M,~Y II, 1944 ~ PAGE SEVEN
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Published by the Students of Avalon High School and Edited by the Eleventh and Twelfth Year English Classe
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UME Will THUIiSDAY, MAY II, 1944,- ,- % .4 '
NUMBER 3g
TIIE PASSING PARADE ~ " " "
MAY BREAKFAST. ADVANCED A, RITHMET|C -,-~ ~)- MEMORIALDAY SCHEDULE.
TEST TAKEN. -- '
ntle but determined little On Monday, May 8.th, all the girls Thi~ year-the AvaJp.u- Schools will
trails us about our incom- in the j.unior and senior high schoolA survey test in ad, van~t,h- have n9" vacation on Memorial I~y,
keeps checking up on our attended the annual May-day break- tactic was taken by (he 8th~ gra--~t~is F ~Mhy :'30.~<
)rograms and progress in the fast. Each girl brought a May bus- week. The results wil.f'~b~ cotilpa'~ed t, ~ ~h~ main 'reason for this is that
Is our counselor, Miss Cairo- ket and the one with the prettiest with other eighth grades thl:c~ughdutA',;alon studen'ts had an extra day dur-
won a prize.
whowas born March 20th-
day of winter-in western
Her childhood and teen
Spent in the historic Pitts-
She attended a high
on the SUl)posed site of the
~tle known as Braddock's
used to visit Cdaambers-
where her
home had been ram-
partly burned by the rebels
: Civil Var. She recalls
Irew Carnegie speak when
was dedicated.
mg to California, Miss
Stanford University,
University, from
~r restitution she received
degree in 1941. She has
'of our faculty for some
Canyon, where she at one
six weeks, and where she
a Snow storm and an el-
simultaneously, was an
~er to be forgotten. The
ey is also of special in-
se of its sketching
In the East, trips were
antic City and historic
Baltimore and
C. A boat trip down
Bay and a view of
at dawn stand out viv-
travels.
has varied interests. She
the organ at church.
she had intended teaching
music, has studied three
torrents. She enjoys rely
orchestra and thinks
be a means of welding
a great brotherhood.
music and men's
er pet aversion is color-
Art has long been
m.terest, but she is quite
m her tastes. For diver-
summer she enjoys work-
garden at her Redlands'
a hammer, saw, and
equal ease. Between
to read .books on
sychology'and gets a
long letters He#
are Greet Garson
She is especially
diction of English actors
$ses.
n't have much time for
she does enjoy a hike
it or not, she used to
ts and was on a girls' bus-
,zes our cha,acters,
personality-plus
within. However, the-ex-
must not be over-
case study. She has
eyeSct~yd lovely dark
hair. She is
After a welcome speech by E~aine
Eber, the girls had breakfast. I)ur-
ing and after .breakfast, the follow-
ing program was given. Vocal solos
by Jean Long and Mrs. Barkin, sotag
by girls' quartet, piano solo by Mar-
garie Martin, and a poem by Dorothy
Shannon.
AHS
DOPES TAKE LEAD.
Last week Bombard's Dopes took
the lead in the .intramural league
when they met and defeated Salamu-
novich's VCheatie Eaters by a score
of 17 to 11. The game was very close
all the way, with both teams taking
the lead several times.
In the sixth inning, with bases load-
ed, Bombard hit a home run that
helped put the game on ice.
Both pitchers were in bad form
and allowed quite a few runs to cross
the plate.
The winning pitcher was Mead, the
losing, Salamunovich. Batteries were
Mead and Ryan, Salamunovich md
Machado.
The line-ups were as follows:
Dopes. Wheatie Eaters.
B. Mead p P. Salamunovich
S. Ryan c F. Machado
J. Sanchez Ib L. Furey
H .Hufford =2b B. Thomas
C. E&lers 3b F. Hernandez
R. Sanchez .ss L. Saldana
D. Bombard If P. Francis
cf M. Saldana
D. Maxwell rf R. Lanfranchie
mf V. Piltch
AHS
TORQUA SALES. INCREASE.
As of last Friday the total amount
brought in from the sales of Torquats
was $32. Ninety-one copies have been
requested so far, and many more will
be sold to some of the people down
town.
If you want a Torqua, you had bet-
ter order yours in advance. Daisy
Poteet and Jean Long will take all
orders. The price of the Torqua is
$1.03.
the system. It is the first of a series ing Christmas vacation.
of tesfs which will be given by Miss
Gross to the eighth grade. From
this series of iesiis will be determined
the 9th grade:classes for whiah the
students are, best fitted. Parents will
be given an opportunity to see the
results of these tests and to confer
with the counselor regarding each ml-
pil's plans for his or her )~further ed-
ucation.
AHS
INTEREST SHOWN.
Many of the visitors on operl house
night, spoke very highly of the note
books that the seventh and eighth
grade had made in Social Studies.
They said that they thought the work
was much more interesting today than
when they went to school.
They read some of the stories and
were much interested in them. Many
asked exactly what we have tried to
cover in seventh and eighth grade So-
cial Studies. They were very pleaksed
that we used no text books, but drew
upon the whole library instead.
Many thought it strange to hold a
class in the library where the children
sat around the tables instead of in
the regular class room style.
More interest was shown in the
actual work of the children than ,usual.
AHS
VOICE CLASS TO GIVE RECITAL
The voice class will give a recital on
June 5th art two o'clock in the Music
Room. Each girl is going to give a
solo.
The audience will be made up of
townspeople which each girl will have
invited.
Refreshments will be served.
The orchestra will play for Bacca-
laureate, and the Glee Club will sing
at Commencement.
Miss Frey's 7th grade English Class
last week had two conversation cla~ses.
One day they talked about dogs, and
the next day they talked about movies.
A HS
If you don't trade in Avalon we all
lose money.
" ST,~FF
EDITOR BeVy Wellander
.ASSOCIATE I~DITOR Joann Thomas
- Miss Hill
ADVIS~R
REPORTb, R$ Bud Hite, Irene Jordan,
Marcia Lazar, Jean Long, Linda Lopez, F ~nma Jean M~'weU,
Bill Mead, Pete Rikalo, Pete Salamunovich, Bill Ta.ylor, Ronald
Whitcomb, Roger Upton.
EDITORIAL
"~ DITCH DAY
group of high school people, with old
slacks, sun tan oil, dark glasses, lunches
and the rest of the things that go with-
All schools in the Long Beach dis-
trict are required to have the same
number of school days. If .we were
nqt to' attend school this extra day.
bur attendance would .be short one
day.
A. HS.
PACHUKES SLASH WHEATIE
EATERS, 12-5.
Hite's Pachukes stretched their win-
ning streak to two games by dumping
the Wheatie Eaters 12 to 5 in ~. regu-
lar hitting spree.
Salamunovich was quite wild in this
game, walking several men and al-
lowing nineteen hits. This was the
Wheatie Eaters first defeat at the
hands of the Pachukes.
Following is the line-up:
Paehukes. Wheatie Eaters.
C. Lopez, 3b L. Saldana, ss
F. Unzueta, ss M. Saidana, If
B. Furey, If L. Furey, lb
B. Hite, lb P. Francis, cf
D. Eber, p F. Hernandez, 3b
E. Taylor, ef V. Pilteh, c
B. Jordan, 2b R. Lanfranchi, scf
D. Davis, c F. Machado, rf
B. Thomas, 2b
A. H. S.
HERE AND THERE:
THIS AND THAT:
Commonsense in an uncommon de-
gree is what the woxld calls wisdom.
--Coleridge
There was a thirty-one per cent in-
cease in juvenile delinquency in 1943,
and the Children's Bureau in Wash-
ington gently waves the xtanger signal,
We ~re all rather pleased to know
that the girls are getting better, but. it
is painful to know the ,boys are grow-
ing worse. In former years the girls
led-the bad behavior procession,' but
that condition has been reversed in the
past three years.
The first pi; irOn*made in Texas
since a small blast furnace in East
Texas Waft closed at. the end of World
War I was recently turned out by
Sheffield Steel Company's new $17,000,-
000 blast furnace and coke ovens at
Houston. It will run twenty-four hours
a day;
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The demand for horses and mules in
European warfare may be less than
during World War I, due to the in-
:creased Use of mechanized units.
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The Army's oldest jeep, named
"Gramp's", ha, been turned over to the
Smithsonian Institution, where it will
take its place along with other relics
of U. S. wars.
a picnic, we hope you weren't alarmed.
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and slight of build. Cyclists in Kansas City, Missouri,
tie What does Ditch Day mean -- or We were driven to Little, Harbor in
-. sayingis, It doesn t can have their'Ncycles painted whRe
difference to me, but if what is Ditch Day? Most people two army trucks with' h~.y in.thc back,
do -thus or so--you must wonder. It sounds as if the students so it wouldn't ge quite so bfimpy go- free of charge, by their police depart-
.may ditch; and go any "place they ing aro:md those curves. V hen we ment headquarters. The Automobiie
:'But in spite {waaat to. Well, th~tt isn't exactly what arrived they all iumpedout, fonnd Club of Southern California was in;
eye when she says formed tha.t this was par. of Kansi's
tanding our faults and,it is. In the years before the war, the themselves a nice sunny spot, and pro-
a hunch thatshe students, accompanied by their chaper- ceeded to lazy. The water that day City's current drive to cut down mght
a lot ons, would leisurely ride down in one was perfect, I might add. Then about accidents im/olving bicycles.
$~'U" ', ' " of the IslAnd Company's boats to thefonr o'clock they left the little * * "
uEN ,a H b Isthmus, or one of the coves along the "Shangrila' with sunburned noses :a~ad' Accuracv of "electric eyes," the pho-.
/~ LEARN LETTERFORM Island. But after the war came, we backs, and proceeded to town. toelectric cells used in count.inK traffic,
-------- ". i, : ," had'a little disappointment. We could "['he Senior Class is also very for:u- is seriously impaired during extremely;.
aents of the tenth grade not go down the coast. We hadto hate in being- able to have their ditch hot or cold weather, unless the maeh-
te lcaruint6 how to write ' take to the picnic grounds or to meday at Four0~ of July Harbor. Mr. ines are insulated.
r0~, checks, invjta, tibns, ~ beach, a:nd "t~ke,~ it. ' '~his year !he Bomb~ird is taking them down on his * * *
correi:tl,y:" The-lnforma:Z ~ Sc:ffor High ;x~;a~ :f0rtflnate m ,oemg boat, the "Mahi Mahi." America had its Maginot and Sieg-
will .gain b, this nract- able to go to Little Harbor, thanks to Now maybe you have a. little bett'ei-fried Lines centuries ago, when Tar-
# v " - " idea of .what a ditch" day is like. ~t ascan and Aztec Indians dug extensive
Will be val.uable, to them~ .Mr. S~augh, and to the assistance;iof
They are also beifig in-lhe Army. : ". was a lot of fun and eve'ryone wishedtrenches mad fortifications for a war
er of old: So-, -- about eight Q'Clock m t.lte that the alumni in'the Service could' which may have lasted as long as two
mann ~ :, . ~ > : :~- .j: ~ : =.~
letters, morning, ~t you nal)penea to ,c~ a have been along, htmdred years, " "
