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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD. DUCHESNE, UTAH By Len Kiel The Home Workshop Holiday Feles A Feeding Station for Birds Basically Same Food, Visits Common Mark of New Year While New Year celebrations have their little cottages all ready Feeding House Brings Birds to ths Window for them. Paltem 278 costs 25e. Order direct from WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer 10 Bedford Hillo, New fork In all countries are basically similar, there are many interesting varta-tion- s and special features. For example, the Kings honor list provides great interest and excitement SUNNYSIDE in England. In France and Germany, the holiday is marked by festivities resembling those in the United States, and the great cities, such as Paris, take on a carnival atmosphere on New Years Eve. ia Poland, Lithuania, and observe New Year with a round of calls by the people, and with official recep tions. In these countries, tables are piled high with food and drink and vast quantities of both are consumed on the eve of the new year as well as on New Year's Day. Gifts, too, are exchanged. A gold com is baked in a cake in by New Years celebrants Greece. On New Year's morning the cake is cut into as many slices Record Mileage The bureau of public mads says that in 1948 a new record of mileage for motor vehicles was set at 397,589,000,000 miles The vehicles included 33,394 000 passenger cars, 184,000 buses ind 7,379,000 truck and combinations. Grand Coulee Dam The Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia river m Washington Czech-Slovak- By Clay Hunter THE OLD GAFFER BIRDS AT YOUR WINDOW PHE BIRDS that do not go South for the winter will enjoy one of these feeding stations See sketch for details. The robins returning in the spring will probably stop with you for the summer, if you runs the worlds largest hydroelectric power plant with 1,208 000 inkilowatt capacity stalled and a totalalready potential capacity of 1,974,000 kilowatts Keep Posted on Values By .Reading the Ads til nil Stuffiness, For Coughs of Coldshow i BOUFORD MELLORS MUTT AND JEFF 60SFL MUTTfe By Bud Fiaher Vou LET OH.WELL.lU ME SLEEP RlGrtT THROUGH MV AFTERMOON NAP as there are members of the family, and the one receiving the coin is considered to have much good luck in store for him. Huge bonfires are built by peasants of Bulgaria as a New Years greeting to their friends tn near-b- y villages. It is on this day also that Bulgarians announce army promotions. Carol singing is an important feature of the Bulgarian celebrations. In Sweden, one form of observance is that of high officials inscribing their names in a huge book at the palace of the king. This appears to be in lieu of an official reception. In this northern land it is the custom also to drive to church in sleighs early on New Years morning. Torches are carried to light the way. like millions of others You know wonderfully effective Vicks VapoRub is when you rub it on. Now. ..heres amazing, special relief when theres much coughing or stuffiness, that choked-up- " feeling. Its VapoRub in Steam . . . and it brings relief almost instantly ! Put 1 or 2 spoonfuls of VapoRub In a vaporizer or bowl of boiling water. Then breathe in the soothing, medicated vapors. Every breath eases coughing spasms, makes breathing easier. And to prolong relief rub VapoRub on throat, chest and back. Use it in steam.,. Rub it on, tool VVapoRub DONT WAIT UNTIL TOO LATE! Scotch Unrestrained In Hew Year's Joy JITTER WYLDE By Arthur Pointer By Bert Thomas AND WOOLY s 1 t ... I.A t t The Scotch, who react with restrained enthusiasm to Christmas, welcome the New Year with all the Joy and merry-makin- g possible to their usually taciturn nature. On New Years Eve the wassail bowl goes round and round, filled with savory liquid, nostalgically , fragrant. Apples floating atop the wassail bowl stir memories of the "apple-howlin- g when boys switched the trunks of fruit trees petitioning a "good howling crop." Somehow the lambs wool," as the decoration of the wassail bowl often is called, seems reminiscent of young folks rushing to the nearest spring at the stroke of 12 to drink the cream of the well because the first to do so could expect good luck for the ensuing year. Handsel Monday t h e Monday after New Years Day is traditionally the big day for Scotch boys and girls. DRIVE SAFELY THIS WINTER "Remember (he Life You Save May Be Your Own -- NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCII y' Ai look for the fllED 'J BMt 4 I V . CLOCK WATCHER . . . This Is Hollywood conception of what the New Year is like, a typical but it probably wont make much difference to yon tn your celebration, And if you cant think of anything good about 1919, Just remember that without It we wouldnt be having 1950. Feasting Holds Important Place in Holiday Rifes Since both at home and abroad feasting Is so much a part of the TO SUE THE GAME. W TO WATCH OUR GRANDDAUGHTER AND WE CAM SEE LEAD THE CHEERING NICELY FROM RIGHT HERE" Wt DIDN'T COM CAME New Year observance, it Is Interesting to know something of the gastronomic trail of the seasonal dinners For instance, the Ameri can In England on New Year Day would find the chief dish a reminder of home, for It would be turkey, duck or goose. The chief difference would be the plum pud ding. The Motional foundation ERANKIIN 0 for Infantile fbratysts ROOSEVELT. loudr t |