Superintendent of Schools Wade E. Miller promised retail students and merchants last night that Middletown High School would continue its distributive education program despite possible appropriation cuts by Congress. "It would be a shame if this thing would go by the board." Miller said. "We are going ahead with it in Middletown even if Washington does cut us off." The superintendent's statement, which also termed the situation "not all rosy," was made during the annual merchants banquet given at LeSourdsville Lake by the local distributive education club. Members are high school seniors who study merchandising in the mornings and work in retail stores in the afternoon. The affair was planned as a tribute to their employers...

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