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1 Butch, Eunice Are To Have Merrier Christmas This YearSrBy CAROLE MARTIN i ents with their schoolmates. United Press International They cut a few fir trees “up t JACKSON. Ky. (UPI)—The - on the point”, nailed one to the __ Robertson boys “drawed names floor of the main room in their at school this year” to ex- small hill-locked house and change 50*eent Christmas pres- tramped a muddy quarter-mile)dpath to the road to sell the would like a lot of things. For others. iS one thing 1 would like a Dr. But ^le trees wcre straggly kit and a Raggedy * Ann with and people did not want to buya Raggedy - Andy. Oh I all , . .Id most forgot, but I guess 1 don't The Robertson boys k n o wln have to remind you to fill my San,a claU! wlU n0‘ vlSit ’hoir, n stocking. Love to all elves and house some two miles north of 5 deer, Robvn Pinkston. Merry he; but Christmas this year s Christmas and a happy New will be merneMhan last.11 Y , Since Lady Bird Johnson visited Butch and Eunice Robert-—0— son and their seven children lastMay, their lot has improved a Dear Santa, I have been a bj{'good girl I think. 1 would like Robertson. 37, is a slightly an electric sew machine for buiJl man but he was able to d Christmas. 1 would like Barbie* work to fix up his home-he t. clothes and a Penme Brite. It added a third room—and he a would be nice to get a purse walt;; pUt on a forestry crew in j or a blouse and skirt. I think the government-sponsored un-t. the troll dolls are cute. I would ( employed fathers work pro-y like a troll doll too. Y o u r gram j. friend, Rita Staub, Rt. 3, St., John.“I fought fires over yonder day and night. Saturdays and j. Sundays, and that helped me at_ —0— l0t,” he said,d Dear Santa, I would like Foot Added Ipe Ball Suit and a Foot Bail. Then ' The dollar an hour pay added v I would like a Pike’s Peak Hill UP during thc heavy fire sea-t-1 Climb, and a Training Rifle. I s°n 11 lfK hlm. something to t am trying to be a good boy, ,a bac on wllen tbe r*iny n but if I'm not n don't give me any presents, i. Your friend, Carey McAllister,Rt. 1, Seward.a good bov, season came and eN'en “°w while he is not working because the crew does not have the proper tools to build fire access roads up the mountains. —0— The money was not enoughto buv his children the things0 Dear Santa Claus. I would lhey want for Christmas, but r Like a Dr. kit like I get. One w1r have a special dinner e year I did not get one. My ad- _maybe fried chicken.® dress is Pawnee Rock. Kan - A woman in New Jersey sent a sas. I don’t know' what my , , . . , , ,y brothers and s.sters, but here ,hcm rloU“n= and a boadcd a are their names: Terry, Mike, brown-satin evening bag that Bret. Laurie. 1 wish you a delighted 5-year old Judy Ann Merry Christmas, and tell the* elves I love them. Mary KateBaucr SOME LIGHT ONDARK BONES1 WASHINGTON (UPI) — No r Dear Santa. I am 9 years bones about it. Chickens withold. I have been a good boy dark bones are flt to eat savsince last Christmas. I hope s Department of Agricultureyou have been a good hus • ..... band to Mrs. Santa I hope you poul,ry sP«iallsts-I don’t lose your glasses on your Dark bones, you see, are a■ way here. I want a footbafi and sign of a young bird. The reason! a basketball I want a football you are seeing more of them i suit. I hope you bring them be- lately is because producers are cause I want them real bad. marketing broiler - fryer ehick-i Your friend, John Rowley, ens, fryer - roaster turkeys and i Radium. ducklings at an earlier age.as much as any shiny new toy could.Mrs. Johnson’s “friends” also received some Christmas cards this year, and the boys used them and some cotton to decorate one of the fir trees.The family looked forward to Christmas.To the Silas Millers of Bulan, though, Christmas is to be “just another day.” Maybe the older boys would cut a tree from the hillside, but that would only be a sad reminder of bet ter times.Silas Miller. 47, left his carpentry job a year ago because of a heart condition.Saw Injured Hand He went back to w'ork last spring, but an accident with a saw severed a finger and injured the rest of his left hand too badly for him to use. Mrs. Miller, a tuberculosis patient, said they thought her husband probably suffered a slight heart attack before the accident.Eight of their 13 children are still at home. The youngest is 11 months old. The family survives on S70 a month worth of government-issued food stamps and the generosity of Perry County residents who are able to give them second-hand clothing.You get the food stamps at the first of the month and by this time there’s not much left.” Edith Miller said. The Millers’ Christmas meal will be like any other end of-the month fare.The Millers’ circumstances would not permit the children to exchange gifts in school. Their only taste of Christmas i came last weekend when they attended a small Christmas party given by a . group.The highway from Jackson to Bulan, outside Hazard, winds south through the mountains past dilapidated shacks and newly painted houses. The poor live next to their wealthier neighbors.Despite the fact that a milii on or so persons in eastern Kentucky need government aid+ try. - v
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Great Bend Western Kansas Press
Great Bend, Kansas, US
Fri, Dec 25, 1964
Page 12
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