Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-23
CHO OIL NOTES

buffalo of India and the Far East.
Hunters are agreed that the
Cape buffalo is by far the most
dangerous of the big game found
in Africa. A wounded buffalo is
very dangerous.
Liberia
Liberia is located on the west
coast of Africa, and was founded
by the United States for the
freed slaves. It's capital is Monro-
via. 1t is governed by a president
and is the only independent coun-
try in Africa. It's area is about
the size OF Ohio and Tennessee.
The two main exports are rubber
and coffee, besides cocoa, cotton,
fiber of raffia, palm oil, and ker-
nels of kola nuts.
Curtis Young, Richard Major
Our Hobby Clubs
Every Monday is hobby day.
Each pupil in the school goes in
to the room he is most interested
in. The different hobbies We have
are dramatics, radio, art, stamp
aviation and sewing. I like the
idea of the Hobby club.-Marjorie
Cook, Robert Sprage, Grade S.
Safety Poster
The safety poster for this month
shows a tiger telling us that ''traf-
fic is dangerous tool" 1t Is dam
gerous, because every day we read
in the papers about many people
being injured or killed by careless
drivers. We are trying to practice
safety at our School.-Jack Kirk,
5th grade.
Say, folks, I'll tell you a secret
on my schoomates. The school
nurse came to give a skin test.
The ones that had to take it were
like frozen statues. they were SO
scared. When they returned to
the room, they were all feeling
lot better. ! believe that I would
have been knocking my knees to-
gether if it had been who was
to take the test.-Jack Lane, 9th
grade, Mrs. Walker.
Airplanes! did you ever build
a scale model or a flying model
of an airplane? They are so much
fun that every Monday during
the hobby period we build on our
The best ones might go
to the fair. We like to build them
so We hope it will last for long
time.-Teddy Burton, 9th grade.
Lincoln Play
/ wrote a play of Abraham Lin
coin. The name of the play was
The Man With the Great Heart
The players were Stanley Jacobs,
Don Conley and Ray Muncill. The
parts of the play were Abraham
Lincoln, two attorneys. 1t was a
great success.-Gerald Greer, 5th
grade.
In the front of our room we
make drums out of oat meal box
es. They are for the operetta that
is going to be given by the Wilson
school. Miss Carol Hastings is go-
ing to show us how to make them.
l wonder if it is very hard.-Carl
Chikahisa, 9th grade, Miss Has
tings.
In hefront of our room we
have some pictures of George
Washington and his home. One
of the pictures is of Mount Ver-
non near the Potomac river; and
another Of tho pictures is of
Martha Washington with her bon
net and gray hair. She has a
smile on her face. The last pic
ture is of the greatest man ever
to set foot on the soil of the Unit
ed States of America, George
Washington. He has sad look
on his face.-Melvin Roberts, 9Th
grade.
Hello folks! I'm so thrilled. In
two more weeks we are going to
start studying Japan. Our teach-
er has lot of pictures of Japan,
showing how the people dress.
Everybody wants to study 1T. Miss
Hastings went to Japan and she
told us about the people and how
different everything is. People
ride in buggies drawn by people
instead of automobiles. Her story
made us want to study Japan
Joyce Sunderman. 9Th grade: