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Operation Santa Claus Success On behalf of the patients and staff of the Broughton Hospital in Morganton, I would like to thank each of you who helped make the Operation Santa Claus Project a success. Hie following are just a few of the many participating churches and organizations who contributed approximately 900 items for gifts besides numerous boxes of used clothing and almost $185.00 in checks, and cash for the hospital and contributions for ribbon, wrapping paper and candy: Liberty United Methodist Senior High Class; Liberty Junior High Girls, Liberty Church, Liberty W. S. C. S., Concord, Cooleemee, Smith Grove, First Methodist, Bethel, Wesley Chapel, Far mington Methodist Churches, Center Home Demonstration Club, and the Rowan-Davie Drug Auxiliary. My apologies to those contributors whose names I did not know. Special thanks go to 19 women and one brave (?) man who journeyed to Broughton on Decern bo-10 to work diligently all day to wrap those gifts thus enabling the nurses and staff to perform other duties or wrap gifts sent by other counties with no volunteer workers attached. More volunteers are greatly A joyous Noel to each and everyone of yon! / ANDY'S Union 76 Station Salisbury St. Mocksville Hope your holiday menu includes all the joys of the season! Best wishes for health, wealth, and happiness to all our good friends! U Stop N Grill We'll be closed Dec. 24 ■ Dec. 27. needed by the hospital and our services and gifts were deeply appreciated by the hospital staff. Our Davie County volunteers for the day were: Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Lane, Miss Sadie McCullough, Mrs. Ada Carter, Mrs. Juanita Frye, Mrs. Mary Nell Jones, Mrs. Sadie Steele, Mrs. Beaulah Munday, Mrs. Sadie Messick, Mrs. Betty Still, Mrs. Vada Beck, Mrs. Geraldine Pilcher, Mrs. Helen McDaniel, Mrs. Betty Brooks and Mrs. Helen Foster. I would like to express my w^Hopan BBfcj IB Watch Shop Cooleemee Shopping Center personal thanks to the following people who helped make this project possible and greatly contributed to its success: Mr. Gordon Tomlinson and Mrs. Marlene Benson for publicity; Mr. and Mrs."W A. Ellis, Jr. for ordering wrapping paper, donating ribbon and loaning their bow-making machine; T. G. Foster and Ed Wagner for making 700 bows for the gifts, the Cooleemee Shopping Center who contributed innumberable boxes, to the Liberty W. S. C. S. and Mrs. Betty Still, Mrs. Vada Grams It's our favorite time of year when we have the opportunity of wishing all our good friends a very merry Christmas! CbotiMmw Branch CENTRAL CAROLINA BANK •ad TRUST COMPANY ■ r—m p—« iwn c«rnmw Cooleemee Journal, Monday, Dec. 21,1970- Beck, Mrs. B. C. Brock, Sr. and Mrs. Olivia Talbert who worked so faithfully helping me collect all these items. May God richly bless you for helping to make May you 'see 'your way to Happiness Spillman's Esso N. Cooleemee this Christinas just a little bit brighter for someone less fortunate than you and I. Mrs. Helen Foster, Chm. Operation Santa Claus 9
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