The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 13, 1951, Page 8

einen ees etiam tamil, acti tal SS ee ee ee Peset THE KEY WEST CITIZEN STUDENT PRESS _KEY WEST sce SCHOOL TUESDAY, Nov. 13, 1951 Written and Edited by Students of the School “I SPEAK FOR DEMOCRAC WINNER jing. Betty Cooper and Barbara By BETTY ROWAN Pritchard reported for the grout = s, They heard several spez kers n Friday, November 9. » school pea “ eelintiats paged ee wy, cluding a pilot from the local ait Speak for Democracy” were held Port # gentlemen from Scot - a g ora in the High School Auditorium.| Frio, School. “Thetdteme. 6 The winner, Eugene Roberts, will| Tasting sae be the High School’s entry in the| 4ic0 a fine American-Legion sponsored cont-| | Moral Rearmamen movie on honesty and courtesy was shown. est, competing with entries from) "Te Council then took up tl the Convent of Mary Immaculate,| .stter of the Hallowe'en banc Douglas High School, and possibly| the Wednesday pr ae fhe ew high school at Coral, there was some trouble bec: aengeree peech class, whieh|S0me students left the danc« 2 came back again. No pupil ca had taken the contest as a class Se ee ae at ber project, invited several other do tt and with. a good. exc fourth period classes to furnish an another matter taken up wa audience. Those attending included _ of student activity cards ch the classes taught by Mr. Ertaman, 21, non-transferab If Mrs. Salis, Mrs. Bond, and Miss cought transfe: wai. -¢ Harra. The students of the speech card will be taken © pern s had previously voted for the Cnty EEN. iy six speeches which they consider-) Remember, this is Courtesy ed. best. These students then be) month in all schools. Try to be $ heen i Ray- ond classmates and maybe you'll mond Rothfuss Digens Roberts, Pe nv hank ape paieey ie Jimmie Cooper, and Hoke Hol- Z y wa: ecided change the phe All of dis acoethes TE) eee he method of electing the boy and girl of the month. From now on anyone who deserves the honor will be chosen. They will be chosen by having a student-teacher com mittee pick three boys and three very good, and it was hard for the judges— Mrs. Bond, Mr. Ertz- man, and Miss Harra— to make a choice. | Key West High can certainly be! tty of these students and their] sirls, from which group the Coun ian cil will chose the boy and girl SENIOR HIGH ASSEMBLY Plans for Color Day, November students |21, were completed. Ail are to come dressed in their s¢ The Senior High Assembly on Nov-) colors. Homerooms will select the ember 8 featured a short preview|jtwo in their room who best re-) of the program to be presented; present the school colors by the band on November 14 at! these the Council will select Mr the Convent of Mary Immaculate.!and Miss Crimson and Gray, who The assembly was called to ord-! will be crowned at half-time dur er by Eugene Roberts. Colors were] ing the final game of the seasor By BETTY ROWAN presented by Frank Veliz and November 23. After that game, Morton Hall, and the Scripture there will be a big dance at which was read by Betty Rowan. the color king and queen will be The band, under the direction] honored get to work on your of Mr. Casterton, then gave a! costum short program. The selections they ane chose to play were: “His Honor, OVER AT THE ANNEX | LILLIAN RUSSELL and LORRAINE CURRY a composition by their guest con-| By ductor, Henry Fillemore, who will conduct at their coming concert; i Angelicus” by Cesar over at the “Some Enchanted Even-)eyery day of the houtin’ Liza Trombone’; " week, s as makes it a required subject. Cert-! and “Day Is Done. [ain days of the week. they Appropriately following Tony} allowed to pick an Barrera’s “Taps,” Mr. C. B.| which they think is on their grade Harvey, representing the American jeye}] or reading level. Legion, spoke briefly on the mean-| Ajso, every two weeks they are ing of Armistice Day and x-/ allowed to come over to the Senior| plained the plans for the cele-| High library, to get a hook. The bration of that day in Key West) spend almost a period, _lookir this year. over the books on the she 4 new student in our school,/taking them down to look inside! of the concert, Kathrine Boaz, then gave twO them. When they havé genuine Hawaiian hula dances. | reading the book, To complete a very enjoyable| reports for their English te: program, Mr. Schweitzer made an Jy addition, they have announcement which delighted the edia work, 1 student body. In order that the their vocabulary. rooters for the Conchs may attend, 4 the South Broward game, hers.‘ there by Miss Irene Russell, ported on their trip and the meet-| health cla: Tuesday, November 13, 1931 | Key West's New Biectoie Plant ARCHITECT’S DRAWING for ised by contractors for completion by tions are being laid. s at the Annex have play period two days a week. The teachers take them out and let ( 7 che tea Castellano, Albury, Rose Trussel, Olga Avila, Aneffar Avalo, and Shron Corneil. , NEWS OF THE BAND By MARLENE PARK ing The seventh and eighth graders. are also working hard on the con- Annex have reading; cert to be given Wednesday, Nov- which) ember 14, orium. are famous bandmaster and director, kind of book| will direct half the concert and Mr. | will rest of the program. s been planned to be relaxing, njoyable, h as s and’ the band. On Mr. While we have been working to|* | encyclop- jmprove our concert abilities, we which helps them with have also tried to make our or- them enjoy themselves in a hool| good game of softball while the} boys play baseball. Yn Thursday, at second period, From We joined the girls’ softball team and interviewed them while the e went on. The team had ysen sides and there were some xd hitters on both sides. On the m were: Nancy Dillon, Jean Barbara Cruz, Thelma he band is extremely busy se days. Not only are we keep up our drill work, but we at the Convent Audit- Mr. Henry Fillemore,world- Cc erton, our own director, wield the baton The program and full of fun as well improvement of Fillemore’s half we shall play only to show the finished selections from among his numer- they make book ous marches and concert numbers. ganization a crack marching band. Miss Loretta Pratt was selected We take-part in the Armistice De reading parade, honoring our war dead. will be a shortened schedule on| supervisor, to do the special group Because we have not had time the day of that game. The students reading, which the ¢ap then board the chartered buses yery helpful. Mr students find O’Bryant big game of the season to many|for these classes. Key West High football fans. 3 % aug | Morning, the kids were ready ane MUSIC DEPARTMENT NEWS | willing to answer our questions. By JANET BROWN They seemed eager, in fact, to The Music Department is now! tell us how they were getting spending the money earned by the| along. Some like the oral reading operetta on which the students} better, while others prefer to read were working for several weeks,|their own books silently. All of First of all, music for the Christ-jthem like to come over to the} mas Vespers was purchased. Some! Senior High library other music was also bought. Miss Pratt went to Fordham Just now Mr. Whitley and the! University, New York, and also students are experimenting with} spent two summers teaching in various recorders until they find! Providence, Rhode Island, She has! the most satisfactory one is found.| also taught at the Truman Elemen-| This week a very excellent one;tary School. She seems to like is being tried and the student: j ery much the type of work she are having fun with it. Some readjis doing, and she is really trying poems, some conduct interviews;to help every student with his with each other, many sing to reading problems | the recorder, and very often the| class will sing something as a| By BETTY SHEPPARD chorus as Mr, Whitley records it.’ To help her eight and ninth grade Everyone is always surprised when’ English classes, Miss Weeks finds out how his voice really bought a new 1950 edition of Web-| sounds. | ster’s New Twentieth Century) When we finally decide which, Dictionary. Being the only classes recorder we want to. buy,’"we ex-) to have o the students of Miss pect to get even more enjoyment | Weeks’ classes are very proud. from it. Other classes, especially| This new diction; has 380,000 the-speech classes and radio group,’ vocabulary entries and 3,000. ill-| will be able to use it also. lustrations, many in full color. Last. week, the first rehearsal Other special features include a for’ the annual Christmas Vespers,' world atlas of post-World War} to be directed by Mr. Whitley,,;Two maps and recent population! was held in the Music Room.| figures for America and foreign Sixty students turned out. It was) countries and cities. decided to meet every Tuesday} Miss Weeks’ 9A classes have! and Thursday from seven until} been studying poetry and short! nine. | stories, and are beginning to study! In addition to the usual Christ-|drama. They have also been writ mas songs, the music will include | ing some creative poetry and short| a cantata, “Glad Tidings of Great| stories | Joy.” Two songs of this lovely! The 9B classes have been hav satred music have already been! ing oral discussion, including a} learned. Of the traditional Christ-| panel discussion on juvenile de-! mas music, “O Holy Night” and linquency, led by Arthur Noble.| possibly the ‘Hallelujah Chorus” | The eighth grade cl S are will be a part of the program.) memorizing a poem entitled “Parts The.members of the chorus are|of Speech,” which gives them a working very hard, and the Ves-| definition and example of each pers should be listenable and en-| part and is also an introduction joyable. to the study of mechanics of lang-| uage. STUDENT COUNCIL NEWS | By BLANCHE ALLIGOOD HEALTH CLASSES’ ACTIVITIES By LILLIAN RUSSELL AND LORRAINE CURRY The seventh grade girls At Senior High Student Council last. Tuesday the students who at- tended the District meeting re- in the to pur-) drill, and take off for what will be the| chased several varieties of books| drill’ stunt in the Though we may not be as good |t as remembered that we have been time drilling only since school bega Field for a next room. go to Wicker’s we worked out our band the Seacrest Band, it must be this year while their band has had many years of practice hope soon to be able to equal their fine performance. By On Thursday evening, November | friendly, he the homeroom mothers and 8, STUDENTS VISIT PTA PHEBE COOPER‘ FOR HOME or COMMERCIAL USE We Are Prepared To Furnish You With Clear, Pure Cube »» Crushed ICE Thompson Enierprises, Inc. (ICE DIVISION) TELEPHONE NO. & during the} n| work We! most out | KW Sewer Pipes a from pa are studying Key West’s defective transit pipes in an effort to sug-} gest corrections, City Manager | Dave King announced today. The new sewer project of Key: West will have to be undertaken sooa, since disintegration of the | pipes has set in, King said. | Here for the Manville firm, and poring over plans in King’s office arc A. J. Maahs, chief engineer, | Transite Pipe department, New York City, and W. B.’. Gibson, INTEGRITY menager, transite pipe section, lout of Atlanta. { | The men will try to figure out | what is needed before leaving Key | West. Ome FATALITY - FREE | (Continuea trom Page One) |number of deaths per 100 million | vehicle miles traveled. The County’s accident rate com- pared favorably with the rest of | the state. HIGHWAY. TOLL | | (Continued From Page One) H iescevervenmceytniteeeinenesesinsen oseea e one dead. During the same period this year one accident resulted in one injured person. “The high cost of living seems such a better bargain than the high cost of dying,’: he said. this | morning. “ GARDNER'S — PHARMACY — alt Peed ~ Store ANYTHING aut 114 TRUMAN AVENUE “ Gorrier Varela Street PHONE 177 the $3,000,000 City Electric syst em steam. electric. plant at Caroliné and Grinnell streets. Prom~ MOBILES October 1952, crews of workmen are onthé job now, wells having. been dug and founda- Ribs Ricken As Accident Result ‘Utility eed | Meets Wednesday vs of the City B 1130 Duvat CAR’S SIDE IS (Continued From Page One) Chief Harry Lee Baker said to- | day. | The truck was found’ more than The regular n " i an hour before the badly dam. Mrs. Walter Yates who was in- | Electric system Utility board is} aged Chevrolet. The report by|jured in a car-truck smash Sun- PP and Taienonn postponed from today until tomor- | Graham was made an hour after/day morning near Boca Chica We Have in: Stock A Complete Line of of the announced row at 4:30 p.m., because city election, it was this morning NUTS. AND BOLTS All. Sizes of BETHLEHEM.STEEL WIRE ROPE that. viaduct is resting comfortably, Police Officer E. Ramirez went | hospital authorities said today. to the scene of the accident at} Dr. Allen Shephard, attending tee oe = Z a ies jigs 2 p. m. There he found the | physician, said that Mrs, Yates athers were noiding their regular|truck owned by R.: H. Wright, lis suffering several fractured C meeting in the cafeteria at High! Sons contractors from Fort Daud-| ribs but no other injuries | Shelley Tractor quip pment 0. School. At the invitation of Mrs.i erdale, Fla. At 3:35, Police Offic- | -— - —— — choo). a f KEY WEST, FLA. Alice Roberts, program chairman, er Henry Lounders found the | ham, the driver of the Chevvie, | bd ery a3 PHONE 1596 four eleventh grade students took! 1941 black Chevvie, on. South} off the USS Tuscarora came in- - part a panel discussion on the, street near Whitehead street./ to the police station and report-| Caterpillar Sales and Service ject of “wallflowers.” Sweeting’s towed the wreck to! ed the accident. ‘He will appear} Those taking part were Peter! their garage. icigy Cour Thursday: at 9 p. | TRACTOR none MACHINERY. DIESEL ENGINES Hilton, Betty Rowan, Betty Cooper.| Finally at 4:30 James Carl Gra-* m. AGRICUL EES cali and Phebe Cooper. Miss Marra.) 9.00 2% 3 Ree SYR a a a ks a ee eee meen eaters — jin whose class they had held a 5B eRe er ea We naaer gee Sh : | similar student-led discussion, act- ‘ed as moderator and asked various members of the panel their ideas jand opinions concerning wallflow j ers After an exchange of views, as to what causes wallflowers and {how they can be helped, a general conclusion was reached, All four members of the panel agreed that ADVERTISING all teen-agers should be allowed : to choose their own friends. Peter added that all teen-agers shouid have a separate room or place " home to entertain friends and Betty Cooper ex idea that paronts | should have trust and confidence in their children and give them} freedom concerning “curfe ee @ housework, allowances, and dates. | Betty Rowan presented the idea that parents should restrict child- ren to some extent as to the time} hey can go out, what time they} should come in, and how muds they should spend on home- Betty thought that high| students should get the} of their education now; and save dates and social life for | thee future. | ‘The panel concluded that if any| iteen-ager is cheerful, neat, honest, | hie 4 interested in: other people, : and’ legitimate, deduction expenses. should not be in fear | oo i lof becoming a wallflower. pursue hobbies | pressed the You may have seen the report of the interview with Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, in which he says that school appropriate advertising budgets will continue to be oe He was quoted as saying. must maintain advertising. I know you have to keep your clients’ names before the public if they are to keep their,markets. There is no question about that. I 1s do not think it is possible for a going concern to forget GUARANTEED the fact that it has to keep up its public contact and PURE relations.” The KEY WEST CITIZEN YOUR DAILY NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA