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Show Page 2 Sugar House Thursday. December 19. 1957 INDEPENDENT LISTENING and LIVING by Tammy Thompson "Foursome Worrier," may I sayj that if the LIVIN DOLLS only knew, they might extend the same with to you. You asked what is the "gentle-manly"- thing to do? Decline one of the invitations for the Christ-mas dance but in the same breath date her for a holiday movie, or challenge her to a bowling game. Likewise, the New Year's Eve in-vitation. Get to know them both well meet their families, etc. and soon your Old Year's Bewild-erment will fade into New Year's Oblivion. Tammy Thompson Dear Tammy: i I read your last week's column! with interest, pertaining to the "Foursome" Worrier the gal. who had four fellows on the: "string" and didn't know which, one to dangle or "pull the strings' on for Christmas Eve. Hope that( gal gets left "high and dry" on; 'both Christmas and New Year's Eve, as no fellow likes to play "fourth fiddle." I But, on the other hand, I have 'a touchy situation on which I could use a little advice. I have Uwo girl friends both of then. ! livin' dolls but fortunately, each attends a different high school 'nere m the city. Both high schools would have their Christmas dance ;on the same nightand to make matters worse, both gals have in-vited me to their respective New j Year's parties. I haven't accepted either invitation as yet, stating I might be out of town for the holi-days. What is the gentlemanly 'thing to do? What position do you assume when you sit? Do you have a spe-cial "sitting" name? Are you a creeper, lounger, sprawler, or climber? You aren't? Oh, really'$ What is the "first" thing you do when you phone a friend or pick up the telephone? Do you imme-diately elevate your legs and feet on any available furniture, or on the wall? Or, do you collapse com-pletely on he floor? How do you sit when you view television? Are you" on the floor, the ceiling, or the wall? Are you lounging, creeping or sprawling? Could YOUR name be any of these? Or have a similarity to them? Could you be known asi "Straight - Backed Sue, Creeping, Tom, Slumpy Joe, Sprawling Ann, 'Collapsible Mary, or Lounging ISam?" v If so, look around you. Do others assume these positions? Do they look humorous, disgusting, supid or even queer? Do you look that way? Stop and think a moment. Do you? If you do, perhaps it's just a sign that-you'r- e still a "TEEN-AGER.- " FLATTERED but j . BEWILDERED. Dear Flattered but Bewildered: This business of free-lanc- e dat-ing is fascinating all right but it's the complexness of it that jnakes it so fascinating, don't you think? You state you might be out of 'town during the holidays. What will those poor livin' dolls do while Romeo is out of town? Sounds to me as though you live in the city and attend high school with one of the "dolls," so it probably won't be very convenient to be out of town" for the holidays un-less you're expecting to spend the Itime with close relatives, j Which doll 'would I choose to escort to the Christmas dance and 'also the New Year's Eve shindig? Fov convenience sake, I would date the gal from my own school j where you are both well known and where the fellers and gals ex-Ipe- ct to see you together? The: oth-er "livin' doll" will probably go right on living even though you don't accept her New Year's Eve 'invitation. If you decline now, it will give her plenty of opportunity to invite some other Romeo, j By all means, attend your own school's Christmas dance as it is usually one of the outstanding dan-ces of the year, and there will still be four nights between then and Christmas . . . follow me? After the holidays axe over and you're not going STEADY with the doll from your school, you could ,J invite the other doll to one of your school dances, if you want the j TWO dolls to meet, j Had you given some thought as I to Christmas remembrances for : the two gals? Just a suggestion: , How about a Christmas corsage I for the one whom you take to the -- jChristmas dance? What about a 1 box of candy for the other doll, - but NEVER the same gift for each! Girls want to be remember-- i ed "individually" and "not collec-- ; tively." I As for the wish extended to the T . by Richard J. Maughan, B.S., L.L.B. - 1 At Christinas, play and make good cheer tP V Fcr Christmas comes but once a year. V (Thomas Tusser. 1524-158- 0) The Christian Ideal prohibited such practices and ord-,ere- d a practice of the Christian j concept of the day . . . they were i mixture of pagan and Christian customs persists, and one of the (reasons for this is aptly shown in !the following quotation from Bede, English Nation. Here Bede puts forth the orders of Pope Greg-lor- y I. "Let the shrines of the idols by no means be destroyed ibut let the idols which are in them ,be destroyed. Let water be con-Isec'rat- ed and sprinkled in these temples; let alters be erectd so 'that the people, not seeing their temples destroyed, may displace error, and recognize and adore the true God. And because they were wont to sacrifice oxen to ,devils, some celebration should be Igiven in exchange for this, they should celebrate a religious feast and worship God by their feast-'in- g, so that still keeping outward pleasures, they may more readily receive spiritual joys." THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL Harold Beghe (1871-192- 9) had a thought about this and put it in words we would all do well to remember, they are these, "The Christian ideal it is said, has been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and left un-tried." Much could be said about the Christian ideal, and much has been about it, much of it is known, not much of it is practiced. It has produced great music (Handel's Messiah), great literature, and great thought. Dicken's, A Christ-i- t of Christmas . . . read it this season. Dickens had a great feel-ing for Christmas so let me wish you the best of the season in his words from Dr. Marigold's Pres-criptions (1355),' My best of wishes for your Merry Christmasses and your , happy new Years, your long lives and your true prosperities. Worth twenty pound ' if they are delivered as I send them. Rem-fo- r life." - Each of us, during this season , which is more compelling than 2 any other in our society, will react to Thomas Tusser's thought J as expressed in his little jingle. We will do so because our pagan s ancestors, thousands of qyearsj before Christ, built fires at the' ij time of the winter solstice to pro-- ; vide light as a help for the sun: god to bring back the longer days I This force which has been ingr-jj- . . . ained into succeeding generations,' i by one means or another, comes1 jv to us today very subtly as a law! it is as much a law as any statute' .; that was ever passed, and would ; ' be much harder to change. It helps ". to control and hold together our society. It has such force that it causes whole nations of people to move at once and in the same ' general direction. Any concept which can do that is more of a law than any edict declared by a ; King. ' Looked at in this light, the bright thread of Christmas can be plainly seen running through all the conc--j epts which mae up our seamless vvebb of the law, which the general' effect of holding it all together.; WHERE DID IT COME FROM? In so-call- ed "Christian" countr-ies, we usually think no further back than to the birth of Jesus Christ, and give that as our reason for whatever we do on the 25th of December and its season. However, it doesn't take much observation to make out that most! of the activities rampant at Christ-mas time have an origin about as far removed from worship of the Son of God as anything can be. The fundamental basis for the :, activities at the winter solstice justify a conclusion that our holr ; day4 is more pagan than Christian. The ancienc peoples of the nort-hern hemisphere really got the " thing started, because they were much concerned with the advent of more light after December 21st, it meant more heat, an easier life, and crops for food. This be-came fitted into their religion and fastened onto their lives securely as a superstition. The bonfires, the feasting, and the religious rites of that time of year all greeted the Roman leg-ions on their5 campaigns of conq-uest, and made themselves felt . in the government of the outer marches of the Roman Empire. After the Emperor Constantine (AD 272-33- declared that Christ--: ianity be the religion of the Roman Empire the celebration of the birth-day of Christ began to take form, ; but no set day was used until the year 354 AD, when the Latins transferred a prior feast day from January 6th to December 25th to coincide with the grand feast day1 of the Mithra as NATA LIS INVICTI . SOLIS, the feas't of the birthday of the unconquered Son of Phil-- : ocalus. This season also was thei occasion for the Saturnalia, a time of feasting, revelry, and general! license practiced by members of the Roman Religion in honor of the Saturn, the god of seed sowing.) What resulted was a natural inter-- j mingling of customs, and manyj of the Christmas time antics ofj today stem directly from the wor-ship of- - Saturn and Mithra rather than from any homage paid to! . the Prince of Peace. The ancient Romans, during the Saturnalia, decorated their temples, and gave presents. The Druids ofj ancient England gathered mist-- j :' letoe as' a religious symbol, and! the Saxons symbolized their seas-- j onal celebrations with holly, ivy. - and bay, While in England frorm ' " the 11th through the first half of; the 17 century. The custom was then to appoint a Lord of Misrule, and let the chips fall where they; may . . . which they did! This' English "Saturnalia" was changed by the Puritans in 1644, when they i SOUTH EAST INDEPENDENT 1123 East 21st South Dial IN 32 Or HU 61 The South East Independent is entered as Second Class Matter, March 1. 1946, in Salt Lake City Post Office under the act of March 3, 1S79. It is published each Thurs-day morning. South East Independent is pub-lished by the News Bulletin, Inc., and Sugar House Press, Inc., at 1123 E. Twenty-Firs- t South St. Sugar House, Utah. Subscription rates are 3.00 per year by mail. Single copy price is ten cents. Publisher Clair King Editor Emma D. King NOTICE To Mortgagor by Mortgagee in proceeding to foreclosure and sale. By virtue of a chattel mortgage executed by Russell Miller Co. and Owen and Rose Collins dated the 25th day of Sept., 1957, and upon which default has been made and - upon which is due $434.21, we will expose for sale at public auction on 20 Dec; 1957, at 2 p.m. o'clock at 373 So. Main, Salt Lake City, Utah, certain property men-tioned in said mortgage as follows, to wit: 1949 Chev Motor No. GAA9G7705 The terms of the sale will be made known on the day of the sale. Earl Johnson, Ass't .Mgr. NOTICE To Mortgagor by Mortgagee in proceeding to foreclosure and sale.. By virtue of a chattel mortgage executed by Russell M. Miller Co. and Wesley C. Hardy dated the 23rd day of Feb., 1957, and upon which default has beem made and upon which is due $312.03, we will expose for sale at public auction on 16. Dec, 1957, at 2:30 p.m. o'clock, at Salt Lake -- City, Utah, certain property mentioned in said mortgage as follows, to wit: 1951 Hudson ..Motor No. 8 A 106726 The terms of the sale will be made known on the day of the sale. Earl Johnson, Mgr. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Frank H. Berrett dec. Creditors will present claims with vouchers - to ""the 'undersigned c-- o Ramon M. Child, atty. at law. 201 Dixon Building, 2183 High-land Drive, Sale Lake City, Utah land Drive Salt Lake City,""Utah" A.D. 1957. Emory Watts Berrett, Executor of the Estate of Frank H. Berrett Deceased. Date' of first publication Dec. 19, A.D. 1957, Ramon M. Child Attorney for Executor. NOTICE Civil No. 114760 In the Third Judicial District v. Court, in and for Salt Lake County, State of Utah. JOHN REX HANSEN, d-b-- a- HAN-SEN BUILDERS SUPPLY and LAWRENCE E. HETTINGER, , Plaintiffs, vs GEORGE H. HOBBS, P. A. HOBBS, BRUCE C. LINDOW and HELEN. N. LINDOW, his wife, Defendants. Notice is hereby given that the above named plaintiffs have com-menced action in the" above en-titled case for the purpose of fore-closing their lien against the fol-lowing described property, to --wit: All of Lot 32, Rambler Heights according to the official plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the County Re-corder of Salt Lake County, Utah. All lien claimants are hereby given notice that they shall appear before the Honorable Judge of Di-vision. 1 of the above entitled Court, in the Court Room thereof, in the City and County Building in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 6th day of January, 1958, at 10 o'clock a.m. and then and there exhibit and prove their liens ag-ainst the above described proper-ty. The failure of any lien claim-ant to appear at the time- - and place specified and exhibit and prove their liens against the said property shall be a waiver of right to prove such lien. JOHN REX HANSEN, d-b- -a HANSEN - BUILDERS SUPPLY & LAWRENCE E. HETTINGER By QUENTIN L.R. ALSTON HOMER M. JENSEN Attorneys for Plaintiffs c-- o 201 Reams Building Salt Lake City, Utah. Y-TeenH-i- Y A Senior High Y-Te- en and Hi-- Y Christmas Dance will be Dec. l21st. Bill Link's Combo will make beautiful music for this special dress-u- p dance. Refreshments will be served and there will be a festive atmosphere which no teen will want to miss. This will be a co-o-p choice, ir that Y-Tee-ns ask dates and Hi-Y'- s ask dates. These tickets which are $1.25 per couple, may be pur-chased from members. Any senior high student is invited to buy a ticket and join the fun. It start? , at 9 p.m. NOTICE To Mortgagor by Mortgagee in proceeding to foreclosure and sale. By virtue of a chattel mortgage executed by Miller Finance and Gary I. Rasmussen, dated the 1 day of Feb. 1957, and upon which default has been made and upon which is due $614.57, we will ex-pose for --sale af public auction on Dec. 20, 1957, at 2:15 p.m. o'clock at 373 South Main. Salt Lake City, Utah, certain property mentioned in said mortgage as follows, to wit: 1950 Two door sedan Oldsmobile No 8 A 207756H Serial No. 8'K 2210 The terms of the sale will be made known on the day of the sale. Earl Johnson, Ass't. Mgr. NEED CHRISTMAS It's yours . . . for the asking at Elledge Finance ask anyone who has dealt with Jack Elledge and they 'Will tell you that Jack's "fast, convenient service" makes life a lot brighter. "If you need money See ELLEDGE" ELLEDGE FINANCE 7 . i .. 1202 E.21st So. HU5.9811 "Owned and, operated by Local Folks" NOTICE To Mortgagor by Mortgagee in proceeding to foreclosure and sale By virtue of a chattel mortgage executed by Russell M. Miller Co. and Joseph . Wayne Burton, dated the 27 day of Sept., 1957, and upon which default has been made and . upon which is due $367.91, we will expose for sale at public ;auction on 16 Dec, 1957, at 2 p.m. o'clock at 373 South Main, Salt Lake City, Utah, certain property mentioned in said mortgage as follows, to wit: . 1950 Chevrolet' Motor HAD 609613 The terms of the sale will be made known on the day of the 'sale.; ;, Earl Johnson, 4 Mgr. : The military will spend $100,-000,0- 00 more on research and de-velopment this fiscal year than estimated in the budget handed to Congress in January, officials .said. |