SMITHFIELD HIGH TIf-ffiS
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iTHLETES FihINTaIN WINNING
TRhDITION
The baseball and track teams of
SmithfieLd High School did their part in
upholding the winning tradition of SHS
athletics this year.
The Red Devil baseballers, under
Coach H, Virgil Payne, finished with a
victory over arch-rival Selma and ended
the season with a conference record of
four wins and four losses. It was a sea
son of tough luck for the Devils since
they did not win as often as their team
ability indicated. However, we may rest
assured that the Smith!ield sluggers and
throwers gave their best and nade every
opponent fight for what it got.
Next year will see improvement for
the Red Devils and hopes for a conference
championship,
Smithfield's track team went unde
feated in regular season meets, placed
third in the conference meet, and sent a
i'epresentative to the sectional neet in
Paleigh who won first place in the high
jump,
John Gleason, a transfer student
fromi New Bern, was Smithfield’s high
jump wonder, John competed in all the
tegular season meets and in both the
Conference and the sectional naets with
out a defeat in high jumping. His highest
jump was at Garner during the regular
Season when he cleared the bar at six
feet, three inches.
But John was not Smithfield’s
entire array of track stars. There were
elso shot put men Ralph Hall and Mike
'"^tley, bio ad jump and 100-yard dash
oxpert Billy Barnes, high-jumping Joe
^nsirger, polevaulting Charles Hamilton,
sprinters Eric Brewn, Barry Stallings,
und Mac Jones, victorious milers Van
Penning and Jim Lee, record-breaking
discus slingers Edwin Daughtry and Mill-
^ud Stallings, and the fine coach of the
^^e,ck team, Roy J, Brown,
With all that evidence, surely it
^sn be said that "winning" and"Smithfield"
'^^0 synonymous.
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WORLD PEaCE
On April 1, three people competed
for first place in the Smith fie Id High
School Iforld Peace Study and Speaking
Programs.
Jhese contestants were Charles
Mercer, first-place winner; Ray Hinnant,
winner of second place; and Janet Montgo
mery, They spoke on the subject;"Rhat
Should Be the Foreign Policy of the
United States in 196/*.?" The contest is
sponsored throughout North Carolina by
the Extension Division of the University
of North Carolina.
Charles and Ray were given an all
expense paid trip by the school to
Washington, D. C.and New ^ork City. They
visited the United Nations and had some
interesting talks with the ambassadors
from Cyprus and Panama,
They went on a guided tour of New
Pork and saw a few Broadway plays. While
in Vfeshington they visited with Senators
Sam Ervin and Everett Jordan from North
Carolina, They visited the late President
Kennedy’s grave and saw the very impress
ive "Changing of the Guard" at the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier,
n
Charles and Ray report a very inter
esting and exciting trip. Both had the
comment "We only wish everyone could
have gone,"
Judy Corbett
Fashion Wise
Spring has sprung, and vdth it the
fashiona!
Yep, tje fashions really have
"sprung"; they "sprung" right into the
most youthful styles ever designed. For
the sumirer, the idea is "play it cool".
That’s exactly what the "gals" can do in
the dropped waist dresses, A-line
skimmy dresses, the sleeveless overblouses
with A-skirt or box-pleated ones, and the
striped or checked shifts, Tte colors are
really fetching - hyacinth blue, rasp
berry red, citron yellow, orange fizz,
and French pink. The materials are
especially becoming, such as cotton pique,
gingham, plain and checked, silk, ray^on
crepe, daiim, and dotted swiss polka dot.
How could anyone fail to look intriguing,
to say the least!
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