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Show 1965 Christmas Edition - Helper Journal Thursday, December 23, 1965 THE HELPER JOURNAL DESERT 1 m xnu wmu. IS y m r 4 WE ft By Shirley Sargent can't go home for Stockton Bart scowled, looking from the checkbook out the huge window at the joshua trees so he wouldn't have to meet his wife's eyes. Peggy Stockton's eyes were a deep blue that contrasted with her short honey blond hair. Usually her eyes sparkled, but now they reflected astonishment, sorrow and then welled with tears. "Oh, Bart," she cried, "are you sure we can't manage a trip to Wisconsin?" Grimly he said, "I'm positive we can't even afford a holiday week-en- d in Los Angeles. Our first Christmas together will have to be right here on the desert" Hard Luck snow." "No Peggy was staring , out at the hot sand. "No family, no fire in the fireplace . . . why can't we go by bus if we can't afford to fly?" "Hon, look around you!" Bart was talL tanned, crew-cu- t and, at the bleak moment, careworn beyond his twenty-tw- o years. "We're broke because we bought the air conditioner and the TV and because I'm not a good I tuK 8i It is our sincere wish that the Christmas season will bring health and happiness to your homel CHOCK'S PRESCRIPTION PHARMACY Charles Ghirardelli, Owner Utah Helper -:- "ahce .nd Las Vejjas. That and sen other had been enough until ey had begun thinking of family, lends and winter with a certain twmeskiuifcss. 77?s is f ?e Once determined on a "wonder-lal- '' Christmas to match the rest of their life, Peggy ordered a tree, greenery, lights and holly and told Bart how much it all would cost, "We can't do it and send home presents too," Bart exploded. "We can borrow," Peggy said heatedly. "It's bad enough not to f?o home. At least, we can have a tee. Your father will under-suuid- us? u;e send your way: May yours be a Merry Holiday And we also extend a big "thank you" for your patronage. FRIENDLY ." "Oh. sure he will," Bart said "He'll understand his own son is such a poor manager he can't even live on a generous Jim and Betty Paletta, Owners She clung to him. "Hush! We're quarreling. We must economize, even if we celebrate Christmas without a tree." The Stocktons had been married in September and came straight to the modern, cement brick "hideaway" which constituted the manager's headquarters at the big desert trailer park belonging to Bart's father. They had Utah swum, sunbathed, hiked and ridweather permitting, reveling in the relaxing atmosphere of palms, joshuas, endless sand, and week-end- s at Lake den horseback, salary." "Hush!" Peggy clung to him. "We're quarreling! You're right, we must economize even if we celebrate Christmas without a tree." Visiting That night she did some tfaink- lug about Bart's job, their future and the need for economizing. The next day she visited some of the trailers and then spent several mornings off on the desert. j J I A: rr fx & i 9 Jr V ' " f , .J .. ' t f f " . " i ' s ' Sur.)ris;d He came home early that afternoon to find Peggy on the patio surrounded by tumbleweeds, egg shells, pieces of manzanita and tin cans. "Whafs this trash doing here?" He sent a tumbleweed sailing with his foot. "Don't do that! These things, are our Christmas decorations, not trash!" "Christmas decorations! Are you crazy?" Peggy laughed. "I guess it looks like it, but one of the trailer women taught me how to Scavenge. I'll just spray this tumbleweed egg shells white, then paint tht-sblue and harg them on it. We'll make a pictu-oscjucand'e holder out of crooked manzanita. Then I'll spray Bart stopped hor again with a kiss. "You've convinced me that we'll have the snazziest decorations and I have the prettiest wife cn the whole desert." "When we're through," Peggy murmured, "there'll be two good managers in our family, not just one, and we'll give Santa Claus a Land." Bart gSghed happily. "Hand me h'X tan of srrny." "', t ' , I An 52 South Main s m I n ri rci3 V If 11 1 t:4 ' .tft-y'-i 11. M II H ItA V r 1 A...., k 7 Dovn The Light Shown r ..j:rThe Way - , yPeace Did La- round inu To Rigi ' Bound uui - - T'l J v .v i f ones be May you and all your loved blessed with life's finest gifts love, health, happiness and joyful success. BOTTLING COMPANY COCA-COL- A YMCA RAILROAD Ask For a Coke Every Time Alex Korenko, Manager Garr Ilansen, Manager Price Utah Helper -:- - Utah BEING IN THE SPOTLIGHT isn't a new experience for Lori Zenke, 5, Madison, Wit. Born with defects of an open tpine, excess fluid on the brain and dislocated hips, all requiring surgery, Lori was the 1964 Wisconsin State Poster Child for the March of Dimes and also the 196S Dane County (Madison) Poster Child, local March of Dimes chapter hat helped defray her medical expenses. Here, after additional surgery recently on her left leg, the poses prettily in her back yard swing. You help all birth defect victims when you join the March of Dimes. V 1 $ "-Vh- Ever .. bin m&r-- y 'J? p o I Helper 'Old' Pro 1 nvrm STUDIO Portrait and Commercial Photography ! j ft PHOTO ..." jr. f C FOSSATT bituuly. TAVERN Helper HEAVEN BLESS YOUR CHRISTMAS HELPER MERCANTILE COMPANY COOKS BEER J. J. 'Chokey" Bergera Helper -:- - Utah |