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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1943
Page
7
Edith Harper and Charles Skaggs report on a school club meeting where a guest speaker stressed personal improvement through diligent study. The talk included practical illustrations on how students can raise grades and become successful in business, with full participation by club members.
An editorial recounts Staff Sgt. Frank Hollingsworth of the U S Marines describing hardships in Guadalcanal and New Caledonia. It urges Americans to stop complaining about shortages and contribute to victory.
Whitewright defeated Tom Bean 13 to 12 in a hard fought Friday night game. Starting for Whitewright were guards Wallace Reeves Clifton Ross center Tom Brown forwards L V Conner and Dick Thornton with substitute Robert Owens. This marks the third straight win for Whitewright this year.
The school asks parents of former students now serving to provide each name rating branch of service and notable work facts. Send details to the high school office.
The class elected officers for a new club on February 19 with Dale Marie Robbins as president and Mary Dale Fields as vice president. Other officers include Polly Ann Brown secretary Henrietta Jackson critic Billie Ruth Holcomb parliamentarian and Avery Copeland sergeant at arms. The group will meet every other Friday with programs at each session. Next meeting is March 19.
The Steno Club met on Wednesday March 3 with President James Stateville presiding. Edith Harper introduced Mr. C B Bryant who spoke to students on business and postwar living conditions, emphasizing personal responsibility in helping to win the war and maintain peace.
Under Mrs Beazleys guidance the shorthand class has been taking speed tests and dictation on familiar material at eighty words a minute. Unfamiliar material slows the students. They are also transcribing several letters.
Staff Sergeant Frank Hollingsworth of the United States Marines was the assembly speaker last Thursday. He described experiences in Guadalcanal New Caledonia and the Hawaiian Islands including landing in Guadal canal with a flight squadron carrying supplies. Students and faculty enjoyed the talk and invite a return visit.
A. V. S reports that the plane geometry class under Mr Butler has begun a new chapter on circles angles and arcs after finishing polygons. The students find the topic engaging and hope the next chapter is equally interesting.
Ima Sue Garner served as master of ceremonies for the speech class assembly. The program featured pantomimes by Jimmie Lou McCorstin and Ima Sue, readings by Ida Pearl Thrasher, and performances by Jimmie Lou McCorstin, Geneva Gladden, Thelma Jo Wilson, Betty Lou Tomlinson, and others. A Sherman guest appeared, with John C. Jones reading Mary Had a Little Lamb.
The Tigerettes beat Tom Bean 24 to 16 at Tom Bean gymnasium in their second game of the year. Starting guards were Gladys Reeves Dale Marie Robbins and Etha Louise Brown with forwards Madgene Phillips Geneva Gladden and Helen Maddux. Substitutes were Alice Cato and Aurelia Penny.
The vocational agriculture chapter met on Wednesday March 3 in its monthly session. No definite subjects were planned, but some topics emerged as time passed.
The text describes Canada Training Army of Scrappers building roads in Britain and fortifications of Gibraltar. It notes close coordination with Britain and the United States, integrated training across Canada and Britain, a two way officer exchange, and that troops are prepared for overseas combat. The Canadian Army has guarded the British Isles since 1940 and is described as highly mechanized and hard.
The FFA chapter organized committees for the upcoming banquet and spent the past week studying chick disease and pullorum tests. Staff Sgt Frank Hollingsworth spoke to the group about serving the country and emphasized pursuing education before military service, answering student questions.
The chapter on factoring shows how many practical problems are solvable by quadratic equations. Each solved quadratic has two potential roots and students must test these roots to confirm the actual solutions.
The class finishes reducing fractions to mixed numbers and moves to multiplying fractions. The lesson by K B covers product rules, simplifying results, and applying to word problems. Students practice across examples and check for common errors in cross-canceling and improper fractions.
A local school column reports on budding pairings and splits among students. It mentions a Denison girl, new romances between J. J. T. and C. W., and J. H. C. with M. L. B. while warning girls to be careful who they ask out. G. R. signs off.
A collection of witty lines contrasts silence with gold and notes that happiness stems from mindset rather than status. The snippets highlight skepticism about conventional virtue and value personal disposition over position.
A collection of short aphorisms emphasizing patience in defeat and caution in judgment. It notes that some defeats serve as steps to victory, praises fairness in critique, and ends with a playful reminder that American ends with I CAN.
Health Officer Dr. Geo W. Cox reports increases in epidemic dysentery meningitis and typhus fever for the first two months of 1943 with dysentery and diarrhea eleven times the seven year average and typhus three times the median. He urges rigid rodent control and immunization for diphtheria whooping cough typhoid fever and smallpox amid broader rises in pneumonia whooping cough and malaria.
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