The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 18, 1955 Page: 2 of 4
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THB WBSTBH2VSS WORLD
Friday, February 1®, 1068
Only God Gives Us Time;
Why Not Use It Wisely?
When we came into this world of ours not too many years ago we were given
our lives to live as we so desired. We were given a certain amount of time which
was ours to spend as we wanted to.
Why then, as young people with our entire lives ahead of us, do we waste so
much of that valuable stuff which passes so quickly—time? Once we have wasted
30 minutes or an hour we will never have that time again. We may sit and wish for
that studyhall period we wasted yesterday or the hour we sat daydreaming last week
when we could have been doing something worthwhile, but we will never have the
chance to use the time that is passed.
Of course, everyone needs to rest and not constantly be “up and doing.” We
wouldn’t hold out long if we maintained a busy schedule all the time with no rest
at all. But, when there is work to be done and we are able to do it, why don’t we
get busy?
The sooner we get started working on a hard task the sooner it will be com-
pleted. Too, when the work is done, we are more comfortable if we know we have
nothing to do.
Daydreaming and wishing for lost time will not get us anywhere. We must be
aware of this wonderful thing which only God can give us and remember to use
it wisely.
Pardner! Leave Horses, Guns
Home For Round-Up Activities
Wal, pardner, Round-up is pert’ nigh here. Cowhands are dustin’ their boots
and brushin’ up their ten-gallon hats. Checkered shirts and levis are agettin’ the
once over. Gals are bringing out their sun bonnets and starchin’ their long skirts
and long-sleeve blouses. Yessiree, the rootin’, tootin’ Old West is about to invade
LHS.
The rootin’ tootin’ days minus a few roots an’ toots that is. Just to make sure
there’s no killin’s, all cowpokes (’n gals too) are requested to leave their shootin’
irons at home. The reason fur that is ’cause blood flowin’ in the hall slows down
traffic.
All hosses must be left in the open patio, each hoss tied to a separate tree. The
closed patio is reserved for pigeons and cloud bursts. Any cowpoke caught slippin’
his hoss into class will be branded with a “D” (demerit) and turned out to pasture.
Any gal with bees in her sunbonnet will be stung with the same.
The Old West is as much a part of Lubbock High as the “Call to Loyalty” or the
8:45 bell. Since this is our last Round-Up as one school, we want to make it some-
thing we can be proud of. Never again will we experience an event just like this
last Round-Up. So let’s get behind it and support it, and make it something worth
remembering!
By Leona Spradling
Valentine's Day was climaxed by most
Westerners in an ideal way — with an
ideal date at the Y-Teen Sweetheart
Banquet. It seemed as if literally all the
girls were there with their favorite guys.
Anita Smith, George Elder; Katherine
Nixon, Leonard Doyle; Jo Marie Boothe,
Joe Dale Bryan; Lou Ann Stelle, Glenn
Smith; Echo McGuire, Buddy Holley;
Mary Bagley, Gerald Martin; Kay Catt,
James West; Kay Aker, ex-Westerner
Larry Bridges; Jimmie Lou Wilson, Jer-
ry Martin; Jo Ann Shipman, Darrell
Lindsey; and Karen Wood, Frank Med-
ley were seen together.
__Also watching the parade of sweet-
hearts were Geraldine Lokey, Glenn
Woody; Alice Orr, J. C. Phillips; Martha
Sue Medley, Techsan Wayne Bishop;
Gay Terry, Jimmy Allday; Almedia Rat-
liff, Mike Shipman; Jamie Stevens, Bob
Smith; Willena Robnett, Steve Witcher;
Manon Markham, Calvin Warren; Lynn
Richards, Bryan Baxter; Suzanne Ratis-
seau, Carroll Stephens; Nancy Wilson,
ex-Westerner Willis Powers; Martha
Bearden, Tommy Price; Rose Leftwich,
Tommy Weir; Martha Greenlee, Homer
Clements; Sally Jo Lamond, Royce New-
som; Mary Lynn Peveto, Mike McDon-
ald; Suzanne Stanford, Jack Rogers;
Ann Armstrong, Joe McQueary; Sue
Our Neighbors Say . . .
Cleburne Designates
March 9 Career Day
By Elizabeth Wilson
To let high schooler’s see their career
“in action,” Cleburne Kiwanis members
have designated March 9 Career Day.
After the annual program, students are
invited to visit Kiwanis members on
the job, according to the CHS Yellow
Jacket Yapper.
Cleburne was busy last week choosing
class representatives — oh, not “Most
Beautiful Girl” and “Junior Favorite.”
These people really have titles. Just to
give you an example, they picked “Mr.
Dreamboat and Miss Pin-Up,” “Mr. and
Miss Smiles,” “Success,” “Rug-cutter,”
“Braintwister,” “Hepcat,” “Hepkitten,”
and “Mr. Muscles” and “Miss Curves.”
I’d like to see some of these. Hey, con-
ductor, when’s the east-bound cornin’ in?
☆ ☆
Some of the former O. L. Slatonies
should remember Mr. Lewis P. Terrell,
history and journalism teacher. Jan. 28
he left OLS teaching for selling. Wish
him luck.
it ☆
A hundred years ago ■ "S~
A wilderness was here;
A man with powder in his gun
Went forth to hunt a deer.
But now the times have changed some-
what
Along a different plan.
A “dear” with powder on her nose
Goes forth to hunt a man!
We found that same poem exactly in
THE WESTERNER WORLD of Feb. 13,
1942!
Douglas, Jimmy Tapp; and Gloria Gen-
try, Milton McKee.
Say, how's this for a record! Marilyn
Goodwin has been going steady with
Techsan John Clark one year, nine
months, and three days.
--Out to watch the Westerners really
“Banish the Bulldogs” Friday night
were Carol Simpson, ex-Westerner Bud-
dy Ferris; Sybil Marion, Don Hogue;
Ann Pendley, ex-Westerner Jimmy Joe
Stanford; Roma Caviness, Wayne Culp;
Mary Kennedy, Don Baker; Ava Wil-
lingham, ex-Westerner Jim McKee; Jo
Ann Skinner, Zack Rannery; Annette
Rose, Perry White; Jackie Blair, Jack
House; Ann Gordon, Mack Robertson;
Wanda Dye, George Tawater; Sue Huf-
stedler, Techsan Jimmy Whatley; Winn
Sue Sherrill, Dick Millsap; Jettie Ev-
ans, Mike Wofford; and Linda Taylor,
Jerry Shipp.
Friday-night daiers included Lois
Taylor, Jerry Head; Jane Adamson, Da-
mon Thomas; Lila Ann Standifer, Jim-
my Farmer; Sylvia Turner, Truitt Gar-
rison; and Johnanna Zournas, Charles
Moore.
Sandra Crouch, Brown Holden; Joyce
Howard, Don Allgood; Pat Stanley,
Dwain Woody; and Carma Williamson,
Don Tankersley were daters to the De-
Molay Dance Friday night.
Saturday night is usually the night
for painting the town red. Seen together
were Melinda Proctor, Jay Luther; Lau-
ra Montgomery, Bobby Lindsey from
Levelland; Gloria Waller, Jerry Gar-
field; Mary Jordan, Skeet Bessent from
Roosevelt High; and Manda Ramey,
Jimmy Stephenson.
That banquet everybody looks for-
ward to, and is honored to attend came
Tuesday night. The annual Westerner
Banquet was attended by the boys par-
ticipating in the different sports and
their dates or steadies. Some couples
seen were Carol Lott, Bobby Polk; Lu-
cretia Breazeale, Phil Williams; Otlie
Fredericks, Jim Henderson; Jean Glaz-
ner, Dewey Bryant; Sabra Millican,
Morris Scales; Elizabeth Brown, Joe
Cox; Patti Neil, Howard Tucker; Lora
Kerr, Med Hunt; Saundra Stewart,
Wendell Hester; Linda Chappell, Roy
Day; Kay Liner, Jim Berly; Becky Bar-
foot, Jerrell Snodgrass.
Spring (almost) and the traditional
young man’s fancy turns to love, and
justly so, what with all these banquets.
Anyway it’s a funny subject. Take this
timid guy for example who was advised
by a friend to take a more masterful
approach to women. Fired with this ad-
vice, the would-be Casanova went over
to his girl’s house, threw open the door
and said “Baby, tonight I want some
good old-fashioned love!”
The girl replied, “Okay, wait here
just a minute — I’ll call Grandma!”
Pat Lindeman, Joe Anthony; Sandra
Hendrix, Gehrig Garrison; Barbara Ed-
wards, Jerry Hostick; Mildred Bransom,
Jerome Henderson; Betty McCann, Mil-
ton Daniels; Pat Rainer, Charles Law-
rence; Suzette Francis, Monte Hasie;
Karolyn Babain, Jimmy McLaughlin;
Glenda Lackey, Richard Cole; Barbara
Batton, Bill Lowrimore; Nancy Denton,
Jerry Blair; and Margie Hatton, Butch
Lawrence were other daters to the West-
erner banquet Tuesday night.
0%fdKidtd IRedt . . ,
Hurry, hurry, hurry — always in a
hurry. You hurry to get up so you can
hurry to school and hurry to an 8 o’clock
meeting and hurry to class and hurry
to lunch and hurry back and hurry home
and hurry to eat so you can hurry to
another meeting. Then you hurry home
so that you can hurry and get your les-
sons so you can hurry and go to bed.
Gracious, everybody’s always in a hur-
ry!
Well, your Uncle Wes is in a hurry
right now to get his column written so
he can get it in on time, and that ole’
clock is tickin’ away at 90 miles an
hour.
Westerners, have you noticed lately
that nearly every magazine on the
newsstand carries an article about juve-
nile delinquency? Well, I’ve noticed,
and it’s sort of raised my dander. Of
course I know that there are juvenile
delinquents, and that crime among the
youngsters has been on the increase.
Certainly I think that something should
be done about it. But many of the ar-
ticles written about the problem leave
the readers with the impression that
practically all of America’s teenagers
are criminally inclined. That’s not true,
and it’s unfair to you for the public in
general to entertain such a notion.
Watching and listening from my se-
cret hiding places, I’ve come to know a
lot of you Westerners really well. And
I know that you’re not juvenile delin-
quents. I know that most of your ac-
tions are worthy of commendation rath-
er than condemnation.
I, for one, am in favor of a few writ-
ers telling about the wholesome ambi-
tions, activities, and accomplishments of
our wholesome American teen-agers.
Aren’t you? I’d do it myself if I had any
space left!
Bye now,
Wes Nur
Guys' And Gals' Ideas . .
Lubbock High’s organists are grouped around another symbol of their talents,
the piano. From left to right are Martha Key, Janelle Ohlenbusch, Richard Estes,
Carole Jean Delaney, and James Moeser. This group of seniors, juniors, and one
sophomore provide the music in each assembly as students enter and leave the
auditorium. (Photo by Lilburn Smith)
5 Students Furnish ...
Organ Music For Assemblies
. . . As Groups Enter
By Glenda Ingram
As the students of Lubbock High
School file into the auditorium for as-
semblies, the sound of organ music
quiets them; when they rise to sing the
National Anthem, they are accompanied
by the organ.
On these particular occasions, you will
find seated at the organ either Janelle
Ohlenbusch, junior; Martha Key, jun-
ior; James Moeser, sophomore; Richard
Estes, senior; or Carole Jean Delaney,
senior.
Having played the organ for four
years, and the piano for ten, Janelle is
quite an accomplished musician. The
blonde-haired junior plans to continue
with her music as a career. Besides hav-
ing played for assemblies for a year and
a half, Janelle also provides organ mu-
sic for the Redeemer Lutheran Church.
When asked her favorite type of music,
Teen-Age ClubSuggested
As Entertainment For City
By Joan Pollard
The young people of Lubbock are of-
ten complaining that there is nothing to
do here except perhaps go to a show.
What form of entertainment would you
like to see Lubbock have? If this be-
came a reality, would you lake an ac-
tive pari in supporting it?
RONNIE CHANDLER, sophomore: “I
think that perhaps a ‘teen-age night
club’ is what Lub-
bock needs. It
would be a perma-
nent place on Fri-
day and Saturday
nights where good
clean fun, such as
dancing, could be
enjoyed. It would
need to have tables,
--.-"•niiiim a snack bar where
Ronnie soft drinks could be
served, and a good student band. On
special occasions, perhaps outside enter-
tainment could be called in.
“I would enjoy having shows where
famous Hollywood and New York stars
were the guests. Also Lubbock’s own
professional basketball team would be
good. I would definitely support any of
these things, as I think everyone else
would. The kids should be given the
chance to choose the type of music and
should be presented with some good
publicity.”
PAT RAINER, senior: “When I was
first asked this question, I thought that
it would be easy to
answer. But after I
thought about it I
could not think of
many things that
the young people of
Lubbock are not al-
ready offered. It is
all that we can do
to participate in all
the activities, such
as the Y M C A, Pai
church activities, school parties, and pri-
vate parties that we have. So many
things in the way of recreation are of-
fered that we become confused and do
not enjoy any one thing to the extent
that we should. If, however, anything
new is suggested, that is good; I will
support it all the way.”
PRESTON DAVIS, junior: “I Relieve
that if the new coliseum would provide
ice skating it would
help a lot. It would
provide a place to
take a date besides
to the show. Be-
cause it would be
new and different,
it probably would
be a hit with the vi-
cinity around Lub-
bock. It would be
expensive, but it
sophomore: “I
swimming pool,
would cost more to wait two or three
years and then put it in than it would
to install it now. I surely would take
part in it.”
WINN SHERRILL,
think that an indoor
other than the boys’
club pool, is what
the youth of Lub-
bock need. Swim-
ming is about the
main activity we
have in the summer,
and I think every-
one really misses it
in the winter. Also
at dances, such as
those at the YMCA, Winn
games should be provided for those who
do not wish to dance. I would surely
support these things if we could get
them.”
Tittden,
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Wevtquee
By Carole Jean Delaney
Since according to the original blue-
print, we were to have a mite to say
about literature, we thought maybe
we’d throw in a dash here about a real-
ly great new book written just for
young people.
No doubt some of you have read the
inspirational best-seller, “The Power of
Positive Thinking” by Dr. Norman Vin-
cent Peale. Recently, Dr. Peale added
“The Power of Positive Thinking For
Young People,” in which he offers 14
chapters on how to go about building
for successful Christian living in youth.
We thought maybe we’d pass along
to you this story from the chapter on
“Why Worry” that concerned a young
man who had inherited his father’s
business and all the worries that went
along with it. Finally he announced
that he had broken the worry habit and
invited Dr. Peale to witness the even-
ing ritual that had done the trick. After
tearing the top page off a day-by-day
calendar and praying silently for a mo-
ment, the young man said “Amen. O.K.,
the day is over.”
After Dr. Peale questioned him about
his prayer, the young businessman
laughingly told Dr. Peale that it wasn’t
his kind of prayer but — hear it is:
“Lord, you gave me this day — I did
the best I could with it, and you helped
me, and I thank you. I made some mis-
takes. That was when I didn’t follow
your advice, and I am sorry about that.
Forgive me. But I had some victories
and some successes, too, and I am grate-
ful for your guidance. But noW, Lord,
mistakes or successes, victories or de-
feats, the day is over and I’m through
with it, so I’m giving it back to you.
Amen.”
she admitted it to be classical and church
music.
Although he has only had seven
months experience with the organ, Rich-
ard often entertains the audience with
a wide variety of his favorites — popu-
lar, semi-classical and “bop.” Richard,
a veteran piano player of ten years, al-
so plays the organ at the Adult 3 Class
at the First Baptist Church.
When asked his favorite piece of mu-
sic, the dark-haired senior laughingly
replied, “Chopin’s Polonaise in A Ma-
jor.” The next question stumped him as
this reporter calmly asked “how do you
spell it?” A dictionary furnished by a
sympathetic person nearby soon came
to his rescue.
Martha, red-headed junior, has been
playing the organ for three years, and
the piano for ten. Another veteran mu-
sician, she has supplied assembly music
for about two years. She also plays the
organ on Wednesday nights for the First
Baptist Church. Her favorite music is
classical.
James, the only sophomore of the
group, has played the organ for two
years, and the piano for seven. His par-
ticular taste in music consists of popu-
lar, classical, and semi-classical. His fa-
vorite song is “Mood Indigo.” James al-
so furnishes organ music at the First
Baptist Church,
Besides playing for assemblies for
two and a half years, Carole Jean also
plays at the Caprock Hotel and the First
Methodist Church. Another veteran pi-
ano player of 14 years, the dark-haired
senior has been playing the organ for
about two and a half years. Her favorite
types of music range from jazz to clas-
sical, including all Gershwin composi-
tions. Her favorite song is “In the Still
of the Night.”
All five agreed that the student body,
as a majority, prefers either bop or pop-
ular to semi-classical or classical.
Although Janelle, Martha, James,
Richard, and Carole Jean all have hopes
of becoming professional organists,
whether they continue with it only as
a hobby or a profession, many Lubbock
High students will remember them for
their talent of making the assemblies
more enjoyable for everyone.
Food For Thought
A good many readers will ap-
preciate this bit of philosophy by
Robert Collier, in his “The Secret
of the Ages.”
“An old fairy story tells how the
Sun was listening to a lot of earth-
ly creatures talking about a very
dark place they had found — a
place of Stygian blackness. The
Sun went to the exact spot and
searched everywhere, but could
not find even a tiny dark spot.
“If we carry our own sunshine
with us, it’s quite possible we
won’t get into the dark places ”
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