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WOOSTER Students in Ann McNeil s science class at Triway Junior High were as serious as NASA engineers on the morning of a launch.
In the gray drizzle of Wednesday morning, they stood at the perimeter of the soccer field with their eyes fixed on their timers for their own launch as classmates propelled pop bottle rockets skyward one by one.
The timers compared findings with each other in determining how long each bottle rocket stayed in the air against a goal of at least two seconds.
Each student had a role to play; timing the flight was just one of them. Also on the agenda were pumping up the bottle with a bicycle pump, pulling the string to launch it and measuring the altitude with an altimeter.
Out of the past
April 29, 1896
The glee club of Ohio Wesleyan University, of which Carl N. Sharp, of this city, is president, will do the singing at the National Oratorical Association meeting at Topeka, Kans., May 5.
E.O. Gump, of this county, was one of the guards appointed at the meeting of the new board of penitentiary managers yesterday.
100 years
April 29, 1921
Margaret Kaser is leading today in the popularity contest being conducted for the Queen of May by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Frances Potter is second and Zylpha Harmony, third.
M.B. McKee, chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements, said today that a special car on the Western Ohio will leave here at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, to carry the 50 members of the Sidney Kiwanis Club who will be attending the intercity meeting to be held in Dayton. The Kiwanis orchestra and quartet will accompany the local group.