Glow Worm Staff and Third Grade English Fun
The Glow Worm newsletter lists editors sponsors and a long roster of reporters including Marie Badgett and Velma Holland. It notes a third grade effort to improve speech habits with a Pilgrims versus Indians game, new reading shelves, and book records for reading growth. Fourth grade shows Thanksgiving themed art and Imogene Kuykendall enrollment while Jorki Jork, the Swiss Boy, is being read to the class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Kuykendall
Kentuckytown
Marie Ward
Imogene Kuykendall
Jorki Jork
Velma Holland
Good Book Week Promotes Reading for Children
In November a Good Book Week is set aside from the teenth to the twenty second to boost reading. Advertisers urge families to explore the best children’s books, stressing literature as a mirror of life and the choice between uplifting and degrading works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emilie Poulsson
Industrious First Grade Readers Rise To A Hundred
The first grade students have read two books this year and are now tackling Bob and Nancy at the Farm. They count to a hundred by fives and tens, with some nearing seventh grade reading ability. Three students were in the pig pen Friday and housekeepers this week are Betty Ann Darwin and Buford Jack Justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob
Nancy
Betty Ann Darwin
Buford Jack Justice
Doretha Darwin
New Members Join Toothless Club and Class News
New members of the Toothless Club this week include Billy Jo Scott Jack McSpedden J M Call G V Norris Jessie Pritchett Billy Jean Wallace Alice Johnson Carl Simms Patrick Murphy and Betty Jo Pierce. Fifth grade teacher Lonnie Ricketts recently lost a tooth. Pictures of Indians turkeys and other items greet the second grade room with a colorful display. A hundred in spelling this week is Billy Ward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toothless Club
Billy Jo Scott
Jack McSpedden
J. M. Call
G. V. Norris
Jessie Pritchett
Billy Jean Wallace
Alice Johnson
Carl Simms
Patrick Murphy
Betty Jo Pierce
Lonnie Ricketts
Wijton McFarland
Billy Ward
Sixth Grade English Top Scorer at Local School
Cecil Owens led the sixth grade in this week’s English test with the highest score. Others scoring 90 or above included Robert Simmons Lucian Vestal C B Bryant III Davis Parrish and Helen Childress. Students worked on Good Book posters and group three visited Katy depot Monday to learn telegraph basics and try dots and dashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Owens
Robert Simmons
Lucian Vestal
C. B. Bryant III
Davis Parrish
Helen Childress
Katy
Seventh Grade Treat at Legion Park
The seventh grade invited Grammar School teachers to an afternoon at the school then American Legion Park Monday. Boys played football and girls basketball while the teachers built a bonfire and roasted wieners. All helped pay. Mr Manning thought he had more money but spent fifty cents of his own. Thanks to Mr Manning for hosting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Mr. Manning
Thomas Sanderson
Seventh Grade Learns Facts About Minerals in Geography
Seventh grade pupils study minerals and geology basics. They explore mineral properties, identification methods, and the role minerals play in daily life and industry through guided activities and discussions.
Minerals and health notes from school reports
The text states the United States uses over five billion tin cans for canning yet produces no tin. It notes rich iron deposits in the U S with Mesabi district in Minnesota yielding half the iron ore. It adds the U S produced nearly as much copper as all other countries combined in a recent year. Seventh grade pupils are making health rule talks and illustrations. Pilot Grove and Whitewright basketball girls seek a game with Whitewright Grammar School girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Mesabi
Minnesota
Charlie Sue Childress
Meet the Seventh Grade Charms of Billy Jack Harper and Charlie Sue Childress
A light verse introduces Billy Jack Harper, a tiny boy with dark hair from the south part of town who wears a bright air. It then presents Charlie Sue Childress, an eastern lass good in arithmetic, enjoys writing and playing, and loves sunny days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Jack Harper
Charlie Sue Childress
Otto Russell
Seventh graders measure school spaces for arithmetic lesson
Mr. Ricketts assigns seventh graders to measure rooms and building parts after school. Pupils telephone the lumber yard to learn cement costs for building walks, gaining practical experience in measurement and estimation.
Electric blanket debut in General Electric probe
Laugh at the Zero Weather introduces an electric blanket by Dr. Whitney of General Electric. For three winters he slept under a light sheet sized blanket with insulated wire sewn between two sheets. The setup draws about four cents of electricity per night and includes a heat control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitney
General Electric Company
Martha Lee Bradley
Women who work longest not highest paid in Texas
A U S Labor Department study finds longer hours do not yield higher pay for Texas women. Department store workers at 45 hours earned a median of 15.30 dollars versus 13 dollars for 48 to 54 hours. Five and ten stores paid around 13.35 for 48 hours, laundries showed lower wages with 54 hours at 9.80 and 54 hours at 10.60 versus 9.30 at 48-54 hours. Half of laundries’ workers earned under 18 cents an hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Texas
Women’s Bureau
Labor Department
Surgical Clamp Removed From Patient in Tulsa Operation
In Tulsa, Dr. John Halladay and assistant Dr. J W Orman removed a six inch hemostatic clamp left in a woman's abdomen in a four year old operation. The 55 minute procedure on Mrs A R Banks was successful and her recovery is expected uneventful. Mrs Banks, wife of a coal mine foreman at Catoosa, has four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
John Halladay
Halladay
J. W. Orman
A. R. Banks
Ray
Banks
Catoosa
Swifter Justice Under Universal Fingerprinting Plan
Washington officials argue universal fingerprinting would reduce crime and speed justice if widespread and public education supports such a law. J Edgar Hoover warns criminals blend with society while touting fingerprints as reliable, unique, and unaltered by burning or scar tissue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Bureau
Washington
United States
Justice
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
J. Edgar Hoover
Want Ads Highlight Local Sales and Rentals
Classified notices show FOR SALE young Hereford bulls from J. M. Parrish in Whitewright and a used gas stove with a dresser and bed. FOR RENT rooms in Mrs. G W Pope dwelling via Chess Pope. LOST a copy of I Like the Depression return to Sun. WANTED to buy a small farm by D L Burkhalter of Bells Texas. FOR SALE fat dressed geese at 1 25 each through Mrs. Lester Simpson west of Whitewright. Mr. and Mrs. J S Griffin of Gainesville visited Mrs. W A Kirkpatrick last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Griffin
Gainesville
W. A. Kirkpatrick
Lester Simpson
Whitewright
Rudy’s Dream Girl Dies After Operation in Santa Monica
Fay Webb, former wife of Rudy Vallee, the noted radio crooner and orchestra leader, died at a Santa Monica hospital Wednesday night after undergoing an operation. The report notes her long association with Vallee and her public profile as his former spouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Monica
Calif
Fay Webb
Rudy Vallee
Turkeys Cheaper Than Bacon Stir Growers Debate Prices
Turkeys sold for as low as 12 cents a pound as Thanksgiving markets closed in Cuero Texas. Growers led by E L Walters and E C Hesse blamed high yolk egg sales to northern farms for a bumper national crop and price collapse. They questioned why New Yorkers pay only 25 cents a pound while Texas producers face steep losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gonzales
E. L. Walters
Walters
Cuero
DeWitt County
E. C. Hesse
Texas
Death of young patient after major operation
The patient died at 8:40 p.m. after forty one hours in a coma due to peritonitis following a major operation last week. Her father Police Capt. Clarence E. Webb and her uncle Perry Webb were at her bedside. she had been sustained briefly by oxygen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence E. Webb
Perry Webb
Adamses in Garden of Eden Joke Becomes Sunday School Whim
A lighthearted quip from a First Family Sunday school setting has a teacher prompting with a biblical joke. A child answers that Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden, humorously naming the Adamses as the inhabitants. The moment captures family life and schoolyard humor in a domestic scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Garden of Eden
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Doretha Darwin Mary Dale King Marie Badgett Jrs, D. M. Roddy
Malachia Wright
Marie Badgett
Jackie Lee Thompson
Wilton McFarland
Otto Ruessell
T. W. Ayres & Son
Pilot Grove
Whitewright High School
Whitewright Grammar School
Sun Office
Young Hereford Bulls
J. M. Parrish
D. L. Burkhalter
Bells, Texas
Dresser
Emmet Penn
J. H. Hollingsworth
Tom Barbee
Remington
Floyd Bassett
Calhoun Hatchery
Montrose
Rhode Island
Elbert A. Hansard
Sallie Moore
Dallas
G. H. Jackson
Elm St
South Bend Street
Tom Houmes
Sun
R. K. McLarry
Sherman Nursery Co
al. Whitewright
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
S. Travis St
Sherman
Rudy
Oklahoma
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