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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1955)
6-(S. Ill) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thurs., Dec 22, '53 33ffHsir i i : m.im ' mw f i n u w way to find out where Mr. Yodel wax sleeping Tinker I the Rmrae "Well, we haven't come this far for nothing, " Tinker said. "I've got an idea." He went to the basement door and looked at it carefully. Down -. .u. u-n ..... - l;ti nnM Nancv wan terribly anrrv to hear " " c " " " ' . L' 4k. . .vi ........ j;j ". i...; anoui a 1001 square, wnere inr iiai uri.,.c. uiu m ucut't j 1. -J .., without THE TOYMAKERS SECRET Tk stery m far: The toy makers are havtag a bard time flalshlaf their Christmas prrnrM for Saala Clam and have turned . U Steve ani Nancy far help. Chapter X they could finish the machine """'u,V V he door which would tell Santa what to f"sTlh"wn! 19 op" lhe d"r give each girl and bay for Christ- i for him Tinker crawled through the hole workshop to find Steve ,gldc gnd whispcredi ..ynu jlls, Steve was helping wrap pack-;watch how I get Mr. Yodel down j ages in the shipping department j nrre without waking anyone else," hen ahe found him. "Oh, Steve," i Everything was quiet for a mm-1 he said, "Grundy and the other (lfe an(j then the children heard a toymakers say they can't finish ! ctaokno clock start to go "cuckoo, Santa's present because they don't ! cuckoo." tonight and Friday night know how to fit all the little wheels j together to make it work. What shall we do?" Steve thought minute and then said. "What about Mr. Yodel, the Swiss watchmaker who lives near us. I'll be', he could fix the mach ine." 'I Tm Many Cuckoos "Thirteen?" asked Nancy. "No clock is supposed to cuckoo any more than 12 times." .lust as she said that a light turned on in an upstairs bedroom and the children could hear the soft pad of slippers coming down stairs. The children gave a ott tap Mr. Tsymaken Get. Stack 'Sav. that's a good idea." Nancv i on the basement door, and said. "Let's go and tell Tinker." i Yodel himself opened it Tinker was still in the workshop where the present was being built, 'What are you children doing out there at this .time of night? ", Whn Slv anil nrv avnlained he asked. their iitea aid P.ninrfv whn was in I "Let me come insidei and ex- charge of making the present , said. "If .we can't fix it. I doubt if your i Mr. Yodel can either. But Tinker said, "i Is worth trying. We won't be any , worse off than we are now. FOR THE FltlEST on your Christmas . CABAffDlN MEM'S I plain," Steve said. Mr. Yodel was introduced to i Tinker, but he didn't seem particu- . ... .. i lnrlv mirnrispri In see the little it sounds line it,, ..-,. ., , . m . i n niw . mi it nn ,iu who mom ! : my cuckoo clock cuckoo 13 times, 1 ah?" U'B tall Via amri Ctnt-si (nlH So Tinker hurried around and thc ol) waichmaknr of their pro- m found several departments that blrm .nd ght)wed nim the box needed supplies and then he went and the mj,chine the tovmakers to Santa Claus and asked to -use wfre trying t0 bllild ine sieign ana reinurt-r iu gu gei them. , Santa said "Fine. Why don't you take the children along?" which was just what Tinker wanted him to say. A Trip la the Sleigh So Tinker and the children bundled themselves up in their Testing Wheels and Parts .... Mr. Yodel studied it for a long time. He tested .several of the wheels and moved the parts back and forth. Finally, he looked up. "I can fixn." he said, "But 1 will need one thing a special watch spring to make it work." Turning to Steve, he said. "I coats. Steve carried the precious , know of only one watch spring present for Santa under his arm like it anywhere. It is in your and they all climbed into Santa's : watch, Steve the one I fixed for sleigh. i 'you as your Christmas present A crack of the whip and the! this year." reindeer were off and away into Tomorrow: A Hard Derision the sky. j x Steve was so interested in seeing i f afll iVT,ifii lr the mountains and rivers slip by nrfllll I" 1 IS. hand? b0X "mo,t fe" 0Ut'Joiii( (l in Wedding The children were glad. YES, THEY'RE WASHABLE! Sport collar can be worn open or closed, gathered sleeves, shirred back for-freedom of movement, matching buttons, in-or-out square bottom. Wide selection of colors. finely tailored in a way. to see their house which lay dark and still ia the night as the sleigh swooped down the street. But there was bo time to go home bow as there was work to be done. The Iwlas Vatchaoaker The sleigh stopped at the house Where Mr, Yodel lived. "Does anyone else live with him at the bouse?" Tinker, asked. - "He lives with his daughter and her husband," Steve said. "'He has his workshop in the basement. " I wonder bow we can get Mr. SEATTLE un Tee-Squnnt-Nee Jackson is expecting Miss Robbie Raye Stnplin from Norman, Okla., Jhis week to become Mrs. Jackson. ."My name might mean some thing. 'in Indian; I don't know," said the 21-year-old aircraft work tr, who added that he and his sweetheart' of childhood days at Cans, Okla., hope to wed Dec. 30. "There's' an old Indian custom around Gans, Okla. The grand father has the privilege of naming his son s first-born. The grandfa Yodel to wake np without waking jther is suppose J to step outside up everyone else in the house?",! the door at the time of the birth Nancy asked. . and name the baby for the first The- big brown house was quiet thing he sees. 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