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Make Her Important! BY HENRY HARPER .ass. aAsEme

got in touch with Laura's mother
and the mother did several things:
She made time in which to be COM
panionable again; she arranged to
have Laura's schoolmates visit
sometimes on Sunday afternoons;
she turned over some money for
Laura to spend in making the home
ly little apartment attractive.
Furthermore, Laura took up cook
ing at school and began to do the
family marketing and to get the fam
lily meals. She was proud to do
something valuable for her family.
There are number of things that
war working parents like Lama's
can do for an adolescent daughter.
If the quarters to which they have
to move are too bad, they can often
arrange for their daughter to board
with relatives she knows and likes.
Or sometimes they can find friend
ly private family in the old neighbor-
hood, where she can continue gong
to the familiar school.
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school; got low marks; resisted max
ing friends; played truant; signed
her mothers name to her report
card; threatened to run away.
What had happened is what we
can usually look for, if a sensitive
adolescent girl is put where she is a
stranger. For Laura, there was the
strange school; the strange and
rougher, tougher schoolmates; the
crowded living quarters where she
now shared room with her brother.
The change in her parents made
her most unhappy of all. They were
away until late at night Then they
were too tired to show the same in
terest as before.
Never in her life does a girl need
the certainty that she can turn to
an understanding mother as she
needs it in adolescence. Otherwise,
Sne 1ndElHtS L1fdk ehAO 10 AhO-
loved; she feels that she is not
wanted. The next step is apt to be
running away from home or getting
into sex trouble. In many cases, it is
not that she really wants sex expert
ence. She is trying to fortify her
pride by rivaling the other girls;
she may 60 to great lengths to prove
she is attractive to boys.
Finding Herself
In LAURA's case neither of these
things happened. Her school prin-
cipal and teacher helped her to gain
self-confdence by getting her to help
in the schools day-nursery. She was
good with children and a real asset.
Soon she warmed up to everyone and
even confided in the teacher her SEN
sitiveness about her home and her
idea that her mother did not love her.
The result was that the teacher
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A teen-age girl in
a war-working town:
She needs your help

She needs your help
CTRANGE, unpleasant, wartime
- living conditions account for
much of the delinquency among
teen-age American girls today. Often
they have been picked up bodily and
set down in crowded, unattractive
war-industry centers. The result to
them is sheer misery. Even under the
best conditions an adolescent girl
feels inadequate and desperately un-
sure of herself. If there is major
upheaval in her life, this feeling may
be intensified to the danger point.
Look at Laura!
TAKE the l5-year- old girl named
Laura, for instance Her experiences
are typical. Laura's parents are
simple, thrifty. patriotic Americans.
Before the war her father earned
modest income in a department
store. Though small, the house the
family lived in was big enough
for Laura and her six-year-old broth
er to have separate rooms; and 1t
was in a pleasant neighborhood.
Then game the war. Her parents
got Jobs in a war plant in another
c;tv and moved to crowded quarters
near their work. Their chief worry
had been about the six-year old boy.
But the problem of what to do with
him was easily solved by enrolling
him in the before-and-after school
child-care center of the war plant.
Laura, on the other hand, was
not happy and became increasingly
a problem. She hated the new high
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27

A. B. Hurt, who is serving
his first year as superintendent
of the Ashe county schools. MIR.
Hurt, who has long been &C
tive in school work, where he
has made an outstanding rec
ord. He succeeded J. B. Hash,
who was county school super
intendent for 10 years and un-
der whose leadership the
schools showed marked prog
ress and development.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
Health Stressed
In Ashe Schools
Courses Offered; Clinics Are
Held And Examinations
Are Given

Health habits as we'll as train
ing in health are stressed in the
Ashe county schools from the
first grade on through high school.
A big help in this field is the
work of the county health depart
ment in cooperation with the
schools.
In the program of the health
department for schools, students
are examined for their general
health as we'll as having their
sight and hearing tested. Needed
corrections often make big i'm
provements in the work of the pu-
pills, teachers point out.
Teeth are also examined and
hundreds of children have their
teeth treated through the health
department clinics held in the
schools. Eye clinics are also
held.
Hundreds of children are vac
for communicable dis
eases and this not only helps to
maintain a high standard of
health, but helps to keep up the
of the schools.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
Are
Transported To
School On Buses
81 Buses Are Operated Over
1,O19 Miles Daily In AShe
County

More than 1900 Ashe county
students are transported to school
daily by the 81 buses which trav-
ell a total of 1,019 miles per day.
This means that almost half of
the total enrolment rides to
school.
The important factor is that
they are transported safely and
economically. During the past
IL years no child has been serious
ly hurt while riding the school
buses, and there have been only
a few minor accidents.
Bus drivers are well-trained
and the buses are kept in excel
lent mechanical condition at the
county garage, under the direc-
ton of Harry Koontz. He is as
sisted by Ira Galloway.
The transportation has been
slightly hampered because of war
times, but, as a whole, the system
has covered the necessary ground
and has been operated unusually
we'll during this emergency period.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
l72 Teachers In
Schools Of .Ashe
County This Year
AZ High School Teachers And
Principals And 100 Grade
Teachers
ARE WELL TRAINED

Ashe county now has total of
1853 white teachers and principals
and four colored teachers, bring
ing the total up to 172 for the
county.
While the war has resulted in a
shortage of teachers, this county
has been fortunate in the past
year in having for the most part,
we'll trained teachers with ex-
perience. Because of the times,
it has been necessary to employ
some with emergency certificates;
but as a whole, the ratings of the
high county teachers has been
maintained.
In the nine central high schools,
there are AZ principals and teach
ers, leaving total of 100 in the
grades.
Women have long outnumbered
men and because of the war, the
number of men in this profession
continues to decrease. This year
there are so men teachers to the
1872 women.
In the central schools, West JEFF
ferson and Lansing have the larg-
est group of teachers with Is each.
jefferson has IA; Riverview and
Nathan's Creek, IS each; Healing
Springs 10 and Elkland and Fleet
wod, 9 each.
A complete list of teachers in
the central schools of the county
is published in connection with
their respective school activities
in this edition. The other elemen-
tary teachers of the county
schools are: Mrs. Clyde Bare Dill
lard, Orion; Mrs. Rebecca Miller,
Wagner; Delmer Rose, Mabel
Blackburn, and Mrs. Nell Sheets,
Glendale Springs.
Quinon Bare, Big Ridge; Mrs.
Edna Lewis and Mrs. Mamie
Greer Goodman, Buffalo; M. H.
Eller, Rich Hill; Margaret Davis
and Mrs. Effie harrington, Trout.
Clyde Hartsoe, Mill Creek;
Howard GRAPHICAL, Rash; Ina Mae
Oliver, Roaring Fork; Mrs. Beu-
lah w. McNeill, Ashland; E. L.
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
Schools Help In
Rationing Plan

Ashe county schools, like 9th
ers throughout the nation, have
helped to inform and instruct the
general public on the ration plan
of foods as we'll as to issue ration
ing books.
The various programs have
been discussed by teachers for
the benefit of the students, infor-
nation has been distributed to the
homes through them and they
have conducted the registrations
and issued rationing books. This
has been a big help in the war
effort.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
Postwar Plans
Include A School
Building Program
County School Property Now
Has A Valuation OF
Around $45O,OOO

Ashe county, along with the
rest of the state, made rapid prog
ress in the school building pro-
gram for ten years, when from
1888 to 1913 the valuation climb
ed from $150,OOO to $450,0OO. And
while the war brought a standstill
to the building program, leaders
have been looking ahead with
postwar plans for further expan-
sion, which is badly needed.
In 1912, the board of education,
with Superintendent J. B. Hash
and the U. S. Public Works COM
mission, worked out a postwar
building program which would in
clude the erection of eight new
school buildings and a minimum
of six agricultural and vocational
buildings. These plans are still in
the initial stage, but it is hoped
they can be carried out at the
close of the war.
Total estimated cost of the pro-
gram would be around $250,000,-
90 and would extend over a 5 to
10-year period. It is anticipated
that these will be federal pro-
jects and that they will take
care of the unemployed situation
arising after the war. It is also
proposed that the projects be fl
nanced largely by the federal
government.
Because OF the statewide plan
of consolidation, primary atten-
ton has been given to the large
central schools where more at
tention can be given to individual
instruction.
With the exception of Elkland
and Fleetwood, the county now
has seven large, modern high
school buildings, which are val
ued at nearly $300,00OOO. In
Guiding Elkland and Fleetwood,
the valuation of the nine central
schools is $325,0O0.
Valuation of the So one and
two-teacher school buildings in
the county is around $100,000.00;
thirty-one school buses around
$4,000, making a grand total
school property valuation in the
county of over $45O,OOO.O0.
The high school valuations are
estimated as follows: West Jeffer-
son, $4,000; Jefferson, $4,000;
Healing Springs, $4,000; Lansing
$45, 1000; Riverview, $4,000; Vir-
ginia-Carolina, $4,000; Nathan's
Creek, $4,000; Fleetwood, $751;
900 and Elkland, $4,000.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
3Ol.O5O Meals Are Served To
Ashe Children This Year In
Enlarged School Lunch Plan
County Led State In The Mum.
Der OF LunchrOOms APP
proved For Schools

During the 1943-44 school year,
a total of 301, 1850 meals were
served to Ashe county children
under the school lunch program,
with an average of 2,007 daily.
Ashe county led the state in the
number of 1unchrooms approved,
having a total of 20 of these. Two
were closed, however, and 18 were
operated throughout the year.
The lunch program proved
more satisfactory than ever this
year under the federal aid plan
with a larger number of children
being benefited by it than ever
before. There were lunchrooms
in operation in all of the larger
central schools and many of the
smaller schools. Reports sent in
to the county superintendent Of
flee show that by actual check,
many children gained weight and
improved in health and attend
ance after the lunchrooms were
opened. In many of the lunch
rooms every child and teacher in
the school was served.
Under the program as it was
operated this year with Federal
aid, lunches were classified in
"a" and 'B", both of which were
served in the schools of the coun-
ty.
The TYPE A. lunch provided
from a third to a half of the five
kinds of food that a growing child
needs daily. The TYPE B" lunch
has the same kinds of food but
the helpings are smaller and con-
tain less protein, fat, minerals and
vitamins, except for milk, which
remains the same.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
Ashe County Students Are Active In War Effort
Make Record In
War Bonds; Work
In Other Drives
Outstanding Results Achieved
In ALI Drives In The In
terest Of Victory
ENTHUSIASM SHOWN

Ashe county schools have made
an enviable record in the war eff
fort this year. The fact that this
section is far removed from direct
wartime activities, there being no
camps or war industries in this
area, the enthusiasm shown by the
students and the results achieved
is highly commendable.
Because of the additional war;
time courses, and their nearness
in age to those already engaged
in actual fighting, the students
of the nine high schools have put
forth unusual effort in all the war
programs. They received, how
ever, in most of the drives and
programs, aid and cooperation
from the small schools of their
districts.
Conservative figures place the
estimate of war bonds sold by the
students during the year at $4OO,-
10000 IT,
The schools received certificates
of credit from the Uuited States
Treasury Department for buying
planes, jeeps, ambulances, boats,
and much other equipment in the
war effort. Riverview, Jefferson
and West Jefferson were among
those getting credit for Cornell
planes in the 'Buy-A-Plane Con-
test" =
In the special waste paper drive
conducted in the schools, under
the direction of B. H. Duncan,
around 10000 pounds was collec-
ted and shipped out for the war
effort.
In the recent Red Cross War
Fund Drive the schools raised
more than $4,000. They also made
an excellent record in the U. S. 0.
drive, with practically all Of them
going over their quotas.
They have also been active in
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
Spelling Bee Is
Popular In Ashe
Hundreds Of Students Parti-
cipated In Countrywide
Event This Year

Ashe county students showed in
the high schools as we'll as the
small schools, unparalleled interst
in the countrywide spelling bee
this year. And when the finals
were held at the county court
house, all of the II school dis
tricts were represented with a to-
tai of II contestants.
The contest is sponsored each
year by the Ashe Post of the
American Legion and the winners
are presented awards. Spelling
lists and books were exhausted
and the dictionary resorted to be-
fore the contest came to a close.
The courthouse was filled and
overlooking with interested spec
tatorS.
Winners for the various grades
were as follows: fourth grade
Ina Ruth Worth, Jefferson school;
fifth grade, Margaret Grant, JEFF
ferson school; sixth grade, Katri-
ma Vannoy, West Jefferson school;
seventh grade, Eddie Liddle, JEFF
ferson school; eighth grade, Lo-
rene Powers, Lansing school;
ninth grade, Winston Miller, Elk
land school; eleventh grade,
Irene Hare, Fleetwood school;
and twelfth grade, Merle Phipps,
Healing Springs school.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
ASHE SCHOOLS HAVE
ENROLMENT OF 5,438

The total enrolment of the
nine high schools, together
with the 81, one, two and three
teacher schools in the county
this year, is 5,438. Of this num-
Der, 1,O48 are in high school and
1890 i'm the grades.
This is approximately the
same as it has been for the past
two years, with a slight in
crease over last year. This in
crease, though small, is cOnsid-
cred good, since many students
have dropped out of school to
enter the armed forces. Others,
with their families, have moved
to other sections to work in
war production plants.
In the lower grades, the boys
Outnumber the girls, but in
the high school, there are more
girls. In the total enrolment
i'm the grades there are 1887
boys and 2,1O3 girls.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
Courses, Related To
War Effort, Popular
With Ashe Students
Enthusiasm Shown For First
Aid, Health, Drivers Course
And Others
RECEIVE BENEFITS

Courses related to the war eff
fort have proven more popular
than ever this year, with Ashe
county high school students &C
cording to a survey made OF the
various classes.
In addition to courses started
last year, some new ones have
been added in accordance with
the plan set up by State Board OF
Education to modify some of the
regular courses and include others
deemed essential in the war eff
fort.
AS a result of this hundreds OF
students have taken courses in
health, physical education, home
nursing, nutrition, calesthenics
first aid, business training and
motor cars. These courses have
proven to be among the most pop
ular taught in the schools.
Many of the students have been
greatly benefited from these
courses from health standpoint
and in many instances the special
knowledge they have gained will
enable them to serve the country
better. Those who do not enter
the armed forces will be better
equipped to help in the war effort
on the home front.
CONTINUED On Page 2)--'~
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
TEACHERS REGULAR
WAR BOND BUYERS

Credit for much enthusiasm
of the students in the war
drives, particularly that of sell
ling bonds to their parents,
the public and in buying their
own, is due the teachers.
They have been untiring in
their efforts and have helped
in every way possible.
But not only have they en-
couraged the buying of bonds
on the part of others, but have
been regular bond buyers
themselves.
In the beginning of the
school year, teachers signed
pledges to buy bonds regularly
and Superintendent A. B.
Hurt said that he had been
highly gratified with their con-
Sistent buying.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
School Library
Service Is Good
Has Been Expanded T h i S
Year; Circulation Shows
Big Increase

Ashe county schools now have
1890 books in their school libra
ries and these in most cases, have
a wide circulation.
The high schools and many of
the smaller schools make an eff
fort each year to add more and
more books to their collections.
Current magazines and news
papers are also a part of the Ii
brary facilities of many of the
schools and the pupils have an
opportunity to study current
events.
Of great help to the primary
grades is the large number of
supplementary readers now avail
able in all of the schools. These
are so distributed and circulated
that the majority of the children
have the advantage of them.
This year, in cooperation with
the Ashe county library, hundreds
of new books, suitable for smaller
children, have been purchased and
have been distributed through the
office Of the county superinten-
dent. Many of these have been
used by teachers in the smaller
schools, where library facilities
have been limited. Since this
system was started, the total cir
cu1ation of these books has reach
ed $500.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
NEW SCHOOL DESKS
PURCHASED THIS YEAR

Ashe county schools secured
around $1,5O0.0O worth of class
room desks this year that were
badly needed.
A large number Of these were
secured at a small expense
through the SCI. Some others
were purchased.
Superintendent Hurt pointed
out that it was the plan to add
some each year until the schools
that need them worst are. better
equipped.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
EDUCATION

Annual Ashe County High
: School Graduation Edition n,
published in cooperation with
the schools to promote education.
Evening star., 1944-06-14

decision as logical and as necessary
about which we must begin to think
We have left the feeding, clothing
shelter and medical care of our
children to be determined by their
parents income alone. 1t hasn't
worked and can never work, for a
man whose skills may permit him
to earn only the minimum wage
Nc wage or income based upon the
value of the economic contribu-
ton of the individual can ever be
made to take into proper consid-
GRAFTON the needs of his depend
entS.
Must Start With Peace.
The children of America are
the future of America. The prin-
ciples of self preservation, no less
than those of humanity, demand
that We place squarely on society
the responsibility of making the
citizens of tomorrow healthy, ener-
getic and educated. We should
begin the moment the war is over
to see that every child in America
grows up with the basic necessities
of education, good food, adequate
Evening star., 1944-06-14

When our society was predomi-
nantly agricultural, Abraham Lin
coins homestead laws offered to
the people of the United States what
was then necessary protection
land and a chance to build a home.
Today, when our society is pre-
dominantly industrial. the formulas
must change And all the resolu-
tions for the preservation of the
Evening star., 1944-06-14

enterprise system will not do one
fraction as much to preserve it as
the assurance to men and women
of the projections which they are
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lothing, medical care and a decent

! clothing, medical care and decent
home.
We whose faith. is in a freely
competitive society have the special
obligation of seeing that all start
fair" physically and mentally, as
well equipped for the race as their
natural endowment permits.
There is nothing new in providing
men with minimum protection.
Evening star., 1944-06-14
Wi||kie Says Security
Concept sUnopposed
To Free Enterprise

(The tollo,Ding article. on So
cial security. is the third OF a
series By Wendell Willkie on the
position he thinks the Republi-
can party should take.)
Evening star., 1944-06-14

Irightfully demanding, projections
which are basic to their time.
The Republican party should see
to it that they get them.
Distributed by the Associated Press)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-20
Detroiter Wounded

--Army AR ShoH Ia ErNN-.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-20

DoUstY FRESH
Insddition. energy charged Wonder
Bread is doubly freSh-fresh When
you buy il, fresh when you eat il.
Because wonder Bread is sio.
baked-13Ss longer than many or.
binary kinds for lasting freshness.
For extra energy, eat extra slices
OF energy.charged Wonder Bread
every day. Serve your husband and
children extra Wonder Bread, too.
Get Wonder Bread fresh from your
grocer today. You'll be glad you did.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-20
ExannineBody
Of Fire VictHnl

Another examination Of the
body OF David Scott, 81, who died
in the S225, 900 Detroit race track
fire was to be made today to de-
termine If he had been murdered
before the blaze was started.
Arson squad Inspector George
Smith said also that he was in
quiring into the possibility that
Leroy tPegleg) Mechanism. 80,
who admitted starting the fire.
was at the Louisville track when
barns there burned. Mechanism
is an itinerant race track worker.
McCammish admitted that he
started the fire because of a diff
ference he had with Scott and a
track official. The ex-Stableman
confessed also that he had served
time for starting a fire in Cali
fornia grain field.
MAJ ~. Ma. "a Al. 49,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-20
$4,000 in State
Wait for Phone!

More than $1,000 Michigan APP
plicants for telephones are with
out service and the number is
increasing by 1000 a month.
Michigan Bell Telephone officials
said today.
William F.. Shane, commercial
superintendent of the Detroit d.
vision, said the situation Is so
critical that service can be
granted only il essential to war,
public health or public security.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-20
used Car Ration.
.Rumor Is Denied

Jacob Zweedyk, OPA acting
area director, today spiked ru-
mors based on a recent radio
broadcast that used automobiles
other than 1912 models, are to be
rationed.
"Our Washington office has
discredited such rumors i'm their
entirety" eedyk stated.
USED car price ceilings go into
effect July 10, but they have no
connection with rationinR."