Dec. 8, 1949
The final tabulation of Sweet Home’s school district’s census between ages 4 and 20 came back with 1,986, an increase over last year’s 1,974. The basic reason for the recent and prospective increases in school enrollment is the spectacular increase in the birth rate since 1940. The war babies of 1942 and 1943 are the first and second graders of the current school year. High birth rates in 1948 and 1949…