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Newspaper
Andrews County News
Location
Andrews, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1963
Page
13
A collection of children’s Christmas wish letters requesting toys and gifts from Santa. The notes mention Dick Tracy wrist radios, a typewriter, doll houses, dolls, play sets, a bike, an Etch A Sketch, Tinkertoys, a BB gun, a rifle, football gear, and various dolls and accessories. Names include Mayde Cade, Peggy Trout, Delesa Bryan, Tommy Bales, Kay Covington, Bertha Delgado, Ruby Nell Brooks, and taste Potter.
Major Leo E F Gossett of the Texas Department of Public Safety calls motorists to aid traffic safety during Operation Deathwatch from December 1963 through January 194? The effort adds 24 enforcement units and pairs highway patrol with Live & Weight and Motor Vehicle Inspection staff to curb one car accidents and fatalities.
A page segment presents children names and gift requests for Santa Claus. Nine year old Vivian Pear, Martha Ann Patterson, Nancy Yarbrough, Billy Beavers and others ask for dolls, nurse kits, shoes, a guitar, a plane, a cooking set and more stuffed into a festive note about Christmas wishes. The piece ends with a note about Handel's Messiah begun in August and first performed in April.
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