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Heppner Gazette Times, November 4, 1943 3 BOARDMAN NEWS AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK 1943 Soldiers Moved to Walla Walla From Camp at Boardman By MARGARET" THORPE All the soldiers have left the local camp but 24. They were ta ken to Walla Walla Suday from where they will be sent to other location, Some of the boys leaving have been at the camp here for two years. Chas. Goodwin put new roofing on Gorham's store this! week. M:. Goodwin is an old Boardnoanite. Mr. andl Mfc-a Eldon Shannon and daughter returned the firt of the week from the coast where Mr. Shannon has been employed. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Flocks vis ited at the Ed Kuntz home this week. Mr. Flocks ha,9 been em ployed at Eugene. Home Economics club met at the home of Minnie McFarland Wed nesday with a large crowd , out. A community pot luck dinner was planned for Thanksgiving day. The seventh and eighth grades put on a program at school Wed nesday. Mo?t of the rooms at school had a Hallowe'en party Thursday aft ernoon. Silver on the Sage was the show at the grange hall Saturday night. This was followed by cards and dancing. Mrs. Kenneth Nolt returned Fri day from Bremerton, Wash, where she has) been with her husband who recently underwent an opeia tion. Carl Miles fell from a horse Sunday and broke his leg. Terry Yeager had hi foot run over by a tractor Monday. He was taken to a doctor but found it only sprained. Mrs. Klitz returned from the Pen dleton hospital Saturday where she nas been for a week with an in jured foot. She is much improved. Mrs. Berna McReynolda spent the week end at the Nate Macom ber home. Mr. and Mrs. Lou Morgan moved to the Weston farm to make their home. They expect to build a new house right away. Lexington News Hallowe'en Dance Attracts Big Crowd At Lexington Hall A large crowd attended the Hal lowe'en masquerade dance held at the Leach Memorial hall Saturday night. Dean Hunt of Lexington and Evelyn Valentine of Heppner re ceived prizes. Mrs! C. C. Carmichael was quite ill the past week but has improved enough to be back in her store. Alice Carder of Clarinda, Iowa is visiting her lister. Mrs. Clifford Yarnell. Mrs. Gene Gray returned to her home in Stanfield after spending two weeks at the Merritt Gray home. Patricia McMillan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted McMillan, receiv ed a compound fracture of her right arm when she fell from the school sjlide recently. . Sgt. Irvin Rauch returned to his station at Moses Lake, Wash, after spending his furlough with his pa rent?1, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Rauch and sister Jean. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Taylor of iPortland were visitors' the past week at the Lon Edwards' home. Mrs. Clarence Hayes entertained with a Hallowe'en party for her little daughter. Janice. Monday af ternoon. The Hallowe'en motif was carried out with the decorations. Guests were Marilyn Munkers, Ka ren Valentine, Sandra Whillock Doris Grant. Betty Lou Messenger, Joan Breeding, and Jean Barnhouse and the honoree. Sgt. Vivian White, with his mo ther and father, Mr. and Mrs. Neil White of Pilot Rock visited at the home of his grandmother, Mrsi. Sarah White Sunday. He will re turn to duties in California soon. Mrs. Alex Hunt i a patient in the Heppner hospital She is report- Cducation lot ticfau i i , MIVLMHtK 7 "I J education fo Wok CditcatiAH jot Ute Ai JMONUAt, NOVEMBER I TLESIMl. CJucatiaH fa Wattims CitifuuLift Mtetina tUa I I I I i I njn : : THURSDAY, MO EMBER II FKIIMY. By Mrs. Lucy Rodger s American education week grew out of conditions revealed by World War 1. Twenty-five percent of the men examined in the draft were found to be illiterate and 29 percent were physically unfit. Members of the newly formed Am erican Legion were eager to help correct these conditions. When a campaign of education appeared to be the only an,swer, they consulted with the officers of the National Education association and the United States office of education. A$ a result of these conferences, American Education week was first observed in 1921. In 1938, the national congress) of parents and teachers became a fourth official national sponsor. American edu cation week is observed annually beginning on Sunday of the week which includes Armistice day. People who attend movies say when the complete program has been shown. "This where we came in." It is appropriate to ap ply this "(tatement to the present situation in which our nation finds itself. A vast amount of illiteracy and physical unfitness wa$ reveal ed in World War 1. Now, in an other and greater war we find a repetition of .spine of the same con ditions in 1918. It is estimated that at least a "million men who have been inducted into the army or who face induction are di,Squali fied for the sole reason that they do not have the equivalent of a fourth grade education considered necessary by the army, although they meet the physical specifica tions ' Coupled wfith edective Service findings are the reports of the 1940 census which $hows that 13.5 per cent of all adult citizens 25 years of age or more do not have as, much as a fourth grade education. This means that there are three times as many illiterates a there are college graduates. Facts such aisj these serve to remind us that (public education is indispen ed to be improved. Vernon Scott of Portland visited over the week-end at , the Carl Whillock home. Mrs. Cliff Daugherty underwent an operation in The Dalles Friday. Vonnie Daugherty is staying at the Al Fetsch home during her moth er's absence. Mrs. Sarah White is reported im proved since her recent' illness. Her son -in-law and daughter, Mr. 'and Mrs. Lee Galbraith of Dayton, Wash, are pending the winter with her. Mr and Mrs. Clfford Yarnell took their mother, Mrs. H. E Yarnell to a hospital in The Dallesl Friday for medical attention Four Lexington boys who recent ly were inducted into the various branches of the fDrvice are Carl Marquardt into the "SeaBees"; Bill Nichols the army, and Leonard Munkers and Claude Way the navy. Mrs. Ralph Jackson and daugh ters Marcie and Carol i-'lpent the week-end here from The Dalles. The girls are attending St. Mary's academy. Mr Jackson's mother. Mrs. Laura Scott who has been visiting in The Dalles returned with them. education - o SI NDAV, NOVEMBER 7 education la 1iU and StcWi tU Pac MMLMULH 9 WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER It miujMaf Cducatiou jot Sound JmM. MniMllkK 12 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER It sable to the maintenance of the democratic way of life. "Education for Victory" is the general theme for this' 23rd annual observance of American education week, Nov. 7-13, 1943. Today, when we come to realize as never before the power of ideas in shaping the actions of men, and the conse quent importance of the schools in the nation's victory program. Despite many handicap, the schools are doing a remarkable task in the all-important educa tional aspect of the war, They are preparing succeeding graduation: classes in the nation'sj high schools for the armed forceisl and for places in industry; they have accepted many extra tasks imposed by war needfo. Meantime, they have con tinued to carry their regular load of preparing 27,000.000 boys and girls for the opportunities and re sponsibilities of American citizen ship. Education is a vital part of the war effort. But even if education were not related to ihe immedi ate war effort, it would be a sui cidal ls)ocial policy to neglect the schools in war time, o forsake the school would be to nelect our children. And what are we fighting for except the right of our children to live in a free world? Education for victory is more than the (provision of basic technical training and iphjj-ical fitness to the end that we may speedily be victorious on the field of battle. Education for victory today is like wise the preparation needed to provide an enduring victory in the yearis of difficult readjust ments that must be made to se cure the peace. Our school are carrying on programs to equip the youth of today to win the peace to come. All parents and all others in terested in public education are given a very special invitation to visit the schools at any time and particularly during American Ed ucation week. General Electric Has Many Women on Its Extensive Payroll General Electric and its affili ated companies at present have ap proximately 71,000 or 38 percent women in its employ, four times the number before the war, a state ment issued by the company today revealed. This number is equiva lent to the total number of all em ployes of the company in 1939. Two of its apparatus plants have passed the 50 percent mark in female em ployes, one which is engaged in the manufacture of electric meters and aircraft instruments, now employ ing 5 percent women. Employes now total approximate ly 192,000. which is two and one half times the total in 1939. At pre" sent General Electric has 3G.000 in the armed services and 111 have made the supreme sacrifice. The first professor of agriculture was Edgar Grimm, appointed 1883. 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