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RODNEY HICKS made the
second All-District team as a
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December 2,
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SCOTT MARTIN made the
second All-District team as a
center. He is a senior. [Press
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Lions Club Letter °
Dear Mr. Farmer:
We need your help!
The Clarendon Lions Club has undertaken the projects of
raising funds for Girlstown and for the Crippled Childrens Camp
at Kerrville. These two organizations desperately need financial
help, and if you could see, as some of us have, the faces of girls
who have never before known a true home, and of children who,
due to crippling disease or accident, have never had the
opportunity to attend camp, we feel sure you would agree that
these is no place where your help can do more good.
in spite of the increase in cost of living, our community has
had a good year, and we have many things for which to be
thankful. Unless we share, however, there are no good years for
a homeless, unloved young girl, or a crippled child. By sharing,
we can make this a good year for everyone.
We are asking you to give your elevator a signed authorization
for a number of pounds of grain to be given to this project.
If you would prefer, we will accept a cash contribution in lieu
of grain.
We know you will do what you can, and we thank you in
advance.
Allen Estlack
President, Clarendon Lions Club
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G ED exam set here
The G.E.D. Exam (High School Equivalency) will be given on
Saturday the 15th of December, 1973 at Clarendon College,
Clarendon, Texas. The tests will begin at 8:00 a.m. in room 102
in the College Administration Building. It will take
approximately ten hours to complete the exam. Cost of the exam
will be $13.00 payable at the time of the examination.
Anyone interested in taking the test should contact Beryl
Clinton, Leonard Selvidge or Floyd Guinn at the College before
the 10th of December, 1973. To contact by phone, call 874-3571
or you may contact the college by writing Box 968, Clarendon,
Texas 79226:
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TOMMY HILL made the second
Star Route
Journal....
All-District team as a defensive a.euu ,,-v ...........
lineman. He is a senior. [Press defensive lineman. He is a
"After the coffee things ain't so bad."--Knibbs
! reckon ! must have. been cut by an odd pattern as Americans
go. l'm sure my coffee drinking kinsfolk think so, for l was born
minus the hourly hankering for that cup of caffeine that
characterizes most of them. l like my cup of decaffeinated brew
for brealt and can drink it at other times, but l can also do
without it."
That eternal cup of coffee invariably hangs off the finger of
most of my Jones relatives. Perhaps the memory of my Grandpa
Jones that outweighs all others is his love of coffee.
! think he was the only person I ever knew--or ever knew
about--who could drink it hot or cold, with or without sugar,
i broke myself from drinking sugar is my coffee durin
war. The funny part was that, after sticking to the
for a whole month and telling myself I didn't like it one bit
l finally gave up and sweetened it one morning only to
couldn't stand it!
Well, we do a lot of things from habit, and habits are
break, mainly because--let's face it--we don't really want
you know that the word "habit" is a derivative of a Latin
meaning "to hold"? That's just what we do--HOLD them!
tenaciously!
And we say we can't do this or that. Oh, well one excuse
good as another when we don't WANT to quit!
myself every time l go to the fridge for a soda'pop!
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1 CC Bulldogs win 1 Coffee has to taste just so for me to enjoy it, otherwise it tastes
like leftover dishwater! I like mine with lots of cream, l've been
told I would like it better black; but, frankly, I have no interest in By DAVID EVERMAN
] conference opener | learning todrinkitthatway.
1 suppose, judging by the volume of ex;idence to that effect, Like it or not, the energy crisis thing is here, probably to l
The Bulldogs of Clarendon College won their conference
opener in grand style here Thursday night as they waltzed past
Western Texas Junior College 83-76. Clarendon played a good
first half and took a lead into the dressing room, and withstood a
mini-comeback by Western Texas to keep the victory. The
visitors ,battled back into within 3 points at 57-54, but the
Bulldogs reeled off 9 consecutive points to make it 65-54.
Clarendon then calmed down and played their opponents evenly
until the final minutes of the game, when Western Texas pulled
back into striking distance, but Junior Siegeler, who played an
outstanding game, and Davey Graham combined for 5 quick
points to clinch the game at 79-70.
"The thing that impressed me most was that we got a good
team effort out of every kid we put on the floor," Coach Jack
Hedden said. "We also had good support from our bench and
the fans were just great." The Bulldog fieldhouse had more on
the Clarendon side than during any other game during the year.
"We learned some things tonight," Hedden continued. "We
played with alot more poise. We played with enthusiasm during
the first half and went to the boards really well. Also, winning
the first conference game will help us jell as a team."
Little Evander Ford led the Bulldog scoring, with a total of 24
points, also pulling down 3 rebounds. Junior Siegeler was the
Bulldogs' second leading scorer with 23 points, but he also
grabbed 20 rebounds to lead Clarendon in daat department.
Other Bulldogs finishing in 2 columns were Joe Pride, with 17
points, and Davey Graham, with 10 points. Herman Brown
rounded out the scoring with 9 points.
Pride had 12 rebounds, Brown had 4, Graham had 2 and Brent
Sherrod had one rebound to give Clarendon a total of 42
rebounds.
The win Thursday night gave Clarendon a 5-4 record overall
and a good start in the conference with a 1-O conference record.
The next game is at Levelland, against South Plains Junior
College on December 3. The game will be the second of a string
of 5 straight conference games before the Bulldogs go to file
Aggie Festival at Tishomingo, Oklahoma, December 21 and 22.
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that lots of people are convinced things begin to look up after
than morning cup. Still, I wonder if this is not a purely
psychological attitude that has been poured into their minds by
forebears and asociates who declared day after day they just
couldn't get going without their coffee. After all, with the British
it would be tea. And maybe Polynesians would want coconut
milk!
Alexander Pope spoke of "coffee, which makes the politicians
wise." Methinks we have a number of politicians who evidently
have not been drinking their wisdom cup! I'm almost afraid to
say that, however, for fear it will set off another investigation!
Man generally is inconsistent. He drinks coffee to stimulat
him. then takes pills or alcohol to slow him dowfil He cries with
Mackay, "Make my coffee strong!" and drinks twenty cups a
day, full of enervating caffeine, then wonders why he tosses and
turns al night long in sleeplessnessI
But such is man, and l'm no better. I don't drink much coffee,
but I drink too many soft drinks, which habit is no more
commendable.
1 recently sat in a small care and watched the waitress make
coffee four times while 1 ate my meal. Only a few customers were
there at that hour, but the coffee drinking was going full blast. I
drank my usual 10-2-4, and some people eyed me as if I were a
copouf. How dare 1 not conform to the good old American
custom !
1 used to drink coffee in cold weather only but finally settled
down to a steady cup for breakfast the year around. Drinking
decaffeinated coffee has its advantages; if one happens to be
visiting where only the regular kind is served, he can skip his
coffee and.never miss it--except in his head!
General cuts speeds
SAN ANGELO--General Telephone of the Southwest has
announced that the speed limit onall company Vehicles wiU be 50
miles per hour effective immediately.
General Telephone with headquarters here, serves more than
405 exchanges in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arkansas,
maintains a fleet of almost 3,000 vehicles.
"We are doing this voluntarily prior to passage of any laws
which are expected to make compliance mandatory," L. Gray
Beck, president of General Telephone said. "By lowering our
speed now we can make a sizeable contribution to gasoline
conservation. Our Corporate citizenship dictates our need to
share the conservation responsibility."
General Telephone earlier reduced building heat to 68
degrees, turned off all outside and ornamental lighting, except
that used for security, and reduced lighting in all non-work areas
to a minimum.
so we might as well get used to it. An expected 25% oil
in March could leave us in bad shape and put us even
than we are, so we are evidently going to have to enjoy
shortage we have now.
Besides President Nixon's proposals of cutbacks in
lighting, travel, and quite a few other things, Dolph
started in now. Briscoe makes more sense,
speed limit of SS instead of 50 for cars and 55 for
' would eliminate the possibility of being run over by a semi,!
would also be a little bit more acceptable to the general
public. The general reaction would be better, too, since
passenger car driver stuck at 50 (myself included) would
that if trucks can go 55, he could too. Granted, this mi
obnoxious of us car drivers, but l'm afraid that's how it
Another thing Briscoe suggested was the cutting of
days to end an hour earlier, which doubtlessly brought
anguish from every mother in the state. There might be
there, since a long school day is one of the best baby
invented to keep those youngsters in school busy so the
cannot find work for their hands.
One bad point about cut.ting down on school hours is that'
few teachers will cut down on the homework assignments.
teachers (and I used to have a bunch like that) would figurel
if the kids have an extra hour, why that just gives them
an hour's extra homework. If this happens, we're going to
lot of kids out pumping oil in their spare time.
As I said before, we're kind of stuck with this fuel
and if the emergency energy legislation is passed by
and it probably will be, we'll end up driving 50 (maybe
an hour, and the public coffers will be filled with a lot of
gleaned from speeding tickets.
We are going to have to live with not going
weekends, too, if the emergency legislation is passed.
the football widows will end up watching Dallas playing
they likeit or not, and willbe dd7-en azy over the
the bowl games.
Speaking of football, I wonder what the National
League thinks about the proposed no weekend gas stations?
League is already screaming about the number of no-showS
to the new blackout rules, but what will they do now?
While on the fuel crisis, how much fuel does Skylab
the rockets used to ferry men back and forth? And all of it
wasted on a generally inefficient windmill floating out in
And Skylab doesn't go S0 miles an hour, either.
With gas stations closing and speed limits down to SO
hour, let us give thanks for the highway beautification
a couple of years ago for planting all those bushes and
the highway.
Our First
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Press.
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