Santa's Workshop Town Brims With Holiday Spirit
Travelogue recounts a summer visit to a whimsical Santa's Workshop on Highway 86 near the Adirondacks. The piece describes a full Christmas village with shops, a chapel, a reindeer barn, and an electric refrigerator in the frost center pole. It highlights Operation Toylift benefiting 211 stops and 18 tons of toys, aided by sponsors and local clubs, plus plans for a Whiteface Mountain trade school for orphans aging out of care.
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Highway 86
Adirondacks
North Pole
Shelven
Santa
Cupid
Blitzen
Toylift
Haac Standard 611
Whiteface Mountain
Graettinger Municipal Light Plant Board Meeting Notes
The board met December 8 1958 with all members present. Motions approved minutes from the previous meeting and to hold all bills in full. the meeting adjourned. Listed expenditures include wages 1333.89 and items from Crescent Electric Supply Hawkeye Truck Equipment and Standard Oil among others.
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Hangen
Petersen
Chicago, R. I. & Pacific
Melvin R. Nissen
H & O Transfer Co
Crescent Electric Supply
Globe Machinery & Supply
Cooper Petroleum
Hawkeye
Terry-Durin
Standard Oil
Injured Allan McClain Falls From Corn Crib
Allan McClain of Lake Park was injured when he fell about 10 feet from a corn crib while changing the swing spout. A limb struck him during the fall, preventing a head landing.
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Allan McClain
Lake Park
Albino Pheasant Shot by Pat Scherrman in Dyersville
Pheasant hunter Pat Scherrman of Dyersville recently bagged a rare albino pheasant. The bird is nearly all white with a red ring around the chest and has been mounted for display.
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Pat Scherrman
Dyersville
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G. F. Shaver
Lars
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Josephine Fitzpatrick
By Marj Vandervelde
Cine Elie Lg
Seriathenen
Thoreson's Graettinger
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Graettinger Municipal Light Plant
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GMC
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Estherville
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