Another Easy Week

HELLO FOLKS – Last week I got by letting Karen write. So, this week I will let Randy say something he has been trumpeting around here for few weeks.

I might explain that Karen is home.  She has been away for two years except for a week last year.  Karen is going to school at Weber College at Ogden, Utah.  We are glad that she could be home for Christmas.  She didn’t make it last year and it shook her up pretty badly, Karen is one of my favorite daughters.  I have six favorites.  We are very proud of her.  I hope we can be as proud of all our daughters.

Randy is 11, He is the 6^th grade.  Spends every spare minute in the encyclopedia or other books, studying every subject possible.

Randy is also a dreamer.  As you will soon guess.  Here is what he wrote.

SANTA IS OLD FASHIONED

BY RANDY PETERSEN

Santa Claus is getting very old fashioned for this day and age.  He uses old fashioned ways of delivering presents.  Instead of driving a sleigh and reindeer he should be riding in a rocket powered by atomic fuel.

Instead of coming down the chimney into the fireplace (which most homes don’t have any more) he should put presents into a machine that would break down the elements of the gift into radio waves.  When the radio waves reach the receiver, which would be the tree itself, the radio waves would be received at the top of the tree.  As the radio wave goes down the spine of the tree the elements would build up into their proper form, go out the bottom branches and drop under the tree.

Santa’s habits and ways of making presents are old fashioned too.  Instead of having the tiny brick factory with elves in it.  The factory should be big and modern, made out of glass and steel.  And machines should make the presents, instead of elves.

Instead of smoking a pipe he should be smoking a filter cigarette.  Instead of wearing a heavy fur lined coat he should be wearing an insulated nylon-rayon coat.  His beard should be shaved, and he should look attractive and handsome and young.

Santa should have his home on Mars or some other planet and be living in a space needle like the one at the Seattle World’s Fair.  And instead of keeping his records of children in books, he should put them on microfilm.

So-long, Old Time Santa

Transcribed by Vera Smith