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a mia JO A cs A TRH May This Be The Happiest Chri istmas For Have Known CHARGE MANSLAUGHTER ing in a car of his pretty young Jackson, Mich. (AP) -- Business | wife and ex - secretary Loretta, man Edward G. Spencer was 21. The 44 - year - old trucking- accused formally of manslaughter | tirm executive was held -in $5000 yesterday in the death - by - freez- 'bond for examination Jan. 11. THE DAILY TIMES- GAZETTE OSHAWA Combining The Oshaws Times and Whithy Gazette and Chremicle [ Lid VOL. 10--No. 299 OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1951 PAGE THIRTEEN Puritans Put Ban On Christmas As Too Frivolous Christmas was outlawed in Eng- land by the Puritan government of England in 1643 and, although the restoration of the Stuarts brought a revival of Christmas customs and traditions, Christmas never regained its former prestige in England. It is observed religiously in the churches and as a day for family reunions and social gatherings, in contrast to the lavish sensing and boisterous merry - making of olden times. Merry - making and gift - giving come in for their share, however on December 26 which is Boxing Day. The origin of Boxing Day antidates Christmas and can be traced to the custom of gift-giving during the Roman festival of St-° turhalia. In Christian liturgy December 26 is observed as the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr. and during the centuries when journeymen and apprenctices were in the habit of levying upon their masters' customers, 'Christmas Boxes' were collected on St. Steph- en's day. TO YOU AND YOURS A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR NOW AND ALWAYS TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS AND TO ALL OF OUR NEIGHBOURS. MAY THEY ALWAYS May ybu celebrate this Christmas Y With joy and good cheer And continue its pleasures Throughout the New Year. ENGEL'S MEN'S WEAR 16 SIMCOE NORTH PHONE 5-0611 CHRISTMAS wish you the inner Jy and radiance tradi- tionally a part of this mag- nificent Season, OSHAWA FUR and" COLD STORAGE 81 WILLIAM ST. W. DIAL 3-3012 . ) incere ishes b3 The spirit of our business is a friendly one «30 when better than now, during the joyous Yuletide season, to extend our heartiest wishes for a Happy Christmas and a Successful New Year. To all our customers and friends, RINKER'S CLEANERS 51 Burke St. Phone 5-1191 greet you with our pery best wishes for a joyous Christmas ond a prosperous New Year PROVINCIAL TRE C0. '" 9 Bond W. Dial 5-3022 N | statement, in the announcement of 2 new Commonwealth sugar agree- The British food ! ment, said that after 1952 Common- wealth producers will resume dir- ect contact with their Canadian END SUGAR CONTROLS Iondon (CP) -- ministry announced yesterday that it will cease to be responsible for | customers through their normal sale of Commonwealth sugar to! trade channels for the first time Canadian refiners after 1952, The 'in 12 years. * GOOD FRIENDS * GOOD HEALTH %* GOOD CHEER * GOOD FORTUNE JURYSLOVELL PHONE 3-2245 PHONE 5-3546 8 KING E, 530 SIMCOE Ss. LEON B. NASH (Broker) 132 Simece St. N., Oshawa Dial 3-3849 RBSEELAS aa CADIW 1004 day. He is John Morin of Island - Falls, Man., who floundered nearly Flin Flon, Man. (CP) A |18 miles through deep show and rugged Indian bushworker who 40-below zero weather, clad only in his underwear, to gef help survived a fire that killed two when an early-morning explosion other men was reported in "fairly |and fire razed a's wood - cutting good" condition in hospital yester-'erew's living caboose. INDIAN . RECOVERING BE AS ONE. 136 KING ST. W. CHARLIE BALL GARAGE and SERVICE STATION PHONE 5-3733 16 CELINA ST. COOPER-SMITH CO. iad TIDINGS The joyous peals of Yuletide bells find their cheerful echo in greetings to our friends for a very Merry Christmas and » bright Happy New Year. DIAL 3-2312 FRED BARTLETT Treasurer, Christmas Seal Fund Chairmen, Christmas Seal Fund We earnestly thank the citizens of Oshawa and vicinity for their kind support in this year's "Christmas Seal Campaign". wish that the friendliness and good fellowship will make your Christmas a merry one and that the New Year will bring you a full measure of good health, success, and happiness, CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED UNTIL THE END OF JANUARY Sponsored By The KIWANIS CLUB of OSHAWA It is our sincerest A. E. JOHNSON