Thursday, Sept. 8, 1938
General School
Set Out For 19
Crowded Conditions
Necessitate Many
Schedule Changes
Each high school pupil received a
copy of the following school regulations?
In order that you may secure the
greatest benefit and that the school
may give you it's best service under I
the crowded conditions that we musf
work it is necessary that some regulations
be made and adhered to. We
do n??t expect to make rules to covet
every phase of conduct. We want you
to fee! that this is vmn- ir.l
that what is done i"4 for your benefit.
You will bo expected to conduct
yourself in an orderly manner at all
times in 'ho building, in the busses
and >n the playground. On entering
the buildings you will walk quietly
and talk only in a conversational
tone.
Every student will report to his
home room before classes and at the
end of the Inst period.
You will be expected to stay out
of the busses through the school day.
Those students who bring lunch
will be expecled to eat in their home
room or in the lunch room.
Waste baskets have been provided
four your convenience both inside
the building and out. You are ex
pected to do your part toward keeping
th? buildings and grounds neat
and attractive.
Those sutdents who are absent
without a written or verbal permission
from their parents will be suspended
until parents have made arrangements
to reinstate them.
Students who come to school by
buss will be permitted to go to town
on Wednesdays at noon only. You are
requested to notify your home room
teacher if you wish to go at thus hour.
Those going at any other time without
| special permission from the superintendent
will be suspended.
Those students over sixteen years
old who smoke may do so outside the
regular class hours at only one
place on the campus-approximately
half way between the high school
building and the woodworking shop.
Smoking in the buildings or busses
or during the regular class hours will
be punished by suspension.
Those students who carry less than
five classes will spend the remaining
period in the library.
Time Schedule Is
Changed In School
Many inquiries have been received
from local parents concerning the ;
time schedule in use this year. Since
it differs somewhat from the one last
year, there has been some natur.i
confusion, as well as tardies.
School opens in the mornings a*
8:15 o'clock. In the high school a ten
minute home room period follows to
permit checking of class rolls and
general preparation for the day's
1 work. A five minute period for chang- ,
j ing classes is then allowed, and the
I first period begins at 8:30. It should
be remembered, however, that a pupil
is tardy if he arrives at school afO
. t r
Ivs tf .IV. \
The noon recess period begins a?
11:40, and ends at 12:30. School w ]
dismissed at 2:50 in the afternoons.
Parents are urged to cooperate!:
with the school authorities in prevent-1
ing tardies. Local children should arrive
at school between 8:00 and 8:15.
In this connection, it might be noted
that the school uses correct time.
The town clock at the courthouse has
been three minutes fast for about a
year. There is at least one advantage
in this fact, however, anyone who
uses the town clock as standard time
will always be a little ahead.
Police officers of Mexico, Mo.,
<V drained a 100,000 gallon railway
,;i* water tank to recover a stolen dia
. I mond thrown into it.
The Cherokt
I Regulations
38-39 Session
Home Room Teachers
Named for High Grades
The following is a list of the High
School home room teachers and their
respective grades.
Miss Laura Overton 11th grade
Mis* Elizabeth Strickland . 10 sec. 1
Miss Meredith Whitaker .... 10 sec. 2
Miss Martha Wiswall 9 sec. 1
Miss Dorothy Higdon ...... 9 sec. 2
Mrs. Virginia Cobb 8 sec. 1
Miss Dorothy Lide ..... 8 sec. 2
Mrs. Anne Ward 8 sec. 3
Mr. H. K. Carroll 8 sec. 4
New Bell System
is Installed In
Murphy Schools
Near the close of the iast school
year Mr. Wright's Physic Class
planned and installed a modern electric
signal system to replace the old
fashioned single gong formerly used
by the high school. The old gong was
at that time entirely inadequate foi
the rapidly growing school, which had
branched out into two shops and even
into the graded school building.
This fall further additions to the
signal system have been made, necessitated
by the further expansion ot
the high school. At present the system
consists of four units: a six-inch
bell in each hall of the high school
building, another in the graded school
building, and a powerful, industrial
typo horn on the roof of the high
school building. The latter can be
heard plainly all over the campus,
and serves to warn the woodworking,
physical education, and manual arts
groups of the change of classes, as
well as to call the thousand-odd pupils
of both schools together for the
opening of .school and at the end of
the noon recess.
Balanced Diet Is
Provided By School
Lunch Room
For the benefit of the students who
are new comers to the Murphy High
School, and to those who are interested
in the lunch room, Miss Benton,
manager of the lunch room, would
like to state students may receive
their lunch in return for home grown
produce. Value set on this produce
will be the same as that in local
stores.
Prices for the items on the Menu
vary from .2V4 to 0.5c. The daily
menu itself includes soup, sandwiches,
salads, meats, beverages and desserts.
About eighty students visit the
lunch room each day. As the average
cost of lunch is only .10 or ,15c
parents are urged to take advantage
of these prices and provide their children
with a well-balanced lunch.
PUPPET SHOW
Tuesday rr.;;rr?r.^ tue elementary
school enjoyed a puppet show
sponsored by the State Health Department
and brought to us through
Miss Hamilton, our county nurse. The
show stressed the value and importance
of taking care of our teeth.
Dr. Parker To Conduct
Extension Course
Dr. W. A. Parker of the Extension
Division of Western Carolina Teachers
College begins for teachers this
week. Last year his course was on
Ancient and Medieval History. This
year he may lecture on International
Relations.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE SCOUT
se Scout, Murphy, North
tiy
WOODWORKING IS
VALUABLE COURSE
FOR STUDENTS
Devote Opening Days
To Preparing Shop
For Years Work
By Hall Cobb
Registration was about completed
in this department on Tuesday- There
are two classes of three hours each
per day. The size of the classes are
limited to twentv-five .stnHpntc in
each class. Approximately 30% of
the students who took thus course last
year are registered for the course
this year with the other 70% coming
out of the classes of last year's stuI
dents front shop No. 1.
This course in woodworking it
intended, primarily, for the students
who will, in all probability, not go to
college after graduation but who will
enter industry at that time. The
course does not expect to turn out
finished craftsmen?that could not be
done in the time allotted but rather
to give the hoys the opportunity of
learning all of the principles of
woodworking and to learn something
of the production methods used in
modern industry. The student who
completes three years of this coutse
is able to enter industry in a far advanced
stage of apprenticeship, end,
as a result, is able to reach the top
much sooner.
Aside from the time taken for
registration, all of last week was
spent in work on the shop building
and equipment. All of the tools and
machinery had been packed in grease
and stored during the vacation. Ali
of these items had to be unpacked,
cleaned, and put in place. The workbenches
have been thoroughly over
hauled, tops planed, sanded, and
painted. The lockers came in for an
overhauling and a fresh coat of paint
also. New lumber rucks have been
built and are ready to receive the
lumber which has been drying ail
summer.
The first year students will be
started out in joint work. Nine of the
most common joints used in woodwork
must be completed by each student
before he will be allowed to go
ahead with other work. The course
will, during the year, give the boys a
thorough knowledge of the timber
trees common to this section as well
as all of the finer woods used ir> cabinet
work. A course in drawing and
blueprint reading will also be included.
Each student is required to
make a detailed drawing and a complete
bill of material for each project
before he is allowed to start on
the actual construction. Construction
methods and finishing methods will
be interwoven throughout the entire
course.
To C?Jl"-'
nandling and to speed
up the work, the students are divided
into crews with a foremen or crew
leader in charge of the crew. Crews
and crew leaders are changed each
month. This system enables all of the
men to get a chance to show individ:
ual ability at planning work and
handling men. Too, this tends to develop
leadership in the boy.
Our work last year was limited by
the lack of adequate equipment. We
had high hopes this year that we
might be able to add evsrsl pieces
of very much needed machinery. We
will not be able to do this at this
time but hope very much that it wili
be possible by the middle of the year.
Parents whose sons are taking this
course and who are interested in the
work that they are doing are cordially
invited to come down to our shopI
and look it over. We shall be more I
than glad to show you through the |
shop and explain in detail any phase .
of the work that you care to ask I
about.
ADAMS IN SYSTEM AGAIN
Ws welcome Mrs. Martha Mayfield
Adams back into the Murphy
School unit. We regTet the loss of
Miss Martha Nell Wells but rejoice
in her promotion.
Carolina
Hig
Junior Class Enrolls \
?
Largest School Class
The Junior class began its worl;
this year with around one hundred 1
and forty members. Ail of us were in I
the old Study Hall until registration
was finished, when Mr. Bueck moved
approximately forty ni-Is into the
Science laboratory with Miss Whitaker
as home room teachers. Those
girls return to room number four
for lunch, where one hundred and
two of us will carry on. ^
Much Interest Is
Shown In Music ;
Appreciation Course
In order to add culture to their
learning, the High School students .
are being given the opportunity of a
studying one of the fine arts-music.
Theie are 29 boys and gills in the ^
High School Music class. The aim of
the class is appreciation of and par- j
ticipation in good music. "People and (|
Music" by McGehee is being used as j
a textbook. This book discusses ihc
growth and influence of lnus'e from q
the beginning of civilized life until c
the present time. During the past a
week the class has sung familiar
songs nnu learned new two part v,
songs. This year the students will 0
study all typos of museial composilions
and composers. Already much jinterest
has been shown in this work- Teacher's
Conference
Held At Bryson City
On Saturday morning, Sept. 3rd, r
a French Teachers" Conference was c
held at the high school in Bryson li
City for the French teachers in this s
part of the state. Professor Guidez n
of the University of North Carolina a
gave some very helpful suggestions n
as to the best use of the French text b
books that have bgcn adopted by the.tl
state. ' e
SCHOOLC
TEL
i-UK 511 AIT 1
Murphy
B B
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
AND EQUIPMENT
REPAIRED BY NY A
Extensive Reiviirs
* * *
Made On Several
Schools In County
Eleven hoys working under the Na
ional Youth Administration directd
by Reid Mallonee spent two weeks
enovating the Murphy School buildngs.
About two hundred large
loors and windows were washed;
ix hundred desks were cleaned and
.axed; the walls in twenty-five
ooms were swept and ten rooms
.ere calsomined. All the woodwork
For the high school library six
arge tables, four dictionary and magzine
shelves, twelve benches, four
ets of book shelves and two large
ulletin boards were built.
In addition to the work in the
flurphy School repair work was
one at various other schools in the
Jnit. Thirty window panes were
eplaced in the Bates Creek School,
iix primary tables and thirty-six
hairs were built for the first grade
t T-amotla.
The group doing this worthwhile
fork is under the general supervision
f Mrs. Willa Bell Posey. We are
rateful to her for her cooperation
' r?r?
JO Enrolled In Art
^lass At Opening
The Commercial Art class has enolled
20 members this year. The
ourse will include work in designing,
ttering, postermaking, pencil
ketching, water color, and clay
modeling. Some appreciation of art
nd a little history of its dcvelcplent
will be given. The students will
e allowed freedom to specialize in
he kind of work they are most intersted
in.
LOTHES
' (Like Yours)
'ill not only look betr?but
last longer if
ven regular trips to
ie Dry Cleaner.
Many a suit or dress,
>w soiled and grimy,
ill look like new if
>u turn the clothes
eaning problem over
us. .
I
r SERVICE
Laundry |