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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1948
Page
7
The Reflector lists Whitewright seniors attending a game at Bryant Field on Friday November 12 and details their day including classes in civics literature and geometry, lunch, study halls, pep squad practice, and football drills with a rousing call to support their team.
The first six weeks honor roll lists students by grade. Senior Nora Hughes and Billie Milam head the senior and junior groups along with William King Louise Selman Jane Meador Peggy Clark. Eight grade, Myra Nell Scott and Beverly Bassett among others.
Seniors from across the country converge at Whitewright High School room 17. They begin warming up at 8:45 for a 45 minute brain exercise session aimed at sharpening mental skills.
Gwendolyn Kent daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Kent receives the Gold Star Award of Grayson County 4-H Girls Club. She completed three years of 4-H work and demonstrated leadership and achievement. She served as home improvement demonstrator and took second in the county Home Improvement Contest and second with Gladine Harper in the Dairy Foods Team Demonstration Contest.
On campus chatter Doretha mentions a new heart throb as students gossip about relationships and crushes amid the freshman crowd. The casual talk hints at campus romance trends and social circles among new students.
Spareribs come from the side of the carcass and are the ends of the ribs with fat and visible bone ends. They can be braised or roasted, cooked well done, browned in hot fat, and slowly simmered with liquid, or roasted on a rack at 350 F for about two and a half hours, then optionally barbecued with sauce or stuffed before roasting.
Bettye McKinney and various seniors are linked with hopeful partners in a flurry of social chatter. Dixie Watkins hints at a Trenton beau and Charlie Jean contemplates a football hero. The piece invites fans to arrive early for the Howe versus Whitewright game on Friday night November 12.
The article lists presidential popular vote totals across four prior elections and notes Truman's fifth term victory over Dewey. It cites Roosevelt Hoover Landon Willkie and Dewey figures and mentions Texas citation No. 205 with a 1948 Grayson County court notice commanding J O Burross to appear in a suit by Sherrard Motor Company.
I D McEachern of Hale County rises from a $350 cash strait to a thriving grower of Plainsman grain sorghum. He built a two row ensilage harvester, won a patent, sold 12,000 sacks worth about $57,000, and expanded his Plainview farm to 816 acres with seven irrigation wells.
Lexington report notes the National Chicken-of-Tomorrow Committee launches a nation wide remodeling program to create a 1951 model chick en. Plans will be distributed to producers as a three year breeding effort based on research from Georgetown Delaware. H L Shrader states the approach follows the initial program completed last June.
A&P Food Stores will award 10000 to breeders who best produce the 1951 model bird. Winners will be chosen through state regional and national contests open to all poultry men in the United States. The program aims to mold chickens to consumer needs as other livestock have been improved. Poultrymen in 44 states participated in the first contest.
A little boy asks if ancestors were spanked, and the father confirms. The boy proposes breaking the family heredity with his help, hinting at a joke about repeating punishment through generations.
A druggist ad promotes LETO S gum products with a money back offer if the first bottle fails to satisfy. The notice emphasizes gum beauty and relief from itching or burning.
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