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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1942
Page
3
Harper publication highlights weekly local events and notices for the town. It covers community announcements and upcoming activities aimed at residents, encouraging engagement and betterment.
Dorothy Anderson urges Americans to support the war effort with work, gifts, and purchases to defend democracy as the Nation faces the threat of dictatorship. The note, dated Friday March 13 1942, lists school class names and students from Seventh through First grades.
The high school honor roll will be published next week due to an illness affecting a teacher. Report cards were distributed late this week.
Superintendent E O Larkin said Harper High School pupils would move into the east wing after fifteen to twenty working days. Floors remain to be sanded and light fixtures installed. The gymnasium and elementary rooms yet to be added keep the building incomplete.
Seven students entered the contest after preliminaries. Top girls honors went to Camille Stevens and Mary Frances Fletcher in a tie while Perry Casper won the boys division. Prizes were Defense Stamps awarded by Mrs. Arthur Bierschwale, with judge’s scoring on poem choice appearance voice gesture sincerity and impression.
The note lists multiple schoolmates and crushes around Bonnie Jo, Carrol, Madge, Faye, Harper, Robert, Nola, Ruby, Evelyn, Robey Dean, Camille, Charles, and LaBonmie. It hints at romances, teasing, and a chorus of opinions about who likes whom and who is bashful or fanciful. The piece closes noting four Bonnies at hiphool with a few spares.
A playful riddle style piece links emotions to clues about lost love distress a bored guest and a girl in a wind storm with a playful reference to a kiss a ring and a defeat noted as a turned out part of the legs using metaphorical language.
The passage notes changes in fashion for girls with plaited hair replacing curls while Uncle Sam takes the boys. It highlights Harper girls needing little makeup, the rise of shorts for defense, red ribbons as a lead color, and warns that long fingernails are out.
Walter Bierschwale born in Fort Stockton in 1924 begins schooling at seven, later attends Alpine for four years, then Harper where he is a senior. At six feet tall he stands out. he would be a strong basketball prospect if H S program existed. His aim is ranching near the Pecos, per Viola Marschall.
Miss Bevill leads seventh grade in creating two booklets of Texas facts. Students Jo Anne Kinsey and Scotty Kinsey join the class as Dorothy Mae Parker contemplates honor roll. Questions arise about entertaining a roommate's boyfriend and Raymond Pape's six flags of Texas.
Marbles are named as the favorite school sport with a forthcoming contest to pick the best shots. No trials are planned as contestants are deemed ready. Rules are simple and fudging leads to disqualification. Date pending and officials to be chosen.
Dennis Parker is named winner as officials review possible improprieties amid claims of fudging. Umpires debate the outcome as scrutiny grows over the contest result.
Daily bus notes capture chatter about White Bluff students. Names like Dorothy Nell Minda Faye Calvin E J Nola Harlingen and Walde mar appear with songs promises and letters from Love Field. The piece ends with a light tease about a new heart throb and ice cream.
A reflection on Friday the Thirteenth from a school page, weighing superstition versus reality. Students debate luck, citing personal anecdotes such as finding money and the Juniors’ reactions to a failed play, while noting common superstitions and the upcoming Saturday the fourteenth.
A parade of names appears with song titles and lines of affection. Ellis performs Goodbye Little Darling to Minda Faye while Blue Eyes is popular for LaBonnie. Doris attracts attention among R K and M B. The quotes reflect intimate moods and evolving romances across a crowd of young singers.
Louise Crawford, former Harper eighth grader, relocates to Kerrville to enroll in a new school. Louise Parker remains hospitalized in Kerrville after appendectomy. Charlyne Barret and other pupils look forward to her return. Miss Goodman missed part of the week due to illness, with Mrs. Dean Hopf substituting.
Thomas L. Mullican, region executive of the WPB Bureau of Industrial Conservation, heads a census of Southwestern auto graveyards from Dallas. WPA and Agriculture workers list yards as offers to buy junked cars are set for 90 days. Refused offers lead to forced sale.
The Emergency Price Control Act issues the first permanent price regulation fixing a ceiling for shorn wool at 37.1 cents per pound grease wool based on the average price on December 15, 1941.
Frances Cartin wears a tri color soft suit described by Chas Cooper. The ensemble features a short rounded cardigan with a Macy ket influence and a slim bright eta e eat ue end yele printed skirt, reflecting a spring style at Columbia notes.
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