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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1936
Page
8
The article describes classroom department charts with red stop lines indicating when grades approach danger. It notes pupils in the seventh grade English class and faculty assistance drawing the charts under the principal. Some grades near the line risk stoppage and potential trouble.
Drunette Farley and Glenda Mae Rutledge commend Miss Blanton's class for bright work in addition using flash cards with dot patterns. Students rapidly add two groups of dots and state the sums, signaling a strong start to math education.
The second grade created a sand table of the American plains with Indians Pueblo towns a trooper and other Western figures. They studied Washington and Lincoln and made posters of both. A bulletin board features a Washington portrait and they plan to convert the post office into a library inviting book donations. Monday morning desks were rearranged by Cecil Hodges and Lloyd Roddy.
Monday morning the third grade greeted teacher Miss Sallye as she returned from a weeklong illness. Each week new pupils are chosen to help keep the room tidy. This week’s helpers include Carl Pierson, Homer Frank, Howard Ross, Chesley Rutledge, J. C. Samples, Willadean, James Stuart, Billy Joe Riddle, John Rufus. The class regrets losing Joe Moore who has moved to Tennessee.
The fifth graders have shown marked improvement this week by moving quietly and quickly, passing papers with speed and efficiency, and speaking only with permission. They keep their floor clean and are extremely careful. The change is attributed to an innocent looking little red line.
Fourth grade students conduct two trial simulations displaying strong skills as lawyers judges jurors and witnesses. The Future Texans unit presents readings exercises and two short plays in celebration of Washingtons birthday during chapel Thursday morning featuring Grandis Bennett and Charlie Sue Childress.
Virginia Hill brings a toy telephone and dramatized conversations. Sixth graders prepare talks and stories about famous men and women in history. Seventh graders submit Fire Prevention themes to Austin. Evelyn Hill.
The fifth grade works on a Europe booklet while sixth graders use geography readers tied to their texts. Seventh graders finish a petroleum unit in geography and study The War Between the North and South in history.
A seventh grade class turned in fire prevention notebooks on Monday and is outlining civics lessons. Sixth grade received complimentary copies of Texas History Movies from Magnolia Petroleum Company. Misses Dorothy and Sallye Hamilton returned to school Monday morning. The passage also describes a girl measuring about 115 pounds and a smaller boy who wears a tie and red sweater.
Assembly program opened with Madene Vineyard as president and Martha Lee Bradley as secretary while Mary Dale King played piano. Critics Jarvis D. Maddux and Brother Gillett delivered a critique of the last picture, then Lincoln stories by Dorotha Darwin, a Lincoln monologue by Robert Waldo, and a quartet by Marie Badgett, Martha Lee Bradley, Billy Jack Harper, and Brother Gillett.
Edward composes notes in English class while Jack rewrites themes and Imogene pastes items on desks. Cecil arrives on Sunday and Glenda gazes in a mirror. Robert speaks of relatives as George chats with a neighbor across the aisle. Dale Watson and
A college-style snippet shows dialogue in a classroom with Mrs Roddy Mr Manning and Miss Hamilton. Students like Ruby Mary Ruth James and Robert respond with witty retorts about verbs animals ears and hiding stories. Joyce Hinton and Imogene Head are named in the exchange.
Rose Hill school near Whitewright under W. W. Elrod and Miss Clelia D. Kelly earned praise from Red Cross nurse Edna Druliner for hygiene progress. She noted hot lunches in heat preserved milk jars and a hand washing drill before meals reducing germ infection and boosting scholastic and physical improvement.
Roy F Rand trading as Economy Wholesale Grocery Company of Little Rock sues K B R Milling Company Kansas for 5000 dollar refund of Agricultural Adjustment Administration processing taxes paid in past two years. He seeks garnishment on 2028 dollars in the milling firm’s Little Rock bank account.
Austin officials report pension application demand far surpasses forecasts. Old Age Assistance Commission director Orville S. Carpenter says 200,000 forms will be exceeded by 100,000 more once banks distributed forms are returned. Printing delays may stretch one week before new blanks arrive.
A Michigan pair of heavy draft horses named Rock and Tom reportedly pulled 3900 pounds on a dynamometer to establish a world championship pulling mark. The feat equates to hauling 25 tons for 20 straight starts on granite, or dragging nine plows through corn belt loam.
Atlantic City report notes Dr. Thomas J. Headlee demonstrates that ultrasonic waves inaudible to humans can kill adult mosquitoes. The article also sketches origin tales for the Staked Plains and the Panhandle in Texas.
Texas officials acknowledge the liquor sale map is uncertain as the Liquor Control Board outlines a partial wet area picture. Affected counties include Aransas to Winkler and many in between with permits issued on wet territory assumptions, while protests trigger investigations.
The Sun announces the slate of candidates authorized to run in the Democratic primaries scheduled for July and August 1936. Voters will see these names in the party's official primary ballots.
Mr and Mrs Ford Kitching spent Monday and Tuesday with Mr and Mrs Jim Hodges. Misses Audrey Fae and Katherine Hutchins hosted a party Friday night. Mr and Mrs Tommie Hall weekend in Dallas. J B Layman entertained with a musical Thursday eve. Winnie Farmer returned home after visiting Mrs Tommie Hall. James Burris visited Dallas Saturday. P H Hall and family in Denison Tuesday. Miss Wyona Bush in Savoy Tuesday. T B Blanton and son in Denison Monday. Blanton visited her mother in Bonham Sunday. Adding machine paper sold 10c per roll at The Sun office. Santa Barbara ordinance bans advertising for a wife or husband.
From which official report of status is unreceived are Blanco Cameron Chambers Cochran Comal Culberson DeWitt Falls Jim Wells Jones Karnes Kinney Starr Tarrant Trinity and Victoria Local option elections from day to day change the status.
W L Clayton of Houston testified before the Senate Agriculture Committee that government tinkering caused the 2 cent March 11 1935 price drop in cotton futures. Clayton, head of Anderson Clayton & Co, said prices no longer form through traditional competitive buying and selling and that government influence dominated the market for six years.
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