Argentine High School - Mustang Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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Metal Lathe Work The machine shop course is designed to give the boy two yeors of intensive training on the machines and in the use of such tools os a machinist uses. These machines include the lathe, grinder, shaper, heat- treating equipment, drill press and metal cutting band saw. • MACHINE SHOP • The machinist is a key man in industry. Especially is this true at a time when the country is becoming industrialized. Kansas City, Kansas, is developing into a great industrial city, with its shops and factories increasing each year in size and importance. It can be said, too, that the boy acquires such technical information as machine shop mathematics, trade terms, and trade words. The school also takes the responsibility for seeing that the boy can read blueprints and work from them. Present industrial conditions are creating a great demand for machinists, but the best positions go to those who are trained and ready to fill them. Anybody can run a lathe, but it takes work and study to become a skilled mechanic. • WELDING • The welding course includes the study of the following: Economy of welding, arc welding machines, arc blow and its cause, how to prevent arc blow, penetration and its values. At the completion of the course, the student is expected to have a thorough knowledge of welding and be able to do good work. • The course emphasizes pre- cautions and safe practice in welding and the care and upkeep of equipment. It teaches students to work with their hands with accuracy; it gives relative information about metals, and it gives practice in and thorough knowledge about welding. • 11 • ARGENTIAN '44

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• AIRPLANE MECHANICS • With the addition of this North American 0-47 observation plane to the airplane engine mechanics department, Argentine began a new course in airplane maintenance, taught by Warren A. Swartz, who came from Santa Barbara, California. The four-ton two-cockpit plane was borrowed from the war department through the National School of Aeronautics in Kansas City, Missouri. Along with the plane in the class are one 1150 horse power Allison engine used in P-38, P-40 and P-39; two Pratt-Whitney engines, one Ranger engine, one Wright Cyclone 1300 horse power engine and other airplane accessories. The plane was built by North American Aviation and originally used in study at the aviation school by members of the army air corps. Classes in airplane engine maintenance are for four hours, three hours of practical work, with one hour of related information, then two one-hour metal classes. Argentine is the only school in Kansas City, Kansas, to offer such a program. ARGENTIAN '44 • 10

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• BUILDING TRADES • In the building trades course information concerning causes of defects in houses is studied; for example, there are reasons for plaster cracking, foundations settling and cracking, and doors and windows not working prop- erly. The classes study some of the possible reasons for these and many other troubles. Instruction and practical experience are given each boy on standard building methods, kinds of materials used in building, such as nails, screws, hardware, plumbing and heating systems, kinds of lumber, shingles, siding, dimension lumber and interior trim. A short intensive course in brick and stone work is offered to acquaint the student with masonry work. Here students are given the opportunity of making different kinds of brick bands, chimneys, outdoor ovens, fire- places, arch and other work. Four important basic essentials that the course endeavors to get across to the student in home building are, good design, efficient plan, right mate- rial, and sound construction. Each phase of this work is taught not only from a theory side but also a practical side. Very few boys fail in the course. When they enroll, they have definitely made up their minds to learn a trade, and if they find out they can not do the work, they generally drop out and find another vocation more suited to them.