The Tri-County Herald, Volume 75, Numbers 1-5

/ EDITORIALLY ■SPEAKING All children want to help in national defense, hut some don’t know just whet to do. Here are sohre tips that might help: 1. Don’t waste paper. 2. If you have a bicycle be care­ ful with the tires — rubber is scarce, , 3. Save electricity whenever you can, the factories need it: 4. Be syre to save your money to buy defense stamps................ By Ann Zeller, fifth grade It is our duty to gather scrap iron and rubber. A junlc dealer comes around about twice a week to get scrap iron. Do you know what he does with it? Well, I’ll tell you ■— he takes it to fac­ tories where it is made into air­ planes, ships, tanks, etc/ He takes the rubber tires that you sell him to rubber tire, fac­ tories and the ^rubber is melted into new tires for the army trucks, and tanks. Also this rubber is put on the shoe soles of the boys in the army and navy:. Uncle Sam will appreciate any donations you wish to make. Robert Godfrey, fifth grade HOW I CAN HELP UNCLE SAM We should all be more saving and less extravagant. We should save rubber and gasoline for, the gov­ ernment needs lots of it. Save your money and buy de­ fense savings bonds and stamps to help America win the war. Everyone between the ages of 10 and 65 should do something. Children^should buy defense Sav­ ings bonds and stamps, as well^as older people. Some people cab give blood transfusions to send to ih'schools should save erasers and paper to help America. Joe Beaver, Fifth Grade Propeller Blade -------- ■ ---- -------------------------- *---- ------ --------- :--- --- ------- —----- Published By The Elementary School feu*A W u U f,& rr Vol. 1. No. 12, ABUNDANT HEALTH * * <■" t f M M l r POETRY In Miss Sexten’s fourth grade geography class the boys and girls have been studying the Sahara Desert. Here are some poems they enjoyeji writing about this in­ teresting land. The camel has a great big hump; That’s where the Bedowins ride* And if you’re just not used to it, You may slide off one side. By Scott Hawthorn Africa is the place of sands Where Camels travel in caravans, People there, wear robes of white To keep off all the strong sunlight. By Elizabeth Wilson The camel is the queerest thing; He goes for days without a drink, He carries food* in his big hump, Enough to last about a month. By Bonnie Monroe I’Ve read about the hottest land It looks just like an ocean of sand; Heat measures 110 degrees, While I stay right here and freeze. By Janis Stanton A Laugh A Day Last week in Miss McICinstvie’s third grade, thirty-four pairs of hands were busily learning the art of woodbuming. Birds, houses, * bells, flags, and bears were a few Itatef the many patterns chosen hy k children, ter working steadily on Ills polar bear for about fifteen mia- ,ufes and with beads o f perspira­ tion rolling Off his face, otic little oj? remarked, “Gee, Miss Me- ’istrie, this is going to be t i t \oites.k.*djdiiarJSdar found, in. t v * ' % Miss Eleanor Robe, third gra^a McCarty’s height and .weight. Everyone should realize the im­ portance of health for this com­ munity. Healthy bodies mean healthy minds, and that means miftds wide awake -to learn. It isn’t so easy to he constantly physically fit, therefore it is ne­ cessary to have check-ups. These check-ups, though, must be done by expert doctors and nurses. This school is very fortunate to .be able to obtain just those experts. Miss;.. Kathryn Lane, the county health nurse, and Dr. Gordon Sav­ age, county health colhmissioner. This community Is well aware of the work that Dr. Savage does. But I wonder how many people know just what kind of job Miss Lane has. She is not only the nurse for our school, but she goes with Dr. Savage all over the coun­ ty. They investigate, check-up, vaccinate,'examine and in all ways keep tab on how the students fair. Miss Lane sees that clinics in the schools have proper equipment, sees that cots are clean and neat. She brings posters to the school. Records of previous vaccination history are checked because alt Bath Township students are re­ quired to be vaccinated for smalt pox. All children in the fifth and first grades are giyen a physical examination, Then, if there is any defect to be corrected, the parents are notified. Sometimes, when the families are not able to give the child proper treatment for his de­ fect, the Health Department helps the needy family obtain necessary funds. Monday afternoon - a l a r g e stream-lined trailer, outfitted with full dental equipment, drew up before our school. Approximately 450 students from the first four grades had their teeth examined in this modern dentist’s office on wheels. Dental examinations are being made,all through the 88 counties in Ohio* Two of these dental units are in a program sponsored by the Dental Division of the Ohio State Department of Health in conjunction with school and coun­ ty health programs. Dr, Davis and Miss Lane have charge of the Greene County schools, * The purpose of the examination is to educate the children in the care of teeth, and by actual de­ monstration, show those who have never visited a dentist’s office that it isn’t a place to fear. After these tests are made, the children are taught in the class­ room thff necessity of periodical visits to the dentist and the Am. portance of balanced meals and regular home care of the teeth. To the parent is sent a report on the condition of his child's teeth so the family dentist may com­ plete the work since no remedial work is done by Dr. Davis on his tours* The care of the teeth can’t he stressed too much and this is a very effective way to make the children realize its importance. DO YOU KNOW? 1. Why some boys and girls wear glasses? 2. Why the invention of. printing made spectacles important? 3. What makes a rainbow? Some fifth graders in Miss Rus­ sell’s hygiene class have prepared the answers especially for you. 1. I couldn’t see the blackboard unless I sat real .close* The nurse \ said that I needed glasses. I had been reading too much and wasn’t very careful about having good light. One day I went to the doc­ tor and had my eyes examined. I had to read some letters through different kinds of -glasses until I could read them all. Then' he wrote a prescription. After I got my vglasses, things seemed so bright and clear. Now I can see everything on the blackboard. By Beverly Scott 2. The people of China were said to -have been the first ones to wear glasses but no one can re­ call who first invented them. The first hooks were high in expense but later ma^^were made and the cost waiFcneaper. People be- 'when. -lh„ey read, some, people could not stand the strain. That’s when they be­ gan buying glasses* By Charles Wilson 3. A prism is a three cornered piece o f glass. More than two hundred years ago there was a wise man who was "playing with a prism. His name was Sir Isaac Newton. Then people* believed that all light was white. A beam of sunlight is a. bundle of colored rays, A prism Shows different colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and Violet. The colors mixed together made white. New­ ton sat in the garden blowing bubbles. He wanted to find out why light striking the bubbles made such pretty colors. How the neighbors laughed! If they knew what he was really doing, they would have laughed even harder! He was chasing rainbows! » By Ruth Ann King The department arranges for speakers, movies and the like for health education such as, social hygiene lecturer, movies on Tu­ berculosis and nutrition films, Altogether, Miss Lane and Dr, Savage are doing a thorough job tejmake sure we stay healthy and u. A health lecture will he pre­ sented to high school students on Wednesday, January 21. The speaker will be front the State Health Department. Semester eXams^will he given on the 22 and 23 of January, and ite semester will ccime to an enc In a game in which Osborn Bath' fairly coasted to a win over Oliva Branch Friday, January 9, th* Flyers ran up 36 points to O.B.’s 20. On observing the game w« noticed that it was a little too one­ sided, Our score at the end of the first quarter was 16 to their 2, It was a taste of what O.B* . * d to one of their opponents when they scored 65 poirO to 36 of the other team. Last week we predicted a closa fighting game to be played on our floor Friday night; we are sorry that it wasn’t. Our hope is that tonight's game with West Carrollton will be a good con- * test with our able Flyers claiming the winning score. Be It Resolved A roving reporter of the Propel­ ler Blade chanced into Miss Nara- gon’s fourth grade room this week and found these resolutions had been adopted by that class and were being copied in writing class. Very good for fourth grade -*• don’t you think? I WILL TRY 1. to be more polite. 2. to be more thoughtful, 3. to study my lessons. 4. to improve my grades. Bath Flyers Rout Olive Branch DESPRATE DAN MEETS HIS MATCH CHAPTER 2 J. P, began to get exorfed, and he exclaimed^ “Quiet, you scoun­ drel, or you will,awaken,my sleep- “So you-is de little, squirt whs ■keeps grasshoppers, ' eh? Well, you’d better fix me a heaping dish with milk and sugar or I’ll moider you,” yelled the giant.' J, P. calmly replied, “Why you filthy ape, you get out of thii town right now! Ho one is going to get near my grasshoppers!” Desp’rate Dan stepped over and smacked poor, innocent little J. P, in the snout so hard that he swal­ lowed' all his teeth, Poor little J, P. lay on the floor and Desp’rate Dan stepped into the middle of the street and shot all the, windows from J. P.’s room* He then started tearing up the rest of the town, and the bartender finally succeeded in bringing J. P« hack to consciousness. When J* P. heard that Dan had shot at the windows of his clinic, he rushed up the stairs, To his great joy none of his precious grasshoppers had been harmed So he set about to sweeping up the broken glass* (To Be Concluded) Pandora's Box By BUZZING BEE #5. to keep healthy, % ' . to prevent accidents* 7. to keep my desk, room, and school building clean, 8, to be present every day on time* ?. to he calm, and quiet around j 5. .ssko&< ati&Jsa&feny. & t||i It seems ^Ihat Santa brought a lot more than toys to two young people on Christmas morning . . , Well, if you’re interested, h» brought the chicken pox to Bever­ ly Scott and Bill Pascoe * * * W* hear that the 0th Safety Patrol is on its toes (as Walter Winched would say) . , , Orchids to thif Patrol . . . Oh my, it seems that one little animal didn’t kftow just 1where he yas going * . . Why? * . . Well, the Winston’s cat hid in their ice box for a day (surely he wasn't" that warm!) . . . We hear that there might be a popular co-ed contest and there are two young ladies who would certainly be li* the running , *. Yes, Miss Bonnif Maroc of Miss Eagon’s 6th grad# room and^ Miss Marilyn Snider of Miss Phillip’s home room . * * Good luck, girls* you must havj. •wbaMt -*i | " l l