Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1976 Page: 3 of 12
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1 - Postmaster Is
: Seeking Photos
: From PO's Past
I Cedar Hill Postmaster
• Garland Vincent is
seeking old photographs
from the local Post
:Office's past.
He is particularly inter-
ested in photos of former
Post Office buildings in
Cedar Hill, as well as
others that will help tell
the history of the Post
Office here.
« Vincent request per-
mission to copy any old
photographs (without
harm to the original) for
use in a display.
Vincent may be
: contacted at 291-4434.
Famous Prison
The man who built
France's famous prison
the Vastille, was the first
person confined there.
Evening Classes'
Registration Is
Set Monday At Nl
AUTO PARTS
PARTS FOR MOST CARS
ANTIFREEZE,
$3.50 GAL.
LARRY'S
AUTO PARTS
219 C TOWER
SHOPPING CENTER
291-4626
Registration will be
conducted Monday,
January 3, for the new
term of evening classes
at Northwood Institute
according to Randolph
Roten, Dean of the
School.
Northwood Institute,
located on FM 1382 in
Cedar Hill, is offering an
Associate in Arts Degree
in Business Management
upon the completion of
two years of evening
school work or the credits
received during evening
school classes may be
applied to degrees
offered in other
curriculums at the
college.
At the present
time, Northwood Institue
is offering degrees in
Business Management,
Automotive Marketing,
Hotel and Restaurant
Management and
Fashion Merchandising.
The first 1977 term at
the school, beginning
January 3, will consist of
classes from 6 p.m. until
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Wear your hair in the latest style
with a short geometric cut that gives
your hair body and bounce. Hair falls
into place easily and looks great all day.
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Wishes
Z-A.S the old year draws to
a close, and a fresh New Year
begins, let us wish you the happy
fulfillment of all your hopes and dreams.
WOLVERTON CO. INC.
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298-0555
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9:20 p.m
Tuesdays
days.
Each course will be
offered one evening a
week so that a student
may, by attending three
evenings a week
complete three courses
toward his degree.
During the upcoming
session, courses will be
offered in Advertising,
Business Math,
Economics, English
(both grammar and liter-
ature), Journalism,
Philosophy, Psychology,
Salesmanship and
Speech.
An accumulation of the
required number of hours
in these courses would
lead to a Business
Management degree.
"All courses at North-
wood Institute are
approved for Veterans,"
according to Roten.
"We are offering these
courses in this way so
that a person who is
working during the day-
time hours will have an
opportunity to begin or
continue his or her
college education at a
time more convenient for
them. This has proved
highly successful in the
past and will continue to
appeal to those interested
in furthering their
education," Roten
concluded.
Additional information
about the classes can be,
obtained by calling
291-1541 during regular
business hours.
Scarlets
Top Meet
Coach Raydene Dren-
nan's Cedar Hill Scarlets
won the girls division of
the annual Longhorn-
Scarlet Basketball
Tournament here
December 16-17-18, and
placed five on the
all-tournament team.
Scarlet Jalynn Barron
was named the most
valuable defensive
(guard) player in the
tourney, while Tami
Bates of Alvafrado was
the meet's most valuable
offensive (forward)
player. A
Other defensive all-
tournament 7 team
members were
Crandall's Amanada
Waldrum and Cedar
Hill's Dana Lacy and
Shelly Hancock.
Other offensive all-
tournament team
members were Alvara-
do's Valerie Stevens and
Cedar Hill's Teresa
Knight and Pam Knight.
Alvarado finished
second, Crandall came in
third (consolation) and
Rockwall last in the four-
team meet.
Dry Holes
Texas operators spent
$1.8 billion drilling in
1975; $570 million lost in
dry holes.
Glossy Leaves
To keep plant leaves
naturally glossy, mist
them occasionally
BOOK
TALK
By Carla Bryan
Cedar Hill Public Library
Warriors Win
Local Tournament
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ROOTS by Alex Haley.
When he was a boy in Henning,Tennessee, Alex Haley's
grandmother used to tell him stories about their
family—stories that went back to her grandparents,
and their grandparents, down through the generations
all the way to a man she called "the African." She said
he had lived across the ocean near what he called the
"Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one
day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set
upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard
a slave ship bound for Colonial America.
Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew
up and became a writer, Haley began to research for
documentation that might authenticate the narrative.
It took ten years and half a million miles of travel
across three continents to find it, but finally, in an
astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he
discovered not only the name of "the African"~Kunta
kinte—but the precise location of Jeffure, the very
village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he
was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on
the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia
planter.
Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African
sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the
dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-
great grandfather was taken ashore two hundred
years before. Now he has written the monumental two-
century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations
who came after him—slave?, freedmen, farmers and
blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman
porters, lawyers, architects?and one author.
But Haley has done more than recapture the history
of his own family. As the first,black American writer to
trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the
story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He
has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural
heritage that slavery took away from them, along with
their names and their identities. But Roots speaks,
finally, not just to blacks, for to whites, but to all
peoples and all races everywhere, for the story it tells
is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to
the indomitability of the hurpan spirit.
About the author: Alex Haley taught himself to write during a twenty-
year career in the U.S. Coast Guard. After retiring in 1959 -as its first
Chief Journalist- he became a magazine writer and interviewer before
undertaking his first book, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." He
has spent the twelve years since then researcing and writing "Roots,"
which has been hailed even before tys publication as "an epic work
destined to become a classic of American literature."
NOMINATIONS SOUGHT
FOR '76 'NEWSMAKER'
The Chronicle is now accepting nominations for
"Cedar Hill Newsmaker of the Year, 1976."
The Chronicle makes the annual award to the Cedar
Hill individual (or group) who has done the most to
promote and bring positive and constructive
recognition to Cedar Hill during the calendar year.
The award in the past has honored beauty queen
Marion James (1972), Cedar Hill Longhorn football
team and coaching staff (1973), State Representative
Calvin Rucker (1974) and flower show judge Mrs.
Virginia Weaver (1975).
The Chronicle will accept nominations in writing
only. Please give reasons for your nomination.
It is not necessary to include your name with your
nomination, says Chronicle Editor Rick Taylor.
Please mail or bring all nominations to The
Chronicle, P.O. Box 159, 610 Cedar Street, Cedar Hill,
75104, prior to 4 p.m. Thursday, December 23.
Honoree will be announced in January.
All persons nominated will be considered by The
Chronicle's staff in its selection procedure, but the
Chronicle accepts no obligation in regard to any
nomination. Sheer numbers of nominations will be
given consideration by the judges, but will not be a
major factor in the final decision.
CEDAR HILL CHRONICLE, Thursday, December 30, 1976 Page 3
LW Frogs
Rip Horns
Cedar Hill's Longhorns
dropped a 73-34 decision
to the Lake Worth Bull-
frogs in Lake Worth
Monday night, December
13.
Scott Chaffin led the
scoring for Coach Mike
Hogan's Horns.
In other Cedar Hill
scoring, Jon Dahl and
Chuck Chapman each
scored six points, Joe
Bailey dropped in five,
James Hulsey had four
and Tim Knight and
Jerry Ayers each scored
two points.
CH—6-17-25-34
LW—22-44-55-73
News From Cedar Hill
RESTORATION
COMMITTEE
A RESOLUTION
This past year has been a feeautiful year, for people
working together, to accomplish "goals for Cedar
Hill." (To coin a Dallas phrase)
For every person perhaps there is a different
personal goal, in his or her mind, for Cedar Hill.
So the year '76 flows intor the year '77 without too
much of a break. Perhaps a pause, or a thought or two
about our town's restoration.
Thru bake sales, the Christmas corner, newspaper
sales, dinner book-review, donated Christmas trees,
tour of homes and donations in memory of loved ones,
the restoration movement is now richer by over $1,100.
The monies collected shall go toward plants and
planters for the downtown square.
If one looks around the question is asked "when does
the restoring start?" Maybe this is the moment be-
tween the old year's end and the dawn of a new year
that I can say, "I resolve to do my part, whether a few
minutes or several hours, to bring a tired town square
to the beauty and dignity that this "grand old lady"
deserves.
South Grand Prairie's
Junior Varsity Warriors
won the boys division of
the annual Cedar Hill
! Longhorn - Scarlet
Basketball Tournament
here December 16-17-18.
Crandall finished
second.
The host Longhorns,
coached by Mike Hogan,
won the consolation
trophy (third place).
Alvarado finished
fourth in the four-team
tourney.
Named all-tournament
were most valuable
player Ricky Lackey of
SGP and Chuck
Chapman, Cedar Hill;
Joe Salyer, SGP; Tim
Ferguson, SGP; Billy
Rae Henderson,
Crandall; and James All,
Crandall.
The Horns won the
consolation bracket title
by dumping Alvarado's
Indians, 57-36, Saturday,
December 18.
Jon Dahl led the Cedar
Hill scoring attack
against Alvarado with 20
points.
In other scoring
against the Injuns,
Chapman dropped in 12,
Scott Chaffin had seven,
Donnie Seals made six,
James Hulsey and Joe
Bailey each scored four
and Tim Knight and
Wendell Wellman each
accounted for two points.
SGP's JV Warriors
slapped the Horns, 51-31,
in opening round of play
Thursday, December 16.
Chapman was high for
the locals with 10 points
against the Warriors.
In other scoring
Lions Roar
Past Horns
Kaufman's Lions
roared past Cedar Hill's
Longhorns, 75-27, in
non-district basketball
action in Kaufman
Tuesday night,
December 14.
Jon Dahl led Cedar
Hill's scoring attack with
13 points.
In other Longhorn
scoring, Chuck Chapman
dropped in eight points,
Tim Knight and Scott
Chaffin each scored two
points, and Joe Bailey
and Donnie Seals each
had one point.
Mike Hogan coaches
the Horns.
CH—9-16-20-27
K—18-45-61-75
against SGP, Dahl hit for
six, Chaffin and Bailey
each made four, and
Knight, Wellman and
Jerry Ayers each sunk
two points.
Friday, December 17,
Crandall's Pirates made
Cedar Hill walk the
plank, 45-41.
Dahl's 12 points led
Cedar Hill's scoring
against the Bucs.
In other scoring in the
Fiday contest, Chapman
tossed in 11, Chaffin sunk
eight, Knight and
Wellman scored three
each and Bailey tacked
on two points.
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