Newport High School - Blunita Yearbook (Newport, PA)

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Fage 14 THE BLUE AND ' HITE Night 6----: Full of Dreams NEWPORT PA I N.E. BLACK SALES SERVICE BUICK W PONTIAC NEW BLOOMFIELD T V-n- - - - - ?3 QolIV MADISON ICECRLAfaP SERVED EXCLUSIVELY jV)AC££ CUT K T£ NEWPORT Do you like to dream? Of course we all do if they are pleasant dreams. Have you ever been dreaming and suddenly awakened to find your dreams seemed real? Have you ever dreamed things that turned out just the opposite? Some people say that if you eat before you go to bed you are more inclined to dream. V e cannot understand what makas-us d?eam ceftein’-things but in the truth of dreams if only they were correctly interpreted. Profane, as well as sacred, his-torv 5s filled with dream pro-Interpreters of ...dreams el-i-eve that if you dream of an accident it is well not to travel for a short time, if you dream that you are blind, signifies a sudden change and to dream of cats is an ill omen. I!aybe these interpretations are purely superstition just as some people believe it bad luck to walk under a ladder. Perhaps the position we take in bed has some connection with our dreams. Possibly things which I have never thought about may constitute ou dreams. All of us do some day dreaming but we like to be free from thought when we slumber. BOB BREDBENNER DIST HI B UT O K Sinclair gasoline 'E z—- y- SINCLAIR ' - OIL

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SECTION - 2 the blue and white FEATURES February, 1939 Newport, Pa, . T3 W THE blue :; AND WHITE f Published monthly by the Blue and White Club of Newport High School, Newport, Pennsylvania, Sioglo c» py 10 esjita-Yearly subscript tion 40 cents - Advertising rates on request. Editorial Staff Editor-in-Chief................Mary Cox Assistant Editor................Jane Aren Sports Editor-Boys..........Kenneth Crist Sports Editor-Girls...........Jane Wright Humor.....................Marjorie Lupfer Alumni...............................Ruby Sheibley News Editor.............Jeanette Hetrick Literary Editor...................Kathryn Heisey Exchange...........................Robert Jones Reporters...........................Aleta Nickle ...................Helen Wagner ...................Janet Snyder ...................Alice Jackson ....................Esther Jones ..............Mary Ellen Wagner ...................Eugene Wright ...............Charles Bosserman Art Staff...............William McKensle ...................Ella Singer ...................Neomn Bitner ..................Marvin Maneval Faculty Adviser.......Miss C. P. Hudnall Business Staff Business Manager..........LuKue Freeland A3st. Bus. Manager............Ellen Carl Advertising Manager.........Robert Clark Asst. Adv. Manager......Willis Patterson Typists.....................Irene Rice ......................Miriam Lesh ......................Anna Dietz ..................Hazel Peteman Mimeograph..................Wayne Jones .................William Cox Faculty Advisor..........Mr. K. W. Kerr What Next? We're off — not on an exciting sled ride down a enow covered hill or on a sleigh ride over the hills. We’re off on another great adventure into another new year. Who knows what the new year holds for us? We can't profess to be prophets, but we can take advantage of all the opportunities that may come to us in the new year and perhaps that way we can really make something of ourselves. Have you ever stopped to think of what yru might have done last year, but didn’t do? Or what you did do that you shouldn't have done? Did you let any golden opportunities slip by without taking advantage of them? I wonder if there aren't seme cf us who could have done better last year. There areelways some who shun work that they should have done, just for the sake of doing something they thought they would onjcy better. Are you one of them? I hope not, but just to play safe lets check on ourselves. Have you decided to help others too, instead of just thinking of yourself all the time? Are you going to do your lessons or are you going to forget about them by doing something less profitable? After all, you are the only one who profits by your efforts at your studies, and if you forget them you are also the only one who loses anything. Have you made up your mind to do better than you did last year in everything you try? If you haven't, you'd better start now before its too late and another year rolls around. eld Father Time his clock has wound, And soon this year will roll around; Lets not forget, like all the rest, Throughout the year, to do our best. -—Editor

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THE BLUE AND ' HITE Page 15 FEBRUARY F .bruary, in the modern calendar, is the second and shortest month. It s name used to mean a groat deal to the ancient Romans, for it came from februare, meaning to purify, thi3 v;as the month in which the people were purified for the religious festivals of the following months. The primrose is the special flower for Febriiary, and the amethyst, its special gem. February was not in the earliest calendar year which Romulus drew up. Numa,, however, added Februaris, but made it the tv olfth month and not for centuries was it placed after January. February has not always had only twenty-eight days. Until the time of Julius Caoscr it had thirty days, but ho took one from it to lengthen his honor month, July; and when Augustus named August after himself, he, too took from February a day to make ’his month equal in distinction to Julius's, Every four years comes leap year and gives to the month another day. There is an old belief connected with February weather. In the second day of tho month, groundhog day, it is 3aid the ground-hog pushes his way out of hio winter burrow and looks about him. If he can see his shadow, he creeps back for another sleep of six weeks, but if tho day is cloudy, ho 'mows that spring has almost come and there is no! more time for dozing. February has an uni;sual number of days of particular Interest, most of them birthdays, Linccln, Washington, Dickens, Lowell, and wongfellcw-thcse are but a few of '■ ic great men whose birthdays fall within this month; and every ono of these had the characters and tho determination to achieve high ambition. Famous Birthdays George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in ' Voctmo relx c County, Virginia. He was one cl the world's great men and was first President of the United States. He was called The Father of His Country. Washington became Commander-in-chief of the American army during the Revolutionary War. He served eight years as President of the United States from 1789 to 1797. On December 12, 1799 he was attacked with acute larngitis and two days later died at his home, Fount Vernon. Abrahan Lincoln was born on February 12, 1309 in Harden County, Kdntucky. He was an American statesman and sixteenth President of the United States. In the Republican Rational Convention at Chicago in Kay 1850 he was nomin-at d as a candidate for the presidency and was elected tho following November. In 1861 the Civil Vvar started and because the Northern states wanted to pursue tho war to its conclusion Lincoln wa3 roolocted as President in 1861. Tho Emancipation . Proclamation v hich freed the Southern slaves was one of Lincoln's policies. On April 14, 1855 Lincoln was shot In Ford's Theater, Washington, by John Wilkes Booth. He died the following day and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery • no r Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln was called' The Savior of Hi3 Country.