Clairton High School - Clairtonian Yearbook (Clairton, PA)

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CLAIRTON ALL OUT FOR DEFENSE, AIR RAID ALARM SYSTEM INSTALLED BLACKOUT PARTY SPONSORED BY IOURNALISTS Bomb Shelter Exhibited A Blackout Party on March 6 was sponsored by the Clairtonian Annual and Clairtonian News Staffs to entertain annual and newspaper sub- scribers. Mr. C. K. Chrestensen played, his black light on the musicians in their fluorescent ties and on the dancers be-gogglcd with speci- ally fluorescent painted specks. Even during the lights-out time, the Klairton Kadets swung out at the Blackout Party. ln the side hall the canteen distributed free cookies, made by the girls on both stalis, and sold pop. The shop boys set up the canteen for the girls. A copy of an air raid shelter pic- tured in Life also was displayed. First aide1's, Catherine Mack and Betty Dwyer, trained in first aid by Miss Catherine Joyce, demonstrated care for casualties after an air raid on pseudo injuries. Mike Millas injured his head when he ran into a wall turning a corner chasing after a blonde, according to joe Bryan. Edward Merges broke his arm when he tripped, and Lillian Sabin injured her eye during the Blackout. Among the decorations was an exhibit of a bomb made by Shop boys, and posters reading Free speech doesn't mean loose talk, We all work together, and ' ''Danger-Unexploded Bomb. , A Nearly three hundred people attended, with onlookers including parents and friends seated in the ziuditorium. , HEALTH CLASSES AID DEFENSE ln all health. classes, the fundamentals of nrst aid are taught. Sevengronps of stretcher bearers trained by Dr. George Calhoun have met their practice in air raid drills. The bearers, at first alarm, take their assigned stationsg one crew goes to the Fifth Street Grade School, two groups to the Library, two in Mr. George VVoodman's office, and two in the nurse's olhce. Each group is headed by a captaing Thomas Piazza, Dick Barrickman, Elmer Brant, jimmy Gemmell, Bill Estep, jim Morgan, and Louis Bickerton. SUB-STATIONS EQUIPPED Fifty dollars, proceeds from the play, Sing A Song of Sixteen, was sent to the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Red Cross by the Senior Class. CD tags to help equip Clairton's three sub- stations were distributed on March 27 to all the home rooms by Miss Catherine Joyce, and Miss Martha Craig, school nurses. Doctors, dentists, and nurses in the city were behind the sale to buy medicine and supplies with the results of the red tag sale. TIRE RATIONING TAKES TOLL 'OF SCHOOL TAXIS Because of the shortage of rubber, a vital defense material, the line of jaloppies around the high school has dwindled, and caused the first noticeable shortage oif this War year. HANG ON TO YOUR JALOPPY! Have you noticed that 'bikes are more pre- valent around the school? The shortage has not affected bicycle owners. They ride high while car owners moan and groan over their loss. The government first summoned the old tires and now demands the new ones. Before this book goes to press, there may be a rationing of bicycle tires. RATTLE! RATTLE! will be a description of a boy's auto with no rubber around the doors. The chemistry students may rejoice. Relief for chemistry students comes as a result of test tube corks being scarce. Watch your pencil eraser! If you make a mistake now, it must remain. In the future, girls will not skip down the hall with saddle oxfords- or crepe sole shoes. In- stead, they will have to wear leather soled shoes. AIR MODELS BUILT BY SHOPS A part of our new national war program re- quires the students of Clairton High School to make one hundred plane models, the dead line being June 31, 1942. These models have to be made of solid, clear white pine, not balsa wood which is used for iiying models. They must be accurate and built to exact scale and required quality. All the Juniors in the Electric Shop have been busy making airplanes. Five of the best models will be accepted and sent to the United States Navy. The best one, a copy of a Boyer Bomber has been made by Mike Popko. Prizes will be awarded by the Federal government for the best rnodel. In the middle of February, the lvlaehine Shop received a new 32,800 lathe. This makes the sixth machine the government has bought for C.H.S. to use in its defense program. In the VVood Shop, under Mr. W31T1'GH Brown, students make splints to be used in first aid classes and Sub-Stations, and stretchcrs to be used by the bearers during an air raid. AIR RAID SYSTEM GIVES WARNING TO SCHOOLS An air raid alarm switch board consisting of tive lines connecting all the buildings in Clairton is cornered in the Senior High office. From the central listening post stationed in Pittsburgh, an alarm can be transmitted in fifteen minutes. The warning gongs consist of : two short bells for the alertg three short bells for a further alertg continuous intermittent bells for alarmg and a continuous bell for the all clear signal. During an air raid, the general directions are applied: KEEP COOL! WALK! KEEP QUIET! All practice drills are announced. All other alarms are to be regarded as actual. Fire watchers will take assigned stations at first alarm.

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Mr, H. D. Teal Dr. Evert Stabler THE ADMINISTRATION Mr. H. D, Teal, Superintendent of Public Schools, is chairman of the Public Re- lations and Education Committee for the Defense Council and, with the cooperation of the School Board, supervises sugar rationing. He is also on the Civilian Defense Committee for the City . . . Dr. Evert Stabler, Principal of Senior High School, is Super- visor of Instruction for Air Raid Vlfardens in Zone 16, which includes Duquesne, Mc- Keesport, and surrounding territories . . . The chairman of the Teachers' Committee and also of the Budget Committee, Mrs. Caralena Cort, who is Secretary of the Schoo1 Board, works on the Committee of Civic Defense and Education for Civic Defense . . . A member of the Public Vfforks Council of Civilian Defense and also of the Clairton llforlcs IVIanagement Committee for Clairton Illinois Steel Production in the National War Production Drive, Mr. Samuel H. Sharpnack is Superintendent of Production planning in Clairton Illinois Steel Corporation and is Chairman of the Finance Com- mittee . . . Chairman of the Housing Committee and sinking Fund Committee, Mr.