Show w r I IThe The Sage I J News or of the he Go Grand County High l ton Junior Prom The Junior Prom was as held Friday e evening was one of the most successful social affairs of the year The theme was as moonlight on time the desert and the Juniors had con con- contrived to tUrn the gym into a truly enchanting place Under a canopy of blue slimy shy thickly thick studded with stars and against a ba background of spruce trees cactus and soaP eed the dancers had no difficulty in en enjoying enjoying themselves There was even evenSo evena So a moon and the sand hills could be seen in the distance The s shell tlell of sage a the illusIOn of the thede de desert ert The music was W furnIShed by bythe bythe the DeBeque orchestra Many of the girls wore lovely new ne gowns which added to the beauty of the I scene Because of the war It tool took care careful I ful Cui thought to find a theme th that t I would bo be as effective and beautiful and whiCh could be carried out m in materials ls easily obtainable The theme proved just they were ere searching for as it filled all the re requirements and was pensive inexpensive There was a great deal of work for bc both th the sponsor Mr Wayne McConkie Conkie and for the Junior class but the results more than justified the effort The prom was one of the most inexpensive Ine ones ever held in Grand high lugh and the juniors and the school are justly proud of that record It proves that It Is not the amount of money that brings the best results but the thought and effort expended There sins as a large cro crowd d in at atto to with some representation from nearby towns and aU all report an enjoyable able evening Congratulations Juniors I Desert Rat Rats Hike On Saturday the Desert Rats under the guidance of Wayne Mc McConkle McConkie Conkle Conkie and L T McKinney hiked at Devils s Garden where here they looked at the various urious kinds of arch arches arches es and rock formations to be found there Mr McKinney took the Rats out in his truck almost to the Dark Angel From thele the parts part PIO seeded through the rest or of the Gar Garden Garden den while Mr McKinney dros dro droe e a the truck farther on to the lower lo end of S Salt lt valley alley The entire party cam came together again at Landscape arch whore where they ate theIr lunch Landscape is the longest arch in inthis inthis this country and lacks lachs only nine feet of being as long as our foot football football ball field It v was as agreed by all that the sight of this one arch alone was wasell well ell worth orth the trIp At Pine PineTree Tree Tiel arch the party split and some went back to the truck while the went on to the Arch In the Making which is now a arch Besides the members of the club w e had as our guests Miss Marguer Marguerite rte ite Riordan Miss Barstow instructor instructor tor in textiles at East high school Salt Like City Miss Holbrook ph physical education instructor B Y YU YU U and Mrs Mary Al Although though the day was cloudy at ar d cold the luke hike was as greatly enjoyed by all Personals Superintendent Helen M Knight VISited the Thompsons and CISCO schools Tuesday In company with ith Mss MIS Jennie Jenme public health nurse She found school work ork pro greasing nicely At Thompsons the school children In addition to their regular work had made an afghan of knItted squares which wIll be pre to the Red Cross The children are justly proud of this I afghan At Cisco the cl ildren were ere busy making Easter posters which they had ingeniously tied m in with the sale I of war 1 bonds and stamps One child I had ills his Easter bunny holding a pla pia placard card advising ad one and all to buy war bonds and stamps Sidney B Clark Jr entered the eighth grade last week eEk For the past ear and a half he had been beena a student in the Thompsons school lie He attended school m in Moab before and sa say s he is 15 glad to be back Editorial Every year about this time everY everYone everyone one becomes become graduation minded You overhear thIs remark frequent frequently ly Iy My you are lucky to be graduating I But is tl ti at really true Are they lucky GraduatIon for forman I IAre man many means going out into the thew w orld and making a living What are jou ou able to do dog How can you earn a living You must mike enough for food clothing and shel shelter shelter ter Sounds grim doesn doen t it its Few of ofus ofus us remember that graduation means progressing by steps In school If we do not study for a test by keep keeping keeping ing UD each day s assignment we wedo wedo do not stand a very ery good goad chance of passing So be it Is In life One must study if he is to pass the var various lows ious tests that he must meet School is preparation for life and most of us forget that Until w e am al e ready to graduate Then we ve begin to wIsh that we had studied a little harder or ha taken that SCIence or math that we omitted m in our COUlse couise a Year or two ago because it was as hard We might need that train train- training training ing sometIme Let us who are still under class classmen men begin to realize that life is 11 r al life is earnest md and that we e need the training that an education gives gI us Moab Track Meet MeetA MeetA A track meet will be held here on AprIl 23 between Cortez and Moab with some entrants from Monticello and BlandIng The regonal track meet has been sifted d up a 1 week and will be held Wednesday April 28 in Price First and second puce winners in this meet will enter the state meet at Salt S Lake City MW May 8 Another track meet will be held In Cos Saturday May 1 Coach D vitt is anticipating having a strong one mile relay team to enter In in these meets Tom Tibbetts and Ken Somerville are silo sho ving up very well ell In the sprints Having the track meet here one 1 week eek from Friday will III necessitate con considerable lder ble work ork to get the track m m snap How However ver we hope to have haveIt haveit I It In fairly good goad conditIon If any anyone one lone feels In need of some good clean I exel exercise and he doesn t have to be beof beof of school age to qualify he can be sure of a warm welcome elcome and a hoe or a rake to work ork with Boost for Moab and come ou and help you men for It its s worth orth a million dol dollars dollars lars and it doesn t cost a cent Grade News The first gl aders are working hard to get their numbers ready for forthe forthe the program this coming Friday night We hope all of ours parents will come The fut grade bought 31 35 In defense this week The firth fifth grade rade has been studying about Mexico and ls i e products The fifth grad aL aLso o has a project on soils learning ho v to plant seeds the compo lUon of soil contour farming and the like Kay Dalton and Max Cooley are tre making a mini miniature miniature farm from clay After it dries It will be colored w Ith n ester colors |