The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1953 Page: 8 of 12
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THE PADUCAH POST. PADUCAH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1953
IN APPRECIATION TO SQUAD , , n
Nothing cheers the cheer leader like a good turn-out tor a
Pep Rally showing a will to follow the direction of the leaders.
With the sun beating down at the noon hour, the first such
f"ttfS!n7outg"n! rf Mldtf tor ttferSfiSt ‘demonstration
Of-their skill last Thursday. . „ x .. . .
For weeks the girls have practiced at the school. They have
their uniforms in readiness. They know their yells. Now they
appreciate the “followship” of the high school Pep Squad in the
early practice sessions.—NIG.___
POOL
M*AOQUA*TERS
TEXAS STATE
COLLECT ro« WOMfM
Dcnton.Ttxot
i on on
Squad Elect Brown
For Pep President
Jimmie Brown, a senior girl,
was chosen to lead the Pep
Squad section as president for
this year when the 50 or 60
girls met in the Auditorium at
noon early last week.
Sponsors this year are Miss
Margurite Mathis, English and
Math teacher, and Miss Lyda
Kelley, new commercial teach-
er. Jimmie will make bus ar-
rangements and manage the
Pep Squad section under the
direction of these sponsors.
Other officers in the Pep
Squad are Kara Jean Wall, an
enthusiastic senior athlete her-
self, and Rachel Haston, a soph-
omore who trained last year for
girls’ athletics.
Head cheer leader is Rose
Marie Ellis. The six cheer lead-
ers will wear orange skirts with
white, long-sleeved turtle-neck
sweaters, white loafers and or-
ange socks. The other five cheer
• leaders are Glenda Flippin, Jan-
1 is Jones, Jane Hutchinson, Neta
Lois Griffin and Joy Winton.
The Pep Squad voted to dress
Uniformly and will wear cordu-
roy jumper dresses and white
long-sleeved blouses. The school
tried out the all-student cheer-
ing section, but returned to the
selective section with girls uni-
formly dressed again this year.
The cheering section enters the
gate free at home games and at
most out-of-town games.
James Gets Offices
Locally, In District
Sammie James, student coun-
cil president, was selected the
new Future Farmers of Ameri-
ca president at . an election held
last week. James was elected
later in the week to the spot
of third vice president in the
district.
Other officers are Doyle Par-
nell, vice president; Bill Eblen,
secretary; Donald Smith, report-
er; Bobby Jones, treasurer;
Wayne Adams, sentinel; Billy
Burns, historian; Douglas Yar-
brough, second vice president;
Charles Beatty, parliamentarian;
and Donald Love, third vice
president.
After the buisness the boys
enjoyed some vollyball until
9:30 for recreation.
K. L. Neeley, new vocational
agriculture teacher, directs the
Paducah chapter of FFA.
THE WEST WIND
Volume 27
No. 1
Band Director Seeks
Full Instrumentation,
Attractive Marching.
W. H. Adams, new PHS band
director, is attempting to have
35 musicians to bring a complete
instrumentation at an early date.
In order to improve the looks
of the band, several hours have
already been spent on marching
procedures and routines.
Drum Major Ruth Bradford
will be one of the five attrac-
tions in front of the band. Other
high-stepping co-eds are Pat
Love, Penny Kissel, Vera Mur-
ray, Jo Ann Bradford and little
Miss Sheryl Kay Long.
Several new pieces of equip-
ment have been added. A new
white drum set will supplant
the old ones. Miss Bradford has
a new Drum Major’s uniform
and a shiny signal baton.
The band played at the open-
ing game with Lockney last Fri-
day night.
FT A Ta\e Duties
In First Week
At Goodwin School
Several members * of the Fu-
ture Teacher Association are al-
ready doing duty at Goodwin.
With the loss of teachers in the
reduced enrollment situation
caused by the drouth and cat-
tle price drop, responsible high
school students are at a pre-
mium, stated Ray Felty, ele-
mentary principal at Goodwin
school.
The present schedule obtains:
Joy Ann Winton, first hour,
Monday, Wednesday and Friday;
Shirley Majors and Marion
Woodardv alternating in the
fourth grade; Bill Cartwright,
fourth grade on Tuesday and
Thursday; Ruth Wilson and La-
Villas Havins, fourth grade at
fourth period daily; and Doro-
tha Fish, seventh grade, sixth
period, Monday, Wednesday and
Friday.
Other members of the organ-
Glamour Gals
By Glenda
School opened with a siege
of warm weather and a contin-
uation of summer frocks.
Four senior girls take the
spotlight: Shirley Majors in a
blue broadcloth trimmed in
white stitching and sporting a
new short hair-do; Norma June
Hardin, a doll in black and
white print with white pique
trim in a bow down the' back;
Jane Hutchinson in pink pique
with shirred waist and white
lace trimmed back; and Ger-
alda Whatley in yellow print
skirt and yellow squaw moc-
casins, red contour belt and
white blouse.
Girls sporting the fad of
large loop earrings (the size of
small bracelets) were Dorotha
Fish, Jane Hutchinson, Neta Lois
Griffin, Phyllis Maxwell and
Cynthia Keith.
Especially noticed for their
short hair styling are Sue Sand-
lin, Nadaiah and Nynvia Seals,
Cheer Leaders
Collect For Ads,
Finance Megs
New megaphones for the six
cheer leaders were paid for
when the girls collected $120
worth of advertising for the
football programs the week be-
fore school opened under the
direction of Raymond Troutman,
football coach.
The girls went in pairs and
collected 23 ads at $5 each and
one for $10.
The girls were Rose Marie
Ellis, Neta Lois Griffin, Jane
Hutchinson, Glenda Flippin, Joy
Winton and Janis Jones. The
megaphones cost $3 each.
Junior High
Lizards Work Out
Under Nichols
Hot weather last week and
the fact that only three experi-
enced men are ’ on the team
didn’t stop the Junior High Liz-
ards under the direction of Cole-
man Nichols.
The season will probably
open Sept. 18, Nichols said.
Boys sweating it out on the
west campus were Eddie White,
J)arrel Hanks, Royce Carr, Ron-
ald Yarbrough, Newton Buck-
ley, Tommy Richards, Bob Cog-
dell, Royce Gann, Billy Mac
Teel, Cecil Townley, Jerry Sossa-
man, Eugene Whatley, Bobby
Lawson, Grady Ford, Jackie Bid-
dy, James Pressley, Charles
Johnson, Paul Buckley and Don-
ald James.
The managers are Richard
Wilson and Dorman Smith.
ization may be called upon for Joy Ann Winton, Gale Blair, Sa-
aid later on, Miss Katherine j rah Mints, Linda Beatty, Barbara
Simmons, sponsor, said. Tate and Billie Skates.
Garth, Eblen, Thaxton, Bratton
Lead Four High School Classes
?53-’54 SESSION OPENS WITH DROP
{N0TY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Drag<
;ons Dehorn
Lockney Longhorns
Tn the opening game of the
"season, Paducah Dragons stomp-
ed the Lockney Longhorns 25-0
at Dragon stadium, Friday, Sept.
11.
Touchdowns were scattered
to Morris 2, Sandefur 1 and
Buckley 1. Tye kicked one extra
point.
To Paducah’s 12 first downs,
Lockney stacked up three—all
In the fourth quarter.
The Dragons made most of
their gains on the ground.
The scoring was scattered
throughout the game: Morris
ran around left end for 40
yards in first quarter. In sec-
ond quarter, Sandefur passed
to Morris for 17 yards. Extra
point by Tye was good.
In the third quarter, Sandefur
ran 15 yards around right end
for six points. In the fourth
quarter, Buckley ran through
left tackle for four yards for
the last six points to run the
score 25-0.
Bearded Folk Singer
Entertains School
Terry Golden, bearded trouba-
dour and ballad singer, charmed
an audience of high school and
elementary students in the first
Southern Assembly of the year,
Sept. 10.
Golden sang authentic Amer-
ican and English folksongs, ac-
companied by his guitar. He
gave comments on the back-
ground of folk legends and
mythology of the songs. His pe-
tite brunette wife danced.
His life has been almost as
varied as his background. After
concentrating on biology, music
and romance languages in
schools, he has been a dude
■wrangler in every capacity from
■horse doctoring to bus driving
and entertaining. He was a
member of the Border Patrol, a
school teacher, a rock mill op-
erator, a folk singer and a
square-dance caller.
Mr. Golden has been enter-
taining school audiences for
three years. From Paducah, he
left for schools of Crowell, Quan-
ah and Vernon, he said.
More than 650 students re-
turned to their classrooms in
Paducah schools Monday, Sep-
tember 7. This was 30 students
fewer in high school than at
this same time last year, stated
J. A. Williams, principal, and
150 fewer throughout the sys-
tem.
In high school the enrollment
runs as follows: seniors 32;
iuniors 45; sophomores 35, and
freshmen 57.
The Goodwin elementary
school with grades four to eight
leads in school enrollment with
257 students: eighth grade 45;
seventh grade 46; sixth grade
58; fifth grade 37 and fourth
grade 71. The principal is Ray
Felty.
At the Alamo school, Miss
Irene Tippen, principal, 200 stu-
dents in the first three grades
were present the first day of
school: third grade 51; second
grade 70 and third grade 51.
The Dunbar school registered
28 students from grades one
through twelve. O. B. Allen is
principal.
Due to the drouth and drop
in cattle prices, many families
left Paducah during the sum-
mer months to find work else-
where.
Seniors Select
Oblong Design
For New Rings
The “Oh, so happy” smiles on
.the faces of the seniors comes
from the fact that their rings
were ordered the third day they
came to school.
Joe Black from the Star En-
graving Company displayed a
large variety of new patterns
last Wednesday at 1 o’clock to
the 32 seniors. For five minutes
the oh’s and ah’s held sway in
Room 23.
The class finally centered on
a ring with an oblong design
with initials and date. Most of
the orders show a blue set be-
hind the center design; three
ordered the red set; and several
settled for solid gold.
With good luck the seniors
are looking forward to wearing
rings in six to eight weeks. Un-
til then they will have to satis-
fy themselves thinking how
dressed-up they will be when
they arrive.
Besides nearly $10 for football
tag money, the seniors deposit-
ed $96 the morning after the
selection, stated Glenda Flip-
pin, treasurer.
® Four boys were elected class
presidents Wednesday of last
week during Activity period:
Glenn Garth, senior; Bill Eb-
len, junior; Hershall Thaxton,
sophomore; and Jimmy Bratton,
freshman.
At this 45-minute period, all
officers and citizen sponsors
were also chosen by the class-
es.
Other senior officers are as
follows: Richard Crider, vice
president; Jane Hutchinson, sec-
retary; Glenda Flippin, treasur-
er; Rose Marie Ellis, reporter;
and Neta Lois Griffin and Bill
PHS PUNS
Sarah Mints Gets
Black Eye In Class
Sarah Mints, freshman, trip-
ped over her sister Peggy’s foot
during basketball practice last
Wednesday and fell against
the door to bring a black eye
and knot on her forehead for
several days. That morning Sa-
rah had taken out accident in-
surance with the school for $1.
Although the Coach Jim Hig-
don, applied an ice pack, the
fall brought a trip to the doc-
tor.
Rose Marie Ellis spoke for
the senior class when she said,
“I surely am glad we didn’t or-
der our rings from last year’s
patterns. We are getting newer
models by waiting until now.”
* * *
If more drivers would give
ground, there would be fewer
in it.
* * *
It’s easy to eat your cake
and have it, too. That’s why so
many of us can’t get into last
year’s clothes.
* * *
Let each of us accept the
blame if we depart no wiser
than we came.
* * *
Kenneth Tippen might like to
know that Richard Crider re-
moved the facing to the journal-
ism lab door and corrected the
misfit lock condition. That was
Kenneth’s problem most of the
year last year. This year’s jour-
nalism lab students don’t have
to get mad to shut the door
now.
Everybody that walks with
a jerk and a frown is not old
at PHS. Some are trying to live
over gym workouts directed by
John Higdon, stated Kara Jean
Wall. Most of the football went
through that feeling during the
last days of August, we under-
stand.
The Sweepings
A familiar sight: crowds at
the water cooler—freshmen, us-
ually bringing up the rear, for
some reason.
* * *
Don Brothers at the FFA
meeting last week as he gave
up the presidency: ‘There are
only two things I hate to leave
Paducah for college: FFA and
Dorotha.” (Dorotha Fish is
Don’s steady.)
* * *
We saw—
Seniors excited over the se-
lection of class rings . . . the
band braving the hot sun and
sand to practice marching in
preparation for cooler nights to
come on the sidelines support-
ing the Dragons . . . Cards with
“De-Horn Lockney Longhorns”
sold by the. seniors.
We heard—
That Buddy Liedtke worked
his 75 problems in Business
Arithmetic first of all others in
the class. He even beat Jack
Powell and Bill Cartwright, stat-
ed Miss Mathis.
* * *
Several alumni visiting in the
halls last week represented
classes as far back as 1952:
George Woodley, Joe Don Brooks,
Jane Tye, Mae Hull, Delia and
Jimmy Goodgame from Midland,
Karita Morris and Tommy J.
Boley.
1953 seniors have a time
staying away, too: Bill Biddy,
Raymond Long, Jerrell North-
cutt, Tommy Kerr, Yvonne An-
derson, Liza Long* Don Brothers,
Kenneth Tippen and George
Bowling.
* * *
Terry Don Petty now of
Plainview, was visiting friends
in town Sunday afternoon, Sept.
6.
* * *
Not enough boys to play a
shorthand which she can’t read
either.
* * *
The teacher’s footsteps can be
heard.
Someone gasps, “What page
is it today?”
Someone else says, “Sh, here
he is.”
A third gets up nerve to re-
mark aloud: “Good morning,
teacher.”
The answer: “What’s good
If you can’t decipher what a j about it?”-^Guess who(JAW)
person keeps making over and' -
over, the chances are she is. An ostrich can kick hard
trying to make something in | enough to kill a man.
Cartwright, Student Council rep-
resentative’s.
Junior officers supporting Eb-
len are Doyle Parnell, vice pres-
ident; Dorotha Fish, secretary-
treasurer; Ruth Wilson, reporter;
and Beverly Hinds and Jack
Powell, Student Council repre-
sentatives.
Sophomore officers backing
Thaxton are Donald Love, vice
president; Penny Kissel, secre-
tary-treasurer; Homer Long, re-
porter; and Robert Smith and Jo
Ann Bradford, Council repre-
sentatives.
Other freshmen officers be-
sides Bratton are Travis True-
lock, vice president; Joe Wilson,
secretary-treasurer; Phyllis Max-
field, reporter; and Nancy Cog-
dell and Terry Yarbrough, coun-
cil representatives.
Citizen sponsors elected are
as follows: Senior—Claud Flip-
pin and four mothers from the
class: Mrs. James Garth, Mrs.
Mutt Hamilton, Mrs. Neda Rich-
ardson and Mrs. Elroe Buckley;
Juniors—Mrs. Bernie Fish, Mrs.
Chester Havins, Mrs. Shirley
Sandefur, Mrs. Jack Parnell, Mrs.
Bill Eblen; Sophomores—Mrs.
Shirley Sandefur, Mrs. Truman
White, Mrs. Homer Biddy; and
Freshmen—Mrs. Edward Beck,
Mrs. F. C. Harmon, Mrs. Chester
Havins and Mrs. Rex Keith.
A sales campaign was turned
over to a committee of six: Bud-
dy Liedtke, Richard Crider, Wel-
don Grant, Norman June Hardin,
Darlene Willis and Barbara
Hamilton.
The senior boys accepted the
$180 job of keeping the band
and vocational agriculture
rooms swept daily for the year,
which Alton Farr, superinten-
dent, offered toward the year’s
senior expenses. (Note: Kenneth
Buckley and Norman Beachamp
were the first to go on duty.)
Green Hands Elect
Terry President
\\
Elections were in the air last
week, and the agriculture
Greenhands were not slow pick-
ing up the trend.
At one of the regular class
sessions, first year vocational
agriculture boys selected their
officers for the year, with Stan-
ley Terry, president.
Under the direction of the
teacher, K. L. Neeley, other of-
ficers were selected to number
nine: Jerry McClendon, vice
president; Travis Truelock, re-
porter; Lonnie Allen, treasurer;
Terry Yarbrough, secretary;
Thomas Lee Willis, sentinel;
Jerry Sturdivant, parliamenta-
rian; Joe Wilson, historian; Don
Smith, second vice president;
and Thomas Mayberry, third
vice president.
Club meetings are held the
second Tuesday night of every
month with second and third
year boys performing the offi-
cial parts. If one is absent, mem-
bers of the Greenhand organi-
zation are called on to supply.
The parts are known from mem-
ory and are reviewed at each
meeting previous to the actual
business session.
Thirty Girls Make .
Bids For Berths On
Basketball Team
Beginning with 11 veterans
and losing only two seniors,
the new basketball team of 30
girls started with a bang under
the direction of John Higdon,
coach, early last week.
Approximately 15 freshmen,
seven sophomores, eight juni-
ors and six seniors have been
doing strenuous exercises to de-
velop coordination and to build
strength during practice periods.
“The girls should develop a
good machine. They have had
experience together, they have
height and speed,” stated Mr.
Higdon.
Besides playing new teams
(placed in a new district this
year), the girls will accept in-
vitations to at least three tour-
naments, the coach said.
FROM 43 SPRING SENIORS
19 TO STUDY ELSEWHERE
Payments Almost
Equal Collections
Out of a total of 377 students
and faculty members who took
out accident insurance last year,
only 16 collected. However, this
netted $212 on an average of $13
each.
The largest collection came
from dental correction follow-
ing an accident with an auto-
mobile in front of the Alamo
building. This amounted to' $46.
Second place was a broken arm
for $45. Smaller renumerations
were as' low as $5 and $4 for
minor injuries.
Insurance blanks were issu-
ed last week, but there is yet
time to take advantage of the
$1 protection offered in the
group plan, stated Alton Farr,
superintendent of schools.
game of ping pong could have
been found in the high school
building Tuesday morning. Mr.
Troutman had every able-bod-
ied boy on a bus and out at the
football field moving bleachers
from the baseball to the foot-
ball field.
* * *
Then several days later VA
boys came back to school with
calloused hands after a session
or so trying to repair the dam-
age from having to move the
bleachers. DREAM: new bleach-
ers to care for the visitors which
do not require a new life in-
surance to be safe.
Spur Photographer
Makes Pictures
Tom Morgan of Spur made
pictures for yearbook, the Zeph-
yr, Monday and Tuesday of this
week. Pictures began with the
faculty on Monday at High
School and closed Tuesday at
the Alamo.
Under the direction of Miss
Lyda Kelley, sponsor, members
of the yearbook staff collected
50 percent of the advertising
irom local merchants before
school opened, stated Beverly
Thompson, editor.
Alligators cannot swallow un-
less completely submerged.
Eight Are Married;
Others Are Working
From the 43 graduating se-
niors, 13 are attending Texas
colleges and universities, four
are in business and nursing
schools, eight have married, and
the rest are working in Padu-
cah or out of town. _
In colleges are these: Don Bro-
thers, Charles Moss and Tommy
Williford at Texas Tech at Lub-
bock; Kenneth Tippen and Mary
Lou Drummond, John Tarleton
at Stephenville; Truitt Read,
Sul Ross; Bill Mon Biddy and
Liza Long at West Texas State
at Canyon; Coy Hutchison, Jim-
my Cribbs and Fred McCreary,
McMurray at Abilene; Suzanne
Carr at Baylor University at Wa-
co; and June Marie Biddy, at
Hardin-Simmons at Abilene.
In business college: Melba
Fields, Plainview; in Nurse’s
Training are Jerlene Fields at
Stephenville; Julia Riley, and
Norma Jean Mote, Amarillo.
Working out of town are 10:
Yvonne Anderson, Dallas; Shir-
ley Laws, Los Alamos; Myrl
Chapman, Tatum, N. M.; Travis
Gilbert, Tatum; Carl Kent Black,
Odessa; Bennie Branford, Ozona;
John Ross Campbell, Hobbs, N.
M.; Shirley Cross, Amarillo; Vi-
ola Paschal, Fort Worth; Betty
Johnson, Lubbock.
Working in Paducah: Charles
Hobbs at Texaco Station; Ray-
mond Long, mechanic; Freddie
Bess Sandlin, Frozen Food Lock-
er; Adelle Long and Tommye
Kerr, telephone operators.
Nine of the seniors married:
Nancy Norrell and Thomas Tur-
ner, now living in Wichita Falls.
Kathryn Sanderson became Mrs.
Joe Potter; Joan Ellis, Mrs. Rich-
ard Guinn since last Christmas;
Patsy Carpenter, Mrs. Walter
Liedtke, since last spring; Helen
Scott, now Mrs. James King;
FIRST P. A. DEVOTIONAL
IS BROUGHT BY D. FISH
Dorotha Fish, a junior,
brought the first weekly devo-
tional, Tuesday, Sept. 8, over
the public address system.
Reading from the inspiration-
al essay by Max Ehrman, she
called it “Today’s Lift.”
“Speak your truth quietly and
clearly, and listen to others, ev-
en to the dull and ignorant;
they too have their stories,”—
one of the statements caught
with clarity. Another was “Keep
interested in your own career,
however humble; it is a real
possession in the changing for-
tunes of time.”
The Student Council sponsors
this service to the school.
BABY SKUNK VISITS P. E.
CLASS FOR SHORT SESSION
It wasn’t April Foal or Hal-
loween, but a baby skunk re-
ported to, the gym for workout
at fourth period boy’s PE last
Thursday.
After the baby skunk had
visited awhile, the principal de-
cided he’d better be removed.
Now that called for real stami-
na. Doyle Powell may never
have the same many friends
again after his encounter.
However, Wild Bill Eblen,
better known as a wild animal
trainer, carried the little beast
to VA for Koye Neeley to deal
with. Removal of the skunk did
not mean removal of the scent.
Joyce Allen, now Mrs. Kirbie
Campbell; Vera Yarbrough,
now Mrs. Bill Scott; and Patsy
Thornton, now Mrs. Billy Ken-
ney.
Ben Marrs and Jerrell North-
cutt were farming at the last
report; and George Bowling,
presently loafing, but waiting
on a job, he reported.
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