured chiefly for
its power to invite a kiss from a
pretty girl. The bulk of the holiday
decoration comes from the Caro-
linas, Tennessee and the southwest
where off-season agricultural work
ers gather the branches for ship
ment throughout the nation.
The white • berried plant also
serves as a winter food supply for
nfiockingbirds, robins, and wax-
wings. These small birds are re
sponsible for the spread of the
tree-damaging parasite. After eat
ing the berries the birds clean
their beaks on the trees, firmly
planting the mistletoe seeds they
do not eat. The tap root of the
seedling pierces the tenderest por
tions of the tree—young branches
or buds—and the tree sap is drawn
into the thick leaves and translu
cent berries of the guest plant.
Though the mistletoe plays the
dual characters of destructive kill
er and promoter of love, supersti
tion has it that the plant can
switch roles in a twinkle. For in
stance, If the yuletide mistletoe
bough isn’t removed from a house
by Candlemass Eve (February 1),
each leaf left will produce a goblin
to plague the careless occupants
during the year. *
Christmas Season Evokes
Spirit of Trust, Faith
Indicative of the integrity and
trustfulness prevailing throughout
the world at Christmas time, peo
ple of HoUand often entrust gifts
to total strangers requesting the
passerby to leave the package on
such-and-such a doorstep.
Half-way across the globe, Negro
families in Virginia long have ob
served the table-covered-with-a-
sheet custom. The dining room
table la covered with a sheet.
Names of everyone in the house
hold are written on slips of paper
and pinned to the sheet. Gifts are
sneaked under the sheet when
everybody is supposed to be asleep,
and even the youngest child re
frains from *peeking’ until the
gifts are unveiled Christmas morn
ing.
B.*GHT FOB THE BOLE . . .
Playing £anta Claus for young
victims ef polio and cerebral
palsy Is epera star Laurits
Melchior, shown reading a
Christmas story to Thomas
Prcclkua and Patricia Pulio.
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V^LEASANT as it is to dream of a
* “V/hite Christmas” with its car
ols and gifts, feasting and merry
making, the sparkling eyes of chil
dren delighting in Santa Claus and
the wonderful Christmas trees
these things never can symbolize
the tremendous significance of the
day.
The birth of the Saviour was the
greatest event in the history of the
world. In spite of all the back-
slidings, Christian peoples have
pressed forward steadily.
However vicious and corrupt,
the world today is far better than
the world of pagan times; fa
miliarity with the cross and cruci
fixion has abolished legal tortures
and much cruelty—and. if given a
chance, might shame us into ban
ishing the curse of International
viciousness for the sake of Him
who became the Saviour of Man
kind.
Cltsttiimad
fyealuAed PeA^vuttancz
01 the MlnacU Plcufi
Brazilian Christmas festivities
embrace an aggregation of mod
em observances entwined with
ancient traditions brought over
from the mother country of Portu
gal.
The Christmas season in Brazil
begins on Christmas Eve and ends
with Epiphany on January 8. And
because it is really summertime
(south of the equator) festivities
and entertainments appropriate to
summertime hold sway throughout
the season.
Miracle plays have always been
performed in adoration of the Holy
Child From olden times, the plays
have had all the dramatic fervor
of a religious performance together
with the gracious hospitality of u*
social function.
The scene is at once solemn and
fantastic, with costumes bedecked
with feathers, spangles, jewels
and what-not sparkling in a setting
of luxurious tropical foliage and
blossoms.
Out of the great variety of mira
cle plays, all on different themes,
of which many are in the form of
elaborate dances meticulously per
formed and accompanied by the
music of an orchestra, the dance
of the Four Parts of the World ♦
may be cited as a typical exam
ple.
The roles are enacted by girls'
dressed for the part and, in suc
cession, Europe, "Asia, Africa and
America declaim The discussion
finally involves their respective
rights to make oblation to the
Christ Child. Eventually, Father
Time appears and settles the dis
pute to the satisfaction of all con
cerned.
Happy New Year — Buckaroo Style
jolly
pRISTMAS
MITCHELL'S GRILL
1213 Main Street
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Phone 9199
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HARD TO GET . . . Mary Jane
Ng (yep, that’s Ng) la only 14
months old, and as a result Is
playing hard to get with Santa.
She was at a Christmas party
held for 450 underprivileged
Bowery children In New York.
Make the-Covering Gay
When Wrapping Up Gifts
H ALF OF THE GIFT is the wrap
ping—let’s make the covering
as gay as the gift inside.
For the girl who likes to sew,
material for a dress in a fabric-
wrapped box, rick-rack for the rib
bon and spools of thread with big
buttons for the decoration create an
unusual package. If you give yarn
for a sweater, use one skein for
the big bow.
Disguise a flat box of letter
paper aa a desk pad. Use a real
blotter on top with corners of
metallic paper.
Why not use a necktie knot In
decorating the box containing a tie?
Fasten the ends of the ribbon under
the lid about Ys way down; bring to
center; tie the knot and shape the
ends tie fashion. Use a dark blue,
wine or green ribbon about one
and one-half inches wide. These are
attractive used on a striped or
plaid paper.
Or the package might resemble
a tiny suitcase wrapped in paper
with the ends bound in decorative
taps. Add a handle and identifica
tion tag.
WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE
1310 Main Street Phone 1124
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In extending our Christ*
mas Greeting, we trust
that the road of life ahead
will lead you to much
health and happiness.
T. ROY SUMMER
Roy Summer, Sr.
Emery Bedenbaugh
T, Roy Summer, Jr.
Mrs. T. Roy Summer, Sr.
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