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SALVATION ARMY XMAS 07
Hundreds of persons line up at the Salvation Army
Christmas headquarters at 23-hundred Lve Oak in
Dallas on opening day of the annual drive to helpthe needy at z Christmas time,
The
program, financed by street corner kettle collections
and also by direct gifts, provides food, clothing and
toys for indigent families or M large familieswith low incomes.
Supervising the volunteers who
interview the applicants is Brigadier L. W. Amberger.
Mrs. Laureen Beckhart is one of the volunteers whowork without charge.
The "Sallies" have been
conducting their Christmas program for 70-years,
probably longer than any other organization. Toys
are given to children from one to 12-years old and
those from 6-to-12-also receive shoes. The toy shop
opens December 23rd....the food and clothing is
distributed the day before Christmas. Today's crowd
which was more than 400-was aarge one for an opening
day. Officials say they had planned to process about300-applications a day.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Salvation Army Xmas], item, December 5, 1960; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc976356/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.