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p rOF V/ASrl Hi~Ya Fellers: ' Inster.cl cf the usu;:.l Prop^Vash I try to you each month, you vjill find in its place, a nunber Christmas Greetinrs, CV.ristmas-wants, mcssares, etc., several of your fellov;>-toVv'nsiucn - So tune in and lets hat they've fot to tcU you: — IREI'IS PUTIT/-J.I Pi.UiER:-- '-'As 1 crjuc to work this mcrninf; I passed over our C'ld fmiliar bridre, nil covered^ in frost ~ I thcUiht of ^tho ■mrny times we had passed ver thpt bridg e /oinr .to schO'Ol, part ies, to ball f ?mes, rnd just meeting, each other there for cur dates sometimes, when Dad y;; s usinf the err on Sunday afternoon, Joe Fox, are you still putting; tacks under the tiros of your oucrdes cars? Surely net and rubber sc scarce. Me are ^;ettin/;,; c,- lonf swell at home, but we are not trlcinr; the nice mountain trips • we used tr. on Sunday afternoon - like the time Jin:i Southards, Riilph Eakei',. B:i 11 Southards /..nd the rest rf cur .''an^; wore up around Boone and I kept be^r- in; them to buy me a lit tle Ivmb and Bj".1 wanted to know vjould a Ram do' just as vjell? riioso tru.ps ’w'oi’c the ones \^hen R::lph Eaker would ride in the front seat, with his el- boi. sticl:inr cut over the dc-or rjid every time- v/e crossed a bridre, he would take it in to keep frcpi '-cttin^' it linockcd off. We drove close to the railin^:s just to ret him to d'-'dfe. The clcuds are han; inf low this mc^rninf, like uhe snow is ready to fall. Harrjr Philbeck, have you forfctten hov;.to n^.ke a snowman like we m'-'-de b'ck in the old d-. ys? ’v/e,need a nice one — for Christmas,..is just around the corner. Hurry and ret the^fi,;ht over, raid come he-me to us, v/e are rrdssing you ''11," YaTES LEE:- ”As-another Christm?.s comds, •'li the Japs a nd all the Huns, are firhtin^' rn the losinr side, ^as we ber;;in to hit our stride. So ,'^.et ready y u sons of ,.,uns Cc.uso a'O fathers are on our way - Seme of us arc still at homo and veil, ^nst we are retting mad as -—- .-^nd'the thin^: th.at v;e v;ant mb'st, as vje join this fi;"-htin^’ band, is to lick the ■. lies who boast they v.lll rule this ,';ood.old land. As you re.-'d .this do not frown, 11 my tires are f.oin^^ dcwn - rll my /-.as ccupo^ns c.re rone., yet I. don’t mind for it w(.-nt be lon(~, til wo see that "Risinf Sun" sinlcinr, .vnd those Japs will then be think- inf, what a rrave mistake they niade, now their hopes, be^dn to fade. So be happy boys and firls, as you fi^ht to free the world, for the time is' dravdnr near v;hen we can all be home to cheer, the li.-'ht of freedom which shall alw-ays shine from the candle lights of America," ■ luAUFJCE LO'.'jIJ,';-!; — ”I ;;rnt Santa to put a bif bott.le of •"Sure-^Gro';'’ H"ir Tonic in my sock. S-'muthinr . uaranteed to r-row hairon a billiard ball rr I’m rettinp tired of beinc' call ed the "balOl-headed butcher" -'nd I’i.i surely Hoping'ole' Santy fills your G.I, sox full cf ever^rthinf you want most," STJ];xi..IT] KdrBR - Evans Bluff, M, C;- "It is I.-.; ,-killing. time up on the creek aiid just to prove to ycu boys tliat .we’re /•'oinf to have plenty of fresh meat for Christmas, I have fi'.tlicred up some of the top weirhts and measures on your nei-dibor’s hofs - Stiff Get- tys has two fine ones, one 52? Ib^s. ^nd the other, 519 .lbs,, Roland Norm;in, ,one at 502 r.^s., Lrwrcnce Tovvery, /^89 lbs., "Doodle" Laurhlin, /'i.ol lbs,, John; Normr.n, AH lbs. Lirs, wesson A-06 lbs,, G?uonn Lee, 3?C lbs,. Seal Jv.;fj.ries, 271 lbs-, .nd my own at /'+45 lbs,, "Hcrney" Chojiipion's comes to "".1 .gallons "• - he ^^ot a late start, but. says he v.’ill be in there pitching next year. And the best^p.art cf :.ll this ig, its point-less" PxJtlCEfi & EFF^;- "All the depth of friendship and the pler.surc c-.f ‘remembrance are in- c_i;ded in this wish that comes from us to y.u - Vic are v;ishin;r f.or each of ,you, safety ■Uid speedy return," (Continued on next pafc)
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