Show fast East n. n By BETTY BErry DAVIS Speaking of tricks Bernice Hodson played a 3 neat one on me Last week it was reported that she was expecting a 3 baby in a few weeks Before the Clipper came out on Friday Friday Fri day Bernice had given birth to toa toa toa a 7 lb Ib 14 11 oz Qt boy bay bo This boy is isa isa isa a nice treat for his four brothers broth broth- ers Steven Brent Michael and Ricky He lie also has one sister at home Kay Gene Lurene and Roy Foster an employee of Hill Hm field whose home is at 31 W. W S. S Bount Bountiful have been in Che Chey Cheyenne enne cane Wyo for temporary duty They arc are being sent to Washington for Cor more dut duty and should be h home me sometime some some sometime sometime time in the spring Its It's a treat for fOl the Robert McKinnons McKinnon's in the form of a anew anew anew new son son in in law Marcia McKinnon Mc Mc- I Kinnon a graduate of Bountiful ful High School and Paul Paw Eb- Eb Elinor I nor ncr were married Oct 15 at Lake Tahoe Net Nev where Marcia tarcia Marcia Mar tar cia has been working for fOl the past few months i I STORK SHOWER i Nadine Cox of So Davis Blvd was hostess to a baoy shower given in m honor of Gayle Oral J. J who lives at 38 W. W South just came home ionic from the hospital where he ic had an operation on his back It seems that a disc not only slipped but a piece had broken off and was lying on the he nerve to his leg Birthday congratulations to David Howell and Phillip Ford CHURCH CHUnCH NEWS NE Peter Peter Chrysanthemum mum had some flowers and couldn't keep them So someone someone some some- one put them in a pumpkin shell and there they looked very ery well The Primary luncheon luncheon lunch- lunch I eon con held at the Bountiful East stake slake house was a gay affair Decorated with gourds Indian Indiancorn Indiancorn Indiancorn corn and the pumpkins the table able looked good enough to cat eat Each Primary Primar leader in in- traduced herself and told something about herself If It someone occasionally forgot her childrens children's ages or where she lived this tins just added more fun to the luncheon Members of the stake board are arc Gwen Stapp president Ann Amt Winn and Hazel Tolman I counselors Deanna Packer music Carma Carina Yancey secre secre- tar tary Wards participating were Bountiful 11 17 23 So Bountiful Bountiful Boun Boun- t ul and South Bountiful 2nd Now that you ou have cleaned your OUI soapy windows and wiped Susies Susie's sticky fingers would you like to relax and hear how and from where these Halloween Gusto custo m s came into being OF 01 ALL the festivals which we eve celebrate today few have histories stranger than Hallow Hallow- een It is the eve e of or All AIl Saints Da Day It commemorates hero bein g s sand sand sand and rites riles with ith which churches have ye always been at war Wll It is the night when ghosts walk and fairies and goblins are arc abroad I. I IN 1 MANY t places it was felt Celt that on tl this s day the thc dead returned returned re- re turned to their homes In south southern em Italy families prepared prepared pre pre- pared feasts for the dead then went to church If It all the food were not eaten when they returned returned re re- re turned it was considered bad luck however Ho not too many had to orr worry because the thieves thic and beggars knew of this practice practice tice and would wait until the villagers were away at church then they would partake of the meals that had been prepared for the ghosts of 1 IV l'- dead This practice was final finally abolished JACK comes from rom Irish folklore A very ery evil man named Jack was accosted accosted accosted ac ac- ac- ac by the devil for COI his soul He tricked the devil into promising prom ising that he would never nevel take lake his soul and went about his sinful ways In the course of events c Jack died and was refused entry into heaven He went the other direction and was met at the thedoor thedoor door dool by the devil who reminded remind remind- ed Jack that he had promised never nevel to take his soul so he would have ha to go back where he came from JACK SAID how can I find my wa way in the dark The devil threw him a live li coal which Jack put into a turnip he had been eating to fight his wa way back And there he is roaming all over the world a lost soul with no place to go It was in this countr country that the pumpkin was wa's was first used for a Jack OLan tern This could have many beginnings from the food put putout putout putout out by the Latin Americans for their children to the food placed out for Cor the ghosts by bythe bythe bythe the Greeks so as not to offend them A FORM FOni of trick hick or treat earned carried on in Ireland until after atter af at- ter tel the turn of the century was going from farm to farm to collect contributions in the name of Muck luck Ola probably a pagan God The procession procession sion was led by a man in m white while robe wearing a horses horse's head mask The rest of the followed blowing on horns The witches got into the act probably because they celebrated celebrated cele cele- the their l' l witches Sabbath on the same day IN THOSE days no only others believed in witches but butin butin butin in a good many cases the witches believed in them them- selves They learned and practiced practiced witchcraft some o 0 f which is still practiced toda today in primitive tribes It is believed that a concoction concoction tion the witches brewed with different drugs and herbs to spread on their bodies and their brooms gave ga them the hallucination that they were flying through the air to their destinations The cat eat along with the thc witch is is' isa a Halloween symbol because throughout time superstition superstition su suo has followed the thc cat At one time it was believed that a witch could transform herself at al will into the cody of ofa a cat eat And of course where the thc witch went her cat went too The Irish fish believed that the Little People are arc constantly constant constant- ly hovering over o the homes of mortals and that they arc are especially especially es es- active on an Halloween Any mischief that occurred on that night was blamed on them NOW YOU know who soaped that picture window last night bd I |