Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-23
ACTIVITIES AT CENTRAL UNION

Birch, the famous magician, will
play an engagement in this city,
January 5, 1888, under the aus
pices of the junior college. This
il the twelfth consecutive season
for the Birch production, and dur
ing this time Birch and company
have toured throughout the Unit
ed States and Canada.
The Birch company offers SEN
sational program of amazing feats
of magic including pleasing
musical features. and novelties. IN
cluded in the Birch repertoire are
illusions of the vanishing pony,
in which a Shetland pony is caused
to vanish while suspended in mid
air; the silk mirage, said to be the
most beautiful silk production act
ever devised; the canary and the
mazda lamp, in which live can
ary is shot into a burnight light
bulb; and almost so other bewild-
ering illusions. Advanced ticket
sale for both the matinee and eve
ming performances has been start
ed, and tickets may be purchased
| in the high school office.
Principal John L. House depart
ed Wednesday night for Los An
geles to attend several business
meetings. The first of these, the
g. 1. F. breakfast, was held
n,-Iotr in f11n n n
o'clock and second was held.
Later Mr.. House attended the gen.
eral meeting of the c. T. A.
Schoolmasters of Southern Califor-
/ MIA convened for a banquet and
meeting last night. When this
meeting was finished, Mr. House
took the late train for Ell Centre
in order to be on hand for the in
stitute today. httt
Work of the Girls Activity club
ended Wednesday in open house
the girls held for the women teach
ers of the faculty. The remodel
ing of furniture, and the addition
of other articles of convenience
have made the room very attrac-
tive for the teachers. Initiation of
new members was the program af-
ter which refreshments were served.
C. B. Collins, county superir-
tendent of schools, announces a Sc
ries Of radio programs to be given
each Saturday evening by the state
department of education in which
school problems and organization
will be explained. Superintendent
Collins urges that all parents and
those interested in schools tune in
on station KPO, San Francisco,
from 6:30-6:45 each Saturday eve
1 ming.
On December "a, Vierling Kersey,
state superintendent of public in
struction, will speak on Christ
mas Story Every Child Should
Know" on December 81, DR.. Mich
olas Ricciardi, chief Of the division
of secondary education. will speak
on New Years Educational Reso-
lutions" end on January 7, the top
| ic to be discussed is, who Pays
| for the Public Schools?"
The high school public speaking
class held a mock banquet in the
Central cafeteria last week. The
banquet, which was held to give the
students practice in giving toasts,
was supposed to occur at an inter-
national peace conference. Each
student gave a toast to the country
that he was supposed to represent.
Charles Chick acted as POSTMASTER
and Mildred Best and Lucille Coul-
! ter as hostesses.
Notice was received yesterday
/ that La Solana Tag week cWuld be
gin Immediately after the holidays,
January 3.
+ Student of Central Union did
/ their parts in aiding in the
relief work. Admission to Thurs
parts in aiding in the Christmas
days assembly was some food, eth
er canned or fresh. Four hundred
cans of food, eight or nine bushels
of vegetables and several cakes OF
soap were received by means of
+ this assembly and will be turned
over to the Red Cross for distribu-
ton.
The feature Of the program was
! the one-act skit Matte Discovers
a Merry Christmas" The cast OF
characters included gt0pal Town
send. Edna Wagner, Margaret
! Zinn, Alta Waterman, Ted Gruwell,
Deedrick Percival, Leo Maiden and
George Mann. The special pro-
gram committee for this occasion
was Bernice Smith, play chairman;
John Couch, stage manager; Marie
Yukawa, property manager, and
Alice Waterman, manager of deco
rations and music.
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