Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1959

West Rome hosts Coosa; Cave Spring at Pepperell

Nine basketball doubleheaders tonight offer local and area fans their largest menu of the young season, with a number of top-bracket games included on the agenda.

Heading the home card will be the invasion of Coosa at West Rome High Gym; Pepperell will be entertaining Cave Spring; Trion moves onto the Armuchee hardwood and Johnson plays host to West Haralson.

Rounding out tonight’s slate, East Rome travels to Cartersville, Model journeys to Calhoun, Menlo hosts Berry High, the Summerville Indians entertain West Side, and Rockmart goes to Coosa.

The Chieftains and Eagles will be playing their third games of the year, West Rome’s boys having split their first two outings, while the Coosans are looking for their initial win. The Eagle sextet is unbeaten in two starts, while the Chieftains are 0-2 to date.

At Pepperell, the Dragons will be risking their perfect 3-0 slate against the Cave Spring “5” which has lost but one game while winning six. The Springer lassies are 4-3 for the year and the Dragon-ettes, 1-2.

East Rome and Model, both in out-of-town affairs at Cartersville and Calhoun respectively, show 1-1 records apiece, both boys and girls.

The Johnson Wildcats, unbeaten in two starts this season, will get a real test in West Haralson, always a touted cage outfit. The Johnson girls are seeking the win column after dropping their first two outings.

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1959

Adairsville girl crowned queen of Berry College

Miss Hazl [sic] Paige, of Adairsville, is the newly crowned Miss Berry, queen of the Berry College campus. In a recent beauty and talent contest on the Berry College campus, Miss Paige was the unanimous choice of the judges over 17 other contestants.

Miss Paige is a freshman, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.M. Paige, Box 171, Adairsville.

In addition to her honor as queen of the campus, Miss Paige has won additional campus acclaim as the heroine in the fall term college play, “Jane Eyre.” In the play, Miss Paige had the long diffi-cult role of the orphan tutoress in the home of the eccentric Mr. Rochester.

To win the honor of queen, Hazl was required to demonstrate her stage presence, poise and beauty, as well as her talent. To show her talent she chose to give a dramatic reading in which she displayed her skill in interpretation, as well as almost perfect modulation in inflection.

The “Miss Berry” contest is sponsored by the college yearbook, “Cabin Log,” and contestants, in turn, are sponsored by and represent various campus organizations. Miss Paige represented the Literature, Language and Poetry Club.

Thursday, Dec. 3, 1959

Lone patrolman recaptures three escaped convicts

THOMASVILLE, Ga. (AP) – A lone state patrolman recaptured three escaped convicts while law men from three south Georgia counties used bloodhounds in an effort to track them down.

Trooper T.O. Robinson, 27, of Albany, assigned only three weeks ago to the Thomasville station, drove his patrol car into the path of the convicts who were fleeing Wednesday in a stolen truck after escaping from a work detail near Coolidge, about 12 miles south of here.

When Robinson, a trooper only two years, pulled his gun, the trio surrendered meekly. They ap-parently were unaware of a rifle beneath the seat of the stolen truck.

Retaken by Robinson were L.T. Wood, 21; Russ Mabe, 22, and Charles Thompson, 26. Wood is serv-ing 10 to 20 years for a Stephens County burglary, Mabe 10 years for assault with intent to murder in Long County, and Thompson 6 to 8 years for burglary in Muscogee County.

Prison officials, who described the men as dangerous, said they walked away from a road gang near Coolidge about two hours before Robinson captured them.

Friday, Dec. 4, 1959

School students hear hypnosis discussed

“Wonders of the Mind,” a fascinating demonstration of hypnotism, was presented Thursday after-noon as a Southeast School Assemblies program for Pepperell High and Junior High students.

James Walters, a Kentuckian, was in charge of the program, and explained scientific facts of hyp-nosis. A former school teacher, Mr. Walters attended Berea College.

With the purpose of the program being to create open minds on the interesting mental phenome-non, the speaker discussed hypnosis in the light of what is really known.