LEAGUER, vINTEF^CHOLASTIC . lfiT>t%-* * Vol. XXXIV AUSTIN, TEXAS, JANUARY, 1951 No. 5 Music Broadcast to Feature Assignments for 1951 Top Band, Orchestra, Chorus For the first time in the history State Network on January 30, KCRS ... Midland of League sponsored music broad­ 1951, at 2:30 p.m. KBST ._ _ Big Spring Spring Meets Listed casts, more than one organization All three of these organizations KFRO .. Longview will participate when the Texas have been consistent Division I KRIO .. .-.. McAllen The State Meet in Austin this Office. The final list will be is­ General, W. B. Killebrew, State Network presents the San winners in Interscholastic League KBWD . Brownwood year will include all schools for­ sued shortly following January 15, Principal, High School, Port the last day for paying League Arthur. Benito High School Mixed Chorus, competition for many years. The KPLT „ .— Paris merly members of the City Con­ 14. Freeport, Galena Park, Gal­ the Plainview High School Band San Benito Mixed Chorus, under KGVL Greenville ference, This is the first change membership dues, so rush any veston, Robert E. Lee (Bay- and the San Angelo High School the direction of W. Edward KGKL San Angelo in competitive alignments growing needed corrections. town), Pasadena, Texas City. Orchestra. All three organizations Hatchett, has achieved nation-wide KNOW Austin out of the recent reclassification Concerning all details relating Director General, T. W. Ogg, and the resulting plans for aboli­ Superintendent of Schools, will combine for a 30-minute con­ fame for its excellent presenta­ KFJZ 1 Ft. Worth to the District Meet, communicate Brazosport Independent cert over 20 stations of the Texas tions. The Plainview High School WRR Dallas tion of the City Conference. with your director general. There School District, Freeport. Band, under the direction of R. W. KTHT Houston There will be no separate should be an early meeting of the 15. Houston: Charles H. Milby, "Chief" Davidson, has set the pat­ KRRV Sherman State Meet for the City Confer­ committee to set the site and date Jefferson Davis, John H. Rea­ tern for Conference AA stand­ KCMC Texarkana ence. Therefore, there will be for the district meet and to select gan, M. B. Lamar, Sam Hous­ ton, San Jacinto, Stephen F. League Basketball ards in the central Panhandle sec­ KORA ._ Bryan marked changes in the align­ the district contest directors. For th meets to be run off in an (Continued on p. 2, col. 3) tion ever since the League offered The following stations will carry TSN OFFICIALS—Gene Cagle, left, and Charles Jordan, right, ment of schools and districts for competition in music. Homer An­ are President and Vice-President, respectively, of the Texas State the Conference AA Spring Meet. orderly fashion, proper prepara­ Playoff Schedules the broadcast at later times, as tions should be made far in ad­ derson, director of the San An­ playbacks, at times indicated: Network, Inc., the broadcasting chain which has for years helped Because of these major changes gelo Orchestra, has proven that the Interscholastic League to serve the schools of Texas. Through in the Spring Meet List, the en­ vance as to the final date for en­ it is possible to have an excellent KRBC Abilene TSN facilities, debate and music broadcasts are again this year tire list is being published in this tries, the selection of judges, etc. League's Director Begin This Month high school orchestra and an excel­ 3:15-3:45 p.m. being carried to every corner of the state at no cost to schools or Leaguer. Please check this list As soon as the date and site have been set, notify the League so The next two months, beginning lent high school band during the WACO Waco their League. It is interesting to note that this service results in carefully, noting the name and the dates may be published in the Lists Sites, Heads after February 17 and running years he has spent developing a 3:00-3:30 p.m. part from the participation of these two men, as students, in the address of your district director Leaguer. up until the dates of State Bas­ music department in the Region KABC San Antonio League program. Cagle is a former high school debater, and Jordan, general. If there has been a 3:00-3:30 p.m. ketball Tournaments, will be busy II city. whose voice is as well known to most Texans as their next door change in your district organiza­ CONFERENCE AA KVOP Plainview Of Regional Meets times for district winners in girls' Since this broadcast will be of neighbor's, participated in declamation activities from grammar tion since preparation of this list Region I and boys' basketball. interest to all high school music 7:30-8:00 p.m., February 1 school days onward. began, please so advise the League District Some changes in regional meet During February alone, regional directors, band, orchestra and 1. Amarillo, Borger, Pampa, arrangements from those an­ play-offs for Conferences A and choral, it is hoped that teachers Plainview. Director General, nounced in the last Leaguer, have B in boys' basketball, and bi-dis- will begin making arrangements R. B. Norman, Principal, been necessitated by discontinu­ High School, Amarillo. trict play-offs for Conference AA for all organizations to listen to Next Debate Topic Members To Vote ance of the City Conference State this broadcast. ^Ar r jew ^Jedt J-^ropoSed 2. Big Spring, Lamesa, Lubbock, Meet this spring. All regional boys', must be determined. Girls' Midland, Odessa. Director basketball regional play-offs will • The following member stations General, W. A. Miller, Su­ meets are to be held April 20-21. be played after February 24, of the Texas State Network will To Come From Six On Four Proposed perintendent of Schools, As listed by League Director which is the date when district carry the program at 2:30 to Odessa. R. J. Kidd, the regional sites and champions in both A and B Con­ 3:00 p.m. If your local station is ^ror Vital L^ontedtd Region II directors, together with the dis­ ferences must be determined, and not included, please contact your Proposed Subjects Rules This Spring 3. Abilene, Brownwood, San An­ tricts of each conference which before March 3, the last day for (Editor's Note: This is the first of four articles on the questions gelo, Sweetwater. Director local station manager. One of the first three debate Interscholastic League member will attend each regional meet, are determining regional champs. raised by a recent attack on interscholastic competition.) General, Nat Williams, Super­ propositions listed below will ffe intendent of Schools, Abilene. as follows: District championships for schools will be asked to vote on the National Topic for the 1951-52 BY ROY BEDICHEK 4. Breckenridge, Cleburne, Gra­ REGION I boys in Conferences AA, A and four proposed rules, to be sub­ season. These topics were the ham, Mineral Wells, Stephen­ Site: Texas Technological Col­ B, must be decided by February Schools May Hold final selections of the NUEA de­ Director Emeritus, UIL mitted in a ballot in April. ville, Weatherford. Director lege, Lubbock. 17; regional championships by General, J. F. Bailey, Super­ bate Committee at the New York All four were recommend in February 24. The City Con­ T^estructive criticism of school contests has changed em- intendent of Schools, Breck­ Director General: T. B. Living­ convention in December. November by the Legislative Ad­ ference has until March 3 to 'Spring Training' phasis considerably in the past fifth of a century. In enridge. ston, Department of Education, In addition to the national visory Council, and approved by 5. Fort Worth: Arlington, Texas Tech. determine the district title. Spring training for football will the thirties, literature on the subject contains such challeng­ Top teams in boys' Conferences topics, we have listed three topics the State Executive Committee Heights, Carter - Riverside, Conference AA: Districts 1 be permitted in all conferences of state interest suggested by our ing phrases as "The Emergent State." In that now far-off era for submission on the referen­ Fort Worth Technical, North and 2. AA, A and B, 24 in number, will except Six-Man during the spring Side, Paschal, Polytechnic. vie for State championships at state committee. Texas schools andln certain areas of public opinion, our competitive society dum ballot. A majority vote of Conference A: Districts 1-5 of 1951. As the result of the re­ Director General, C. A. Gregory Gymnasium, Austin, have the right to pick the National was believed to be undergoing a gradual but inevitable meta­ all member schools will govern. Thompson, Principal, Poly­ inclusive. classification of nearly all League Topic or a State Topic for their March 1, 2, and 3. The City Con­ morphosis from which a new social, economic and political The proposed rules would: technic High School, Fort Conference B: Districts 1-10 ference district winners and run- member schools, as to football and debate subject next year. We in­ Worth. inclusive. 1. Amend the Awards Rule so 6. Childress, Quanah, Vernon, ners-up will meet at Dallas on basketball conferences, it was felt vite your comment on any of the organism was about to emerge. Hence, the word "emergent." REGION II that the rules regarding spring following topics. Ballots will be as to permit member schools to Wichita Falls. Director Gen­ March 9 and 10 for the State title Indeed, there is direct evidence of the presence, if not the give one major award per year of eral, O. T. Freeman, Princi­ Site: Howard Payne College, tournament, since both the first training no longer applied.