SN Gl LF ci di | drink tax at the rate of 2¢ a bot tie,” Z. H Confair, president of the Keystone Bottlers Associa- tion commented this week. “Of course this is utter non- #ense as no one in his right mind would contemplate taxing a pack- age which to the retailer at between B0¢ and $1.00 at the rate of 48 cents.” he said. “The 2 cent tax talk is merely intended to get the industry and ita friends to compromise on a l-cent levy.” He declared that there “will never be any compromise so far as the boltiers, retailers and their mpioyes are concerned, saying: o the vicious, diserimina- tory soft drink tax was enacted before, we lost 30 percent of our Mertens Bakery PATTON, PA. SS 5 AAI A SIA EN TOS | ficeholder or another. | lowed rope and, all over Scotland. bonfires blaze, burning the Old RIT cl ke a business to competing untaxed items. When the tax was per’ mitted to expire we gained nore | than we had Jost. Every soft) drink bottler in the state suffered | tremendous financial losses due! to the tax.” UNION PRESS TELEVISION SCHEDULE WIAC.TV, Channel 6 Johnstown, Pa. [| published This Newspaper As | a Ee BE a, Owners | Changes Can Be Made Without Notice (THURSDAY, JAN. } | We celebrate New Year's on Jan usry 1 because 10 days have been | lifted boldly from time. These 10 days disappeared on two occasions, The first time wan In 1582 when several countries of Europe swore allegiance to the | new calendar created by Hope | Gregory Vill which found the world | some 10 days behind itself due to errors in time calculations in order to make the correction, the people of these countries were | asked to sacrifice the days from | October 5 to 14, inclusive. It was | essential to have October 15 follow | October 5 by just one day, and bravely, millions allowed it 0 be | The second occasion, and the one | which makes the American New | Year celebration come st the right | time, occurred in 1752. It was then | that England decided to cease holding out against the Gregorian calendar. England discarded the | period from September 3 to Sep- | tember 13. : It was a confusing period. Suelal | calendars were mixed up, bables | were 11 days old after only being | alive for two day, vacations were | cut short. But it finally straight | ened itself out and today the cal | endar is on schedule. “Nappy New Year” May Be World's Oldest Greeting “Happy New Year,” sald in one way or another, is probably the world's oldest and most universal holiday greeting. The coming of the new year bas been marked and celebrated ince prehistoric time. It has not sways been January 1, however, and even now many peoples celebrate some other date as New Year's Duy. January 1, in fact, is an arbi- trary date set by the Romans be- fore Julius Caesar established the calendar that is the basis for the date used in most western oun. tries. January 1. in ancient Rome, marked the day that consuls and other officials took office, and until Caesar set things straight it was sometimes juggled considerably for the pelitical benefit of one of- An rvor in Caesar's calculation (385% days), however, allowed January 1 to creep away from its the town. It is then rolled down a local” hillside where villagers scramble for the burning embers as luck-bringers. The mén of Stonehaven, Kin- cardineshire, march through the streets swinging Fireballs of tal Year out. ‘But you have to take the trip to |S 11 30-Mew Years Bie from Waldor!- Antiiria 10°00 Pum 0.45: ~Arshur COodirey Time 1045 Prologue 0 the Future 11 00--Ding Dong Bebool 11 3--Btrike It Rab i280-U. P. 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Council on Monday evening of last week authorized formation of {a whiter authority and instructed { Attorney Alton McDonald, bor- iough solicitor, to draw up the necemary ordinance for presenta- “38¥:8 one # whales EMP MPP Ww» ‘tion at the January meeting. The authority will be (ed of five members who will be ‘appointed by council. Terms of {office of authority members will range {roms one to five years. Un- der the plan, one mem i ject is expected to be one of the first undertaken by the author. ity. ics 2 A AAR a ates 4 8 — Crashes Into Car Approximately $810 dumage ro- sulted last We y evening Ss di os Ann i sn A A £5 WE SY i a Century | hs : i i Man hat welcomed the New Year | in a giddy fashion for centuries. {1 has been cbeserved om various | und “do something” on New ‘ eve. in #
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