Show HA HAPPY PP Y HOLIDAYS HOLIDA YS i this won t happen again until 1976 you like to have holidays fall all on weekends then 1948 should be a year of great promise most of the major holidays this year will fall all on saturdays and sundays which Is either good or bad depending on how you feel about getting time off down at the old mill sundays whereon fall all Wo shing birthday memorial day and independence day arent too bad because the government and most other employers observe the mondays following as legal holidays ind and so extend holiday benefits to their employees but tor for the working man its a rough shake when a holiday falls on a saturday for or it bring an alternate day ol 01 off and this year both christmas and new years day 1949 fall all an on saturdays of the three remaining holidays two come on weekdays without the ild aid of any idiosyncrasies on the pa part tt of the calendar labor day september 0 this year arrives on monday simply because it ii always falls on the first monday of september instead of on any one numerical day in the month same goes tor for thanksgiving on an thursday armistice da day 71 justl just happens to come on thursday this year year study of the calendar and holidays for 1948 also developed another odd angle the years three sunday holidays can happen only once every 28 years so the last timi time february 22 may 30 and july 4 all fell unsun an sundays in the same year was la in 1820 1920 the next time after this year I 1 will ivill be in 1976 the deciding factor la Is the extra day february 29 every seven leap years no now this is the place for iome someone ne wh who 0 knows calendar law to argue that since the coming year 2000 20 00 a century year divisible by 00 Is not a leap year it will be 32 more mor e years or or 2008 after 1876 1976 before the three holidays again appear on sundays however How evier this 1 Is nota not a subject to spend much time worrying about besides be alive to take a holiday in the year |