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VOLUME 57
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SEMINOLE, GAINES COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1964
PRICE 10c
NO. 28
Seminole High School To Graduate 52 Seniors
$900,000 Construction Program Proposed For Schoo
New Elementary
School And High
School Addition
The board of trustees of the
Seminole Common Consolidated
School District voted to call an
election for authorization of a
$900,000 school bond issu^ to sup-
port a building program ^at their
regular meeting held Monday,
night.
To be presented to the public
for approval in the election will
be two separate propositions, one
to authorize $860,000 in bonds for l,len movt' to Hereford for a game
new construction and remodeling ; al 1 P-11?- Thursday.. The third
of present buildings, and one to' came of the series, if necessary,
authorize $40,000 in,.bonds to fin-
ance, paving the parking lot at
Wigwam Stadium.
The hoard agreed to request
that the Gaines County Commis-
sioners' Court, which has respon-
sibility for actually calling the
election after the proper petition Tam Uau| QsOCAII
has been presented, sot the date I Ul llCAl OCQwUII
Indians And Whitefaces
Will Meet In Bi-District
The Seminole Indians, champ-
ions in District 2-AAA baseball,
will go into bi-district playoffs a-
gaihst the Hereford Whitefaces.
champions in District 1-AAA, here.
Tuesday afternoon!
The first game in the best-two-
out-of-three series will be played
here in Indian ballpark Tuesday
afternoon at .2:00, The series will
Indian Football
Schedule Is Set
will follow the game in Hereford
as the closer in a double header.
The Indians finished the season
with an 8-2 district record, win-
ning a replayed tic game against
the Ector Eagles, 7-2 The win
gave the Indians the champion-
ship. their fourth district baseball!
championship in the five years:
they have fielded a baseball team.
The win against the Eagles also 1
marked the first time in the his-
tory of the competition between
Seminole and Ector that the In-
dians have defeated the Eagles '■
on their own home ground in
Odessa.
The championship is for the In-
dians a return to the winners' cir-
cle after a year's absence. The
Indians opened their baseball his-
tory by winning the regional title
as a Class AA school in 1960. de-
for the election as Tuesday, June j Jake Harrell athletic director j featwi the Kotor Eagles, defending
ah ,r ti,« kr,arh rv.oc a,lt* head football coach at Semi-: kta('0 champions, in a playoff for
r.nf -,1 L W ^ Pnv Ir i n°'C High St'hot)1- today ''nnounc- i the District 2-AAA title in 1961.
? 1 rlltTdnce wiHiam'ed the'- football .schedule, which has i any, fought thelr way to the state-
L. L. Coats. Dale Spenee. William been ,aid out for the Indians for . runner-up position in . 1962.
the coming season. : j The Hereford Whitefaces. who j
The 10-game schedule is evenly have only three teams in . their;
split between home and away- district, finished the season with i
from-home games, with the two!a record of 18 wins and 10 losses,!
opening games being played here j and a district record of 7-1. i
in Wigwam Stadium. | Their on]y district 1qss was in j
E. Curry, and H, B Patterson, Jr.,
voted in favor of the building
bonds, however, one member,
Curry, Opposed the paving bonds.
Rayford Bates and Raymond Gold-
en were absent from the meeting.
• The major item of construction
which - Is to be financed by the
proponed bond Issue is a new ele-
mentary school which the district
plans to build on the west side of
the city, across the draw.
The new school is to have 14
classrooms, but will be designed
so that it can be expanded to 24
classrooms if future requirements
make such an expansion neces-
sary. Plans also call for. the build-
ing to include a gymnasium, a
cafeteria and a library.
Construction costs on the build-
ing itself have been estimated by
architects at $438,768, with an
additional $66,627 being required
for curbing, pavement, sidewalks,
site improvement, architects fees,
furniture and equipment. This
brings the total estimated cost for
the building and grounds to $305 -
395.
Also among the items included
in the proposed construction is
the addition of a second floor to
the now classroom building at the
rear of the main high school. This
second floor, which would be con-
nected with the main building by
an enclosed corridor, will contain
science laboratories, lecture rooms
and project rooms. Additionally,
the new floor and the exiting low-
er floor would be air conditioned.
Estimated cost of the new sec-
ond story and the connecting cor-
ridor is $215,400, with an, addition-
al $21,624 being required for fur-
niture and equipment, air condi-
tioning the lower floor, and arelii-
Sce CONSTRUCTION. Page 5
fehicles Hit By
lieves Taking
Articles
The Gaines County Sheriff's of-
fice received reports of three
small thefts during the past week,
all Involving articles stolen from
parked vehicles.
Dave Sooter. who lives two miles
south On the Andrews highway,
reported the theft of a 6:50x13
Firestone tire, mounted on a white
rim, from the back of his pickup
truck. The pickup was parked In
front of his residence at the time
of the theft. The theft took place
sometime FricFayTMay 22. —
The theft of two fender skirts
from a 1964 Ford was reported by
Paul Combs, 602- SW 6th St. The
fender skirts were stolen from the
car while It was parked in front
of his home sometime during the
night of Sunday. May 24.
The third theft involved a tool
box belonging to Forrest Lumber
Co. which was taken from the rear
of a pickup truck belonging to
I.owell Whlsenant. It was a gal-
vani?ed hand tool box, 8"x8"x24",
with the lid painted blue.
The box contained two pair of
small copper tubing cutters, a
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HONOR GRADUATES
The Indians will open the sea-;Uu>ir , t ganic agHinst the Level-1
soa here on home ground against ^ Ij0bnt<. wW defeated them !
traditional non-district rivals, the
Denver City Mustangs* on Friday,
September 4.
Other non-district games will be
Levelland, here. September 11;
Lamesa, there, September 25, and
Brownfield, there, October 2.
District play will also open on
12-9. The Whitefaces had already
beaten the Lobos on three other
occasions this season, however,
and already had their district
championship sewed up when they.
K>st this game.
The Whiteface pitching staff is
headed by a good left hander.
Trying on the traditional caps and gowns,
Seminole High School honor graduates pre-
pare for commencement exercises tomorrow
night at 8 o'clock in the high school auditor-
ium. All six .maintained four-year averages
of 90 or above. Left to right c t-Mrs. Sharon
Cottory Linda Taylor, Claude Wesfott, Jo Ann
Thomason, Ray Mercer and Donna Willett.
Mercer arid Miss Willett are valedictorian
and salutatorian, respectively.
■ 42sr •.,> ?bofo by Cm f>oo*')
Donna Willett And Ray
Mercer Are Top Grads
.Commencement -exercise's- for. 52 Seminole High School,
seniors, the smallest.ciass of graduates in eight years, will begin
tomorrow night at 8:00 in the high school auditorium. Principal
speakers will be Rdy Mercer, valedictorian, and Donna Willett,-
salutatorian. Larry Tipping, president of the student council, will
■act:' as ' master of ceremonies.- 7 ■ "
■ The traditionaiiy-robed candidates will enter the auditor-
ium tc an organ;processional played hy M-s. Cecil Douglas, choir
teacher. The march will be from Verdi's '"Aida." The invocation
will be given by senior Bob Vining. Senior members of the high
school choir will sing ' Climb Every Mountain',.from Rodge's and
: | Hammerstein's "The -Sound of
Local UF Board i—*"'D™9'"wl""
V N. Keves. high school prin-
Pni/Qolc Acronnioc ,ipa1' Hill review the honors won
UvVCulO HgCllvICO ..by. members: of the class of '6.4
m . ^ jand present honor awards. Recog-
Uauincf Annrnual nition will go to Chester Sample
llClVlllg rt|J|JI Ulfll .as the,outstanding basketball play-
The board of directors of the < cr and to Claude \\ escott as the
Seminole Area) United Fund met future teacher of the year.
Tuesdav night in the meeting room. Senior's elected to membership
at the' Seminole' State Bank, and 1,1 ^e Order of the Golden Arrow,
voted approval for two flew mem- citizenship organization, will also
biers of the board: Mrs. Llovd Coff- i b® honored.
man and Jim Yearv Thirteen seniors are members
Also/at the meeting. Bob Whip- "f the National Honor Society, an ;
po presented a. report from the honor achieved with grades of 85-
budget and ' admissions committee i or above, service, character and
which listed the charitable a gen- leadership. These will be introduc-
c-ies which have been' accepted for I ®®' -■ -.,
participation in the local UF cam- : Special recognition will be ex-
pjjign tended to the six seniors who
Among-those approved are : Sal- maintained four-year averages of
vation- Army. American Red Cross, ,OF .above. Besidep the valedic-
lioy Scouts of America. Girl Scouts 'orian and salutatorian, these stvi-
of America, M. S. Poss Youth dent's are Mrs. Sharon Cotton,
Center. Seminole Volunteer Fire! Unda Baylor. Claude Wescott and
Department, Texas Rehabilitation '^rm Thoniason. They will be
. Center, American Cancer Society. | declared honor graduates.
!i- rt. Fund and Local Welfare. ;
T^e top graQe
home ground when the "Indians'! Ransport, He is a hard pitcher,
meet the Ector Eagles here. Oetob- and throws a good curve ball
er 8. This has also been scheduled Their number two man is Haney,
as homecoming for the Indians.
This .game will be followed by
Monahans, there, October 16:
big right hander.
Coach Ronny Speed of the
Whitefaces is reported to have a
Pecos here October 23: Andrews. preUy pood Stable of hitters, and
there, October 30: Fort Stockton,
there, November 13, and Kermit,
here, November 20.
The Indians finished the 1963
footbaill season in last place in
district play, with only one dis-
trict win on their record. The In-
dians defeated the Ector Eagles
See FOOTBALL. PaRc 5
Date
WEATHER
Preclp.
High Low
May 21
87
55
22
92
61
23
98
61
24
100
62
25 .25
95
64
26 .30
88
62
27 .65
85
59
28
60
Preclp to date:
2.32 ill.
he will probably bring this lineup
to bat: Duncan, third base; Coff-
man, second base; Hodges, right
field: Green, catcher; Moreno,
See BI-DISTRICT, Pajre 5
Mothers' March For
March Of Dimes Was
Held Here Thursday
The Mothers' March for the
March of Dimes, held here last
Thursday evening, yielded $355.87.
to aid in the fight against crip-
pling diseases and birth defects.
This brings the total collected in
Seminole this year to $7.61,66.
The March of Dimes is not a
United Fund affiliated agency,
and conducts only this one door-
to-door type campaign annually.
Warriors Defeat Ector; Are
Champs In District 2-AAA
The Seminole Indians bought l and came back in the seventh to out the next three batters to leave;
average was
Directors present at the meet- at"hieved by Ray Mercer vdth
ing were: Mrs. J: D.^"Mitchell. 94^24.-Runner-up waS( Donna Wd-
{ Mrs- Frank Dver. Max Ender. .Bob lett uith an average of 93.86.
Whippo. Mrs. Charles Nance, Dr. Ke-ves «"ill present both Mercer
Carlos Alexander. Jim Yeary and and Miss Willett with engraved
Kenneth Thompson. ; statutes and S25 savings bonds
' " - -. - 1 donated by the Noon Lions Club.
At the conclusion of the presen-
tation of honor awards. F. J.
| V oung, superintendent of schools,
will present diplomas to the can-
didates.
Floyd Holland Will give the
benediction; The graduates will
themselves a district champion-
ship in District 2-AAA baseball
Tuesday afternoon as they put oil
Junior Tourney
To Be Tomorrow
At County Course
push across the winning runs. the score at 1-0 going into the j The second annual Gaines Coun-' ma>r^h out to the strains of "Climb
The winning pitcher for the In- third inning. ' tv Junior Golf Tournament will be : Every Mountain," played on the
dians was Bobby Wicker.- who Wescott led off for the Indians
a five-run splurge in the top half j gave up only three free bases, in the third, going down on three
6f the seventh inning to beat the
Ector Eagles, 7-2.
The game, played in Odessa.
was a replay of an earlier game,
where the Indians and the Eagles:
tied at 1-1 when the game was
called at the end of ten innings
because of darkness.
Seminole and Ector ended the
season with identical 7-2-1 re-j
cords, and the tie game was play-.
ed over, to decide the district!
championship.
Early in the game, it appeared ;
as if Ector was. well on the wav I. r n j 11 i
j ,. , v baseman for the -double pl.iv as
toward competing in bi-distric :,, . ' ■ . , . " j
, •„ ,, Wescott - was- thrown out at second
playoffs with the Hereford White-1 . i ,, , . - .. -
'' • , ,. , and Bice was caught short ot first,
faces, however, the Indians ralli- .,,, r? ' e , ,
, . ■ . . * . .. the Eagles performed only a
ed m the sixth to tie the game , ,, . • r- ,
. •; . •• -. , -.'- . little better in the first inning, as
i Zeke Sanchez bunted his way to
| first base with two out to . collec1.
two walks and a hit . batsman, straight, strikes. He was followed
and allowed five hits, while pick- hy Tipping and- Bice who both
ing up nine strike outs; from singled. They were left on base
the Eagles. The losing pitcher w as -as Teddy Welch hit a line drive
Lonnie Gardner, who allowed eight fly. to the first baseman, allow-
heid at the Gaines County Golf j organ by Mrs. Douglas.
Course. Friday, May 29. j Candidates for graduation at
There will be 18 holes of medal { Friday's exercises are:
play with the entrants placed in j Robert Stephen Baird, Lola
four divisions, plus a nine-hole.! Elaine Ball, John David Barrett,
flight for "peewees" (under lo Franklin Woods Bice, Irma Iso-
y ears of age I, according to course i bel Briscoe, Ruby Grace Bunnell,
hits, walked four men and hit one ing him to tag out Bice for the I pro, Jim Terry. j Billy Joe Buzbee, Jimmy Charles
batter with a pitched ball,- whilei double play. 1 Trophies will be awarded to the 1 Cannaday; James Willard Clifford,
striking out seven Indians. He. was j Ector collected a second run in
relieved in the seventh by-Eddie 1 the bottom of the third, as Wick-
Dominguez. er hit the lead-off batter. Manuel
Claude Wescott drew a base on Rodriguez with a . pitched ball,
balls to open the game for the In-' Ronnie Smith followed, getting on
dians, and was followed by Larry base on an error, moving Rod-
Tipping, who struck out. Frank: See CHAMPS, Page 5
Bice then grounded to .the third ! —— :— —
first.
second and third place golf-: Jr.. Sliaron Vaughn Cotton, Nona
ers in each division. The first | Belle Cox.
division will be open to golfers 17! Carol Richard Dean, Eddie Jam-
am I 18 years old; the second to ; es Ethridge, PaMTFloyd Fuhrman.
15 -arid 16 year olds; the third to I.Ernie Lester Graves, Floyd Dean
13 and 14 year olds, and the fourth.j Holland. Alvin Wayne Jackson,
See TOURNEY. Page 5 See GRADUATES. Page 5
BUTANE FIRE
Seminole volunteer firemen who arrived be-
fore the fire trucks, use a garden hose to
keep a burning butane tank from overheat-
ing and exploding until the trucks arrive and
extinguish the fire. The tank, a fuel tank on
a pickup truck belonging to Jim Tom Haney,
caught fire while the truck was being refuel-
ed from a large stationary tank.
(Sentinel Photo)
| the first hit of the game. The fol-j
; lowing batter struck out. how ;
| ever, and retired the side.
\ In the second inning. Babbv j
' Johnson went to. first on a walk j
| with one out.. He moved to seecn.l ]
j on a single by Danny Price, then
Jimmy Nelms drew a walk.to. load !
| the bases: All three were left to j
die on base, though, as the next I
j t wo batters - were put out to re-j
i tiro the side.
[ The first tally on the score-
j board was collected by the Eagles
jin the bottom of the second, as
Ray Rodriguez led off for Ector,
banging a home run over the left
field fence. Wicker then struck
Five Horses Are
Killed In Wreck
Five horses were killed when
struck by a pickup truck .4 miles
M^]Trir^airrauii, earl? Ouuduj.
morning.
Oscar Brownlow. Abernathy.
Was driving the pickup, towing a
trailer loaded with a tractor, south
on U. S, Highway H85 at about
2.40 a.m.. May 24, when he struck
the horses which were loose on
the highway.
According to investigating offic-
er, Pat Randel. Texas Department
of Public Safety, three of the hors-
es were killed outright, and two
died later.
. The truck received an estimat-
ed $350 in damages.
POOL TO OPEN
Judy Walden (left) and Vicki Strawn get a
little sun on the deck around the school
swimming pool, wearing their bathing suits
in anticipation of the pool's opening Satur-
day afternoon.
(Sentinel Photo)
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