Letter To Santa

This year a million and a half Christmas trees rolled out of New Brunswick for all parts of Canada and the United States. Tied to one of the trees was a letter to Santa Claus. It was written by 11 year old Villa Matches of Chatham, New Brunswick and it said that she was very poor and would like a doll for Christmas and some money just a few cents.

Now from CHS J in St. John, Villa Matches is interviewed by Ian Sclanders. Because of this letter, Villa is going to have the most wonderful Christmas of any small girl in Canada. Isn't that right, Villa?

Yes, that's right. Where did the tree with your letter go? It went way down south in Machets, Mississippi. What happened to it there, Villa? It was one of the thousand trees that went to a big store.

The store manager found my letter and took it to the Machets radio station and Santa Claus broadcast it with a lot of other letters. letters. When you wrote your letter did you ever expect to hear from it again?

No, I guess I didn't. I just hoped I would. What was the first you did here, Abad-Villa? One morning a reporter came to the house and asked my mommy if I had tied a letter to a Christmas tree.

She said she didn't know but when I came in she asked me. I said I did. I had. What was the next you heard of it, Abad-Villa? You started coming in from all over the state.

Did most of them have money in them? Yes, they did. What was the largest amount you received, Villa? Twenty-five dollars. What was the smallest? Ten cents. Who was the ten cents from? From an old lady in Missouri.