L.H.S. vs. T-Ville Tonight, There
The Lexhipep
WE WILL BE
at T’VILLE
TO SEE THE
BULLDOGS
GET STUNG
Vol. XXV
LEXINGTON, N. C., JANUARY 30, 1948
No. 5
Should Lexington Have A New
High School? What Do You
Think?—Or Do You?
Buddy Bender
“Yes, I think we should,” said many
a good citizen of Lejcington as the
door to door poll was taken of nearly
thr;e thousand citizens of this city.
It has been proved ttat in the
future years the present school cannot
possibly take care of the increased
enrollment. Every year th; enrollment
in the eighth grade becomes larger
and larger, and this is true of the up
per four grades. Lexington is either
going to build a new school or the
old one is going to burst at the seams.
Back in 1923 when the present build
ing was Duilt there was an estimateu
population of five thousand people
in Lexington. Today Lexington has
over fifteen thousand people and an
other grade has been added to the
high school. Ssveral new subjects have
been added, and the average number
of pupils per class is forty or more
with a total of more than seven hun
dred and fifty for the whole school,
and this number goes higher every
year.
It has been proved by educational
experts that the students cannot learn
nearly as much in a class with forty
or forty-five students as in one with
thirty or less. Also the teacher is not
able to give as much attention to
the individual student in a large class.
She is overworked and becomes dis
gusted with her work. The present
high school in Lexington is considered
one of the worst firetraps, if not the
worst, in the city according to Chief
Norman Owens of the Cty Fire De
partment. It is believed that if the
high school would ever catch fire i
would be almost impossible to put the
fire out before the building was com
pletely burned. Due to the fact that
the building is of a brick and wood
construction, it would be just like
a piece of paper in a furnace if it
ever caught on fire.
Some people say that if a new
school is built the old building should
become a junior high, but I think
that the lot should be sold for busi
ness purposes and the new school
built in a locality where there is less
traffic and noise, and where space
could be had for an athletic field.
But if Lexington is to have a new
high school, it will take a “solid
vote ’ by every citizen. A new school
would cost much right now. This
would entail a sharp increase of city
taxes, but every citizen should get
behind this worthy project and sup
port it. We should start raising funds
so that money will be available when
the building program can be realized.
Remember, today’s children are to
morrow’s leaders.
L. H. S/s Crowded G3mti
Scene just after the half of the
of bad weather.
, WT . , . Photo by H. Lee Waters
Children s Home g‘a me—night of the worst attendance of the season because
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
January 30, Basketball, ThomasvHle, there
February 3, Baskctboll, Kannapolis, there
February 4 Assembly, Dramatics club
February 6, Basketball, Children's Home,
There
February 10, Basketball, Kannapolis, here
February 11 — Assembly, Quill and Scroll
Februory 13, Basketball, Albemarle, there
February 17 _ Basketball
Februory 18 Assembly, Tri-HI-Y Club
Februory 20, Bosketboll, Albemarle, here
February 24 Bosketboll
February 25, Southeast Assembly, Bentley
Trio
Athletic Association
Presents Sweaters
Coaches Receive Trophies
This morning, January 23, the last
morning of exams. A special assem
bly was neld by the Athletic Asso
ciation for the purpose of presenting
sweaters to deserving members of the
football team for the past season. This
assembly had been postponed from
the preceding Wednesday, because it
was thought that Mr. Gordon Kirk
land, popular coach of Catawba Col
lege, could be here to narrate the
Tangerine Bowl pictures of the past
season which were to be on the pro
gram.
However, Mr. Kirkland was ill and
thus unable to be present, although
the pictures were shown without nar
ration. After the picture, sweaters
were awarded to some twenty-three
members of the 1947 football team,
winners of the Lions Bowl game, and
runners-up in the South Piedmont
Conference.
A surprise of the program was
pulled when Benny Walser and Zacky
Taylor, co-captains of the team, pre
sented the two coaches, Mr. James
Maus and Mr. Clayton Gaddy, with
two beautiful trophies for the great
work they had done for the team
this year.
Names of these players, so honored,
can be found on page six in the
article on the Football Banquet.
JACKETS PACK ‘EM IN
Rev. W. A. Rollins Speaks
To Students of L. H. S.
On the morning of January 7, 1948,
a program of a religious nature was
presented.
Mr. John Crocker led the student
body in singing “Holly, Holy, Holy”,
after which Mr. c. K Wike introduced
the speaker for the program, the Rev.
Mr. W. A. Rollins, pastor of the First
Methodist Church.
L. H. S. Has
New Gym Floor
For once the L.H.S basketball teams
can start basketball practice without
the fear of falling through the floor
every time they dribble.
During the Christmas holidays,
when no one was around, the jani
tors Anally went to work and fixed
the gym floor. After sanding the
floors and fixing the loose boards they
painted the floor and marked it off.
Now there will be no danger of
falling through; no more will anyone
be straining his eyes to see whether
the ball goes In or outside the bounds
of the court. Except for the lack of
space, the gym is in vei-y good con
dition.
To the janitors, and anyone else
who helped, we would like to offer
our humble thanks for fixing some
thing that very muchly needed and
which adds much to our safety and
eimjoyment.
What Did Happen To Sadie
Hawkins Day Dance?
Everyone has been asking what hap
pened to the Sadie Hawkins Day
Dance! Really, the LEXHIPEP staff
has been wondering about the same
thing. It seems as if ye ole editor
wrote to A1 Capp to get some ma
terial for a Sadie Hawkins Day Dance
and the material arrived just a little
too late to hit the psychological time.
To make up for not having the
dance, the staff intends to have a
Leap Year Dance. This statement is
guaranteed to be carried out. The
date has not been decided upon, but
it will be published as soon as it
has been. However, young ladies, be
deciding which gentleman you will
escort!
Despite the rain and sleet on the
night of January 20, 1948, the gym
nasium was filled to capacity, just
an example of how the students turn
out to support their team. Lexington
High really needs a larger gymna
sium to accommodate these students.
At practically every game numbers of
students have been turned away be
cause there is not even standing room
left in the gymnasium. This is a
real tragedy. The team cannot be
expected to win if they do not have
the students to back them and how
can the students back them if they
can’t even get into the gymnasium?
Couldn’t an athletic-minded city like
Lexington (we think we are tops) do
something about it?
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Our Talented L.H.S.”
Talent by the busload, composed of
stars straight from Hollywood, was
presented under the direction of Miss
Flayree Hill on January 28, 1948, in
Lexington High School auditorium.-
The program had great variety and
originality.
In the contest Bob Hendricks took
first place with his excellent portrayal
of A1 Jolson, while Nancy Wither
spoon copped second place honors with
a monolgue and musical imitation of
Grade Allen. Joe Hooks and his band,
taking third place, soothed all rum
pled brows with the sweetest music
this side of Main Street.
Jim Tussey’s talented fingers tin
kled the keys to bring him fourth
place ovation; while Doug Graver, Bob
Holmes, and Jim Plott wowed ’em
with a hilarious blacfcface act, which
won them fifth place. Jimmy Poston
and his Hoosier Hotshots, Doug Gos-
nell, I. M. Leonard, Alex Beck, and
Don Leonard, harmonized to win sixth
place.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. S.—Page 2
Exchanges—Page 5
A. Sapp’s Fibbles—Page 8
Club Meetings—Page 4
Boy Jackets—Page 6
Poem, “Macbeth”-Page 3