E THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUN MAY, IE f S( '.Atli'J ' C' :CSC' ' C C6[ L SK 'l2 iG 'l i '. C'l ° °F , Village Makes Ideal Yule Photographs ANIMALS SCREECH: Bitter Debate on Nut Budget Keeps Raging in Branches EAST CORINTH, Vt. (P)-Take a bowl-shaped valley in the rolling hills of Vermont. Set a simple, white church in it and top the church with a shining steeple. Nestle a cluster of houses nearby. Then roll out a carpet of snow. Now take this living Christmas card and put it two miles from a main highway, and only some 25 miles from the state capital at Montpelier. The photographers won't be long in coming. Just ask the 225 folks who live in this Vermont hamlet. East Corinth is the "most pho- tographed village in New Eng- land," Walter Hart Jr., editor of the Vermont Life magazine, says. Professional's Favorite A native is less reserved. Mrs. Willard Martin, who lives here, contends no town in the United States is more popular with pho- tographers. The great majority of the camera-carrying visitors are professionals. The reason is East Corinth's pic- turesque church, homes and for- ested hills. Ask a photographer to get you a picture of the "typical New England village" and he prob- ably will head for East Corinth. An unknown photographer cata- pulted East Corinth to fame some 20 years ago. Editor Hard says state historians have never been able to find out who he was. The photographer took a shot of the village from the hills nearby late in the 1930's and sold it to a New Rime Defines Real Meaning Of Christmas Christmas (kris mas; krist) n. (Christ+Mass) . . . Vaguely the season about Christmas Day .... and in most Christian com- munities is a legal holiday. -Webster's New Intercollegiate Dictionary Christmas season's seen now to impend A legal holiday on which to vend Good will, for money, and a curt "Thank you, credit patrons, money's only dirt." (ha) Obfuscate the meaning you intend, Cover up the non-commercial story, friend; But do it vaguely, lest it hurt- Sometimes I wish that Christmas never wert. York photographic agency. Photographers started coming in droves after the first picture be- gan circulating. Cause Problem The Johnny-come-latelles face a problem that didn't bother the early arrivals. It seems folks in a "typical New England village" like to watch television just like every- body else, so TV antennae are springing up on rooftops and atop the hills. Cameramen are having more and more difficulty getting a shot that doesn't include them. The town doesn't have much tourist trade. It is possible to rent a room, but East Corinth doesn't have any hotels or inns. Many villagers are Congrega- tionalists, and East Corinthians call their white church the "Congo church." It was built in 1840, for $1,840, according to village lore, and once was called the Union Meeting House.' Although New Englanders are not renowned for hearty guffaws, pictures of their tidy village in advertisements have furnished vil- lagers more than one chuckle. The New York Central Railroad once published a view of a passen- ger car loaded with homebound Christmas travelers. The train' window revealed a view of East Corinth -which actually is 200 miles from the nearest New York Central tracks. The "typical New England. vil- lage" also is popular with liquor advertisers, despite the fact that Corinth has voted dry at. every election in town history. The bitter . debate over the amount of hickory nuts needed for the rest of the winter continued to rage in the upper branch of the oak tree last night. The smaller, but more numer- ous, ground squirrels blocked all attempts of the tree squirrels to obtain more food. Sen. Clod H. El- lish (R-Underground), chairman of the senate tax committee, still maintains that the present taxes will take care of nutty needs until a tales tax can be placed on the ballot' in Noyember., On the other paw, the tree squir- rels claim that revenues from pres- ent taxes will not be sufficient. Pointing to his budget summary, Sen. Nasal W. Brownie (D-Licious) cried over his shoulder that the supply will fall short. "Money just isn't being received," he said wild- ly. "An incomin gtax is needed." And so the fur flies. The two sides don't appear to be any closer to reaching a solution than they were when the sessions began over 11 months ago. As time rapidly runs out, it seems in- evitable that there won't be a Merry Crisismess this year. 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