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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1937
Page
8
Definite building plans are delayed awaiting a thorough investigation. Readers will study available stories, visit the Whitewright post office, and secure photographs of other post offices as part of the inquiry.
Doretha Darwin notes an unusually crowded February with birthdays of Albert Sidney Johnston Mendelssohn Lindbergh Dickens Edison Lincoln Darwin Washington Lowell Longfellow and others. She praises their character and ambition as inspiring life stories.
The Glow Worm notes teachers writing for their departments describe attempts to implement the new state prescribed course of study. They express hope the changes will be well received and noticed by pupils.
Pupils find shelves filled with daily reference readers in each room and note shifts in grade assignments. Seventh graders occupy former sixth grade rooms while sixth graders move into the spacious seventh grade library. Ninety minute periods speed by as teachers and pupils begin the semester with a new test for higher achievement.
In a unit on citizenship for first through third grades, first graders study community helpers and safety rules. The class welcomed a yellow canary loaned by Mrs. Gillett, named Dickie, whose cheerful song brightens the room.
Second graders show strong interest in community helpers with Valentine’s Day as a focus. The post office is chosen as the top example and will provide storage for valentines and serve as a workshop for future activities.
In developing democracy and citizenship a central topic for weeks is community helpers. Grades discuss fireman police postman farmer ice man milkman and others broadly then focus on one helper. Third grade studies milk and the dairyman with cross subject links and health tied to dairy cleanliness.
The home is the focus of a special grade study to foster interest and understanding of home life. Readings include stories and poems about home life and financing issues are explored. Boys paint chairs from orange crates while girls sew cushions.
Sixth graders design a pretend town Kingston with streets and numbered houses. They interview job seekers by writing applications for roles. Students struggle to craft letters until Davis Parrish and Bob Sears locate two model letters from library books. Librarian likely the coveted position. results to follow.
Science math classes guided by L. E. Ricketts have sixth and seventh graders drawing scale floor plans of ideal houses. Pupils calculate furnishing costs and insure household belongings, while some students sigh over catalogs such as wedding rings.
Pupils explored converting home recipes for larger groups and learned to multiply whole numbers by fractions and mixed numbers. Some took advantage of a furniture sale saving 12 percent of the original cost, illustrating savings concepts alongside arithmetic skills.
The upper grades expand a home centered social studies unit led by Mr. Manning focusing on inter dependency within family school and community. The language arts group explores home influence and insects reflect curious homes. Fifth graders share concrete illustrations including hornets nest from North Carolina.
Washington Senator Connally of Texas urged Congress to tax war profits and set strict wartime controls. He supports a pay as you fight system drafting industry and wealth, lowering exemptions, and imposing steep surtaxes. House hearings on similar Sheppard Hill bill will resume Thursday. Nye-led plan would cap net incomes and grant broad wartime powers.
Nashville Tenn Members of the Tennessee legislature studied a bill to punish editors or publishers who print untruths in editorials. The senate approved the measure 29 to 1. The proposal by Senator Fletcher Morgan of Chattanooga sets fines from 50 to 500 dollars and a lifetime expulsion from editing or publishing state newspapers, with executives liable for damages up to 1000 dollars.
Wynne state prison farm inmates contributed 6.36 in coins to flood relief for the Ohio Valley. Sixty four prisoners donated from their small funds after hearing distress reports by radio.
Texarkana representative Wright Patman urged a federal program to guarantee a $1000 annual base income for farmers who work to produce crops. The plan would set price floors for crops and use treasury appropriations, with surplus sold or traded to steady world prices.
Dr Niles Carpenter of the University of Buffalo outlined 11 donts to nearly 1,000 Western New York Youth Conference delegates to tackle unemployment. He urged job seekers to train, stay learning, avoid easy money, pursue fitting work, and view work as social duty, warning against drifting, false ranks, and ethical misalignment.
Mary Garner aged 101, said to have 400 living descendants, advised against marriage in an interview. She argued you can never learn the ways of men and recalled Edward VIII. Mrs Garner, living near a 78 year old daughter, hopes to see Roosevelt reelected and criticizes fast transport for rising accidents.
Spokane police found forty two thousand dollars in cash secreted in a three room shack used by ill recluse Anna Miller. Bills were hidden in a dresser drawer under rags and in a flour sack and cans. Officers also uncovered large quantities of coins and smaller notes during a desultory inspection.
Miss Blanche Sloan a 45 year old Winnipeg resident was stabbed eight times with scissors on a busy Los Angeles street. The attacker Mrs Anna Fries 45 gave the alias Anna Riley stating she wore fine clothes while Sloan did not. Police held Fries on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. None of Sloan's wounds appeared serious to hospital staff.
Detective Lieutenant Thad Brown quotes Mrs. Fries unhappy over women wearing fur coats who she says prevent her from finding work as she voices frustration with the fashion trend.
A Texas Bergia species observed near Stillwater Oklahoma may be new to the state, with experts noting uncertainty about its Oklahoma occurrence and identifying it as a potential first record pending confirmation.
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