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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1949
Page
6
The Reflector staff and students led by Editor Dorothy Dooley spend the morning soliciting ads in Denison. Miss Neathery joined afternoon canvassing, returning with fifty five dollars while sharing humorous tales of the senior boys. Studio pictures for the senior section are completed and the annual staff prepares to finish the book.
A date nut cake was delivered to the Carlton Johnsons home by freshman girls after his number was drawn. Proceeds benefit the freshman candidate for queen. Mrs. O L Jones is thanked for baking the cake.
For two days science and biology classes visit a grade school to view a picture show on rain formation and how one power plant helps another. The note praises motion pictures as more effective than teachers at conveying facts.
Last Thursday three senior boys Dean Alexander R C Thrasher and Sonny Smith rode their thumb to protest conditions. The fragment notes a canvas style action by students in Sherman and Denison but provides no outcome or broader context.
Last Friday afternoon George W. Hight partnered with the VHS junior class to present a trucolor film about educated birds. Regular admission was charged and the entire high school, grammar school, and town residents were invited.
The junior class invited all Whitewright to attend a 1 45 program at the high school featuring spirituals popular songs dances and poetry by Whitewright colored students. Proceeds benefit the queen's race.
The eighth grade homemaking girls and the boys geography class attended a show at Grade School. The outing highlights the school’s classroom learning in world culture and geography.
Tuesday afternoon the show titled Past Present and Future of Poland was presented by Mr. Bedford principal of Grade School who displayed pictures on the new movie projectors. Roddy geography teacher and Miss Burns homemaking teacher accompanied students on the bus with Cave Vandagriff as driver.
A week adds two freshmen. The boy is 15, five feet six, with black hair and blue eyes. His favorite person is Sarah Lou Smith, food ice cream, movie star Allan Ladd, song One Has My Name, pastime playing ball, and ambition to pilot a plane. The girl is 15, five feet three, with black eyes and brown hair. She wants to be a nurse, enjoys sleeping, loves fried potatoes, and favors June Allyson and Robert Hutton in films. Her friend is Alice Marion, and the names will be revealed next week.
A fragmented reminiscence discusses not having to attend school and frets over friendships, dating, gossip, and senior activities. It mentions names like Martha Wallace, David Brooks, Anna Neathery, Joe Robinson, Dorothy Dooley, Conway Craig, and Charlene, plus events such as a queen’s race and graduation, with nostalgic tone and scattered quotes.
A long list of song titles matched with readable pairings of names, including Lavender Blue sung between Billie Mullins and Weldon Bartley and several other titles such as Love Sick Blues Temptation and Don't Rob Another Man's Castle among numerous duets and exchanges. The text preserves the back-and-forth sending of tunes between listed individuals.
A Missouri couple wakes to chicken noises and a winter time intruder scare. The husband storms the hen house in his underwear with a shotgun, discovering no thief but loses 13 hens to his aim. They endure a week of chicken rich meals as a harmless misadventure is shared.
The article notes that binding the feet of Chinese women is becoming rarer, signaling a shift in traditional gender practices.
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