Santa Claus Listens To Children's Wishes By DONNA BOLLER Sun Staff Reporter The kids already know what the song reminds them"Santa Claus is Coming to Town." For several weeks now, they've been climbing onto laps of local Santas to spill out the visions of toys dancing in their heads. WHAT'S MOST in demand this year, according to the experts on whose laps the children have been sitting, is "Evil Knevel." The toy is a, plastic reproduction of the daredevil motorcyclist, which performs some of the tricks the live motorcyclist does in his act. "A lot of little girls have' asked about "Evil Knievel," the Santa Claus at North Hanover Mall reports. He was amused and slightly puzzled by the request, "because I never heard of that." Unfortunately, the elves workshop has also been affected by the oil shortage, which has led to a shortage of polyethylene plastics used in making the motorcycle toy. So it may not be possible for House Bans 'Bias' Busing WASHINGTON (AP) - In a move sponsors call energysaving and opponents term racist, the House has voted to ban allocations of scarce fuel for busing children past neighborhood schools. If approved, the ban would begin in the next school year, but an attempt to reverse it was expected today. And, was doubtful whether the action, if upheld in the House, would pass the Senate. The energy crisis continued to boil elsewhere in the Santa to fill all the requests for "Evil Knievel"' this Christmas. SANTA at Mason's Discount Department Store has been surprised by the high demand for organs this year. In one Saturday night alone, he received requests from eight young would-be organists for an organ of their own, and seven young pianists who want pianos. In addition to the muchsought "toy cyclist," little girls who visit Santa at Mason's have made a number of requests for "Baby Crissy" and "Baby Alive." More boys than girls have been asking for the "Rock 'em, Sock 'em" game, advertised on television, where players move two robots in a contest to get one robot to punch the other, Mason's Santa reports. INSIDE SANTA'S cabin on Center Square, children are asking for the "Barbie" and "Ken" dolls, and clothes for the "The inch "grown-up" dolls. Santa Claus there says he has also received a number of requests for the Barbie camper and for "Puttputt" trains. Center Square Santa says he asked the children whether they have been good this year, "and every once in awhile one will say, 'no'." A number of younger children have asked him to bring tricycles and bicycles with trainer wheels. ASKED ABOUT the response he was getting from toddlers, the Center Square Santa replied, "Some will come in and tell you just what they want. Others don't talk much." Requests at North Hanover Mall, in addition to "Evil Knievel," have included "Baby Crissy," according to Santa. He's also had some little girls who will be happy with a doll, any doll, and some little boys who don't care about the brand name, just so long as it's a truck. Chorus To Make Debut The Littlestown Community Chorus will make its first public appearance on Monday at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium. They will be appearing with the high school "Swing Choir" in the annual senior high Christmas Choral Concert. Also appearing in the concert will be added the busing prohibition as an amendment to the emergency energy bill. Proposed by Rep. John D. Dingell, D-Mich., it would prohibit allocation of petroleum products for transporting children beyond the public school closest to their home. Dingell said his amendment could save more than 78 million gallons of gasoline yearly. He said it would not directly, busing overturn plans. courtRep. Bella S. Abzug, D-
