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SECTION TWO — PAGE EIGHT THE ENTERPRISE, ALTAMONT, N. Y., FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1957 Berne Masonic Notes The entered apprentice degree •will be conferred at the next regular com- munication of Berne Lodge Saturday night, when Senior Warden Donald Snyder will act as worshipful master, with the other, bfficers advancing one station or place. Senior Warden Donald Snyder and Past Master Earl WilMatason attend- ed the visit of D. D. G. M. Herbert Bowen to Ancient City Lodge an Al- bany last Wednesday night. Uhai Chapter The annual birthday party of Uhai Chapter, OES, was observed at the stated meeting Tuesday night, with members^ of Helderberg Chapter of Altamont\ as invited guests. A dinner preceded the meeting, and a hilarous entertainment followed. The principal part of the entertain- ment was a song fest of \old 'time songs\ directed by Historian Flavia O'Brien, in old time full dress male attire and silk hat, with Sister Teresa Weidman at the piano at her best as usual. The leading quartet consisted of Associate Matron Peggy Filkins, Conductress Ethel Davis, and Past Matrons Arlene Lendrum and Jean O'Brien, in old time male attire, silk and derby hats. Suitable antics accompanied the singing. The mem- bers and visitors 1 joined in the sing- ing, which continued for about an hour, ending with \When You and I Were Young, Maggie,\ when Past District Deputy Grand Matron Mar- garet O'Brien appeared in a school- girl knee-length dress, black stock- ing, and hair down her back, skip- ping rope. She was followed by Leo in school-boy knee-pants-, waist and straw hat. He frantically tried to elude her as she followed him about, trying to get him to kiss her. She finally got him to kiss her twice while sharing a lolly pop. It was a great pleasure for Uhai to entertain Worthy Matron Betty ibpaaaro, Worthy Patron Pat Spa- daro (who have unexpectedly visited us many times) and between 40 and 50 members of Helderberg Chapter of AHamont. The three-story birthday cake on a revealing stand, made by the worthy patron, was baked by his mother, Flavia O'Brien. Worthy Matron Helen Crosier and Worthy Patron Leo O'Brien presided Gifts were presented to charter mem- bers. Berne-Knox Central Schools TREFOIL SEED SCHOOL The postponed Birdsfoot trefoil seed production school of Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics will be held today from 1:30 to 3:30 at the Foxenkill Grange hall, between Berne and East Berne. Baked (bread ttait has been stored in ithe freezer ifchaws quickly because it contains Mittle moisture. Kindergarten: Mrs. Risley We enjoyed a trip to the Schoon- maker sugar bush on Wednesday. Mr. Jones, our bus driver, helped us enjoy every minute of our trip. Mr. Schoonmaker had a hay wagon all prepared for our ride down through the fields to the '\bush.\. We ran through the woods, peeking into the buckets and watching the sap drip from the spiles. In the saphouse, we watched 'the sap boil and the vapor pouring toward the vent in the roof. Mrs. Schoonmaker gave us each a taste of hot syrup, also maple sugar made in the shape of a maple leaf. Billy Jacobs' and Bobby La Grange's mothers went with us, also Peter Yarmchuk's grandmother. On Thursday, we made pictures and wrote a story about our trip. Mrs. Risley made waffles for lunch, which we ate with maple syrup. On Friday, we saw a film, \Maple Sap to Maple Sugar.\ Kindergarten: Mrs. Saddlemire Donnie Dexter, Jimmy Brooks and Linda Dudley celebrated their sixth birthday. Mrs. Hart sent us de- licious cupcakes so we celebrated all their birthdass on Tuesday. Spring must be here. We all have seen a robin. We found some green grass in front o four school. We saw lots of pussy willows on our way to the sap bush. We certainly thank Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs for letting us come. We enjoyed tasting the sap, but the maple syrup was even better. What a good treat Mrs. Hart gave us! We have decided to make a book because everyone made so | and many good pictures about this trip. We thank Susie Hart's daddy for sending us some rabbit pellets and a •salt lick for our bunny. We certain- ly enjoy having him in our room. Grade 1: Mrs. Sholtes On Monday, Robert Schoonmaker brought cakes of maple sugar shaped like a maple leaf for each boy and girl in the room, Stephanie Doran had a birthday on Mar. 19. We all sang \Happy Birthday\ to her. Joseph Thorington also had a birthday on Wednesday. John Bensen has been absent this past week due to illness. Grade 1: Mrs. Quay We had one day of perfect at- tendance this week. Steven Herzog, Barbara Garry, Susan Tatro, and Rise Van Iderstien have perfect at- tendance to date. The housekeepers have been Avis Carl and Dewitt Carl. One group of readers are now in \Our New Friend.\ They like these stories. Gail Przysieeki brought a lovely bouquet of pussy willows for our room. We are sorry that Pamela Stalker fell while playing outdoors. She missed a day of school. The birthdays of Wilfred Russell ^i^^^^Bi^^Bi^ smMm:im —1957 MOBllLl AEI! NOW AVAILABLE — Ask Your Willys Dealer for an on-the-job demonstration! MINER'S GARAGE — WILLYS DEALER — 787 STATE ST. SCHENECTADY, N. Y. Phone FR 4-9271 LOOKING) FOR RESULTS? Try WIRTHMORE Complete Chick Starter Here's an economical feed that is especially well suited for starting replacement chicks. It is high in. quality proteins and contains the vitamins and other factors known to be needed for early chick growth and health. You'll save money with this dependable ration. Available In mash, pellets and crumbles — with medication against coccidiosis. Why not try ft and Check the results for yourseirr WIRTHMORE FEEDS LUMBER-COAL • BUILDING SUPPLIES . .-^ POULTRY! DAIRY FEED — i„ r Hottu oft • c- ' SUPER XFEEOS i ALTAMONT, N.Y 1-8543 uMbii 1-8543 and Warren WMsey were celebrated. They are the last in our room until We had a nice treat on Warren's birthday with lovely cupcakes for all, fans for the girls, and a toy for the boys. Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Will- sey for the party. Grade 2: Mrs. White For our St. Patrick's Day art les- son we made shamrocks, pipes, and hats. Miss White's mother sent a real shamrock plant for us to see and put in our window. This week we made pictures of signs of spring. Our leaders were Karen Bunzey and Thomas Stevens. We have seen several robins. Mary Kinnaird shared her book, \Birds at Home,\ with us. Our teacher read to us about the robin from Mary's book. Stanley Haluska brought a nice plant for our room. It will be fun to watch it grow. Thomas Ernst returned to school after being absent several weeks due to illness. We are very happy to have him back with us. It was nice of Stephen Masiowski to share his magazine, Arizona High- ways, with us. We are continuing our study of the seasons by learning many things about spring. Grade 3: Mrs. Lockwood , One of our reading groups, after] finishing \The New Streets and Roads,\ chose a story to dramatize. They chose \Fluffy Tail and the Peanut Hunt.\ Everyone enjoyed watching them so much that the boys in a group reading in \More Streets Road,\ wanted to dramatize \The Young Cowboy.\ This was fun to watch, but I'm afraid some of the cowboys were pretty heavy for their horses and also rather rough with the calves they roped. Another group did the story, \The Animals Get Up Early.\ Our science exhibit is growing. Joanne Tork brought an iris that is sprouted. The zinnia seeds that Bev- erly Schoonmaker brought have started to grow. The little plants are about an inch in height. These people .have also plant seeds: Carol T., Jimmy, Darlene, Joanne and An- nette. Grade 3: Mrs. Sherman This week we have been learning about Switzerland. Robin Hamsner- shaimb was able to tell us quite a little about this country because she has been there three times. We have seen many beautiful pictures and have made some of our own. Mich- ael Driemil'ler from Mrs. Kane's 6th grade came in our day and told us many interesting things. Mrs. Harn- mershaimb has promised to come in next week and tell us more. Katherine Stapleton read a Swiss story about \William Tell.\ Mrs. Sherman is reading the story \Heidi which Katie brought us. Glenis Carl and Katie are making Swiss dresses for paper dolls. Sev- eral of us worked on a poster for our windows. We tried two experiments to prove that air is everywhere and that it has force or pressure. We made pin- wheels, too.! I t was fun, but most of •them got torn before we got home. Grade 4: Mrs. Gage Each week we are learning many interesting things about our world. G. Gilbert brought a geography game called Pirate Traveler. We have fun playing with it. We are learning to reads maps. Some of us have drawn maps this week. James Golden brought an atlas to school to show us. We are learning how people in hot, dry lands live. We are finding out many interesting things about deserts and irrigation. One day we wrote riddles. We en- joyed reading them and guessing the answers. Grade 5: Mrs. Hallenbeck This week in social studies we made charts on the North Central States of what their farm products are and what their manufacturing products are. This morning we saw a movie in our classroom and saw how pioneers settled around the Great Lakes. We also drew pictures about the story, Mrs. Hallenbeck read us called \By Wagon and Flat- boat.\ Grade 6: Mrs. Kane We are glad that Timmy Smith is back to school after being ill. In social studies we are working on Germany and the countries around it. We saw film strips Wednesday on famous scientists. We enjoyed them very much. Monday we are going to start studying about spring birds in sci- ence. We hope our first issue of our grade newspaper, \Uhai News,\ will be out next week. Grade 6: Mrs. Filkins We have completed the study of Holland in social studies and have used an art project in connection with it. The bulletin boards have been decorated with windmills and people in Dutch costumes while the boys have constructed windmills and dikes for our art covers. Grade 9: Mr. Benenati We will present \Mother is a Freshman,\ with Loretta Young, on the evening of Mar. 29, in the Berne- Knox gym. With it will b e featured cartoons in color. WESTERLO GRADE SCHOOL Grades 3, 4, 5: Mrs. Cornell We are all very sorry that Nickie Ferrandino had to leave our school He has returned to Albany and will attend school there. We are hoping he will write to us so we can keep in touch with him. The only absentee last week was .Deborah Hannay, She was at home three days with a sore throat. At the last Hobby Club meeting the members voted to buy a Berne-Knox yearbook. It was also decided that we would have Hal von Linden the photographer, take individual grade pictures when he come to our school on April 4. Easter plans, and room decorations will begin next week. There will be a decorating committee appointed by our club president, Michael De Groff. The Navy's USS Philippine Sea earned her nickname of \Show Boat\ to 1949 when she visited many a foreign port as a good will ambas- sador. She aslo played in. an MOM, 'movie and 1 appeared on TV. | Notes To You (From the Guidance Department of Guilder-land Central High School) Science Fiction - Today's Fact The National Association of (Manu- facturers has 'prepared an interest- ing 'booklet entitled \Your Opportuh- ities in Industry as a Technician,\ The first chapter shows 'the develop- ment of today's science. Not many hundreds of years ago mapmakers wrote on the edges of their maps, \Here Be Dragons.\ This marked the geographic limits of the known world. When Galileo reported that he (had found the moons of Jupiter, 'People event refused to look through ™s telescope (because they \knew\ 'tihat .the moons d Jupiter did not ex- ist. •When Roentgen discovered rrJhat a powerful ray could penetrate flesh and reveal the bone structure, a Lon- don newspaper expressed horror at even thanking of such things and urged that X-ray be banned. No longer do citizens attempt to wreck new machiens. No longer does the populace in general fight scientific advances. AMhugh we still have a few skeptics, modern sci- ence and technology are generally accepted. . The recorded knowledge in science in the past 50 years is greater than a 2 recor ded knowledge previous to that time. Today, we have 40,000 scientific journals published through- out the world. One hundred years ago we had no industrial laboratories, today we have 3,000 laboratories which spend over $4 billion annually for research and development. Albany Printer Invents Plastic The 'booklet points out that the modern plastic industry was (born in 'bhe home laboratory of John Wesley Hyatt, -an Albany printer. In the 80s, ivory was used for billiard balls. When billiards became more popular and ivory tusks less plenti- ful, a $10,000 reward was offered tor the discovery of a substitute for j ivory. John Hyatt won the award with his homemade nitrated cellu- I lose. This first known plastic was a celluloid used for collars, cuffs, shirtfronts arid cutlery handles. Dr. 'Leo H. Baekeland discovered the plastic called Bakelite in his tern laboratory. After four years of research he comibined phenol (a household disinfectant, better known as carbolic acid) and formaldehyde to create Bakelite phenalic resin. Today, we have 14 'basic different kinds of plastics and Americans spent $2 billion a year for mater- ials made of plastic. We 'know .the stories of 'Other scien- tific geniuses as Edison, DeForest and Steinmetz, but we do not recog- nize the number of technicians re- quired in our society today who are needed to help translate scientific ideas and discoveries into useful pro- duets and „ services. The booklet •points out that .we need between five and seven technicians for One profes^ sional engineer. The job of the technician is described' as, \He uses drawing Instruments, igauges, applied science, mathematics, diagnosis and analysis, common sense, initiative and good judgment in turning .the ideas and theories of the engineer into mass-produced items. He col- lects data, makes computations, per- forms laboratory tests and turns dn 5reporits. (He builds, supervises and controls the machines in our plaints and offices. He's a key man at' atomic installations, in aircraft and automobile factories, and a ls'o •serves as a trouMe-s'hooter dn elec- tronics laboratories.\ .• Women as well a s men are needed as technicians. . Special reports of ithe work of the electric power tech- nician, diesel technician, instrumen- tation technician, air conditioning technician, chemical technician, tool design technician, aviation techni- cian, industrial technician, and elec- tronics technician are presented. The .booklets may toe borrowed from the guidance office. 29 Students Attend Health Careers Meeting Twenty-nine students from the 10th and ll'th grades < .attended a •meetings at the New York State Health Department building on Wed- nesday, March 27. Mrs. Luevanos iand Mrs. Jenner accompanied the group. Careers in medical technol- ogy, nursing, physical therapy, oc- cupational ^therapy* and 'medical so- cial work.,wel>e discussed. Boys Needed in Food Service Robert Griswold of the Agricultur- al and: .Technical Institute' at Delhi, N. Y., visited bur school last week. He talked -with several students •albout opportunities available at Del- hi- There is a shortage in the field of food service workers. ' He told of (beginning positions paying about $100 a week which could not-be filled 'because there were no qualified can- didates. Boys are especially need- ed to take this two-year course. Advertise in the Enterprise. Few amateurs are qualified to do a professional job of repairing de- fective electric cords and appliances. And, unless electrical repair work meets professional specifications, the repaired object is generally unsafe to use. This warning comes from' the Institute for Safer Living of the Am- erican Mutual Liability Insurance Company, which states that defective and unsafe use of electrical equip- ment is one of the three greatest causes of home fires. The hog excels all other farm an- imals in the eoonomy with which he convents feed into edible flesh. Easter Shoes BY AMERICAN JUNIOR INFANT TO TEEN-AGE BEAUTIFUL PATENT LEATHER PUMPS FOR GIRLS MANNISH BLACK OR BROWN - FOR BOYS ^'ALBANY'S LARGEST SUBURBAN DEPARTMENT STORE\ WE GIVE S & H GREEN STAMPS Westmere Dept. Store 1823 Western Avenue PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER WESTMERE OPEN EVENINGS — L cwrcer me*AMM)-/r-A[.L* &?/£#£> A*sw«£y &/rs/ yaw? $Er.ftA/£AfE AHCX&IC. &* EXPERT SERVICE. GUILDERLAND RADIO-TELEVISION 2301 Western Ave. PHONES: Enterprise 9796 — Albany 8-4420 6 OX 6 SUnOH Can you afford to spend $90 per $1,000 just for school taxes? Do you know how high it actually will go? WE APPARENTLY HAVE A SYSTEM OF EDUCA- TION DICTATED BY THE STATE EDUCATION COM- MISSIONER. ARE THE RESULTS WORTH THE PRICE WE ARE PAYING? xOUR VOTE ON THE SCHOOL BOND ELECTION — MARCH 30 — CAN SHOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE SATISFIED. Guilderland Taxpayers Association. 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