School News
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The entire Elementary School
been practicing during part of
each afternoon on the operetta
"Christmas with the Old Woman
Who Lived in a Shoe.” Due to tne
cold weather the auditorium wras
used for practice only twice; the
other days small groups practiced
in different rooms.
The operetta will be put on
t^ice; once Friday afternoon be
fore the school and parents wi-h
^ng to come then. The second time
will be as part of the Community
Christmas Friday evening.
The main characters are as foi
iovvs:
Good Green, Kitty Bjornstad
and Juanita Fagerstrom, Santa
Clause. Logan Dowd and Glen Ma
zen. Fairy Godmother, Betty
Blakely and Lois Swanberg.
Mother Goose, June Dunbar and
Alice Blakely. Whistling Willie.
Bruce Russell and Robert Dunbar.
Xeenie Weenie, Gail Cardwell and
jonnie Fults. Sleep Fairies, Alice
Miller, Donna Jean Travis, Ruth
Fagerstrom.
All of the rooms are having
Christmas parties on Friday, the
last day of school before Christ
mas vacation begins.
HIGH SCHOOL
Ifr The high school had their
Christmas party in the gaily dec
orated assembly last night. Having
previously drawn names for gifts,
there was a great many bright
packages under the Christmas
tree.
Mr. Halverson and several stu
dents had hung paper chains of
green and red about teh room.
The high school lost the basket
ball game Tuesday to the Engin
eers 46 to 19.
This afternoon the Juniors took
charge of a Christmas assembly
which included singing and rec
ords.
Physical examinations of all
people in the school have been
completed. Dr. Tucker has been
examii i . u:i Tuesdays and
Tnursdays for the last six weeks.
The term “filibuster” originally
meant a buccaneer or freebooter,
according to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. American adventurers
who took part in West Indian and
Jenirai American revolutions af
ter the Mexican War were known
as filibusters.
The English language is spoken
by two hundred million people
according to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. At the time that
Shakespeare wrote his plays, only
five million people spoke English.
The ordinary escalator can car
ry more than eight thousand pas
sengers every hour, according to
the Encyclopaedia Britannica. If
passengers walk while they are on
the escalator, 11,200 passengers an
hour can be transported.
The oldest known system of ex
aminations was the one used in
China about 1115 B. C., for select
ing civil service officers, accord
mg .o the Encyclopaedia Britan
nica.
me term 4 express train” orig
.nai.y had no connection witn how
iuai me train traveled. According
..o me Encyclopaedia Britannica,
“express train” lirst meant a tram
ruiiiiiug lor aome special purpose
or e.imaged by a private person.
e ghty per cent ol' all the
oiustmg powaer manufactured in
me united states is used in coal
mining.
rUmost a quart of water leaves :
the skin during one day of ordin
ary weather and more than a pint
per day is exhaled in the breath,
according to the Encyclopaedia
rii ltannica.
Tnere may be a great deal of
talk nowadays of how wonderful
n would be to have steaks and
oeef stews in plenty, but, accord
ing to the Encyclopaedia Britan
mca, pork is the most popular
meat in the American diet.
nuober was not used commer- i
daily in Europe until three cen
turies after it was noted by Colum- j
bus during his second visit to
South America, according to En
cyclopaedia Britannica. Even then
it was not marketed for its elastic
properties, but to rub out pencil
marks, hence its name.
The phosphorescence in water at
night, seen from shipboard is
really millions of luminous proto
zoa, microscopic animals, accord
ing to the Encyclopaedia.
The trumpeter swan is the larg
est of U. S. wild fowl.
IN ADDITION to tin soldiers, marbles,
and those wonderful striped pepper
mint sticks, you can put a college
diploma in your boy’s Christmas stock
ing.
You can give him this lifetime advan
tage by saving for it now. Saving in the
safest, surest, most sensible way in the
world—which means buying U. S. Sav
ings Bonds regularly!
You catft lose when you buy U. S.
Savings Bonds. They’re backed 100%
by the U. S. Government itself.
Savings Bonds give you $4 for every
$3 you put in, after ten years. So the
money you save actually makes more
money for you—with no risk!
The automatic, almost painless way to
buy Savings Bonds is through the con*
venient Payroll Savings Plan. Or you
can get them at any bank or post office.
Make Christmas, 1946, the day you
started your youngster on the way to
college f
Save the easy way—Buy Your Bonds
through Payroll Savings.
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RETURNS FROM VACATION
After a short vacation in the
States, Mrs. Ethel Nelson returned
to Nome yesterday on the Wien
Alaska Airlines Boeing plane from
Fairbanks. *
MARVIE D. EARLY AND
MARIAN T. MURRAY WED
Last Saturday, in the Catholic
Church, Marvie D. Early and
Marian T. Murray wor^ married
by Rev. E. A. Anable. Both are
working for the USED.
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