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Show Page C4 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, December 7, Timeline to put away holiday decor Dear Manners: There is a current fad for medieval-styl- e banners sticking out from houses announcing the seasonal feelings of the residents. But these banners are often neglected, resulting in a jarring juxtaposition of fabric snowmen with real daffodils and forsythia blossoms, among other unnatural pairings. More and more, evidence of religious, patriotic, ethnic and personal observances are being Miss affixed to doorways, lawns and other places in and around resi- dences and businesses. The spirit of celebration is to be applauded, but sometimes lapses strain the sensibilities. Christmas decorations can reasonably be put up close on the heels of Thanksgiving, but the time for their removal is often resulting in an overlapping with Valentine's Day hearts, and, in the extreme, d a electrical eyesore open-ende- d, year-roun- 9 T jt Judith Wapj) Martin ' LJ L Miss Manners on eaves or shrubbery. Is there a method for displaying proper holiday decorations? GENTLE READER: By sniffing at the neighbors, you have placed Miss Manners in a jurisdictional quandary. Not that she doesn't wonder why people who notice the seasons don't also notice when they are over. All those snowmen when it's it season are as pathetic as bumper stickers for politicians. It is just that criticizing how other people decorate their houses and lawns is equivalent to disapproving of how they dress. We all do it. but polite people realize that it is really not their place, so they keep it to themselves. If you had asked when is the proper time for you to put up or take bunny-rabb- long-forgott- 1995 Immigration Minister Yairrsa-ba- n said: "There has never been such a colossal effort to absorb immigrants. I regard it as a tesref honor for Israel. But it will Sake more than a year, and more than a By DAN PERRY Associated Press Writer BEEROTAYIM, Israel Beneath a shed of tree branches, men slaughter a cow with long knives. While flies and cats attack the carcass, they divide the meat among residents or this squalid trailer park. "It's cheaper than buying meat from stores," said Avraham Hegos, 25, who was among thousands of Ethiopian Jews brought to Israel in 1991's "Operation Solomon." That airlift was hailed as a manifestation of Zionism's humanitarian side, rescuing Jews from a land torn by civil war and poverty. But despite extensive and dark-skinn- "C- - generation." Tsaban conceded there are "cases of racism" againsKihe Ethiopians. "The biggest impedirnewrj; () integration is skin color. We;sef it all over the world, and it's theiase here, too," he said in an intenTiw. Micha Odenheimer, a U.S.-fcpr- n activist for Ethiopian rights,: said the government is failing in; 'the teen-age- , unprecedented government aid, there are worries the 56,000 black Jews are, becoming an underclass burdened by racial discrimination that drives them to live apart. "Israelis say they like us, as long as we don't live next to them, with the smell of our foods and our African clothes," mation that was immodest, embarrassing, ridiculous or a special holiday concoction of the three. However, the advent of the computer letter alters the situation somewhat. Somewhat. The basic rule still stands: Mass mailings are suitable neither for those who ought to be kept informed of family events when they happen, nor those who are not kept so informed because it caii easily be guessed that they couldn't care less. One's entire circle should be informed of births, marriages and deaths; close friends and relatives may be told of vacations, promotions, the triumphs of children, health problems and philosophical insights. It may safely be assumed that nobody who would not be pleased to get a call that you bought a new car or have expensive dental problems wants to hear about these by mail. What the computer contributes is the ability to tailor a basic letter to the presumed interests of each recipient. Even the only mildly dexterous among us can manage to pick up only selected paragraphs, add personal inquiries, and so on. Mad your relative mastered this, she would have been able to send you a letter filling you in on the family details and gracefully interspersed with references to your own family, without having to admit that she was cutting corners. education system, actually alienate 1 young Ethiopians from religion. "A terrible generation gap: has been created between the children who are moving away from; our traditions, and their parents ;who are very religious and have difficulty with Israeli secular life," ' Masala said. AP Photo girls play tag outside their home at the Beerotayim caravan site in central Israel. Israeli community leaders say, despite massive govern Two Ethiopian housing grant and therefore has few prospects for leaving the mobile home soon. His neighbor Lior Maharat said he was "dying of boredom." Expelled for misbehavior from a religious boarding school, the is waiting for his army draft notice while living with his mother, father and seven brothers and sisters in a trailer that lacks a functioning bathroom. "The worst thing is the Russians," he said, pointing across the only paved road in Beerotayim to another group of trailers housing immigrants from the former Soviet Union. on side, said he had trouble believing his neighbors were Jews at all. "They're very strange," he said. "And we don't like them the Russian-speakin- 11 -- year-old g dark-skinn- ed very much." Discovered in 1867 by French Jewish scholar Joseph Halevy, Ethiopia's Jews remained mostly isolated until former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin decided in the 1970s to press for their emigration to Israel. Theories about their origins range from the conversion of an African tribe to them being descendants of biblical King Solomon. "When Israelis started to come over some decades ago, we our- - among youths, he said. by Cathy Guisewite HOItfD T NO ACTUAL SIFTS ELSE IS CARRWIN& BAGS Of PRESENTS... EVERX- - EIERV0NE 0NE ELSE HAS AWE 0ECISI0N&. mcRE oRemiio flNO EfflCIENT... EVERVONE ELSE IS HAPPIER... EVERYONE UHflT THEV'RE O0IN&... EVERVONE else is DO AT CHOCOLATE THE mfli I GOT FIVE BUT VOU SANTAS Off SHIPPED m i Jew- ish state. Alex Melnik, an The groups never interact, except for occasional fistfights ELSE KNOWS ment aid, Ethiopian Jews are becoming entrenched as the poorest, most segregated group in the TO STOMACH. selves couldn't believe there were Jews who aren't black," said Masala, the activist who heads the Ethiopian Immigrants Association. "But for millennia we dreamed of returning to Zion, and this was our chance, so we took it." The community arrived first in trickles and then in two large airlifts one in 1984 and a second in 1991. Virtually no Jews are believed to remain in Ethiopia. Optimists say government statistics indicate the beginnings of i cancer exams Clinics offer ; More than half have bought p. homes with government grands of up to $120,000 for families, far more aid than available to other immigrants. There are several dozen Ethiopians serving as army officers and numerous cases of marriage between Ethiopian immigrants and other Israelis, Karlin City-Coun- said. ELSE 15 FULL Of HOLIOW 30V. j The Cancer Control Program', Utah State Department of Healthl in cooperation with the Center for Disease Control and participating local health departments, provides breast and cervical cancer screen1 ings for women. The clinics include a Wood pressure check, a Pap test, pelvic and breast examination and a mammogram voucher for those Examinaeligible, and follow-utions are provided by female screeners. The next clinics will take place' Health Depart: at the ment of Utah County, 589 S. $tat$ Street, Provo, from 1 to4:30p.m; on Dec. 12, Dec. 19 and De426; Call 370-873- 8 to make an appointment. integration. Dorit Karlin, the government official responsible for the absorption of the iithiopians, said more than 600 are in college, triple the number of two years ago. ty 'y.rrn f fill iLTX ZX imPA iK. JNautica")YL fe&W mt V : computer printout letters that are sent in Christmas cards be to casual acquaintances or close family and friends? A family member w ho said she was too busy to answer my letters at one time, I considered our Thus, the recipients were mercifully spared being subjected to infor- - low-pai- cathy ElERVONE rs y said Adisu Masala, an Ethiopian activist. Community leaders say the Africans are becoming entrenched as the poorest, most segregated group in the Jewish state, their youth increasingly disaffected and elders unable to cope with modern society. Shula Mula, 23, a community activist who sudies education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said that "unless something dramatic changes fast, the Ethiopian Jews will become a disaffected minority no different from the blacks in America." The Ethiopians are eligible for generous government grants for home purchases. But the community lags badly in education and income. Thousands still live in dismal mobile home sites like Beerotay-im- , which at 30 miles north of Tel Aviv is far from job centers and schools. Hegos, who arrived in the 1991 airlift of 14,000 Ethiopians, works at an factory for the equivalent of $800 a month, just above minimum wage. Because he is unmarried, Hegos says he qualifies only for a small down your decorations, it would be another matter. Proper people observe the seasons, which is why they never give Miss Manners a haid time about not wearing velvet after March or white shoes before Memorial Day. They take down their Christmas decorations on the first weekend of the new year. Dear Miss Manners: Should sends me a relationship close printout of all the events of the past 12 months. If they are that important, why not write about them during the year? We all live in a busy world and really cherish our spare time, but are these copied "letters" the way to keep a friendship alive? Gentle Reader: Miss Manners thought she had dealt with this problem back in the days when Christmas newsletters, being mimeographed in smudgy purple letters, were unreadable, anyway. primary challenge of helping Ethiopian children and close the educational gap: with Israeli-bor- n contemporaries. ; : t He noted that only 7 percept of those eligible completed hjgh school entrance exams last year--bfar the lowest proportion of. any immigrant group in Israel. Thai is a virtual guarantee of a future unskilled laborers. d Masala, the rights activist, Contends Ethiopian children ; are assigned to the poorest boarding schools, often sharing themjvith delinquents. He says the schools, most of which are part of the state's special Orthodox religious Sft Unlvgrstty Mali, Omm ""feLtM j lj't'Ll 225-39- ALL CLOCKS I riA i rrn t: 9 By JEANE DIXON For Dec. 8 ARIES (March OFF April 19): Join a special group. It will give you fresh insights us well as a chance 10 make new friends. 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