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By Graham Stewart for a class of Santa Clauses - Among Gilbert's other ihe country, he says. grandchildren they could = “Ima we how shattering say how much Santa Clauses

CHICAGO (Reuter)—-The destined for Chicago stores basicdon’ts: Don'teat garlic © And Santa Claus jobs are possibly want for five or six it would be to a young boy if will earn, instructs them to

Santa : job has strict ground rules— this Christmas. anddon't turn up ameiling of somuchindemandthatonly weeks." he asked Santa what his talk to each child for 30 to 00

Memorize thenamesofnine “Don't bellow outa hearty —‘!quor. one in 30 applicants gets Gilbert, 43, who used to be reindeer were called, and seconds.

oS reindeer, forget the ‘Ho Ho Ho!’ because that's | Gilbert takes his business taken on. The candidates a training co-ordinator for Santa couldn't anawer. “Never promise kids any-

a real traditional “Ho Ho Ho!” and the quickest way make a serioualy. After all, his range from 18 lo over 80, e Red Cross, says many “You also have to be fit thing. If you promise them

. its don't make passes at small kid ery," he says. employment agency, from college students to Wauld-be Santa Claiees don't enough to lft boys weighing something for Christmas and

; \ mothers, “And don’t under any Western Temporary Ser- pensioners. realize how tough the job is, 80 of 90 pounds up on your they don’t get It, you don't

ob : ; That's what it takes to be circumstances tellthekidhe vices, expects to hire out Quite afew applicants are Some drop out along the knee. want them coming back and

J Santa Claus these days. has a great-looking mum. some 4,500 Santa Clauses for middie-aged people wholove way’. “And that can be hard kicking in the store win- “Ofcourse youhavetolike “Don't make any passes storesand Christmas parties children but never had any of “You have to be amart work indeed when you dow.”

h ed idds too," says Santa Claus whatsoever, Remember, in the United States during thelr own, enough to learn thenames of realize you could be seeing “We tell them to say

t ese ays coach Wayne Gilbert, when you're on locatlon the next few weeka. “We aatlaty their parental all nine of his reindeer— 70, 80, even 100 kids an hour generally complimentary

Gilbert! was running there must’ be no fooling The agency is the biggest desirea by giving th em in- Rudolph, Donner, Blitzen in a big store.” things like ‘You're getting

through the dos and don’t@ around.” provider of Santa Clauses in stant families and all the and the real. Gilbert, who declines to pretiler every year, Sury’

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