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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1945
Page
6
The high school announces the junior senior banquet on Saturday night April 28 at Grayson Hotel. The event titled The Melody Room features a musical program, red and white class colors, and a nightclub style setup with sophomores assisting favors and performing songs.
This snippet lists 33 seniors from W. H. S including Eugene Reeves born 1927 Curtis Alexander born November 20 1927 and Weldon Bartley born February 26 1928. It notes their hobbies ambitions favorite foods and movie stars as a brief class snapshot.
World famous magician Zogi and his company visit Whitewright High School Auditorium Friday night at 8 15 for a show featuring the vanishing princess the disappearing head the guillotine the Hindu box mystery and other acts. Admission 30 and 60 cents with proceeds to some fund.
The article urges Whitewright boys to ask junior or senior girls for dates to the banquet set for the coming Saturday night in April. It emphasizes not being bashful and notes this is their last two years in high school.
A local education effort seeks to boost student outcomes with new strategies. Leaders outline concrete actions, community support, and timelines to ensure progress and accountability through a school-wide push.
W H S students spent a busy weekend visiting Dallas Bonham Sherman and Fort Worth with multiple students traveling to these cities. Billie Ruth Holcomb Polly Ann Brown Lou Rae Holcomb and Ellen Burchfield joined trips to Dallas and other classmates visited Sherman and Fort Worth.
A reporter recalls a Tuesday weiner roast by the American history class and praises Mr. Smith for interior painting of the high school. The junior senior banquet is planned for April 28 with favorites and program booklets chosen. Weather is welcoming with no rain.
Good Friday is a day of mourning and fasting with special prayers. Communion is restricted to the celebrant and the sick, and the central rite is the adoration of the cross where the crucifix is venerated by the entire congregation. Observance in U S churches is increasing.
John Biggerstaff, now in North Carolina with a paratroop division, plans overseas duty after furlough. T Sgt. Donald Paul Hudgins of the Army Air Forces used part of a furlough to visit his parents and will report to a Florida rest center. Robert Owens a 1943 graduate of W. H. S. also on furlough from a North Carolina paratroop unit. Jean Caraway and Margaret Hanna, Denton students at T S C W, spent weekend with family. Pvt. James Alexander, Camp Hood Texas, spent weekend home. Sgt. Raymond Kirby, former High School faculty, visited Whitewright last week. Helen Maddux and Willa Jean Hunter, E. T. S. T. C. students, spent weekend at home.
Easter marks spring and rebirth with legends of a Norse spring goddess. The celebration reawakens earth with greenery flowers and water symbolism. Symbols include the Easter egg and rabbit and rituals like lighting hearths and hill bonfires.
The fragment recounts Easter customs with fires and singing as youths seek marriage. It then shifts to gossip about local romances and outings, mentioning Betty, N H, Terry, Betty Ann, Vandadell, Bobby Neal, Tom Bean, Joe, Dorothy Wallace, Loren Paul, Pinkey, and Betty Lou in various social flings. The note ends with a tease about continuing on page 7.
A Texas citation instructs Merdis DeLay Simmons to appear and answer the plaintiff's petition, with formal command to respond in court. The document specifies the case number 52976 and directs the respondent to comply with legal proceedings.
The 1945 notice states Helen Jean Simmons serves as plaintiff against Mercis De Loy Simmons in a divorce case on grounds of cruel treatment. The hearing deadline is before 10 A M on the first Monday after 42 days from issuance, with court in Sherman Texas. Case filed August 16 1945, file No 52976. Clerk S V Earnest. Deputy Nancy Drake.
Citation 53398 lists Ornsby Wellington and unknown heirs as owners of a Whitewright parcel on Bois D Arc Creek. The 100 by 142 foot lot in Block 48 shows delinquent state and county taxes totaling $79.59, with district tax included, and details the block and boundary description for the land in Grayson County.
The State brings suit for collection of taxes on land or lots in Grayson County Texas and commands appearance at the April term of District Court in Sherman to show cause why judgment for foreclosure and sale should not be rendered. All parties must plead to current and future filings in the case. Issued March 1 1945 by Clerk S V Earnest and Deputy Nancy Drake. 4M29
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