October 17. 1941 BAILEY BUGLR Pap^e 1^
BAILEY MAKES LOWEST PER CENT OF ABSENCES
CAFETERIA ’SERVES
OVER THREE THaJSAND
Thr ee thousand and
five hundred hot ?i,unch
es were served last
month to Bailey High
School students by the
school cafeteria. I.Iost
of this momber were
"dished out'’ plate
lunches and soup. A-
round one-third of the
lunches v;ere given to
under-priviledged or
under-weight children
in the grammar grades*
Llrs. Murray, head of
the cafeteria, reports
a considerable in
crease in those being
served since long sch
edules have been re
sumed.
WHOLESOhE MEALS SERVED
An effort ds' (being
made to serve light
and v/holesome meals,
during the hot weather
with more rounded
meals being planned
for the winter,.
_Very little profit
is being made in the
lunch room,, but the
small sum that is made
each month is imraedi-
ately turned back in
to equipment for the
cafeteris,as no money
from the liuich room
can be used for any
thing else..
AMUSEMENTS NETS
5^34.50 FOR
R T.A.
Total receipts col
lected from the rides
sponsored by the P.T.A.
of Bailoy during the
■ week of October 5-12
amounted to :'-35.20.
Expenses,' including
. cleaning of lot, rent,
' state tax, and light
• bill, totaled ,;b0^7o.
Profits were .,>54.50
h'i th which the P ..T. A.
is planning to settle
outstanding bills.
COmERClAL STUDENT
OFFERED JOB AT ELON
LEROi. RAY, one of the
cormnercial students at
Dailey I-Ii^,h School,hue
received an opportun
ity to earn ne.xt year
part of his college
;tuition at Elon col-
,lege. 1-iC v/ill have to
finish the ccm2nercial
:course that ho is now
taking and v;ill be re
quired to type between
forty and fifty v.'ords
a minute and take dic
tation at the rate of
seventy-five or eighty
.words per minute.
Ke v/ill probably be
employed in one of the
profo,c3ors offices.
862 ABSENCES
MADE First month
A total of 882 ab
sences v/as reported
last month in the
Bailey School. High
sCiiool students ' made
202 of these absences,
an average of ten stu
dents out every day,
maki.ng an average at-
' tondance of 94J'o in
high school. Contrary
to usual attendance
,records the boys aver
aged 95;^o, the girls
only 93/3.
In the gramraar grades
6G0 absences were re
corded, or an average
, of 33 absences per day,
■a percentage of ninety.
DECREASE IN TEACHERS
Mr. vValker stated
that for every 34 stu
dents a new teacher
could be gained. It
ca.n be seen that at
the present rate of
absences the grai'i'imar
.grades stand to lose a
teacher. Prom all re-
'ports the average at-
, tondance of 390 • v/as
■the lowest in the
county.
i‘:r.- V/alker further re
ported that the Spring
Hope elementary grades,
coraposod principa3.1y
;of rural children,com-
;ing as the Bailoy stu
dents do from tobacco
.and cotton farms
averaged last month
94/j attendance, a 5/o
increase over Bailoy
■Iligh School.
OH SUSAN!
FACULTY PLAY GIVEN OCT..29
8AILEY AUDITORIUM
8 P.M.