Right Down The Line (3-2-55)

BILL JONES, who played his final high school basketball game last week when Stone Creek's Panthers bowed to Gnadenhutten, has set a four-year scoring record that will be hard to beat. The Panther ace, who broke into the limelight in the 1952 County Class B tourney as a freshman, has totaled 1,792 points during his four years as a Stone Creek cager. This total more than eclipses the record of 1,546 set by Jim Lorenz of Stone Creek last year. Lorenz, who turned 20 before the season ended, could possibly have tallied more than 1,700 points had not he been sidelined by the age limit. Lorenz still holds the Stone Creek High School individual-game record of 42 points, but Jones has the top level of 638 markers in one campaign for the Panthers.
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JONES' 638 scored this season just missed the county record of 642 set by Dave Leggett of New Philadelphia in the 1950-51 season. Leggett scored his total in 22 games while Jones added up his total in 26 games this season. The breakdown on Jones' record at Stone Creek shows him with 345 markers in his freshman season, 400 even as a sophomore, 409 as a junior and the 638 this season. Ronnie Deibel of the Panthers, the first sophomore to make the All-League team since Jerry Von Kaenel and Jerry Haswell did it in 1953, is the lad who has the best chance to crack Jones' four-year mark. Deibel racked up 345 points as a freshman last season and this year his total reached 504 points. That adds up to 849 for two seasons and with still two more campaigns to go, the red-headed Panther standout could well be on the way to a new mark, barring unforeseen injuries or illness.
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THERE were many other scoring records set this season including those by Nick Mourouzis at Uhrichsville and Ronnie Ross at Dennison St. Mary's. Both Twin City lads posted new season marks at their respective schools and are still in a position to hike their totals. Errol Jacobs tallied 43 points in one game for the season's high at Baltic while Paul Lindsey made an assault on the record at Mineral City with two 41-point sprees. Terry Deems hit 41 points at Tuscarawas and Strasburg's Jerry Von Kaenel connected for 43 markers in the tournament finals last Saturday night. Ross' 48 points were the high mark for the season with this total just four away from the county's all-time record of 52 set by Mineral City's Elmer Harris in 1929. Dover St. Joseph's set a new school and Memorial Hall scoring record with 109 points against Dennison St. Mary's.
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STILL OTHER marks were accounted for as Uhrichsville's Mourouzis hit for 17 straight free throws without missing in a game against Carrollton early in the campaign. Mineral City's Lindsey has the top free throw total in one game with 19. Tuscarawas holds the single-game scoring mark of 111 points tallied against Mineral City with the Tigers collecting 88 markers in that same contest to set a new record for the two-team total in one game. That's quite as assault on the record books, but at the rate the scoring is climbing each year, new marks should be set again next season.
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Wednesday, March 2, 1955
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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NEW PHILADELPHIA TEACHER HAS ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN NEA JOURNAL (3-8-55) - The March issue of the NEA Journal of the National Education Association features an article by Richard H. Huebner of New Philadelplhia, art supervisor for the Tuscarawas County schools for the past seven years. In the article called "Rural Schools Go For Modern Art, " Huebner points out that one of the big problems in teaching art in rural schools is not with the pupils, but with the teachers. He tells of his efforts to convince the teachers that art study should be "art experience" for the children and not just "pretty pictures." Huebner shows that a series of workshops helped to acquaint teachers with art objectives and that he had no trouble with the pupils once he learned not to "talk over their heads."
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Friday, April 22, 1955
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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PORT WASHINGTON TEACHER DIES IN CLASS (4-22-55) - Richard H. Huebner, 43, county art supervisor since 1948, suffered a fatal heart attack while teaching a first grade art class at Port Washington school at 10:30AM today. According to school authorities, Huebner was seated at a desk in front of the class when he slumped to the floor. The Port Washington emergency squad was called and administered oxygen and artificial respiration, but Heubner was apparently already dead when they were called. He was a native of Wheeling, West Virginia, where his aged parents still live, but had been rooming at 532 Fair Avenue NW, New Philadelphia. He had reportedly been in good health.
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Tuesday, March 8, 1955
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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MR HUEBNER, MY GRADE SCHOOL ART TEACHER - Mr. Hueber was a fine gentleman and loved by all the students at Port Washington. I was in the 6th grade when this unfortunate event happened. We were all in shock when we were advised of his passing. We knew Mr. Huebner as a kind man and he encouraged us all during his art classes and beyond. As for me personally, I was not as talented in art classes as most of the students, but one day when I was in the 3nd or 4rd grade he encouraged me to submit a piece of my work to the Tuscarawas County Fair. I was rewarded with a second place ribbon for a picture of a man in bed covered with a checkerboard bedspread. I was thrilled as I could be to win this award. Allthough I never pursued the arts during my lifetime, I always looked back and remembered what a wonderful art teacher we had in Mr. Huebner during those years. I recall getting off school and running home to catch Howdy Doody and the Mickey Mouse Club and then watching Mr. Huebner, who had his own TV Show out of Steubenville, Ohio and seeing him on a snowy channel. We just couldn't believe he was on television. Thank you so much Mr. Huebner, you were such a wonderful human being.
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Gary D. Gay
Lafayette, Tennessee