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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1936
Page
7
The Whitewright High School Reflector lists editors and reporters led by Editor-in-chief Lytle Biggestaff and Faculty Adviser Velma Mae Nicely. It references Hoover era policy on cotton surpluses and the 1933 AAA background, plus social etiquette guidance by Rabelle Craig and others.
An editorial critiques Hoover for surplus buying to prop up cotton prices and praises Roosevelts AAA as self-financing through the processing tax. It notes Supreme Court striking down the AAA, farmer unrest, budget impacts in Sherman and Ames Iowa, layoffs in the county office, and Roosevelt promising a substitute plan at a Washington conference.
Principal J. T. Bryant will leave Whitewright on January 24 to attend New York University. He won a teaching fellowship to pursue MS and DS degrees while teaching. He credits past records and his chemistry work at Austin College for the honor and plans to study at Washington Square College living with a campus group.
In 1933 the wheels of the industrial world stopped due to surplus goods and a tight money flow. Farmers grew raw products during the war at government request to feed soldiers and aliens, but the postwar market collapsed creating long downturns. The era then shifted to the machine age in farming as yields rose annually. Tenants were
Over the past two weeks the Boys and Girls Glee Club met Monday to Wednesday mornings and after school. They practice for a chapel program Friday Jan 17, learning two Spanish songs and several other numbers. Grace Chumbley leaves this semester. director Mr Burma expects new pianist from outside school.
Miss Jean LaRoe of Leonard was a guest of Miss Dorothy LaRoe over the week end. Miss Dorothy Nicholson spent Sunday in Sherman visiting Mrs. Mattie McCook. Mr. Key and Mr. Bryant spent Saturday in Dallas and Denton. Vivian Echols.
The Masqueraders Club met Thursday after holidays. A wiener roast is planned for Friday night and a noon meeting discussed it. Miss Lewis, sponsor, said the club will enter a play in the inter scholastic league contest and start another. Treasurer reported about $15 in the bank. Christmas party turnout was small.
A columnist offers everyday etiquette tips for public encounters. It advises a lady to acknowledge a known man with a nod or spoken greeting, and a gentleman to respond by tipping his hat, speaking, or waving. The exchange should be courteous and observant of social tact.
Christine Williams, a senior from Cannan, shines in the Glee Club and as a strong student with an appealing personality. Anna Lee Yowell, another WHS senior, plays basketball and reports for the Reflector, with a hobby of reading light fiction.
Public speech classes divided into four person teams with captains and opened Monday with a fiery argument on whether little children should be taught to believe in Santa Claus. Vivian Echols and Dorothy LaRoe argued for the affirmative while Christine Williams and Gladys Gosnell spoke for the negative. The classes will study stage makeup and dramatics next.
Students tease each other about mid term exams and small quirks. A playful campus piece notes various students and staff with light humor. The tone reflects a late school year reflection and reflects the school community.
An English IV class faced a quirky paper where a student shuddered at a chill near a fireplace while studying Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard. The exam included a misdefined query on Ultra Vires with a joking medical interpretation by Anna Lee Yowell.
A flurry of gossip about Charlie May Ross, Georgia Mae Hicks, Louease Cooper and her past flame, Isabelle, Vivian and the mysterious Charles Truett, and others like Mary Edna Musser, Mary Jane Ford, Olan Duckworth, Pete Newman, Velma Nicely, Pattie Jean, and B. F. Butler. Notes hint at date nights, pre- voir chatter in Van Alstyne, and “Moonlit” poems.
Fashions suggest women resemble ducks in rain with patent leather shoes leading. Do not wear rubbers as patent leather stays shiny in rain. High and college heels suit both day and evening wear. Black silver and gold straps pair with matching dresses.
Roscoe Brown from Trenton enrolled as a junior at Whitewright High Monday morning after attending Trenton two years ago. Ruth Brown from Trenton is a sophomore who spent one year at Whitewright before returning. Granvel Lee Hansard, from Tom Bean, started last week as a junior and previously attended the school years earlier. Nell Ray Reynolds, a freshman from Tom Bean, came via Rose Hill. Elwanda Skipworth, another freshman from Tom Bean, previously attended Rose Hill before Tom Bean. Dorothy Nicholson.
Agriculture students began clearing the southwest campus corner for a gymnasium site on Thursday. They will transplant the felled trees to the southeast corner in five foot holes and earn extra credit toward their term projects for the hard work.
The Whitewright public speaking class, period four with sixteen students, forms four debate teams to tackle four questions of the day. Team I led by Paul Pierson includes Leon Chumbley Katie Ford and Percy Darwin debating socialized medicine. Team II led by Lytle Biggerstaff features Lorna Lee Thornton Earl Phillips and Willie B Anderson debating restrictions on arms shipments. Debaters III led by Lucase Cooper discuss a grammar school vs gym funding with Vonda Lee Vineyard Opal Scott Jimmye Lee Brown. Team IV with Ocie Scott Velma Mae Nicely Onie Scott Mary Edna Musser debates whether a potato is more useful than a pig. Debates directed by Miss Lewis, in the speech classroom, with a chairman and judges from the class.
HOUSTON Texas gridiron star turned State Liquor Commission agent Bohn Hilliard raided a liquor shop late Friday in Houston revealing his undercover role. The former UT back, nicknamed Orange Meteor, attempted to conceal his identity but fled after the raid as onlookers recalled his Notre Dame 1934 form.
The Dallas Journal comments on Sam Rayburn’s critique of subsidized journalism and farming while backing Dean Kyle’s view that tariff subsidies industry. The piece argues for journalistic freedom and cites a countersubsidy for farmers as a logical response to subsidies.
A man named Mr Hiflyer asserts daughters require discipline at times. He recalls sending his Margery to bed without breakfast last night, noting she is sixteen and that strict limits are necessary. The quote reflects parental enforcement during a tense domestic moment.
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