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^ ------WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1942 ESTABLISHED 1867.
“The youth of our nation will
make their greatest contribu
tion to the National Welfare
by continuing to devote
their major energies to their
planned school programs. In
fact, those who will be best
able as adults to serve their
country will be precisely
those who have gained profi
ciency through opportunities
offered by the daily school
program.”
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LIMITS SET
FORJSAAC bear
Eventually Be
Sor ecl into Chestmit
Street District
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Isaac Epa,aJPdrt °* the present
^ose m ‘ district, as well as
Stree, V® in the new Chest
§Nr at i,,001 district, will re
of Jaac Bear for the open
SehooJs u Superintendent of
Nay. ' Roland said yes
However
saac Bear JNis in the present
“N.Dunii ,-trict within the city
,ve«ue. i*,! llvin« south of Creacy
rUe' south'L rhWrightsville ave’
,?eventeemh Cllurch and east of
1,6 Forest wil1 register at
A soon' afl su schP01'
Net sehn„i ■ 1 e new Chestnut
vinS in thr 's comPleted, pupils
Nr ana 6 saac Bear district
«« be tranWfl of these streets
• onsferred to the Chest
nut Street school and the Isaac
Bear building will be used as an
annex to the high school for the
present because of the demand
for space, Mr. Roland said.
Eventually, the building will be
come a junior high school, he
said.
The teacher list, for Isaac Bear
this year includes Miss Annie Herr
ing, principal, Miss Martha P.
Archebell, Miss Cornelia Bradley,
Mrs. Katherine H. Cornelius, Miss
Mary B. Foscue, Miss Anne Hen
derson,. Miss" Rosa H. Humphrey,
Miss Clarie Lathap, Mrs. Gladys
M. Johnson, Miss Fannie McClees,
Miss Roberta McKenzie, Miss Doro
thy Reed Miller, Miss Irene Nix
on, Mrs. Richard M. Sink, Miss
Mable Wessel, Miss Mary Young,
Mrs. Jane Williams, Miss Eliza
beth Benson and Miss Esther Har
riss.
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CONTRASTING SHADES
There’s a double measure of fash
ion correctness in school dresses
that are made of two contrasting
shades. Beige and red, beige and
g'reen, and beige and brown are
favored in flattering cotton and
rayon.
Chestnut Street, Largest
New School, Uncompleted
November is the date set for com
pletion of the largest and most im
pressive new school in the county
board of education’s $965,000 school
expansion program, the $185,000, 22
classroom Chestnut Street school
now rapidly rising on Chestnut
street just beyond the city limits.
The two-story modem brick plant
will also contain an auditorium
with a seating capacity of 800 pu
pils, a gymnasium, a cafeteria and
a library.
When completed, it will include
pupils from the first through the
eighth grade, all of those who now
attend Isaac Bear as well as pu
pils from families living in Prin
cess Place and other new develop
ments around the northeastern lim
its of the city.
Miss Annie Herring will be prin
cipal of the new school.
Isaac Bear will be used as an
annex to the High school after the
transfer, later becoming a junior
High school.
To avoid confusion, Superinten
dent of Schools H. M. Roland said
pupils in the new district should
enter school at the present Isaac
Bear school.
Elementary pupils in this dis
trict, formally transported to Hem
enway will be carried to Isaac
Bear until the transfer of the
school to the ne,w building is made.
Transportation regulations allow
any pupils living outside the city
limits to be transported to a
school if that pupil lives within
one and one half miles from the
building.
The boundary of the new Chest
nut Street district will contain that
part of the present Forest Hills
district lying north of Market
street from the city limits to the
Pearsall Memorial Presbyterian
church.
The boundary between Chestnut
Street district and Tileston will be
Fourteenth street from Market to
Church street.
The boundary between Chestnut
street and Hemenway will be
eleventh street from Market street
north.
On the south side of the district
west of Seventeenth street and
east of Fourteenth there are sever
al houses that are close to the
Catlett school and equally distant
from Forest Hills, Tileston, Lake
Forest and Chestnut street. Pupils
in this section, roughly those south
of Church street, may choose eith
er of these schools they desire.
In the old Isaac Bear district
within the city limits pupils living
south of Creasy avenue, east of
Wrightsville avenue, south of
Church and east of Seventeenth
will go to Forest Hills. North and
west of these streets will go to
the new Chestnut Street school.
Pupils in the former Isaac Bear
district who will be in the seventh
grade next year, may return to
the Chestnut Street district even
though they are now placed in the
Forest Hills zone.
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OBEY SIGNALS
“Obey the traffic signal” is just
as good advice to little children as
to adult drivers. An increasing num
ber of cities are enacting regulations
which require such obedience, ac
cording ‘"
With $865,000 Expansion Near
Completion, Schools Here Face
Largest Enrollmentln History
CITY MERCHANTS
PREPARING FOR
NEW SCHOOL YEAR
Now, As Never Before,
Stores Making Efforts To
Meet Needs For Schools
Dedicated entirely to serving thq
Home Front in fulfillment of its im
portant role as purchasing agent
for the public, the merchant body
of this city now turns its major
attention to meeting the require
ments of the younger generation as
their parents prepare them for the
return to school.
There are many major aspects
of this preparation, not the least
of which, in deference to the fam
ily budget, is the pledge of com
pliance in the government’s pro
gram of price ceilings. This will
go a long way toward making it
possible for every child to resume
his schooling this fall, fully equip
ed with all of the essentials, but
without straining" the family bud
get.
Second only to the above is the
actual selection and variety of
clothing and shoes that await the
young customers. Emphasis is on
durability and wearability, and
this has been achieved in compli
ance with government regulations
which seek to save essential raw
materials for the war effort.
Major effect of the restrictions is
on fashions, and ingenuity of de
signers of styles for children and
’Teen Agers has succeeded in pro
ducing a most attractive assort
ment of clothes. New fabrics will
be found among the clothes being
shown, clearly identified with re
spect to their composition and how
to take care of them.
Buy what you are sure your
children are going to need this fall
and winter, and take your change
in War Savings Stamps is the
advise of the merchants. Don’t
delay in planning your child’s Back
to School program.
Do now, they suggest, when
selections are complete and there
is ample time for fittings.
And just as the merchants have
undertaken their task of fulfilling
the needs of the school children,
so have the service organizations
like the laundries and dry clean
ers and the appliances repair peo
ple didicated this present period
to helping mothers make all those
things important to home and
school life last longer.
This fall will be dedicated to of
fering quality and showing boys
and girls as well as their parents
how to take care of what they own.
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Vaccination Necessary
Health Officer Warns
State laws require that all pu
pils be immunized against small
pox and diphtheria before entering
school, Dr. A. H. Elliot, city-coun
ty health officer, warned new stu
dents yesterday.
Clinics at which the prospective
pupils can be vaccinated against
smallpox and dipththeria are held
at the health department in the
county courthouse each Saturday
from 9 to 11 a. m.
More pupils than ever before in the history of the
county will enter classes in New Hanover’s public schools
this fall as the result of expanding war industries here
which have boosted the county’s population to more than
twice the amount reported by the 1940 census.
The school enrollment this year, Superintendent of
Schools H. M. Roland estimates, will be 20 per cent above
the initial registration last fall and not far from a total
of from 14,000 to 15,000 students.
To meet the educational demands of the children of
war worker families, the board of education has rushed
construction of three new schools and six school additions
which comprise its $865,000 war expansion program, de
spite priority difficulties and shortages of materials and
skilled labor.
As a result, one new school, the $201,000 Lake For
est plant, will open at the beginning of school nearly three
fourths completed while another new school, the $134,000
Government Regulations
Set Men's Fall Styles
Here are some of the chang
es men (and others) will find
in their new fall suits as the
result of government curtail
ment.
In sack coats, there’ll be 110
vents, no belts, no pleats, no
tucks, no bellows pockets, no
yokes, no outside or inside
patch pockets and the coat will
not be longer than 29 and
three-fourths inches for a size
37 coat.
Trousers will lack cuffs, con
tinuous waistbands, pleats and
tucks, belts of the same mate
rial as the trouser, and no ex
tra trousers with a suit.
Vests for single breasted
suits (there’ll be no vests with
doublebreasted suits) will lack
patch pockets, collars, lapels
and there’ll be no double
breasted vests.
Topcoats will lack belts,
pleats, fancy backs, lining
made from new wool,outside
or inside pockets and cuffs for
sleeves.
And no full dress coats, cut
away frock coats or double
breasted tuxedos can be made.
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Seven Grades At Beach
School Are Scheduled
All seven grades will be con
tained in the Carolina Beach
school this year as the result of
the completion of a three-room
$21,000 addition to the school,
Superintendent H. M. Roland said
yesterday.
The probability that the major
ity of the homes and cottages on
the beach will be occupied during
the winter makes it likely that
the school will be filled to capa
city. Mr. Roland said.
Eighth grade pupils on the beach
will be transported, to Winter Park
school.
The teacher list for the school
includes Mrs. C. G. VanLanding
ham, principal, Mrs. Adrienne Ce
cil Cole, Mrs. Nina Mallison Eak
ins, Mrs. Mary Spivey Finch, Mrs.
Betty Hawes, Miss Mae McFar
land and Miss Mary Ormond
White.
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QUIZ PROGRAM
Parents can help with hcmetyork
by offering suggestions for the right
approach to the subject, but should
not do their children's school tasks.
This may take the turn of a quiz
session in which simple questions
eventually lead the child to the
right answers.
War Challenges Parents
To Utmost For Children
By CLARA SAVAGE LIXTLEDALE
Editor, Parents’ Magazine
What will this war do to our
children? This is a searching ques
tion which American parents are
asking themselves as once again
thev get their youngsters ready for
another school year. But, “What
can I do to bring my child through
the difficult days ahead as a nor
mal, well-balanced individual?” is
a far more constructive question.
It has definite and specific an
swers.
In the first place, parents must
be honest in answering their chil
dren’s questions. If they are shel
tered from truths, they are not
preparet to meet facts when at
last they are confronte-1 by them.
Shock comes from the unexpected.
Make Contribution
Encouraging our children to
make their contribution to the Na
tion’s great war effort is one of
the surest ways of making them
aware of what is happening in the
world and what they can do to
help. It is up to us to stimulate
in our children a spirit of coopera
tion, the W'ill to undertake whatever
needs to be done, the will to finish
the job.
* * *
As parents of America are called
upon to contribute more and more
of their time and energy to the
war program, so more and more
will be demanded of our boys and
girls at home and at school.
We Americans have been accused
of reariny our children to soft and
sheltered lives. That we should try
to protect them from the seamy,
unhappy aspects of life wherever
possible is natural, but we must
not forget that children are hardy,
creatures.
j-ne children of Britain have prov
ed that they can take bombinys,
loss of homes and restricted diets
in their stride if they have parents
who set the example of cool cour
age and the will to carry on. All
children are, to a certain extent,
small mirrors reflecting the per
sonalities of the adults around
them. A nervous, apprehensive
n-other engenders a nervous, ap
prenensive child--a well-poised
self-possessed mother is likely to
find those same qualities of
strength manifest in her young
sters.
* * *
It is important for us as parents
and teachers, in these days of un
certainty, to vatch more carefully
than ever before the example we
set our children, the honesty and
courage and, at the same time,
the reassurance with which we an
swer their questions.
The spirit of patriotism and sac
rifice we show will have its effect
on our children. Our attitude
should be one of “up-and-at-it,” of
courage no matter what happens,
and belief in a br„ve new world
which we and our children will
build.
Sunest Park school, will be
completed shortly thereafter.
The third and largest new
school, the $185,000 Chestnut
street school, will be ready in
November.
Five of the six additions,
providing needed classrooms
for overcrowding schools, will
be ready at the opening of
school while the sixth, at
Bradley Creek, will be finish
ed at the end of September
although its remaining con
struction will not interfere
with classes in the building.
New Pupils
New pupils, including all those
who did not register in the county
schools last year, will register in
their school districts on Thursday,
September 10.
The hours of registration will be
from 9 a. m. until noon. School dis
trict boundaries and other informa
tion is carried elsewhere in this
section.
All pupils, new and old, will re
port to their respective schools at
8:45 a. m. on Friday, September
11.
Approximately 860 teachers, an
increase of 11 over last year and
an increase of 49 over the opening
of school two years ago, will be
on hand to begin classes, Mr. Ro
land said.
The school system suffered a
heavy turn-over during the summer
as the result of teachers leaving
the system for defense jobs or for
induction into the Army, but with
few exceptions, all vacancies have
been filled.
Noticeable on the teacher lists
this year is the absence of men as,
in practically all cases, it was nec
essary to replace male instructors
with women.
Hardest hit by the turnover were
the mathematics, science and phy
sical education departments.
New classes in the adult educa
tion and defense schools, operated
under the sponsorship of the coun
ty school system, will also open in
September although no summer va
cation was observed for the adults
or for men training for jobs in
America’s war industries.
It will be the third anniversary
of the defense classes, which teach
welding, metal working and other
war trades, under the direction of
Supervisor George West. In the
three years, approximately 7,500
students have been enrolled in the
classes.
All equipment for the nine proj
ects of the school expansion pro
gram is now in storage here in
Wilmington and is being moved into
the buildings as fast as they are be
ing completed.
STORHS READY
AT FOREST HILLS
Adds Six Classrooms, Li
brary And Music Room
To Suburban School
An entire new second story, built
at a cost of $50,000, will be ready
for use when Forest Hills school
opens in September.
‘ The addition, built as a part of
the Federal Works agency-financ
ed school expansion program here,
gives Forest Hills school six new
classrooms, a music room and li
brary space.
In addition, the cafeteria in the
basement of the building is being
completely renovated and a new
kitchen has been built.
The Forest Hills School district
has been altered to make Market
street the northern boundary. The
boundary on the east has been ex
tended to include former Isaac
Bear pupils living south of Creasy
avenue and east of Wrightsville
avenue to Church street and south
of Church street to Seventeenth
street and east of Seventeenth
street from Church to Castle.
Teachers at the school for the
year include Miss Katherine Von
Glahn, principal, Miss Marion
Floyd, Miss Harriet McDonald,
Miss Miriam McEachern, Mrs. El
la J. Mitchell, Mrs. Bessie Moody,
Mrs. Emma K. Neuer, Miss Mar
garet Pickard and Miss Catherine
Thompson