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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1958
Page
7
WHS seniors sing Navajo Trail to close Western Week of 1958. The note page lists couples, crushes, weddings, car updates, dances, and gossip about students in vivid, early yearbook style. Readers offered warnings against gossip while recounting school life and local happenings.
The Western Variety Show closed Friday night March 28 at Whitewright High School gym. The annual Western Week featured coronation of Western Kings and Queens with students from Cool Springs area presenting Pattye and others in the crowd.
The seventh grade crowned Badgett and Leon Scott as Western King and Queen, with many other grade level winners and runners up named from first through seventh grades. Louise Vestal aka Kitty and Jimmy Clark known as Mr. Dillon won Western High School honors, while Belew Twins and Belew, Elvis imitations, and the Belew family performed in a lively Variety Show at Whitewright.
A farmer, enraged while guiding two mules into a field, asks a passing minister how Noah managed to fit the animals into the ark. The humorous exchange pivots on a faith and logistics joke.
A Weslaco High School senior Leon Jackson, 17, one of three Black students in the Class AAA school, was voted the most popular boy. He joined the football team as a halfback and participates in the Key Club, with school officials praising his acceptance in activities and sports across schools.
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