JNTEK^CH PLASTIC LEAGUER, tlMDHt) Kct t ftl^f Vol. XXXV AUSTIN. TEXAS, MARCH, 1952 Number 7 Hours for Beginning Regional Meet Contests Listed by Sites, Districts Regional centers and dates for last date for filing entries in the clusive. Conference A: Districts 6-10, Director General: L. G. Worth- regional meets to be held April Regional Meet will be April 15. April 18: Meeting of tennis inclusive. ington, Tarleton State College. 18 and 19 were announced in an coaches and players, Tech Gym­ REGION I, AA, A A B Conference B: Districts 11-23, Conference AA: Districts 3-5, earlier issue of the Leaguer. The nasium, 9:00 a.m. Also meeting inclusive. inclusive. following schedule for each of the Site: Texas Technological Col­ of golf coaches and players. April 18: Tennis starts 8:30 a.m. April 19: Literary events at regional meets is not official but lege, Lubbock. April 19: All other contests on Conference A One-Act Play and 8:30 a.m. Golf and tennis at tentative, and is to place each Director General: Dr. P. Mer- Saturday beginning 8:30 a.m. Debate, 1:30 p.m. 8:00 a.m. school on notice of the approxi­ ville Larson, Department of April 19: All other contests, REGION II, A & B mate date and time for the respec­ Speech, Texas Tech. Conferences A and B, begin REGION III, AA, A & B tive contests in each region. Conference AA: Districts 1 Site: Howard Payne College, 8:30 a.m. Site: Southern Methodist Uni­ All schools with qualifying con­ and 2. Brownwood. versity, Dallas. testants should • contact the Re­ Conference A: Districts 1-5, in­ Director General: Dr. Z. T. REGION II, AA Director General: Dr. C. L. Wis- gional Director for the official clusive. Huff, Dean, Howard Payne Col­ Site: Tarleton State Qollege, seman, Southern Methodist Uni­ and final contest schedule. The Conference B: Districts 1-10, in­ lege. Stephenville. versity. Conference AA: Districts 6-9, inclusive. Conference A: Districts 11-15, Sons of Republic Bigger 'Power Show' inclusive. Conference B: Districts 24-40, inclusive. Offer Scholarship Awaiting Contestants For detailed schedules, write to The University of Texas will The Exposition, Arrangements Dr. C. L. Wisseman. extend the glad hand to Inter­ Chairman Cranberry pointed out, For Declamations REGION IV, A & B scholastic Leaguers and high school will give high school seniors an CONFERENCE B CHAMPIONS—Perseverance left to right, back row, Manager Charles Tucker, The Sons of the Republic of seniors at its All-University Expo­ opportunity to discuss with Uni­ Site: Kilgore College, Kilgore. and splendid basketball turned the trick for the Glenn Fields, Al Adams, Edwin Lilly, Glenn Adams, Wildcats of Big Sandy High School, Dallardsville. and Coach Ford King. Front row, Lester Battise, Texas are offering a One Hundred sition and Power Show, Friday and versity experts the careers in which Director General: Dr. B. E. Twice defeated in the finals within the last three Robert Tyler, Milton Williams, Hobby Williams, ($100) Dollar Scholarship as a Saturday, May 2 and 3. the visitors are interested. Most Masters, President, Kilgore Col­ years, this year the Wildcats went all the way to John Roberts and Norman Bullock. Seated in front, prize in the Senior Boys Declama­ OTHER VISITORS, of course, of the University units will also lege. take the conference title. The final game was taken, Mascot Ford King, Jr. 62 to 41, from Laneville. Members of the team are, tion Contest at the State Meet of are welcome for the two-day open present interesting exhibits. Conference A: Districts 16-21, the University Interscholastic house, held at the same time as SEVERAL NEW University inclusive. League. It is planned that prizes the League Meet, but the high buildings have recently been com­ Conference B: Districts 41-56, will be given in the district con­ schoolers will be honor guests. pleted or are nearing completion inclusive. * tests. Additional prizes have been A general committee, headed by and will be open for inspection. April 18: Tennis and volleyball. Ready Writing Tips Offered; offered in Dallas and Tarrant C. Read Granberry, assistant to These include the new Journalism Write to Dr. B. E. Masters for Counties for the current year. University Chancellor James P. Building; Benedict Hall, housing time of contests. The award will be given to the Hart, is in charge of over-all mathematics departments; Mezes April 19: All other contests to Interest in Contest Growing contestant among those in the planning for the Exposition, and Hall, for psychology and philoso­ GARY LYNN NICHOLS be held on Saturday. other committees have been ap­ phy departments; Batts Hall, for State Meet here who has the best REGION IV, AA pointed to work out various details BY DR. POWELL STEWART dence that is impelling and invit­ pare for the contest would be to original declamation, written by modern languages departments; Site: S. F. Austin State College, ing,—good, hard cash. That cash is attend the conference in your re­ the contestant, commemorating of the campus-wide affair. the huge new Experimental Director of Ready Writing 7th Grader Finds Nacogdoches. being offered, in sums ranging gion, or ask for a conference to Texas heroes, history and progress, A highlight of the Exposition Science Building; Pharmacy Build­ The number of letters which the from $20 to $1,000, for ex. be arranged if none is now being and which in the opinion of the will be the 43fd Annual Power ing; and the Student Health Director General: Lawrence League office is receiving about pository essays as a range of conducted in your part of the judges, serves best to show the Show, sponsored by the Univer­ Center. New Math Method Franks, S. F. Austin State College. Ready Writing indicates that there subjects as numerous as the state. value of our Texas heritage and to sity's College of Engineering. The University students, as well as Conference AA: Districts 10 will be more entries in this year's items in a mail order catalogue. But if you have not attended a perpetuate the memory and spirit Power Show which drew more staff members, are members of and 11. contest than ever before. That And it is high school students with conference and yet want to enter of the men and women who won than 8,800 last year will offer its committees planning the All- To Check Answers April 19: All contests start Sat­ means two things,—both of them writing ability to whom that money the contest for the first time,— and maintained the independence usual array of entertaining and University Exposition and Power urday, 9:00 a.m. good. It means, in the first place, When a seventh grade arith­ will be awarded. then what? of Texas. ' baffling marvels of modern science Show, and many of them will take that more and more are both metic student invents something REGION V, AA, A * B That this increased interest will First of all, study the rules of Copies of the winning orations, and invention. It will be held Fri­ an active part in the entertain­ teachers and pupils in the state new in mathematics, that's news. Site: University of Houston, result in keener competition in the the contest, which are found in selected by the regular judges, day, May 2, from 6:30 to 10:30 ment of its visitors May 2 and 3. coming to see the importance of Gary Lynn Nichols of Kenedy, Houston. Ready Writers Contest may ap­ Constitution and Rules of the Uni­ will be mailed to the president of p.m. More complete details of the expository writing, and it also just 13, has turned that trick. His Director General: Walter "Wil-« pear discouraging to students and versity Interscholastic League, the the Sons of the Republic of Texas, But all other University schools, Exposition, including an outline means that the competition will sponsors who are the first time invention or discovery is an appli­ liams, University of Houston. be unusually stiff. latest issue of which is dated June Col. C. R. Tips, at 701 Forest colleges, departments and bureaus of the two-day program, should entering the contest. It is to these cation, to problems involving frac­ Conference AA: Districts 12- 15, 1951. There, on p. [53], you Avenue Road, for final evalua­ will hold open house, and guided be available for next month's issue NO LONGER do teachers have people primarily, that this article tions, of the "casting out nines" 14, inclusive. tion. tours will be arranged for visitors. of the Interscholastic Leaguer. to resort to the old arguments that is addressed. For the University (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) method of checking arithmetical Conference A: Districts 22-26, everyone, no matter what type of Interscholastic League has nothing answers. inclusive. education he may pursue or what to sell; it is interested only in help­ SINCE 1946, this quick method Conference B: Districts 57-67, job or profession he may be later ing in whatever way it can the for determining accuracy of an­ inclusive. engaged in, needs the ability to schools of Texas to foster the de­ Laredo Boosts Commercial Contests swers for problems in multiplica­ April 18: Conferences A and B explain things, processes, opinions, velopment of important skills. Its tion and division of whole num­ tennis, 10:00 a.m. or ideas in a clear and forceful a State Meet inspired them to go only earned a BBA Degree but got program in Ready Writing is de­ BY MRS. CLYDE BRENNAN student telephoned me yesterday bers and decimals has been ap­ April 19: Golf at 8:00 a.m.