Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 36, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 3, 1981 Page: 10 of 32
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__AROUND In the big pond today:......HEBERT
JOHNSON of Big Sandy was Inducted into the Jacksonville
Baptist College Sports Hal) of Fame Friday night at Jackson-
ville Holiday Inn. Johnson, a former Big Sandy High athlete,
played for the Jaguars in 1961-62. He scored 67 points against
Centenary College to set a new school single game scoring
record that still stands........RAGS MATTHEW8, the great
Unman at Texas Christian University in the ’20s, and still a
regular on Fort Worth Shady Oaks fairways, joins other Texas
Sports Hall of Fame enshrinees for a spot of tee at Bear Creek
May 22. Other Famesters include Johnny Vaught, Byron
Nelson, Polly Riley Darrow Hooper.
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A FRIEND tells about the Aggie bankrupt car dealer who
found a magic lamp on the lakeshore just as he decided to
drown himself. He rubbed it and, shazaml, a genie appeared
and asked his No. 1 wish. He said he wanted a large dealership
in a big city. Genie snapped his fingers. The Aggie found
himself In Tokyo-selllng Chryslers........THEN THERE WAS
THE Aggie kamikaze pilot. He returned safely from 25 mis-
•ions........THE SUGAR BOWL at New Orleans will have a
new kickoff time in 1982. NCAA postseason football committee
has voted to allow the Sugar Bowl to be played on New Year’s
Night at 7 p.m. In New Orleans. ABC-TV will carry the Sugar
Bowl. The committee has approved moving the Fiesta Bowl to
New Year’s Day at 11:30a.m. The Orange Bowl is still schedul-
ed for New Year’s Night at Maimi starting at 7 p.m........EAST
TEXAS 8TATE University will honor Texas Aggie basketball
coach Shelby Metcalf during graduation exercises May 16.
Metcalf is a 1955 graduate of ETSU. He won All-America
honors as a three-year letterman for the Lions and was a
member of the ’55 team that won the NAIA championship.
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TEN YEARS after he first Joined the high school basketball
ranks, Jerry Deines figured it was time to get oul of the
business. And time to get into business. The Beaumont Forest
Park coach, coming off his fifth season at the West End school,
resigned to take a post with a building firm in Omaha, Neb. In
his five years at Forest Park his teams posted an 86-71 mark.
SP1SD athletic director Sparky Adams said he hopes a deci-
sion is may by May 15 to hire a new coach.
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NOW COMES THE Individual dedication—the May until
August toiling and sweating and studying which could lead
Alabama's football team toward boosting head coach Paul
(Bear) Bryant to a national career record of victories. The
Crimson Tide brought a conclusion to its spring practice with a
scrimmage Friday, in which its coach thought the team ‘‘did a
little better.” The Bear said, “We had some good licks on
defense and were better on offense in some areas. At least we
moved the ball better.” With the spring’s 20th practice laid by,
tlie Crimsons now await the start of their season which will
come against LSU in Baton Rouge on Saturday night, Sept. 5 at
8 p.m. After last season’s 10-2-0 run pul Bryant-coached teams
at 306-79-16, it left the veteran Tide coach eight short of Amos
Alonzo Stagg’s record 314.
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LGOK FOR Terry Bradshaw quarterbacking the Steclers
again this fall. He’s been in off-season news recently as sup-
posedly weighing a TV career against the further slings and
arrows of pro football. A Bradshaw TV show was shown na-
tionally recently. Bradshaw’s reaction-comments can’l be
reported verbatim. Family newspaper. He apparently didn’t
like the way his role was edited, neither was he enthusiastic
about the manner it was acted.......WILLIE JONES RESIGN-
ED as head basketball coach at Carter-Riverside in Fort
Worth to take the same post at Wyatt, replacing Danny Allie,
who had earlier resigned to move to Crowley School District.
And now the FW Independent School District is accepting ap-
plications for those interested in the Carter-Riverside post.
May 13 is the deadline for applying. Please contact FWISD
athletic director Lon Goldstein for more information. Jones
guided Carter-Riverside to a 22-9 record this past basketball
season and the District 5-AAAA championship.
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AFTER LOSING all of the offensive line players and all of
the interior linemen on defense Lamar University head foot-
ball coach Larry Kennan felt that the lines were the areas that
needed the most work in spring drills. After posting a 3-8
record in 1980 the Cardinals went into this year’s spring drills
witli a teaching and learning attitude. “We are a very young
team overall,” Kennan said. “We have to be very basic this
spring.” With one defensive coach gone Kennan himself step-
ped in to help direct the interior of the defensive line. After the
spring game Kennan still feels that the offensive and defensive
lines need alot of work. However, the linemen were the most
improved area of the program. The offensive and defensive
lines are not the only areas that are looking real good for the
’81 season. Floyd Dorsey, who sat out all last year with a leg in-
jury and missed three weeks this spring with an ankle injury,
enjoyed an excellent final scrimmage game as he picked up
more than 100 yards. “Floyd is a quality running back,” Ken-
nan said. “He should be a real help next season.” At the
quarterback position returning starter Ray Campbell, a
sophomore to be, of Livingston looked impressive in the spring
game. The real surprise was transfer Fred Hessen. He played
at Navarro JC last fall. “We knew about Fred and decided to
pick him up because we needed a quamy player at the backup
position,” the Cardinal coach said. “He was a real surprise
throwing the ball and it could be very interesting next fall to
H/NK ON THESE THINGS
Have you ever known?
A man to Lose his job because he drank too little?
A doctor to tell a patient" Your Chance would be better
if you had been a drinker?"
An employer of a person for an important place to say,
"Give me a drinker every time?"
A wife to say, "My husband would be the best man in the
world if he only drank more?"
A husband to say, "My Wife would be a better mother
to our children if she kept more beer. Whiskey or wine
in bur home?"
A defendant in court to seek acquitai on the plea,
"if I had been drunk I would never have committed this
crime?"
An insurance company to offer reduced rates to drinkers?
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sec how he challenges Ray.” Kennan added that he feels good
about the team as a whole. The Cardinals open the ’ll season
against Southwest Conference champion Baylor University on
Saturday, Sept. 5 in Waco.
LOUIE JOHNSON, a native of Rusk and a graduate of
Stephen F. Austin State University, has resigned as head foot-
ball coach and athletic director of Dayton High School, effec-
tive the end of the school year. Johnson is planning to join
Coach Bob Edwards’ staff at Barbers Hill High School next
fail. Edwards is former head coach at Dfcyton. Barbers Hill is
also seeking two more coaches........LIBERTY HIGH All-
Sports banquet will be held Saturday night, May 16 at 7 p.m. at
the school cafeteria. Houston Oiler Billy “Whiteshoes”
Johnson will be the guest speaker. Tickets for the dinner will
be 87.50 each.
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RUNNING BACK DAVID Overstreet, a former Big Sandy
High School (near Gladewater) all-round athlete, of Oklahoma
was drafted No. 1 in the NFL draft Tuesday by Miami
Dolphins. He was the 13th player drafted Tuesday. “It hit me
totally by surprise,” Overstreet, who incidentally played his
last college game in Miami, Jan. 1, against Florida State in the
Orange Bowl.......NORTH TEXAS STATE University has
signed Sabine High School’s 6-foot-10 center Greg Grissom to a
national letter of intent. Grissom guided Sabine to the Class
AA state championship this past basketball season and a 34-0
record. He averaged 17 points and 17 rebounds a game. He had
more than 75 college offers........DIBOLL HIGH SCHOOL is
seeking a head basketball coach and a head baseball coach.
.....RAINS HIGH SCHOOL is seeking a head football coach.
......CORNERBACK Johnny Ray Smith, a former Cleveland
High athlete, of Lamar University was drafted by the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. He was drafted in the 11th round. The 5-9,
175-pounder was the only Lamar player chosen in the two-day
draft......TAMPA BAY also drafted quarterback Mike Ford of
Southern Methodist University. Ford, who injured his leg dur-
ing the ’79 season against TCU and missed the rest of the year,
playod part of the ’80 season as a back-up field general. He had
anotlicr year with SMU but passed it up so he could be drafted.
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KEEPING IT in the neighborhood, West Orange-Stark Higli
School athletic director Dan Hooks announced the approval of
Bridge City’s A1 Barbre as the new head basketball coach.
Barbre, who has a history of building winning programs, will
succeed Billy Brown, who resigned two weeks ago. Brown is
moving to McNecse Stale University. Barbre, a former assis-
tant at Stephen F. Austin State University, posted a 100-55
record at Bridge City in five years. The post at WO-S, which
Barbre will take over Monday, is his seventh stop in 17 years of
coaching.
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LIVINGSTON HIGH is in the market for several coaches—a
liead baseball coach, a jv baseball coach, varsity girls basket-
ball coach and junior high coaches.......BENNY MITCHELL
(brother of Coach Dan Mitchell of Livingston) is the new liead
football at Hargrave Huffman High School. He replaced Jerry
Haney, who resigned to become liead football coach and
athletic director at Coldspring. Benny Mitchell lias been an
assistant at Huffman for several years........CANDIDATES
FOR THE QUEEN for the 44th Gladewater Round-up Rodeo
arc requested to contact Sue Harris for information. Mrs. Har-
ris said contestants for the queen contest, which is only four
years old, will be interviewed by judges, will ride horses in
competition and will model western clothes. Girls should be
between 16 and 21 years old for the queen’s contest and be able
to ride a horse like they were born in the saddle. The rodeo will
be held June 10-13. Candidates should contact Mrs. Harris by
writing Route One, Box 289, Gladewater, 75647, or call
214-845-5305 after 5 p.m.
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FOR THOSE PEOPLE who sleep pder bqrnt orange bed-
sheets like Michael Cummings and yearn to someday fire
Smokey, the Cannon, after a Longhorn touchdown, there’s a
chance—if the price is right. Among the things to be auctioned
off at the spring meeting of the Longhorn Club May 11 at
Ridglea Country Club in Fort Worth is a permit to touch off
Smokey.....RAY RENFRO IS hobbling these days. The former
All-Pro receiver from the Cleveland Browns underwent
surgery this past week when his knee locked on him. The
surgeron had to remove a floating cartilage......COACH JESS
NEELY, former head football coach at Rice University, is
planning to retire next month ami move with his wife to
Weslaco in the Valley. Coach Neely is athletic director at
Vanderbilt University and the golf coach. He is 83-years-old.
.......DARYL BAUCHAM, A 6-7 forward who averaged 17
points and 14 rebounds for McLennan Junior College at Waco,
has signed a national letter of intent with Baylor. He played
high school ball at Waco University.
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visit, UT assistant basketball coach Bany »»d UT
coaches were not angry with the players. Hughes will have to
pay a $525.80 bill to the Marriott, the highest total ofan>’
recruits who visited Austin. Dowd notified Hughes fattier,
basketball coach at Dunbar High in Fort Worth, that the ex-
penses were incurred while Hughes was at the hoteL Dowd
said Hughes and the others would have to pay for the merchan-
dise as the university could only pay for the amount covering
the room. “There’s no problem with it at all,” said
“This is just like you going down and purchasing something
and then the hotel bills you. What he charged could not be
and then the hotel bills you. What he charged coum *
payed for by the university. He is billed for it by the Marriott.
There were charges and he is simply going to pay those. The
recruits, who were guided during the weekend of alLSWC
center LaSalle Thompson, charged a total of $1,267 to the hotel,
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TODAY’S CHUCKLE: One nice thing about the horse was
that some designer couldn’t make yours obsolete long before it
was paid for.
THE MONTREAL Alouettes made strong-armed, free agent
quarterback Vince Ferragamo of the Los Angeles Rams and
fleet-footed receiver James Scott of the Chicago Bears were
they couldn’t refuse-and they didn’t The two National Foot-
ball League players signed contracts with the Canadian Foot-
ball team. Ferragamo, 27, signed a four-year contractworth
an estimated $400,000 per season. .....TAKING IT WITH you
isn’t the problem. The catch is to make it last until you go.
......THERE’S no optimist like the basketball coach. His team
is 23 points behind but he exhorts his players: “Go l™,g,f:
’em—plenty of time left—14 seconds!”.....PART OF TOE
AMERICAN genius is the talent for stretching things out. Our
presidential election is the only thing in the world that takes
longer than the pro basketball playoffs.......EDUCATION
SECRETARY T.H. Bell says beards and bras are no business
of the federal government. So he will propose eliminating a
rule which allows high school students to file federal com-
plaints about dress codes. If the rule is scrapped, the Educa-
tion Department’s Office for Civil Rights, which enforces laws j
against sex discrimination in school systems receiving federal
money, will no longer accept complaints. The office now has
pending 46 cases regarding grooming and appearance. Bell >
said the dress code section of the Title IX regulations was
“another example where we’ve stretched and tortured the law
out to the point of absurdity. I don’t think Congress ever in- i
tended that the department would be enforcing matters that |
relate to length of beards, hair and skirts and whether or not
you come to school braless or with bra,” Bell said. Bell is ab-
solutely right, of course. The well-paid people in the Office of
Civil Rights should have, if they don’t, more important and
productive jobs to do than arbitrate questions of beards and
bras or the length of hair. In years past, the communities in
which schools are located did a pretty good job of seeing that
their youngsters were presentable when they attended school.
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THE PITTSBURGH Steelers have signed tight end Ray-
mond Cockrell, a free agent, of Baylor University......THE
LIVINGSTON Lions will play host to Liberty’s Panthers Mon-
day night at 7:30. On Tuesday the Lions will be at Lumberton
for a non-conference 4:30 p.m. game. Lions close out the week
of baseball on Friday at New Caney, 4:30 p.m.......HAVE A
good day.
PROFESSIONAL
WEDDING
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RING AROUND
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boatmen. This trio of elements
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algae, a clinging aquatic growth
that thrives on boat hulls.
Unless algae is controlled, the
penalty for boat owners is poor
performance, high fuel costs,
and hours of bone-wearying
labor.
Algae growth begins as a
dark green scum at the water
line. Eventually, it will cover
the entire bottom of a boat,
often hanging in long strands
like a shaggy rug. If not
removed, algae can increase
fuel consumption by as much as
25 percent while, at the same
time, reduce top speed by a
similar amount.
Spring is the time to prepare
your boat for the battle against
algae. Mercury outboards' ser-
vice experts suggest you spend a
day cleaning and waxing the
hull. Doing so will save you
time and money.
Wash the boat with mild
soap and warm water. Remove
scum by scrubbing with a soft
brush. Avoid abrasive cleaners
on fiberglass hulls. If the hull is
pitted and algae scum has
hardened, try removing it with
mineral spirits or acetone.
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 36, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 3, 1981, newspaper, May 3, 1981; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth781796/m1/10/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.