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r1• tv oumy MiprrintonncntWisv County10 t-*n |10 1 icat *i-PlayingmT ournamentT h *vkele 1Isllneic iit ji*irfl Inrtn(IIsVitDecatur Baptist CoHegefIndians will make their way to the Region V Basketball1Tournament to bo held in Amarillo Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 5, 6, 7. Region V is one of the 16 regions under i the National Junior CollegeBasketball Association. This will be the last tournament in Texas, preparatory to meeting in Hutchinson, Kansas, for the National Junior College Basketball play-off. The winnerRegion V play off will represent the Region at the National Meet. Decatur Baptist Collegi Indians are picked to win and represent the Region in the National Play-off. The Indians, coached by Dennis Walling, have held second place in IheBus Plannedtheir participation. Oth r di visions and chairmen are; antique ears, Mvrl Head; cominereia! flouts, local, Gene Prnnroell; commercial out-oftown Bull Shaw and Ruben Pi-e-e ton; youth groups RayHawkins; publicity, Chris Meand Jim Drak* ; traffic 1, Coley Holmes, parade thro ustreets of Decatur will be theopening event of the 19c,! Youth Fair. It will start at 2:00 p.m. on April 2.LT, COL. BASIL HOYLLt. Col. Hoyl isCited For Service;Gee( ' H i ftlrAS1Tinthlt;Speaks to lionsaIJLt. Colonel Basil L. Hoyl USAF, sop of Mr. and Mrs. C. BI.7Hii—For Trip toWater HearinaOfCoaches Poll for about fourW’VCKS.Chamber of Commerce directors met in regular session Mondav evening in the DecaturCitv Hall, with the secretaryPhil Luker, presiding in the ah sence of President Charle Branson. Attending were Biil McDonald, Tom Gettvs. BillWilliams, W. A. rence Flusehe,Bryan Goodger,Horn back. Oscar Cox and Sar Renshaw.Hughes, Law Gene CarterJim Franl*Lsts.IKwIfISd n 1tsytS. IC 1* •e 1h10siitvOn Thursday night, the DBCIndians will meet New Mexico Military Institute for their firstgame of the tourney at 7:00 p.m. Other games to be played°n Thursday include South Plains Jr. College of Level land and Howard County Jr. CollegeCagers, Big Spring, at 2:00 p.m.; and Amarillo Jr. College will meet Cisco Jr. College at 9:00 p.m. Completing the day’s games will he San Angelo Jr. College meeting with Ranger Jr. College at 4:00 p.m.On Friday night at 7:00 p.m., the winner of the Decatur Bapfist College-New Mexico Military Inst., will meet the winner of the 5ki. Plains Jr. College-Howard County game At 9:00pm., the winners of the Ama-rillo-Cisco game will meet the w inner of the San Angelo Ranger game.Coming up for discussion was Decatur’s proposed lake am! that a hearing would be had ip Austin Monday, March 16, with the Texas Water Commissionto determine if Decatur canhave water rights to the proposed site which is a tributary to Denton Creek.A request was made for goodattendance bv Decatur citizens and the suggestion was made that a bus be chartered for tin* trip The secretary was author-•rizod to contact interested citi zons about going and also the possibility of chartering a busMost of the directors indicatedthat they would attend thehearing.tI-JItuitwo?-inst Iidolit*2lercofarsPfrftSaturday there will begames, the first at 7:60 p.m.,when the two losers will meet to determine third place cagers, and the second game will he played at 9:00 p.m., when the two winning teams will meetto decide the winner of theTournament The winner will represent Region V at the Na tional Junior College Basketball Association Tournament, meet ing in Hutchinson. Kansas, onMarch 17 through March 21Decatur Baptist College has a season record of 28 games won to 3 game losses, and is rank ed as Number Two team in the Nation, They were the first place winners of the north half of Zone 1, Texas Junior CollegeAthletic Association, and won third place in the Association. Travis McCain, leading scoret for Region V, was chosen on the “All State team when the7V»m Gettys reported on a meeting he had had in Austin with junior college officials relative to the establishment ot a junior college district hero He was advised that to meetthe minimum requirements for the establishment of such adistrict it would take the combined areas lt;f Wise, Montague and Jack counties. Gettys said that to qualify a district musthave not less than 4lt;X) highschool graduates each year and it would take these three coun ties to show that many There are other requirements which Wise county can not meet alone but with the other tw’ocounties it can qualify. Nothingconcrete was done to promoti a tri-county junior college distriet other than to extend feelers to the other two counties tosee if the\ would be interestedIn another month the 13.74 Wisefull swing and it promises to beSam Renshcw, left, general supwith 4-H, F.F.A., F.H.A. and Scieithem a supply of the 1364 Youcbove shows some ol the leader*will exhibit at the Fan. Early 1with 4 H and Future Homemakecl:.b girls' exhibits. Renshcw ha.-for several years and his expeneimrst flawless in operation.tMRS. NUNNELEY NAMED TO COM. ON AGINGof Denton have been named bv Tt Jovi*nK*r John ( onfalls1 1Mrs Karl Nunnelov of Dee a tur and Doctor Hiram Friedsamr*«rve on ihe 62*member GoverthisGoodger mentioned that FortWorth is vitally interested aiin highways leading city and that the of Commerce should oncenineinto theChamberbegin ata cooperativegames were played in Temple progiam with Fort Worth on agood highway system into that city. The secretary stated thathe would contact the FortWorth Chamber of Commerce and offer assistance of the De catur chamber on any program that would be mutually udvan tageous to both cities.Renshaw stated that nlansifor the chamber - sponsored Youth Fair ware coming along well and that everything wason schedule.riur's Committee on Aging. First established under formTler Governor Price Daniel, this Committee is charged with theplanning, implementation, and coordination of programs concerned with the problems of Texas rapidly growing community of senior citizens.Sit!FKnPMiss Eleanor Sloan who lias been visiting her father, G. C Sloan, at Greenwood has ar eepted a position as librarianin Fort Worth Public Library.IS:o111-10ikit11dDBC INDIANSThe Nation's Number2 ranked juniorcollege basketballteam. Left to right:E. B. Attaway,sBen Finley,Travis McCain,IDoug Reedy. Thomas Pancoast,Tommy Wendorf,1Is1Bill Garrison,Terry Lewis,Carrol Carlisle.Dwight Elmore.Tommy Walker,te 1 Clyde Cotton,1 Steve Powell,Mike Reynolds.d,itI st
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Decatur Wise County Messenger
Decatur, Texas, US
Thu, Mar 05, 1964
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