The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 24, 1959, Image 14
SECTION B—PAGE SIX
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1959>
"Good tidings of great fog,
which shall be to all people/’
Luke 2:10
J. F. HIPP & SON
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
BUILDING MATERIALS
Phone 309-J Newberry, S. C.
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^TTAPPY NEW YEAR!” The
-Ul exultant, drunken shout
went up around the apartment-
lined street along with a few fire
crackers and noisemakers.
Letha 6ishop, a youngish, pal
ish blond, shivered a little as she
leaned out the upstairs window to
watch the usual, futile efforts at
merry-making. What’s so happy
about the New Year, she thought
grimly—1959 was a flop! Letha
thought of her unhappy year in
the city with bitterness. Her left
arm had been hurt in an indus
trial accident so she had been
off work for six snowbound
weeks. The city overwhelmed
her with its noise and grime as
contrasted to the quiet farm life
she had fled in a stubborn search
for independence.
“The story of my life,’’ Letha
said aloud, but couldn’t help
smiling. She remembered her
father expounding on a sense of
humor being a saving grace. She
didn’t have much left. Impulsive
ly she grabbed her worn coat
and went outside to walk. The
sidewalks were clear of snow and
ice, but not of people. A party
was breaking up nosily so Letha
turned and walked the other way.
‘‘Sounds as if you hadn’t said
that word in a long, long
time,” he said.
Map pou finti peace, jop
anti happiness at €f)rist=
mas time. JEftese are our
Sincere fansijes for all our
frieni>$ iofio frsbe mabe
tin's Christmas sucf) a
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H. M. HENTZ & SON
Dealers in Pulpwood Since 1929
P. O. Box 181 Newberry, S. C,
“Happy New Year!” Two men
were having a snowball fight and
she was their target. They were
uproarish and pelted her with the
stinging balls and loud sugges
tions of “Come on in, we car
make your New Year happy.”
Encounter
Letha turned, frightened, and
ran smack into a man. “That’s
enough snow now,” he warned
the throwers in the rasping
voice Letha recognized as that of
an older man.
“You don’t have to help me,”
she said tightly, but when the
snowballs and taunts found her
again, she was grateful for the
man’s bulk and arm. They ran
back to the protection of a door
way.
“Thanks.” She managed to say
it.
“Sounds as if you haven’t
said that word in a long time,”
he commented dryly.
There was enough light so
Letha could see her craggy bene
factor. He was a big man, as
blunt in appearance as he was
in speech. He asked curiously,
“Are you always so indepen
dent?”
“I try to be,” Letha said stiff
ly. “You don’t like indepen
dence?” She lingered in the door
way because she had no fear of
this strange, observing man and
besides, she was so glad to hear
someone talk. She had been
cooped up in her room for days.
It reminded her of a cell. She
surprised herself by saying, “You
remind me of my father. He
doesn’t like independence either.”
Listener
“I admire it in a woman,” he
said quickly, “but a little bit
goes a long way. I have a feeling
you’re as independent as a hog
on ice and you don’t know how to
retreat so you keep skidding
around.” He spoke so dispassion
ately that she heard herself bit
by bit, telling him of the whole
disastrous year. She realized that
she, who never confided in any
one, was talking a lot. She didn’t
care. The man was so dispas-
sioned, so anonymous, he was
easy and good to talk to.
“Your biggest problem is your
self,” he said calmly after her
recital on the life and woes of
Letha Bishop. “You don’t know
how to give in or even go half
way. I think you really want to
go home . . .”
She picked up the telephone re
ceiver three times before she
summoned enough courage to put
a call through to her family. Say
ing “Happy New Year” to her
father was hard, but the rest
came easier. “How would you
like to have a daughter set
tling—”
That was all she had to say as
her father interrupted excitedly.
“We’d love it! When? How soon?
You will stay? Oh Happy New
Year!”
Letha smiled at the placard,
smiled hugely at the world, think
ing thankfully of her midnight
advisor, and said to her sput
tering father, “It will be a hap
py year!”
Pcinsettia Can
Bs Made to
oom Again
Poinsettias which brighten the
homes this Christmas can be
made to bloom again if the plants
receive proper light and temper
ature requirements.
Once the poinsettia plant has
bloomed, the red leaves will be
gin to fall after a week or twc
. and the plant enters a “rest”
period. It should then be stored
in a cool place, in a basement or
a garage, where it won’t freeze,
and watered a little about once
every two or three weeks to keep
it alive.
Prune in Spring
In the spring, the plant should
be pruned so that a few mam
limbs are left to start new growth,
planted in well drained garden
soil, and left there for the sum
mer.
Shortened days of fall and win
ter then signal the plant to pre
pare itself for bloom. The plant
can be brought indoors in the fall
and left to continue growth at
normal periods of day and night.
It is also important to keep the
poinsettia out of drafts and at
temperatures of 65-70 degrees.
Poinsettias develop “bloom”
when the days are short and the
nights are long. Short periods oi
night caused by periods of expo
sure to artificial lights, however,
interfere with blooming. Nighl
lights lengthen the day, and the
plant continues to act as thougt
it is summer.
Time Bloom
Maintenance of normal dayi
and nights according to the sea
sons help time the plant mechan
ism to bloom during the holidav
season.
Blooming period of plants al
ready in “bloom” can also be
lengthened by keeping the plant
away from artificial light at night.
“Bloom” of poinsettia is bright
ly colored leaves that surround
tiny creamy white flowers.
Redeemer Legends
Common Among
American Indians
Redeemer legends were com
mon among American Indians.
While some were aboriginal,
others probably were greatly in
fluenced by contacts with Euro
peans, especially missionaries.
One of these legends was gath
ered by the Reverend Ephraim S.
Alphonse, a Wesleyan Methodist
minister who lived among the
Valiente Indians for 21 years. The
legend concerns the Ulikron
(orphan of the Virgin) and how
he traveled long ago from the
far, far north. He talked to stout
little men, to tall red men, to
men in huts, to men in tall houses
made of stone, to men who make
b:oad roads and wear fine soft
clothes and pearls and silver and
gold. The Ulikron passed among
hem long, long ago and told the
non to be good, to love good, and
tn do good. The Ulikron passed
and talked. His eyes were so/t
and seeing. His eyes saw through
men. His eyes saw and saw and
men looked on ana wept and
topped their wars. They stopped
leir hate. Their bows and arrows
hot the deer but never man
(ta:n.
Tne Ulikron pointed to the stars,
le talked of the Crab, the Plough,
he Great Bear. He talked of the
hod above those stars and he
told men to be good and he would
come again for all good men; and
nen began to be good. All Indian.^
'•ait for the Ulikron.
Such is the story of the Ulikron
which as you can see, closelj
parallels (and most likely is) the
story of Christ.
Gift-Giving 'Must*
For Big Business
Christmas business gifts
amounts to really big business
vhen it comes to executives ot
large companies, a survey re
veals. It has been estimated that
about $2 billion a year is spent on
Christmas presents alone by in
dustries for customers, suppliers
and others on whose good will
businessmen depend.
And fifty per cent of the execu
tives don’t like the idea although
they continue the practice be
cause they feel they must. Typi
cal comments concerning the
practice; “Anyone(^^ho doesn’t
give is out in left field.” And,
“It’s a shakedown, and we know
it. But we’re helpless. We’re
suckers if we do and saps if we
don't.”
Many companies believe that t
no-receiving policy isn’t vise t.r
won't work and permit employee;
to accept gifts of limited value
They offer the rule of thumb at
tribuied to former Presidem
Truman; “If you can eat it up
- moke it up, or drink it up in one
iay, it’s all right.”
Six out of every 10 executive;
>n big business “Flatly disap
orove” of giving business Christ
-:u- gilts.
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Merry
Christmas.
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Everyone!
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j 1106 Caldwell St.
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| May the Joy of the Holiday Glow
; Brightly for You and Your Family
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last forever!
MARTIN’S FEED & SEED STORE
Caldwell Street Newberry, S. C.
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The Newberry Steam Laundry
and Dry Cleaning Co.
934 MAIN STREET
PHONE 310
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To all our friends and patrons...
We wish the very best
during the coming year!
DENNIS SHOE & SPORT SHOP
1217 Nance Street
good friends to our firm — to each of you a
warm and friendly wish for the happiest of all
holiday seasons — Merry, Merry Christmas!
Shawnee Manufacturing Co.
Incorporated
1324 Lindsay Street
Newberry, South Carolina