Weslaco High School - La Palma Yearbook (Weslaco, TX)

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THE WELACO HI-LIFE, JANUARY 24, 1948 ot I Einar Is everybody happy? You're not? Well, imagine that! This col- umn won't be any consolation, but you may as well read it and weep. Reynosa was a very busy place Saturday night, wasn't it, A. J. and WILLIAM? I imagine you saw ROWENA and CHARLIE and MARY ANN and HAL DOYLI' you and your Monte Alto friend seemed to have a good time too Saturday night seemed to be the deciding point between DIL LIE and DANNY What was the decision? ANN WALLER and DARRELL SMITH from Harlingen were seen at the show over the week en JEAN ANN I thought your heait was true to Mercedes but Ixe heard that it is Edinburg nom Its nice and cozy in the front of a plck up isnt it ZOE and JAMES HOWARD and PATTIE SUE and RAY? KANSAS you seem to be seeing quite a lot of C V s cou sin lately Shes cute isnt she? Its too bad you wrecked yfur car' I never saw AMES FLAVINI so much until you moved to Wes laco LORETTA BILLY JOE and DORIS SCHUPP seem to be doing all right Lucky he gets his car so much I hear BILL and ROSALIE h ve broken up But he did all ight xith NAOMI ROBINSON d GEN SHRITTER Cboth new girlsl over the week end CARLINE who was the boy xou xx ere with Saturday night Dec use of editfr censorship bout the cute ring LYNETTE re ved from BUCK PATSY MARTIN IS wearing a r cel t and ring that is Just like le one REVSE M ALPIN used o hate How about that PATSY7 AL IA HAYS is now goirg x ith TIMMY MINKEL What next? Ore the week end ED BAT 'TT and PATRICIA DAVID Continued on Page 4 Seven W.H.S. Marines Return Home After 3 Years of War . .-.i ii, Weslaco Boys See Greater Part Of Pacific Campaignsg Two Receive Purple Hearts for Tarawa, Tinian Three years ago tomorrow the first mid-term graduation exer- cises ever held in Weslaco High took place. Graduating were eight boys-B. R. Guess, Leo Ryan, Harlon Block, Glen Cleckler, Robert Sooter Carl Sims Pete Hall and Leo LaDuke-who left school to enlist in the Marines and fight for their country and what it stands or A a farewell gesture the HI LIFE staff sponsored a campaign to sell a hundred dollars in war bonds and stamps for each of the eight bovs The oal w s easily passed 'md when the final count xt as t len approximately S1800 in bonds and stamps had been sold Vow after three years of strenuous war the seven left of the e chi bovs hare retm ned home It is not that we are prouder of these boys than of others who left our midst but since they left together to join the same branch of the service and slnce they had all been members of the Panther football team we feel that they constitute a rather unusual group Compared to the travels of these boys Marco Polo s trip to China looks l1ke a walk around the block on Sunday afternoon If added together the miles which they have traversed would reach well over the hundred thousand mark We flnd that though they went through boot camp together they were for the most part separated as they went into advanced training In fc llowing them through advanced training we find them stationed at Chicago Camp Pendelton Camp Kernemesa Texas A 8: M and Camp Elliot to mention a few From there their trails turned to Pearl Harbor the nerve center of the United States Pacific war From Pearl Harbor their patns f rned out in all directions how ever some vt ere almost identical B R Guess Pete Hall and Robert Sooter for instance saw action on Tinian and Saipan and were on Okmavsa Recently they xx ie statloned at Nagasaki proxin ground of the tom bomb B P xx is xx ounded in the battle of T mama and received the Purple Heart and Robert received om for vtounds recexxed on Tinian Leo Ryan who was in mainte oxerseas time on Jonnsor lslax sl bcto e he sh pped home nd xx s ten a medical disch rge Leo LtDuke was stationed tor some time n the lar halls vthexe he uas a machinists mate As a rad o 'Tl n on an 'urphn 1 ous tractor Carl Sims savs 'ne be ches of Guadalcanal Gu rn Saipan aid I so J1l'l 3 vu ile Glen unit on Palmyra and in the Mar shalls and was later in a morta clew cn Iwo Jim Ol' the eight who marched away one will never return The chances of all ol' the eight returning were very slight indeed but lt is our deep regret that on March 1 1945 Harlon Block was called upon to lay down his life for his country on the bloody little volcanic peak of Iwo Jima 'lhe greatest of all wars is now our great country IS no longex iequlred to fight nd die on some lonelv atoll and it is our hope hat they will now flnd the cm ten ment o 1 chls and security which they deserxe P uth noun ers Jac And vou s y radio an have small hands' Certainly' Wee paws m Cleckler was in an anti air: t tn xdentm 'ation' ' I 7 i . ,, X . 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THE WESLACO HI LIFE, JANUARY 24 1946 Hello, you happy studes Thus is your new column wruter for the rest of the year Lets hope that I am as successful as the for mer column wruter, Margaret Eoff ReD0rt Card Dt! Thus IS zero hour for some of the students who dud not work the fu'st semester For others, ut us a happy day Whuch remunds me- uf you saw a lught on un the hugh school bulldung last Wednesday and Thursday nughts ut was only the Englush IV Class revuewmg for theur semester exam and tak mg It the next nught It was qulte an exam' We are happy to have L K Le master and Henry Smuth un W H S Mr Lemaster duscharged from the Navy formerly taught shop un W H S before enlustung He resumed hus teachung of shop thus semester Mr Smuth us un charge of the Vocatuonal Agrucul ture Classes Seventeen Annuals Left Remember you new studes who have not subscribed for an an nual that now is the time to do so There are only seventeen left so subscribe now Students Work Teachers Got Work Thats rught Kuds Last week the teachers made us work and gave us everythung they could thunk of I thunk they even con sulted Noah Webster s Dictionary They slaved over our papers Fru clay and over the week end Mrs Jack Bam assusted by gurls from the Home Economucs De partment unvuted the Junuor Sen uor Faculty over to the depart ment un the muddle of Fruday mornung for coffee and doughnuts Thus was mdeed a welcome due suon for the faculty We sympathuze wuth them but they shrwed luttle sympathy wuth us Oh vs ell ut wull all come out on our report cards tod y You kuuou the luttle xellow gmruo wth the grades Welcome Home We are happy to welcome home so many W H S exes who are ueturnung from the servuce V.cl ru me home, boys' 7 l rung the DDT-or an Atomuc Bomb' ,F pgs SEEK 'd pkg Q SFZ us, .si :T :Ulf-Q THE BOOP .MAY BLOQKtR V. Cvxkvctl , L ae ix B THE- GUM DISPOSER 3 X Ya fb 1 g 'I l X41 'W' 'su-if 1 XD Cana I I ,..- 3,1 THE 'FR-ESR AIR FIEND .X 1 Yes there us a small number of these pests even un W H S The most common the four puctured above may be described as follows I The doorway blocker He may be standung un the doorway gettung a date wuth hus gurl so he cant be bothered uf others want to get un or out of a room 2 The desk carver Probably hes the unhubuted type and hus mother wont let hum carve the furnuture at home so he takes out hus so called carvmg technuque on the desk 3 The fresh aur fuend No doubt he has on hus long undues and needs some fresh aur but the poor luttle gurl who wore that lught sweater and skurt freezes 4 The gum dusposer He s Just too tured to walk up to the waste basket or maybe he wants to save hus gum for the next day hence he parks ut under hus desk or maybe on the seat for someone to get stuck on One mught thunk that the unduvuduals puctured above h d just read the book entutled How to Lose Fruends and A uen ate People Maybe we can elumunate these pests by DDT uf not perhaps an Atomuc Bomb wull be needed! A New Staff Takes Over Thus us the furst ussue of the HI LIFE by the new staff We only hope we wull do as good a job as our predecessors To do as well as the old staff we shall have to work hard as they have done an excellent job the furst semester Wuth enthusuasm determunatuon and vugor we hope to make the paper an unterestung one We have some new fea tures and udeas we are gomg to try, and we hope you luke them We trust you wull not Judge us by thus furst ussue whuch was got out under very trymg curcumstances fmud term Yam-2 notebooks, book reports, and no exemptuonslj The HI LIFV wull become better as we on aleuv' we hope' ' 1 - B I l I f l ' I W-I l- i -A- l Q 'v 5 Tj Q I U... 1 -' or ' s --Z : -- - -Y ,-5 of . e ' - ,F-vw: - ' ' x z - ' . ' A 3 .. ' Z , 0 'f' X ' I . V .. , ,A X . It - ' . - .f X fs 4 f 55555555555 ' . 5 5 or 54 u ' 'Ili :Q5::E :T A '- ff 5 ' . . 1522211 Q- Q -- ' ' - - -5 l Q Q J 4 - . - - ' A - .' 6, ' ' .- '-le s se l,,, fr A---W u , ' 5 ' . . L ' if!! . l I . - X Nr-an I 'wghgu . X N : 1 I .5 V. D F G , f' xi, 7 egg? , ,f 'Q - .1- Welcome to School l K 1 I X X Q, ,gri p --Y A 5'-S 5 ,fx 1' f . f 1 ' 7 .fl 5 ' Q Qy ' W4 . .' ,-L +L,::Aff'N ll . . . . , l e - -1- l X Y VY, WYY , KY, a ,3, , , ' . . r ' .. ig-1 - U I I Q s 4 y 1 , D . . . . . g . ' ft ' ' v ' V yd, . . . . Q - i . A . - I . . ' o I , ' y ' . Q . . , . . ' . , ' C . 5 u p . ' , u '4 A ni . ' . I - R u a A v o 1 , 4 l 1 . Q

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THE WESLACO HI LIFE, JANUARY 24 1946 Ho Ee Students Complete Term Projects Semester home projects hate recently been completed by the fxrst second and thxrd year home economxcs classes stated Mrs Jack Bam instructor Each g1rl selected a personal or home problem whxch needed to be solved set up obJectxves for solvmg the problem formulated her plans and carrxed them through to completxon A record of txme and progress was kept and used as a basxs for a sum mary of the project As a rule the proyects covered several weeks or months It IS hoped that the traxnxng thus obtaxned mav help the gxrls xn everyday lzfe Each g1rl was allowed to choose one of the exght followmg unxts for her home proyect Famxly latxonshlps, chxld care home man agement health and home nuxs Only 17 Annuals Wxth HI LIF ES Left for Sale Only seventeen annuals wx h HI LIFES are left to be sold to students of W H S accord xng to Jlm Moyer busxness manager New students who have en tered school sxnce the subscrxo txon drxve and other studcxts are urged to make a down paw ment at once smce only ths small number remams Three hundled annuals wx h HI LIFES w1ll be prxnted Of thxs number, 274 have been sold and nxne others are bex ff reserved for ex students A dt vm payment of one dol lar wxll reserve n mnua Th s :ray be made m the JA ur nallsm offlce or to Bessxe Laxl Ruth Bartley Lynette Stahl Margaret Eoff Dorothy llex rxchson Ann Brxxey Ol Jxm mg clothxng or food and nuf Moyer 10D The students have done the r work very successfully especxally the fxrst year classes stated M s Bam and as a whole they lx ve SON were sxttxng on the back o x m the theater Take xt from the kxds We hear WOODY lx d quxte a party Frxday mght DOUG DAL BERT tnew boyj and FRANCLS HUDSON surely dxd lxke the La lc porch CARLINE and BIIL BROWN CDonnaJ and CHARLFS 'xnd LORETTA were also seem D O L O R E S TRIPLETT and REX BLEDSOE had a date F 1 day nlght They are d ln all tme good around here If you have seen MARGARLT EOFF wanderxng around daze lately thxnk nothxng xt because xt IS all due to a xn San D1ego For whom IS the lovelxiht mg m PEGGY KIRGINS bxg brown eyes Could xt be BILL PICKARDV 1 a about saxl n shxrx great In closxng I just want to .a k xf all the Englxsh IV class had a 'food txme Thursday mght T o bad back row vue cant ple se exerybodv WILL RETURN T0 SCENE OF CRIME' Golly what tmc lb xt novx Bfy Im hunglvl bay do yt Ll thxnk you passed? Those o y a few of the xns 1 moans pxcked up at school lx d N tlzcs F11 ay Xltnou n Fr day was a hchjax Lott hl the students xxx Vie law Hxgh wexe uxlty of comx xc' to school and pestermff the teac 1 exs Some came t turn xn latc book xcports nd notebooks bt othexs were tl ex be ause th x love ole W H S so much thc-N nt keep away Clla' Hn' Wh: knddxrg whom'PJ Anyvx ay Pedro who was vxork mg on the cast dow r seemed to be qulverxng on that laddex when I o saw such charactexs as Lt w Axnsuorth Do othy C x N rl 5 Allen and Edxth Pugel cornxw toward the school m a m d lo no tPoor pofr manllh lxe been mforn d were drunk last nxg t pushxng a wheelbarrow mam street xn Alex n l'opk1cl that you rd were dovsn the drxa Prxvate Topkxck hat txme ' Prxvate That s true And vxhere was I all In the wheelbarrow I l x I rnongqe Il After losxng three games tht Panther cagers show a need fo 1 great deal of pract ce whl they have not been able to because cf the long football s son The last game vt Q Pharr last Tuesday wxth of 26 to 12 xn favor of Pr Th ee outstandxng :ren fxrst and second teams re man forward lxvxng m X for hxs fxrst year Red gu rd both on the fxrst and Ed McLeaxsh forw r the seccnd team The next game will be Pharr tomorrow at Weslaco ought to be a better game last weeks with a week of pr tice under the Panthers bel s The boys played a practice game wxth Mercrdes last Wednesdqv and were beaten by the supeno Tigers 49 to 7 New tenms nets have been bought for the tennxs courts and students are taking an interest m tenms again Play goes on dur mg P E periods at noon and after school The court xs xn bad need of a retopping Job and the back nets need repairing The Athletxc department h s recexved some equxpment from Moore I' eld lately whxch xncludcs wexgrt llftxng equxpment wres tlmg mats balls and archery sets Vlfhxle xxsxtxng a country ch ol 'he Board of Educatnn xnsy ec tor became provoked at I c noxse the unxuly students n He m the next room Angrxly he opened the do r and grab l o one of the taller boys who emxd to be dome the most tlk ng He dragged the boy o the next room ard stood hxm m the corner Now be sxlent and stand there he ordered A fev mmutes later a small t w stl ck h s head ln the room nd asked Please sxr may we haxe our teacher back? 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