WEDNESDAtr, OCTOMft 26, 19S3
THE BLACKBIBD. EOCKT MOUNT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
PAG& THREE
Germans Like America;
French Fries Top Food
By Jane Palmgren
German students, “bugology/ new equipment, ja
lopies, and food lead the interesting topics in many
exchange papers this month.
McClenaghan High School in Florence, S. C., has
two German students — Ute and Karl Jacob. When
asked how America differed from Germany, they said
the schools are— easier, the food different, more peo
ple drive cars, girls wear lipstick and boys don’t wear
short pants.
Both young people like America guidance program here
and aie most irnprsssed by the
tall buildings and the friendliness
of people.
New Water Fountains
Money accumulated from sales
in the Student Store of Greens
boro Senior High School is being
iLsed to finance the installation of
eight new water fountains, a new
sound system in the auditorium
and a new asbestos curtain for
the stage. The principal stated
that students who have saved the
money should have the benefit
of improvements made by it.
Behind the high school in
Greensboro, N. 0., is a hilly park
ing lot used only by jalopies of
students. Just imagine the rush
and noise as they leave for lunch
and after school! These cars are
capable of obtaining gi-eat speed
and one may find many 88 engines
under ’38 hoods. Blue is the fa
vorite color. At 3:30 these cars
are off in a cloud of dust, and the
parking lot is deserted until the
next day.
Presbyterian Junior College in
Maxon, N. C., now has a vocational
Parent Likes Law
On Traffic Rules
“I think the compulsoi-y study
of the traffic laws and highway
safety is an excellent idea, not
only for students but also for
adults,” said a parent with re
ference to the law recently passed
by the state.
Starting today teachers of
RMSHS, for fifteen days, will give
forty-minute classes per day to
their homeroom pupils. These
lessons will be based on the man
ual, “Traffic Laws and Highway
Safety.” The forty-minute periods
■will be placed in the activity
schedule, and all activities, except
the Tuesday clubs will be sus
pended until after November 18.
North Carolina’s new motor ve
hicle law, which requires all high
school students to take a ten
hour course in the study of its
traffic laws and highway safety, is
designed to encourage teenagers to
be more cautious while behind the
driver’s wheel, thereby making the
state a better place “to live and
let live.”
guidance course much like the
Bugology’ Is Hard!
“It’s just the hardest subject
I've ever taken,” say the sopho
mores in Hickory High School,
Hickory, N. C., when they speak
of “bugology.” Local sophomores
know what these students mean,
and a few agree.
Students at Central High School,
Charlotte, N. C., rank french fries
as the top snack. Ten thousand
and four hundred orders are sold
Jn one school year. Think of all
the catsup used! Hamburgers rank
second in importance. Sixteen
■thousand hamburgers were sold
during last school year. That’s a
lot of ground meat!
Woosh! Woosh!
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Teacher Works
On State Group
Miss Kate Parks Kitchen has
during the past few weeks been
working on the White House Dis-
cuBsion group imeetings in the
State.
Miss Kitchen, who worked on
the topic, “How to get enough
good teachers and keep them,”
was the only high school teacher
in this group. She went to Green
ville, Fayetteville, Raleigh, Greens
boro, Charlotte and Asheville for
the discussions. On returning, Misa
Kitchin helped prepare a report
to present at the state conference.
She went to Raleigh with seven
others from Rocky Mount.
At the State conference governor
Luther Hodges and Dr. Charles
Carroll, superintendent of Public
Instruction, announced the ap
pointment of thirty-six people,
including Mr. Ray Wilkinson of
Rocky Mount, to go to the White
House Conference November 28-
December 6.
Governor Hodges and Di’. Car
roll decided to let North Carolina
have the regional conferences as
a direct result of the invitation
from President Eisenhower to par.
ticipate in the White House Con'
ference.
WASHING COURSE? No, Mike Williford, manager of the foot
ball team, places towels In the new washer which was recently
installed in the laundry room. Photo by Barringer.
Washing Now?
Gym Buys New Washer
“What are we going to do, start
taking in laundry to raise money?”
asked Hem-y Thompson when he
saw the plumbers installing the
new laundry-sized wajsher in the
laundry room of the gym the first
of this month.
Since the completion of the
gymnasium last year, the school
has been using regular home-
sized machines to wash the towels,
etc. As time passed, these proved
to be inadequate to take care of
the heavy load placed on them.
This new machine may be used
by any department of the school.
The gym classes will get their
towels washed by the machine.
The football and baseball uniforms
also will be cleaned in it. Mr.
C. M. Edson said that the machine
would pay for Itself in approxi
mately two years.
Operation of the washer and
dryer will be handled by the man
agers of the various sports and
done by the janitors and maids.
This machine was purchased by
the school board. It is not the only
iwasher in school, however. The
home economics room as a home
sized machine for its use.
Scholarships
For Seniors
Senior (farsighted juniors and
sopliomores, too) who want to
sarn scholarships will be interested
in a series of articles staiting witli
thiS one dealing with available
Duke awards.
Angier B. Duke Regional Prizes
ccmpetition is open to any senior
in the upper quarter of his or her
class. Nine regional prizes, three
for Women, six for men, each with
a value of $750 per academic year,
are awarded yearly.
The winners have these awards
by the year but may renew them
in each of the four consecutive
years. This, of course, is on the
condition that the holder main
tains scholarship in the upper
25 per cent of his class and that
he shows development in those
qualities of leadership for which he
was originally chosen.
These prizes are meant to stim
ulate the student ability of young
men and women who show like
lihood of leadership in their future
careers. They should have creative
scholastic ability and should be
able to use the information at
hand. As potential leaders, they
should be possessors of character,
personality, vitality, and intellec
tual integrity.
Angler B. Duke Memorial schol
arships to the amount of $350 per
year are also available. These are
awarded by semesters. As these
awards are based entirely on
merit, financial need is not con-
sideied in their awarding.
There is a Financial Aid Pro
gram at Duke for the bentfit of
outstanding candidates who do not
Win Angier Duke prizes. The An
gier B. Duke Memorial Student
Loan enables students to borrow
money at a low interest rate to be
repaid before or after graduation.
WESTWOOD LUMBER
CORP. INC.
Corner Hammond & Pine St.
(Formerly)
WILLIAMS LUMBER CORP.
Eat At The
WILRO
RESTAURANT
Broadcasters Begin
Weekly Programs
V O
In keeping with tradition, the
Radio Broadcasters club has start
ed its annual weekly news program
over the radio.
James Ezzelle and Foy Bradshaw
are the EmmCees of the program,
“News and Blues,” this year. Also
every Saturday morning, Aaron
Mathews has the “Question Box,”
a quiz open to all.
Hoping to get time on one or
more of the available TV stations,
the club members are making
plans for several television pro
grams. However, these plans are
still on the drawing board and are
not yet definite. If they do work
out, the program will featUre
'talent from RMSMS.
Here To Stay!
In each issue of The Blackbird
this year the Center Theatre and
Tower Drive-In are sponsoring a
movie contest, which will appear
on this page.
Prizes will be given to the first
six persons who give their entries
to Foy Bradshaw, ONLY, by the
end of the week.
Students winning last month’s
contest were Henry Thompson,
Graham Adams, J. E. Hawkins,
Fi-ancis Collins and Sandra Melton.
CONTEST
Match Column A with the ones
in Column B.
Column A
1. Tom and Jerry
2. Clark Gable
3. Trombone
4. Francis, The Mule
5. Peter Lorre
6. Esther Williams
7. James Dean
8. Willy The Gimp
9. Pete Kelly
10. Jane Wyman
Column B
a. Cornet
b Donald O’Connor
c. “The Tall Men”
d. “Million Dollar Mermaid”
e. “Rebel Without A Cause”
f. James Cagney
g. Jimmy Stewart
h. Cat and Mouse
i. Bruce Ethridge
j. “Lucy Gallant”
‘Off The Tracks’
Confused mob, m o a n i n g
whistles, hysterical women are
only a few things seen in “Off
The Tracks,” The Edsonians’
first production, to be presented
in the auditorium, December 9.
“Off The Tracks,” written by
Felicia Metcalfe, is a three-act
play, full of comedy, mystery
and romance. Its action centers
around a small railroad station
where passengers have taken
refuge after their train de
railed.
Tryouts for the cast were
conducted October 19, 20, and
23, taut results were not avail
able when this article went to
press. Everyone is invited to
make plans to attend this play
— It may be surprising to see
how people one meets affect
one’s life.
TIP-TOP
Bread and Cake
Rocky Mount Phone 2-2148
Lenpatricks Thrill
Student Assembly
Little Penny Sue Lenpatrlck,
six-year old daughter of the Len-
patrick professional tumbling ar
tists, stole the show and captivated
the audience at the first paid
assembly, October 12.
Penny Sue exhibited poise and
talent in the tumbling tricks she
performed with her parents, who
demonstrated various feats of
skill, both on and off the trampo
line. The Lenpatricks also ex
plained the different steps in such
acts and gave a brief histoiy of
the equipment used.
Davis Bros.
Hardware — Farm Supplies
126 S. Washington St.
LEE’S
Food Store
821 Hammond St.
Powell Business
Equipment Co.
School and Office
Supplies
127 Sunset Ave. Phone 6-G815
W. B. LEA
TOBACCO CO.