e pp ly new coat of paint to a home at 104. C essful pall Scots oe ae | i City Offi cials fited tba thei show of civic and most of the Streets. pride and responsibility. “They were well organized “I hope other student bodies and did an excellent job, ” Mr. will follow this leads? -said May- Bennett said. ‘‘Those students the nation an ef or Bart Woi thuis in commenting have a lot on the ball.” community, peste bitty week. He said their help saved the For about ine and one halt dents and fabtilty ‘hope will be city oper avers > eae the first ‘‘All ce Day” at Ben | hours Tuesday morning, the studollars. dents took over their high school Lomond. CLEANED The activity was the idea of} their college and assorted other Ben Lomond students and fac-|: The remaind ry. Ld The Ben tamolid® students acted for a positive purpose: to. hitipehs the winter’s accum- ulation of debris on school grounds, pie arksie and other areas —some of it deposited by their “of. the Enidient y cleaned up the yards of ulty who intended it — in the veral widows and elderly peowords of one paintbrush-wieldjing youngster — to “‘show peoe in the northern a of the ple there’s at least one entire}, ty. student body in this country One ‘group foued. one woman with some sense of aca whose home needed painting. i The students moved out on While most of the group went to their cleanup campaign follow- work scraping off the old paint, ing a breakfast at the high others went to stores in town school. Most were on the job and collected six gallons of exterior house paint. by 8:45 a.m. By noon the home had a new ‘About half of them augmented city crews cleaning parks coat of paint. The students capped the day’ s streets and other public propactivities with a carnival gd erty north of the swimming at their school.which generally is me y Bet ‘Lomond — High | “It was heartwarming to. see a campus. pieces of public property throughout the northern opart of the city. But their rabies: — and accomplishments — differed dra‘matically from some of the takeovers occuring, on college campuses throus ghout the coun- 1p careless and thoughtless elders. HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL | And their “takeover”? — termed highly successful — “and ‘they did a tremendous brought words of praise from job,”’ reports on Supt. public officials, educators and ‘Clair Bennett. ey cleaned a few home owners who bene- up every park north of) the river |this exhibition of community responsibility by our young people,’ Mayor Wolthuis said. ‘TI hope others will show a similar pride in other communities.”