Two Shutouts - Fifty Years Apart

Last night in Houston, the Rangers skunked Strake Jesuit 57 - 0!!! Not a typo. Hope this means that our guys are incredibly good and not that Strake is appallingly bad.

Fifty years ago, Dallas Jesuit shut out Mineral Wells 13 - 0 there. It was the second time in the season at an opposing team failed to score against the Rangers.

The half-century ago team’s senior halfback Don Erler scored the second TD.

Back in Dallas, on that long ago weekend, the weather was forecast to be fair and warm with temperatures ranging from low of upper 70s to high around 90.

Movies playing the weekend included Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic, and The Interns with Cliff Robertson and Buddy Ebsen at the Palace on Elm Street downtown. The Majestic is still there as a live performance venue; the Palace lasted another decade or so before it was torn down to build Thanksgiving Tower. Remember the organ that rose from the floor for an intermission serenade?

In "suburban" theaters, Richard Beymer starred in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man at

at the Lakewood, and James Mason and Sue Lyon were in Lolita at the Inwood. What ever happened to Beymer and Lyon after these two movies? Playing at the Circle, where I was employed part time, was Cimarron with Glenn Ford and Maria Schell.

On Friday, The Dow-Jones Industrial Average closed at 605.84. The four most active stocks were Chrysler, Polaroid, Lockheed, and U.S. Steel.

SMU President Willis Tate announced that Paul Elaine Jones enrolled as a full time undergraduate there. She was the first Negro (as black people were termed then) to do so. Hardly anyone noticed. That would not to be the case elsewhere. Jesuit, of course, had admitted blacks with little fanfare at least since our freshman year.

In somewhat grimmer news, on Friday, 9/14/1962, two jet fighters, a National Guard F86 and Navy F8 collided at the Dallas Naval Air Station in Grand Prairie killing two pilots. Two brothers were indicted for pilfering oil from adjoining leases in East Texas using slant well drilling.