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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.
* * *
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