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VOLUME X, NUMBER 4
GOLDSBORO, N. C., JANUARY 29, 1937
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Freshman Team
Sets Precedent In
GHS Debating
WINS cupT^m juniors
Bill Cobb, Martha Best by Arguing
Negatively Defeat James Hey
ward, Jaiii6s Crone
man
Bill Cobb and Martha Best, fresli-
(lebaters, scored an upset
GHS history by carrying off the
trophy in the annual Giddens Cup
debate, January 19.
Arguing the negative of the query
—Resolved: that IsTorth Carolina
should furnish free textbooks for all
public school children—they de
feated James Crone and James Hey-
vt^ard, the Junior debaters.
In the preliminary debates, De
cember 15-16, the freshmen won over
Carolyn Langston and Ernest Glis-
son, sophomores, and the juniors won
over Mary Elizabeth Rackley and
Irene Mitcham, seniors.
Miss Chaffin coached these first
freshmen to be winners of the covet
ed interclass trophy.
With each unit representing a
year that the cup has been won thje
interclass score is now: Senior, 4;
Sophomore, 4; Junior, 1; Fresh
man, 1.
The cup was donated by the late
Ross I. Giddens in 1927 to help
GHS reach the top in debating.
Eight Trying For Places
On Triangular Teams
With eight experienced debaters
fighting for places on its triangular
teams, GHS has reason to steal a sly
look at the Aycock Cup, coveted by
a large number of ISTorth Carolina
schools.
James Heyward and Irene Mit
cham, ' debaters in the dual with
Kinston last year; Dorothy Parker,
eo-winner of the Giddens’ Cup in
1936; Bill Cobb, co-winner of the
Giddens’ Cup in 1937; James Crone,
Rosanna Barnes, George Ham and
Carolyn Langston are discussing and
doing reference work on the query—
Resolved: That all electric utilities
should be governmentally owned and
operated. Four will be selected the
first part of February to fill the po
sitions on the school’s two teams.
The debaters are planning to be
part of a triangular debate rather
than of a dual debate as they were
last ^eav. If both teams are vic
torious, they will turn their eyes
toward the state championship de
bates at Chapel Hill in the spring.
Miss Beasley is coaching the
teams.
FOUR EAGLE SCOUTS
COURTESY OF GOLDS»OKO HERALD.
Left to right, top: Henry and David Liles. Bottom row
Charles Liles, all Eagle Scouts at Tuscarora Council.
Roy and
4 Brothers Reach Goal of All Scouts
To be an Eagle Scout is the de
sire of every scout. Here are, four
boys—all brothers, better known as
the Liles quartet—who have obtained
the honor of Eagle Scouts.
The oldest of the quartet, David,
25, is now the Scout Executive of
the Cape Fear Council, consisting
of 39 troops from 9 counties with
headquarters at Wilmington, IST. C.
David became a scout in 1923, Eagle
Scout in 1925 and Scoutmaster in
1930. Working for higher honors
from the rank of Eagle Scout he be
came the seventh Honor Scout of
the World, obtaining the honor after
receiving 82 merit badges, the total
at that time.
Henry, ’31, became a scout in
1923 and received the rank of Eagle
Scout in 1927. After attending
Wake Forest and N. C. State he re
ceived his degree in Public Health
at Chapel Hill. Afterwards he was
appointed Food Inspector at Greens
boro and still holds this job.
Roy, ’33, became a scout in 1928
and obtained the Eagle badge in
1931, Roy now has 91 merit badges
and is setting his goal at 104, the
new total, by the summer in order
that he may be the eighth Honor
Scout of the World. Roy with his
other brothers is a member of Troop
6 and belongs to the honor tribe of
the United States, Ku-M-Eh, being
the chief of the tribe in Tuscaroro
Council.
Charles, ’39, obtained the rank of
Eagle Scout on January 4 of this
year. He joined Troop 6 in 1934.
Charles is a member of the present
Sophomore class and a warrior in
the tribe of Ku-M-Eh.—R. M., ’40.
Successful Superlative Nominees
Receive Honors By Plurality Vote
5 FOR 25c
Just think of it! The last five
issues of the HI NEWS for a quar
ter. That’s what the staff is offer
ing to those who haven’t yet sub
scribed or whose half-year subscrip
tion is expiring.
Remember that the largest and
most interesting issues of the paper
are yet to come.
Home room reporters will be
ready to take subscriptions next
week.
GHS Constitution
Being Deliberated
By Home Rooms
Whether or not GHS has a Stu
dent Association remains entirely
with the student body now, as the
constitution has been prepared by
the temporary Council and has
reached the home rooms for criti
cisms.
In about three weeks, the time
that the home rooms will probably
take for deliberation, the constitu
tion will be put before the entire
student assembly for approval or
rejection.
William Decs, Rosanna Barnes,
Scottie Dameron,-Marshall McDow
ell, Olivia Ferguson, Antoinette
Lupton, Carolyn Smith and Janies
Zealy Avrote the initial draft of the
student participation system.
The temporary student Council is
made up of home room represent-
ntivo.s wliA woi'l: bnc'k and forth be
tween the Council and their groups.
CONTEST IS LAST STAFF
WILL SPONSOR AS WHOLE
New Method is Being Devised for
Naming Candidates in Most
Representative Race
The superlative contest, sponsored
by the Hi ISTkws staff with the solo
purpose of honoring outstanding
members of each ‘ class, showed the
students to be unusually varying in
opinion. So distributed was the vot
ing that very few nominees received
a majority vote.
Due to evidence of unthoughtful
ness and lack of interest on the part
of the students in nominating and
voting which made the great amount
of work involved in conducting the
contest seem wasted, the staff’ has
decided not to sponsor any more su
perlative contests for the whole
school. However, the staff is ready
to give publicity to any organiza
tion in school that Avishes to carry
on one of its own.
The contest for the most repre
sentative boy and girl in GHS will
be continued but nominees will not
be the winners of the best all-round
superlative in the two upper classes
iis has been formerly. The staff* is
at present devising a new and fairer
method of selecting the most repre
sentative.
I ho results of the contest are as
follows:
Seniors
Mosi popular: Clifton James,
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FORMER HI NEWS
EDITOR WORKS ON
COLLEGE STAFFS
Staff of Hi News Awaits
N.S.P.A. Contest Results
How will the Hi ISTews be rated
this year ? Will it be All-American ?
The staff members will be sitting on
needles and pins until the answers
to these questions are sent to them
by the jN’ational Scholastic Press As
sociation.
The first three issues of the paper
were mailed to the N.S.P.A. head
quarters in Minnesota January 22
and the decision will be made known
to the staff in the spring.
In 1931-32, the first year the Hi
News was entered the contest, it
was rated good; 1932-33, excellent;
1933-34, good; 1934-35, excellent;
and in 1935-36, excellent (the high
est yet, lacking only twenty points
for the All-American rating). '
Norwood Middleton, ’35, former
editor of the Hi News, is taking ad
vantage of his journalistic bent, al
ready holding in his sophomore year
at Roanoke College, Salem, Vir
ginia, a number of important posi
tions.
Recently he was elected to edit
the YMCA handbook for the com
ing year. He holds a position on
the staff of the annual Bowenoch.
Last year he was make-up editor of
the BracTcety Aclc, college newspa
per; this year he retains this posi
tion with a promotion to associate
editor. After a lapse of some years
the publication of The Boanohe Col
legian has been resumed, and Nor
wood is on the editorial board. Dur
ing this year, in addition to his
other editorial duties, Norwood has
written for the college publicity bu
reau, a news agency organized last
fall.
Boys Making Transmitter
Henry Simmons and Franklin
Spencer, GHS seniors, whose hobby
is amateur radio transmission, are
building in Henry’s backyard a
transmitter similar to those in broad
casting stations, only on a smaller
scale. When it is completed, the
boys can send and receive messages
provided they receive amateur li
censes. I
To become amateur operators it is
necessary to pass the international
Morse Code and take a written ex
amination scoring at least 75. Both
boys have passed the Code test and
expect soon to complete require
ments for their licenses.
Method Of Open Forum
Demonstrated for GHS
Mr. John Barclay, who is direct
ing the Forum organization in east
ern North Carolina, visited GHS
January 19 to demonstrate the tech
nique of the Open Forum, which
is to begin in Goldsboro, February
2. The Spanish situation was the
topic of discussion.
; The Forum is a federal relief
project to promote adult education
in seven eastern North Carolina
counties with Goldsboro as its cen
ter and Superintendent Ray Arm
strong as administrator. At each
Forum meeting, which will be held
in Goldsboro every other week, a
different topic will be discussed by a
different speaker.
Adults and students may attend
the forums.
Mid-Term Exams Require
Thought and Save Time
Mid-term examinations which be
gan January 12 to continue until
February 12 are initiating a func
tional type which will save time and
better prepare the students.
Heretofore, the examinations were
held at a designated time and place.
The students were required to stay
at least an hour and after that time
were free for the day. Usually
three days were used in this man
ner. To remedy this situation, ex
ams are to bo given during class
periods, spreading over a period of
four weeks.
Typically, in chemistry the stu
dents have chosen experiments which
utilize their common sense and
knowledge rather than having three
or four pages of fact questions to
answer and then be free for the re
mainder of the day.
Since the functional type exami
nation is for the good of the student
rather than a test of his memory,
seniors this year are not being ex
empted.
DOWN the halls
Glances and
Comments
‘‘TEACHERS”: Ye editor and
ye assistant editor visited Dillard
High with ^ Mr. Johnson and Mr.
Armstrong. In assembly a spokes
man remarked that he was glad to
have Principal Johnson of GHS,
Superintendent Armstrong and two
of their faculty. The two “teach
ers” glanced down at the anklets
they were wearing and smothered
a snicker.
E. PLURIBITS DUO: The streets
were lined with people, people from
every state in the union, many even
from other countries. The hotels
were overflowing with them and- to
top it all it had to rain but never
theless right there in the midst of
them all were Billy Spicer and Hart
well Graham. . The event was the
inauguration
velt.
of President Roose-
SPORTS REPORTERS: Rid
ley Whitaker, Ross Ward, Ozello
Woodward, James Crone and Sey
mour Brown have volunteered to re
port the county basketball games for
the News-Argus.
PRESENT: Following an as
sembly program given by some eighth
graders January 21 in honor of
Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee
and M. F. Maury, Mrs. Paul Bor
den, representing the Daughters of
the Confederacy, presented a framed
combination of a;poem, a piece of
Confederate money and a picture of
the four Confederate flags.
AMATEUR CHEMISTS DO
DECISIVE EXPERIMENT
Two ainaleur chcmisls of (llfS,
Oscwr Williams and Everelt Proud,
have recently completed a series of
experiments luhich will prohaUy
make important precedent in Work
man's Insurance Corporation trials
in North Carolina.—Editor’s note.
By Everett Proud, ’37
Mr. X was just recovering from a
long sickness which he believed was
caused by his breathing some sulphur
dioxide from a broken coil in the
electric refrigerator on which ho
liad been working.
Now Mr. X wished to collect some
compensation from his Workman’s
Insurance Policy but sulphur diox
ide is not included in the list of in
jurious materials approved by state
law for such insurance; so there was
a great deal of argument. Repre
sentatives of the insurance com]>any
obtained a disposition from the head
of the chemistry department at
State College; they also interviewed
Mr. Helms.
Mr. Helms later decided that it
was possible for sulphuric acid to
have been formed because all ma
terials needed for the forming of
sulphuric acid were present—sul"
phur dioxide, water and oxygen.
Oscar Williams and I volunteered
to undertake to solve the problem..
Work Begins
some lung tissue, ex-
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Obtaining
FIFTEEN TAKE
R.A. EXAMINATIONS
That they might have an oppor
tunity to get a job with the Reset
tlement Administration, fifteen sen
iors took the exam offered the busi
ness course students, Saturday, Jan
uary 16.
To qualify for a job a person must
be eighteen years of age and have
passed the examination. The reset
tlement program is to be conducted
in this community for the next two
years.