Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1951 — Page 14

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(CDN)—The world will go short this year of 24 million bushels in Letters From All Over [nu mn Fam Toy owes oy iso 3 : p oO " ’ ih > ny gh evel is acres in the 1951-52 season, where-| |. SANTA CLAUS, Ind, Dec. 12idepending on where you arbitrar- 8 as at least 13 million acres must| | s AVINGS

Note ‘¢ then, they say, willlbe sown to meet domestic and (UP) — A Tennessee. mountain ily éstablish the os boy's letter today asked Santa na She oun anries, as Austra. wheat harvests be bigoverseas demands for Aussie

to send his father an ax and his|busy. It not only shuttles the enough to meet minimum home Wheat. : mother a buck saw so they could|letters to and from the Legion|and overseas demands One result has been that Auscut wood for their cabin stove. hall but also postmarks millions| my, 1s h : ful how-| tralia will inot have enough sur “Dear Santa” the boy wrote,lof gift packages and greeting e government is hopeful how-| 5 wheat to supply all of the “We are neary out of firewood cards each Christmas season, ver, that new price boosts for|gg 700,000 bushels it has confor our stove. Would you please] postmaster ibert Reinke, a Wheat and the steep fall in wool tracted to export under the insend daddy a sharp ax and please | world War IT veteran who finds prices will encourage farmers to/ternational wheat agreement. send mom a buck saw.” running his little Post Office is/Cut down on sheep raising and It also has none to sell on the The missive was one of 40,000/a snap for 11 months of the SOW more wheat. free world market, which last letters delivered to the American year hired more than 20 extra! The tendency by farmers to year .bought 35 million bushels Legion here by the Post Office helpdrs to handle 3 million to 4/cash in on the wool boom isifrom Australia. Department. The letters comeimijlion pieces of mail this ; from all over the world, - ad-| month. dressed to “Santa Claus, North

Pole.” Right now, the electric cancel- . t Sh ; V4 OK f ires led by|in& machine is knocking off i ON CHRISTMAS DAY Jim Tellig Eon: the letter thousands of postmarks every

that bear return addresses, ~~ |nour and the Post Office looks = UNITED RECONSTRUCTED like a beehive.

Wanted Him to Visit “Next month we'll be lucky it { One .of the most touching this|we sell $5 worth of stamps,” Mr. i. year came from a mother Of Reinke said, “Then my wife can four youngsters living behind |run the Post Office in her spare 4 = the Iron Curtain in Budapest,itime and I'll go rabbit hunting.” : Hungary. She wrote in hopes 8 N

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“We are not allowed to have|in other ways. Santa Claus in Budapest,” shel Two toy shops with elaborate Open Friday and Bey en wrote, “We would like to be re-|Christmas decorations attract Monday. Till \ $7 5 membered in some way but doubt about 500,000 visitors each year = “a Model 1 ¢ 1 it it can be done. —gometimes as many as 25,000 i — a : : x Bens Cord “Perhaps you will not ‘even get on a single winter Sunday. ATE we = oN an this letter.” One of the main attractions is /A bi ; = Lillian Butner, Hastings, Neb. |a herd of 15 reindeer, : oF: " v . § an Loy begeast invalid, All the townis 29 adults work A ” : g “CAPITOL sent a X of do 0 kal least part of the year in some hE : ; she made. She asked fo Tenn aspect of the Christmas industry fil ON = i Laid Circ!

to pass the clothing on to needy and some are employed full time RRL il : : Our vertuginel children in Santa's name. at it. .

; | : ~ : f Most of the- letters are writ-| The town itself celebrated : 10 DAY | ten in childish scrawls from wist-| Christmas last October, before HERE we —, Ri ful children asking for toys. The the rush started, according to be ; Legionnaires find that most Texas W. A. Koch, secretary of the , .

3 ; boys ask for saddles and spurs.|Santa Claus Chamber of Com- " i : ; AND EVER California and Florida children merce. ; . | R want swimming and sailing play-| “Everybody's too busy after HOME - things, Kids in northern states|that,” he "said, “to think about ” : : : X

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