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Show Week -Long Stamp Drive Sees South "Over the Top" South's one week war bond and stamp drive concluded with the result of $28,384.30 worth of fight stacked against the Axis. Not stopping at the original quota of $10,000, the students exploded over the top, reaching the final p-notch total recorded above. A special assembly on April 15 announced to the school plans for this gigantic bond drive to commemorate the famous ride of Paul Revere, and incidentally, Hitler's Hit-ler's birthday. This was sponsored spon-sored by the Board of Control. Members from the' armed service ser-vice were on the assembly and urged the students to buy until it hurts the Axis. Larry Hanks, former South president and now a member of the navy, stated that he thought from his past experiences that South could and would do it. Other outstanding features were a former Ogden High school alumnus, who sang and told of his thrilling escape from the Japs. A WAAC, also a South alum, gave reasons for investing our money in war bonds. Milton Holl-stein's Holl-stein's speech at the end plead with the students to fill the quota for the boys out on the front. Dexter McGarry conducted a talent assembly April 22, auctioning auction-ing each act for pledges in war bonds and stamps. The student body and faculty raised $4,500 in an hour and a half. With Julie Spitz representing the girls' point of view concerning concern-ing the war bond campaign, Kirk Brimley representing the Board of Control, Ernest Poulson representing repre-senting the ROTC, Darrel Long . representing the athletes, and Milton Mil-ton Hollstein, who acted as chairman chair-man of the committee, a rebroad-cast rebroad-cast of the program was presented originally in the music room was given over KDYL April 24 at 2 p. m. |