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Friday, March 9, 1962 THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C. As Seen In The Mirror^ SPORTS of Athletes and Events Page Five There was little to cheer about last Friday night, when the New Bern High school basketball team performed poorly against the Greenville Phantoms in the North eastern Conference tournament. Actually, the Bruins made a creditable comeback in the second half, and it was Butch Ricks who provided the spark for this en deavor. What a pity the scrappy little guard missed the regular sea son because of an injury. His presence on the team might well have made the difference in some of the games that New Bern lost. The tournament contest with Greenville was a nightmare for the Bears. Coach Bo Farley of the Try Us First SWAIN'S ESSO SERVICE Broad & Hancock ME 7-6100 'The Best Friend Your Car Ever Had" Phantoms has been around for a long time — he starred for Duke as a player and later coached East Carolina College. When the New Bern quint dropped far behind in the first half, Farley had the know how to capitalize, on the windfall and withstand a belated onslaught by the Bruins. This sort of thing — the catastro phe that caught up with Coach Bob Lewis and his ball club — happens to the best of teams. On the very night that New Bern’s frustrated quint paved the way for its own defeat, Duke’s mighty Blue Devils were outclassed by a Clemson out fit that had lost a dozen ball games during an unimpressive season. And, on the first afternoon of the Atlantic Coast Conference tour nament, the same Clemson team made the State College Wolfpack look like a collection of clumsy clowns by clobbering them with ridiculous ease. It is generally agreed that State’s coach, Everett Case, is one of the top mentors in the nation, but even this illustrious gentleman was helpless when his team unexpectedly fell apart. Coach Bob Lewis of the Bears was understandably stunned, and keenly disappointed when his lads failed to deliver as expected 29 Veterans of Indian Fights Still Draw Veterans Pensions FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION • INSURED SAVINGS • • HOME LOANS • ^'?T7^rtnid Street Phone ME 7-3721 New Bern, N. C. J. D. Ramus, manager of the Winston-Saem VA Regional office, pointed out yesterday that Wash ington’s birthday seems an appro priate time to report that there are still 29 iving veterans of the Indian Wars. • Washington, too, Mr. DeRamus explained, was an Indian War vet eran and he had his horse shot out from under him on the same day that death came to General Braddock in his ill-fated attempt to capture Fort Duquesne. But the Indian troubles of Wash ington’s day are far In the past. Much more recent in our history have been the Indian Wars since 1860 in which more than 106,000 Americans participated as the na tion expanded Westward. Of these 106,000, there are only 29 alive today, Mr. DeRamus said. All of them are listed on the rolls of the Veterans Administra tion and draw monthly payments ranging from $101.59 to $135.45. They are widely scattered: four in Arizona, three each in Califor nia, Florida and Missouri; two in both Iowa and South Dakota, and one each in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Massa chusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. They represent in their own way a cross section of America. They include several Negroes and one or two Indians who had served as scouts. Some are married with families. Others have never mar ried. against the Greenies. That’s the penalty paid by coaches and play ers alike, when they are on the losing end of the score. The Bears had a good year — and many moments of glory — but the game they’ll remember longest is the one they lost to Greenville. The Indian encounters in which they took part ranged from a single engagement to prolonged campaigns. They began with the Pah-Ute Expedition in California in April, 1860, and ended with the Chippewa Disturbances at Leech Lake, Minn., in October, 1898. Thus, 1860 is set as the starting date of the Indian Wars for which benefits have been administered by the Veterans Administration. The cut-off date, 1898, was es tablished upon the ruling that after that date the Indian troubles that occurred were not wars but more on the order of local riots. Fought with different tribes, in different sections of the West, these Indian Wars were isolated campaigns or engagements and, in most cases, had little or no con nection with one another. The remains of old forts in form er Indian country and towns which grew around nearby forts still dot the West and were the last great Settings of cavalry maneuvers now outmoded by modern warfare. The Indian Wars included in this 1860-1898 period were fought with either parts or all of the following tribes: Apache, Araphoe, Bannock, Cheyenne, Commanche, Chippewa, Kiowa, Lipan, Kickapoo, Navajo, Nez Perce, Piute, Sioux, Snake and Ute Indians. Mr. DeRamus said official rec ords show that of the 106,000 Americans know to have been en gaged in these Indian Wars, about 1,000 were killed in actual service. Athough in the early years of this century there were many sur vivors, the total has dwindled to 5,574 in 1929 and to 1,955 in 1941 just before the outbreak of World War II. The decline since then has been rapid: to 530 in 1950; 188 in 1955 and 44 in 1960. In addition to these 29 actual veterans of the Indian Wars, there were 581 widows of Indian War veterans and 25 children totally incapable of self-support (age is not con,sidered in the case of these children) on the pension and com pensation rolls of the Veterans Administration at the last official tally, September 20, 1961. 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