iV L y NEWMARKET rocs MATINEE Mi THRU SAT TUB MCI SATURDAY gHPWfTtWHTKHUt yS safe w- as V i V- DOMID OCONNOR MUCH mm in 2ND ATTRACTION IBM SPECIAL HOLIDAY COLOR CARTOON SHOW BOXING MV DEC AT 2 DOORS OPEN 1 ADMISSION 1 HON TUB WED 29 30 31 KOTO MATINEE MONDAY AT ROT ffUNNIlIT ON SOI JACK AND STALK i 4 GREAT GUNS I NEW fi- it 12 ALL HORROR SHOW IK ISUND OF DOOMED MEN AND son of a ALL SEATS t J J REASONS GREETINGS TO EVERYONE FROM THE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF The Era and Express Monday Dec Page Dont Spoil Christmas With Needless Mishaps Minister Winter weather conditions reduce visibility and increase stopping distances The minister concluded I ap peal to the citizens of Ontario to overcome these added hazards by greater care courtesy and common sense when walking and driving Dont let an accident spoil holiday happiness for yourself and others Newmarket children saw Santa at the Newmarket at church and school concerts as well also is at the Boxy Furniture and Electric sttire before the weekend and a special Theatre and Newmarket Taxi office this afternoon when audience Thursday night consisted of Dorothy Hill left Davis the businessmen are holding a special theatre party for the children Dr Simcoe St and Dorothys sister Sharon Hill Over children went into the store on Thursday to see Santa Santa has been in town on a number of visits and 1 Era and Express photo Aurora Defeats Collingwood 72 In Friday Night Game Erupting for four goals in the rusher who dared six minutes and drawing on a terrific goalkeeping job from Joe Burke the Closs-Rown- treeClark Aurora Bears hexed Eddie Bushs Collingvvood Green- shirts in the Aurora arena Friday night It was a hustling freewheel ing hockey game from the drop of the hat Artie Barber went through the Collingwood rear guard on a neat finesse effort to put the Bears first period leaders The teams traded goals in the second round Bears had it as Bob accepted a goal pass from Artie Barber and Geo Jim Collins broke in on Joe Burkes cage to break Joeys shutout spell The game had gone along at a clip to this point Fans had the idea the teams couldnt go faster They were fooled the tempo increased in the final Grant Edwards turn ing in a whale of a game turned Cooks pass into a Bears The tribe came right back to make It on Bob Gillies whistler from the blue stripe That was the last time the Northerners had dealings with the score man Like Clancy Bears lowered the boom In the final six minutes Bill Smith who has been goal- hungry for some time started the rout away and before Spider switched on the bell to end it all Artie Barber and Joe golfed in unassisted ef forts Nobby Ash hung a pass from Pepper Martin and Walt Fines In the cage for the Bears other late tally There was little doubt Joe Burke was a star man with the Hears Joey had shots to handle whilst his goalkeeping adversary- Leonard turn ed Aside Walt Fines carried on a private with every to tread in the Aurora zone In fact every was up for this one They had to he to prove their superiority over Ed die Bushs tribe Education For Living Compares Cavemcui Radicals With Todays WILLIAM CARSON KING TRUSTEE AFTER TWO NOMINATIONS m William Carson has received an acclamation to fill the third position on the trustee board of the police village of King City for after being nominated twice this year He lias held of fice for eight years Those who did not qualify after the Dec nomination meeting were Mrs Stanley Hunter William Barker and George Brown The Dec 18 meeting was the second nom ination meeting in King At the first meeting on Nov three candidates were nom inated and William Carson Mr Corson did not qualify for the position leaving only two trus tees while three were required Consequently a second nomina tion meeting was called In the final result Mr Carson was elected trustee after all Reporting to the Newmarket Public School Board on her duties as their representative on the area High School Board Mrs J Edwards told the board of a convention she had attended It was the 33rd annual convention of the Ontario Urban and Rural school trustees association which met at Inn Lake of Bays this year A highlight of the convention said Mrs Edwards was a talk Education For Living which was given by S superintendent and chief inspec tor of public schools Toronto In view of the current interest in curriculum and methods of teaching excerpts from Mr talk are printed for BAND PCLUB a CHRISTMAS PARTY ra LEAFS BRUINS CAN ADIENS IN optimist league Leafs Bruins and Canadians hung out the V for victory sign after Fridays Optimist Tally book read Bruins Wings Cano- diens Rangers Leafs Hawks Canadlens shot to the top of the league heap with their 82 win over The victory the Canucks three straight wins while Hangers are cellar dwellers with nary a win in three attempts Hat trick per formances by Grant Morton and Bob plus Bill two goal effort set up in the winners circle The Cain twins Bill and Jack kept the shutout axe from drop ping on the Rangers neck Pos sibly it had something to do with the presence of Bob David son Toronto Maple Leafs chief scout being on band but the exploded a hot roil scoring show to run the Black Hawks into the freeze pipes Loafs takehome scoring melon wag showed by Ken Boll Francis Lewis Brian Stokes Knlgbt and Eddie Allen Boll had five Lewis and four Stokes three and Allen a single for the Bruins opened up with a three goal burst In final period to tame Redwings Don Thorns was the Bruins big gun with a four goal effort Earl Lothian potted the Bruins other marker Charlie and defence- man Warren kept the I Wings in the early hunt About 35 were present for the annual Christmas party of the Business and Professional Wom ens club Newmarket when the group met in the Fire Hall audi torium on Monday Dec A social evening of cards was enjoyed by the members and their In charge of the program was Mrs Doris Blair and Mrs Lillian Rank Russell acted as Santa and was assisted by Alex Eves and Seneca Cook who were dressed as mother and small son Gifts were exchanged among the mem bers Following the merry visit of Santa and his helpers a delicious lunch was served Convener was Mrs Marjorie Oliver the readers of the Newmarket Era and Express Ten years ago a small book published in the United States and called The SabreTooth Curriculum attracted some in terest among persons engaged in the business of education This little book was supposed to be a series of lectures about educa tion in paleolithic times when men lived in caves wore killed animals with stone wea pons and cooked their meat over an open fire One of the principal citizens of those times according to this little book was a gentleman who had made a stone wedge which he propelled with his fist somewhat better than his fellows and as a consequence he became known as Maker NewFist came to realize that the children playing at the mouth of the cave might be taught some of the usefut skills of the tribe and he undertook to do this himself First of all he analyzed the needs of the tribe I in order to know what should be taught to the young people Since the principal diet of the tribe was fish which were scoop ed out of the pools with the bare hands it was essential that fish- grabbing with the bare hands should be a subject in the cur riculum The skins which the men and women wore came from the backs of the small woolly horses which ran in packs in the plains These were knocked down and killed with clubs and so woolly- horseclubbing became a second necessary skill taught the children who soon became so ex pert that the number of skins Page Col The Hon George minister of highways last week urged drivers and pedestrians of Ontario to cooperate in prevent ing the needless accidents that spoil Christmas holiday happi ness Christmas ushers in a season of festivity and good fellowship he said and it also brings a time of increased traffic dangers Two years ago our worst single day for fatal traffic acci dents was Dec the last shop ping day before Christmas On that Saturday persons were killed By way of comparison he stat ed that last year widespread ef forts by the press radio police and safety organizations focused attention on the special hazards of the Christmas season activities the minis ter said undoubtedly contribut ed to the marked improvement in last years record when in the four days before Christmas the death total was reduced to This year he continued we must strive for an accidentfree holiday season by paying par ticular attention to our driving and walking The minister listed these spe cial seasonal hazards There are many more a- will sing on the pro gram Singing Stars of Tomor row over a nationwide broadcast to pm Sunday Dec 28 He placed first in the tenor class last year in the Tor onto Ki wants Music competitions and has made appearances with Melody Fair in Toronto He wilt be making his bid for the top scholarship award of 2000 are crowded People are in a hurry 2 Thousands of beginners face new and dangerous experiences of driving on slippery streets or in snow and freezing rain 3 School children are out playing and often forget to play where it is safe Early nightfall and dark winter clothing make pedestrians difficult to see- J SINCLAIR WRITES North Pole And Taken Jobs In Big Business And Radio The festival of Christmas which will this week ho celebrated throughout the Christian world originated in the fourth century so the historians assure us Dur ing the succeeding centuries and during the last hundred years the form of the celebration itself has undergone many changes Pantomime Part Of English Tradition Of Christmas Season The Christmas bells are ring ing Never sweeter music came to stir and bless this world of men But never lot us forget that the song and the joy is all because Jesus Christ came some The Newmarket Dramatic club will present its first attempt in the field of pantomime in the production of Jack and the Beanstalk this week In Eng land pantomime Is as much a part of the Christmas as is plum pudding Pantomime perhaps the most traditional form of English en tertainment Its popularity is as great now as it was in past generations with many of the leading companies playing to I ago The strange houses until February or part of it not that He came pantomime panics always commence their run on Boxing Day par to he born in a manger or that He was horn of a virgin or that shepherds on view ed in awe the angelic choir tell ing of His birth or that wise men seeing His star came to worship at His baby feet but the strange part of it tilt Is that even today men still Him a place in their hearts In Isaac Watts wrote the following lovely hymn Joy to the world the Lord is come Lot earth receive her Let every heart prepare Him room And heaven and nature sing Joy to tho world the Saviour reigns men their songs employ fields and floods rocks hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy No more let sin and sorrow grow Nor thorns Infest ground He comes to make His blessing Far as Is found Ho rules world with truth and Grace And makes the nations prove glories of His righteousness Arid wonders of His love Merry Christmas everybody True to this tradition the Newmarket Dramatic club will present its first performance on Friday Dec 20 pm in the town hall A special matinee with reduced prices for children will be staged on Saturday af ternoon pm and the final showing will be that evening Dec curtain will go up at pm Pantomime is always based on the timehonored fairy tales and the script follows these tradi tional stories very strictly with major departures much to the delight of the children in the audience Through the years such stories as Cinderella Babes in Wood Puss lit Boots Dick and his Cat have been perennial favor ites in pantomime Always the principal boy is played by a girl and the Dame the old woman of the story is played by a man In the play the principal boy is always the son of the Dame In New market production Jack and the Beanstalk is Jack Mike is his mo lifer the Widow To an English audience pan tomime wouldnt deserve the title if there wasnt an animal in the cast In England the animal always comes down in the audience and talks to the children So of course in Jack and the Beanstalk there will be an animal She is the cow Depicting this bovine animal will be two young danc ers Wanda Hill and Peggy Following further traditions of pantomime which include the addition of local and current Pago Col no COMING EVENTS TUESDAY bingo at Legion Hall Newmar ket at 8 pm games Games for turkeys and chickens Jackpot and door prize WEDNESDAY DEC Christmas Eve dance In Mount Albert hall Norm or chestra Admission Caf eteria lunch PEL DEC AND SAT DEC Dramatic Club presents a Christmas Panto mime Jack and the Bean Stalk town Friday at pm and at and pm JAN Sharon Junior Farmers Dance In Mount Albert Community ball orchestra Ad mission cents gentlemen cents ladles clw52 DANCING at Mount Albert every Saturday night from to pm to Norm Burling and his orchestra every Saturday night at Old Jersey school to Ford Wilson and his Top Hatters For several centuries the Christmas festival was essential ly of a religious character In the last hundred years added to its religious forms Christmas has become a funmaking happy family reunion affair It has also become a date on which world wide good wishes are exchanged Father Christmas himself has not remained immune from change Formerly a mysterious old gentleman who descended chimneys in the dead of night he can now be heard singing over the radio Perhaps the greatest addition to the early celebration of Christ mas is evident in the distribution of Christmas cards a form of greeting which is not yet years old The earliest date on which Christmas cards are said to have come into existence was the year The original de coration of the Christmas card consisted of robins and holly Santa Deflated Probably the most roughly- handled of all the great Christ mas characters is that amiable ami estimable old gentleman Father Christmas whose name has been altered to Santa or Santa for short Historians say that Father Christmas was born in oldtime Germany some years ago about the same time and place that the Christmas tree took root The Christmas tree of years ago was a firtree lighted up by means of tiny candles of colored wax or small Chinese lanterns and ornamented with flags tinsel ornaments and hung allover with gifts for children Science has now given us elec trified Christmas trees contain ing gifts for the old man as well as the children Perhaps the most revolutionary change of all has overtaken Fa ther Christmas who has not only lost his original name and be come Santa or Santo for short but ho has lost all his ori ginal grandeur and magic Moun ted on a truck a Christmas parade he can be heard hollering along the way as he throws out gifts on the sidewalk is no mystery about Father Christmas anymore You can hear him singing Christmas carols from radio in the bar ber shop as you enter for a hair cut and for a week or ten days or ho is constantly gibber ing sentimentalising wisecrack ing and hawhawhawing from the Interiors of big depart ment stores Science and big business have severely deflated Santa The children and the parents of children know exactly what he has In big bag long before Christmas eve Santa Is now a big business tycoon and aggressive gogetter There Was A Time There was a time when Father Christmas was a mysterious kindly and gentle superman whom children of long ago loved far in advance of the hour when he would start out from some region near the North Pole in his great sleigh drawn by a team of reindeer Mothers of those chil dren told their expectant and ex cited progeny of the treacherous and snowdrifts which Father Christmas would encounter on his long and perilous journey south Enwrapped in his greatcoat and capacious muffler and com forted by heavy underwear and stout gloves the dauntless- donor of gifts for the children gave lead to his fleetfooted team and drove ahead over snowy wildernesses and passing many a frozen stream and lake By some magic of travel all his own the wonderful old man would roach his destinations sometime be tween the midnight hour and early dawn Then down countless chim neys he would descend to fill stockings of all sizes for the children and to leave something on the Christmas firtree where colored wax candles and Chinese lanterns were displayed When the children woke in the early morning there was a scam per to the stockings and faith in Father Christmas was again re stored No trace of him was left except the gifts he had so gen erously left behind Such were the tales that were told the children and such the ways of old Father Christmas be fore he became Santa Claus or Santa for short Where Is the old man now Who knows Bui you may see his innumerable des cendants everywhere the major ity of them ensconced in chairs at big department stores or hear them hollering away over tho radio Science and big busi ness have eliminated the kindly legendary figure of old Father Christmas whose home was some where near the North Pole Happier Were they happier days before Father Christmas went on the airwaves before the Christmas tree lost its wax candies and Chinese lanterns to become elec trified before the atom-bomb- was Invented Each will answer this in his and her own way and some will answer it in lan guage of tradition and from the lessons of the post Hut in spite of science and In spite of progress the essential and traditional spirit of Christ mas survives and survives more strongly in this present era than in the era when the first Christ mas celebration took place We have moved on to a greater and more universal despite cruel deterrents In which belief we can repeat ageold wish A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Yew