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<J have Susie
Hodges from the Boone School
and Brenda Parsons from the Todd
School to join our class.
The following students have a
perfect attendance record to date:
Alex Greene, Roger Greene, Au
dry Miller, Nadine Miller, and
Pam Starnes.
Roger Greene brought a pot of
jonquils to us. They were bud
ding and now are in full bloom.
Our United States Primary Map
furnishes us with many learning
experiences. ,
At Valentine, Mrs. Forrest
Greene, Alex's mother, and Mrs.
J. D. Greene, Roger's mother,
gave us a lovely party. Miss
Mary Norris assisted Mrs. Greene.
Iris Proffitt, Lowell Cook, Billy
Ragan, Harold Beach. Audry Mil
ler, Nadine Miller and Judy Nell
Brown also brought goodies for
the party.
Danny Moretz spent a part of
the day with us February 21st.
He will be in school next year.
Mrs. Adams' 1st and 2nd Grades
February fourteenth was a most
enjoyable day for us. During the
afternoon Beth's mother, Mrs.
Clyde Williams, gave us a big
Vnlaotine party. She served delici
out cookies, candy, ice cream, and
drinks. She also gave us plastic
hoars and heart shaped holders
filled with candy suckers. Curtis,
Joe, Garry, and Eileen also served
candy and cookies which their
mothers Mesdames: Charles Mil
ler, George Winebarger, Hansford
Miller and Clint Lewis sent. We
thank these people very much and
appreciate their being so nice to
us.
We are greatly enjoying the
We have begun a good health
club in our clan. Each person is
checked for clean hands, face,
teeth, and combed hair by their
captain each day. The captains are
as follows: David Hayes, Garry
Moretz, Keith Krider, Ruth Bryan
and Delia Cook. Each child has a
check sheet at his desk. It is in a
health booklet in which he has his
health reports.
All the class want to thank the
parents, who so graciously furnish
ed the refreshments for our Val
entine party.
Fourth Grade News
Our Valentine party was a big
success—thanks to many generous
fourth graders who brought all
sorts of goodies we hadn't ex
pected. They were Sandy Wine
barger, Terry Bryan, Judy Tttter,
Nancy Greene, Bobby Greene,
Judy Stevens, Jeffrey Brown,
Diana Foster and Ford Williams.
The.highlight of the party was
the nice surprises we found in our
mail boxes. *
We've celebajed lots of famous
birthdays this month including
those of Linda Brown, Mary Alice
Culler, Jerry Moretz and Sandra
Winebarger.
We are so happy to have Sara
Nan Hodges back with us. She was
with us at the beginning of school,
moved away and went to Boone
school but now she's back with
her own group and we're happy!
We enjoyed Mr. Abernathy
Tuesday, who gave us some very
helpful pointers and hints in
handwriting. He also entertained
us with the harmonica. Mr. Aber
nathy is a representative of the
Noble and Noble Publishing Co.
Some fourth graders who have
come to school every day this
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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
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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.
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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
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