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Administration

Governor
Hon. Edward T. Breathitt

Lieut. Governor
Hon. Harry Lee Waterfield

Commissioner of Corrections
Joseph Cannon

Deputy Comm. of Corrections
Marshall Swain

Director of Corrections
Mr. Harold E. Black

Chairman of Parole Board
Walter Ferguson

Members of Parole Board
Lucille Hurt

Ernest Thompson

Glenn Wade

David L. Davis

Acting Warden

Harold E. Black

Associate Warden For Custody
Lloyd T_ Armstrong

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Director of Education
Henry Burns, Jr.
Supervisor of Education
Billy R. Howard
Athletic Director

John U. Pike

Business Manager
Allen B. White

Chief Records Clerk
Arthur Allison

Psychologist

Leo Yarutis
Sociologist

D. H. Marcy

D. E. Musacchio
Chief Clerk

Bobby Waits
Personnel Manager
Walter Powell

Chief Mail Censor
W. Roland

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TRIBUTE

WAR OF THE SPIRIT

H.E.L.P. and REHABILITATION
IT’S O.K. SON

A LOOK AT THE LAUNDRY
INSIGHT OF MYSELF

TIGER TOPICS

Rod Shouse
Rev. William Diersen
George Garcia

Gene Williams
Charles R. Florian
James Anderson

THE SQUARE CIRCLE Logan Smith
KUBS CORNER Jerry Iker
INTRA—MURAL SOFTBALL Jerry Iker
CHECKERBOARD SQUARE Joe Hollis
SPORTS PICTURES

ON WITH THE SHOW G. W. Green

SCHOOL DAZE

HOW MUCH IS YOUR BRAIN WORTH?
MEET THE INMATE

CANTEEN VIEWS

IN THE SHADOW OF THE TOWER
PENAL PRESS PARADE

CAMERA CLICKS

I’M THROUGH WITH IT

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
RECREATION PARADE

SPORTS PICTURES

HOSPITAL ROUNDUP

THE POOR SCHOLAR’S SOLILOQUY
EX—CONVICTS AND CIVIL SERVICE
GOOD BYE TO A FRIEND
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

THE METAMORPHOSIS

James Fields
Charlie King

G. W. Green
Leroy Thomas

Leroy Thomas
Buddy Stevens

Buddy Stevens
John R. Thompson
Buddy Stevens

CLOTHING HOUSE SUPERVISOR TO RETIRE Rod Shouse
UNEXPECTED CHAMPIONS Harold Peters
KNOW—SIE The Nose
FIRST AID Ottis Faircloth

CLIPPIN GS FROM THE GREENS
WARDEN DAVIS TO PAROLE BOARD

TO MOVE A MOUNTAIN

MEET THE CUSTODIAN

EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT PICTURES
GRADUATIN G BANQUET SCENES 1965
GRADUATION STORY

Pokey Greenwell
Buddy Stevens
John R. Thompson

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TRIBUTE

Donald R. Estes Father, Husband, Educator

On August Blst of this year Mr. Donald R. Estes, Supervisor of
Education at the Kentucky State Reformatory for the past eleven
years departed this life to reap his just rewards in the life here—after.

Mr. Estes was born on the 13th of October, 1904 at Lancaster,
Kentucky. He attended grammar school and later high school in that
city. Following his graduation from High School he attended Centre
College at Danville, Kentucky on a football scholarship and in addition
worked in a restaurant in order to obtain the Education he so sincerely
desired. In 1928, as a result of his efforts Mr. Estes graduated from
Centre With a Bachelors Degree In Education.

Mr. Estes’s first educational assignment, was as Principal—
Coach for the Scott County Board of Education at Huntsville, Ten—
nessee where he served from September 1928 until September 1931.
He next accepted a position as Superintendent-Coach of Public Schools
at Eubanks, Kentucky. He remained at this post for two years leaving
it in September 1933 to become High School Principal-Coach at Fer—
guson, Kentucky. Mr. Estes left this position in December 1935 to
become a grade school principal at Somerset, Kentucky where he re—
mained until 1941. At this point Mr. Estes departed the Field of Ed-
ucation for a seven year period. In June 1941 he became a member of
the State Department of Agriculture in the Lexington, Kentucky
Branch. Following this he became Assistant Superintendant of Ship—
ping and Receiving for the Blue Grass Ordinance Department located
at Richmond, Kentucky. In 1948 he returned to his chosen field, that
of Education, when in June of that year he accepted the position of
High School Principal for the Oneida Institute at Oneida, Kentucky.
Mr. Estes left Oneida Institute in May 1954 to become the Supervisor
of Education at Kentucky State Reformatory. Upon his arrival at
this institution the Edu-caional department consisted of a small el—

. ementary department located in Dormitory 7. Due mainly to the ef— .

f‘orts'of this dedicated proponent of higher learning, the Reformatory

'has'expandedinto a educatiOnal building constructed for that purpose

and. which houses a complete elementary school course, several of the

i more common Vocational courses complete with on the Job Training
' and special classes for those desiring to participate in higher GED

Studies.
Mr. Estes was a member of the Masonic Lodge, a Deacon and

._V8unday School Teacher at the De H‘aven Memorial Church of La

Grange, . Kentucky.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Donald R. Estes, three child-
ren, Mrs. Natan' Nevels of Whitley City, Kentucky, Miss. Lynn
Estes and Mr. Donald E. Estes of La Grange.

Funeral services were held at 11 am. Friday the 4th of September
at the De Hlaven Memorial B-abtist church of La Grange, Kentucky

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SUNDAY

6:30 A. M. Mass
9:00 A. M. Confession

Interviews are held at 9 A. M.
every Thursday.

Confessions on Saturday morn-
ing.

Watch your bulletin board

for later information on
various Church activities.

FELLOWSHIP

SUNDAY

A. M. Sunday School
A. M. Chapel Services
P. M. Prayer Group

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WEDNESDAY

7:30 P. M. Mid-week Fellowship
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CHAPEL

Protestant Chaplain
THOMAS A. STEELE

.It is fashionable among many people to disclaim the
doctrines and teachings of organized religion_ Certainly
there is not one of us who has not heard Christ and Chri-
stianity actively repudiated in casual conversation. N ever—
theless, an analysis of the morals and customs of modern
society will show that the morals‘ and customs of society
are essentially the morals and customs of the Chrristian
religion. Even the man who takes pride in being “bad”
unconsciously conforms to society’s concept of what is
right and what is wrong. It has been said that most people
don’t really want to be bad, they just don’t want to take
the trouble to be good, and this is a pretty fair statement.

For a man to desire evil is a contradiction, for evil
is nothing, chaos, unhappiness and the frustration of every
legitimate desire. An unthinking person might suppose
that the inmates of an institution like this at the movies,
for instance, might be expected to cheer for the villain in
a western movie, or to shout encouragement for a thief
or murderer in his battles with the police in a detective
picture, but every one of us knows that this does not hap-
pen. The natural tendency of each one of us is to side wi-
th the right, with justice and with the law, in spite of the
fact that we so often hear each of these condemned in
conversation.

The real driving force of sin and wrong in this world
is not a tendency to evil on the part of mankind, but the
simple laziness of mankind. We “don’t want to take the
trouble to be good,”

WAR OF THE
SPIRIT

By Rev. William M. Diersen

In these days when our new-
spapers are constantly filled with
news of war, in Viet Nam and
elsewhere, we sometimes forget
that each of us is constantly en-
gaged, willingly or not, in a little,
private war of his own. This we
might term the War of the Spirit.

Catholic Chaplain
FATHER WM. DIERSEN

Everything worth having is worth trying for. Every-
thing worth having is worth making an effort for. And
we find that we cannot get anything that is worth having
without making just such an effort.

We hear many explanations of what puts a man in
the penitentiary. Some of these explanations are offered
by the men who are here as‘ inmates, bad luck, crooked
courts, loss of a job, alcoholism, or even a rare admission
of actual guilt. Other explanations are offered by sociol-
ogists, bad companions, failure of society to provide econ-
omic opportunity, lack of education. a broken home.

All of these explanations have about the same vali-
dity, that is to say, almost none at all.

The thing that puts a man in the penitentiary is his
failure to practice his religion.

Let’s face it, There is not a single man in this instit-
ution who would be here today if he had made a consci-
entious effort to live by the teachings of the religion he
professes, and this statement applies whether that religion
is Catholic, Protestant, Buddhism, Mohammeran, pagan or
even a simple humanism. The lack of religion in your life
is not a conscious striving toward evil, but just the failure
to carry out and practice what you know in your heart is
the right thing for you to do. '

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WAR OF THE SPIRIT (continued)

Statistics indicate that something less than three per—
cent of the men who attend church regularly while in
prison ever return. We do not need statistics to see that a
far larger percent of those who do not attend return, and
return again and again.

This does not mean that there is something magic
about attendance at Mass or at Protestant worship serv-
ices. Mere attendance is no guarantee against the com-
mission of another crime or against being caught and con-
victed. But it has been my experience as Chaplain that
the men who come to church regularly are the men who
are trying to improve their lives, trying to live the teac-
hings of their religion, trying to assure themselves against
another enforced vacation in “this place.”

Isn’t this, after all, worth trying for? Do you like it
here? Wouldn’t you rather be somewhere else? Wouldn’t
you like to be free of the constant annoyances of confor-
ming to the rules which govern every facet of your every-
day life? Wouldn’t you like to be able to do what you wa-
nt to do tonight, to go where you want to go, to see who
you want to see, to be with your family and your friends?

I am not going to tell you that a sudden conversion
or an emotional experience or even regular attendance at
church is going to guarantee you an early parole, but I
do tell you that if you form the habit of practicing your
religion, whatever it may be, while you are here, and ca-
rry that habit out of here with you, you will not come
back, and I think this is worth working for,

A group of men at a state convention of a busines-
smen’s club were talking. Each of them had introduced
himself to the others and told the business he was in. One
of them wore the Roman collar of a priest, and one of the
others turned to him with a smile.

“And what line are you in, Father?” he asked.
“I sell fire insurance,” said the priest.

_ As a priest and as your Catholic Chaplin, that is my
line. I sell fire insurance and I also sell insurance against
a return here. I sell a happy life here on earth, every
satisfaction worth having in life, and an eternity of hap—
piness in the life that is to come. The price is not high,

When you leave here, someone is sure to tell you,
“And don’t come back!”

If you will put the Son of God in His rightful place

in your life, you can be sure that you won’t. It’s worth
trying, isn’t it?

La ._......- . .

H. E. L. P.
and
REHABILITATION

By George Garcia

What does H. E. L. P. stand for? H, Health,, E, Edu-
cation, L, Leadership and P, Public Relations, and we
try to teach our members ways of rehabilitation. We try
to teach a person to have confidence in himself, hoping
someone on the outside will help to give him confidence
upon his release.

Rehabilitate? When we learn to do this, we discover
that the errors of the past have no power over the present
or the future. The past recedes from. us, if we do not hug
it to us, and the light that the changing perspective thr—
ows upon it, makes it a pleasing background for our pr—
esent activities

For one thing, a man can believe in his own inner
awareness, especially if he faces it honestly and without
fear. The question is, “What does life say to you?” Has
it ever suggested that the destiny, the knowledge, the
direction that you brought with you from birth may
actually have been the fruit of some former existence
of experience? Has it ever whispered to you that your
general outlook toward things might be dictated by a
telltale memory of some previous day?

It is pointed out that the brain has the dual function
of remembering and forgetting, and it is just as important

to forget as it is to remember.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which
he attributes to mankind. There will be no peace so long
as God remains at the Conference table.

Fun, laughter and joy are among the world’s cheap—
est and best medicines; give yourself large doses. of these
often.

I cannot recall anything that ever gave me more
relief or more ease of conscience than the times I have
forced myself to concede the seriousness of some "blunder
I,ve made, and allowed myself no misgivings about ha—
ving done so. Every time we yield to an irritable iinpulse,
we put ourselves out of touch and harmony with the
universe.

Have you stopped to give someone a helping hand?
It’s not hard to do, try it. Stretch‘out that hand!

IT’S ELK. SEIN

When Johnny was six years old, he was with his fa—
ther when they were caught speeding. His father handed
the officer a five-dollar bill with his driver’s license.
“It’s 0. K., Son,” his father said as he drove off. “Every-
body does it.”

When he was eight, he was permitted at a family
council, presided over by Uncle George, on the surest
means to shave points off the income tax return. “It’s
OK, Kid,” his uncle said. “Everybody does it.”

When he was nine, his mother took him to his first
theater production. The box office man couldn’t find any
seats until his mother discovered an extra two dollars in
her purse. “It’s O.K,, Son,” she said. “Everybody does
it.” ,

When he was 12, he broke his glasses on the way
to school. His Aunt Francine persuaded the insurance
company that they had been stolen and they collected
$27. “It’s 0. K., Kid,” she said. “Everybody does it,”

When he was 15, he made right guard on the high
school football team. His coach showed him how to block
and at the same time grab the opposing end by the shirt

so the official couldn’t see it. “It’s 0. K., Kid,” the coach
said, “Everybody does it.”

When he was 16, he took his first summer job at the
big market. His assignment was to put the over-ripe tom-
atoes in the bottom of the boxes and the good ones on top
where they would show. “It’s OK, Kid,” the manager
said. “Everbody does it.”

When he was 18, Johnny and a neighbor applied for
a college scholarship. Johnny was a marginal student.
His neighbor was in the upper three per cent of his class,
but he couldn’t play right guard, Johnny got the assign-
ment. “It’s 0. K.,” they told him. “Everybody does it.”

When he was 19, he was approached by an upper
classman who offered the test answers for three dollars.
“It’s 0. K., Kid,” he said, “Everybody does it.”

Johnny was caught and sent home in disgrace. “How
could you do this to your mother and me?” his father
said. “You never learned anything like this at home.”
His aunt and uncle also were shocked.

If there’s one thing the adult world can’t stand, it’s
a kid who cheats!!!

A [00K AT THE lAUNDRY

By Gene Williams

Well, first of all, the guys out here at the laundry
want to say how glad they are for old “Soapy”. As you
probably already know, he was one of the lucky ones
on the June board, good luck Reed.

Our crew has been cut way down, here at the
laundry. A year ago when I first came out here, we had
a count of about 80 men, and now it’s down to 70,
and it looks like we might lose a few, Our little check—
out man “Pee Nuts”, who made parole should be going
soon, and one of our better tub-men, Collier made it. I
want to wish both of these boys good luck. Pee Nuts’
buddy, Grady, is working the mangle now, he is better
known as “Wine Head”...I don’t know why they call this
fine young fellow that, for I have worked with him for
quite awhile now and I haven’t seen him touch a drop,
and I don’t think he’s an AA member either.

Other than our big boss Mr. Clark, we still have~

Mr. Winburn and Mr. Skaggs with us, all three mighty
fine men. We also have back with us Lonny Curry.
I am: sure all you boys have either heard of, or know
old Lonny, he’s the fellow that was out on the greens a
little too early one morning and got teed off, but after a
short rest, he’s now back with us, nice to have him back.
Kennedy is not with us anymore, it seems they needed
him at the cannehy and as bad as Mr. Clark hated to,

he had to let him go. Old “Crazy Horse” is still with us
I’ll say one thing for that old boy, he has his hands full
out here. And my tobacco chewiing friend, Lamb, is still
doing a pretty darn good job of keeping thiings running
out here. If he can’t take a piece of wire and 'fix it, boy
it just can’t be fixed ..... lay in there Tommy.

I don’t guess a home—town of mine will be with us
anymore, it seems that old “Speed” just wasn’t cut out
for the laundry. Burlin and Ledford are still on the
presses along with Rabbit, these are the 3 fellows who
make your pants look so nice....don’t you say anything
Wright. Burlin, you should try to get yourself together
kid.

Our number one clean up boy out here, Freddy
Crawford, is now attending school. .If they learn this guy
anything, they’ll sure be doing something,..just kidding
Freddy, I know you will try. One of the new ones we
have out here is Flemmons, better known as “Mule”. I
don’t quite know what “Mule’s” job is, for it seems like
he is into everything.

Well son, that just about covers things at the laundry.
Maybe we’ll have more to write about next time. Good
luck to you “Buddy”, glad you made it, you have done
a good job here.

INSIGHT OF MYSELF

By Charles R. Florian ‘

It is easy to be a success, if all you ever want to be
is an inmate in one institution after another. The big
key to this is to set your standards of living above your
income, getting yourself in debt over your head, that’s
when the little temptation comes into your mind, You
see where you can make that one “last score” and then
go straight; you don’t stop and think, you just go after
that one last “big score”. You don’t think of getting
caught. See! You are already on your way to success
also on your way back to an institution.

To some of us that have been in these institutions
once or more, the word success begins to have a different
meaning. To me success means to be able to live a use-
ful and decent life in OUR GREAT SOCIETY; to give my
wife and family something and someone that they can be
proud of and not ashamed of, Certainly no one can be
proud of being in this type of an institution, but it need
not be all a waste. It isn’t easy for you while you are
here, but you have plenty of time to think about why
you are here in the first place. I don’t mean where you
made your slip that got you caught; I mean why you
committed the crime to start you on your way here.

I imagine that there are a number of others that are
here basically for the same reason that I find that has
repeatedly brought me here. I found that I have been
trying to out-live the “J oneses”. It wasn’t a hard thing
to do; all I needed was credit. I lived beyond my ability
to meet my responsibilities. Struggling along trying to
make ends meet without success, up jumped the devil
himself and I saw what I thought was a sure way to get
out of debt. .In reference to the devil, I mean that little
old thing called temptation. As it turned out, I am even
deeper in debt, and have three years here to think of how
much simpler it would have been to cut down on the
things that I wasted my money on trying to build a false
front for my life. I should have worked a little harder
to get out of debt.

The fact that I am here has hurt me...no one can

say that it doesn’t hurt them to be here. How many of
,us have stopped to think of who is hurt the most by us
when we come here? I feel that I have hurt the ones
that I claim to love the most. I have hurt my wife, my
family, my parents and my friends of society.,.much
more than I have hurt myself.

Society and our families don’t have to prove them—
selves. It is up to us an individuals to prove to society
as well as ourselves that we are capable of living a use-
ful life in society. I am thankful that I will have a chance
to prove that I am capable of living in our society.

I hope that someone else can profit by my mistakes.
It has taken me three trips to this instutition to set me
to thinking straight. Maybe some of you will be able to
understand your own problems sooner than I was able
to understand mine.

After I left here the secound time, I did the one thing
that was decent in my life,..l married the girl that I
love. We have two wonderful children and in them I
have the one thing that any man can be proud of, hap-
piness and love. Of what do they have to be proud? Cer—
tainly not me. I am very fortunate that the children are
young and that I will have time to prove myself in society
before they are old enough to face society.

It seems that I had to come back once more before I
was to see this...so that I could understand my faults.
I am ever thankful to my understanding and loving wife,
who while I am here, is keeping the family together,

. and understanding enough to still have faith in me, So

with my family waiting for me, and the Lord’s help when
I leave here this time, I will be saying good-by to all
institutions of this type for the last time.

One last parting thought, if mistakes were not to be
made, then why do they put erasers on pencils? I believe
that my pencil has become all eraser. So I find that I
must change my way of life while there is still time
to save my marriage and family life at home. I realize
that my time to change has come. My last call in society.

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TIGER TOPICS

By James Anderson

The Kentucky State Reformatory Varsity Baseball
Team, coached by John Pike, started off their regular
season May 9th with the tension and pressure already
on them. The 1964 baseball team set perhaps an all time
record for any institution that plays outside competition.
The KSlR Tigers built up a terrific winning streak by
winning 33 consecutive games without a loss. There were
only 6 veteran players back this year but these men and
the 9 new rookies all wanted to continue the consecutive
Victories for perhaps a record that will never be broken
again. We opened the season with a very fine team out
of J effersonville, Indiana tabbed the “Dance Oilers.” The
Tigers made 4 quick errors in the starting of the game
but shook them off like a professional team. The Tigers
came to bat in the 2nd inning and put their bats together
to score 7 runs and then went on to beat the Oilers 22
to 8_ The winning pitcher for the Tigers was Herb Ross
who went 5 full innings and then was relieved by Jim
Trammel who carried the Tigers on to Victory. Some of
the key hitters in this game were Herb Ross, he had 4
for 4. Jack Bartlett who is catching for the Tigers went
4 for 5. Jeep Ward playing short stop and Jim Trammell
both had 3 for 4. Playing 3rd base was Glenn Murray
he had 2 hits out of four times at bat and got the Tigers
first home run of the year. On Sunday May 18th the
Tigers won their 2nd game of the season and their 35th
consecutive win by rolling over the Louisville Royals
15 to 2. The winning pitcher was Jim Trammel and he
struck out 16 Royal players. Leading the hitting in this
game was Jim Anderson who plays center ﬁeld, he had
3 hits out of 4 times at bat and also got his first home run
of the year. Others to come through in ﬂying colors were
Jeep Ward and Glenn Murray who both had 3 for 4. Both
of Glenn Murray’s hits were blooming home runs. Robert
Sloan, the Tigers first baseman went 3 for 6 and two of
them were‘for extra bases,

Sunday May 22nd the Jeffersonville Dance Oilers
came back for revenge. However, Coach Pike had the
Tigers in tip—top shape and they rolled over the Oilers
once again with the score 10 to 3. Jim Trammell was
the winning pitcher and he struck out 15 Dance Oiler
men. Top hitters for the Tigers were Glenn Murray and
Jack Bartlett, they both had 2 hits out of 4 turns at the
plate, The Tigers were off and rolling now because this
made their 36th consecutive win. On Sunday May 30th,
this was perhaps the saddest day ever at K S R, espec-
ially for Coach Pike, and his rampaging Tigers because
they went down in the loss column for the 1st time in
three years. The 36 consecutive wins they built up is a
record andI feel that it will be a long time if ever, be-
fore any team can break it. The competition was from
Goshen, Ohio and perhaps the best amatuer baseball
team in a 200 mile radius of here. Goshen won 6 to 5
and the loosing pitcher was Jim Trammell. For Goshen
the winning pitcher was Larry Womack who pitched

,for the University of Cincinati. The big down-fall for

the Tigers was the 8 big errors they made while Goshen
didn’t have any. However, the Tigers had 5 and Goshen
only had 3. Sunday June 13th the Tigers romped back
in the win column by defeating a very fine American
Legion team, from Ratcliff, Ky., 9 to 3. The Tigers win-
ning pitcher was Jim Trammell. Leading in the hit
department for this game was G. Murray who had 4 for
5 and got his 4th home run and he is leading the Tigers
in this department. J. Guthrie who had just broken into
the Tigers starting line—up through his hard work and
hustle during the weeks that have passed at right field,
had 3 hits out of 3 turns at bat for a perfect day at the
plate.

June 25th the K S R Tigers defeated Brady’s Boys
from Louisville 14 to 4. Jim Trammell was the winning

pitcher. The Tigers broke loose in this game and got 16
hits. Lawrence Roberts, Jeep Ward, Glenn Murray, J.
Bartlett, James Guthrie, Jim Trammell, Herb Ross and
Jim Anderson accounted for these hits with 2 apiece.

Sunday June 27th Goshen, Ohio returned to K S R
once again. This is the only team that had ever beaten
the Tigers in three years. Everone around was saying
that they could’nt beat the Tigers again, When the last
inning was over and the score went up, Goshen, Ohio
had beaten the Tigers again :10 to 3. Losing pitcher for
the Tigers was Jim Trammell who allowed 8 runs in two
innings. Glenn Murray relieved him. in the 3rd inning
and finished the game and allowed only 2 hits and I
earned run. This was Glenn’s first game to pitch this year
but he did a superb job and is expected to see a lot more
action this year. The Tigers only got 4 hits off the Goshen
pitcher, Ray McCloyd who was the winning pitcher. He
struck out 14 Tigers. He is fresh out of High Scool but
he has a scholarship at the University of Kentucky.
Accounting for the 4 hits was J. Guthrie, Robert Sloan,
H. Ross and J. Anderson. We will have one more chance
at them this year. We all feel that it is impossible
to be beaten by any amateur team 3 times in a row. Be
sure to read the Sports Section in the next issue of the
Sky Tower News to see what the out-come of this game
will be, and the hi-lights of the rest of the season with
the Tigers. The Tigers have a 5 win and 2 loss record
this year. The season is just half over, so there will be
a lot more action.

THE SQUARE CIRCLE

By Logan Smith
K S R Boxing Instructor

Shortly after this copy has been published the sport
of boxing will once more be the vogue here at this
Institution. A scanning of this seasons pre-program is
indicative of a most enjoyable card of bouts for the
coming season, one that possibly provide the best box-
ing entertainment ever offered here. Many of the old
well known ﬁghters have signed for this season, among
them, Snake Helton, Seahorse Brown, B. Smith, Fred
Arms, Nippie Jones, Pablo Ferrell, and D, Fisher. These
names are ample proof that KSR’s fight traditions will
be carried on, and as we speak of traditions, from out of
the past come the unforgettable names of C. Calhoun,
J. Abney, C. Eldridge, Bobby Lawson, and Red Faircloth,
fighters with an undefeatable fighting spirit.

A consesus of spectators watching the training in
progress has revealed that a large percentage believe
this to be the best fight card ever known here at KSR,
and while it is a sad thing to see any of the old fighters
return to confinement, there are some that have, and
these will beyond doubt add much to the coming box—
ing program. In addition there are several new faces,
some of which know little or nothing of the Manly Art
of Self Defense, some who have already shown that they
have quite a bit of natural ability, all possessed of the
will to learn, all of whom are coming along in fine shape.
It is certain that by the time fight season really gets
under way, these newcomers will have gained a lot of
the knowledge they are seeking, and they will be able to
give a good account of themselves when they preform
in the Squared Circle before their first crowd.

Would be fighters are a class all to themselves,
they are of the type that easily admit their lack of
fight knowledge and are not in the least adversed to
ask for help in improving their style and abilities. The
newcomers here are cast from this same old mold and
yours truly has to the best of his ability extended the
help that has been ask for however, one instructor can
accomplish just so much, in this matter I have. been
very fortunate in having Earnest Powell as a co-
instructor. Earnest, an experienced fighter in his own
right, is a hard taskma—

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KUBS KORNER
,, By Jerry Iker

The bleachers lining the west and north side of
Tiger field were loaded with spectators on May 8th,
this and a roar went up as the fifteen members of the
KSR Varsity Softball team ran onto the field for the
opening of the season. This first effort was a double
header with the “Bob Jones All Stars” of Louisv'lle,
Kentucky.

The KSR Team for this year is comprised of Pete
Paterson in the roving slot, Jerry Marshall and William
Weathers guarding left field, Morris Martin covering a
lot of gound in center field, in the infield, Roger
“Pappy” Jones holding down the hot corner, Bobby
Mickens and Eddie Young handling 2nd base, Bill
Grisham and Virgil Hayden kicking the first sack, Don
Middleton and James Googe firing the ball past the
batters, Martin Trice and Joe Brown behind the plate
and yours truly playing a little outfield and holding
down a lot of bench.

The second game proved to be a run-away. While
the infield scooped grounders out of the dirt and
snagged line drives, the outfield, it seemed could do no
wrong, they pulled down everything that came in their
direction and made the hardest of plays look easy.
This type of playing resulted in a humiliating defeat
for the All Stars. The score was Cubs 29, All Stars 5,
and a second victory for the Cubs.

The first game furnished many thrills and the
Cubs executed four good double plays which kept the
All Stars within striking distance of the Cub bats.
In the bottom of the sixth, the Cubs in a determined
drive forged ahead by one and took the All Stars 1,
2, 3, in the top of the seventh, which clinched the Cubs
first victory of the season.

On May 15th the Cubs played host to the good
Lincoln Income team. In this the