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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1944
Page
6
Pupils were asked to return their pictures or pay for them. Mr. Caraway distributed report cards showing six weeks grades and the term average. The Reflector lists staff and reporters including Mary Frances Stephens and Clarence Wootten.
Willa Jean Hunter led an English IV class panel on personality. students stated we have duties to perform in modern group living and to play our part daily in the game of life. The discussion echoed ideas from Dr Henry C Link and J C Tressler about personality shaping speech and behavior.
Carded lists show six weeks honor roll recipients by class. Seniors include Merle Scoggins Mary Frances Stephens Bobby Jim Morgan Jean Caraway Betty Allen and Edward Montgomery. Juniors feature Jean Neal Katie Kincaid Janis Horton Billie Holcomb Polly Ann Brown Henrietta Jackson Nina Hood and Allan O Neal. Sophomores list Billy Ward Evans Fred Murphy Bobby Neal Witt Edith Neal Marjorie Young Frances Bennett Wandabell Sanderson Jessie Franklin. Freshmen names Joanne Grammer Hazel Neal Irene Kent Louise Owens Alice Davis Doris Hunter and Betty Lou Reeves.
An assembly Thursday afternoon listed the semester honor roll including Jean Caraway Betty Allen Janis Hortop Billie Holcomb Henrietta Jackson Edith Neal Marjorie Young Irene Kent Louise Owens Alice Davis Neal. The Choral Club announced a Victory program to be presented Thursday night February.
The semester shows economics teaching and the class finds the new course very beneficial. It aims to help students learn budgeting income and expenditures amid today’s financial challenges.
The shorthand class completes Functional Method Number One with a dictation exercise to speed typing. Functional Method Number Two will be taken up Monday focusing on phrasing for speed in the final semester.
Tuesday morning pictures were redone after the first set proved too small for the annual. Mr. Hennington cooperated by taking the second set. The initial photos arrived on Wednesday and Mr. Caraway ran a busy senior English class sideline charging a penny per glimpse of his portrait.
Mid term shows combined sections with new work books and text. Seniors will be busy in the second semester with class work and additional duties. Miss Neathery reads three plays to seniors for final selection with Mrs Roddy assisting.
Under Mrs Beazley the typing classes have conducted ten minute speed tests and recorded results on progress charts. Students struggle to follow directions on filling charts as they prepare to shift to fifteen minute tests.
A German officer asks a Belgian peasant to name a jackass. The peasant jokes about insulting their king and Hitler, prompting the officer to insist he would not insult his own animal, highlighting wartime absurdity and cultural rifts.
Grayson County reports 1943 fee collections totaling 88376.05 dollars across offices. Tax and district offices led with 32335.02 dollars, while specific items include birth records wills guardianships lunacies marriages divorces and notary and motor vehicle fees. Several precincts and officers show smaller or negative results, with some items still outstanding at year end.
Speaker Sam Rayburn urged heavier War Bond purchases in a national broadcast with Donald Nelson. He warned that European and Pacific fronts show no signs of a short war and called for government industry and labor to unite to win the war. Civilians must do their part by buying bonds.
In Detroit Johanna Treiber a 53 year old German born hospital nurse renounced her American citizenship claiming she worships Hitler and prefers Germany yet denies kissing Hitler's foot. Federal Judge Edward J Moinet praised her honesty. The piece ends with unrelated weather trivia about lightning and oysters.
The nation's automobile plants have generated over four billion dollars of airplanes engines and aero equipment in a span of three years, highlighting a significant expansion of aviation related manufacturing within the industry.
Texas court summons Zamora J Hopkins and heirs over a 1 acre parcel in Tioga from the John Fizer survey. Delinquent taxes span 1929 to 1942 listed against E L Hopkins and Hopkins Estate with amounts per year. The land is linked to Grayson County and involves notice to all interested parties.
Court notices in Grayson County Texas detail publication of citations for four foreclosure actions and two partition suits. Case No 49982 involves City of Tioga versus multiple defendants with a 42 day publication before January 1944 district court term. Case No 52493 involves Katherine Propect and others seeking partition via receivership and sale of 69 and 15 acres in named surveys.
Court citation directs B. E. Lovelady and the unknown heirs of Ada Lovelady Tolbert to appear and answer the plaintiff's petition by 10 a.m. on the first Monday after the 42nd day following notice. The document records a formal legal summons in a civil action.
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