Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1955 — Page 20

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YES...CHRISTMAS / I: i LIVES FOREVER... It’s the little things at Christmas time that Jive forever ...* old Santa’s visit on Christ- g . mas Eve .. . youthful laughter .. . the . aroma of evergreens ... the Christmas J story of HIM. ... Joyful carols and gay s packages and messages of good will for all. Z May the season hold many happy times and - memories for the coming year. f ■' i■" ■< i 'f- -wtrJsakh. Z \ i < i // di 1 > f F \ 1 VvtiHKW . ' ■ ’’•> viv RhK. ’Wi\W rl ft? ■ .• A y |>. U I ; JuwP ' ; - l v y " 11 - V < l jU \ - -A?. . // . y W ! The Decatur Casting Company

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Pink, gold and white will add new interest to your holiday dee- J ■ orations this year. For a fairy- ■ . j like effect. try General Electric's I | new "Holiday Pink” Christmas lights on an all-white tree trim- ‘ med with tiny gold ornaments. Use them outdoors too in weather- . proof strings. If your’re looking for something | ■ strikingly different this holiday! season, be sure to try pink lights! i Holiday pink bulbs against a ' white tree, highlighted with eparki ling old ornaments all add up to 9 a dramatically different effect, say I General Electric Christmas lighting specialists. These new bulbs are available

Outdoor Decorations Began in Small Towns Today nearly every community n the land has some kind of outdoor Christmas decorations and in nearly every big city yotFcan find S? i. three spectacular displays. It was a small town that first same up with the idea of lighting jp the outdoors at Christmas time, out no one is quite sure which town gets credit for the idea. Four communities are believed to have thought of it about the same time, as early as 1913 Two jf them. McDonald and Germantown, are in Pennsylvania Salem, □re., decorated a Sitka spruce and Riverside. Calif., illuminated a large evergreen, an Aracuria

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tn two sizes. C-6 for series-type : strings and for multiple burn- . ing strings of lights. When deorating a white tree, look for the newer all-white cord and socket sets, say lighting spe-. ’ ciaiists. Even though these newest G-E Christmas lights may be hard to find this first year, they're worth any amount of searching if you enjoy new and unusual effects. Here’s a tip from General Electric lighting people that will give your Christmas tree ( a new lift. Attach your cprd sets so that all bulbs are standing upright rather than hit and miss throughout the . tree.. —; —

From Where Came Christmas Trees? Like so many other Christmas customs, the origin of the tree tradition is not definitely known. One theory holds that the Bthcentury missionary Boniface persuaded the Teutons to transfer their worship of Odin’s sacred oak to an evergreen decorated in honor of the Christ child. Popular legend has it that the first Christmas tree originated in | Egypt where the first trees used ; were palm trees. Another story 1 says that Martin Luther decorated a tree with candles to simulate an evergreen shimmering with starlit snow. We do know the Germans did much to popularize the use of Christmas trees, introducing them into both England and America. The German Prince Albert, conI sort of Queen Victoria, started the custom in England when he had a tree for his young daughter. The tradition crossed the Atlantic with Hessian mercenaries during the American Revolution. Harvesting Trees Big Christmas Business While the sale of Christmas trees ■ to the consumer is conducted eni tirely in the few weeks just prior’ I to Christmas, the harvesting, processing and shipping of the trees i may begin as much as three months before Christmas. Approximately 25 per cent of the J retail price of a Christmas tree is the stumpage price; trees retailing for about 25 cents per lineal j. foot will, be worth about 6 cents on the stump and could wholesale I tor from 10 cents to 15 cents per lineal foot Total number of trees [ distributed in the United States . is about 30 million. I There are at least 10 important | Christmas tree associations and * groups representing the industry j in the United States and approximately 5.000 individuals and firms are registeded as retailers and j wholesalers of Christmas trees in he United States. j ILWWP® - I y • tfa# ffl- F : ' NEW ADDITION . . . Santa Claus (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) fondles a new member of his reindeer team presented to him by proud mama, Biitzen (left). This was the first fawn born to the group es Alaskan rein- , deer flown last year from Alaska to Santa’s workshop in North Pole, New-York. if you have soumihlng <. jell or rooms lor rent, try a Democrat j Want Ad. It brings results.

Thousands Send Cards To First Family Last year some 15.000 Americans sent Christmas cards to President and Mrs. Eisenhower. Thia number was almost twice the total received by the Eisenhowers the year before. About 75 per cent of the senders wrote personal messages on their cards last year and most of them said they were prating tor the First Family.

" i '■■■■■ " ■ ' 1 "' "" 1 ' 1 j— j S'x * Our Yuletide best to all our friends ...for a season packed with all the wonderful things that Christmas means! ' ' : KOCHER LUMDER & COAL CO. 102 North Ist Street

a C/U and glorious Holiday Season is our sincere Afli gJ zx wish for all our. / ‘^TK^sI NB \l wonderful (OB I fr!enjs -1 Wf IwldM May you enjoy peace and 1 happiness throughout the year, liif“lil(‘sTTiiih)ii:liii|iliiin‘iitro. Just West of 13th Street on U.S. 224 . --, - - - - ■ ■ - - ■ * .

Mistletoe, the most popular New Tear's and Christmas green, has been an emblem of purity, friendship and goodwill since ancientGreek times. Ancient Britons revered it as a symbol of protection from evil spirits. ' • • • Burning of trees on ‘Twelfth Night” is an outgrowth of the special observance by early Christians on the last day of a twelve-day celebration of the Feast of the Nativity of Christ.

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