Smyrna times., 1931-12-09
SMYRNA HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
Basket Ball Now the Consuming
Topic In Athletics-Other Items
of School Interest

On Friday, December IL, the
program of Intermural Basketball
will be inaugurated at Smyrna
High School. The students of sec
ondary schools have been organized
into eight boys teams and eight
girls teams. There will be four
boys teams and four girls teams in
the junior department, and four
boys teams and four girls teams in
the junior department, and four
boys and four girls teams in the
senior department. The various
teams will be matched according to
their height and weight. One hour
will be set aside on Friday after
noon for the purpose of carrying
out this schedule. The regular
classroom work will not be neg
lected. There will be three class
periods as usual, but the periods,
instead of being so minutes, will
be 40 minutes in length. Two
games will be played during this
activity period boys game and
a girls game each week. The
number of games won and lost by
various teams will be kept on a
percentage basis. During our reg
ular assembly on Tuesday, Miss
Lenadell Virgins, Field Secretary
of National w. G. T. U. came be-
fore the student body and spoke on
Temperance" Her address was
both interesting and instructive
During Thanksgiving vacation,
Santa Caus visited the Public
Schools and delivered carload OF
223 shrubs and evergreens on the
grounds around the High School
building. It is hoped that the
student body viii be most careful
not to damage any of these plants.
1t is also hoped that the general
public will assist US in making and
keeping our public school grounds
as attractive as possible.-Assem-
bly, program for December Sum
ior English Club Remarks by
President, Mary Hart Wright; An
original story, THE Blue Moon, !"
Marianne Webb; A few thoughts
on health, Nellie Wallace; Piano
solo, Dorothy Handloff; Song,
School; An Interpretation Of James
T. Fields owl Critics, Violet
Lawton and several other members
of the club. Trio and chorus
eIyn Robinson, Dorothy Handloff,
and Eleanor Williams, other mem
bers. School Banking Results for
Tuesday, December LIST, were as
follows-731 in attendance; num-
Der of deposits, 178; amount depos-
tied. S59.97; total amount deposit
ed to date this school year, S1O24.-
66.-In a game of Basket Ball
played with Harrington boys and
girls on Friday, December 4, the
High School teams were victors in
both games. The Girls by a score
of 21-9, and the boys by 36-29.-
The superintendent of Schools has
Just been notified through the State
Board of Health, that DR.. E. F.
Smith will be at the Public Schools
on Thursday. December 10, at l
D. m. to give the preventive treat
ment for Diptheria. DIR. Smith
stressed the following points,
namely, that Diptheria is much
more prevalent and fatal in chill
dren of six years of age. Approx
imately seventy-five per cent OF
deaths occur in this group. We
feel that the only hope of eradicat-
ing Diptheria in Delaware, lies in
getting this group immunized.
Parents should bring out the pre-
school children six months or over
for this preventive treatment. Chill
dren who have had one full treat
ment need not report for treatment
this time. BY full treatment is
meant, three doses of toxinanti-
toxin, 1925 to 1928, or two treat
ments of toxoid, 1929 and 1880.