University Daily Kansan, December 6, 1983
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Gary Smith/KANSAN
The frozen fruits of winter: An ice storm this weekend left Lawrence streets slick, and trees across the city were sheathed in ice.
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Two Alaska men keep spirit of Christmas alive
By United Press International
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Across the ice-locked reaches of Alaska, the spirit of Christmas runs deep.
Some of its more colorful supporters include Conrad "Con" Miller of North Pole, Alaska, and Daniel Bloom of Nome, Alaska.
Miller gets 300,000 letters a year addressed to Santa Claus at the North Pole. He and his wife have been talking about answering them since the early 1950s.
"We send out about 15,000 letters to children in hospitals all over and we also sell a letter for $2.50," he said.
for 18 years, so you can see how this got started," said Miller, 70.
"I was the mayor and postmaster
WHILE MOST of the letters are from children in the United States, Miller also gets correspondence from other countries.
"Of the foreign ones, the majority are from Canada, Australia and then Japan," he said.
Miller began the Santa Claus business in 1949 when he traveled to remote native villages in the red garb of St. Nicholas.
"I can truthfully say, I was the first walking and talking Santa Claus that some of the villages ever saw," he said.
Over the years, the letters children write to St. Nick have remained about the same in tone, "except that now they want more." Miller said.
trimmings, such as Christmas trees and latkes, or potato pancakes.
For Jewish children, Bloom provides a similar service.
TO HELP JEWISH children understand Christmas and Hanukkah traditions, he has created fubbie and bobbie parties for children and grandfather who live in Nome.
Bloom said 2,000 letters were sent in 1982 explaining the traditions behind the holidays and their respective
For Alaskans living in the bush. Christmas often comes by way of the Air National Guard.
About 4,000 gifts were distributed that way last year to children in remote hospitals, villages and outposts, said Artis Puge of the Salvation Army.
"We will try to go to 20 villages this year," she said. "Not so much the ones that have stores in them — a lot of the villages have nothing."
"This year we have requests from trappers and miners who have children and are out in the middle of nothing."