Skate skiing is the latest teenager fad in Fort Scott. The macadam road around the east lake in Gunn Park has been discovered as a good spot to practice it. Ski skates are boards with skate wheels attached front and rear. With both feet on the board a skater guides his course by leaning his body. High speed is acquired on down slopes.
Saigon Police Nab Viet Cong Agents With Explosives...Saigon, South Viet Nam.
Police today seized two Viet Cong agents driving into Saigon on a scooter truck rigged with explosives and said their mission was to bomb the U.S. embassy. Police said the two had planned to park the scooter in front of the five-story concrete embassy building. The detonating device was set for noon-when many embassy workers normally leave for lunch.
Teen Talk (3-24-1965)
Happy Birthday, Brian Simmons-B.V.P.
6 Tiger Cindermen To Manhattan Meet.
Six Fort Scott High School track and field team members will journey to Manhattan for the indoor meet there tomorrow, thereby kicking off the 1965 Fort Scott H.S. track season, Coach Bill Mosley announced today. The six include Bernard Jefferson, Bill Sailors, and Johnny McFall.
Jefferson, who as a junior last year had the best time in the state in the 120 high hurdles, will compete in that event this year. His time last year was 15:3. Jefferson will also compete in the low hurdles, the high jump, the 50-yard dash and the mile relay, Mosley said.
Bill Sailors, captain of Fort Scott's field events team, will represent the school in the broad jump and the pole vault. Last year Sailors came close to breaking the Fort Scott High School pole vault record.
John McFall, who is the captain of the Tiger middle distance runners, will compete in the mile relay event.
Jefferson Takes Meet High Jump...Fort Scott High School's Bernard Jefferson lead the Tigers to a sixth-place finish in the state track meet at Manhattan Saturday. He almost broke the state high jump record and tied Wally Young's 50 yard high hurdle record set last year.
President Johnson today federalized the Alabama National Guard because of the danger of "domestic violence" during the planned five-day voting right march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
No. 1 Ratings to Six High School Students.
Fort Scott High School students earned six No. 1 ratings and three 2's at the District Speech and Drama Festival Saturday at Pittsburg.
Qualifying for the state contest April 9-10 at Lawrence were Mike Shepard and Kenny Austin, duet act from "King Lear"; Robert Farmer, original oratory, title, "The Price We Pay"; Joyce Sinn, oral interpretation of poetry, reading "Sally Dupree"; and Robert Farmer and Robert Eshelbrenner, extemporaneous speaking. Receiving certificates for second place were Julie Vanderbeek in oral interpretation of prose and Greg Akers, informative speech.
Grissom, Young Ride "Molly Brown" Back to Earth. Gemini Flight a Big Success, Astronauts "Steer" Spacecraft. Cape Kennedy, Fla.
America's daring space twins, Virgil Grissom and John Young, flew the world's first maneuverable manned space ship three times around the earth today but mission control said they missed their main target by about 58 miles when the capsule parachuted into the Atlantic Ocean.
FFA Youth Here Wins Top Awards.
With four entries in district FFA competition, Tommy Collins, Fort Scott High School senior, has won four top awards, according to word received here. His beef program and his farm mechanics entry merited first places, and he was judged second in the district for swine and crops. In addition, the 17 year-old Future Farmer was named runner-up for district Star Farmer, and has sent in an application for State Farmer.
"Breath of Spring" Set April 1,2,3
An important call is being made by Sandra Newcomb, who portrays Dame Beatrice Appleby in the English comedy "Breath of Spring" by Peter Coke, which is the 1965 senior class play at Fort Scott High School. Others watching Miss Newcomb are Margaret Ireland, Julie Vanderbeek and Beverly Bailey. Other actors and acresses in the production are Mike Shepard, Kenny Austin, and Bob Eshelbrenner.
This Diamond Ring...Gary Lewis
Eight Days a Week...Beatles
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'...Righteous Bros.
King of the Road...Roger Miller
Jolly Green Giant...Kingsmen
Birds and Bees...Jewel Akin
Boy From New York City...Ad Libs
Ferry Across the Mersey...Gerry & Pacemakers
Red Roses for a Blue Lady...Bert Kaempfert
Can't You Hear My Heartbeat?...Herman's Hermits
If I Loved You...Chad & Jeremy
Ask the Lonely...4 Tops
