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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1941
Page
7
Reflector quotes Mr. Butler proposing that for every football ticket students sell for the Sherman game Thursday ten cents go toward a candidate of their choice. He adds no tickets may be sold after Wednesday.
Billie Jo Phillips vice president of area four of the Future Homemakers of Texas presided at the Denton gathering when president Dorothy Cliff was ill. Williams and Phillips traveled Friday, attended council meetings, and oversaw Saturday proceedings with a schedule of tasks. Whitewright club to provide next year’s treasurer. Phillips pictured with state F H T leaders in the Dallas Morning News.
The Pep Squad stayed home due to disagreeable weather for the Plano game, though some members could attend without uniforms. Teasing followed the Tigers victory, but the coach notes the squad supported the team from Whitewright.
The Snooper reports campus misuses of double negatives and slang as students like Cecil Owens and Alma Ruth Reeves are named for errors such as I knowed she would and Seniors ain't got no sense. Martha Jo Conner’s punishment is noted for a harsh error. Geneva Hicks Edith Layman Polly Ann Brown are cited for phrases like Has he come and I’m not in no hurry and Mary Ellen don’t belong with the Home Ec Club.
An exhibit this week at the library showcases glass from Corning Glass Works of Corning New York. It features test tubes neon sign tubes Christmas tree ornaments thermometer tubes lamp bulbs radio bulbs and graduated measuring cups bottles and funnels. A notable section shows raw materials used to make glass including a sample of fibrous glass.
Students at a local high school last Thursday began a process to formalize new phases of student activities. They discussed orientation steps and potential governance changes with faculty mentors guiding the process.
A report from Reversia details the Future Farmers of America Greenhands undergoing initiation. Fifteen boys wore shirts and ties backward, rolled one trouser leg, carried a raw egg, and addressed upperclassmen as Mister. The ceremony ended with washing hands in green water.
Miss Thornton's English IV class works on a poetry unit making a notebook and memorizing quotations from representative poems for study in English literature.
Last Thursday the seniors held a noon meeting to discuss raising money for football queen candidates. A daily schedule and entertainment ideas were proposed and a follow up meeting was planned to check progress.
For a week the V. A. III class maintains individual market records. Each pupil records items such as poultry swine corn cotton oats wheat sheep eggs cottonseed and beef cattle highlighting practical farm economics in class.
Mrs Roddy's speech class has practiced pan tomime all week and will perform in an assembly on Tuesday. Each member presented a pantomime and the best numbers were chosen by Mrs Roddy and Grace Harris. The class has ten extension loan library plays for ten days to select the year’s program. The first order is received and every member reads each play to pick the best for the spring state contest.
The football team moved to the gym when rain forced practice indoors. Captain Burchfield, recovering from an injury in the Royse City Whitewright game, is ready to play. Coach Payne led calisthenics for about fifteen minutes before sending players home to rest for the Plano game.
The homemaking girls served about thirty Denison Rotary Club guests at a Whitewright Rotary Club gathering. Halloween decor set the mood as turkey with dressing, creamed peas, salad, cranberry sauce, rolls, date pudding, whipped cream, and coffee were on the menu. Servers included Willa Jean Hunter, Jean Caraway, Betty Marie Allen, Etha Louise Brown, Margaret Hanna, Bonnie Mae Scott, Anna Ruth Johnson, Bertha Burchfield, and Mildred Kent.
The girls’ glee club presented a program for Rotarians of Whitewright and Denison last Thursday night. Bettye Nell Yeager led a tap routine to Any Bonds Today followed by a patriotic pageant with Mary Frances Stephens as Queen of Freedom and sisters and attendants named in the Kingdom of Democracy.
Last Friday the English III students elected officers for their club. The listed officers include President Wallace Reeves, Vice President Carol Ireland, Secretary and Treasurer Joe Tate Jones, Reporter Helen Maddux, Critic Dick Thornton, Program Committee Russel Ray Summers, Gladys.
Reeves and Billie Jo Phillips are mentioned with a committee of Helen Maddux Charles Skaggs and Leroy Martin appointed to pick a name. The club will meet every other Friday during the regular class period.
The F. F. A. chapter voted at Tuesday night meeting to purchase a blood testing box for poultry. The box costs about six dollars and aims to improve the community's chicken grades.
Boston reports 38,818 living five year cancer cures in the United States, up 2,731 from last year. College spokesmen caution the total is undercounted as many physicians do not report five year cures. Patients were treated with surgery radium and X rays.
A doting aunt and uncle escort a small lively boy on a walk and keep him between them for safety. An acquaintance greets Bobby who jokes that his parents are his convoys, not his daddy and mamma.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a visitor asks if the host’s dog bites. The host replies that they just bought the dog that morning and intends to find out. The vignette captures a light moment and playful curiosity.
The passage traces the Red Cross origin from Henri Durant and Swiss circles to Geneva conferences of 1863 and 1864 that produced the Treaty of Geneva. It notes US involvement by George C. Fogg and Charles Bowles, the Civil War Sanitary Commission, and Clara Barton’s pivotal role. It covers Barton’s leadership from 1881 founding The Association of the American Red Cross, up to her death in 1912 at age 91.
The Sun offers a large assortment of Christmas cards priced from 50 for $1.00. Customers are urged to place orders now and select first second and third choices to ensure availability.
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