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By George Rorrer
Reflecting upon the world’s,
greatest wonders, I’m inclined to 1
class television as tops.
Last Saturday I sat in my liv
’ ing room and watched a baseball
game being played in Boston, a
horse race in Louisville and a mile
event from a track meet in Los An
geles.
Had such a thing as television
been operating during the years
of World War 11, when I was grow
ing up in West Virginia, I’m afraid
I’d be an uncontrollable sports ad
dict. As it is, I can still force my
seflf to pass up certain events in
the Bporting world. It’s tough, I’ll
admit, but it’s still possible.
With the exception of parts of
the baseball game, in which Detroit
walloped Boston, 16-4, the after
noon was replete with thrills.
Before my eyes, "as I sat in Eden
ton, N. C., thousands of miles from
where the events were actually tak
ing place, I saw a horse named
Needles sweep from behind to win [
the Kentucky Derby in a close fin
ish.
Then, John Landy, proclaimed
“the world’s greatest miler,” be
fore the race, was beaten by strong
Jim Bailey in a race that kept me
in a state of excitement for the en
tire three minutes, fifty-eight and
six tenths seconds that it took Bai
ley to win.
Yes, the world has been made
more wonderful than ever before
by television. That is, if you’re
fortunate enough to select the right
channel at the right time.
For instance, had a person
watched one of the three channels
available to local viewers all af
ternoon Saturday, he would have
seen a “scare-crow”, a “rabbit”, a
ventriloquist, a dummy and other
assorted specimens cavorting
around to please an advertiser:
Notice To All Democrats
The Democratic County Convention will be held in the
' Conrt House af o’clock Saturday after
noon, May 12, 1956 for the purpose of organizing accord
ing to the Plan of Organization of the. Democratic Party,
and for the election of delegates to the'State Convention;
The Sate Convention will be held in the Auditorium in
the City of Raleigh at 12:00 o’clock noon, on Thursday,
May 17, 1956.
All Democrats are cordially invited to attend.
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i, While all this was going on on
i' one channel, another member of the
same network was brilliant enough
to present the mile race from the
west coast, giving the public some
worth-while viewing.
But you have to expect some bit
ter with the sweet. After all, the
owner of the television station has
to live, too. And the almighty dol
lar comes first.
Here’s one for the “did you
know?” file. World-famous dis
tance swinner Shirley May France
now lives right outside Edenton.
She’s now Mrs. Shirley May Smith,
wife of Ist Lieut. Doug Smith of
the Edenton Naval Auxiliary Air
Station. The Smiths hail from
West Lynn, Mass. They are now
residing in Westover Heights.
Shirley made two tries at swim
ming the English Channel a couple
of years ago, but both ended in
failure. Both, however, were in
[ the “almost” class. She’s now the
mother of a young son and doesn’t
swim much more.
By the time you read this, the
bottom may have fallen out, but
right now my Cincinnati Redlegs
are doing right well in the Nation
al League race. Could this be the
year? Probably not.
Which reminds me, Caleb Rives
and I will have to get together and
revise our prediction. It always
helps to know how the teams look
against each other before you pre
dict how they’re going to finish.
The NAAS intramural softball
league had a rip-roaring day last
Wednesday. Three games were
played, and the H&MS Cubs made
quite a bow into league play. They
whipped MABS’ Giants, 32 to 1.
The Hedron Senators won their
THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1956.
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suit features a neckline upsweep with wide straps that button on (o a
1 curving collar. Man wears matching Wikies.
second in a row, topping the MABS
Braves, 7 to 1. MABS’ Red Sox
also got their second victory of the
' year, thumping the VMA-211
White Sox, 18 to 6. The loss sent
the White Sox to the cellar with an
0-2 'record.
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The standings:
, W L Pet. GB
1 Senators 2 0 1.000
5 Red Sox 2 0 1.000
' Cubs 1 0 1.000 V 2
' Pirates 1 0 1.000 %
Athletics 0 0 .000 1
Yankees 0 1 .000 IV 2
* Cardinals 0 1 .000 IV 2
Giants : 0 1 .000 I*2
: Braves 0 1 .000 1%
; White Sox 0 2 .000 2
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I enjoyed quite a round of golf
Saturday with what must be four
I of the world’s worst golfers. They
are Ken Hopballe, who wasn’t real
ly so bad, Walt Waldrop, Jerry
Denning and Dick Skinner. The
greens at the NAAS course weren’t
in playing condition, but that only
accounted for about a quarter of
bad' shots we made.
Rut. golf, in., pay. opinion, is a
sport for the relaxation and enjoy
ment of the participant. And
1 that’s what we got from it. Relax
ation and enjoyment.
Well, hope you enjoyed the col
umn and hope to see you next
week.
She’d No Mechanical Tastes
| Betty (who has been served with
a wing of chicken) —Mother can’t:
I have another bit ? This is noth- ]
ing but hinges.
1 Jr.-Sr. H. S. Menu ,}
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Menus for the week beginning
Monday, May 14, at the Edenton
Junior-Senior High School lunch
room will be as follows:
Monday: Tomato soup, sliced
cheese, baked beans, crackers, but
ter, bread, chocolate block cake,
milk.
Tuesday: Smoked sausage, dry
limas, apple sauce, eornbread, but
ter, milk, cookies.
Wednesday: Italian spaghetti
with meat sauce, string beans, but
tered corn, carrot strips, hot rolls,
butter, milk, cookies.
Thursday: Sliced luncheon meat,
buttered potatoes, steamed cabbage,
cheese biscuits, butter, milk, cook
ies.
Friday: Sliced ham, mashed po
• tatoes, garden peas, pickles, butter,
peanut butter on Ritz, milk.
SON’S KIDNAPER. ; f ; ’
Hopeful that the kidnaper will
relent and give up her child who.
disappeared from outside a food
market, the mother speaks from
her heart in an open letter to the
public. Read this moving docu
ment in May 20th issue of
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TODAY
BASEBALL
MAJOR LEAGUES
Detroit at Washington, 12:55 P.
M., WGAI and WIAM radio.
Brooklyn at Chicago, 1:25 P. M.,
Mutual radio.
FRIDAY
BASEBALL
MAJOR LEAGUES
All games at night.
BOXING
Yama Bahama vs. Hardy Small
wood, Syracuse, N. Y., WITN-TV,
channel 7, 9 P. M.
SATURDAY
BASEBALL
MAJOR LEAGUES
Baltimore at New York, 12:65
P. M., WIAM and WGAI radio.
New York at Brooklyn, 12:45
P. M., WTAR-TV, channel 3, and
WNCT-TV, channel 9.
Chicago at Detroit, 1:55 P. M.,
Mutual radio.
SUNDAY
BASEBALL
MAJOR LEAGUES
Boston at Washington, 1 P. M.,
WGAI and WIAM radio.
New York at Brooklyn, 1 P. M.,
Mutual radio.
MONDAY
No major athletic events sched
uled.
TUESDA Y
BASEBALL
MAJOR LEAGUES
Boston at Detroit, 1:55 P. M„
WGAI, WIAM radio.
WEDNESDA V
BASEBALL
MAJOR LEAGUES
Washington at Chicago, 1:25 P.
M., WGAI, WIAM radio.
BOXING
Wednesday night fights. 9 P. M„
WTAR-TV, channel 3, and WNCT
TV, channel 9.
SOFTBALL
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.extension .farm management and"
marketing specialist at N, C. State
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He says that U'SDA economists,
working in the area lying between J
the Coastal Plain and the Appa-;
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farmers in this araa aren’t fully
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The • economists, for Instance,
found that many farmers were hir-1
ing too much labor in proportion to
their farm income. This was a re
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Many farms have both mules and
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Harwood adds that with changes
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