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Newspaper
Jal Flare
Location
Jal, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1947
Page
4
Church service times and affiliated lodge meeting schedules listed for Jal New Mexico with multiple repetitions of Sunday School Morning Worship and Evening Service. Includes Jal Lodge No 20 IOOF and Jal Lodge No 65 AF & AM meeting times and special degree nights.
Salilye Wray and George Montgomery, two typing II students, receive certificates for a rough draft, letter, tabulation, and a 40 words per minute speed test from the New Mexico State Commerce Club.
Aeronautics class studies navigation reels from the Naval Department. Reels arrive but members remain puzzled by navigation. No flights in past month due to weather and engine troubles. Dave Boyd nearly flew Shark but high winds halted takeoff. Air meet near, preparations for early May.
Los Angeles residents Mr. and Mrs. William Camp and pilot Earl Nedlotte were forced to land their Stinson plane in Jal due to a severe sand storm on Friday March 14. They spent the night at the Butler Hotel and left for Shreveport Louisiana early Saturday. The Camps own the Flameglow Log Company in Los Angeles.
March assembly at Jal High announced rising enrollment and introduced new students for eighth through eleventh grade. Eighth grader Katherine Martin ninth grader Hattie Bell tenth Charlene Hyman eleventh Francis Pettive. Jesse Martin was not introduced.
Durward Stell, a newcomer from Sonora Texas, enters Jal School as a first grader. He prefers Jal to prior schools, while his parents reside in the Texas New Mexico Pipe Line Company camp and his father works at the local station.
The Home Ec II Group II class lists members Lauvonne Anderson Juanita Biddle Verna Mae Broom Jackie Lou Outright Patricia Driver Daphana Dyer Betty June Halsey Clara Lightfoot Audrey Pesel Jualetta Smith. They prepared Spanish dinners with enchilados Quadaloupe salad Mexican pudding and spiced tea and French dinners with salmon loaf spinach cheese sauce salad apple pudding and tea. New students Hyman and Frances Fetty joined. Charlene Also in Home Ec II and Catherine Martin in Home Ec 8th also joined.
Laura Jean Oliphant, a 1946 Jal High School graduate, completed secretarial studies at the Benson School of Commerce in Clovis and now works at the Phillips Petroleum Company office in Hobbs.
Northand class students receive certificates from the New Mexico State Commerce Club. Recipients include Beverly Jo Burke Lola Cody Jewel Kay Childers Sallye Wray Irvin Curry Jonnie Hagar and Jewel Kay for multiple shorthand tests. Jewel Kay earns points for tests missed earlier at Carlsbad High School.
In 1945 milk accounted for fourteen percent of total U S farm cash income, reflecting its major role in agricultural earnings. The figure highlights dairy’s economic significance amid postwar production trends and market demand.
The Sta Council announces permission to publish an annual for Jal Bh School next year. Students may join the staff or assist with publishing by contacting a council representative. Carl Murray, Jal High School graduate of 1939, now at ACC, earned all A’s last semester and plans postgraduate study at the University of Colorado after Navy service.
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