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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1956
Page
6
Senior class distribution lists the Reflector staff and attendees. Homemaking teacher Mrs Blanton introduces sewing as the next unit with planned garments for each student including robes shirts dresses and a duster. Garments will be graded to teach careful technique and reduce errors.
Donna Wetzel won the Sherman District Future Farmers of America Sweetheart title for 1956 after competing with 10 Grayson County contestants. Attendee Annette Vineyard described her as an active Future Homemakers member for three years. She previously sought Farm Bureau Queen in 1955 and will attend the May Area Five FFA convention in Denton to compete for Area Sweetheart.
Whitewright High School senior Annette Smith Vineyard topped a written homemaking exam, earning entry to the state competition for All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow. She may vie for runnerup honors and a golden award pin. the school receives a Betty Crocker book. The national winner will be chosen April 12 at the American Table banquet in Philadelphia from 256 534 entrants.
Whitewright improves its record by defeating Van Alstyne 40 to 33 at Van Alstyne. A tight game stayed within a point at halftime 21 20 and featured James Dixon with a quick six points from the corner and balanced scoring from Hayes Dixon Burchfield Musser and May. Van Alstyne’s Avent Williams Hunter led the Panthers with 10 8 6 and 2 points. Tigers set to face Wolfe City in Wolfe City Friday and F F A boys attended Fort Worth Fat Stock Show on January 28.
Van Alstyne Pantherettes defeated Whitewright 57 to 34 on their home court. Patsy Edwards scored 19 and Virginia Hughes 18 to lead the Pantherettes while Alice Ayres tallied 19 for Whitewright.
Rural youth groups plan a nationwide drive to kill one million rats and mice, citing costs and crop loss. They distribute campaign aids and collaborate with bait dealers, officials, and the public to promote control using new anti-coagulant killers like warfarin developed at the University of Wisconsin. Interested groups should contact the Educational Director at Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in Madison.
The Farmersettes started with Talley Wright Gambrell Hinton and Mercer, with Stooksberry Sisco Broswell and Hart as substitutes. The Tigerettes have yet to win this season but show strong sportsmanship, earning praise for their conduct.
Students named as the weeks good citizens include Jesse Boatwright Mike Bow Randy Bryant Jan Buchanan David Christian Kenneth Gunter R J Harvey Richard Hicks Gary Holloway Don Johnson George McCurdy Dennis Morris Jimmy Shores Joe Stuart Reed Vestal Charles Williams David Woodson Rozena Alexander Jan Bilmer Becky Blanton Sarah Johnson Patricia Howery Kathy Morgan Sally Spencer Bren
Harriet Stephens Connie Taylor Lillis Watkins Shirley Kirkland Helen Melton Sue Kirby Bobby Pelitrey Carol Hagar Christine Whitney Mike Little are listed among community members. The document enumerates participants and confirms involvements in local projects.
Mrs Wayne Martin donates a collection to the WHS library honoring her late brother J Y Russell. The list includes works by West Feuchtwanger Caldwell Sharp Wernher Dark Du Maurier Franklin Shay and Smith etc. Also titles by Peters Meredith Gassner Knight and Boccaccio among others.
The students express gratitude to Mrs. Martin for a set of classic titles including Aldington The Royal Game Zweig Jassy Bunyan Pilgrims Progress English Comedies Shakespeare Hunchback of Notre Dame Whitman Paine Stevenson Jane Eyre De Maupassant Bret Harte and more. N. N. M.
The selected Mystery Teacher of the Week at White Wright School is described as five feet three and a half inches tall, 128 pounds, with gray eyes and brown hair. She enjoys geography, reading, music, television, and flower gardening, dislikes egotistical people and quarrelling, and favors macaroni and cheese, football, and painting in leisure. Initials M P B L T.
The junior class finished half a semester of English and began Adventures in American Literature. Students read several short stories and will each report on a different one. Slept through sleet, school dismissed at 2 p m and reopening Monday. Students enjoyed the day despite bad weather.
A fragment notes residents coping with severe winter conditions in Whitewright with some people staying indoors by fireside while others sit and read. The author D. M. W. remarks on the harsh season.
As The Reflector goes to press this week our hearts go out to Miss Mar dell Pumphrey fourth grade teacher in the loss of her mother. The Reflector staff and the student body extend their sympathy to Miss Pumphrey to her father J A Pumphrey and to the relatives and friends of Mrs Pumphrey. Her loss will be deeply felt by all who knew her.
Mr Johnson lends books to Dixie Bassett Veronica Lee Buchanan Carol Bush Patricia Farley Mary Grace Gates Betty Lumpkins Jean Melton Nelda McCurdy Annette VineyardDonna Wetzel Betty Ann Williams. Students study car basics and driving rules first six weeks and take a written test for a beginner license with front seat restriction. After four and a half months they take a driving test to remove the restriction.
The WHS Tigerettes lost 32-24 to the Farmersville Farmerettes in Farmersville High gym on Tuesday night January 24. Farmerettes led 11-3 after the first quarter and 17-8 at halftime. Wright topped Farmersville with 15 points. Ayres led Whitewright with 13. Other scorers included Gambrell Talley Stooksberry Hart Wetzel Phillips and Thurman among others.
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