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THE PADUCAH POST. PADUCAH. TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1955
SLIPPERY BALL
Both teams showed them-
selves jumpy and butter finger-
ed in Friday night’s game..
Childress recovered five of six
Paducah fumbles while the
Dragons grabbed three Bobcat
miscues.
SPORTS
jLEADS RUSHING
(
Brawny Hershell Thaxton,
playing at halfback, led the
line plunging Dragon attack
against Childress with 91 yards
Kelly Biddy was second with a
net of 74.
Once A Year Phoenix Hosiery
Bobcat Barron Beats Dragons 33-13
SALE!
SEPTEMBER 15-24
Coach Predicts
Victories After
Much Hard Work
“I don’t know whether it was
condition or morale in the sec-
ond half,” Coach Raymond
Troutman said at Quarterback
Club meeting Monday, "but it
is certainly not going to be con-
dition next time.
“We had our bright spots,” the
burly Dragon mentor said in
his resume of Friday night’s
game with Childress before lo-
cal fans who changed their
meeting place to the field house
because of the P-TA picnic.
‘‘Some people evidently ex-
pected us to just pick up where
we left off last season but you
just can’t lose 13 athletes and
do that,” Troutman said. ‘‘We’re
going to win some ball games
but we’ve got a lot of work
ahead of us.”
G. E. “Cheesy” Coleman was
elected new treasurer of the
Quarterbacks. He takes over
from Noble O. Ingram who Js
retiring from the post after sev-
eral years service.
Two rolls of film, those taken
before the camera went “on the
blink,” were shown of the
Dragon-Bobcat game. The group
discussed securing a new camera
to replace the one now in use
which is giving much trouble.
President Tom Sandlin again
urged members to work on
membership..
BEHIND THE
SCENES IN
BUSINESS
By REYNOLDS KNIGHT
THINGS TO COME — A day-
light enlarger turns microfilm
back into full-sized copies . . .
Attachments for your portable
food mixer will turn it into a
buffer, sander or polisher . . .
A new light switch turns like
a doorknob instead of flipping
up and down. That’s supposed
to make it last longer . . . Toy
plastic wheelbarrows, shovels,
sprinkling cans and flower pots
are rigid enough for realistic use
and flexible enough not to
bruise their small owners if
they fall over them . . . Straw-
berry instant pudding is now
available in addition to stand-
bys like chocolate, vanilla and
butterscotch.
BITS O’ BUSINESS — Metro-
politan New York set a seven-
month record for construction
this year with $1,541 million in
contracts . . . Total energy out-
put for the electric utility in-
dustry was 10,906 kilowatts in
the August 27 week, a near
record ... A total of 1,978 cor-
porations were formed in the
state of New York in July.
LIZARDS WILL
OPEN AGAINST
CROWELL. MON.
Goodwin’s Lizards take on
Crowell junior high team m
their first contest of the season
here Monday at 7:00 p.m.
, Coach Coleman Nichols wish-
es for a little more time to
work some kinks out of his
defense. However, since the
curtain raiser is upon him, he
is keeping his fingers crossed
for the club.
Probable starting lineup for
the Lizards will be:
Player Position
Elvie Henderson
Roger Holly
Doyle Beauchamp
Wylie Jones
Rodney Rochelle
Mike Smith
James Manley
Terry Brooks
Jimmy Brown
Murray Joe Latham
Leon Jordan
Left End
Left Tackle
Left Guard
Center
Right Guard
Right Tackle
Right End
Quarterback
Wingback
Fullback
Tailback
Lizard schedule as recently
formulated is:
Sept. 19, Crowell here.
Oct. 3, Crowell there.
Oct. 10, Chillicothe there.
Oct. 17, Lockett here.
Oct. 24, Chillicothe here.
Oct. 31, Lockett there.
Thompson, Manager
Of Payne, Higgins,
Visits Paducah
Ever wonder who taught
the baseball masterminds
what they know? A man
who schooled a major league
manager in fundamentals
was in Paducah Monday and
Tuesday.
Rags Thompson, Dallas,
was down visiting Kelly
Payne and doing a little
dove hunting. Thompson
■ managed both Payne and
Boston Red Sox Manager
Pinky Higgins during their
semi-pro days.
“He never got a hit all
summer,” laughs Thompson
speaking of Higgins’ "
Mickey Barron — the two
words sum up Paducah’s 33-13
loss to ChildTess Bobcats in the
season opener here Friday night.
The dashing 160 pound vet-
eran halfback knifed through
the Dragon line and somewhat
immobile secondary for a stag-
gering 256 yards rushing. The
remaining Cat backs split 67
yards between them.
A sloppily played first half
ended with the Paducahians
scoring late to lead 7-6. Barron
then shifted into high gear and
ran through the leaden footed
Dragon defense like it didn’t
exist.
Offensively, the Paducah club
was handicapped by having
three natural fullbacks trying
to operate the fast breaking T
formation. With Travis True-
lock doing only light work be-
cause of his injury, the attack
never caught fire.
Hershell Thaxton tried hard j
to look like a halfback but his
rhinocerous-like charges into the
line were more like sensational
fullback plunges. He seldom
went through the line; more
often he just carried the line
with him.
Tommy Goodgame looked like
a good journeyman fullback.
Kelly Biddy threw a couple of
good passes but looked like a
fullback masquerading as quart-
erback when it came to ball
handling.
The Dragon line did a cred-
ible job in the first half but
seemed unable to find a handle
on Barron in the second. With
'their defensive failure, their of-
fensive fumbles multiplied.
After fumbling beginnings in
the first period, Barron got
loose for a 65 yard dash through
the heart of Dragonland and
Childress’ first touchdown.
With minutes to go before
halftime, Biddy tossed a 21
yard gainer to gangling Jerry
McClendon. Biddy added an-
other 23 yards on a fake pass
and run; then Thaxton bulled
over from the one for a touch-
down and tried the land route
again over left guard for the
extra point.
Slippery Mickey set up the
second Bobcat score with runs
of 38 and 15 yards on the first
STATISTICS
Paducah Childress
14 First Downs 12
201 Net Yards Rushing 323
28 Yards Passing 0
2 of 5 Passes Completed 0 of 1
4 for 24 Punt Average 1 for 29
5 Fumbles Lost 3
36 Yards Penalized 15
series of downs after half. When
Dan Howard finished working
left end for six points, Barron
added the seventh over right
tackle.
Harold Smith recovered a ball
on the Paducah 39 and seconds
later Barron again went through
right tackle for the entire dis-
tance and the second Childress
touchdown of that period.
Another recovery lit another
drive which Howard capped with
a 10 yard sprint through the
right side to score and Rodney
Mullins’ toe added the extra.
With their third consecutive
fumble, Paducah let Childress
have the ball within 35 yards of
the point line. Barron promptly
trotted through right tackle for
that distance and Mullins again
kicked the point.
Finally getting the ailing
Troutman - Higdon machine
cranked up, Biddy dashed 27
yards. Thaxton followed with
15 more and Goodgame added
nine which took the ball with-
in an eyelash of scoring. No-
body was able to stop Thaxton
through center for the last
touchdown.
MIGRATION
BIT EARLY
season m the “Dallas ma-
jors” under him in 1927.
Higgins has led the once
ailing Red Sox out of the
second division and into the
thick of the pennant fight
since taking over from aging
boy wonder Lou Boudreau
this year. He is a top can-
didate for Manager of Year.
Thompson, who managed
both professional and semi-
pro teams during his career,
owns a cabin at Lake Pauline
where he and his wife fre-
quently vacation.
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Texas Tech’s Red Raiders
hope to change history in their
game with the University of
Texas in Austin Saturday night.
Through the years, Texas has
never lost an opening game at
home. Furthermore, so far, in
seven starts, Texas Tech has
never beaten the University of
i Texas.
The migration trend among
the preliminary flights of south-
ward bound birdlife seems a
little ahead of schedule this
fall, Game Warden Tom Waddell
r_— of Eagle Lake reported to Aus-
first! tin headquarters of the Game
and Fish Commission.
Waddell, veteran field observ-
er down in the Colorado County
cancentration area, said the
first cool spell reached the
fringe of the Gulf Coast area
about ten days early and had
a proportionate effect on mi-
grants.
Among the ducks, blue wing
teals and pintails arrived on
the average time and in normal
numbers but the fleet green
winged teal came in unusually
large numbers yet at about the
usual time.
Assorted song birds moved
in, bunched up and got ready
for further southward movement
strictly on schedule, said Wad-
dell who has kept comparative
records on wildlife movement
for more than 30 years.
And he noted that live oak
acorns started falling ten days
earlier this year than last and
the buck deer began rubbing
velvet off their horns 14 days
earlier this year. “So fall looks
a little early,” he concluded.
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THE EDITOR
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Indian Darby family of Lawton,
Okla., passed through Paducah
en route to California, and visit-
ed with their long-time friend,
Mrs. W. D. Powers, for a few
hours. They entertained the
Powers family some two or
more hours with the latest gos-
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Scouting Growing
By Leaps, Bounds,
Says W. S. Heatly
Scouting in the Northwest
Texas Council has grown by
leaps and bounds in the last
five years, Bill Heatly, member
of the Executive Board, said
yesterday. The Boy Scouts is
a worthwhile organization in
our community supported by
independent Finance Campaigns.
“We are looking forward to
a record year in 1956,” Bill
Heatly added. “In 1950 we had
4,549 boys in Scouting locally,
this year the average number
has been 5,017.”
This healthy growth in Scout-
ing was achieved through the
fine work of many volunteer
workers in churches and other
organizations sponsoring Scout
units, the Scout executive said.
At the present time there are
165,000 members in the Scouting
movement in Texas. Statistic-
ally, this amounts to one of
every 4.7 boys of Scouting age,
Boy Scout figures show.
In 1956, the Boy Scouts hope
to reach more youngsters in
Texas. “Every Texas boy want-
ing to become a Scout must be
enabled to do so, our whole
effort must be vastly expanded.
“We must give more help to
churches and other sponsors of
units. Likewise, our camping
facilities must be expanded. It
is always good to remember
that all these young Texans
are helping themselves de-
velop physical fitness, skill, self
reliance, courage and high
ideals of service to God and
country,” Bill Heatly said. “Your
contributions to the Boy Scout
independent campaign will help
us reach our goal.”
Some of the budget raised in
thirteen counties will go toward
the upkeep of Camp Perkins,
where hundreds of local young-
sters enjoy summer camp each
year. Last year more than 780
camper weeks were spent there
by youngsters getting the thrills
of their lives.
DAUGHTER ARRIVES IN
DON WHITAKER HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Don Whitaker
of Plainview announces the birth
of a daughter, Donna Elaine,
Saturday, Sept. 3, in Richards
Memorial Hospital. She weigh-
ed six pounds, ten ounces.
Grandparents are Mrs. Ivy
Gunn of this city and Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Whitaker of Matador.
Mrs. Gunn visited the past week
in the home.
JUNIOR IN PRAIRIE VIEW
A«SM COLLEGE
Shirley Ann Brown has re-
turned to Prairie View A&M
[College for her junior year. Ma-
joring in music, she has been
an honor student each year
since enrolling there. She is
also a member of the honorary
society, and daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ira Brown.
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Paducah, Texas
Sept. 12, 1955
Editor Paducah Post
Dear Editor:
“I want to thank the. few
that came to our meeting at
the courthouse Monday night to
discuss the Supreme Court’s de-
cision on the segregation issue.
I believe the ones who did at-
tend were interested, but I was
shocked that so few showed up.
It was rumored around that I
was going to run the colored
people down, but such was not
the case. I am not trying to
fight the colored people as some
seem to think, but our constitu-
tion is at stake. If the Supreme
Court’s decision is not reversed,
our constitution doesn’t mean a
thing, because it certainly is
not abiding by it.
“I wonder if people are more
interested in sports than our
country, since seeing the in-
terest in the last football game
and such little interest in our
country’s affairs, it makes one
stop and think. I am not
against sports. There is no
harm in a football game, as it
is good clean sport, but we have
always heard of an old saying
of Ceasear fiddling, while Rome
burned. I wonder if that isn’t
what the American people are
doing? We are turning so much
attention to sports, and so little
to our country’s affairs. Don’t
forget the communists are not
asleep . . . they are working
to destroy our very constitution,
and if we don’t wake-up to
the fact we are going to wish
we had, after it is too late. I
believe we should remember
what our forefathers went
through at Valley Forge and
also the Alamo that we might
have the freedom we now have,
but it is not for long if we don’t
reverse the Supreme Court’s de-
cision. Our Supreme Court Jus-
tices swore when they took of-
fice that they would abide by
the Federal constitution to pre-
serve our liberty. They failed
to do that when they ruled that
segregation was not constitu-
tional, because there isn’t any-
thing in the constitution to
justify the court to tell us who
we shall associate with. It does
say we should all have equal
rights. It doesn’t say that
colored and white people had
to go to the same school. There
can still be equal rights and
be separated. I don’t believe
for a minute that the majority
of colored people want to have
mixed schools and I want to say
right here, to make myself
clear, I think we should improve
the colored schools. They are
entitled to just as good schools
as we are as that is in keeping
with our constitution.
“The constitution does say
equal rights for all, but it
doesn’t say to mix the races in
our schools. We cire violating
Texas law by letting some of
our schools desegregate, because
we do have a law on our sta-
tute books that says the schools
in Texas are to be operated on
a segregated basis. That law
has not been repealed and can
not legally be in any way, only
by a vote of the people. There
is no court that can legally re-
peal that law. The judge at
Big Spring didn’t abide by Texas
law when he ruled that the
Supreme Court was legal. Didn’t
he take an oath that he would
: abide by the constitution and
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PARAGRAPHS
With the annual picnic hon-
oring the school faculty serving
the official kick-off, another
P-TA year began.
The success of this year de-
pends on the cooperation of
you, as parents. The words
parent-teacher association very
aptly explain in themselves
just \what P-TA stands for. The
association and cooperation of
parents and teachers in a com-
munity means a better sehool
system. During the nine-months
school term the teachers, in
whom is rested the responsibil-
ity of our childrens’ education,
are with our children during
more of their waking hours
than we are.
about the law that says Texas
schools should be segregated?
The Supreme Court could not
repeal that law. I am afraid
someone is just jumping to con-
clusions instead of facts. Yes,
you can put anything over if
it is not contested, but don’t
forget this is going to be con-
tested. I believe in our coun-
try and what it stands for, and
I for one, am not going to be
caught fiddling, while the com-
munists take over. Let’s be
about our country's business,
as it is very important.
“You never miss the water
until the well runs dry. Think
it over.”
H. G. BLACKWELL
Box 1126
Paducah, Texas
Are you interested in know-
ing the teachers better? If so,
make an effort to attend every
P-TA meeting this year. It will
be your privilege to enjoy edu-
cational, interesting and enter-
taining programs, learn what
your P-TA is doing to benefit
the schools and enjoy a pleas-
ant informal period with other
parents and teachers.
Somehow, down through the
years it has become a general-
ly accepted idea that P-TA
meetings are for mothers. Dur-
ing the past two years night
meetings have been held to en-
courage the interest of fathers.
This year we hope that fathers
will be able to set aside enough
time every third Tuesday of
each month to attend the meet-
ings.
The purpose of this weekly
column will be to inform and
remind you of P-TA activities.
In the weeks to follow a sum-
mary of P-TA projects and ac-
complishments will be published
to help you better appreciate
the efforts of your P-TA.
VISIT IN BROWNFIELD
Mr. and Mrs. Suttle Majors
and Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hind-
man attended morning services
at the First Methodist Church,
Brownfield, Sunday and visited
with Rev. James E. Tidwell and
family.
Rev. Tidwell was formerly
pastor of the local Methodist
Church.
REPRESENTATIVE SAUL
VISITS HEATLY HERE
LeToy Saul, Kress, visited
State Representative W. S. Heat-
ly here Friday. Saul is state
representative from the 89th
district.
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