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PAGE 2 THE BLACKBIRD, ROCKY MOUNT HIGH SCHOOL TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1951 News Editor Sports Editors Feature Editor THE BLACKBIRD Official Publication ot Rocky Mount High School Member of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor jo Ann Windham - Sonny Hallford George Pearce, Marland Reid Donna Clark Exchange Editor Wilton Holliday Literary Editor Marcia Milne Columnists & Club Reporters Bobbitt Clay, Barbara Coley Alumni Reporter Seryl Peters BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Circulation Manager Marilyn Ezzelle Assistant Circulation Manager Sonny Hallford Advertising Manager Claranda Mangum Assistant Advertising Manager & Typist Jane Edwards FACULTY ADVISER MRS. T. D. YOUNG Published fourteen times during the year by the Journalism Clas? of Rocky Mount High School. Subscription Rate qo Thanks From The Staff Most every student in our high school kno^ws, as well . ^™und toiWn, that a most successful “Miss Print campaign has just been held. Without the support of each student of the high school and our local supporters from hometown, this cam paign would have been a complete flop. Everyone was very school spirited and .jumped knee deep into working tor his own candidate. The campaign managers worked long and hard as did the candidates themselves. The Blackbird staff, under the direction of Mrs. T. D. Young, wishes to express its deep appreciation to everyone contributing services and finances to the campaign. The contest was the greatest yet and we are sure that every one IS proud of the way it was carried on. Business Manager We’re On Our Heads! •Sut^s9j;8:jui ajoui jsdvd looqDS ij3iq ^unoj^ jj5iaoy[ djaq o^ euopnqjj^uoD puB suopsa33ns a:j'B!D3JddB pjnoAi jjB^s am ‘iiSnoqj ‘Xisnouag •uiaqi JO 3|uin; o^ uiaas :^,uB3 9/a ^nq “^uajajjip aedBrt jno a^BUi 0^ op pjuoo sSuiq; JO s^aos [[B ajB aaaq^ ssanS j •pa^sBM. SBM. ^jojja aji^ua ano puc AvM. ?Bqj pB3J puB UMOp-apii? dn aadBd aq; pauan; :>snf auo^j3A3 ssanS I ^ng -UMop apisdn aadsd ajoqAi aq^ pa^uud •;{ paot^ou uaAa auoiCuB iluiq:^ ?,uop ;nq ‘pjiq -3{0Bia ^sBi aqi Suiqsjiqnd ui tjun^s IBUj3uo AaaA ® pofind a^v pio auiBS aq;„ uBq? jaq;o aq jjim pjiq^fOBia aq; os ^uaaajjip puB a\.ou Suiq'jauios jo Jjuiq; oj 3uiXj; spBatj jno uo Xja^njosqB ajB aM ‘saj^^ LITERARY LAIR Father, We Thank Thee “Father, we thank thee”, is a phrase which is uttered time and time again. It may not be out loud. We may say it to ourselves, or it may be just a feeling in our hearts There are so many things that make our hearts almost burst with happiness, and this is usually the first thine people say. * How lucky we are that we can be so happy and have so many things to be thankful for! It may be for our homes, our family, our friends, our school, our church, our country, our way of life, or it may be for our food like the Pilgrims who gave thanks for it that time so long ago. We don’t say it just in our prayers at night, or at mealtime, or at church and Sunday School, but anytime when God’s gifts please us, however large or small. XU ^ bles.«ing that we should be thankful for that maybe some of us forget. It is the most important of all, tor without it we wouldn’t have a Thanksgiving. The great blessing is God’s love. For that great blessing. Father, we thank thee. Blood, The Meaning Of Life Blood, the very meaning of life itself. Blood with which to save a life. That is what the blood banks need. For a great many weeks we have been reading art- icles on how low our blood banks have been and still are both on plasma and pure blood. Then catne the call for Americans to give one pint of blood and ten minutes of their time. In Korea, because of this donated blood, the death rate among the wounded has been cut down from six deaths out of every 100 to 2.6 out of every 100 But it takes on the average of eight pints of blood to treat every Wounded man. There are some in Korea younger than we who are dying. * ^ Here in Rocky Mount the goal of 200 pints of blood was reached and passed. This showed very good snirit but we could have done even better. ’ After all, the pint of- blood may save so/meone verv close to you. The next time the Bloodmobile comes to Rockv Mount you will give that pint of blood, won’t you? ’ November Song Sing a song of drear November, Sing of birds and blossoms last, Sing of leafless branches tossed; Sing a song of chill November, Snapping, sparkling with the frost. Sing of grapes and apples sweet. Sing of sheaves of golden wheat; Don’t forget the pumpltins yel low, With their pulpy hearts so mellow. Sing a song of dear November, To music glad and gay; ‘Tis the merriest month — re member! For it brings Thanksgiving Day. By Marcia Milne Turkey Day! Turkey with dressing and giblet gravy. That fowl died, but not by brav ery. Pumpkin pies and chocolate cakes too. Sure make me hungry, how about you? Cranberry sauce and collards so green. The prettiest table you’ve ever seen. There is grandma and grandpa and children galore. There’s the baby playing ball on the floor. There’s so much confusion I forgot to say, Hope you have fun on Thanks giving Day. By Jane Edwards Modern Cinderella Wonder what would happen if Cinderella should come back and relive that wonderful fairy tale that has been woven around her? No one can be sure, but it might go something like this. Cinderella (Cindy is her name now) is a household drudge who has to make up her bed and straighten her room every single day. The cruel step-mother roll is played by her own mother who only tries to enforce these few duties. There would be no stepsis ters, but there would be two best girl friends who are always ready with advice. They talk about their boy-friends, about other girls, and about each other when one of the girls is not around. Cindy’s “prince charming” is captain of the football team. Her golden coach is a ‘51 Buick. The ball to which she is going is the big Thanksgiving Dance. Cindy, unlike the other Cinderella, does not have be home at twelve. The party is just getting started then. Around three Cindy and her date would be through making the rounds at different teen-age hang outs. Wearily they would say good night and each would be dead until the next afternoon when their par ents decide that they just must get up and eat dinner. Thankful! What For? “Thankful! What for? I can’t even have the car for the game and I should be thankful! Well, what if it is Thanksgiving; it’s the day of the big game too and I have to take a 'bus, I guess, or walk! I was good' and mad and I guess I was talking entirely too loud, for an old man paused and turned slowly toward the porch where I stood bemoaning loudly my hard state of affairs. One sad look was all it took, for in that look I saw l.is pity for me. He, ragged and old, felt sorry for me; with my com forts and youth. Remorse swept over me as the tide sweeps over the sands. In the brief interval of his' look I saw clearly the things for which to be thanlcful; the fact that we even have a car, the fact that even though what I said was often wrong, I had the right to say it; and that we can have football games: and not have to work con tinually. We may assemble to dis cuss our needs and wishes, and may petition to put our decisions in ef fect. Most important, we have a God whom we may worship and who is understanding and will forgive our sins and our unthinking remarks such as, “What have I to be thank ful for!?” Do You Want To Learn Football? Football is going out of season now and I have just about caught on to it. I have had all the terms and everything explained to me, so will spread my worldly know ledge on to you who do not under stand the game. ■First, there are eleven men on each team (sometimes twelve or thirteen, depending on the honesty of the referees). These twenty-two players line up, call some numbers, and then charge *into each other like twenty-two wild bulls. One man takes the pigskin (a football-won- der what happened to the pig?) and runs for the end zone (the end of the football field—it’s usual ly striped) but before he gets there somebody tackles him. Some peo pie run down the side of the field!helped you in understanding with some sticks and a chain to' game of football. where the player was tackled. Every time the ball gets past the last stick, the people move them again. ’ After they carry the players off the field and send more oii, then they give you a repeat perform ance. This continues for one hour playing time-about two and one half hours altogether. The team of eleven, twelve, or thirteen men who get the pigskin across the goal .line the greater number of times wins, and nearly the whole team gets to put casts on their legs. In case you are wondering where the name “football” comes from, it is because the playersi run with their feet. I am sure my explanation has the Attention, All Girls! Wanted - 3.Mermaids “Eh, What’s that—Oh, drat this hearing aid! Hasn’t wortjed since I got water in it coming op here!” All this I>avy Jones muttered in one fast sentence. Davy is visiting here in search! of talented girls who can swim. He says that fishermen are pulling in all his best mermaids and he needs some replacements, and he thinks Rocky Mount has just the girls he reeds. Jones says all the people in his locker are “Drips” and that things are “all wet” down there. All girls interested in getting in to this mermaid swimcapade are asked to answer the following ad: Attention, all girls! have three openings for mermaids. You will be furnished two sets of fins per month and will have your choice of sunken treasure. All interested The Editor girls apply at Pier 6.” Thanks Again Fer Everyttiing Deere Lawd, naow dat dis day uv Thanksgivin’ is hyah, ah jest gotta thank yuh fer ma gud dinriah terday. Ah nose hit warn’t no king’s feast but hit wuz enuf ter fill niah lil tummy, an ah nose bout uh lot uv chilluns what didn’t git bawdly nuffin ter eat. Ah wud be glad ter share mine wid sum lul kid. de table ‘caze ah jest ain’t use teh, such ways ez sum folkses is. Well, Lawd, ah’s gotta go noah fer ah’s gitting sleepy—Thanks again fer eberting. Nah, ma dinnah won’t fine, but yuh gotta admit, Lawd, dat ma mammy kin sho’ cook sum uv de besteet dumplins yuh eber sunk you teef in—An dat pumpkin’ war n’t so bad neither. We ain so rich but wes happy dat we’s live espec- hully at uh time lak Thangsgivin’ wen dere’s so much ter hab. ' Ah just cain’t unerstan’ do why dere’s sum folkses what don hab nuffin ter eat an why dere’s sum not thankful fer sumpin—Dere’s So much everwhar ah sees. Naow ah’s jest thankful ter be uhlive and kickin. Bless’t Lawd, ah hopes yuh don min ma not usin’ all dat etikat at ARRANGEMENTS STUDIED Room 200 has chosen to make dried' flower arrangements. Each class will 'be judged on its ar rangements and the class having the best will have a party. Mrs. Daughtridge, Margaret Daugh- tridge’s mother, gave a. talk on dried arrangements and the grad ing system used nationally by judges and thei history of dried flower arrangements. PRINCIPAL GIVES TALK Mr. Cy Edson, principal of RMHS, gave homeroom two an in teresting talk about dramatics and a funny interpretation of his life which was enjoyed by all. Miss Rid dle is the homeroom teacher. Be careful—prevent forest fire#
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