The Baytown Sun from Baytown, Texas • Page 17

Viftmm Jhw Sunday, May 7, '1967 CHINESE JUMP ROPE FASTi BECOMING POPULAR SPORT CAROL ST. CLAIR DIALS OUT CARLA WHITFIELD LEAPS HIGH CARLA STARTS ROUND OF "PASTIES" Top Graduates Announced For Anahuac High Glass BY DANNT FUSON Principal Don Stacy has announced the 1967 honor students in a private conference. Valedictorian of the class of is Danny Fuson and the salutatorian Is Bert Schultz. The eight honor graduates are Mike Turner, Donna Wltherspoon, David Walker, Don Brandon, Billy Morehead, James Appling, Mary Harmon and Beulah Kirkwood. The order of rank was determined on the basis of card grades and a final achievement test Grades counted 60 per cent and the test counted 40 per cent Fuson and Schultz will make speeches during the May 26 commencement exercises.

The other eight honor students wlU have various parts -on the program. STATE MEETS Anahuac High School has five representatives at the state meets in Austin this In the track meet, James Appling, Rollie Rivon and Curtis Washington were Anahuac's candidates in the mile relay; Appling also ran the 880, These boys earned the right to run their races by placing school in each of their events the regional meet April 22 In Brenham. In the literary meet, Anahuac's lone ambassador was Danny Fuson, who competed in the journalism contest. He also placed second in regional competition and got to go to state. BASEBALL TEAM The Anahuac Panther baseball team won its first district game April 28 by defeating favored Dayton Broncos, 2-0.

The big news of the game was no-hit performance by Anahuac sophomore Gary Devore. He walked two Broncos the only two to gel on base. Anahuac batting attack was led by Darryl Henicke, Jimbo Ashby, Jo-Jo Clark and Jerry Dave Walker. FUTURE FARMERS Anahuac Future Farmers were exhibitors of several prize animals recently at the livestock show of the Baytown Youth Fair. Steve Mathews of the Anahuac Chapter exhibited the grand champion male hog in the swine division, and David LeNormand won a second place ribbon in the swine show with his gilt, a Land- race cross.

In the beef division, Sidney Harmon placed second with a Red Brangus bull. Clint Fancher showed the fourth place Angus bull, and Monroe Kreuzer showed the fifth place animal. David LeNormand's Angus heifer captured fifth place. Members of the Rice Belt Dls. trict Future Farmer chapters elected Earl Sturrock of the Anahuac Chapter as President at the district meeting in Liberty on April 24.

The Anahuac chapter received a superior rating at the session for its activities of the current year. Five applications from the Anahuac chapter for Lone Star Farmer degrees were approved. FFA membership applications approved were Darryl Henicke, Glenn Edmonds, James Kindel, Jimmy Silva and Steve Fitzgerald. Cecil Fuller, faculty adviser of the Anahuac chapter, was honored with first place recognition for district public relations work. Glenn Edmonds won the agricultural mechanics award and Wahlen Abshier placed second for the farm air service award.

Two former Anahuac FFA members, Leslie Turner and George Mayes, applied for the highest degree in vocational agriculture work, the American farmer degree. In the district contests, Halley Ray Moor represented the Anahuac chapter in the public speaking event, placing fourth with his speech, "Playing with Prices." Other Anahuac FFA members attending the meetings were Teddy Fred Nelson, Steve Ducote and District Sweetheart SuSu Tunze. SHORT-SHOTS Darryl Henleke and Don Brandon stop by Sunday school on their way home from the Winnie Junior-Senior Banquet Sherry Cardwell, SuSu Tunze, and Billle Ruth Smith try to go to the state track meet Lee Gray has a shaky ride home from the banquet Cecil Du-. hon and David Walker get passed up at the Carol Dobbs and Pat Turner have a hard time trying to keep their hair ribbons Terry Dunman and Shelley Ten-Ill are as thick as bread and butter.i THESE THREE GIRLS have a busy summer ahead of them playing endless games of Chinese jump rope. Here, Carol St.

Clair threads one side of the circle of elastic over the other, while Patricia Florida, left, and Carla Whitfield holds the elastic taut for her. Someone has said the game looks like knitting with your feet. To Strecth The Point, Chinese Jump Rope A Swingin Game "I don't know what I'm going do, She is wearing a hole in my carpet." So exclaimed one mother, whose young daughter this year has been practicing an increasingly-popular game called Chinese jump rope, Usually, the game Is performed with two other girls. But this youngster was practicing at home by stringing her circle of elastic between two kitchen chairs brought into the living room. No one seems to know, exactly how the game got started.

Carla Whitfield, in our pictures, introduced it to her friends here this year. But other children in different parts of town have been playing it off and on for the last several years. The girl in the middle is the "performer" and takes turns with the two other girls at jumping over the elastic. The game starts with the two "non performers" -holding the elastic around their ankles, After the girl In the middle performs a series of steps with the elastic at this level, the elastic is moved to the knees, then to the waist, Sun Wants Teen Correspondents The Baytown Sun is looking lor teen correspondents to report Uio news from area high' schools ami junior schools during the 1067-68 school year. ti I contact II wry I iwsNistimt managing editor, for interview appointments.

Ttio Sun's telephone la 582-8302. Correspondents must be able to type. Special Instruction in basic news writing techniques will be offered correspondents Oils summer. to the neck, The girls no- longer attempt to jump over tha- elastic, needless'to say, when it reaches the level of the neck- But the same movements a performed with the hands. The game is a fascinating one: for the spectator.

It resembles a series of formal dance steps and the band movements contribute to an Orlentalfeeling. After the girl has successfully gone through the series of maneuvers at the neck level, the- elr.stlc is pulled back to the ankles, and a series of "fasties" begins. This series consists ol the same movements done previously, but this time at a quicker tempo, If a girl misses, she yields her turn to one of the other girls holding the elastic. And so the game goes on and on, until the three get breath- Jess, or until someone has to go home. Then they can always practice alone at home with the kitchen.