Lancaster Eagle-Gazette from Lancaster, Ohio • 2

Girl, 13, Averts Tragedy PAGE 2 Lancaster, (0.) Eagle-Gazette June 13, 1974 A Chat With The Superintendent to reach Denise, Patti' said. -Dee, had begun swimming lessons, jumped in to' try to help the others who were about five feet from the edge. Two reached the edge but couldn't get out becasue of the slippery moss. '4 Patti sat down on the concrete with Diane bracing and stretched her 'egs out to the girls ki the water. "I wasn't afraid." Patti said.

"I just kept shouting to them not to panic." Dee grabbed a leg and climbed out. Hope followed. Denise pulled Charlotte and herself to the edge by grasping one of Patti's feet Then they climbed out. The story became known Tuesday when Mrs. Sherman Pridemore called Oran Hall to say thanks.

ELYRIA, Ohio (AP)-Quick thinking by a 13-yeard Elyria girl has been credited with averting tragedy at a mossy banked, sloping spillway at Findley State Park. Four girls who went on a picnic with Patti Hall last Saturday may owe her their lives, their parents say. The girls Patti's sister Dee. 10, and the Pride more sisters: Denise, 13, Charlotte. 11, and Hope.

9 went to the park with Diane 10. Patti said. Charlotte slipped on some moss and plunged down the spillway into a 10-foot-deep pool. Patti said. She added the Pridemore girls couldn't swim.

Denise tried to reach Charlotte, struggling and crying for help. Then Denise slipped and fell in, followed by Hope trying hit Array Danim Jeans PUBLIC EDUCATION. The Superintendent receives a number of inquiries each year, some with strong objection, to various charges levied by the school system. "I thought education is supposed to be is what I bear. How fine it would be if schools had enough money to provide everything without charge.

Section 91.04 of the Ohio Code states: "Public schools must be free to all resident between six and twenty-one years of age (RC 3313.64), although public school age is limited to the span between six and eighteen years of age." Any taxpayer knows that public education is ANYTHING but FREE. 'One duty of the Superintendent is to advise the public of the needs of the children, and the responsibility for providing for Johnny's lunch, books, music and instruction falls to all of us who have pride enough to be called a taxpayer. Most parents who are having financial difficulties the extent of those of John's parents, are proud people who would rather do without than put out a hand. The following brief conversation will give you an idea of this pride: MOTHER: Mr. Sutton, I know that my boy needs a book and I want to send the money, but it will take awhile.

The teacher said he needed it now. I don't want him to get behind. SPECIALS -W QUESTIONS about the marquee, "Lyrics in Labor, Expecting Twins" were answered this week when Joel Foote, general manager and local representative for Foote Theatre's announced after six week's labor that the long time E. Main St. theater will FU Board Concerned With Cuts Fairfield Union Board of Education has approved severance pay for two retiring employees; the first in the district.

Other payments approved included claims from tlw building fund for current construction work. Resignations from two faculty members were accepted. Mrs. Karen Jarosz, speech and hearing therapist, is moving to Northern Ohio (iand Mrs. Patricia Sword, fourth grade teacher at Bremen Elementary is leaving the state.

Due to current financial problems, the Student Fee Schedule was revised. This wi'J ho in effect for the 1974 75 school year. County policies were approved on school psychological service ctnnHards for RDCCia education units for educable mentally retarded children, program standards for special education units ror learning ana behavioral disabilities, and on multi factored assessment nl education nroerammine. Supt. Russell Midlam reported.

Two yearbook staff members and sponsor. Larry rriend, were given approval to attend the vearbook seminar at Ohio University. Tn an in (ipnth review of the 1975 proposed budget, the board of education expressed concern as to the drastic cuts that had to Hp mad" into the educational program. Summer orders for wrt cfhnnl war which include textbooks, school supplies, and educational equipment have been reduced to a point of non existence, bummer maintenance has been reduced. Teaching staffs have been cut, maintenance workers for the summer have been abolished and the budget still shows a deficit.

The Board of Education is well aware that it cannot operate the school system on its proposed budget without public assistance. The increased cost of school operation and the unforeseen additional rise in costs warrant concern for all residents in the district. The meeting was recessed to June 24 at 8 p.m. HALTEMAN-FETT FUNERAL HOME Ward Halteman James Fett Cerntr N. Broad ft Sth Phone 6S3-3022 Twin Cinema Births For Lyric Theatre Values to $18 tins S-13 Corduroy Jeans $5 $6 7 Yaluas to '17 fins SOS Blouses Cody Suits J5 7 J9 VdiMs to $16.

Slats SOS; S-M-L A Mfltsferyttttr. Nyien, Cert. After laboring for six weeks, the Lyric Theatre has given birth to a modern twin cinema complex. The theatre will reopen Friday, June 14, witfi such features as new projection equipment, lobby decor, auditorium seats, walls and 22 Examined At Tuberculosis Clinic In May Twenty-two persons were examined by the May Tuberculosis Clinic conducted by Dr. Carl Reed and the City Health Department.

-Nineteen known cases were re-examined and found to be arrested. Two known cases were re-examined and were still positive. One abnormal chest condition, other than tuberculosis, was found. There were no new cases. The funds to finance this project are provided by the local Fairfield Co.

TB RD Ass'n, who will be conducting their own local independent campaign this fall. Nurses in charge were Emaline Mills, R. N. and Sara George, R. N.

SUPERINTENDENT: The schools will provide workbooks for any youngster who cannot afford one. I will indicate, to your principal that you have called. MOTHER: I'm not asking for any favors, understand, but we're having it awful tough right now. John, grade six, is indeed concerned about his parents' welfare. He worries about his mother, who works too hard and tries to look after the family.

He worries bout his father who is ill and cannot work. And we are worried about Johnny. I know you are too. in the mo your AXM0 80-2 8000 BTU AXM 100-2 10,003 BTU UiEMl Soil By ROBERT SUTTON City Schools Superintendent jOHN IS NOW A sixth grade student in the Lancaster City Schools who is concerned about his parents' welfare. He left for school each morning during the school year without breakfast.

He has become accustomed to ignoring his father's heavy breathing, brought on by. an asthmatic condition, but he worries about his father, nevertheless. His mother is the breadwinner and is gone from their modest home before he gets up. John makes the thirty-minute trip to school by school bus. It was a matter of several weeks before his' teacher discovered that he was not eating lunch regularly.

Hi6 mother did not always have the money. The school arranged for John to eat every day as a "free lunch" student. It would be invaluable if a breakfast we" also available. THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, -in September, asked John, to buy a workbook. He told his teacher that his mother said books were free and the school should give him one.

She didn't have the money to pay for such things. The school gave him one. The one thing John liked to do best was "fiddle as he put it, with music. He had the opportunity through the instrumental music program to learn the rudiments of the trumpet, but he couldn't buy one. The school furnished it for hlTHE SUPERINTENDENT and his associates must continually assess the needs of each student in the Lancaster City School System.

There are 8730 of them. Both the superintendent and the Board of Education are extremely reluctant to ask John to pay for a book when he doesn't even have enough money to buy his lunch, a tremendous bargain tr-e davs at 30 cents. Throughout the year, the school system makes requests for various assessments, most of them at the secondary levels. Some of these obligations fall to those who have incurred minor debts, such as library fines or materials used in art arts classes. Some are lab fees to cover use of materials.

OTHER FEES involve such things as textbook damages bevond reasonable band costs, and others. While there may be some value in having a student establish a "partnership" in some ventures through his own financial investment, it is the feeling of most school people that the requirement of money, sometimes rather heavy in some programs, tends to eliminate participation by some who yearn for it most. CHAPTER 91 of the Ohio School Code is titled FREE CRAFT Supplies DOLL MAKING Outfits SMITH'S Gordon Store across from OU Branch Open 'HI 9 Sot. Sun. 'til 6 LUNN PHOTO -By Martin Buxbaum UNDERSIDE OF HEAVEN ctimr of downtowns opto or 1:30 cmh.

bonltornoricord, master or oppm eharoo re-open June 14. Known as "The Lyric 1 and the modern twin complex will feature new projection equipment, lobby decor, auditorium seats sound barrier walls between the two separate movie theatres and new floors. (Photo by Duke Ellis) floor, and two separate movie theatres. The new cinema complex, 'iwned by Foote Theatre's, will attempt to provide en-tertainmnt which the people of Lancaster and Fairfield County express interest in seeing. "We are hopeful that adding another auditorium will better enable us to supply the motion pictures to suit everyone's pleasure." General Manager Joel Foote, said.

The complex will be called "The Lyric Show-Place 1 and according to Foote, local representative, and will open Friday with the "Supercops" and "Alice in Foote and his wife, invites everyone to come in and meet them and their "new addition to the Show-Place 1 and 2." When escaping or attacking, a South American steamer duck is reminiscent of a 19th; century rlverboat stern wheel s'eamer in action. While kicking furiosly with their large webbed feet which creates considerable splashing and foaming, the ducks simultaneously use their small, narrow wings, says Grzimek's animal Life Encyclopedia. -GEORGE i FcATL7.ES QUALITY FFJtt J0 i mm TWTTI LL tiUY WJU MlPdPOlL mm? S3 EJTBTIJ7M 4.1 FES DURRELL KARSHNER SALES, INC 735 Slocum 653-7321 Thernorat Control Air Directional Control Comfort Guard Control Insta-Mount AXMP50-2 5000 BTU $139" AXM? 60-2 1 6000 BTU 1ST 1771 it; ifinn YUU Air AXC110-2 11,000 BTU AXKC 70-2 CASEMENT 7000 BTU Jl ConcS.tieiwrs 3 SfMed Fan Night Cool Normal Cool Super Cool Air Changer Washeblt Fitter 110 Volt operation AXMS-85-2 SLIDING VIKMW 8,500 BTU $229" AXMS 102-2 10,000 BTU What Is A Father A Father is someone who spends months raising a rosebush and then sees it squeshed under a beach ball A Father is one who can repair anything fn the house he can find the tools the kids are playing with A Father is a person who is forever losing things which his wife is forever finding A Father is a lucky fellow! A Father a feffow who can give orders to everyone except his wife A Father sometimes knows how king feels with a milion responsibilities of the kingdom weighing on his head A Father is a fellow who must pay all the bills, yet have something left over for the Good Humor man when his kids hear the bell A Father must know how to bandage a cat while a dozen moist eyes look on, and do it so he doesn't get a hand clawed off A Father must know the ritual of burying dead sparrows, goldfish, and a favorite puppy when it gets run over fn THE feting NATIONAL BANK 73illBy OF LANCASTER, 0HQ Member F.D.I.C. Affiliated with laneOhle Cerp Member federal Reserve System TRIO TV APPUAtiCE. ItX.

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