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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1966
Page
31
A reflective piece on You Day emphasizing family time and meaningful gifts. It notes costs, postage, and the idea that a simple card or personal message strengthens bonds. The text reflects on being together despite distance and the value of thoughtful gestures over lavish presents.
A festive page gathers notes and poems about friendship and giving. Readers share sentiments on togetherness and joy, plus heartfelt letters to Santa from first graders Shawn Schwartz and others describing Christmas wishes and family reminders.
Three children's letters to Santa list toys and requests. Dean asks for games like Bats in Your Belfry Busy-buzz-buzz and Thingoding Derek lists toys including Rock em Sock em Robots and Tiger Town items. Charles Melvin Kolb asks for a cement mixer truck and winter clothing for siblings plus fruit and candy.
A personal note asks Santa for a doll buggy. The sender identifies as Sharon Schwartz and signs with love. The brief excludes additional details or context.
A hand written note dated to a child named Leon Welch begs Santa for a bicycle and a gun, urging kindness to other children while signing off with love. The tone is earnest and shows a child's request combined with a reminder to remember others.
A child writes Santa detailing requests for a Bee Bee gun a Johnny West figure with horse Rock em Sock em robots and a Bonanza wagon. He mentions being six years old and living in Gustine and signs with his name.
A young girl Roxann Easley writes a Christmas list asking for a sting ray bicycle a Hand's Down game a Jan doll Charms and any other gifts she wishes to receive. She closes with affection.
A young girl writes to Santa Claus with a Christmas wish list. She requests a doll cradle dishes car train piano and a dog plus candy and nuts or an orange if unavailable. She also asks Santa to visit all the other boys and girls and signs her name Pau la Ann Anders.
An eight year old girl named Josie C Es trada writes to Santa confessing past misdeeds and requesting a small piano as a present for next year. She signs the note with affection.
Two holiday notes from Gustine children request gifts for themselves and relatives. Jackie Isham asks for bicycle, radio, candy apples and fruit for all well mannered kids. Michele Couch asks for a play stove ironing board and a gift for her father serving in Viet Nam.
The text presents a jumble of childlike requests for toys and a gun, with names Alvin Blake Welch Linnie Fay Townsend Seta Clos and Ricardo enchaco expressing desires for bicycles dolls hair dryer candy and a BB gun. The fragmented notes resemble a holiday wish list from multiple children.
A child writes Santa from Mrs Boyd's room requesting a steam shovel a go go wheels and truck a jeep and a new coat David Wayne Russell Cecil and Amy express yearner for toys in a holiday note in school.
A student in Mrs. Hathcock’s class writes to Santa requesting a large horn gun set and asks for gifts for the other boys and girls in the room. The note is signed Donnie Riene.
A child presents a Christmas wish with a bicycle microscope, 100 boxes, a rock pick, an electric train with animals, and a menagerie including a cow, horses, sheep, pigs, chickens, roosters, and baby chicks. Signed David Shiger.
A child writes to Santa asking for a bike an organ a horse or pony and a billfold plus a shooter and skipper. The note signed Love Cheryl Thiebaum in Miss Hathcock's room.
Two students send Christmas requests from Mrs Hathcock’s room. Bart McDougal asks for a BB gun banjo baseball glove and a bike for his brother Bret. Stephen Havelrigg asks for a pola roid swinger football toy drill a stapler and notes his room.
A handwritten Christmas note expresses desires for a watch, billfold, walkie talkie, football set, and a Be-Bun era order. Love Edwin.
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