After missing the playoffs for two years, each time because of a single district loss to eventual state champion Lubbock High, it was payback time in 1953. The next OHS playoff win would come 44 years later in 1997, 15-3 over Lubbock Monterrey. He serves until Jan. 1, 1957. Shepperd served as secretary of state from 1950 until 1952. The measure failed, 2,090-430.
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