Listening in the Amarillo class shapes student speakers
Miss Jessie Mercer, Amarillo High School speech instructor, argues that listening warrants greater emphasis in speech teaching. Her study, featured in The Bulletin, shows listening as essential to learning and as a counterpart to speaking, with students analyzing and evaluating audiences to form genuine speaking situations.
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Jessie Mercer
Amarillo High School
Bulletin
The
National Association of Secondary School Principals
Miss Mercer
Northwestern University
Globe-News
Listening as a Tool to Improve Speaking Skills
The text notes that listening is valuable for improving speaking. It argues that students speak more freely when they recognize listeners strive to understand, which reduces self consciousness and aids their desire to help others understand.
Post Office Walk Extension Considered in Amarillo
An investigator from the Public Buildings Administration will visit Amarillo in a few weeks to inspect the sidewalk and street in front of the post office. The aim is to decide if the federal government will extend the sidewalk to the curb, while postmaster W D DeGrassi favors widening the street about three feet on each side to relieve traffic congestion.
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Public Buildings Administration
Washington
Amarillo
Eugene Worley
Shamrock
Amarillo Post Office
W. D. DeGrassi
Worley
The
Stanton Field
Conley Hopes His Bees Are Unharmed by Cold
Jack Conley says it is too cold to open the hive to check his bees. He notes bees cluster for warmth in cold weather and that the insects have plenty of honey. Conley has three hives in town and seven on a farm seven miles south of the city.
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Jack Conley
Monroe
Mr. Conley
Colorado
Southern
California
Flathers
Amarillo High Adds Geography Course With Public Talks
Amarillo High School introduces World geography as a new social studies course taught by Mrs. Margaret Josserand. The program covers climate and physical geography, economic and political impacts, current events, diplomacy, and uses films and guest speakers.
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Effie Burkhalter
Amarillo
Margaret Josserand
Oklahoma Central Teachers College
Kansas State College
West Texas State
Flathers
Bill Innis Hurt in Highway Accident
Bill Innis operator of the Pig Inn and Little Pig Inn cafes in East Amarillo is in serious condition in a San Angelo hospital after a highway accident in which J W Williams Sunray was killed early Tuesday night Williams a farmer and rancher died late Tuesday night Innis suffers a broken wrist facial and body cuts and possible internal injuries and exposure
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Bill Innis
Amarillo
San Angelo
J. W. Williams
Sunray
Innis
North Pierce
Mr. Williams
Mt Ruapehu crater hosts 175 foot hot lake
In the crater of Mt Ruapehu on New Zealand's North Island a lake of hot water lies within snow drifts near the 175 foot summit area.
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Mt. Ruapehu
North Island
New Zealand
Stevens escorted to jail after drunken driving wreck at jail
In Brail Indiana Orval Stevens crashed into the jail while fleeing police seeking arrest on a drunken driving charge. Officers freed him from the damaged car and guided him into a cell.
Dance Tonight for Carpenters Union
Members of Carpenters Local Union No. 655 will have a dance at Carpenters Hall 212% West Seventh tonight at 7 30 o clock. Music by Claude Tuckett and his Amarillo Play Boys. Amarillo building contractors will be the union s special guests.
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Carpenters Local Union No. 655
Carpenters Hall
West Seventh
Claude Tuckett
Amarillo
Globe News
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