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The Graham High School track team will travel to Wichita
Falls on Saturday, March 19 to compete in the Wichita Falls
mvitational Track and Field Meet. So far this season the Steers
have seen action in two meets-the Canyon Reef Relays at Snyder,
and the Possum Kingdom Relays in Graham.
Their schedule calls for the locals to enter Ranger's Red
Dog Relays on Saturday, March 26 before the District 4-AAA
meet here on the second of April.
Graham has received its strongest performances from dis-
tance runners Larry Wooldridge and Ray Gameson, 220-dash
man Marvin May, and shot putter Jim Chastain.
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held on Thursday, March 24.
They will decide when to hold registration for new Little
Leaguers, set the time for tryouts, and the date of the opening
game.
Graham Little League is divided into Major Leagues and
Minor Leagues for boys ten to twelve, and Pee Wee Leagues for
boys eight and nine years old. Major League teams are: Sena-
tors (last year's champions), Orioles, Red Sox, White Sox, Indi-
ans (runners-up last season), Athletics, Yankees, and Tigers.
Minor League teams are: Pirates, Angels, Mets, Dodgers,
Giants, Astros, Cardinals, Twins.
Major League play is divided into two halves, with the first-
half champions playing the second-half champions.
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The District 4-AAA track
and field meet will be held at
Graham’s steer Stadium two
weeks from now, and perform-
ances of league clubs in earlier
meets this year indicate that
competition for the team cham-
pionship will be strictly be-
tween Breckenridge and Ver-
non.
Last year’s district meet saw
Breckenridge run up a comfor-
table margn in point totals,
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According to statistics, the Possum Kingdom Relays, which
were held in Graham’s steer stadium last Saturday compared
wel with any other big meet taking place in this area on the
sarge. date.
Matching the P-K Relays and Lawton's Invitational track
meet, we find that Possum Kingdom competitors turned in su-
perior performances in the 440-yard Relay, Mlle relay, 880-
yard run, 440-yard dash, mile run, shot put and broad jump.
Lawton athletes were stronger in the high jump, pole vault,
discus, 220-yard dash, 100-yard dash and 180-low hurdles and
120-high hurdles.
And Possum Kingdom’s winning performances were equal
to, or better than the best in six of the fourteen events at Ar-
lington's huge track meet. This is true despite the fact that
Abilene Cooper and Fort Worth Arlington Heights, possibly the
two strongest track teams in the state, competed at Arlington.
The Breckenridge Buckaroos
counter this impressive array
with a trio of stars who should
give them first place in five
events. The chief Buckle is
Warren Hart, who won both the
shot put and discus a year ago,
and will do It again. Hank Gun-
lock of Breckenridge is favored
to win the broad jump. Frank
Riney looks capable of bringing
home top honors in the 120-
high hurdles and high jump,
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In League Track
Sign space rentals are on a
one-year basis (or more if the
renter desires.)
Little League directors will
remove all signs left up from
one year to the next for which
rental has not been paid.
The renter will provide and
install his own sign and keep
it in good condition. The signs
may be made of wood or met-
al and may be of any color.
The signs are to 4 feet tall
(since that is the height of the
fences) and be in 5 foot mul-
tiples long 5‘-10‘-15‘ etc.
The Little League Board of
Directors will inspect and ap-
prove all signs.
Merchants may call LI 9-
In the contest with Archer
City earlier this month, all of
Graham’s competitors won
easily. Gene Graham and Sue
Burkett polished off their oppo-
nents 6-0, 6-0, in girl’s dou-
bles, Ellen Swain bumped her
foe by the same margin, Bryan
Bibb won 6-0, 6-1, in boy’s
singles, and Richard Landrith
and Richard Layfield took the
boy’s doubles 7-5, 6-3.
The local netters should find
their Hirschi Tournament op-
position just a bit tougher than
Archer City, however, and the
results should go far tn de-
termining how Graham will fare
in District play here in two
weeks.
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During the Texas high school basketball play-offs late last
month we wrote a story bragging about the fine cage team
fielded by Garland High, our old school (perhaps we bragged
a little too soon, because in the next contest they played, the
Owls got stomped by eventual class AAAA finalist W.W. Sam-
uell). Also mentioned in our article was the fact that Garland
and Graham have something in common, two outstanding "Balti-
more Colt professional football performers played their high
school football in these cities. Jerry Don Logan led the Graham
Steers to the quarter final round of class AAA football play-offs
in 1956, and Bobby Boyd sparked the Garland Owls to the AAA
championship game in 1955. Both are now defensive regulars
on the National Football League Colt squad
But the other day we received a letter from an ex-Graham
High School student, telling us that Graham and Garland have
even more in common. I.F. Roebuck, Jr. of Dallas, a 1948
graduate of Graham writes that both head coaches in the Garland
athletic program are also from Graham. It seems that Ernest
< unninghiam, head coach of the Garland owis of District 7-AAAA
- was a 1048 graduate of Graham Hign setool, and O’Day Wil-
liams, head coach of new South Garland, which competes in
District 6-AAA received his diploma from Graham High School
in 1950.
Like a good citizen ofGraham, Mr.Roebuck indulges in a little
boasting. “Garland,” he says, “knows where to find the best
talent available.’’
.007 FOURTH
but four top teams shared al-
most equally in first place fin-
ishes in the fourteen events.
Vernon won the 880-yard run,
pole vault, broad jump, and
220-yard dash, Breckenridge
took the 440-yard relay, shotput
and discus; Brownwood copped
the 440-yard dash, mile relay
and 100-yard dash; Wichita
Falls Hirschi nabbed both hur-
dle events and the mile run.
This season’s competition
Girl's Volleyball
Team Wins Over
Throckmorton
The Graham High School
girl’s volleyball team played
its first game of the season
with Throckmorton Monday,
March 14 in the girls’ gym at
GHS.
The Graham A-team won both
games. The A-team members
include Katheryn Burk, Linda
Martin, Vickie Mayo, Joyce
Rickels, Melba Smith, Sherry
Webb, Reba Weatherbee, and
Joyce Tate.
The B-team lost two very
close games to the Throck-
morton girls. The members of
the B-team are Elaine Bur-
gess, Glenda Bullock, Pat Go-
wens, Janice Newell, and Janice
Weatherbee: • “
The giris play six-member
teams with the A-team using
two substitutes. The next game
will be Wednesday afternoon,
March 16, with Breckenridge.
The Diatrtet Tournament will
be held m Grsam on April 2.
Coach Rm *e volleyball is
Miss Carol Craa
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basis and only 60 spaces are
available on each field.
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180 - low hurdles.
Brownwood cannot lie counted
out of the race, but It appears
that the Lions lack the great
material they have been blessed
with during the. past few sea-
sons. The only clear favorite for
the central Texans is Leroy De-
anda, who should repeat as
champ in the 440-yard dash,
despite some static from Buddy
Shepard of Alirschi and Mika
MeCaulley of Vernon. Deanda
ran third in the Possum King-
dom Relays’ 440, with a time of
52.2, but Shepard was close be-
hind with a 52.3 clocking. Mike
MeCaulley turned in a 52.8
race, good for third place at
Plainview.
The Hirschi Huskies of Wich-
ita Falls will depend heavily on
defending mile run champton,
Toby Goodman. Goodman won
the mile at Snyder with a 4:49.3,
and led most of the way in the
Possum Kingdom Relays before
being taken on the final lap by
some outstanding class AAAA
milers. The Wichita miler’s
fifth-place time was 4:42.9, bet-
ter than the 4:44.3 that earned
him the league title in that event
here last year.
Larry Wooldridge and Ray
Gameson will be in Graham’s
hopes in the 880-yard run.
Wooldridge finished second be-
hind Vernon’s Laxson in 1965,
while Gameson put on a strong
race when he qualified for the
finals at P-K last week.
A pair of crucial races that
could decide who wins the team
championship on the April 2
district meet are the relays.
Both should be four-team af-
fairs, with Brownwood, Vernon,
Breckenridge and Hirschi bat-
tling it out Only a second and
a half separate the four squads
in the mile: Breckenridge-
3:29.5, Brownwood-3:30.0, Hir-
schi-3:30.1 and Vernon-3:31.0.
The 440-relay is almost as
close, as Brownwood Is a nar-
row favorite, but the champion's
crown for that event could just
as easily fit on the heads of the
Buckaroos, the Huskies, or
Vernon.
In .the competition that took
place here last season, Breck-
enridge amassed 130 points,
Brownwood 100-1/2, Vernon
84, Coleman 61, Wichita Falls
Hirschi 58-1/2, Graham 44-1/2
and Burkburnett 14-1/2.
This time around, it seems as
if fans who attend this year’s
meet will see a lot of the green
and white of Breckenridge and
the maroon and white of Vernon,
in what should be some of the
most exciting and close compe-
tition seen in recent seasons.
AUSTIN—The variety of na-
tural attractions inuencing a
mighty national surge toward
Texas’ vacationland is reflect-
ed in the latest correspondence
call-of-the- states.
Dude ranches, good fishing,
unmatched scenery, unsurpass-
ed water sports--both fresh and
salt—all of these lure the usual
majority, reports the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department,
But there’s unusual attention
given toward historical places,
perhaps inspired by entertain-
ment medias’ dramatic and mu-
sical emphasis on Texas’ ex-
citing background.
Here’s one example of the
popular trend, written by a
State College, Pennsylvania
man stating he had seen a Tex-
as state parks map in his local
library:
“I am particularly Interested
in the birds and wildflowers for
which your state has become
famous." (Won’t be long before
bluebonnets.)
Of course, he could be think-
ing specifically about Palmetto
State Park’s famed marshland
greenery along the swampy
banks of the San Marcos River
near Luling, or Bentsen-Rio
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From Charlotte, N.C., came a
pre-trlvel request:
“Will you kindly mail me any
pictures of famous (Texas)pla-
ces and travel scenes of the
Alamo."
From Bettendorf, Iowa, a wo-
man wrote:
“We plan a three weeks trip
to Texas. Please send me some
booklets on places to see in Tex-
From neighboring Louisiana,
town of Rustor, came a request:
“During August, I plan to
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League Signs
Available
The Graham Little League,
realizing the need tor more
funds this year than ever be-
fore, has decided to rent sign
space on both the east and west
field this year. The additional
funds raised through the signs
is needed to operate LittleLea-
gue this year. The United Fund,
after falling short in col-
lections, has cut the amount
available to Little League by
about ten percent. This means
the program will have to de-
pend on sign rental to make
up the difference.
Graham has had a fine Lit-
tle League program in the past
and it is hoped the support
through the signs will allow the
program to continue to grow for
the benefit of the youngsters
of Graham.
It has been estimated that
possibly 5,000 Grahamites are
either directly or indirectly
affected, by the local Little
League program and this isn’t
counting the out-of-town rel-
atives who come to Graham to
see the game.
To avoid the possibility of
offending anyone because they
were not contacted first, it has
been decided that the sign
spaces will be rented on a
"first come, first served"
basis. Roy Bilberry of the Gra-
ham .News, 426 Oak, has agreed
to take charge of receiving all
orders for sign spaces. Mr.
Bilberry may be reached at :
LI 9-2244.
The rental price will be by
the “running foot.” The 300-
foot outfield fences are to be
divided into three sections. A,
B, and C. Section "A” being
the left field 100 feet; Section
"B” being the center field 100
feet, and Section "C” being the
right field 100 feet. Each sec-
tion is divided into 20 five-
foot spaces numbered one
through twenty, starting on the
left.
The price per foot for the
left and right field Sections
F-K MEDALIST — Tommy Borrow,
center, Andrews High School golfer
was medolist in the Possum Kingdom
Golf Tournoment held at Graham
Country Club Friday Charles Will-
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per running foot For the cen-
ter field section, Section “B",
the price per foot will vary with
relation to the absolute center
field spot Spaces 1 through 7
and spaces 14 through 20 will
be >4.00 per running foot.
Spaces 8, 9, 12 and 13 will
be >8.00 per foot. Spaces 10
and 11 (absolute center field) (
Any erroneous reflection upon the character of any person or
firm appearing ta these columns will be gladly and promptly
corrected upon being brought to the attention of the manage
ment
Having won decisive victor-
ies over Archer City in a four-
match dual meet last week, the
draham High School tennis team
will travel to Wichita Falls this
Friday and Saturday to seek
fresh victims in the Hirschi
Tournament. Tennis coach Bud
> Huggins plans to take his “A"
team and “B” team to the meet,
a total of twenty-three athle-
tes.
Competing in the "A" divi-
sion will be two girl’s doubles
teams and two boy’s doubles
teams. Gene Graham and Sue
Burkett will make one giri’s
team, and Gail Shahan and Jan’a
Hix the other. Boy’s teams are
Richard Landrith and Richard
Layfield, and Jim Rex and Da-
vid Pryor. Girl’s singles will
be Ellen Swain and Sandra Nees,
boy’s singles will be Bryan Bibb
and Richard Cummings.
Slated to make doubles team
in the “B" division of the tour-
nament are Gretchen Schultz
and Virginia Wylie, Sandy Lank-
ford and Sylvia Willis, Paul Hin-
son and Cary Conklin, and Ted
Price and Jerry Manning. En-
tered in the Girl’s will be Denise
Smith and Jo Ann Reed, while
Bruce Stephens is the“B"boys
singles entry .
All of the teams from high
schools entered in the tourn-
ament will meet at Hirschi
High at 6:30 Friday morning
to decide pairings. Play will
commence at 9:00 a.m. on the
Hirschi courts, Wichita Falls
High School courts and at Weeks
Park. There will probably
be seven other high schools with
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PATRIOTS
SHAPTE 66
CONQUEST
CANYON—A combination of
rugged natural beauty, the pride
of a great state and the hustle
of an alert community brought
realization of a fond dream tor
Texas Panhandle patriots, ac-
cording to Will E. Odom of Aus-
tin, chairman of the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Commis-
sion.
All of these mighty factors
means converting picturesque
Palo Duro Canyon State Park
into a permanent reminder of
what coordinated effort can ac-
complish, he said.
Currently plans are being
made to invest approximately a
quarter of a million dollars, as
authorized by the last Legisla-
ture plus a substantial added
sum from matching Federal
funds, in varied improvements.
A key part in the dramatic
success story, centering
around a rugged area once
known as a forbidding rock jun-
gle, is the history-minded Pan-
handle Heritage Foundation.
Now officials of that area-
wide organization are meeting
with nationally celebrated Paul
Green to shape the summer
production of the musical dra-
ma, "Texas."
Meanwhile, young people at
West Texas State College here
are already mastering the vo-
cals for the show which de-
picts development of the West,
They receive college credits for
this effort.
Thus the Pioneer Amphithea-
ter, financed originally by the
Foundation, will mark another
triumph by playwright-poet
Green, North Carolina native,
who for years has re-created
glorias of the American past
to inspire national belief for the
future.
This year's production run of
nightly shows will be from July
1 through Labor Day,_________
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shouldn’t prove to bp so de-
mocratic, however, as victory-
hungry Breckenridge and Ver-
non squads each seem capable
of seizing wins of half of the
events, and still have enough
left over to make a strong
showing in the others. Last
week Breckenridge finished be-
hind powerful class AAAA
teams from Amarillo Tascosa
and Abilene at the Possum King-
dom Relays here in Graham,
while Vernon’s Lions made a
similar strong showing in the
panhandle as they finished a
strong third at Plainview's Re-
lays. Both of the 4-AAA pow-
ers appear well-balanced, but
the Lions place more empha-
sis on speed around the run-
ning track, while the green-
clads from Buckarooland rely
on muscle in field events.
In a head-on confrontation
on March 5 at Snyder’s Canyon
Reef Relays, Breckenridge
came in third with 90 points,
while the Lions amassed only
35 points for fifth place. Ver-
non, however, has improved
much since then. Doyle Close,
who finished fourth in the 180-
low hurdles at Canyon Reef, 1
and Bruce King, who could do
no better than sixth in the 220-
yard dash in that same meet
both took runner-up honors
against tougher opponents in
Plainview. Close ran a 20.2 |
race in the low hurdles, and |
King's 220 clocking was 22.6.
The speedy Kuig also appears
to have an excellent chance to !
run away from the field in the
4-AAA 100 yard dash If he can
repeat an earlier performance
of 10.1 in the century, Butch
Laxwon was the district’s 880-
yard run champion in 1965, but
this season the Maroon star
may suffer the embarrassment
of finishing second to teammate
Claude Willie in league war-
fare. Willie is only a sopho-
more, but the fact that he has
already run the 880 in 2:01.2
indicates that he could be one
of the brightest track stars
ever to come out of District
4-AAA. Clifford Graf, another
Vernon athlete, is a favorite in
the pole vault
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