The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1951-12-21

              0 0 t) u U . ji si VOL. XXXIII, NO. 51 Local Council , In Light Session No visitors and little business combined to give- village council-men 3 rliort regular session Tuesday evening. In answer to a request for information, council -tated that trees which had to be removed from a tree lawn were the re-sponiil tlity of ha owner of. the lot a ".si could no. b; removed at village expense. Atticr. was takn by the gov-erni'ir, body to rei wvo "No Parking" signs on Church street south ol the lailroad tricks in order to pr.voe more pj.king spaces clo.cr I. the schOji Council also went on record, through approv. of an ordinance, reaffirm:!',? its stand on decontrol of rents. Members passed the resolution opposing the designation of "critical area" for Amherst and again stating council's belief that rent controls should not be imposed here again. The mayor's bond in amount of $1,000 and the clerk's bond in amount of $500 were accepted. The bonds apply to the two rffi-cials for the two years starting the first of the year. Council adjourned until 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon, D.-e. 20 at which time members will clean up the yeai's business and pay final bills. Choir Presents liotary Program Members of (he high school choir presented a program of Christmas music for local Rola-rians Monday noon. The program is an annual event for the Rotary club and is always well received. Guest of the club for the regular meeting and program was A. R. Stciner, Elyria. V t. ,4 1 I' V i. . ui . -. i-T fc T-.w,,.v.iir,M,n.,,,. . .-.,.,iiiHrt"""' - - - n - i" i - i ri -i - iii i r'TV i ii --1 i ii f . ....... .v y ?, he' Amherst TWELVE PAGES Original Play Will Be Given at Church Sunday "No Room," an original Christmas play written by Mrs. Daniel Buser, will be presented Sunday evening at the Foursquare Gospel church, starting at 7:45. Mrs. Buser wrote the play about six years ago and had it dramatized at that time for the congregation. This year, with basically the same story, she has added to it, and in addition has had scenery especially built at the church for its presentation. The plot of the story is based upon a dream which a modern businessman and the Innkeeper of Christ's day might both have had, a dream powerful enough to convince them that they should make room for Chii'jt in their hearts and home. The dream of coi.re is the Christmas story and its timeless message. A b'ge cast of 30 will enact the scores. Gary Go -don of Lorain, who also is heard on the church's weekly broadcasts, will portray Joseph, while Bernice Hammond of Amherst will play the part of Mary. The church will be open all day Sunday for the benefit of any who might want to observe the nativity scenjs arranged for t'ic occasion. Paul Buser and Eugene Bau-com, student.-! at LTFE, the Four-pnu'jre Gospel training school in Ca'ii'rrnia. were to arriveThurs-'-vo;-..ing of this week for the en. 5Tui,-.s holiday.. The pla;-, "M i r a c I e of the Wooden Shoe,'' which was scheduled to be p r c s o n t o d last Wednesday evening, was posc-pened ciuo to weather conditions, i'nd will be ghen as pa -t of the w itch F-.".-vice Now Yew's Eve. Special music will also bj presented at the program, to last from 8 to 12. The public is invited. AV - ,v . !.. .... ' ?, i! i ? AMHERST, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER Ventilating and Heating Contracts Are Awarded Feldman Brothers company of Cleveland was awarded the heating and ventilating contract for the new Amherst grade school at a cost of $54,486, by the board of education at their meeting on Monday night. Purchases of new equipment for the school also acted upon, included a new and. larger heating stove for use in the school room at the town hall, fluorescent lights for the corridor leading to the home economics room and the north part of the home economics room, two new drinking fountains for the main hall at the school. Vacation Starts Amherst school children are looking forward to two weeks vacation starting this (Friday) afternoon. Gift exchanges and parties are planned this after noon for all elementary grades Buckeyes Pour In Six hundred buckeyes wanted, over 600 received! Last week, request was made through the columns of the News-Times for buckeyes to be used at a convention in Cleveland of the General Federation of Women's cluhs. Mrs. Orlando Petrlllo, junior rtirccior of the federation for the State of Ohio, Is In charge of the convention, pnd wanted the buckeyes to be used as favors forout-of-state guests. Amherst residents who turned over their collections of the Ohio symbols ware Jimmy Walker, Dick Kane, L'n.'id Deeds and Paul Gold-thorpe. 4 ' . " .i .At, f V 1 KK "'. ',J ''r' j. i'r ' " .T -, '.mtuWlwi M in'-- - - " " ,-. ' ' r$ W!k St. Peter's Plans Xmas Programs Sunday, Monday Three different Christmas programs are being planned by St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed church for Sunday and Christmas Eve. The annual White Gift service will be held Sunday morning at the 9:30 Sunday school hour. This service has been used for many years and at this time donations of money, which usually amount to between $250 and $300 dollars, are sent to various benevolent organizations of the church. The white gift stresses giving rather than receiving in order to further the true Christmas spirit. On Sunday evening at 7:30 the church school will present their Christmas program in the church auditorium. At that time there Will be a pantomime of the Christmas Story with Mrs. James Schulz as narrator. Others taking part in the story of the nativity will be Jane Thomas as Mary, Lester Barckert as Joseph, Richard Slack, Ted Short and James Schulz, the three wise men and Ted Rogers, William Wheatley and Harold Mathes as the shepherds.A program of recitations and songs by the primary, beginner and junior departments will also bo heard. Monday night there will be held the annual 11:30 Christmas Eve candlelight service. St. Peter's E&R church choir will be in charge of the program with Mio. Earl Kane, Mrs. Ralph Prit-tie and Mrs. Norman Rickard as soloists. Choir Director Charles Meek will play a violin obligato. Rev. Henry A. Stick will have the devotions and W. T. Rogers will be narrator fcr the Christinas story. Herman Short and Conrad Mulder arc in charge of the church decorations. Annual Program Sunday Eve at First Evcii'jelieal First Evangelical United Brethren church will hold its annual Christmas program, Sunday evening, Dee. 23 at 7:30 p.m. " Mrs. Margaret Schrnalz is chairman lor the program which will include an organ prelude by Esther Sick, Carols and recitations by the children of the Sunday school. A pageant, "The Christmas Story," will end the program with Beth Stevens as reader,! Ucvcrly Sprague end Lorclta Borowicz singing the solo parts. Linda Hcggie will play the part of Mary ind David Drake that of Joseph. Shepherds will be portrayed by Bob Koontz, Ronnie Ehman, Willard Salisbury, Paul Miller, George Petkosek, Leonard Morris and Bob Hoffman; wise men, Larry King, Elliott Nabors, Seth Stevens; angels, Darlene Berk, Marilyn Berring-ton, Barbara Campbell, Patty Coleman, Nancy Fuller, Kaye Koontz, Natalie Mackie, Judith Tabbert, Nadine Pikey, Maiy Pikey, Juanita Gerber and Anita Nabors. Other children taking part in the program include Diane Carter, Kenneth Canonge, Sandy Reichert, Beth Drako, Cheryl Schibley, Jeffrey Schroeder, Ceda Lee Bring, Bobby Bidainger, Ann Blackmann, Mary Salisbury. Bill Fullar, Roger Hume, John Murry, Kelly King, Claude Woods, Bobby Flynn, Diane Hoffman, Billy Bring. Charles and Albert Hook, Ronald Bring, Robert Schibley, Larry Gates, Mark Stevens, Bert Koontz, Eddie Mackie, Karen Williams, Grctch-en Schneider, Grace Baker, Bonnie Reichert, Sharon Pikey, Gwcn Canonge. Barbara Mackie. Richard Schibley, Robert Bring, Keith uueii, Tom Schaeffer, James Poyak, Joyce Springer, Leslie King, Carol Renoutfrd, Hazel Miller, Whitman Salisbury, Donna Campbell, Charlene Snyder, Barbara Ehman. If til lW 'ffl fifi. M: ews 21, 1951 FOURSQUARE GOSPEL Rtr. Diniil E. Bur Sunday school 9:30. Morning worship 10:30. Young people's meeting at 7. Evangelistic services 7:45. Broadcast at 8 over WEOL. Nightly broadcast at 10 over WEOL. ST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL Kit. Henry A. Stick Confirmation classes, 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday. Sunday, Dec. 23, Christmas Sunday. 10:30, worship service. O Holy Child of Bethlehem Descend to us we pray Cast out our sin and enter in Be born in us today. We hear the Christmas Angels The great glad tidings tell O come to us, abide with us, Our Lord, Emmanuel. No season of the year brings to the wrold such cheer, genuine joy, good will and unselfish deeds as does the season which celebrates the birth of our Lord Jesus. May our hearts not only be filled with Christmas joy, but also with genuine thankfulness to God our Father for sending to us Jesus, and sending him as a humble, attractive little human child. Hallelujah, wh a friend we have in Jesus. FIRST EVANGELICAL UNITED-DRETHREN Her. Cohurn C. Vanriernll Tomorrow, Saturday, Rehearsal for the small children from 2 to 3 o'clock, and for the larger children from 3 to 4. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Morning worship service, 10:30 a.m.; Christmas sermon by the minister. Rehearsal for nursery, beginners and primary children, 2 to 3. Rehearsal for the junior and intermediate children, 3 to 4. Annual Christmas program by the children of the church, 7:30 p.m., with Mrs. Margaret Schrnalz in charge. The treat will be distributed by the committee headed by Mrs. Melvin Schroeder. The Youth Fellowship, and any others interested will leave from the church after the program to sing carols for those who are shut in. Each one who plans to go should bring a few cookies for the lunch which will be served upon return to the church. Midweek prayer meeting, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Choir rehearsal, 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Christmas party for the Truth Seekers class at the home of Reuben Dute, 8 p.m. Thursday. Christmas party for the young people at the home of Pat Simms on South Lake street, 7:30 p.m. Friday. Members of the Youth Fellowship will tring sandwiches. ST. PAUL'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN Kit. R. C. Bou Sunday school and Bible class 9:30 a.m.; worship service 10:30 a.m. Sermon topic: "The True Glory of the Christ Child." The message will be based on the Word of God found in John 1:15-18. Sunday afternoon, 2 p.m., members of the Sunday school will meet to rehearse the Christmas Eve program. Christmas Eve, the 24th, 7:30 p.m., the members of the Sunday school will present the Christmas story in reading, recitation, song and pageantry. Christmas Day, the 25th, service at 10 a.m. Sermon topic: Comets, Clippers Battle Tonight For Second Spot niiuiL-iakB uailic all VIM I foe tonight for possession of sec WW 5: '4 IMES THE SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD "What Does Christmas Mean to You?" The message will be based on the Christmas story found In Luke 2:1-14. Offerings will be brought on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day for charitable institutions serving needy and neglected children. The greatest Christmas gift of all is free. As during every Christmas season of the past, this gift will again be offered to every person who hears the Christmas Gospel, and it will be offered without money and without price. Christ Himself spoke of this gift when He told a leader who had come to Him by night that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). Christ is God's great Christmas gift to man. Everything that a man could wish is wrapped up in the divine Redeemer whom God sent down to earth on that first Christmas eve. In Christ the Father has offered His wayward children pardon, peace and life. In Christ He has opened up for man a way of escape from certain doom and has cleared the path to Paradise. It was to keep for man the Law which man had broken and to suffer for man the punish it which man had merited, ti.at Christ, the Son of God, came down from heaven. That was the gift whicl; 0 d had promised to Adam and Eve. already in the Garden and that is the gift which came to earth in the silence of a Palestinian : Will this most precious gift be yours? It will if you, together with millions of believers throughout the world, will acknowledge the Christ of Christmas as your Savior, Lord and King. "The wages of sin is death," the Bible tells us, but it goes on to add, "but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.",May that gift bo yours this Christmas. AMHERST METHODIST Roy. Dale Kizgi Su'iday school 9:.'!5. Mo ning wo'vhip, 11. You,!-, Fellowship. G:00 Mom- bers Wi'l go caro :ng. Christ las Sunday school program at ;'outh Amherst, 7:30. Christmas Eve, 7:0. Sunday school program at Amherst. Wednesday, 7: J. ?ruyr r.c. i-ing and bible study. ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC Rcr. Fr. Joseph A. Ltntbtck Novena for World Peace on Friday evening at 7:30. Confessions will be heard after the devotion.Masses on Christmas will be at midnight, 7:30, 9 and 11 a.m. All Masses will be High Masses. We might call Christmas the Feast of Life. For the birthday anniversary of the Son of God concentrates our attention upon Christ's three births: Born the Son of God from all eternity Born here on earth the Son of Mary Born the Son of Man in the souls of men through baptism. In all history no man walked this earth who loved life more than Christ. No man before or since saw so clearly how sacred and eternally valuable human .life is. The greatest natural gift God has given us is life. It should be obvious that God desires us to (protect and safeguard this gift 'Even if we were to live only on : this earth, life would be a sacred ond place in Southwestern Conference standings. Clearview's Clippers come In tonight to play on the local floo-In a game that can help to make oh break either team. Both teams are currently tied for second place with two wins and one loss in conference play thing. For this world, despite all its aches and pains, can bring many deep joys to man's being. But when we know that man has a more glorious life still coming, then human life becomes priceless. All the strict rules flowing from God's command, "Thou shalt not kill" and the church's strict clinging to rock-solid principles safeguarding life, all these make sense with one statement: God alone gives life and God alone can take it away. Too many people are forgetting that, as they approve evils attacking human life. Yet we live in an age that sells human life cheap. Two world wars and the threat of a totally destructive third war have dulled our sense of values. Wild educational theories striving to explain man's origin as a bleak progress from slimy muck back to empty dust have betrayed man's dignity. And selfish sentimentality has invented soft-sounding names for vicious crimes against life. So we hear propaganda for sterilizing the unfit and criminal, wiping out the afflicted with mercy killing, even carvina out unborn life by the ! monstrous evil of abortion, j Then comes Christmas and we I open our eyes to God's truth. Life must be precious, pregnan-j cics are sacred, babies are jewels to treasure, protecting the beginning and the end of human existence is a solemn duty for i lor.k w'.iat God has done .. He loved life so much He took flesh from an earthly mother, just to bo more like us. C!!1'3T!AM SCIENCE Flr'l Churrh. I.op:iin. 6H0 W. Erie Art. Firi-t Churth, Elyrn, 309 fcant At. Worship service and Sunday school, 11 a.m. Midweek meeting 8 p.m. Wednesday. 'Is tho Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?" is the subjclt of thelesson-sermon which will be read in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, Dec. 23. It will have for the Golden Text: "To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are nil tilings, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him" (I Corinthians 8:6). Included in the citations which comprise the Lesson-Sermon are the following correlative passages from the Bible and from the Christian Science textbook, "Sci-eree and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. "The day of the Lord will come as a thief 'in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up . . . Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness" (II Peter 3:10, 13). "The compounded minerals or aggregated substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent masses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember that they all must give place to the spiritual fact by the translation of man and the universe back Into Spirit. In proportion as this is done, man and the universe will be found harmonious and eternal" (Science and Health, page 209). SOUTH AMHERST METHODIST Rrr. DaU RIfn Morning service 9:45. Sunday school, 11:00. Christmas program, 7:30. Thursday, 7:30, prayer service. Amnerst has a slight edge over the Clippers In their rivalry which started back in 1931. The Comats have won 19 games and have .est 15 to Clesrview. Last year's fjnmes were split, Amherst winning the first one, 43-33, but getting Vumped oft by Clearvlew In the second game, 39-34. 1