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PROCONIAN
Thursday, January 11, 1945
PROCONIAN
Barbara Cashion Editor-in-Chief
Bill Carmichael Associate Editor
Rebekah Huggins Business Manager
Houston Teague Sports Editor
E. C. Smith, Jr Circulation Manager
Harold Cheek Exchange Editor
Frances Ellinger Feature Editor
Sam Ross Publicity Editor
Robert Brooks Staff Photographer
Venitah Sanders Entertainment Chairman
Miss Manci Advisor
KEYHOLE
STAFF REPORTERS
Jeanne Whitfield
John Egbert
Jane Sparrow
Stanley Cohen
Colbert Leonard
Erwin Danziger
Ardie Hamilton
Pat Hole
Margaret Curry
Ward Peacock
Leonard Smith
Marvin Wilson
Betty Ward Sparrow
An Open Letter To All
C. H. H. S. Students
Last Friday night the Chapel Hill High
School basketball teams played their first
games of the season against out-of-town
teams. Both games were exciting and rough.
In each game both sides were fighting hard
to win and at times, especially in the boys’
game, the play became so fast and furious
that the referees were unable to keep up with
the game and made several decisions which
were obviously incorrect. Their rulings were
met by a host of boos and hisses from the
crowd which was made up principally of C.
H. H. S. students. On the whole, it was a
poor display of sportsmanship.
We of the Proconian aren’t claiming to be
innocent babes in the woods or good-goodies.
The majority of the staff members were
there and took part in this display. The
question which we are raising, though, is
are we going to let this happen again? The
answer, we hope, is “NO.” Booing and hiss
ing is a low method by which to show dis
gust or disapproval. It only lowers the one
doing the booing to the level of the one he
or she is booing. Next time we start to boo
or hiss at a basketball game or any other
event, let’s ask ourselves, “What good is it
going to do?” If we don’t know, let’s ask
Coach Stanback or Coach Lloyd. They’ll tell
us that we are just hurting our team’s
chances to win, because we not only make the
referee mad, but also the players on the
other team. These referees are like ele
phants. They don’t forget those things and
are likely to take it out on our own team
later.
The main reason, though, for not booing is
that it creates such a poor impression of our
high school, not only for the townspeople
who come to the games, but also for the
visitors from out-of-town. We’re proud of
our school and there’s not one of us who
would consciously disgrace it.
We’re not saying to stop cheering. There
are members of the staff who play on the
Definition of Keyhole: a small opening in
a door used for various purposes.
Dot (Helen of Troy) Hogan and Bill
(Paris) Basnight are both like love birds,
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Prine (Bill Prichard and his lovely harem,
Alice Ross and Pat Hole must have enjoyed
the show “Lost in a Harem.”
John Egbert complains of his troubles:
Barbara Cashion and Nita Sanders. (Wish I
had his troubles.)
David Anthony Sharpe was overheard
singing to Preston Cleopatra Westcott “Will
You Tell Me When, We Will Meet Again,
Sunday, Monday or Never?”
I wonder what happened when Sammy
Ross took Mary Lou Barnes home the other
night ? What Sammy ? ? ?
Have you heard of the indiscreet love af
fair between Lady Hamilton and Corn Cob
Nelson ?
We have two people we can always use in
this column, Casanova Browne and Ph Ph Ph
Phillys Ferguson.
Warning to all girls: Lock your balcony
doors because Romeo Teague is on the loose
— (again).
Rodney Waters, who was born in Davey
Jones’ Locker and Helen Phillips (the girl
with the orange hair), have lots of things in
common— (maybe love ?)
Question of the week: Will Robert Brooks
build up enough nerve to ask Ruth Young
to go to the show with him Monday after
noon—?
“Romance, that’s the thing which begins
with sentiment and ends with settlement.”
“Love, the delusion that one woman dif
fers from another.”
Foresight—Jean: “Tell me that you love
me.” Bill: “Sure, but don’t ask me to write
it.”
basketball team and they’ll be glad to tell us
how much our cheering means to them when
they’re on the court. Cheer all you want,
but the next time our team gets a bad break,
let’s show them that we can take it. If
there’s any arguing to be done, remember
our coach is our spokesman and is doing his
best to protect the interests of the team.
Don’t forget that the referee can call a foul
on the home team for excessive bursts of
booing and hissing and that one point could
mean the difference between victory and de
feat.
If we win, let’s be good winners and if we
lose, let’s be good losers. In either case,
try not to give the Proconian cause to write
another editorial on sportsmanship. After
all, we don’t like to write them any more
than you like to read them.
—THE STAFF.
SILO —“Full of Corn’
WEEKLY JOKE:
1st: Which do you prefer? Beethoven’s 5th
or Chopin’s 1st ?
2nd: Patton’s 3rd.
POETRY:
Breathes there a man,
With soul so dead.
Who never to himself hath said,
“Where in h— is my Retonga?”
A PSALM OF LIFE:
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
“Life is but an empty dream!”
For how can one eat raw cucumbers
Without using good rich cream.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal.
Even if you do your darndest.
You always end up in a hole.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow.
Is our destined end or way;
But just to study all tomorrow.
And on each succeeding day.
Art is long and time is fleeting.
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Can not stand the constant beating.
That we get when teachers rave.
In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life.
There’s only one much greater rattle
That which cometh from a wife.
Trust no future, however pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
It’s even best to avoid the present.
And to just remain in bed.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime.
And departing, leave behind us
A poem like this amazing rhyme.
Let us, then, be up and doing.
With a heart for any fate;
Still attempting, still pursuing.
Won’t we ever get a date?
CAROLINA THEATRE
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“CAN’T HELP SINGING”
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