The Facts In The Jack Moore Case

                                                       

 Jack Moore

*December 6, 1941 location bottom East floor of the Loren Farr Elementary Ogden, Utah, Miss Corey’s First Grade writing class assignment is to write a story about "The Three Wise Men."

*Six months later Miss Corey along with the school principal Mrs. Light's consent informed Jacks mother that Jack would be held back one year for a repeat of the first grade.

*Jack Moore’s mother responded, "My boy will not be held back a year. I will go all the way to the Utah State Board of Education if necessary.”

*While unaware of the above stated happenings, little Jack Moore had written I don’t know any wise men so I’d like to write about Santa’s reindeer instead.

The Three Wise Men.

The raindeer is a mamal. It has six sides, right side, left side, front side, back side, topside and a bottom side. On the back side of mother’s is a little tail which shooes away the deer flies so they won’t get little Barbie’s milk. Bambi’s my favorite raindeer.

The front side is for growing horns each year, so they have a place to be. 

Reindeer can smell down hills and they smell a long way, that’s why mountain air smells.

Horns are used to bunt with. The horns fall all over the ground but you can’t find them because grownups put them on walls. 

Its mouth is to eat with. All they want for Christmas is their two front teeth. The raindeer eats twigs in the woods, but it doesn’t eat much, because it eats it twice and then it’s full.

The sides of Santa’s deer have straps to pull and guide fat Santa’s sleigh from the North Pole. 

Raindeer have two big ears with lots of hair to hear good. They are the only ones that can listen to whispering pines. 

They have four legs are on their bottom side, that leave tracks in mud and snow that look like lobster legs. Their legs are used to jump, because they want to be free. 

The man deer is called a buck. He is not a mamal. He has the other deer go first in the woods for his safety.

Dads like to shoot them in season for their meat. That’s why they look sad. 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New            Love, Jack Moore

They can fly I don't know how                                    I don’t know yet.                                                                                                                                                    

Post Amble

Andy Neil sat in front of Jack More   Jack whispered in his ear, The three wise men are dead            Please; Mrs. Corry let us write something we know                                                                                 Something we see, something that be                                                                                                    Stand up Andy and sing out loud.

Old Lady Corry                                                                                                                                         Use the lavatory                                                                                                                                         That’s what its forie,                                                                                                                                That’s what its forie!”

*That fall Jack’s mom transferred Jack to the Quincy grade school located in downtown Ogden. Now instead of walking one block to school Jack had to walk one mile, so as to be able to be in the second grade but at a different school, “Quincy.” He eventually became a successful heart surgeon at Cornell University, and presently lives in St. George, Utah. 

Andy Neil passed on to second grade with Miss Cory’s blessings. At a later time he became a chicken farmer in Cache Valley. 

DR. KARL WALLACE D.D.S.

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