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CIO Honolulu Star-Bulletin Tuesday, Dec. 19. 1978 Prices In This Ad Effective Wednesday Thru Saturday, December 20 Thru 23, 1'nlea Otherwise Specified SAVE $3 to $11! Small Appliance Gifts Sears 1 1 1 1 HAPPY FELLOW This Santa not only makes others believe in him, he believes he really is Santa Claus. Jim Yellig, the man behind the beard, has been playing Santa since 1930. The 84-year-old man delights hundreds of visitors to Santa Claus, every year.

And yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, Ind. AP Photo. On Christmas Lake Mr. Claus Is Alive and Living in Ind. listening to their wants.

The rest of the year he spends his time answering letters or hanging around the post office in his Santa suit talking to tourists. This year, he says, his biggest requests have been for "Star Wars" toys and race cars. "THE LITTLE, bitty tots, they still want choo-choo trains." said Yellig. "But anytime, they gonna get up to four and five, they want 10-speed bicycles anything that moves. Yellig also likes to talk about his "philosophy of the world." "First of all, there should never be any unhappy children," he said.

"It's so easy to bring happiness to a child. "Second of all, there should not be any unhappy old people because their days are numbered." When a child asks for a gift, Yellig admits, "I get out from under it," with the following response, 'You are gonna be surprised when you look under your Christmas When some time later a child complains that a toy doesn't work anymore, Yellig only sighs and promises to do better next year. There are occupational hazards. He revealed that his elves keep towels around in case one of the children has an "accident" while sitting on his lap. "You know that happens once in a while," he said, "but I don't mind." SANTA CLAUS.

Ind. (AP) As the resident Santa Claus here on Christmas Lake for almost half a century, Jim Yellig probably knows as much as anybody about the fickle tastes of children. And at age 84. he notes that the favorite toys of the time reflect changes in society as a whole. When he first donned his Santa suit.

Yellig said. "Girls would ask for an apron or pots and pans. You could sit here all day and not hear that today." Since he returned home from the Navy in 1930. Yellig has been the symbol of this community which stamps half a million Christmas cards a year with the only Santa Claus postmark in America. "When I put on this red suiU I'm Santa Claus." Yellig says.

"I've been here a long time. I've got grandmas coming back to see me now." THE TOWN IS built around man-made Christmas Lake, and the 611 residents drive down streets with names like Jingle Bell Lane to restaurants with names like St. Nicholas Inn. All of this makes it a fitting setting for Yellig, who grew up in the area and spends his summers taking Christmas requests at an amusement part called Santa Claus Land. On weekends from Memorial Day through Dec.

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If the provisional figure, which is based on a 10 percent sample of deaths, holds through the final count, it will be the only time in recent years that the infant mortality rate has declined more than one full point in a year. The rate was 15.2 in 1976. Heart disease remains the No. 1 cause of death in the United States, although it and stroke, the No. 3 cause, are both on the decline.

The second major cause of death, cancer, and the fourth, accidents, rose last year, but not enough to change the order of the leading causes of death. reached 73.2 years, the highest ever, the government said yesterday. The tentative vital statistics for 1977, which are the latest figures available from the National Center for Health Statistics, also show a. significant decline in infant mortality. Increases were noted in the number of births, marriages and divorces.

"The absence of an influenza epidemic during 1977 may jn part be responsible for the record low total rteath rate," the report said. Public health officials had anticipated a major swine flu epidemic last year, but it never materialized, and there were only scattered outbreaks of the A-Victoria flu strain. AS A RESULT, the death rate from influenza and pneumonia, which together rank as the fifth leading cause of death in the United States, fell more than 20 percent. The drop helped bring the total provisional death rate to 8.8 deaths per 1,000 population, which the statistics center, an arm of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, termed "the lowest annual rate ever recorded in this country." The death rate was 8 9 per 1,000 population in 1976. While the 1977 fig-ures will remain tentative until final statistics are published next year, the numbers are not expected to change substantially in most catego- ries.

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Asks Arms Cutoff for Israel UNITED NATIONS (AP) The General Assembly called Thursday night for an arms embargo against Israel in a resolution aimed mainly at the United States as the Israelis' leading arms supplier. The Iraqi-inspired resolution came to the assembly with the recommendation of its main political committee, made up of all U.N. members. The 48 Third World sponsors included Egypt and Saudi Arabia, themselves recipients of American arms. With 37 countries abstaining, the assembly adopted the resolution by a vote of 72-30, well above the two-thirds majority the charter requires for assembly decisions on "important questions." Before that, however, the assembly decided that the resolution needed only a simple majority for adoption.

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