Sport Shots |
? BY CHARLES CARPENTER
George Wilson. Crowders Moun
tain baseball player now with the
Louisville Colonels of the American
Association, has really been powder
ing that apple. On a recent road trip
Wilson recorded 20 basehits in 36
trips. He was hitting .365 through
{games *>f May 12 ? 19 games, 74 at
bats, 10 runs, 27 hits, and S runs bat
ted in. One stretch Wilson got on
base in eight straight plate appear
ances. Tom Wright, of Shelby, also
with the Colonels, wa^ hitting a
lusty .342 with 25 fox 73. l/ooking
for some help up in Boston. Marse
Joe?
Jake Early, who completed over
10 years major league service when
released "by tfie Washington Sena
tors in April, has been tough on Sou
thern Association pitchers since join
ing the Chattanooga L-ookouts of the
? very one Should Know!
More and more people art learn
ing that GOLDEN GUERNSEY
Milk it an indUpentable energr
too<l for wartime living . . . for
health! Food ?lto< tagea, tcarcitira
diminish in importance when
GOLDEN GUERNSEY Milk U
?oar mealtime Mand-b?. There**
?mtore energy-value In mcK quart
than in jj lb. of tteak! Drink it
. . . w< it . . . ke?p op rour enw^fl
Archdale Farms
Phone 2405
Dixie loop. Jake was perched on top
I of the hitting average column with
a healthy .481 in 11 garner. Jake
had been to bat 27 times, scored 3
I runs and knocked in 9' with 13 hits,
tfake got 4 for 4, including a homer,
on May 10 against Little P<v'< and
went ton to catch the second half of
the double header, getting 1 for 2.
The Lookout won both ends.
i Sixcy -nine American Legion junior
1 baseball teams, representing 71 Le
I gion posts in the state have been en
tered in the 1949 pro grain according
to T>r. D. R. Perry, of Durham, state
chairman.
j Area commissioners are to hold
; meetings this month to arrartge
' schedules.
Kings Mountain's entry every year
for the past four has represented
somewhat of a financial struggle.
And interest here is not at all whit
it should be. judging by gate re
ceipts. Could be the poor park situa
tion that keeps fans away.
I ^Junior baseball has done and is
\ doing wonders for Organized Base
Shall. And the game is putting mon
;ey behind the Legion program be
cause it realizes the need for a new
crop of players all the time.
If you will note rosters of the ma
jors and top-flight minor teams you
might be surprised with the declin
ing number of top-flight players
from this section of the country. *;
Junior baseball has "grown" quite
a crop of players for the hi g time and
, plenty of them have come from.sec
| lions of the country .that didnt used
! to produce many players.
' We need to give thr junior base
i ball program more attention in
I Kings Mountain.
Boyce Stone let us know last week
that he was not suspended from Or
ganized Baseball for a year as we;
had reported hearing. He said he
was just suspended until he got sit
uated. Stone is still property of the
Washington Senators and might
"wind up with Contord of the N. C.
State league if he doesn't, as previ
ously ordered, go to Hagerstown, Md.N
. . . Buck Mauney, owner of the Lin
colnton Cards, penant and playoff
winners of the 1948 Western Carolina
race, wants a professional team in
Kings Mountain. Says Kings Mouh
.tain will draw better in Lincolnton
than some league members do, he
contends . . . Don't forget the "Crow
Shoot" Saturday morning. Help the
Wildlife club help the farmer by
! killing the "Black Robbers."
mmmmmmmmmmammmmammmmmmmmmmmmmn
?J-.*n '&?: > " -totCM
"It isn't the horse I object to . . . but the cook's giving
that policeman all rar HOLSUM Vitamin Enriched
Bread.!"
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SANDWICHES
LOOKING
Vj AHEAD
hr*? GEORGE S. BENSON
nllk Pmdtmi ? C?IU$<
| Sttrcf Artum
A Task for Truman j
President Truman has before him I
one of 'the greatest opportunities that I
any president, haa had during the first
half of our ce^tuir Oddly enough,
thirj chance of the century comes to
the President through the foresight
and statesmanship of the 80th Con
gress that last year absorbed an
much punishment, politically, from
Mr Truman. It was tne 80th Con
gtoss that set ap the Hoover Com
mission on government reorganiza
tion/ t '
Nobody's Fault
Our only living ex-president gladly 1
accepted the job of guiding the "task |
force" Of experts through some 19 |
months of detailed investigation. Mr.
Hoover has played well the role -of
public servant in past crises This
time he accepted the task -as chair
man ot the Commission, believing
it to be b?s last opportunity for im
portant public service. At this writ'
ing.- tf$ "task force" reports have
been sent to Congress. Only the final
summary report remains to be made.
The work of the Commission is so
Important that it must be placed
above all politics.. Like Mr. Hoover
says, it's nobody's fault tha; our gov
ernment has got itself all tied up in
knots, with inefficiency the general
rule. Government "just growed"
that way. Topsy -like. tt is definitely
not a political, not a party, question.
Support Needed
Every one of us will be to blame,
though, :f we fail to get squarely
behind both Pres-dent Truman and
the Congress and stay there pushing
until this job of reorganisation is
don? , ; ? . >
The tendency, naturally, ia to let
it go. Yet, .right now. when the na
tion is faced with s\. tremendous
expenditures of public money at
home and abroad, it 'is downright
foolish not to practice economy.
Estimates show that recommenda
tions of the Hoover Commission
would mean a ye'arly saving to tax
payers of more than 3 billion dollars.
I feel confident 1 he savings could be
larger than that. If real efficiency
and economy/ Is to become the rule
of the federal government, the peo
ple will have to suoport it.
Way to Survival .
Time is running short. Our sprawl
ing bureaucracy will not of itself
change its habits. Instead, if left
alone to grow, expand, and mush
room as it will, our financial burdens
will never cease. The latest report \
of the Hoover v Commission deals
with government agencies that are
engaged in business enterprise. It
catalogs more than 100 concerns of
substantial size that are owned or
controlled by the government. Large
sums could be saved, according to
the Commission, by cutting this num- 1
ber by almost one -third.
It is evident that unless we do put >
our government house in order, there
is no way for this republic to sur
vive. As burdens of supporting huge
and wasteful government grow in
magnitude, we endanger the whole
Inanctal structure of the nation.
Moreover, with continued growth of
big government. We can arrive a?
state; socialum some day wiihodt
ever having voted for it It's hard to
believe, but already one of every six
adult Americans receives regular
checks from Uncle Sam!
flftvt you hMri Or. fl?n?an and (1m
r*?ft ? Aram* "Land af the frw"?
Ofctofc T*?r iNfti tlttUa far
The Boy ScoUt Court of Honor held
in the City Hall Thursday night
opened with prayer and the repeat
ing of the Scout Oath.
Scouts appearing "before the Court
for advancement in rank are as fol
lows:
Second class rank: Don Black
well, 1; Chas. Caahion, 5; Ronnie
Cole, 5.
First class rank: Gilbert McKelvie,
I; Charles Cooke, t>..
Merit Badges Awarded:
Carpentery : Richard Smith, 7;
J. Earl Stroupe, 7.
Cooking: Billy Brings, 2.
Bookbinding: Dewkt Blanton jr.,
2.
Firemanship: D. *J. Caveney, 2.
Home Repairs: Sammy McCarter,
1; Gilbert McKelvie, 1; Gene Stone,
4; Derek Roper, 4.
Insect Life: Carl Cole,. 5.
Pathfindiog: Johnny Little^ohn, 5.
Poultry Keeping: A. B. Summit*,
jr 2
Radio: Carl Oole, 5.
Woodwork: Harold Spears, 7.
Bronze Eagle Scout Palm: John
ny Kiser, 2; Gene Mauney, 2; Char
les Mauney 2.
After awards were presented the
meeting adjourned with the repeat
Ing of the Scout Benediction.
The first commercial factories to
make plywood were erected In R'is
sla in the lSWs.
I Poultry Council
Fontied In State
A Union County poultry man. H.
Bernard Helms of Monroe, has been
elected president of the newi>" orga
! nized Poultry Council of Nonh Caro
lina, according to C- F. Parrish, in
[charge of poultry extension at State
1 College.
The Council was formed at a meet
ing held reoenty oivthe North Caro
lina State College campus. Its pur
pose is to advise with the College's ;
poultry department regarding the
problems of the industry.
Next meeting of the group will be
held on the State College campus
during Farm and Home Week, Au
gust 8-11.
Members of the Council, w!iic<h
includes representatives of the pou'
1 .try producers and closely related en
terprices are:
Bundy Belk and Hoyle Griffin o'f
Monroe, Lester Brown of Pilot Moun
tain, Niles Biggs of Greensboro, Jam
es Cameron of Wadesboro, W. 3.
j Crawford of Goldsboro. Morris Em
mert of Wilmington. S. A. Horn?? of
Buriington, K. F. Moward of Dunn.
B. M. Hancock of .Bear Creek. H. C.
Kennett and C. W. Tilson of Durham
Ralph Kelley of Garner. M. G. Mann J
of Raleigh, W. P. Rogers of Randolph
Mills, Ward Snarr and .1. B. Hood of
Siler City, J. V. Whitfield of Burlaw
ahd J. A. Ward of Ro-?e Hill.
Stocks Set For Whirl
On Wilkesboro Track
NORTH WILKESBORO. ? The
.stock car speedsters have made their
first complete round of North Caro
lina tracks and return to North Wil
kesboro's famous hanked track next
Sunday, May 22, for the second rav
ing progTam of the year.
It is impossible to stat
is(, the hunqer ot lire
Yet, 90 of the homes
in this country are
inadeciiftitelv' piotect
e d by insurance to
day Whether we
have insured you or
not. cht-clc your pol
icies with us today
AH PATTERSON
? AGENCY ??
?? C t WARtICK, MAN ACER
None 9SO/I Off*; ?t MowskKHdMMa
Fomy FI-hv. v^'A'an a .vi ma or .
wr and wir.Wf ?>; i.a?>;frr?* r.?c"'h?id
here "March 27, au ! ! b.? hack to tie
fend his crown a^ain-< an e\?*n
j?trongerfie!d of ?t j'rs .^nan wmins'
ed in the Ii:m race her* 4>\ March.
In the first thriiier here this year.
Harold BroKOff, ' Pottsville, Pa., fin
' ished second to Flock in a thrilling
race, and the.-e t, a possibility thar
Brokoff ma> re.turn #>uth to try his
luck a^ai.i.
A.t least oile outstanding star who
was. missing '?? t* j.firiK ruv Ut due
i to be on hand tor the Sunday cla<?:
jsie. Red Byron, winner of the 1948
national cha np'.ojtship and voted
V ?>. ;tv>? <1 r.\-K of atoc'r rir
r<t-n > *',v" i;i.v jpeuxki. stated
?\>rn.>K- > .'-iMi KIock and all th^
er? .1' .?j ,wjy'?i spt'otf classic!.
.-s:to: Yi anc>? anticip v .>1
a ,-r.d.y. lai'^r field oi vturtes for t k*
s,?>ir \ - 1. - of :h*? at t fi?- 'o
c<?.i so "I,* ay .?
Tn- ir->>rj.rr. calls for- two 10 tap
hcau, i V"> tap consolation. a 15 lap
semi-f ni and a 35- lap fearu rt?.
Tim^nr.itsstart at 1 o'clock with the
firs*- m>>? *?* for 2:,W p. m
T>? ?. i n i ns used shorthand
ear,/ ij 63 3. C., according (to
Eac>>'lo >.vi >a 3ri!ar.nic i
Keep a supply *t hom?
Buy a 6- bottle carton
?w a t+ut today!
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C H E E RWI NFfS GOOD TASTE
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here's why
MMi PICKUPS
CUT YOUR HAULING COSTS
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2 R'igqed front
wider tread
with
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* Riding rs improved, spring
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< An entirely new design of
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* Side rails of high-strength
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j Smooth riding and long life
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? 6'A-, 7V4- and ?-foot bodiea,
? of 44.16. 56.08 and 67.?
cubic feet capacities, on 108*,
116* and 128* w*eei bases?
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Panels are available in thre*
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pounds ; pay load capacities
from 875 to 1,450 pounds
Bodies are 55' high inside,
61H' ?.iOe, 92*?' long to
back of driver's seat, 129%'
to oowt . . , providing 156
cubic feet of load spaoe on a
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