JAMES PIERCE/GDH Guymon High School Drama Students performing the song "I'll Never Be Jealous Again" from the musical "The Pajama Game". The curtain opens at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 24 at the GHS Auditorium. Tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for students. They will also be giving $1 off for those who come wearing pajamas.
By James Pierce
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Come one, come all, to the Guymon High School's production of "The Pajama Game" at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 24 and 25 at the GHS Auditorium. The cost for tickets is $7 for adults and $3 for students. They also will be giving a dollar off the ticket price to anyone who comes wearing their pajamas. The musical is based on the novel 7 1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell about union workers in the Sleep Tite pajama factory fighting for a seven and a half cent raise and the unlikely love affair between the Superintendent of the factory Sid Sorokin and the leader of the union grievance committee Catherine "Babe" Williams. The musical first opened on Broadway in 1954 and ran for 1,063 showings. It won a Tony for Best Musical for the first production and Best Revival of a Musical in 2006 for a reproduction that starred Harry Connick, Jr. as Sid in his first ever Broadway musical. GHS would like to invite everyone to come out and enjoy all their hard work in the GHS production of "The Pajama Game", 7:30 p.m., Mon. and Tue., Nov. 24-25.
Guymon Pioneer Days Rodeo ropes in Panhandle cowboy champions
Monday, 05 May 2008
HEATHER AVEY/GDH
Jhett Johnson and Charlie Crawford united forces for the team calf roping event Sunday, May 4 at Hitch Pioneer Arena.
By TED HARBIN Special to the Daily Herald
There was a light in Beau Franzen’s eye on Sunday afternoon.
The Oklahoma Panhandle State University graduate had just finished a rugged week of work in his old stomping grounds. Now living in Sidney, Mont., Franzen ventures back to No Man’s Land when his work requires it, and last week’s Guymon Pioneer Days Rodeo called for a reunion in Texas County. When the all-around cowboy busted through on Sunday afternoon for a 3.9-second steer-wrestling run, it meant hard work had paid off. He finished tied for fifth in the final go-round and earned almost $1,000 for the feat. More importantly, though, it moved him into the No. 2 spot in the all-important aggregate race and added another $2,980 to his pocketbook. “It’s always good to come back here,” said Franzen, who moved to Goodwell earlier this decade to attend Panhandle State and compete on the university’s prestigious rodeo team. “It’s way better when you can win a bunch of money back here.” Franzen did just that. He finished in a tie for fifth in all three go-rounds and earned $5,514, all for just 11.7 seconds of work. “This is good for me coming back,” said Franzen, who was fifth in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s bulldogging world standings prior to Pioneer Days Rodeo. “I broke my leg over the Fourth of July last year and had to sit out a few months. So it’s good to be on this stretch.” Only Californian Luke Branquinho fared better than Franzen. The 2004 world champ won two rounds and placed in a third, finishing with the fastest cumulative time of 10.9 seconds on three runs. Branquinho earned $8,643 while in the Oklahoma Panhandle. His week’s worth of labor moved his earnings to $35,752 and should move him up one spot in the standings. The goal, of course, is to finish the regular season in a similar location – the top 15 contestants in each event at the conclusion of the rodeo season qualify for the National Finals Rodeo, and the contestant in each event with the most money won at the end of the NFR will be crowned world champion. Franzen has played on ProRodeo’s biggest stage, having run with the best of them during the 2005 championship in Las Vegas. “Doing well in Guymon helps in the standings, but it’s also a tour rodeo, so it’s good to get these tour points,” he said, referring to the ProRodeo Tour, which features 26 events and a tiered playoff system. The deeper contestants go in the playoffs, the better money that is available. Franzen wasn’t the only Panhandle son to fair well in her biggest event. Legendary world champion Billy Etbauer – who spent time in the Panhandle early in his career and whose brothers, Robert and Dan, live near Goodwell – is well on his way to a sixth world championship. Billy Etbauer rode the horse Smoke Jumper for 87 points on Saturday afternoon and tied Chet Johnson of Gillette, Wyo., for the victory. “It’s a dream come true for me to compete against Billy, much less to split a big rodeo like this one with him,” said Johnson, 27, a two-time NFR qualifier. “I grew up watching him and seeing how great he is, so this is a big deal to me.”
