Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. XXXXIV, No. 19, Ed. 1, Wednesday, March 6, 1957 Page: 1 of 4
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LLO
ACKET
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF
HOWARD PAYKE COLLEGE FASTEST
GROWING COLLEGE IN SB CONVENTION
VOL. XXXXIV
BROWNWOOD TEXAS WEDNESDAY MARCH 6 1957
NUMBER 19
YE
XJ
79 YEARS OLD BUT-
'it's Never Too Late lo Learn
Reports IPC's Oldest Student
By DON NEWBURY j
Noiman Hall whose foremost
conviction is "you'ie never too
old to leain" has letumed as a
student at HPC after an absence
of some 60 years. Mr. Hall was
born in Dallas County on January
20 1878 and moved to Brown
County at the age of three iri a
coveied wagon.
He attended public schools at
McDaniel then started to Bangs
in the opening school ession. As
was characteristic of many farm
youngster of his day he was per-
mitted to attend school only in
the winter months.
Mr. Hall came to Howaid Payne
at age 18 and earned room and
boaid at Robnett Hall by cutting
wood and sweeping floois. How
ard Pavne's only building at this I
timi was the ad building minus
the ptccnt wing Dining Mi j Miner on Elephant Butte Dam
Hall's 2'j veais heic he also "Pistmction in New Mexico and
taught school at Bangs. (He was' Wilson Dam at Mussel Shoal-
asM-tant principal foi Bangs was j Alabama In Floi ida. h- began ox-
a one tcathi i school at that time1) eicising his map-making skills
Mi. Hall attend-d Texas A & and immediately made maps of
M in 1901-02 maoung in civil his new hometown DeLand Flor-
engineeiing. He did not get a! ida.
degue. but instead was employed At piesont Mi Hall rs pubh-h-by
the engineering coins of the ing a "rrngazet" foi letned peo-
Santa Fe Raihoad. Aiound 1904 pie which he calls the Volusia
he mteied government seivice as Star. He publishes it bi-monthly
a clerk. He ictiied in 1947 after and sometimes cnculates as many
advancing to civil engineer po-1 as 1000 copic .
sition All of this time was not Mr Hall's wilting skills did not
spent with the government how-1 becin with this publication He
evei I has wntten lor Washington Post
He work"d theio a total of some' Washington Stai DeLand Sun-
29 yeais but during this time News as- well a- wutmg for the
took many night couises and at-Ciil Engineers magazine. He has
tended many summer classes. Mr. also written a great deal of poe-
Hall has done college work at trv.
Focus Week Progresses;
Nine Leaders On Campus
Christian Focus Week a week
of special emphasis on Chi isti-1
anity in daily living began with
a series of moining chapel pro-
grams evening woiship services'
seminal s mfoimal discussions
and class visitation by prominent
Baptist leaders heie Monday. j
Tin Christian leader - are Di j
Edward A. nis piolesMii ol chem-j
istiy Aikans is UrnveisiU Mm
H Guv Mooil minister's wrfc of
Bioa a i Bapli-t Chinch Ft.
Wo' Mi Doyle Band woiker in
Student Department B.pti t Sun-
day School Boaid Di. A. Donald
manage i of a La insurance com-1
counseling at Southwest Thtolog-j
ical lie miliary; Bill Codj a-si.st-
ant secretary for rnis-ionaiy per-;
sonnel Baptist Foieign Mission
Boaid. I
Miss Eunice Paiket inter na-
tional studerrt worker BSU of
Tcxa- James Jeffiev youth di-
rector of North Ft Worth Baptr-t
Chinch and a life nisuiance ex-
ecutive; C N. "Newt" H'eNcher
manager of a La. Insurance com-
pany; David Alexandei .editor of
Baptist Student publications and
Lonnie Kliever a student at
Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary Ft. Worth.
The special emphasis week will
end at the Friday morning chapel
service. "It's UP To You" will be
the climaxing speech and it will
be given by Mr. Alexander.
the Umvcisiiy of Texas George
Washington University and Cor
nell. Seveial times he took fur-
loughs from his government po-
sition in Washington to go to
.school.
In 194- he taught civil engin-
eering to a group of enlisted
men at the University of Ala-
bama for one semester. He open-
ed his own Civi' Engineering in
Arlington Vnginia before gov-
ernment letircment and kept it
open until 1950.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall then moved
to DeLand Florida (near Day-
ton a Beach) for the so-called "de-
clining yeais." Mr. Hall's sojourn
there has been everything but
that.
He did not seem to be satisfied '
with his outstanding government
piojects .such as being a civil en-
Tonight at 7 p. m. in Mims Au-
ditorium a special panel will dis-
cuss the subject of "Making My
Christianity Attractive." Panel
members will be Dr. Bell Miss
Parker Mrs. Moore and Mr.
Baird.
Fc i i. Week Co-chart men Jor-
t D n Ou eon and Maltha
Civ r stir .is aid tod.i that the.
h" T the purpose ol the week
" ill long letrain in student and
i (i;li mind alike
"We -m i i . i nopi that a re-
newed i on ion -pi -sn! Chi 1st will
be mini. ml 'in ill phase s of daily
I 'Vim.'" the di ( 1. 11 eel
Newman Gives Report
Of Tuition Increase
The tuition of Howaid Pa.Mie
College is going io incroae $2
pel seme-tci hour next fall. This
is being done m older to provide
the faculty with met cased sala-1
lies. Howard 1'ayne is to nave
the highest paid faculty in the
hi -tot y of the college beginning
next fall
Student wages of employment
on the campus al-o will increase.
Student employees that have
earning 50c per hour wrll cam
G5c per hour next fall. Student
employeess that have been earn-
ings 75c per hour will earn 85c
per hour beginning next fall.
Machine Accounting
Comes To HPC Campus
Machine accounting has recently
come to Howaid Pavne. The ma-
chine is a National Class 31. It
is a combined accounting machine
ami electric typewriter.
The machine will have seven
changeable contiol bars. At the
present there are only two. The
other five are expected to arrive
in the near future. The machine
is expected to be in full operation
by June.
The bars will be cash disburse-
ments journal; budget report
both revenue and expenditures;
voucher register; revenue ledger
and journal; payroll; and general
ledger journal and student ac-
counts. There will also be a
standaid bar for the quarterly
tax report.
The payioll and student ac-
counts have already been con
verted to the machine The other
books will be conveited as soon
as the other bars arrive.
of 28
States in Spring
Term Enrollment
Out of 9(iG students Texas has
the sum total of 843 em oiled at
HPC actor drug to their permanent
mailing addresses. The lemarnder
of the student body tomes fiom
27 states and one foreign country
New Mexico is second in rep-
lesentation with 12 students
while Cal'foinia placed next wrth
seven. Oregon tan a close fourth
with six. Next in line are Tennes-
see and Coloiado wrth five and
four respectively.
Stales with thiee students each
ate Ninth Carolrna and Mrchrgan.
In eighth place are Georgia Floi -ida
Missoun arid Ohro wrth two
each in the overall representation.
Ninth and last plate t a frftecn-
way tre. South Carolina Connecti-
cut Alabama Nevada Arizona
Louisiana Pennsylvania Mary-
land Wyoming Virginia Oklaho-
ma Kan-as Indiana Washington
and Illinois all have one repre-
sentative each
Maha is the onlv other coun-
t's l piesinted on oin campus.
Theiefoie P. uline Oh t- further
from 'ioiik tiv.ti an other student' Notion. Shep.eid Detison anil Bul-
m Biownuood She plans n .stav ' son. John Bullock Lome Hayts
m the Lone Star State until she! Willie Movers Bobby Pullrg Lai -
gets her degii'e.
DeLeon Students
Hear HPC Band Mon.
The HPC Band continuing its1
st'i le's ol toncert- performed'
Monday afternoon in De Leon
High School
The band played a wrde varre-
tv of popular humorous and se-
rious music Some of tin numbers
weie "Bcguine lor Band;" a
-uit' "Atlantis;" "lush Washer
i'im:m" "Ti invmi.l H.uiinn" fen-
iin iiwr th. iiiimtiet .vimn- .'mrl
"Desert Star" wrth trombonist Al
Tucker doing the solo.
Johnny Milnor sang two num-
bers and at the end of the pro
gram sanij an encore as requested
by the audience.
The San Benedicto Island wren
became extinct as the result of
the birth of a volcano on the island.
eaver Jr.
Services Today In
Ernest Weaver Jr.. 30 son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Weaver of
B'wood passed away at Maxfreld
Hosprtal in Dallas at 2:15 p. m.
Monday. Funeral services will be
held at 3 p. m. this afternoon at
Stevens Funeral Home chapel in
Coleman with burial following
in the Santa Anna Texas.
His mother a teacher at How-
ard Payne in the French and Eng-
lish departments has been at his
bedside this week. Mr. Weaver
had been a victim of leukemia
for almost two years and recently
contracted a severe case of pneu-
monia. Spencer Errrest Weaver Jr. was
hfirn Oft 1 r(19fi in Tnvrn T-T-mfn
-... .. . ... ..s. w.
Indiana He moved to Bi own-
wood with his patents in 1933 to
their current address at 905 Main
Street
After he was graduated from
Brownwood Hi School he earned
Harrelson Reports That
1957 Lasso Near Finish
The 1957 yearbooks are now
taking shape and according to
Melba Rae Han elson Lasso ed-
itor they will be here bv May 15.
The contract with the publisher
strpulated that rf all of the ma-
ter ral for the Lasso rs reterved by
the publisher befoie Apirl 1 they
will be dehveied not later than
May 15. Nearly all eif contents
have already been completed and
-ent to the. publisher and the re-
mainder will soon be in. The
Lasso staff has been working dil-
lrgently and they would like to
have moie pictures of college activities
JACKET CINDERMM LEAVING
FOR BORDER 0LY.PICS FRI.
By JACK WOODSON
Coach Cap Shelton and his
! Howard Pavne cinder men leave
Fr relay morning lor Laredo and
the Bolder Olvnipics It will be
the fust meet of the -e ason foi
the jacket thiulicad-
Makmg the tup will be Bin
r Slme-- Jenv Bob Button. Gus
Sel.uhmann Ki ith Pattern and
po-s.bh Aided llolci mb and
Mk key Walker if the meet doesn't
conflict with spimg ioutball trarn-
t ing.
Coath Shel'.orr plan- to enter
Norton Shepaid Dorwin and Bui-1
1....1. ... 1 ! 1... LI... ...! !
t. IV 111 lil'' llllll' IL'l l lliHU- t.IIH
Meyers' who was state champ in
clas- B last year in the mile. In
the ii.SO it will be Shepard Pullrg
and Haye-
De nson and Notion wrll run the
! upon Oliai tei and a leg oil
the
I sprint u-lav Bullock and SlllVf
wrll run the other legs iiii the
sprint lelay. Not ton and Button
both of whom had among the
best high school maik.s rn the na-
tion last year in the bioad jump
could place high in the bioad
jump if they are up to last year's
form.
Gus Schuhmann will throw the
javelin and Keith Patton will
high jump. Norton and Bullock
Passes On
Coleman
a B. A. degiee from Howard
Payne College and then attended
the Universrty of Texas. He was
doing graduate worK at HPC un-
til shortly before his death.
He and Miss Mary Jane Scott
of Coleman were married Dec. 27
1955 at Coleman where they
made their home. He was a mem-
ber of the faculty at Burkett
School (in Coleman County) for
a time but in rtcent years had
been associated wrth his father in
operating Coleman County ranch-
ing interests.
Mr. Weaver a Baptist had nu-
merous honors at HPC among
them being a member of Alpha
Chi National Honor Society.
Survrvmg in addition to his wife
and parents are a brother Alli-
son Weaver of Waco and a sister
Mrs. W. J Anger miller of Hous-
ton. PASTEUR SUBJECT
AT SCIENCE MEET
Louis Pasteur was the subject
used on the program of the Sci-
ence Club at the meeting recent
ly.
Presenting the program were
Melvrn Russell Dolores Webb
Vernon Ellis and E-ther Ander-
son. Their topic dealt with the
hie and education of Pasteur his
work wrth anthrax spontaneous
geneiation and hydiophobia in
lespective older.
One week from now at the
next meeting the local game
warden will speak.
may urn the sprints if Shelton
wants them to.
Two boys who may get to make
the trro rf they can miss a couple
ol das of spnng foootball aie
Mickey Walkei and Allied Hol-
cemb. Although tins is Walker's
tiist vear to throw the javelin
he could tin n out to be a top
hand.
Holcomb would be a good bet
to place in the shot ;mrl :ik.
win the discus. His foun is pub-
ably oil' now since he has l.ven
'Woikmg out foi football Befoie
tooth. !1 started howevi he sailed
the discus- 153 feet m mactire.
i This toss is good enough to win
nianv meets.
Due Back Soon
DEAN RELEASED
FROM HOSPITAL
Dr. Z. T. Huff who has been
confined to the hospital since Jan-
uaiy 27 returned to his home
last week and is showing steady
imptovemeiit. He felt well enough
Tuesday afternoon to do some long
neglected book work.
Dean Huff sard "I'm counting
the days until my return to
school." If cunent progress con-
tinues he may be back with us
shortly.
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