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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
7
The Whitewright High School senior class of 1943, led by Anna Ruth Johnson, bequeaths various edits, titles, and roles among classmates. The piece blends a gift list with a travelogue of former students now pursuing colleges, careers, and military service.
The senior class thanks all who helped during the year, with special gratitude to parents for sacrifices and to teachers for guidance. They express deepest appreciation to Mrs Kathryn Roddy, the only faculty member with them all four years of high school, for unselfish guidance.
The senior class lists boys aiming for aviation work including James Alexander, Jim Hicks, Cecil Magers, Lloyd Mitchell, Robert Owens, Troy Owens, James Stateville, Gomer White, and Charles Skaggs. Several girls plan to aid the war effort as efficient secretaries with names Kathryn Beard and Una Faye Blackerby.
A playful verse lists Russell Summers as a clever boy not fond of expulsion, Mary Nell Talley receives smiles in shorthand class, Dick Thornton shines in football, and Mary Sue is fondly noted. It mentions Jones Ray, Foucheaux, and local writer Una Faye Blackerby inviting readers to learn the author.
The PRR presents evidence that speeds over 35 mph cause excessive tire wear. An Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Wyoming study of 1.5 million miles shows prewar passenger tires on concrete wear only about two thirds as fast at 35 mph as at 45 mph. Tires lasting 40,000 miles at 45 mph could reach about 60,000 miles at 35 mph. The work was by the Iowa engineering experiment station with road administration cooperation.
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