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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1965
Page
4
The piece urges readers to make meaningful New Year resolutions to improve themselves and their communities. It notes some avoid resolutions, explains the origin of “clean the slate,” and cautions against trivial or self serving aims while encouraging personal reform and positive goals.
Students will receive and take mid term examinations at Harper High School on Tuesday January 13 1969. Each exam will last forty five minutes with a pass to the test tours required. Students with incomplete or unfinished work may not leave school during the test period except for lunch. Those caught up may obtain permission to leave briefly.
The Junction Eagles travel to Longhorn Court to host the Longhorns in a rescheduled game after ice delayed their December 18 meeting. District play begins after Christmas with a January 8 trip to Center Point to face the Pirates at 7 30 p m.
The Harper Longhorns meet Center Point Pirates at Center Point tonight at 7 with girls first. Center Point missing two A string starters tonight, Longhorns push for district crown as rematch follows prior Harper tournament dominance.
The schedule lists games for Rounday in 1965 with dates and locations. Matchups include Center Point Johnson City Medina Blanco and show home and away designations.
Harper High School students share their New Year resolutions. Plans include staying home more after the holidays catching up in typing winning district in basketball keeping warm this winter and pursuing bookkeeping classes.
Students describe holiday loot from family and friends in a light hearted roundup. Peggy gets a sweater and ring, Rita unboxes a wrist watch, Marcellus collects travel gear and clothes, Benny Barker earns riding gear, James Esquell debuts a new camera, Bruce Parker sports a leather vest, Harper and Tatsch receive wrist watches, Jim Bob Stevens shows off a grandfather car named the Green Hornet.
During the Christmas holidays Harper School released test results for grades seven nine ten and eleven. Principal and counselors praised the results as above average with several students showing exceptionally high performance on nationwide comparisons. Six weeks earlier three testing types were administered over two days: SRA Achievement and Ability Tests for grades seven and nine, the Flanagan Aptitude Test for sophomores, and the Iowa Test of Educational Development for eleventh grade English math history and science.
January brings Harper Stock Show on the 16th with the district show on 17 to 19 and Fredericksburg Show on the 23rd. Harper students may ride to San Antonio Rodeo on February 13 opening day of an eight day event. Houston stock show starts February 24. A junior class play Headin for a Wedding will be produced in February. District basketball begins January 8. Science teachers meet February 17 in D Hanis to draft a K-12 science course. F H A area convention gathers February 27 in Kerrville. Public School Week is March 15 and no school is planned for March 12 if teachers attend the Texas State Teachers Association Convention in San Antonio.
A cryptic line repeats Je Wa Te The Round believed to reference a local event or phrase. No clear names dates or locations are readable to define context or outcome. Further readable details are needed to summarize with accuracy.
The passage discusses New Years Resolutions as helpful if kept, noting jokes about them yet arguing they improve behavior. It suggests many resolutions are kept only briefly, with a belief that widespread adherence would improve the world, though overall life continues unchanged. J. E.
The FFA and FHA hosted a Christmas dance Friday night December 18 in the Harper community building. The Cimar ron Ramblers from Kerrville provided the music. A good Harper High crowd attended despite cold weather. They paid the band sixty dollars and ten dollars for the park to use the building. Refreshments sold and the decorating freshmen did a fine job.
District basketball opens Friday while seniors plan graduation invitations. Kay S and Rita K push Longhorn subscriptions as Journalism class eyes ads for nearby cities. Alma Ellis leaves after mid term and a New Year’s night story lingers from San Antonio stock show chatter. A H H S girl cried at Hank Williams Your Cheating Heart show.
Harper Longhorns edged by Junction 43 36 as fouls and free throws shaped a tight win for Junction. Bruce Parker led Harper with 16 points while Tommy Randle topped Junction with 15 points and Center Point looms Friday in district play.
Mr. John Sandidge measured all seniors for graduation caps and gowns. The Journalism class selected the Longhorn annual cover from his assortment. A high school Christmas party featured gift exchanges in the study hall. Progress on the Longhorn annual looks good with about eighty pages planned and thirty more to finish.
A garbled dialogue lists various guesses on a phrase or term. Participants include Mister James Mrs Hopf Massey Lloyd Peggy Wayne W and B with interpretations ranging from body parts to clothing animals and equipment.
The seventh and eighth Aespe had a Christmas party on December 16 at 9.90 in the cafetorium. Gifts were exchanged and games followed. Students performed a skit and room mothers served refreshments. Dancing to records and a decorated tree completed the holiday observance.
A collection of song dedications listed for a freshman boys program includes Jack to a King, Wild Weekend by Billy H, He’s a Rebel by Mary Nell T, Walk Like a Man by Buddy S, My Dad by Michael L, Our Day Will Come by Patsy B and Mike G, Ring of Fire by Annie L and Marlene J, Let It Be Me by Bruce P, and Thunder Road by Junior Boys.
The Harper Herald lists senior girls and song selections including Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette and Only the Lonely. Mentions of local residents visiting Midland with family ties to the Lennon household appear among the trimmed items.
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