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Show Page 2 VALLEY VIEW NEWS SANTA CLAUSE TO VISIT FAMILY Arrangements can be made through Veteran of Foreign Wars to have Santa Clause visit the family. The charge per family Is $1.50 with 25? per child for a treat from Santa. Reservations may be made Commander Harold through 4. Martin, The Post and Auxiliary are working on their Christmas program which Is sub for Santa. To a needy family the VFW will furnish Christmas dinner, clothing, toys and whatever else is needed. The Post Is working through the Town Counsel, who refers and furnishes the family name. 298-590- The Latest From U.S. Post Office Saturday, December 9, 1967 will inaugurate a program of considerably increased window service to meet the seasonal demands of local mailers. Both the Main Post Office and the Parcel Post Annex window service units will remain 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., H .f 9:00 a.m. to 1:00p.m. while all stations and branches, excipl Pioneer, will be open from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Pioneer Station will remain closed on all Saturdays in December. On Saturday, December 16, ope;-l'lo.- 1967, the Main Post Office and the Parcel Post Annex will again be open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and except Pioneer Station, ALL stations and branches will remain open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On the final Saturday before Christmas, December 23, 1967, the Main Post Office, the Parcel Post Annex, and all stations and branches, again except Pioneer Station, will be open from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Postmaster Trevithick also mentioned that the deadline for airmail service to Afica, the Near East, and the Far East H December 10, 1967, for pre-Christ- delivery. As no delivery of letter mail, other than special delivery, is scheduled for either December 24 or 25, early mailing to insure delivery prior to Christmas is esential. Christmas cards received by patrons afford and excellent opportunity for the updateing of mailing lists, particularly those received from distant or infrequent correspondents. ZIP code numbers can be obtained for future mailings at this time. In many instances, particularly with smaller offices, a post office ZIP code can be located in the postmark of the originating office. TO BUY OR SELL USE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1967 CHRISTMAS TREE - Come A long With Me By Rhoda Werner When in Rome, do as the Romans do. How many times have we heard that? When we hear the word Rome we think of the Great Roman Empire. The rise and fall of Rome. Christmas will soon be here and along with it many joyous The burning of Rome. What was life like in the days of the Roman Empire? occasions, according to Melvin S. Burningham, Utah State UnIn the Roman Empire between 100 and 200 years after Christ it is recorded there were about 60 million people. In iversity Extension Agent inSalt Lake County, who added that the city of Rome itself there were over a million people, about not number there are in Cleveland or St. Louis today. if the of our most, all, holiday It was amidst thishuboftheEmpire,Aemillus Papinianus, experiences can be happy ones if we anticipate and plan the he Roman Law Giver and Roman jurist was born. He was events to come. born about 146 A.D. Included among early precauAs we look at Papinianus he has close clipped hair and tions that should be considered, the face of a deep thinker. He is holding a scrollin his right he said, is the selection, prehand. Draped over one shoulder is a flowing robe with a white decoration care, and the trimstyle covering the other shoulder. On his feet of the are thongs. Christmas tree. ming We Not too much about his personal life is recorded. In the should all realize that trees are generally quite year 203 he was appointed praetorian perfect to Britain by Mr. Burningham flammable, Septimus Severus. Power caused many acts of violence. Papinianus was murdersaid. This is especially true of natural trees. Even some ed by his own son, Caracalla, who desired his fathers pres- artificial ones are not comtige and position. So it is recorded he died by execution in the year 212 A.D. pletely fire resistant and metOne of the greatest Roman jurists, wrote 37 books of al ones may be good conductors of electricity. The degree of (Quaestopmes) legal questions, and 19 of (Respons) decisions. Rome was a crowded city. The only open spaces were the of natural trees flammability varies with the tree's freshness (forums) market places. Around these rose the seven low hills, or its water content. Most of jammed with various structures. There were court buildings and temples, great public structures with marble pillars our Christmas trees are natural and are subject to rigid C and halls of polished stone. There were marble arches and safety precautions. However, -- statues in honor of Roman heroes. There were great public baths, much like modern athletic clubs. There were the safety measures apply to artihouses with beautiful homes of the rich, usually ficial trees as well. The following sugestions may ojen inside courts containing gardens and goldfish pools. o make this Christmas a more There were the smaller homes of merchants, happy and safe occasion: lawyers, bankers, doctors. And there were the slums, crowded with three and four story dirty, noisy tenements. 1. If you use an artificial Stores of all kinds opened directly onto the winding paved tree, be sure your electical streets, so narrow that they received little sunlight. Nor was there any street lighting. Romans who went out at night cords, sockets and connections are in good condition. Dont carried lanterns and kept an eye open for thugs who lurked use any material that is frayin the dingy alleys. Citizens of Rome engaged in varied occupations. There ed, worn out or has bare wires. incan These conditions were many slaves in Rome. The Romans were great builders. crease the chance of electrical The better educated and more capable slaves were well fire and shock. Be sure the treated. Such slaves belonged to wealthy masters, who had tree is clean of flammable mathem teach their children and sometimes looked to them for terials. Even dust will burn. advice in business matters. There were no public schools. 2. When choosing natural Fathers trained their sons. Family life was important. The trees avoid those that are alRomans worshipped many gods. Roman law continues to influence todays world. ready dried out and dropping leaves. Check the tree careThe men who gathered together these laws and studied and interpreted them were often thinkers and writers of fully. Just because you wait unto buy the til great ability. They founded what is called jurisprudence, tree doesnt mean it was cut the science of law. in December. Many trees are Gardez Bien. Roman law, the Latin language and literature, cut several weeks in advance. and Romes achievements in engineering all touch our lives. Obrain a good, fresh tree. Make o today. a new cut on an angle on the lower end of the stem and place jUL5ULSULSL2JUUULOJLJLSL!UULOJ it in water in a cool place a Bell Telephone Hour specia. until you are ready to trim. 3. When you do move the Dec. 15 at 9 p.m. on KUTV, tree inside for decoration, keep Channel 2. the base of the tree in water. 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