The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1956 Page: 3 of 4
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December 7. 1956
Chandler Chats
Houston Factories
Cards Lose To
by A1 Chandler
Monday evening 12 ath-
letes from Houston's Rice
Institute marched into
Mac Arthur gym for a rou-
tine engagement with La-
mar Tech's Cardinals.
Carrying with them a ra-
ting of tenth in the nation,
and favorite by about 2 5
points, the Owls were
ready to bury the upstart
Birds as they had Trinity
the week before.
What r e s u lted probably
represents the g r e a t e st
scare that those 12 men
will ever have in their
basketball careers.
Instead of handling the
Birds as they had antici-
pated, they left MacArthur
gym with an embarassing
seven point victory which
they finally gained after
trailing the Birds for the
majority of the contest.
Last edition I disagreed
with the experts who se-
lected the Cardinal round-
ballers to finish fourth in
the Lone Star Conference.
Though the season hadn't
started at that time, and
having only watched a few
practice sessions, I ven-
tured a guess at a finish
one place higher for the
Birds than the experts had
picked.
Well, now it looks as
though the guys are try-
ing to make a disgustingly
poor predictor of me, as
well as the official guess-
ers, by playing a type of
ball which warrants a
much more generous esti-
mate of the Birds' finish-
ing position.
If I could have a guaran-
tee that the guys will have
as much heart and deter-
mination in future scuffs
as they showed agains t
Rice, I'11 be glad to change
my prediction and give the
Birds the Lone Star Con-
ference crown...they cer-
tainly do have the talent
for the job.
W hile I'm on the sub-
ject...just a line to the
Birds who should occupy
the stands in MacArthur
gym during contests.
Let's support the cagers
throughout their 13 home
games.
Host Control Class
Sixteen members of the
Production Control class
visited two Houston fac-
tories during the Thanks -
giving holiday. On the
morning of Dec. 3, this
group of business students
studied job-lot production
control at Gulf Forge
Com pany and watched
forging operations.
Mr. Neal Nuttall, presi-
dent of Gulf Forge and
former Beaum ont resi-
dent, treated the group of
management majors to
lunch at one of Houston's
nicer restaurants.
Monday a f t e rn o on was
spent at Reed Roller Bit
Company. Here an excel-
lent presentation of pro-
duction control using IBM
tabulating equipment and
electronic computers was
made. This integrated
system also included in -
ventory control and cost
control.
After the discussion pe-
riod, small groups were
taken through the complete
bit m anufacturing se-
quence and production
control procedure in the
Reed Roller Bit factory.
Lutherans Install
National Club
The Lutheran students of
Missouri Synod, who have
been organized in an unof-
ficial group for the last
two years on the campus of
Lamar Tech, were offici-
ally chartered into the na-
tional association of their
church's college students
on Monday night, Nov. 26.
These students became
members of Delta Sigma
chapter of Gamma Delta,
National A s s o c i a tion of
Lutheran students of the
Synodical Conference.
Saturday, Dec. 8, four
m e mb e r s of this group
plan to attend the pre-con-
vention meeting of the
Texas Region of Gamma
Delta at Blinn College in
Brenham, Texas.
The purpose of this meet-
ing is to make plans for
the annual regional con-
vention to be held in Lub-
bock next February.
Favored Owls
The Cardinals reached a
high point in their early
season exhibitions against
the highly favored Owls of
Rice Institute.
A substantial 25 point fa-
vorite, the Owls were ex-
pected to have just a good
brisk workout with tneir
midget opponents. How-
ever, the workout became
so brisk that the towering
"WHOO-Birds" found
themselves laboring under
a 12 point deficiet 11 min-
utes into the first half.
So complete was the do-
mination by the Cards that
they led the Owls in every
department until the last
minutes of the contest
when Owl experience be-
gan to tell on the 'high'
Redbirds. The Cards
forced many mistakes
from Owl cagemen who be-
fore Monday's embarrass-
ment were picked along
with SMU as favorites to
cap ture the tough South-
west Conference.
Gerry Thomas, hustling
Owl guard was high point
man of the evening with 17
markers. Two Rice sky-
scrapers, Temple Tucker
and Bob Robitaille, each
6-10, were handled com-
paratively well by the
Birds accounting for only
15 points between them.
Tames Mellard led the
Tech heroics with a 15
MESSIAH
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nity project has also re-
ceived national recogni-
tion by several popular
m a ga z ines and has been
selected Tor overseas
broadcasts over the Arm-
ed Forces' Radio Network.
Miss Edna Brookg of the
Tech music staff will ac-
company her students to
McNeese. This year will
be her 14th year to parti-
cipate in the project.
Miss Brooks, Roma New-
ton, and Gwen Cummins,
playing violin, and Jo Con-
dray, viola, will join the
McNeese orchestra today
for final rehearsals.
Got these in your
holiday plans?
This all-Arrow outfit can make a Christmas
morning. (With a couple of well-placed hints,
it can be yours.) For your Christmas check-
list: this stand-out Cabot sport shirt of
imported cotton flannel, with the new short-point
collar; and two college standbys, Arrow slacks and
University styled crew neck sweaters.
Shirt, .£5.95; sweater, £11.95; slacks, £12.95.
ARROW
. —first in fashion
SHIRTS • TIES • SLACKS
Cards Win First Two
Games on Schedule
The Birds overcame
opening jitters that plagu-
ed them throughout the
first two periods to sew up
an impressive 74-59 de-
cision over an impotent
Luthuran quintette.
Until the Birds found
themselyes in the second
two stanzas they commut-
ed a number of team er-
rors that served to hold
down the eventual totals.
These mistakes were
missing when the buzzer
sounded the third frame
opening and the Cardinals
s 1 o w ly pulled away from
the boys from Sequin.
Ken Roach led the scor-
ing in the Redbird books
with a 25 point credit.
Bob Thompson was second
with 15 merits while Tames
Me 11 a rd and Billy Tubbs
point total, Billy Tubbs and
J. C. Smith following with
11 and 10 respectively.
The heartbreaking loss
to the Owls added another
victory to their string over
the Cards. Tech has never
beaten the Institute al-
though many of the deci-
sions have tieen very nar-
row victories for the
Southwest Conference
power. Monday's game
will not soon leave the
thoughts of the Owl cagers
and stands as a goodwarn-
ingnever to underestimate
, the Big Red Bird,
followed the leaders with
10 each.
On the Luthuran side of
the Ledger, Bill Greaber
registered the maximum
with 17 credits. John
Le s te o ugeon accounting
for 10 or the valuables.
C o m p 1 e t e iy reversing
their showing in the Lu-'
thuran game three days
previous the Birds speed-
ily mounted totals on the
board throughout a nearly
faultless first half. James
Mellard, Tech's sensa-
tional new freshman
starter, compiled 17
points in the first two
p e r i o ds while his mates
c o n t r i buted their bulls-
eyes that mounted the first
half count to a restful 40-
25 lead.
As the second two stanzas
began the Birds seemed to
settle down just slightly.
Scoring only 22 points in
the last 20 minutes of play.
Mellard got only one point
on a gift toss for a high
total of 18 points. Bob
Thompson, Tech's other
forward sensation was
runner-up for the Birds
with 17, followed by Billy
Tubbs who contributed 10
counters.
The only big gun in the
SLI artillery was Derwood
Duke who accounted for 17
digits fo 11 owed by Ron
Boesch who got 12.
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Obenhaus, Leon. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1956, newspaper, December 7, 1956; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499283/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.