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', the National Educational Associa- ton, states that these i3,000 hotri are potentially the most impression l. able and valuable hours of the childs life.' And, he adds, quite apart from the normal educational processes, the physical school envir- onment during these hours b bound to make . profound impression on the growing child "A I
 If buildings are to have, an infiu- ence on us, should we not insist that our school buildings work well and Do good.looking2 Of course We should. But do they work well and are they good-looking7 Alas, mol Most of the schools are massive, un~ inspiring, uninviting buildings. Pediments of limestone, Q few col. uinns and, when we can afford them, Q tower or c cupolal It is always the same thing with minor vari- ations. Just as you may order let- tuce salad with French dressing or mayonnaise, you may have . school building Gothic or Colonial
 Modern functions cannot be fit- ted into old forms, nor can twen- tieth.century uses be combined with twelfth-century 'beauties'l The buildings of the past are beau- tiful not because they are Q style They are beautiful because the men responsible for them devoted all their skill, their taste, their under- standing, to fulfilling the purposes, the functions, of these buildings. In other words, these buildings grew out of the life of their time to meet the requirements of their time. And that is exactly what our buildings must do: Grow out of the life Of our time: meet the requirements of our time.
 We must decide first what quali- ties modern education should devel. op," concludes Mir. Lescaze. If they are to be truthfulness. courage, freedom, adaptahility, intelligence then we have automatically de- cided that what we require is the thinking, planning, functional meth. cd of building. We have decided for good modern architecture"
 According to Mir. Lescaze, the dis- position of areas in the Ansonia High school was determined by the orientation and environment. The three major clements of the problem were auditorium, claAsrooms, and gymnasium. The auditorium was placed on the extreme north side of the property and as near to the main thoroughfare as possible in order to insure easy accessibility of the public, as the auditorium will also be used by other than educa- tional groups.
 East-west light is the best for each of the ordinary classrooms. These rooms were placed on the second afid third floors: on the first floor tk the administration at the main high school entrance, 1t being the central point of all activity. An open porch
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frequent dangers in vacation TO. mances. But she liked to enter tain the ideal of romance in the more glamorous spots endowed by nature. It made her day-dreaTns more real and eased the tediun1 of unvarying months in e business of- flee.
 Bill Wares voice fairly glowed with enthusiasm now. Why, should think Lake Racine would be the very placel Swimming, boating, climbing. The Adirondacks are al- ways cool--"
 But I have spent one vacation at Lake Racine" Ann said pertly. T think I'll go to the seashorc."
 The young clerk took this rebuff calmly, and went on planning a trip to Lake Racine for her. He painted a word picture of the cool mountain lake, his voice mounting to 6 cres- cendo until 1t seemed that he was rhapsodizing the resort.
 why, just sold Lake Racine to Jaime Laird, the young sportsman whose pictures you sec in the ma. gazines. Not minute ago. And he's been everywhere"
 DILL WARE became 50 engrossed D in talking about the charms of Lake Racine that he took up most of Ann's luncheon hour. When she mentioned the Scashore he seemed almost to hate the idea of waves rolling in on 6 lonely shore. Sands were always lonely. ne thought. For the first time in Bill Wares business career he talked . resort down, thereby perpetrating a breach of ethics. The manager would have said that something was wrong with Bill. Perhaps he needed q vacation himself.
 "Why, nobody is going to the sea- shore this summer" ne went on. "They have fogs on every coast. It's
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CHAPTER 1

ANN HAMILTON held herself SA erect as she walked down the avenue. There was new life in the sir, reflected in the quickened step and eager eye of every passerby. The boys and girls, strolling dur. ing their lunch hour, were well" dressed and confident. The summer heat had not yet begun. Under the cloudless blue overhead the eoloFs were gay. Life was gay.
 "spring on silk Stocking avenue in any city in the world" Ann thought, with Q sensation Of Joy. She felt like singing this refrain. The words had lit to them.
 She stopped before . shop wins dow Co admire some brown suits end yellow sweaters. For travel" a card said. There was . protu. eien of travel advertisements and booklets in the display. Vacation an the Adirondacks. Dude ranch days, The Minnesota Lakes. The Catskilis. Les Cotes DAEur.
 Ann looked at the attractive post CTS and smiled.
 Each year in July she looked At travel advertisements and sighed just this way. What person doesn't, she thought, look ahead longingly to . summer vacation?
 Anns secFetarial job kept her busy all year. Her annual vacation kept her keen on living, and brought her back eager for the iob again. And each year she seemed to live her vacation more fEitonDely, both in her dreams and in reality. She was %, and she had made her own way in the world for exactly seven years.
 when she glanced into the show window mirrors, conscious of her dark good looks and trim figure, alaO saw c young man looking at ti1O travel folders, almost over her shoulder.
 She noticed that he wore soft, expensiye woolens and carried c doWny polo coat over his arm. Ills G0llag W9w BHu8 STU HhkHs AHv very crush in his fat was redolGnt of good taste and luxury. He had brown hair and blue eyes; his face waS pale, and he looked tired.
 when hO moved sway from the window, swinging along gracefully, Ann started after him with faint FeoOgnition; she had seen his like. ness somewhere perhaps in . To- bDgravure section.
 Ann didn't qViite realize what she wAs doins, but she found herself following the course the young man took. R0 walked . few blocks and entered the arcade of the talieSt building in the city.
 
 TUDT as he went into the smart I travel bureau which occupied half of the ground floor she remem- bered who he was. He was Jaime Laird, rich young man who fol- lowed the races from Hialeah to
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el bureau she had been the cus- toner. Q girl capable of paying her way on c vacation. He had been the man behind tho counter. It was Bill Ware who first realized that this anonymity couldn't endure any long, CT. He had to know this grill
 AS he talked he couldn't keep his zA eyes from her. His glib travel talk became hesitant and confused. His praise of this and that vacation resort seemed pathetically weak. He dropped folders. Suddenly he real- ized that he wasn't selling her" She wasn't receiving his suggestions in favorable light.
 But I went to c mountain resort three summers ago." Ann said. T like c new place every year. Per- hapS the seashore. Cape Cod"
 Ann had always picked the small resort hotels where she thought she would make the most friends. In Ann's adventurous mind this meant meeting men, for there was . prac- tical bent to her day. y.dreaIning. She tried to avoid the do luxe hotels where . stiff decorum would keep her from meeting people easily.
 She liked those hotels where the eaSy camaraderie of games pre- vailed-swimming, tennis, and boat- ing. The amiable hostess at the lit- tle hotels always introduced her to other vacationers.
 The girls in tho office thought 1t difficult to meet the right men in the city. Young men who had 10 stay on their toes all day long to keep their jobs didn't have tho time or energy to make satisfactory suit orS. On vacations they seemed move susceptible, SO Ann and her friends thought.
 Actually Ann had frequentcd rec sort hotels long enough to sense the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-30
Especial tO Democrat

Ansonia, Conn., on Tuesday af- ternoon, August {, ct AnSonia, Connecticut, an event of more than ordinary importance in the educa- tional and architectural world is to take piace-on that afternoon the corneFstone will be laid for the first modern public high school in the United States. Designed by William Loscaze and built with PWA funds, the school will All an urgent need in the town since the present high school, still in use, was condemned Me . fire hazard back in 1919 and, although originally intended for 200 pupils, has been forced to absorb over three times that number of students. The new plant will be ready by the New Year.
 The ceremony on August { will be attended not only by local and state ofiiciais but by many cIvic- minded persons from other parts of tine country who hope that Ansonia will be the pioneer in an American movement to built modern schools for modern education, who believe ttat the schools of today should grow out of the life and require- ments of the community itself. New York is particularly interested in Connecticut's progressive experiment since it's own board of education has just adopted . resolution calling for the financing of an architectural survey of school buildings in order to design more functionally for the future.
 The assignment came to William LescaEe through Vernon Sears, a native of Ansonia and a graduate of the Architectural School of Yale Having as 8 boy attended school in th9 old building, Mir. Sears knew Of Ansonia's crying need for 6 mod crn high school and determined 10 do something about 1t. The local building committee finally told him that if he, not a registered architect himself. would associate himself with an architect of reputation, his ideas would be seriously consid- cred.
 Vernon Sears immediately went to William Lescaze because of his ad- miration for tine latter's work and his secord in the field of modern eeilool buildings. Mfr. Lescase in re- sTsDllslble for such schools as the following: The Oak Lane Nursery pay school in Philadrlphia donated
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NesO Books At The Library

Summer Camp Quide-Porter sar. gent. Quoits and Hofseshoc Pitch. ing-Spalding's Athletic Library Home Decoration, It's Problems and 6olutions--John Gerald and Ross Stewart. The Practice Of Tempra Painting-D. V. Thompson.
 Literature
 Burning City =. stephen Vincent Benet. Tho Unpublished Poems Emily Dickinson. Collected Poems Thomas Stearns Eliot. A Further Range-Robert Frost. Shakespearc'f Characters in Eighteenth Century CriticisSn--David Lovett. Public speech--Archibaid MacLeisi. Obitoi 6cripts--0e Santayana. Wer. ner's Readings and Recitations-- Stanley E. Hchell. Washington Celc. brations- Stanley F. schell. Idiots Dolight--Robert Emmet Sherwood John Masefield- Gilbert Thomas The Story of . Novel-Thomas Wolfe.
 Travel
 A Pilgrim Artist in Palestine P. F. Anson. Tn the Maine Woods i036--Bangor 6s Aroostook Railroad Cathedral Sydney A. Clark Green Mountains to 6ierras-Ze- phine Humphrey. Congroilla---Mar- tin Johnson. Finland, the New Na- tion-Agnes Rothery. An Excursion to Lithuania-A. A. Sacks. In the Heart of Hindustan--K. A. Work man.
 Industrial Books
 The ioo0 Book of Small Houses Editors Architectural Forum. The Knack of Selling More-Brton Bigelow. The Modern Executive Daniel Bloomfield. Problems in Per- sonnel Management--Danicl Bloom field. How to Write Better Busi- ness Letters-E. A. Buck. Cosmetics and How to. Make Them Robert Bushby. Hydroelectric Power Sta ttons-Earle A. Crellin. Diesel and other International Combustion En- gines-H. E. Degler. Modern Proj- ects in Woodwork-R. II. Roberts and J. Fl. Douglass. Practical Psy- chology for Business Executives D. Edie, comp. Getting Ahead in Life Insurance-R. c. Engelsman Modern Radio 6ervicing-A. A 0hirardi. Advanced Algebra--F w. John and P. H. Graham. The Manufactures and His Outlets O F. Haring. Graded Readings in Gregg shorthand-A. M. Hunter Elements of Loud Speaker Practice IN. w. McLachlan. The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach-- Esther MeynelI. America strikes Bach; Q record of co1strasts-0 0tis- tavus Meyers. Diesel Hand Book Julius Rosbloom. Modern Glass Practice--s. R. gcholes. Trains Tracks and Travel-T. w. Van Metro.
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A SpdrkIing NeW Serial of Summer
 Romance and AdDerture, Written by Deck Morgan

and turned to go. T have to run to work" she said.
 He said, "ohl" and followed her toward the door. He was dreads fully afraid lest he silUuld lose her. T could come to your address to. night, and plan your vacation tFipl" he said, his eyes bearning. 'r1i bring my satchel along with ell the de- tails. About the hotels-ti1e works"
 He looked 50 genuinely disturbed that Ann couldn't refuse. She hand- cd him her card and hurried on, thinking, "What c strange young Hnan--to come to life after all these years. Why, he seemed almost hu. rnanl But I hope he won't try salesnfanship on me. I have . mind of my own. I'm going to the sec. shore"
 (To Be Continusd)
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Ansonia To Witness
 Impressive Event
Cornerstone for First Modern Public High School to
 Be Laid August Built With PWA Funds

by Leopold stokoski with the stipu. lation that William Lescaze be the architect--thB was the first modern school building of any type in the United States; tho Hessian Hills School at Croton, New York--a pri. vate experimental school; the dor initorieS and gymnasium for the famous Darlington Hall in Devon, England.
 Mr. Lescaze submitted tentative plans to the Committee who, coiI- verted to modern architecture, voted for them. It is interesting to note that the men responsible for the decision were not radicals" but solid members of the community R scrap iron dealer, q machinist, a pharmacist, Q former state senator, dentist, bookkeeper, the presi- dent of large tool company, an office manager of Q novelty manu- facturing company, Q superinten- dent of the American Brass Com panys local plant, and the mayor of the city. This group, representing croSS-Section of public opinion, approved Mir. Lescaze's plans for the new high school because they made ] sense."
 Discussing the functional ap- proach to school planning Mr. Les- cage says: Buildings are more--or rather, buildings should be more than mere piles of walls, Buildings are the records of a community life, it's interests, it's tastes. its socia order. Tn most communities, tho main buildings are the church, tho city hall. sometimes the bank, and always the school.
 "The functional concept of sch0o architecture is paramount in schoo building planning. There can bs no school planning worthy of the name unless the functions of thu building are clearly understood clearly expressed: and that under standing, expressing clearly tho functions of a building, has been achieved by all good architecture ir the past, and is what modern archi- lecture is today attempting tc achieve.
 Buildings have an influence or us. on our outlook, our happiness It has been calculated that the high school graduate spends about l3.000 hours within the walls of . public school building. Dr. Carr. di. rector of the Research Division Oi
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&H Government
 Liberty, Order and Law under native Irish Rule--Sophie Bryant. Democratic Despotisln--R. E! DeS- vernine. America Must Act--F. B. eayye. The American Way--J. w. Etudebaker.
 The American Lauguage--H. L. Mencken. Cosmopolitan ConverSa- a- tion--Ii. N. Shenton. The Winston Universal Reference Lihrary--H. N.
 ' Practical Arts
 Building the Half-Timbcr House A. w. Jackson. Pneumonia Frederick Taylor, Lord. Practical Dietetics--A. ?. Pattee. Take It Easy--W. D. Pitkin. Child Care Today-B. echick and W. Rosenson. Atlas of Human Aiiatoiny--Jesse Feirlng Williams. Let the King DewaTe--Mrs. H. M. Wilisie.
 Fine Arts
 Twenty-Five Chords - Johann Sebastian Bach. A Second Book of Chorals- Sebastian Bach. The Organ and Its Music--A. 0. D. DeErisay. Art in America from 1900 to 1e06--d General Federation of Women's Clubs. Fresco Painting Gardner Hale. The Spotlight on Catholic Church Music--D. c. Hugle. Canoeing and Woodcraft- Horace Kephart. The Metropol- itan Opera, l083-l0S6- 6--Irving TSo- lodin. Principals of Musical The- ory-Rennee Longy-Miquelle. An Index to Folk Dances and Singing Games Stan of the Music Depart ment, Minneapolis Public Library. Principals of Harmonic Analysis Walter Piston. Discoveries of a Music Critic--PauI Rosenfeld. The
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was created between the adminis- tration unit and the auditorium to allow people passing the main thor oughfaSe to see the open court and groups playing on the athletic field. This porch will also be used as the main entrance to all athletic events and to the gymnasium end the ath- lctic field. The central location Of the library on the second floor is advantageous for easy control or adult evening education.
 The east-wcst wing takes care or the special rooms. such as the iapo- ratoEles and the commercial depart ment, and these rooms arc given north light as best suited for their purpose. The location Of the cafe- teria was decided upon because the noise from this room overpoWered the need of 6 central position; therefore it was placed as far away from the classroonls as possible, nut stu with convenient ncccss. The gymnasium unit is designed to re late the services as closely ns possi- bic to the activities,
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Beginning a Story About a Girl Whose Vacation Didn't .Work Out Exactly
 as Planned

Santa Anita to Saratoga again. Ann thought that he must have been III, for . man who followed the sun ell the time As Q vocation should have . tan complexion.
 This was the travel office In which she had made arrangements for her vacations each of the past seven years. Ann hadn't intended plan- ming her vacation today, but the sight Of Jaime Laird in the bureau gave her an adventurous spur. She entered the room with its attractive travel displays, and waited while the fabulous Jaime Laird was served.
 Ann stole SIirtiye glances in the mirror as she waited. Her dark brown hair was parted at the side and waved back softly. Her face was radiant. Her blue eyes sparkled.
 "T've just had an operation" Jaime Laird said to the clerk. T want to so away for rest-som0 quiet spot in the mountains,"
 Anns adventurous spirit fell: she was planning on the seashore this summer. Buck up, old girl, she thought whimsically, perhaps this just isn't the man for your vaca- ton romance.
 Ann had a way of kidding her- self out of diversity. She was ale ways "bucking herself up," as when she sent the checks back upstate to help support her widowed mother and two small brothers. But she was still naive enough to admit that each year she hoped for romance on her vacation. All the girls in the office did that. On their two weeks vacations they wero looking for "the right guy" who didn't seem to exist in Q workaday world.
 Vacation romancel Ono always met attractive young men at resort hotels. They were like flying flsh- es; you had to 90 to the South Seas to find them.
 Ann moved away from the young man and idly fingered the Eoman- tio descriptions of summer travel on the desk. She glanced ct Q pie ture of Cape Cod. Every year in July Ann entered this travel agency and asked for folders. Every year the same young clerk who now was waiting on Jaime Laird had planned . vacation trip for her. He always greeted her with that faint look of recognition that automobile sales men have for their infrequent cli- ents. He never seemed to recall her name, but h0 talked In . pleasant way when he figured out the detials of her summer trip.
 A MN didn't remember his name, n though it was neatly inscribed on . little bronze plaque. She eyed it closely now while she wait cd, and then glanced ct the plain dark suit and white shirt he wore. The young mans name was William Ware. Just plain Bill Ware, she unused. Like thousands Of other counter men in q city, always ready
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-11-13
TWO MEN KILLED in
MINE EXPLOSION
Another Seriously Burned When
Small Gas Pocket Ignites; Injured
Man Crawls Half Mile With A
Broken Irg

Swanson RL>ni,k and Donald Hen
niger wrr" killed nj Everett steven.
was injured by II local explosion in
the Bishop mine of the POcahontaS
Coal corporation shortly before noon
Wednesday.
The blast was cnfine. to a very
small area and none of the other %
or more men i'm the mine at the time
were affected, although there was II
rather large group only few hun
drcd feet away eating their lunch
when the explosion occurred.
Cause of the blast was said to be
Of undetermined origin, although Of
ficialS investigation has already been
started in an effort t determine the
cause if possible.
No coal has been loaded from the
Bishop mine for more than two
months and the crew in the mne yes
tcrday were engaged II setting timber
aud making such other repairs as
necessary for safety Of the mine.
RaSnick, IIcningcr and Stevens the
latter mine motmman, were the
only ones in the immediate vicinity
of the blast. They were back about
three and one half miles from the
drift mouth.
Stevens, dcspit his burns nd a
fractured leg. crawlpd more than
1000 feet to fresh air. He met the
mine boss, who was approaching the
affected area, having realized there
was some trouble at some point.
Stevens was unable to fully explain
Jn>i what had taken place.
The mine boss Immediately tcle-
phoncd tho Bishop office and aid was
sent him. I'm short time ventilation
was restored in the affected area.
Stevens was taken ont of the mine
Immediately ana rushed to BIueficld
saniinrium in an ambulance.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-11-13
ORDER OF PUBLICATION

West Virginia: In the Clerks Of
ice of the Circuit Court Of Mellow
ell County October %, 1886.
HENLEY, Plaintiff
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The bodies Of Rasnick and Hening
or were brought out about 3 o'clock
and removed To the Pocohontas NOR
cue to beprepared for burial.
Oothcr workers i'm the mine Mt the
time of the accident made thier exit
through Jcnkinjoncs an dother con-
Meeting operations.
Rasnick a native of Clinchfield,
Wa, and has been boarding with
Emory Hill, fellow worker ut North
Tazewell
Heninger is Il native of the Bishop
community and is survived by bride
of several months.
AT Blueficld Sanitarium where
SStevens is II patient, physicians said
his condition was very satisfactory
and unless complications develop he
will recover.
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NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the I'M
derSigned will appear before the Hon
orable b. f. Harvard, Judge of the
Circuit Court of Mcdowell County,
West Virginia, on the 9Th day OF
November. 1886, and present my APP
plication for a license to carry OH or
about my person pistol or revolver.
That my occupation is Police of
the town of Kimball.
Signed: -. Fred f.. Moore
Kimball, West Virginia
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-11-13
T RID IST RICT
CLEANERS MAKE GOOD

1t is not only n pleasure, but a
duty. rs we see il to call the atten-
ton of orr readers to the excellent
service now being rendered the pub
lie ny The Tri-DiStrict Clencrs OF
Northfork. They are not only cquipp-
ed with the most modern kind of
machinery that means Service but
every employee is instructed to SEQ
that You get il.
Any institution such as The Tri-
District Cleaners deserves the support
Of the community they serve. Prompt
efficient AMI courteous S.,rN,r j..
Your far III" o>kSn=.
Over - long lri"d "f time WI.
lnN" yet T." hear Il word Of protest
against This community service and
we are quite sure that no establish
ment of anykind, anywhere, cclipScS
their record or arc more deserving of
home patronage.
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