SCHOOL NEWS
FIRST GRADE
Christmas, o’f course, held first
place in the minds of all first
grade pupils for a long time. The
children enjoyed making paper
chains and stringing popcorn for
their paper trees. They also col
ored beautiful Santas, l'eindeer,
sleighs and trees. Each boy and
girl made a mitten needle book
the size of his own hand to give
his mother on Christmas morning.
Before vacation, approximately
one-fourth of the first-graders
were absent due to illness, but
nearly all have returned and are
again working happily in school.
The LWY Community Center
has sent to the school libraries a
large number of books which are
duplicates from their library. We
wish to thank the Center for this
splendid addition to our collection.
SECOND GRADE
(Hana Ross)
The second grade children all
agreed that the vacation was a
good one and all seem happy to
begin school again, even though
several were in bed with colds.
The boys and girls are drama
tizing “Jack and the Beanstalk”
as a means of self expression. We
are emphasizing spontaneous ex
pression and pleasurable experi
ence, rather than finished pre
cision.
In arithmetic we are reviewing
addition and subtraction and sim
ple time-telling. We are also
spending an enormous amount of
imaginary money on imaginary
sweets.
HIGH SCHOOL
The night before the Commun
ity Christmas Tree celebration
tfie high school' held a party in
the assembly. Everyone brought
something, and all had fun. After
refreshments, the presents were
opened.
This week most of the classes
are starting something new. The
algebra class is studying time, rate
and distance problems; the geo
metry class is studying locus, the
general science class is learning
about electricity, and the English
I class is reviewing for their test.
The typing I students are typing
business letters, and the typing II
students are typing telegrams.
World history students are now
learning about the Industrial Rev
olution, and the boys’ physical
education class is practicing bas
ketball. The aeronautics students
have finished their model air
planes. The girls’ physical educa
tion class is playing basketball,
too.
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Schuman Not in
Cabinet Seen as
Setback to Europe
PARIS, (ff) — Robert Schuman,
one of the prime architects of
European unity, failed Thursday
to get a place in the new French
cabinet. The fate of the proposed
European army and other plans
for presenting a solid European
front against Communist aggres
sion thus appeared to be further
in doubt.
Premier Rene Mayer gave the
job of foreign minister to Georges
Bidault, a former premier. Schu
man, as France’s foreign minister
since 1948, had worked incessant
ly for European unity and to
bring western Germany into west
ern defense plans.
Mayer, in order to get approval
as premier, had to count on sup
port of the folowers of Gen. Chas.
De Gaulle. The Gaullists, who
oppose the recreation of a German
army, have won a promise from
Mayer to reopen negotiations on
the European defense treaty,
which would put a half million
Germans under arms in associa
tion with the armies of five other
European nations.
This aroused dismay in Bonn,
where the government of Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer has been
striving hard for ratification of
the European Defense Treaty and
the Associated Peace Contract,
which would give western Ger
many near sovereignty. The drop
ping of Schuman was taken as a
blow.
However, no Gaullists were
named in Mayer’s new cabinet.
Bidault is from the same party as
Schuman — the predominantly
Catholic MPR (Popular Republi
can Movement). Hope was ex
pressed that the naming of Bi
dault would bring no radical
changes in French policy.
The delegates at Strasbourg are
debating the rough draft of a
plan to establish joint executive,
legislative and judicial bodies for
France, West Germany, Italy,
Belgium, the Netherlands, and
Luxembourg. These would ev
entually manage such plans as
the Schuman coal-steel pool, de
fense plans and other proposals
for unity.
6 Arab Soldiers Reported
Shot by Israeli Soldiers
JERUSALEM (Arab section), (ff)
—A reliable source said yesterday
that six Arab civilians have been
shot and killed by Israeli soldiers
along the Jordan-Israel armistice
line in the Nablus district of Pal
estine during the past'three days.
The victims reportedly included
two fathers and their two sons.
There was no immediate com
ment from the Israeli side of this
divided Holy City.
Domestic U.S. Airliners
Carry Ten Times as Many
Passengers as in 1942
America’s fleet of domestic
scheduled airliners today can car
ry ten times as many passengers
as it could ten years ago, accord
ing to an article in the current
issue of Planes, official publica
tion of the Aircraft Industries As
sociation.
Five times as many airliners
are operating from the nation’s
687 airline points today as were
operating in 1943. Moreover, the
average modem airliner is capable
of carrying twice as many passen
gers, twice as fast.
Ten years ago, the domestic
scheduled fleet consisted of 204
transports with a total seating
capacity of 3,974. Today, after the
most phenomenal decade of
growth in air transport history,
the fleet consists of 1,016 aircraft
with a total seating capacity of
38,436.
During the ten years, the air
craft industry built more than
1,900 commercial transports, that
range in capacity from five-pas
senger executive planes to 'the la
test airline types capable of carry
ing more than 90 passengers. To
day, 80 percent of the aircraft
operated by world airlines are
produced in this country.
HOOVER TO RIDE IN
IKE'S INAUGURAL PARADE
WASHINGTON, UP) — Herbert
Hoover, most recent Republican
to occupy the White House, will
ride just ahead of President-elect
Eisenhower’s incoming cabinet in
the Jan. 20 inaugural line of
march.
Parade committee chairman Ed
ward R. Carr said today the for
mer president’s car will travel
between the massed colors of the
states and territories and the nine
automobiles carrying the cabinet
designees.
$3,000 Contributions for
Polio Aid Assures More
Physical Therapy Aid
JUNEAU, Jan. 2—Continuation
of physical therapy aid for polio
myelitis victims in interior Alaska
has been assured with the receipt
from the area of $3,000 in contrib
uting funds, Dr. C. Earl Albrecht,
commissioner of health, said this
week.
The funds were received from
the South Central and the North
ern Alaska chapters of the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, he said, and are matched
by an equal amount from the Al
aska Department of Health. He
explained that the money pro
vides for continuation of itinerant
clinics at which polio victims re
ceive examinations and recom
mendations for treatment, and for
the services of a physical thera
pist in connection with this work.
In accordance with the recom
mendation of the National Foun
dation that the chapters make
their contributions in proportion
to the relative population of their
areas, the South Central chapter
sent a check for $1,800, and the
Northern chapter sent $1,200.
Funds of the southeastern chap
ter have been drained as a result
of the high incidence of polio in
that area last fall. Sixty-six cases
of the disease were reported from
the Ketchikan area between Sept.
'16 and Dec. 26 with 6 additional
cases reported from Sitka, Haines,
Klukwan, Craig and Hydaburg.
“Troop Special” Plane
Vanishes with 40 Aboard
MONTPELIER, Idaho, <JP) — A
sheriffs posse and airplanes from
three states searched the rugged
area where Idaho, Wyoming and
Utah join Thursday for a twin
engine “troop special” plane that
vanished Wednesday with 40 per
sons aboard.
The craft carried 37 veterans of
the Korean War and a crew of
three. It was enroute from Seattle
to Fort Jackson, S.C., where the
veterans were to be released from
service.
If the troop carrying plane be
lieved missing in the Bear Lake
area of southeastern Idaho met
with disaster it would be the 11th
crash of military or military-char
tered planes around the rim of
the Pacific Ocean in little* more
than two months.
Three-fourths of the world’s
population lives on about one
eighth of the earth’s land surface.
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