Life of a Teacher and Senior Helen Barber Profiles
Marion L. Woodford named principal of our school transferring from Mt. Pleasant education programs and Gratiot county teaching. He directs the senior play The Antics of Andrew and lives in Farwell with his wife and four children. Helen Barber, age eighteen, born September 8 1928, attends West Grant then joined as a freshman. She is athletic and plans farming life, was a candidate for queen, with best wishes on November 8.
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Marion L. Woodford
Central Michigan College of Education
Mt. Pleasant
Michigan State College
East Lansing
Woodford
Fulton Township
Gratiot
Andrew
Helen Barber
Wendell
Helen
West Grant School
Senior play cast list for three act comedy
Time is early autumn in a Midwestern college town. The cast includes Petunia played by Helen Rube, Andrew Brown a senior portrayed by John Blackerby, Jacques the French butler by Allison King, Willie Waldo by Milburn Hiles, Harold Hadley by Frank McFarland, Althea Thorne by Mavis Corrie, Julie Boynton by Kathryn Smith, and Betty Boynton by Fern Miller.
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Petunia
Andrew
Dorky
Helen Rube
Andrew Brown
John Blackerby
Jacques
Allison King
Willie Waldo
Palj
Milburn Hiles
Harold
Hadley
Frank McFarland
Althea Thorne
Miss Prunella
Mavis Corrie
Julie Boynton
Kathryn Smith
Betty Boynton
Willie
Fern Miller
Halloween Party Notes and Cast of Characters
A festive entry lists Dean Socrates Boynton Elis Barber Isaac Zimmerman and others as party attendees. It mentions Miss Prunella Thorne Barbara Hunter Wayne Scott Royle Louis Post and Reverend Doolittle in a mysterious cast. The note cites dates December third and fourth and recalls a Halloween party held October 31.
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Socrates Boynton
Elis Barber
Isaac, Zimmerman
Andrew
Russell
Wentzel
Carnival plans prompt hoped big turnout and concessions
The junior class plans a carnival with three concessions Duck and Dive Ring a Duck and Beauty Salon. Students joke about a mustache at the Beauty Salon while the English class finishes Treasure Island and resolves to leave Silver alone for a long time.
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Silver
Sophomore Class Plans Carnival Concessions
The Sophomore class held a meeting on November 5 to set definite plans for carnival concessions. Sophomore girls welcomed new Home Ec Club members as study continues on Romans in World History.
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Home Ee Club
Big Carnival Set By Home Ec Club Students
The girls improved in appearance after last night as the Home Ec Club initiated new members. Sophomores and molasses with grapes provided fun while posters were made for the upcoming Big Carnival on November 8 featuring a Restaurant and a Fun House. Our advisor Miss Hewitt is away with a whooping cough.
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Miss Hewitt
Eighth graders organize carnival activities and classes
The eighth grade notes a carnival plan with Bridal Suite, Fortune Telling, and Shooting Gallery. Many joined a 4-H club and most are in first year sewing with some in second year. Miss Hewitt is home with whooping cough.
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Betty Somers
Florence Siegle
Miss Hewitt
Lake George Baptist Church Sunday School and Service
Rev. E. E. Redman leads at Lake George Baptist Church with Sunday School at 2 00 p m and a preaching service at 3 90. Mrs Catherine Cripps visited Detroit, returning Friday. Local residents and visitors called on relatives and friends, including the Hunt, Phillips, Moyer, Blackledge, Abbott, Stitts worth, Shrader, Krechmar, Rutter, Sears, Van Blarcom and Abbott families during weekend social and church activities.
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Lake George Resort
Lake George Baptist Church
E. E. Redman
Lewis Twin
Catherine Cripps
Detroit
Louis Hunt
Cliff Hunt
Gliff Hunt
Ora Phillips
Roy Phillips
Sterling Curtiss
Clare
Harry Moyer
Donna Blackledge
Jo Ann
Alfred Abbott
Tvah
Lyman Stittsworth
Doris
Annabell
Walter
Erma Shrader
Pratik Krechmar
Lyman Stillsworth
Alfred Rutter
Rose Sears
Springfield
Frank van Blarcom
Ivah Abbott
Dutch Iris Bulbs Set Deep for Winter Growth
The Dutch iris is an orchid like bulb. Plant bulbs three to four inches deep in October in a sunny location with well grained foam. Mulch with straw leaves or strowy manure to four inches during winter. They may stay in one place for several years. Clumps from original bulbs can yield up to twenty flowers.
California Earthquake Hot Spot Revealed by 42 Year Study
California and Nevada account for about 90 percent of U S seismic activity from 42 years of records. Scientists Gutenberg and Richter of California Institute of Technology note 5000 quakes annually, most minor, with few destructive events. They urge quakeproof construction amid the West's housing boom and explain Pacific Rim instability.
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Pasadena
Calif
California
United States
Rockies
Reno Gutenberg
Charles FP
Richter
California Institute of ‘Technology
Nevada
West
Japan
Pacific Islands
Pacific
Owens Valley
Sierra New Range
San Andreas
San Francisco
Mexico
High Cost of Living Doesn’t Worry Him
STOUGHTON MASS Leonard A Whitten 60 a carpenter estimates yearly expenses at 400 but he is unconcerned because he built his two room home grows vegetables hunts for meat and cuts his own wood He also takes all summer off and does not use electricity or a telephone
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Stoughton
Mass
Leonard ‘A. Whitten
Moon Worship in Early Arabia Revealed by Harvard Scientist
Harvard’s Dr. Carleton S. Coon reports a southern Arabia civilization just before the Christian era that worshipped the moon. Four kingdoms linked east and west trade, with temples now in ruins, and a unique belief system where the sun was a woman and Venus the most important star.
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Washington
Arabia
Carleton S. Coon
Harvard University
Coon
Smithsonian Institution
Venus
Dr. Coon
Harvard
British Stock Up on Bread on Rationing Eve
London housewives rushed bread stores and bakeries on the eve of bread rationing. Stores were completely sold out of bread and flour. The food ministry added oatmeal wheat porridges macaroni spaghetti pudding cake mixtures pearl barley and other cereal products to the rationing program in a midnight announcement.
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London
Food Ministry
Army Air Forces Researches Atomic Powered Flight
Army air forces said it is working with aircraft engine firms to study atomic energy use in propulsion. Fairchild Engines and Airplane Corporation of New York has a primary contract to supervise the project with other companies involved.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Fairchild Engines and Airplane Corporation of New York
Attendance at Vernon City Nazarene praise service noted
A Sunday afternoon crowd of over one hundred attended the Church of the Nazarene in Vernon City to hear the colored quartet. Guests included Rev. Don Bugbee and niece of Beaverton plus Rev. and Mrs. Roy Eastman of Temple. Other services drew good attendance and a revival continued with Rev. Eastman preaching and Howard Loudis in charge of music.
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Church of the Nazarene
Don Bugbee
Beaverton
Roy Eastman
Temple
Rex D. Phillips
Rey Eastman
Eastman
Howard Loudis
Fred Dora
Lester Olds
Grant
Frank Nevins
Emerson Bergey
Helenville
Carrie Perverse
George Snider
Frank Snider
Lake Marerethe
Clara Hall
Clare
Ruth Herrom
Bola McDonel
Blake Marlin
Hubert
Detroit
Dave
Teale
Alva. McReynolds and
Colonville
Nevins
Russell Thurston
Dorothy Ramey
Vaughn Wedze
Sandusky
Dave Teale
G. B. Fennell
Mt. Pleasant
Fennell
Jame Teale
Dorothy
Sheridan
David Teale
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Gray
Anderson’s Drug Store
Sinclair Products
Goodyear
McEwan and State Sts
Neal Joslin
Farwell, Michigan
Junior Glass
Sally Pierce
Wilma Agle
Vernon City
Korea
1St Cavalry
11Th Airborne
Isles of Pines
Far East
Warriors of Peace
Voice of the Army
Medical and
U.S
Midland, Michigan
U.S. Army
Ford
Dan McDonald
Clare, Michigan
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