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Show Defense Stamp Sales Reach Original Goal South high school students dug deeply into pockets and purses during dur-ing the four week campaign for sale of War Bonds and Stamps at this school and bought $4,050.30 of security for the future. Sales climaxed Tuesday, while the home room which rode the crest of the stamp and bond wave was given awards today. With the permission of the board of education, city schools were given permission to make sales. Booths opened on May 5. Keeping1 the campaign always before students, Roy Marsh supervised super-vised publicity arrangements. Students who supervised jobs' soliciting were Dee Lowder, Stan Kilbourne, Dave McLelland, and Bette Figgat. The Southerners willingly agreed to give 50fo of money so earned for stamps. Eligibility rules laid down by a house of delegates committee headed head-ed by Lawrence Palmer, clarified the situation as to which home rooms would compete for top honors. hon-ors. The winning home room, all of whose students must have bought at least $2 worth of stamps, will see each student take on an additional 2 bucks toward a bond. Stamps and bonds bought by teachers did not count in the contest. con-test. Students who put more than $50 in bonds were placed in a separate sep-arate class, and competed against each other. Their bonds counted $5.00 for the home room, however. Interest in the drive has been considerably higher than at other city high schools. The Southerners Southern-ers came through with more than double the amount East salted away, while West high never really real-ly got started. If circumstances and world developments de-velopments continue on a similar plane as today, the sales may continue con-tinue next year. |