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Wed December I THE ERA DAVID HASKELL TERR CARTE the inspiration of the first Christmas abide with you throughout this holiday season and for many years to come the who hint graft tip hi lite must hate proven P hryonii a lhal all Hip hone long hatred hippies win He had item hum In tins slums and at an tar he as freaking out dignitaries couldnt oho hit thru tint aim thf handle wrung their hands at his precocious nature then he grew beard and let hts hair grow over his shoulders and took gang vaga bonds later known The though middle of a street wine Where snarling traffic as all his flocked stuff All about the poor people taking over the world about the day com ing when all Ihe downtrod den souls would wind up on start talking communism us religion Sou mil decided to do I was a Friday a think when strength until wasnt so radical anymore In fact today he has millions of followers around the world And his birthday has become a uni versal holiday His spirit ted hi And the officials though wondering Friday evening that fierce storm and tore down the church In town Ing me of his although message remain many of his socalled fol lowers da little more than render lipservice The mes sage is a simple one about love and brotherhood and peace They don t call It communism although in By the way his birthday Is Friday Happy THE Readers Dear As we the have been advised our new I issues in the coming must be compiled Near the the Ontario Wat top of any priority list Commission may 1 respectfully request will correct the that the water needs of water problem our town be Imprinted capitals an and Already the J Wild wood mar ltd Young I iilw leaning on for an th it on- of my mat We softly Cowl hi lived In ami he hail morning paper Thai tint winh r morning my son rami a when the world black anil old Christ- would go quietly mas was the name iter there and some Me made trip la the hath- the one light al the room and hen pulled on warm Using in a sleeping mini he fur a moment and looked the know if the giil Christmas tree He Stopped lo a parcel or thought to other living I smiling and say- their Oil my gosh Its ie having no though quested that action be tak en to Improve the quality their drinking water sedimentation vile taste and excrement like the stipulated lese problems with a thirty live liberally distributing salt dollar onto a or t inch fall of or build a arena snow which turned it into to freeie water a muddy slush of which give our townspeople some unsuspecting walker ity In their drinking became the target cess were inverted the stow removed and then salt ap plied one could walk about without the fear of being drenched by the slush anal of needless tier how ear- drink t girl was always up He forget i porch and leave the pa- were Ie for anything befuddled by lime lights at the condition bill And young him or happiness or or whatever he liked it But in one house that Christmas looming he told me Ihe tree lighls were on in Ihe living room When he came up quietly on porch hopped the paper I here lie saw that inside on the rug a little hoy in his pyjamas was studying the tree Down from bed down the stairs slowly and alone hugeyed And here he on Christinas morning ami Santa Ola had come and gone leaving Unit Ions things behind hen tiptoed off the porch and across snowy lawn to a place under the front windows IK well tint of sight in case the little hoy might run a window looking into the sky fur reindeer Crier By BILL GAMBLE Newmarket Malady of giftgiving At Chris mis time theres a mifieil foot as a in ill of with i she receiving that which lias i in the first buying gilts place that in he presents 111 111 mill the solid the young mail nth little green till- Of en toil In tin- Ins sine that Illinois a Admirable anil inlenlii Kilts to the giving of isous of ted for traiilo of shallow to it each hail were to be Delta so that Jim hi so 1 anil Jim a tin in lui Is ml Inn ivllld liui tin chain i fw bis mull tin itch to bin 11 In sighted It woiilil t lies In Us gifts in mts Ini this sinuiili of tin- ill lilk hail iiinli Inlnisli In This mill ii mi In her llHHlCl of in i IT youve funis In Newriist I iiiv Wind i I fun liiilinai ii in ill or In tin- i inliiiiiiissnunl fill ml in lain Inn Till is nil Hilly itrliniiiMio like Hie your mi Ihu mi I mil I Its Ami I lump Willi nil my will Inyti gill lul In In I I hi mill In with imiinili slum i Iiiiilhltrn ill in tin ihosin tin- is a lllllil not think with 111 sou him all liui a lib bun ho round ling rm l In fiiiiinl on inmilhs rarlicr If I loo long on suit- of litis Vnlntlili we lis I have un- thai I iiiiiv I bins In of views on thai might linver till Maybe the following lines by Vance Cooke will explain mini In I In than I can the real vnliin of MatmiM gift the spirit In which gift is of silk and fur mis Ihe spirit in which the ill la I As gills Wise I III nil mill cereal