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December 4, 1975     Shelton Mason County Journal
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HALF | |WILLIAM PENN DUTCH MASTERS -, 35 /I(.ulk.ck ,o peak. of f,ve),But, pack. 10.cks o, f,ve) | R7 "~z- " ~='== SIR WALTER / I Panatelas ° $4.00 President $8.00 / ;;;; HALE,=. / planter Tips $3.50Elite ..oo/ = | ' " " Regular, 14-oz. $2.75 | | / CHERRY BLEND Special, 14-oz. $4.00 /IWHITE OWL TIPARILLO / | ]4-oz. $2 85 Aromatic, 14-oz. $4.001 |(Bulk Pack, 10 Packs of five) (20 packs of five cigars) 1 L " All other major brands. ) ~iploTt $7.50 Regular or Aromatic $6.00) I III I Please note prices subject to due to manufacturers increases. You pay no sales tax! North of Shelton on 101 at junction of Highway 106. Look for the sign. QtQ entire famil can be purchased easily and quickly with Just pick up the phone and dial I and place your order. Evergreen Square Page 24 - SheltonoMason County Journal - Thursday, December 4. 1975 A Christmas Message • time By Rev. KURT HARDENBROOK Pastor, First Christian Church To me, Christmas has always been more than just buying and giving gifts, eating food and candy, watching football and trimming the tree. It's been a time of sharing with people a little extra love, to take time to stop, to get out of the "rat race," and say, "I love you!" as openly and honestly as I can. This story really sums up my thoughts about the Spirit of Christ, not just Christmas. Wally was nine that year and in the second grade, though he should have been in the fourth. Most people in town knew that he had difficulty in keeping up. He was big and clumsy, slow in movement and mind. Still, Wally was well liked by the other children in his class, all of whom were smaller than he, though the boys had trouble hiding their irritation when Wally would ask to play ball with them - or play any game, for that matter, in which winning was important. Most often they would find a way to keep him out but Wally would hang around anyway - not sulking, just hoping. He was always a helpful boy, a willing and smiling one, and the natural protector paradoxically, of the underdog. Sometimes if the older boys chased the younger ones away, it would always be Wally whom say, "Can't they stay? They're no bother." Wally fancied the idea of being a shepherd with a flute in the Christmas pageant that year, but the play's director, Miss Lumbard, assigned him to a more important role. After all, she reasoned, the innkeeper did not have too many lines, and Wally's size would make his refusal of lodging to Joseph more forceful. And so it happened that the usual large, partisan audience gathered for the town's yearly extravanganza of crooks and creches, of beards, crowns, halos and a whole stage full of squeaky voices. No one on stage or off was more caught up in the magic of the night than Wallace Purling. They said later that he stood in the wings and watched the performance with such fascination that from time to time Miss Lumbard had to make sure he didn't wander onstage before his cue. Then the time came when Joseph appeared, slowly, tenderly guiding Mary to the door of the inn. Joseph knocked hard on the wooden door set into the painted is promoted Victor Strickland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Strickland, Shelton, has been promoted to airman first class in the U.S. Air Force. Airman Strickland, an aircraft ground equipment repairman, is assigned at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, with a unit of the Tactical Air Command. The airman is a 1974 graduate of Shelton High School. backdrop. Wally the innkeeper was there, waiting. "What do you want?" demanded Wally, swinging the door open with a brusque gesture. "We seek lodging." "Seek it elsewhere." Wally looked straight ahead but spoke vigorously. "The inn is filled." "Sir, we have asked everywhere in vain. We have traveled far and are very weary." "There is no room in this inn for you," Wally looked properly stern. "Please, good innkeeper, this is my wife, Maw. She is heavy with child and needs a place to rest. Surely you must have some small corner for her. She is so* tired." Now for the first time, the innkeeper relaxed his stiff stance and looked down at Mary. With that, there was a long pause, long enough to make the audience a bit tense with embarrassment. "'No! Begone!" the prompter whispered from the wings. "'No!" Wally repeated automatically. "Begone!" Joseph placed his arm around Mary and Mary laid her head upon her husband's shoulder and the two of them started to move away. The innkeeper did not return inside his inn, however. Wally stood there in the doorway, watching the forlorn couple. His mouth open, his brow creased with concern, his eyes filling unmistakably with tears. And suddenly this Christmas pageant became different from all others. "Don't go, Joseph," Wally called out. "Bring Mary back." And Wallace Purling's face grew into a bright smile. "You can have my room." Yes, Christmas is a warm and exciting time of the year. But before we get wrapped up in the "spirit of Christmas," let's give our hearts and fives to the One who has made this season possible. Got a iob to do? Air Hammers "k Electric Demolition Hammers #¢ Air Compressors * Concrete Drills Sanders & More Hillcrest 426-1091 The most re~oectecl See it now at: name in chain saws DICK'S SAW SHOP Offer ¢ee~s De