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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1938
Page
3
The Glow Worm recounts third grade projects from September to December. Students visit a telephone office and build a classroom switchboard, create directories, and host an auditorium program. They also study Indian life with charts, books, and a woods picnic, then construct a toy shop with student roles, pricing, tickets, and a parent party.
A classroom project after Christmas turned the toy shop into a grocery store with shelves of cans and bottles. Pupils photographed the setup, learned about milk and dairy through posters and reading, and heard a dairy plant representative present a factory film. Students Claude Pritchett Max Ray Wilson David Lee Johnson Roby Wilson helped build the dairy display while an assembly featured several students performing.
The group guided by Mr. Key rode the school bus to Sherman with a first stop at Hannah's Greenhouse where students admired flowers and birds described by Jack Hannah, then moved to Ashburn's Dairy to learn about pasteurization bottle filling and capping, ending with a picnic at Houston Street Park.
Third grade students begin a unit on Holland and Japan with tulip themes. They read Dutch and Japanese stories, used encyclopedias and chart stories, and created Dutch booklets, posters, and handmade Dutch dolls. Each child wrote an original Japanese story alongside drawings and math work.
Third grade pupils mourn a gold fish that died at school and bury it with flowers. Betty Jo Hamilton brings two new fish named Tip and Tap who are thriving. Betty Margaret Sears introduces a rabbit but it dies shortly after being caged despite care from M. H. Mullins and classmates bringing vegetables.
A class keeps a chart tallying poems memorized from memory with a gold star for each entry. Billy Ward Evans has memorized the greatest number, leading all students in the year’s poem-memorization effort.
Pupils in this grade expect to spend the last weeks of school developing a study of Texas to gain a greater appreciation of their own state.
The program offers children chances to develop responsibility and social and emotional growth. It stimulates interest through varied expression mediums and enables students to learn through living, fostering creative self expression.
An old salesman advises a younger one to avoid selling an encyclopedia to a bride. He says wait until the third year after marriage. First year she believes her husband knows everything, second year she admits he knows something, third year she is sure he knows nothing.
Ernest O. Thompson Amarillo mayor turned railroad commissioner outlined a 15 point platform decrying new taxes while urging aid for farmers and schools. He aimed to replace Governor and faced opposition from Attorney General Bill McCraw who argued for resource taxes if needed for social programs.
A speaker argues that a proposed program would destroy a near-century legislative system, noting the lieutenant governor’s sole power is to preside over Senate sessions. Another candidate pledges universal pensions for seniors, while the governor must follow his oath and enforce the needy-only pension law enacted by legislators.
The piece argues Texans should learn the duties of state and local electives before campaigns heat up. It notes promises often exceed power and that only administrative officers can enact certain changes, with reference to candidates for attorney general and lieutenant governor. It also mentions Gov Allred suspending his Rest of the Record column.
A charitable Mrs Gartner offers to feed a half starved man but delays by claiming the pudding is not cold yet, saying she just took it from the oven. The man agrees to return tomorrow hoping for a cold pudding.
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