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Show OREM -GENEVA TIME? mm 3 Candles, placed In windows on Christmas Eve to light the Christ Child and to welcome wayfarers, bave been popular for centuries, but the burning of Bayberry candles can-dles is a strictly North American custom which dates from colonial days. Though associated particularly particu-larly with New England, these aromatic aro-matic candles glow in windows from coast to coast. Day Nurseries Not New Children's day homes would be established In the centers of every poor population, where for a small charge babies and young children could be taken care of In the day while the mothers are at work. This was the plan advocated by William Booth in 1890. - 1 ' vl STARTUP'S SWEET CENTER 85 South 3rd West, Provo the world's doily newspaper t;:e ceklw mim Kc::ncj. ; the be-jt-informed peions In youf community on world affairs you read fhis world-wide doily newtpaper regularly. You will fresh, new viewpoints, o fuller, richer understanding of today's news klu neip rrom its exclusive rearures on nomemaunQ, two, business, theater, music, radio, iporis. ! Subscribe new te A -cj iffiis speclel' "eet- (ffj ece.waMtoe" etter 7. The Christian Science Publishing Society One, Norway Street, Boston IS, Mass., U 1 A. . . Enclosed Is $t. for wfilrh pleas send me Ik 1V J IUIIU1I - S II Science Monitor Nam. Street, r A "Satisfaction s'arantccd or your money bark" NogI Wishbone A traditional good luck piece, chicken wishbones make an attractive addition to the Christmas present. Wash them dry and then paint them any color you like. Fasten one to the top of every Christ mas gift to add an extra note of sentiment when wrapping wrap-ping packages for yuletide giving. Uncle Sam Says ) i Why not stop on your own personal-security self-starter to make 1948 the best year In your life? When you sign up to buy United States Savincs Bonds through automatic payroll savings right where you work, or the Bond-A-Month Plan where you bank, you're adding money-ihat-grows to your Income, Those dollars you put aside, before they have the chance to sprout wings and fly away, are sure to come in bandy later on to buy a home for your family, an education for your children, or years of leisure for yourself. And, best of all, you'll be getting back more than you put in $100 at maturity for every $75 invested in-vested today, V. S. Tnaiury Dtfarlmtnl Mr en monm. - f rou will find yourwlf one f when I vital . j, It's Christmas S' ! "! Again... Ll' ' v ' ' AND TO ALL OUR . . . CU ; FRIENDS & CUSTOMERS ."V . A . GO VERY BEST WISHES " FOR A - , ' Merry Christmas AND MANY MORE FOR A JOYOUS ...New Year We have enjoyed serving you and we hope we may continue to do so in the future . . . YrOUR FRIENDLY SEARS STORE IN PROVO t 7, 'Spivs' Poison 'Mums in Plot To Fix Flower Show Results LONDON. A meek English flower flow-er lover had two silver cups as evidence evi-dence of his victory over the London gamblers who poisoned his prize chrysanthemums in an effort to "fix" the Macclesfield flower show. Jim Jackson, rural Macclesfield's chrysanthemum champion, was the first target of the fast-money boys who have been making book on rural flower shows during their enforced en-forced absence from the British capital caused by the government's drive to make everyone work. One day when Jackson was away from home, the "spivs" crept into his hothouse and poisoned his six best blooms. Then they sat back and waited to rake in the bets. Macclesfield police were baffled. The chrysanthemum "murderers" "murder-ers" are still at large. But Jackson had dozens of flowers in reserve. When his "first team" withered away, he entered the show with his six next-best plants and won .two silver cups and 18 lesser prizes. He still has the best chrysanthemums chrysanthe-mums in town. Vanishing American Soil When John Smith and Miles Stan-dish Stan-dish came to these shores, the top-soil top-soil averaged about nine inches in depth. Today, due to the ripping and wearing action of water end wind on unprotected land and the removal of organic matter, the result re-sult of land abuse, topsoil averages bout six inches in depth for the nation as a whole. In some places It is entirely gone and more is going. Qflmlcit CHRISTMAS HEDQUIST DRUG CO. No. 1 and 2 Provo Ulah 1S7 U. S. Air Force Asks ' Fund of 300 Million Calls It 'Cheap Insurance' in Case of Invasion. WASHINGTON. U. S. air force leaders estimate that 250 million dollars to 300 million dollars a year would be needed to put American air power on top in aviation research re-search and keep it there. They call this "cheap insurance" against another Pearl Harbor, but are far from certain that congress will go along. In 1946 when an economy wave hit the legislature, the air force (then the army air force) asked for 272 million dollars but received only 200 million dollars. In 1947 the appropriation ap-propriation was slashed to only 110 million dollars and, unless the lawmakers law-makers have a change of heart, the air force expects no more than 147 million dollars in 1948. Air force leaders not only are worried wor-ried over the fund shortage but they point out that the production capacities capaci-ties of American aircraft industries have been reduced so sharply it is doubtful they could be revived quickly in an emergency. The United States ended the war victoriously but five years behind Germany in most basic research and 10 years tardy in some. Now the air force, the army and navy are trying to catch up. In some fields they have outstripped out-stripped all other powers but their research costs have risen and they say they need money badly. They tre striving in addition for a working work-ing partnership with science, engineering engi-neering and the air industry. That also will take money. . The air force estimates it will need at least 3,000 aircraft annually for experimental purposes that is, for use in keeping the United States ahead in the field of research. Hew Fluorescent Light Kills and Deodorizes CHICAGO. A new fluorescent light that kills bacteria, deodorizes deodor-izes the kitchen and gives the housewife a suntan while sh works was described at an American Amer-ican Chemical society meeting. Sampson Isenberg, director of research of General Luminescent corporation, said the light would serve equally well in an office, factory, gymnasium or swimming swim-ming pool The all-purpose lamp Is mad possible by a discovery of new and mors stable chemicals that emit ultra-violet fluorescence, Isenberg Is-enberg said. 4 riC A ) West Center CaVV 1947 Legislation Reduces Welfare Grants by 17 per cent The public welfare legislation of 1947 had the effect of reduc ing the amount that coulu be spent for public assistance by a-bout a-bout 17 per cent compared with what the annual expenditure would have been if the March, 1947, level of grants had been continued, according to an analysis analy-sis of the law prepared by the Utah Foundation, a non-profit research re-search organization. Appropriated state funds, the report points out, will permit total to-tal annual expenditures for public pu-blic assistance of approximately 510,600,000 if the present proportion pro-portion of Federal participation continues. Had public welfare expenditures continued at the March, 1947 rate, total annual costs of public assistance would have reached approximately $12,790,000, or $2,190,000 more than can be spent under the annual an-nual appropriation approved by, the legislature. March, 1947 was; the last month before elgislative control over sales tax revenues took effect. The legislative directive plainly plain-ly was to reduce the higher payments pay-ments then being made to individuals indi-viduals or families, since the 1947 Act established specific limits for such payments well below be-low the Department schedules which were in effect. The report notes that there is apparently some question as to how restrictive the legislative appropriation was intended to be upon the level of public assistance assist-ance payments. The Department is following the policy of rr-iin-taining payments at the most liberal .level possible without violating specific limitations of the law, and assuming that funds additional to the legislative appropriation ap-propriation will be forthcoming, either by permission from the Board of Examiners to incur a deficit or by action of a special session of the Legislature. While the action of the 1947 Legislature curtailed the higher payments to some welfare cases, the level of payments to the majority of welfare recipients continues to be well above chat! prevailing prior to the adoption of uniform "need" budgets established es-tablished by the Department in October, 1946. The question ar- ises, however, as to whether thei Legislature intended that the welfare program be tailored to fit the approved appropriation, with such changes in prescribed "budgetary need" to be made as might be necessary to keep expenditures ex-penditures for the biennium within the appropriation. The report highlights the changes made by the 1947 Act, chief of which are: Legislature, changing of eligibility requirements require-ments such as limiting the amount am-ount of real property that can be OAned in addition to a home owned and occupied, and the talcing talc-ing of liens on real property holdings assessed at more than thf $1,200; and the providing for senu-annual changes in maximum maxi-mum payments in accordance with cost of living as measured by the U. S. Department of La bor's consumers' price index. A JOLLY mm GRAY REALTY Company 196 West Center Provo a 'j I tit . yj e A YFAR TO PAY" in -.V .y , ! Surrounded by myth by primitive peoples, the mistletoe was taken over by Christians who also wove fanciful legends around it. In ancient mythology, the mistletoe mis-tletoe was . the instrument of evil. The Druids of Britain believed the plant possessed healing powers. Other Oth-er primitive people thought that mistletoe mis-tletoe found growing on oaks had magical powers. Taken over into Christian tradition, tradi-tion, the mistletoe was dedicated to the Christ Child. Adopted as symbolical sym-bolical of the healing power of our Lord, it was used to adorn the altars at Christmas. Monks of the monasteries called it the "wood of the cross" and attributed supernatural supernat-ural powers to it. The white berries were said to reflect the radiance caught from the guiding star when the Wise Men were led to the manger. Norwegian farmers give their cattle tubs of home-brewed ale on Christmas Eve. At midnight of Christmas Eve people in Madrid eat 12 grapes for good luck In the coming year. There are 17S different kinds of holly. Christmas has been celebrated on more than 100 different days In various vari-ous parts of the world. Christopher Columbus and his men landed on the coast of Cuba on December 25, 1492, naming the point Navidad. George Washington crossed the Delaware and made a successful attack on the Hessian troops at Trenton, N. J., on Christmas Day, 1776. Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan followers abolished Christmas Day in England, banning all feasting and fun. The ban lasted for seven years and was lifted when Charles n became king. The needy are considered In Hungary Hun-gary at Christmastime, a levy being assessed against richer citizens so the poor may have sufficient to eat and drink. THE old saying that It Isn't th. gift but the giving that's appreciated appre-ciated may be true, but Just th. sam. a good gift quickens th. heart to much mora. Ia being able to draw upon th abundance of th. country, farm peopl. are In a position to present especially valu.d gifts at comparatively compara-tively small cost For instance, a box full of spruce, or, pine, holly, cedar or balsam is always welcomed wel-comed as a decorative source by city friends. City people, like everybody else, also appreciate good things to eat, and home canned country fruits and vegetables or some fowl can be expected ex-pected to make a big hit Gardeners ' 5 I in the big town will gladly welcome a packet of seeds gleaned from an expansive country garden. Handy home-makers can convert old articles into attractive gifts. An old felt hat can be made into a beanie for some young girl merely by using the crown and addin? yarn stitching for aecoiation. The best part of an old fur coat be;'crd repair re-pair will make a rich carriage robe for a new baby. Fot-hp'dors, dtist-irg dtist-irg mitts, bath powJer gloves, shoe bsgs are romf of 'le itrms which can be sMi-.gtd from smeil scr?ps. And. O :-es! wlnt could be more useful to a young bride than a homemade home-made cook-book containing the home-mnker's favorite recipes? Not only will such a book provide for tasty eating but it can also be expected ex-pected to guide the young wife over some rough moments in the kitchen. V Vi C Home of Tomato The eastern slope of the Andes ta j Peru may be the rlglr.al home of j the tjmato. 1 Cxyrn Level May Be Clu 1p Catter Health, Lonjer Ufa ST LOUIS. - Better health and longer life for middle-aged people may be achieved by maintaining the proper level of oxygen consumption consump-tion in the body. Physicians, working at St. Louis City infirmary In cooperation with Washington university, believe old people may be able to ward off the so-called "old age" diseases if the proper level is achieved. On the basis of their study of 1,000 persons, the Investigators think the ideal oxygen consuming rate occurs In the first 10 years of life. The rate then falls until the age of 24 and remains re-mains stable until age 45. Then, according to Uieir findings, is when the trouble begins. They speculate that a dropping rate of oxygen consumption indicates threat of a degenerative disease. When the rate bcbins to climb again after age 45, the doctors believe, be-lieve, it may be due to the body s fight against a degenerative ailment such as cancer or heart disease. The gerontologists physicians who study aging processes of the body therefore try to maintain oxygen consumption at the 24-year age leveL With special diets and medical care they already have reported re-ported "some progress." In order to help high school students finance their shows, Scera will grant Jr. prices upon presentation of their high school activity card during the school year. These prices are 25c , before 7:00 and 35c after 7:00. WHEN THE BLACK LIGHTED TREE STANDING STAND-ING IN THE THEATRE LOUNGE WAS ILLUMINED ILLU-MINED AT THE STAFF PARTY, ALL MEMBERS MEM-BERS GASPED AT ITS BEAUTY. IT WAS LIKE A BURST OF SUNLIGHT ON A LONE PINE OF THE MOUNTAIN AND ALL ABOUT THE VALLEY VAL-LEY WAS DARK. BE SURE TO SEE THIS SPECTACLE AS YOU LEAVE THE SHOW ANY EVENING DURING THE HOLIDAYS. ONE MAN EXCLAIMED THE OTHER NIGHT, "IT IS WORTH TRAVELING 100 MILES TO SEE." MR. GEORGE ROHBOCK OF THE OREM FLOWER SHOP ASSISTED WITH THE XMAS DECORATIONS IN THE LOUNGE. WE APPRECIATE AP-PRECIATE YOUR HELP, GEORGE. WE THINK THE DECORATIONS ARE OUTSTANDING. .... I On all holidays it has been our policy to run continuously from 3 p-m. We have tried repeatedly repeated-ly to have afternoon matinees on other days but find it impossible. These holidays will include Christmas day, New Year's day, 4th and 24th of July, Labor Day and Thanksgiving. o We are proud to present during the Christmas week the first run showing of an epic picture THE FABULOUS TEXAN. It has had outstanding outstand-ing reviews since it was given its premier showing show-ing in Austin. Texas, last month. It broke all records for attendants, at Si. Louis, San Franusco and Portland. It is a story depicting the early hardships that settlers of Texas endured. DURING THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS WE ARE ALSO FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO SHOW WALT DISNEY'S "FUN AND FANCY FREE". I DOUBT WE NEED TO SAY ANYTHING ANY-THING ABOUT THIS PICTURE EXCEPT WE ARE ONLY CHARGING 14c FOR KIDDIES. THEY WILL ALL WANT TO GO. SO WILL MA. PA, GRANDPA AND GRANDMA. REMEMBER, FOR THAT LAST MINUTE SEARCH FOR A CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT "xOU CAN BUY A BEAUTIFUL DECORATED BOOK OF THEATRE COUPONS FOR $4.50 WHICH GIVES $5.00 WORTH OF SHOWS- ASK THE CASHIERS. Program for the Coming Week t Friday and Saturday THE FOXES OF HARROW The cast is outstanding including Maureen O'Hara and Rex Harrison. The picture is rated excellent. It is one of the old fashioned melodramatic melodra-matic type wiih plenty of romance and comedy. SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:30 p.m. THE REGULAR S.S.S. FUN CLUB V1LL BE REPLACED RE-PLACED BY THE FREE CHIUSTIvTAS SHOW TO EE PRESENTED BY THE OUSri CHAirDUil OF CO'.Sjr?CS. REMEMBER YOU ARE TO BE THERE EA 1 XY PROMPTLY AT 130. Startir-g Monday you will be happy to learn that we ae bringing you that popular slat Shirley Temple in HONEYMOON. II is a laugh riot wiih plenty of romance and fun. Along with this you will see Zane Grey's laiest story UNDER i' rrl "-i VnjjT of this priiain ibc house VA be p&cksd, so piease'eome early in order to get a seat. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1947 Prosperity is too apt to prevent pre-vent us from examining our conduct; con-duct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. Johnson 'at CHRISTMAS CARL NELSON Painting and Decorating 559 East 7lh North, Provo 1 - ' 1947 Wl -te If MM 1 VvaAJIIaA |