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THE PADUCAH POST, PADUCAH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1954
BAUD CAPS WANTED
band members are asked to look about their
IiomS for these caps. Anyone finding one of the missing caps may
return it to the superintendent’s office.—DMc
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BY WORKING TOGETHER DOES IT
Because nations cooperate, we know of the Big Four, the Atlan-
tic Pact and the United Nations. Because teachers cooperate, a
school moves with little friction. How immature are students who
can throw a kink in an otherwise good idea! ,
Teachers are with us to give us a right turn here, a head-in
here and are equipped to inform on many topics at many levels of
difficulty Just as our leaders are dedicated to serve, are there a
' misfits who are dedicated to disrupt? Look in the mirror! How
do vou rank in cooperation? Grow up, fellow! Young lady, you are
drfeating vour own purposes when you do not cooperate with your
Sructon ^Signed—A student who has noticed your poor perform-
ance.—KC _________—-
THE WEST WIND
Volume 27
No. 25
Band Places Third
In A Division
At Irish Parade
fOUHOED
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PRESS
POOL
MrAOQuAtvrens
TEXAS STATE
COLLEGE
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Co-Editors: Joy Winton and
Hal Sandefur.
Reporters from Journalism
CSass: Ruth Bradford, Jerry
Goodwin, Sonny Grant, Jerry
Mowrey, Donald McCain, Don
Clark, Shirley Majors, Marion
Woodard, Geralda Whatley,
Jane Hutchinson, Glenn
Garth, David Morris, Richard
Crider, Barbara Hamilton.
Sponsor: Miss Katherine Sim-
mons.
Principal: J. A. Williams.
Superintendent: Alton Farr.
Girls’ Basketball
Squad Gets Sweaters
In Called Meeting
Exactly 13 members of the
girls’ basketball squad were
made happy last week when
they were presented white all-
wool sweaters trimmed with an
orange-colored P based on a
white: , basketball with white
^Coach John L. Higdon present-
ed sweaters to his team: four-
year lettermen—Rose Mane El-
lis, Kara Jean Wall and Bar-
bara Hamilton; three-year—
Peggy Mints, and Pat Hutchi-
son; two-year—Nadaiah Seal
and Nynvia Seal; first-year
Sue Sandlin, Jackie Bearden,
Shirley Majors, Billie Branscum,
Geralda Whatley, and Norma
June Hardin, manager.
Barbara Hamilton, senior, and
Peggy Mints, junior, received
captain stars on their sweaters.
Six reserve lettermen receiving
gold basketballs were Lavilllas
Havens, Pat Beauchamp, Janis
Jones, Pat Sossaman, Beezie
Cobb, and Neva Thompson.
Our Exchanges Say...
FIRST DATE
Oh, Mother, hurry, hurry!
Right now it’s half past four;
My date’s at seven-thirty—
Is that he at the door?
Please, press my new spring
outfit
While I go take a bath.
Tell Dad I’ll be a jiffy,
And pacify his wrath.
Oh, dear, it’s five-o-five;
I haven’t shaved my legs.
Hurry, Mother, hurry.
Get a slip of Meg’s
Now where can that blue ear-
ring be?
This skirt needs taking in.
Is that my best blue sweater?
Has anyone a pin?
At last, I’m ready,—oh, how
nice!
I look just like a dream.
Mother, come here quickly!
I’ve burst another seam.
Mend it quickly, darling.
Oh my, that must be he!
Oh, Mother, do I look all
right?
Mother, look at me.
Why Bob, I’d love to go with
you;
A movie would be swell.
But, do you know, I quite
forgot
Until you rang the bell?
(Closing thought: There is
Members of the Dragon Band
brought back a plaque and
placed third in Class A division,
paced by musicians from Sayre
and Erick, Oklahoma, with
bands twice the size, when they
performed with 17 other bands in
the St. Patrick’s Day celebration
at Shamrock, March 17.
More than 1,000 bandsmen
marched with floats and Irish
colleens in the cool all-day cele-
bration.
The Childress band ranked
first in AAA division, and Spear-
man took honors in class B,
The PHS band were guests
at the free luncheon and enter-
tainment held indoors in the
American Legion hall. Students
differed on the entertainment
which pleased them most, but
most voted for the “Sandie
Swingsters,” a jazz band from
Amarillo high school.
Director Huey Adams and a
band composed of 35 instrumen-
talists and five majorettes and
a band major made the trip,
which began at 8 a.m. from
Paducah.
League One-Ad
Play To Floydada
Tonight, Thursday
The one-act play, “Which
the Way to Boston?” will be
presented at the District Meet
in Floydada, tonight (March 25)
at 7:30.
The first public presentation
of the play was in assembly last
Wednesday when students and
faculty were touched by the pa-
thos portrayed by the four juni-
i ors.
The setting was the living
room of a farm home in Massa-
chusetts. The time was one
evening shortly after supper.
The cast consists of the fol-
lowing: Dorotha Fish as Martha
Harvey, an elderly woman and
wife of John, played by Jack
Powell, a New England farmer,
who admits his superstition and
his knack at chess; Hal Sandefur
as Chris Harvey, a nephew; and
Billie Lou Branscum as Mary
Harvey, Chris’s wife.
Work on the play has been
underway some six weeks under
the direction of Mrs. Vernon
Goodwin, assisted by Mrs. J. T.
Westbrook.
Make-up artists were Glenda
Flippin and Kay Culbertson.
Sound effects and property men,
Homer Long and William Jones.
Two V. A. Winners
Plan College Career
One of the above-six feet se-
nior boys is Delbert Smith,
brown-eyed, neat and an excel-
lent penman, but best known
for his standing in grass-judg-
ing contests the last two years.
Delbert and two of his class-
mates won first place in Canadi-
an this year, and will enter in
Abilene before this paper comes
out, March 23.
Delbert likes to go to Chil-
dress in his yellow ’51 Mercury.
He hopes to study to become a
veterinarian after high school
graduation. He looks forward
to the trip to Galveston, when
the seniors leave Wednesday af-
ter school, May 5.
Another member of the well-
known grass-judging trio which
took so many honors last year
is Bill Hamilton. He has held
offices in FFA since Greenhand
days. Passing up a good chance
of having a broken neck, Bill
was thrown from his horse two
years ago.
This sports-loving, blue-eyed
senior is five feet eleven and
one-half inches tall and weighs
163 pounds. Bill plans to attend
college at Texas Tech, and he,
too, is looking forward to the
Galveston senior trip in May.
Future Homemakers Serve P-TA;
State Workers Address Parents
Green and white cakes made
by members of homemaking
classes, carrying out the St. Pat-
rick’s Day color, were served
to members of the Parent-Teach-
er organization when two state
workers addressed the parents
and teachers and the Dragon
Band played in the high school
auditorium last Tuesday night.
Goodwin room mothers were
hostesses to refreshments of cake
nothine'as safeM as strong aSS*and coffee ear1^ in t5e Pr0Sram‘
nothing as sale or as strong as Mr„ pnhprt Cross, from Anson.
the simple truth.)
The Westerner World
Lubbock High School
SPORTS SHORTS
By Morris
The Paducah Dragons carried
away the banner in the Chil-
dress track meet composed of
Memphis, Quanah, Childress and
Paducah, Tuesday, March 16.
* * *
Coach John L. Hidon distrib-
uted white basketball sweaters
in a special Study Hall session
last Thursday morning to mem-
Mrs. Robert Cross, from Anson,
president of the 14th district,
and Mrs. Earnest Pittman, state
chairman of character and spir-
itual education, brought the
very fine program of the eve-
ning. Mrs. Pittman conducted a
“buzz” session following her re-
marks.
Attendance winners from the
three schools were as follows:
High School freshmen, $2.50,
having the largest attendance
of all; Six Blue at Goodwin, $1;
and One X at Alamo, $1.
Officers elected for next year
were as follows: Mrs. T. J. Rich-
ards, Jr., president; Mrs. Oliver
Biddy, 1st vice president; Mrs.
Marvin Banes, 2nd vice pres-
Four To Laredo
At TASC Meet
Besides sending four stu-
dents to the Texas Association
of Student Councils at Laredo
this week, PHS will further com-
memorate Student Council Week
with a “Know Your School” pro-
gram next week, stated Sammie
James, president.
Theme for the year for Tex-
as councils is “Student Council—
Practice Ground for Responsible
Citizenship.”
Students now in Laredo are
Janis Jones and Hershell Thax-
ton, sophomores; and Ruth Wil-
son and Bill Eblen, juniors. Ac-
companying the group are Mr.
and Mrs. W. O. Jones, Jr., who
plan to attend the conference as
sponsors.
As part of the Student Council
assembly program next week, the
accomplishments, purposes, and
plans of the local council will
be reviewed. Representative
students from the four classes
will be quizzed. The program
was postponed in order to give
the hour to the Howard-Payne
College chorus this week.
Love, White, Majors
Relate Stories
Of Irish Ancestry
Jane Hutchinson
“Irish eyes are smiling
Sure, ’tis like a morning
spring.
In the lilt of Irish laughter,
You can hear the angels
sing . . .”
When St. Patrick’s Day, March
17, rolled around last week, more
than one-fourth of the students
blossomed out in something
green. A sampling poll showed
50 percent of the students and
teachers admitted a liking for
the Irish and at least a little
Irish blood.
Among the boys wearing
green shirts, belts, or sox were
Harold Parks, Stanley Terry,
Bill Hamilton, Jerry Mowrey,
Donald McCain, Troy Riddell,
William Allen, Hal Sandefur,
Don Clark, Jerry McClendon,
Wayne Adams and Hershell
Thaxton.
These girls wore green skirts,
blouses, rings, scarfs, pins or
coats: Lola Richardson, Barbara
Hamilton, Jane Hutchinson, Shir-
ley Kinney, Janis Jones, Glenda
Flippin, • Alice White, Sandra
West, Rachel Haston, Arlene
Chaney, Doris Canon, Rosie El-
lis, Nadaiah Seal and Renae Ro-
chelle.
Alice White, Shirley Majors,
John and Donald Love admit
having Irish ancestors. Shirley
said her grandfather was born
in Ireland. John Love says that
some of his ancestors came
from Ireland on the boat, “Love.”
Alice is Irish on both sides.
Leonardo da Vinci, the paint-
er, was also a sculptor, archi-
tect, engineer, philosopher and
physicist.
PHS PUNS
Liberty is the one thing you
can’t have unless you give it
to others.
* * *
Communism to me is one-
third practice and two-thirds ex-
planation.—Will Rogers
* * *
There is no authentic record
of a cross between the human
race and lower animals of any
species whatever.
jfc s{s 41
Question: Is the backbone of
camel curved upward in the
middle?
Answer: The backbone of the
single-humped camel is not cur-
ved upward in the middle, as
many people suppose. It is. as
straight as the backbone of a
horse or of an elephant.
* * *
Texas has over 125 different
and distinct soil series and some
500 types of soil.
* ❖ *
The average rainfall is un-
der 10 inches in El Paso and
over 50 inches in Port Arthur.
The average snowfall is none
in Brownsville and 24 inches in
Romero.
* * *
The whole of good govern-
ment consists in the art of be-
ing honest.—Thomas Jefferson
# * *
God hath not given us the
spirit of fear; but of power, and
of love, and of sound mind.
Packed House Sees
Musical Revue
“Hipsy Boo”
“Hipsy Boo,” musical revue,
presented by the junior class,
high school auditorium Friday
night, played to a packed house.
Ovation of the large audience
from “first curtain” to the grand
finale, revealed customers “got
their money’s worth.”
Chorus girls, Lavillas Havens,
Beverly Hinds, Vera Murray, Pen-
ney Kissel, Ruth Bradford, Glen-
da Flippin, singing and dancing
“Girls, Girls, Girls,” followed
by a specialty tap number by
H. R. Hester, opened the eve-
ning’s entertainment.
Although Hal Sandefur and
Doyle Parnell turned in fine
performances in the number,
“Swinging on a Star,” little Janis
Sheffield “stole the scene.”
“Triplets,” featuring Joy Win-
ton, Penny Kissel and Jimmie
Brown, was followed by “Treat
Me Rough,” with Glenda Flip-
pin and chorus.
David Morris, Garland Mc-
Clendon, Lavillas Havens, Doug-
las Yarbrough, Charles Beatty,
Bob Moon, Glenn Garth, Jerry
Mowrey, Kay Culbertson han-
dled their assignments excep-
tionally well in the comedy
skits.
“Could You Use Me?” song
and routine by Dorotha Fish
and Sammy Wright, was well
IGCGiVGd
Grand finale featured the
entire cast.
FHA Girls Arrange
Scrapbook Poses
At March Meeting
Flash bulbs announced pic-
ture-taking during and after the
FHA meeting for scrapbook poses
of Future Homemakers of Amer-
ica and officers at the monthly
meeting last Monday.
Following the business ses-
sion conducted by Ruth Wilson,
president, Joy Winton conduct-
ed the program on Hawaii.
Others contributing to the
panel discussion on.Hawaii were
freshman girls: topography, Lin-
da Beatty; climate and rainfall,
Nancy Cogdell; production and
industry, Sondra Sears; religion,
Carolyn Havens; education, Neva
Thompson; and government, Eva
Nell Henderson.
Ruth Wilson will direct th^j|f
April meeting. Mrs. E. G. Kain-
er sponosrs the voluntary or- |j
ganization composed of mem- /
bers of the homemaking de-
partment who choose to belong,. 1
Palace
Theatre
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Howell
axe cordially invited to at-
tend one of the following fea-
tures this week.
bers of both boys and girls -------- -- .
teams while a white dust storm i ident; Bill Heatly, 3rd vice pres-
shrieked outside. ident; 'Miss Margunte Mathis,
Boys receiving sweaters were i recording secretary; Miss Delia
Glenn Garth, Bill Cartwright,. Cowans, corresponding secretary,
Douglas Yarbrough, Norman and Mrs. Bill Mulkey, treasurer.
Beauchamp and Lyndon Rogers.
Football lettermen not eligible
by Interscholastic rules to re-
ceive more than one jacket or
sweater as a gift from the school
who had merited a basketball
sweater were Hal Sandefur, Sam-
my Wright, Sammie James, Ken-
neth Buckley and David Morris.
Reserve lettermen were Jack
The. Svjeepings
|P YOU THOUGHT THE "ROCKET1
WAS GREAT BEFORE
Be Sure to Drive 'this
THURSDAY-FRIDAY
March 25-26
“Botany Bay”
ALAN LADD
PATRICIA MEDINA
JAMES MASON
SATURDAY
March 27
“Champ
For A Day”
ALEX NICOL
AUDREY TOTTER
We Saw:
Excited seniors leaving for the
al GirlyeTeiving sweaters were
se Marie Ellis, Kara ^Jean Beezy Cobb and Rachel Has-
ton looking unimportant as they
sat in the balcony following a
short session in Algebra I class
. Busy seniors trying to di-
gest scads of folders from the
University of Texas in order to
organize a 1,500-word paper for
English and/or Chemistry ...
Seniors scurrying to play prac-
tice at fifth period last Wednes-
day . . . Three play directors
getting together on times for
practice. These were Mrs. Good-
win, Mrs. Westbrook, and Miss
Simmons . . . Maurice Schaded
conferring with Mrs. Westbrook
in the Club room concerning the
“Hipsy Boo” Musical.
* * *
Somebody is staying up too
late practicing for the “Hipsy
Boo” musical when even William
Jones falls asleep in class. That
was last Wednesday.
* * *
We also Saw: Troy Riddell
giving Jerry Mowrey “Boogie
Woogie” lessons on the piano
in the auditorium one day last
week . . . Girls with freshly
shampooed hair bewailing the
dusters last week.
Rose ------- -----, -------
Wall, Barbara Hamilton, Peggy
Mints, Pat Hutchison, Nadaiah
Seal,- Nynvia Seal, Sue Sandlin,
Geralda Whatley and Shirley
Majors, Billie Branscum, Jackie
Bearden and Norma June Har-
din (mgr.).
Reserves received gold basket-
balls: Lavillas Havens, ' Pat
Beauchamp, Janis Jones, Pat
Sossaman, Beezie Cobb, and Ne-
va Thompson.
* * *
As this goes to press an in-
vitation track and field meet is
to be held at Dragon field March
19—if the weather permits. Ac-
cepting the invitation to enter
j the meet are athletes from Cro-
well, ‘Childress and Quanah.
; This is in preparation for the
district meet to be held April
10 in Floydada.
Coaching track and field ev-
ents is Raymond Troutman, who
believes in spring events for
two reasons: first, for the events
themselves; second, as a prepar-
ation for conditioning the foot-
ball team.
SUNDAY-MONDAY
March 28-29
“Escape from
Fort Bravo”
WILLIAM HOLDEN
ELEANOR PARKER
JOHN FORSYTHE
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
March 30-31
“Crazy Legs”
ELORY “Crazy Legs” HIRSCH
LLOYD NOLAN
JOAN VOHS
Dragon Trio Named
On Lions Plaque
More honors came last week
to three outstanding Dragons.
A new plaque with record
spaces for nine years was pre-
sented Coach Raymond Trout-
man, who named Kenneth Buck-
ley, most dependable player; Hal
Sandefur, outstanding back; and
Richard Crider, outstanding line-
.
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Paducah
Lodge
No. 868
A. F. & A. M.
Stated Meeting at 8 P.M.
Tuesday Night, April 13
All members urged to attend.
Visitors welcome.
WILLIAM R. JONES, W. M.
W. A. BISHOP, Secretary
man in the 1953 Dragon team.
This presentation came fol-
lowing the regular luncheon
meeting last Thursday and was
given by the president, Jerry
Carmichael, secretary of the
Board of Education of Paducah
schools.
As the seasons pass, names
for three outstanding boys for
next eight years are ready for
engraving.
Mr. Carmichael complimented
the Troutman regime, which
brought not only district but bi-
district championship this year.
Troutman spoke in behalf of
the team and the specially hon-
ored boys. Sandefur and Crider
were present to receive the hon-
ors, but Buckley was absent from
school that day.
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Hinds, Alfred. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 25, 1954, newspaper, March 25, 1954; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1034783/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.