Youth Speaks On Education: Teacher Strengthening Views
A collection of Amarillo High School seniors discuss Education Week themes on strengthening the teaching profession. Barbara Husband emphasizes individualized understanding and trained teachers. Betty Taylor urges school-community collaboration. Betty Burkhalter calls for addressing core problems in education. Truman Kemper advocates foundational knowledge and civic responsibility. Sally Dawson supports democratic education and problem-solving. Jim Tidwell links youth training to future societal conflicts and parental responsibility.
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the Globe
Amarillo
Barbara Husband
West Tenth
Betty Taylor
North Tyler
Betty Burkhalter
Sally Dawson
Hayden
Jim Tidwell
West
Youth Voice on School Board Duty and Student Opportunity
A reflection on school boards providing capable faculty to guide youth. It emphasizes student responsibility to seize learning opportunities and states that today’s youth shape tomorrow’s world.
Dallas Initiates 10 Million Dollar School Building Plan
Dallas board of education announces a 10 million dollar building program. Bids will be sought for construction and remodeling of Sidney Lanier and Thomas schools, with plans for four additional schools ready soon for contract bids within a month. Superintendent W. T. White stated details.
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Dallas
Dallas Board of Education
Sidney Lanier
Thomas
W. T. White
German secretaries' monthly pay equals two cigarette packs
A report notes that the monthly take home pay of competent bilingual German secretaries in Germany now equals the price of two packages of American cigarettes.
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Germany
Dark Outlook For Livestock
Texas livestock remains poor as winter nears. The USDA reports range feed at 70 percent of normal, five points below September and 12 points under the 10 year average. Cattle and calves show heavy shrinkage while cows and sheep enter winter in poor condition. some western and central Edwards Plateau counties had October rainfall improving sheep areas.
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Austin
Texas
United States Department of Agriculture
Western
Centra Edwards Plateau
Bee County Sheriff Vail Ennis Injured in Pettus Shootout
Doctors said Bee County Sheriff Vail Ennis would recover after a gun battle at a Pettus filling station. Ennis was shot twice in the abdomen and grazed on the elbow, with a fourth bullet hitting his right thigh after detaining two suspects on a hot check complaint.
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Beeville
Bee County
Vail Ennis
Ennis
Pettus
Santa Fe Carloadings Rose in Week Ending November 8 1947
Santa Fe System carloadings for the week ending November 8 1947 totaled 30 326 up from 24 825 in 1946. Cars received from connections were 12 636 versus 13 175 a year earlier. Total cars moved reached 42 692 compared with 38 000 in 1946. The preceding week saw 44 620 cars handled. Also noted are colonial America libraries of Elder William Brewster Governor Winthrop and Dr Cotton Mather.
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Santa FE
Colonial
America
William Brewster
Governor Winthrop
Cotton Mather
Resourceful Memphis Bride Buys Roast To Fit Roaster
A Memphis housewife, newly married, asked for a roast to fit her roaster when the butcher inquired about size. She admitted she had never bought a roast before and solved the problem by presenting her roaster as the sizing guide.
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Memphis
Tenn
Steps Up in Class Foxboro Harness Horse Leon Direct
Leon Direct, a 14 year old harness horse from Bay State Raceway Foxboro, Mass, has moved up in class after winning several races. The horse was previously sold to a farmer for use as a plow horse.
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Foxboro
Mass
U.P
Leon Direct
Bay State Raceway
College faculty hobby survey shows wide outside interests
City College's publication The Campus surveyed 250 professors and found only 9 percent had no outside interests. The remainder reported active engagement in sports carpentry plumbing gardening sketching music and stargazing.
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New York
U.P
City College
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