European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daly Magazine on the Job with Santa  new York times Ever mind hat there is no Snow in North pole n y. 01 that Rudolph lounging in his Small in the Reindeer barn has a Broad Black nose forge the two hour Wail Lor two Aboul the rigid temperatures this is. Alter All. The North Polo. There is a Frozen Slick shaped like a Ihor Omeler. Protruding live loot out of the ground across irom the clauses House to prove it. Actually it is the nation s oldest theme Park according to Park officials Vanla s workshop established in 1949. Is 13 Miles from Lake Placid. N y. Hallway up White lace Mountain. That is the state s tallest Peak with a Road to the lop. But Don t Tell the children. Even in summer when the Bloom is on the Hillside the elves Are hard at work and every greeting is punctuated with a Jolly merry  thirteen Days Beloro Christmas a knot of children stood patiently in the cold wailing Lor their audience with the big Man in red. As recorded carols were played continuously overhead when he finally reached Santa.  Gallagher. 3 years old. Of North Morrick. By. Asked Lor a talking Bible Allyson Miles. 8. Of Aslon. Wanted a typewriter. Joan Trainer. 35. Of Syosset. N a. Requested a live in maid does mrs Claus have a live in maid she asked Santa her daughter Stephanie. 8. Put in a bid Lor a Cal i really really . Really want a  Stephanie told Santa he was not having it. Santa does t bring any Killens in the Sleigh because they scare the  he said sternly ii you want a Kitten you la have to ask your parents " we can t Tell Thorn they re going to gel anything explained Santa. Who is known As Wendell Johnston Aller dec 25 a diminutive 62-year-old Lormer air Force sergeant he got his Lisl Santa Claus Job nine years ago on a lip irom a slate unemployment office the Lisl thing we look Lor in a Santa is his general appearance that to always wears a natural while  said Roberl Reiss. President of Santa s workshop and the son of its founder. The isl year one comes on he is in Reserve and in training Reiss said by the third year he k a problem because he wants to be a Star. You usually gel one Sweet year Oul of them " although he has been one of the three regular santas at the Park Lor live years. Johnston attended a Santa training school in Bay City. Mich., last Spring. They Leach you How to get along belter with  he said. They also give you pointers. They said you should never pick up a kid and put it on your Lap you re supposed to have a Stool next to you for the kids to sit on so you won t Strain your Back " Johnston does nol use a Stool he is paid $7 50 an hour to haul children on and of his knee 48 hours a week in the summer and a Lew weekends before Christmas he shares the spotlight with frosty the snowman Mother Goose Little red Riding Hood and other storybook characters who roam the Park s 25 acres. They periodically take to its outdoor stage to lip synch and dance to the recorded Christmas Lunes of Dolly Parton Gene aulry and Donny and Marie Osmond. Not All the children who come to Santa s workshop seek him Oul in summer especially they Are satisfied to peer into the window of his House reassured that in that Long sought audience with the big Man in red can turn into a very emotional event. The Oil season he is where he is supposed to be As Christmas draws near some like 5-year-old Laury Franzese Are Content to drop Oil their lists Al his door her 51-Ilem, computer generated catalogue includes a deluxe doll Carrier memory a Pool table everything of Maple town and a Barbie Kitchen Bath dream House and  since 1952, when North pole n.y., became a postal substation with its own postmark and zip code it has been the place where thousands of letters addressed simply to Santa Claus North pole each year often land dear Santa one boy wrote i have been a Good boy and Dougie has been a bad boy so you can give me his toys too remember when Dougie semis his list just deliver them to to " but not everyone is a Gullible As the postmaster Kate Cappolo Litlie. 12. Of Montreal who has been to Santa s workshop twice said she knew Heller we drive Down to America to gel  she a Niri. And i know the North pole is on lop of the world "  agreed a Sage family Iriondo. 7 Kcjr old Anim Havis. If in was really inc North Polo there d be Igloo and everything " Christmas in Saigon hoho to Chi Minh by Barbara Crossette new York times a t the Dong Khanh bakery in Cholon Inho Chi Minh City the other Day the pastry Chels got to work on the first of the season traditional French Christmas logs. Chau Hon the bakery s owner says he sold 6,000 of the lavishly decorated cakes last year this year the sky s the limit Lor the models thai say Noel 1987" in red and while icing. Hon added that his pastry Cooks Are already working seven Days a week till Midnight in five bakeries to turn out 20.000 cookies daily life is easier now he said As he showed a visitor around the City s Chinatown and everyone in Saigon Buddhist and Christian enjoys  Suzanne Dai the proprietor of an eccentric restaurant agreed As she talked about the coming Holiday season Christmas is not Only for  she said. Her Bistro is in the Library of her former Law Ohice. On a bookshelf by a table Between the dictionaries and the porcelain vases a White cat in the spirit of the season had just Given birth to five Kittens. Christmas is an International cosmopolitan Holiday that is a Joy to everyone said Dai. A former Deputy speaker of the South vietnamese Assembly. Children with no chimneys to hang stockings put out shoes in the Hope of Small toys from Santa  the people of Saigon now officially to Chi Minh City have always been the liveliest and most outward looking vietnamese and they grab any Opportunity to have a Good Lime Dai said. Christmas eve is the year s happiest occasion Lor pro menacing dancing and buying glittering trinkets Lor family and friends from Street vendors who Shower passers by with As much confetti As they sell a visitor to Saigon a Lew Christmas Ever ago Tunnel the City s churches packed and overflowing Mlo in streets As tens of thousand of people came or communion and familiar Carol Sung in Vieni Ornu of Many people who Are nol Catholic go to Chr Midnight mass Dai said because they l c the music and the atmosphere " nearby around the roman Catholic  the first of the sidewalk Christmas markets has  to the Light of Liny kerosene lamps thai give  Anil Gold greeting cards an old fashioned glow a mile or so away along Haiba Trung a ,  is already under Way on the sidewalk in front of inn  in Church. Here the poor can buy Small Irce trimming made by hand out of paper scraps and cutouts those with Money can invest in imported Olas Lic Christmas Ircel with twinkling lights and shiny ornaments across from the Church do Van bang has Lunod his religious objects shop into a Wall to Wall Christmas Bazaar. For Sale Are locally made scones of inc nativity with a full cast of characters from the holy family to the sheep on the Hillside in Glass cases browsers can also discover tin  objects that have found their Way Here from s mis Roebuck & co and Wal Mart stores Christmas in Saigon knows no politics from behind shelves of Marx and Lenin in a state Book shop the unmistakable strains of Jingle Bells bounced lion the tape deck enlivening a display of books Aboul the decline of the West Dai said the War had temporarily dampened the Christmas spirit in the 1960s and Early 70s but in 1975. Alter the communist takeover of i ouch Vietnam she said we had our first Christmas in peace and All the world came out on the Street "nowar,  were full. Lull full of people and they slaved out until Lour or five in the morning it was a joyous sight " tuesday. December 22. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 13