PAGE 8 SEPTEMBER 9. 1955 Burroughs Schedule llecJins with Assembly FIRST ASSEMBLY of the new school year for Bur- roucbS' High School students was beld at the SiaUon Theater Tuesday morninr. The initlal prouam is held as a means 01 orienting new students and it also serves to introduce new teachers to the student body. Dr. Earl Murray. superintendent of China Lake Schools also uses the session to discuss plant facility improvements, room changes and to give a general school philosophy. The pupils are given an idea of what the school expects of them with regards to studies and deportment. Accord- lng to school officials the present enrollment of 650 is approximately 78 more than for the same time last year. * lack to School * VIEWEG SCHOOL CHILDREN joined tbe annual "Back 10 School" parade Tuesday mominr as the old school beD ran, calling the younpters back to &heir books and studles. Total enrollment for the China Lake School DLs- VIct was in the nei,hborhood of 2500 students. a considerable increase over the number attending last year. Local School Dlstrict officials have been busy lor many weeks 10rmulaUn" class lists and school assignments. As the accompanyinc arUcle by Dr. Earl Murray explains, although a child Is ......ed to a eer1ain sc:hool, it may be necessary 10 the next lew days to reusirn him or her to another area lor reasons 01 health, or other extenu· aUoc circumstances. The reass1punents will be rqade only where they are absolutely necessary. * School Days Are Here Again * "",.'r..,., YOUNGSTERS returned to their classrooms again this week to flve·day·a-week sessions In learning the three "R's." Included student body retumln" to Groves School were: Peggy and Vicki Ii.,te,,,,,,.. of 306-B Groves, who are entering the IIrst grade; Bobby Foster, left. of f12·A Hornet, startJng in the fourth grade; and l\olicba.el 1e.....I.r.. 01 308-A Independence. a fUth grade studenL Why he also can't ,0 to school seems to be a mystery lor the puppy. held by Foster. Rag Raisers FLAG RAISING ceremonies at Rich- mond Elementary School this week belped 10 empbasize tb. fact that scbools are again In session. Many improvements In local school faclll- ties have been made in order to make school attendance as pleasant as posslbl•. Officials Announce Red , Cross Classes Local Red Cross officials today announced that two classes and a conference will take place in the next three weeks. A class on "Par- ent and Child Care" begins next Monday; a "Home Care of the Sick" class will start on Sept. 26; and a Home Care of the Sick Instruc- tors' Conference begins here on Tuesday Sept. 20. There will be no tuition fees charged for the classes and there is no age limit placed on enroll- ment. Teachers are needed for the classes; for teaching applications or further information contact Jane LaRosa at 304-a Forrestal at. THE ROCKETEER Extensive Planning Went Into Opening Of Local Schools By Dr. Earl Murray Much planning has been done for the opening of school aside from the obvious such as securing teach. ers, supplies, and preparing the physical plant. Reference is made here primarily to zoning, class bal- ance, the kindergarten placement, and to transportation. ZOning, or schOOl unit placement, is a problem for the kindergarten and first six grades. As preparation for this, a large map showing each house on the Station, was placed on the wall in the office of the as- sistant superintendent. A pin was placed on each house in which an elementary pupil resides. Each grade level has a different color. From these data we were able to draw up our school zone lines, and to de. termine how many classrooms with- in each school should be devoted to a particular grade level. 'I1lis must be done within the existing facllities at each school. In order to keep all rooms full and to prevent over croWding In some rooms it is necessary for some pupils to attend a school which 15 not the nearest one to their res- idence. Also it is occasionally neces- sary where there is more than one child in a family for one child to attend one school a.nd for the other child to attend a dilferent school. Kindergarten placement is one in which many first choices cannot be granted, either as to the at- tendance center or the time of day. This is the reason for controlled registration which will be used In the placement of morning or &ftet-- noon attendance. It can have little influence on the zone lines since distance and transportation facil- ities are necessary factors. Afternoon sessions are necessary, as they are in all communities, because building shortages all over the State make it necessary that all school facilities be used to cap- acity. Transportation is limited to one school bus with a capacity of 50 elementary pupils and fewer junior high school pupils. The bus schedule was printed in last week's Rocketeer. It will be necessary to make some changes in ~ne lines for attend- ance after the pupils are actually in school, since preliminary studies cannot be absolutely accurate. Also transportation times and routes may need to be changed. Since we are such a compact community, only a few real bard- ships will OCcur in attendance and transportation. In such cases, par- ents are requested to state the case in writing to the assistant super- intendent with reasons for request- ing the change. If the reason is one of bealth., a doctor's st.l\tement should accompany the request. THE WEATHER. Ml»tly .rear oyer the weekend. Ught varia- ble winds incrc(l$ing In t h II afternoons with gusTs from 35 to 40 knots. Generolly cooler with The maximum tem- perature 01 100. mini- mum 68. e ~""'EllArull6 (Housing .....ea) Max. Min. SePt. I ._..... 106 65 Sept. 2 __._ 106 63 Sept. 3 ._..... 108 69 SepT. -4 •••••.•• 109 61 Sept. 5 ........ 109 63 SepT. 6 ........ 110 62 Sept. 7 ........ 108 6S VOLl XI, NO. 36 U.S. NAVAL ORDNANCE TEST STATION, CHINA LAKE. CALIF. SEPTEMBER 9, 1955 300 NEW HOUSES FOR CHINA' LAKE DISCUSSING PLANS for the new 3.00·unit Wherry Home Tract is "Cal" FaUgatter (left), head of the China Lake housing division, and Richard Hibbard (right), manager of the China Lake Housing Corporation. 'Great Books' Unit 'BHR' 'Conversion To Hold Orientation Cost $7()"'Million Session at 'Center ·.tut Worth It! A three-day orientation session at the China Lake COnununity Cen- ter starting sept. 29 will mark the beginning of the iJrird year of or- ganization for the local Great Books Discussion Group. The meetings, on each of the three days, will begin at 7 :30 p.m. A series of 16 discussion pro- grams, to be held on alternate Wednesdays during the year, ha\'e been scheduled and interested per- sons are invited to participate in this program of adult self-edu- cation. Included on the discussion agenda will be selections from the Bible, Theocyd1des, P I a t 0, St. Thomas Aquinas, Rabelals, Shakespeare, Ba- con, Voltaire, Gibbon, Dostoyevsky Freud and other writers who have dealt with the basic issues of man- kind. Leading the forthCOming three- day discussion sessions will be John Lyons, of the Los Angeles Public Library, who is also a director for the Great Books Foundation. Persons interested in participat- ing in the program are urged to contact members of the group to arrange for their reading material in advance. The third-year set of 16 readings is now available for $9.25. Navy Department recomm.iss1on- ing ceremonies for the USS BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA-3ll, Es- sex·class aircraft carrier, were held at San Francisco Naval Shipyard last Tuesday. The vessel received a $70-million conversion which in- cluded a new angled deck, new clip- per bow, two new deck-edge ele- vators, and the latest electronics equipment the Navy could provide. New Commanding Officer of the "Bonny Dick" is Captain Lamar P. Carver. Thousands of guests were present for the recommissioning, including the Secretary of the Navy. 'Navy Times' Tells China Lake Story Heralded as a feature story about the "Navy·bullt clty within Itself," the Navy Times for Sept. " carries a page and one-half illustrated article about the Sta- tion. The item was prepued by the TechnleaJ Information De- partment and channelled throacb the Times' Los Angeles office for pUblication in Washln.cto~ D.C. Ground Breaking for Wherry Tract Expected To Begin tate this 'Month Ground breaking for the new 300-unit Wherry home tract is expected to take place before the end of September in the area just west of the present Desert Park Wherry Homes, according to Alfred Barrett, son of H. J, Reed Barrett, of Pasadena, owner of the China Lake Housing Corporation. SECNAV ! Secretary of the Navy Charles S. Thomas, in Long Beach to pre- sent the Navy's Distinguished Pub- lic Service Award to Clinton Fur- rer (chairman of the armed ser- vices committee), reviewed future plans of the Navy and its con- nection with the atom. , All Nuclear Powered "In the future, all the Navy'.:; lighting ships are to be nuclear powered," he said. "They will bear no resemblance to the fighting ships of today, or ships as .,.e know them. Won't Know Them "Tbe CO&'\"alUonal guns on tJle cruisers will be gone, and they will be armed with guided missUes. Jet seaplanes will have a tentflc future. for they will be able to tra.vel anywhere in the wor1cL Circle World Three Times "And the NAUTILUS-she is more effective than we thought. She can circle the world two or three times without resurfacing. The only lim- itation is the crew-they can't stay submerged that long." Secretary Thomas' remarks were made before guests and members of the Long BeBCb Chamber of Commerce. It was stated that FHA financing has been arranged for the project, total cost of which is expected to be approximately $2,200,000. Interim fi- na.ncing will be through the Bank of America of Van Nuys, with perma- nent financing through an eastern bank not as yet specified. COmpletion of the first units is ex- pected to be within live or six months after starting, Barrett said, depending on the weather. The en- tire project should be completed within eight to nine monihs, with units being completed at the rate of about 25 per week. Design of the new homes will in- clude a pitched roof in place of the existing flat type, steel kitchen cab- inet equipment, desert evaporative coolers, wall heaters and cement- floored carports. Stoves and refrig- erators will be standard equipment. The plans also call for plumbing to accommodate automatic was h 1n g machines. Rental figures will be slightly above that for the original Wherry Homes; rentals for two, three and four bedrooms Is $72-75, $82.75 and $9:.75, respeetively. Rentals wUl be restricted to mllitary personnel and their dependents, a.nd to NOTS cl- vUlan employees. Rentals will be bandied tbrou(b the NOTS Housln( Office. Among other features in the tract will be additional storage space for each home. landscaping and some playground equipment in an area of about an acre set aside for that pur- pose. First PTA Meeting Slated Thursday The first meeting of the newly or g ani zed Burroughs Pal'ent- Teacher Association will be held m the Catetorium next Thurs- day Sept. 15, at 8 pm•• according 10 PresIdent Kenneth R Rob- inson. The PTA group covers p-ade 7 throaclr 1.2. , OCR Text: PAGE 8 SEPTEMBER 9. 1955 Burroughs Schedule llecJins with Assembly FIRST ASSEMBLY of the new school year for Bur- roucbS' High School students was beld at the SiaUon Theater Tuesday morninr. The initlal prouam is held as a means 01 orienting new students and it also serves to introduce new teachers to the student body. Dr. Earl Murray. superintendent of China Lake Schools also uses the session to discuss plant facility improvements, room changes and to give a general school philosophy. The pupils are given an idea of what the school expects of them with regards to studies and deportment. Accord- lng to school officials the present enrollment of 650 is approximately 78 more than for the same time last year. * lack to School * VIEWEG SCHOOL CHILDREN joined tbe annual "Back 10 School" parade Tuesday mominr as the old school beD ran, calling the younpters back to &heir books and studles. Total enrollment for the China Lake School DLs- VIct was in the nei,hborhood of 2500 students. a considerable increase over the number attending last year. Local School Dlstrict officials have been busy lor many weeks 10rmulaUn" class lists and school assignments. As the accompanyinc arUcle by Dr. Earl Murray explains, although a child Is ......ed to a eer1ain sc:hool, it may be necessary 10 the next lew days to reusirn him or her to another area lor reasons 01 health, or other extenu· aUoc circumstances. The reass1punents will be rqade only where they are absolutely necessary. * School Days Are Here Again * "",.'r..,., YOUNGSTERS returned to their classrooms again this week to flve·day·a-week sessions In learning the three "R's." Included student body retumln" to Groves School were: Peggy and Vicki Ii.,te,,,,,,.. of 306-B Groves, who are entering the IIrst grade; Bobby Foster, left. of f12·A Hornet, startJng in the fourth grade; and l\olicba.el 1e.....I.r.. 01 308-A Independence. a fUth grade studenL Why he also can't ,0 to school seems to be a mystery lor the puppy. held by Foster. Rag Raisers FLAG RAISING ceremonies at Rich- mond Elementary School this week belped 10 empbasize tb. fact that scbools are again In session. Many improvements In local school faclll- ties have been made in order to make school attendance as pleasant as posslbl•. Officials Announce Red , Cross Classes Local Red Cross officials today announced that two classes and a conference will take place in the next three weeks. A class on "Par- ent and Child Care" begins next Monday; a "Home Care of the Sick" class will start on Sept. 26; and a Home Care of the Sick Instruc- tors' Conference begins here on Tuesday Sept. 20. There will be no tuition fees charged for the classes and there is no age limit placed on enroll- ment. Teachers are needed for the classes; for teaching applications or further information contact Jane LaRosa at 304-a Forrestal at. THE ROCKETEER Extensive Planning Went Into Opening Of Local Schools By Dr. Earl Murray Much planning has been done for the opening of school aside from the obvious such as securing teach. ers, supplies, and preparing the physical plant. Reference is made here primarily to zoning, class bal- ance, the kindergarten placement, and to transportation. ZOning, or schOOl unit placement, is a problem for the kindergarten and first six grades. As preparation for this, a large map showing each house on the Station, was placed on the wall in the office of the as- sistant superintendent. A pin was placed on each house in which an elementary pupil resides. Each grade level has a different color. From these data we were able to draw up our school zone lines, and to de. termine how many classrooms with- in each school should be devoted to a particular grade level. 'I1lis must be done within the existing facllities at each school. In order to keep all rooms full and to prevent over croWding In some rooms it is necessary for some pupils to attend a school which 15 not the nearest one to their res- idence. Also it is occasionally neces- sary where there is more than one child in a family for one child to attend one school a.nd for the other child to attend a dilferent school. Kindergarten placement is one in which many first choices cannot be granted, either as to the at- tendance center or the time of day. This is the reason for controlled registration which will be used In the placement of morning or &ftet-- noon attendance. It can have little influence on the zone lines since distance and transportation facil- ities are necessary factors. Afternoon sessions are necessary, as they are in all communities, because building shortages all over the State make it necessary that all school facilities be used to cap- acity. Transportation is limited to one school bus with a capacity of 50 elementary pupils and fewer junior high school pupils. The bus schedule was printed in last week's Rocketeer. It will be necessary to make some changes in ~ne lines for attend- ance after the pupils are actually in school, since preliminary studies cannot be absolutely accurate. Also transportation times and routes may need to be changed. Since we are such a compact community, only a few real bard- ships will OCcur in attendance and transportation. In such cases, par- ents are requested to state the case in writing to the assistant super- intendent with reasons for request- ing the change. If the reason is one of bealth., a doctor's st.l\tement should accompany the request. THE WEATHER. Ml»tly .rear oyer the weekend. Ught varia- ble winds incrc(l$ing In t h II afternoons with gusTs from 35 to 40 knots. Generolly cooler with The maximum tem- perature 01 100. mini- mum 68. e ~""'EllArull6 (Housing .....ea) Max. Min. SePt. I ._..... 106 65 Sept. 2 __._ 106 63 Sept. 3 ._..... 108 69 SepT. -4 •••••.•• 109 61 Sept. 5 ........ 109 63 SepT. 6 ........ 110 62 Sept. 7 ........ 108 6S VOLl XI, NO. 36 U.S. NAVAL ORDNANCE TEST STATION, CHINA LAKE. CALIF. SEPTEMBER 9, 1955 300 NEW HOUSES FOR CHINA' LAKE DISCUSSING PLANS for the new 3.00·unit Wherry Home Tract is "Cal" FaUgatter (left), head of the China Lake housing division, and Richard Hibbard (right), manager of the China Lake Housing Corporation. 'Great Books' Unit 'BHR' 'Conversion To Hold Orientation Cost $7()"'Million Session at 'Center ·.tut Worth It! A three-day orientation session at the China Lake COnununity Cen- ter starting sept. 29 will mark the beginning of the iJrird year of or- ganization for the local Great Books Discussion Group. The meetings, on each of the three days, will begin at 7 :30 p.m. A series of 16 discussion pro- grams, to be held on alternate Wednesdays during the year, ha\'e been scheduled and interested per- sons are invited to participate in this program of adult self-edu- cation. Included on the discussion agenda will be selections from the Bible, Theocyd1des, P I a t 0, St. Thomas Aquinas, Rabelals, Shakespeare, Ba- con, Voltaire, Gibbon, Dostoyevsky Freud and other writers who have dealt with the basic issues of man- kind. Leading the forthCOming three- day discussion sessions will be John Lyons, of the Los Angeles Public Library, who is also a director for the Great Books Foundation. Persons interested in participat- ing in the program are urged to contact members of the group to arrange for their reading material in advance. The third-year set of 16 readings is now available for $9.25. Navy Department recomm.iss1on- ing ceremonies for the USS BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA-3ll, Es- sex·class aircraft carrier, were held at San Francisco Naval Shipyard last Tuesday. The vessel received a $70-million conversion which in- cluded a new angled deck, new clip- per bow, two new deck-edge ele- vators, and the latest electronics equipment the Navy could provide. New Commanding Officer of the "Bonny Dick" is Captain Lamar P. Carver. Thousands of guests were present for the recommissioning, including the Secretary of the Navy. 'Navy Times' Tells China Lake Story Heralded as a feature story about the "Navy·bullt clty within Itself," the Navy Times for Sept. " carries a page and one-half illustrated article about the Sta- tion. The item was prepued by the TechnleaJ Information De- partment and channelled throacb the Times' Los Angeles office for pUblication in Washln.cto~ D.C. Ground Breaking for Wherry Tract Expected To Begin tate this 'Month Ground breaking for the new 300-unit Wherry home tract is expected to take place before the end of September in the area just west of the present Desert Park Wherry Homes, according to Alfred Barrett, son of H. J, Reed Barrett, of Pasadena, owner of the China Lake Housing Corporation. SECNAV ! Secretary of the Navy Charles S. Thomas, in Long Beach to pre- sent the Navy's Distinguished Pub- lic Service Award to Clinton Fur- rer (chairman of the armed ser- vices committee), reviewed future plans of the Navy and its con- nection with the atom. , All Nuclear Powered "In the future, all the Navy'.:; lighting ships are to be nuclear powered," he said. "They will bear no resemblance to the fighting ships of today, or ships as .,.e know them. Won't Know Them "Tbe CO&'\"alUonal guns on tJle cruisers will be gone, and they will be armed with guided missUes. Jet seaplanes will have a tentflc future. for they will be able to tra.vel anywhere in the wor1cL Circle World Three Times "And the NAUTILUS-she is more effective than we thought. She can circle the world two or three times without resurfacing. The only lim- itation is the crew-they can't stay submerged that long." Secretary Thomas' remarks were made before guests and members of the Long BeBCb Chamber of Commerce. It was stated that FHA financing has been arranged for the project, total cost of which is expected to be approximately $2,200,000. Interim fi- na.ncing will be through the Bank of America of Van Nuys, with perma- nent financing through an eastern bank not as yet specified. COmpletion of the first units is ex- pected to be within live or six months after starting, Barrett said, depending on the weather. The en- tire project should be completed within eight to nine monihs, with units being completed at the rate of about 25 per week. Design of the new homes will in- clude a pitched roof in place of the existing flat type, steel kitchen cab- inet equipment, desert evaporative coolers, wall heaters and cement- floored carports. Stoves and refrig- erators will be standard equipment. The plans also call for plumbing to accommodate automatic was h 1n g machines. Rental figures will be slightly above that for the original Wherry Homes; rentals for two, three and four bedrooms Is $72-75, $82.75 and $9:.75, respeetively. Rentals wUl be restricted to mllitary personnel and their dependents, a.nd to NOTS cl- vUlan employees. Rentals will be bandied tbrou(b the NOTS Housln( Office. Among other features in the tract will be additional storage space for each home. landscaping and some playground equipment in an area of about an acre set aside for that pur- pose. First PTA Meeting Slated Thursday The first meeting of the newly or g ani zed Burroughs Pal'ent- Teacher Association will be held m the Catetorium next Thurs- day Sept. 15, at 8 pm•• according 10 PresIdent Kenneth R Rob- inson. The PTA group covers p-ade 7 throaclr 1.2. , China Lake Museum,Rocketeer Newspaper,Rocketeer 1950s,Rocketeer 1955,Rktr9.9.1955.pdf,Rktr9.9.1955.pdf Page 1, Rktr9.9.1955.pdf Page 1