The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, March 25, 1949 Page: 2 of 4
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THE WESTERNER WORLD
Friday, March 25, 1949
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BY DONNA and SHIRLEY
West of the Pecos, Judge Roy Bean
regerlates law ’n order, and there ain’t
no law which says a guy’s gotta speak
Harvard style or that a guy can’t
speak with a southern dialick. But if
there was sech a law, I don’t reckon
there’d be much enforcin’ cause a
Texan only knows one way to talk and
that’s the way he’s gonna talk.
You know, a Texan can always be
detected cause of his spectacular
strength. He never takes a person any-
whar; he “carries” ’im. I was readin
in the paper the other day where a
woman’s corpse was carried back to
her birthplace in Missouri. I’m sure it
was an error of the paper’s leavin’ out
the person’s name who carried her.
A Texan’s passport in this country
is his drawled out “you all-1-1.” I’ve
heard that thoroughbred Texans are
born drawling “you all-1” instead of
crying like American babes.
Thar’s one odd expression that is
most common among Texan “dames.”
They never intend to worry a person,
nor do they ever intend to wor’t them.
Dear Students and members of the
Faculty, I am very disturbed by the
situation that has been going on be-
hind my back for quite some time. It
seems that there have been no acci-
dents in or near Lubbock Senior high
school lately. We must put a stop to
this immediately. I have given this
provoking situation much thought and
have finally hit upon a marvelous idea.
You have all heard of Fire Prevention
week, United Brotherhood week, clean
up week and the numerous other
propaganda devices that have been
trying to sabotage my work? Well, my
idea is: Let’s have a SAFETY PRE-
VENTION week. Here are a few sug-
gestions for this fiendish project,, con-
centrating on misbehavior in the halls.
1. This first project takes careless-
ness in order to get the most fun and
danger out of it. Why not accidentally
slam a locker door on your neighbor’s
hand? Or, better still, leave it open so
that the person with the locker under
yours may bump his head.
Why, it were just yesterday when the
next-door neighbor caught Sue clean-
ing house; everything was in the mid-
dle of the floor. “I’m sorry to wor’t ya,”
she said, “but our gas is shut off, and
I’m slowly dyin for the want of a cup
of coffee.”
You’re always hearin of Texans
makin scenes on Fifth Avenue. Well,
last winter one of my friends went to
New York and carried Texas right
along with him. As he was walkin
along down Fifth Avenue, a police car
whizzed by with its siren on full blast.
Clyde yelled, “Thar goes the posse.”
The New Yorkers laughed at my
friend, and one “Damnyankee” even
asked him if he was a Texan. Clyde’s
chest swolled as he answered, “I shore
am.”
Yes, siree! Texas is one contry which
really has a freedom of speech. These
here schools scattered around are try-
ing to teach the younger generation to
speak “English” (some new-fangled in-
vention, I reckon), but as far as ah’m
concerned, I’ll just stick to my Texas
dialick.
2. Another sure fire way to get safety
prevention week well under way is to
slide down the bannisters, preferably
on the wrong side of the stairs. This
also saves time even if you do knock
one or two people over on the way
down. Of course, if the teacher sees
you, she will give you five or ten de-
merits, but don’t you just love those
eighteen weeks tests anyway?
3. When at the water fountain re-
member to push and shove, after all
you’ve got to get to class on time, even
if you push Sally’s face into the foun-i
tain. Oh, well, Sally’s teeth were buck
and she didn’t look too good with them
in her mouth anyway. (Though they
could have been used for biting pur-
poses, such as, when the teacher gave
too much home work—oh well.)
Remember, do your part this week
and I’ll be back next week^with some
hindering hints for you to practice, not
just during “Safety Prevention week”
but every week.
Thanks for your thoughtlessness,
signed: I. M. Careless
Howdy, pardner! We hope we find
you-all alookin’ and afeelin’ fine for
the Westerner Round-up next week.
Have you-all got all your stuff rounded
up for the event?
Well, here we go on some items we
have gathered up just for you.
* * *
New steadies are Zee Scruggs and
Billy Freeman, Harriet Henderson and
Bryan English. Pat Flynn and Bob
Brown have been dating very fre-
quently. Richard McCullom and “Pat
Bolinger had a coke date last Friday
night. Parker Stuart came home Fri-
day night; and Ross Mitchell came
home Saturday afternoon from S.M.U.,
and he will return Tuesday.
* * *
Congratulations to John Pinson, ex-
Westerner, who was awarded a high
honor March 5 at the 23rd annual
Engineers’ banquet at Tech. He was
presented the Tau Beta Pi award for
the highest grade point average made
by a freshman.
* * *
Seen together Sunday night were
Lotta Dagley and Eddie Goetze.
* * *
Marjorie Smith spent the week-end
visiting her sister at O.U. in Norman,
Oklahoma. “You’d ought to see all
those darling boys up there,” Marjorie
emphasized about her trip. Another
Westerner who was out of town visit-
ing over the week-end was Betty . King,
who visited one of her good friends in
Odessa.
Who Will Win The
Boy-Girl Crusade
For Sport Shirts?
Some boys who are fortunate (?)
enough to have sisters are to the point
of crusading for a lost cause—the
chance to wear their own clothes.
It seems that girls prefer to wear
their big brothers’ sport shirts and
about anything else they can lay hands
on. Only in one instance has it been
found to backfire, and that was when
Jerry Smith borrowed his sister, Cor-
rine’s, shirt. Even then the fellow got
the worst end of the deal, for he
ruined it and had to buy her a new
one.
When it was explained to Nancy
Braselton what she was being inter-
viewed about, Nancy asked what the
paper’s platform was. Upon being told
that it was democracy, sportsmanship,
and progress, Nancy pointed out that
if her remarks were published, the
paper wouldn’t be upholding its stan-
dards, but retarding progress. Accord-
ing to Nancy, Bob solves the problem
of her wearing his shirts by wearing
his Dad’s.
Sometimes girls put themselves in
embarrassing situations by “snitching”
their brother’s clothes. To prove this,
Faye Pruitt told of an incident when
her brother, Harvey, came to her dur-
ing church and demanded his shirt,
which she was wearing.
Joyce Worrell said that the biggest
gripe her brother, George, has against
her wearing his shirts is that he never
can wear them any place where people
haven’t already seen them.
Marshall Pharr thinks he has the
worst situation yet. Since his sister is
married, she not only wears them, but
Speaking of Odessa, congratulations
to J. C. Chambers for winning presi-
dent of the conference. There were a
couple of incidents that happened
there that we think you would get a
kick out of.
Charles Whitfield had a little mis-
fortune. He had a date with Tommy, a
cute girl from Pampa. During a dance
she left him. In a moment, however,
she returned with news that her steady
boy-friend had just arrived, and she
must discontinue her date.
♦ * *
Delegates from Lubbock who had
dates last Saturday night at the Hi-Y
convention were Rossi Stiles and
Frank Poynor, Mary Duggan and Da-
vid Bullen, Joan Bolinger and Jack
King, Nancy Davis and Don Hancock,
and Sammy Dunn, who had a date
with Truett Fields from Amarillo.
* * *
We hear that a very shocking thing
happened in Mr. W. C. Watts’s applied
science class. It seems that he put a
current through the class as they were
studying electricity. How revolting!
* * *
Well, if we knew anything else that
we thought you would like to know,
we would put it in the column; but
since the mailbox was empty, we just
don’t have anything else to say, so
goodbye, pardner. Have a good time at
the Westerner Round-up and beware
of what you will find in the Westerner
World next week.
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By Bobbie June Mitchell
Out of the west come tales of old
Of cowboys and rustlers and heroes
bold.
They come on winds and breezes high
Telling wonderful things to you and I.
Out of the west come breezes sighing
Like a coyote in the brilliant night
crying.
Also come strange tales of towns
That rise and fall in ghostly mounds.
Out of the west come old traditions
Like ten-gallon hats and gunts of “con-
dition.”
However brave and bold the west
It seems none alive really know the
best.
Yet will the old west live on and on
Till time and memory are forever gone.
Till never again will a gentle wind
come
Out of the West.
March 14—R. C. Gunn.
March 22—Betty Lou Lancaster.
March 27—Gwen Wiley; Elouida
Thomas.
Many happy returns to these four,
and happy birthday to all of you born
in March.
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shall groaned, “There is positively no
solution, or I would have already
found it.”
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By JACK McCABE
We had a short holiday last week
but this week with all its cram and
exam has more than made up for it.
The seniors are looking forward to
the next nine-weeks and all of them
will be struggling to be exempt from
those last tests. The seniors who work
and keep up their “B” average will be
glad they did when they get out of that
last week of school.
Here’s hoping that most of them
make it.
•
From the University of Missouri in
Columbia comes the news that Jim
Sawyer, former Lubbock resident, was
presented two silver loving cups at a
recent membership initiation service
held by Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
He is the only pledge in the history
of the fraternity to receive this honor.
The loving cups were presented to him
because he was selected as being the
most outstanding pledge of the year,
and also made the highest scholastic
average of the year in the fraternity.
•
As we were looking through The
Little Harvester of Pampa High School
we found two interesting articles. The
first was about the perfume industry.
Since the perfume industry is coming
out with new scents such as hay,
lemon and ham, some imaginative
writer has thought of some ways in
which the perfumes could be used in
the school.
To soften the extreme shock that
follows the receiving of a worse than
ordinary report card a considerate
teacher could write the grades in ink
tempered by “Enchantment” perfume.
One whiff and the grades fade into
the distance, leaving only a feeling of
well-being. Hmmmmmm.
To promote good will between the
students and the teacher the teacher
could douse herself in “Adorable” or
“Love Me.” This might prove a bit
dangerous because of the irresistible
aura the perfume casts about the
wearer; she might find herself fighting
off amorous students. The only way
out of that diffiflculty would be to de-
velop a large set of muscles.
•
The other article gave us an idea for
assemblies in the school.
The clubs in Pampa hold their initia-
tions in assembly. This tends to better
acquaint the students with the clubs
and encourages better membership in
the clubs. If something like this was
done in LHS it would relieve the mo-
notony of some of the assemblies and
invite a little contrast as well as new
members for clubs.
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STAFF
Managing editor ............ Jack McCabe
Associate Editors .........Joy Pharr and
Shirley Johnson
Feature editors ................ Donna Wool-
man and Jean Hogan
Sports editor .................... Don Hancock
Adviser ....................... Mrs. Dick Cozby
Business manager............Joy Randolph
Advertising manager—
Johnnie Sue Corcorran
Advertising salesmen—
Anne Alexander, Elaine Pollard,
George Sewell, Tommy Sowell
Special reporters—
Dolores Ketchersid, Hubert Waddill
Milton West, Marilyn Williamson.
Cub reporters—
Pat Bolinger, Nancy Braselton
Marci Rogers, Bassel Wolfe, Connie
Wood, Petty Power, Nell Peel
Nona Martin, Carolyn Honea'
Jeanice Spence, Audrey Mahle
Milton West, Marilyn Williamson
Alene Mitchell, Mary Frances
Forkner, Elouida Thomas, Martha
Gillispie
Photographers—
Tyler Curtis and Whitney Victory
Cartoonists—
Bassel Wolfe and Bruce Hamilton
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