The Grass Burr (Weatherford, Tex.), No. 3, Ed. 1 Monday, October 28, 1946 Page: 3 of 4
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THE GRASS BURR
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IN STEP WITH OUR STYLES
German Girl Enrolls
W’ford High School
Uta Merzbach, who recently en-
rolled in W.H.S. has come a great
distance to live in Weatherford and
attend W.H.S. Uia’s mother teaches
German and French at Weatherford
Junior College, while her father is
in New York. Uta was born in Ber-
lin, Germany in 1933. Like many
people she lived a happy normal life
until the Hitler machine overran
the country. For two years the
Merzbachs lived in a concentration
camp located on the Czechoslovak-
ian border. Uta’s mother taught her
during this period and Uta is much
farther advanced in her studies than
the average sophomore. During her
two years in the concentration
camp Uta learned to play the piano.
She practiced on an old piano she
found in a basement of one of the
buildings. She likes music very
much. Her favorite composers are
Beethoven and Mozart. She prefers
classical music.
Uta thinks the Americans are very
nice. “They have been especially
kind to me”, remarked Uta. When
asked what she thought of our foot-
ball game with Stephenville, Uta
looked at a loss for words then said,
“I like it, but what do they do when
a boy gets the ball?” The sports in
Germany are tennis, basketball,
which isn’t played as much as in the
United States, and football that is
played like soccer.
Uta attended one public school
before coming to America. It was a
one room building which held
around 50 students. They were not
allowed to organize as a club, but
all of them worked together, went
on excursions, picnics, and many
other things.
Uta finds it difficult to under
stand English if spoken too rapidly.
She began learning the English lan-
guage when she was six, but like
everything else this too was inter-
rupted. In 1945 she really began to
learn English, and now speaks it
fluently, but with a very charming
accent.
Although she is registered as a so-
phomore, Uta takes junior English,
Latin II, algebra I and biology. Mrs.
Babb voices the feeling of W.H.S.
when she said, “We all are very
proud of Uta and welcome her into
our midst.”
F.H.A. Week Observed
Last Week, 20th - 26th
The F.H.A. observed F.H.A. Week
last week. Their program for the
week was:
Sunday, October 20—Church ser-
vices, 10:45, First Methodist Church.
Monday, October 21—Installation
of chapter officers. Reception, 7:30.
Tuesday, October 22 — County-
wide Homemaker’s picnic, 6:00, Hol-
land’s Lake.
Wednesday, October 23 and Thurs-
day, October 24—Picture show at
Plaza Theatre.
Friday, October 25—Kangaroos vs.
Cisco.
Saturday, October 26—Hobo Day,
who will earn the most for Camp
Arrowhead? 8:00.
Here it is again, bringing the fads
of the fashionable.
Have you noticed the way the
Sophomore girls are dressing, red
and black and pigtails and green
and white ribbons.
Tomi Hackney was very attractive
in a black skirt and a red turn-
about.
A very novel idea is wearing the
charm bracelets as costume pins.
These are being worn by Lanona
Hartness and Jo Ann Nichols.
The girls aren’t the only ones
that are in the fashion parade. This
has been shown by the red, green,
blue and yellow plaid shirt worn by
Buddie Hamilton. Jimmy Stobaugh
has worn a black and white check-
ed shirt.
The newest fad of W.H.S. is the
NEWS OF THE BAND
“Have the uniforms come yet?”
“When will they get here?” These
are just a few of the questions that
are asked almost every day by va-
rious members of the band.
No. The band uniforms have not
come yet. The company was sup-
posed to send the uniforms in six
weeks, but as yet, the band still
doesn’t have new uniforms.
The band marched Friday, Octo-
ber 18 at Mineral Wells. The band
marched down the field, weaved,
made a telecope, counter marched
then returned to the north end of
the field and single-filed off.
At the Cisco game, October 25,
the band will go on the field, form
an airplane, with the football sweet-
heart, Jo Ann Wilbanks, in the cen-
ter. After the band will fly her to
the center of the field a heart will
be formed and the band will play
“Let Me Call You Sweetheart”. The
band will then march off the field.
Home Ec. Officers
Name Committees
Committees were named when
the officers of all Home Ec. clubs
met Monday evening, October 14.
On the initiating committee are
Maxine Waters, Mary Jo Powell,
Freida Davis and Polly Smith. A
scrapbook committee was elected
with Marjorie Nelson as editor and
Pat Kincaid and Joy Wells on the
staff.
The deadline for the buying of
F.H.A. pens and bracelets is the last
week in October.
Hi-Y Plans Initiation
At Last Meeting
Plans for initiations were made
when the Hi-Y met last Tuesday
night. The initiation will be held
Tuesday night, October 29. Plans
were also discussed for enlarging
the membership.
Camera Club Learns To
Use Enlarging Machine
Members of the Camera Club re-
ceived instructions from Mr. Horn-
burg on the operation of an enlarg-
ing machine at their regular Thurs-
day meeting October 17. They also
developed several exposures.
wearing of blue and white stripe
overalls which were worn by Mr. J.
E. Granstaff.
Louise Harris was seen wearing a
powder blue suit with brown acces-
sories at the Mineral Wells game.
Sweaters are still the favorite. Jo
Ann Wilbanks wore a white short
sleeve turtle-neck. Katherine Jo
Connaway has a brown sweater
with yellow musical notes on it.
Dorothy Hubbard wore a pink and
grey striped blouse with raglan
sleeves and a high neck. This was
worn with a black skirt.
Everyone was proud of the band
at the Mineral Wells football game.
The band was just about perfect.
As everyone knows this was the
first time the band has marched this
year.
IMAGINE—
Marshall Colliflower without Jo
Ruth McCreary.
Betha Mund not giggling.
Redmond Savage as tall as Dan
Doss.
Norma Bridge wearing lipstick.
Gretchen Kebelman without her
bobby pins.
Johnny Long being quiet in li-
brary.
Wynola Wigington making a lot
of noise.
Glenn Tarver with a girl.
Jerry Hayes and Nancy Young
without blonde hair.
Joey Morris with a brain.
Benny Grogan with energy.
Bonnie Wright, chubby.
Pat Williams as small as Joyce
Sheppard.
F.H.A. To Plant Rose
Bed on Campus
Space was granted the Future
Homemakers Club by Superinten-
dent Wilson for a rose bed.
Each class will be responsible for
one row of the bed and the space
will be in front of the Home Ec. win-
dows on the east side of the school.
The rose is the national flower of
the Future Homemakers Dept.
FASHION CLEANERS
The Modern Cleaning Plant
of Weatherford
503 S’. Main Phone 323
FANNIE PRICE
JEWELER
If it’s new, it’s here.
Larry T. Taylor
Back the Kangaroos
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Latin Classes Elect
New Officers
The first and second year Latin
classes of Weatherford High School
elected officers October 10 and 16th
respectively.
Officers for the first year class
were: 1st consul, Patsy Davis; 2nd
consul, Jennilu Kelly; 3rd consul,
Nancy Young; Scribe, Patsy Hay-
don; Tribunes, J. D. Wagner and
Charlie Lee Hood.
Officers fo rthe second year class
were 1st Consul, Allen Martin; 2nd
Consul, James Kirkpatrick; 3rd Con-
sul, Uta Merzbach; Scribe, Martha
Lanier; Reporter, Sara Lu Hitt.
Officers for the Junior Classical
League will be elected Tuesday,
October 29.
Pat Williams Heads
Library Club
Pat Williams was elected presi-
dent of the Library club when the
club met October 14. Other offi-
cers are Mary Helen Dent, vice
president; Nelda Prichard, secretary
and treasurer; Ear line Henslee, re-
porter; and Mackie Leverett, parlia-
mentarian. The girls decided to have
the annual picnic at Cherry Park
November 6, if the weather is fa-
vorable.
Student Council Discusses
Plans for Party
The Student Council discussed
plans for sponsoring a party to make
money to buy equipment to black
out the study hall to show motion
pictures. This discussion was held at
their regular meeting last week.
CITY WIDE
YOUTH REVIVAL
Senior High School
November 3-10
Great Youth Choir
Young Speakers
Compliments of—
SHARPE’S GROCERY
Chas. Sharpe and Dave Hudson
MITCHELL - MERRITT
Sheet Metal — Plumbing
CITY OF WEATHERFORD
MUNICIPAL WATER &
ELECTRIC DEPT.
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