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May the season shine with warmth, peace
and happiness for you and your family.
RAY POTTER &
SONS
Scorpion SALES a SERVICE
RR 3, CLINTON
1 Mile East of Hoimesville— 'A Mile South of Highway No. 8
Hope you and your family share
an old-fashioned Christmas decked
with friendship, fellowship, festivity.
CLINTON UPHOLSTERY
NEW FURNITURE SALES — FOAM supplies
No 4 South, Clinton Tel 482-9572
Smiling Spirit
Of ChriAmas
Enters Now
Everyw. here 'There Is Fellowship,
With Faith.9 - • Feasting, Fun
• Illy ANNA MANG
Christmas is: A time for sharing and surprises, a time
for magic and .merriment, and a time to say, 'Thad greet-
ings, one and am,
Christmas The season of song and eelebration, the
season of little children and love and laughter, and the
season of worship and rejoicing.
Christmas is: For fellowship and feasting, for family ands.
friends, for home_ and happiness. But Christmas, too, is for
remembering the stranger within the gates, for cheering the
lonely, comforting the sorrowful, befriending the needy.
Christmas is: For everyone — for those of Christian faith
who celebrate the Day as a holy time of highest importance,
and for those of other faiths, who love and observe the Yule-
tide as a holiday dedicated to good will and good cheer.
Best of all, Christmas is: Here! Throughout this commu-
nity, plans and preparations reach their peak. Every joyous
surprise is at the point of revelation. The tree lights go Orr;
the carols ring out, the gaily-wrapped gifts are delivered.
With gleeful smiles, the children weleome Santa's bounty,
while the grown-ups greet one another, and talk and laugh
and even shed a happy tear or two, rejoicing in the deep and
tender meaning of the Christmas spirit.
If there was a bit of hustle — and even some hassle -,- about
the getting-ready process, all is now, forgotten in the glow
and glory of Christmas. The quickened pace of modern liv-
ing seems to make it almost impossible to prepare for the
holiday without setting, at times, a somewhat hectic pace.
Be that as it may, the glad, true spirit of the season in-
spires this Christmas planning, and Christmas realities, in
all their wonder and warmth, more than make up for the
pre-holiday hurry and scurry.
IRISH LEGEND, IVY
AND THE WINE GOD
lush gr6en, charm and
beauty. When the time
came for him to leave the
country, he decided to
plant the ., ivy as a living
souvenir Of his affection
for the Emerald Isle.
Al Finch, local representative for Toastmaster Bread, received the licence for a 1972 Ski-Doe
snowmobile from a representative of Canada Bread Ltd. Al won the machine in a sales promotion
sponsored by the company.
May the good cheer of Christmas brighten
every home, lighten every heart. Especially,
may you and yours have a wonderful holiday.
R. E. (Bob) McKinley
M.P. for Huron
Clinton NovvsrRecord, Thursday, December 24, 1971 11
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Not exactly . . but we help
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where there Is only.1 doctor
for every 708,000 people.
Please help!
OXFAM
THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PEOPLE
97 Eglinton Ave., East
Toronto 315, Ontario
May
all the
bounty,
blessings
of Christmas
be yours.
RADIANT LIFE
'CENTRE
57 Albert Street
• Clinton
Qood tidings are
coming your way from
the bottom of
our hearts on this special
• Wiffi-our Wishes go
our thanks for letting
HENSALL DISTRICT CO-OPERATIVE
Brucefield HENSALL Zurich
482-9823 262-2608
236-4393
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LMIRIAINICE, STA
STARTS DEC. 22nd THROUGH JANUARY
cCei
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20%
30%
DISCOUNT ON ALL WINTER CLOTHING
THIS IS A TRUE, GENUINE SALE
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AT
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Clinton Phone 4824135
YES, VIRGINIA, THERE ARE GLASS-
ORNAMENT MAKERS. THEY
WORK ON XMAS, MONTHS AHEAD
While you're busy se-
lecting the perfect orna-
ments for your family
tree, the manufacturers of
them in all likelihood, are
vacationing on some sou-
thern sands, or otherwise
far away froth the bustle
. . . unless they, too, are
admiring the ornaments
selected for their trees !
July many
companies produced and
moved ornaments all over
the country in prepara-
tion for the Big Holiday.
While the ornament
business is not big in the
United States when com-
pared with other indus-
tries special care is taken
in the delivery of decora-
tions that will deck the
„spruces, .firs, pines and
boughs of holly this
Christmas season.
Mirabile dictu, only 12
to 15 per cent of such dec-
orations are made of plas-
tic.
Because of the special
care in the shipment of
glass balls, less than 4,000
out of 200 million glass
balls produced last year
were broken. An excellent
performance !
Glass ornaments, which
are produced by only three
legend of the
poor shoemaker
and his candle
Here is an appealing
story that focuses on
Man's old friend, the can-
dle. Back, in the Middle
Ages, any light, no matter
how fragile, was much
prized, and a candle,
though perhaps common to
us, was a possession of
great value.
A shoemaker lived in a
cottage on the edge of a
village, near the dark
woods. Although a poor
man, he placed his candle
in the window each night
to guide travelers. Despite
wars, hardships and ill-
ness, by some miracle,
some mysterious grace, his
light never wavered.
This inspired the vil-
lagers and during the
Christmas season most of
them placed' a candle in
their windows. The cus-
tom grew and became
universal.
Altered Meaning
The meaning of "Merry
[Christmas" has changed
somewhat over the years.
Originally, "merry" meant
"blessed, peaceful, pleas-
'ant."
As the saying goes, "If
we would but light one
candle, what a bright
world this would be !"
How about it, men and
women, the rich, the mid-
dling and the poor . of
Christmas 1970 ?
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Directors .of the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture
decided last Wednesday to send
federal Agriculture Minister H.
A. (13tid) ,Olson a letter urging
him to implement the.
recommendations of the
provincial agriculture ministers,
The 10 provincial ministers of
agriculture presented Olson in
late November, with a 20-page
set of proposals calling for
passage of national marketing
legislation, prairie grains
stabilization s and import quotas
amongst other thin*.
Paul Szasz of Beamsville,
congratulated the ministers on
their initiative in drawing up the
document, "a document", he
said, "that follows almost
precisely the thinking of this
organization,"
However Simcoe farmer Esko
Makela was less enthusiastic.
"It's a darn good thing they
finally heard us," he 'told the
directors.
The term "Bacchanalian
revelry" often applies to
holiday celebrations. Ivy
i2 intertwined in the his-
tory of Bacchus, for ivy
was the Wine God's crown.
Legend tells how it•was
introduced into Ireland.
When Bacchus was travel-
ing through the western
lands he visited Ireland,
and fell in love with its
companies in this country,
are usually only five one-
thousandths of an inch
thick and are quite fragile.
Most ornamental balls
for the Christmas tree
come in the popular size of
21/i. to 2 5/g inches. One
firm makes balls 'ranging
from One ,, to 314."
Currently a major por-
tion of holiday• ornaments
comes from Japan, with
more and more being im-
ported from Hong ,Kong
and Taiwan in recent
years. Italy, Germany and
some of the countries be-
hind the Iron Curtain also
supply these products to
the United States. In fact
8 to 10 per cent of all glass
ornaments comes from
outside of this country.
Over 80 different designs
are offered by one leading
U.S: maker, which fash-
ions about 40 million orna-
ments a year from Amer=
ican-produced glass.
Most glass decorations
today are manufactured
by machine but a limited -
number are still made by
hand.
Ghosts
Souls of dead persons
may wander abroad on
Christmas Eve. Or so it
was believed in both Yugo-
slavia and Norway. A
lighted candle placed in a
window was thought to
have power. to keep ghosts
outside a home and to
light them on their way.
Yule candles are still
Placed in cottage windows.
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