The Mexia Daily News from Mexia, Texas • Page 6

Patterson Leaving Tascosa AMAftlLLA tex. (AP) P. (Hi) Pattersdtt, who built AH outstanding record in eight yjjafs as head coach of Tascosa High School here, is going to the University of Texas to be fin assistant to Darrell Royal. Patterson, whose team last ek was eliminated in the of the state school- race, resigned Monday Tascosa school board ac- tffcpted "with regrets," Pfltterson had been with the school since it opened nine years ago, being assistant coach the first year and succeeding Bi Ellington as head coach the second, Ellington also went to the tJniversity of Texas coaching staff. In his eight years at Tascosa, Patterson's teams won 69, lost 17 and tied 3 games, winning the district championship three of (he last four years.

Tascosa went to the state semifinals in 1963 and 1564, losing each time to 'Garland, the eventual state champion. Mexia Cats 'Pack' All-League Units ALL-DISTRICT 12AA Offense Name Pos, Jimmy Steele Wilmer Levels Jimmy Bates Darrell Bledsoe Dennis Hendrick Ronnie Watkins School Marlin Teague Mexia Midway Mexia Midway Mexia Mexia Mexia Mexia Mexia Howard Gruetzner Midway Larry Gilbreath HB Connally Defense Larry Evans Gary Thomas Terry Thompson Bobby Corner QB TB Joe Tcel Kicker Name SMU Begins Work j-br Georgia Game (AP) Southern was back at practice preparing for the Cotton date'with Georgia Dec. 31. Hayden Fry called his squad'-put Monday after a will. work it week and a day 'before it lakes time out for examinations and the Christmas holidays.

"There wasn't a sign of an injury bjj' squad. Even Pfciil a halfback who missed the last seven games because back. of a broken arm, was jHumans. breathe in oxygen out carbon dioxide; piants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. J.

M. Eller Pos. School Hubert Westbrook Connally Jan Woodard Midway Jimmy Drews Marlin Dennis Hendrick Mexia Kenneth Ridlehuber Midway Bob Forrest Mexia Charles Hempton Connally Larry, Evans. Mexia Carl Brinkley JLB McGregor Billy Parnell 1 LB Midway Doug Rand Groesbeck Gary Thomas Mexia Bobby Comer Mexia Donnie Spitzer Midway College Cage Scores ASSOCIATED PRESS Pfincetoft Navy Of Davidson 97, Pittsburgh 5S LaSfllle 103, Gettysburg 67 leuth fenii. 67, S.

W. La. 52 Kentucky 104, Virginia 84 L'ville 99, Geo't'n Ky 81 Duke 96, 'Michigan 75 W. Kentucky 52, Memphis St. 44.

N. Carolina 93, Penn St. 63 Samford 104, Tulane 102 ot Syracuse 99, Geo. Wash, 83 Florida 113, Miami 88 Vanderbilt 89, SMU 76 Georgia Tech 87, Rice 61 Clemson 103, Citadel 85 Virginia Tech 79, Purdue 63 Wake Forest 87, N. C.

St. 67 Louisiana St. 75. Tampa 72 Midwest Mich. St.

63, Miami Ohio 51 Cincinnati 77, Wis. 70 ot Ohio St. 79, Iowa St. 77 Toledo 98, Notre Dame 80 Dayton 80, St. Louis U.

78 Okla. State 73, Wyoming 64 Houston 86, Minnesota 75 Drake 87, N. Dakota St. 66 DePaul 82, N. Dakota U.

47 Bradley 98, N. Michigan 74 Kansas State 52, Oregon 45 Loyola Chgo 119, S. D. St. 85 Kansas 100, Xavier Ohio 52 Akron 100, Central Conn.

87 Evansville 109, Central Mo. 80 Marquette 99, So. Dak. U. 66 Colorado 80, Tulsa 75 Southwest Tex.

West. 85, Ab. Christ. 46 Missouri 73, Arkansas 66 Tex. Christ.

102, Centenary Mexia's Fightin' Black Cats hogged the 12AA all-district team, selected by the league's coaches and released today. Mexia placed 12 on the top offensive and defensive units. This included seven on the first offensive team. Mexia had one on the second offensive club and one on the second team defense. Offensive honorable mention named two Mexiaites, tion list for offense are Teague's Butch Cox; a center; McGregor's Bill Hurst and Carl Brinkley, backs; and Groesbeck end Jim Longbotham.

Rounding out the honorable mention defensive list are Marlin quarterback Trey Hay; Groesbeck linebacker John Stanford; and Groesbeck back Lanny Dugan. Other unanimous choices to round out the all-district offen- while honorable mention for de-'Sive unit are Teague end Wil- fense went to I Black Cats. three Fightin' Rings enlarge to (how detail, M. LLG-R IF an unanimous mer-Levels, and Midway tailback Howard making the are Marlin end Jimmy Steele, Mid way tackle i Darrell Bledsoe Midway guard Ronnie, Watkins a.nd;;.ConnaHy -halfback' Gilbreath. seniors, cept -Steele, B.atesi and Th.p ra p- son, who are juniors.

Rounding out the team defense are Connally's, Westbrook' and Woodard-at ends; Jim my Drews of Marlin; 'tackle Kenneth Ridlehuber of Midway guard Charles Hampton Connally, linebackers Car Brinkley of and Bil ly Parnell of Midway; backs: the defense were cornerback Doug Rand of Groesbeck and Bobby Comer, safetyman Gary Donnie Spitzer of Midway. Named to the first''offensive unit from 'Mexia were tackle Jim 'Joe Bates, 'guard Dennis Hendrick, center LatryEVans, quarterback Gary'Tnb'mas, -fuli back Teirry tailback Bobby Joe was choice as'the unit's kicker, and was includwi on 'all-district. Unanimous selections' from coaches came' 'in the selections of Hendrick, Evans, Thom'as, Teel and Comer. Mexia's Randy Story, and end, was on the second offensive unit. Cats named-to BLOCKS AND TACKLES By Bob Wright 77 Lamar 89, Albuquerque 85 E.

Tex. 67, Prairie View 61 How. Payne 100, Tarleton 71 Trinity Tex 80. N. Texas 69 Phillips Oilers 101.

W. Tex. 81 Wichita 99, Texas Tech 77 New Mex. 72, Santa Clara 54 E. N.

Mex. 76, Sul Ross 49 Weber 104, Pepperdine 96 ot Far West UCLA 105, So. California 90 Seattle 88, Oklahoma 79 California 74, St. Mary's 55 Stanford 87, Arizona St. 73 Air Force 86, E.

Montana 59 W. N. Mex. 115, Adams St. 90 Hickam': AFB 64 Stephen FV Austin 81, Mid- western'V Southwest Texas 83, Texas Lutheran 66 Lamar Tech 95, 'Corpus Christl'89 Hbward Payne 87, jBouston Thomas linebacker Larry Evans, nose guard Bob Forrest, and tackle Dennis Hendrick.

All but Forrest were named to both the all-district offense and defense. Halfback Bill McCullough was named to the second team defensive unit. McCullough, an offensive wingback, and guard Steve Coffey received honorable mention for the offensive Joe Bates, Thompson, and end Ralph Curry received honorable mention for defensive honors. team. Tackle Jim linebacker Terry Others on the honorable men- In the U.S.A.

Every Dollar Owed is paid with who could appreciate more than the usy and business-like farmer the advantages gi being able to transfer funds safely by mail of having accurate records and receipts? MANY WHO IH1QY THESE ADYANTAOIfc OPEN Ufa WN6 ACCOUNT, AT OUR BANK, 500NI First National Bank Of Mexia In addition to Randy Story, others on the second team offense are end Jan Woodard, quarterback Steve Kraskey and back Donnie Spitzer of Midway, tackle Kenneth Reynolds, guard John Wisdom and fullback Ronnie Wilson of Groesbeck; tackle Hubert Westbrook, guard Jimmy Harris and, back Robert Hill Connally; guard Jimmy Drews, center Sammy and fullback of Marlin. All are seniors on team defense except Pyland Rogers Johnny the first Drews, who a junior. All are seniors on the second team offense except Harris, Drews, 1 'Kraskey, Hill and Rogers who are juniors. Wilson is a sophomore. The second defensive unit are ends Jimmy Steele of Marlin and Wilmer Levels of Teague; tackles Joe McGowan of Conally, Kenneth Reynolds of Groesbeck, and Homer Brown of Teague, guards Mike Rushing of McGregor and Herman Roessler of Midway, linebackers Robert Hill of Connally, Howard Gruetzner of Midway, and Walter Pickens of Teague; and backs Tommy Geib of Mar lin and Steve Kraskey of Midway.

All are seniors on the second defensive unit except sophomore Herman Roessler, and juniors Robert Hill, Walter Pickens, Steve Tommy Geib and World's highest elevations and lowest depressions are to ba found in Asia- Baptist 72 Texas: A and; Xgelo State 64, Sul Ross 39 St. Edward's Tarleton State'59 PriaiWe View 135', Texas 07 Fort Lewis' Colo. 91, Wayland Baptist 81." State's Masonic Groups Continue Meetings At Waco WACO, Tex. (AP) Most Worshipful Grand Master H. W.

Fullingim of Odessa opened the 131st annual Grand Communication of the 'Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas today in Waco. More than 1,500 Mastei Masons from nearly 1,000 Texas lodges are attending the two- day session. In his official address, Fullingim reported on his work as the leader, of Texas Freemasonry. During the year dedicated 18 new lodge buildings and installed thrfee new lodges bring, ing'the number of active lodges in the'istate to 073, a net gain of one lodge. The annual election of grand lodge officers will be held Thursday.

Mexia Schoolmen Attend Seminar At Texas Mexia Supt. B. E. Oberholtzer and Ross Elementary Principal R. Q.

Sims attended a regional seminar, conducted by the Lone Star Chapter of the National School Public Relations -Association. The seminar was held Monday at Texas A and University, "Building the Foundation for New Programs Through School Public Relations," theme fpr the seminar, centered new federal programs in lie schools and public relations. Leon Graham, assistant Commissioner Ipr Administration of the Texas Education Ageocy, spoke ibefore the general assembly The mistletoe is parasite, growing on trunks and Syanchjs of various trees- MOW'D IT HAPPEN? Would you believe the The type of thing which makes you drop the old false teeth is When you find out that DAtNGERFIELt), which beat PLANO in the quarterfinals round, lost three games this year Thai's right! The Tigers were felled three times before they shook the collective sanity of football by upsetting Piano. Coach Bill LANE'S club did it with a rock-ribbed defense. Needless to say, the Tigers had pretty fair team speed.

REPRESENTATIVE McQUEEN Coach Bob McQueen of Mexia has been accorded quite an honor. Bob's been named as the class AA representative for the North all-star football player selection committee. There's only two 2A representatives in the state. The other belongs to the South's selection committee Others on the committee to select talent for the North team are R. M.

(Pat) Patterson of Amarillo Tascosa, the 4A representative and committee chairman; Pal Pattison of Vernon, the 3A representative and assistant chairman; Jerry Hopkins of Sonora, the 1A representative; and Ricky Mantooth of Happy, representing class B. PAT AND 'NAG' PATTERSON, the 4A representative from Amarillo Tascosa, is joining the University of Texas staff. He was Coach McQUEEN'S line coach when Bob was an end on the Temple High team. AFTER THE BALL After the gruelling football campaign, the coaches Well, sort of McQueen joined an old buddy, former Hillsboro coach Don DAVIS for a fishing excursion "in the river just above Fort Parker." Bob and Don vow they caught a string of bass (19, they say), with the heaviest going five pounds. Davis got out of coaching so his hair wouldn't get too gray.

He's now working at Temple with his daddy-in-law. AND, JIM WHITE Coach Jim, who hasn't very much hair to turn gray, killed a deer during the holidays (Thanksgiving) near Fredericksburg. THE VISITOR afit ibxfa iatly Wednesday, Jerry MOORE, former member of the Jim AGREE staff at Corsicana, was a visitor in the Mexia High athletic office a few days ago Moore is now a coach on the all-conquering SMU is now scouting the Mustangs. Mexia Clips Eagles As Story Hits 35 Mexia's Fightin' Black Cats went over the .500 mark Tuesday night at Hearne by downing the fired-up Eagles 49-44. It pushed the Fightin' Cat mark to 2-1 for the young season.

Randy Story had another pretty fair night, looping in 3 points and coming down with 29 rebounds, which must be the high mark for a Mexiaite in at least a decade. Freshman Benjic Reed made his first varsity start and responded well. Reed was credited with 10 recoveries of the ball, four points, and eight rebounds. In addition to Reed and Randy Story, the scoring saw two points apiece by Larry Evans, sophomore Stephen Sims and Bill McCuilough. and four points by Sophomore Dale Story, who also had eight rebounds.

The only Hearne player in double figures was Marvin Zeig. who had 17 points. The Fighlin' Cats held the celebrated Pete Martin to six points. Mexia hit 33 per cent from the field, connecting on 18 of 54 tries. Coach Jerry Stone missed the services of ace floor man, Gary Thomas, who is nursing an injury.

Thomas, however, will return to the lineup in time to square off against Mansfield Thursday afternoon at 4:30 in the first round of the Hillsboro tournament. Evans got into early foul trouble at Hearne and didn't play but very little of the second quarter. He didn't play at all in the third period. Coach Stone said he is CHANGE High 'football team, coaches, managers, cheerleaders' and twirlers wil make that' teevee date Dec. 17, instead of the originally-scheduled Dec.

10 time. The big production all takes place on the Dub KING show and starts at 5 p. m. AS THE CROW FLIES Got any excels crows in yore A prominent conservation group says at IfeaSt more crows are critically needed to assist American farmers in raising the crops required to feed the fast-growing population of the nation and the world. Mexia High Cage Schedule Here Is the entire Mexia Flghtin' Black Cat basketball schedule for the season of 1966-67: Nov.

29, Hearne here; Dee. 2, Palestine there; Dec. 6, Hearne there; Dec. 8-MO, Hillsboro tournament; Dec. 13, Falrfleld there; Dec.

16, Falrfleld here; Dec. 20, Connally here; Dec. 27.28-29-30, Midway tournament; Jan. 3, league there; Jan. 6, Martin here; Jan.

10, Groesbeck there; Jan. 17, McGregor here; Jan. 21, Midway there; Jan. 24, Connally here; Jan. 27, league here; Jan.

31, Marlin there; Feb. 3, Groesbeck here; Feb. 10, McGregor there; Feb. 14, Midway here. All games are scheduled for 8 o'clock.

Junior Varsity contests are set for 6:30. The District 12AA schedule starts Dec. 20 at Connally, but the Flghtin' Cats do not return to league action until the Jan. 3 engagement at Teague. Two Men Killed As Trucks Crash Outside Marlin MARLIN (AP) Two bit; tractor-trailer trucks collided six miles north of Marlin in Central Texas shortly before midnight Tuesday and both drivers perished in the flaming crash.

State police identified the victims as William Leon Porter 26, of Tyler, and Curly Lee Garner, 33, a Negro from Franklin, Tex. Officers reported both vehicles caught fire moments after "pretty well pleased," despite he head on co is i on on Texas the close score. "The Eagles were really fired up in their gymnasium, especially since we beat them here 68-29. Of course, we missed Thomas, and Evans 'had to lay out some due to all that foul trouble. This hurt us," says the coach.

In the opener the Mexia Junior Varsity lost to the Little jEagles 43-32. Fpr the locals, Ppsey bucketed 10 points, Charlie Livingston had nine a'nti Leslie Perrin chipped in with seven. Funeral Services Set In Thornton For Alf Clancy THORNTON (SpU G. A. Alf Clancy, 73, retired Thornton grocer, died Tuesday at noon in the Veterans Hospital at Marlin.

Funeral services will be held Mexia Athletic Boosters Will Meet Thursday The Mexia Athletic Booste Club will meet Thursday nig at 7:30 in the Ross Eleme tary cafeteria, president Ja Floyd has announced. A large insurance compa will put on a program, whi will last from 20 to 30 minuU Mr. Floyd said. Highlights CHARLOTTE HOME DAMAGED BY BOMB CHARLOTTE, N. C.

(AP) -A predawn blast today damaged car and shattered windows at't jthe home of a family reportedly 1 i threatened for not opposing ra- 1 cial integration in their neighborhood. in the Assembly of God Church Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Ministers Clendenen and Hodge officiating. The Fisher and Nance Funeral Home is in charge of burial arrangements. Mr. Clancy had lived in Thornton most of his life and owned and operated the Clancy Grocery for many years.

He was a brother of Mrs. Ethel Asher, of Mexia, and an uncle of Cecil Asher, of Mexia. Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, Grady Clancy Haskel Clancy, of Dallas, and three other sisters, Mrs. Hassie Herod, of Houston; Mrs. Bessie Carpenter, of Clute, and Mrs.

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