Santa Will Drop Gift Into Every Chimney

BLACK BUZZ NEWS SERVICE
The James S. Robinson Jr. Project
Robinson Family Archives
Pittsburgh PA
December 4, 2010

The article titled Santa Will Drop Into Every Chimney: Hill City Receives 900 Gifts From Toy Fund; Agency to Have Sparkling Christmas Eve Party appeared in the Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph on December 15, 1948.

Santa Will Drop Gift Into Every Chimney- Hill City Receives 900 Gifts From Toy Fund; Agency to Have Sparkling Christmas Eve Party

Santa Claus is coming to town, and as a result of the generosity of a group
of local businessmen, he'll drop a package down every chimney in the Third and Fifth wards.
Members of the Christmas Toy's Fund, who prefer to remain anonymous donated 900 toys last week which are being distributed to needy children by Hill City Youth Municipality. Director James Robinson says the agency staff is helping Santa see the kiddies receive the gifts, which includes dolls, guns, cut-outs, sewing sets, and even powder puffs and cologne for the teen-age girls.
Each year the Toy Fund Club contributes to a special treasury which uses the money to make Christmas merry for all children in the community of all races and creeds. This will mark the fourth year Hill City has been selected to take charge of the deliveries.
Community youth will be entertained at the Annual Hill City Christmas party on Christmas Eve at the Bedford Avenue Center. The celebration will begin at 3: P. M. and will also feature a play entitled, "Christmas in Many Lands," directed by Miss Jean Swann, secretary of the agency. Assistant Director Eunice Cook will have charge of the party.
Participants for the play include Stewart Fraser, Beverly Lewis, Marlene Jarrett, Jerry Tomlin, Audrey Boxter, Kenneth MacMillian, Ernestine Wilson, Gladys Moore, Ernestine Payne, Alexander Fraser, Anne Bruice, Jean Barnett, Arlen Gresham, Barbara Boyer, Calvin Bloxton.


* Blogger Black Buzz notes that Jean Swann's married name is Jean Farrish who is a longtime Pittsburgh Courier employee who wrote the obituary on my dad that appeared in the Pittsburgh Courier in July of 1997.