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The Lampasas Daily Leader
J. H. ABNEY & SON
Herbert J. Abney, Publisher
Entered at the postoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Leader is authorized to make
the following political announcements,
subject to the primary election in
July:
For Sheriff, As/sr. & Tax Collector:
A. R. HARVEY (re-election)
JNO. B. DAVIS..
FRED MASON.
R. E. (Bob) POOLE
J. B. (Barney) PRESTON.
For County Judge:
J. J. MONTGOMERY.
J. C. ABNEY.
For District Attorney:
JIM K. EVETTS, of Belton.
For County Treasurer:
DAVE BERRY
For Commissioner, Precinct No. 1:
HOSEA BAILEY (re-election). _
For Public Weigher in Lampasas:
R. E. (Bob) LANDRLM.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Lampasas Daily Leader is au-
thorized to make the following an-
nouncements for office in the City
of Lampasas. The election to be held
in April:
For City Marshal:
J. P. (Press) FIELD.
W. S. (Uncle Billy) DILLINGHAM.
r. w. McCauley
OMAR (Jack) O’HAIR.
JOHN W. ALEXANDER.
T. S. ROMANS.
P. J. BLACKBURN.
W. O. (Dutch) TOWNSEN.
J. F. GRIGGS.
OKLAHOMA RELIEF TAKEN
OVER UNDER FED. DIRECTION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—The
Federal government took over relief
administration in Oklahoma Friday
and at the same time announced that
$5,000,000 would be spent to buy grain
and live stock for farmers in drouth
areas of the west.
Harry L. Hopkins, emergency re-
lief administrator and civil works ad-
ministrator, announced that Carl Giles
has been named relief administrator
in Oklahoma to act as his direct
agents and that Governor Murray
had been relieved of all responsibility.
Murray late Wednesday announced
that he would refuse to have anything
more to do with the Federal relief
administration and that he was dis-
missing all of his county social ser-
vice workers.
The, grain 'yo S>e purchased for
farmers in drouth areas will be
bought in the individual states by the
relief administrations. Hopkins said
that some time . Friday allotments
would be made to the relief admin-
istrations of North Dakota, South Da-
kota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas,
Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and oth-
er states having drouth stricken areas.
Glenn Terry, John Rownti’ee, Ros-
coe Bolding and Harry Moses attend-
ed the T. C. U.-Texas basketball
game in Austin Friday night.
Six Weeks
Exams Near
lht
Jhmpasasnigh School
Watch For
Honor Roll
VOLUME 8
Edited by Pupils of Lampasas High School
NUMBER 23
BADGER STAFF
Go-editors..................Mary F. Casbeer
and Lurline Creekmore.
Sports Writers............:.......Ellis Bullion
and Orville Rush.
Columnist....................Kathryn Harkey
Joke Reporter............Ellen May Bailey
H. E. Reporter......Mary E. Taliaferro
Senior Class Reptr..;..Christine Davis
Junior Class Repr.—Mary K. Walker
Sophmore, Sec. A............Betty Young
Soph. Section B............Vivian Dickens
Freshman Reporter..........Jordan Wolf
Reporters—Betty McCrea, Eugene
Coffey, Maurine Greeson, Gweneth
Parsons, Bob Yarbrough, Marvin
Dickason, Katherine Matthews.
TEACHERS WILL ATTEND MID-
TEXAS EDUCATIONAL AS’SN.
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CHOOlv
jpE^Ess Association!
The grammar school teachers will
attend the Mid-Texas Educational
Association on March 2 and 3, which
will meet in Coleman, Texas. Supt.
Charles Wachendorfer is first vice-
president of the association and he
will also attend the meeting.
The principal speakers will be:
Hon. L. A. Woods, State Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction; Dr. Brad-
ford Knapp, president Texas Tech-
nological College; J. O. Loftin, presi-
dent State Teachers Association; and
Dr. H. F. Alves, State Department
of Education.
CLIFTON COWAN RECEIVES JUNIORS SET DATE FOR MEMBER OF FIRST GRADUATION
GOLD BASKETBALL JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET CLASS SPEAKS TO STUDENTS
CHATTERBOX
The items appearing under this
heading are written and furnished
The Leader by pupils of the Lam-
pasas High School, and the paper is
in no way responsible for these news
items. --
_________You remember the basketball tour-
nament we had here lately, don’t you?
UNCOVERED FACTS Anyway, I attended it. When Lam-
pasas was playing Moline, I heard
Twenty-two teachers are employed Katherine G. say it was a tight game,
in high school and grammar school.! Well, dear me, anybody would know-
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Supt. Charles Wachendorfer and Prin-
cipal John Rowntree have each taught
here six years. Tom Romans is the
youngest student in high school. Fif-
ty freshmen are enrolled. “Garden
of Opportunity” is the name of the
picture on the front wall of the study
hall.
Orville Rush is the president of
the “L” club. Forty-three of this
year’s high .school students attended
rural schools last year. Willis Moses
and Kenneth Brown graduated from
grammar school with the highest and
same average. The grammar school
building was built in 1895.
Doris Smart is president of the H.
E. club. No post graduate attended
school this year. Four sets of ref-
erence books are in the library for
the student’s use. Christine Davis
made 100 in the county spelling match
for L. H. S. last year. Three news-
papers are received daily in the li-
brary.
Mr. W. R. Park directs the spell-
ing try-outs in high school. Approx-
imately 3600 volumes are in the high
school library besides the anthologies.
Twenty-one people are working at
school under the CWA. Miss Helen
Northington * directs the Glee Club.
Three large clocks • are found in the
school. Miss Lucile Lemberg has at-
tended three universities.
There is no cornerstone on the
high school building. Auby Brown
and Lavaughri Perry are both presi-
dents of the Sophomore class. There
are 200 lockers for student’s use in
high school. Mr. Moore is head coach
of Physical Training for the high
school students.
MARY FRANCES
CASBEER ENTERTAINS
WITH BRIDGE PARTY
Mary Frances Casbeer entertain-
ed with a bridge party at her home
on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 17, 1934.
Decorations, tallies and refreshments
were carried out in the George Wash-
ington motif. High score was won
i>y Annette Roberts and low score
prize was presented to Katherine
Gartman.
Maurine Greeson, Mary K. Walker,
Annette Roberts, Thais Higgins, Mar-
garet Wooten, Vivian Dickens, Chris-
tine Davis, Ellen May Bailey, Kath-
eriile Gartman, Gweneth Parsons and
Kathryn Harkey were the guests
present.
it was a tight game, because they
were even wearing tights.
Oh, there is so much cruelty in
school now. It’s so dangerous to go
to school. Why, even Mr. J. C. Ab-
ney, who talked to the commercial
law students last week, is cruel. Let
me tell you what he said. (This is a
secret, of course). He stood in front
of the class and opened the book and
said, “During this hour today, I am
going to try to hit the high points
in this commercial law class.” Isn’t
that too bad? I really felt sorry for
Orville Rush, you know, he is so
high. I was afraid to look around,
but I bet Orville surely did look
scared.
You know I heard Jessie Stand-
ard say something crazy the other
day. I’m still puzzled about it, may-
be you could help me. She said she
was just like stair-steps, that she
was treated like a step-child at school.
Everyone’s so mean to her, and she
just sat around and stared all the
time. Isn’t that too awful ? Oh,
dear me, poor Jessie. I feel so sorry
for her. I hadn’t noticed, however,
that she was so crooked before. I
hadn’t noticed her looking like some
stair-steps. I guess, she, knows her-
self better than I do though.
Oh, dear me, there’s moj'e cruelty
going on up here. I heard Nova
Delle talking the other day. She
looked very angry and she said she
was going to kill two birds with one
stone. Isn’t that too awful ? Such
cruelty, dear, dear. I wonder if .those
two birds are going to be Don Fitch
and Jack Smithwick? Maybe she
thinks it will l^e a good riddance—
whatever that means.
I’ve often wondered what Geoi’ge
Gartman plans to be when he grows
up, and now, I guess I know. He’s
going to be a batter for a baseball
team. At least that is what he was
practicing. One day he was swing-
ing a notebook around and nearly
knocked Ellen May down. Isn’t that
awful? I may have been wrong,
however, about the baseball, maybe
he’s ujst trying the ‘ole “cave man”
stuff on the girls.
FOUR STUDENTS
ENTER DEBATING
SPANISH II STUDENTS INVENT
NEW FORM OF PUNCTUATION
Spanish II students took their first
Spanish dictation lesson Tuesday. Mr.
Park dictated, giving the Spjanish
translations for punctuation marks.
Some of the students wrote these
names, instead of putting the mark.
When Mr. Park said, “Lk primera
frase es—”, some thought they were
to write that too, whereas he was
only saying, “The first sentence is—.”
Four students will debate this year
in county meet. The boys are La-
mar Hocker and S. L. Cantwell and
the girls are Mary Frances Casbeer
and Kathryn Harkey.
The question for debate this year is:
Resolved That the United States
should adopt the essential features
of the British system of radio con-
trol and operation. Two bulletins
have been received from the State
Department of Education on this sub-
ject. With the aid of these bulletins
and their sponsor, Miss Lucile Lem-
berg, the debaters are now working
on their affirmative speeches.
Soon the debate teams will begin
practicing with other schools.
Clifton Cowan, senior, was present-
ed^ with a gold basketball Friday, as
the most valuable member of the bas-
ketball team. Mr. R. A. Blucher, pres-
ident of the local Lions Club, who
presented the medal, made a brief
talk.
A short playlet, “Pussy Cat, Pussy
Cat, Where Have You Been?” was
presented by six grammar school stu-
dents under the direction of Miss
Helen Northington.
MEMBERS OF BADGER
STAFF HUNT TREASURE
May I have your signature? Do
you have a picture of Bing Crosby?
Where can we get a cat? These were
some of the questions asked by the
guests on the Badger party, held
Friday night at Gweneth Parson’s.
This was a new type of party called
“Treasure Hunting”. A prize was
presented to Vivian Dickens, Annette
Roberts and Mary F. Casbeer for
finding the most treasure.
Refreshments were served to these
guests: Annette Roberts, Vivian
Dickens, Marie Yarbrough, Betty
Young, Betty McCrea, Mary F. Cas-
beer, Margaret Wooten, Mary Sue
Tietz, Roberta Hammond, Gweneth
Parsons, Orville Rush, Lewis Walker,
Bob Yarbrough, Lloyd Smith, James
Landrum, Eugene Dickens, T. J.
Childers, Mrs. Tom Bigham, Mrs.
Jehu Murrah of Marble Falls, and
Mrs. Tad Parsons.
The date and time for the junior-
senior banquet has been set for April
27, at 8 o’clock. The program has
not yet been planned.
Class colors, flower and motto were
selected by the juniors. Colors se-
lected were pink and green; flower,
sweet pea; the class motto, “Start in
to sing as you tackle the thing that
cannot be done and you’ll do it.”
WHAT? CAN YOU THINK?
THEY CAN
“Can you think?” and “Can I
think?” These were only a few of
the questions asked of the Home Eco-
nomics III girls Wednesday morning.
The girls were asked to judge their
thinking powers and to tell truth-
fully their weak points. Many of the
girls replied that it would be a very
easy matter because their powers of
thinking were very weak.
After judging themselves, each
judged the. other members of the
class, giving both their good and bad
points in thinking, and their way of
expressing their thoughts and opin-
ions.
Hon. Charles C. Ingram, who spoke
to high school students Tuesday af-
I ternoon, was a graduate of the class
| of 1895, first graduating class from
I this school. Mr. Ingram’s visit to
j Lampasas this week to address the
Chamber of Commerce banquet was
his first visit in 39 years.
His speech to the students was in
the form of advice to the young
Americans who are the future rulers
of the nation. Judge Ingram gave
his advice by a description of a battle
field in France, the rise and fall of
governments, and by telling interest-
ing stories.
Accordinog to the applause, Judge
Ingram’s talks were greatly enjoyed
by the student body and faculty.
Mr. Ingram was a Major in the
World War and since that time he
has lived in Wharton, where he is a
well known lawyer.
SENIOR CLASS PLAY TO
BE GIVEN MAY 11
CONFETTI THROWERS TURN
FLOOR SWEEPERS
TEXAS IS 98 YEARS OLD MARCH 2
On March 2, 98 years ago, 59 dele-
gates assembled at Washington on
the Brazos and drew up the Declara-
tion of lnde'pendence, declaring Tex-
as free and independent of the Re-
public of Mexico.
Mexico resented the fact that the
Texans had declared themselves in-
dependent and struck back at Texas.
After a series of battles, the brave
Texans subdued the Mexicans at the
historical battle of San Jacinto.
In 1845, Texas became annexed to
the Union, and remained one of the
United States until the Civil War,
when she joinedrthe Confederacy. Af-
ter the war Texas was readmitted
to the Union with the other Confed-
erate states. Immigrants began to
pour into Texas, schools were estab-
lished; railways built; and before
many years Texas took her place
among the leading states of the
Union.
Texas has a unique history and has
been under six flags. She has her
heroes, among them are the heroes
of the Alamo, Bowie, Travis and
Crockett and many other valiant
Texans who fought bravely to save
Texas from the tyranical rule of
Mexico. As Will Rogers once said,
“Texas has about everything.”
The annual senior play will be pre-
sented Friday night, May 11 in the
high school auditorium. The "cast of
characters and the title of the play
. have not as yet been chosen, accord-
! ing to Miss Lucile Lemberg, class
sponsor.
j It is believed that this year’s class
will present a good play. Every sen-
ior looks forward to" the play and
tries to make it a success.
Confetti is a well known sign of
gaiety, used mostly at parties, but
has been recently used at^ school by
two well known students. These boys
have found that throwing confetti is
. much easier than cleaning it off the
! floor. They went through the halls
with brooms, cleaning up the scat-
' tered paper.
Cluttered up halls are not a very
1 pleasing sight in a public school and
the majority of the students will co-
| operate with the teachers in main-
! taining cleanliness.
FRESHMEN HEAR BALLADS
The freshman class had their ninth
meeting in Mr. L. R. Carothers’ room
Wednesday, Feb. 21. A musical pro-
gram of electrictl recordings of bal-
lads were heard instead of the reg-
ular program. Nolan Word and Mar-
vin Hart furnished a loud speaker
for a portable brought by Mary Sue
Tietz.
ROOSTER TURNS TO CAT IN
PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASS
DID YOU KNOW?
That the right side of the gram-
mar school yard is being graveled by
several of the CWA workers who are
employed by the school?
That the dramatic club will not
present' a large play this year as
they did last year?
That 13 L. H. S. students won
events in the county meet last year?
They were: Nadine Jones, extempo-
raneous speaking; Billy Bean, girls’
declamation; Leland Priest, boys’ dec-
lamation; Mary F. Casbeer and An-
nette R., girls’ debates; James R.
Key and Allen Hill, boys’ debates;
Earl L. and John H., tennis; Margaret
Wooten and Kathryn Gartman, ten-
nis; Lyda Bird/ tennis singles; and
Jewell D. McCrea, essay writing.
That the date and the time for the
junior and senior banquet has been
set for April 27 at 8 o’clock?
COLD WEATHER AGAIN
Blue Monday! Last Monday every-
one waked up to face another cold
week and the radiator is again the
center of attraction.
It’s funny how everyone wants to
keep the radiator warm. Last week
the girls were wearing light dres-
ses, and some of the boys had for-
gotten they had coats. Monday,
Gweneth P. wore two or three coats
and a sweater. Orville R. has near-
ly distracted the teachers by prop-
ping his long legs on the radiator,
or on a chair near by. Red noses
and pink ears are the latest out.
Strange as it seems a rooster flap-
ped his wings and “meowed” like a
cat Tuesday in public speaking class.
A well known junior was the imi-
tator who made this peculiar change
from a barnyard fowl to a domestic
animal.
Class members were presenting imi-
tations of fowls and animals when this
occurred. The most popular animal
with the boys was the donkey, al-
though T. J. Childers gave a convinc-
ing “Baa,” Charles Gillen made a very
amusing cat, and Vonceil Greeson pro-
duced a typical “Quack, quack.”
The girls in the class seemed to
like the cat and rooster best, but
Ruth Wolfe’s and Betty Young’s
“cock-a-doodle doos” were undecided
crows.
The students retained their natural
appearances, but made the auditorium
a regular barnyard with their “cock-
a-doodle-doos,” ' “meows,” “he-haws,”
“baas” and “quack quacks.”
FOUR GIRLS ENTER FOR
TENNIS IN COUNTY MEET
Try-outs in tennis to decide the
girls to play in the county meet on
March 23 and 24 will be held soon.
No girls have entered for tennis sin-
gles as yet.
Mary Kathryn Walker, Annette
Roberts, Mai-garet Wooten and Katfi-
ryn Gartman will be in the try-outs
for girls’ doubles and they have been
practicing faithfully each day for
their try-outs.
Two of these girls, Katherine Gart-
man and Margaret Wooten, received
honors in tennis in the county meet
last year.
SENIOR DAY SET FOR MARCH 30
Since April 1, traditional senior
day, falls on Sunday ‘this year, sen-
iors have chosen Friday, March 30,
for their annual picnic. Members of
the menu committee have announced
that the traditional barbecue, potato
salad, pickles, bread, onions, iced tea
and ice cream will be present.
Formerly, senior day came on
Washington’s birthday. The senior
class of ’26 inaugurated the custom
by skipping classes that day and go-
ing to double iron bridges for a pic-
nic. When the class graduated, it
willed Washington’s birthday as sen-
ior day to senior classes of the fu-
ture. In 1927 a member of the sen-
ior class died on Washington’s birth- }
day, and senior day was changed to
April Fool’s day.
PRINCIPAL GIVES HOLIDAY
TO COMMEMORATE WASHINGTON
First in war, first in peace and
first in the hearts of the high school
students was George Washington,
Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock. The
entire student body was given the
last hour as a holiday in commemo-
ration of Washington’s two hundred
and second birthday. The students
expressed their appreciation to Prin-
cipal Rowntree by their applause
when he made the announcement in
study hall.
‘L” CLUB FLOURISH BELTS
H. E. BOYS STUDYING
ARCHITECTURE
The H. E. class for boys is study-
ing domestic architecture. The ex-
terior of the home, kinds of homes and
material of which they are made are
topics which they have discussed.
Tuesday morning, the boys began the
study of the interior of the home and
furnishings.
The “L” club, escorted two fright-
ened boys to the old Mesquite initia-
tion tree, Tuesday morning to re-
ceive their initiations as full-fledged
members of the club. Maurice Feild,
captain of the basketball team for
’35, and Buster Smith survived the
ordeal.
After initiation, several boys were
made to run through the beltline for
breaking the constitution of the club.
SENIORS TO HOLD ANNUAL
POPULARITY CONTEST
Candidates for the popularity con-
test, which is sponsored by the sen-
ior class each year, are to be chosen
by the different classes at their next
class meeting. Each class will se-
lect nominees to fill these places, most
attractive girl and most attractive
boy, most popular girl and most pop-
ular boy, and the best “all around”
girl and boy.
H. E. GIRLS SERVED
AT C. C. BANQUET
Home Economics girls assisted in
serving the Chamber of Commerce
banquet which was given last Tues-
day evening. It was estimated that
375 guests were present.
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