VOL. LX AUSTIN, TEXAS, FEBRUARY, 1976 NO. 6 Girls' State Basketball Tourney Feb. 26-28 Seventh State Swimming Meet 2,760 Schools Join League Play To Include First Will Be March 19-20, In Austin For 1975-76 Contest Year Appearance Of AAAA The seventh annual State High Region IV University of Hous­ or coaches attending must pur­ The 1976 University Inter- Finals AA, Saturday, 7:00 p.m. During the current year 2,760 School Swim Meet will be held in ton C. C. McDougle, Athletic De­ chase tickets. Coaches who do not ily offered only to high school com­ this event; winners do not advance scholastic League Girls' State Bas­ Finals A, Saturday, 8:30 p.m. schools joined the League. Of petitors. beyond ketball Tournament will be held in Austin at Gregory Gym on March partment, University of Houston, have contestants qualified must the district. Boys' B and AAAA Tournament 19 and 20. 3801 Cullen Boulevard, Houston purchase tickets. these, 1,125 were high schools, 275 Many events, such as Number Gregory Gymnasium on Feb. 26, junior high schools, and 1,360 ele­ Coaches Vital Workout AAA, Friday, 9:00 First and second place winners TX 77004. Tickets Sense, are designed of varied diffi­ 27, and 28. will be sold for each ses­ mentary schools. a.m. to 10 a.m. in each event of the Regional Meet Region V Texas A&M Univer­ sion. The fee for admittance will be culty for high school, junior high "No two human beings are alike. Four teams from each of the Workout B, Friday, 12:00 p.m. will progress to the state meet. If sity (College Station) Emil Ma- $2 for adults and $1 for students. Contest Levels or elementary contestants. Our program attempts to provide conferences, B through AAAA, will to either of these two participants is maaliga, Physical Education De­ as varied a series of events as pos­ play to a championship during dur­ 1:00 p.m. The League program has vari­ Speech unable to participate in the state partment, Texas A&M, College Sta­ Heating and Laning Events sible," reported Dr. Rhea Williams, ing this tournament. This is the Semifinals AAAA, Friday, 4:00 meet, the third place finisher at tion, TX 77840. Times for regional meets will ous levels of educational competi­ Speech events may be designed League Director General. "We are first year for Conference AAAA in p.m. &8:00 p.m. especially grateful to the regional meet will be eligible to Region VI Alamo Heights High be used in heating and laning the tion. Music, spelling and ready for high school, junior high school, coaches the University Interscholastic Semifinals B, Saturday, 8:30 a.m. swim at state meet. Substitutions School (San Antonio) Bill Cand- and contest directors who make League. contestants. This information will writing, are designed for grade, or elementary competition; usual­ & 10:00 a.m. will be allowed on relay teams. Re­ ler, Athletic Director, San Antonio this possible from those who read be included in the information intermediate or high school con­ ly, Oral Reading is confined Finals AAAA, Saturday, 2:05 p.m. lay teams qualify College, 1300 San Pedro, San An­ to the stories to the second and third 900 Teams Competing by school. packet along tonio, TX 78284. with the contestant testants. Picture Memory and lower schools, but often junior graders to those who coach high Currently there are 105 girls' Finals B, Saturday, 8:00 p.m. tickets. Heat Regional Entries and lane assignments Story Telling are for elementary (ninth grade) high school contests school debaters or direct the one- basketball teams participating in ^Revised schedule if the Univer­ will be made Regional meet entry blanks must State Meet Schedule as prescribed in the students only, while Slide Rule, are planned and, occasionally, act play casts. This program would Conference AAAA, 100 teams par­ sity of Texas basketball team plays National Federation be mailed at least ten days prior to State Swim Meet preliminaries rulebook. Shorthand and Science are ordinar­ freshmen in high school compete in not be possible without them." ticipating in Conference AAA, 176 Saturday. the regional meet. These blanks and semi-finals in diving will be at teams in Conference AA, 202 teams must be sent to the regional direc­ 2 p.m., Friday, March 19. Prelim­ in Conference A, and 317 teams in tor. A participant can enter only inaries in swimming will follow at Conference B. two events plus one relay. These 7 p.m. US Justice students must have been certified All finals will be held Saturday, No Gregory Workouts as eligible on the eligibility blanks starting at 2 p.m. Estimated time March 19-201LPC Convention The tournament will commence Voting Area sent to the state office. for each session is two hours. on Thursday morning and be com­ State Meet Eentries Awards for Winners pleted by Saturday evening. Due to For Debaters the increase in the number of Each coach must send to the Plaques will be presented to first To Offer The high schools of the nation All-Media teams there will Sessions not be workout state office an official entry blank place teams. Individual medals will have selected Problem Area III con­ Newspaper, newsmagazine, year­ ism professor times allowed for teams in the listing the names of those qualified be presented to winners of the first at West Virginia finest publications advisers will Special feature for the Grand book, literary magazine and broad­ University, gymnasium prior to the start of cerning how the criminal justice to compete in the state meet. These three places in each event. They and Bill McReynolds, also take part on the program, in Awards Assembly at 7 p.m. Satur­ cast staffs and advisers from journalism professor the tournament. All schools parti­ system in the United States can entry forms will be available at the will receive gold, silver and bronze from the Uni­ addition to members of the UT day will be the multi-media drama schools all over Texas will gather versity of Colorado. cipating in this tournament should best be improved as the area for de­ regional meet and must be mailed medals, respectively. journalism and advertising facul­ "The Dawn of Freedom," the story in Austin March 19-20 for the 49th arrange for their own workout bate for the 1976-77 school year. that Six places will be scored in all A special reception is planned to ties. of the American Revolutionary pe­ day. annual Interscholastic League space in local gymnasiums. Two other topic possibilities in­ individual and relay events. The re­ introduce authors of new journal­ More than 20 instructional ses­ riod, currently on tour to more than Press Conference state convention. volved Congressional policies gov­ Regional Sites lays will count 14-10-8-6-4 and 2. ism textbooks among convention sions have been planned to serve 60 Texas cities. Girls' Tournament More than 150 instructional ses­ erning the operations of public and The following is a list of the The individual events will count speakers, including DeWitt C. Red- the beginning journalist, sessions Everyone interested sions are planned on subjects in the many Semifinals B, Thursday, 8:30 a.m. private agencies which gather in­ sites, tournament directors, and 7-5-4-3-2 and 1. dick, former dean of the UT School that will concentrate on the basic phases of scholastic ranging from specific journalism journalism is & 10:00 a.m. formation and federal govern­ tournament directors' addresses for of Communication; Elaine Pritch- skills needed for newspaper and invited to attend the convention. Admission Tickets skills to broad looks at the mass Semifinals AA, Thursday, 1:00 mental policies concerning domestic each region: ett, ILPC critic and former adviser yearbook production. These will be Registration is $2.50 per media. person p..m & 2:30 p.m. economic regulations. Region I Odessa College Bill . Each contestant and coach must at Memorial High in Houston; small-group meetings at which and may be paid in advance or at Voting Lawrence, Athletic Department, have his or her contestant pass to The list of 80-plus speakers in­ Mario Garcia, student publications questions from delegates will be the convention registration desk. Semifinals AAA Thursday, 7:00 in Texas (in which the lowest Odessa College, Odessa, TX 79760. gain admission to the pool area. cludes Col. Charles E. Savedge of director at Miami-Dade Com­ encouraged. Advance registrations and requests p.m. & 8:30p.m. total on the preferential bal­ lot wins) was 223 for the improve­ Region II Texas Christian Uni­ Friday morning after 9 a.m. at the Virginia, nationally known year­ munity College in Florida, and In addition, there will be a full for housing reservations should be Semifinals A, Friday, 8:30 a.m. ment of the criminal justice system versity (Fort Worth) Rufe Brew- These tickets may be picked up book specialist; James F. Paschal, Bryan D. Reddick, chairman, Eng­ array of sessions on newspaper, sent to ILPC, Box 8028, University & 10:00a.m. in the United States, 258 for adopt­ ton, Swim Coach, Texas Christian Athletic Ticket Office in Belmont director of Future Journalists of lish Department, Olivet College, newsmagazine, yearbook and liter­ Station, Austin 78712. Semifinals AAAA, Friday, 4:00 ion of Congressional policies in University, Fort Worth, TX 76129. Hall, located on the ground floor America; Lillian Hefner, director, Mich. ary magazine production, advertis­ p.m. & 7:30 p.m. governing the operations of public Region III Loos Field House of the stadium. Texas High School Press Associa­ Also among the speakers will be ing, photography, public relations, Finals B, Saturday, 8:30 a.m.- and private agencies (Dallas) George McMillion, Swim Tickets will be provided for one tion; Norman Dessler, adviser for professional journalists from the radio-television-film which gather and sessions * Friday, 9:00 p.m.