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SIFT THROUGH RUINS Georgetown Firms Office Up in Smoke An office on a three bay Sara Re rented by Canadian Materials Express of Georgetown was destroyed by fire last week The fire was discovered at about last Tuesday night Acton firefighters arrived at the Highway site within a few minutes of the call but were too late to save the office It was of frame construction and at t ached to the cement block garage Disks chairs typewriters and Damage was it telex machine win also SI by the owner Neil destroyed in the fin Acton but that I- wire the was for the structure only scene a little an hour Astronomers View of the Star of Bethlehem According to an of note who Is also an academician there are four possible hypotheses which have evolved out of the astronomical features of the Star of Bethlehem In essence here are his scholarly observations A very great must have appeared and it seemed to fall toward the eastern horizon over the city of Bethlehem Since a meteor Is a very transient phenomenon lasting at most only a few seconds it Is quite local in character If it were enough to attract the ordinary observer over any considerable aria its place of contact with the earth could still be tified and become an historic The sicond possibility to consider is that a comet op in the sky A great could command the attention of all the inhabitants of the eastern world as it existed the lirru Comets last for diys and have been known to be so as to be visible even daylight Such a would be on record even In those days As matter of fact the Chinese recorded such a comet in he tear and record thit it was visible sometime in to April r with some variance in the seasons there seems to be m ire than inert hcri The third possibility is that of a new star ixtra phenomenon its is rare The year is notable as the year when In mo us nova was In 1604 at age similar happening So impressed by the apparition in triumphal pomp Kcsslcr wrote three papers on the identification or he year of Christ Since then at least brilliant new stars have appeared the century records five of the most brilliant Scholars venture to suggest that the Star of may have been one of the temporary stars Hie luxe place secretly in someone back yard and the play is per formed in someone back yard unheralded The objective is no one shall see the miracle piny just from mere spirituality is a tire Introduced into Mexico by Spanish monks it from Christmas to by an amateur gathered by invitation from house to house The scene one end ot me an altar of wood covered with black sateen the for the manger On the steps the sues u Opposite this scene at the end of the yard is a lent with volcanoes devils fire from it live devils emerge When the play begins a girl cones out dressed as an angel and recites Then come shepherds In pink coals with tinsel braid a beaded valise over the shoulder hung on broad red ribbon The shepherds tarry gaily ornate staffs and thant a song which goes n and on lien in a them which as his name suggests is a hermit he Is a comic character and represents the good of the ff- OKI TOWN lit RAID THURSDAY DEC 1972 cnangel Gabriel accompanies Behind him come seven devils six in nned black and masks of animals and then Satan in bright red all wear sparklers in their caps There is no formal end to the performance The devils arc vanquished and the shepherds kiss the Child A wild Indian enters and a fight ensues lie is overcome and he kisses the Child Then all solemnly and slowly approach the altar arid pay respects to the Child Candy and food are offered l The fourth projection is that of conjunction or coming together of two or more well known planets It is possible to compute these times as far back in history as we desire If any three of the naked eye planets Saturn Jupiter Mars and Venus should come together it would create an event of historic importance Such an event ivldently occurred in the year IK with Jupiter Saturn and Mars in conjunction A Spanish Indian Miracle 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