Okla. To Celebrate
“Will Rogers Day”
CLAREMORE, Okla. (A*)—Will
Rogers, Oklahoma’s favorite son
whose droll wit and homely phi
losophies endeared him to all
America, made his home town fa
mous—and the cowboys, Indians
and ordinary folk of Claremore
haven’t forgotten it.
It has been more than 11 years
since the August day Rogers died
with his flying pal, Wiley Post, in
an Alaskan airplane crash. But on
Monday, (Nov. 4 >, the Claremore
folks have invited in the neighbors
to help them commemorate what
would have been the humorist’s
67th birthday.
With war restrictions off, they
will shoot the works in a bigger
and better observance with a pro
gram at the Roger’s memorial that
Will would have reveled in.
Gov. Robert S. Kerr has pro
claimed the date "Will Rogers
Day” all over the state.
Here at Claremore, ranchers,
cowhands, farmers and others
who knew Rogers will march in a
parade of 1,500 horsemen and 16
bands which will wind up with a
horse and colt show and a free |
barbecue of six beeves.
Bouncing Baby
DETROIT, MICH. — Pictured
here is Roger Feagan, 14-months,
who fell out a third story win
dow in Detroit. After falling out
of the window the child was rushed
to the hospital where it was found
to be unhurt. His father is a re
enlisted war veteran. Roger has
been walking since he was 9
months old which may explain his
ability to fall out of third story
windows.
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jectionable feautre of prison life?
Prisoner—Visitors.
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School News
PRIMARY AND FIRST GRADE
Ever since the school nurse ex
plained about vitamins in food,
and especially about vitamin A,
the first grade has been discussing
the foods which contain this valu
able vitamin. Their list included
oranges, apricots, eggs, carrots,
squash, sweet potatoes, and any
yellow food. They know it is good
for the eyes and they know they
need it because of the necessity of
using so much artificial light in
the wintertime. The nurse also
told them to eat candy sparingly
and the best time to have a little
piece was after meals and not dur
ing recess or on the way home
from school.
GRADES THREE AND FOUR
In geography the fourth graders
are taking a journey across the
United States on the Lincoln
Highway. We drew maps of the
United States and plotted the
route of the highway and import
ant cities along the way.
The third grade is studying a
unit of “Ways of Living.” They
are gathering information on the
I Indian ways of life.
GRADES FOUR AND FIVE
; The fourth and fifth grades
I have made very lovely Hallowe’en
decorations for our room. Mary
Ellen Aukon has drawn and color
ed some pumpkins and black cats
on the blackboard. On Thursday
we are going to read stories about
Hallowe’en and sing our Hallow
e’en song.
Mr. Angell came into our room
to talk to us about Hallowe’en
night. We decided that since our
town had suffered so much dam
age within the past two weeks, we
would not play any tricks that
would cause any trouble or ex
pense to the people of Nome.
GRADE SIX
We are planning a Hallowe’en
party Thursday for the last hour
of the afternoon. We have our
walls decorated with pumpkins,
black cats, witches, and bats. Our
blackboards have colored chalk
drawings drawn free hand by six
of our boys and one girl.
Our language lessons have been
interesting. We are learning four
kinds of sentences and how to use
them properly. They are: declara
tive, imperative, interrogative,
and exclamatory. We are to punc
tuate and write them correctly.
We had a story of a boy drowning
used in connection with these sen
tences.
GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT
The seventh and eighth grade
room made a zno out of stains of
paper and paste. Some of the re
sults are quite astounding. They
were painted colors that are quite
strange for animals.
The room was decorated for
Hallowe’en with streamers, black
I cats, witches, etc. A party is be
J ing planned for Thursday during
j the last hour of the day.
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
Due to the lack of sufficient
heat, the Nome High School had
an unscheduled holiday on Mon
i day. The heating system hasn’t
j worked very well during the rest
j of the week either.
On Wednesday evening a Hal
lowe’en party toov nlace n t’^e
! High School gym. The traditional
Hallowe’en games were plavei,
1 including bobbin* for apples.
Many of the students had an in
voluntary bath *’Mle attemnt:ng
to their arv--»1 '■><*
Students and faculty enjoyed
. dancing to the lif e box afte
froshments had be°n served in the
Home Economics room.
Pacific Coast
Football
(By Associated Press)
The reserve-shy St. Mary’s
Gaels engage undefeated UCLA in
Los Angeles tonight, with a crowd
approximating 100,000 expected to
see the Pacific Coast football
headliner.
The Bruins, thus far voted the
probable Rose Bowl host, are
^heavily favored over St. Mary’s
which was beaten earlier in the
season by an inspired University
of California eleven.
The West Coast schedule tonight
also features University of Ha
waii’s meeting with the College of
the Pacific at Stockton and San
Jose State’s encounter with Santa
Barbara there.
In the conference lists tomorrow
the University of Oregon tangles
with Southern California in Los
Angeles, Oregon State and Stan
ford play in Corvallis; Washing
ton State visits the University of
California at Berkeley and Idaho
meets Montana University at Mis
soula.
For USC. it will be another
chance to stay in the running for
the coast championship and occu
| py the Rose Bowl for the fourth
straight year. Oregon, although
| still unbeaten, was the underdog.
Stanford’s trip to Corvallis was
the first since 1941, when Oregon
State won 10 to 0 and went on
from there to the transplanted
Rose Bowl in Durham, N. C.
i Coach Marchie Schwartz of Stan
ford said he wasn’t worried about
the prospects of rain and mud.
Custer Fought Here
WOODWARD, O k 1 a . */P) — A
drive is underway to secure funds
to place a marker on a farm where
General Custer fought a battle
with Indians who killed 100 cattle
belonging to a rancher.
I
The road runner can easily out
distance a team of horses.
THE ORIGIN OF
HALLOWE’EN
_
Hallowe'en, or All Hallows Eve,
really began as a Sabbath day for
those who belonged to witch cults,
acording to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica.
Members of the cult believed
that a god, incarnate as a human
being or animal, appeared to his
worshippers disguised in various
animal forms or dressed incon
spicuously in black.
The earliest form of the animal
disguise is the figure of a man
clothed in a stag’s skin with ant
lers on his head. Such a figure,
according to Encyclopaedia Bri
tannica’s article on witchcraft, ap
pears among the palaeolithic
paintings in a cave in southern
France. The goat disguise was
common in early France and Ger
many. In the British Isles the usual
forms were the bull, the dog and
the cat.
Pagans set aside four days dur
I ing the year to worship this
strange-appearing god: February
2 or Candlemas; May-eve or
Roodmas; Lammas, August 1, and
November Eve or Hallowe’en.
The worshipping was joyous.
Cult members by the hundreds,
from far and near, men, women
and children, gathered together.
“The scene was like a great fair
with dancing and singing and
feasting,” Britannica says. “The
celebrations began in the evening,
lasted all night and ended at
dawn.”
Today, Hallowe’en is chiefly
known as the eve of the Christian
festival. All Saint’s Day, the arti
cle explains. In the spirit of hu
mor and adventure, beliefs are re
called that mark this night as the
one night in the year during which
ghosts and witches are most likely
to wander abroad. And young and
old, dressed in every imaginable
costume, sally out for fun.
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