The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1954 Page: 2 of 8
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PAGE TWO
THE MO LAKE WILDCAT. MG LAKE, REAGAN COUNTY, TEXAS
JANUARY U, 1954
THE BIG LAKE WILDCAT
Published Every Friday In Big Lake, The County Seat of
Reagan County, Texas
J L. WERST, JR AND J L. WERST, SR
Editors and Publishers
Entered as second-class matter January 2, 1926, at the post
office at Big Lake. Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
$2 DO Per Year in Reagan County — $2 50 Per Year Elsewhere
Payable In Advance
Any erroneous reflections upon the standing, character, or
reputation of any person, firm or corporation which may ap-
pear In the columns of this paper, will be gladly corrected
upon being brought to the attention of the editors
Visitors in the Billy Boyd home visiting with Mrs Basham's father
Tueoday were Mr Boyd's sister, and mother. Mr and Mrs O. F.
lira OUs Basham, and his aunt,,
Iks. H T Boyd, both of Carlsbad.; -
■ m They were en route home Try Classified Ads Foe
from Belton where they had been Quick Resalts 1
SWANZY - COX
AMBULANCE SERVICE
and
FUNERAL DIRECTING
Phones
San Angelo
3113
1 SO and 400
Big I -ake
Welcome Visitors
TO THE
23rd Annual
Reagan County
Basketball Tournament
COME. IN %>D n» OCR COMPLETE LINE Of
Sporting Goods
AND
Sports Equipment
NEW ERA SERVICE STATION
\M) FIRESTONE STORK
nom u
BIG LAKE
Save Time! Save Steps!
Bank by Mail
It * ju*t s few step* to the 'teller'* window" when
you do vonr banking by mail Open *•■/ seeonnl.
make deposits, withdraw fund*, hnvs Interest
credited all at yonr own ronernienre, at an all
•round toeing tn time' Just write in lor drop in)
and find out how . ,. Today' ,
The Big Lake
State Bank
! SPORTS SLANTS
With the Reagan Owls giving full
Indication that they are the team
! to beat in 5-A, the district race
swung Into full action last night
with the Owls In Iraan and Mc-
! Carney in Wink.
In the eight games played thus
iar this season the Owl* have net-
ted In 338 points and of this Mar-
tin has scored 136 points Here is
the individual scoring for the eight
Pts
Avg
Martin
136
17
Hartgrove
57
7 1
Boggs
51
63
Keener
46
56
Johnson
34
42
Stout
5
62
Vandergrlff
5
62
Seals
......... 2
• • *
25
The annual football banquet is
over thus officially ending ihe
football careers for seven senior
boys They ere: Charles Martin.
Duck Meroney, Jackie Holmes. Ben
Vandergrlff. Ken Keener. BUI
Boggs, Richard Warrlner
♦ • •
While there Is yet other seasons
| of sports yet to come, the Owls *re
' looking toward next year The
' schedule U as following with the
score of the last game played with
1 each team In parenthesis:
Sept 10, Ogona, here (19-71.
Sept 17, Sonora, there <0-13 >
Sept 24, Eldorado, here (6-01.
Oct 1, Open.
Oct 8, Ft Stockton, here < 19-461
Oct 15, Wink, here (6-40)
Oct 22, Sanderson, there <0-6>
Oct 29, McCamey, here (6-40).
Nov 5, Fabens, there )28-6».
Nov 12, Marfa, there (13-U)
Nov. 19, Iraan, there (26-18)
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Owls F ed At Fete
The annual football banquet
was held Saturday evening at 8:00
p m. In the high achol cafeteria
The master of ceremonies, Ken-
neth Keener, opened the program (
with a welcome to all football play-,
ers and dates, guests and the guest j
speaker. Charles Orlssett gave the
Invocation.
During the meal, Kenneth told n j
few jokes on Donald Meroney j
which reflected the difficulty In J
deciding who would be M C, How-,
ever, Donald played, "That's What
It Was. Football"
Charles Martin and Bore Hart-
grove presented gifts to the
coaches for their work during the
year Coach Hayden presented the
jerseys to the graduating seniors j
Mr Ke^lherston Introduced the
guest speaker of the evening, the '■
Rev A- B Lightfoot, of Midland
Bro Lightfoot spoke on Personal
Advancement"
After the banquet, the cafeteria |
was cleared and the football boys
and dates and guests enjoyed an j
evening of dancing with recorded i
music and to the orchestra of Dan- j
gerous Dan's Jerked Up Jazz Band j
30,000,000th Chevrolet Greets New Year
To observe production of Ihe 30,000,000th Chev- the left »re: F. W. Ivey, administrative assistant;
rolel. officials posed silh Ihe milestone car against K. II. Kelley, general manufacturing manager; W.
a festive New Year'a bar!.ground. With T. 11. Keat- E. Fish, general sales manager; E. N. Cole, chief
ii.g. general manager, at the wheel, others from engineer; and W. J. Scott, executive assistant.
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MO LAKE. TEXAS
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Werst, J. L., Jr. & Werst, J. L., Sr. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1954, newspaper, January 15, 1954; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth658797/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Reagan County Library.