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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1956)
School at Falls City 1 WkJ JL iiT3 lis a J re 3 IlCi District Pays Cost of Food For 130 Pupils By JAJJ OVEJHOLSER Villey Cerrrspondfit FALLS CITY - "A well fed stu rfent is a good student," said J H. Bond, principal of the Falls City Grammar School, proudly. "At least he's better than a hungry one," he added as we watched the last of 130 students getting a large steaming hot bowl of spaghetti and hamburger and a portion of cheJdar cheese off the counter. As the Oregon Statesman's Falls City correspondents, I visited the school to see just how the well thought-of program is carried out. I found facts that may help other schools that would like to have an effective yet inexpensive hot lunch program. ' Provided By District The Falls City Grammar School Serves a hot dish each day to each ef its students at no charge what ever. This is provided by the school district which has a special budg et voted annually to cover the meals. This year a sum of J900 was voted and will provide' a salary of $73 a month for a cook as well as the food for the fpur-to-five month period when hot meals are served. Provided la Winter Hot lunches are only provided during the coldest winter months when it is difficult for the stu dents to ga home for lunch. This year the program started about Nov. 1 and will continue until April 15. Broken down into individual meals it means that meajs are served for less than 7 cents each If the wage of the cook is included, oi a little more than 4 cents each meal for the food alone. Students are expected tok bring a sandwich and also a dessert if they want it but they certainly would not go hungry if they only had the hot dish served at the school. Milk Four Cents This year for the first time a commercial milk company is sell ing milk by the H-pint at ,the school for four cents a bottle but this is kept entirely separate from the hot lunch program. Over half of the students pay for and re ceive the milk. Others bring their own milk from home along with their sandwiches. Meals art served in the attrac- V, r ' 1 1 ' W, Y A. V ,14. 1 ' 1 Rod and Gun Club Elects Toepfcr SutfaniR N Srrvtr WOODEUKN-Gus TVpfer was elected president of the Woodburn Rod and Gun Club at the meeting he'd Thursday night in the city hall. Other officers are Roy Click, vice president; Bill Miller, secretary-treasurer; Herbert Hull and Tom Ostrom, executive committee. Two pictures, "Fishing for Fun." sad "Man and Dog." were shown by Ostrom. Next meeting will be March 1 and all persons interested are invited. Statesman, Salrn, Ore, Sun., Feb. 3, l;: ) (? c. II Benson Raps Demo Critics MOSKS LAKE. Wash, ifl - Sec-! rctarv of Agriculture Benson went! after his Democratic critics Fri-i day and said they have never been able to work out a peacetime pro-; gram for agriculture. j Only through war have they FALLS CITY It's always a moment of anticipation for Falls City Grammar School pupils when Mrs. August Boese (left), school cook, serves np the day's free lunch. Unlike most valley schools, this one serves substantial hot dish free each school dar to all pupils. School district pays the eost Which averages seven cents per meal. (Statesman Photo by John Erickten.) -. live green and brown basement dining room of the school. They have been prepared in the im maculate white kitchen, which is at one end of the dining room. . Sit With Teachers Serving the 130 students takes only 35 minutes, not counting time for second helpings. Each class sits together with its teacher at some of the 10 large tables of the dining room. If anything is spilled on the ta bles the children quickly clean up after themselves with a large sponge that is provided for that purpose. The children enjoy their lunches and a very happy atmos phere appears to prevail. Like Potatoes Best Although most of the studenls like everything that is served, they do have their favorites. The number-one favorite is mashed pota toes and gravy (for this 50 pounds of potatoes are used and the rich gravy contains six pounds of ham burger with meat broth and pota to water). Spaghetti and hambur ger is also a favorite. On other days vegetable soup,! potato soup, bean soup, beef and j noodles, macaroni and hamburger, 1 ox chili beans may be served. I ; The Falls City School lunch pro gramfhas a long history. It start ed so long ago that no on really remembers just when although it ; probably was about 1940 when Mrs. Richard Paul was president of the Falls City PTA and Mrs. ' Clay1 Guthridge was school clerk. Food By Donalioa The PTA talked the school board and 'Che district into paying the salary of a cook and food, was obtained, by donation. Members of the PTA canned some things, those who had cows provided milk for the days soup was served. At Christmas each year a program was given and the admission tick et was a pound of food for the hot lunch program. Cooks Scarce For a short time in the last few years hot meals were not served because a cook could not be se cured, but even then "out of hand" food was served to all. such as apples, oranges, and cheese. Everyone in the community is proud of the hot lunch program. Just seeing the well-behaved, hap py . children being served con vinced this correspondent that Principal Bond is right when he says, "The program is well worth the money." RED AIR ROUTE OPENS BERLIN Communist East Germany's new Lufthansa Airline opened its first scheduled inter national route Saturday with a flight to Warsaw, the official East German news agency ADN said. Former Dayton Farmer Passes SUteimai Ntwt Scrvtet , DAYTON Services were held in Redmond for George Burnside. 70, former Dayton resident, last week. He farmed here for many years before moving to Maupin 13 years ago. Survivors are his widow, Beulah, Maupin; one son, Cloyce. Maupin; three daughters, Mrs. Irene Ney hirt. Redmond; Mrs. Jeanette Philomath, and Mrs. Dorcas Rich ardson, Rhode Island; and one brother, Cal, The Dalles. '. Fluoridation On Stayton Agenda N' SlalrunaR Ntwt Strvlt 1 STAYTON-Fluoridation of city water will be discussed at the Stayton City Council meeting Mon day night. David M. Witter, state director of dental health, will confer with the council and will present opinions on the use of flourida tion as dental health aid. Nearby Sublimity recently fluor idated its water supply. Salem Ills. Cubs Receive Awards Statesman Kti Strrtet SALEM 'HEIGHTS - Three boys received Bear badges Friday night at the meeting of Cub Scout Pack 19 which about 80 persons attend ed. i. T.he Bear badges went to Scott Armstrong. John Knapp and Dickie Voght. Wolf awards were present ed to Douglas Rector, John Horton and Alan Blanchard. Mrs. Charles kaapp's den won the attendance award. The annual Blue and Gold banquet here will be held Friday. Feb. U. " been able tn show any accompli V ments for the farmers." he s.-: I "No political party can take cred.t foe high prices during war un!j they wait to take, responsibility for the bloodshed and inflation of war." . Benson made ffio comments ct a $23-a-p!ate Republican luncheon in Pullman. Wash., and then cam here for another fund-raising banquet. Eastern Star Honors 7 Charter Members Stale iiiiu Nii Sfrvlr ' GERVAIS Charter members we: a honored at the meeting Fri day night of Getvais Chapter 11S, Order of Eastern. Star. The" chap ter was instituted Feb. 1, 1915 and there are seven charter members remaining in the membership. Mrs. George 'A. Ramp, worthy matron, and. Fred McClaughry, worthy patron, presided over the meeting. Refreshments were in charge of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Ramp and Mr. and Mrs. Ger ald Andresen. , . Honeymoon to Wail 25 Years LEXINGTON, Ky. Charles Edison Gill's honeymoon will have to wait 23 years. He obtained a license Friday to wed Miss Dorothy Ruth Cartmill, 27. of Maysville, Ky., but Gill was sentenced Jan. H to serve 2S years in prison for the $10,049 robbery, of .the 4ank o( Germantown, Ky., last Nov. 26. Group Named to Study Alcoholism Among Indians WASHINGTON UrT- Indian Com missioner Glenn L. Emmons of a J-man commission to study alcoholism among Indians. : Emmons said the group will be gto in the near future a J-month study of the Navajo reservation in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico and on other reservations in New Mexico and Colorado. Dayton Fanrr bureau -Elects Cecil Will StaUimaa Newt Service DAYTON - Cecil Will has been elected president of the Dayton Farm Bureau. 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