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Show 2E FOCUS To Every Season If this were spring we be grateful for these clear mild days and the drip drip of snow melting off the roof, but winter is yet to come and we know better than to let opr guard down. Standing on the front stoop would with a long weekend ahead, it's tough to decide what to do ski? Hike? Take out the It's enough to bring out the Scrooge in the best of us. There we were an hour ten-spee- later, still scratching our heads and wondering how long this unseasonal weather would last and, whether there would be show for Christmas and most of. all whether this '.kind of thing had ever happened .before, when a . : . . friend happened by who was sure to know.. This is nothing," he is fond of saying, I remember when ... '"Well he was pretty sure that one year it didn't snow til Jan. 4... He also remembered a year before natural gas was in use when the smog in Salt Lake-Citwas so thick and black he couldn't see the front of the car. ''Well," he said with , a wide grin drove over the sidewalks for awhile and a few flower beds too when all of a sudden I could make out some tail lights up ahead. Figured the fellow was heading up out of the valley so I followed him. right up dose. Turns out he was fust about home and I followed him up into his driveway. What are YOU doing here? he demanded. 7 don 't know I was following you!' our friend recounted, chuckling at the mei; try. Another friend, with a memory much longer and sharper than ours, called to offer a few more theories about the sacred gold mine in the Uintas. There are some,' he explained, who used to say that the Indians stole a lot of gold from the Spaniards and cached it in a special place in the mountains. He didn 't want to say that there wasn't still the Almanac possibility of mining gold in the Uintas, had even heard of a few strikes, fust that there .had been a lot of stories about where that gold had come from. While we are trying to set the record straight, he also commented that Joseph Smith believed that Jesus was actually bom in April Christmas came from a pagan ritual celebrating the return of the sun. In fact, we agreed, plenty of pagan ritual had been going on this very Solstice. Under the guise of Christmas, and with encouragement from the full moon, neighbors and friends across the valley danced their way into the early hours of the first day of winter. ' White or not, we thought, with neighbors like these, it s going to be a very Merry Christmas. NC . On the Cover At seventy-si- x years old Pappy Lucas is still putting in 10 ' hour days restoring and rebuilding antiques at his shop in Francis. See story on Page 4. "I . Dec. 25: Sunrise: Sunset: Dec. 25: Christmas Day! Dec. 29: Last quarter of the moon Forecast: Dec. Partly cloudy Dec. Cold then snow! 25-2- 6: 27-3- 1: a PACK AWAY POODS CO. 1 4 So. Main HOURS . . Heber For Appt. Call Mon., Wei, Fil, and Sat 10 A.M. 654-443- 0 ta 2 P.M. POST CHRISTMAS SALE Retreads, Bias Ply, Radiais ALL REDUCED . Friday and Saturday Only Call for Prices ,sr offers snowmobile rentals on over 200 acres of trails in the hills around Park City. Take guided tours beginning at the SNO-POWE- R 110 South Main Heber 654-326- 2 historic Park City Silver Mines and going into the picturesque back country of the Wasatch . . Mountains. SNO-POWE- R Intersection of Hwy. 248 & 40 Park City, Utah 649-655- 4 sVfV. |