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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1933
Page
3
The W H S Reflector reports that students largely supported Roosevelt in the election and plan for the future under his administration. They studied technocracy and economic issues, with editorials stressing independence and the aim to influence government as future leaders.
Mr Smith visited Austin to attend to school matters. Report cards issued Wednesday disappointed many. Luella Martin welcomed from Nobility to W H S. Ely high basketball beat on W H S court with Charles Medearis starring. Players listed include Cay lor DeBerry Medearis Adams Holland Pierson Hannah. Students completing extra credit books on Washington Lincoln and Southwest color. Masqueraders Club met Monday planning next show. Emma Claire Vestal spoke humbly. Frances Montgomery and Joe Thomas Meador delivered a makeup lesson with Sonny.
Last Friday morning in chapel the elimination debate selected the interscholastic debate team. Contenders were Sonny Hancock J Lee Vestal Robert Doss and J Y Russell. Judges were Robert Cantrell W R Hooper and Mrs J D Lowe. Sonny and Robert chosen with J Lee as alternate. Emma Claire Vestal and Frances Pope named girls team. We feel confident they will win.
Miss Ray teaches home economics while Vivian Echols shows fat stock cowgirl skill. Katie Ford trims a boyish bob as Annie Lee towers tall. Cleop rides freight trains and Wilma skips Jay in her heart. Lula Lee resists Trenton and Laura Jo drives a grey Ford. Edith Mae Sears dislikes grey suits. Leslie Holland and Frances Haliburton dodge popularity and blue sweaters. Mary Jo befriends a freshman girl during Howe visits and Mary Ryan joins her.
The mimicry of a visiting para chute jumper becomes a local sport in juvenile Whitewright. Boys fashion improvised parachutes from handkerchiefs blankets and old clothing seen floating about. This week James led a display prompting nearby residents to watch from the streets.
A five year old boy James and his older brother test a handkerchief parachute for their pet kitten Blackie. The device fails to open and the kitten falls to the pavement, dying. James vows to stop making parachutes.
The list catalogs sentences about local youths and townspeople noting parties, crushes, poems, notes, and everyday interests. Names include Emma C. Vestal Pearl England Leon Adams Christine Williams Nellie Ackley Betty Mae Phillips Lois Smith Lula Lee Inez Coffey Wilma Janway Ella V England Joe Thomas May Merle Fleming Lucile Maynard Isa May Isabel and Vivian.
Tommy Ryon ex world middleweight champion spoke at Whitewright high school on health and God. He is 84 and trained Theodore Roosevelt for health. Laura Jo Williams a quiet Bethel Dramat ic Club member studies in study hall. Clarence Jones Bethel center, broad shouldered, jolly, in drama and active in school events.
Around 1900 colorful artists began drawing jokes and wise cracks and created a thriving comic strip industry. The field now supports thousands of workers and a paper risks failure without a comic strip for both adults and children.
Quotations linked to historical figures such as Queen Elizabeth Nero Methuselah Helen of Troy Cleopatra Columbus and Mark Anthony offer a playful mix of wit about rhythm of life travel love and confidence. The note pairs each character with a cheeky line in a humorous imagined dialogue.
The note urges readers to spend money wisely by subscribing to a quality magazine or newspaper, promising a worthwhile cost and potential profit through informed, ongoing reading and investment in knowledge. It emphasizes choosing offerings with proven value.
Hogwallow News Club features Hogwallow as he ponders why his hound looks worried despite a good home. Dock Hocks, a blacksmith and barber, jokes about a smudged nose and a pretty gaze. Slim Pickens buys a night shirt and dreams of a gala. Columbus Allsop burns a foot at the blacksmith shop. Sile Kilden comments on a man’s duty to work and keep clean.
A collage of quotes shows students debating magazines as life companions, jokes about teachers and algebra, social mischief, and a brief note on springtime cheer. The piece closes with a science list noting 19 chemical elements in food including carbon oxygen nitrogen hydrogen and more.
The item veto lets governors strike individual provisions in appropriation bills without defeating the whole measure. The president cannot veto single items, only the entire bill. Three-fourths of state constitutions grant the item veto to governors, aiding in blocking riders on key bills.
The Irish State Railways will purchase electric locomotives at a total cost of 11 million dollars. The agreement confirms a major rolling stock upgrade for the railway system.
A New York Times poem praising the Governor of Texas for steady leadership amid political foes and threats. It notes compassion for imprisoned people and calls for education, while acknowledging clashes with the Klan and Legislature.
In Albuquerque area residents of Tijeras town rushed to prospect after a reported gold bearing ore was found in the highway bed. The rush disrupted travel as locals turned amateur prospectors chasing the find near the east of the city.
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