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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1937
Page
6
The W H S Reflector lists staff including Editor-in-chief Mrs Jack Lackey and Assistant Editor Anita Vestal with reporters such as Jim Henry Andrews Roscoe Brown and Christine Moore. It notes school songs March and Alma Mater and mentions girls tap dancing performed by M L C.
The livestock judging boys and Mr. Bean traveled to Bonham on Saturday March 26 for practice. They judged several stock types including mules bogs beef cattle and draft horses. The team expects to accomplish much in future contests.
Ten boys accompanied Mr Bean to Mr C M Howards farm to judge dairy cattle and livestock on Saturday March 27. The dairy team judged hogs mules and sheep. Mr Howard had more classes of livestock than any other farm visited during the judging period.
Four members of the public speaking class spoke in chapel on Thursday morning March 25. The question from the national inter scholastic league asked if the Government should have the monopoly on ammunition of war time. Boyd Newman and Merriwell Vineyard supported the affirmative while Sarah Belle Gillett and Aileen Pennington argued the negative. The student body awarded the win to the negative side.
The Whitewright F. F. A. milk judging team William Howard Harrison Billy Smith and Jack Meador placed sixth at the State milk judging contest held by Swift & Company in Fort Worth on March 13 Their scores 56 60 and 64 sum to 180 with lower scores better The trio will represent Whitewright at a Denison contest next month.
The first year home economics class is making seam samples and will begin slips next week. Some third year students hope to finish their dresses this week aiming for Easter, though that now seems unlikely.
The E T S T C Band from Commerce visited the local high school on Wednesday March 23 on a goodwill tour. They were led by Dr J R Hickerson pastor of Commerce First Baptist Church, C L Jones chamber secretary Carl Deomer band director and four girls from the Women’s Athletic Club. The band performed La Czarina The Twelfth Street Rag and The Old Gray Mare among other pieces.
Three agri culture judging teams will travel to Arlington on Saturday April 3 to compete with other groups. The livestock, terracing, and dairy teams each consist of three boys. The names of the team members have not yet been announced.
Mr. Burma assigns a third unit on strikes for the economics class. Students must compile a scrapbook with clippings from newspapers and magazines about strikes and labor problems, including definitions questions and themes.
Velma Jo Bow and Ted Bow were in Sherman Saturday. Velma Lee Norris and Marcell Gosnell were Sherman visitors Saturday. Helen Lane and Kathleen Mitchell spent Saturday in Sherman. Pauline Blackerberry was in Ector Saturday. Charlie Mae Ross visited in Bonham Saturday. Freddie Mae Call visited in Leonard Sunday. Betty Jo Morrow spent Sunday at Tom Bean. Mary Lee Chaney and Ethel Harper were in Sherman Saturday.
A light hearted collection of classroom quips and jokes in which students answer questions with humor. Bits include Easter rabbits fur drifting in the air and a playful exchange on spelling the word complimentary. The dialogue features Velma Jo Lissie Mae Billie and John Lewis in a small town school setting.
Home economics II students studied menu variety this week with each pupil suggesting a distinct plan. The exercise benefits the class by improving future hostess skills as groups prepare to specialize on a meal portion next week.
Senior girls were called to assembly in the home economics laboratory Friday March 26 at Denton. Martha Bryant Margaret Lilley and Vivian Echols described the most outstanding factors about T S C W and discussed the uniforms worn by the girls and the numerous improvements that have been made.
Across dormitories and the campus, girls showed interest in T. S. C. W. by giving their names and addresses to receive literature about the college. D. B. L.
The King and Queen contest at Whitewright High sponsored by the juniors opens with rising interest. After weak initial effort, pep talks in classes spur excitement as votes pour in. Freshmen lead with 100 votes, followed by sophomores 4, juniors 75, and seniors 62. Votes expected to climb before closing.
The county track meet scheduled for Sherman on March 27 was postponed due to bad weather. No new date was announced.
The seniors have spent a week selecting a play to be staged in about three weeks under Mr Burma. No definite choice is made yet but several plays are under consideration by the senior class.
Mr. Burma led a March 23 chapel program honoring Patrick Henry. Students sang America with Mrs. Kennemer at the piano, then staged a Virginia House of Burgesses scene. Patrick Henry’s Give me liberty or give me death speech was delivered by speakers including Clyde Owens and Floyd Everheart.
Hi Y members met in the gym to discuss improving the high school and planned a chapel program to boost enthusiasm. The event was affected by a postponed track and scholastic meet and talk proposals from C I A students. The club agreed to assist Mr Key with a square dance or minuet and learned five steps.
The W. H. S. public speaking class girls Sarah Belle Gillett and Aileen Pennington lost the preliminary debate for the county championship to Denison by 3 to 2 at Sherman Saturday. After arriving at the Y M C A debates, Whitewright Sadler Denison and Van Alstyne drew lots for opponents. Whitewright faced Denison on the government monopoly of war munitions motion. the local girls next debate Sadler in Sherman for third place.
The item traces weekend sightings of Charlie Mae with Tom Bean and Betty Jo with Grady in Sherman and Wolfe City whispers about Gladys and a “Wolfe City flash.” J W Sanderson takes up weight lifting in Leonard while an orthodox church member defends dishwashing as not a man’s job.
Henderson reports from the London disaster area that the Red Cross found no cripples among survivors. Dr. William Dekleine, medical director, notes seventy four hospitalized. thirty nine remain with injuries from fractures to wounds. Mental states mostly improving. fifty nurses served, forty remain on duty.
College Station report from Extension entomologist R R Reppert explains two insect types sap-suckers and chewers and two control methods. Sucking insects need contact poisons like nicotine sulphate on hot still days. chewing pests respond to stomach poisons such as lead or calcium arsenate. Some insects defy rules. cotton boll weevil is controlled with stomach poisons while striped cucumber beetle is best with contact sprays. Observation of plant injury helps identify insect type and county agents advise on poison type and formulas.
Helena Montana officials say a clerical error in the chain store tax bill voided the measure. A single word change from Be it enacted by the people of the State to Be it enacted by the legislative assembly would have added a tax expected to raise about 110000 this year.
Victor Lebegue, 65, ends his University of Illinois freshman year and returns home to assist his son with spring plowing in Seneca. He plans to take postmaster examinations in his hometown. The note ends with a stray adage about icing a cake.
At Texas A and M College seven hundred male students run a mass live at home cooperative, cleaning, milking cows and feeding chickens. Started in 1932 from 12 boys, the project now saves about 150000 dollars this school year and has sparked 50 similar cooperatives. Local communities back the efforts to improve housing and support for students with limited means.
A light exchange between Bare Farmer and Second Ditto features mutual bragging about trees that supposedly bear fruit or foliage through winter. The brief dialogue underscores a joking contest over hardy, year round yields.
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