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Yes, Marcia, there is a Santa Claus! Paragraph C-16 Bloomlr.gjon-Normal, III. Dec. 17, 1972 Ornament exchange for DeMolay mothers The Mothers Club of Charles E. Dagenhart DeMolay Chapter will mCet at 7:30 Monday night in the lounge First United Methodist Church of Nor, mal. Hostesses will be Mrs.

Olga Young and Mrs. Sue Anderson. There will be an ornament exchange-and officers for the new year to be I installed are Mrs. Al Gcske, president; Mrs. Mike Anderson, first vice-president Mrs.

Lyle Raper, second vice-president; Mrs. Robert Clark, secretary, and Young, treasurer. La oO LaIU Ete Ai UlL John Baldini Marvin Nichols Robert Bone John Ferrell Invents two-timer defector LONDON (AP) Housewife Sylvia Simnett reckons suspicious wives ought, to know the truth about two-timing husbands. She has invented a "truth detector," a plastic pendulum which swings towards the area where the husband ish "If he says he's working late and the pendulum swings towards the other side of town, you know he's claims Sylvia, 51, who plans to market the device at $6.70. generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.

Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence." "The most real tilings in the world are those that neither children nor men can see," he wrote. (Writer's note to editor: By the way, I believe in Santa Claus.) (Editor's note: Me, too!) Removes food stain When an aluminum pot is used to cook eggs and similar foods, the inside may become blackish. This will harm neither the pot nor the food, says The Aluminum Association. However, if you want the coloring removed, try cooking some tomatoes or sauerkraut in the pot.

Or add one to two tablespoons of cream of tartar to every quart of water the pot holds and boil. 15 Brokaw slates sewing By Marcia McConnell Santa Claus is alive and well. That's the consensus of local people who were asked if they believe in the North Pole resident. His supporters include mothers, fathers, professors and farmers. Is there a Santa Claus? "Yes, in the broad sense," say Dr.

and Mr. Robert G. Bone. They told their children there is a Santa Claus. This is "not doing the wrong thing or cheating them," says Mrs.

Bone. "I believe in the spirit of Santa Claus," continued Dr. Bone with a twinkle in his eye, "and 1 hope he buys me something this year." Bone is former president of Illinois State University. Dr. G.

J. Kruger of the Animal Haven Clinic and Hospital is another believer. "Our version always was that there is a Santa Claus," he says, "and our children grew up not wanting to believe there wasn't. I think it's a matter of deciding who Santa Claus really is and, certainly I think, most parents (who are) devoted to their children are Santa Claus." "Sure, there's a Santa Claus," says Mrs. Stan Nastal, a sales representative for Ed Ingold Real Estate.

Her two children are now in college. "I read them the usual stories," she says. "They believed until they reached a certain age and then realized Santa was true, but not in the sense they believed as children. "They know he doesn't come down the chimney with a bag of toys, but they believe in him in a sense," says Mrs. Nastal.

Also in Santa's corner are Mrs. Steve Smith of Clinton, who has four children; Mrs. Orville Schenkel of Lexington, mother of an 18-year-old; and Mrs. Bill DeVore of 22 Ethell Parkway, Normal, who has two youngsters, 11 and 12. "Of course, they know that daddy is Santa Claus," says Mrs.

DeVore. Another "yes" voter is the Rev. John OToole of St John's Catholic Church, Clinton. Wendell Learned, a farmer from Lexington, says he believes in "the spirit of Santa Claus which becomes more intense about a week before Christmas. I wish it would last throughout the year." He'd like his children to believe in Santa Claus for the same "Why certainly," says former Bloom-ington mayor Robert McGraw.

"If we didn't have Santa Claus, we wouldn't have anything to look forward to." He has five children and 12 grandchildren. The McGraws always told their children there was a Santa Claus. "As they got older, they knew mom and dad were Santa Claus," says McGraw. Marvin W. Nichols, administrator at St.

Joseph's Hospital, tells his grandchildren there is a Santa Claus. "I'm not so old I don't want to believe in Santa Claus," says Nichols. Mrs. Richard Ross, who has an 8-year-old granddaughter, Shelly, says "yes" there's a Santa Claus. She encourages her granddaughter to believe in him.

Leo J. Carroll's answer came as a surprise to his wife. Mrs. Carroll of 1315 W. Seminary says she doesn't believe in Santa.

"I did when I was a child, but not now." "For the kids' benefit, yes," said Carroll. After a brief thoughtful pause, he added, "I believe in Santa Claus. Santa Claus can mean a bt of things." Brokaw Hospital Sewing Group wiltr meet for an all-day session at the ho pital Monday beginning at 9 a.m. LuncJ will be served in the snack bar, followi by sewing until 3 p.m. The meeting' open to volunteers.

"Yes," he reaffirmed, nodding his head. Also believing in Santa is John Baldini of Lucca's Italian Restaurant, who says "sure I do." His children are now 14, 18 and 20, but when they were younger they were told there is a Santa Claus. "Yes, there's a Santa Claus," says Stanley DeSantis, a sophomore at Illinois Wesleyan University. "Everyone knows there is." Mrs. Peggy Cosiello, a teller at People's Bank, says, "I believe in the spirit of Santa Claus." She has a daughter, 9.

"I tell ray daughter that if you believe, he'll bring you something. If you don't, he won't," she says. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nothnagel of Clinton who have two children, both say "yes" there's a Santa.

"Absolutely," she adds. "My nams isn't Virginia, but yes, there is a Santa Claus." "If Santa Claus means the goodness of mankind, then yes," says Dr. John Fer rell, professor of music at ISU. Santa is "the spirit and joy of giving and isn't necessarily related to material things." The Ferrells tell their children, "yes, there is a Santa CJaus, and we leave it up to thexn to Identify who or what Santa Claus is." Not everyone believes in Santa Claus, though. Peter Pamantie, assistant professor of English at University High School, says, "No, with some reservations.

But it's necessary to have some kind of myth." "I don't really know," replies James Roderick, a professor of music at I don't believe there is." As for his children, Roderick said he "told them there was a Santa Claus until they were past that age." Miss Gail Huisinga, an ISU freshman from De Land, was blunt in her answer. "Is there a Santa Claus? Are you kidding? Of course, there's not!" Seventy-five years ago New York Sun editorialist Francis P. Church penned this reply to 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and 1 So70 Cous and friend Psychiatrists probing Santa Claus' influence Monday 12:00 to 8:30 a Tuesday to Friday 9:30 to 8:30 Prompt Shoe Repair Service' 2 Expert Repairmen On Duty FAST EMERGENCY SERVICE -new HOURS--Mon. Frr-- 8:30 8.30 Tus Sot.

8:30 5:30 ADRIAN'S' SHOE STORE saying, 'Nice doggie, nice "Well, there are some children who have a very excited reaction to meeting Santa the first thing they do when they sit on his lap is wet him. But then that kind of thing happens to child psychologists too." Gluck said promises that can't be kept are a major problem. "If a child says all he wants for Christmas is his two front teeth or a baby sister or brother, you'd better get out of there quick," he said. "There is one Santa who handles this kind of thing perfectly. He says he strictly is a toy Santa." Parents also use Santa, the doctors said.

"If a little girl tells her mother she'd rather be a little boy, her mother is likely to say, 'Oh, tell that to Santa, see what he can Gluck summed it up. "We want to know just how important Santa Claus is in the growing up process of a child. We'll be studying the children who sit on Santa's knee in the department stores; Jewish children who are exposed to the myth but are not a part of the observance, and the poverty children who, no matter how much they the faith, will never receive the goods." DALLAS (LTD From the child who stroked Santa Claus' beard saying, "Nice doggie," to the parent who answered a sticky childhood question by saying, "Why don't you ask Santa Claus," no one really understands the red-suited old gentleman who sits in every department store in the land. Dr. Bumpus and Dr.

Martin Gluck, assistant professors at the Southwestern Medical School, feel a study is in order. "Santa is a very important and meaningful person," said Bumpus, assistant professor of psychiatry at the school. "He affects an enormous amount of people and yet no one seems to have done a scientific study into what all this means." Bumpus and Gluck, assistant professor of psychology, plan to change all this, by interviewing Santas and attaching tape recorders under Santa's beard to find out what the youngsters think. They have been doing so this season and, though good results and data won't be available until summer, they have already learned enough to underscore the fact that nobody understands Santa. "For instance," Bumpus said, "my own child had never been exposed to a full beard up Me saw a large fluffy white thing and assumed it was an animal.

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