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Page Two JUNIOR POINTER Friday, January 29, 1937 JUNIOR POINTER Published Monthly By HIGH POINT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL High Point, North Carolina Devoted to the Interests and activities of School Students High Point Junior High Subscription Price Five Cents Copy GLORIA ILDERT'ON STAFF Editor-in-Chief JO INGRAM 1 ARTHUR KAPLAN f . Assistants SPECIAL EDITORS NANCY COX MARY JO WILSON KATHRYN CROSS BILLY FRAZIER Student Council Library Seventh Grade Glee Club Sixth Grade Glee Club BUSINESS STAFF MRS. FROST j. c. McAllister Advertising Manager , Circulation Manager Billy Curry Carolyn Jones Marguerite Murray Arline Calloway Donna Faye Watson Jacquelyn Price Dorothy Pegram Dina Taylor Garnett Hinshaw Frances Foster HOME ROOM REPORTERS Sloan Gibson Joseph Hayworth Mimi Wagger Melvin Gentry Helen Craven Billy Frazier Horace Haworth Donald Dunkleberger Margaret Foust Vera Russell Jimmy Corrigan Loretta Culver Marie Goodwin Margaret Causby Elsie Mollette Winifred Wall Elaine Welborn Ruth Williard William Hall Byron Grandjean NEWS FROM 111 Room 111 received an invitation to Miss Hanff’s wedding which is to be on Saturday, January 30, at 8 o’clock P. M. in Trinity Church, Scotland Neck, N. C. Miss Hanff is to be mar ried to Dr. Bonner. All of us wish Miss Hanff much happiness. We hate for her to leave us, but she won’t be far away. Dr. and Mrs. Bonner will live at Guilford County Sanatorium, where Dr. Bon ner is resident physician. Room 111 is not without its share of celebrities. Mary Eizabeth Clark is the sister of Miss Helen Clark, missionary to China and teacher in Soochau University there, and whom Bishop Arthur J. Moore deemed High Point’s first citizen in his sermon at M. E. Church, Sunday, January 17. In a discussion of the January birthdays of the eminent, namely, R. E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, we learned that the flag bearer in Gen eral Jackson’s regiment was none other than the grandfather of our own Jack Jackson. Jack’s family has the battered flag he carried, his uni form, musket, a vest, and a saber which belonged to General Jackson. And speaking of celebrities, we are prophesying some such eminence for Sonny Gary, who may not cross the HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS CARTER Faculty Adviser ASSISTANT FACULTY ADVISERS Miss Munroe Miss Brown Mrs. Mrs. Beaman Miss Connell Mrs. Miss Idol Miss Hanff Coe Ross FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937 MY VISIT TO A SAW MILL (Royster Thurman) , olden times clocks and watches were i very expensive and they were owned {only by the rich people. The clock is a machine intended to One year when I was returning I measure time by the movements of from Memphis, Tennessee with my aunt, father, and the rest of the fam ily, father asked us if we would like to visit one of the saw mills belonging to the company for which he worked. Of course, we were enthusiastic over this suggestion and wanted to go. We were close to Asheville when we reached the huge campus of the mill. The mountain on which the mill rested was completely owned by this company. On the yard, or where the lumber stayed, there were millions of feet of lumber, all graded and placed in its special place. There was a log pond where all the logs that came in were placed for a washing and soaking. After a certain length of time they were carried into the mill on an endless chain. Then they reach a man who sends them into the room of the “carriage” where they are cut into lumber as we receive it. When the lumber has been cut it goes down an endless chain where it reaches its proper place according to its proportion and grade. The bad lumber, without the help of man, goes into a chute and then it goes into what they call a “hog” where it is ground up and thrown into the furnace. Then the lumber has to be graded and this takes a very experi enced man. If there are flaws in the wood, they are cut out by smaller saws. If the lumber is to be “dry- kilned” it Is sent to the kiln or fur nace-heated houses. I have not said anything about the lumbermen themselves. They are a brawny type of people, quiet, strong, and a motley crew. The complete wheelwork. The chief parts of a clock are a frame, a train of wheels, moved by weights or a spring and regulated by the beats of a pendulum or by a balance wheel. Mention of the clock may be found I in old chronicles dating from the time of Charlemagne. It is thought that the earliest clocks were the work of the Saracens from whom the art of clockmaking was learned by the monks of Europe. A number of clocks were made for various cathedrals of Europe in the thirteenth and four teenth centuries. The clock tower of the English House of Parliament weighs thirteen tons and in calm weather can be heard all over London. This clock cost over $100,000. It is considered one of the most accurate of the large time pieces. In America, clock making had its beginning prior to the Revolutionary War. The first clocks were tall, eight-day pieces, driven by weight's requiring to be wound up but once a week. This style is known as the grandfather clock and it was made entirely by hand. The works were placed in cases varying in style from I a rude pine box covered with cheap I stain to specimens of the richest cab- ' inet work. The Swiss watches that are made jn Switzerland were made entirely by hand until just a few years ago. People think when they get a small Swiss watch that they are just get ting an ordinary watch, but the Swiss watch is a very valuable and expen sive watch. Swiss watches especial- ation, we’re betting. And considering the amount camp was awake before dawn but did i jy have retained their reputation for not begin work until sunrise. They | excellence up to the present time, had put quite a number of stacks of lumber on the field when we left. I enjoyed it very much and think oth ers would do so, too. CLOCKS AND WATCHES (Nancy Meredith) Most of us do not know when or where clocks and watches were first made. It is said that the Chinese invented the first clock about 2,000 years before the Christian era. Watches were invented by Peter Hele about the year 1500. Most of us think that clocks are not very valuable, but without clocks we would have to use sun dials, hour glasses, and other things that would measure time. In WINTER (Byron Grandjean) At this time last year the “Sunny South” was carpeted with white, and we joyously walked over to a nearby hill to try out a homemade sled or a new pair of barrel slats; but all that rolled by, and so did summer and fall, and now winter is here again, but a far different one; no longer do we see snow or hear the shouts of happy boys and girls. So we will probably have to look forward to a rainy winter this year, and hope “Old Man Weather” will say, “Winter with snow next year.” Let’s hope so any way. Fralley Mitchell Feb. 2 Billy Briggs Feb. 9 Edward Linthicum -.--Feb. 10 Wilhelraina Carter Feb. 16 Hazel Sommer -.-Feb. 19 Virginia Lassiter -Feb. 21 Lloyd Hepler Feb. 23 Emily Ruth Spradley —Feb. 26 Dorothy Samuels Feb. 27 Horace Teague —Feb. 27 Bell Glover —Feb. 8 lone Smith Feb. 24 Mary Clodfelter Feb. 5 Cathryn Vail — Feb. 23 Mary Ann Thomas —Feb. 7 LeRoy Fraley — —Feb. 16 Mary Elizabeth Hauser ■ Feb. 20 Dorothy Thomas —Feb. 9 Olean Hucks --Feb. 6 Ernest Gill -Feb. 19 Bristowe Pitts Feb. 14 Marguerite Byerly —.Feb. 25 Jack Hicks .......Feb. 15 Earl Frazier Feb. 13 James Fritts -Feb. 14 Geraldine French -.-Feb. 4 Donnie Jones Feb. 7 Lloyd Underwood — ___..__Feb. 22 Raford Coggins Feb. 27 Frank Hunsucker Feb. 7 Paul Johnson .— ..Feb. 21 Lois Swaim .......Feb. 14 Johnny Thomas Feb. 14 Hallie Peatross ..—Feb. 21 Margaret Slack Feb. 21 Jerry Hyder Feb. 24 Houston Calhoun .—Feb. 23 Maurine Sykes .—.Feb. 22 Sarah Hutchins rd Wheat . -Feb. 1 Feb. 23 -Feb. 29 Elliott Feb. 17 Leftwich Feb. 10 Sybil Lowder Feb. 11 Eugene Powell Feb. 16 Annie Ruth Bell Feb. 1 lonrad -Feb. 4 James Smith Feb. 13 Reid Marsh Feb. 20 Betty Mae Johnson Feb. 28 Lois King Feb. 13 Carl Turnage Feb. 20 Rebekah Conrad Feb. 1 Ruth Hicks Feb. 16 George Brown Feb. 2 Mildred Woodell Feb. 4 Alsrow Durham Feb. 17 Lela Pearl Knok Feb. 13 James Beddington Feb. 22 Margaret Lee Blackard Feb. 11 Lucille Lax Feb. 15 Lois Farlow Feb. 12 John Haworth Feb. 2 Billy Kivett Feb. 26 Joel Robbins Feb. 9 Prances Coppridge Feb. 6 Mildred Garrison Feb. 24 Mabel Faircloth Feb. 22 Charles McPherson Feb. 18 James Bolton Feb. 16 Alec Drakos Feb. 24 Sarah Sloan Ray Feb. 5 Ruby Kivett Feb.15 J. D. Lowe Feb. 18 Edith Greene Feb. 23 Evelyn Ethridge Feb. 14 Mildred Scoggins Feb. 10 to be famous architects, sculptors, furniture designers, or carpenters some day. Pupils in 111 welcome Miss White- head as their new teacher. OUR PLEDGE TO OUR COUNTRY AND TO JR. HI. 208 Wins By Shut-Out; Lee Brown Is Star Player T (Edward Knight) Recently there was a great basket ball game, or rather it was great for room 208. ,The contest was be tween Miss Brown’s room and Miss Moser’s room. The score, 8-0, in favor of room 208 showed good play ing for both sides. Lee Brown, 208’s center, was the star of the game, scoring all eight points. The other 208 players were Fred Lassiter, Eu gene Guthrie, Graham Campbell, Everette Grayson and Clyde Efird. For the other team, 203, the players were Holt Hensley, Grady Summey, Stanton Cecil, Charles Saunders and Ray Stutts. Room 208 scored the first shut-out of the tourney by the score. YO-YOS WITH US AGAIN (Billie Buie) We are about to enter another yo-yo season. The yo-yo companies are sending men from the Phillipines to show tricks. They give away book lets when you buy one. All ten cent stores and drug stores have a good supply of them. Almost everyone in school comes out every afternoon taking a yo-yo from his or her pock ets. But we must not devote all of our time to yo-yo’s. We must be surie to get our school work up. ART APPRECIATION (Iris Mae Boyles) Mrs. Moffitt’s home room studied art about two months. Each person in her home room gave a talk on the picture he had been assigned. After every picture had been reported on, Mrs. Moffitt let the boys and girls in her room study the pictures for their spelling. She then gave a test on the pictures and artists. Many people made good on the test and very few failed. 3larUee'5 DEPARTMENT STORE High Point, N. C. (Margaret Causby) pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America And to the republic for which it stands. One nation indivisible. With liberty and justice for all.” What is this ? This is our pledge to our free country and our republic. In union there is strength. That is what we mean when we say, “One nation indivisible.” The United States cannot be divided. It is a free coun try and republic. You might say “What do the stars and stripes stand for in our flag?” The thirteen stripes stand for the first thirteen original colonies and we have firty-eight states so we have forty-eight stars. As our country grew a star was added to the flag for each new state. So now our great country stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. Just as we pledge to our flag, so should we pledge to our school. We all love the school we attend as well as the country we live in. We should respect our school as well as our country. Here is a pledge to our school. Junior High: “We pledge allegiance to Junior High, And to the work for which it stands. To study well, to play with fun and fairness. To make ourselves true Americans. Room 202 is proud of the record of one of its members, Lloyd Under wood, who has never been tardy or absent from school in all the years since he first began. How many more boys and girls among us have the same record? ROBERTSON’S BAKERY Bakers of SPLENDID BREAD At Your Grocer DANCE For Health, Happiness, and Success VESTA’S SCHOOL OF DANCING All Types of Dancing, Including the Latest Ballroom Steps MISS VESTA COPELAND, Instructor Telephone 2382 112 Bain Ave. FOR BIGGER VALUES IN 1937 • Sporting Goods ® Housewares ® Plumbing @ Radios ® Coldspots ® Washers Real Bargains In Every Department SEARS,i;|e,Pf BUCK AND CQ> 319-321 N. Main Street High Point, N. C,
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