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Page 13 Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, December 21, 2005 (Editor’s Note: This year we take a nostal- gic stroll through the Letters of Christmas Past. Do you know some of these hopeful, young writers?) 1965 Selma Elementary School 1st Grade Hello Santa: I want a needle for my Mommy. I want an oven for my baby sister to play with. I want some gold fish. My sister wants some money. I want a dictionary for my daddy. Thank you for all the toys, Billy Kuenniger * * * Hello Santa Claus: I want a train and a xylophone and a wagon. I would like a vase for mother. I want a sailboat and a wallet, too. Thank you, Pete Blue * * * Dear Santa: I want a painting set for my Christmas. Thank you Thelma Blue * * * Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a Johnny Express truck and a road racing set. Bring Eddie some toys, and Danny some toys, and I want Pat to have a road racing set, too. I want Dave to have some build- ing blocks o build up high. Thank you Tony Scaturro * * * Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a train. Please bring my mother a ring. Thank you, Ronald Crutcher * * * Dear Santa: I want a teddy bear, a xylophone, a piano, and a ring. Thank you Kathy Martinho * * * Dear Santa Claus: I want a engine, a heli- copter, a Jeep, a ring, an airplane, and a boat. I want mama to have a vacuum cleaner. I want my daddy to have a new shaving kit. I want Neil to have a first aid kit, Gary to have some new clothes, Aunt Sally to have some new dishes, and my Uncle Earnest to have a new car, and my Aunt Edna to have new clothes. Love Brian Dobie * * * Selma Elementary School - 2nd Grade Dear Santa: I want an automatic dish washer, a violin and a train. Merry Christmas from Terry Hoy Dear Santa: I want a train and a race set and a Johnny Ex- press. For my grandmother I want a flower pot and a waste paper basket. Fir my grandpa I want to get him a new car. For my mother I want a bike. Thank you Santa Claus, Mike Stevenson * * * Dear Santa: How are you? I am fine. I want a book for Christmas. Merry Christmas, Tamara Seifert * * * Dear Santa: I want a dollar wolit and my mother wants little spoons. I want a pocket knife. I love you Lee Martinho * * * Hello Santa; I want a “Baby-Boo” doll for Donna, and a toy bow and arrow set for Billy, and a train for him, too. And Donna and I want to have a doll-house and I want a Time-Bomb for all three, Billy, Donna and Marilyn Kuenniger, Thank you * * * Hello Santa: I am good. I want a Time Clock and gloves. I would like Ronnie to have a “Rock-em, Sock-em’ game, and Debra some gloves, too. I would like Alan and Linda to have a picture of themselves taken together. Love from, Neoma Pope * * * Dear Santa: My mother wants some forks. Marty wants a truck and I want a doll. Thank you Madonna Miller * * * Hello Santa: I want a doll for Christmas. My brother wants a toy boat. My sister Teddi, wants a big toy pig. My mother wants a chair. My father wants a duck and a goat. Thank you Melissa Baker * * * Dear Santa Claus: My mother wants money for Christmas. I want a toy boat. I want to get my brother an ice- hockey game and my sister a hair-band and my other sister a doll. I want a trac- tor for my father to make our garden bigerg. And my mother wants a tree pulled out of our garden, please. I love you, Santa Ronald Pope * * * Selma Elementary School - 3rd Grade Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a Skipper doll and my mother a new car. Thank you, Coleen Robinson * * * Dear Santa: How are you? I would like a b-b gun and a fishing pole and a sub-a toy one. A Secret Sam multi-pistol 0- 9, a radio rifle and a snap shot and a Janes bone rase set. Your friend Jerry Blue ps Are you real? Dear Santa, I would like to have a junior typewriter or sewing machine. I would like a nativity scene for my mother and a suit for my father. I would like a rac- ing set for my brother, too. Sincerely, Karen Lee Robertson PS Are you real? Huh? * * * Dear Mr. Santa Claus: How are you doing on your presents? The cookies must be very good. I wish I could taste them. Last year you gave me a bike. This time I would like a printing set for my sister and I. Your friend, Ronald Sprinkle * * * Dear Santa Claus: I would like a b-b gun or a bike for Christmas, and my little brother wants a JOHNNY EXPRESS. Some kids don’t believe in you but I do. I couldn’t find out who you were at the Selma Market the other day. Your friend Eddie Scaturro * * * Hi! Santa Claus: How are you? Is it cold up at the north pole? I would like to be up there with you. I like snow and so I would like to be up there, too. Are you going to put lots of presents under the tree? I wold like to no what one of them are. Your friend Brad Hamilton * * * Dear Santa: I would like some se- cret guns that nowon new I had. I would like the ‘man from uncle’ gun and James Bone gun and ‘secret Sam gun’ and a snap-shot gun and a radio rifle. Love Steven Saffer PS I hope you don’t get your suit dirty. * * * (Continued on page 16)
