The Fort Scott Optimist Club today announced Brian Simmons winner of the Outstanding Youth of the Month award here. Simmons now is vice president of the high school student council, a past master councilor of Demolay, and has been active in many school and community youth activities. He has played the piano 13 years, the trumpet eight years, tap danced 13 years (before many local shows), and has been a member of band eight years. He was president of the high school band his junior year. He has been in drama two years and had the male lead in "The Miracle Worker." Simmons has participated in speech events, is a member of Fort Scott speaker's bureau, and won the V.F.W. Voice of Freedom speech contest during his sophomore year. He played in the Fort Scott Youth Symphony two years, and has played trumpet and piano in several small combos in the area. He plans to attend Fort Scott Junior College next year. His ambition is to be a mortician. He now is employed at Earl's Memorial Home and has worked at local mortuaries the past 3 1/2 years.
Frisco Asks to End All Passenger Train Service.
Frisco Railway officials said here today in Fort Scott that petitions were filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission this morning asking approval to discontinue passenger service on its entire system. They said passenger train patronage has been so small that the trains are no longer a necessity.
Reader Opinion...To The Tribune.
Why is it that we Fort Scott High School seniors sometimes overlook Fort Scott Juco in deciding where we will go to college? Is it because there is no dormitory? Because it is in the same building with the High School? Or could it be that it is in our hometown? Every year the state pays $290 for each Bourbon County Juco student. That, plus the amount spent by the student, helps support our community. The more students we have attending Juco the better for the community. Education is a major industry in Fort Scott. Why should we reduce the income of the community by restrining one of its industries? Sally Pollock
Teen Talk...Dating in England
I have consulted our British authority, Maggie Ireland, and she has written a few paragraphs on dating in England.
Dating habits are similar but restricted, not by parents or social convention but mainly by the fact that girls and boys are separated in schools and we do not all go to school in the same town. The only time boys and girls ever see each other is for a brief period on the way home from school or on weekends.
Methods of transport are one of our main problems on a date. Not many boys under the age 21 have a car and therefore to go the 16 miles into Liverpool to the theatre or cinema you must take a bus or train, then another bus. Because of the expense, many dates consist of a boy coming over to the girl's house or attending the local cinema.
Manners and customs are very similar, opening doors, walking on the outside, etc. but we do have one that I have not found here as of yet-going "dutch." This is the only practical solution to our problem of lack of money. Dates in Britain can be very expensive and you either go dutch or sit at home.
Russian Cosmonaut Floats Outside Ship in Space Feat...Co-Pilot of Two-Man Capsule Attached by Lifeline.
A Soviet rocket hurled two cosmonauts today into man's highest orbit and one of them spent 10 minutes outside the space ship. There were indications that the new space venture was intended as another step toward a trip to the moon by experimenting with the techniques needed to join space ships together.
Sunday...Roast Turkey and Dressing, Whipped Potatoes, Green Beans, Honey Bran Muffin, Cranberry Sauce, Coffee or Tea...$1.00. Elmer's Fine Food
'65 Tiger Track Team Has 5 Lettermen Back...Manhattan, Kas., is the site of the first track meet of the 1965 season for Fort Scott's High School Tigers, but the meet Coach Bill Mosley and the 30 boys out for the team are really looking forward to is the dual meet at Pittsburg three days later. As a boost to Tiger chances of finishing higher than ever in many moons, five returning lettermen will dot the team lineup in the different events. The five are hurdler Bernard Jefferson, pole vaulter Bill Sailors, sprinter John Hart, open 800'er John McFall, and middle distance man Tom Davis.
New Breed of College Student Spurs a Rising Tide of Revolt...A rising tide of revolt spearheaded by a new breed of student is sweeping college and universities across the land. From the Ivy League schools of the Northeast to the casual campuses of the West Coast, deep student displeasure with some aspects of higher education has replaced the frivolous high hinks. There is a growing trend toward sit-ins, lie-ins, picket lines and protest rallies.
Teen Talk...Teens Around the U.S. are:
Wearing suspenders with slacks and skirts to brighten their outfits.
Declaring N.S.W. - National Sunglasses Week. All teens wear "shades" at all times.
Decorating their lockers with wall-to-wall carpeting and wallpaper (using tape, not paste!)
Girls in Virginia keep HIM Books. They have classified boys under such headings as Special Hims, Patriotic Hims, Holiday Hims, Hims of the Hour, and Him of Hims
Ex-King Farouk Collapses, Dies...Rome (AP).
Ex-King Farouk of Egypt, the fat, fun-loving playboy exiled by military revolution in 1952, collapsed in a Rome restaurant early today and died on the way to a hospital. He was 45.
A doctor tried to stimulate Farouk's failing heart with injections and oxygen, but he died as the ambulance pulled up at the gate of Rome's San Camillo Hospital. He had been one of the more colorful kings of modern times, a lusty bon vivant who spent fortunes on pleasure when he wore the crown in a land of poverty. Farouk was dining after midnight with a woman at a plush French restaurant on the edge of Rome. He had just finished a rich meal of oysters, roast lamb, cake and fruit when he pitched forward on the table. At the hospital, attendants found on his person a 6.35 caliber Italian automatic pistol and a pair of the dark sunglasses that he habitually wore. One his finger was a gold wedding ring and in his wallet 97,000 lire ($155).
New Tiger Trophy-A late addition to the growing collection of trophies Fort Scott's High School Tigers have been amassing this year is the Southeast Kansas League 1964 Football Championship trophy, shown here with '64 Tiger co-captains Bill Sailors and Loren Todd. It represents not only the past year's title but also the second year in a row the rough-and-ready Tigers have taken the SEKL championship. Under the able mentorship of Coach Bill Mosley the Tigers have gone undefeated two years and have been tied only once.
