JUNIOR POINTER
EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF HIGH POINT JR. HIGH SCHOOL
VOLUME X, NUMBER 3
KIGH POINT, N. U , iJE..EMBER 10, 1937
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A YEAR
Mrs. Freeman^s Science Classes Spend
Time Profitably In Various Activities
I A MESSAGE |
^ The Junior Pointer Staff ^
^ wishes a very Merry Christ-
Edith Seckler Compiles Facts About
High Point From the Earlier Days
mas and Happy New Year to
Visit High Point-Greensboro Airport and Weather Bureau 11 Mrs. Ranson, the teachers, and
Where Many Interesting Phases of Port Are ' ^
Explained to Pupils
= every Junior High boy and 3
i girl. J
Traces in Definite Way Progress Alade by City Beginning
With 1800’s and Continuing Through 1937;
Settled Before Revolutionaiy War
Recently our science classes took
a trip to the High Point Greensboro
Airport, and Weather Bureau. There
we met our guide Mr. Molen, from
Greensboro, who has been with the
Vi ,.ULue. rjiireau eighteen years. He
first took us to the recording room
where Mr. Donnell was on duty as
receiver. Mr. Donnell served in the
Navy eight years, spent three years
over seas and has traveled through
out the entire world- He showed us
the control board and how it was
operated. He also told us that opera
tors use the continental code.
We then were escorted by Mr.
Molen to a small shelter where
drums of hydrogen were kept for
the purpose of filling large balloons
that are sent up twice after noon
at eleven and five o’clock. At night
black balloons are used with candles
on them because the rays of the
candle flame show up better against
the black sky. The balloons are six
inches in circumference before filled,
and thirty inches when filled with
the hydro.gcn. The balloon is placed
in a tube attached to the hydrogen
drum, and automatically pumped up
until it has lifted a one hundred and j
forty gram weight. It is taken off, [
tied and set on a platform from '
which it is lifted upward by the air
pressure. It is watched through ^ ,
telescope to find the amount of air n6Wiy UrgaiII’’£d
pressure and the directions and
force of the wind.
He then took us to the instrument
THE CAST OF FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS
Springfield, below High Point, was
a community settled by the Quakers
before the Revolutionary War.
High Point began as a village after
Che war. The Moravians from Salem
bought property here early in the
1800’s. Later a company was formed
by some of the Salem settlers and
a plank road was built from Salem
to Fayetteville- The road helped the
growth of High Point for tobacco
and other farm produce were
brought here for shipment. Later
the railroad that gave High Point
its name for this happened to be the
^.ghesc point between Goldsboro
and Charlotte.
Club Holds Meetfegs
The villag'e wa.s incorporated in
May, 1859. .At that time the village
contained from 250-300 people.
Manufacturing did not begin in
earnest here until the year 1889.
However there was a firnr here in
1886 known as Snow and Dalton
who manufactured lumber. The fii'm
became the Snow Lumber Co. in
1890. This business is still running
at the same place where it started.
High Point has become known
since 1889 as the “Grand Rapids of
the South.’’ Among the pioneers
were M. J. Wrenn, O. E. Ream, J.
H. Tate, A. E. Tate, Fred N. Tate,
and W. G. Bradshaw. Some of the
vLfm-ac PI-jv Ira Room 106 Gives Radio I furniture companies have been
G^i.n„lnias ridy lO , » , « known as the High Point Furni-
i reieitted Here Dec, 16th Program on Damrosch Furniture Co.,
The Globe, Southern Chair, Alma
Above are members of the Pepper family and o hers «ho support the Little Peppers in the play to
given at Junior High on night before holidays begin.
The recently organized Science
shelter where we saw dry and wet November 23, in room
bulbs and maximum and minimum 307. The meeting was called to or-
thermometers. A recording ther- Mrs. Freeman. There was
moineter 'lonns - valuable part *of oI3r6r~ne.w'busineS's at’thd fiifet
the w'eather bureau’s equipment. In- j meeting,
side the cylinder of the thermome- ’
It has been a custom of Jr. High ^ Continental. In ad-
ter, is a clock, which makes the commfttee read the ' usual, di- pjayed by Bill Payne and his mother
the nominating committee, read the ^
slate o o iceis w ic "gg^ygj.. This year, will be “Five Little Pep- | America. Jimmy Wichard, Peggy
W m.onv vears to nresent a Christ- Sigh’s first radio program dition to these now running in re-
L ,“.T r.ai.r«nTlo‘ V..i„ ” O' ”•70.*.
i ,h, It it . , “7 -ow»
good custom^ and the pays ave ^ success. The first scene, lono tv, 1, ■ u ■
been successful and good. Damrosch,' ^he hosiery business
i- 1,.. -D;n r> v,-„ —"as been introduced and is still in
cylinder and the record sheet revolve
once in a week. The metal coil is
the therm-ometer. It opens slightly
when warmed, causing the pen to
move upward, and closes when
cooled.causing the pen to move dowm-
ward. Thus an irregular line is
drawn on the sheet, giving a record
follows; president. Bill interesting story 'jane Bryant, and Meredith Slane
I vice president an piogiam c an ^ family that is made very , had parts in scenes concerning
I man, Ruth Cullei , SeClG aiy an u „ xir^iSilI-VnT- innr* «dH his liFo TVu^ r>vnyv5im intPY
his
treasurer, Doris McKinney; news
happy by a wealthy man and his later life. The program was interest-
creasing. The Adams Millis Cor
poration is the largest hosiery con
cern here. High Point has become
known as an industrial city and
there are many different things
son living near by.
ing and well done. No one had mike manufactured here.
We have the city manager form
reporter, Kathryn Cross; program; characters were chosen by !fright, everything ran smoothly. It
committee. Hale Hardee and Harrison after a number of i "’as both timed and timely since of government. There is a mayor
of the temperature for an entire Panky; scouts, June Philips Pepper family, the ' every minute and second must be ; and a council. The area of the
eek. Bill Causey. The club unanimous-^ important characters, are Bet- accounted for on the radio, and city is 9.75, there are 15 parks with
ty Lee Scruggs Mrs. Pepper; since we have been enjoying Mr. the total of 132 acres valued at
Nancy Cox, Polly’ Pepper; Stanton Bamrosch’s concerts so recently. : W®
Cecil, Ben Pepper; Jo Ingram, Edwin Robbins
Phronsie Pepper; Billy Kiser, Davie
Bill Causey. The club unanimous-
We also found that the velocity accepted the slate of officers
of the wind is measured by an an- j fi'esented.
emometer. The particular type we Mrs. Freeman turned the meeting
saw consisted of four revolving cups over to Bill Beaver, who thanked
attached to bars mounted on a ver- the nominating committee for his Pepper; and J. R. Harrison, Joel
tical axis over the hangar. T’he office and position. Then Hale Har-
lower end of the axis is attached to dee gave two simple experiments
a system of clockwork, which regis- showing how fog lights penetrate
ters the number of revolutions per
minute.
We again entered the recording
4:55- An explanation of the map
(Continued on Page Four)
Rppm ?08’s Practice
Tea-'^e’’ to Be Missed
the fog and the action of molecules
under heat and cold. Ruth Culler
made a few remarks and asked the
cooperation of everyone in the club-
What We Were
Pepper. This Pepper family will
make you laugh and cry at their
grand interpretations.
Other characters are Ruth Wil-
liard. Grandma Bascum; Peggy
Teague, Miss Jerusha Henderson;
Mr, .Abernathy Speaks
To Scieiice Classes
(Doris McKinney and
Kathryn Cross)
On December 2, Mr. Abernathy of
Royster Thurman, Mr. Henderson; the Soil Conservation Bureau spoke
Sara Ray, Mrs. Henderson;; Bill to home room 206 and three other
ment, police department and thir
teen public schools including two
seniors highs and one junior high.
The population increased from
4,163 in 1900 to 48,517 in 1936. We
have here three banks and two rail
road systems. The Southern Rail
road and the H. P. T. and D. Rail
road. The Southern controls the
(Continued on Page Four)
Currie. Mr. Whitney; Gloria lllder-
Mips Briles, a practice teacher
'’’•om the High Point College, has
been teaching civics in 208 for the
pa=t six weeks.
Miss Briles has finished her work
here at Junior High. While she was
i’ere our class made booklets on
High Point. They were filled with
I'-vny interesting facts about our
Doing a Year Ago^®"- Whitney: Tourtelotte,
George Humphreys; Van, Thomas
Moffitt; Percy Billy Hall.
The Five Little Peppers” will be
(Mary Jo Wilson)
Loretta Culver wiote^^ an article junior High School
on “Winter In Canada- auditorium Decem'ber 16th. at seven-
Mimi Wagger wrote a worthwhile ^
article on “Hints of Coui’tesy. j
New Year’s resolutions were made ; „ _ . _
by the students of Junior High. | MajOr Lowan ohOWS
Ruth Culler resolved to make the ; MovirV PlCturCS Et Jt, Hi,
Honor Roll. (We feel sure that she j
i-'has kept and will keep that resolu- ! Q^g^^y recently Miss Deans’
city. The classes studied the func
tion? of the city manager, the
vards. and the councilmen. We also
: tiufied public safety and industries
in High Point. Each notebook con
tained a map of High Point; it
showed the location of the post of
fice, the library, parks, schools, bus
station, churches, the theatres,
hotels, hospitals, and the railway
station.
A few of the best booklets were
shown to Dr. Grayson. He thought
they were very good.
I m sure room 208 enjoyed hav
ing Miss Briles with us. We are
going to miss her very much.
—Edna Stanton.
J, fi. i class had a very interesting as well
Bobby Hicks to o educational program. They were
veal Christmas. That was when he i visiting
had a black Christmas instead of a
white one. The furnace burst wide ! , , v a .1 1
open and the house was filled with j The devotional was read by Adele
Enjoy Experiments—
Check on Weather Man
science classes. He told of the
damage of soil erosion and meas
ures taken to prevent erosion. Mr.
Abernathy said that if plants which
drew nitrogen from the air were
planted, it would prevent the soil pgrinients. The class is divided into
from losing its fertility. He also,
Science class pupils have been
working some very interesting ex-
estimated the amount of soil used
experiment individually.
by man to make a living as six to ^ experimenting with
.ight inches. It takes from five: g^y^g^ anything
hundred to ‘one thousand years to
make one inch of soil.
brighter in oxygen.
soot and smoke.
Sheffield after which ithe classes
Dr. Brockman spoke to the stu- | sang “Faith of Our Fathers.”
dent body at Junior High School. j The class was honored to have
Room 208 was working hard to | Major Cowan, an officer of the
improve citizenship.
Over nine thousand Christmas
seals were sold in our school. Mrs.
Beamon’s room sold the largest
Salvation Army, to show them his
moving pictures of the Yellowstone
National Park and the British
Coronation. Major Cowan has visited
amount, it being fourteen hundred. !the entire United States as well as
Stanley Saunders sold six hundred j Cuba, Mexico, Canada^ and the Brit-
and twenty five seals, the most sold | ish Isles. T’he program was enjoyed
by any individual in Junior High ‘by all present and we hope to have
School. ! Major Cowan visit us again-
About fifty acres near Colfax are M’e also sent up several balloons
damaged more by erosion than any flUed with hydrogen made by the
other place in Guilford County. Mr.' gjagg and tied our names to them
Abernathy said that the erosion of as a means of identification if they
North Carolina alone was equal to - vvere found.
the size of Guilford County. If all Another interesting thing we
the wasted soil of United States; have been doing is preserving bio-
was combined, it would cover a hun-: logical specimens in formaldehyde,
dred million acres ot land or six of, Lately we have been studying
our Southern states. Although soil meteorology, the study of the
erosion has no apparent influence weather and climate. We performed
on us, everything we do, wear, and experiments showing why the
eat comes from the soil. : wind blows, why it rains, and how
We were glad to have the other' radiant energy is turned to heat,
science classes and Mr. Abernathy We have been keeping articles
with us. on weather from the newspaper
and grading the weather man. He
Are you satisfied with the marks ; has had the grade A about every
found on your report card?
day.