Palomar Upsets Antelope Valley 3~-29 ToCapture Conference Cage Opener Gaining sweet revenge and upsetting all the dope sheets, a surprising Comet basketball squad rolled to a 39-29 victory over the visiting Marauders from Antelope Valley in the Vista high school gym on Saturday, Jan. 7, before a small partisan crowd. Making victory even more sweet was the fact that it wa this same squad which on Dec. 16 eliminated Palomar from the first round of the South Central ,Junior College Toumament at Oceanside. The win, first conference win of the present season, also marked the first victory of a Comet squad over Antelope Valley in basketball ince competition began between the two school~. Dick Nelson Stars The Palomar team revealed a new scoring punch in Dick elson, who, substituting for first string center Duane Boyle, rose to the occasion to park the squad with a total of 14 points before leaving the game on fouls in the closing minutes of the contest. In addition to his point total Dick was a demon on the backboard and provided a much needed strength in controlling the ball under the Comet basket. The play of the entire squad was a big improvement over the listless game played at Oceanside. The team while still poor in shooting percentage showed a great advance in ball handling and passing. Palomar Scores First Pa lomar drew first blood with a basket by Ronnie Kenney but Antelope Valley quickly evened the score. The lead seesawed · back and forth but the Comets finally gained a four point advantage late in the first period and wer e never caught. The half ended with Palomar leading 1612. The second half saw the Comets gradually pull far out in front mainly through the efforts of Nelson who scored most of his points in this canto. Free Throws C01t.nt The final core might have been differenct but for the seeming inability of the Marauder squad to make the great number of free throws pay off. Palomar, on the other hand, while still poor in goal percentages, made a better than average free throw total. Palomar completed 9 of (Continued on Page Four)
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Pierce J. C. To JoinSouth Central League On Saturday, Dec. 17, the South Central Junior College Conference held its semi-annual meeting at Oceanside-Carlsbad College. 'l'he top business before tho deans and athletic directors of the conference schools was Pierce J·unior College's petition for admission to the conference as the seveDth team of the league. Present to make the p ersonal request were Vierling Kerey, Jr., director of the college and assistant coach Mike Sereno. Pierce is a vocational agriculture college. Larger in enrollment than most of the schooLs now in the conference, but due to its restricted type of study program, is comparable with the schools now full members. It is a part of the Los Angeles school system and located in San Fernando Valley. For the past two years Pierce has met Antelope Valley in athletic competition on a wactice game basis with results that would indicate it is in approximately the South Central J. C. -class. Pierce's petition was favorably voted upon by the conference schools and in so far as pos! sible the college will schedule Pierce for next year's football season on a practice game, nonconference basis. It will officially enter the conference with the basketball season of 1950-51, if the action is approved by the State athletic committee. Attending the meeting for Palomaz· were Dean J. L. Blair, President Hildreth, and Coaches Harper and Villa.
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Hea dhunt'er Gives Skull Collection to S cience Dept.
Mis s Barre tt Becomes Vist a's
A notable collection of 25 bird skulls and 15 eggs has been donated to the College science department by Mickey Robinson. The collection includes specimens native to northAnother first on the Palomar ern San Diego County and will campus was scored by Miss be on display in the science dePhyllis Barrett of our faculty partment as soon as an adequate when he r eceived her pilot's li- show case is available. Mickey, a Palomar student, cense over the Christmas holiand resident of Fallbrook, has days. She became the first woman been collecting these skulls and pilot in Vista's history. Several eggs since childhood. He is an other women are working on amateur ornithologi t and would their certificates but have not appreciate meeting anyone who yet piled up enough solo hours ha similar inter ests. The entire student body wishe to take their final exams. • The next stage in Miss Bar- to express thanks to Mickey for rett' pilot's log, is to fullfill · his generous gesture and are several rash promi es of free looking forward to seeing the sightseeing trips make in mom- bird skulls and eggs on display. ents of weaknes . A special assembly for the However, we're very proud. of Miss Barrett and offer our sm- awarding of football letters will cerest congratulations on this be held tomorrow during third period at Carpenters' Hall. achievement.
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!~.~- - TELESCOPE STUDENT PUBLICATION OF PALOMAR COLLEGE
Vol. 3, No.8
Vista, California, Wednesday, January 11, 1950
Examination Schedule FIRST SEMESTER 1949-50 Classes· regularly meeting Monday-WednesdayFriday will have examinations on: Periods
1st-8 :30-11 :30, Monday, January 23. 2nd-8 :30-11 :30, Wednesday, January 25. 3rd-8 :30-11 :30, Friday, January 27. 4th and 5th-12 :00-3 :00, Monday, January 23. 6th-12 :00-3 :00, Wednesday, January 25. 7th-12:00-3:00, Friday, January 27. Classes regularly meeting on Tuesday-Thursday will have examinations on: Periods
1st-8 :30-10:30, Tuesday, January 24. 2nd-8:30-10:30, Thursday, January 26. 3rd-10:40-12 :40, Tuesday, January 24. 4th and 5th-10 :40-12 :40, Thursday, Jan.. 26. 6th- 1 :00-3:00, Tuesday, J anuary 24. 7th-1 :00-3:00, Thursday, January 26. Courses offering more than t hr ee units of credit may have additional examination time at the discretion of the instructor . This will be the case in certain laboratory and language courses.
Th espians Receive Wallet Thieves' Drama A wards Par ent s to fro m Coach Kelley ,\ wal'fl annonnced by Drama Coach Arthur Kelley, at the tudent a. sf'mbly Oct. 18, l 949, were i:-:;sued thi week to the talented r ec ipient.'>. .-\. troph~· was presented to Robert Downing. out tanding actor of the year. for his portrayal of She1·idan \Y!1iteside in the play, ·'Th e :.\I an \Yho Came to Dinn er.'' Palom ar Coll ege players Meritorious Performance :vr: e d a l s " ·ere p1·esented to the followillg students for tl1e!r "·ork in "The l\1an \Vho Cam~ to Dinner'' and "Ten I.~ittle Indians": Donn a Dysart. Ray Kerby, Charlen Fifield, Dick Pder.~on, Gilbert Gillogl)·, .Joe Du Ermit, Cleo Sloan, Betty .Johnson, J erry :.\Iattson and Bob Downing. The following students were recomm ended by Director K elley for life membership in National Honorary Dramatic fraternity, Delta Psi Ome"'a, in recognition of their work as member s of the cast. and stage crews, havin g met th e requi1·ements of that organization. Bob Downing. Donna D:vsart, Charlen Fifield. Cleo Sloan, Dick Peterson, Clilbert Gillogly, Jerry Mattson, Ray Kerby, Joe Du Ermit, Dick Brenan and Albert Hans.
Return Money ThP lost is found. During the football season, whi le the Comets wPre practicing on the Fa llbrook field seven of the boys lost their wallet.· when vandal broke into the tPam d1·essing room and ran>;acked it. But ju.<;t before the holidays Deputy Sheriff Robinson report1-'d that th e culp1·its had been ra u:;h 1. r'iv(' boys, aging from eight to thiJ·tPPn, were r espon ible for the t hrfts. After they had removed the money from the wallets, tl1 e wallets, were burned with nll their paprrs that they contained. However one wallet has been 1·ecovered. But thr boys claim they do not know if it is one of th e Comet's or if it is one they bad taken from pa~·ked cars. lt is brown l ~at her with black stitching, well wom and has a zipper pocket. Th e trade name on thE' wallet \Yas almost wo1·n off. but appears to say Nokoma. Somp of the money will be r eturned to the boys who lost the most in that raid by the boys parents through the county probation department. This should be of particular inter est to those boys on the football squad. If i11terE'sted on the return of yonr money see Coach Harper.
There WILL Be an Annual Falling far below normal expectations, the Yearbook sales drive, nevertheless, will bring forth a modest annual for the year 1950. The new Mirror, edited by Don Kennedy, is now in preparation and will reach the students before the end of next semester.
Five Cents
Contractors Begin Field On Saturday Plans for the building of a baseball diamond for Palomar College on the San Marcos site began to materialize wheu construction firms within the College district came forth with of~ fers of equipment, men and money to make the project a reality. Work on the project will begin on Saturday, Jan. 14_ First to come forth with an offer of men and equipment was Mr. Ernest 0 una of the Vista \Vay Granite Pit who will put at the disposal of the college heavy equopmeHt, bulldozers, rippers, motor patrols, etc. Escondido Donm·s But Mr. Osuna' generous offer was by no mea ns the only one. Rallying forth from Escondido were the Einer Bros. Constuction Co. rcprese11ted by Mr. ]<'red Einer, and l\fr. Phi] Ran. om, Mr ..T. A. B ralisford, and Mr. C. M. Martin. From Fallbrook came more fine offers of assistance such as those from Mr. Vern B. Martin, and Mr. Carlton Lloyd who has offered use of equipment or the sum of $100 to hrlp finance the project. From Vista a donation of aid came from Mr. Russell Thibodo. 'l'h worl> t>f grading the proposed baseball diamond location is expected to be finished in one day but much additional work will be needed to make it .·mitable for practice or play this coming season. It is hoped that in this work the :;tudent body wi ll rallv forth to hrln in as f inP a way a~ did the rept:esentatives of the college community. Biggest p rob lem in the way of the prese11t undertaking is lack of water. None can be secured until th e college moves to the new site and an allotment of water rights i'> granted the college distriet. Even without grass 011 t.h e field, however, just having a plllce to p1·actice will be of tremendous bem•f.it to the colleg-e. t!·--- -
C oach es Build E mergency C ourt In R ecreation Area Palomar now ha~ a new basketball co urt due to the efforts of Mr. Ilal'per and Mr. Villa who came down during the Christmas HIC<~tion and m arked out a sta n<lard playing court near the home plate of the baseball diamond of the recreation center. It leaves much to be de, ired fot' the re ilient qualities of bard eart h are not of the best but ilt lea!;t it is better than the cement slab forme1·ly usPd.
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A platter dance at Carpenters H all will follow Friday's basketball game again t Palo Verde ,J. C. Br s11 re to be there.