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THE POINTER
Friday, April 10, 1942
THE POINTER
JOHN HAWORTH Editor-in-Chiej
FRED FLAGLER Managing Editor
GILBERT FURGURSON Editor Pages Two and Three
DICK RING Sports Editor
ROSS HEDRICK Circulation Manager
Reporters
Members of the Journalism Class
Advertising Staff
ANNA LOU DOCTOR.. — — ..Business Manager
MISS ELOISE BEST Adviser
High Point, N. C., Friday, April 10, 1942
^eaen.
The Baton
By BEVERLY MERCHANT
SPRING
Spring is defined in the dictionary as the time of new
things to be created and youth to blossom forth.
The youth of High Point high can this year blossom forth
by doing their best work and turning over a new leaf. For
get the bad grades of the past and strive to make the most
out of the last few weeks of school.
It is going to be pretty hard on a nice sunny day to sit in
school, with our minds probably on a nice swimming hole
somewhere out beyond the window. But I am sure we can
overcome this difficulty by getting down to some real work
the last few weeks of school. Yes, it is going to be hard to do,
but did anyone ever say High Point high couldn’t take it?
MOST POPULAR SONG
AT HPHS—“Somebody Else Is
Taking My Place” by Benny
Goodman.
Frank Sinatra, former Tommy
Dorsey vocalist, is on his own
now—recording the latest song
hits for Bluebird records—Top
sellers are now being made by
Harry James, his latest being “I
Don’t Want To Walk Without
You” and “You Made Me Love
You.”—Jimmy Dorsey’s picture
“The Fleet’s In” was studded
with song hits—“Tangerine”, “I
Remember You”, “If You Build
A Better Mouse Trap” and others
—Count Basie is currently on a
lecture tour in colleges expound
ing the works of jazz—■
Well, Gates, it looks as if we
will soon have to be satisfied
with recordings popular during
Mom’s and Pop’s high school days
— for instance ■— “Alabamy
Bound”, “You Made Me Love
You”, “Miss You”, and to be pa
triotic you must have at least one
or two of the many patriotic rec
ords—“Keeping ’Em Flying” by
Gene Krupa, “Remember Pearl
Harbor” by Sammy Kaye, “We
Did It Before” by Dick Robertson
or “Slap the Dirty Little Jap” by
Carl Robson—are just a few of
the best.
5\7am
April 10—Beta Club
April 14—State Music Contest
April 22—Picture (Argentina
Nights).
April 24—Student Council Elec
tion
May 1-2—Senior Play
May 8—Awarding of Letters in
Athletics.
EXCHANGE
DESK
(By Ernestine Hancock)
Ah! Spring is in the air! Spring, when a young man’s
fancy lightly turns to ... . things. The girls start worrying
about new clothes and the boys start worrying about the
girls. Nature takes her bow and courtseys along highways
and byways, making rippling streams brighter. Large arrays
of flowers bloom and trees grow green again.
Everything changes in this turn of season. Also, besides
the abundant differences in nature and clothes, there is the
change in people. The average person is more cheerful and
happy. Students seem to bud out in personality, but droop
down in school work.
Seniors are thinking about graduating, while everyone is
excited about the forth coming senior play. Of course, the
most popular thought is that school will soon be out for the
summer holidays.
To me, spring is the most beautiful, as well as the most
exciting time of the year.
One timely question for students in the high school is:
Are you taking advantage of your wonderful opportunities
at H. P. H. S.P No, I don’t mean just the classes, I mean
the so-called extra-curricular activities of the school.
Do you, for example, take advantage of the speech clubs
—debating, forum and dramatics? Do you take part in
after school sports—tennis, ping pong, and ball? Do you
ever wander into the library after school to browse around
and catch up on your reading? These are only three of
the many opportunities given you at H. P. H. S. There
is some activity to suit every type of person, so why don’t
you investigate your possibilities? The activities will benefit
you and you can derive much pleasure from them. Why
not find your place at H. P. H. S.?
WANTED: Man to handle
dynamite in a powder factory.
Splendid chance to rise.
—Tech Life, Washington, D. C.
Cadets at Castle Heights Mili
tary Academy gave up “Oid
Warrior,” an antiquated three-
inch cannon which formerly dec
orated the Castle Heights Cir
cle, as scrap iron to national de
fense.
—The Muscketeer, Chatham, Va.
Have you heard about the
Chinese sisters who aren’t mar
ried? Here are their names:
Tu-Yung Tu
Tu-Dum Tu
No-Yen Tu
THE LANTERN
I love you more than life, it
self . ... or any other ten cent
magazine.
SAY IT WITH A SONG
A Little Bit of Heaven — the
chapel
Slow Down—the corridors
It’s So Easy For You—the teach
ers *
Blow ,Gabriel, Blow—band
This Love of Mine—journalism
Let’s Get Away From It All—
home work
It All Comes Back to Me Now—
day after exams.
—Green and Gold, Canton, Ga.
The students of Seahreze High
School, Daytona Beach, Florida,
have purchased $13,000 worth of
Defense Bonds and Stamps
They find fault with our ^itor
The stuff we print is rot;
The paper is about as peppy
As a cemetery lot.
But when the Pointer’s printed
And the issue is on file
If anyone missed his copy
You could hear him yell a mile.
—Selected.
Alphabet Stu-oup
A—adorable .... Rebekah Conrad
B—^boyish Nancy Woolen
C—cute Dot Hackney
D—daring Vance Matthews
E—energetic .. Mary Elizabeth
Barton
F—flirtatious Billie Welch
G—glamorous Margurite Murray
H—happy Pinky Hedrick
I—^intelligent Helen Pierce
J—jealous Virginia Forward
K—klassy Helen Conder
L—lazy .... Charlie Muckenfuss
M—mischievous Lib Pegram
N—^nifty Violet Yokley
O—orator Broadis Leonard
P—^peppy Thelma Weekley
Q—quiet Alex Ferree
R—^romantic D. L. Barker
S—sophisticated .. Shirley Hurt
T—^talkative Barbara Lynn
U—unusual Lois Welborn
V—vivacious Jane Ferree
W—^witty Gib Furgurson
X—xtempofaneous .... Byron
Grand jean
Y—young William Hilton
Z—^zealous .... Journalism Class
THE LATEST FADS
(By Vance Mathews)
Well gates, and jitter bugs, it
seems that another latest “fad” is
becoming very popular with stu
dents of High Point high school.
Yes, you guessed it, we are all
going crazy over peroxiding our
hair, and, wow do some of the
fellows look like “Gables”, or
should I say Sterling Hayden of
“Bahama Passage” fame! Funny
thing though, the other night I
drank a whole bottle of peroxide,
and my hair hasn’t even changed
any, and I’ve been out in the sim
as much as everyone else has.
Delegates Elected To
Go To Chapel Hill
Official delegates have been
chosen to represent the Pointer
at the journalism conference
which wiU be held in Chapel Hill
on May 8, 9. These delegates are
Fred Flagler, John Haworth, An
na Lou Doctor, and Thelma
Weekly. Other members of the
Pointer staff will attend the meet
ing. They will be accompanied
by Miss Eloise Best, staff adviser.
The Floodlight
(By Gilbert Furgurson)
Each year, as is the custom
the W. P. A. (Worst Perform
ance Academy) presents its
award to the person who has ren
dered the most money—^I mean
service to the organization. This
year, Botsworth P. Dribblepuss,
motion picture director, is the
lucky stiff] Mr. Dribblepuss was
given the award on the basis of
his fine pictures. Some of his fine
productions are: “How Green
Was My Cabbage,” “Slap Me
Kid, With a Two By Four,” “Put
Down That Rubber Tire, Mother,
Or You’ll Get a Long Stretch,”
and “Why Waste Your Money
On Tires, Grandma, It’s Your
Face That Needs Retreading.”
Mr. Dribblepuss is not only a
great producer of motion pic
tures, but he is a soldier of for
tune (meaning—it costs him a
fortune to be a soldier.) In his
collection he has a genuine rub
ber eraser trimmed in sugar and
sprinkled with gasoline. (Please
don’t take this seriously, Mr.
Henderson.)
Thus we conclude our little re
view of the Academy Award
(Boscar), and the jerk that won
it.
During the past week, there
has been a great demand for an
interview with that Mason Street
Man, Simon P. Degree. Mr. De
gree is one of the country’s larg
est retreaders of rubber erasers.
His hobby is collecting aU the
pots of gold beneath rainbows.
He belongs to a very worthy hu
mane society called “Committee
For the Prevention of Cruelty
and Mistreating of Tadpoles.”
This committee has been in ex
istence for a very long time and
at the present, they ^re studying
the effect of sun spots upon tad
poles. Mr. Degree is also an in
ventor. He has hopes of perfect
ing a device foi; opening Pullman
train windows.
Buy
Defense Stamps
Buy
Defense Bonds
CORN FRESH FROM THE COB
There seem to be a few in dear
High Point high school that just
can’t take it. You students yell for
gossip and then when we give it
to you, the victims run to staff
members or adviser and cry;
while the rest of you blame in
nocent people for what you hand
in and ask to have put in the gos
sip column. We have heard imm-
ors that there isn’t going ot be a
gossip column any more ... Is
that what you want?
We heard that B. E. and N. G.
really boiled about the last issue.
Well, they say the truth always
hurts. All we have to say about
M. P. is that no girl of poise
would fly up, cry ,and get so mad
about just a little gossip .
They say Culver is really burn
ing because “Bhmp” invited
“Yokum” down this week-end to
a Fraternity house party. Big-
hearted “Yoke” wouldn’t go be
cause she was afraid of hurting
Betty Jean’s feelings.
Sara Cox has been making a
play for Bobby Ingram but aft
er a recent insult from him she
decided to lay off. Better luck
with someone else, Sara. Don’t
know if “Monk” is such a sucker
or not. He is now stringing two
along. He tells Billie that he is
that-a-way about her and doesn’t
want things to get too serious be
tween them before he goes off to
school next fall. At the same time
he is telling “Yoke” that he is
still ga-ga over her and that he
is going to quit dating Billie and
go steady with her. . . . You fig
ure it out, we’re tired ....
“Pinky” Becker was a swell,
regular fellow when he first came
to High Point, but lately (since
he has fallen for a Salemite) he
has become so very, very chang
ed that you wonder why you lik
ed him in the first place.
Whom is Helen Conder going to
settle -with? First it was Bud
Kivette, then ‘D‘ub” Benson, and
then Bill “Glamporpants” Size
more. For the present “Dub”
seems to have come back with a
bang. Who’s next Helen?
Little Merchant arid “Jinz”
Hawks are riding bicycles along
the creek now.
Willa Gray Lewis hasn’t dated
anyone but Bill Connor in a year
or more except Jack Burr us, with
whom she went to the Prom.
Anyway, Connor, like most boys
in love, evidently got jealous and
dated Billie Welch (what has
she got, anyway?).
Eleanor Younts is supposed to
be “that way” about Robert, but
still she told Charlie not to date
Dot Pegram anymore. Roy is
away at prep—school and he
doesn’t mind Pegram’s dating
other boys. When he comes home
she breaks all other dates just
to date him and doesn’t mind tell
ing the boy she is breaking the
date with why, and still they
come back again. Younts must be
afraid of Pegrairi’s way with the
men.
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