Green Valley School Obt new stase curtain* were in staliad this past week. With our nice new stage at its new height, and our new curtains now, w« (eel that our facilities (or stage pro duction of school entertainment have been improved almost to our limit We are proud (or another big stap of progress. Handwriting Export Visits Mr. E. J. A be ma thy, a hand writing expert affiliated with the Noble and Noble Co. from whom our writing texts are purchased, was a guest in our school all day last Tuesday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Desaie Mae Edmisten, our county supervisor. Mr. Abernathy moved (rom room to room through the gram mar grades demonstrating various equipment and teaching techni ques along with his ingenuity, as a person who is certainly not a stranger in the classroom The students on all levels were wide eyed and equally attentive, both when he was showing them how to play the harmonica or when he was teaching them the most min ute (acts about letter formation. Student Teacher Visits Mrs. Margaret Idol, who will be a student teacher in the seventh gride during the spring quarter, visited the school all day last Fri day. She observed the seventh grade most o( the day, but wa; made (amiliar with the entire school plant be(ore the day was new tape recorded which Mr. Marsh bought for our whool. Mrs. Wright** Imri Grade This has been I busy month tor us. Along with ether thing* we have studied about Abraham Lin coln and George Washington It was our month to care for the downstairs hall bulletin board. We used pictures of Lincoln and Washington to tlx it It seems that February is our month for parties. Mrs. Carol Davis, Donna's mother, gave us a nice Valentine party which we en joyed very much. Mrs. Clayton Morett, Joan's mother, surprised us with a lovely party on his birth day. Mrs. Bruce Higgms gave us another wonderful surprise party on Jimmy's birthday. Mrs. C. P. Calloway, Jimmy's aunt, made our pictures. Mrs. Austin South, Mrs. Stewart Beach, and Mrs. Blanche Shoemake sent us refreshments for Valentine's Day. i We have had some sickness in our room this month. Linda Miller has been absent because of in fluenza. Our room misses Mickey Trivette, who is to be absent from school a long time because of a severe illness. Both Linda and Mike have our best wishes for a speedy recovery. Third Grade News The third grade has finished their booklet* and study of trains. To bring thi* to an end, we all wrote report* on train* to add to our booklets. Mr*- Lavender's First Grade We are very happy t • ptMh (Ml tlW *•! MM Owrflwd) ft* » Mmh nh<**i mtm fH tmi If Mhfta pa pad «f pa . ^ lU mIiM, Mk «Ma « ka mIml -Mf*? Dim m M, If 1— tnhi. fit ttftt Mr. M«fa M Mlt|, ML.t> I J ™ vi SM| ■'*. H * I idlllmn MN ul ntriiUM. Far UtM, Mt Am baft, auk %. Un W t fwrf • Mi nWhiMi af. Williams Speaks At Gatlinburg Professor Cratii Will if ma of the Department of English at Appa lachian State Teachers College, was one of the featured speakers month in spite of the flu and mumps are: Lynda Norris, Johnny Jones, Benny Moretz, Denny Nor ris, Bobby Winebarger, Steve Pri fitt, Jimmy Shoemake, Gary Jones, Bobby Greene, Nancy Greene, Mary Honeycutt, Joe Moretz, Joe Proffitt, Linda Brown, Gregory Stanberry,'Charles Norris, Jeffrey Brown, Judy Tester and Mary Alice Culler. We have a new tape recorder in our school. It was demonstrated at our last PTA meeting. Each grade recorded some classroom procedure. Mrs. Winkler and the fourth grade taped the procedure and steps taken In learning a new song. We are using our tape re corder in many ways. at the forty-fifth annual conven tion of the Southern Mountain Worken in Gatlinburg, Tennes see, last Thursday. His one-hour address was deliv ered to two hundred and twenty five representative* of colleges, schools, missions, churches, and recreational organizations from Ohio to Alabama following the fel lowship dinner in the dining hall of the Mountaineer Hotel. Pro fessor Williams integrated a con sideration of racial origins, social customs, cultural history, folklore, and economic life of the Upper Blaine Valley, his native commun ity in Kentucky. He attempted to present Upper Blaine at a repre sentative mountain community in racial and cultural heritage. Mrs. Williams accompanied her husband on the trip to Gatlin burg. Tuberculosis Facts - ' 'Z-<. . *:.'?>!*> r f'"; 1 By ICRS. FRANCES C FRANCIS Tuberculoma to an expensive diaeaae to curt. Treatment Laati for many months, aometimea for year*. It involves costly medical, surgical, nursing, and dietetic service*. All institutional costs mount year by year. Only the wealthiest of families could af ford to meet such expenses as the cure entails—and, as a rule, the wealthy are the least likely to con tract tuberculosis. .This to the rea son: TR Is a catching disease spread chiefly through close con tact This means the people who live In crowded quarters or work closely with others in shops snd Industry are the ones most likely to catch tuberculosis, snd most of these people are in the lower-in come groups. They csnnot psy the full costs of tuberculosis treatment so the government must Treatment to furnished at gov ernment expense for those who cannot pay. not only because It to the community's humane obliga tion, but also because it protects all' of us—the public. As long as men snd women with active tub erculosis walk the streets, or live and work with healthy people, no one can be entirely safe from the disease. So national and state and local governments hsve built a country-wide system of ttuberculos is hospitals. In all they house more than 100,000 beds. Yet even more beds are still needed in some states. Keeping up these beds costs the various governments a total of more than $200 million a year—and this fignre is growing. Despite the extent of all these facilities some pstients with ac tive tuberculosis are. not getting the care they need. As wss said there are more than a half-million known cases. Some of these unfor tunste people refuse hospital treatment Others are at home waiting for their chance for care in already crowded institutions. These unwise or uncared-for peo ple and those with active tuber culosis whose condition remains undetected are the source of all the new cases of tuberculosis and the csuse of the heavy financial burden our government must csrry for many years to come. The picture to not sll dark, for great strides sre being made. There it today (or leu tuberculos is. Consider thew (sets! At the be ginning of the centurj (I»00) the tuberculosis death rate reached the staggering figwfe of 302 deaths per year out of every hundred thousand people then Uving in these United States! A half century later the rate has been reduced to about one-tenth its former height. To be exact it was 22 death per hundred thouaand of population in the year 1M0. And in all years since 1010 the drop hss been fast er than the year before. This proud record, however, cannot blind us to the fact that there is still far too much tabery culosis. Whenever a, chest x-ray sifrvey is carried out in an indus try or a neighborhood, one or two people in each thousand will be found to have tuberculosis, all un known to themselves and the health authorities. Your tubercu-1 losis association and health depart ment offers facilities for1 free x rays each year—be sure you are not an unknown case of tubercu- < losis. SEAL ACCORD The| United States, the Soviet Union, Canada and Japan recently signed a new agreement for con serving the fur seals of'the North Pacific. It sets rules for the num ber of seals to be killed and in cludes compensation for Japan and Canada, which do not control fur seal breeding grounds as the United States and Soviet Union do. The fur seals breed on the Pribilof Islands, off Alaska, which are controlled by the' United States, and on the Komandorski Islands, off Siberia and Robben Island, north of Jlpan, which are con trolled by the Soviet Union. Rulane Gas Service I* ECONOMICAL! -REMEMBER ttUlANF PARKWAY ItULAWB OAS SKRTICB DIAL AM 4-3054 CARD or TUKU 1 We with to npim our dwp ap preciation fcr the expressions at tympathy, act* of kindness, aa well aa the many floral offering*, dur ing the illness and death of our beloved aunt, Mn. Caroline Fran ci».—The Reeae and Wilton fami ~ k