The Daily Echo, 1954-02-10

              SHORTRIDGE
Vol. 56, No. 96
I   DAILY ECHO
SHORTRIDOB HIGH 8CHOOL, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1954
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BLUE DEVILS TO PLAY
BULLDOGS TONIGHT
AT COLUMBUS
Opponents Boast 12-5 Record
for Year; Series With
Columbus Starts In 1921
FeUx will arch his back in the
Columbus gym tonight when the
Shortridge cat meets the Columbus
BuUdogs to the 15th game of the
Blue DevU season.
Columbus always has proved to
be a tough opponent, and this year
their record shows 12 wins and
only five losses. The Satans wiU
face them with a record of nine
wins and seven losses.
The two top players for the Canines are J. C. Oosnell and Dick
MUler. Oosnell, who Is the smallest man on the team, ls hitting an
average of 11.0 points per game.
MUler is the leading scorer with
an average of 12.4 points per game.
The probable starting lineup for
Shortridge has Jerry Thompson
and Bob Maxey to the forward
slots; Frank Mead at center; agd
CharUe Brown with Jack Best controlling the guard positions.
The BuUdogs'  starting  five  in
elude   Harry   Whlpker   and   BIU
Smith,  forwards;   Dick  MUler  at
center; and J. C. Gosneli and Alan
Mohr at guards.
The reserves will play at 6:30
whUe the tipoff for the varsity
game is at 8:00. The tickets are
on sale to the SHS bookstore for
60 cents, but the price wUl be higher if bought at Columbus.
The Satans started playing Columbus back to 1921, and since then
the BuUdogs have won nine and
Shortridge only five. This is how
the Shortridge - Columbus record
now stands.
SHS     Columbus
1952-53  49      53
1951-52   63     66
1950-51  45     51
1949-50 47      37
1948-49   61      44
1947-48   39      40
1942-43   26      33
1941-42   29      24
1940-41  31      32
1939-40-   33      29
1938-39  47      27
1929-30   20      69
1928-29   30      49
1921-22  22      59
Annual Campaign Begins
Today; Ends February 24
The final Annual campaign will
begin today and end February 24.
This is the last tune Annual agents
will contact Individuals to the
homerooms. The supply of books
ls low and students are urged to
order at once, so that they will
not be left out.
The price of the yearbook is
$2.50, and to this drive new freshmen to particular are urged to buy
an Annual. It will be a pictorial
history of their first year at Shortridge.
To buy an Annual, a student
should ^.contact his homeroom
agent.
40 Frosh to Play for
Annual Talent Show
Forty freshmen wlU play for the
annual 9B-9A talent show March 3
in Caleb MUls Hall, according to
James B. Calvert, band director.
The birrd members include NeU
Parker, starry Callahan, Fred Al-
frey, Lynn Blessing, Tom Bibbs,
Ronald Bowler, Oeorge Campbell,
Jurfo Caune, Eddie Engledow, Barry
Epstein, Larry Everhart, Josephine
Gray, David Howe, Anne Lugar.
Also to the band are Robert Mace,
Jana Smith, Gary Welcher, Marilyn Waltman, James Lowery, Bruce
Duncan, David Prltchard, Dennis
Freeman, Tom Tapscot, Sam Gray,
Richard White, Fred Jackson,
Douglas McLean, Walter Paschall,
Richard Abdon, Charles Crawford,
Lanny AUen, Donald Cockerham,
Fred Thompson, Jim Campbell, Jim
CaldweU, Diana Mavlty, Janet Bird,
Michael Warwick, Henry Orejvela,
and Jim Flege.
Mrs. Conner Lists Losses
Mrs. Natalia Conner of the attendance desk has listed the losses
from Shortridge. They are as follows:
Patricia Beattle, Joan Carradl,
Virginia Drake, Linda Goodwin,
Sylvia Martin, Charles Rent, Leola
Simmons, Harriett Sinclair, Richard Snyder, and Barbara Watkins.
Games to Be Feature
Of Overseas Party
This Afternoon
Blind man's bluff, Latvian style,
ls only one of the many games to
be played this afternoon by members of the Overseas club at their
valentine party.
Another favorite Latvian game
involves half of the group going
outside of the room, while each
of the remaining people is given
one of their names. Then the ones
outside return one at a time and
try to determine which person has
chosen them.
Others, which are played to different countries, resemble charades,
or teapot.
Frank Guieb will entertain the
club members on the piano.
FoUowlng the program cookies
and punch will be served.
Miss Margaret Montgomery is
faculty sponsor. ,
Virginia Gray, Dean
Selmier Join Library
Club; Party Planned
Virginia Gray and Dean Selmier
are new members of the Library
Club, according to Mrs. Esther Cavanagh and Miss Betty Bauer, sponsors.
The club Is having a valentine
party Thursday afternoon with an
exchange of valentines. Valentine
candy wUl be included to the refreshments.
The bulletin board In the Ubrary
was decorated by Sue Thorson. The
main decoration is a mailbox containing book covers with titles pertaining to Valentine's Day.
BLUEBELLE-UGLYMAN
CANDIDATES PORTRAY
COMIC CHARACTERS
Eleven Couples to Depict
Weil-Known Comic Strip
Personalities
The BluebeUe - Uglyman teaser
will be presented today by those
vying for BluebeUe and Uglyman.
Comic-strip characters will be
brought to life to today's auditorium "program when the candidates
will portray a number of these personalities.
The candidates have been working on separate skits to groups of
two. Ken MUam, master of ceremonies, wlU introduce each couple.
The couples are as foUows:
Anita Woods and Tom GUI, Janet
Snively and Gary Jewell, Barbara
Smith and Tom Troyer, Barbara
Brown and Jim Bolles, Luanne
Morris and Dave Ryan, and Letha
BoUes and George Rich.
Others include Ruth-Abbett and
Jim Batman, Pat Murphy and Ronnie Horn, Dee Dee Ent and Jack
Best, Karen Meiks and Jerry
Thompson, and Pat Moll and Dave
Hedges.
Thursday, February 12, the students will vote to homeroom for
the candidates. They wUl choose
whom they would Uke to have selected as the most popular senior
girl and boy, or BluebeUe and
Uglyman.
Jerry Chapman Absolootly, Positootly Will
Visit Kool Kids at Shortridge; Editor Relaxes!
Monday afternoon Jerry Chapman, WIRE disc-jockey, said, "I
understand that the kids at Shortridge are of the uncommonly cool
variety." Luckily for us, Jerry was
not around to glim the frantic antics of Mlckl Webb, editor ^>f Wednesday's Echo, after school last
Monday.
Jerry was scheduled to be the
guest speaker at a session sponsored by the Radio Workshop,
Thursday, February 4. For three
weeks Mlckl, and her henchmen,
had been the ringleaders of a pubUcity campaign to Jerry's favor.
Mlckl devoted miles of copy and
sacrificed acres of precious front
page space to publicizing the coming event.
So wha' hoppened? Wednesday
P.M., Jerry laid down a crazy par-
rldlddle   and   Informed   the   Echo
kiddles ne couldn't come because
of Illness, and that he would appear February 11—all of which
meant that Mlckl would start another pubUcity campaign (If Wednesday's staff could restore her
sanity to time!)
Jerry said he Is "always excited
about coming to Shortridge be
cause I understand they have some
of the most beautiful girls to town."
That shows he's hep, to spite ot
the fact that he attended Broad
Ripple High School.
Everyone Interested ls invited to
attend the Radio Workshop meet-
tog tomorrow afternoon at 2:35
P.M. In room 344. In order for
Mrs. Eulah Vos to know how many
to expect, students are asked to
sign their names on the bulletin
board in room 343 today.
(Continued on page two)
Shortridge Again Second
In Safe Driving League;
Accident Totals Listed
Shortridge has again* placed second to the Indianapolis Safe Driving League standings, this time for
January. Students nave been involved to only four accidents since
September 1 for a score of 94. Crispus Attucks is still in first place
with a score of 100.
Other city high schools placed
as foUows for the month: third,
Washington, 92.78; fourth, Manual,
89.86; fifth, Broad Ripple, 87.12;
sixth, Howe, 84.40; seventh, Tech,
81.10.
The total number of accidents
since September Including aU ages
is 2,811. People from 14 years of
age to 19 were involved to 380 accidents. .In only 38 of these accidents was the high school driver
at fault.
Common violations and causes of
automobile accidents include not
granting the right-of-way to another vehicle; foUowlng too closely;
speeding; disregarding stop Ughts;
improper passing; and failure to
turn on lights.