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Christmas Tree: The Yule — w- n .JBKRSmH mai «o<J 1 wa* getting panicky ■very evening my Ik a important j thing at all—Mw Chriatmaa tree. T» a twelve-year-old such u 1 thi* waa Mriou* We vara usually the tint kid* oo the block to have a| tree oa the bank porch I found my motion ta th» tit dMB "Do you ♦kt~v dad ha* far the tree?" I "No, Bob. Your father has been | too buty lately to think of everything. He'll gat the tree one of. "Oha af thaae day*? Why, Chrkt-1 ma* I* *lmo*t herel" Mother went aat of the too ba*y la (para time tor flaw open. My George dached la, hi* aya* wide, hi* >awl* aulvering. -Qveaa what. Boh? Batch Miller juat got a Christmas tree! I aaw him down the allay with It." Than George got a great Idek. "Mr. Sherwood * got million of Christmas treat on hi* a*tata." ha *ald with a *ly look. "They ju*t grow there " "So? Mr. Sherwood doeant *aU I the camping axe dad bought for your birthday?" At flr*t I wa* (hocked. Than I began tf think of going through Chrlatma* without • tree. Oeorge nodded aertoualy—a* if this were the only solution to our * "You don't think he'd mi*a * tee-1 ale one?" I asked "Never know it Goorge a Mured too. Well, 1 waaa't I trudged toward* Mr. Sherwood * place 1 (Uggeited: "Suppoae wa leave *ome money on the (tump when we cut down the traeT Then It wouldn't aeam like Healing 1 got eleven cent*. Haw much you gat, George?" "Throe cent*. Ill bet nobody ever got a tree for fourteen cent* before." "Well, we will." But I wa* wrong. A few minute* later wa got a tree for We were nearlng Mr. Sherwood'* place when Butch Miller came running toward* us, dragging a tree behind him. He dropped the tree at our feet and without saying a word ecooted on down the road. Goorge and 1 looked at each other—then at the tree. We walked around it two or three time*, just in* "It Hire l« a beauty!" 11 at last "Maybe we bad But root. Be* net surt a tad fay. Leak at Um trouble be aeved it." • Ofc yeahl" George paiated to Ike pa* of red taetd IKwa* bear tec tows oa uk Mr Shepaood i Officer 0aU»uii. I Juat stood there holding the! axe and shaking Butch had really { got iia lata a fU this Una! I juat atoad there holding the! axe and ahuUnf. Butch had really *ot us Into a B* this timet "It kmka like we'U have to take you two to!" panted Officer Calhoun It waa plain that be dldnt "Why?" akaed George calmly Ha had nerve, George did. "Why?" a puttered Mr. Sherwood, pointing at my axe. "Why, you; whippyranapper*, IH—" George turned to Otttor Cal"If we took this tree, why | ain't we out of breath, same you? And take a look at Bob's new I axa; bet It laat avail aeratehed yet!" Calhoun reached for ray axe. Club BrainM Occupies WPW The NovMabtr inflM *t the Boooc Biutrtcw. and Profeuioiu! Womcn'i Club, held on the fourth Tuesday of tix> month it the Dai. iel Boone Hotel. >u concerned muinly with duk> htnlnf i Plunt j were made far the club's Christ mas project <4 givutg to needy faautfce, and plans were completed far the nSa ef frvtt fakes te earn money far the club's nursing ; tin. Margaret Graff, chairman of the Career Advancement Committee. was- tn charge of a portion of fbc program She explained the legislative platform being sup-1 ported by the National Federation and took a poll ef member* on | "By gum. the boy's right!" He handed the axe te Sherwood j "Cues* all we can do now la tote this tree over to the orphanage They can use It. Trees are high this year." When George and I get home the beat darn tree you ever saw was on our back porrh Weeks later we learned that dad had; bought It from Batch Miller. 1 guess Butch did pretty good that year. platform keralta of the Wrting •ill be MNt to oatiwul baart»nrl «r« to be combined with »ot« of other cluki to (arm the bMM for rapport of legislation in the 1M* legislature. »-* Mamm at ttu tteau MiM im tfc# pUlfyrw luppttiitd by tht club arc the Equal Right* Amend nwil. inppart at equiUMr ta* adjuataeata, and support of bgiaUtiea to pr«Mtot« peace and <l>il| then national security. > Lea dm at labor and municipal government! have assailed the prapoaala of the Eisenhower Admtoiatratloi to shift tome Federal fuaatiooa to Mate Government*.
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