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Ke s X as , 'T' y st S Ba l ? I l 1 J . .v I I 'IM ,P 1, Sfockmgs -.43 f i Salvage for Vic ary SCRAP! Eighty-one tons of it. piled high and sprawled over two corner lots. Roller skates and radios, desks and dressmaking models. nails, knives, kettles. compacts. umbrella frames. safes, and Th bathtubs. all gloriously crowned with the battered remains of several precious jalopies. at was KensinUton's scra ilee-biggest in the city, third largest in the country. Although South Park and e- P P its annex won city honors for the highest per capita rating. our pile topped all others by pounds and took a full day to clear away. Hardest workers in the drive were Dick Morsheimer and his com- mittee of Senior boys including Bill Basher, Nelson Bebber. Art Pogorzala. Charles W'ells, Donald Hager, ,lim Rankin, and Clarence Bauer. Inspired by their enthusiastic example. even the littlest freshmen came to school burdened down with pounds .of assorted metal. Thus. into the nation's tanks, and bombers. and weapons of war. went Kensingtorfs scrap and spirit. KEYS! Big ones and little ones. Shiny and rusty. Keys in bunches. on rings. in cases . . . we brought them in hundreds when the call went out for more metal. STOCKlNGSl The girls filled huge cartons with old silk and nylon stockings which the government wanted for powder bags. At home we helped prepare empty tin cans for collection and saved old newspapers so vitally needed to ease the paper shortage. Vifillingly and eagerly. Kensington students spared no effort in the cam- paigns to speed victory through the salvage of essential materials. 19
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,1 April13tb to 23rd and Drives Remember Pearl Harbor Drive November 30tb to December 1Otb Tom Panek, Mr. Haggerty, and Howard Toale ex- amine the Jap flag. Any bonds today ? This might well be the slogan of the bond conscious Kensingtouians, who, in the course of the past school year. have staged two War Bond campaigns which resulted in the sale of Xvar Bonds amounting to nearly 3500,000. Spurred on by the desire to avenge the dastardly Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Kensington High School launched its first Victory Bond drive November 30. At that time, the School also enrolled in a nation-wide contest sponsored by the Hobby Lobby radio program., which offered to the organization or individual bidding the highest amount in Vilar Bonds, a battle damaged Japanese Hag captured by the United States Marines in the Solomon Islands. It was with a two-fold purpose then that the stu- dents of Kensington expended their ability as super.salesmen and canvassed friends, relatives and merchants to urge them to buy bonds. When the contest closed, December 10, Kensington High School's bid of 11-,533 individual bonds with a face value of 3252550 topped all other entries. When the individual bond sales were totaled, it was found that Dorothy Luksch, Thomas Panek, Howard Toale and Henry Hearn had each sold approximately S8000 worth. Due to a question of when the contest started and ended. the four were called together to decide who should accept the Hag on behalf of Kensington High School. The goup voted that freshman Thomas V. Panel: should fcontinued on Page 1271 Buffalo Cruiser Drive Ruth Henseler. Miss Lehde, Phyllis Bates, and Carolyn Ayres typed hundreds of applications. 20
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