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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1964
Page
4
A collection of child letters to Santa from Port Isabel readers dated December 24 1964. Children request radios bicycles cars dolls and other gifts while some express gratitude for America and Christmas, and others mention school plays and family trips.
A collection of letters from children requesting gifts for Christmas. Many ask for bicycles, dolls, trains, guns, footballs, radios, and pets, with hopeful messages to Santa and expressions of good behavior. The notes show hopeful families and simple holiday desires.
A collection of handwritten holiday notes from students asking Santa for gifts and sharing beliefs. The letters mention items like a football, bicycle, BB gun, and roomier truck, along with prayers for peace and references to Christmas, Pearl Harbor, Kennedy, and American freedoms.
The poinsettia, a popular red bracted shrub in the United States, carries the name of Joel R. Poinsett, an American statesman and former ambassador to Mexico.
Thousands visit the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem each Christmas season. The site, in a town now part of Jordan, is shared by Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Armenian communities. Roman Catholics hold December 24 masses while Eastern churches celebrate in January using the Julian calendar.
Mr and Mrs Warren Seal of Ash Street celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary on December 19 They attended a neighborhood party with friends and relatives Their children Patty and Larry are mentioned and Mr Seal works in charter fishing.
A Christmas Eve service at St Andrew's Episcopal Church will end with Holy Communion. The Rev. Donald C. Blavier, minister in charge, will celebrant and preacher and plans to hold a similar service in San Benito.
Tuesday features meatloaf with creamed corn lettuce and tomato salad coconut cream pudding. Wednesday serves roast beef with string beans and cherry crunch. Thursday offers chili con carne with beans Spanish rice cabbage olive salad and peach cobbler. Friday presents fresh fish macaroni and cheese with chilled tomatoes and cake square.
Shirley W. Milford advises dividing men into types to tailor gifts. For businessmen select refined shirts or elegant cuff links while sport and homebody types favor colorful ties or seasonal sweaters.
Fragmentary OCR shows a string of times and temperatures with inconsistent formatting. Includes highs and lows, with scattered digits resembling a weather table and a stray sequence of numbers that may be a phone-like or data line. No clear event or person identified.
The article notes the Advent season and Christmas mass at the parish. It highlights the Dio cesean Convention in Corpus Christi, praises Roger Villarreal for the Eagle of the Cross award and his bid for Diocese CYO treasurer, and covers Christ-carding dates, a Jr CYO Christmas party with sponsors, thanks to Rev. Calderon OP, and parish Christmas activities by the Altar Society and Sisters with wishes for a blessed Christmas.
The Our Lady Star of the Sea Altar Society hosted its annual Christmas Party at the Parish Hall on a Saturday evening in December. Special guests were the Incarnate Word Sisters from Port Isabel and Fathers McDermott and Calderon. A turkey dinner was served and gifts were given to the clergy and Sisters. The sisters sang carols and Father Calderon performed a Spanish spiritual song. The gathering ended with more carols and grace.
The page presents a festive poem titled The Poet's Corner with multicultural references and playful verses about Santa. It also includes a contribution from 13 year old Brownsville student Low Ella Hickman, featuring a separate piece A Rose Bloomed Where a Weed Couldn't Grow about sacrifice and rebirth.
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