The Grass Burr (Weatherford, Tex.), No. 6, Ed. 1 Monday, December 1, 1947 Page: 2 of 4
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THE GRASS BURR
THE GRASS BURR
EDITOR.......................SARA LU HITT
ASSOCIATE EDITORS .... MARTHA LANIER,
MARY RUTH BYRD
EXCHANGE EDITOR . . . MACKEY LEVERETT
ASSISTANT EXCHANGE EDITOR ......PAT
KINCAID
BUSINESS MANAGER.......RUTH HARRELL
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER PAT
ECKERD
CIRCULATION MANAGER .. BILL HUDSPETH
ASSISTANT CIRCULATION MANAGER-
BOBBY FAULKENBERRY
SPONSOR............MAY BELLE WHITSETT
PHOTOGRAPH EDITOR — JEANNE MEREDITH
PAGE EDITORS—BERNICE WATERS, BER-
NIECE WATSON, FRANCES BARNES, BOB-
BY FAULKENBERRY.
ADVERTISING MANAGERS—PAT ECKERD,
RUTH HARRELL, THEODORE MUND,
MARTHA LANIER.
TYPISTS—PAT KINCAID, PAT ECKERD, MAC-
KEY LEVERETT, CHARLES GRISSOM,
MARY RUTH YRD, JOYCE STRATTON,
RUTH HARRELL.
JANITOR BURIED ALIVE!
Help! Help! Oh, please, pleeeese help me!”
moaned a low, painful voice.
This moan filled the halls and rooms of
Senior High, sixth period on a cold Novem-
ber afternoon. Terror stricken, the students
jumped up from their chairs and ran swiftly
out into the hall to try to discover from
whom these terrible moans were coming.
After searching aimlessly for a few minutes,
they spied a huge pile of waste paper, brok-
en chalk, and a lot of other discarded junk.
To their surprise the students saw Mr. Gran-
staff digging frantically in the pile of waste
paper, and there—to their surprise—was the
school janitor, breathing hard, and wiping
the dust from his eyes.
“What on earth happened?” asked one
girl to another. “Oh the poor man was sweep-
ing, and when he started to carry off the
waste paper, and so forth—well, there was
so much of it, that it absolutely weighted him
down, and buried him under!”
“Oh, how terrible!”
Say, students, something like this would
be terrible, wouldn’t it? Well how about
really trying to/; prevent it by putting the
waste paper in its place, not throwing chalk
on the floor, and stepping on it, and be sure
to put those candy papers where they belong
—in the waste paper’basket.
Norma Lee McCarty.
Left’s Have Recreation Parties
Why doesn’t the school ever give a rec-
reation party? That’s one of the things the
student council is supposed to do, isn’t it?
The answer to that is no one ever comes, so
why waste time and money trying to get up
a good party. It’s up to the student council to
arrange for the party, and then give it
enough advertisement so that everyone will
want to attend. As everyone in school does-
n’t dance, don’t provide, just for dancing,
but also for several other types of entertain-
ment. Naturally if a party is given and no
one knows about it there won’t be a very
large attendance so advertise it well enough
that every student will know about it and
want to come.
I think that recreation parties should be
given, but it will take the cooperation of the
students.
So let’s begin Recreation Parties and
make them a success by attending them.
—Bernice Waters.
STICKERS—
GRASS BURR PHOTO
Hey, Epod, Get This!
Do you read this column because
you think it’s going to be interest-
ing, and have lots of names in it,
and have some new and exciting
dirt? Well, if those are your reasons
you might as well quit reading right
now ’cause the same people are still
going steady, “do-wicky” was seen
with “what’sit”, and believe it or
not, this changeable student body
(you know, you never can tell
what’s going to happen next) is do-
ing exactly the same things they
were two weeks ago. Just about,
that is—but still there’s a question
about Wayne Carter’s moving out
of the locker that he had seemingly
grown so fond of, and he’d been
there so long, too! And people were
raising eyebrows over that red-
headed foot-loose and fancy-free
Senior girl and the curly-headed
blonde Senior boy who seemed to
have such a good time on the home-
ward trek from Brownwood. Also
pint-sized Joye Wells evidently is
the only girl with enough charms to
capture he-man Jack Davis’ atten-
tions. And Janie, even though Mon-
te Serman practically hangs on that
locker door, is still casting shy
glances toward the only naturally-
blonde cheer leader W.H.S. boasts.
But Mrs. Martin’s little boy obvious-
ly cannot make up his mind between
brunettes or what-have-you.
And it looks like Bill Lynch is a
“goner” with great big black eyes,
belonging to Marty Lanier, melting
him down so beautifully—and Patsy
Haydon must prefer brunettes, too,
’cause Kirk really stars when it
comes to her.
Will Pat Russell ever come down
to earth—? If Buggs, James, Jack,
etc., would quit bouncing her
around so much, maybe we could
tell what she’s going to do. Are you
planning to decide this season, Pat?
The Thanksgiving Holidays
(Wheel) really brought out a lot of
new couples—especially at that
Country Club dance. We may be
hearing some startling results from
those two-somes such as “Will Vio-
let Ann Martin be seeing any more
of ‘Doc’ Lynch?” or “Did curly-
heads Bob Hamilton and Mae Lues
White find anything to continue?”
-Time will tell—and you can bet-
the Stickers will too.
_
December Birthdays
2—David Brown
4— Jo Ann Sisk
5— Wanda Brinkley
6— Venita Chilcutt
7— Wayne Christian
8— Bobby Faulkenberry
9— Kathryn Connaway
10— Pat Kincaid
11— Jo Nell Smith
12— Joey Byers, Ted Hatcher,
Mary Lou Sisserson
13— Will Taylor
16—Nancy O’Kelly, Adelaide Val-
tierra.
18— Lester Smith, Mary Vivian
Schindler
19— Ruth Sims
20— Freddy Winstead
, 21—Norma McCarty
23—Bob Hamilton
Left to right—Roy Benskin, Sophomore, Gretchen
Kebelman, Junior and Imogene Jones, Senior.
Joyous Jones
Our senior of the week is none other than that
pert, green-eyed blonde, Imogene Jones. She
strolls casually down the halls of dear ole’ W.H.S.
like a miniature whirlwind.
Imogene looks upon this busy world, which she
entered June 26, 1931, at Santo, Texas, from the
“towering” height of five feet and one inch. She
has attended school all over Texas, but she likes
W.H.S. best (natch!) Among her other likes are
art, dancing, roller skating and a certain senior
boy. Her most dislike are people who dent her
car fenders.
She was cheer leader at Beaumont Junior
High, vice-president of Mrs. Babb’s homeroom
last year, and she is now secretary of the Senior
Class, and a member of the Student Council. But
with all these accomplishments, Imogene firmly
believes that her greatest achievement has been
the passing of her driver's license test. (Who
doesn’t?)
Imogene will probably attend T.C.U. after
leaving W:H.S. But whatever she decides to at-
tempt, this charming, dynamic girl with the win-
ning smile is sure to succeed.
Kapable Kebelman
Our representative of the Junior Class this
week is Gretchen Kebelman, a slender olive-skin-
ned, brown haired, and dark eyed girl. She made
her grand entry into the world at Weatherford on
January 2, 1932. She is a true Weatherford girl,
having attended Weatherford schools ever since
venturing into T. W. Stanley in 1938.
Although Gretchen has no particular dislike,
good plays, speech and playing the piano head her
long list of likes.
Last year Gretchen was a member of the Mel-
on Vine Staff and this year she is Treasurer of the
Junior Class. She states that she will attend Tex-
as University and probably major in Child Psy-
chology. The best of luck to you, Gretchen,—the
kids will love you! *•
Brilliant Benskin
Our Sophomore of the week is that handsome,
debonaire football playing six footer, Roy Ben-
skin. Roy was born in San Antonio, Texas, on
January 22, 1933. He attended Pecos schools be-
fore enrolling in W.H.S. this year.
Roy says that he likes football,, basketball, and
women; but that he finds work very distasteful.
His favorite subject is history but he declined to
mention his most un-favorite one. (Who can.
blame him?) Roy plans to go,to Texas University
when W.H.S. finally gives him up. So here’s
wishing the best of luck to Lawyer Benskin, he
can handle my case any day.
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