POLICE IN Taylorsvilic, North
Carolina arrested three women for
a one-night shoplifting binge on
August 3. One woman was
charged with smuggling a VCR
out of a Western Auto store in the
waistband of her shorts, and
. another. was accused of stuffing’57
packs ‘of cigarettes into her bra
and walking out of another store.

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Science fiction writer Lester del
Ray passed away in New York
City in May at the age of 77. His
obituary gave his real name as
Ramon. Felipe San. Juan Mario
Silvio Enrico Smith Heathcourt-
Brace Sierra y Alvarez del Ray y
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In January,.a woman, Rose Shot

to Pieces, was.convicted of selling
alcohol-on the Pine Ridge Indian

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In Miami, in September, police
stopped a man for speeding and
found $4,400 stuffed into one of
his socks. A records check
reveaied the man, named Promise
Marion Promis, owed more than
that in child support, and the
judge ordered the $4,400 turned
over to the child’s mother.

The New York Times reported in
October on the trend by Chinese
people in Hong Korg to give their
children Western names. Among
the Chinese-surnamed people
mentioned were those with first
names of Cinderella, Onion,
Creamy, Jackal, Civic,
Scholastica, Egmont and Open. A
woman named Neon Chang said
that some Chinese complained
about her name ~~ not because it
was too Western but because they
thought Neon was a boy’s name.

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Kentucky, where burial arsange-
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A one-year-old girl named Specia!
Lemons survived a collision in
July in which a car smashed into a
bus-stop shelter. _

rison High School in Bethany,
Missouri, when asked at his sexual
abuse trial (a charge for which he
was acquitted) in August whether
he had ever had an extramarital
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from your North Shore News Carrier.

Each year in December we ask our carriers to submit stories,
letters and poems relating to the job of being a carrier.

We award che best entries with a prize and publish them in

ouz Carrier Newsletcer, Carrier's Voice ‘and Christmas Windows
which runs on Sunday. on

The following letter was send to us by Dustin and Matt Kofocd,
agel4 and 12, and describes most of our jobs in the newspaper

industry in December very well. We thought we'd share it with you. |.‘

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“Tis the Month Before Christmas” |

Tis is the month before Christmas,.
and ail through my head, .
“are visions and nightmares,
that fill me with dread.
The North Shore News gives me,
the job to deliver,
_the great stacks of ilyers,
‘that give me the shivers.

So after the stuffing,
(not turkey) is done,
my brother and I,
start our North Shore News run,
Out into the dark, ;

with our load on the cart, ~

we hope that the rain,

and the snow will not start.

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“The flyers keep slipping and just won't stay in,
the cart weighs, 10 tons, and keeps bruising my shins,
i:3 cold and ir’s dark and I think about quitting, «°°
and sure enough here comes the rain, it’s spitting.

But what to our wondering eyes should appear,

a man who appreciates our humble career!
He holds out an envelope that gives us the thrills, :.
a tip!! he has given us 5 crisp new bills! :
We spring te our cart, to the world give a holler,
these papers aren’t heavy; we've just made 10 dollars!
And you'll hear us exclaim, with a heart that's much
moertier, : ” eg
Merry Christmas to all, from your North Shore News
cartier! :

_ Dustin and Matt Kofoed, Ages 14, 12.

We at the News recognize the
carriers effort and plight,

and ask you to tip just once a year
and make their Christmas bright!

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