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Show i t i TLxqctc bracks t ! News of the Students and Activties at J Milford High School By LINDA SHIELDS The students of MHS were warned about the dangers of smoking by Mrs. Barbara Mayer, Milford Elementary School P.-T. A. president, in an assembly Tuesday morning. The Parent-Teacher Associa tion planned the assembly to help educate young people as to the effects of cigarets. By presenting the true facts, they hoped to prevent students from starting a dangerous, life-time habit. They also hoped to show students who smoke just exaictly what harm they are doing to their bodies. To illustrate her points, Mrs. Mayer showed a film entitled "Time Pulls the Trigger." The film discussed the different poisons found in cigaret smoke which are harmful to the body. Smoking Sam, a mannequin who actually inhaled cigaret smoke, was used to show how much tar and nicotine enters the lungs from just one cigaret. cig-aret. The entire student body found the assembly informative ond interesting. Many students stu-dents were forced to reconsider reconsid-er their attitudes about smoking smok-ing and its effects. . o Milford and Beaver, traditional tradi-tional rivals, will clash this Friday night in Beaver. This game should prove to be one of the most exciting ones of the season, at least for the Milford fans. It's always a big event when Milford and Beaver Beav-er meet, and it looks like Mil-fof-d has a very good chance ., . of winning this game. Beaver now has a league record rec-ord of 0-3, and they will be trying their best to change I that record to 1-3. The Mighty Tigers have a record of 2-1, and it's not likely that they're going to let Beaver damage it. o The students in Mr. Swain's American Problems class were "shook up" last Friday. The class had been discussing discuss-ing astrologers and their predictions pre-dictions for the future. One of the predictions was that the West would be hit by large earthquakes in 1968. Most of the students just laughed this off and then went on to discuss dis-cuss something else. A few minutes later Mr. Swain yelled "What's that! Don't you feel any thing strange?" To the students' amazement, the entire room seemed to be shaking! The light fixtures and the pull on the film screen were swaying back and forth, and the students' desks were moving up and down! Amidst the excitement Theo Smith calmly said, "It's an earthquake." Mr. Swain then left the room and checked with several other teachers, but none of them seemed to have noticed anything any-thing unusual. Everyone was convinced that they had felt a real earthquake, and they did not find out until the next day that it had been the vibrations vibra-tions from an atomic blast in Nevada. |