SCHOOL NEWS
THIRD GRADE
Seventeen pupils in our room
had perfect attendance during the
last six-weeks period. They are
the following: Wanda Beltz, Sid
ney Blutchford, Jeanne Gallagher,
Charles Haberman, Diane Lent,
Effie Luke, Bonnie Moyer, Janet
Muller, Don Outwater, Martha
Piseoya, Helen Reader, Wayne
Russell, Carol Tanner, Patricia
Short, Earl Towner, Pearl Trigg,
and Freddie Wirth. Several other
pupils had a fine attendance rec
ord. Only one person out of forty
three was absent more than three
days during the six weeks period.
Jimmie Foster has returned af
ter spending two months Outside.
He attended school in Dallas and
San Angelo, Texas, for a short
time.
In arithmetic we are very busy
with multiplying and dividing.
We are keeping an interesting di
ary about the weather during the
month of March. Our room is
decorated with spring flowers
which we made in art class.
The following pupils are on the
A Honor Roll: Carol Tanner,
Helen Reader, Bonnie Lou Moyer,
I Sidney Blatchford and Berda
{ Jane Tate.
These pupils are on the B Hon
i or Roll: Paul Tveter, Betty C'avo
ta, Aaron Bell, Jeanne Gallagher,
Alice Glavinovich, and Diane
Lent.
FOURTH GRADE
Eight pupils have perfect at
tendance this period. They are*
Suzanne Fagerstrom, Gretehen
Fricke, Ruth Glavinovich, Chris
tin Hudert, Charlene Hudgins, Pe
ter Madsen, Bobby Russell and
Junior Nershak.
School is proving an exciting
place recently as the class is start
ing to use ink in penmnaship for
the first time. In spite of ink
stained fingers, a few ink-well
mishaps, the class is proving the
old adage “All’s well that ends
well” is true as they are now
turning in some well-written pa
! pers in ink in all their subjects.
| In language the group is again
busy writing friendly letters, this
time they are writing to the fourth
i grade in Mrs Gallagher’s home
town: Schuylkill Haven, Pa., a
I grade that is taught by her cou
| sin, Miss Emerich.
In'geography the class is study
I ing about Holland and its people.
The Dutch children, the tulips,
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I Bering Strait where “surface ships
would be like sitting ducks, drift
ing with the ice," says Navy
Comdr. Jack E. Gibson.
Cmdr. Gibson brought his crew
of 198 back yesterday from the
ice breaker Burton Island’s an
nual winter reconnaissance in the
frozen north.
OAKLAND. Calif (/P>— Perman
I ente Cement Co., officials said to
day the company has signed a
lease with the Alaska Railroad to
i erect a cement distribution plant
to serve the rail belt area of
Alaska.
The lease concerns a section of
waterfront property in Anchorage.
The facility, which will include i
bulk storage, silos, sacking ma
chinery and dockage, will be de
signed to permit efficient hand
ling of overseas shipments of
the dikes and canals, and wind
mills captivate the children so
that quite a number are expiess
ing the desire to visit Holland.
HIGH SCHOOL
One of the greatest scientists of
plants was Luther Burbank. He
was born on March 7, 1849 and
died in 1926. He learned to enjoy
plants in Massachusetts where he
spent his earlier years. He became
a nursery man specializing in
crossing, selection, and grafting.
In 1875, he moved to California
and carried on extensive experi
ments there. He found a potato
seed pod and from it raised 23
different plants. Finally he pro
duced the big,hardy Burbank po
tato. In his garden at Santa Rosa,
California he developed many va
rieties of plants, among them being
the Shasta daisy, plumcot, and the
spineless cactus. He won interna
tional fame for his work.
Students in English III are
writing extensive themes on vari
ous subjects. They will be given
two weeks to complete them, j
Some of the topics selected are: ‘
the common cold, cancer, tubercu
losis, wild birds, textiles, and
fashions.
In biology, a study is being
made of ears, eyes, nose and
nerves. They have completed the
study of the heart. i
How great wealth altered the
course of democracy is the topic
of discussion in U. S. History.
Blueprint reading students are
computing indirect measurements
and meeting problems of frac
tional tolerance.
A recent fire drill evacuated the
school building in a record time.,
Letters from alumni and former
students reveal very good prog
ress in their work. Jack Dowd has
completed his high school work
and is doing college business work
during spare moments. Marilyn
Dowd is doing very well in her
high school career in Seattle.
George Bourdon expects to com
plete his course in Minneapolis in
June.
The nebula at the eastern end
of the belt of Orion was first pho
tographed by Draper in 1880. A l
very obvious feature is a break
in the general light called the
“Fish's Mouth.” The nebula en
velopes the multiple star Theta
Orionis.
ANCIENT SNAKE FOUND
RIO DE JONEIRO, <A>)—An 80
million-year-old snake has been
reported found near San Jose Ita
borai, small town in Rio de Jane
iro state. A report to the geologi
cal museum here says a field
party, digging in a site which has
been explored for 20 years, found
fossil birds, lizards, plants and a
snake estimated to belong to the
tertiary age. The snake is the first
of that type found in Brazil, says
the report.
bulk cement.
BOSTON, (/P)—A million dollar
fire whipped through two com
mercial buildings, jumped to a
third, and threatened a rich down
town business district before it
was controlled early yesterday.
Fire chief John McDonough es
timated the damage
The alarms brought out all the
city’s fire fighting equipment and
fill-in apparatus from ten sur
rounding cities and towns.
The area houses the huge united
show machinery and chamber of
commerce buildings.
Simron ()livri\ To
LcMiim* lonif^fil
< )n T oik Lon*
Simeon Oliver, author-compos
or of Anchorage, will give a le«
ture-concert at Wesley Foundation
4205 15th Ave., N. E., Seattle to
night at <5 p.m. Mr. Oliver ha*,
been Outside for the past tw*>
months on a lecture tour of Cal
ifornia and Oregon.
The program will feature the
folk lore, customs, music and tra
ditions of the Eskimo and Aleuts
of Alaska, and wttl be given as a
tribute to his first music teachei,
Mrs. A. C. Goss, who recognized
his talent when he was a small
boy in the Aleutians. Alaskans
and their friends are assured o"
an enjoyable evening. Wednes
day evening of next week, Mr.
Oliver will be the luncheon guest
of the Washington State Press
Club.
Mr. Oliver has written two
books, “Son of the Smoky Sea,”
and "Back to the Smoky Sea.” Ho
and his wife are both working o>»
new books which will be pub
lished later in the year.
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MEN NEED NOT APPLY
Basketba Benefit Civil Air Patrol
High School Girls—7:00 P.M. C. A. P. Flyers vs. A. A. C. S.—P. M.
Hioli School Gvm. Admission 50c; Children 25c Friday, March lOilt
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