Baker Junior High School - Rocket Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Page 8 BAKER ROCKET BAKERITE TAKES GRAND CHAMPION Two grand champions, two reserve champions, four blue ribbons-this is quite a record! Edgar Smith, a Baker ninth grader and a 4-H club member, holds this record. His project in 4-H work is raising Holstein cattle. He has shown cattle in Fredricksburg, New Braunfels, Buda, Pflugerville, and Austin. Last year he was presented a gold plaque for his work with cattle. T,-::::: ::::.- A :-' -'iff Ali 'I n 5 ' l ll -.flu 1+ I: sos CONGRESS if :E Austin Building Materials :E lr lu I: 4l25 Guadalupe 1: 'r lr li Ph. 5-8768 Austin 5, Texas EI I The Joe Cockrell Co. 1: I Printing--Office Supplies 1: Il l6I6 Lavaca Street 1, it PHONE 1.44-61 .3 LIII-if-T-A5555-A555-A55-A:-:JI-AJ 'l HYDE PARK GARAGE C. R. lSamy KELLY, Owner i COMPLETE AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING :I 1: Any Make - Any Model if I: 5I3 W. 43rd Street Ph. 53-3323 :E ls 1 'u I 4, 'I 1 'r 3 5 K V, i 1 '- K' , I - .,.. uw A--,--- N ' e As. ww we if f- 44 -- . . .. ,. '1 ' I.' 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Be- fore they leave the camp everyone will have a chance to climb Friday Mountain. - APRIL BIRTHDAY CALENDAR Name Date Charlotte Currier, Sue Middleton, Richard Flores .................................... 2 Johnny Williams ...................................... 3 Joyce Wendland ........................ ...... 5 June Burke, Jerry Owen ........... ...... 6 Jackson Bayless, Dora Flores ....... ...... 9 Buckaroos Compete In City Track Meet 50 yd., 75 yd., and 100 yd. dashes, 440 yd. relay, high jump, broad jump, shot put, bar chin-these are the events in which Baker will compete in the Austin Junior High Track Meet in April. Ac- cording .to Coach Hickerson, several of our Buckaroos are crowding records and are hoping to break them. David Bryant in practice has run the 75 yd dash in a time of 8.6 which is one- half second behind the record of 8.1. On the chinning bar, Johnny Williams has topped the record of 44 for the 14 year old group with 45 times in practice. Wil- liams also shines in the shotput. The record is 48' 35 for the 14 year old group, and he has hurled it 48' 3 in practice. Competition is still stiff around Baker for berths on the two relay teams. Per- manent members on the 14 year team are David Bryant, Sonny Sanders, and Virgil Weiss. Billy Linder, Donald Steussy, or Clifford Pellar will act as the fourth man. The 13 year old boys' relay team is made up of six boys. Per- manent members are Charley Brown, Glenn Noble, and Sammy Cordell. Two of the following four: Anthony Petrick, Scotty Montgomery, Bill Foelsing, or Tommy Alexander will complete the team. In the broad jump, Virgil Weiss, Pres- ton Harvey, and Ted Snitko are working hard. So far, Weiss is leading with jumps of 16' plus in practice.. Both Harvey and Snitko are jumping 15' plus. The record is 19'9 . The all time record is 20' 6 set by Don Keeling of Baker in 1953. The boys that have been named are only a part of the Buckaroo's Track v,----,----v---- .------ -v--- . f::::::-:A-:-A--ff:-:::--:--A-Q flchjrd Wsrren 12 Team. Other boys who are working just 'l 4' Va ean pencer CCCC as hard are Walter Griffith Chi h w ROY Gebrge and Wells l lUI l' 1+ Barbara Jackson, David Segerson, , , g , , , v 13 Jumpj Jerry Boyles, Mike Drousche, and i Service Station I JOYCG Thompson i------'i------------- ii'---'ii--- D nn G 4 h- - J 1' EXA C S .1 Donald Driessche, Nelma Fennimore, O Y rom C mmng ' , :, T CO PRODU T Marna Herrin ..,................................... 14 These boys will represent Baker in the .1 43rd ai. Quadalupe :, Joyce Shannon .......,................................ 15 track meet. 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BAKER ROCKET V Page 7 f Pictured above are Vera Carter Ceighth gradel and Sandy Hi t c h c o c k Cninth gradej, Buckaroo's sports personalities this month. FACTS ON HEADACHES Are you bothered by headache? I have some reassuring news for you. Everyone has headaches! Here are some statistics gathered by the Montefiore Hospital. The Bronx. 70.4'Z: of educated people suffer from headaches while only 3.8011 of little- educated people suffer from them. 61'Z1 of married people have headaches while 70'Zv of spinsters and bachelors have head pains. Also headaches are more common among city people than country people. If you are bothered by frequent headaches, do the following three things, and according to these statistics you will be less apt to have headaches: 1. Become uneducated. 2. Get married. 3. Move to the country.. l P 1, ' ' In I H obbles 492 Toys 'l MODEL PLANES I' ll Lionel and American Flyer r: 1: MARSHALL'S Q: 73.2?l6f'519Eid?l Ei ....... Ehfrf-14555 lf TZ li KUHN'S PHARMACY ll I fl 5005 Airport Boulevard ll Phone 5-570I Austin, Texas lg'AA::::::::::::::::::A-FAH :E WALTER A. TEW if if Phone 5- I 762 if fl Electrical Contractor fr- - .A... ........ - - - - - - - I Basketball Reigns As Favorite Sport This month, two girls have stepped into the sports spotlight. Basketball is chosen as the favorite school sport and swimming as their favorite summer sport by both Vera.Carter and Sandy Hitchcock. Vera, who is quite an avid intramural participant, has in two years, earned a total of 14 ribbons. The majority seems to be lst place ribbons too. Beginning last year, Vera captained two teams to first place honors in volleyball and soft- ball respectively. Other honors last year were 2nd place in basketball fcaptainj and lst place in broad jumping, a tie for lst place in the 50 yd.. dash, and 3rd place in the softball throw. The last four honors were earned in the Girls' Track Meet and were won individually. This year three blue ribbons were added to Vera's collection, won in soccer, basketball, and tumbling. Next year Vera will be a member of Baker's ninth grade and the following year plans to enter McCallum High School and keep on with her sports. Becoming a member of the Intramural Club is one aim and even a higher aim is to earn a letter. Next will come a college educa- tion, with a lot of fun and sports mixed in. sTuDENTs CRAZY' Asour GAMES Here it comes-there it goes! What is it? The thirty pound dribbleball. The 50 mile court is divided into 10 round squares and 25 people play each triangle block! The 30 lb. dribbleball is kicked by each and every other player with a shoe-ball-hat. If each and every other player on a team doesn't kick the ball with the hat the game is only beginning. IF THE BALL strikes in bounds it is called frontout. Are you catching on? Each player must crawl in a semi- circle around the outside of the square and say dribbleball at every turn. When it is a player's turn to kick the ball he must lie up and shoe the dribble- ball with his head. He must then stand up and take 6 baby steps in a north southerly direction. This is a facinating game and has been very entertaining and popular with the Junior High Students in gym classes the past three weeks. Surely the reader has heard the whisper, April Fool . Now, here's the real dope. The boys and girls combined for three weeks for a Co-Rec Unit in which they played a combination of games: volleyball, aerial darts, ping-pong, deck tennis, horse shoes, and shuffle-board. The last week in March, the activities changed again-the boys to softball and the girls to a rhythm unit. Sandy seemed hard put to select any certain favorite out of all the sports she participates in, but finally settled on basketball at school and swimming, tennis and ping pong anytime. Learning to play better is one of Sandy's aims. Regarding her whole view on the subject of sports, she said, I had rather play with someone better than I because I think you can learn more that way. I think it's so much fun to participate in sports and compete with other people and try to win. Of course, you don't always win, but whether you win or lose, it feels read good to complete a game and feel that you've done your best. Quite a collection of ribbons has Sandy, as this is her third year to com- pete in intramurals. Next year, she will attend Austin High and plans to make more progress in sports activities with two specific aims in mind: to become a member of the tennis team, and to be a member of the Intramural Club and earn a letter. I either want to be a teacher of some sort or an airline hostess. Both would be loads of fun because I would get to meet so many people, says Sandy. if Saegert Bros. Furniture Co. 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'itil I ll it Eltt The Eyes ad 1 Ears of Baker Vol. VI-Issue 8 Baker Junior High May, 1955 Nineteen ays ett tor School Activities Interstate Theaters Announce New Student Prices A revolutionary plan to make it easier financially for boys and girls in Texas, in the 12 through 17 age bracket, to at- tend the movies, by means of a special price range for these youngsters, is to intermediate price range for these young- sters, is to become operative starting Thursday, May 12. The plan, inspired by many talks be- tween R. J. O'Donnel1, general manager of Interstate, and Leonard Goldenson, president of the American Broadcasting- Paramount Theatres Corporation, is a comprehensive one, offering primarily the young patrons in this age group a savings of up to 50W on their movie admissions. Both of the men involved in the origi- nal conversations that led to the con- ception of the new plan by Interstate were in agreement that children reaching twelve and youngsters up through seventeen carried a tremendous financial burden when they graduated from the low children's admission prices to the regular adult pricey they were in thorough accord that something should be done to make it possible for these youthful movie-goers to attend the theatre at a lower price scale, the new Interstate plan is designed with just that in mind. QContinued on Page 81 FOODS AND FUN FOR 5 SC MEMBERS May 5 was a very exciting day for the Student Council members. On this day at 2:00 p.m. buses took the members to Barton's. During the afternoon they went swimming, played games and loafed. A committee was chosen to fix the food. New P.T.A. Officers Are Chosen The P.T.A. has elected new officers for next year. Mrs. W. M. Johnson, Jr., past president, has been given a life membership. The new officers are: President, Mrs. A. H. Matthews, lst Vice-president and Program Chairman, Mrs. Howard Scott, 2nd Vice-president and Hospitality Chairman, Mrs. W. M. Walkerg 3rd Vice-president and Chair- man of Budget and Finance, Mrs. John Eastong 4th Vice-president and Member- ship Chairman, Mrs. John W. Korbg Recording Secretary, Mrs. J. E. Mabry, Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. R. H. Song Treasurer, Mrs. Harry Saathoffg Historian, Mrs. Dunson King, and Par- liamentarian, Mrs. George Francisco. The Baker Rocket Statt wishes to extend their apologies tor printing a story similar to one in the McCallum Shield without acknowledgement to the Shield. Baher's TV Stars, left to right-Judy Berry, Larry Mills, Cherry Strong, and Leroy Basore. SC TO SPONSOR SPRING FORMAL On May 20, 1955, the Baker Student Council will sponsor the Spring Formal which is the last big affair of the school year. The Student Council members will plan the activities and decorate the gym. The price is the familiar one: 25c for stags and 50c for couples. The dance will begin at 8:00 o'clock. COMBINED CONCERT TO BE PRESENTED May 6 is a very important day for the Baker band and chorus, for they are giving a combined concert in the Baker auditorium. The program will have both popular and classical music. Moonlight Bay , and Stouthearted Men are just two of the many songs to be sung by the chorus. Joshua , Comet and Beau Sabreur Overture plus several other selections will be played by the band. The concert will begin at 8:00 'PM Students Appear On Television Four students representing Baker ap- peared on The World At Your Door- step television show Saturday, April 16. Students Participating were Lee Ray Basore, Judy Berry, Larry Mills, and Cherry Strong. Their topic of discussion was the Philippine Islands, and their guest was Pablo Guzman Rivas who is from the main island of the Philippine Islands. Questions asked pertained to location, climate, education, holidays, transporta- tion, recreation, and living standards. The Rocket Statt wishes to thank Howard Eads tor traming the l.L.P.C. Awardfor last year.