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Action, Please! Edited by KOBEKT C. McCORMICK TUCSON DAILY CITIZEN MONDAY, DECEMBER 15,1975 FOOD FASHION FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT HOMES FOCUS PAGE 13 QUESTION r-1 ordered two musical bears from a Chicago on Oct. 22 and enclosed a money order for $20. The toys were to be Christmas presents for my children, but now I'm afraid my order has been lost because I haven't heard a thing from the company. I wrote a letter several weeks ago and received no response.

Would you please find out what happened to my order? ANSWER Your children will have their musical bears for Christmas, a company spokesman said. The orders were backed up but now are going out on schedule. He told Action, Please! he would call you to make sure you received the shipment on time. Old country tunes set pace for 'Scandinavian Julfest' QUESTION I've been trying for over three months to get this company to honor its guarantee, so here's hoping Action, Please! can help me. We have a foam roof guaranteed for 15 years.

It is now two years old and has cracked in a few places and leaked during the rainy season. A man from the company came out to look at it and said he would send someone out that week to repair the damage. Since then I've called at least once a week and keep getting the same old promise about service. Sometimes I'm told someone will be out that day and I stay home from work for nothing. Please help us before the rain starts again and does some really expensive damage.

ANSWER The repair work on your roof now has been completed and approved by you, the company president told Action, Please! QUESTION At the intersection of Swan and Grant roads, going north on Swan, the road narrows right after you pass the traffic light. Last night we were waiting there for the light to turn green and a foolish driver in the far right lane (the cutoff lane) zoomed right in front of us at a high rate of speed and just barely missed us. There was a string of cars behind us and one almost ran into our back end because we had to stop so quickly. That nutty driver didn't even slow down because he was determined to get ahead of everybody. It would be a big help if the city could put a "right turn only" sign on the far right lane of Swan in front of the gas station.

ANSWER The city traffic engineering division agrees with your suggestion and a work order has been issued for the sips. Citizen Photos Two guests (above) at the "Scandinavian Jul- fest" were John and Margaret Johannessen, originally from Norway, in the United States now for five years. It was a blustery afternoon and that set the mood yesterday for a "Scandinavian Julfest," sponsored by Hospitality International of Tucson (HIT). Inside the Williamsburg Room at the Hilton Inn, things were cozy indeed. Guests filled the long tables set alongside each wall; a large dance floor centered the floor.

Walls in the room are red, and what a spectacle they were, decorated with green and red wreaths, and blue glistening decorations crisscrossing the ceiling. Add to that a group of dancers, sponsored by the Norsemen's Federation, sprinkled with red vests for the men and stockings for the ladies. Festive dances The dancers, directed by Kenneth and Loretta Olson, started festivities with demonstrations of various Norwegian, Swedish and Danish numbers. Scandinavian music and old country tunes were played on the accordion by About Town Sue Giles Sound off! DEAR ACTION: Concerning the Sound off! of Dec. .4 about the pet population explosion: Doesn't this person realize that there is a human population explosion, too? Why isn't there a "strong city ordinance" limiting humans to three or four per household? This "beautiful city" was once an even more beautiful wilderness until humans paved it for profit 0 If you have a problem to be to Action, care of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Box 26767, Tucson, 85726.

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With seven key locations in Tucson, there's a Supreme Cleaners near you. When your clothes look great, you look better! Keeping Tucsonans beautiful for over 30 years K53S3 I A group of dancers, (above), sponsored by the Norsemen's Federation -dressed in red vests for the men and stockings for the ladies entertained at the Sandinavian party with dances from the old country. Among dancers were Joyca and Gordon Waller, the Marshall Flashers, Gretchen Medalen, David Olson, Cindy Waller, Ronald Engelby, Marit Nelson, Scott See- bree, Lisa Nelson and Craig Waller. Emil Carlson of Green Valley. Don Johnson, fiddler, was assisted by Phil Egleston and Fred Eaton.

One of the highlights of the afternoon was the St. Lucia ceremony, which heralds the beginning of the Christmas celebration in Sweden. Three young girls participated, with Kim Blankenship wearing the candlelit crown (only in her case, silver flashlights enter- twined with green boughs were used to forestall any fire problem). St. Lucia ritual Gloria Paul, HIT president, told the story of the St.

Lucia ritual, which she says is practiced in almost every Swedish home. Tradition calls for the oldest daughter to wake the household on Dec. 13 in a special way. She wears a white robe and a glittery crown, and carries coffee and cookies to each member of the household. This is to commemorate St.

Lucia's Day, the Queen of Lights. Blonde Kim certainly looked the part of a modern-day' Swedish miss, as she and Lisa Nelson and Cindy Waller sang "Santa Lucia" in the darkened room. Seen here and there: Pete and Freda Bergstrom, the Conrad Tillbergs, Effie and Leo Mayer, Leonard and Regina Saue, Howard and Bea McManus, Isabelle Harris, Edna Church, Thea Gladden, Agnes Heller, Fan Kane, Lillian Hoegner (she originated HIT), Nita and Walter Grace, Brita and Einar Anderson, John and Margaret Johannessen. Following a film on Scandinavia, refreshments such as spritz, Danish rolls and sand- bakelse were served. ve been bad' Letters to Santa HELSINKI, Finland (UPI) The world's children are writing to Santa Glaus in record numbers this year, and 19 of his helpers are working overtime to make sure each letter is answered.

Although the children know they must be good to receive presents from Santa, the letter from Augi Cassidy of St. Joseph, summed up the situation. "I know I have been pretty bad at times, but I wish I could have a few things," she wrote, Michael Sutton of East Morsey, England, added an enticement for Santa's visit. "I will leave you a glass of gin and some chocolate," he wrote. The letters were among thousands received from around the world.

Many post offices that receive mail addressed to Santa Claus at the North Pole, reindeer land or other exotic places send the letters to Finland. The Helsinki post office gives them to the Finnish Tourist Board, which has produced a letter with Santa's own handwriting, pictures of him and a puzzle on the reverse side. Santa's letter concludes, "together wit) 1 all my Christ- mas elves, I wish you and your friends and family a really good and merry Christmas. Santa also hopes that the gay and friendly spirit of Christmas will continue long after Christmas as well -right up to the following Christmas." The tourist board estimates it will answer at least 30,000 letters this year, with about half coming from Finland. About 1,500 letters arrive daily and 10,000 have already been answered.

TUCSON HERITAGE PHOTO EXHBITION SPONSORED BY THE TUCSON DALY CITIZEN Citizen Photo winners First place winners in the Tucson Daily Citizen's Tucson Heritage Photo Contest are shown at the opening Saturday in the Tucson Museum of Art of the display of the 40 top winners in the contest. They are Charles G. Sanger (left) of 6043 W. Lazy Heart winner in the contemporary category, and David L. Fisher, 3460 N.

Houghton Road, historical photo winner. The two are posed in front of the entries of other contest winners. istory glows otos By DON SCHELLIE Citizen Columnist The photograph itself is small hardly larger than a drugstore Instamatic print -and it is snowbound in a meadow of white matting edged in rich walnut, but there he is, the proud El Charro Plateado, a Tucson cowboy called by that name because of the silver plating that decorated his saddle. Ramon Ahumada was his real name and he rode the Arizona ranges in times long past, and his niece, Mrs. Alicia Alegria, of 319 E.

Fairground Drive, may speak with pride of her uncle, whose statue is in the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Okla. Small photo The small photograph of El Charro Plateado stem of face, peaked hat at derring-do tilt, gloved hands clasped across his chest, was Mrs. Alegria's entry in the Tucson Daily Citizen's Tucson Heritage Photo Contest. It won second place in the competition's historical category, and is among the two score photographs in a special exhibition of the Tucson Museum of Art. In celebration of Tucson's 200th anniversary, the contest's 40 award-winning photos, which depict both historical and contemporary themes related to the Old Pueblo's in major "Selected Prints 1961-74," by Robert Motherwell, a major exhibit of graphics, opened Saturday in the Tucson Museum of Art along with the showing of winners in the Tucson Daily Citizen's Tucson Heritage Photo contest.

The exhibit includes 33 color lithographs and etchings, and will b.e reviewed tomorrow in the Citizen's "At the Galleries" column, by critic Robert M. Qiiinn. The graphics by Motherwell, famous New York abstract expressionist, will be on display at the museum through Jan. 25. heritage, will be on display at the museum through Jan.

25. A graphic exhibition, "Selected Prints 1961-1974" by Robert Motherwell, is being held in conjunction with the photo display. Judging the photo contest -in which cash and other awards totaling $1,700 were presented by the Citizen to winners were Sidney B. Brinckerhoff, director oil the Arizona Historical Society; Robert W. McMillan, head of the University of Arizona art department, Lez Haas, UA professor of photography; Ray Manley, Tucson-based professional photographer; and Emil W.

Haury, professor and former head of the UA anthropology department. At a preview reception Saturday evening, the 1905 photograph of Ahumada proved to be a favorite with the museum visitors, just as it was with the contest's judges. Both first place winners were present for the reception Saturday. Charles G. Sanger, 6043 W.

Lazy Heart won top honors for his double exposure of a horse and buggy silhouetted against San Xavier Mission at sunset, and David L. Fisher, of 3460 N. Houghton Road, was first place winner in the historical category. The photograph he submitted shows the Safford School third grade class of 1903-04, posing stiffly and without smile, on the front steps of the school. Tucson's past To view the 40 award-winning entries in the exhibit -all strikingly matted in white and framed in walnut is to catch rare glimpses of Tucson's past and present.

In fact, the second place award winner in the contemporary category vividly contrasts the city's ancient past with its "now" present. The camera work of Stephen Larson, 2002 W. Hadley the color photograph shows Hohokam Indian petroglyphs that were etched into boulders of basalt in prehistoric times, against a background of the downtown Tucson of today. Larson took the photo from Tumnmoc Hill. San Xavier is the subject of many of the pictures that won awards in both historical and contemporary categories.

The mission is shown from a variety of angles in the photographs, taken over a great many years. What is probably the earliest photograph of the mission included in the show is an 1899 picture submitted by Ernest Bujanda. That honorable mention entry reveals a deteriorating mission, with only the west bell tower whitewashed. Old and new In other photographs in the show may be seen the horse- drawn delivery wagons, skyscrapers under construction, early motor cars, Tucson street scenes (past and present), small children and old people, workmen, weather worn walls of adobe, and many other subjects that tell the story of our city's past. Perhaps the rarest photograph in the show was taken by pioneer photographer Henry Buehman, in 1896.

It shows a crew of a few dozen workers taking a photo break during of the St. Augustine Cathedral. Submitted by Guillermo Ochoa, 402 W. Nevada the entry received an honorable mention in the historical category. The years have not been kind to the photograph, which is faded, spotted and stained.

At some time in the past, someone must have placed a coffee cup on the picture, and a ring of pale brown unintentionally frames a handful of the workers who pose amid ladders and scaffolds, water hoses and the broken brick rubble of construction. Stained and faded as it might be, this photograph, possibly as much or more than any other in the show, reflects the heritage of Tucson as its bicentennial year draws to a close. The Tucson Museum of Art is located at 235 W. Alameda and is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

and on Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. There is no admission charge and decent guided tours are available on 4Miour notice..