SCHOOL NEWS
THIRD GRADE (Murphy)
Last week we had six-week tests
that covered all our work so far
this year. Every pupil in the room
feels proud of the very fine papers
that are handed in.
Eileen Wheeler won the prize
offered for the best girl’s work
book. However, the workbooks of
Mary Jean Longley and Bertha
Koyuk were so well done that
second and third prizes were also
given. Gail Mclvor won a special
prize with her book. Robert Bald
win won first prize for the boys.
A “Reading Tree” has been set
up in our room. Students read and
report on books; then they make
a folder of bright colored paper
and fasten it to the tree. In the
folder are the names of the book,
its author and reader. So far fold
ers are hung for Louise Porter,
Eileen Wheeler, Robert Baldwin,
Gail Mclver, Howard Capener.
The two third grade rooms are
having a spelling contest every
week. Five children are chosen
from each room to spell. Results:
1st Contest winners—Ernest Ail
ak, James Bell; 2nd Contest —
Roberta Okpealuck; 3rd Contest—
Angeline Outwater. Interest in
both rooms is keen.
A spring wall mural and a
marine life poster are giving us
much pleasure and we are learn
ing many things from both.
FOURTH GRADE (Perkins)
Last week marked the end of
the fifth six-week period. We had
lengthy exams in both language
and arithmetic. Report cards are
due Wednesday and will deter
mine the necessity of additional
trips to the proverbial woodshed.
A series of reports are being
given from our library books.
They deal with the histories of
cotton, food, houses, ships, trans
portation, wool, rice and many
other notable subjects. Jimmie
Mays has given the most interest
ing report to date on silk.
We have nearly completed most
of our basic texts and will spend
the remaining six weeks of school
in review, especially in spelling
and geography, as well as finish
ing the science, reading and his
tory books.
HIGH SCHOOL
During the past six weeks both
English classes have been taking
imaginary trips to different parts
of the world. Thursday morning
climaxed the project when Mrs.
Kennedy gave us a most interest
ing talk on the various countries
she visited while on a recent trip.
We were surprised to learn that
teen-agers in Spain don’t have
half the freedom we have in Am
erica. We were also surprised to
learn how the people of Morocco
dress, and how very differently
from us they live.
We all enjoyed our short trips
through Spain, France, Holland
and England. It was interesting to
learn how the locks of the Pana
ma Canal work. We thoroughly
enjoyed the lecture and wish to
express our gratitude to Mrs. Ken
nedy.
The commercial classes have
been under a great strain this past
week because several members
entered an all-Alaskan commer
cial contest.
The Girl’s Glee Club are work
ing on some special numbers that
will be presented between acts in
the coming school play.
—Geraldine Fagerstrom, Reporter
Sperm oil, one of the most valu
able products of early whaling
activity, is not a real oil, but
falls into the classification of a
liquid wux.
Nation Celebrates
Aircraft Industry’s
50 Years Progress
LOS ANGELES — During its
50-year history, the U.S. aircraft
manufacturing industry has pro
duced more than 480,000 planes,
an average of 26 planes each day
since the Wright Brothers flew
the first powered airplane at
Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1903, ac
cording to an article in the cur
rent issue of “Planes,” official
publication of the Aircraft Indus
tries Association.
While the nation this year is
celebrating the Golden Anniver
sary of powered flight, the air
craft industry, hampered in the
past by stop-and-start production,
today is Jjuilding planes at the ap
proximate rate of 12,000 military
craft year year—still 2,000 less
than in 1918.
However, quality of aircraft is
a heritage of American plane
producers. According to best
available data, more than 27 per
cent—or 129,600 — of the almost
half a million aircraft built since
1903 still are in existence. And
of this percentage, two-thirds—or
about 86,400—are in active use
with world airlines, military
forces and private operators.
The difference between today’s
jet and the World War I plane is
graphically illustrated by the fact
that the largest Air Force opera
tional bomber today has a maxi
mum bomb load equaling that of
more than 164 World War I bomb
ers. Its maximum range is 44
times as great.
This same plane weighs more
than 260 times as much as the
1,360-pound craft with a 25 h.p.
engine and top speed of 40 m.p.h.
which the Wright Brothers deliv
ered to the government in filling
the first order in 1908. Today,
speeds of over 1,230 miles per
hour have been recorded.
GOP Chairman Hall
Blasts “Left Wingers”
WASHINGTON, [fl’i—Republican
National Chairman Leonard W.
Hall was at war Saturday with
“left wingers” he said were firing
at President Eisenhower and Con
gress as a prelude to next year’s
congressional election battle.
Hall, unanimously elected chair
man by the GOP National Com
mittee Friday told his party col
leagues not to expect any “over
night miracles.”
It will take a long time, the
new chairman said, to bring the
Eisenhower program into being
and establish the Republicans as
a true majority party that can
elect a President in 1956—prefer
ably Eisenhower again.
Seattle Lawyer Says U.N.
Charter “Very Dangerous
Treaty” for States
WASHINGTON, '(£) —Frank E.
Holman Saturday described the
United Nations charter as a “very
dangerous treaty” under which
the federal government could
force unwanted social reforms on
the states.
The widely-known Seattle law
yer, a former president of the
American Bar Association, urged
adoption of a Constitutional am
endment to prohibit any such ac
tions.
He spoke out in testimony draf
ted for delivery before a Senate
judiciary subcommittee conduct
ing final hearings on a proposed
Constitutional amendment to limit
treaty-making powers in the fu
ture.
Holman declared that “the re
form activities of the United Na
tions would not have stirred pp
such opposition in the United
States” except for “the real fear”
that some of the treaties spon
sored by it might set aside state
and federal laws. This is possible,
he said, under a provision of the
Constitution making treaties the
supreme law of the land.
Some fish, placed in a mirrored
tank, will try to form a school
with their reflections.
BEEF PRICES AT
15- YEAR LOW
Alaskans may be eating more
domestic meat soon because beef
prices have dropped to the low
est point in 15 years according to
U.S. Department of Agriculture _
information sent to the Alaska
Agriculture Extension Service.
The large supply of beef cattle
and lower prices caused the
USD A to put beef on its March
and April monthly Plentiful Foods
lists for the first time in the 15
year history of the program. The
department also is cooperating
with the livestock and meat in
dustry to re-educate homemakers
who have become accustomed to
planning meatless and beefless
meals.
Consumption of beef has in
creased with the 30 per cent
drop in market prices of cattle,
but with the largest number of
cattle in history now on the
farms, the nation is not likely to
run short of beef in the next
year or two. Both feedlot and
grass-fed cattle are plentiful so
that homemakers will have a good
selection of either the choice
grain-fed or the lower grade cuts
from grass-fed beef.
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