The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 25, 1953 Page: 1 of 4
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Night Pep Rally Tonight!
When asked in an interview
backstage between performances
if she thought movie stars were
glamorous, she replied “Movie
stars aren’t really as glamorous
as most people are led to believe.”
She further stated, “I think they
are the hardest working people in
any professional business today.”
She pointed out that movie
workers have to be up at 5 a. m.,
be at the studio by 6 a. m., have
coffee in the dressing room, and
be ready to shoot at 8 a. m. They
also spend a great deal of time
rehearsing with drama coaches,
and then work until 6 p. m.
5,000
Lubbockites
To Invade Sandieland
For Turkey-Day Tilt
“Sock the Sandies!”
With approximately five thou-
sand Lubbockites expressing this
sentiment, game number 38 be-
tween the Lubbock Westerners
and Amarillo Golden Sandies will
be unveiled tomorrow afternoon
at 2:30 in Amarillo’s Sandie Sta-
dium.
Student tickets, priced at 30
e°nts each, will go off sale this
r. tcrnoon at 4 o’clock, as will the
S3 bus tickets, Mr. W. H. How-
orth, assistant principal, disclosed.
winners or me l specuc lor Democracy" contest pictured above Irom lelt to right are Joe T. (Jarrison,
senior, second-place winner; Janis Pierce, junior, first-place winner; and Jeannette Reames, senior,
third-place winner.
“When she’s off stage, Dottie’s
the same as any other housewife,”
William Ross Howard, III, Miss
Lamour’s husband, replied when
questioned as to how he felt about
being married to a movie star.
“She’s a member of the Parent
Teacher Association and one of
the few film stars who is a mem-
Pictured above with Dorothy Lamour, who presented two shows
in Lubbock Friday, are Leona Spradling, left, and Jolene Caffee.
The two sovhomores are learning a few things about ''movie life."
''SPORTSMANSHIP - THEN VICTORY
VOLUME 20 Lybbock Senior High School, Lubbock, Texas, Wednesday, November 25, 1953 Number 12
400 LHS'ers At All-School Party ■SW % S**uUe<»
Dedicated To 1953 Football learn
Dedicated to the Westerner
football team, approximately four
hundred people attended the all
school party Saturday night, as
announced by Bobbie Blocker,
chairman.
The talent show was opened by
Nancy Herring’s singing of “The
Breeze.” With Avonlee Fentress
accompanying him, Joe T. Garri-
son sang “Rags to Riches.” To
the beat of “Viva Amor,” Sonny
Allen and Patsy Painter did the
Samba, accompanied by Bill Pitt-
man’s band. Yvonne Skinner,
Marsha Brock, Nancy Herring,
Dennis's Answer
Startles Class
"For a cap and bells
our lives we pay." Thus
reads the line from "The
Vision of Sir Launfal" by
James Russell Lowell.
Students in Mrs. Juanita
Bourns' second period jun-
ior English class were ask-
ed, after reading t h e
poem, t o explain the
meaning of this one line.
When no one gave an
explanation, Mrs. Bourns
gave the class a hint by
asking, "Well, who wears
caps and bells?"
Dennis Hicks' reply was.
"Santa Claus?"
and Carole Jean Delaney sang
“Basin Street” and “Angry.”
In western attire with guitars
and ten gallon hats, George Nel-
son and Jimmy Watson sang “It’s
Been So Long” and as encores
“Travelin Blues” and “Mona Lisa
Number Two.”
Other numbers on the program
were jitterbugging by Bennie Mc-
Collum, Revis Jordan, Steve Al-
len, and Marilyn Chesher; an im-
personation of Helen Hobart by
Celina Roberts, and “With These
Hands” sung by Mary Jane Hart-
ley.
Bobbie Blocker recognized
guests from Pampa, and the tal-
ent show ended with a chorus line
consisting of Sybil Marion, Pat
Stanley, Janice Worley, Carma
Jean Williamson, Annette Rose,
and Sandra Hendricks.
The girl’s gym was turned into
a corral with a fence of black
paper around the walls and sil-
houettes of cowboys, cowgirls,
cacti, and saddles. This furnished
atmosphere for dancing, to music
furnished by Bill Pittman’s band.
Teachers on duty at the party
were Mr. L. T. Walrath, Miss Al-
ine McCarty, Mr. Max L. O’Ban-
ion, Mrs. Bob Parker, Mr Sher-
man Freer, Mr. James Hall, Mr.
Thomas Neely, Miss Nell Marie
Wiley, Mrs. Juanita Bourns, Mrs.
Norma Turner, Miss Alleen White-
ly, Mr. Carl Willingham, and Mr.
J. W. Reid.
OTHER WINNERS NAMED
Janis Pierce Is First-Place Winner
In 1 Speak For Democracy' Contest
Janis Pierce, junior; Joe T. Gar-
rison, senior; and Jeannette
Reames, senior, were named local
first, second, and third-place win-
ners, respectively of the annual
“I Speak for Democracy” contest
held in Lubbock Senior High
School Thursday night, as an-
nounced by Mr. D. M. Howell,
dramatics coach.
Democracy should not be taken
for granted, Janis declared in her
speech.
Putting herself in Democracy’s
place, she stated, “I need support
for there are those who are in
their ignorance would seek to de-
stroy me. I will not fail you as
long as you do not fail me, for I
am democracy.”
The Lubbock Junior Chamber
Thanksgiving Story VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
of Commerce sponsors the local
contest and the national contest
is sponsored by the local organiza-
tion. Each district winner’s speech
is recorded and sent to Austin to
be entered in state competition.
State winners will be selected
Dec. 7. A recording of the speech
of the winner will be entered in
the national contest.
Last year’s local winner, Wel-
don Stephenson, won second place
in the state contest.
Janis, Joe T., and Jeannette
were guests of the Jaycees during
a luncheon banquet Monday • af-
ternoon.
Only four students entered in
local competition. They were
Annez Allan, Joe T., Janis, and
Jeannette.
Given In Assembly
By Bible Students
The history of Thanksgiving
and the necessity of giving thanks
was the theme of the Thanksgiv-
ing assembly presented today at
the assembly period by the Bible
Department.
While the students entered the
auditorium, “For the Beauty of
the Earth” was sung softly. Then
a prayer was given.
“Psalm 100” was read by Betty
Shewbert, and the story of the
creation of the world was present-
ed. A world appeared on the
stage, with changing tableaux as
each of the first seven days pro-
gressed. Then the Senior A Cap-
pella Choir sang “Creation.”
Succoth, the Old Testament
“feast of booths,” was represent-
ed by four students around a
booth laden with produce: grapes,
corn, wheat, and apples.
The New Testament scene
showed Jesus healing the ten
lepers, but only one thanking Him
for it. In the Angelus scene, rep-
resenting the painting of the
same name by J. F. Millet, a
peasant man and woman were
standing in a field with heads
bowed at the ringing of the An-
gelus. Then the choir sang “We
Plow The Fields and Scatter.”
A bountiful table, laden with
turkey, venison, cranberry sauce,
pumpkins, and bread, was set for
the Pilgrims and Indians. The
choir sang “We Gather Together.”
A Thanksgiving table was set
before an American family in the
next scene, and in the last scene,
a group was going to Church to
give thanks.
To end the program, the Sen-
ior A Cappella Choir sang “Come
All Ye Faithful People Come.”
School To Be Decorated
For Yule - Tide Season
Christmas decorations for Lub-
bock High School will be put up
Friday and Saturday from 9 a. m.
News Briefs
Mrs. John W. Wilson,
formerly a physical educa-
tion teacher in Lubbock
Senior High School, has re-
signed from the Senior High
faculty because of illness.
Her resignation became ef-
fective Nov. 9, according to
Mr. Floyd Honey, principal.
Mrs. Nancy Hutson, who
has formerly taught at Car-
roll Thompson Junior High
School and Lubbock High
School, is replacing Mrs.
Wilson, Mr. Honey stated.
Because of Thanksgiving,
there will be no school to-
morrow and Friday, accord-
ing to Mr. W. H. Howorth,
assistant principal. Classes
will be resumed Monday
morning at 8:45.
to 5 p. m. both days, and all stu-
dents are urged to come and help,
according to Kay Burnam, chair-
man c" the plant and decoration
committee.
The school will be divided into
ten sections with the following
as heads of each section: third
floor, Iva Sue Shropshire;‘second
floor, main hall, Liz Creson; sec-
ond floor, other halls, Bill Stan-
field; first floor, main hall, Bar-
bara Batton; first floor, other
halls, Pat Rainer; auditorium,
Sandra Sherrod; cafeteria, Lora
Kerr; stairways and landings, Ja-
nelle Ohlenbusch; Christmas trees
for the auditorium and the cafe-
teria, Jimmy Joe Stanford; and
outside, Don Kerr.
“The theme this year will fea-
ture bright cut-outs of bells,
Christmas packages, Santa Claus-
es, and holly, with the traditional
nativity scene in the patio,” Kay
announced. “The auditorium will
also be decorated with a religious
theme.”
Chartered buses will leave here
from the 18th Street entrance at
9 o’clock tomorrow morning and
will arrive in Amarillo at noon.
Immediately after the game, the
buses will return to Lubbock.
They are expected to arrive here
between 7:30 and 8 p. m.
Cheerleaders on each bus will
sell cokes to the students making
the trip, Mr. Howorth revealed.
Emphasizing the importance o|
the Turkey-Day tilt, the annual
night pep rally is being held to-
night from 6 o’clock to 7:15, with
the featured event, a snake dance,
starting at Dupre Field and termi-
nating in the Lubbock High
School auditorium with yells,
skits, and speakers.
Members of each class will give
a five-minute skit as a part of the
pep rally, Nina Smith, head cheer-
leader, revealed.
A mysterious air surrounds the
skits, but each will be aimed to
urge the Westerners on to victory
over the Sandies, she stated.
Joan Bethany is in charge of
the senior skit; Carma Jean Wil-
liamson, the junior skit; and Ken-
neth Blackford, Beth Davidson,
and Johnanna Zournas, the sopho-
more skit.
Speakers for the pep rally in-
clude Mr. Bill Evans, president of
the school board, speaking on be-
half of the townspeople; Mr. Nat
Williams, superintendent of Lub-
bock Public Schools, representing
the school; and Miss Laurene
Bussey, teacher of mathematics,
speaking for the faculty.
Mr. E. J. Lowrey, “school his-
torian,” will take his traditional
post as master of ceremonies for
the night pep rally.
Urging LHSers to attend the
pep rally, Nina stated: “This is
the last game of the year, so let’s
get behind the Westerners and
really support them. Let’s make
this the best pep rally of the
year.”
Dorothy Lamour Gives Shows Here;
Expresses Love For
Loving the phone, the family,
the show business, sailing, fish-
ing, and cooking, versatile Doro-
thy Lamour and her troupe of
34 performed before two Lub-
bock audiences in the auditorium
Friday night.
After Miss Lamour invited the
$1.80 patrons in the balcony to
come down and join the small
crowd in the $3.80 seats, the Va-
riety Revue began. It consisted of
jugglers, trapeze aerialists, acro-
bats, comedians, and Miss Lamour
and her South Sea Islanders.
ber of the Women’s Auxiliary of
the American Legion,” he added.
The Howards, who have been
married 10 Vz years, have two
sons, J. Ridgely, 7, and Richard
Thomson, 4.
Miss Lamour, the former Miss
New Orleans, advised, “If any one
has talent or feels that they have
talent they should take up model-
ing school or do shorts on televi-
sion to get experience.” She
warned, “Don’t come to Holly-
wood to ‘break-in.’ You need a
background for show business be-
fore you come.”
Confessing that she really loved
show business the energetic mov-
ie star declared “If I had my
whole life to live over, I wouldn’t
do a single thing differently.”
Miss Lamour, while working in
a large department store in Chi-
cago, was discovered by Herbie
Kay, talent scout. Thus her movie
career began.
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