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but was expected to pick up late in
the afternoon when working youths
come back to the schools they used
to attend.
The $50 youths in the 18-year old
group at Eastern were not going to
register until the afternoon. All the
boys in this group spent the morn
ing taking Navy Department avia-
ton aptitude test. 1t was understood
it was given for research purposes.
IS Register at Mckinley.
At Mckinley, only SO boys regis
tered in their classrooms. Regis
trars explained that the technical
high school already had lost a
number OF its boys to war jobs or
to the armed forces. The total of
non-students registering there by
noon was 20.
Dunbar High School had even
less business. With students and
non-students together, the total at
the colored high school by noon
came to Is youths.
First to register at Central High
was Henry w. Lawlor, $500 Fourth
street NV. Young Lawlor, a senior
at Central, played guard on the
championship football team this
year and is known as crack
athlete. The youth, whose widowed
mother works in the Veterans Ad-
ministration, wants to get into the
signal or tank corps cor something
else mechanical where I can get
training so Ill have something to
fall back on when the wars over"
Dorsey Lee Rouse, jr., TIC Sixth
street NV, who wants to get into
the air forces like many of his COL
leagues, was a graduate last June
from Central. He returned to his
old school to be signed up by a
mathematics teacher, Miss Grace
Long, before going on to his job at
the Post Office.
So the girls wouldn't feel left out
of things Western High School
called an assembly of all its young
women while their male classmates
were registering.
The girls heard a lecture and
saw movies to interest them in en-
tering the nursing profession.
Younger Boys Watch.
The boys who were too young to
register stayed in their classrooms
and watched their older colleagues
registering. Their attitude, as ex-
pressed by one of the younger
boys, was "our time is coming next"
The largest classroom chore at
Western was performed by Miss
M. R. Wallace, who had a dozen
boys to register in her section room.
Only of the Is boys in the
section room reserved for cadet
officers were required to register.
Both hoped for appointments to
the Naval Academy and the Mill
tary Academy. but both guessed
they'd be drafted before their ap-
pointments came through.
One was Welles Fendrich, first
lieutenant of Cadet Company H.
The other was Covington Shackle-
ford, captain OF the same company,
who wanted to go to West Point
but hopes he gets into the field
artillery If he's drafted. Register
ing the boys was Don McAdoo, in
structor of military science at the
high school.
At Roosevelt six teachers were to
spend the day in two special regis
tration rooms where students were
supposed to appear between classes
to register rather than enrolling
in their home rooms.
George Powell Registers.
Among the early registrants at
this school was George Frederick
Powell, 434 Manor place NV. who
is president of the student council
at Roosevelt, was president of his
freshman class, Is sergeant in the
cadet corps, an artist who does the
schools poster work and plays the
drum in the high school orchestra.
Young Powell wants to get into
camouflage work
At Western, first to register in a
| special room set aside for non
students was John w. Sinnett, 2450
Huidekoper place NV, who became
Is in July. Employed as junior
clerk in the War Production Board,
young Sinnett also knew where he
wanted to go.
IF can pass the exam" he said,
II want to 60 into the Navy. You
have more chance to travel"
One of the registrants at Calvin
Coolidge High School, Warren Al
fred Christensen, already has tried
to get into the Navy. He applied
for naval aviation on December s,
but has not yet heard the results.
Father Was on Torpedoed Ship.
The youth wants to follow in the
footsteps Of his father, Axel w.
Christensen, who was on an Ameri-
can destroyer which was torpedoed
in the first World War. His fathers
ship, the youth said, was repaired at
sea and limped back to an American
port.
Merrill Sickles, jr., who celebrated
his 18th birthday yesterday, was
another registrant at Calvin Cool
idge High. A senior, Merrill is an
Eagle Scout. His father is with the
War Production Board.
Registration also was slow at CAL