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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1955
Page
2
Renwick Hi-Life editors publish an editorial urging safe driving and traffic law adherence. It urges students and community members to learn driver education, understand stopping distances, and challenge risky behavior, citing a 253 foot stop distance at 60 mph and a call to improve driving practices for safety.
A Hi-Life roving reporter recounts entering Renwick School halls last Wednesday where students exclaimed about hair issues and grooming. The scene captures teens’ vanity and social pressures as they navigated comments about curling, straightening, and overall appearance.
Donald Jene Philipp, 180 pound senior and co captain, is the athlete of the week. He has lettered in football three years and plays right halfback and tackle. Philipp, 17, 6 1, brown hair blue eyes, enjoys bookkeeping agriculture and physics. He also played two years basketball and belongs to the journalism club. He is senior class president and active in band. He recently fished in Lac Sueur Quebec and caught a 17 pound northern pike. His favorite colors are yellow and black and his sedan is a familiar sight in Renwick.
Students in the home economics class staged a series of food preservation demonstrations in the Home Ec Room. Ethel Rasmussen and Betty Olson showed freezing tomato juice to preserve vitamin C and salad ideas from frozen tomatoes, hosting Mrs. J. L. Fisher. Rachel Mandsager and Patsy Haaland demonstrated grape jelly from juice, guest Mrs. R. Fisher. Judy Kraft, Judy Brayton, and Arlis Rapp presented pressure cooker use saving time and fuel, hosting several teachers. Carolyn Helmke and Alice Bunk demonstrated proper canning equipment with Mrs. S. Flogstad as guest, ending with tomato juice, toast and marmalade servings.
The second demonstration on Tuesday by Jean Ann Kiley and Lavonne Werling showcased freezing a dreezer meal and containers, promoting a quick, easy, convenient meal option. Their menu included creamed chicken with biscuit, peas, muffins, frozen Zenit salad, and peaches, with Mrs J Kelling as guest and a frozen fruit salad shared by all.
Readers share definitions of safe driving highlighting alertness, restraint, obedience to traffic signs, steady car control, attention to the road, and adherence to laws. Responses name Bernadine Olson, Marvin Cameron, Roggr Weyer, JoAnne Seger, Patricia Johnson, Shirley Brayton as exemplars or influences of safe driving practices.
Kindergarten boys and girls had perfect attendance last week and practice recognizing their own names. They listen to stories daily and learn new songs including The Farmer in the Dell. Children made colored leaves to decorate the bulletin board and brought flowers to brighten the outdoor touch of their classroom.
In Miss Farland’s first grade, a herd of giraffes roams the east border of the classroom. The boys and girls are responsible for these long necked creatures and their playful setup.
Students color giraffes in red and green as first graders study the alphabet and numbers up to twenty. Pamela Peterson visits ten school on a day, revealing she is a year older, but the class marks no birthday party celebration.
Second grade students moved into phonics and number workbooks and formed a reading group called Cardials. They explored new readers Our New Friends and New Friends and Neighbors while displaying living things like a caterpillar and tomato worm. Visitors Julia Kraft and Marlena Midland assisted with height weight and eyesight checks as Wendie Nerem shared birthday treats.
The sixth grades tried a new spelling approach and saw a seven word gain last Friday. Perfect papers were achieved by Sharon Bosworth, Donna Brophy, Harlan Fisher, Fred Hansen, Ruby Heggen, Nancy Helmich, Kathleen Heink, Don Kelling, Jerilyn Kraft, Der Kubly, Dennis Mey, Kathy Nere, Steve Packard, Randall Palmer, Reggie Tate, and Larry Tincher. Clair Nerem made a stone hatchet with a handle, Nickie Anderson crafted a bone hatchet and forked branch.
Doris Mulkin photographed scenes of Egypt while Sharon Bosworth brought cracked corn to illustrate early tools. Donna Brophy and Nancy Helmich showcased Black Sills images. Nicky Anderson shared arnd and rock specimens from western states. The front room border now reflects a 4 football game theme with Renwick as one team and the visiting squad as the other. Regiia Tate celebrated a birthday with the class and was thanked for treats during the visit from Billy Keafe.
The October menu lists daily meals from Monday to Friday. Barbecued wieners and carrot raisin salad lead Monday followed by creamy chicken and potatoes Tuesday. Wednesday serves meat sandwiches with scalloped corn and prunes. Thursday features hamburger gravy with mashed potatoes and glazed carrots. Friday offers salmon loaf with peas and cherry sauce.
The Junior High reports varied physical training days for boys and girls with football a key activity for the boys and equipment to be issued next week. Girls focus on basketball during PT while English and arithmetic topics for seventh and eighth grades cover spelling mastery unit tests and mixed numbers with history on Life in English Colonies.
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