Chath
Blanketeer
Vol. 6
DECEMBER 2, 1940
No. 23
Vocational Classes Held Each Week
GIRLS WINNERS
OP TWO GAMES
Court Team Defeats Hanes and
Mayodan in Season Openers
November 8 and 13
The girls’ basketball team has
won their first two games of th^
season by defeating Hanes Knit
ters and Mayodan. The Hanes
Knitters game was played at the
innfli ffvmnasium Friday night,
Mayodan
13. Be
le gins ua»K.etuttii team iias
won their first two games of the
season by defeating Hanes Knit
ters and Mayodan. The Hanes
Knitters game w‘~
local gymnasium
November 8, and the
game in Mayodan Nov. i3. Be
low we give you the box scores of
both the boys’ and girls’ games.
HANES VS. CHATHAM
Hanes Chatham
P—Duggins 8 Poole 6
F—Tucker 3 Gordan 2
C—Nifong 0 Lineback 4
G—W. Garwood J. Sherrill
G—Long J. Sherrill
G—G. Garwood Samuels
Sub: Hanes, Lawrence; Chat
ham, Amburn, Norman 1, Doub 2,
Smith. Referee: Thomas.
Boys’ Game
-Owens Merrell 7
-Sizemore 4 Eddinger
-Poe 4 Tuttle 8
-Sand 3 Dixon l
G—^Pelts 9 Badgett 5
Sub.: Hanes, Odum, Robertson,
McKenny, Wall 2; Chatham;
Mann 7, Shugart 4, Lane, Frye 2.
Referees; Thomas and Lineback.
MAYODAN VS. CHATHAM
F—Richardson 2 Poole 9
F—Joyce Norman
G—Lemons Lineback 8
G—Chambers .. Jennie Sherrill 10
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Mr. Jim Lyons is shown, top left, instructing one of his classes
in the machine shop. Pictured top right is Mr. Hubert Parker’s class
in “Mill Calculations.” Bottom photo pictures Mr. E. M. Hodel’s
class in “wool.”
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Vocational Classes
Are Now In Progress
Blanketeer Presents in This Issue Three Pictures of Classes
Now Being Conducted; Other Photos Are to Be
Contained in Next Issue of Publication
In this issue of the Blanketeer
we have given you three pictures
of the vocational classes which
have been in process since Octo
ber. These classes will be com
pleted on December 18. Classes
are now being conducted in
Washing, Wool, Spinning, Ma
chine Shop Practices, Napping,
Mill Calculations, Weaving, Loom
Fixing, Dyeing, Business English
and Typing.
The three classes we give you
today are Machine Shop Prac
tices, Wool, and Mill Calcula
tions. The Machine Shop class
is being taught by Mr. J. F.
Lyons, and his two sections con
sist of the following members:
Nellis Mook, John Williams, Wal
ker Holcomb, Charlie Hanes, J.
Walter Brown, C. E. McCann, D.
A. Dockery, Marvin Masten,
Ralph Brown, Herbert Durham,
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WORKERS CAN
SLOW DEFENSE
Progress Made in Defense Pro
gram Depends Upon Care Ex
ercised by the Workers
Progress of the national pre
paredness program will depend to
a large extent upon the care ex
ercised by workers in plants en
gaged in emergency defense op
erations, statisticians of the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany declared recently.
Injuries resulting from reckless
disregard of ordinary safety pre
cautions would do much to re
tard the progress of that pro
gram, it is pointed out.
With men and women working
at jobs more hazardous than
those of their usual calling, a
psychology of heedlessness is apt
to develop. This is borne out,
the statisticians show, by records
of the last World War,
The fatal accident rate of 76.6
per 100,000 for 1915 rose to 84.2
by 1916 and to 88.2 by 1917, a
figure much higher than that of
any year since then.
Reasons Cited
The rise in the fatal accident
rate observed during the last
World War, it is stated, was due
partly to the direct effect of in
creased industrial activity, ac
companied in some cases by in
creased hazards. But in addition
to these unavoidable new hazards
there was a tendency for a cer
tain degree of bravado, of disre-
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