ilNTEr^SCHOilASTIC LEAGUER Vol. XXXIII AUSTIN, TEXAS, JANUARY, 1950 No. 5 Basketball Playoffs Odessa Conference Austin, Waco School Teams To Debate Begin Next Month Scheduled Jan. 28 League's Question in TSN Broadcast Speech, Journalism February is the month set for honors at sites selected by the re­ regional play-offs for Conferences gional committees. The district Sections on Program Electoral College Question A and B and bi-district play-offs winners and runners-up in the January 28 is the date set for for Conference AA. City Confer­ City Conference qualify directly this year's West Texas Student To Be Aired Feb. 3 at 2:30 ence districts do not determine to the City Conference State Activities Conference at Odessa The second annual state-wide broadcast by Interscholastic district championships until the Tournament. High School. W. T. Barrett, Prin­ cipal of the school, will be general League debaters will be carried over the Texas State Net­ first week in March. Top teams in Conferences AA, chairman of the conference, which work from 2:30 to 3 p.m. on Friday February 3. The Colleges are offering their facili­ A and B, 24 of them, will vie for will include both speech and jour­ debate, which will be on this year's League topic, will pit ties and staff for the play-offs in State Championships at Gregory nalism sections. Conference B, while the Conference Gymnasium March 2, 3 and 4. teams from Austin and Waco. A schools will compete for regional The City Conference district The program will open with a The four top-notch debaters will winner and runner-up will meet general assembly at 8:45, and will discuss "Resolved, that the Presi­ at Ft. Worth on March 10 and 11 get down to sectional meetings by dent of the United States should for the State title in this division. 9:30. be elected by the direct vote of the Chairman of the debate section people." GUY BIZZELL District championships in Con­ will be Frank Monroe, Superin­ ferences AA, A and B must be Austin will be represented by tendent of Midland Schools. The determined by February 18; re­ Jo-Anne Lawlor and Dolph Simon, section will feature demonstration gional championships by February who are coached by Guy Bizzell. debates by a Midland High School 25. The City Conference has until Waco's debaters will be Ann Willis team, coached by Miss Verna March 4 to determine the dis­ and Bob Schmidt, who are coached Harris, and a San Angelo High Elvin Mathis Comments trict title. For further information JO-ANNE LAWLOR ANN WILLIS by Bill Kitchens. School team, coached by Miss Viv­ on League dates see page 4 of the The broadcast will originate On Semester Proposal ian Chenault. Midland will take the Constitution and Rules. from The University of Texas' affirmative. Consultant and critic I have read with interest all of Radio House, and will be carried Conference B Play-Offs for the demonstration will be UIL to Compile Evaluations the INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUERS for by 17 stations of the TSN. Regional tournaments for Con­ Bruce Roach, Director of Speech the last three or four years and Stations which will carry the ference B will be held at the Activities, University Interscho­ Of Music Competition Judges appreciate the effort put forth to broadcast from 2:30 to 3 p.m. following centers: lastic League. have such a fine program for Texas By F. W. SAVAGE ten criticisms. 9. Ability to ignore are: KRBC, Abilene; KNOW, The journalism section will fea­ school children. League work has Region I — Basketball districts Director -of Music pressure groups and undue in­ Austin; KBST, Big Spring; 1-13, Texas Technological College, ture a talk on advertising problems always been very interesting to me, As one part of a long range fluence. 10. Ability to forego KB WD, Brownwood; WRR, Dal­ Lubbock, Morley Jennings, re­ by Alan Scott, Associate Professor both as a participant and as a plan to increase the values of com­ recruiting while the event is in las; KFJZ, Fort Worth; KGVL, gional chairman. of Journalism, The University of DOLPH SIMON coach. Various events I entered petition in music, the University progress. 11. Ability to make his Greenville; KFRO, Longview; in the county, district and regional Region II — Districts 14-28, Texas School of Journalism. The own decisions. 12. Personal Ap­ KRIO, McAllen; KCRS, Midland; program will include a panel dis­ Interscholastic League will begin meets were spelling, track, extem­ Howard Payne College, Brown- pearance. 13. Attitude toward Ex­ KGKL, San Angelo; KRRV, Sher­ cussion of problems facing papers a compilation this year of eval­ poraneous speech and number wood, J. Horace Shelton, regional ecutive Committee, Students, Di­ man; and KCMC, Texarkana. represented at the conference, Miss uations on judges employed to sense. One of my big thrills in chairman. rectors and Contest Chairmen. Anne Louise Jones of Odessa officiate at Regional Music Com­ In addition, station KABC, San coaching came when a boy whom Region III — Districts 29-44, 14. Inclination to uphold judging BILL KITCHENS High School, and Bluford Hestir, petition-Festivals. Antonio, will carry the program I coached entered the 440 in the Southern Methodist University, standards. 15. Ability to maintain Director of Journalism. Interscho­ The blanks to be used by di­ from 3 to 3:30 from transcrip­ State Meet. Dallas, Madison Bell, regional his dignity as a judge. 16. Prompt­ lastic League, will be in charge of rectors in making the evaluation tion. Station KPLT, Paris, will chairman. ness. In the November issue of the the program. will be sent immediately following carry the transcribed playback Important Issues LEAGUER, I see where the council Region IV — Districts 45-60, The third section meeting to the competition to directors of Experience with this type rating from 3:15 to 3:45 p.m. Previous voted to consider lengthening the Kilgore College, Kilgore, James begin at 9:30 will be that for the organizations which have just fin­ scale shows that the director who commitments prevented these sta^ age from 18 to 19 and semesters Monroe Parks, regional chairman. one-act play. Presiding chairman ished participating in a Regional has recently received a low rating tions from carrying the debate as To Be Decided By from 8 to 10. I agree that the age Region V — Districts 61-71, will be C. B. Downing, Superin­ Competition-Festival. These di­ tends to give the judge low rat­ a "live" broadcast. should be changed to 19 but see Sam Houston State Teachers Col­ tendent of Iraan Schools. Demon­ rectors will rate each judge on 16 ings on most of the categories, Miss Willis, Waco debater, is a no reason to change the semester lege, Huntsville, Albert Kidd, re­ stration plays will be presented by separate qualifications which are but to counter-balance this dis­ 16-year-old senior, and has been Vote By Schools rule. The last four years in school gional chairman. Iraan, Ysleta, and Odessa High considered essential to good judg­ crepancy the director who has re­ ought to be finished in 8 semesters. a debate student for a year and a The member schools will soon Region VI — Districts 72-81, School casts. Directors of the plays ing. cently received a high rating on half. Already this school year Ann, As to the shortening of the total be call*d upon to vote on impor­ Southwest Texas State Teachers are Miss Elizabeth Grubb, Roy The. numbers 0-10 will be used his music performance is a little with her partner Joanne Sheehy, number of basketball games, why tant issues involving the eligibility College, San Marcos, O. W. Stra- Chambliss and F. W. Sadler, re­ in this rating according to the too lavish with his praise of the has a first-place in the girls' divi­ so many as proposed? A good team, of high-school athletics. One of the han, regional chairman. spectively. Consultant and critic degree of perfection which is capacity of the judge. The re­ sion of debate in the Forensic if allowed to participate in 24 rules to be voted on will repstsenfc Region VII — Districts 82-90, will be Mouzon Law, of The Uni­ indicated. The number 0 will in­ sulting average of the evaluations Tournament at Houston. During games, plus district games, and a further attempt by the •chefls to Texas College of Arts and Indus­ versity of Texas Drama Depart­ dicate that the director considers comes very close to being an ac­ BOB SCHMIDT the past summer, Ann was elteted three tournaments, could easily restrict the recraiting policies and tries, Kingsville, D. A. Mayhew, ment. the judge very very poor in this curate evaluation and when this by the Girls' State in Austin as participate in 36 to 40 games. pactices of higher educational in­ regional chairman. After lunch, the journalism category. Use of the number 10 figure is averaged with hundreds one of the two girls to represent This number, in my opinion, is stitutions. section meeting will continue, and will indicate that the director con­ of similar evaluations, the result Texas at Girls' Nation in Washing­ too many for the boys to adequately Region VIII — Districts 91-94, Dr, Leib Discusses a section on declamation and ex­ siders the judge to be perfect is very reliable. Under present conditions quit* prepare for and play, and, at the Marfa, Superintendent J. E. ton, D. C. temporaneous speaking will be with respect to this qualification. As the compilation grows on a number of the high-school ath­ same time, keep up a good standard Gregg, regional chairman.