MONTHLY AVERAGE WEATHER OUTLOOK Weather Bureau Extended Forecast Division FOR MID-DECEMBER 1968 TO MID-JANUARY 1969 Temperatures are expected to average below seasonal normals in the southeastern quarter of the Nation, the middle Atlantic coast states and also the Pacific coast states. Above normal tem peratures are indicated for northern New England, the northern Great Lakes and the Southern Plains Elsewhere near normal averages with large fluctuations are in prospect Precipitation is expected to exceed normal in the mid-west, Lake Region and Northeast areas where snows will be fre quent, as well as over the Paci fic Northwest. Subnormal amounts are predicted for the southern Plateau, Southern Plains and the South Atlantic states. Elsewhere near normal amounts are indicated. WASHINGTON REPORT Congressman Edwin D. Eshleman 16th District—Pennsylvania Most of you are probably as time of hope. Each year, any busy with Christmas activities at sorrows that have come before this point as my family and I the Chnstmastide seem to di- With all of the things to be done mimsh in importance when the during the holiday season, each season arrives. This year, while of us is guilty sometimes of for- some people may have trouble getting or just not bothering to finding much in our national sit think about the real meaning of nation to inspire hope, the eter it all. A Congressman is not nal theme of Christmas will still necessarily an export on the have significance for most of us. meaning of Christmas, but I A hymn of the season best ex would like to share with you a presses that theme with these few thoughts that occur to me as words “The hopes and fears of the holiday season approaches all the years are met in Thee Christmas might be called the tonight.” r , C °a 5 59^ 181 pen na- X * -tl ♦•*■%• - *tt*~ - ' 'V. *4 > - < t , *Ol j)uu .....■■?■ .m.Tr. < Dea r^ eTl4: „ a raA OT4o£ w »t etes^tte o »^SplaS 15 cas^fiSw^ s»k** wea - a t our SSSSS B*®’" 8 *®’" tvev? St® 1 More than ever before, we should be moved by the Christ mas message of “peace on earth, good will toward men ” Ameri cans face grave problems today, problems that will not be solved easily or immediately. But we can remember that despite any bleakness that confronts us, no other nation, now or in the past, has offered so much, spiritually and materially, to her citizens As we consider that point, we might also resolve to do those things that will assure greater blessings in the days ahead. Af ter all, the real joy of Christ mastime is that the world reaf firms its faith that life has mean ing and purpose and that man has a mission. . . Co. 1 068 sttl c«eW^ tSI . -Nl. 3a^ eS W Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 21, 1968 i% + Jk + v ? + in ? :♦++ +v *J + j + *+ 4 + l- +-v* ■--+ + r - i ”**” I' ” ■*»*" - I s y* -,• V * * * *„V ■' &£//**?/£&&* X+-r X? + *+ |l~y ,/* < * ++ - *++& jP, ** VV* # #>*yv*v + -f + '" t «,♦ -A *^L? > •• *;v;v^>rx v / . . ?t 1 4.*- <* ' % - is an easy answer to state, but the achievement of its condi tions has always been man’s most formidable task Perhaps we can do better in the months ahead. Tl > 70 3|S|a|g ■noSSgj ~ I" 1 "! 2aa 2 {xj C 33"SS»£ ,Hg 9 KJW> o<3 • ** M ‘ HN HOtgSr - s£-§> H lisila ■■ gi^gSg n,3sggS| t?d Q ] w |^ r o>®l ■■■ o,o§ch2 2D «Sg®a22 r¥ z“§sgggz^® —' BS. w^O O Oh®l i— O ■■■ 3%>e? 2n Q Eaoc-;g^ tf) fc _ ■ SoosS ■ | sjsn^ I >»“gS as|g |p sp£a is «sgiS Sc* £g_ g m >~2 g 5 d « r e- m 19