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Show vrnic1 J- VOLUME VIII R u - FRIDAY. OCTOBER 24, 195S 5s ISO 0 NUMBER & rii 99 FT?! o o fn ki 4 id Although the name Dixie frequently brings questions from the Rebels Flag 7aves at Dixie passing traveler unacquainted with early local history, the name has a perfectly logical background, says A. Karl Larson of the Dixie College i faculty. Mr. Larson's gi Robert D. Covington, was born in North Carolina, migrated as a child to Mississippi, and there managed a coLon plantation when he was converted to Mormonism. Then who it was demonstrated that cotton could be grown in the Virgin River IL'- 'n, Brigham Young called a group of southern converts to this area under Robert D. Covingtons dli ee. ion to grow cotton. They settled at Washington where the famous Cotion Factory was built a few years later. So it was that this area became known as Utahs Dix e, after the Sou' h. But Dixie 'College has in its body o her Dixieites than the local varie'". Three members of the student be '7 am from the real Dixie, the If p ct uth: all of them play on th ' ollcge football team, appropriate! : known as the "Dixie 'Z Rebels. 'i vs'! ' I ; & v Hubert Hawkins, who plays i WjW ;.V tackle and guard, has been here longest of the three; he registered ?V ' ' ' f i at Dixie two years ago. His home 3i 3 4,;. town is I lone lull. Alabama. When $ (older members of his family, both ? i ,'.f?f 'brothers ami sisters, came west, i Hubert, wi ll Irs twin brother, Herbert, came to Las Vegas, Nev.; from there they came to school at Dixie. t Hubert received a serious shoulder ratdfe injury early in the football season Four southerners pose with the stars and bars of the Real Dixie????? They are, from the left, A. in 1956 and did not play again until Karl Larson, Hubert Hawkins, Joe Hamilton, and Mike Brenner. All presently pledge their loyalty to this year. Herbert starred for two College in Utahs Dixie. seasons, and was named halfback. This year Hubert is a mainstay on the line. He was married last July to Miss Judith 11 Larson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Karl Larson. Joe Hamilton was born in Greenville, Texas, and received six years of football training in the junior and senior hieh schools of Lomcsa, llov-1- 3 Texas. How did he find his way to Dixie? Well lie came to Blanding, The play All My Sons by Ar- and Ann Dever, and the bitterness San Juan Countv, Utah, oil field on The class Dixie the sophomore thur Miller, received the Drama of George Deever returned from is proceeding with with his uncle as an oil field conCritics Award for the best Ameri- the war to find his father in prison College campus struction worker There he met on full annual sophothe speed can play of the season. It had a and his fathers partner free, are (Continued on Page 4) more competitive assembly which long run on Broadway and has woven into a plot of almost unbewill be presented Thursday, Nobeen DATE I.!!!1 produced in moving pictures. lievable power. The climax showing vember 13. The story of All son to idealistic of an conreaction the Sons is My The program which is under the October Hurrinne at Dixie cerned with the fortunes of the a guilty father is a fitting concludirection of Karen Hammond of High School (Foo'ball). 8:00; OctoKeller and Deever families elecPioche, Nev., and Lynn Freeman of ber 24, Dixie College at University during sion to a play that is almost is being put into final of Utah (Football): October 24, and after the Korean War. During trifying in its intensity. Undoubt- St. George, work being done High School Junior Dance, Jantzen with the war Joe Keller and Steve Deev-e- r special shape at will that a is tug play edly, this on individual numbers, and plans Jive. owned and operated a machine the heart strings. It is one of the are being made for programs of October 25, Rebel Ball Game. shop which made airplane October 30, Band Trip to Phoeparts. most difficult and dramatic plays the assembly. Deever was sent to The class will make extensive nix. prison because ever produced at Dixie College. the firm October 31. Dixie High School at But it is not all heavy drama. provisions for costumes, lighting, turned out a batch of Beaver (Football); Dixie College at resound and effects. will scenes The clever comedy jccnery, parts, causing the death of Phoenix (Football); Halloween Ball. many men. The twin shadows of lieve the tension and give sparkle The themes of the assemblies are matNovember 5, School this withheld until the day of inee All My Sons, 4:30. Play, being the to color and play. and the fact that catastrophe the November School Play, 8:00. younger of the two Keller sons People who like good plays well presentation. Class advisors are Mr. Ronald November 7, Snow College at an extra effort make Was should lone reported missing during the o see All D. Hardy with Dixie College (Football), 7:30. My Sons when it is Garner and Mr. Glen War dominated the action of the oroduced in the Dixie College Audi- Mr. Marion J. Bentley acting as November Homecoming play. The love affair of Chris Keller Founders Day. roving advisor. torium, November 5, 6, 8, and 10. : - cotton-producin- g s'u-de- f ! 8v, v vS .& f - , C; , I ', & t;S- :':V; Dixie Ploy "Ail ftly Sqqs im Annual Sophomore Assembly To be Held 2-- de-ecti- 6-- 7-- |