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fagineegnit Ting, nu PES 55 = PP eg POPP PP ADP GPE PA Pa naa PPP Page 10 The Haileyburian Lente b Claus Santa Claus is the special friend of the young, which makes it only fitting that the town of Santa Claus, Indiana was named by children. Today, thousands of children, from all parts of the world, write to Santa Claus c/o Santa Claus, Ind., and each of them receives a return letter from Santa Claus him- self, The stage was set for this happy situation more than one hundred years ago. The citizens of this small Indiana town were gather- ed to select a new name for their community. Originally, it was cal- led. Santa Fe, but postal authori- ties suggested selection of another name since there already was a Santa Fe in New Mexico. Timely Arrival Community leaders were consi- dering a number of names for the town when someone dressed as Santa Claus came in. Immediately the children in the audience shout- ed 'Santa Claus!" 'Santa Claus!" The adults thought the name sounded fine, so the town of Santa Claus was born. Business booms in the Santa Claus post office each year as Christmas approaches. Last year the post office handled well over 10,000 letters addressed to the old gentleman with the red suit and white whiskers -- and each child who enclosed a return address re- Fire Can Spoil Happy Holiday Babbs Switch, Caribou and Bill- ings can tell you that a happy Christmas is a safe Christmas. Babbs Switch is.a small Oklaho- ma community. On Christmas Eve, 1924, about 150 men, women and children were gathered in the frame schoolhouse for the commu- nity's biggest-ever Christmas par- ty. A series of incidents -- a Christmas tree branch brushed against a candle, a kerosene lamp knocked off a table, and a stage curtain thrown on the flames--led to a fire which destroyed the schoolhouse, killing 36 persons and injuring 40. In more recent years, church fires occurred in Billings, Mont., and Caribou, Me. In Billings, an attendant light- ing candles accidentally set fire - to a large velvet curtain behind the altar. Fire spread to a com- bustible fibre-board ceiling. In. Caribou, Christmas trees placed around an altar in the au- ditorium of a church fed a blaze. They were ignited when a small girl knocked over a tree. which fell on lightened candles nearby. And in Missouri, Christmas trees placed along the altar rail fed a blaze of undetermined ori- gin.. Thursday, December 21, 1961 ceived a personal reply from San- ta Claus himself. Many of the letters received are in foreign languages, but Post- master Elbert E. Reinke enlists the aid of monks at nearby St. Meinrad Monastery and they tran- slate. Answers to foreign letters, the postmaster explains, are ad- apted to the different customs and ideas that children of other lands may have about the holiday sea- son. Personal Reply The American Legion at Santa Claus handles the letter writing operation each Christmas, sending a personal reply to each child who has included a return address. Adults don't write to Santa Claus, but many of them do have their Christmas cards mailed from San- ta Claus, Ind., so they will bear the unusual postmark. In all, the busy Santa Claus post office hand- les well over 3,000,000 pieces of mail during the holiday season. Greeting Cards Express Feeling Friendly, merry, reverent, grate- ful -- Christmas sentiments find expression in greeting cards at the holiday season. Just when the sending of greet- ing cards first began is a question that may never be settled, espe- cially since it is always possible that early examples of printed Christmas greetings are waiting to be found among private books and papers. The Cole-Horsley card is con- sidered by many to be the first published Christmas card. It was designed in Britain in 1843 by John Calcott Horsley, a well-known ar- tist of the period, for Sir Henry Cole, director of the Victoria and Alberta Museum. The card bears the now-univer- sal greeting, 'A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You." It shows a joyous family seated at Christmas dinner." A copy of the card, discovered in England in recent years by a representative of Hallmark, is now part of the Hallmark Historie Col- lection, housed at the greeting card company's headquarters in Kansas City, Mo. Louis Prang of Boston, an art- loving lithographer, published the best known early Christmas greet ings in the U.S. He conducted art and literary competitions for greet- ing card material, and published cards of outstandingly high quality. Yule Burns Bright The French traditionally ex. change gifts on New Year's Day, but the burning of the Yule log at Christmas is an honored custom in many parts of the country. After carols are sung, wine is poured on the log by the youngest child. eee TENE VUES EUR er Senaa ba sandaeaderaciatailig WA E. RUTH'S BEAUTY SALON OS 2.5242 we Ireland Lights Way For Christ Child The people of Ireland originated the tradition of burning a candle in the window at Christmas time. Legend said that the Christ Child might be wandering alone in the dark and cold, and they lit a can- dle to light him on his way. American Indians Redeem Legends Redeemer legends were common among American Indians. While some were aboriginal, others pro- bably were greatly influenced. by contacts with Europeans, especial- ly missionaries. One of these legends was gath- ered by the Reverend Ephraim S. Alphonse, a Wesleyan Methodist minister who lived among the Valiente Indians for 21 years. -The legend concerns the Ulikron phan of the Virgin) and how he traveled long ago from the far, far north. He talked to-stout little men, to tall red men, to men in huts, to men in tall houses made of stone, to men who make broad roads and wear fine soft clothes and pearls and silver and gold. The Ulikron passed among them. long, long ago and told the men to be good, to love good, and to do good. The Ulikron passed and talked. His eyes were. soft and seeing. His eyes saw through men. His eyes saw and saw and men looked on and wept and stopped their wars. They stopped their hate. Their bows and arrows shot the deer but never man again. The Ulikron pointed to the stars. He talked of the Crab, the Plough, the Great Bear. He talked of the God above those stars and he told men to be good and he would come again for all good men; and men began to be good. All Indians wait for the Ulikron. Such is the story of the Ulikron. which as you can see, closely pa- rallels (and most likely is) the sto- ry of Curist. UYU YE US UY VEY VE VE YEE RYE RU VUE EU UE PE UT TET (or- |. 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