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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
8
The 1944 45 Browning School year opened August 28 with total enrollment of 144 students. Class counts include Seniors 17, Juniors 12, Sophomores 13, Freshmen 15, Eighth Grade 15, Seventh 11, Sixth 13, Fifth 14, Fourth 6, Third 7, Second 8, First 13. One week in, students are urged to keep up the effort.
Freshmen president Devaughn Gender and others lead class officers chosen Friday. Sophomore and junior posts include Helen Johns Billy Newton Ray Hoselton and Edwin Tucker. Seniors pick John Wm Grice Eldon Head Jeanne Woolf and Marvin Abbott. Student Council retains Mary Smith as president with elections to follow midterm.
Mrs Kenley, seventh and eighth grade music teacher, introduces Advanced and Beginners Band students including Gwendolyn Kelly, John Wm Grice, Gene Bartow, Peggy Head, Marvin Abbott, Jeanne Wooff, Mary Smith, Bettie McCormick, Rosalie Gooch, Martha Cotter, Gene Carter, Leroy Beckett, John Lee Robison, Charles Edward Christy, Raymond Kelly, Bobbie Moore, Gale Hedges, Carmen Hedges, Beverly Fanning, Billy Newton, Marilyn Jennings.
Cynthia Moore and Eva Doris Carter lead a chorus and glee club with members Jeanne Woolf Mary Smith Gwendolyn Kelly Rosalie Gooch Shirley Head Bobby Head Gertie Gormley Ruby Dixon Bettie Powell Joyce Mundell Valjean Gooch Bernice McCollum Rosalie Gillespie Opal Griffeth Billy Newton Raymond Kelly John W. Grice Marvin Abbott Lyle Jacobs Jean Bartow Bobby Moore. The band rehearses several numbers for the upcoming school event. The Girls Glee Club will perform To You and the Boys will sing Southern Melodies.
Miss Patricia Gooch teaches English and school publication classes in her second year, also serving as Physical Education and Citizenship instructor. Mrs Thurlo, in second year, leads Art Geography and math for multiple grades, with experience in teaching and a background from B.
We welcome Mrs Schrock to B H S as commerce teacher. She will teach Short hand Bookkeeping Typing II Office Practice and General Business. Most classes target juniors and seniors with a few sophomores in General Business.
Physical education shifts to the softball field due to gym refinish. Girls’ basketball team forms with players listed and the season begins practice. Eighteen girls hiked to Rocky Ford for a picnic with wieners, pepsi cola and cookies. Six hikes planned, four mandatory.
Superintendent Page teaches American History Senior Social Science and General Science in his second year. He also serves as boys Phys Ed teacher and boys basketball coach. When not in class the rest of his duties are not listed.
The senior class English department starts a new school publication program. Eight students form the staff of The Black and White and will also edit a monthly pamphlet for servicemen in the line of their coursework.
The Office of Price Administration extended maximum prices for ice cream and ice cream mix until November 23, 1944. This is the seventh extension of the temporary price adjustment first issued February 23, 1943, pending permanent action on pricing.
Awards for bravery and bearing extend to flying nurses and women in uniform. One hundred five American women have received Army and Navy honors, including twenty nine air medals and twenty four Purple Hearts to Army nurses. Thirty one states are represented among these citations.
Eighteen manufacturers with allocations to produce 1,768 968 electric irons will sell at March 1942 price levels under OPA. First consumer durable goods returning after wartime suspension, irons carry dollar ceilings with most models in the 5.70 to 8.75 range. Sixteen makers will supply these 81 percent of WPB authorized 2,037,838 units through July 20.
Last week in North Salem featured numerous moves and family visits. Residents shifted homes between properties, aided by friends, with rodeo attendance noted and several relatives visiting kin in nearby towns. Pvt Eldon Head returned to Fort Riley after a Sunday visit, and roof work continued for Mrs Arthurs house.
Mrs. Gracie Jennings Mrs. Lela Pearler Mrs. Helen Head and Erma Kay were in Milan Tuesday of last week for unspecified errands or social engagement.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl McClellen hosted relatives and friends for a weekend visit. Sunday dinners included the Sayers and Crookshanks families from Ottumwa, plus the Holser and Young households. Other gatherings featured Clayton Warren and Mrs Rottmann, and a Brookfield rodeo trip by Trippletts and Van Dyke.
The Missouri Safety Bureau reports June 1944 on state maintained highways shows 174 accidents with 10 fatalities and 179 injuries, down from 203 accidents 13 deaths and 193 injuries in June 1943, reversing earlier trends of rising incidents.
In the first six months of 1944 there were 1083 accidents with 11 killed and 1153 injured, compared to 937 accidents, 91 killed and 885 injured in the same period last year.
The State Board of Health reports 28 infantile paralysis cases through August 28 1944 well below 82 for the same period in 1943 Doctor James Stewart says the peak months are August and September with a drop in mid September August 1944 total 18 vs 56 in August 1943.
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