The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1961 Page: 2 of 4
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THE WESTERNER WORLD
Friday, April 7, 1961
Magic Marker Skill Nothing Big
Just as clothes make the man, skits, posters,
and tags make a successful campaign—or do they?
Election time is coming up in a few weeks,
bringing an avalanche of tags and posters, which
will literally cover walls and lockers, making the
halls resemble Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
Despite the unquestionable interest and cam-
paign spirit aroused by these tactics, many stu-
dents have expressed the desire to know more
about each candidate’s actual qualifications for of-
fice. This, they feel, is just as important as the
nominee’s “talent with a magic marker.”
Candidates, too, have voiced the opinion that
past effort and real desire should count more than
the quantities of food, paper, and paint they dis-
pose of in 24-hour campaigns. In the words of
one Student Council office seeker, “Although tags,
posters, and skits, particularly, play a big role, de-
sire to serve the school is more significant when
the campaign is over.” With this statement in
view, students should pay special attention to the
past records of the candidates
Since the steel of their characters has already
been tempered in the fire of previous situations,
it remains for each voter to see through the clever
campaign material to the nominee underneath.
This spring when the ballots are counted and the
walls stripped of their campaign covering, all that
will remain to support the chosen officers will be
their qualifications.
School Teachers Are Strange Animals
Take an ordinary person, add a cup of wis-
dom, one-half cup perseverance, and a tablespoon
of humor; combine, and you get what is common-
ly known as a teacher — that strange, undecipher-
able person who forms a link between adolescence
and adulthood for teenagers.
Teachers come in a variety of appearances —
tall, short, plump, thin, bald, or with a full head
of hair. Their coordinating attitudes range from
meek to boisterous, and from easy-going to de-
manding.
These people are more misunderstood than
Einstein’s theory of relativity and more talked
about by students than current fads and styles.
Because these people are teachers, students
often picture them as complex people not taking
part in common, everyday activities. However, an
unexpected call on instructors might find them
working in gardens, reading newspapers, watching
television, or even going barefoot while relaxing
at home with their children.
Everywhere we go we see these educators —
at grocery stores, ball games, churches, movies,
and in parks having picnics on Sunday afternoons.
Despite all this, however, teachers are differ-
ent from most people in this world, for they are the
basic ingredient in preparing a successful recipe
for a student’s future.
Why Kain’t Littel Johnny Spel Beter?
Nevar let anybidy tel you that Westerners are
poor spellars.
That is, no one should have to tell you; for
almost every Westerner will admit that his spell-
ing aptitude is practically nil.
Slaves to the dictionary, we all give evidence
that materials used for our first-to-eighth grade
spellers would have seen better use if burned for
the warmth of underprivileged Eskimo children.
Why this ironic infirmity in our scholastic
make-up? Several possible reasons present them-
selves. They boil down to the fact that either we
do not care, or we do not realize impressions we
make by poor spelling.
Those who do not care probably failed to no-
tice the spelling errors in the first paragraph of
this editorial — and quit reading on the second.
Those who do not realize the bad impressions
made by poor spelling probably should talk to
personnel directors, who evaluate application let-
ters daily, and to college directors of admission,
who judge students’ letters of information. “A
misspelled word in your letter of information will
take your name off a college’s rolls before it gets
on,” one college field advisor warned a group of
Westerner girls this year.
No use giving the European school systems
something else to gloat over: let’s learn to spell!
"WILL IT, OR WON'T IT?" — John Talent, TNT president, whose
rushed schedule leaves little time for random experimentation,
seems to be debating whether or not the contents of his test tube
will react when subjected to heat. (Photo by Charles Hamilton.)
Lessons, Job Crowd Time
Dog s Life Pays Off For Senior
BY CARMEN RAY
Hold a part time job and make
top grades? “It can’t be done,”
claim most scholars, but senior
John Talent has proven other-
wise.
A TWO-YEAR member of Na-
tional Honor Society, John works
approximately 28 hours a week
in a local restaurant; therefore,
study time for his difficult sub-
jects is hard won.
John hits the books before
school, during lunch, and in
homeroom periods. In addition,
he often spends sack time hitting
the books rather than the pillow.
HAVING fun while absorbing
knowledge, John enjoys supple-
menting his scanty first - year
French by putting together words
to form some phrases not found
in the text book, and, John ad-
mits, perhaps not found anywhere
in the language.
Determined not to neglect the
“social” side of his schedule, the
serious senior is president of the
chemistry club and a three-year
member of Gens Togata.
The harvest of honors that
John has reaped through this in-
dustrious application of his time
include election to sophomore
Who’s Who; membership in hon-
or plane geometry, chemistry, al-
gebra, and American history
classes; attendance at the Sum-
mer Science Reasearch Program
at Texas A & M; and an honor-
able mention in the National
Merit Scholarship testing pro-
gram.
HOW DOES John manage to
incorporate his multidinous activ-
ities into 24 hours’ time?
“It’s simple,” retorts John, “I
work like a dog.”
Teen Talk
Common Sayings/ Grammar Errors Prove Irksome
BY NORMA TODD
No longer is the cry “There’s
nothing to do in this town” valid.
Lubbock now boasts Maxey
Community Center — a youth
center that offers entertainment
and fun to fit the tastes of even
the most particular individual.
THOUGH special activities are
not planned on weekdays during
the school term, the center, lo-
cated at 30th Street and Nashville
Avenue, is open from 4 p.m. to
7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Shuffleboard, ping pong, pool,
cards, chess, and various other
table games are availble for the
city’s youth.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor----Carolene English
Managing Editor____Carmen Ray
Associate Editor _ Cecil Green
News Editor____Gail Smith
Sports, Co-Editors__Jim Kinney
Mike Malley
Sports Writer_____Bobby Miller
Club Editor-----Velvia Bishop
Exchange Editor___Jim Faulks
Special Reporters _ Marette Conn
Kathy Auxer
Donna Damron.
Norma Todd
Photographers _ Michal Ramsey
Charles Hamilton
Marvin Crossnoe
Mack Williams
BUSINESS STAFF
Advertising Mgr. _ Janetta Newton
Asst. Ad Mgr.__Bob Mathis
Salesmen______Sylvia Hobbs
Pat Donley, Mike Gross,
Patty Kelly, Roger Maginnis
Bookkeepers _ Barbara Townsley.
Jimmy Tillinghast
Circulation Manager _!- Fred Cowart
Asst. Circ. Mgr.--Janet Morrison
Typists___Pat Anderson.
Karen Wilson
Francis Lancaster
. Mrs. Nancy Kaisner
BY CAROLENE ENGLISH
FRIDAY evening is junior high
night, while Saturday is reserved
for senior high students, accord-
ing to Mr. Charles Black, director.
On these nights from 7:30 to
10:30 p.m. students, using their
own nickels, may warm up the
juke box and dance. For the more
reticent visitors, game facilities
are available.
Once monthly a live band pro-
vides the dance music for a come-
and-go dance.
SPECIAL activities for teen-
agers will also be offered during
the summer months, Mr. Black
reports.
City teenagers have been ask-
ing for a center just as this for
many years. Now that the city
has provided such a place for us,
let’s take advantage of it.
LIKE JUNE, good ideas and
practices are “bustin’ out all
over” at James Whitcomb Riley
High School, South Bend, Ind.
A potato chip sale, two free tran-
scripts to seniors, and “B” team
cheereladers are some of their
ideas as recorded by the Hi
Times.
Y-Teens of the eastern school
are now sponsoring a potato chip
sale during which club members
are taking orders at 25 cents per
bag during lunch periods. A city-
wide money-making project, the
Question: What grammatical
error have you made that's es-
pecially embarrassing, or is there
any saying that you particularly
dislike?
Mary Howard, sophomore: Ev-
eryone says something that an-
n o y s others,
- but one thing
[: that really irks
" me is a person
who says “hon-
illr'^lS ey” or “love”
iBI; W,.; • ; in every sen-
<iCT< tence, regard-
they are talk-
i \ *1 1 ing to. Some-
times it’s ter-
ribly funny when such a person
calls a teacher “honey” and their
mother “love”. Some may think
it’s clever, but I don’t like to hear
these expressions.
potato chip sale is sponsored by
the YWCA.
SENIORS in the school are fur-
nished two transcripts free. For
every extra transcript, the cost
is 50 cents. LHS seniors are sup-
plied with only one free tran-
script and are charged for each
additional copy.
A complete squad of sophomore
cheerleaders is elected each year
to serve for the B-team. Thus
both untried athletic teams and
cheerleaders gain experience to-
gether before moving up to var-
sity games.
Julela White, senior: Hearing
an older person say “What are
these teenagers
r •: • coming to?
Now when I
was young . .
• ■ ” irks me.
These people
| don’t stop to
\ remember that
today’s teens
adopted m o -
dern entertain-
ment to take
the place of the things ‘grandma’
used to do. They should realize
that times really have changed
as far as customs are concerned.
Danny T o n r o y, sophomore:
There is some-
; thing I said
just the other
day which was
: III 1| j a little embar-
* rassing. I was
J > ! talking to some
|P of m y friends
I i during lunch
i and instead
i fplf , of saying
“thought” I
said “thunk.” I thought that was
a pretty bad error.
Robert Elms, junior: As a teen-
ager, I am ir-
■ -, • ritated most by
ffffc- ~~ 3 marks made by
J§||p^’ *'■ older people
when discuss-
agers are i n -
Jllfe volved i n
many acci-
dents, but so are even more
adults. All teenagers should strive
to improve our bad driving rep-
utation.
Gloria Timberlake, junior: Ev-
ery educated
American
should know
how to use the
Tpl jr shows ignor-
1 ance more than
a disgusting
f\ '\ j g r a m m ati-
! cal error. No
particular ex-
• pression. bothers me, but the but-
chered language of simple con-
versation and the monstrosity of
slang in everyday use, does.
Larry Glazner, senior: What
really gets me is for someone to
flunk a test
H that h e didn’t
The next time
4^ v ; another t e st
comes around,
lllk _ iliilil *00 and use the
ifpll m same excuse. I
don’t bother to
make excuses myself — I just
say, “another day, another ‘F’,”
and try to pass the next exam.
*f¥e t^ead /46ead, ,
In preparation for reading the
famous novel "Silas Marner,"
Mrs. Laverne Hancock was dis-
cussing reading techniques with
her second period sophomore
English class.
"We'll now go down to the au-
ditorium to see the film 'How to
Read a Novel'," informed the in-
structor. "Have any of you seen
it before?" she asked.
"No," quickly piped Tommy
Hester, "but I've zead the book."
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