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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1946
Page
9
Reflector students are exploring diagramming and a chapter on Thinking Discussing and Debating. They value free discussion for controversial subjects and propaganda. Last Friday they held panel discussions on various topics as part of the study.
A student laments spring fever sweeping the campus causing laziness and distraction in class. The writer notes people fall in love and skip duties while birds remain unfazed. He ends by quitting and calling his work the best piece he could write.
Six page fourth period edition Tiger Growls delivered Friday with staff including editor Douglas Neal and manager Betty Key. Second edition The Tattler from third period published earlier with Jackie Nossaman as editor and Dorothy Head as manager.
The note suggests plans to expand into a larger May sophomore edition of The Reflector. It invites readers to anticipate a newer, more substantial issue next month.
A call to enjoy outdoor life and hobbies through books. Highlights include Franklin Mathiews The Boy Scout's Book of Hobbies for Fathers and Sons with camping and fishing, John Arms Design in Flower Arrangement, Edwin Way Teale nature hobby guides, and sport titles like Tennis and Better Badminton.
This article traces the invention of fire making from early friction and bow drill methods to percussion sparks. It notes the role of religious fire keeping, colonial tinder boxes with flint and steel, and the spark lighting a candle, with phosphorus’s 1669 discovery mentioned as a later milestone.
The text traces early fire starting methods from air exposed chemicals to friction and chemical blends. It notes dangers including jaw decay from poison, then details John Walker’s 1827 matches, their composition and rubbing method, the 1836 American lucifer starter blocks in Springfield, the 1855 Swedish invention of safety matches, and the modern high speed match production line.
A seventeen year old peasant girl named Joan of Arc reportedly received a vision guiding her to lead France against England in the Hundred Years War. She rode with six thousand soldiers, lifted French morale, and after ten days of fighting, English forces retreated before she was captured and burned at the stake in Rouen.
The kingbirds rout hawks and crows. Birds carried messages as far back as 218 B. C.
A Grayson County agriculture census shows the number of farms rising from 4,296 to 4,551 between 1940 and 1945 while average farm size fell from 126 to 108.1 acres and cultivated land dropped about 49,475 acres. Milk production declined as cows milked fell from 15,427 to 13,611 and gallons from 7,354,283 to 6,688,077. Feed costs rose sharply from 240,005 to 928,402 dollars with more farmers reporting livestock. Peanut acreage rose from 6,444 to 13,597 acres and peanut yield increased from 2,590,872 to 7,980,499 pounds.
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