Understand Doc Baker and Archie Moore are in the same class. Neither ducked in time. Phil Niemann sez he'll take on Haystack, the wrestler, in the next match. Chamber Manager Gary Blakeman has quit smoking cigarets so he's smoking a pipe and singing, "All I want for Christmas is an unspotted lung."
Ed Cole, city park superintendent, has dressed up Steinhart park with Christmas decorations and lighting. Young'ns who want to be photographed with "Santa" may do so at his headquarters in the former Mode-O-Day building . . . that's next to Merritt Cleaners, so Mom and Pop can be sure that when Junior finishes with his Christmas requests they'll be cleaned. Eddie Gerber, parttime courthouse custodian and fulltime partisan river developer-upper, pulled a fuse in the courthouse to repair a light switch on a vault in the basement and cut off the juice to the treasurer's and assessor's offices.
NOTICE — Any "Mr. Peebee" who would like to match his wife with the gal wrestlers next week should contact John Wesley Smull, Jaycee president. County Extension officials are cooperating with other departments in an effort to get a pilot project to converting farm land to recreation . . . which just means that before the project becomes a reality there'll be a lot of pile-it here and pile-it there palaver.
I like Christmas eve — It's the only time my kids will go to bed without fussing, then stay in bed giggling and trying to peek around corners to see what's going on in the living room. It's also the time when the Missus and I work an hour and a half after reading instructions on putting together a toy that is supposed to require "only 30 minutes of your time." It's also the only time our family stays up until wee hours of the night laying out those little gifts and then gets up long before the crack of dawn to play sleepy-eyed with something, 'Oh, Oh! Lookit what we have here!'
The most unprogressive individual I know is the guy who advertises his merchandise for weeks, then when you stop in to say hello and ask, "what's new?" he replies, "nothing much." The Jaycees re-built a shelter on the ice skating grounds north of the armory for the winter. Judge George Stanley, park board chairman, who has seen to it the ground is readied for ice skating, said the shelter will get a coat of paint.
I'm the best doggoned ice-skater-upper in the world, that is, if skating on ankles is considered good.