The Plainsman Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 18, 1964 Page: 1 of 4
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SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE
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LEVELLAND, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1964
NUMBER 13
VOLUME 6
New Dorms
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Koshare Names
Shorty Hinson Plans Retirement
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Los Creados Club Sets
The annual spring banquet.
club, will be held at 7:30 p.m.
SHORTY HINSON
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and hope everyone here does; open just in case the rabbits
too. I also want my job held! get poor.”
field trips to the State Mental
Hospital in Big Spring March
10 and 16.
Students toured the different
wards in the hospital and saw
how the inmates lived. In some
of the wards they were allow-
ed to witness patients undergo-
ing treatments.
As a part of their tour of the
and open heart.
If a student ever wanted to
talk to a good listener, then he
always knew where to go be-
cause Shorty was always that
interested listener.
Psychology Class
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They registered for the
vention that night which
held at Del Mar College
Corpus.
man the faculty members all
called on when anything failed
to work properly. He never fail-
ed in his desire to please others.
Shorty will be more than just
missed; he will be in our mem.
ories for a long time to come
because he is and always will
be endeared as one of our fin-
est friends. Goodby Shorty, on
behalf of the students and facul-
ty of South Plains College who
will miss you the most
Students Attend
State Meeting
Fourteen SPC students trav-
eled to Corpus Christi for the
Phi Theta Kappa convention on
March 14.
The group left the Levelland
college at 5:30 a.m. March 13.
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Students attended a general
assembly on Saturday morning.
The group was then divided in-
to workshops. SPC students at-
tended a banquet on Saturday
night. The return trip was made
on Sunday.
Those attending the conven-
tion were Gwen Chappel, Nel-
lie Patterson, Wynelle Smith,
Rita Colley, Marcheta Ownbey,
Vondal Rinne, Carolyn Glenn,
Gail Camp, Sandra Shugart,
Linda Brown, Kenneth Welch,
Lynn Sanders, Angel Hernan-
dez, and Chon Hernandez
Mrs. Inez Grant, sponsor of
the group, attended the conven-
tion. '
By Truman Bowers
Milburn Hinson, better known
to all of us as “Shorty,” is plan-
ning to retire after over six
years of service on the South
Plains campus.
Shorty is to begin his retire-
ment at the end of March. He
is going to pack his belongings
and his young bride of 42 years
and head east for the fishing
and hunting country of Bogata,
Texas. Shorty was born , and
raised in Bogata and didn’t
move to Levelland until 14 years
ago.
Shorty is 68 years young and
is determined to live his retire-
ment with all the zest possible.
He plans to continue his hob-
bies of hunting, fishing, dancing,
and getting the sand burrs out
of his yard.
Shorty has this to say: "I like
all these wonderful folks here in
West Texas and especially the
fine people at SPC; I sure am
going to miss them. I am going
to have a big time down there
are $1.50 each.
William E. Young, associate
Minister of the Broadway
Church of Christ in Lubbock,
will be speaker for the occasion.
Entertainment will be provided
by a quartet from L.C.C.
Mr. Young is a native of Den-
ver, Colorado, and a 1957 speech
major from Abilene Christian
College. His experience with
young people and their problems
include teaching speech, drama
and English in the Laramie pub-
lic school system. He then mov-
ed to Los Angeles to become
assistant to the vice-president
for development at George Pep.
nerdina Falla o a
Plans for the erection of two
dormitories in time for use dur-
ing the 1965 school year were
given approval by the college
Board of Regents in the March
12 meeting.
Dr. Marvin Baker, college
president explained that the
Western
Dance Set
Truman Bowers, vice - pre-
sident of the Student Council
presided at the regular meet-
ing March 13, in room A No. 3.
This Thursday night, the Ro-
deo Club is sponsoring a Wes-
tern Dance, in the SUB, with
j music by Jimmy Macy. Admis-
sion will be 50 cents stag or
drag.
The Caprock Beauty Contest,
which will be held in April, will
require only one appearance
this year. This appearance will
be in evening gowns at night
before Judges only. The judges
will choose the top ten, then the
top four from these ten.
A special request was made
by the Rodeo Club asking that
all clubs on campus enter a
float in the Rodeo Parade, April
18. There will be prizes given
to the winning floats.
The Student Council asks that
the Freshman and Sophomore
classes elect their favorites in
the near future.
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| notion of Shorty’s good humor
Andres Hotel.
This is a school banquet de-
dicated to Christian fellowship
and ideals. Due to some misun-
derstandings about whom this
banquet if for, it should be point-
ed out that it is given for the
benefit of all persons who would
like to come it is sincerely
wished that all interested per-
sons woud buy their tickets by
Wednesday, March 18, either
from Mr. Robinson, Glenda Cow-
an, Tim Canaster, or Bob Hay-
nes. . The nrica of the tiekets
hospital, the students heard a
talk on alcoholism.
The groups left SPC early in
the morning and returned at a-
bout 6:00 p.m. They were allow-
ed to eat lunch at the hospital
snack- bar with the inmates.
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Charles Turnbough, a fresh-
man from Roswell, was crown-
ed the Koshare Sweetheart at
the Sweetheart Dance March 12
in the Sub.
Debbie Perkins, an officer
of Koshare, crowned the Sweet-
heart and presented him with a
SP Girls Win
Sports Tests
South Plains College scored a
first and third place win, while
taking two other second places
in Sports Day activities at the
Levelland school.
The local girls won the first
in table tennis, while taking a
third place in the badminton
singles event.
Winning the first place honors
for the Levelland school with
scores of 21-12, 16-21 and 21-11
over Odessa were Sylvia Mathus
and Lynn Roddy.
In the singles in badminton,
Barbara Baldwin, won a third
place medal for her 11-4, 11-2
victory over the Frank Phillips
College entrant.
Second place winnings by the
SPC teams were turned in by
the ping pong singles entrant.
The volleybal team at the co-
ege failed to get past West
Texas State as the Buffaoes
downed the locals 15-7, 15-6 in
the championship match Satur-
day afternoon.
The SPC sextet took an earlier
match over Wayland Baptist
College to get into the finals.
Wayland took third place in the
meet when they defeated Odes-
sa, 16-14. and 15-4.
South Plains’ other second
place was won by Miss Roddy
in table tennis singles. She was
defeated by the West Texas
State entry, 21-6 and 21-12 in
the championship match. Lub-
bock Christian College took the
third place honor with a 21-15
victory over Frank Phillips.
The only event the SPC crew
failed to show in was the bad-
minton doubles, ih which Odessa
walked away with a 15-4, 15-6
win. West Texas was named the
second place winner and San
Angelo Two took the third place
when they defeated Frank Phil-
lips, 15-5, 13-15 and 15-7.
In badminton singles Odessa
took the first spot with a win
over West Texas 11-8 and 11-2.
Odessa was awarded second
place.
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Milburn Hinson was a great sponsored by the Los Creados
backer of South Plains. He was
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KOSHARE SWEETHEART — Mr. Charles Turnbough,
freshman basketball player and popular student from
Roswell, N. M., is pictured with his escort Miss Kelley
Scheel as he was seated in the Sweetheart Circle at
the annual Koshare Sweetheart Dance March 12. The
dance carried out a St. Patrick's day theme.
enthusiastic in his support of the Thursday, March 19, in the San
athletic teams. Shorty was the
Club's Sweetheart Makes Field Trips
The psychology classes made
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Annual Spring Banquet
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Koshare Group
Plans Activities
The election of a Koshare
Sweetheart was the main item
on the agenda in the March 11
meeting of Koshare in the loun-
ge of Sue Spencer.
Koshare members picked
their choice for the sweetheart
from a field of four candidates.
The four nominees were Tru-
man Bowers, Jim Milstead, Ch-
arles Turnbough, and Kenneth
Welch.
Club members were also
asked to volunteer to work at
the yearbook display at the
Women’s Club Convention,
March' 20.
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plan also includes expansion of
the college cafeteria kitchen to
be able to accommodate the ex-
pected enrollment increase.
Tentative architect’s draw-
ings for the proposed 94-capa-
city boys’ dorm and a unit for
62 girls were shown the regents
by President Baker. College ad-
ministrators expect enrollment
to be sufficient to need the add-
ed facilities by the 1965 fall en-
rollment.
Cost of the proposed expansion
will be an estimated $500,000.
The college plans to use federal
loans to pay for the projects.
Revenue from the residence
halls and cafeteria will be used
to pay off the loans.
In other action at the meet-
ing, regents voted to re-hire 32
administrators, teachers, and
other college personnel.
The board also heard a report
that indicated that 98.3 per cent
of current taxes have been paid.
kiss. His crown was a green
St. Patrick’s Day hat.
Charles was escorted by Kel-
ley Scheel. Other Sweetheart
nominees and their escorts were
Truman Bowers and Lynn
Roddy, Jim Milstead and Sher-
ri Hoffman, and Kenneth Welch
and Sandra Shugart.
The dance was a semi-formal
occasion. Music was furnished
by the Sparkles.
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