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Show Poster Shows South Spirit j 1 ' " f;:$st If lfe Are My41at Abut W JJ s 's Zi'ts i; -ri; iffiOilS AT WAR J "Schools at War" Drives Grip South High that "it gets pretty blue when your best friends don't write you," a house of delegates committee will promote writing of letters to alums now in the armed forces. Julie Spitz is chairman of the committee. At a victory corps meeting of upper-division high school student body officers, P-TA officers, and faculty, the declaration was made that "junior commando" arm bands would not be instigated into city schools. "No glamour is lacking from South drives," prexy Dee Lowder said. "Since we are all in this war, and many of us will go into the army upon graduation, we should do our best to further the war effort ef-fort now." Such was the opinion expressed during the "Schools at War" drives at South high school. Students, 1900 Southerners, are actively participating, partici-pating, to date, in seven major drives, including scrap, key, war chest, war bond and stamp, hospital waste bags, "write to servicemen", service-men", and Dugway projects. Records Rec-ords show this is the best display yet made by a city school. Keeping steady pace, though not as spectacular as in last year's drive, the students have registered bond and stamp sales at almost $3,000, Mrs. Mabel Welch, bookstore book-store manager, reported. Students narrowed their quota on waste bags for the Salt Lake General hospital to 50 a week from each advisory class at the request of hospital personnel. Formerly, the classes were ambitious enough to make 150 and more of the newspaper news-paper bed waste bags a day. The hospital will be supplied with more bags if an epidemic or serious disaster occurs, Roy Marsh, president presi-dent of room 225, which delivers the containers, announced. Dugway Drive Booms It was during the two-month Dugway drive that the students fired the big morale gun. Clothing rooms furnished curtains for the barracks at the chemical testing grounds, and the other advisory classes, cooperating with the P-TA headed by Mrs. Gillmor, donated books, records, smoking stands, and numerous other conveniences including pool and ping pong tables and sets. A group of entertainers from South will also fete the service men at Dugway at the request of Major A. J. Mottern, morale officer. of-ficer. Stimulated by a letter from George Sorenson, former South student now in the navy, who wrote |