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GLENRIDGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
September 24, 1957


   Anyone traveling to and from Glenridge must be aware of the very poor road and sidewalk condition in the area. It is time the Glenridge students and their parents brought to the attention of the Winter Park City Commission the dangerous traffic hazard these pot-holed roads and nonexistent sidewalks create.

   The students riding bikes and motor scooters should certainly abide by all the rules for safe traffic. BUT even the safest rider is placed in a dangerous spot when forced to avoid the deep holes that have developed in the roads. Sometimes he must swerve to keep from hitting one. Sometimes cars on the road are swerving at the same time. Accidents are inevitable under these conditions.

   There are some students who approach school by foot. It seems that no one in the city ever thought of a pedestrian going to school, for there is no place where he may, with safety, practice this almost lost art of locomotion by legs. On the road braving the oncoming traffic? On the road shoulders up to his knees in sand or muck? Well, where?

   It is difficult to understand why something hasn't been done about this situation before now. Glenridge expects to house 1,200 students in the near future. The hazards will be worse, not better. Are we waiting for a bad accident before action will be taken?
                                       G.H.


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor:

   In your first issue of the Kilt there was an article stating that the Royal Air Force had developed an airplane that could travel at the speed of 3000 miles per hour. Then the article stated that at this speed the plane would melt.

   I wish to disagree. I have read that a plane traveling at the speed of 3300 miles per hour would have a skin temperature of 1975 degrees Fahrenheit. In another article I have read that we now have alloys which can take temperatures up to 2460 degrees.

   We have also found a new way to get around this heat problem. We can sandwich a wing together and run a liquid through it so that when the wing becomes overheated it sweats and cools the area. Also, it is possible to fly a plane at altitudes above 50,000 feet and the higher one goes the less friction there is, and therefore the less heat.

   I am reasonably sure that these techniques for cooling planes are available to the British, and that the airplane mentioned in your article is still in one piece.

Yours truly,
Pete Wilson

THE KILT STAFF - September 24, 1957

EDITORS - Nancy Temple, Patsy Beck
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS - Pam Anderson, Gary Houmes, Jim Bond, Carol Rayburn, Ronnie Peacock, April MacDonald.
ART - Ken Lamen
PRODUCTION - Tim Darrah, Gary Houmes, Stanley Mason, Susan Sory, Jennifer Craig, Judy Schmidt, Nathan Oxhandler.
SPONSORS - Mr. Ansley and Mrs. Craig
TYPIST - Mrs. Rothrock

SOME RHYME - SOME REASON

TEEN TITLES

You like to be a dreamboat?
Wherever you may roam.
So why look like a shipwreck
While spending time at home?

TOP KILT SALESMEN

DOUBLE TROUBLE
Nathan Oxhandler, who sold a total of 90.
April MacDonald, who sold a total of 60.

Little Goofy had a bike,
He rode it every day!
But now he walks with crutches
And can not even play.

It seems that Goofy saw a pal
Who hailed him for a hitch.
Poor Goofy picked him up that day
And landed in a ditch.

Goofy saw the car all right,
And he saw the pile of rubble,
But when he tried to turn his bike
Goofy had DOUBLE TROUBLE.

NOTICE
   The Kilt wishes to invite everyone interested in writing for the paper to submit material of all kinds. You may either give your writing to your room reporter or bring it to the Kilt Office next to Room 17.
Pam Anderson