The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-02-06
LIBRARY AND HOT LUNCH
PROJECTS ARE APPROVED
School Board Sponsors Work
Which Gives so More Garrett
Youths NYA Employment

Two National Youth Administration
work projects, sponsored by the Gar
rett county board of education, have
been approved, F. E. Rathbun, county
superintendent, was informed this
week.
Over $50 young people between 16
! and rs who have left school and are
out of work are now working for
NYA in Garrett county. The new pro-
jects provide work for 60 additional
youths. Fifteen boys and fifteen girls
may be assigned as assistants to pub
lie school libraries. Thirty girls Sc
lected from NYA rolls will assist in
the preparation and serving of school
lunches.
In requesting the library project,
Superintendent Rathbun pointed out
that the services of capable NYA
youth would increase the efficiency of
high school libraries. These young
people can perform duties such as
shelving books, preparing books for
circulation, filing periodicals, book
mending and keeping library registers
up to date.
Youths will work under the super
vision Of the teacher in charge of the
library in the high and elementary
schools of Oakland, Grantsville, Acct
dent, Friendsville, Kempton and Kitz-
miller.
NYA Aids in Health Defense
The second project calling for the
employment of NYA assistants in
eleven Garrett county schools has
been undertaken to improve health
conditions in various communities.
Undernourished children will be
served food available through the
Surplus Commodity Corporation.
Wherever possible the preparation of
monday meals will be under the di-
rect supervision of a home economies
teacher.
Superintendent Rathbun in a letter
to E. Price Steiding, NYA director
for Garrett and Allegany counties,
stated that the hiring Of additional
help in order to embark on a program
of this nature was impossible. The as
signment of youth from NYA rolls
will therefore enable the board of ed
ucation to place surplus commodities
at the disposal of the youngsters who
need them. Units of this project will
be in East and West Vindex, New
Germany, Bloomington, Wilson, Crel-
lin, Kitzmiller, Chestnut Grove, Bray,
Oak Grove, Lyndale, Sunnyside, Shall
mar, Combination, Corruna and Cor
man.
The acceptance of this program has
grown rapidly since December when
only five schools were using the sur
plus foods. They were Bloomington,
Wilson, West VindeX, VindeX and
Kitzmiller. Three were added in Jan
uary: New Germany, Chestnut Grove
and Bray, while in February seven
more were added: Oak Grove, Lynn
dale, Sunnyside, Shallmar, Combina-
ton, Corunna and German. Swan
Meadow is also beginning this month.
In Local School
Arrangements have been made also
through the Oakland Civic Club to
sponsor school lunches for members of
the SPECIAL class at the elementary
school, which is being taught by Mrs.
Merne w. Kloss.
The elementary school already has
a cafeteria in the basement which
serves various foods and for which a
charge is made. A few local organiza.
lions contribute certain amounts each
month to serve a few of the children
needing nourishment who are unable
to pay for it.
The surplus foods for the special
class will be prepared and served in
the classroom and will not interfere
with the regular cafeteria, it was
stated.
Just how soon these hot lunches will
be established in other schools is not
known. Mr.. Rathbun said it was nee
essary that requests for surplus foods
commodities for school lunches be
made by Parent Teachers associa-
tions or some other organization in the
community that would assume respon-
sibility of the sponsorship.
In December there were $3.50
pounds of food requisitioned. In Jam
uary GLIB pounds were requisitioned
and the February requisition, which
goes in this week, is for much more.
Available to pupils are apples, dried
beans, whole wheat cereal, corn meal,
eggs, graham flour, wheat flour, ham,
grapefruit juice, grapefruit, lard, or
anges, evaporated milk, canned
peaches, potatoes, prunes, raisins and
rice.
Similar projects are now in opera
ton in Allegany and eleven other
Maryland counties: The school lunch
program is attracting nationwide at
tention today as a defense measure,
said Steiding, and the National Youth
Administration is very happy to join
with Boards of Education in pro-