The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, March 24, 1961 Page: 1 of 4
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The HOWARD PAYNE COLLEGE
YELLOW JACKET
Volume 48
Brownwood, Texas, March 24, 1961
Number 24
Air Force Band To Visit
Campus With Ten Speakers
ForAnnualDemocracyWeek
Four Positions Open
Application Deadline April 5
Set For Yellow Jacket, Lasso
Applications for positions with
the Yellow Jacket and the Lasso
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may be submitted now, according
to Misfc Tessica Martin, sponsor of
the Yellow Jacket, weekly news-
paper, and chairman of the Publi-
cations Board.
Editors and business managers
of the two publications receive up
to 15 hours tuition paid; three
hours of these for the two editors
include credit in journalism.
According to By-Laws for the
Board of Publication requirements
for applicants include: Being in
good scholastic standing; junior or
senior standing is preferable,
and/or experience in publications.
The applicants must first inter-
view the sponsor of the publication
(Miss Martin for the Yellow Jacket
or A. C. Garvin for the Lasso).
Deadline for the written applica-
tion to be submitted to Miss Martin
is April 5.
Elections to fill the four posts
will be by the Board of Publication
Friday afternoon, April 7.
Hymnals Sneak
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Sanctuary Area
Several of the new Baptist
Hymnals in the Fleming Sanct-
uary are missing, according to
John Billington, director of (re-
ligions activities.
"Anyone locating one of the
hymnals, which has the Homing
Sanctuary stiver on the inside
cover, should please return same
to Dr. B. 0. Herring in the base-
ment of the building," he re-
quested.
Also, anyone knowing of the
whereabouts of any of these
books are asked to please inform
Dr. Herring.
'AMERICANISM' EMPHASIS TIME
WILL SEE SEMINAR, PARADE TOO
The United States Air Force Band and ten guest speakers will be
at Howard Payne College to assist with the sixth annual Democracy-
in-Action Week April 9-15, announced Dr. McDonald W. Held, DIA
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EAGER LITTLE PEOPLE, NO? - Smiling and looking ready to yell are the six newly-elected yell
leaders. Starting at the bottom left and circling the group clockwise are Wanna Dean, freshman;
Eddie Anderson, freshman, Nell Conner, sophomore; Hamp Latta, sophomore; Ed Martin, junior,
and Kathie Sullivan, freshman.
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Student Contest
Deadline Extends
To April 12
With plans for Howard Payne's
sixth annual Democracy-In-Action
Week nearing completion, correla-
ting preparations for student con-
tests are being put into effect.
For some time now, under the
direction of LeRoy Preston, as-
sociate professor of history, the
student contest for individual
speaking and writing events has
been under way.
"Several students have indicated
they plan to enter the sermon con-
test," said Mr. Preston, "but few
entries have been submitted in the
other aspects of the contest."
The "other aspects" of the con-
test includte theme essay, oratory,
short story, one-act radio play,
poetry, congressional bill, music
composition and art. The deadline
SEE EDITORIAL,
PAGE 2
for submitting entries has been ex-
tended to April 12. All entries
should be submitted to Mr. Pres-
ton's office in Howard Payne Hall.
A critical essay on DIA Week
may be .submitted to Dr. Preston
by April 21.
Students may submit as many
entries in the various phases of the
contest as they desire, but will be
eligible for only one cash prize.
Also, a student may submit up
to two entries co-signed by the
name of an organization of which
he is a member, and that organiza-
tion will automatically be given
one dollar for each of the first
two entries submitted1.
Thus, if every member in a given
organization should submit two en-
tries, it is possible for that or-
ganization to receive twice as many
dollars as it has members,
Speakers will include Dr. Jim
Dan Hill, president, Wisconsin
State College, Superior, Wis.; John
B. Conlan, Evanston ,111., attorney
who served1 with the Judge Advo-
cate General's office with the Army;
William J. Roberts, Whittier, Calif.,
vice president-secretary, Far East
Broadcasting Company; W. B.
Strube, Jr., Houston, vice presi-
dent, Christian Anti-Communist
Crusade; Ted Connell, Killeen,
national commander, Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Master Sgt. Charles Schlichter,
Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort
Sam Houston, San Antonio, former
Korean POW; Dr. Ruth Stout., To-
peka, Kans., former president, Na-
tional Education Association; Dr.
Charles Malik, American Univer-
sity, Beirut, Lebanon, former Uni-
ted Nations General Assembly
president; the Hon. Hatton W.
Sumners, director of research in
law and government, Southwestern
Legal Center, Dallas, former Con-
gressman from Texas, and W. H.
Lawrence, Dallas, executive direc-
tor and secretary, Texas Bureau
for Economic Understanding.
The United States Air Force Band
will play two concerts—at 3 and
7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 15—cli-
maxing the week's activities. Tic-
kets are available from Homer
(Bud) Stephens, in the Business
Office.
In connection with the band's ap-
pearance April 15, there will be a
band playing festival in the morn-
ing, and a parade at 1 p.m. of
military, college and high school
bands and patriotic floats.
In addition to the Howard Payne
band and high school bands of the
area, the parade will include patri-
otic floats, the 539th Air Force
Band from Lackland AFB, the post
band from Fort Hood and men and
equipment of the National Guard
Second Battle Group from Brown-
wood.
Special events of the week will
include a two-day seminar Friday
and Saturday for high school stu-
dents, a barbecue supper for teach-
ers of the 12-county Central Texas
are preceding the address by Dr.
Stout Thursday, and a reception
April 9 for Dr. WXL
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The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, March 24, 1961, newspaper, March 24, 1961; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth128373/m1/1/: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.