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Show Families away for Christmas Mr. and Mrs. George Stone of Mapleton was one couple, who had to do their Christmas shopping early. They have a daughter, Cap. LaRue S. Keller, serving with the Nurses Corps in Vietnam and the day yas like most of the others with her. Her Christmas list included towels, nylons, wash cloths and other everyday things. She took enough with her when she left tins country to last a year, but somehow they, "just came up missing," in the land where most everything seems .a luxury. lux-ury. She was thankful that her husband, Capt. Bill Keller, pilot pi-lot on a helicopter, was still alive this Christmas, after being be-ing struck in the arm with a blast by the enemy. He was transferred to the Third Surgical Sur-gical Hospital, 30 miles out of Saigon, where his wife is stationed, sta-tioned, and expects to be able to join his buddies again soon. He went over in July and La-Rue, La-Rue, in August. The Stone's other daughter, Maurine, and husband, Jim Bird, and four children, received re-ceived their Christmas packages pack-ages at their new home in Es-tsdo Es-tsdo Bolivor, Venezuela, South America. |