blast from the past: li'l dwight huber wins the spelling bee

Today, 23 March 2008, the Amarillo Globe-Republican published this story about Anjali Raghuram of Potter County, who won the regional spelling bee Saturday at WTAMU.

On 4 April 1955, the Amarillo Daily Dixiecrat (as it was then called) published this story about li'l Dwight Huber, who won the Potter County Junior Spelling Bee:


Of the Huber story, the Panhandle Truth Squad (then a "beatnik rag" with a circulation of five, the fifth carbon barely readable) said, "Daddy-O, the greatest minds of our generation are being destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, and the Dixiecrat's publishing small-town gossip about spelling bees? If they keep this up those cats are gonna end up being bought out by some Georgia corporation, though they'd probably LIKE that, let them cozy up even closer to Strom Thurmond. As for Huber, he'll probably wind destroying the minds of our generation teaching English at some junior college."

spacedark