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Santa's Letters Contain
Pleas and a Little Sass
Santa Heim, Md., Dec. 6 (U.R) Santa Claus gets more mall than
anybody President Truman, even.
'I've been peeking into the jolly old fellow's mail sack at this
, )f( Washington suburb where Harry Harrison (Santa) Heim is busy
making the shiny pretties that Co on Christmas trees.
The thousands of letters that
come In here are the juvenile
literary productions that your
kid or mine writes.
Here are some samples:
"Dear Santa: I think you are
a nice man. Will you please
come and see me soon and bring
me a bride doll with a husband,
and anything else you can spare?
Thank you. (Signed) Judy."
One little boy named Joe said
that his daddy had a stable with
nothing in it. Did he want a
pony? No. He wanted "a two
wheeler also a bale of hay."
The kid didn't explain what
he would do with the bale of
hay.
One little girl who signed
simply "Aletha" said that all
she wanted Santa to do for her
Christmas was to drop his bag
of toys "this minute" and come
running to help her with her
homework.
"I don't want anything else,"
said she.
A little boy who signed him
self "Richard Dixon your old
pal' from Reading, Mich., said he
had read about Santa at Santa
Helm and wished he could be
there "to see the trees and
things."
"My dad is sick and my moth
er can't leave to get presents.
All I will get is from the school
and the scouts and the neigh
bors. Wish I could get more,
but know you are busy," the
boy wrote.
Some of the letters are a little
sassy.
One came from a little girl
in Maryland.
She wrote:
"This is the last letter you will
resive from me if you do not
leave me a doll carpet sweeper.
This is final. I love you and
why don't you love me?"
One little boy in Texas, who
apparently had some prompting
from his mother asked, please,
for a "pair of pants and a wash
ing machine and maybe an
electric iron."
Another country kid asked
only for a "a farm and a color
book and a football and a calf
that gives milk right away."
Belly Hull on
Injured on Set
Hollywood, Dec. 6 (U.PJ Ac
tress Betty Hutton was confined
to her home with a sprained back
and two fractured vertebrae re
ceived in rehearsing a movie
dance routine.
"I was doing a trammelling act
like they do in circuses when
they toss performers in the air
with a net," Miss Hutton said.
"But I didn't land right during
one of the tosses."
Doctors could not say when
she would be able to return to
the set of "Annie Get Your Gun."
Work on the picture was shut
down pending her return.
British Refuse to
Return Red Soldier
Berlin, Dec. 6 VP) A Soviet
request for return of a Russian
soldier who fled to the west has
been rejected, British army au
thorities said today.
The soldier, a private, came
to the British three weeks ago
and described himself as a poli
tical refugee. He was given
haven as such in accordance
with the traditional British pol
icy, the announcement added.
The Russians, requesting the re
turn of Private Andrei Davido
vich Sheika, who crossed into
the British zone area November
13, said the soldier left the Rus
sian zone by mistake.
Ordinary army deserters are
normally returned under a four
power agreement that dates
back to 1943.
Imogene Fisher
Again in Jail
Klamath Falls, Dec. 6 W
Imogene Fisher, 43-year-old In
dian woman who achieved a
measure of notoriety last May
by taking a $102 taxi ride from
the state prison in Salem to
Klamath Falls, is held in the
Beatty jail today in connection
with the stabbing of another In
dian, Bobby George, 40.
George was knifed on the
head and back of the left arm
Sunday morning during what
state police termed a drinking
party at Beatty. He is held in
a Klamath Falls hospital.
State police said Mrs. Fisher
and several other Indians were
sitting in a car at the Furmore
Crane ranchhouse at Beatty
when they became involved in'
an argument and Mrs. Fisher
swung at George twice with a
knife.
The first blow hit him back
of the head and the second in
flicted a deep gash on his arm.
The Indian woman was book
ed on a drunk charge while in
vestigation of the knifing was
being made.
Mrs. Fisher was released from
the state pen last May 25 after
serving 4 W years of a seven year
term imposed in 1944 for man
slaughter. November Job Picture
Brightest of Year
Washington, Dec. 6 (IP) The
number of Americans regularly
employed rose 517,000 in No
vember. Reporting this Monday, the
census bureau said unemploy
ment declined 187,000. ,
Secretary of Commerce Saw
yer commented:
"The job picture in November
was perhaps more favorable than
at any previous time this year."
The census bureau explained
that the top in unemployment
was smaller than the rise in em
ployment because of "an increase
in the number of seasonal work
ers looking for jobs."
The bureau's report showed
employment total 59,518,000 in
November compared with 59,
001,000 in October and 59,893,
000 for November, 1948.
The number of jobless wpt
listed as 3,409,000 in November,
compared with 3,576,000 in Oc
tober and 1,831,000 in November,
1948.
The Ea s t e r n Intercollegiate
Basketball league, in its 46th
season, is the oldest court loop
in the nation.
Money Charges Bring
Pair Before Court
Silverton R. Thompson of
Corvallis was brought into Judge
Alf. O. Nelson's court by a Sil
verton business man who pre
ferred a charge of issuing a
worthless check.
Thompson was fined $50 and
costs, and given a 30-day sus
pended Jail sentence on payment
of fine and costs, and making
restitution of the amount of the
check.
William Ingram, after trial be
fore Justice court, Judge Alf. O.
Nelson presiding, was found guil
ty of larceny, was fined $50 and
costs and given a jail sentence
of 30 days, suspended on condi
tion he leave liquor alone, pay
the fine and costs and make res
titution of the amount of money
he was alleged to have taken.
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