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x The Haileyburian | Page 2 THE HAILEYBURIAN and COBALT POST Published Temiskaming Printing Co. Ltd. New Liskeard, Ont. Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Issued every Thursday, from The Haileyburian Office, Broad- way Street, Haileybury, Ontario. Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office, Department, Ottawa. In Canada -- $2.50 per year in advance. In United States -- $3.50 per year in advance. Christmas 1960 My Friends, did you ever stop. to think that- if, in- our Holy Bible, there had been only the one Gospel preserved and that one the first one written, then we would have no story of the birth of Jesus. Christ and would properly. have-no-Christ- mas Season to offer te:mankind at this time of the-year? Did you ever stop to think that if we had only the Matthew Gospel | we would not have the story of the Shepherds and the Christ Child born in the stable at Bethlehem? And if we had only the Luke Gospel to read then: we would have no story of the Wise Men and their gifts? God in His wisdom has: given us, for our use, many biographies of our Saviour and each serves a purpose. For the Christmas Season He has given us the two Gospels of Matthew and Luke and each writer adds what the other forgets to tell. The story of the Wise Men: perhaps as no other story has}. fascinated the hearts of millions. of people and has. its. fruits today in the buying and giving of millions of gifts among a major portion of the World's population. Legend has added much to the plain story of the Bible and this has: come to us translated by the artist's brush into visions of Kings and Camels and gorgeous clothing depicted on our Christmas: Cards and through the aid of the poet sung in carols both by the old' and! yourg. ; The plain story of the Bible is that some people came from the Orient, people who were not Jews, travelling a long distance to Palestine to acknowledge the birth of the Christ Child. How many came? The Bible does not say. What were their names? Of what nationality? The Bible does not reveal. The Bible does however reveal that they came bringing gifts and even names those gifts -- Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. This then is the forerunner and reason of all this bustle and hurry of people today filling the stores af every town and city in the land -- the reason of every Christmas Tree loaded down with toys in the home, community hall, or church base- ment. A good idea you say ... yes. It is well that the people of the earth should stop grabbing at material things for one brief moment in the year and learn again that "'It is better to give than to receive'. BUT if that is. all that we get from the Bible story of the Wise Men then we must have missed the point. Before the Wise Men gave their Gold, Frankincense: and Myrrh THEY GAVE THEMSELVES TO THE CHRIST CHILD. ""And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped Him... and when they had opened their treasures, they pre- sented unto him gifts, gold, frankincense and myrth." My friend, before you start shopping for those gifts you are going to give to others, why not follow the pattern of the Wise Men and FIRST GiVE YOURSELF TO CHRIST. That is the Bible order .. . follow it . . . and then and only then will you really be able to give in His Name to another and thus express Christmas. at its best. Rev. C. E. Peacock, St. Andrew's United Church, Haileybury and North Cobalt United Church." Tree Customs The Christmas tree custom was started in the United States by the British Army in 1776. Ger- man immigrants who later came to: this country continued the cus- tom as they had done in the 'old country.' Christmas trees were in general use in America by the miid-eighteenth century. The first tree appeared in 1923, placed there by President Calvin, Cool- idge. Mighty Mistletoe Perhaps the reason that most young ladies do not object too strongly to paying the penalty for standing beneath the mistletoe stems from an ancient supersti- tion-that the maiden who was not kissed at least one time be- neath the mistletoe at Christmas would not be married in the fol- lowing year. In olden times, a berry was plucked from _ the mistletoe with each kiss. (} Temiskaming Construction Ltd. ENGINEERS Design, Construction, Mine Development, Operation, Electrical and Mechanical Installations Haileybury, Ont. "P. O. Box 459 Phone OS 2-3311 Toronto, 'Ont. 6th Floor, 369 Bay St. EMpire 53-7381 North Bay, Ont. 194 Regina St. GRover 2-2630 Thursday, December 22, 1960 | Ukranian, Welsh. Qn the left side: Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Denmark, Dutch, Estonian, ~ Finnish, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hungarian, Portugese. On the right side: Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Roumanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, Syrian,, 4 I See by THE PAPERS BROMSGROVE, England -- The Wards have decided there's no law which says the family breadwinner has to wear the pants. So Mary Ward, 34, took a job teaching school at £16 ($44.80) a week and Walter Ward, 40, has quit his tractor-driving job at £9 ($25.20) to stay home, take care of the children, do the dusting, the shopping and cooking. And _ it works. "T don't mind admitting she can earn more than I can,' Walter told reporters. Mary was satisfied with the arrangement, too. "He's a better cook than I am," she said: proudly of -her ex-army mess sergeant. husband. DALLAS, Tex. -- While. Jesse. James was opening a can of peach- es for his supper, an: Indian and two white men stole a lion cub from his trading post. James, the operator of the Stage Coach Trading Post, told police that the trio entered his store say- ing they were looking for a Christ- mas tree. James went ahead with his sup- per. After the Indian and the two white men left, James discovered someone had reached into the lion cage and lifted out a female cub, right under the nose of her mother and four other cubs. Pete Lucas, owner of the anim- als, has offered $500 reward for the cub's return. WAYNE, N.J. -- Michael Roem- er, 4, shouldn't be any problem when he's eligible to start school next September. : Mike climbed aboard a_ school bus during one of its regular stops, rode to Mountain View School No. 1, chose a classroom, hung up his coat and cap, picked a seat and went to work with the building blocks provided for the kiddies in that particular class. Mrs. Mildred Jackson, the teacher, was a bit surprised. She hadn't been informed about the new pupil. Anyway, she asked Mike if he was having a nice time. Then she asked his age, and when he answered four, Mrs. Jack- son felt further inquiries were ne- cessary. Mike's mother, Mrs. Norman Roemer, was contacted. It turned out she'd been searching the neigh- borhood for him, INDIANAPOLIS -- Firemen won- dered why Charlton Steward, 39, age. " But increasing flames and the fire chief's pleading changed his mind and Steward unhappily em- erged. "There's a still in there," he ex- plained. _ Police confiscated four gallons your-escapee George Collins, declined to leave his burning gar-| of alcohol' and charged Steward with illegal possession of a still. REGINA -- Regina's: young pub- lic school artists evidently are de- veloping a style distinctly their own. | One youngster, asked to produce his idea of the Christmas story, painted the figures of Mary and baby Jesus in his manger, with animals in the background. In one corner, he painted a strange look- ing box. 4 "What is that?"' asked the teach- er. "Tt's a sewing machine,"' replied the young artist. '""You see, when Jesus was born, there were no stores and they had to make their own clothing.' Another student painted Jesus, Joseph and Mary and a fourth fi- gure. That, the girl explained, was the baby-sitter. PIEDMONT, Calif. -- "Have 50, in jail here. Come get him,"- Po- lice: Chief William: Pflaum wired prison officials at Chino, Calif. .. But later the chief discovered that. Collins had: Fashioned a pick from a jail bed spring, unlocked his cell deor, un- locked the cell next door without waking the-two sleepers in it, plac- ed the lock pick in a captain's of- fice, and walked out. 'Don't come for Collins," the chief wired Chino. "He's gone." CORUNNA, Ont. Thomas Chambers, who remained a _ ba- chelor for 95 years because he al- ways felt he wasn't quite ready for marriage" was wed recently to Mrs. Elizabeth Polley, 65, house- keeper for the past 30 years. "T feel younger already," he said after the ceremony at his home in this community six miles south of Sarnia. The couple went on a_horn- blowing car tour of the village be- fore returning to cut the wedding cake. BUTTE, Mont..-- A. judge car= ries the dignity of court with him but to one person he's just about +what he was when he started. Judge T. E. Downey and his 92- year-old mother were ready to leave the courthouse. The mother looked her son over closely and: scolded: "Timmy, where are your over- shoes?"' LONDON A British peer, striking a blow for his peers, says 1960 proves their lordships are not the blithering idiots you see in the cartoons. : "In fact this has been a vintage year for peers,' says Lord Kil bracken, and he adds that he thinks it's time for society to rec- ognize it. 'gees "We've suffered long enough from the thoroughly unfair, high- ly undemocratic belief that we_ must be hangers-on; idlers or just plain. nincompoops' because we happen to have a handle to our names," Kilbracken, 40; says in @ newspaper. article. Ke Tee} "Tt was bad enough that I'd lost my right to vote (in common with felons and the insane) or to be a member of Parliament -- let alone prime minister -- without having to undergo the cold shouldering as well. i "Now peers are back in de- mand,"' he exulted, and reeled off this list to prove it: The Earl of Home is foreign sec- retary. Lord Craighton state for Scotland. a The Duke of Devonshire is a junior minister. The Earl of Cromer has. been appointed governor of the Bank of England. is minister of When the needles start falling, take the tree down and discard it outdoors. By authority of the Council PROCLAMATION TOWN OF HAILEYBURY I hereby proclaim _ MONDAY, DEC. 26th and TUESDAY, 27th also a MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1961 as Holidays in the Town of Haileybury, and respectfully request all citizens to duly observe same. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN a of the Town of Haileybury ARTHUR H. COOKE, Mayor.