The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1961 Page: 7 of 8
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THE PADUCAH POST, PADUCAH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 1961
Dragons, Dragonettes Win Trophies
In Jayton Cage Tournament Saturday
Both the Paducah Dragons
and Dragonettes brought home
5 trophies from the Jayton tourn-
ament last week-end.
The Dragons captured sec-
ond place while their counter-
parts took third.
In gaining a berth in the
finals, the Dragons slapped 45-
21 defeat to Patton Springs,
then plastered Old Glory with
a 53-33 defeat.
It was in the final bout that
the Dragons had to settle fpr
second when they lost a 60-36
decision to Jayton.
Against Patton Springs, Bill
Heatly led the Dragons with 12
points. It was Herman Fox
that paced the Paducah five
against Old Glory with 16.
The Dragonettes shook off a
three-point halftime deficit to
overcome Patton Springs 28-25
with Judy Hoffman leading the
way by bucketing 14 points.
However, they were forced into
the consolation route after los-
ing a thriller, 29-28, to Old
Glory girls. Again Hoffman
r- led the way with 15 points.
In the battle for third place,
the Dragonettes crushed Pea-
cock 51-13 t0 win the trophy.
Hoffman and Mary Latimer
completely dominated the game,
scoring 15 and 14 pointe re-
spectively.
Split With Memphis
Paducah roundballers went
to Memphis to split two games
with the Cyclones.
The Dragonettes, paced by
Hoffman and Latimer, outscor-
ed 'Memphis girls 61-41, but the
boys’ quintet were overpower-
ed with a 55-43 loss.
Hoffman and Latimer shot
the Dragons into an 8-point
first half lead, then teamed up
to rip the cords for 32 points
in the second half. Hoffman
had 26 points and Latimer
wound up with 22.
The Dragons got within
three points of the Cyclones
THE WEST WIND
several times, but they could | volume 34
not overtake the margin. High
for Paducah was Herman Fox
who scored 17 points.
No. 16
Planter’s Peanuts
Feed PHS Pet Mice
Occasionally our building is
honored with the presence of
visitors. There are many and
various types of visitors though,
some desirable and some not so
coveted.
The Spanish room had the
noted Pedro mouse to perform
his famous all-around-the-radi-
ator pipe hat dance, one day
last week. El raton (The
mouse) pops up through the
hole cut for our heating system
pipe, makes his appearance
and disappears with his reward
— Planter’s peanuts.
All students (except the
girls) are very fond of this
Tittle entertainer. However, his
exhibitions are limited because
he covers most of the school
each day in hope of obtaining
more peanuts from generous
students.
Robert Burns stated in “To a
Mouse,” ( we’ve been review-
ing that for mid-terms) “The
best laid plans of mice and
men go oft astray,” so our
little mouse is sure to eventual-
ly get caught in his antics and
we will be without entertain-
ment.
Integration Susceptible?
President-elect John F. Kennedy will doubtless encourage in-
tegration in our Southern schools during his tenure of office
which begins tomorrow. How ready is our school for this mea-
sure?
Some few students in this school have pushed their luck in
ridiculing our Latin American people. Differences in religions
cause character slights, and many students persecute others be-
cause of appearance, anything everyone can’t alter. How can
we, as a student body be integrated while we can’t even agree
with our present schoolmates?
Shakespeare once said in regard to a minority group, “Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimentions,
senses, affection, passions?- fed with the same food, hurt with
the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the
same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and sum-
mer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if
you'tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die?
and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
God created each of us and intended that we should be
equal in every respect. Trade places with the person you be-
little, and you will see how they must feel. If you practice the
Golden Rule you’ll make life a better situation for everyone.
Remember, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto
you.” P. A. P.
McMurry Musicians
Entertain Students
With Own Numbers
PHS students were entertain-
ed by “The Ravens,” a group
of McMurry students, Wednes-
day, Jan. 10, at the Methodist
Fellowship Hall. Buenger Dick-
son, Rudy Owen, Jack Smith,
Joe Collins, and their agent,
Larry Sullivan, make up the
group of musicians.
“We sing because we like
to sing,” Dickson, the so-called
leader of the group, said. At
the latter part of February they
will release a record called
“The Raven,” their theme song,
and “Pretty Linda.” “The Ra-
ven” was written by Dickson
and Owen and “Pretty Linda”
by Owen himself.
The program ended with a
devotional and was followed by
refreshments and fellowship.
Palace
Theatre
Bobcats Claw Lizards In Childress Den
Childress Bobcats took two
games from the Paducah Liz-
ards and the freshman-sopho-
more team with the scores of
41-6 and 35-24 in an encounter
recently in Childress High
School gymnasium.
Ronnie Mints, Douglas Gil-
breath, Leslie Gilbreath each
scored two points for the Liz-
ards. For Childress, Wilson and
Reeves both were high pointers
with 10 points.
Ping Pong, 4-Square
Replace Coke, Gossip
At Noon Recess
By Herky Killingsworth
Alan Grear kept the Dragons
Since the disappearance of moving with a scoring of 17
the Coke room, the ping-pong ! points. Jerry Pate Long follow-
room has become the favorite j ed with five points. For the
waiting place for PHS students, j Childress Bobcats the high
While waiting for the fatal j scorer was Anthony Shives with
fifth period bell to ring, you j 10 points. Pat Cordine and
can test your skill in ping-pong,
Paul Eubank tied with eight
points each.
Last week Coach West asked
Loyd Brown what kind of type
his typewriter had and Loyd
said “pica.” Then he asked
Richard Gibbs the same ques-
tion and he said, “Remming-
ton Ran.”
Jan Bumpus is the latest vic-
tim of an injury in the gym.
She was running wind-sprints
and ran into the wall. She has
a cracked wrist and will be out
of basketball for awhile.
your nerves in
if you are like
four-square, or
me, watch the
Mr. and Mrs. Truman Smith
are cordially invited to at-
tend one of the following
movies next week.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY
Jan. 19-20
For The Love
Of Mike
Richard Basehart
Danny Brand
SATURDAY
Jan. 21
Valley Of The
Redwoods
John Hudson
Lynn Bernay
SUNDAY-MONDAY
Jan. 22-23
From the Terrace
Paul Newman
Joanne Woodward
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
Jan. 24-25
Pay or Die!
Ernest Borgnine
Zohra Lampert
junior high practice basketball,
which doesn’t take any energy
at all.
If Sir Isaac Bickerstaff was
to see his game of ping-pong
played in PHS, he would have
never invented it at all. (To
clarify things and because my
journalism teacher says to write
jonly the truth—Sir Isaac Bicker-
staff was not really the creator
of the game, but English IV
students will recognize him as
the man whose pen name was
used by Steele in an Eighteenth
Century newspaper.)
Anyhow, this game has turn-
ed into a table baseball with
grand slam homers, strikes,
balls (or nets), and violent
bursts of temper. It is ruining
the honesty of our students by
making them sneak out of class
to play, or making them lie
about the ball hitting the table
or not.
Besides students, several
teachers have taken up the
sport and speaking for a plain
geometery grade, that Mr. Brin-
son has just a pretty wicked
serve. One catch though, to
play ping-pong you have to get
back from dinner hour mucho
speedy or there will be long
line ahead of you.
For those waiting in line for
ping-pong, a four-square game
is set up. This is a complicated
game made up of four squares
and is played by hitting a ball
in one tiny square. Four peo-
ple stand in these squares and
try to hit the ball back.
I have learned from this
game that you must have
nerves of steel, be quick like a
cat, and have many friends
playing against you. Whenever
[ play four-square, my friends
are playing ping-pong and
vice-versa.
I have learned that while
waiting to play ping-pong (and
being a heavy eater, I usually
have to wait), it is best to go
out into the hall and watch
the girls or into the gym to
watch the basketball practice.
My favorite is the first of the
two and when I get involved in
looking at the subjects of in-
terest, I miss my turn at ping-
pong.
Upon finding this out I wait
(in anger) for the fatal (I
mean final) bell and hope that
for revenge, those ping-pong
players will have a hard test
next period.
A Latin American boy who
was asked to write the first
verse of “The Star-Spangled
Banner,” began: “Jose, can you
see?”
Which Wire Wires
What Wire Where?
By Jimmy Ober wetter
Goodwin Junior High’s store-
room has become a maze of
turned, twisted, torn, cut, splic-
ed, stretched, and tightened
wire in preparation for the PHS
High School Band’s program,
“Dragon Extravaganza,” tomor-
row night.
Room 9 in the elementary
building could probably be cor-
rectly called the most wired
classroom in the United States,
since 1,200 feet of wire hang
down from boards where they
connect 500 sockets to lighting
appratus devices that are 24
feet long.
Catching on to “which wire
wires what where,” is at first a
very hard procedure. Directions,
given by the supervisor and di-
rector of the band, go some-
what like this . . . “Take a
double strand of wire 28 feet
long and begin wiring every
fifth, third, or sixth socket, (as
the case may be) by stretching
the wires apart, (a real thumb
killer) cutting the insulation,
and the turning the socket
screws down over the wire.”
After a while everything seems
to go smoothly until you re-
verse directions and completely
lose count of the series you are
doing.
The moral to this feature is:
If you don’t have hard thumbs
don’t wire sockets—or, Come to
the Dragon Extravaganza.”
Why did God create Adam
before Eve?
Because He didn’t want to
be told how to do it.
PHS Band Extravaganga Set Jan. 20-21;
Show to Feature Lights, Music, Comedy
The Dragon Extravaganza,
the PHS stage band, featuring
the Melody Makers, will be
presented at 8 p.m. tomorrow
night, January 20, in the Pa-
ducah High School auditorium.
A second performance will be
given Jan. 21.
This exclusive collection of
swing, rhythm and blues music
plus comedy routines will be
one of the two shows which
will be given this semester.
“This will be the most extrava-
gant and different program ever
brought here,” stated Band Di-
rector Richard Carey, and urges
everyone to buy tickets which
are on sale now.
The highlight of the show is
the lights, enough to light 50
houses. A six foot board with
50 switches will control the 500
multicolored lights. Only popu-
West Wind Chaff
It seems as if the PE girls
are still having a hard time,
especially Shirley Beauchamp
and Avis Smith. Coach West
seems to think Shirley needs
some extra practice doing the
sit-up exercise, and Avis in
holding her feet up to the count
of ten, he made these girls dp
the exercises alone.
lar swing music will be played.
“Young and old alike should
find entertainment suitable to
their taste,” Mr. Carey said.
Admission prices will be $1
for adults, and 50 cents for
students.
FHA Collects $221
As Girls Continue
Sale of Fruit Cakes
Sales for the fruit cakes in
FHA are still continuing, with
$221 collected at the present.
Janice Martin has sold the
high total of $88.
“I think the girls are “work-
ing very hard in making our
sale successful,” Shirley E^ans,
president of the club, stated.
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Coach McLean gave some of
the football boys a scare when
he told them he had ordered
some pills to tell who smoked.
The mouths of those who smoke
will turn yellow. If this is
true, we’ll soon know who on
our football team are the
smokers.
A period is a dot at the end
of a sentence. A period cos-
tume is a dress covered with
dots.
Co-editors: Pat Parnell, Sandra
Tye.
News Editor: Brenda Cowart.
Co-Feature Editors: Herky Kill-
ingsworth, James Davis.
Co-Sports Editors: Gene Heatly,
Jimmy Oberwetter.
Exchange Editor: Larry Thomp-
son.
Reporters: Avis Smith, Butch
Maxfield, Vera Grant, Liz
Taylor.
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Tooley, Kenneth. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1961, newspaper, January 19, 1961; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1017824/m1/7/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.