10 DAYS REMAIN: TOYBOX CAMPAIGN NEEDS BOOST

Just 10 days remain before Toybox volunteers deliver gifts to needy children, but at this point in the campaign the list of youngsters far outnumbers the toys that have been donated.

Applications will be accepted through Friday.

While organizers are confident that toys will arrive this week and in the first days of next week, the calendar marches on.

Toybox has a simple goal: Bring holiday happiness to needy children. That Christmas joy can be as simple as a new doll or truck or book or game. The Jaycees who deliver gifts each year have seen how excited such a simple gift makes a child, especially when the child has little else to call his own.

The project depends on donations from individuals, from organizations and clubs and businesses.

Toybox is a joint project of the Cape Girardeau Jaycees and the Southeast Missourian newspaper.

Toys will be delivered Dec. 17 by a team of Jaycees Santas and helpers.

Applications for Toybox will be accepted at the Salvation Army headquarters, 701 Good Hope, through Friday from 10 a.m. to noon and from 2-4 p.m.

New and unwrapped gifts for children from birth through age 12 may be delivered to any of the following locations: Southeast Missourian, 301 Broadway, Boatmen's Bank Cape Girardeau locations, Capital Bank Cape Girardeau locations, Commerce Bank, Farm and Home Savings Association, Perry Travel Center, Gulliver's Travel Agency, and West Park Mall.

Donations may be mailed to Toybox Trust, P.O. Box 1626, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 63702-1626, or dropped off at the Southeast Missourian.

For more information, call Kim McDowell at 335-6611 during daytime business hours.