The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-10-21
Page 8 Oct. Il. I949


Lunch Bucket |
Is Missing Now |
The day of the old.fashioned
lunch bucket is gradually pass.
ing; in place of the sandwiches.
fruit and cookies is a hot plate
lunch, tastefully prepared under
the direction of trained dieti.
tianS. p. s.....
Time was when the School
marin" in the one room, red
school house rang a hand bell
around noon as a signal for the
lunch buckets to appear on desk.
tops. Youngsters then delved
into peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches, oatmeal cookies and
maybe an apple.
Tasty, yes, but not exactly
what a dietitian would recon-.
mend as healthful and well.
balanced meal. ii
Today the bell is run from the
office. The students put their
books away and march in order
~ lines to the cafeteria where
they can have q vitamin-fill
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Last Fridays menu was typi-
cal, except for one respect. Fish
was the main course and it was
crisply done. Dreamed potatoes
and a vegetable salad with eggs,
topped off with a bottle of milk
and q pear made even the big.
gest appetites retreat.
TWO cAFETERIAS
Two cafeterias serve the Ken
newick school system. The one
in the grade school building is
for the elementary grades, one
through six. The other cafeteria
in the high school building is
for senior and junior high school
students.
At noon time, the elementary
teachers take on an added duty,
that Of traffic patrolman. They
direct the youngsters into the
right lines, so that there is no
showing or pushing. They are
helped by the fact that the
youngsters come to eat in "stag.
gered" shifts. AS result, there
IS no waiting.
Besides serving meals, the ca
feterias give citizenship train
ing. Youngsters learn here that
work has a direct bearing on
eating. Forty.five boys and girls
| in the grade school cafeteria are
split into five Commute shifts.
In return for their work they are
given their lunch.
These youngsters clean plates
and In general aid the adult
employees.
One teacher, Mrs. Leila Hatch,
aids ALSO by overseeing the
cleaning tables where the young
sters bring their trays after they
have finished lunch. She ex-
planned that she is able to help
here because the library, OF
which she is in charge, Is not
busy at lunchtime.
Students use the cafeterias &C.
cordine to the weather, E. S.
Black, KenneWick school super.
intendent, said. II the weather Is
good, many students will eat
outside. The number eating va.
ries from 1000 to 1,400.
| The grade school lunchroom
has the greatest number OF
users, $50 to 1000, while the
high school runs between 300
and 500.
In charge Of the menus and
cooks Is Mrs. Fred Bordbeck.
Tickets, money and bills are the
responsibility of Mrs. Ernest
Dickinson. Approximately is
people are employed in both
cafeterias.
| Yes, the lunch bucket is on the
way out, but instead, you have
healthier children.
/ KenneWick's test well on Glow.
er Island has produced water al
the rate Of $50 gallons per min
ute.
i However, City Superintendent
Dick Rector pointed out that the
. pump used had . capacity o.
only $50 gallons per minute. HI
said another test would be con
Quoted with q greater capacity
pump.
He also pointed out that thu
city hadn't expected one well t
. be sufficient.
Another well will be drilled
Immediately. The contract, helt
by Strasser and Sons from Port
land, calls for as many as three
wells.
Rector said that the coming
} baclxwater from McNary dan
would not seriously affect tn,
water project on the island a!
1 the island would be raised. 1
this does not prove feasible, thu
well can b sealed Oft.
Another phase In the process
, Of acquiring q municipal waite
!, system for Kennewick took ;
!. step forward when the city coun
Gil gave permission for the print
.. ing Of $500, 900 worth of waite
: bonds at Thursdays meeting.
! Money realized from the sall
! Of these bonds will be used TO
, the construction of two reservoir
3 on the mainland.