Leopard Tales (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 1947 Page: 2 of 4
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LEOPARD TALES
Leopard Tales Staff
Published Monthly by Students of
TEMPLE JUNIOR COLLEGE
STAFF
Editor__________________________Cary Thornton
Assoc. Editor________Kenneth Roberts
Bus. Mgrs.: J. D. Koctar, Bill
Sitton, Kenneth Roberts.
Circulation Mgr.JRichard Spradley
Reporters: Dorothy Hodge, Ron
Litteral, Billye McLendon, Bet-
ty Wichita, Raymond Kabella,
Ted Edens, Bill Sitton, LaTris-
sia Wood.
Sponsor____________Miss Marian Arnold
Subscription Rate 50c a Year
Is Chivalry Dead?
While strolling innocently
through the halls of TJC recently,
I was thoroughly shaken up by a
resounding whack which scattered
my books through the halls and
flattened me against a nearby wall.
The hearty young gentleman ( ?)
who had thus greeted me stood by
and laughed while I suffered. Since
then, my reflections on the lack of
chivalry among TJC’s males have
been many.
Perhaps the days of the dash-
ing gallant knight ARE gone for-
ever, but, please, fellows, we really
do appreciate the little courtesies
which you extend to us. You prob-
ably don’t realize that when you
are polite and courteous, we are
really thrilled.
One of today’s gallants says that
chivalry is gone forever, because
the girls of today are altogether
too capable of taking care of them-
selves and are no longer damsels
in distress. If this is true—and it
seems that chivalry suffered an
unheralded death long ago—why
can’t we have its cousin—common
courtesy ?
Question of the Month
WHAT ABOUT A VACATION?
Sue Coleman: Join the Lonely
Hearts Club with Barbara Ann
Charlton and Catherine Brandes
and get away from Temple just as
far as possible.
Mary D. Baird: I’m going to
Mexico and “shoot the breeze” with
some of them there Mehicanos.
Doris Hunka: Going to Dallas
for a Rainbow meeting. Gonna
get a good suntan, play a little
tennis and take it easy.
Ray Kabella: I’m going to work;
this school has been my vacation.
Marguerie Allison: Going to
Houston—Galveston—see all the
bright lights and do all the loafing
I can.
Walter Nanny: Taking a trip to
New Orleans. Who knows, I might
even stick around for the Mardi
Gras.
Bill Couch: I’m taking a trip to
Rio this summer and be a common
seaman on a garbage scow.
Ted Edens: It’s the Hotel Buc-
caneer for my honeymoon! What
a life! Good fishing and good cof-
fee.
Luncheon for Seniors
On April 23, the First Method-
ist Church honored seniors of Tem-
ple High School and Junior College
at a luncheon.
Guest speaker was Dr. John V.
Berglund of Southwestern Univer-
sity. Burton King gave the invo-
cation and Jarrard Secrest was
toastmaster.
About half of the graduating
class of TJC attended.
THE FOGHORN (Corpus Chris-
ti Junior College).—CCJC’s YWC
A has planned a party to appeal to
the less cultured side of all stu-
dents. A Jolie Blon dance, where
a typical Jolie Blon will be select-
ed, has been planned. (Too bad
TJC’s Ron Litteral can’t attend!)
PUT AWAY THAT WHET-
STONE, MOTHER, WE’RE
PLENTY SHARP TODAY.
TJC Social Life Invaded
Reports from scattered incidents
seemed to show that the junior col-
leges at the state meet played
havoc with the social life in TJC.
Perhaps the most touching was
an affair arranged by GEORGE
WALTON. George, who insists
that he was merely trying to help
out the TJC debaters by means
fair or foul, get BETTYE JO SIS-
CO a date with 0. B. TYLER, a
debater from Corpus Christi. WEL-
DON BIGHAM, learning of this,
immediately began taking up a
collection to buy a box of Kleenex
for the unsuspecting Mr. Tyler.
However, due either to Tyler’s
charming personality or his new
gray Buick, this whole affair so
innocently arranged seemed to
to have gotten out of hand, for
eye witnesses report that Bettye
Jo not only refused to heed the ad-
vice given in this column last
month, but also that Tyler needed
the box of Kleenex quite badly.
And then there was this flying trip
to Austin the next day, on top of
which we had some touching cor-
respondence carried on since. And
as we said, the whole affair seems
to have gotten out of hand. Not
only this, but everything said about
Bettye Jo and 0. B. seems also to
be true of ANNA LOU and the
other Corpus debater, JOHN RAS-
COB.
And turning from Corpus to
John Tarleton, we find that the
John Tarleton extempore speaker
became quite infatuated with BON-
NIE CAMERON. Bonnie reports
that the young gentleman told her
that she was the nicest he had
ever been out with who wouldn’t
let him kiss her good-night. Oh,
Bonnie, come, now!
And not to be forgotten was the
party held by about a dozen TJC
students and the representatives
from Victoria Junior College on
Thursday night after the recep-
tion. This group, taking over the
entire Moss Rose, threw a party
that rivaled even the reception,
Featured on the sponaneous pro-
gram was DAVID PHILLIPS and
his “newly recruited from the au-
dience” boys. Quite a blowout!
Business Men
JAMES HAM and HERMAN
WILLI, TJC’s pride of KTEM, are
planning a new radio business.
They plan to start an advertising
sei’vice, and every time Fred Al-
len cuts off the air, they’ll run in
with a spot announcement. A sug-
gestion, boys: Why not start a
booking agency to figure out the
odds on Frank Sinatra.
Little Bundle
When JO ANN WILSON was
called Half Pint by LAUREN
GAINES in typing class the other
day, she snapped back, “Dynamite
comes in little packages.”
Let’s light the fuse, boys.
Fighting Words
BILL STAVINOHA probably
came as close to getting killed as
one ever has the other night. A
group, including JAMES COUGH-
LIN, RAYMOND KABELLA, and
BOB SHAEFFER, were searching
their brains for material for the
class will and were producing such
topnotch stuff as “Herman Willi
willingly wills Willi’s witty, whim-
sical witticisms to Willie Matush,”
when in walks Stavinoha, looks
over the material and remarks,
“This is pretty good, but let’s go
over it and make it funny.” Juot
as they were about to string him
up, Bill Purkins came by hunting
a yellow lamp shade for a scaven-
ger hunt and broke up the party.
Lonely Hearts
The laest club to be organized in
TJC is the Lonely Hearts Club.
Charter members are SUE COLE-
MAN, KATHERINE BRANDES,
and BARBARA ANN CHARL-
TON.
The girls formed the club when
the boy friends of all three of them
deserted them at the same time.
The girls are now looking for
other members of the club, pre-
ferably a male.
A Visit to Pompeii
BY TED EDENS
The thing that intrigued me most
about our trip to Pompeii was the
journey there from an Italian sea-
port town. As two friends and I
rattled through the crowded nar-
row streets of Naples in a carriage
drawn by an underfed, overworked
horse, the guide shuffled along in
front of us to clear the way of
small children, teeming the streets
for lack of a better place to stay.
Four ghastly walls represented
the once magnificent railway sta-
tion. Shouldering our way through
the masses and stepping over rub-
ble caused by shelling and bomb-
ing, we finally reached the so-
called train, only to find that ev-
ery conceivable space had been
taken. However, our guide man-
aged to secure us a place to stand
in the engine room, near the ac-
commodating engineer.
My mind became almost con-
fused as I scanned the wonderful
and immense ruins of unburied
Pompeii. Becoming conscious of
a little history, I changed gears in
my thinking to recall the scientific
and conscientious work it took for
man to evacuate what nature had
buried so easily. From these ruins,
as well as from the information
that the guide gave us, I tried to
animate the picture before me with
scenes of Pompeiian life some two
thousand years ago, before the de-
struction of the city.
The plan of the city streets and
the structure of the buildings gave
evidence that the inhabitants were
either well-to-do, or slaves. Public
baths were quite the vogue. We
were told tha the wealthy Pompeii-
ans followed the sanitary customs
of the Romans by bathing several
times daily, but this good habit was
later abused and degenerated into a
luxury. Much time was spent in
the baths, spices in the heated wa-
ter gave off an agreeable and in-
toxicating fragrance.
Breads of all kinds were baked
at public ovens; great urns, where
warm wines were served, were on
every corner. As today, in our
cities, there were public laundries.
The amphitheater spoke of
sports with wild beasts, of gladia-
tors who fought on horseback, rode
white chargers and were clad in
splendid armor with gilded helmets
and handsome trappings.
After having roamed for several
hours and not yet quite satisfied
to leave, we boarded the funny lit-
tle train bound for Naples.
Banquet Planned for
Leopard Tales Staff
Indefinite plans are being made
for a banquet for students who
have made a definite contribution
to Leopard Tales.
This banquet will probably be
held before school is dismissed, and
invitations will be extended to the
editorial staff, business staff, and
outstanding reporters.
Attention, Girls!
Announcing-
THE ROBERTS-KABELLA
BEAUTY EVALUATION
SERVICE
This service, just begun by Ray-
mond Kabella and Kenneth Rob-
erts, is designed for the benefit of
the girls of Temple and especially
Temple Junior College. For a
small fee of only one dollar ($1)
Roberts and Kabella will give any
girl a true estimation of her beau-
ty. .
Also included in this special of-
fer are suggested improvements
for your beauty, pointing out your
strongest charms and also your
weak points, describing the type of
man you most appeal to, and an
over-all beauty evaluation show-
ing you just where you stand with
the men. So, girls, to know just
how you stack up in the eyes of
men, you can’t be without this
guaranteed truthful beauty evalua-
ion.
The Roberts - Kabella Beauty
Evaluation Service Is Now Open
for Business. First come, first
served, so hurry up and place your
order. Although photos will be ac-
cepted, a personal appearance is
recommended.
See Raymond Kabella or Ken-
neth Roberts—IMMEDIATELY.
“OLD IRONSIDES”
(As Told to Bill)
Old Ironsides was a huge “mus-
kie” that lived in the waters of
Lake Wannee, a very popular
Michigan lake. Every year, fish-
ermen from all over the country
would line the banks around the
lake with the prime purpose of
catching Old Ironsides.
One fisherman in particular
wanted to snag this prize. The
sportsman, J. B. Bartung, a wealthy
New York lawyer, had been coming
to this same lake for fifteen years.
This annual occurence started when
J. B. first sunk a hook into Old
Ironsides. He had just about land-
ed the huge fish when his line
broke. Ater this failure, J. B.
was determined to get this big
muskie. Every year he returned
with the ideal tackle to catch Old
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Compliments
King's Daughters Clinic
and Hospital
Ironsides, but after setting the
hook, each time something went
wrong and Old Ironsides remained
free to laugh at his efforts.
This particular year J. B.’s prep-
arations had reached perfection.
He used a line that had been test-
ed by two teams of mules pulling
against each other. The hook was
made of the strongest metal alloy
known to man. He secured the
end of the line to an oak tree and
hired twenty men to help him pull
the fish in.
J. B. and his men had been by
the line for fifteen hours when
Ironsides finally came by. Seeing
the pleasing bait, he could not re-
sist, so the fight was on. After
four hours of struggle, Old Iron-
sides was finally landed.
J. B. made great preparations
for the mounting of the fish, but
after examining Old Ironsides, he
found that the fish had swallowed
so many hooks that he had to be
sold for junk.
The Mountaineer (Schreiner In-
stitute—Six acres of land in the
northeast corner of the campus
have been purchased by the Lamar
Junior College of Beaumont at a
cost of $4,500, it was announced
by John Gray, president.
MARSHALL’S
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Complete Insurance Service
PHONE 2088
Temple, Texas
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Leopard Tales (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 1947, newspaper, May 2, 1947; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1099238/m1/2/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Temple College.