The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 129, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1959 Page: 15 of 28
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May each of you
have a holiday
enough to last
all through
the year!
HERRING'S
Drug Store
May the highways and byways of life
lead to a Happy Holiday for you and
yours! May we at this time express our
gratitude to all of our many friends
for their loyal patronage ... To AU
—A Very
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Women’s World
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Section III
VOL. 40, NO. 129
Thursday, Dacambar 24, 1959
Christmas
Personals
Jordan Plana
Hie Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Jor-
dan will have their children home
for Christmas, says Mrs. Jordan.
They are Robert Jordan and Mr.
and Mrs. Billy Jordan, Bill and
Laurie of Houston. Rev. Jordan
is pastor of Memorial Baptist
Church.
Six Stockings
Six little stockings will greet
Santa at the home of the Rev.
and Mrs. R. M. Cheek, 2000 Geor-
gia. The Cheeks and their chil-
dren, Paul, Stephen, Rebecca,
Mary, David and Elizabeth, plan
to spend Christmas at home.
Christmas night they will have
as their dinner guests Mr. and
Mrs. Virgil Brown and their chil-
dren, Gary, Mark and Deborah,
326 Burnet Drive. Rev. Cheek is
minister at First Baptist Church.
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Our Entire Staff
Wishes You the Joyous
Blessings of Tranquil
Prosperity
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Try Sun Classifieds
Cfiristmastide
With all the warmth in our
heart*, we wish joy
to our many friend*.
Crippled Regain Spirit Through Goodwill Industry
By BERNARD GAVZER
AP Newsfeatures Writer
Balancing himself with his
crutch, the one-legged man In Bal-
timore uses his free hand to spray
paint on an old chair, making it
look like new.
From her wheel chair, the crip-
pled woman in San Jose, Calif.,
cranks a mimeograph machine.
Cedar Farms
JOE KILGORE
from all of us at...
W. M. H O U S E
301 W. Texas
Phone JU 2-4450
Letters
To Santa
I am a little girl four-years-old.
I’ve tried to be good and if you
think I have been, please bring
me a tiny tears doll, dishes and
don't forget my sister. Leslea and
my cousin, Shaun. They have
been good occasionally. I’ll leave
you a surprise, Love,
DeAnne Sargent
★ * ★
Dear Santa,
I am two-years-old. I would
like for you to bring me a dolly,
a buggy, high chair and some
dishes. I have a sister four-
months-old. Please bring her
something too. Thank you,
Tommie Renee Halford
★ ★ +
With his artificial hands, the; vice president of the nation all What more can be done for the
man in Kalamazoo, Mich., checks group, says Goodwill Industries!nation’s handicapped will come in
off receipt of another bag of do-j could operate effectively in
nated clothi g, toys and house- least 100 more U. S. cities.
Dear Santa Claus,
My name is Randy Paul and I
have tried to be a good little boy.
I have a little brother, Thomas
Andy. Would you please bring us
a concrete mixer, grader, ditch
digger and anything you think two
little boys would like. My mother
and daddy are Mr. and Mrs. Cal-
vin Holder and we live at 11014 _ _
Verano, Houston. My Nannie and ganization, Goodwill Industries, of
hold items.
These handicapped persohs are
but three among the 32-000 who
in 1958 worked for Goodwill Indus-
tries, a non-p r o f i t organization
dedicated to training, employing
and rehabilitating people who find
it difficult to get work elsewhere.
They are the beneficiaries of
a hopeful, modest program begun
in 1902 by the late Dr. Edgar J.
Helms, pastor of the Morgan Me-
morial Chapel in Boston. He con-
ceived a plan of "not charity, but
a chance” for, the handicapped
people of his community.
It was a simple plan: old
clothes, furniture and household
goods would ber epaired and ren-
ovated by the handicapped work-
ers who would learn trades, ac-
quire skills and thereby help
themselves. The renovated goods
would in turn be sold at low prices
to help people who had little mom
ey to buy new things. The in-
come would support the operation.
The Methodist Episcopal
Church in 1918 made the extension
of Goodwill industries one of its
services. There were seven indus-
tries at the time.
Now there are Goodwill Indus-
tries in 120 American cities. They
are community institutions, with
administration and service repre-
senting all faiths and creeds.
Each has its work shops and
sales outlets. Each operates in-
dependently, like any business in
its community. All are about 90
per cqpt self-supporting, but half
of them received allocations from
United Funds and Community
Chests last year to subsidize non-
income producing services. They
all pay dues to the national
He cites the need, basd on
figures from the U. S. Depart-
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare. The government agency
estimates there are two million
handicapped people who are un-
employed but willing and able to
work. Each year, another 250,-
000 persons become permanently
handicapped.
at | for detailed study and discussion
at a national convention in De-
troit June 25-28. The meeting, giv-
en the theme “Forward with Hu-
man Service,” also will be
ed, Trevethan says, by the
monition of founder Helms,
in 1942 said:
"Remain dissatisfied until ev-
ery last handicapped person who
wants and needs help to help
himself is served.”
PaPa live at 109 East Homan.
Love,
Randy Paul and
Thomas Andy Holder
★ ★ ★
Dear Santa,
America, Inc., in Washington, D.
C., based on a small percentage
of earned, rather than total, in-
come.
In 1958, Goodwill Industries took
in nearly 29 million dollars from
resale of renovated goods, sal-
Please bring me .a Steve Can-ivage and contract sales. In con
r . 1__1_ .i nn/1 4tann4 itrrtrlr nil hotlslloc /'£***.
yon jet helmet, daisy rifle and
; bicycle. I will have you coffee
and cake on the table. Love,
Homer Balentine
Jennische Addition
Cedar Bayou
★ ★ ★
Dear Santa,
Please bring me a doll, doll
buggy and a piano. I have been
a good girl. I haven’t been a
hard-head. I am three-years-old.
Thank you,
Juanito Jo White
Route 2, Box 62
★ ★ ★
Dear Santa,
I would like a surrey, coke and
ice cream machine and a comer
store. Please.
Kelly Katribe
3128 Michigan
★ ★ ★
Dear Santa Claus,
I am eight-years-old. I would
like to have a bike. I am going
:o see you today. I am in the
second grade. My friend is Bar-
sara. Merry Christmas to alL
Merry Christmas to Santa Claus.
Sue Breeding
Mont Belvieu
Second Grade
A form is a rabbit s nest.
tract work, Goodwill handles cer-
tain jobs for outside industries.
Another 2*4 million dollars came
from donations, fees and grants.
About 21 million dollars was paid
in salaries and wages.
Percy J. Trevethan, executive
At this special
time we’re
sending your
way, warmest
wishes for
Holiday
pleasure and
joy. May
this be the merriest of
Yuletides for you and yours,
WE WILL BE CLOSED SAT. DEC. 26th
DeBRUHL
FURNITURE UPHOLSTERY
402 W. DEFEE
TO ALL
■*++***
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Mil N. Main
Friends end Customers
WE EXTEND OUR YERY BEST GOOD WISHES...
We've heaped Santa's sleigh with special
goot wishes for each and every one of you...
This is our way of saying "It has been nice
to know and serve you...
from all of us...
Alice David
Madiline Harmon
Pauline Bird
Minnie Levine
Jesse Burns
Francis Gary
Linda Rayon
Donald Dorman
Dorothy Troxel, Manager
1.21Jy. Texas
P. N. HIRSCH & CO
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 129, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1959, newspaper, December 24, 1959; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104016/m1/15/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.