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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1943
Page
7
The High School Reflector notes Edith Harper as editor and lists student reporters. Homemaking II studies kitchen care with reports on rationing and appliance use, and shows a student book on electric home devices. Homemaking III served a final dinner with guests and student helpers.
A wartime plea urges Americans to grow food at home and can produce to curb shortages. It warns rationing will extend beyond canned goods as the country fights a great war, with victory hoped for in 1943 but possibly lasting years.
Charles Skaggs leads a senior class committee with Azilee Smith Anna Johnson and Ben Robert Jones to pick three invitation types. They select The Streamliner with a plain white front and a silver eagle top plus engraved personal cards to match.
The homemaking class studies personal grooming with reports and notebooks. Students learn new hair arrangements and care routines as part of the curriculum.
The fourth year English class starts the study of the principal parts of speech. Students find grammar more difficult than literature and face many obstacles to master before the term ends, but they are determined to do it.
A male born 1900 with brown hair and gray eyes stands 5 ft 5 in tall and weighs 155 lb His hobbies include hunting and fishing and his history research interest. favorite movie stars are Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr. favorite food is deer meat. baseball is his sport This is Mr Gentry A female born 1909 with brown hair and brown eyes is 5 ft 2 in tall at 108 lb She enjoys entertaining her daughter Tommie Sue as a hobby and favors Ray Milland and Claudette Colbert Her favorite food is fried chicken and her sport is basketball This is Mrs Beazley A male born 1907 with blonde hair and blue eyes is 5 ft 11 1 2 in tall and weighs 148 lb He likes reading and attending picture shows His movie stars are Betty Davis and Clark Gable His food is sweets and his sport is baseball This is Mr Felker A V
The note records D. M. R. urging a student to study diligently to reach eighty words per minute by semester’s close.
In a catalog of student brief profiles five youths detail their ages birth dates hobbies and ambitions. Shelly Smith 18 loves fishing football and radio technician goals while Troy Owen 17 collects match folders and aims to join the Army. James Alexander 16 hunts softball prefers civics and contemplates farming. Wallace Reeves 16 pools plays baseball and wants to sail. Leo Howell 16 hunts football and plans farming.
Typing classes record scores on personal progress charts and aim to raise speed by taking at least one ten minute speed test daily. Grades are based on merit with points for accuracy. Noted improvement in care of typewriters as class emphasis grows.
Since mid term the English II class has studied the short story outline the author life and outline some essays. The note lists activities and progression in the course focusing on reading and analysis.
The class spent the past week on special and brief forms, derivatives, quantities, and measurements. They practiced dictation and hurried to the typing lab to continue work.
The class studies paragraph construction and wording to build well formed sentences and themes. Students find their essays amusing and engaging as they practice writing with growing interest and enjoyment.
Mr Butler leads an algebra II class through quadratic equations radi cal exponents and other topics while students find the problems challenging yet engaging. He returned from a trip to Denton and mentioned a mathematics notebook priced at eighty cents that could aid future math use, requesting an order for the class to review.
Irvin S Cobb recounts a Texas tale of a small town where a railroad runs through the main street and a black man runs a short order restaurant. A local bully visits, orders a feast, threatens violence, and ends up maimed after a knife attack by a rival neighbor.
A visiting friend comments on the nurse and the patient jokes that he had not noticed his own illness. The exchange ends with the friend realizing the patient is gravely ill.
Grayson County Commissioners Court authorized a health board for the Grayson unit consisting of the County Judge Mayors of Denison and Sherman the county school superintendent and a county medical society representative. The unit will be staffed in Sherman and Denison by March 1 with Dr. Houston Terry directing part time from Cooke County. Funding from Sherman Denison and the county totals 10 1000 toward annual support with the state Health Department cooperation.
A wealthy relative sends ten dollars to a nephew and points out a spelling error in the nephew’s letter noting that ten is written with one zero. The missive highlights a casual family financial gesture and a small correction.
A typographical slip haunts the production phase as the boss and copy reader react with shock and despair. The final issue may be clean except for one small error growing from a whisper to a mountain before ink on paper.
The document directs the Grayson County sheriff or constable to publish a citation in a county newspaper for at least ten days before the return day. It reflects a legal notice emphasizing due process and timed publication requirements.
R B Berne files for final settlement of the J L Campbell estate in County Court Grayson County Texas. Hearing set for the second Monday in March 1943 at the Sherman courthouse. Interested parties may appear and contest the report if proper. Witness H Grady Thompson clerk.
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