Show HAPPY HOLIDA HOLIDAYS YS This Wont Won't Happen Again V 11 Until 1976 You lUU line une lu cave holidays fall IdU uil un weekends Then 1948 should be a year of great promise Most of the major holidays this year will fall on Saturdays and Sundays Sundays Sundays Sun Sun- days which is either good or bad depending on how you feel about getting time off down at the old mill Sundays whereon fall Washington's Washington's Washington's Washing Washing- tons ton's birthday Memorial Day and Independence Day arent aren't too bad bec because use the government and most other employers observe the Mondays Mondays Mondays Mon Mon- days following as legal holidays and so extend holiday benefits to their employees But for the working man its it's a rough shake when a holiday falls on a Saturday for it doesn't bring bringan an alternate day off And this year f V both Christmas and New Years Year's Day 1949 fall on Saturdays Of the three remaining holidays two come on weekdays without the aid of any idiosyncrasies on the part of the calendar Labor Day September 6 this year arrives on Monday simply because because because be be- cause it always falls on the first Monday of September instead of on any anyone one numerical day in the month Same goes for Thanksgiving ing on Thursday Armistice Day just happens to come on Thursday this this' year Study of the calendar and holidays holi holi- days for 1948 also developed another another another an an- other odd angle The years year's three Sunday holidays can happen only once every 28 years II 0 S So the last time M May ay 30 and February 22 99 July 4 aU all days S in fe fell on Sundays Sundays Sun Sun- n nTh th the same a Th The next time t. me after year this was in 1920 be in year will 1976 The de deciding tiding factor is th the e extra day February 2 29 9 every eve seven leap years Now this is the place for wh who o knows someone calendar 1 law caw to that s' s since the argue corning coming year 20 2000 a century year divisible by is not a leap year i it will be 32 years or 2008 after 19 1976 76 before more the t tree three holidays days again appear on Sun 0 However this is not a subject to spend Besides much time wor worrying ing about who'll be alive to take holiday ay in the ye year r 2008 a 0 |