School Clubs And Library Stats At Local High School
Editor in chief Lytle Biggestaff and staff list include Velma Nicely and Dorothy Tapscott. A Hi-Y meeting time was reset to 7 pm. Students mention library holdings desks chairs radiators lights and many school facilities while noting nonairproof outside openings and three clubs Hi-Y Masqueraders and Glee Club with five new pupils and high scholastic standing.
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Ing
Anna Lee Yowell
Lucase Cooper
Masqueraders Meet Discuss Next Play Casting
The Masqueraders held a Thursday morning meeting with president absent. Vice president Isabelle Craig led. Miss Lewis will cast the next show the first week after mid-term exams. Decision on contest play or three act piece pending. Session adjourned to meet next Thursday.
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Isabelle Craig
Miss Lewis
Sybil Davenport
Local F F A Chapter Selects Candidates
The Whitewright Future Farmer Chapter elected two candidates to join the area formation in Arlington on February 7. Byron Teague from the first year class and Leon Chumbley from the second year class were chosen to help form the area chapter and seek local chapter officers.
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Whitewright Future Farmer Chapter
Area
Arlington
Byron Teague
Leon Chumbley
Gossip at West Hills School Sparks Weekend Romance
Gossip notes from a high school around sophomore and freshman couples. Ben Henderson and Charles Medearis were seen with Marcell Gosnell and Velma Lee Norris on Tuesday night. Dot LaRoe and Jean LaRoe entertained Charles White and Ross Brown over the weekend. Some rings were pawned to buy gifts but most were redeemed. An innocent note causes concern for senior Vivian Echols while Anita Vestal’s car stalls at the incline.
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Ben Henderson
Charles Medearis
Marcell Gosnell
Velma Lee Norris
Joann
Fred
Dot LaRoe
Jean LaRoe
Charles White
Ross Brown
Anita Vestal
Anita
Math Exams Given Early
The math students spent the past week taking mid term exams. Mr Bryant planned to leave Whitewright January 24 and wished to have grades summed up before departing. The tests seem to bring relief to some students.
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Bryant
Whitewright
V. E
Hi Y Club Meeting Highlights and Goals
A Hi Y meeting was called to order Tuesday at 7 p m by President Paul Pierson. Members discussed drawing up a chart to reward improvements in habits such as smoking drinking swearing and loafing to help members curb these behaviors. Hi Y sweaters arrived this week.
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Paul Pierson
Mock Trial In Law Class Imparts Trial Procedures
A mock trial was held in a law class to demonstrate court procedures. Hauptman faces a potential three day reprieve as students act as judge clerk attorneys and jurors with Isabelle Craig serving as defendant witness and C W Phillips as plaintiff witness. The exercise resumed Friday for improvements.
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Commercial Law
Hauptman
Vonda Lee England
Grace Chumbley
Leon Chumbley
Paul Pierson
Preston Hannah
Isabelle Craig
C. W. Phillips
Who's Who at Whitewright High School
Willie B Anderson timid senior from Pilot Grove joined the freshman class four years ago. She enjoys basketball and hobbies kodaking and horseback riding. Fern Russell from Pilot Grove three years ago excels in basketball on the 36 team and is in the Masquerad ers Club. She likes reading and sewing. Katie Ford.
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Willie B. Anderson
Pilot Grove
Whitewright High School
Fern Russell
Masqueraders
Katie Ford
Mid term exams schedule at Whitewright High School
Principal J T Bryant announces the mid term examinations start Wednesday January 29 with English and Public Speech in the morning and History in the afternoon. Thursday lists Home Econ General Science Physics morning and Commercial Law and Arithmetic afternoon. Friday morning covers Vocational Ag I II and Friday afternoon Math. A midterm review begins mid week January 20 to cover first semester work.
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J. T. Bryant
Whitewright High School
Vocational Ag. I
L. C
Chapel Program Recalls Pancho Villa Days at School
The Friday chapel was led by Mr. Bean with a talk on W. H. S. truancy and his Mexico days with Pancho Villa. The Glee Club, under Mr. Burma, sang Alla en el Rancho Grande and other songs including Dear Old School on the Hill Crusaders Hymn and The Broken Record.
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Bean
Key
Mr. Burma
Pancho Villa
Mexico
Glee Club
Crusaders
Lucase Cooper
W H S status and facilities highlighted in report
A school report details twenty four affiliated subjects offered to students with ten paid officials and 185 students enrolled. It notes a champion football team and a first class basketball team. The three story building has six flights of stairs totaling 152 steps, seventeen rooms including two basements, science lab, library, auditorium and office, 77 windows and three main entrances.
Hi Y Sweaters vs Money Raises School Debt
In a Hi Y event at the school a money mishap leads to a $50.32 bill instead of expected funds. A late cashing fixes the tally as a sweater bundle is distributed to boys wearing red, white and blue Hi Y colors while one student realizes his debt remains two dollars.
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Treasury
P. P
Prominent W H S Students Leave Mid-Term
Grace Chumbley departs to Hove with her family after serving as W H S pianist since 1934. Joanne Everheart, popular junior and class vice president, leaves Hugo High, where she starred in Masqueraders and served as cheerleader. Pattie Jean Hu lett from Pilot Grove graduates mid-term to attend college. Leon Chumbley, FFA leader and Glee Club member, tops W H S ranks and plans Baylor University. Vivian Echols notes the loss of these standout students to peers and faculty.
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Grace Chumbley
Joanne Everheart
Leon Chumbley
Pattie Jean Hulett
Grace
Hove
W. H.S
Joanne
Jolly
Hugo
Pattie Jean
Pilot Grove
Reflector
Cc. I. A
Pattie
Leon
Baylor University
Waco
Vivian Echols
Stairs Wear Out from 185 Students at WHS
An estimate says the average student at WHS climbs 152 steps four times daily, totaling 5,320 steps per day. With 185 students, yearly steps reach 276,640, implying the stairs would wear out quickly.
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L. B
Freshman Initiation Snow Query at W. H. S.
We note snow tied events at W H S with a question about freshmen initiation. Mid term exams approach and conduct often improves as students near exams. A snow group built a snow man potentially resembling a faculty member.
Seniors Return to Childhood Habits
Voices of dignified seniors grew childish in a Friday pre lunch prattle. The scene captured a lighthearted glimpse as elders shed decorum for playful chatter, recalling simpler rhythms of days gone by. Calm smiles spread as the room enjoyed moments of shared whimsy and nostalgia.
Classroom Uproar Leads to After School Wait
Miss Travis punished the class with forty five minutes after school as seniors faced a discouraging noon after hearing of a teacher campaign against bad conduct. The pledge to extend the period to ninety minutes was rejected by Miss Tapscott’s journalism students.
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Miss Travis
Miss Tapscott
Katie Ford
Spelling Quiz Reveals Misspellings in English III
Miss Lewis gave a spelling quiz to English III students last Tuesday revealing a list of commonly misspelled words. Words such as acclimated, difference, exquisite, formidable, harass, hospitable, lamentable, larynx, medieval, precedence, nurse, sergeant, cereal, cathedral and others were misspelled. A. H.
Senior bathes in fountain proves aging learner
Onie Scott, a senior, demonstrates you are never too old to learn as she bathes in a drinking fountain by accidentally pressing the water handle too hard while Mr. Bryant asks about her report card. The incident ends with Onie taking an unintended bath in the hall.
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Onie Scott
Onie
Football ends as basketball rises on campus scene
Football remains king on campus though season ends. Daily grind wears old skin as basketball asserts dominance on the western side. Seniors play lower classes at noon and fare poorly. The team faced Bells Thursday and lost, while the second squad pulled a 27 to 20 win.
Whitewright Tigers Showing Progress
The Whitewright Tigers develop progress in basketball through daily workouts and several games. They lost to Bells 24 to 20 with Medearis as high scorer for Whitewright, while the Tigers’ second team beat Bells 32 to 16. The team has more games scheduled in coming weeks.
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Whitewright Tigers
Bells
Medearis
Whitewright
Pattie J. Hulett
F F A Chapter Holds Monthly Meeting
The chapter held its first monthly meeting in 1936 on Thursday night January 16 led by President Leon Chumbley with opening and closing ceremonies. William H Harrison and his string band provided music as members sang. A debate followed on the resolution to continue the reduction program in the United States with Chumbley and Grady Stepp for the affirmative and Grapes Vineyard and Jack Lewis Yeager for the negative. the affirmative won.
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Whitewright Future Farmer
Leon Chumbley
William H. Harrison
United States
Grady Stepp
Grapes iVneyard
Jack Lewis Yeager
Dangerous cannon fire joke in Albert Lea class
Albert Lea students in a Friday physics class debated cannon recoil and ball speed. Albert estimated a 100 feet per second travel and ten thousand feet per second recoil, prompting Mr. Key to quip he’d rather face a firing squad from the front.
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Albert Lea Jackson
Mr. Key
Albert
Pension Doubt Turns Fatal in Fort Worth Heist
W T Read, 69, sat on a crate in a Fort Worth fruit store and argued that he would never receive the $200 Townsend pension. While discussing the plan he choked on crackers and peanut butter and died of strangulation, pronounced by authorities.
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Fort Worth
W. T. Read
Terrell Announces Run For Texas Agriculture Chief
Former State commissioner George B. Terrell comes out of retirement to seek the agricultural post in Texas, pledging harmony between A and M College and the Department of Agriculture and vowing lawful defense of his name. He asserts no conflict between education and agency duties and promises honest, efficient service if elected.
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Alto
George B. Terrell
Agricultural Post
Terrell
M., College
Department of Agriculture
Jefferson T. Baker
M. College
Candidate for Congress Favors Townsend Plan
Will A. Harris of Point in Rains County announces candidacy for Congress from the fourth district comprising Grayson Fannin Collin Hunt Rains Rockwall and Kaufman Counties subject to July Democratic primaries. Harris supports Townsend old age revolving pension plan and immediate payment of the soldier bonus, pledging an active campaign.
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Will A. Harris
Point
Rains County
Grayson
Fannin
Collin
Hunt
Rains
Rockwall
Kaufman
Sam Rayburn
Bonham
Jess Morris
Greenville
Harris
Woodmen of the World
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Woodman Journal
Townsend
Liquor Trust Probe Looms in House
Representative Claude Fuller announces plans to introduce a resolution to create a special House committee to investigate the alleged liquor trust in Washington. Fuller, who opposed bottle sales, says the liquor business is dominated by a trust and it will be investigated.
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Washington, D. C
Claude Fuller
Arkansas
Fuller
House
North America Holds 54 Percent of World Telephones
Washington reports from the Commerce Department show American Telephone and Telegraph figures that 54 per cent of the world total of telephones are in North America. In 1935 the world total reached 34,640,000 instruments with 18,775,000 in North America, and the grand total rose by 1,190,000 that year with North America adding 495,000. Sixty countries can now be reached by phone.
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Washington
Commerce Department
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
North America
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Lytle Biggestaff
Velma Mae Nicely
Dorothy Tapscott
Joe Alexander
William Baxter
Jimmie Lee Brown
Mary Lea Cheaney
Anther Hudgins
Dorothy LaRoe
Margaret Lilley
Pauline Mitchell
Dorothy Nicholson
Ocie Scott
S. H. Montgomery Agency Insurance
Protec
Wilson N. Jones Hospital
Sherman
Dorothy
English IV
Grey
Wilma Isbell
Tom Bean
W. H
Sarah Frances Teague
Kirkpatrick’s
Agriculture
Congress
The
Sun
Typewriter
Liquor Trust Probe
Texas Life
Barbee-Bassett
Insurance Agency
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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