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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1940
Page
7
The junior senior party was postponed to Friday night March 15 due to a conflicting schedule. Mr Key announced that future calendar items will be planned consistently with this change.
Forty eight Future Homemakers from Whitewright with chaperones attended the Area 4 meeting at North Texas State Teachers College. The group toured campus after an all day program including plays, songs, and reports. One bus ran out of gas delaying return. group arrived back in Whitewright at 7:20 p.m.
A meeting last Thursday laid plans for the combined Sadie Hawkins and field day on April 1. Each class will elect a boy and a girl to represent Li l Abner and Daisy Mae with a student vote to crown queen. Council members assigned activities for field day and sports events.
Miss Williams reports that Homemaking III classes started sewing dresses with some students making evening gowns and others street dresses. Students have completed skirts and begun blouses while last week they submitted a notebook on fashion featuring five style divisions and multiple dress models.
The economics class supervised by Mr. Manning studied natural resource conservation topics including depletion, waste reasons, government conservation problems, the Soil Conservation Service, the National Resources Board, and wildlife conservation. Daily quizzes test each student as the class prepares to study the Conservation of Human resources.
Students at V A I under Mr Cunningham study broiler production. They define a broiler as a chicken weighing 1 to 2 pounds and learn it is generally more profitable to raise broilers than fryers due to lower costs and quicker production. They also practice culling, including removing nonlaying hens or boarders on an annual basis.
Spring weather brings V A III boys under Mr Cunningham to field work. They completed five miles of terrace lines culled 100 hens dehorned 40 cattle and castrated 25 calves and hogs for White Wright farmers. Additional practice jobs may follow if conditions stay favorable. They also started a new unit on breeding farm mules.
The Whitewright High School presented a free Friday night program on March eight. Mary Dale King, Arlie Durham, Una Faye Blackerby, and Patty Everheart performed selections from Emerson, Lincoln, and Yonger in four declaimer divisions.
The article lists winners in junior boys and girls divisions for verse reading with titles and authors, plus junior boys winners. Senior reps were Mary Dale King and Arlie Durham. The glee club performed Neapolitan Nights Come Let Us Dance I Love a Little Cottage The Wind at Night and The Curtains of Night, followed by the one act play Last Flight Over directed by Mrs Roddy with cast Russell Ray Summers Cathleen Blackerby Lucille Starr Willie B Smith Carl Vawter and stage manager J J Sloan with farm shop help. The play will be taken to Dallas in April.
The Work or Rust Club met on Friday March 8 with Lloyd Cato as president and Billie Rachel Dixon as secretary. A vibrant program featured poems, stories, jokes, a book report and a skit.
March 6 report cards released honor roll includes sixteen students across four classes. Freshmen Patty Everheart Betty Harper Edith Harper sophomores Jimmie Golden Robert Sears Lucille Starr juniors Dorotha Darwin Morris Fogle Gillett Mary Alice Harrison Laverne Kilgree Mary Dale King Jonnie B. Robbins seniors Claire Doss Imogene Head Joyce Hinton and Rudolph Russell.
The student body gathered in the auditorium on Wednesday March 6 for religious services led by Rev. E P Wootten pastor of the Baptist Church. Mr Russ led two songs and Rev Wootten spoke on Job chapter nine.
Twenty six members of the Whitewright FFA Chapter attended the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show last Saturday with adviser Mr Cunningham and chaperones. They traveled by bus from Whitewright at 6 30 AM and returned about 8 PM after attending the rodeo.
The Hi Y Club met Monday night Roy Robinson of Trenton led the opening prayer. Members were urged to pay for sweaters. Russell Ray Summers introduced the guest speaker who gave a chalk talk on Success showing its link to money. The meeting closed with the regular creed.
Tennis eliminations were held this week with junior boys list of players including John Biggerstaff Charles Skaggs Bob Sears Betty Grammer J Frank Wilson C B Bryant James Stateville Fouchaux Vestal Jack Sears Davis Parrish Wallace Reeves LeRoy Martin J W Chaney Russell Ray Summers Philip Earnheart and Carlton Alexander among those paired for matches.
Bob Sears and Philip Earnheart lead in the team group and qualify for this week’s semi finals. C B Bryant James Stuteville Davis Parrish LeRoy Martin also compete to reach the semis. Junior girls include Dorothy Sue Douglas Ann LaRoe Patty Everheart. Dorothy Sue heads to Sherman for the tennis tournament. Senior boys feature Ardell Penny Brother Gillett Otto Russell Marvin Smith. Semi final contenders are Otto Russell Ardell Penny and Marvin Smith with M V.
Barbara Jean Gordon 15, Barbara nickname Bob with March 15 birthday is a brunette junior. Howard Wallace is named as ideal man with green ice cream and tennis as favorite sport. Billy Jo Phillips 17, nickname Bill October 18 birthday is a blonde freshman. Paul Langford is ideal man with blue pea salad as favorite food. Eugene Anderson 16, nickname Gene March 20 birthday brunette sophomore. Hedy Lamar as ideal woman and Popeye as ideal man. football marbles apples as favorites.
Mrs Roddy refused to miss illness last week. She visited the school on Wednesday and left before noon, then returned in the afternoon. The flu could not hold her down.
Jackie Lee Thompson read 770 words per minute with 90 percent comprehension in a remedial class speed test. Among three classes, the sixth period shows the strongest improvement with a median of 282 words per minute as vocabulary and affixes are studied.
Eleven senior favorites visited Ware's Studio in Sherman on Tuesday afternoon to have a group portrait taken. The participants include Claire Doss and Rudolph Russell as most studious, Cathleen Blackerby and Brazwell Alexander as athletic, Martha Jo Darwin and Howard Wallace as all around, Drunette Farley and George Hansard as popular, Joyce Hinton and Robert Benson as most handsome or beautiful, with Ernestine Tomlinson named senior sweetheart. Mrs. H. T. Atterberry sponsored the trip.
The Glee Club splits into two groups and learns two songs for a Longview contest this spring. A third song is being prepared for a potential performance in Waco if Whitewright wins at Longview.
The school program on March 8 featured Howard Wallace on Hawaiian guitar Pascal Connelly on mandolin Doyle Alexander on banjo Charles Harrison on Spanish guitar Eugene Anderson on Spanish guitar and Brother Bell on violin. Dorotha Darwin won the Whitewright High School Smile contest chosen over Patty Everheart Helen Maddux Ruby Holcomb Martha Jo Conner Mary Dale King Cathleen Blackerby and Marilyn Smith.
Miss Williams homemaking teacher and Mary Dale King traveled to Farmersville Thursday afternoon to judge dresses. The short report notes their roles in a homemaking event.
In Farmersville the III girls won first term sewing instead of cooking. The top homemaking entry featured a self designed black and white taffeta dress. Mary Kirby from Greenville assisted as a dress judge. Dorotha Darwin led the home making classes during Miss Williams' absence.
The English IV class finished oral reports on books read outside class and now studies the short story. They read The Bet by Anton Chekhov and The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy, with much discussion following The Bet.
The spelling contest continues with Ira Mae Young Edith Harper Madgene Phillips Jimmie Golden John Biggerstaff Mattie Zerue Ashinhurst and Fred na Owen listed as remaining spellers. The elimination here is March 20 with the winner facing county opponents in Sherman on March 31.
George Hansard was in Denison Sunday. Cathleen Blackerby attended the Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth Sunday. Drunette Farley spent Sunday in Ruby Pierson and Margie Donaghay were seen in Sherman and Denison Sunday. Martha Jo Darwin spent Sunday in Commerce. Marilyn Smith visited Durant Oklahoma Sunday. Beulah Mae Scott was in Trenton on Sunday. Marjorie Henderson spent last week in Sherman. Earleen Benson was in Howe last weekend.
The article lists students forming committees for a class motto selection and event planning. Merlyn Brown Marilyn Smith Brazwell Alexander Jack Wallace and Eula Mae Lambden join to choose the motto. The class schedules a women wedding and a game party on March 29 and assigns chairs for date setting, program, and advertising.
The English II Broadcasters directed by Mrs. Roddy gathered Friday for a class program. The lineup included What If by Davis Parrish and Other pieces by Ruby Holcomb Lucille Starr Donald Duck language Da vis Parrish Juana Ruth Andrew and more with games played afterward.
The History II class formed a club with officers Davis Parrish as president Lucille Starr as vice president Juana Ruth Andrew as secretary and Martha Jo Conner as reporter. The first meeting was March 4 and biweekly gatherings are planned with a future name and motto to be chosen.
The team of Jonnie B Robbins Laverne Kilgree Doretha Darwin and Velma Holland with coach Mr Key competed in the Interscholastic League contest at Denison. Doretha and Velma debated Bonham Pilot Point B New London Kaufman C Sunset Dallas Terrell and others. Velma and Doretha reached finals but were defeated. Dorotha and Velma eliminated in first round. judge Mr Key officiated Bonham and Denison rounds.
The senior class met on March 8 to discuss fundraising ideas and to appoint members for class roles. Emma Joyce Hinton was named Prophecy writer. others were chosen for Will and related items including history and creed.
Students in the typing I class continue speed testing in five minute periods. They sum three tests and divide by three to gauge progress. Outside testing they type a booklet of poems for class work and strive to reduce errors while increasing strokes per minute.
The chemistry class under Mr. Russ finishes studying products from destructive distillation of coal and wood. They report that many familiar substances are obtained from this method.
A dialogue snippet shows one person proposing a country drive and the other refusing, citing exhaustion and suggesting stopping for a gas stop in town. The exchange sets a mobile, casual tone with nearby locale hints.
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