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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1937
Page
7
The Glow Worm editor and staff list sustain a school newspaper vibe with names of editors assistants and sponsors. Thursday visitors include Mrs Clay Horton Mrs Olivia Whed bee Mrs Otto Russell Mrs Bob Pierce and other mothers observing fourth grade performances and a Japanese Drill Song by fourth grade girls.
On the bulletin board pictures show Halloween scenes while they study Spot. A large Spot picture dominates the display and sides feature images of squirrels eating nuts.
Betty Ann Darwin won first prize blue ribbon, Tonny Myrick earned red ribbon, and Bert Waldo received a white ribbon. Second grade boys built chairs with helpers Jimmie McSpedden Bobby Clabhorn Lonnie Myrick James Kent Jean Pat Gray Harold Ray Vineyard and Jack McSpedden. They raise funds by selling candy and money gifts. Lonnie Myrick brought goldfish prompting fish study and a board drawing of a fish. A new Indian history unit is planned, per J. C. and M. C.
The third grade studied Indians with adobe house projects and two reading sections Cliff Dwellers and Pueblos. They used Child Library Reader and In Animal Land, made Columbus Day pictures, and learned songs. A goldfish died after Mary Helen Hill tried salt water treatment. pupils buried the remains Monday.
The fourth grade presented an assembly Thursday morning with full participation. The program listed piano solo by Katie Kincaid, reading by Ruth Maddux, and the play Make Believe Japan with characters including Katie Kincaid Janis Horton Ima Sue Garner Don Newman Billy Christian Billy Joe Norris Betty Nell Yeager Virginia Pierson Edyth Biggerstaff Wanda Green Henrietta Jackson Betty Joe Pierce Betty Jean Brice Bessie Jo Russell and others.
The fifth grade produced fire prevention posters praised as very good by all pupils. They formed booklets on writing health English and spelling for a six week project. They took a subtraction test in arithmetic and raced, with Mr Humphrey noting strong performance. In language arts they study punctuation and capitalization while geography lessons use map drawing and state city locations including large cities T. T. and L. V.
The sixth grade begins an oil unit noting Texas accounts for 44 percent of U S production and 28 percent of world supply. Students will map major U S oil fields and compare Texas with other states and global output while language arts cover parts of speech and delivering short talks.
A playful crayon note blurs daily school life with a string of small incidents. Dorothy Sue Douglas and Mary Helen Maddux fall on a bicycle while Pattie Everheart and Ann LaRoe are silent observers. G C Brown is teased for not shooting paper at the girls and James Stateville restrains Pattie from using a fountain pen. Mr Manning is pressured to give a test without prior notice.
In language arts students study paragraphs and punctuation while health notes focus on body pictures. Arithmetic covers decimal fractions and history reviews the colonial quarrel and the Declaration. In manual training sixth and seventh graders, under Mr Manning, create bird houses elephants lions bookends broom holders and airplanes with occasional extra work time.
In home economics class students move from cutting finished aprons to sewing. On Thursday they learned to sew on the machines by making seams.
J. E. recalls a Thursday morning task where seventh grade boys tried sewing straight on notebook paper and then on fabric, finding the lesson challenging as they moved the home economics room downstairs. The account highlights a difficult start to a basic sewing exercise.
The main girls team lost 7 to 1 to the seventh grade boys amid a rain disrupted week. No other games were played recently due to wet weather.
The report notes the boys defeated the girls in a baseball game held after muddy conditions and without practice. It mentions the boys expect to play another game soon, as stated by C. B. B.
The seventh grade did not participate in recess or physical training on Monday prompting questions about whether the exercises were deemed unnecessary.
A string of social hints shows students named with initials pairing up or avoiding partners. T. S. S. erases, F. C. winks at N. W, J. E. pairs with J. N, C. B. B. avoids M. F. C. M. M. shuns M. B, T. T. misses B. J. P, and L. W. lacks a sweetheart while G. W. is drowned out in song by the boys. B. S. hopes to visit Commerce with M. W.-H. C. and B. W.
Farmers were urged by federal crop control agent W. W. Gunn to file by October 30 all certificates of sale to avoid losing government subsidy payments. County agent W. O. Teddlie shared A and M College guidance: buyers receipts or cotton sale certificates must be filed by October 30 for sales up to October 15, and within 15 days after sale for those after October 15.
English journalist Hannen Swaffer questioned Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's status as a great American in St. Louis today He called Lindbergh a brave airman but faulted Americans for labeling him a great national hero He also mocked the Lindbergh trophies as provincial and peculiar gifts.
Washington announces a government purchase of 1 265 040 dozen eggs at an average cost of 22 1 2 cents to stall price drops for farmers. Purchases were made in carload lots across Chicago Minneapolis Fort Wayne St Louis Hannibal Gonzales and Houston. All eggs except those at St Louis and Hannibal were storage eggs.
Whitesboro voters rejected two measures at a special election on Monday. A sewer charge funding option and a higher 15 percent fire protection rate failed, with 9 to 1 approval for defeat. Had both passed, city tax would rise and possibly double from 75 cents per $100 valuation.
A novel device for locating engine troubles records intake manifold vacuum variations on a dial. The instrument aids pinpointing causes of malfunction in internal combustion engines through precise pressure readings.
Baylor University economist Prof. Brandon Trussell warns Texas tenancy will drop as farm machinery reduces labor needs. He notes 286,000 tenants on 501,000 farms, 51 percent land tillers rent, and says AAA cut tenancy from 60 percent. He cites farm consolidation, failing rural schools, high tariffs, and need for new Texas factories to employ a growing idle rural population.
The biological survey bureau reports a thriving rabbit fur industry across North and South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Colorado and Montana. Farmers hunt rabbits in fall winter and spring to reduce pests while earning cash from skins sold at about 5 cents per pound to hunters and around 50 cents per pound in retail markets, with roughly four skins per pound.
Brockton Massachusetts Mrs Sophie Berenaf of Upland Road Brockton forgot she stored her life savings in a tin can in the kitchen stove and set a fire. Realizing the mistake two hours later she extinguished the blaze but the ashes were searched for money with no success.
After following doctor advice, she forwarded ashes to the Treasury in Washington. Chemists flagged the destruction value at 360 dollars, or nine tenths of the loss, and identified the denomination of each bill in the can.
W H Dad Richard son 75 drowned Sunday at 3 p m in Bonham when he fell from the concrete tank. Justice Raleigh Abernathy ruled accidental drowning. surviving son Dave and another son Robert Richardson. Recent rains partly filled the tank. body examined after death. Newspaper note mentions adding machine paper.
Collinsville is named in a mandamus suit filed in Fifteenth District Court to force city officials to begin steps to collect delinquent taxes. B F Goodrich Rubber Co seeks $685.55 judgment plus $10,000 in taxes owed, naming assessor Pearson, city secretary and treasurer Morcrief, and Mayor Gardner to appear and show cause. Judge Carter has not set a hearing date. By products of the East Texas yam include starch alcohol glue and paste.
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