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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1963. You can bring happiness this Christmas to children in hospitals, orphanages and in the families of the unemployed by refurbishing the toys your own children have outgrown or no longer enjoy. In many communities, civic and fra ternal groups have organized pro grams for this purpose. The easiest way to make old toys in basically good condition look like new again is with color ful quality enamels, and here are some tips to help you do the job. First and most important of all be sure “vou use only suitable enamels, particularly those that contain less .“an 1 per cent of lead. While mos: enamels meant for interior use con‘ain no harm ful ingredients, be sure to tell your paint dealer that you will be painting toys. He will sell you the right product. Under no cir cumstances use outside paint on toys or children’s furniture. Kids Like Color Bear in mind that chilcren pre fer strong, bold colors, the pri maries; red, yellow and blue, the bright secondaries; orange, green, purple. It takes a more sophisti cated taste to enjoy pastel and less lively darker shades. They also like the shininess of gloss enamel, Wash the toy with detergent to remove finger marks and other soil. If old finish is glossy, it should be dulled with sandpaper, so new finish will adhere better. Any cracks or holes should be | filled with water putty or plastic wood which should be permitted to dry before sanding smooth. L= - | Dinah Washington, famous ;v~f queen of the blues” died recently e s e Lt .lf ¥ ’z}% t1 X ISR 8 Y R 3 ?: F ¢ ‘ AR Mg | By % 7 Yk i | : A BF | £ %'k ; | :‘>l',-'é§;=;.._ Xo AR | §,3* IR ;z-. g [ oI N SNIEGE )| F RS | R || oo B 8 TN gw ’?g ! :'fi g A 355;‘ h; “; | B e s B A o . . el | LMI B X A ' el 3B: e ‘ .. /~"*_ & | AR - | A el 4 t,\\%@& | ¥ N : *}: { ‘v‘k. o I o | o ! reetings | AND BEST WISHES | FOR THE E Christm ‘ r s | | Sea son | . asselman | Motor Company | Grantsville, Maryland | ALY | >]<. Y ; g aest ,% g % API ’* WiSheS ‘i 4:_(‘*.‘73 g v | % Ri ™ il A LR % | t\ o n{;‘fn‘-\:% & i'f;{"f 'J Rtk b O i all %“ R >k VU bl |IS 4 3, S fora /8 ¢S oAI T B Merry gfi‘ A g % N i '{:- ; ¥ l- ) : . g s Christmas. W) MILLER’'S MARKET Naylor and Benson CAKLAND, MARYLAND ! Popular Gi ‘Popular Gift [ | The poinsettia is the traditional Christmas plant, yet an upsurge in the popularity of indoor gar dening has brought a number of flowering plants into the gift pic ture. Flowering plants in porous clay pots that preserve their . health and beauty will highlight | many a gift list this season. Among the popular pot plants is the Jerusalem cherry. Its round, ' red fruit is especially appropriate | for the holiday season. It needs | bright light and likes a cool tem ! perature no higher than 55 de | grees at night for best results, ( although it does admirably even ! with a 65 degree night tempera ! ture. If the plant is allowed to i wilt or if cooking gas fumes fill i the air, the fruit will drop. | Cyclamen l The cyclamen is a handsome ! plant even when not in bloom, | but the blossoms are breathtaking : —like Venetian glass exquisitely i formed in the shape of butterflies | that are white, red, pink, laven | der, rose, maroon. This needs a ‘ cool 55 degree night temperature too. Water is safer from the base of the clay pot so the crown is not over-moistened, thus inviting rot. Azaleas are popular. There are both tender kinds that must be brought indoors each winter, and hardy kinds that can be plunged clay pot and all out in the garden permanently next spring. | } The tender kinds are like minia- | | ture trees in shape. The hardy | | ones branch out closer to the | ground like shrubs. Your nursery, ! I garden center, or florist can tell ! you whether the one you select is ' hardy or not. ’ Lasting Beauty I | Primroses have blossoms that | look like pastel Christmas can i dles. Select plants with lots of ' buds so you will have a profusion of bloom over many weeks. New { buds will continue to develop if plants are watered and fed regu- I larly and if temperature in the | room is below 65 degrees at night. - ,‘ The Christmas pepper is han | dled much the same as the Jeru- | | salem cherry. Among smaller ; plants, kalanchoe and African vio lets are tops for Christmas. A white flowering African violet in a red clay pot, dressed up with a bright red how seems ideally I suited for Christmas. And the kalanchoe’s brilliant orange-red blossoms sparkle like tree lights. ; Both plants are good long-term investment for any gardener. _...__‘_—v()*_—.___ !State Is Preparing | . New Highway Map i The State Roads Commission's {1964 ecdition of the Maryland Of { ficial Highway Map will honor the 150th anniversary of the writing of the Star Spangled Banner. The Commission has authorized Iprinu'ng of 400,000 copies of the imap and awarded a contract for | printing to the A. C. Hoen Com pany of Baltimore at an amount of $28220. That is a unit cost of [7.5 cents per map, lowest unit rate ‘in recent years. ' ! The principal side of the map jwill be substantially the same at | this year’s, employing pastel colors "for Counties and depicting Express- I\\‘u_\'s in grecen, primary highways |in red, secondary roads in blue, and connecting County roads in ' gray. ' Also on the principal side will be i the inserts of the Baltimore and ‘\\'ushinglun regions. The reverse side has been chang lcd radically. | There is a small map of the state showing many historic shrines, and points of interest. ’ Much of the reverse side of the map is given over to full-¢olor [CROSSWORD ~=~By 4. C. Gordon] | "TFILFFLITL R T T T T | TT T LT L] RO WL I IR TR LT ST L ] ST L ] T WL | ST T T L 11 TR W W T rErITr | 37 - Lamprey 39 - Adverse 40 - All of us 41 - Cautlous 42 - Preposition 43 - Exist 44 - Distance unit 45 - Retlnue DOWN 1- Subservient 2 - European deer 3 - Compass direction 4 - High, in music 5 -..-operation 6 - Large American cats [S[LINIVIQINTE]LLLIV] [T] TR |SN O] AL VIV TAN TV WEIEI Ef EORE M L il eI v ] N N NMEN BBV NEBE (VI S VISS Tlu O (e T LSN T L TTN (OIV ORI CIIE LTV &1V ) (VIO vIHEN O 1/0] d| (TIVICTE] I LIVI NN ]S LN (O O] T <TIT O] [SInJo] TID]VIANTH]N ACROSS 1- Dishonest 8 - Erase 9 - Behold! 10 - Classic Nomen clature (abb.) 12 - Subsided 13 - Preposition 14 - Of the feet 15 - Hawalian dish 16 - Preposition 17 - Nimbus 18 - Diminished 20 - Silver (chem.) 21 - Nothing at all 23 - Numeral 24 - Direct 25 - Chromium (chem.) 26 - "... Miserables" 27 - Dance step | I 28 - Sun god ) 29 - Consumed | | 30 - Circle segment | 31 - Electric-charged [ l atom 32 - Radon (chem.) 5 33 - Applied a | stopping force 34 - Be conveyed ‘ 36 - Theological i Science (abb.) drawings and literature concerning the events surrounding the writing | of the Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key as he stood on a truce ship in Baltimore harbor watching the British bombardment .of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, | i\ Another innovation on this! vear’s map will be ('nlargcmoms{ of six Maryland cities, Annapolis, Salisbury, Cambridge, Ilagorstmvn.f Cumberland and Frederick. | | These enlargements will shm\'; principal streets and highways | within these cities. 5 i Also there wiu pe an enlarge- | ment of the downtown Annapolis | region, showing the location of the | principal buildings in the Capital.i e e | . . | Appliance Gift | ! | Should Please | To make a hit with an appli- | ance gift, think first of the needs | of the recipient. | Too often, gift buyers make the | mistake of selecting what they | themselves would like or need. ‘ An electric fry pan is a practical gift—unless there is already one ! in the family. An electric can | opener is usually a fine gift—but : it’s not too much appreciated by | . the family that uses little canned | foods or has no place to put the | appliance. E A portable stove may be a good gift for an apartment dweller, yet will have little value to the family | which boasts a thermostatically tonirolled xance. L I ‘ / i A A MervtYy C i TS K | | W w. ‘ \' 4 All of 44 hene at Ganrelt Nationat cadend to 404 and W younk oW sincene best wished for the ha,g,fu'edi holiday ;\\ jeaion ever and all good thingd for yo# the year ahiead. | ‘ 17 ' g s Rex Teagarden Harold Kahl YW e /8 / - ¢LN A ST Norma Reckart Margie Phares . ‘% o @ETT Neil Sanders Sam Snyder ' 2 NM%BM Sandy Winters Sue Friend Wes Schaible Nordeck Shaffer : a Wayne Stewart Wilma Dodge ‘ Bobbie Sanders Janey Malcolm OAKLAND Mary K. McKenzie Barbara Feather ; Tom Thayer Joe Turney ACC‘DENT Bob Peck Dale Rodeheaver Helena Thrasher Lois Bittinger _ BLOOM‘NGTON Lois Cropp Margie Broadwater #The Bank with An Eye To Y our Future” THE REPUBLICAN, OAKLAND, MARYLAND. 7- Render null 8 - A brace 11 - Glaringly 12 - A kind of hand= writing 13 - Poker stakes 14 - Parent 16 - Of a grain 17 - Abbreviated head 19 - Printer’s measure 20 - ....nautics 22 - Asiatic nation 24 - Plunders 26 - Tolerant 27 - Babble 30 - Metric unit of area [ 31 - Standards of perfection 33 - Exist I 34 - Disturbance 35 - Determinate , Notes (abb.) [ 38 - Before [ 40 - United i :; = Humor ‘ - Military body (abb.) 44 - Manganese (chem.) Elk Garden Winner Over Circleville { | Ll ' Circleville’s Ron Williams poured [in 42 points last Friday night but it wasn't enough as it dropped a | 7872 decision to a visiting Elk | Garden team. | { Elk Garden was led by I\.lol\'in! !Smith and Charles Kelley who ('()m-l jbinod for 47 tallies and evened its { record at 3-3. Williams’ 42-point |- |output came on 20 field goals and jt\\'o foul conversions in six attempts. ; Scoring for Elk Garden were { Aronhalt 3, Keller 22, Smith 25, | Stullenbarger 15, Thompson 4, | Bray 1, Martin 1 and Kelly 7. | _ [ ! Three cardinals will a('(-(;mpun)" {P()po Paul VI on his Holy Land;/ | pilgrimage. ' ! I | UNUSUAL GIFT BOOK } Limited Edition 1: (autographed) [} “Sing, O Mountaineer!” ‘ Walter W. Price | Ask For It At ' OAKLAND PHARMACY GONDERS NEWS STAND e—————— e e ls Educated, Refailer Says It will be a bolder, yet more realistic type of male shopper who will haunt lingerie depart ments and perfume counters this Christmas season, according to an Allentown, Pa. retailer who conducted his own survey. The survey shows that the aver age man will be looking for dainty and intimate items—without blushing when the salesgirl asks what size. Man’s greater interest and knowledge of women’s fash lons account for part of this | thange in habits, Hess says. I Realistic | Another survey revelation I shows that men will be shopping , more realistically. Besides the | romantic ‘“must’’ items men buy | for their lady folk, such as French perfume, lacy lingerie and up holstered jewel and candy boxes, this year they will buy more “bread and butter’” items such as practical ready-to-wear ap parel, household appliances, cook ing utensils, home furnishings and garden supplies. ! The survey found that the men ‘ folk will know exactly what they want, what the wife needs around the house or for herself and ex actly what she has been wanting | for a long time—but there will be | some surprises. ! ] Some Surprises Some of the surprises will be | cocktail dresses which the male | shopper will buy for his lady and | the man will know the size dress she wears and the color she pre- I fers. When it comes to perfume, | the male shopper will demand i recognized scents and the favorite | ones of their ladies, not just any | perfume the saleslady suggests. ‘ - s s ' IN JAPAN I Christmas is observed widely | in Japan despite the fact that | fewer than one per cent of the country’s population is Christian. | Each year, Tokyo’s streets are | hricht with holiday decorations, | “White Christmas’ is almost; -~ as it is in America. e R l 1L ol bring the living sounds ; s”; o' of Christmas to I i; a loved one... I e B GIVE THE GIFT | ¥ OF HEARING | ,~—&. ?C. -~ j ’ | E ENGLANDER'S | PHARMACY ] ALDER STREET UAKLAND, MD. t STORE HOURS—Daily 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. | Sundays and Holidays 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. ' One Day This Week In Oakland Christmas shopping is about! over, and the true spirit of Christ-l mas will be abroad beginning{ Christmas Eve. About six o'clock! in the evening the parked (‘arsl along the street, and in the park ing lots, will begin to thin out, a| few last minute shoppers will hur ry into the store for an almost for-l gotten carton of flash-bulbs or to have the pharmacist check their‘ flash camera to insure its being in working order for Christmas morn-‘ ing. Out of town visitors will be| buying a box of candy or a toy,; there will be a few harried-looking | men waiting for their last-minute ! purchases to be gift wrapped. The' store clerks still on duty will be hurriedly taking the last of thel Christmas merchandise and bright glitter out of the show windows and replacing them with Season | Greetings signs. Mr. Glaze will start to sweep up the debris of odds and ends of gift wrappings |and empty boxes scattered about | the floor. The Christmas carnival of color and tinsel and shopping is ending for another year and the true celebration of Christmas be gins to make itself felt. Everyone completes his last tasks and hur ries home to the warmth of fam ilies. After my tree is trimmed and the presents piled underneath it I will go to the midnight service lut our church. In contrast to the weeks of preparation and excite ment the celebration of the serv ice will be calm and restful to us kneeling at prayers, standing and | singing familiar, joyful, fervent | Christmas hymns. I We didn’t used to have mi(lnight| | services at the Methodist church | Il attended when I was a boy, back | iin St. Clair county, Michigan. My | first experience with a midnight | Christmas Eve service was when 'l was invited to visit a classmate over Christmas. He lived in French | ‘qubcc. Canada. His name \\'asl Armand and he was the only son| lin the family, but he had eight| sisters. That Christmas Eve it was| a blowing, moonless night and the | snow was packed on the roads. It| | was so cold that the snow squeaked lundvr your boots when you { walked. Tightly packed into a | large, ancient automobile, we drove |to the church in the village. The | service was spoken in the provin ;(-c‘s native French tongue, and in iLatin— both of which languages | | were equally unintelligible to me. | There was a cadence, a not un familiar pattern to the dcvotion.l but for the most part I made little attempt to follow it closely but permitted myself to muse and con template the significance of the celebration. The music was beau tiful, the CHhristmas hymns the ! same as ours, but in the French ’languago. When the service ended 1 felt refreshed and at complete Ipeace with the world and myself. IThc rough little village church seemed the most holy place that |could renew and give promise of a better, more peaceful world. I After the service, we went back to the home of my friend, into the Ihouse with its mistletoe and the opening of presents and Armand’s ‘eight sisters and papa and mama |lau;,{hing and everyone talking and : shrieking and then . . . food. The | dining room table was spread with | several kinds of cheese, a ham, 'sliced fowl, hot boiled potatoes, red and white wines, cold cider, land pitchers of milk. Have you ever noticed how hungry you are after a very joyous or deeply mov ing experience that makes you feel good? Everyone ate and talked and it was a mixture of French and English and laughter. It was three or four o'clock in the morning before we finally fell in to bed to sleep long and soundly. It was late the next morning be fore we were aroused to dress and greet the cousins and aunts and uncles who came to call. Eventually we left the house to return the visits, driving about the village calling upon families and friends, too. I Christmas is a joyous time ini every Christian land, and is cele brated in the manner of each fam ily’s custom. Christmas is a time to pray and a time to marvel at the miracle of birth and to I‘ejoice| in the ever renewed promise of peace. Christmas is a time to give ’and to share and to be glad to be -alive. It is a most fitting way to lusher in the new year. | At this time of year the Phar-t macy, the people at Englandcr's.‘ want to wish for every one nf' you this feeling of rebirth and, | —————————————————————————————————————— ‘ Mflmh——n—‘_— = ‘ \ > /x) 6 o --.-‘.“-"f’v\%& I Vo , 4 7 .’ Y (| &4 I $) ;\A 'g A jolly salute to all and &\ a hatful of cheery greet- ’I £ ‘ i { N ;;f ings for Christmas! May i we extend our thanks and Ul say, once again it's been bi vz Ly L. a pleasure to serve you. fi) . & At ". I \ b \ \ a2 “Tamous for Savings™ B A B 2.ST SO NAL7 050 oy 0 PAGE THREE | gladness. This is one time of year tthat Oakland and all the land laround should be filled with great | tidings and joyousness, good health |and happiness, and a belief in | peace in our time, This is our | wish for all of you, from all of us. | —Adv. I e () e et : Unisphere, 140-foot high struc "lturv representing world, is sym 'l)ul of World's fair to be held in New York 1964-65. Fair is taking ’ shape. “ | 1 ; oo 5 " “*” | Mayitbea b 54 . for everybody, | % ; : ’ e | ™‘\ T MR\ S e L 2 | - | ! %3 > i ®.. Y l h; S ::v : ::}2;:: G , s 3 = e, N ! e “:Lg S 8 "8 W ! ' io7 6§+ 8" F. & i ! B-eo: ¢ " F " I .'. e iten @ ? \ B ! | YOUTHLAND | I Second Street ¢ I OAKLAND, MARYLAND :