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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Oregon Wednesday, November 20. 1961
'Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus
And His Zip Code Number Is 99701
CHATHAM. NY. UP1
"Ycs. Virpinia, there is a Santa
Claus," but Uiis year he may
not answer your Christmas let
ter unless you know his zip
code number.
Zip code for Santa Claus?
"What a ridiculous ideal"
said Mrs. Virginia Douglas, the
74-year-old grandmother who
was the original Santa Claus
'girl.
Mrs. Douglas was 8-year-old
Virginia O'Hanlon when she
wrote New York Run editor
Francis Church in 1897: "Some
of my friends say there is no
Santa Claus. Please tell me tin
truth."
Church in his famous Christ
mas editorial replied: "He ex
ists as certainly as love and
generosity and devotion exist.
How dreary would be the world
if there were no Santa Claus."
Mrs. Douglas said today she
was shocked that the U.S. Post
Office could demand not one,
but two zip code numbers on
letters written to Santa Clans at
the North Pole.
Hard To Remember
The letter writer not only has
to know Santa's number but
also his own which may le
even more difficult to remem
ber. The general New York City
Post Office announced recently
that children writing to Santa
must know the zip code fur the
North Pole 99701 and their
own neighborhood zip codes in
order to receive an answer.
"The North Pole has been
Wellendas Slate Final 'Human Pyramid'
FORT WORTH. Te.x. (UPI
The Flying Wallendas, haunted
by a possible "jinx" and mem
. ories of death on die high wire,
-; today opened what may be Hie
last performances of their fa;
mous "human pyramid."
;. This time it will be done with
a net.
'. Today's performance, for tin
. derprivileged children at the
21st annual Fort Worth Shrine
Circus, was to be the first pub
lic performance since the pyra
mid collapsed in Detroit Jan.
30. 1962, killing two members of
the troupe and paralyzing an
other. Karl Wallenda. 58, who origi-
3
nated the act in Germany in
1934. said Tuesday he did not
want to talk about the Detroit
accident. "It was bad, very
bad," he said. "After the show,
then I will talk about it."
Karl said as leader of the
act, the decision to use a net
for the Fort Worth performance
was his.
"This time f am for the net,"
he said. "Should I be responsi
ble for what happened in De
troit happening again people
would sit in my face on the
streets."
Karl saved himself in the De
troit accident by scissoring his
legs around the wire as he fell.
He also grabbed the hand of his
niece. Jana Shcpp as she fell.
Jana has since retired. Her hus
band. Diter, 2.1. died in the fall.
Herman Wallenda. Karl's
brother and at 02 the eldest
member of tlie troupe, an
nounced he will retire at the end
of the circus in Fort Worth. He
said he felt fit as ever but "if
anything should happen to the
act in the future 1 might be
blamed."
Karl scoffed at the idea the
troupe was accident prone and
said one reason they would try
the human pyramid again was
"to show that we still can do
it."
found for generations without a
zip code." Mrs. Douglas said.
"Mr. Church wouldn't approve
of such a thing ( the zip code.
"It's such a heart - u arming
feeling to hear from Santa
Claus." said Mrs. Douglas.
"What will children think if he
doesn't answer? It will only
fortify disbelief in him.
"1 realize they (the post of
fice i have a difficult job, but
some things should he beyond
impersonal automation." said
the retired New York City pub
lic school teacher.
Sorry For Children
"What a thing to do." she
said. "Those sincere letters will
probably end up in the dead let
ter office. I would have felt ter
rible if my letter had not been
answered."
Mrs. Douglas now lives in this
Columbia County village with
her daughter who has seven
children.
A spokesman for New York
Postmaster Robert K. Christen
berry explained that the re
quirement for zip codes on let
ters to Santa was part of an
educational campaign to get the
public to make more general
use of the five digit codes. The
spokesman said the same sort
of thing was going on all over
the country.
Chill Hifs
Montana
And Idaho
Hy L'nilrd Press International
Frigid Arctic air sent temper
atures falling below zero in the
highlands of Idaho and Mon
tana today. Heavy snow warn
ings were posted and motorists
ueic ordered to use chains
while crossing mountain passes.
Heavy rains, meanwhile,
drenched parts of Texas and
the Northwest coast. Wide
spread rainfall all but ended
the fire threat in Oklahoma's
drought-dry fields and woods.
The Weatlier Bureau dropped
cold wave warnings from Min
nesota and Dakota forecasts but
said it would be much colder in
those states with cold wave
temperatures in sume sections.
Cold wave warnings remained
in effect for Montana today and
tonight and for northern Wyo
ming tonight. The heavy snow
warnings were for the northern
Idaho and Montana mountains
during the day. '
Winds up to 3D miles an hour
were expected to cause drifting
of snow in some areas east of
the Continental Divide.
The temperature dipped to 3
degrees below zero at Cutbank,
Mont., by midnight. Great Falls,
Mont., and Lewiston. Mont.,
had 4 above and 6 above re
spectively at the same lime.
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Controversy Boils Over Life-Like Lincoln Figure
SPRINGFIELD. 111. (I'Pi'-A
controversy boiled today over
whether a life-like Abraham
Lincoln figure that sits, stands
talks and gestures is dignified
and characteristic or "gro
tesque." Walt Ifcncy came to the land
of Lincoln TueMlay to (a!k
about tlie project, which will be
the heart of tlie $1 million Illi
nois exhibit at the New York
World's Fair.
"He is going to foeak to
you." Disney said. "His voice
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great man. He will apjiear in a
very dignified betting.
"While seated in a chair be
fore shaking he will drop his
head in thought, a characteris
tic Lincoln action," Disney
said. "When lie is introduced
he will stand putting his
hands behind his back as
though deep in thought."
Disney said tlie Lincoln pres
entation would appear to audi
ences "as life-like as I am
standing before you perhaps
more so." He Mid the figure
even would tap its fingers on
its chair while waiting to be in
troduced. Disney's statements to news
men were in answer to criti
cism the Lincoln figure would
be "grotesque" and would re
semble a carnival sideshow.
"It's almost as ghoulish as
tlie idea to play a mock record
ing of the voices of the four
presidents enshrined at Mt.
Rushmore," one person said.
"Tlie next thing they'll have
Mousketcers giving guided
tours of the White House," said
another.
Tlie Lincoln figure will be in
a 12-minute presentation called
"Great Moments with .Mr. Lin-
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coin," held in a 500-seat audi
torium in the Illinois pavilion.
An estimated 25.000 persons
will see the show daily.
"I have more at stake in this
than tlie state of Illinois," said
Disney, a Chicago native, "I
am staking my reputation on
this my integrity, I am not
a carnival operator."
Disney and other Illinois offi
cials did not elaborate on some
of the details.
In this day of suave looks
and sonorous tones a politi
cian's television tools would
lliey autlientically reproduce
Lincoln's craggy appearance
and squeaky voice?
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