John D Bassett High School - Timber Tints Yearbook (Bassett, VA)

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Cough ]four Z roubles A wag Miss Stone: “I wish someone would suggest a way of keeping you pupils away from this desk with all these needless questions.” James Law: “Eat onions.” ★ ★ ★ Iris S. : “What is that knot on your head?” Eula S.: “That’s where a thought struck Lera Seay: “Hey, what’s the idea of wearing socks on the wrong side, Martha?” Martha M.: “There’s a hole on the other side.” ★ ★ ★ Mary Ramsey: “A millionaire once owned this pearl necklace.” Texas J.: “What was his name?” Mary R. : “Woolworth.” A Ralph J.: “What are you doing for a living?” Eugene Stone: “ I’m breathing.” if if if Lois Booth: “Let’s do something odd, some- thing eccentric.” Mabel Dodson: “All right, let’s go over to Dr. Dee’s and hunt for chewing gum under the tables.” ★ ★ ★ Daphne Craig: “Have you read ‘Freckles’?’’ Helen Mason: “No, thank goodness, mine are light brown.” ★ ★ ★ “Nolie, you grow more beautiful every day.” “Oh, Curtis, you do exaggerate.” “Well, then every other day.” ★ ★ ★ Josephine K.: “What makes the leaves turn red in fall?” Lucille W.:“They are blushing to think how green they have been all summer.” ★ ★ ★ H elen P. : “What is an island?” Josephine P.: “A piece of water.” if it if Wilson T.: “Didn’t you find your dime, Bruce?” Bruce P. : “Naw, but me kid brother foun’ it.” Wilson T.: “Then what are you looking for?” Bruce P. : “Me kid brother.” if ir if Eleanor T. : “Rachel, we are going to have an oral exam on English tomorrow.” Rachel M.: “Is it going to be written?” if if if P. K. M.: “Remember when we met in the revolving door in the bank?” Pat: “But that wasn’t the first time we met.” P. K. : “Well, that was the time we began going around together.” if if if Wayne S.: “You know last year the doctor told me if I didn’t stop dancing I’d be feeble- minded.” Bill J.: “Well, why didn’t you stop?” ir if if Rainie H.: “I paid my fourth visit to the beauty parlor today.” June M. : “Strange you can’t get waited on.” Helen Smith: “Are you going to the fair?” Juanita S.: “What fair?” Helen S.: “The paper says, ‘Fair here to- day and tomorrow’.” Mrs. Bailey: “Did you hear me when I called you this morning?” Rolen: “Yes.” Mrs. Bailey: “Why didn’t you answer then?” Rolen: “Couldn’t think of anything to say.” if if if A. G. Ingram: (On seeing Carolyn march in with the graduating class) “Oh, Look, mama! Carolyn has on a gown like grandma’s.” it if if Kathryn P. : “Mrs. Divers, there is one thing I want to know.” Mrs. Divers: “What?” Kathryn: “Who waters the bulbs at the electric plant?” if if ir Esther W. : “Having any luck in school this year?” Strother F. : “I should say so. Somebody swiped my Latin book.” if if it On his tour of the country Mr. Darst, inspect- ing the High School building, came before a class of girls. He wrote upon the blackboard, “LXXX.” Then, peering over the rims of his spectacles at a good looking girl in the back row, he asked, “Young lady, what is your name?” “Elizabeth Howell.” “Well, Miss Howell, I’d like you to tell me what that means.” Elizabeth Howell: “Love and Kisses.” ir ir if Marie Eggleston: “I just put my hand on a hot iron; what must I do?” Edith Jones: “Read Carlyle’s Essay on Burns.” it it it Virginia Young: “Say, did you know that you can get a good chicken dinner for ten cents down town?” Racine Joyce: “Where?” Virginia: “At the feed store.” it it it The lightening bug is a funny bird, The poor thing has no mind, lie goes on stumbling through the world With his head light on behind. 27 }

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Our Social High light April 6, 1945, the Junior Class entertained the Seniors at a formal banquet at the Riverside Hotel. The Seniors, the High School Faculty and additional guests, Airs. E. C. Hoover, Airs. R. P. Via, Bill Hicks, Sergeant John Pace, and Rev. E. E. Renn were ushered by the Juniors into an “Old-Fashioned Garden.” This theme was very colorfully and elaborately carried through with arrangements of spring flowers on the tables and the trellis at the entrance of the dining room. This decoration was supplemented with place cards a nd program cards repre- sentative of a garden. The favors were attractive nosegays of spring flowers. The program, with Alartha Stultz as toastmistress, was as follows: Alusic The Blossoms (Welcome) The Buds (Response) Solo The Garden The Gardeners Life is a Garden Senior Class Prophecy Song: “Old-Fashioned Garden” Senior Class Will Alusic Juniors and Seniors .Esther Lee Ingram Rachel AIartin Bill Hicks John Brammer Etta AIoore AIr. Hoover Rainie Harris Juniors . .Elizabeth Howell Juniors and Seniors Everyone reported a good time with thanks to the Junior Class and its sponsor, Aliss Ruth Whitt, for a lovely occasion.

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Tit st -Prize Essay Miss Eula Ann Stone, senior at Bassett High School, won a $25 War Bond, presented by the Bank of Eieldale, as first prize in an essay contest which was sponsored in February, 1945, by the Community Service panel of the Martinsville-Henry County Price and Rationing Board and County School authorities. Miss Stone’s first-prize essay follows: How May 1 Aid My Country in Preventing Inflation During the Present Emergency and During the Postwar Period? By Eula Ann Stone Is that dollar which you have in your pocket today worth one hundred cents or is it worth sixty-five cents? How many of you, the people of the United States, have paused long enough to ponder this question? If you have given this question some consideration, then you are a better citizen than your neighbor who has ignored the question, and also you are one of those who realize the difficulties with which we are confronted in the present crisis. Each of us has an equal responsibility in keeping alert to the conditions which bring about the fluctuation of the value of our currency. We have a share in maintaining the stabilization of our money. As we approach the solution of this problem, we must not stumble in the steps of past failures, but we must make those mistakes a means of warning that they may not repeat themselves. Every American should realize that he is up against a war which, if not won. will forever do away with the present American way of life. If we desire this life of freedom, joy, and opportunity, we must put forth our best efforts that it might not be destroyed as a result of inflation. Our government is doing its best to prevent the depreciation of our money, but you and I as individuals play a much greater part in solving that problem. Even though state authorities have enforced rationing, price control and many other things, that is only half the battle against inflation. The important part remains with the citizens themselves, who should accept these regulations willfully and cooperatively. Inflation has its beginning when profiteers cause prices to rise and the wage earner cannot live on his income. He asks for a raise in his pay to meet increased living costs. Suppose the employer cannot afford to increase the salary of his workers because scarcity of farm labor has caused the price of raw materials which he needs for his goods to increase. Then workers may resort to strikes as a means of getting the desired wages. After increas- ing their pay, the employer adds the amount of the wage increase to the price of goods sold in order to meet expenses. The wholesaler increases the price when he transfers the product to the retailer. As the merchant places articles on the shelves to be sold, he cannot afford to sell them at cost. This cycle continues until the price of everything which the consumer buys has increased enormously. For example, during 1941 a twenty-four-pound bag of flour sold from eighty to ninety cents a bag. Today we pay from a dollar forty to a dollar sixty-five cents for that flour. None of us desire this unreasonable rise in prices, and few of us realize that we are contributing to its progress daily. In order to prevent this continuous rise in prices we must spend the dollar wisely. Before spending our money for luxury, pleasure, or unnecessary articles, how many of us pause to think as to whether we really need them. Almost everyone is guilty of thoughtless, repeated mistakes of this type. But if this continues to occur, the articles on our shelves and counters throughout the land will steadily decrease. As a result of more money being n circulation, people will begin to search the stores for goods. If they are successful in finding them, those articles which are more scarce will be hoarded. You may ask. “How can I aid my country in the prevention of inflation?’’ In whatever phase of work you are en- gaged. there is always something you can do to help. Even school boys and girls play a large parr in determining whether we will be overcome by the weapon of inflation. In many homes a major portion of the spending is influenced by the young people in those homes. At any rate, high school students of America could exert a tremendous influence toward changing the spendthrift habits of our nation to thrift habits. They can do this by encouraging the sale of War Bonds and Stamps, by being a good example in buying, and by carrying on convin:ing conversations at home and in public regarding the use of discretion in the spending of incomes. The great masses of working people may either be a help or a hindrance in preventing inflation. In many cases they, without giving any consideration as to the results, spend their money foolishly. If the con- sumer demands more wages and continues to spend them in this manner, his taxes will increase manifold. The fact that we are threatened with inflation is good evidence that we can and will pay higher taxes, for it means that we have more dollars to spend than things to buy with them. Victory will be hastened by every American citizen contributing his share of sacrifice and effort, and when that victory comes and our boys return they will not find their homeland in complete monetary collapse but financially secure. Immedi- ately following the war. our plants will be converted into peacetime production. Because plants will not be ready for workers, unemployment and inflation will work hand in hand. When the factories do begin making peacetime gqods, there will be a long interval of time before the supply will meet the demands of the people. Many will want to cash bonds in order to purchase new automobiles which at that time cannot be produced at a reasonably low price. If everyone rushes out to buy at once, soon nothing will be available to purchase. Therefore, the same solution that must be applied during the present emergency will be equally as important in the postwar period. Fellow citizens, won’t you clasp hands with me and pledge to support your county, state, and nation as it faces the rugged battles ahead. Then when we see “Old Glory’’ waving above us, we can feel in our hearts the security we have helped to win. 4 28