Fourth Grade Future Citizens Club Program Readings and Plays
The Future Citizen's Club met Friday afternoon with a program including songs by all, readings by Kenneth Norris and Monty Atkinson, a play by Margaret Hanna and others, and a group reading by Kirk May. Southern States study in social science noted, with pupils making large maps of Texas cities and products.
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Future Citizen's Club
Song
Story
Kenneth Norris
Reading
Carl Pierson
Eudell Bush
Joe Howard Cook
Billy Rhom Pennington
Monty Atkinson
Lornie Taylor
Margaret Hanna
Charles Bradshaw
Alice Taylor
Mary Lee Hughes
Lora Wilson
Ola Agnes Riddle
All
Kirk May
Texas
Margaret Coffey
Individual resistance to war hysteria urged by S H
The piece argues today’s purpose is to keep out of war, warning that peace groups can be co opted into pro war propaganda. It stresses personal duty to resist mass hysteria and to oppose wars fought in the name of peace, noting individual action outlasts national organization.
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Organization For Peace
S. H
Reading contest winners noted in school column
The first grade shows attractive pictures in the room with brown and white and black and white horses. Lonnie Myrick and Louise Owens won the reading contest, as reported by Martha Lee Bradley.
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Lonnie Myrick
Louise Owens
Martha Lee Bradley
Second Graders Run a Grocery Store at School Scene
In a vivid classroom project Velma Holland notes the second grade room hosting a full working grocery store with a cashier clerk and telephone girl handling orders. The students use paper money and personal purses, learning to be polite storekeepers and possibly future grocers, plus they showcase a class turtle brought by Roby Lee Wilson.
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Roby Lee Wilson
Velma Holland
Third Grade Presents Assembly Program
The third grade pupils led the chapel period with a Health Alphabet of 26 children, a playlet Lollipop's Brothers, and readings by Betty Nell Yeager Katie Kincaid Janis Jayne Horton Don Newman Billy Christian and Henrietta Jackson. Visitors included Mrs Olivia Whed bee Mrs R D Maddux and Mrs Fred Garner. They mourn the death of J H Lance father of J H Lance Jr a member of the class.
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Marie Badgett
Fifth Grade Studies Western States and Spelling Contest
The class reviewed Western States and capitals, adjectives and adverbs, and arithmetic. A spelling contest was won by the boys. Exams begin Wednesday May 26. Mrs. O L Jones visited with an orange blossom from California.
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O. L. Jones
California
Doretha Darwin
Sixth graders end term with spelling and math milestones
Sixth grade students wrap up the term with a spelling display solving 50 prepositions and headmarks by Oma Jean Sanders and Cecil Owens. They map Texas highways with distances El Paso to Texarkana 720 miles and Texline to Brownsville 825 miles. The sixth grade team closes with perfect scores in arithmetic and a 19 to 5 baseball win over the fifth grade, Myrtle Taylor hitting two home runs.
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Texas
el Paso
Texarkana
Texline
Brownsville
Oma Jean Sanders
Cecil Owens
Jessie Coffey
Fred Cook
Calvin Pennell
Lucian Vestal
Myrtle Taylor
Lucille Starr
Myrtle
Sixth Grade Scores Highlight Local Sports Roundup
In Monday action Paul Simmons led his ball team to a 9 to 3 victory over Wilton McFarland. That afternoon Jack Thornhill’s squad beat Tommy Thornhill 8 to 5. Tuesday morning Paul Simmons’ team defeated Jack Thornhill’s 4 to 2, as reported by Lewis Vestal and Otto Russell.
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Paul Simmons
Wilton McFarland
Jack Thornhill
Tommy Thornhill
Lewis Vestal
Otto Russell
Seventh grade class day program May 20 at school
Thursday May 20 marks seventh grade class day with a morning program attended by parents and a picnic in the afternoon. The program features Velma Holland piano solo class history by Mary Alice Harrison a class poem by Jackie Lee Thompson a quartet arranged by Marie Badgett the class prophecy by Betty Atkinson a class will by Morris Fogle Gillett and a class song directed by Miss Tommie Chenoweth ending with Billy Jack Harper as master of ceremonies.
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Velma Holland
Mary Alice Harrison
Jackie Lee Thompson
Marie Badgett
Betty Atkinson
Morris Fogle Gillett
Tommie Chenoweth
Billy Jack Harper
Seventh grade class changes at grammar school noted
Names Mary Alice Harrison and Malachia Wright appear connected to a seventh grade class change at the grammar school. The fragmentary item mentions related individuals including Velma Holland and Betty Atkinson with various associations, but the full context is unclear.
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Lucille Starr
Mr. Manning
Myrtle Taylor
Anna
Co. B. Bryant
Jessie Coffey
Malachia Wright
Velma Holland
Betty Atkinson
Mary Alice Harrison
Orangeville News Nearby Visits and School Graduation
Mrs. O V Wilder and daughters Janie Nell and Viola spent Monday with her parents in Whitewright. Seventh grade graduates were Alma Wilder Ernestine Thomlinson Dewey Griffin Willard Bowen Evelyn Latimer John D Reamna Ralph Hall Imogene Jones J L Owens and Geraldine Miller. Picnic held at Greenville park. Various local families visited relatives in Whitewright Sherman and Ector.
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O. V. Wilder
Janie Nell
Viola
O. D. Mayse
Whitewright
Clint Jones
Bells
Alma Wilder
Ernestine Thomlinson
Dewey Griffin
Willard Bowen
Evelyn Latimer
John D. Reamna
Ralph Hall
Imogene Jones
J. L. Owens
Geraldine Miller
Greenville Park
C. E. Mayse
Johnnie
E. B. Bangs
Ector
Floyd Savage
Dog Creek
John Savage
J. T. Evans
Sherman
Lonnie C. Wilder
Willie Griffin
Bill Musser
Louise Brown
Pat Miller
Baby
Lawrence Burden
Local Socials Reach Randolph and Bonham Areas
Ely News reports a flurry of Sunday visits and family arrivals as residents from Randolph Bonham Sherman and Whitewright host or visit relatives. Betty Cates returns home after tonsil surgery at St Vincent's Sanitarium Sherman. Visitors include Barker Baker Reeves Birchfield Cates and Blackerby families with Taylor Farrow and Layman among those noted.
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Grady. Barker
Randolph
John Baker
Betty Cates
St. Vincent's Sanitarium
Sherman
Dave Beazley
J.M. Dooley
Ector
Lennie Reeves
Leonard Birchfield
Bonham
Cliff Birchfield
R. C. Rogers
J. J. Blackerby
Lowell Taylor
Dallas
Harry Farrow
M. E. Miller
Familiar With Mules Laughs at Stableman Exchange
A terse Civil War era vignette shows an experienced new employer asking a stableman if he knows mules. The stableman retorts he knows them well enough to avoid familiarity, highlighting the era’s blunt humor and racial language in a compact exchange.
Supreme Court Upholds AAA Refund Limits
The Supreme Court upheld 1936 revenue act provisions restricting refunds from taxes collected under the old AAA. Treasury officials said the government would retain most of the $963 million, with refunds allowed only if taxpayers prove they paid the levies and that costs were not passed to consumers. Justice Mc Reynolds dissented.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Treasury
AAA
Justice McReynolds
Bus Driver Wins Pool On Ice Breaking Guess
Mervin E. Anderson a 32 year old Fairbanks bus driver won the world’s greatest guessing contest in Nenana Alaska by guessing within one minute the exact time the ice broke on the Tanana River. The pool valued between 85000 and 90000 dollars drew guesses from across the United States Canada and Alaska. The ice cracked at 1004 p m yesterday making his guess the second latest on record.
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Nenana
Alaska
Mervin’ E
Buster) Anderson
Fairbanks
Tanana River
United States
Canada
829 193 Draw Pay of Government Statistics Reveal
Washington civil service commission figures show 829 193 persons on Federal pay rolls April 1 including civil service and non civil service workers. The total outside legislative judicial and military branches is 824 259 last June 30, 56 percent higher than in 1926 with Works Progress Administration leading new hires.
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Washington
Sam
Civil Service Commission
Works Progress Administration
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Treasury
Agriculture Department
ECW
War Department
Resettlement Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Rise in Non-Civil Service and Rose Workers
The decade saw rose 18 percent growth from 422 300 to 498 725 and non civil service workers surge over 200 percent from 106 242 to 325 534, reflecting shifting employment figures.
Finds Highways Pleasant Places For Snoozing
A Whitewright man slept in the middle of highways on Monday, awakening drivers and baffling deputies multiple times before sheriff’s staff finally found him. He asked what was in the bottle given to him, then grinned and said he wished he knew. He was jailed Tuesday.
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Sherman Democrat
Whitewright
Fred Mooty
Sherman
Woodlake
Highway 75
Leonard Way
Ray Dobson
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