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Jhmpasas^High School
VOLUME 8
Edited by Pupils of Lampasas High School
NUMBER 1
BADGER STAFF
Editor-in-chief....Eva Virginia Harris
Assistant Editor..........Evelyn Walker
So’ty., Per. Ed.......Lurline Creekmore
Assembly Rep...............Laffell Everett
Sports Reporter............James Thomas
Sports Reporter................T. J. Casbeer
Joke Reporter................Blake McLean
Joke Reporter........................Allen Hill
Gram. School Rep.........Betty McCrea
Senior Class Rep.....Kathryn .Morgan
J. Class Rep.....Mary Frances Casbeer
Soph. Class Rep...................Billie Bean
Columnist................Harold 'D.* Thomas
Columnist........................James R. Key
News Reporters..............Aubrey Tittle
Iris Higgins, Kittie West Word.
Sponsor................Mrs. G. Tom Bigham
The items appearing under this
heading are written and furnished
The Leader by pupils of the Lam-
pasas High School, and the paper is
in no way responsible for these news
items.
NEW STUDENT GIVES
OPINION OF L. H. S.
MANY NEW STUDENTS
TO ENTER SCHOOL
In the study hall and class room
there are many new faces. Some of
these have never been seen before
and some have not been seen recent-
ly. The ones who have been ab-
sent for some time are: Lucile Good-
win, Mt. Pleasant; James Landrum,
Somerset; Kathryn Morgan, Brackett-
ville; Daphne Nell and Ruth Wolf,
San Francisco, Cal. The new stu-
dents are: Florine and Lynn Allen,
Green Bay, Wis.; Clifford Cantrell,
Kempner; Ehvood Dunklin, Hender-
son; Roberta Hammond, Naruna;
Nadine Medart, Brookhaven; Lyda
Moore, Unity; Donald Pickett, Hous-
ton; Wilda Pickett, Kempner; Leland
Priest, Littlefield; Charles Sewell,
Kempner; Marie and Robert (Bob)
Yarborough, Alvin.
PRIVATE LIVES
(No Offense Ment)
The new student, upon catching a
first glimpse of Lampasas high
school, is struck by the well kept
beauty of the grounds. The smooth
green of the lawns and the deeper
green of the shrubs, forms a pleas-
ing frame for the rock building.
Entering the high school, the new |
student finds big airy rooms and of- •,
fices, and a long study hall, one end
of which is devoted to the library, j
Smiling faces and a prevailing air i
of friendliness make an appeal he *
cannot withstand. Even without the
pleasant surroundings and beautiful j
building, he feels that he would en- !
joy going to the Lampasas high j
school and making friends of
students and teachers with whom
comes in contact.
the
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RADIO STATION L. H. S.
Broadcasting from Lampasas high
school on a frequency of 1932 kilo-
cycles. The program continues g.s
follows:
“Who broke the lock on the hen
house door,”—Mr. Wachendorfer.
“Make me know it,”—James Mc-
Gehee.
“Then he took up golf,”—Mr. Rown-
tree.
“Betty co-ed,”—Betty Young.
“El Capitan,”—Kyle Smith.
“Falling in love,”—Milton Boden-
hamer.
“High and low,”—Orville Rush and
Earl Lindsey.
“Ho Hum”—Seventh period.
“Pm a ding dong daddy,”—Marshall
Lee Everett.
“I’m feeling devilish,”—T. J. Cas-
beer.
“I’ve got it,”—Roy Yazell.
“Peach of a pear,”—Elza Hodges
and Ruth Wolf.
“Should I?”—Study.
“Love is like that,”—ask Tubby
Tittle.
“It’s the girl—what girl?”
“Oh, sweet mystery of life,”—Al-
gebra.
“You’re . driving me crazy,”—Miss
Lemberg.
•“Having you around is heaven,”—
Mr. Moore.
“Stout hearted men,”—Foot Ball
Team.
“Sing, you sinners,”—Chapel Thurs-
day.
“I’ll be glad when you’re dead you
rascal you,”—Mr. Rowntree.
* Ladies, gentlemens, and what
¥ nots, greetings.
* Well, my sites into privite lifes
■■ has brot strange actions to sight.
* When I seed him the other day
* Cap Smith waren’t 'practizing
* footbawl.
* For Captain was strutting
* proudly around his chicken house
* holding his arm in sech manner
* as would indikate he was lead-
* ing somebody after him. Where-
* upon I remarks, “Cap, wat you
* doin’, practizing leading old Jer-
* sey around fore milking time?”
* And Cap beams, a smile ap-
* pearing on his mug and the be-
* cuming blush (his very own)
* coming forth in its plezing man-
* ner, as he says, “No, my dear
* young friend, I’m practizing
* quite another thing. I’m just
* practizing the diverent ways
* that I kan lead the queen on the
* field.” And saying this he be-
* gins prancing once agin aroun
* the checken house kicking a hen
* once in a whil like he would a
* footbawl, only harder.
* Well, this incident gets my cur-
* osity aroused so I sneaks up to
* the Queen’s abode and by gum!
* there was the queen skipping
* gayly from the fence to the barn
* with hands extended in such a
* weigh as to look like she was
* bein’ lead.
* So I puts tew and three to-
* gether and slips quietly aweigh.
* But you no when I looks into
* privite lifes like this and sea the
* Cap and Queen so happily en-
* gaged it jist plumb naturally
* makes me feal lik a great foot-
* bawl season is ahed of us.
* I’ll look in sum mor privite
* lifes next weak.
Good-bye.
* * * # * * * :i;
CAMPUS AND BUILD-
ING IMPROVEMENTS
Superintendent Charles Wacberidor-
fer sponsored many improvements
during the summer that have added
to the beauty of Lampasas high
school.
Principal John Rowntree has a new
office, which is located in the for-
mer book room. It is more private
than his old office and it is more
adequately furnished.
Mr. Moore and the bookkeeping and
typing students are very proud of
their room. This room was made
from the former freshman house and
it is now furnished with new book-
keeping tables.
During all of this rainy weather
there hasn’t been a leak in the Home
Economics department. A new roof
has* been put over that section of the
building.
The library has also been equip-
ped with a librarian’s room. New
books have been added to our al-
ready adequate library.
The outward appearance of our
school has been changed by the ad-
dition of new shrubbery and flowers.
The students and (the faculty are
proud to be from Lampasas high
school.
ball team has a splendid captain and
is a splendid team. They should win
every game they play.” Coach D. S.
Moore, when asked his opinion of the
team lived up to his reputation of ex-
pressing his true opinion by saying:
“We have more games and less chance j lication of
of winning than ever before.”
Nine games have been booked for
this year, six of them being played
in Lampasas. The schedule is as fol-
lows: Sept. 23, Ex-Badgers; Sept. 30,
Belton at Belton; Oct. 7, Gatesville
at Lampasas; Oct. 14, Georgetown at
Lampasas; Oct. 27, Lometa at Lam-
pasas; Oct. 28, Richland Springs at
Lampasas; Nov. 1.1, San Saba at San
Saba; Nov. 20, Brady at Brady.
The players who reported for prac-
tice were: Capt, Kyle Smith, J. V. Principal John Row tree brought
Hammett, G. W. Asher, Joe Howard, j his young daughter, Mary Kuhn, to
intends to study the most important
parts and the structure of magazines
and newspapers. The Badger staff
will not be chosen from the journal-
ism class, but the class will contri-
bute material and help with the pub-
The Badger/ the school
newspaper. The text books for these
two subjects are not furnished by the
state but must be purchased by the
students. Each class has an inter-
esting course of study and will be
well worth the student’s time and
work which he might give to its
preparation.
YARBOROUGH DENIES
PLOT TO KILL HIS
FOSTER DAUGHTER
YOUNG ROOTER APPEARS
AT FIRST PRACTICE
view the first football practice of the
Badgers Monday afternoon. Mary
Kuhn showed her enthusiasm by
punching her finger in the professor’s
eye.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
APPEAR IN “GHOST HOUSE”
and Daniel Bird, the five letter men:
Auby Brown, Garwood Burns, Orville |
Rush, Don Dunklin, T. J. Childers |
and Ellis Bullion; the other players |
who returned from last year: La- j
Vaughn Perry, Gene, Dickens, Marvin |
Dickason, Charles Sewell, Clifford •
Cantrell, Ehvood Dunklin, Blake Mc-
Lean and Robert Martin, the new
A number of high school students
While it is admitted that the team took part in the chorus given in con-
this year is very light, yet it was j nection with “Ghost House,” a three-
acknowledged that the 1930 team, Bi- | act mystery drama, which was a
District Champions were very light, ! benefit for the Lampasas Fire De-
and it is seen that a team cannot be j partment.
judged by its looks. The team will i ---------—. ...........7""-
have to establish its name on the
gridiron.
THREE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
TJHE FENCE
I wonder why Milton Bodenhamer
was so upset Tuesday morning. Did
that letter he received that morning
worry him ?
The Fence saw the editor of The
Badger and Aubrey Tittle riding
around Tuesday afternoon. I wonder
if they really are in love. We’ll soon
find out.
Who was the brunette Don Dunklin
brought to school with him Wednes-
day morning? Ask me, I know.
J. V. Hammett didn’t seem to like
the publicity he received Wednesday
afternoon at football practice.
I saw Milton Bodenhamer taking
his daily dozen Thursday morning.
He wasn’t going any place except to
the post office to get the daily letter.
Your truly,
The Fence
EL PASO, Sept. 10.—Survivor of
ENROL I FOR WORK a transport plane ci'ash in the Gaud-
j alupe mountains in which three oth-
T7 • i r c i-Un ' ers were killed, George A. Davidson
Here is a welcome from one of the ; VL° ’ , , , ,
ol Richmond, Cal., was brought here
Friday after being carried on a
stretcher down the steep mountain
side by 17 men working in relays.
W. J. (Bryant) Robbins, pilot of
the American Airways; Francis W.
Briggs, co-pilot, and Victor Ellman,
of St. Louis, , a passenger, were kill-
ed. Members of the rescue party
said the three were burned beyond
recognition. Returning over another
trail to the scene of the wreck, they
hoped to be able to bring out the
bodies.
Davidson, a passenger, told Dr. F.
P. Miller he tumbled out as the ship
broke in two and burst into flames.
The others were trapped.
Suffering from exposure, with
burns on face and hands and broken
ribs, he was in a semi-stupor when
rescuers reached him.
Davidson rolled down a 100-foot
TEN EX-STUDENTS
high school to the returning gradu-
ates of 1932. These ex-students are
as glad to be back among the high
school students, as the high school
is to have them.
Ten ex-students registered. They
are as follows: Milton Bodenhamer,
T. J. Casbeer, Alton Hallenbeck, Til-
leta Hendrix, Bess Northington, Nel-
da Perry, Harold D. Thomas, James
Thomas, Lawrence Williams and Vir-
gil Wooten.
PUBLIC SCHOOL OPENS
FRESHMEN RECEIVE INI-
TIATION TO HIGH SCHOOL
SOCIAL CLUBS TO BE
ORGANIZED NEXT WEEK
An announcement was made in
chapel 'Wednesday morning concern-
ing the organization of the different
social clubs, which are to be organiz-
ed next week.
Wednesday morning in chapel
Principal Rowntree announced to the
school assembly that social clubs
would be organized next week. The
pupils are to express themselves con-
cerning whether they want these or-
ganizations.
The clubs that were brought up
for the school’s approval are: the
Home Economics Club, the Kodak
Club, the First Aid Club, a Travel
Club, a Dramatic Club and a Science
Club.
These clubs will not only be good
for social welfare of the student body
but also for mental welfare, accord-
ing to Principal Rowntree.
Capability of the sophomores has
been displayed in the initiation of the
“fish” to high school this week. This
is an old custom handed down from
year to year and creates much merri-
ment among the high school students.
The freshmen have been seen pa-
rading in front of the school building
barefooted; cosmetics have been pro-
hibited, and if this law is violated,
the “soph” exercise authority by re-
moving it. Freshmen girls’ hair
must be worn very plain and if fancy
hair dressing is attempted, the
“sophs” take much pleasure in chang-
ing it. Several have found out that
dress belts may also be worn as
scarfs and hair ribbons, as well as
for marking off their delicate waist-
lines.
STAFF CLAIMS NEW OFFICE
Due to the fact that the Badger
Staff must have some place to write
articles and to type for the paper,
our superintendent and principal,
Messrs. Charles Wachendorfer and
John Rowntree, have consented to
give the staff an office of its own.
The Badger office will be equipped
with a desk, typewriter and other
necessary material. The staff will be
found at their work in the room
which w a s Principal Rowntree’s
office.
Thei’e will be a box placed in the
office where all material for the pa-
per will be deposited. All students
and teachers of the high school are
asked to hand in anything that they
would like to have appear in “The
Badger.”
Members of the staff appreciate
their new office and will try to show
their appreciation by putting out a
better paper.
By Editor.
The Lampasas public school open-
ed Monday morning, Sept. 5. Princi-
pal John Rowntree greeted the stu-
dent body of high school in assembly
and explained the new routine of
work. Many new faces are seen
among the student body and all the
new students are cox’dially welcom-
ed by the old group.
There were no changes made in the
grammar school or high school fac-
ulties of last year.
School has started in a fine way
and a very successful school year is
predicted.
BELTON, Sept. 11.—Except to re-
iterate that he did not plot to kill
his foster daughter, Doris, Cal Yar-
brough maintained complete sil-
ence Sunday during hours of inten-
sive questioning by Bell County of-
ficers.
Yarborough, Belton garage me-
chanic, was left in an Austin jail
today by officials of the sheriff’s
and district attorney’s departments
who returned to Belton Sunday
night.
A complicated web of circumstan-
tial evidence has entangled Yar-
brough since the girl was burned last
Thursday afternoon as she was help-
ing to clean the family car.
Yarborough told officers in a
statement Friday that he had been
cleaning the family automobile, us-
ing gasoline to loosen the grease
about the hub caps. He said that he
had turned the blow torch down low
and had mounted a scaffold to wash
the top of the car with gasoline,
which he carried in a small bucket.
The bail of the bucket broke, the
gasoline cascading down upon the
girl and becoming ignited by the
blow torch. The girl ran around the
car, Yarbrough told the officers, and
he jumped down and picked up a
bucket which he believed to contain
water and dashed it upon the girl.
The contents of the bucket was gas-
oline.
Just as Yarbrough dashed the
bucket of gasoline upon the girl,.
Tom Carpenter, mail carrier and
neighbor of Yarbrough’s, ran up-
when he heard the girl screaming
and pulled her out of the garage and
put the fire out.
The accused man was at the bed-
side when the child died at 3 a. m.
He was reported to have been ill all
that night, unable to rest without
being given medicine to quiet him.
He stated to members of the family
that he felt nauseated and weakened
by the gas fumes which he inhaled
at the time of the fire.
Yarbrough was spii’ited away from
the Bell county court house at 4 p.
m. Sathrday to avoid threatened moh
violence. He showed evidence of hav-
ing been crying when brought from
the district attorney’s office to the
car in which he was taken from
town by Sheriff John R. Bigham.
A small group of people gathered
to watch him being taken from town
cliff after he fell from the plane. He ......
remained stunned several hours, kot nothing was said in his hearing
SOPHOMORES ELECT
CLASS OFFICERS
The sophomore class held a meet-
ing Thursday morning for the pur-
pose of electing class officers. Mrs.
Tom Bigham, sponsor of the class,
presided, and the following officers
were elected: President, Thatcher
Gary; vice president, Margaret Woo-
ten; secretary, Lamar Hocker; chair-
man of social committee, Dorothy
Delle Rawls; sergeant at arms, Earl
Lindsey.
SENIORS ANNOUNCE CO-
BADGER FOOTBALL TEAM
TRAINING HARD
The 1932 football team is taking a
workout each afternoon after school
in order to get in shape for the ap-
proaching season. There are 5 letter
men back this year and 8 new men.
The team is handicapped to some ex-
tent by a new ruling of the inter-
scholastic league which requires a
boy who has played in another school
the previous year to live one year in
his new residence befoi’e he can par-
ticipate in athletics. The present
squad is lighter than the 1931 team;
however, it still retains the fighting
spirit noted of the L. H. S. football
OPERATION AS THEIR AIM , team since its beginning.
Contrary to the usual custom, the
baseball diamond in the Hancock
Park will be used as a gridiron in-
stead of the old gridiron in the Fair
Park.
In order to find the opinion of the
students, faculty and players, a rep-
resentative of ^ach was questioned
about his or her views of the team.
For some secret superstition, Captain
Kyle Smith would not express his
opinion of the team, other than to
say jokingly that the team needed a
new man. Betty Young, the football
queen elected last year, expressed her
opinion as follows: “I think the foot-
BADGER STAR TO
SACRIFICE HAIR
Garwood Burns, self-styled as a
hundred sixteen pounds of dynamite,
must lose his luxuriant growth of
hair. The reason for this is a change
of the football rules, to-wit: If any
portion of the ball carrier’s body
touches the ground besides his hands
or feet, the ball is dead. Garwood’s
hair is so long it drags the ground;
therefore, he would be unable to gain
any ground; hence, the tonsorial op-
eration.
1932 SENIORS OFF TO COLLEGE
The seniors of ’32 who are going
to college are: Gladys Harkey, Texas
Chiropractic College in San Antonio;
Lloyd Smith, Howard Payne in
Brownwood; Zudora Smithwick, Blan-
ton-Draughon in Ft. Worth; Earl Col-
lier, Abilene Business College; Clara
Vardiman and Merle Cotten, Baylor
College in Belton. The school is
proud of these students and sincerely
hopes that they will succeed in what-
ever they undertake.
When he regained consciousness he
walked two miles. Chilled by the
cold night air of the mountains, he
stopped and built a fire. He was
found at 8 p. m. Thursday night. It
was not until 9:30 a. m. Friday that
the rescue party succeeded in getting
him down to the highway, where he
was placed in an ambulance and
brought to a hospital in El Paso.
The plane, eastbound, struck with-
in 150 feet of the top of one of the
mountains in the Gaudalupe range,
75 miles east of here, in a fog Thurs-
day morning. The wreckage was dis-
covered early Friday by two other
Ameriean Airway pilots, Ii’a McCon-
aughey and Victor Miller. They had
to fly 12 miles to find a landing place
after discovering the wreck.
“I had given up hope of ever be-
ing found,” Davidson mumbled thru
scorched lips to his rescuers.
“Planes passed over me time and
again. I tried to attract their atten-
tion but it was too dark.
“The last thing I remember was
unbuckling my safety belt and fight-
ing my way out of the terrible flames.
I rolled and roiled down the side of
the mountain.
“My eyes were blistex’ed over; I
couldn’t see. I cut the blisters open
with my pocket knife. After build-
ing a little fire to keep off the cold, I
walked a long way in search of
water.”
LEGISLATURE MEETS
WITH BARE QUORUM
A senior’s last year in high school
should be something he will be able
to keep as a treasured memory, a
glorious pinnacle to an upward climb.
In order to give the most pleasant
memories to its members, a senior
class must cooperate in all of its en-
terprises, and in order to cooperate,
each member must have respect for
his class-mates’ opinions.
A class should be a small democ-
racy with all of its members equal,
and each keeping in his mind a de-
sire not to boost himself alone but
to boost his class.
TWO NEW COURSES OFFERED
Two new courses, Salesmanship
and Journalism, have been added to
the curriculum this year. These sub-
jects will help the students in pre-
paring themselves for the future. Mr.
Wilmer Park is tjhe instructor of
Salesmanship. The course was open-
ed with nineteen enrolled. The aim
of this subject is not to make expert
salesmen, but is to teach the under-
lying principles of successful sales-
manship as a basis for future study
of the subject and to further actual
practice of the pinciples. Mrs. Tom
Bigham has twenty-two students in
her journalism class. This new class
AUSTIN, Sept. 112.—Both houses
of the Texas legislature mustered
bare quorums for work today, not-
withstanding that many of the law-
makers were in Lubbock for the state
Democratic convention.
The senate remained in session
only a few minutes, then recessed
until 2 o’clock this afternoon. The
house rejected the senate amend-
ments to the highway bond assump-
tion bill and asked for a free con-
ference committee to adjust the dif-
ferences. The committee was not
expected to have the compromise
bill px-epared before toxxxorrow or
Wednesday.
The chief difference between the
senate and house positions was that
the senate had added an amendment
providing that the state should as-
sume the counties’ indebtedness on
rights of way procured for state
highways. The house wanted the
state to assume only the indebted-
ness incurred in financing construc-
tion.
and no attexxxpt was nxade to take
possessioix of him.
It is undex-stood that Sheriff John.
R. Bigham had a conversation with
the child just before her death at the
sanitarium.
Mr. Bigham has not made public
any statement which he might have
gotten from the child, but other peo-
ple were reported to have heard her
say that she did not know how the
accident occurred.
Displaying strength aixd com-
posure that neighbors who saw her
xxiaxwelled at, the girl is reported to
have run acx-oss the dividing fence
to a neighbor’s and told her calmly:
“Call an ambulance for me. I feel
like my skin is drawing up,” after
which she walked to a miimor, and
looking at the burns on her skin
asked: “Do you think I’ll always
look like this?”
Sheriff Johix R. Bigham started
his investigation of the case Thxxrs-
day night, the district attorney,
Henry Taylor, assisted by Jixxx Evetts
and County Attorney W. A. Messer,
taking pax't in the investigation all
day Friday.
Discovery of $12,000 in insurance,'
most of which carried a doxxble in-
demnity for accidental death, led the
state to assemble the circumstantial
facts that resulted in the charge be-
ing filed Saturday.
Officials of the Home Bexxefit as-
sociation of Marlin aixd the Bax’tlett
Muixal Life Insxxraxxce associaion
came to Belton Saturday to confirm
the existence of the insurance poli-
cies on the girl’s life,
i In each case Yarbrough was the
beneficiary of the policies. Yar-
brough, in a statement to Distxnct
Attorney Henry Taylor, stated that
he carried $2,000 life insurance on
himself and his wife, and adnxitted
the existence of the insurance on the
girl.
Officials of the company told mem-
bers of the shex-iff’s depax-tment yes-
terday that Yarbrough had written
them only recently inquiring what
classes the policies held by him on
the girl’s life were in, and inquiring
as to whether they carried a double
indemnity for accidental death.
The girl was 15, a sophomore in
Belton high school, popular among
the young people of Belton. She was
adopted by Yarbrough and his first
wife, now deceased, aboxxt 14 years
ago, from! a family ixx Austin.
-o-
Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Harkey and
C. T., Jr., returned yestex’day fx’om
San Antonio, where they spent the
week-end gettixxg Gladys, their
daxxghter, located and i-egistex-ed with
the Texas Chiropractic College.
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