History
THE PERKINS JOURNAL, Thursday, December 23, 2010- A5
Special Ornament
The Clonts family of lives at Perkins, started first
Fallis, OK had seven grade. Wayne's given name
daughters. They all became is William Wayn e Allen,
school teachers. Fallis is a and up until then, he went
few miles northwest of by Billy. In the first grade
Wellston.
The oldest daughter was
Ruth. She went to college
and became a teacher. She
in turn helped finance her
younger sisters to receive
teacher training, And other
of the older sisters did the
sarfle.
Besides Ruth there was
Eleanor, Billie, Grace, and
three other sisters.
Billie taught at Perkins
School in the 1940's and
1950's. She also coached
the high school girls basket-
ball team for a few years.
BiUie's husband was Henry
Sadler.
Eleanor was teaching first
grade at Wellston when
Wayne Allen, who now
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m time
On Jan. 1, 45 B.C., New
Year's Day is celebrated on
January 1 for the first time
as the Julian calendar takes
effect. In designing his new
calendar, Roman ruler Julius
Caesar enlisted the aid of
Sosigenes, an Alexandrian
astronomer, who calculated a
year to be 365 and 1/4 days.
On Dec. 29, 1890, the U.S.
Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at
Wounded Knee in South
Dakota. The cavalry sur-
rounded a band of Ghost
Dancers and demanded they
surrender their weapons. A
brutal massacre followed,
with nearly half those killed
being women and children.
On Dec. 30, 1936, in one
of the first sit-down strikes
in the United States, auto-
'there were two other boys
named Billy. The other two
were Billy Gardner and Billy
Treaster.
Teacher Eleanor thought
that it would be confusing to
have three boys in the school
room named "Billy," so she
started calling "Billy" Allen
by his middle name Wayne,
and that name stayed with
him from then on through
the years. Now many of his
friends and acquaintances
don't even know that his
first name is William.
As was the custom in
most grade school rooms in
1936, Wellston first grade
had a Christmas tree with
decorations.
There were about 20
Wayne Allen with the Santa Claus ornament he received
as a first grader in 1936. When the ornament was new,
Santa's suit was bright red with white trim. The Christmas
tree Santa is holding was bright green. His boots were and
still are black. Santa had a long beard. The Santa Claus
tradition comes from Saint Nicholas, a bishop of Asia Minor
in the fourth century, A. D. He was known as a special friend
and protector of children. The 1936 Santa ornament has a
knee length overcoat or robe which is longer than the 2010
depictions of Santa. Photo by Daniel Wall
workers occupy the General
Motors Fisher Body Plant in
Flint, Mich. The strike lasted
44 days. GM's output went
from a robust 50,000 cars
in December to just 125 in
February.
On Dec. 27, 1941, the fed-
eral Office of Price Adminis-
tration first begins to ration
automobile tires. Only those
who demonstrated need were
allowed to purchase cars,
metal typewriters, bicycles,
stoves and rubber shoes.
Butter, coffee, sugar, cooking
fat, gasoline and non-robber
shoes also were rationed.
On Jan. 2, 1962, The Weav-
ers, who sparked the folk
music revival of the 1950s
and '60s, are banned from
appearing on NBC when they
refuse to sign an oath of politi-
cal loyalty. The group saw
their careers nearly destroyed
during the Red Scare of the
early 1950s, and they lost their
pupils in the class. Teacher
Eleanor gave each pupil in
the class a Christmas orna-
ment of Santa Claus holding
a small green fir Christmas
tree. Each pupil put his
or her Santa ornament on
the schoolroom tree. The
pupils each took their Santa
ornament home the last day
of school before Christmas
recording conWact over their
leftist politics.
On Dec. 28, 1973, Alek-
sandr Solzhenitsyn's "liter-
ary investigation" of the
police-state system in the
Soviet Union, "The Gulag
Archipelago, 1918-1956",
is published in the original
Russian in Paris. On Feb.
12, 1974, Solzhenitsyn was
arrested, stripped of his citi-
zenship and depoge&
On Dec. 31, 1984, Bernhard
Goetz, a white man dubbed
the "subway vigilante" after
he shot four young black men
on a New York City subway
train, turns himself in at a
police station. Goetz was
viewed by some people as
a hem, fighting back against
his attackers. In 1987, a
Manhattan jury acquitted
Goetz of criminal assault and
attempted murder.
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break.
Wayne ,llen took his
ornament home and hung
it on the family Christmas
tree. His mother, Adeline,
kept the ornament with her
other decorations and every
December it was hung on
the Allen family Christmas
tree.
When Wayne married Ger-
aldine Lacy in June 1949,
Wayne's mother, Adeline,
gave the ornament to Geral-
dine, who kept it and hung
it on their family tree every
year. Wayne and Geraldine
enjoyed it, and through
the years their children,
grand children, and great
grand children, relatives
and friends enjoyed hear-
ing about and seeing the
ornament which is now 74
years of age. Wayne and I
surmised that it is unlikely
that any of these other Santa
ornament that Eleanor gave
the first graders in 1936 are
in existence today.
Thanks to Wayne and
Geraldine for the story and
to Darlene Sadler for addi-
tional information.
To all readers of The
Journal I wish a Merry
Christmas and Happy New
Year. Thanks to you who
are readers of this column,
and to those of you have fur-
nished me with information
and photos this past year,
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Today's Weather
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Occasional
showers
possible.
Highs in the
upper 40s
and lows in
the low 30s.
Sunrise:
7:36 AM
Sunset:
5:19 PM
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Consider-
able cloudi-
ness. Highs
in the low
40s and
lows in the
mid 20s,
Sunrise:
7:36 AM
Sunset:
5:19 PM
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Sunshine.
Highs in the
low 40s and
lows in the
low 20s.
Sunrise:
7:37 AM
Sunset:
5:20 PM
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Sunny.
Highs in the
low 40s and
lows in the
mid 20s.
Sunrise:
7:37 AM
Sunset:
5:21 PM
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Mix of sun
and clouds.
Highs in the
upper 40s
and lows in
the upper
20s,
Sunrise:
7:37 AM
Sunset:
5:21 PM
Oklahoma At A Glance
Area Cities
Antlers 53 42 cloudy
Ardmore 45 36 rain Okmulgee 52 38 cloudy
Bartlesvillo 47 31 cloudy Pauls Valley 50 35 rain
Broken Bow 52 44 cloudy Perry 46 33 rain
Claremore 47 33 cloudy Sallisaw 50 38 cloudy
Cordell 47 32 rain Sapulpa 48 34 cloudy
Duncan 52 35 rain Shawnee 51 36 rain
El Reno 44 31 rain Snyder 50 34 rain
Elk City 47 32 rain Stillwater 48 33 rain
Enid 44 32 rain Tahlequah 48 36 cloudy
Guymon 54 23 cloudy Tulsa 48 35 cloudy
Lawton 49 32 rain Watonga 45 31 rain
McAlester 49 38 clouay Weatherford 46 31 rain
Miami 45 33 cloudy Wewoka 50 37 cloudy
Muskogee 48 34 cloudy Woodward 47 27 rain
National Cities
Atlanta 48 31 sunny Minneapolis 25 16 cloudy
Boston 35 2 snshower NewYork 38 25 ptsunny
Chicago 30 23 cloudy Phoenix. 60 44 rain
Dallas 59 48 rain San Francisco 58 49 cloudy
Denver 45 26 ptsunny Seattle 46 44 rain
Houston 71 57 cloudy St. Louis 36 29 cloudy
Los Angeles 59 47 pt sunny Washington, DC 38 27 pt sunny
Miami 73 57 pt sunny
Moon Phases
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