Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1956 — Page 12

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SCHOOL REPORTER be experts In meat cookery now, girls. -M.H.S. Welcome, Mrs. Holt! Mrs. Mary Lqu Holt, wife of Coach “Porky” Holt, has taken the place on the teaching staff of Edward Jaberg. MHS la glad to see you, Mrs. Holt, and hopes that you will enjoy teaching here. Thanka to you, Mr. Jaberg, for helping MHS out during the first month of school. —M.H.S. The FFA has been quite active thia faH. Officers of the organisation are president. Dale Fuelling: vice-president, Jim Boerger; secretary, Herman Witte; treasurer. Bob Hildebrand reporter, Leland Biens; and sentinel, Dave Fuelling. At a meeting held recently five

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■green hands were initiated. They are Jim Singleton, Dwight Schaefer. pirry Busick, Jim Fuhrman, and Ronald Bulmahn. Fred Meier is sponsor of the group. —M.H.S. The FFA peat drive began October 1 and will end October 31. During this time the boys -will wage a war against all pests such as rats, mice, and sparrows. There will be a number of points alloted for each pest killed, so get bnsy and kill off those pests, yoit Future Farmers of America. —M.H.S. Room 15, sections of grades 5 and 6, held a meeting and selected officers October 1. Fifth grade officers are president, Dianne Miller; vice-president, Carolann DeVine; and secretary-treasurer, Ter-

ry Battenberg. Officers of the 6th grade are president, Donnie Brown; vice-president, Billy Jones; secretary-treasurer, Sylvia Miller, and treasurer, (Ruth Ann BeeryEarl DaWald is the teacher of this room. —M.H.S. To aid in the collecting of material for this column, a reporter has been chosen from each of the high school classes. Winnie Mankey is reporter for the freshmen, Robert Bleneke for the sophomores, and Claudia Caston for the juniors. Ruth Macke, a senior will gather news about the first six grades. Kenny Peck is reporter for the library club. Thanks, kids, — in advance. —M.H.S. Attending, all parents and teachers of Monmouth school! The first

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PTA mooting vIH he held »xt Tuesday, October ». The theme of this meeting will be “Let’s Get Acquainted”. Mrs. Ed Cook will lead the devotions and the program will feature a panel discussion about the grading system of MHS. The panel members Are Mrs. Norval Fuhrman. Loren Jones, Fred Meier, Mrs. Jesteen Cole and Robert Carr. G. M. Grabill will be moderator. The officers and committees have been working hard to present an interesting progam for this year, so be sure to come and support the PTA. -M.H.S. l-d you oeneve tnat all states should pass laws making young people eligible to vote at the age of 18, as Georgia and Kentucky have done? If you could votb, which one of the major political parties would you vote for in the coming election? Up to what age do you a boy or girl should be required to attend school full time? These are just several of the questions answered by the junior English classes ia a poll sponsored by the institute of student opinion. Each student had the opportunity of tilling out a questionairs expressing hiw opinion on these timely topics. The nation wide results of this strictly teenage poll will be published in the November 1 issue of Scholastic Magazines. Every member of the class really enjoyed this practical experience and will be very interested in reading the results of this polL —M.H.S. The library club recently held a meeting and elected officers- for the coming year. They are president. Pat MeGagg; vice-president, Carolyn Fast; secretary Joyce Kirchner; treasurer, Margaret Boerger; and news reporter, Kenny Peck. The club chose the motto, “To read good books and have a good library”. A book review about the book “Carolina House” by Elisabeth Rule, was given by Jean Kolter. A refreshment committee served refreshments. Carol Bei bench will give a book review at the next meeting. —M.H.S. Play has been under way for two weeks in the noon horseshoe league. There are now ten teams participating. Mr. Smith and Mr. Holt, and Mr. Meier and Mr. Jones are ted for the lead with 5 wins and 1 loss. Other leaning teams are Ray Uhrick and Henry Gallmeyer, 7 wins and 2 loeees, and Harold Schieferstein and Weldon Schaefer. 5 wins and 3 losses. Watch this column to find out who the leaders are next week. Since school started, the biology classes have been working hard, and 'now they have a new aquarium into which will go animals gnd report on‘the aquarium as‘coon as it is inhabited. —M.H.S. Smart Fish NEW HAVEN, Conn. — {UP> — A Yale marine authority has an explanation as to why so many fieh get away. Daniel Merriman, director of the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, says “there is much evidence to show that fish use should waves as radar to detect the presence of absence of obstacles in their path.”

LUIS SOMOZA (above), 34-year-old elder eon of Anastasia Bomoza, president of Nicaragua, who died of an assassin's bullets, was named acting president by the Nicaraguan congress. The late Somoza’s term arpiroa in May. (International) PLEASANT MILLS HIGH SCHOOL By KAY ARCHER Let’s get back that basketball spirSoon the basketbal 1 games 1 will be underway. The gynq / was opened for the first Monday afternoon so boys could start practice. T h eHWHWNfIBfI first after-school practice took place Monday night. .Second team players took over Tuesday night. Basketbail boys, be sure to stay in training and, may this be the best year Pleasant Mills has ever seen! —P.M.H.S.— The baseball season was closed last Friday with a game with Arcola. P.M.H.S. lost the game but the boys kept trying to the end. No ball game would be complet without popcorn, pop, candy, etc. It’s up to the juniors again this year to make sure nobody goes hungry during a ball game. Morris Colted. Dixie (Jarner, Barbara Geisier, and Gary Sheaf were selected to order the concessions for the ball games. —P.M.H.S — Have you got a cold? Are you hoarse? Let’s hope none of these aliments has overtaken you from singing your best. Girls’ quartet, girls’ trio, boys’ quartet, and the high school choir, which will consist of 30 voices, will upon be seItXtQd. —P.M.H.S.— Bake sales? Yes, the band is sponsoring a bake sale at Western Auto, Saturday morning. There will be a variety of pies, cakes, and other baked foods. The money will be used for the band uniforms and a bass drum which P. M. hopes to get The band uniforms now look complete since the hats have been received. —P.M.H.S.— The band is now practicing for the fall festival, which will take place later in the year. —P.M.H.S.— The junior and senior art class is very busy making decorations for the teachers banquet that will be here at P. M., October 11. —P.M.H.S.— Seniors! Get ready for play tryouts. The play,' “Two Dates for Tonight" has been ordered and will be given at the end of this month. It promises to be a good one. —P.M.H.S.— The seventh grade’s class party, which was held at Linda King’s, turned out to be a success with John Archer, Sandy Byer, Bonnie Daniels. Louise Hindenlang, John Noll, and Linda King conducting the games. —P.M.H.S.— A fast recovery has been-extend-ed to Karen Lough by the seventh grade. She attended P.M. last year but moved to Decatur. —P.M.H.S.— The sophomore held a class meeting this week and decided to have a class party at Bluffton state forest. A food committee was selected as follows: Betty Myers, (Jane Raudenbush, and Judy Williampson. The president appointed Sheldon Light, Steve.,. Marilyn Sieple for the game committee. —P.M.rf.S.— • A trip to Indianapolis kept principal Glen Custard, from attending school Monday. —P.M.H.S.— Prizes were awarded to Dick Johnson and Mary Ann Kelsey for selling the most magazines. Others receiving prizes were Morris Colter, Terry King and Marabelle Wolfe. Every class would be a success if all the members in selling their magazines. —P.M.H.S.— The juniors had a class meeting and decided that* Feb. 1 wohld be the deadline to hand in the|r class dues of $4. The money will be used for their class trip which they will take in the spring. , , —P.M.H.S.— - Have you been studying hard enough? The results of what you’ve been doing will show up* on your report card next week. It’s too late now to change that grade, so if you’re not satisfied, try harder next 6 weeks.

ADAM* CENTRAL HIGH By BARBARA FIECHTER

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"Sophs are sophs, junior sßf are juniors. And-' the seniors still step on my toes. But the funniest■ sight of highß school life Is theH green * eyedß Froshie in un-tl matched clothes || All decked outß

in buckets and bowa." That old once upon on-a-tlme-hlt-tuns has been revived especially, with a few minor changes, tor a traditionally solemn (well?) occasion at Central this week. Some of the antics done last year may also be repeated this year. You peeked! —lnitiation. Sixty-one frosh will

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come to Central wearing two different colors of stockings and shoes, girls will don aprons and eport beribboned pigtails, boys' will slick their hair black into a center-part style, and will carry their school books in buckets. Oh, yes, and the corny joke of “Someone just kicked the bucket” will probably be heard around the halls all day. —A.Uji.S.— And, frosh, if that sounds awfully gruesome right nowt it’s just kidding, mostly! As Mr. Frantz says, it’s all in fun, Central's glad to welcome you to high school life! —A.C.H.S.— _ P. S. Thanks from this school reporter go to the initiation committee (student council and seniors Phyllis Singleton, Dave Smith,

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Sonja Todor, Dan KOa* and pri* cipal Herman E. Frattz) for p** mittid* a “scoop" on “I DAY* proceedings. £ »—A.qM.B.— - Vying tor prises with thirty-two bands at the Auburn fair, the Scar* let and Grey "Fiflf-Five” marchei off with fifth place and |3O Safe tirduy. “Big" area bands competing were Napoleon's Blue and Grey, flrat place victors: Fo»| Wayne Central’o second prion Blue Md White, HickeviUe’s Red and White, third; and the Blue or Butler, fourth. Oh their busy schedule, DM Gerigk aggregation wll perform at Monroe community days, day after tomorrow. Satutt day. October g. —A.C.H4L— Which calls to mind MonroeU