The midland journal., December 27, 1946, Image 7

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History Has Been
Made On New Year'*
Since Early Ages
While January, Capricomus, the
Goat, symbolized the nurse which
cared for the young
gods of the sun, the
first month has fur
nished many of the
important dates in
the history of the
world, and the first
-JESS'*. day of the year has
been generous in its
contributions. The Gregorian month
of January is the namesake of Janus,
the two-faced Roman god accredited
with the ability to look backward and
forward simultaneously.
Following is a partial list of im
portant events that took place on
New Year’s Day:
452 B.C.—First New Year’s Cele.
bration held.
38 B.C.—Era of the Caesars be
gan.
1735—Paul Revere born.
1752—Betsy Ross born.
1776—First Union flag of 13 stripes
unfurled by George Washing
ton.
1792—Kentucky entered the Union.
1861—Union of Great Britain and
Ireland.
1815—General Jackson repelled the
British at New Orleans.
1863—Emancipation of Negro slaves
proclaimed by President Lin
coln.
1882—Greece gains independence
from Turkey.
1898—Five boroughs of New York
City corporated.
1901—Commonwealth of Australia
formed.
1907—U. S. Pure Food law became
effective.
1912—Republic of China founded.
1923 USSR formed.
1942—United Nations’ declaration
signed.
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Bonne Annee!
Feliz Ano Nuevo!
Buon Capo D’Anno
Got Nytt Ar
Godt Nytt Aar
Ein Glueckliches
Neues Jahr
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
No matter the tongue, the greet
ing is always the same—it always
means a wish that all share in a
Happy New Year.
Debate of Solar Years vs.
Calendar Years Continues
The earth evolves around the sun
in exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 jnin
utes and 46 seconds: consequently.
Leap Years omitted haphazardly
might result in the sun running
away from the calendar and too
many Leap Years would speed the
calendar on ahead of the sun.
The Gregorian calendar, devised
and presented to the world in 1582
by Pope Gregory XIII, provides that
years divisible by four—exclusive of
the years numbering the centuries—
shall have 366 days.
Calendar Revised Date
Changed New Year's Day
In 1582 the Julian calendar was
replaced by the Gregorian in a proc
lamation issued by Pope Gregory
XIII. This established January 1
as New Year’s Day. Our present
calendar, known as the Gregorian
calendar, is based upon Pope Greg
ory’s revision of the Julian calendar
and is more nearly in accord with
the solar calendar—the error being
reduced to only one day in 3,323
years.
Protestant states did not adopt the
Gregorian calendar until the 18th
century. It was not until the 20th
century that Russia and others of
the Balkan states decided to do
likewise.
Scotch Handsel Monday
Day of Gift-Giving
The Monday after New Year’s is
traditionally the “big day” for
Scotch boys and girls; and, in addi
tion to being the Scotch day of gift
giving, it is a day of feasting and
gaiety. Families and friends gather |
to
“Drink a cup of kindness yet
For Auld Lang Syne.”
See New Year’s First
Hanson island, a little British col
ony in the Chathams, 414 miles south
east of Wellington, New Zealand,
will be the first to greet 1947. It is
just east of the international date
line, from which all time is reck
oned.
Early Scots Used
Bible for Fortunes
A glimpse into the future and the
fortunes of individuals could be
found in the Bible, the early Scots
believed. The sacred book was laid
upon the table, opened at random
and a finger was placed on the
printed page. The entire chapter
was then read, and the message it
held was believed to describe in
some way the happiness or misery
in store for the person concerned.
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SOARING IN THE SKY . . . Ski enthusiasts flock to the nation’s snow fields this winter, with resorts primed
for their first big season since the war. Upper left photo shows one of the open slopes of Yosemite Na
tional park, a skijoring haven. At the upper right is a fast action shot made at Alta, Utah. Center, an in
structor demonstrates for a class at Sun Valley, Idaho. Lower left photo shows a skier doing a “galende
sprung” off a cornice on the side of Mt. Hood, Oregon. At the lower right, Crater Lake National park, also in
Oregon, affords the double thrill of excellent skiing and novel scenic effects.
FULL FLIGHT
Winter Sports Areas Primed
For Influx of Ski Enthusiasts
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WNU Features <
Skiing will dominate the American outdoor sports scene this
winter as most of the famous ski areas of the West and Middle
west resume operation for the first time since Pearl Harbor.
This winter ski fans will find old favorite lodges and cha
lets improved and in full operation again after the war, while
many new and interesting spots are<s
primed for a mass recreational in
vasion.
Although most of the ski resorts
open their season in December,
j snow will be in its best dry, pow
dery state during January, Febru
ary and March.
This year the “regular run”
of sports enthusiasts who head
for the snow fields will be sup
plemented by a new group—for
mer G.l.s who learned the art
of skiing during the war as a
matter of military necessity and
now are converting that knowl
edge into personal enjoyment.
Major jumping and slalom tourna
ments have been scheduled at every
ski basin from Michigan to famed
Sun Valley, Idaho, and the slopes
of the Pacific Northwest.
Olympics Scheduled.
Major attraction of the season will
be the Olympic tryouts in March on
Sun Valley’s Bald mountain. The
nationals are booked at Ishpeming,
Mich., February 22-23.
Ski enthusiasts will find the new
air age in full flight over the
great frozen spaces, most of the ski
areas now being linked together for
the first time by fast airline serv
ice. The slalom slopes of Banff and
the Canadian Rockies with almost
startling suddenness have become
only 14 flying hours from ski fans
in Southern California, seven hours
from Salt Lake City, nine hours from
Denver.
The luxurious chalet and
championship course at Sun
Valley are only a seven-hour hop
from Los Angeles. Colorado’s
30 winter sportlands have been
brought within a mere four and
a half hours of the Pacific coast.
Western Air Lines even is in
augurating a “ski special” from
Los Angeles to popular resorts.
After serving as a naval rehabili
tation center during the war. Sun
Valley was reopened as a resort
December 21. All types of winter
sports are available, including ski
joring, ice skating, sleighing, dog
sledding and swimming in natural
hot springs water.
Install Ski Lifts.
Four electric ski lifts serve four
skiing areas on Dollar, Ruud, Proc
tor and Baldy mountains. The lift
on Baldy is 11,500 feet long and is
divided into three sections to carry
skiers to the 9,200-foot summit in 20
minutes.
In Oregon 15 areas will be in op
eration in national forests. At Tim
berline, 63 miles from Portland, is
found one of the nation’s longest ski
seasons, offering ski slopes until
mid-July. The race starts at a 10,-
Harvard Observatory Sets Centennial
BOSTON. —Long known as the
western hemisphere’s “Patrolman of
the Skies,” the Harvard college ob
servatory will note the 100th anni
versary of its founding at a four-day
celebration December 27-30. In con
nection with the event, two science
conventions are scheduled here.
First planetarium in the world to
photograph the stellar activities of
the sky, the observatory was com
pleted in 1840. Since then it has be
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000-foot level and finishes at 7,000
feet near the head of a mile-long
ski lift.
At mid-winter the snow is
from 8 to 20 feet deep, averag
ing about 12 feet, with a tem
perature around 24 degrees.
Generous sunshine often permits
skiing in shorts.
Few places in America offer such
marvelous skiing opportunities as
Alta, famous resort in Little Cotton
wood canyon of the Wasatch moun
tains near Salt Lake City. Runs
vary from a half mile to two miles
for all classes of skiers plus sla
lom courses and practice slopes.
Brighton in nearby Big Cotton
wood canyon is a year-around moun
tain resort. Near here is Ecker hill,
where world record leaps have been
made by skiing stars of internation
al fame.
Many Sports Areas.
Colorado’s majestic mountain
ranges abound with winter sports
sites. Among the leading skiing re
sorts is Aspen, where the ski runs
range in elevation from 7,900 to 11,-
500 feet. Roch run, the outstanding
run for experts, is 9,750 feet with a
2,700-foot drop.
Berthoud pass, where local inter
ests are expending considerable
money in development of sport fa
cilities, Grand Mesa and Glenwood
Springs are other Colorado spots lur
ing an increasing number of winter
sport enthusiasts.
Long known as a dude ranch coun
try, Wyoming now is coming into
the forefront as a skiers’ paradise in
winter. Jackson Hole in the scenic
Teton country just south of Yellow
stone park is among the most popu
lar spots.
Skiers may drive by automo
bile up the Teton Pass road and
ski down numerous runs six to
seven miles long with drops
ranging from 1,000 to 3,200 feet.
Oyster Blast Tops Freak Mishaps
WASHINGTON. —Home accidents
took a new turn here when an oyster
exploded. The housewife, who was
cooking the oyster in deep fat, suf
fered second degree bums on the
hands and face in the freak accident,
a Red Cross survey reveals.
In another unusual mishap, a man
suffered throat injuries when he fell
with a pipe in his mouth. Doctors
removed a small hatpin from the
lung of a 3-year-old boy, another
child swallowed a pencil clip and a
3-months-old baby suffered a frac-
come the central clearing house for
all astronomical information on this
continent.
Beginning in 1880, the observa
tory has photographed huge sections
of the sky each night. As a result it
has a collection of photograph plates
numbering more than 500,000, which
enables astronomers to check the
stellar activities which have oc
curred during any clear evening of
the past 66 years.
Casper mountain, nine miles from
Casper, and Tepee lodge in the re
mote Big Horns near Sheridan also
are being recognized by sport fans
because of their great natural ad
vantages.
Montana boasts of Red Lodge, ele
vation 12,610 feet, where there are
30 acres of practice slopes, ski lifts,
downhill, cross country and slalom
runs.
Unique Nevada Site.
With a typical western setting
above the desert, Mount Charleston,
Nev., only an hour’s drive from Las
Vegas, provides a unique site for
winter sports.
More than 60 winter sports areas
are found in the High Sierras of Cali
fornia, a state where winter sports
fans abound. Among the state’s best
known resorts are Lake Arrowhead,
Big Bear and Big Pines, all in South
ern California; Yosemite National
park, and the Donner Pass region.
Winter sports, however, are
not confined to the Far West.
Nature has endowed Minnesota,
Wisconsin and upper Michigan
with the topography and weath
er necessary to make them
among the best winter sports
areas in the nation.
The “regular run” of sports enthu
siasts from the Midwest will head
for Wisconsin and Michigan’s upper
peninsula, which offers all winter
sports, including long ski runs, to
boggan slides, towering ski jumps,
ice skating and ice boating.
Plan Annual Carnival.
For spectator pleasure, one of the
best winter sports programs is pre
sented every February at the Win
ter Carnival in St. Paul, Minn.,
when the entire city takes on the air
of a northern Mardi Gras.
In the New England states, too,
there is a revival of interest in win
ter sports. Special ski trains to
White mountain resorts are being
resumed this winter.
With expanded airline schedules
and increasing use of air transporta
tion to winter sports areas, many
fans will invade the Canadian Rock
ies area this winter. Most popular
sites there are in the Banff area and
Jasper National park.
tured skull when its carriage rolled
off a porch.
The superstitiously inclined
claimed new impetus for their be
liefs after a hammer, hanging on
the rung of a ladder, fell and struck
a man on the head.
In another home accident, a wom
an was burned when she poured
melted fat into a furnace.
Statistics compiled by the Red
Cross home accident survey show an
increase in accidents and deaths this
year over 1945.
Aged Woman Relies
On Old Fire Recipe
VIROQUA, WlS.—When a chim
ney fire broke out at the home of
Viroqua’s oldest resident, the cool
est person on the scene was the oc
cupant, Mrs. Lucy Grubb, who will
be 101 next February 15. “All you
need to do is put a little salt on the
fire,” she told the bustling firemen.
But the firemen, who were of an
other generation, insisted on resort
ing to ch—iitcste.
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35,000 members, is the oldest exist
ing organization in the United
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Torch in Hand of Vulcan
Statue Warns Motorists
A new method of reminding mo
torists to drive carefully is an elec
tric torch that is being installed in
the upraised hand of the giant
statue of Vulcan in Birmingham,
Ala. For 24 hours after a fatal
traffic accident, the light'will glow
red instead of its normal green.
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
1 Creomulsion relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
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germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
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