The Alto Herald and The Wells News 'N Views (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1981 Page: 5 of 12
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THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27,1M1-PAGE FIVE
Alto 9 Wells Enrollment Down
After the first day of
registration, both the Aito
and Wells schools were
rsacsi in
a vi/vi - — -
enrollment based on
earlier predictions.
Alto schools had enrolled
623 students for the 1961-82
term as of Monday of this
week when 650 were an-
ticipated
Registration will con-
tinue for the next few days.
Of the tdtal, 305 are
junior and high school
students and 318 are in the
Elementary school
School officials had
Season Ticket
Sales Great!!
DO YOU REMEMBER??-Melanle Goodwin asks Mike Carver If he remembers
facts from the first grade. The two are students in Hazel Pitts’ second grade class
at Wells Elementary School.
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Meals
Served
The Wells Independent
School District serves
nutritious mea&dtevery
school day
Students may buy lunch
for 65 cents in the elemen-
tary school and 75 cents in
the high school The cost
for breakfast is 25 cents
for all students.
Children from families
whose income is at or
below the level on the scale
below may be eligible for
either free meals or meals
at a reduced price of 40
cents for lunch and 5 cents
for breakfast
To apply at any time
during the year for free or
reduced price meals for
your children, contact the
principal's office or
superintendent's office for
any application
Alto Locals
Mr and Mrs Jack King
Jr of Beaumont were
weekend visitors in the
Wade Vining home
Reserved seat tickets for
home games of the Alto
High School football team
have been sold, school of-
ficials reported Monday.
The tickets were placed
on sale with holders of
season tickets last season
given first choice of the
same seats this season
They were given until last
Friday to make their pur-
chases Most of them were
sold by Friday but a few
persons were in line Mon-
day morning to purchase
their tickets
Tickets were $15 each for
five home games and 198
were sold
Regular tickets will be
Alto
School Menu
Menus for the cafeteria
of the Alto schools for next
week are listed as follows:
Monday
Macaroni and cheese,
pinto beans, turnip greens,
cornbread, peach cobbler,
milk
Tuesday
Goulash, cole slaw, pur
pie hull peas, batter bread,
applesauce, milk
Wednesday
Pizza, green salad,
mixed vegetables, French
fries, mixed fruit, milk
Thursday
Beef tips with rice,
English peas, hot rolls,
jello, milk
Fridas
Hamburgers, lettuce
tomato, onion pickles,
French fries, pineapple
pudding, milk
Headstart Enrollment
Hits Record Level
Enrollment for the Alto
Head Start program set a
record Monday when the
1981-82 session began with
24 pupils. This is seven
more than was recorded
for last year
Mrs Narean Crosby,
director, said one more
pupil may be enrolled
To be eligible for the
program, children must be
3 years old before Sept 1
Head Start has started its
third year in operation in
the gymnasium and home
economics building of the
old high school It was held
at the Elementary School
for several years
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Alto Independent School
District buses pick up the
children in the mornings
and return them to their
homes in the afternoon as
part of the regular routes
Assisting Mrs. Corsby at
the school are Mrs Judy
Landrum, aide, Mrs.
Justine Poole cook and
Mrs Jeanette Finley,
custodian
Mrs Crosby expressed
her appreciation to the
parents and others who
helped Saturday in doing
various work to get things
in order for the new
session She called it a good
turnout and said
playground equipment was
painted, weeds were cut
and broken limbs were
hauled off The volunteers
worked about four hours
Additional painting will be
done later by volunteer
helpers, Mrs Crosby said
K Birth
Little Miss Mollee Grubb
is proud to announce the
arrival of a baby brother
Tad Michael Bucky Grubb
on July 13th
The young man weighed
6 pounds. 13 ounces
Proud parents and gran-
dparents are Mike and
Susan Grubb of Arlington,
and Mr and Mrs M F
I-andrum of Alto
Shower
Slated
A baby shower in honor
of Wanda Waddleton Smith
will be given Saturday,
Aug 29, from 4 until 6 p m
at the Alto Community
Center
Joyce Guinn Sands and
Betty Easley will be
hostesses Friends are in-
vited
sold at the gate before each
game.
The first home contest is
Rusk on Sept 19
predicted that ap-
proximately 650 students
would enroll. This is about
the same figure as last
jfemi.
Classes opened one week
ago today at Wells with
enrollment down by about
30 students, according to
John Fuller, superinten-
dent.
Fuller said that his staff
had estimated that ap
proximately 365 students
would enroll, but he felt
that the school would con-
tinue to pick up late
enrollees through Labor
Day.
At present the classes in
the secondary are well
balanced and the elemen-
tary school has a comfor-
table number in each
classroom, he said
Kindergarten has 18 and
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total 35 students. In second
grade, there are 28 studen-
ts broken into two sections.
Third grade has 29, fourth
grade has 26 and the fifth
grade has 31 in two sec-
tions Sixth grade has 32
students for a total of 199 in
elementary.
In the high school, seven-
th grade has 22 students,
eighth grade has 29 and
ninth has 25 Tenth grade
has 25 students with the
eleventh grade having 16
and twelfth grade having 18
for a secondary total of 135.
Ticket» Sent
ToVFW
Auxiliary
Members of Veterans of
Foreign Wars Auxiliary
8908 have been mailed
tickets on the afghan which
will be given away at the
Alto Country Fair in Oc
tober
Juanita Germany,
president, and Mamie L.
Carter, treasurer, said
members are asked to sell
their tickets as quickly as
possible Also, they asked
that members who have
not paid their 1982 dues do
so.
HMMNMNHH
SOMETHING NEW-Shown are some of the kindergarten pupils at Alto who are In school for the first time Ir rom
left are Frederick Hackney, Donny Mays. Julie Jones, Robin Callaway, teacher aide; Susan Wally and Cookie
Taylor. Miss Juanell Rawlinson is the teacher and has 19 pupils. The other kindergarten class, taught by Mrs
Delana Mason, has 18 in class. --staff photo
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