Py tas Ne d SSE sat Lews | ontnued. from. Page One) ‘scrap metal. I went out oneDaag PARRillson,” Bincerely yours, Robert | We brought in three loads.—With | Love, Darrel Tucker.” — Bs wmnastiuncidaialaa ‘Dear Paul: I am writing this letter at school..We are all work~ ing hard this year to help win the war. scrap I helped drive. We in our gathered school over 100 tons of metal. We are all buying defense stamps. I hope the war will end soon and home. —Love, from “Dear | was Holley; very _ glad Your last letter interesting. I. was to hear Army you can come. Betty Beet. life very that you :we a must be a. safe. | €X- | perience. At home we are trying to do our best by buying war stamps and by gathering scrap metal. We have had a lot of fun doing it. Uncle Ted has been working hard on his book to finish it this fall. Barbara called up from | Idaho Falls. She said she was fine. —1-1 Lita} a = a ae | Marvin Kidman. = Rgae ~ SS SSae 3 Seeee: x 2 “Dear ‘Joba: I am sriling this letter at school. We are all working hard this year to help win the ee —_— — = ~ =“ Uncle Jim: How's army I surely miss you but you will ‘be home you’re on busy in the Lavanne we soon. a _, war, I helped in our school scrap | hope I imagine camp.— With wills, oe ; “Dear Uncle J im; Your last letter was gladly loween we received. are going This to Hal- stay in | and not destroy things. We don’t want to help the Japs and Germans. Our school has been gathering scrap. We have a very big pile but we are still bringing in more. Our school christen a ‘Liberty would vessel. we don’t get a chance to help. all we can. We like to But if. we are glad are going to use the money we niake ' And so is Larry. He likes school beautify our school grounds. | this year. I had better get my » arithmetic.—With love, Sterling @ Your” niece, Ellen Buck. 7 - “Dear | life there at exemp? The school children have been working very | hard gathering scrap for you boys in the good old U. S. army. We| have quite ‘a big pile of scrap out. in the back of the school, to — | “Dear’ ‘art: How are you getting along in your studies at the officers’ training school? We are having a scrap school. trucks metal drive at our | Students are going out in and wagons to gather the | drive. We gathered. over 100 tons |of metal. We are all buying de- scrap from the homes. Dad and | fense stamps. I ig a hundred in some other men went hunting deer spelling today. I hope you are this year. Dad got one. Last Monday Arnie and Erven got a ‘Six| well and happy. I am well and Pointer—With love, Wendell.” . ‘| | BARRY, too.—Shirley.” een etme ramones “Dear ing this Friend Darwin; I am letter from school. one We are _ help -our ' 100 ing all working hard this year to win the war. I helped in school drive. We gathered over tons of metal. We are all buydefense stamps. It won’t be lon | ing home g till Raymond ‘Truly from yours, will be com- his mission Janet Owen.” now.— : “Dear Soldier; I know that? all you boys want is a chance to atart fighting. We are trying to give | you that chance, We know that. the government needs scrap of all | kinds, Here at United States would this war Because school opened just as the U.S. became involved in World War II, students were busy in the war effort collecting old rubber tires and scrap iron. Teachers shown in the bottom picture are Wallace Johnson with the 50 that was collected. Budge tons and Charles of scrap Shown also are some of the letters that students were busy writing to their parents and friends in the service. iron the Wahlquist school we have started to gather | all we can. So far we have about | six hundred pounds average from, ;: each child. If each student. in the} do that much would soon be over, — ‘Dear Daddy: I am writing this Your. friend, Kieth Olsen,” —hte letter from school. We are all - working hard this year, to help “Dear “Albert; Here it igs the : | win the war. I helped in our school | - scrap drive. We gathered over 100 close of another day. Lessons are | I thought I would write to | tons of metal. We are all buying done. let you know what our school is _ defense stamps. I helped grandma - Lou dig and the ‘glads’ I cut yesterday. them and Mary picked | up the little bulbs, and grandma dug them.—Lovingly, Laura.” “Dear Soldier; I can help - soldiers by buying war stamps bonds. They take the money the and and | they buy tanks, planes, clothes, guns, and bombs for the army, | ‘navy and the marines. Our school has brought more than a hundred dollars worth of stamps.—Sincerely yours, Lorna Powell. ° ee doing. You are fighting to win the war so we are doing our best| to help too, ‘Beginning October sixteenth we had a scrap drive. . In two days we. had over one | hundred tons of scrap. There are | around 350 studenta in - our} school. Each student brought. in | an average of about six hundred pounds. We are very proud of our scrap pile and we're not through yet. Must close now. Keep ’em flying. —Love, Melba Holley.” ve |