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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 24, 1979

Page

5

Group Stands for Old Fashioned Christmases

Charles Langham and Terry Pettit co founded SCROOGE a group opposing Christmas extravagance and urging simple gifts and charitable donations The club promotes thrift personal visits and no credit card use with five guiding principles including small gifts to children and charity gifts for adults The Kansas City Zoo notes a light hearted second item about a heavy hippo named Shakespeare and weighing scales in the nursery

Langham Scrooge Terry Pettit Prezcolivered Pettit Kent England Kansas City, Mo Kansas City Zoo Shakespeare Zoo Ernest Hagler Hagler

Readers urged to send letters to The Star

The Star invites readers to contribute by submitting letters to the editorial page. Subscribers are encouraged to share opinions and community thoughts in the Letters to the Editor section, with the newspaper printing more than 700 letters annually.

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