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Baylor Bound? Hornet.es Hit Caterflk messenger AND STAR-FORUM Gatesville. Texas January 12, 1968 Sec. 2. Pr. 5 Meet your friends at West-view Coin Laundry.

Get your clothes really clean In a Maytag "Big Tub" Washer. At Hilltop, next to Richardson's Grocery. Adv. Adams ill Vietnam ic in Copperas Cove, was as-- i- jgfened s-rffleTnan irr Onm- ARMVv yrETTAM puny 2nd Battalion, 39th In-Army Corporal William II.fantry of the 9th Infantry Di-Adams, whose wife, Ann is, liv- jvisk in Vietnam Dec, 11. MESSENGER CLASSIFIED ADS GET RESULTS I Face Three Road Games Hornets' Cole Is All-State Pick "Super-Right" Heavy Beef full Cut Round "SUKI-IIGHT OI HOtMQL FRANKFURTERS ItNH IAN0H BIAMD Bobby Cole, Gatesville schoolboy football luminary whose credentials as a premier dcfeiv sive back were validated this week with his selection to a first-team defensive backfield post o.i the All-State Class AAA team picked by kthe Texas Sports Writers Association, is the most sought-after Hornet, as far as college scouts are concerned.

And Bobby, who has long Pka lock has been the Hornets' head coach since 1963. The determined. 19-year-old Glt who survived a siege of injuries 1o attain stardom, says "its. a great thrill to make all-state." He is looking forward to the chance, to play Southwest Conference futrtball. Cole, son of Mr.

and R. E. Cole, first appeared on the Gatesville fextbail scene back in Each Mb 39 39 BLOCK CHILj nt. ALLGOQD BRAND SLICED El CHICO FROZEN MEXICAN DINNERS El CHICO FROZEN ENCHILADA DINNERS SHOULDER BUTT CUT Pork Roast SHOULDER BUTT CUT Pork Steak After showing new-found class to grab of the consolation championship trophy in the big Baylor invitational tournament last week end. the GHS girl basketballers hope to extei.d their wi-i skein dining ai up-cuniing three-game road swing.

It will find the Hornet tes playing at Lorena tonight, at Burnet Tuesday night and at Copperas Cove Thursday night. All are douMeheader dates, with the games starting at 6:30 p.m. and the varsity tilts following. The Hornettes got some magnificent performances from younger players most notably soph forward Joy Denny and guards Debbie Day and Margo Veaey in winning three straight tense duels in Waco -tUMI IICHr QUALITY HEAVY SEEf TO? tOUNO 01 BOTTOM IOUN0 1 2-oz. STEAK or ROAST NOIMEt BLACK lASCl 99c lJS63c AC; SLICED BACON -SUKMIGHT OUAUTY HEAVY I The store that cares about you! RUMP ROASTS LEAN AND MEATY FROZEN 49 "SUMI-tlGHT OUAUTY HEAVY BEEP LOIN TIP 99c lb.

nursed an-jambition to play Southwest Conference football, reports he's already leaning toward Baylor. Should the versatile 175-pnunder decide to cast his lot with the Bruins, he will joii a pair of ex-teammates. Joe Kopec and Dennis I'feffer, on the BU squad. His coaches and close follower of Centex football predict a bright collegiate future for Cole, first Hornet ever to emerge a first-team pick in the all-state selections. "HE'S THE BEST defensive back I've ever coached." GHS Coach Jack Gunlock states without reservation.

And il that isn't enough praise, Gunlock goes on to say that "Cole's the best all-rouid football player we've had I've boon at Gatesville." Gun- DUTCH QUEEN CAP'N JOHfTS FROZEN BPEADED SHRIMP LIDGBEOCI NEAT 3 arW 20. 19ii3 as a star runner' on a junior high school eleven that lost only two games. He was so promising as a freshman that his coaches moved him right up to the team at the season's start. In the shock troops' first game, however, he sustained a broken right ankle that kept him sidelined most of the season. He did manage to see action with the freshman team in the closing two games of the '64 campaign-, AS A SOPHOMORE, he wo i starting spurs as an offensive fullback and a defensive safety-man on a team that enjoyed a 9-1 season.

He never relinquished these roles, although injuries continued to dog him. After the '65 season, he underwent surgery on his left knee. Then in a scrimmage before the opening of the '66 campaign, his right knee was injured and he went under the knife again before the first game. He got back into harness in mid-season, and played strongly enough in six league games to win All-District 13-AAA selection. Although hampered by assorted injuries during the early part of the season, he played in all ten of the '67 campaign.

In addition to his sparkling defensive play (he's a whiz at defending against both the pass and the run I. he emerged as the team's leading rusher and Its top scorer. He was an all-district choice as an offensive performer. COLE, DESCRIBED by his coaches as a "quiet boy but. an inspirational leader," also made the Central Texas all-regional squads picked by the Waco, Temple and Austin newspapers.

The spindly-legged speedster is also a basketball, track and baseball star and an above-average student. POST-erf SULTANA APPtf BASE SULTANA SALAD RAINBO D0X PICKLES 39 JELLIES DRESSING GH. Jar Pt i i lar- WESTERN RANCH SOLID SUPEROSE LIQUID SWEETENER sx. Bd. SULTANA ANN fAOC VANILLA AND CHOC 29c PUDDING 10c OUI OWN TEA BAGS 2 -lb.

Cm et AM IJ of 100 Vr WllllVI Saw eVMESAEES GOLDEN RIPE miasD IIbD lie last Friday and Saturday to claim the Baylor tourney's consolation crown. It was a rerun for the Gatesville forces. They wo i an identical prize in the Waco meet last year. In their initial test in the BU the Hornettes faded in the last half and bowed to West, 41-37. The Gatesville team led by a 20-16 count at halftime but managed only four points in the third period while the Trojanettes were bucketi lg 11.

Miss Denny, however, gave a tip-off of better things to come as she scored 19 points. She up with another 19-polnt performance as the Hornettes started a successful trek down the consolation trail by turning back Jonesboro in a hard-fought 39-35 scrap. The Jonesboro girls had previously lxen tripped by Gle: Rose, 65-50. In the consolation semi-finals Gab's ville parlayed a fourth -quarter rally into a 43-40 verdict over Copperas Cove. Coach Gerald Poe's team trailed by three points at halftime and by two points at the third-quarter pole, but bounded out in front as Jackie Fry came off the bench to whip In seven points a sparkv the winning surge.

The other tallies were pretty well divided among the three starting Homette forwards, Miss Denny having 13, Carla Pfeffer 12 and Susan Fry 11. Carole Dewald scalded the nets in chalking up 34 of the Copperas Cove points. Miss Dewald was an ail-tournament selection. I i the consolation finals Saturday night the Hornettes measured Meridian. 38-35.

Gatesville jumped into a 9-3 first-quarter lead, fell into a 21-21 tie at halftime but moved well in front during the third period by notching 11 points to Meridian's four. The Hornettes played it cozy in the last quarter to protect their lead. Li this one, Susa i Fry was the leading scorer with 19 points while Miss Dewy had 12. Meridian was led by Debby Dozier with 16 point. Powerful Midway won the tourney championship.

Rockdale. Gatesville's district foe, walloped Connolly in the first round but was beaten in the quarter-finals. Dan Sfeakley Is All-State Choice Da i Steakley, star Colo- rado City schoolboy footballer and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. C.

C. Eubanks of Gatesville, was named to a first team defensive back-field post on the All-State Class AA team selected for 1967 by the Texas Siwrts Writers Association. Steak-ley, a 170-pourder, is a junior at Colorado City. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs.

H. J. Steakley of Colo-. rado City. His mother is the former Miss Bobbie Eubanks.

8th, 9th Graders Eagle Five Hits Close to Hundred mm Iw3 El ECONOMY PACK ORANGES OR 20-lb. BAG $1M LAUNDRY DETERGENT 10 OFF LABEL umit om with puhchasi The powerful Jonesboro five loosed its biggest basket barrage of the season last Friday as Coach Billy Dyer's potent crew came within three points MORTON'S FROZEN D0I1UTS of the century- mark in blasting i Hico, 97-30. in a District 26-B I XT; c. V. WWIS iliA riuun mviJimnv POTATOES 40-oz.

Pkg. 20-i. fVg. feld and Flan Nichols were the top gunners in the crushing assault. The Jonesboro girls also won their league opener, defeating the Hico sextette by a 50-25 count.

The Jonesboro teams were scheduled to play Iredell Tuesday night, but these games were postponed until last night. Tonight the Eagle entries will be playing Cranfills Gap at Cranfills Gap, and Tuesday night they'll play the Hico teams at Jonesboro. The girls games start at 7 p.m. with the boys games following. JANE PARKER SANDWICH CREMES DARI COUNTRY IS 39c Cheese Spread COOKIES VA-l.

YOUR CHOICE Bobby Ce) has broken th barrier. The gritty youngster who stood tallost among tho Hornets during an up-and-down football campaign in '67 hat become the first GHS player to make first-team all-state. Most of the players winning mythical laurels are members cf championship teams or elevens that won most of their games, but Cole made it as a member of a 5-5 club. That's proof he made a iklg impression on the selectors. District 13-AAA showed up strongly in the Texas Sports Writers Association's all-state selections.

Glen Chmelar ot Kockdale made the first offen-fenslve teoni. II. Earl Marlon, also of Rockdale was a first-team defensive pick. Segitin's Archie Bennett made the second offensive team, and placed on the second defensive team were Seguin's Grady Hoermann and Eelton's Tommy Lee. In the past, several Hornet start have been placed on the Sports Writers Association's all-state squad but none of them earned first-team nods.

Among those coming most readily to mind are James Featherston in 146, Bobby Jones In 1953. Joe Caro hers in I960, Rob Bennett In 1964 and Joe Kopec and Dennis offer In 1965. There have probably boon others. Hanv'lton fans are wondering how Granbury'a fabulous George Rains failed to make the all-state first team in Class AA. have him pegged as the best running back they've seen in years, Rains was on the second team In the mythical Mr.

Cotton Davidson was In Gatesville this week en the way to Miami's Super Bewl. where her hveband will be In the prestbox as a "spy In the sky- helping direct the Oakland Raider offense against the Green Bay ackers. Cotton has boon handling this chore all season and has dona such an excellent Job that, alt hour he was Injured and didn't play a dewn, his teanv nites htve voted him a full share of tho American League championship and Super Bowl winning. For Davidson, rancher In the eff-season, that ain't hay but it will buy lots of it. It's been a lonq time since a Hornet basketball team played ns error-free a gome as that turned in by this year's club when it posted a 66-47 triumph over Lampasas in a District 13-AAA opener Inst Friday niht.

"It was the besl game, mecan'cally, we've played "all year." Coach Jack Bell report-; ed. Cole celebrated the news that he had made all-state in football by busting loose and scoring 18 points against the. Badgers. The Hornets are down to a 9-man arsly travelllno to 'he Imcpim grind ahod. Way Shirley, who hd shewn ef premise, dTpped off the squad during tha hclkhys eHer to ac-tfpy employment during non-schaol hour.

Tfc'nTs took a decided upturn for the Homette aggregation en It snanncd back from a dmM December showing to wi consolation honors in tbe B-ivlnr University tournament Inst week. Some of the club's younger players are coming on with a rush and the club may find Itself no less than an even bet when It encounters Rock-date in district contests Feb. 8 and FrtvlS. LIGHT MEAT CHUNK Ackor JJocLinf CjUiiwaM TREASURE CHEST OF VALUES 0 MR ANN MOI AtSrO UTtt CAKE MIXES 29c AW VttOMIA 59c Nylonge Jumbo No. 100 4-Pk.

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Ctn. 2 'AT 45c Onion Powder 27c 39c MILK6 yiT 93c CHIFFON CAKE 49c GLAZED D0NUT5 JANE PARKER-tMADE WITH BUTTERMILK JAM NUKIl CHIPS Split Openers Gatesville High's 9th grade basketball-crew tumbled Lampasas. 43-38, In its id-Texas 40-t. juk ChiM 1 EACH 1B-t. HHtr I II 6 Candf hu ftlLy 1 1 a Trer fc' T.

4 Junior High Athletic Leagoi ener here Jan. 4, but the junior US) 1 Vi-Ot. CeMfl WCv 0p Laal ton to save VEACH J69 SOUP Sauor Cad Pmm McCorkle Heads Archery Unit Frnest McCorkle was elected president for the 1968 term by mmVrr oi Coryell Valley Archery Association in a meeting Tuesday levening in the Nation Bank Civic Room. Also elected were M. D.

Gart-man. vice president; Mrs. Frankie Meeks, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Charlotte Gartman, reporter: Ilolice ranie officer; and Robert Ballard, safety officer. Cone Sullivan was awarded special trophy by' fellow archers for having downed the largest buck "of the past season a 10-pofater.

Members viewed a f.lm on "Wild Game In North America." CARD OF THANKS To our many friends and neighbors we want to express our deep appreciation for every act of kindness in the death of our hekived husband and father. May God bless and keep you Is our -prayer. Mrs. Alex Baker Mr and 'Mrs. Clyde Bak.

Mrs. Dan Carter Mr. and Mrs. Vance Baker The only wife of President to fcsrs her portrait on eurrem ey was Martha Washington. Her picture appeared on $1 silver certificates, series 1888, 1891 and im swnr mrt vamiua WAFERS iL: NAilSCO BAlTtNf CRACKERS UVt Wlity Hmm Tlaii 37c TOMATO VtCfTAItAN VtOCTABU high's 8th grade outfit bowed to the Badgers.

35-25. The leading Hornet scorer in the 8th grade clash was Jim Saunders with 9. These two teams' date, with Killeen Nolan here Monday night was postponed because of bad weather. Last njght they plavcd Killeen Rancier here. Thev'r due to play the Killeen Fairway entries here Jan.

25. AttlD ANTI HIWltANT EACH CHICKEN WIICI MM ws DEODORANT TS. 79c TOMATO tICl CB. Of MUWtOOM i A Atmt-- 4-Ol. tolod.

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OIANCE OR YEUOW COFFEE MUGS CEREAL BOWLS 19 'WAGON TRAIL PEAIJUT DUTTER GLAMAtON II OS Beats Cameron, 77-43 The Bulldogs of Copperas Cove, rated a stronir contender for the, District 18-AA cage crown, looked like champions as they axed Cameron, 77-43, last Friday night. Eailey Wlchman had 13 points, Barry Lightfoot and Roger Berry 17 apiece for the Cove Crew, Vi was the Bulldogs'- I2th win bi 17 starts thit season. Ot.CD SPECIAL i air pack; JAR HICB GOOD THRU JAN. IX 1MB QUANTITY RJOHTI RESEIVtD UNABLI TO PUtaun A0VTIT1SE0 rrtM, puas (tout st a bam checki.

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