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Operation Christmas Tree gathered momentum this week when Bob Stewart, agriculture inspector for the El Dorado agricultural commissioner's office, passed inspection Tues day on 73 Christmas trees des tined for El Dorado county ser vicemen in the Vietnam war theater. The trees are growing on the Harold Engstrom Christmas tree farm and will be donated by Engstrom. They average 28 inches in height. PROCESSING The mailing list was submit ted by Carl Borelli to the ag riculture office; 73 certificates of inspection, each with an in dividual name on it, were made out by the local office. The certificates then will be pro cessed by the plant quarantine division of the US department of agriculture, with offices in San Francisco. This office will make out mailing stickers, one for each tree, which will be returned to Borelli. Mailing tubes from Dawson Tile and Linoleum will be used for shipping. Iota Nu chapter, Beta Sigma Phi, plans to make Miniature stockings, one per tree, to be enclosed. Additional Christmas tree decorations will be mailed to each by Girl Scout troops in western El Dorado county. Fox Brothers pharmacy is donating cardboard mailing cartons for the decorations. All mailings should be com pleted by Nov. 28, Borelli said. Manhurt Lloyd J. Wilkerson, 27, of Plymouth, was injured Sunday when the vehicle he was driving hit a tree on highway 49 east of El Dorado, according to California highway patrol re ports.
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Placerville Mountain Democrat
Placerville, California, US
Thu, Nov 16, 1967
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