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; The Journal-Potriot Hos Blazed the Trail or Progress in the "Stote of Wilkes" For Over 43 Years
Vol. No. 43 Wo. 104
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.r Thursday. April 13.1950
Published Mondays and Thursdays
First Game Here
Agaiast Shelby Oi
Smday, At 2:30
Although all the squad has not
reported, the North Wllkesboro
Flashers got In some good work
daring the fair weather early this
week as spring training opened
with 16 men on Memorial
Park field.
Early practice was confined entirely
to conditioning play with
heavier work scheduled for the
latter part of the week, Manager
Bernle Loman said yesterday.
First exhibition game will be
nnder the lightg at Morganton
Saturday night and the first home
game of the exhibition series will
find Shelby Farmers of the Western
Carolina league In Memorial
Park here Sunday afternoon.
Game time will be 2:30. The
Flashers will go to Statesville
^Monday night.
In early practice this week there
were only three returning veterans
of last year's squad. They
■ were First Baseman Tom Daddii
no. Pitchers Lee Bentley and Leslie
Rhoades. Players from last
year's .team who had not reported
were Pitchers Bob Thompson and
Bill Weston, Outfielders Jack
Cooper, Jake Jacob9on and Gene
Cavlness.
Here are some facts about the
new players in spring training:
David Greene, age 21, catcher;
home, Greensboro; height six feet,
weight 160; bats right, throws
right; played semi-pro last year;
single.
James Burchette, 18, pitcher;
home Cllngman; height six feet,
weight 160; throws right, bats
left; single, son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Burchette.
Bobby Weeks, age 19, catcher;
home, Columbia, S. C.; height six
MANAGER BERNUS LOMAN
feet, weight 160, bats right,
throws right; single.
Orlyn Carlson, 19, first base
and outfield; home, Bryant, Wisconsin;
height six feet, weight
165, bats right and throws right;
played semi-pro in Wisconsin;
single.
Bernard Childress, 21, outfielder;
home, Lansing; weight
170, height 6-1, bats right and
throws right; played for Lansing
Junior Baseball
Looks Forward To
Greatest Season
Through a series of area conferences,
from coast to coast, The
American Legion has geared Its
nationwide sports machinery for
making 'its 1950. Junior Baseball
season the greatest In Its hlstroy,
It Is reported by Judge L. J.
Phlpps of Chapel Hill, chairman
of the Legion's Department Athletic
Committee.
Area conferences were held at
New York City, Atlanta, Ga., Omaha,
Neb. and San Francisco, Cal.
at which State Junior Baseball
chairmen laid their plans for an
expanded program during 1950.
Judge PhlppB met with representatives
from twelve southeastern
states at Atlanta, Ga.
"In North Carolina we expect a
record number of entries for this
season," Judge Phlpps said. "This
Is Indicated by the great number
and West Jefferson; single, son
of Policeman Earl Childress.
Jack Hovls, 20, catcher; home,
High Shoals; played with Lincolnton
of Western Carolina league
two years, batted 2'70 last season;
height 5-11, weight 175, bats left
and throws right; single.
Dewey York, Jr., 22, infielder;
home, Ronda; played semi-pro for
Dobson and Chatham; height 5-8,
weight 135; single.
Grafton Roberts, 21, pitcher;
home, Cycle; height 6-1, weight
190; played semi-pro last year;
throws right and bats left.
Tom Jackson, 20, pitcher; home,
Roland In Robinson county; pitched
semi-pro for Kingstree;
height 6-11, weight 176, throws
right and bats right; single.
Edward Downy, 19, infielder;
home, Pittsburgh, Pa.; height 5-9,
weight 168, batted 286 in semipro
play In Pittsburg last season;
bats right and throws, right;
single.
Lou Floro, 21, infielder;. home,
Camden, N. J.; weight. 148, was
with Flashers in early part of
1948 season; single.
Ed Morton, 21, infielder; home,
Proctorvllle; played semi-pro last
season; weight 160, height 5-9;
bats right and throws right;
single.
Troy Stanley, big outfielder
who was sold last year to a team
in Georgia, to which he refused
to report, had been traded to Hickory
for two players, who have
not. reported here.
Carter Lentz, Blowing Rock
coach and former Appalachian
shortstop, has signed but will not
report until later.
>f Legion Posts which hare already
notified Department Headjuarters
of their Intention to
ipontor team* this year." He said
that thirty-three teams had already
been entered and a total
jf one hundred is expected before
the deadline for entering teams1
on April 17, I960.
The North Carolina Department
fielded seventy-one teams
last year.
Ford Motor Company dealers
are again assisting Legion Posts
in sponsoring Jnnior Baseball
teams, Judge Phipps reported.
Phipps pointed out that rules
governing the competition are
essentially unchanged from those
of 1949 under which a record
breaking total of 16,912 players
crossed bats In the pursuit of the
national title.
The regional playoffs for Region
4, comprising Kentucky,
Virginia, Tennessee and North
Carolina, will be held in Gaatonia,
N. C., beginning on August 21,
1950.
The sectional playoffs for Section
B, Including twelve southeastern
states, wil be held in
Charlotte, N. C., beginning on
August 28, 1950.
o
The forestry practices of Gordon
Grant, Edgecombe County
Negro farmer, are based on the
philosophy that " found trees here
when I came, and I want to leave
trees after I've gone." Grant
uses selective thinning and other
approved practices.
Soil Conservation
In Wilkes
B; B. B. DUNN and
JASPER CHIPMAN"
A very good example of farm
fish pond construction can be
seen on the farm of Mr. Milland
Mathis, who lives Just off Highway
421 about ten miles southeast
of Wilkesboro.
Mr. Clinton Broyhill, who lives
near Moravian Falls, has set a
fence dividing two fields on his
farm. Mr. Broyhill used multiflora
Rose for this fence from which
he expected to have not only a
very effective fence in about two
years but also a great help In
farm beautification and cover for
wildlife.
W. K. Absher, who lives Just
north of this city, has completed
the Job of setting 3 acres of his
roughest land in white pines. The
pine seedlings were furnished him
by the Tri-Creek Soli Conservation
District.
J. G. Mayberry, of the Hays
community had soil samples taken
to determine the fertilizer needs
for corn. Mr. Mayberry makes all
corn nedeed on his farm on a
very small acreage; leaving the
rest of his farm to grow good
hay and pasture.
Lindy's Kite Flys
Long And High Hera
Lindolph (Lindy) Parks, kite
maker extraordinary, has his kite
business coin* < full siring. He
had one of his big, f our-wing _
Jobs out at the airport Sunday
and reports that Aviators Clay
Pardue, Cecil Bumgarner and
others had trouble managing his
craft. Lindy finally maneuvered
the big kite to the ground in a
cornfield bat it took off again,
before he could get it well under
control.
o
It is mathematically possible
for a pair of rats to have 259,000,000
descendants at the end
of three years.