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A NEW YEAR COMMENCES To almost ellearned holiday families like Hie No for perhaps eat in and generally taking it for the Ynletide s unique in our year part of it enjoyment and laid to progress thu throughout On not good stultified not bee n accomplish- hope this will For Some Christmas Is A Time For Work Photo Story By Gordon Anderson the past three day a chance to get together with Years holiday coming up too much downing a dram This is the established i sou a pleasant cozy time religious partsocial but all Howe group of people the how big or small lit Christmas that was and the New holiday coming up is a time for if anything in- work There are many such people and wo have pictured a few here to whom the public in general of gratitude They cover part of our lives Some have ro have ofttime exciting occupations and at least two have perhaps the goriest jobs in the world They are policemen nurses switchboard operators re me and cab drivers to name some And before iwmc shrugs it off with the I guess thats too bad Christmas type of altitude perhaps we should consider just what we do owe them Probably the of these occupations is that of the telephone tor in many cases at Christmas time they part of a great number of families actual enjoyment of the Big Day Through them are funnelled the best wishes of to family indeed nation to the one time of the year when most families who nt gel together put in an appearance over Alexander Bells invention As any can testify it is also the busiest time of the for transAtlantic and transcontinental telephone Next in line we would assume are cab From the careful diner who drinks and wisely decides not to drive to the family whose car gets stuck the snow as they head out on a cab driver is always there round the clock to get where youre going cheerfully quickly and safely Perhaps the grizzliest job facing anyone is that daily faced by nurses and ambulance drivers To uses in particular goes the task of keeping cheerful they go about their onethousand and one jobs ound the hospital Besides routine care for patients the doctors and nurses on duty in the emergency de partment of the hospital in addition have to patch up the lives of accident victims Many of the accidents are just that accidents Many more at this time of the year however are needless pointless events Inch could be avoided There are families making their rounds in cars riven by fathers or sons who have had are youths adding their clownish danger to the highways at to this number pedestrians who wisely leave their cars at home when they drink forget to look where they cross a street and you have all the ingredients for y night at the hospital No matti or night or be it Christmas or is and nurses are there constantly erhaps most important of all and those to whom the biggest accolades go are the lot to see the very worst and the best Like the others is a thankless 21hour a day generally unnoticed by most But like the tele phone operators this is the busiest time of the year for them In the final two weeks of the season and the New Year as the stores are busy exchang ing gifts and homes arc stocked up with new appliance- money and oilier items the criminal element to the fore with a vengeance Obviously there an upsurge in straight thefts from cars homes and lores Then there are con artists at work taking advantage of the general enjoyment of the public while fleecing them in different ways usually first at th It is the police also who of accidents who have recked vehicles and do our dirty work for ien too are kept busy answering false alar Christmas tree fires and saving lives Without growing about it there we owe all of these people who look aftei doubtful we think twice about re there doing their job in front people Thanks