The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1965 Page: 4 of 8
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Gilbreath Off To State
To Run In 440 Dash
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“Leslie Gilbreath ranks in
the top five boys in the 440
yard dash in state in Class
A,” said Coach Jerry Rich-
burg, as the two left for Aus-
tin and the state track and
field events in which Leslie
will compete.
Last week the 440 yard
relay team of Glen Crump-
Ier, Thomas Liedtke, Danny
Walling and Leslie Gilbreath
traveled to Denton for the
Regional Track Meet.
The relay team didn’t place
.but a 51.4 run by Leslie qua-
lified a PHS1 student for the
state meet for the first time
since 1962 when Bill Heatly
Jr. cleared 12 feet in the
pole vault. In 1960 Johnny
Worley placed second at
state in the Class A 440.
Leslie, a senior at PHS,
has captured scholastic and
athletic honors throughout
his high school career.
A 91.4 average in four
years of high school placed
Leslie second in his class to
Paula Rodgers’ 93.3.
He is now serving as vice-
president of his class and
the head of two high school
organizations, the Lettermans
Club and the National Honor
Society to which he was elec-
ted in 1963. He also was nom-
inated for most handsome this
year from the Senior Class.
History Experts
Go To Canyon
Six history students took
part in Academic Contests in
World History and United
States history, when they
attended the Seventh Annual
History Contest at West Tex-
as State University in Can-
yon last Thursday.
Steve Chenault, Sharon
Moss, Charlotte Stephens and
Doris Ann Davis competed in
American History, while
Cheryl Goodwin and Jean-
ette Prater entered the world
history contest. The tests
were objective examinations
covering the entire scope of
the courses in United States
and World History. The con-
testants also wrote a brief
essay on an assigned topic.
Results of the tests were not
available at press time.
“The purpose of these con-
tests is to encourage the
study of history in the high
schools of this area- by pro-
viding some public recogni-
tion for the best students in
these two fields,” Mrs. Pat
Renfro, U. S. history teacher
said.
Trophies were awarded
first and second place win-
ners, while Class I medals
were given to the top 5 per
cent of the contestants in
each contest, and Class II
medals to the next 5 per cent.
Prin. John Brinson accom-
panied the group who were
representatives of both Mrs.
Renfro’s and Mrs. Jack Par-
sons’ history classes.
Volume 38
Paducah High School
Number g
Jr. High Tbin Clads 2nd D/sf
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Tone Speaker Shows
Effects Of Alcohol
On Brain,Reflexes
Alcoholism was the subject
Paul Siebenmann, member of
Texas Alcohol and Narcotic
education stressed in talking
to high school and junior
high students in assembly
April 28.
Playing the part of a bar-
tender, Mr. Siebenmann ex-
plained how different types
of alcoholic drinks affect a
person’s actions and treat his
body. He informed students
that several famous literary
persons had died prematurely
as a result of alcohol and
narcotics, mentioning Jack
London, Harold Crane and
Sherwood Anderson.
After his talk he showed
a film “Wreck on the High-
way” which showed drama-
tically how alcohol affects
the brain. It showed how
just a small amount of alco-
hol can affect a person’s re-
flexes and coordination and
cause many serious accidents.
Thanks Expressed
To Norris Furn, Co.
With the final curtain go-
ing down on “Dangerous De-
cison,” the Senior Class Play
of 1965, long weeks of work
ended and there was time to
count blessings.
Among things incident to
the production that class
members and sponsors nam-
ed as most appreciated, is
the courtesy extended each
year by J. E. Norris Furni-
ture Company, in providing
the props for the play.
“Not only do Norrises loan
us new and appropriate fur-
niture without cost, but they
deliver it to us days in ad-
vance that it may be used
for dress rehearsal. Members
of the cast, sponsors and the
students of PHS sincerely ap-
preciate this support and
want to publicly thank the
firm for entrusting us,” Lyda
Kelly, class sponsor said.
The Goodwin Lizards fin-
ished track season with a
second place honor at their
district meet which was held
in Holliday last week.
The Lizards got most of
their points in both the 440-
yard relay and 1320-yard re-
lay.
All running events by Pa-
ducah were outstanding with
fast times to prove it. Track
and field events are as fol-
lows:
50 Yard D'ash—(Paducah)
Bull Spills Barnett
Mr. Charles Don Barnett,
science teacher at PHS, took
off his school clothes Friday
put on his western clothes,
and entered the bull riding
in the Paducah rodeo with
science students contributing
half of his entry fee.
Mr. Barnett got to the ro-
deo office early to register,
but the bull riding event was
already full up. At this time
he didn’t think he could get
a bull, but he was put on the
waiting list and found out
late Friday evening that one
of the riders couldn’t come
and therefore he could ride.
In the drawing he drew a
big black Brangus bull called
“Grandad”. Friday night at
the rodeo he didn’t complete
his ride, but he surely gave
it a determined try.
Mike Sossaman, a PHS
junior entered the bareback
bronc riding and drew a
horse called, “Not Yet.” This
horse got that name because
he’s never been qualified on.
Mike didn’t make the re-
quired eight seconds, for the
horse was a mean one and
quite lived up to his name—
“Not Yet”.
'65 Seniors Choose
Colors,Song,Etc.
Graduation nears reality
for 38 seniors this year as
they have chosen their class
colors and songs which they
will sing at baccalaureate
and graduation services on
May 23 and May 28 respec-
tively.
The songs chosen are “I
B e lieve,” “Ivory Palace,”
“How Great Thou Art,” “One
God,” and, of course, “Orange
and White.”
The class colors, which are
the same that the seniors
now had during their eighth
grade graduation, are sky-
blue and white. The class
motto has not been decided
on yet.
Jimmy Taylor (2) 5.7, Sher-
man Stephens (6).
75 Yard Dash—(Paducah)
Sherman Stephens and Hol-
lis Crumpler (6) tie.
100 Yard Dash—(Paducah)
Jimmy Taylor (2), Hollis
Crumpler (2), tie.
100 Yard Low Hurdles—
(Paducah) Jimmy Taylor (2),
Steve Paschall (4).
330 Yard Dash—(Paducah)
Bill Goodwin (1) 39.4, David
Rekieta (3).
660 Yard Run—(Paducah)
George Reep (3) 1:42.8^
440 Relay—(Paducah) (2)
50.7 (Jimmy Taylor, Benny
Mushinski, David Rekieta
and Bill Goodwin).
1320 Relay—(Paducah) (1)
2:52.3 (Hollis Crumpler, Da-
vid Rekieta, Benny Mushin-
ski and Biil Goodwin).
Field Events
Shot Put—(Paducah) Terry
Piper (4), Mikie Holcomb (6).
Discus—(Paducah) Benny
Mushinski (2), Terry Piper
(4).
High Jump—(Paducah) Ri-
chard Archer (2) 5 ft.
Chinning—(Paducah) Sher-
man Stephens (16), Richard
Archer (’6), tie.
Other members of the Liz-
ard track team are Danny
Hutchinson, Hal Ryan, Ron-
ald Skinner, Kerry Bragg,
Steve Worley, Dale Harrison.
AG Teacher Hurt
In Freak Accident
VA teacher, Gene Bristo’s
good deed for the day back-
fired both literally and figur-
atively one day last week
and left him with a piece of
steel lodged near his spine.
The freak accident occur-
red when Mr. Bristo offered
to remove the top of a steel
barrel for his friend, Larry
Jones, 6th grade Goodwin
teacher.
A piece of steel about the
size of a pencil rubber broke
off the hatchet being used to
hack off the barrel top and
struck Mr. Bristo in the groin.
The pain and excessive
bleeding sent the men im-
mediately to the doctor who
administered a tetanus shot.
Later X-rays revealed the
fragment of steel had glanced
upward and was lodged near
the spine where it is not ex-
pected to cause trouble.
“Well - not much trouble.
I’m pretty sore right now but
very grateful at the near
miss of a serious accident,”
Bristo said.
JOHN BRIN50N
DENNIS WIL1JS
D0Y McCLENDOH
SUSAN SIMS
PAULA RODGERS
MAURICE STANLEY
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CLAYTON HUTCHISON
SALLY TUCKER
SHARON SMITH
STEPHEN PORTER
MARY JANE CARR
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DAVID JONES
MARY REKIETA
JIMMY BLOUNT
KAY PARR
JIMMY CHANEY
UKDA RYAN
LARRY HINDS
DONNA SMITH
JOYCE BOWDEN
LESLIE GILBREATH
LARRY ROSS
PAULA LEATHERS
JOHN RICHARDS
SUSIE SOSSAMAN
LEE GREEAR
SHARON PISTOLE
SYNTHIA CARTER
NORMAN RANSOM
RICKY TOMISON PATRICIA CUNNINGHAM
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“I think the boys did a
fine job. They have worked
hard all year,” Coach Ken
Scott said.
Henrietta won the meet
with a total of 131 points
while Paducah was close be-
hind with 129% points. Knox
City was third with 72 points.
FHA Delegates
Report Big Time
Last week Dorothy Chan-
ey, delegate of Paducah Chap-
ter of FHA and Doris Ann
D'avis, treasurer, went to
Dallas for the State Conven-
tion of Future Homemakers
of America.
The girls, accompanied by
Miss Jane Baker, sponsor, in
her car, stayed at the Baker
Hotel for the three day con-
vention.
An account of their trip
included reports of touring
the Texas Womans Univer-
sity campus in Denton, eat-
ing out at the La Tunisia
which has an Arabian Nights
setting and features exotic
Arabian dishes, seeing “My
Fair Lady,” and making a
trip to Six Flags, besides at-
tending meetings having to
do with the Future Home-
makers Convention.
Dorothy reports that the
convention closed with the
traditional ceremony and
song “Sing Your Way Home”
and that is just what the
Paducah representatives did,
so thrilled were they over
the happy experience.
Given Library
A&M Yearbooks
The annual staff and li-
brary are in possession of
four A&M yearbooks through
the thoughtfulness of Herky
Killingsworth, 1961 graduate
of PHS and member of Ze-
phyr and West Wind staffs.
The two 1956, and one 1957
and 1963 edition of Aggie-
Land will be of interest to
students contemplating at-
tending A&M, and are of use
to yearbook' staffs for ideas
in makeup.
Herky is a /senior at A&M
where he is majoring in Eng-
lish and minoring in journal
lism. This summer he will
be spending in Denmark.
STUDENTS OF MONTH Susie Sossaman and Curiis Burton
smile as they compare pins designating the honor.
Sossaman, Burton Named
March Students Of Month
Susie Sossaman and Curtis
Burton, seniors, were belated-
ly recognized as Students of
the Month for March in as-
sembly last week and were
presented with pins by Paula
Rodgers, S t u dent Council
president.
Both students have been
very active in school affairs.
Susie is on both the West
Wind and Zephyr staffs and
is business manager for the
1965 annual. She has been a
member of FHA for four
years and served as historian
and song leader. She played
basketball two years and has
been a member of the pep
squad and choir and has
worked in the library. Al-
most always on the honor
roll. Susie found time to take
the lead in the one-act play,
“Antic Spring” and a part
in the Senior Play along
with her other responsibili-
ties. Susie will be married in
June.
Curtis was football manager
as a freshman. He has been
in the band and choir a year,
and in the Student Council
two years, currently as vice-
president. He is president of
the FTA organization and a
member of Quill and Scroll.
As a member of the annual
staff and West Wind, Curtis
has had close contact with
all school activities. The past
summer he was the recipient
of a Farm Bureau scholarship
which permitted him to at-
tend a seminar on American-
ism at Sam Houston State
Teachers College, and he has
made numerous speeches this
year on what he learned.
Curtis plans to attend Texas
Tech and major in journa-
lism.
No, he hasn’t been demoted.
He was just trying out the
rider mower which has re-
cently been worked over.
Supt. H. R. Jefferies drew
attention of students last
Thursday when he appeared
to be mowing the campus.
A reporter rushed out to
see and get the big story, but
custodian Frank Ballard had
already taken over the job!
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WEDDING BELLS will ring this summer for seniors girls
Sally Tucker, Renee Holcomb. Barbara Smith, Kaye Parr,
Susie Sossaman, and Sharon Hand.
Five Senior Girls To Wed In June
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June is the traditional
month for brides, and five
senior girls and one teacher
have chosen this month for
their weddings.
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THE CAST of "Dangerous Decision" read from left to
right Jimmy Blount, Sharon Hand, Curtis Burton, Barbara
Smith (seated), Susie Sossaman, Maurice Stanley, Sharon
Pistole, Larry Hinds, Linda Ryan, Susan Sims, and (seated)
Paula Leathers and Mary Jane Carr.
Susie Sossaman will ex-
change vows in a church
wedding with Jerry Pate
Long, a 1963 graduate of
PHS, on June 20, the same
date on which Sharon Hand
and Gene Latham, a 1960
graduate will be married in
a home ceremony.
Sally Tucker plans to ex-
change vows with Thomas
Truelock in mid June. Bar-
bara Smith and Walter May-
berry, a 1961 graduate of
PHS, will be married in her
home June 25.
The month will come to a
close with the marriage of
Renee Holcomb to Stanley
Rindle, a ’64 graduate of Chil-
dress High School on June 30.
Miss San dra Foreman,
speech teacher and Roy A.
Jones II, a 1960 graduate of
PHS, will be married on
June 12.
Donna Kaye Parr and
Tommy Isbell, a 1962 grad-
uate, will wed later in the
year.
Junior girls that are wear-
ing rings are Charlotte Ste-
phens and Rosemary Floyd,
but the dates of their wed-
dings are not known. One
freshman, Shirley Burns, is
engaged.
Jr.-Sr. Night
Plans Kept g0r$e ShoW Is
Slated Saturday, May 22
The ninth annual Haskell.
RAM GREEN
CURTIS BURTON
BARBARA SMITH
ROBERT WILLIAMS
SHARON HAND
GARY MOREN
MIKE SCOTT
RENEE HOLCOMB
PERRY E0STER
As Surprise
Saturday night marks one
of the most anticipated events
of the school year, when the
Junior Class goes all out to
honor the seniors in the tra- Quarter Horse Show-’ will be
ditional Junior-Senior Ban- held here Saturday, May 22>
quet. with a record breaking num-
Varying a little from tra- be$ of e?tries exPected-
dition, however this vear’s A*0™* 600 programs, con-
banquet will be held in ?he Aper^nent
Veterans j * on American Quarterhorse
. . Bu^ng instead of Association approved show here,
wm cafeteria, and the which will have 14 halter class-
outside guest list will be cut es And 10 performance classes',
to include only the high plus champion of the show,
school faculty and room mo- have been mailed out to horse
thers. breeders and barrel racing en*
Members of the Junior thusiasts over the southwest
Class have been organized
into assembly line commit- Class sensors are being se-
tpp<? tr> . cured at this time by Dr. T. W.
nhzJnf H k 1 of every williams, Haskell; . Raymon
phase of decoration and plan- UIes. Weinert, and Cecil Eager
ning all of which has been 0f Stamford,
kept very secret. Horse show superintendent,
Mrs. Jack Parsons and Felix Mullino, states that from
Coach Jerry Richburg are inquiries being received, this
sponsors. year’s show will probably top
last year’s event, wmcn naa
145 entries, and 108 horses en-
tered.
The AQHA Approved show,
sponsored by the Haskell Coun-
ty. Sheriff’s Posse, will be judg-
ed by Elmo Favor, of Abilene/
Three new performance
classes have been added this
year which includes Pole Bend-
ing, any age, jackpot; Junior
Riding Western Pleasure, jack-
pot, and Junior Western Rid-
ing, jackpot.
Judging begins promptly at
9:00 a. m., May 22, with en-
tries to close at that time.
The Horse Show Committee
consists of Felix Mullino, Horse
Show Superintendent, Kenneth
Felker, Jetty V. Clare, Dr. T.
W. Williams, Adell Thomas,
Cecil Eager, Ramon Liles, C.
O. Holt, R. W. Addison, Otto
Baumbach and O. L. Crouch
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Leatherwood, Carl. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1965, newspaper, May 6, 1965; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1024644/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.