Irene Durham [21 ] and an unidentified Fuquav player battle for the ball during a round of District III tournament action. Boys Fall, Girls Win In Tournament The once powerful Yellow Jackets who at one time was ranked number three in eastern North Carolina and eighth in state 2-A standing, took a sound lashing from Erwin in a round of district playoffs at Raleigh's Millbrook High Thursday night. The Redskins entered tournament action with a 10-13 mark, compared to John Graham's 16-4, but an early lead paved the way for their 73-60 win. A girls team from FuquayVarina downed the Lady Blue Waves 47-42 in the opening pame of the double-header. Girls Game Norlina gave the Capitol Area 2-A conference leaders a go for their win. Fuquay sported a 19-1 season mark going into the contest and were heavy favorites to win over the young and inexperienced Norlina club. Norlina took a surprising 23-22 halftime lead behind clutch shooting from sophomore guard Irene Durham, who led her team in scoring with 21 points. A fourth quarter rally by Fuquay gave them the tournament win and berth in the semi-finals against Iillington. Boys Game The last game that the Yellow Jackets won was on February 4 as they handed Louisburg a 55-51 loss in overtime. After that it was downhill for a team that was headed for the top of all 2-A standings. Thursday night John Graham dropped its fourth consecutive ballgame, 70-63. Erwin entered district III playoffs Thursday night with a 10-13 record. The Redskins coach said that his team had taken ? complete turnabout in their play and that he was well pleased with the performance of his all-conference guard, 5-7 f. Smith. Smith led the Redskins attack on offense and Jerome Word led the defensive surge that took the sting out of the Yellow Jackets. Word rejected numerous shot attempts by John Graham after having been charged with goaltending on two occasions during the first half. With Smith handling the ball and Word dominating the back: boards, Erwin built a 33-28 halftime lead and waltzed to a 73-60 victory. Thomas (Tutt) Taylor paced Warrenton with 18 points, followed by Delton Green (12) and Douglas Stiff (10). Smith was the leading Redskin scorer with 27 points. Ix>uisburg's boys, winners in the semi-final game against Erwin met Clayton, defending state 2-A champion, in Wednesday's nightcap. Canned fish can be kept unopened on the cupboard shelf for 'one year. After opening, store in a plastic container in the refrigerator for up to four days. HELPING HAND NEEDED—John Graham's Thomas (Tutt) Taylor [141 Rives you the impression that he is asking the Erwin ballplayer with the ball for a helping hand off the floor. Actually. Taylor lost his footing on this trap play against Erwin in the fourth quarter of the Yellow jackets' 70-63 tournament loss. Douglas Stiff 110] and Mike Yirk 1311 stand in on the action also. [Staff Photos By Don Stithl Shirley Robinson [45] is fouled by an unidentified Zebulon player |50| on this field goal attempt during the final minutes of play in John Graham's 69-36 win over Zebulon Saturday night. The Lady Jackets advanced to the championship game with wins over Erwin and Zebulon. Robinson made both of her free throws on this play. Lady Jackets Gain Championship Berth By DON STITH The Lady Jackets of John Graham paced by Lorraine Williams's 26 points, steamrolled Zebulon. 69-36, to win their second game in District III 2-A tournament action. They also earned a berth in the championship game played last night (Wednesday). The Tar River Conference champion girls met the Fuqqav-Varina team for the erirls tournament crown. Saturday night's win over Zebulon put John Graham in the championship game. Louisburg; and Warrenton are the only Tar River teams that advanced past the quarterfinals. As game action got under way theLadyJackets grabbed a comfortable 18-10 first quarter lead and a sizeable 35-19 halftime advantage. Leading scorer for Zebulon was Shelia Keel with 11 points.; Barbara Pullen netted 15 points and Edith Rodwell added another 11 for Warrenton.' The winner of Wednesday night's eame, ^both girls and hovs. will advance to the state playoffs. Academy Surprises Northeast Cagers Warren Academy pulled off an upset victory over Northeast Academy, 62-48, in the opening round of C.A.C. tournament action seen at Halifax last week. Clutch free-throws enabl ed the Warriors to gain the tourney win as they hit 18-21 from the charity stripe. Chip Capps paced the Warriors with 20 points and nine rebounds. Harold Seaman added another 11 points and 11 rebounds. Everette Knight netted nine points and six assists for the Academy. Abused Children Get Help (Continued from page 1) only a very few were taken from the families. According to the social workers, they "try not to remove the children." They believe that helping the parents to cope with the problem is the best answer. But society may not deal with this as well as the social workers do. Part of the month-long campaign is awareness. The Department of Human Resources has devised "SCANPAC" in each county. Mrs. Katie Fleming is the 'SCANPAC" chairperson for Warren County. She revealed that this stands for "Statewide Child Abuse and Neglect Public Awareness Campaign." And society awareness into the problem is the key to an answer. Mrs Fleming suggest ed ideas r»f awareness she learned in a recent meeting of SCANPAC in Burlington. The meeting revealed that "there are two victims of child abuse and neglect. One is the child and the other is the parent. Both need help." "Child abuse hurts the child, the parent and the community" is a bulletin distributed during the meeting. And the community can help. Neighbors, relatives or friends should report any trivia to authorities. It may help a child. Frustrations, anxiety, or familv problems lead to child abuse and according to the social workers, alcohol is the biggest problem in Warren County. This is "awareness" month and Mrs. Fleming is planning to cover a vast area of the county with publicity- on child abuse and neglect. Awareness can also mean letting the authori ties know of any dangers to children. Complaints of neglect or abuse can be made to the Social Services, local police 6r ministers. Calls to the social workers are dealt with as strictly confidential or calls may be anomynous. Only 14 children were taken from parents last year in Warren County. But the Social Services visited and counseled many more families. "Become aware of the problem." Mrs. Fleming urges. "Next year one of the 2,108 abuse cases reported for North Carolina may be your next door neighbor." Body Found (Continued from page i) de< !• appreciation to Collie, his assistants, and members of the resoii. squads for accomplishment of their mission. The W *. ren County Rescue Squad wa. among the squads taking part in the search. Members of this squad present for the search were George Ay cock. Gene Medlin, Toney Newsom. Reid Robinson, John Stansbury, Robert King, Linwood Reid, John Acai, Gene Pierce. Squads present in addition to the Warrenton and Granville County squads were Roanoke Valley, Stoney Creek, Alamance County, Orange County, Charlotte County. Va., Person County. Mecklinburg County, Va.. Vance County, Freemont, Central, Ixwisburg, Brunswick, Va.. Volunteer. Mecklinburg County, Greenville County Rescue Squad, Goldsboro, Monme.ver, South Orange, Virginia Wildlife, Franklinton, Mt. Pleasant, Southside, Four Oaks, Garner St. Mary, Danville, Va., Butner. NCARS Directors were Donne Garris, Tom Collie, John Jeffries.. Bill Lissig, Randy Newman. Howard Shaw, Gary White, Charlie Swinson, Helen Collie and Angie Callihan. Henderson, North Carolina Feb. 25-Mar. 3 "SILVER STREAK" (PG) Starring Gene Wilder March 4th "CARRIE" (R) Starring Sissy Spacek John Travolta Mar. 2-Mar. 5 "THE FARMER" (R) Mar. 6-Mar. 8 "STRANGE SHADOWS IN EMPTY ROOM" (R) m<1