The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 19, 1951 Page: 2 of 4
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THE WESTERNER WORLD
Friday, January 19, 1951
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by Ruth Breazeale
Notwithstanding dead week, we find
ourselves in a very optimistic frame of
mind as we write this. We were glad
that our Student council opened its
last session with prayer.
Proposed Amendment
In fact, this week’s meeting was very
eventful. By this time, everyone in
L.H.S. should now know that Iris
Brunson proposed an amendment to
the constitution. The suggested amend-
ment means, in effect, that we elect
next year’s student body officers be-
fore March 9 this year, in order that
they may attend an important confer-
ence and gain some experience before
they take over next year. Terry Young
says he attended approximately two
meetings before he began to preside.
Express Opinions Now!
We have no theories to expound on
the subject, but we would remind you
of the “gripe insurance” policy avail-
able to every student in this school.
If you have done nothing toward in-
fluencing opinion before the vote is
taken, you have no room to gripe after
the ballots are counted. Decide what
you want and tell your representative.
Lowrey Speaks
We, along with the other members of
the Quill and Scroll, greatly enjoyed
the information brought to us Monday
by Mr. E. J. Lowrey. Mr. Lowrey says
he knows many peope who say,, “The
younger generation is going to the dogs.
The boys are all so reckless, running
around in cars endangering lives, and
the girls all paint thir faces and chase
the boys. They certainly don’t stay
home and help their mothers like they
did in my day.”
Words Of Encouragement
He then pointed out that a letter,
written approximately 1800 years ago,
was recently found in Rome. A liber-
a^panslation of said letter reads in
“"pa^, “The young people today are not
like they were when we were young.
All the young men dash through the
streets in their chariots, endangering
lives, while the girls are no longer con-
tent to stay home and help their moth-
ers as they should. They all want to
paint their faces and go with the boys.”
We found it to be a comforting thought.
Use The Tool
We have been hearing a good deal
of “safety” talk these days. Melvin
Deardorff, especially, has been promot-
ing this idea, “L.H.S. is surrounded
with potential danger zones. Why not
prevent accidents before they happen?”
We read somewhere that safety has
many tools, but thinking is the handle
that fits them all . . . THINK it over.
By Pat Harkleroad
Well, report card time is here
again, but don’t feel too bad.
Remember—
“No matter if the A’s you get
Are inr and very few,
Remember that the mighty oak
Was once a nut like you!”
* * *
Students at Austin High school
in the “capitol city” have a point
system. This system limits the
number of extra-curricular activi-
ties a person may join, with each
person being entitled to seven
points. The object is to prevent
one student from carrying a
heavy load and to spread leader-
ship duties around. It might
make for the sharing of honors,
too.
* * *
Girls, according to BAZAAR
and THE TOREADOR the “best
dressed person” will be wearing
a new fashion color this spring
called Sunset Pink.
* * *
Guess what has been invented
now? No, not a button to press
the button, but an automatic
typewriter, and Tech is the first
college in Texas to be the proud
possessor. All you have to do is
type the first copy, stuff the ma-
chine full of carbon paper, press
a button, and it will type as many
copies as you want at ninety
words a minute.
2bead Week'* Stone.
Skate On A Slate?
No, Keep It Clean
Hey, Joe, wait a minute. I have some news, and it’s good news too, the kind
that is almost too good to be true. We have a clean record, no more absences, no
more demerits. We have been given a clean plate; I mean a clean skate,, oh skip
it, let’s celebrate.”
That friend of Joe’s seems pretty excited about something. It sounded like
he had just received a pardon, but the way he was talking about records and
plates and skates, he might be planning some type of party. He also mentioned
good news, but the only good news around here is that school is half over.
Bet we know what that fellow was excited about. When the second semester
opens, everyone, is starting out anew and can profit from their past mistakes, if
they want to improve their record. The puzzle is'fitting in place now; that “clear
record” must be what we have now, and we are to try and keep it spotless from
absences, demerits, and poor grades.
“A clear plate” and “clean skate” must have been slips of the lips caused by
his enthusiasm, when it should have been, “We have a clean slate.” Let’s turn
over a new leaf and use it to our advantage.
Why Impulsively Lose The
Real Chance Of A Lifetime?
There is an alarming percentage of students in our school today who are sac-
rificing the greatest opportunity of their lives, for a mythical Utopia that has
been created by these troubled times.
It is normal for high school students, especially boys, to be tempted to give
up the so-called hum-drum of school life for the armed forces or some high-paying
job. With the daily newspapers screaming of the possibility of drafting eighteen-
year-olds, many boys are giving up the priceless opportunity of free education
and are enlisting in the army or navy, long before it is necessary. Others are
quitting’school to take new jobs created by the present situation.
These students fail to realize that a high school education will mean much
more to them in future years than anything the business or the armed forces
can possibly offer now. Business will survive and the army will hold together
for the next one or two years required for most of us to graduate. A high school
education will be your spring-board to any later livelihood, vocation, or adjust-
ment. 9
Our world is becoming more and more complex every day. In the future, a
high school education will be an essential in determining your ability to hold a
job or position in the business world. The opportunity for this essential is before
you now;, why give it up?
C^df.MaiU&x.
Boys Seek Advice, Dates
Nuisance Nelle Answers
Editor’s note: Every year about this time the following question seems to be
the thought of utmost importance to all males of L.H.S. We have referred this
letter to our staff genius, Nuisance Nelle.
Dear Editor,
Could you give us a few pointers on how to obtain dates for the
Y-Teen banquet? Even though it is three weeks off, we remember that
the early bird gets the worm.
Doubtfully yours,
All the Boys.
Dear Boys,
First, you acquire the essential tools of woman-catching, which are: a butter-
fly net, a lariat, one large bag of tricks, two bottles of chloroform (Mrs. Stud-
halter has plenty), a giant war club, and one gallon of “Knock-Me-Down French
perfume.”
Upon sighting your victim, stroll before her, scattering the sweet fragrance
of perfume after you.
If she fails to notice, set upon her with your war club and bottles of chloro-
form. Approach her sensitive organs of smell with the bottle of fluid, simultane-
ously inflicting blows with the club upon her cranium.
Bind her securely, tuck her into your bag of tricks, and on to the banquet.
* Happy landings,
Nuisance Nelle.
Today’s mystery picture includes the
hands of the four talented artists who
are working on the. 1951 annual. The
hands belong to three brown-haired
girls and one black-haired boy. Two
of the hard-working people are seniors
and two are juniors. As a final hint,
three of the names* rhyme with jam,
lane, and hill. Yes, the other one has a
name, but we couldn’t find a word that
it would rhyme with.
The first to correctly submit all four
namse in room 137 will receive two
free passes to the Circle Drive-In.
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“I have an idea!” exclaims good-natured Pat Patrick as he again prepares to
draw another cartoon for the Westerner World.
Pat, a senior, draws gag cartoons for both the annual and the paper.
Where does he get all those ideas? Well, for one thing, Pat has a five-year ^
collection of professional art work from which he studies to develop his style. ^
For another thing, he makes a habit of studying human nature so that his car-
toons will be typical of actual people or situations. r
“Gags on human nature are the best,” informs Pat, “because they have more
reader interest than other types of cartoons.”
When asked what he dislikes most about drawing for the paper, Pat laugh-
ingly remarked, “Deadlines! ”
Pat’s favorite method of developing a cartoon is to first think of a situation
and then try to make something funny out of it. Yes, it is rather hard at times,
but when you have finished the cartoon, you feel a real sense of achievement.
Pat, who plans to be a gag cartoonist, won first place in the Texas scholastic
art awards at,Fort Worth last year on a cartoon Christmas card and received a
gold pin. The same Christmas card won honorable mention at the Carnegie in-
stitute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Pat was awarded $10.
This summer Pat and Bruce Hamilton, who is another cartoonist for publica- A
tions, as well as Pat’s partner, plan to draw cartoons and try to sell them to '
magazines.
Dates, Doings,
It is our carefully considered opinion
that those black-and-gold clad West-
erners really looked sharp in their first
conference game of the season. We
also noticed that the “best-dressed
managers in the state of Texas” wore
coveralls, contrary to previous public-
ity appearing in last week’s WEST-
ERNER WORLD.
We have heard several people say
that one of the cutest couples to be
seen around L.H.S. these days is Dick
Cobb and Joanne Wheatley. Triple-
dating with them last Friday night
were Sandra Toombs and Dean White,
Kay Loflin and Mliton Beach. After
the game, they went to Sandra’s for
Canasta.
A more complete coverage of game-
daters follows: Marcia Schaefer and
Jerry Jackson, Marybeth Toles and
Neil Vaughn, Pat Phillips and Tommy
Raney, Dorene Dennis and Dayle Clark,
Bill Griggs and Roylene Wheeler,
Marilyn Young and Don Reed witness-
ed the Westerner victory together.
Seen at the Spare Rib after the game
were double-daters Marilyn Ewing and
Gerre Hancock, Norma Smith and
Terry Young.
Wanice Bounds and Gordon Gibson
are frequently together these days.
Carol Jean Ewing and Wayne Hackney
have also been recent daters.
Week-end daters were Bobbie Adams
and Donald Carson. A steady couple
is Mary McKinley and Benny Short.
Another engagement ring has made
its appearance in L.H.S. recently. It is
on the hand of La Juanda Hartman and
it came from Max Beevers.
The time for the “L” and Y-Teen
banquets is coming closer .... Every-
body is being SO “good”. This is prob-
ably the way Westerners reacted a doz-
en years ago when they told us “Santa
is coming.”
On that “February front”, we’ve
heard that some of the daters to the
Y-Teen banquet are to be Virginia Car-
ter and Donnie Dean, Julia Zeitz and
Charles Wright, and Arlene Julian and
Maurice Fawcett.
and Details
by Jackie Smith
Safety Si
usie
“There’s No Synthetic Substitute
for Safety!”
The Westerner World
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EDITORIAL
Editor
STAFF
.. Ruth Breazeale
A1 Alschuler,
News editors _________ ______
_ Shirley Cartwright
Sports editor------- Richard Hitt
Copy Editor --------------- Bruce Hamilton
Special reporters __ Shirley Chapman
Bill Gordon, Peggy Hay, Martha
Hobgood, Nancy McKissack, Jackie
Smith, Best West.
-ub reporters . ... ... Walter Jo Adams,
Sam Camp, Joan Clifford, Carol Col-
lins, Joan Duncan, George Guy,
Pat Harkleroad, Juenetta Hender-
son, Diane Honey, Corky Hudnall,
Bruce Martin, Claynelle Park, Pat
Patrick, Mary Jane Smith, Winona
Starr, Gailya Tonroy, Kay Lynn
Watson, Patricia Wester, Marge
Williams, Janet Yancy.
Photographers .......... John Franklin
James Grace, Carl Hart, Rex Ver-
million
Cartoonists_______:_________ Bruce Hamilton,
Bruce Martin, Pat Patrick
BUSINESS STAFF
Advertising Managers _ Maurice Fawcett
Sandy Moore
Advertising Salesmen Faye Pruitt,
Joyce Walker, Maurice Fawcett,
Sandy Moore
Circulation Manager......... Nelson Evans
Assistant__ .. Jo Anne Lawson
Bookkeepers — Roberta Hollingsworth
Neal Friets
Typists------- Ray Cox, Dot Schuler,
Hicy Tyler, Mickie Willis
Director of Publications, Mrs. Dick Cozby
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