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Show THE MURRAY 1952 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24, For the BEST In.. REPAIRING DYEING REF1NISHING RESUEDING Take your worn shoes to HECKEL SHOE STORE Repair Department Murray 4883 So. State SHOE SHOE SHOE SHOE ' . LOWN ONLY SIGNATURE YOUR Murray .Finance PHONE MURRAY Dear 4- - Santa Terry Williams 4- 1801 - morning. 4962 South State Street Dear Santa Claus, Sincerely yours, Ann Thueson Ricky Hansen Our Calendar, 4- Jm Relatively New, Unified Time One of these, concocted by a Pat Bastlan schoolboy about the time of the first World War, was considered 4seriously for many years. It was even brought to the attention of conDear Santa Claus, gress In 1945 and the countries of I hope you will please bring me China and Great Britain showed a log cabin set, and remember the Interest children in the hospital that can Entitled the Edwards Perpetual not run and play, and that is all I Calendar, the plan offers striking want revisions from the present Gregorian, To start New Year's Day is Love, not attached to any month of the year, but precedes Monday, JanRicky McMillan uary 1. Monday, Incidentally, always starts the week, with Saturday and Sunday at the end of the week, Dear Santa Claus, where. It would seem, a week-enI would like a space patrol set. belongs. There are 91 days In each quarter, I would like a set of plastic build with 30 days In each of the first X would like an accor bricks. ing a quarter; 31 In the dion so I can take accordion lea two months of ninth and twelfth third, sixth, sons. , months of the year. Christmas, birthdays and all other holidays Love, would always fall on the same day each year, and, a feature appealing Kenny Chase to the superstitious, there would 444- never again be a Friday, the 13th. And, lest we forget something for Dear Santa, I am in the third grade at Li- the gals, leap year day would be a distinct period between berty school. I would like a pup June and July one more chance. tent. I live at 64S3 South State. The calendar was worked out by Love, Wlllard E. Edwards. A lieutenant Jonnie McCloy in the navy during World War II, Edwards presented his calendar to the delegates to the San Francisco conference in 1945, where It met with much approval. He was soon swamped with letters from all parts of the world acclaiming the proJ posed calendar. . Time, however, passes on and the pages of the Gregorian calendar still replace themselves, year after year. - VANITY CLEANERS O O O STREET U U 4- Thank you for the nice presents you gave me last year. How are you and your wife and elves? I have been waiting for Christmas to come. And now it is here. This year I would like, if you have a bead set that I could make necklaces with, and a new pair of shoes. Murray Cab Chris' Cafe 4794 South State Street PHONE MURRAY 100 4794 South State Street It Sincerely yours, Phyllis Black 4- - Dear Santa, How are you. Thank you for the toys you brought me last year. I hope it snows on Xmas. I love you very much. Please bring me watch and a hat. Your friend, Connie 4-- Jo Nelson 4- - r XL 4 Dear Santa Claus, Please bring me a cowboy out fit d Qrcdtiujs 4843 SOUTH STATE 4- - If Dear Santa, - Season's of you. boy. I want Thank you for the toys that you gave to me last year. I hope It The Gregorian calendar has been snows this year. Please send me In only since the late a bicycle and a doll with baby 18thpopular usageand was the first century, some blue eyes and crayonex with calendar to bring about such a And some crayonex with a big world unity on the time front red and black and a pencil box It has not satisfied everyone. Yet, with a big pencils In it. In fact, someone Is always trying to Introduce a new one. Sincerely yours, mam 4- I think that I have been a good a sleeping bag and a knife and a hatchet I'm going to California for Christmas so I won't be home. There will be a note on the door. I hope you don't think this is too much. I will :ee you on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas, Santa. Claus, - for each Dear Santa, - I go to Arlington school. I have been a good girl. I am eight year old. Are you coming to my house on Christmas eve? I want a baton and I want some dishes. I want a doll. My brother want a cowboy suit. My little sister want a boy doll. My big sister want a record 444player. My little brother want some books to look at. Merry Dear Santa, Thank you for all the toys you Christmas Santa Claus. brought me and the rest of the Laurie (Fitzgerald family. I would like a big boy doll and a baton for Christmas 44- IT 115 f Love, Dear Santa, I have been a very good boy for my mother. I am seven years old. Are you coming? I would like you to see me on Christmas Eve. I would like you to nave a Merry Christmas. Tony Montano Pay Only $1.50 per Month ON Please bring me a paint set I am eight years old. My name Is Terry Williams. Do not forget the poor children. My little brother would like a doll. Dear Santa, I think I have been quite gool. How are you. Thank you for This is what I would like for the toys and clothes you brought Christmas. First I want a big me Xmas. This year I want last bottle of perfume. Next I want a I and a Ton! doll. watch And third doll some hangers. want some doll shoes for my Tony Thank you, your friend doll and my baby doll. That is all want. I Colleen Hansen ' Yours truly, r 444Carolyn Smith 4- - 5 Dear Santa, Dear Santa, " - BETWEEN-PAY-DA- Dear Santa Santa 3)eaA REPAIRING EAGLE M U Thank You fOR YOU AT CHRIJTMAJ Rlckle Humphries 4-- 4-- Dear Santa Claus, I am 8 years old and I liked he skis you sent me and the to boggan and the puppet and the loctor set to play with. Bruce aald that you are real. Thanks you for everything Santa Claus, Yours truly, PRONTO DRIVE INN 4338 South State Street ., JJoe Goggin Nj Clialliam J)itanJeri 3iril in WJJ Do Set 11 w tear 3n Shepherds watching their flocks on the Chatham Islands, New Zee land, will welcome the New Year while milkmen In America are mak lng their rounds on the last diy of the old yetr. When the bells of the little church on one of the Islands, a British colony of about 200 persons, rings at midnight to welcome a new year, It Is high noon according to Big Ben of London tnd Is but 7 a.m. in sleepy New York. Chatham Islands always cele brate the New Year first because they are located nearest to the starting point of time the adml- rtlty's date line. It Is made to curve east and west of the 18uth m d' Ian In such a way that it ties ! ways In the ocean. The Islands are Just east of the line. The Incoming year leaves the Is lands and races westward along the equator at a speed of 1.000 miles per hour. Chatham Islanders will be preparing to sit down for their New Year's dinner when howling mobs art warming up to greet 1851 on Times Square. o G A Chinese Thought Debts Had to Be Paid Up By End of Old Year t The Chinese long held a New Year's tradition worthy of note. No doubt made popular by early money lenders, there was an old belief that If one did not pay all dtbts be- I) fore midnight oa New Yeari Day, he lost "face." For centuries China celebrated New Year's during the time at the first moon, usually about the first of the February but this was be fore adoption of the Gregorian eel JOHNSON MOTOR COMPANY MURRAY'S DIRECT MERCURY 4203 Soutk Stole Street DEALER I fl ndar In 1911 la earlier times, celebration began a week prior to the Eve. when homage was paid to the Kitchen God and climaxed on the "fifteenth day of the First Moon" by the Feett of Lanterns, r "Teng Chleh." It was a custom to eicbange greet log cards and pmenta through the entire season. ANDERSON LUMBER COMPANY 4975 South State Street - Phone Murray 9 |