Stirs
Route, LA.—Louisiana
University officials today
a thorough inv&stigaof
charges that "drunken
prevailed at a football
i« last week during which a
mother allegedly waa overheard
Inviting her 10-year-old daughter
to join her in a drink of raw
whisky.
President Harold W. Stoke of
L. S. U. Initiated the probe after
the appearance of pn editorial
in the McComb (Miss.) Bnterprlae-Journal
deploring conditions
at the L. S. U.-University
of Mississippi game Saturday
night. Mississippi won, 20 to 18.
Editor Oliver Emmerich wrote
that "many drunks were stretched
out upon the concrete seats
when the game was over, not
knowing who had won or lost
the game." He said the L. S. U.
stadium here was littered with
liquor bottles.
''A mother with a bottle of
whisky in her hand turned to
her 10-year-old daughter in the
seat behind her and said, "Honey,
let mother pour you a drink',"
Emmerich said.
The L. S. U. president said
that he saw "no such state of
affairs," but would take immediate
steps to "establish the
truth" of the newspaper's charges.
"If football has hit such a
moral low that the cannot
be enforced, then it is time to
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The editor Is
of the board of trustees
of Mississippi's Institutions
of higher learning.
Stoke said if he found Emmerich's
charges to be true he
would do ''everything in my power"
to correct the situation.
Mississippi Is legally dry. The
McComb editor said the people
were "unaccustomed to the availability
of liquor except through
the bootlegger route."
I Challenge Yen
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By DEAN MTNTON ,
Heirs
That being justified by his
grace, we should be made heirs
according to the hope of eternal
life.—Titus 8:7.
Most of us dream of inheriting
fortunes, of being given great
sums in material wealth. But few
of us realise that we Are all
heirs to even greater fortunes
than any will may leave us. God
through his infinite mercy sent
His son, Jesus Christ to take
from us the poverty of sin and
bestow upon us the riches of
eternal life.
If you were told that you were
the heir to a vast fortune, would
you refuse it? It would not be
probable that you would. Then
why should you refuse the much
greater things? Such does seem
silly, yet there are many that do
refuse the gift of salvation and
eternal life. Perhaps they do not
realize the importance of this in
herltance. The thrill of excitement
by earthly wealth lastB but
such a short time and is nonsatisfying.
The thrill of knowing
Jesus as personal savior and
Lord lastg for eternity. Will
you refuse the great gift
of God through Jeans Christ T
Will you turn away the one who
knocks at your heart's door and
thereby lose your right to be an
heir wi^h Christ of the rewards
of virtuous living?
I Challenge You!
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Former Elkin Man
Posses In Georgia
Elkin, Nov. 28.—News .of the
death of Joe L. Bray, 51, early
thi8 morning in an Atlanta, Ga.,
hospital, was received here iby
members of the family and
friends. He had been ill only a
short time. He was the youngest
son of Mrs. J. L. Bray and the
late Mr. Bray of Elkin. t
He was a veteran of World
War I. After the war he was distributor
for an oil company here
before -going to Georgia. In Atlanta
he had 'been a member of
Federal Bureau of Investigation
several years. Funeral and burial
will be In Atlanta Saturday.
Surviving are hia wife, his mother,
four sisters and two brothers:
Mrs. M. K. Pleasants, Ocala,
Fla.; A. O. Bray, Griffin, Ga.;
Mrs. John D. Berry, Raleigh;
Mrs. W. B. Williams, Mountain
Park; James S. Bray, Mt. Airy;
Mrs. S. O. Magulre and Mrs. Linville
Henderson of Elkin.
Chicago.—Howard Lang, IS,
a frail, tow-headed youngster
who was termed a "smart alee"
by hla mother, yesterday signed
a statement that he killed a seven-year-old
playmate.
Coroner A. L. Brodle announced
the youth had scrawled hla
signature on a piece of paper
bearing this single, simple sentence:
"I killed Lonnle Felllck on
Saturday, Oct. 18th, 1847 at
Thatcher Woods forest preserve."
The coroner said 1*5 hours of
questioning had brought out
these additional details:
Child's Throat Slashed
Howard, Lonnle and a nine'
year-old companion went to the
woods Oct. 18. Lonnle threatened
to tell Howard's mother that
Howard had filched $10 from
her purse. Howard, angered,
stabbed Lonnle twice and slashed
his throat. Then, forcing the
other lad to hold the victim's
feet, he dropped a heavy concrete
slab on Lonnle's head.
The next day, at Howard's request.
a 17-year-old girl tossed
Howard's clothing into the
woods. A bundle of garments
and a four-bladed pocket knife,
found n?ar the scene of the
slaying, were turned over to the
police yesterday.
Howard's mother, Mrs. Alma
Lang, 42, related ruefully that
her son "had become a smart
1 - 1
aide in the last two years." She'
tojd reporters her husband' had
left her wnen Howard wa8 an
infant And she had worked as
a domestic to support him.
"I can't believe it," she said.
"He was a good boy until ho
started showing off."
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North Carolina farmers are being:
asked to go all out in a fight
to kill rats on the farms, and to
control further Infestations.
COMMISSIONER'S SALE OF
REAL ESTATE
By virtue of and under an order
of the Superior Court of Wilkes
county, made in the special proceeding
entitled ''Allen Dotson, administrator
of the estate of Martin
Dotson and Etta Dotson, deceased,
and Allen Dotson et als
vs. Mrs. Sam Dotson, widow, Juanita
Ruth Dotson, Margaret Hazel
Dotson, Jesse Donald Dotson, Samuel
Wm. Dotson, Harvey Ray Dotson,
Thomas Henry Dotson, John
Earl Dotson, Geneva Carlyan Dotson,
.Henry Martin by their guardian
ad litem, Stacey H. Jones", the
same being No. 309SP5 upon the
special proceeding docket of said
court, the undersigned commissioners
will, on the 27th day of
December, 1947, at 12 o'clock Noon
at the courthouse door in Wilkesboro,
N. C., offer for sale to the
highest bidder for cash that certain
tract of land lying and being
in Wilkesboro- township, Wilkes
county, North Carolina, adjoining
the lands of G. G. Glass and others,
and more particularly described
as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a stone, the northwrest
corner of Newborn Parker's
and on the banft of a branch run
ning south crossing the branch
two times 82 poles to a small oak
on the bank of the Salisbury road;
thence north 34 deg. west 16 poles
with said road to a stone; thence
north 58 deg. west 28 poles to a
stake in said road and in the Lenoir
line of 160 acre grant; thence
north on same 37 poles to the-C. C.
Wright line; thence south on same
50 poles to a corner; thence east
on same 22 poles; thence south 7
poles 'to the said Parker's line;
I nursaay, Dec. 4,
thence west 22 poles to the
ning, containing 27 acres, more 01
less. Excepted from the abovi
boundary is an one-half undWjjjr
interest in four acres of land.^^
map of said property to be sole
will be presented at the sale, showing
by metes and bounds the landi
for sal®This
26th day of Nov., 1M7.T
JOHN R. JONES,
J. H> WHICKER, 9r.,
12-22-4tM Commissioners
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