Sunday, January 22, 1961
Semester registration set at college Monday
Registration for the spring semester at South Plains College – the sixth semester of instruction at the three-year-old institution – will open at 9 a.m. Monday in the college gymnasium.
A 15% decline from the fall semester is normal for college attendance in the spring, but College President Dr. Thomas M. Spencer expressed hopes that transfers from other colleges might keep the number of students on the campus from falling that much.
A peak enrollment of 634 students was reported in the fall semester. 141 of them in the day school and the remainder in evening classes.
College officials continue to be happy with the progress and growth of the new school, which opened its doors to students for the first time, Sept. 15, 1938.
“We are well pleased with progress up to now and are optimistic about the spring semester,” Dr. Spencer said.
Registrar Nathan Tubb said that about 200 students have already pre-registered for spring classes, meaning that registration for them will be little more than a formality Monday.
Students from distant points in Texas and several other states are expected on the campus next semester, but an applicant from Beruit, Lebanon, is expected to come the greatest distance to attend classes here.
He is Abu Kassim, 25, a relative of Dorothy and Elizabeth Ollie of Levelland.
Registration for day classes will continue from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. with evening school registration starting at 7 p.m. and continuing until 9:30. Monday is the last day for registration without a $2 late registration fee. Feb. 6 is the final
A total of 35 faculty members will instruct during the spring semester. 27 teachers in the day school and eight part – time teachers for the evening school in addition to day teachers also assisting at night.
Tubb will be in charge of day school registration, while Evening School Director Robert S. Burks will direct evening registration.
College sets January 28 homecoming
South Plains College will stage its first homecoming in the history of the three-yearold institution this week.
Although homecoming is officially scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 28, when all former students of the young college will be asked to return. Festivities begin with a student assembly, pep rally and introduction of homecoming queen candidates Wednesday.
A weighing-in ceremony for a “mudhole” team which later will pit two teams of beefy students in a tug-of-war, with the losers expected to be dragged into an especially prepared mudhole.
An all-school howdy supper will be open to all college students, with only a student activity ticket required. Thursday evening while the North Texas State College choir will present a 10:15 a.m. concert Friday.
The program for the first homecoming calls for a 6:30 p.m. pep rally, with bonfire and “mudpull.” A reception and registration for all ex-students and current students – except for the losers in the mudpull contest – will be staged at the student union building at 7 p.m.
The homecoming queen, chosen from nine student contestants, will be crowned in pregame ceremonies at the Franik Phillips cage contest.
The TexAnns will perform at halftime. After the game an ex-student organizational meeting will be held in the Library Auditorium, with Dean Clyde L. Prestwood presiding. The “T” club will sponsor a dance in the student building as the final event of homecoming, which closes out at midnight.
Dean of Women Mrs. Myrtle Lucke and Evening School Director Robert S. Burks are directing homecoming activities.
Monday, January 23, 1961 Levelland Eagle scout given special recognition
Six outstanding young men, all Eagle Scouts, will represent the South Plains Council Boy Scouts of America at the Annual Report to the Governor ceremonies to be held in Austin during Boy Scout Week, Feb. 10, 1, and 12, including Eagle Scout Robert Doss Mabe, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Mabe, of 1205 9th Street, Levelland. He will represent the George White District and is the Official Council Representative for Report to Governor.
Other Eagle Scouts from the Council represented will be: Jack Brice Jacquess, of the Quanah Parker District, Lamesa; Arthur Monroe Skauge, Jr., of the Longhorn District, Lubbock; Robert Charles Perkins, of the Comanche Trails District, Crosbyton; Jack Robert Woody, of the Arrowhead District, Lubbock; and James David Worley of the Haynes District.
These young men were selected from 506 Explorers, representing some 40 Explorer Units in the 20-county area of the South Plains Council, by the Council Camptins and Activities Committee.
Governor Price Daniel will be the principal speaker at the Report Ceremony, to be held in the Capitol Building on Saturday, Feb. 11.
Every Boy Scout Council in Texas will have an official delegation to the Annual Ceremony. Each state in America will have a “Report to the Governor” Ceremony on Feb. 1.
At the same time a special 51st Anniversary Report to the Nation celebration will be held in Washington D.C. and made to the President John F. Kennedy. The Boy Scout Week will launch the 51st Anniversary of Scouting in America.
Foreign food delicacies invade land of spaghetti By Eugene Levin
ROME (AP) – Spaghetti is under attack on the home front.
Pancakes, escargots, goulash and borscht are invading the Roman table – and what’s worse, from spaghetti’s point of view, Italians seem to like the foreign delicacies.
It’s all because of the Olympics.
There was a time when Italians just didn’t like foreign foods. They wanted spaghetti, macaroni, ravioli and other Italian specialties. Foreign dishes were strictly for foreigners.
The change started with the end of World War II. A couple of Gis figured they could find a market for American dishes, like pancakes and hamburgers, what with the tourist rush and big American colony. Four or five Americantype luncheonettes opened. A couple of German-style beer halls followed.
But progress was slow. In the 15 years between the end of the war and the start of last summer’s Olympics, Rome acquired a trio of foreign restaurants in addition to the American and German hangouts. One was French, one Hungarian and one Chinese.
When the Olympics opened some businessmen thought there would be enough foreign tourists looking for a home-cooked meal to make the new restaurants worthwhile. Now the Rome restaurant list is beginning to look cosmopolitan.
Two French restaurants offer escargots – garlicky snails – and all the other wonders of haute cuisine. A Russian restaurant has entered borscht in the attack of minestrone. There are two places. A quartet of Chinese restaurants offer north and south Chinese dishes. One flashy restaurant has South Sea specialties. Another has brought
Tunisian food to Rome.
Biggest sign of the change: one fashionable restaurant advertises real “English roast beef and Scotch kippers.”
Monday February 6, 1961 Speed reading at high school level recommended by Whiteface minister
An area minister, who for three semesters taught “speed reading” at Abilene Christian College, told members of the Levelland Kiwanis Club Monday he feels similar reading programs should be undertaken at the high school level in the public schools.
L.D. McCoy, who said that students in the ACC program were guaranteed they would double their reading speed, told Kiwanians that most adults today read only 20 to 50 percent as fast as they are capable of reading if properly trained.
The Whiteface Church of Christ minister said that most people average reading about 30 hours a week, and suggested that ability to cut 10 hours a week from their reading time would give them 500 hours a year to devote to some other task, or else allow them to cover a much greater volume of work.
He said that most people have three reading speeds, a slow one for concentrated study, an average speed for newspaper and other enjoyment reading and a fast speed for “idea” reading.
He said each of these reading speeds could be increased proportionately with proper training.
McCoy said that reading is only the interpretation of printed or written symbols, and that all reading is done when the eye is stopped in “eye fixations.”
He said the eye is capable of a fixation in a hundredth of a second between eye movements.
Three things limit reading speed according to McCoy. The eye span (some people can see only one word in a fixation, others several, and some even several lines). The rate at which the words are seen. The rate of apperception.
He said a number of other factors also tend to slow reading, such as the attempt of the reading to vocalize, although they may not move their lips; head swinging, in which slow movement of the head is used other than the speedy movement of the eye, and daydreaming, where a slow reader may let other thoughts slip into his mind as he reads. Limited vocabulary was also listed as a problem.
McCoy said that the daydreaming can be eliminated only through self-discipline but says that fast reading helps to eliminate because the reader doesn’t have sufficient delay between reading thoughts to permit digression. In the ACC program, McCoy said that students were tested both for speed and comprehension, and that comprehension almost always improved with speed.
Both film and mechanical devices which move at designated speeds were used to press students to higher and higher speeds of reading and comprehension.
At the conclusion of the meeting, a number of high school and college faculty teachers in the club pressed around McCoy to obtain names of the texts and publishers in the ACC course which the speaker recommended as helpful in the absence of an organized course.
Also at the meeting, vice president L.A. Kendrick, presiding in the absence of President Artie B. Forehand, who is in Galveston, announced that directors had formally approved a junior patrol project worked out Friday with school and police officials.
Floyd S. Elkins and Gil Patschke were presented membership pins and packets of Kiwanis material. Ivan Tipps was introduced by Dr. Joe Harrison as a guest at the meeting.