Madison Area Safety Patrol Group in Trip

     A group of 18 school boys and girls, including 15 from the Madison area, left the Milwaukee road station Thursday to join 15,000 others in a five day trip to Washington in recognition of their work in school safety patrols.
     The Madison group joined in Chicago with 26 pupils from Wausau, and proceeded to Washington under guidance of Henry Empey, Wausau.
     The Washington meeting is the 10th annual school patrol assembly, sponsored by the American Automobile Association. The trip is financed by local clubs, lodges and civic groups. The three-day Washington program includes a parade Saturday and sightseeing trips. The pupils return to Madison Monday. All were chose in contests in their local schools.
     The junior patrolmen, ranging from 9 to 16 years old, come from 15 states and represent 300,000 members who guard some eight million school children.
     Ernest Kahl, Old Halfway Prairie School, Mazomanie; Forrest Bethel, Paoli Graded school, Basco; Vernon Buppler, Paoli graded school, Verona; Donald Raisbeck, White School, Verona; Francis Statz Verona shool; betty Genis, Schaller school, Verona; Richard Leicher. Reedsburg public school, Marcia Sutter, Spring Valley school, Mt. Horeb;……….

Capital Times - May 9, 1941