The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1934 Page: 7 of 8
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SEASON’S GREETINGS
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Very truly yours,
JIM LINDSEY,
Toreador Sports Editor.
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from Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House, which was awarded to her by the
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“Bear” Curfman Is
Rated One of Tech’s
Finest Athletes
cccded in making several goals i*x
rapid succession. In the fourth quar-
ter thb Harvesters gained rapidly
on their opponents but wore de-
feated by three points at the las*,
with the score standing at 24-21,
Mankins. Valley View took a game
from Magargel, 24-17 Saturday
morning. .
The basketball boys and girls*
volley ball team meet Fairview on
the home court Thursday night.
Social Activities
0. IL Freeman entertained the
Science Club, boy scouts and higa
school faculty members Wednesday
afternoon with a treasure hunt, hi
which searching parties hunted ob-
jects of scientific interest. At the
close of the hunt *the group ^was
served sandwiches and cake In the
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fes- * Thirty members of the freshman
and class, class sponsor, Miss .Helen Van
Mrs.
on'McNeil, were delightfully entertain*
•The faculty members and school
board members enjoyed a turkey
banquet served them Tuesday night
the home economics dining room
Joan
Betty Ann Vanhoove, Bar-
bara Mitchell, Curtis Holcomb,Don-
ald McBride, Madge Cummirs, Elz’e
East, Beth Weatherall, Nadine
Atchley.
WBLLmw.UH, NONE OF THE
soys' HERS AT THE
Z/ COVE DRINK MILK
( but i'll see what
WE can do about
the company, when he stated in
his annual address that the South-
western LifA had received 4.307
more appheatiors for life instr. -
ance during the first eleven months
of 1934 than it did for the same
pei lod of 1933. He also advised that Attend Lodfife At
Wichita Falls
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Forty-one pupils were on the
hpnor roll for the second six weeks
at the Waggoner Ward school, ac-
cording to Miss Ida Lee Falls, prin-
cipal. In order to be eligible far the
honoi’ roll the students have to make
an average of 90 or above in
thein grade, and in their deport-
ment. This list included Eunice Ray
Taylor, Mary Nell LeBiis, Billy
Joyce Bills, Letrice Marshall, Bet-
ty Jean Homme, Thelma Pogpe,
Willie B. Thomas, Maurine Blai’’,
Marie Martin, Clovis Taylor, Leoa
Tolleson, Clive Williams, La Jena
Allen, Billy Wanda Andrews, Ade*
lia Bruce, Betty Jean Greenway,
Zelma Perry, Jacqueline Ratliff,
Ida Lou Sullivan, Mary Bob Vick-
ers, Jimmie Lee Wofford, Lawrente
Ratliff, Marvel Jean Woolard, Doro-
thy Helen Dickey, Q. J. Dietz, Mary
Jane Cole, Helen Chisholm, Eliza-
beth Decker, Mary Edith Dinsmore.
Norma Jean
Jones,
Oneal,
'F- •' ?;ssfes
First Ward
The First Ward school honor roll
is as follows: James Beck, Frank-
t lin Homme, Bobby Grace Andrews,!
Bonnie Ely, Marguerite Smulce •,
The banquet was held in the Ball i Clyde Adams, Frarkie Conkle, Lo-
Room of the Blackstone Hotel, atjyeiie Townsend, June Alexander
which I-«.. ^..w., A..,,,
Keese, soprano, qnd Betty Knox
accompanist; furnished the music.
Talks 'were made by Dr. Everett B.
King, pastor of the Hemphill Pres-
byterian church, Fort Worth; Dex-
ter Hamilton, general attorney for
Southwestern Life Insurance com-
pany; William McCraw, attorney
general-elect of Texas, and Amon
G. Carter, Fort Worth publisher.
A note of business recovery and
optimism was put into the conven-
tion by C. F. O’Donnell, president of t Howell Keith Bdisier, Jack Elliott,
Bobby Charles Kee.se, Charles Allen
Webb, Mattie Louise Austin, Eloue
Silliman, William Tatum,
Marshall, Dolores Harwell
:score,
I teams as Baylor, Oklahoma
De Paul of Chicago,
School of Mmes, McMurry i
ing the Border Conference
with a 13-7 victory o\ei
bersity of Arizona.
Probably the main factor in th?
fine record of the Matadors was the
brilliant playing of Leonard “Bea*
Curfman of Electra, whose block-
irfi, line crashing, punting and line-
backing stamps him as one of West
Texas greatest fullbacks. Curfman (program,
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__ pastures
this represented an increase of
§7.377,055 m hussiness written by
the agents of Southwestern Life lu-
Mtrance Company during the firsc
eleven months of this year over th"
same
that the company is
engaged in making
loans in Texas, and
made approximately
a quarter dollars in such loans so Wichita Falls and Archer
far this year. units were given degree work
The ‘Southwestern Life Insurance der the direction of Fred Music. A
Company convention which will last team composed of members of th?
through Saturday morning sessions, Electra and ~ “
is the largest single life insurance functioned
company convention ever to be held from
in Texas, with over 500 represents- conferred
from all parts of the state C. E. Tally. Other members of the
local lodge who made the trip were
J. W. Malone, R. L. Nail. K. D.
M. E. Day is reported to be quite Alexander, C. P. Howell, Ed Theile,
ill of influenza at the family horn? A. M. Moore, J. Ray Corder, Carl
at 212 North Wichita street. Dillard ard Gene Cude.
Wichita Falls lodges
in the ceremonial. Tho.-e
here on whom degrees were
were, Bob McClure and
Ten members of the
Knights of Pythias lodge went to;
period of 1933 He stated, also Wichita Falls on Tuesday evening
active!/ December 10, and attended a meet-
estate mg of the Knights of Pythias lodge
it has there. Two candidates for degrees
million and from the local lodge and some f’om
quarter dollars in such loans so Wichita Falls and Archer City
un-
Basking in reflected glory be-
cause of the splendid records made
by ex-Tigers who received their in-
itial grid trainipg in Electra high
school, Electra football fans will
be interested in a letter received
this week by the News from Jim
Lindsey, sports editor for “Th?
Toreador,” Texas Technological
publications, relative to Leonard
Curfman, son of Air. and Mrs. J. J) |
Curfman. The letter is as follows: | Cawtron,
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when as a Sophomore, he scored G9
points making a touchdown in ev-
ery game. His 85 yard punt against
Baylor is the longest kick in the
history of Tech field.
Cuifman has been an outstandii g
back for three years, starring m | jn
even game, and finishing his ath- by Mjss MaHel B1.yan's seeond year
»home economics "class. The occasion
was made an unusually delightful
one by the Christmas decorations
used in the room and on the ban-
| quet table. Miniature Christinas
trees and holly, a large decorated t school auditorium,
tree and frosted mirror lent a i
tive appearance to> the room,
tall red and green tapers interspors- Deventer, and class mother,
ed with snow scenes were used
the table. Surprise packages mark- ed Monday night with a Christmas
ed the guests’ places. party given in the home of Mary
During the banquet the following Frances Reaves. The 'rooms at-
program was given: welcome ad- tractivcly featured red poinsettns
dress, Supt. A. H. Breazealo; re- and red bells in the decorations and
sponse, Paul Coppock, sing-song; each guest received a gift from the
reading. Miss Laura Powell; horo- Christmas tree,
scope readings, Miss Helen Van De-| -
venter; history of Valley View
W, L. Hodges.
Basketball News
The Harvesters got in some gOud
•practice Friday night and Saturday
in'the toufnament held at Mankins. Reba Dressier report the arrival of
The most exciting game played twin sons, Sunday, December 16, at
Friday evening was that one play- the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. Wright
ed between the Valley View bojs on the Rio Bravo Oil Company lease
'and the Mankins quintette. The south of the city. The youngster<
; teams made scores slowly until the have been named James Minis and
third quarter, wheti Mankins sue-.Julius Finis.
The banquet was held in the Ball I Clyde Adams,
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Ivan Dneprov, tenor; Amy (Wanda Lou Hogue, Wayne Wads-
” worth, Tristran Whiteside, Carl
Marsh, Paulire Walker, Ralph
Knight, Gerald MofAnear, Donald
Bebee, Welton Moore , Bobby Jo?
Bryant, Jacqueline Clemments, Nina
Jane Eakin, Cleta Ruth Hobbs, Le-
nora Pearlman, Jan Redding, Jess
Van Ballard, Jimmie D. Fowler
Joe Sam Pogue, Jimmie Lee Ever-
ett, Mary Dean Griffin, Patricia
Jean Hannah, Wanda Bennett, Rex-
ana Thompson, Barbara June Carte
letic career in a blaze of glory by a ‘
great peiformarce against the Uni-
versity of Arizona Wildcats, Aft^r
the game Coach Tex Oliver of the
Wildcats said of Curfman, “the
greatest plunger and line-backer 1
have ever seen play.”
Curfman is also representative of
the student body on the athletic
courcil, vice-president of the
nior class, and one of the
popular students at Tech.
lie is rated tyy his coach, Pete
, “as.one of the finest ath-
is as
The Toreador Texas Tech Publicu-1
tion. Demember 12, 1934. |
Electra News Sporting Editor, (
Electra, Texts
Dear Sir:
Texas Tech has just
another successful sesason
only two games, one to the Ui i-’
\ersity of Texas 12-7, the other to j
| Loyola of Los Angeles by the same;
! score, 12-7; and winning from sucn;
Electra |leams as Baylor> Oklahoma C.ty sembly of God evangelist who rv-
!U„ De Paul of Chicago, Tex is'turned to Electra from Borger afte.
- ’* '• r and u k-'several years residence there, D
tit’e1 engaged in holdirg a revival meet-
the Um- ing at Frederick, Oklahoma this
week. She is being assisted by
Ernest Hester and J. D. Owens
young gospel workers from the As-
sembly of God church here. About
thirty people went from the local
church Sunday afternoon, to Fre I-
erick ar.d put on a young people’s
_____ , , as part of the evangelistic
first broke into prominence in 1932,’campaign in the church there.
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Electra Man Is . .
Honored at Meet
Of Insurance Men
Fort Worth, Dec. 14.—C. L. Aven
of Electra was awarded a prize for
special efficiency tonight at the an-
nual banquet of the Southwestern
Life Insurance Company Conven-
tion now beirg held in Fort Worth.
Mr. Aven won this coveted honpv
because of his excellent handling of
businessz for the company, and his
general efficiency.
THE ELECTRA NEWS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1981
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