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The Lake Placid Central School District has lost about 80 pupils in the enrollment this year. This is principally due to families moving out of town where defense industries are located, according to David Allen, supervising principal. The total enrollment now is 766, against 846 last year.

Only a few requests have been made by farmers for help among high school boys for the harvesting of crops, a plan approved by the state education department in Albany.

Application has been made by the Lake Placid Club for the employment there of boys of high school age to make up for the shortage of labor.

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Football curtailed

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The prospects for football games for the Lake Placid Central School District team seem low right now because of the gasoline and tire rationing and the limited use of buses for transportation.

Following a meeting Monday night of principals and coaches of schools making up the Champlain Valley league, held in Plattsburgh, it was decided to forego any league championship for this year.

C. B. Murray, district superintendent of schools at Plattsburgh and transportation coordinator for five northern New York counties, addressed the group at the meeting. He said that, according to information received from the state education department, privately owned buses are not to be permitted to transport school athletic teams.

Buses used as public carriers and holding franchises from the state public service commission would be allowed to transport teams on their routine trips, but most of the towns located in the area of the league are not connected by these bus lines.

Even the game with Northwood School just across Mirror Lake from the village may not come to pass this year. Not because of travel but because early signs of the talent on hand among the preppers upon the opening of school on Wednesday seem to indicate that 11-man football would be out. The school has lost its veterans and the new players coming up may not be ready to take on a team of the caliber of the Blue Bombers.

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Torpedo parts shipped

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The first shipment of torpedo parts sent out by the Essex Marine Base, Inc., of Essex, has been accepted 100% by the U.S. Navy.

The Essex firm had been trying since last December to obtain defense work and this was the first order for the plant which with R. Prescott & Son, Inc., of Keeseville, are the only plants in this area that manufacture war materials.

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No more green tea

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Green tea will be unobtainable by the public under an order issued Wednesday by the war production board.

WPB froze for government purchase all green tea held by importers, packers, wholesalers and jobbers and not already packed in quarter-pound or smaller packages.

Green tea already is fast disappearing from grocers’ shelves, since this country’s principal sources of supply were China and Japan.

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Air raid alerts

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Due to their drills given last spring, pupils of the Lake Placid Central School District are prepared for the daylight air raid alert schedule to be held sometime this month. The principal said that his wardens among the faculty and janitor’s staff can move the children into the “shelters” in less than five minutes.