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November 24, 1954 High Life Page Three McCristal Of Fisher Body Visits Senior; Gives Pians In Model Car Contest Bruce McCristal, field represen tative of the Fisher Body Crafts man’s Guild, visited Senior High School this week to announce plans for the 1954-1955 model car com petition of the Craftsman’s Guild. Enrollments are being taken for the competition in which $90,000 in awards, including eight univer sity scholarships, will be given to state, regional, and national win ners. In addition to the individual awards, the Guild will award per manent trophies to the schools at tended by first state, regional, and national winners. The 1955 competition offers young car designers the opportun ity to build sports cars, convert ibles, or station wagons as well as two or four-door sedans. Any boy in the United States be tween the ages of 12 and 19 is eligi ble to enter the competition and may obtain an enrollment card by writing to the Fisher Body Crafts man’s Guild, General Motors Build ing, Detroit 2, Michigan. A booklet on model design and construction, the only textbook of its kind for youths wishing to learn about automobile design, will be sent to each enrollee. It was pre pared by professional designers from the General Motors Styling Section, Fisher Body Division en gineers and the technical staff of the Craftsman’s Guild. Awards for the best models en tered in the Guild competition again include eight university scholarships for the national win ners of the junior age division (12 through 15) and the senior age. di vision (16 through 19). In each age group the awards will be: first, $4,000 scholarship, second, $3,000 scholarship; third, $2,000 schol arship; and fourth, $1,000 scholar ship. Commercial Department Offers Clerical Practice “My motto is striving for ac tual, on the job work habits,” con tends Mrs. Cordelia Walke, head of the commercial department and the teacher of clerical practice. Clerical practice is a strictly voca tional course and is taught to stu dents who plan to enter into fields of business and secretarial work. It is the preparation for general clerical jobs. Only juniors and seniors are al lowed to take clerical practice and before they can take it they must have already had Typing 5 and 6. There are four classes taught by Mrs. Walke, with the tbtal number amounting to 97. Three of the classes have 28 students each and one class has 13. The classes are divided into groups of four. These groups work together and learn how to operate the machines which are supplied for their use. They learn how to do the things a person getting a clerical job would need to know. The machines they learn to work and the things they learn to do are transcribing machines, calculating machines, adding machines, dupli cating machines, bookkeeping ma chines, typing office forms, pay roll, filing, purchasing and stock records, and correspondence. The National Office Manage ment Association made a survey to find out how much the average employee on clerical jobs makes. The result was that the av erage salary was from $40 to $42 a week. This was the basis on the salary of 210 employees from 19 firms in the Greensboro area. The student’s achievement is measured in terms of how much usable work they can do. This means that only work that would be accepted in an office is usable work. On a whole, only correct work is graded. ANGEL MOTORS SEE BOBBY DEMPSEY FOR ALL MAKE CARS Phone 4-2496 232 N. Eugene St. There will be 14 awards in each state and the District of Columbia, seven in each age group as fol lows; first, $150 cash; second, $100; third, $50; and four honorable mention awards of $25 United States Savings Bonds. For judging purposes the 48 states and the District of Columbia will be group ed into 20 regions, each of which will send a junior and senior di- ision winner expense-free to the national Guild convention next summer. Enrollment forms may be ob tained from Mr. Bates, Mr. Wil liam Taylor, or Mr. Donovan Dar nell in the Vocational Building. Playmasiers Preseni Many Various Plays Playmasters, the GHS dramatics club, is a school organization which has many annual projects and a traditional plan for numerous presentations throughout each school year. The main purposes of this group, which is directed by Miss Mozelle Causey, dramatics, speech, and English teacher, are to promote in terest in drama, to acquaint stu dents with its many phases, and to give to all a chance to participate in Playmaster productions. The drama club has presented several programs for this year. For American Education Week they prepared four radio scripts and presented them over the school ra dio station WGPS-FM. These were also broadcast on local stations. A farce, “How to Propose,” was dramatized in assembly in Octo ber. This was one of two free per formances planned for the school audience during the 1954-55 school term. A play is scheduled to be pre sented soon. In January the first paid production, a full length play, will be given. Later during second semester the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Classes will each pro duce a one-act play. Playmasters is not composed merely of actors and actresses. There are also make-up artists, scenery painters, ticket salesmen, and publicity chairmen for each production. Miss Causey reports that the group is planning to build a new set of scenery in the near future. Since the Playmasters do most of their work during seventh pe riod, there are often four or five different things going on at one time. For instance, one group may be working on make-up, another building sets and planning stage scenery, and still another planning costumes. All the time these groups are busy at work, a play rehearsal is ta^ng place on the little stage in room 106, and an other group is recording in the radio station. “This is nothing,” says Miss Causey. “The real fun comes when six one-act plays get into progress at the same time. Then I wish I were six people!” As in the past, the Playmasters plan to give a part of its profits TURN OF EVENTS By Junmie Turner Many people hopefully say that the issue of McCarthyism just ceases to be. They say that Sena tor Joe McCarthy has been put in his place. But has he? And if he has been put in his place by the Watkins Committee what will keep him there? ' Even if censured by the special Senate session on November 8, as recommended by the Watkins re port, he still retains the full power of a Senator. True, the censure measure should make him more cautious but can place no actual restraint upon him as far as ex terminating his verbosity. The only thing McCarthy has to fear is a re-aroused public. And he has been wary of public opinion lately. When stung by the Watkins report he pulled out of the public eye like a bank-robber leaving the scene of the crime. Since then he has been lying low avoiding public engagements, waiting for things to cool off. Now after licking his wounds McCarthy once more again oozes out of the slime with the customary handful of muck ready for any emergency. This time he is fighting hard to get around the censure charges. He wants Senator Watkins to testi fy at the McCarthy subcommittee. He says he wants to find out more about his mistakes in abus ing witnesses. But he will more than likely make a stab at page one by accusing the Watkins com mittee of being partial and incomp etent. It would be sad indeed if Mc Carthyism were revived and he became a martyr. McCarthy’s pow er rests in his ability to convince people by half truth that he is the champion of their cause, (in this case—anticommunism). When peo ple start seeking out the whole truth themselves they will cut down the political rise of the Mc Carthy type of representative. School Board Meets; Approves Choir Trip On November 16 the Greensboro School Board met to discuss the possibilities of Senior’s Choir go ing to New Orleans for the Nation al Music Educators Conference held in March, 1955. The members of the School Board stated that they think it quite an honor and a worthwhile trip. They gave their necessary permission to go. Many projects are being done by the choir to raise the approximate $3,000 needed to make the trip. Selling doughnuts, washing cars, raking yards, baby sitting, and to the school. The big spotlight which is used in many school pro ductions was a gift of this group. This year the group has voted to give a part of the stage curtains. •The “dream” curtain will be pre sented to the school by the Play masters in January. Ann Dumaresq heads the drama club as president. Completing the slate of officers are Paddy Sue Wall, vice-president; Jane Tate, secretary; and Mike Powell, treas- urei*. BUTTER KRUST Is Good Bread CLEGGS BAKERY FOR BETTER PHOTOGRAPHY Keen’s Studio 33/00 PHONE 202/2 W. MARKET PORTRAITS AND APPLICATION PHOTOS ORANGE CRUSH BOTTLING GO. Bottlers of ORANGE CRUSH, VIRGINIA DARE GRAPE AND OLD COLONY BEVERAGES 1423 Westover Terrace DrPepper Junior Classical League Host To State Officers Greensboro Chapter of the Jun ior Classical League played host to the North Carolina state officers at a special meeting at Bliss Res taurant on Saturday, November 13, to plan the State Latin Convention which will be held in Chapel Hill on March 19, 1955. The guests who were present in cluded Miss Georgia Haley, Latin teacher in Lenoir who is state chairman of all the Latin clubs; Paddy Sue Wall, of Greens boro, state JCL president; Sarah Dickens, of Black Mountain who is vice-president; Anita Huffman, of Hickory, secretary; Johnny Coche, of Asheville, treas urer; and Miss Harriet wlggins, Latin teacher in Asheville. Greensboro hostesses were Car oline Sikes, president of the local Junior Classical League; Marcia Felt, vice-president; Angela Butt treasurer; and Mrs. Mary Madlin, Latin teacher and adviser to the Greensboro club. Nancy Key, sec retary, was unable to attend. Tentative plans were made by those present for an all day pro gram for the Latin convention. Registration will begin on Satur day morning at 10 o’clock at the University of North Carolina. A 10:20 the call to order will be given by the president. The re mainder of the morning will be spent in business sessions. The afternoon program is to in clude a Roman Style Show, a dis play of Roman costumes, in which all the schools attending will par ticipate. First and second prizes will be offered. A “Roman Ber Sing,” will be held, also, for which prizes will be given. making candy are among the nu merous things being done. Mem bers estimated they would have to raise approximately $60 each. Plans now are to leave Greens boro Wednesday, March 23, by bus and arrive in New Orleans the fol lowing Friday. IVTiss Eula Mae Tut tle, director , of the Choir, says they plan to be gone around five days and will sightsee on the way to and from New Orleans. This conference is held annually with eleven districts represented. Senior will represent the southern district and sing on Friday after noon, March 25. A twenty-five minute program wiU be presented pertaining to the general theme of “Standards of Materials and Performa'^ce.” For the main attraction of the day, the Latin students and teach ers' from approximately 22 North Carolina schools will attend the “Sky Show” at the University Plan etarium. Dr. B. L. Ullmaii, who is head of the Classical Department at the University of North Carolina and author of the Latin textbook used by Senior High School, is assist ing the state officers of JCL in the planning of the Convention. Directories Distributed Senior High School directo ries containing alphabetical listings of the 1600 students at GHS with addresses and telephone numbers were dis tributed to students during home room period on Monday. The directory, a service project of the local Key Club which is now in its seventh year of contributions to the school, was initiated in 1949. The club’s president, R. B. Arthur, related that work was begun on this 1954-55 edition on September 1 at the first meeting of the year. Bob Cowan, treasurer of the group, has handled the finan cial aspect of the project which amounts to more than $700. This sum was raised by soliciting advertisements from approximately 98 local busi ness firms. Mr. Guy H. Simpson, Ki- wanis adviser to the club and owner of the Riser Printing Company, worked with club members in producing the di rectory. Delivery of the directory on Monday fulfilled R. B.’s pre diction earlier this year that, “The directory should be ready before Thanksgiving.” Visit Our Store For Sports Goods COBLE Sporfing Goods Co. 119 North Greene St. We carry a complete line of High School Sweaters 517 WEST MARKET PHONE 2-4148 CENTRAL Y. M. (. A. GOOD PLACE FOR BOYS TO SPEND THEIR AFTERNOONS HOUSTON’S BARBER SHOP 110 E. GASTON S. P. S. “We Can Use Your Head in Our Business" FOR APPOINTMENT DIAL 3-3535 IN EVEVEAR# Glasses By Stamper s (OPTyCA^ ce.J
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