catsoey ae eal ie _ |den a ee a ek FARR WEST — Halls and class- |} bloomed: like a flower garwith the many-colored i 4% _ , rooms cotton eee _ | dresses worn by contesting girl _ |students as Wahlquist Junior High | School observed its annual ‘‘Print | Dress Day” last week. — Connie ; _ Betty Moyes, Wahlquist School PTA | 4 ¢ at took first in the ‘‘store-bought’’ division Two seventh graders were named | ‘runners-up: They were Janet ey Saunders and Vicki Magee. The two top winners were pre- | 9 )7 079” sented soft and cuddly stuffed kit- || tens as their prizes. Judges of the contest were Mrs. | — _ k grade ninth a place. first of the a ae took ae | grader, Proctor ee iain ie cat ee In the home designed and home| ~ | made division, Sharon Olsen, eighth| Se nete | SAY NTT ISIS re a __ Brightens Halls at | eS pipet | Wahlquist Junior FARR WEST — Rena Prevedel and Charlene Oaks will represent Wahlquist Junior High School in the annual state bake-off contest. ! An Italian deep fried pastry ealled “‘ecrofone’’ is the original recipe which brought Rena first honors. Her creation is sweet and rich, very tasty, according to the judges. Charlene whipped up a different spice cake which she called ‘“‘Gypsy Rondelay’ to take her place alongside Rena. Their recipes will be entered in the state bake-off contest and _ if they win here they will be - entered in the national bake-off. nee ’ ee= ee ; ‘Print Dress Day Se Met. ‘TWO SELECTED BY WAHLQUIST FOR BAKE-OFF "president; Mrs. Twila Knight, and | — " |a Mrs. Marjorie Olsen. ‘ne a 4 ~) Flu Worsens; Cor ag See ESL _ A mild outbreak respiratory ‘Schools IN of a flu-like illness was - eausing _ some empty seats in local schools The flu bug made per cent of its 2,242 junior high school students out today. Similar substantial gains in city and county schools over the weekend with more than | absenteeism 3,700 cases counted today. (of heavy absenteeism, almost | every school checked had noted) | . similar heavy caused | has that illness absences in Salt Lake ease attack on )the high schools. oS Silly Weber, High, where abseutee_|__ Hardest hit junior high school| been Central. Normal so far has tral of 90 to 95 at Cen- jumped He said Board of Education ae : xhdking da initiat | ance. ' Ogden Supt. T. O. Smith said no is making its initial |) o ve losing | ; junior and senior; |i [2@ Main attack appeared to be |” oy epi- a of theab ce because Oh schools base city divs. iL a_ centered Afi in the es t county schools, espe- | ee demic, which is blamed largely ron |. g ee WORST AT CENTRAL absenteeism til the epidemic slackens. a decision would be made early ‘this afternoon after’ “he consults proportions, the flu-like illness was Q with Weber area! i]4 cutting deeper into school attend- ie _ members. a schools The . dillleue ic | : ae today. Although still far from epidemic | following the pattern set by a Weber Supt. T. H. Bell said he __ is seriously considering recommending closing the county schools un‘The flu-bug bit harder in Weber : some effect on its enrollment. i The local outbreak appeared to County _be _ to 108 Friday, 156 ism was | reported more per cent above normal, Weber students “they than 200} a“ -a type B flue virus. School officials said High officials reported 558 out of school and this o ab-| — senteeism would climb higher dur-| _ ae _ing the day, since many students! said | _ were going home with the ‘illness| fg ? i are still going home.’’ Nor-| _ ' at noon. Ss Monday and 180 Tuesday. By yes-}|. _mal absenteeism is 150. 1. Hardest hit are the county schools a : terday it was down to 152, and to a | 0 Slight mereases in absences at a ‘ with 1,759 students reported absent, 142 | today. , : | the county junior high schools was | _ today. This is almost 17 per cent) Ogden High School reported a \reported. The illness appeared to] _ of. the total county enrollment ofj) — ® per cent increase in absences. | about 10,400. '|be skipping the elementary stu_ Ben Lomond officials said attend-| ' _ ance has not been hurt, yet, but] dents, at least for the time being. south Junior High reported 69 several students have} | students ne. oe . Nor i veen : Normal is stor between Wine. MAT BQ). absent. to go home because of the| had na a §_ NEARLY AS BAD The situation is almost as bad in the city where 2,006 . . . about 12 Be ' ra Bote ee pone A ot ae illness. Mound Fort also reported | "| terday’s 52 absent students, twice) » ment... Per cent ee ere aus absent. “euroly - some cases. were reported -|normal, had increased to 60 today. | eee ‘ Junior ah senior high schools | The flu bug attack was The situation in the city schools | © : established at the elementary firmly level. _ fave been the hardest hit in the} i wac he _ The. younger students were by- ; Sie Ca passed in the early phases of the CG ry #here Ber Sent absentee rates. | High reported 150 absent students, ° | - attack. were reports the outbreak |) | Junior | Ogden High School a five per cent 4s spreading. : i | increase,” and Ben Lomond “about | Health authorities described) |. ©) the illness as a mild upper res-| | normal tof _ Piratery infection that usually in-| : creases. ___ with the spring-like weather. Its symptoms are ache, sore throat, ns temperature EER2 bar?TI ee approach : chills, head nausea and of 99 to 100. SD of} 07 wogee gcnmes am m8 dee re cxstoton eee ee arene. AE: PTR RRNRLN © 6 ~, ss " al Absenteeism in the county was reported in the city junior high schools. At Washington, 32 per cent of the ninth grade class was absent. | Abenteeism worsened at the two city high schools but showed some improvement at Weber High School. Absenteeism dropped to 14 per cent | at Weber today after reaching almost 30 per cent last week. Ben Lomond ,eported 178 students absent today or about 17 per cent. Ogden High School was hold- ele-| — . mentary system reached 16 per cent; today with 993 of the 6,326 students |— out of school. City elementary ab- | senteeism was reported at 1,025 or) about 11 per cent. The junior high school students still led. The county reports 22 ee. Oe 3 i