found in grandmother West's scrapbook Barry West For the Leeper reader Ronald Leeper, freshman, was injured last Tuesday in the manual training department when he cut his fingers while working on the edging machine. Medical attention was necessary. __________________________________________________________________________ Staff of the Leon Journal_Reporter Co-Editors Don Horn Howard Menold News Editor Shirley Gardner Sporst Editor Bill Rayhill Feature Editor Layton Hurst South School Wallace Lorey Reproters Berne Tharp, Anita McAllwee, Darylene Morey, Veryl Bigley, Margaret Ford, Harry Tullis, Mary Kay Farquhar, John Dean Frost, Marble Cox Post Graduate Reporter Cash Cordes Art Director Warren A. Ruby Adviser Margaret Louise Stout __________________________________________________________________ editorial Cement Floors Cause Low Temperature-Low Grades How would you like to study in a room that was only 58 degrees above zero? Well, the girls of home economics department have experienced just that. The normal temperature of a heated schoolroom is 72 degrees, yet our homemaking department has ranged from 54 degrees to 58 degrees nearly all winter. This temperature near the ceiling of the room is 80 degrees, What then seems to cause the 26 degree drop? The trouble it would seem comes from poor cement floors. Cement is cold enough, but cracked cement is colder-that is the verdict of the students, who are learning to "sew a straight seam" in a rather frigid atmosphere. Classes of recitation are being shifted to the food laboratory where one may sit upon a high stool. Here one may also turn on the little electric plates, by way of warming things up. It is well established fact that the instructor get the best fractions from the students if they are warm and comfortable. This can be accomplished only by the laying of new wooden floors in the home-making department, according to state vocational instructor, Miss Mary Ferris, who has advised the improvement. This will not only result in a more homelike appearance for the department, but it will overcome heretofore unhealthy condition. ---D.D.M.