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future Of Baseball Here Is In Balance $5,000.00 Needed To Assure Baseball Will Continue Here A group of baseball fans and supporters in meeting Thursday night at the North Wilkesboro town hall were told in uncertain terms that the club here must raise approximately $5,000 if baseball is to continue in North Wilkesboro. Total revenue of the club here during the past season was about 133,000, which was about $5, 000 short of expenses. One of the rules of professional baseball is that a club must pay its bills or lose its franchise. It was pointed out in the meet ing Thursday night that t&e club suffered a number of abnormal Anancial reverses during the past ^season. The month of August, ^f^en the club was drawing top crdwds when games were pos sible, had seven rained out games, which meant a loss of -more than $4,000 at the gate ^rhile expenses continued just the same. Under normal weather conditions, the club would not have suffered more than two or three rained out dates in August. For the entire season rained out game8 totaled twice as many as normally expected, Larry Moore, business manager, said. The club has offered two plans to fans and all others who want baseball to continue as a com munity asset. Some stock is available for sale at $60 per share, with proceeds from sale thereof applying on the deficit, or direct contributions will be accepted. Already $1,300 has been pledged and baseball sup porters are hard at work to raise the remaining $3,700 necessary so that plans can be made for next year. The matter must be settled within the next few days, in order that a full time busi ness manager can be employed and in order that the club may close the deal for a playing manager. One prospect, who led a class B league in batting, can be secured but he must be hired immediately or he will go else where. Inasmuch as baseball benefits the entire county, and no one will make any money from ope ration of the club, opportunity is being given all who consider baseball an asset to help the club through the present finan cial crisis and assure its future. From past experiences, it is be lieved that with full time man agement and a. reasonable break in weather conditions that the club will be able to pay its way without financial deficit. Because of serious conflicts Thursday night, attendance al the meeting was limited to a bout 30 people and the meeting was continued until Thursday night of this week at the city hall, 7:30 o'clock. For those who cannot attend the meeting a cou pon is included here, which fans everywhere may fill out and send with their contribution or pledge to Larry S. Moore, business man ager, North Wilkesboro Baseball club. Mr. Larry S. Moore Business Manager N. W. Baseball Club Believing that baseball is a big asset to this community and county, I agree to help assure its future with contribution or pledge of $ Signed Story Hour For Children On Air Here's an item of special in terest to the kiddies! Every Tuesday morning at 10:30 the Junior Woman's Club conducts a Btory hour for children over Ra dio Station WKBC. Primary grades at the schools tune in for the program and all mothers are invited to tune in so the children can enjoy these stories which are presented by differeft members of the Junior Woman's Club. That's every Tuesday morning at 10:30 over WKBC! "Patterns in Poetry"?a fifteen-minute pro gram of your favorite poems and musfc?with Charlie Wilfong? follows this kiddies program each Tuesday at 10:45. This program will be one especially designed for the ladies. o Several different species oi wirewprms are found in North Carolina. The "tobacco'' wire worm is one of the most destruct ive. Total Wages Of $1,523,148 Paid In County 3 Mos. Raleigh, Oct. 19. ? Average non-farm employment In North Carolina, covered by the Employ ment Security Program, was 606,623 in the first quarter of 1949, a drop of 5.1 per cent from the fourth quarter of 1948 and a drop of 6.2 per cent from the first quarter of 1948. This decline of 32,600 work ers from the last quarter of 1948 to the first quarter of 1949 is more than the usual seasonal decline, it is pointed out by Hugh M. Raper, director of the Bureau of Research and Statistics of the Employment Security Commis sion, who made the report to Chairman Henry E. Kendall. Average weekly wage of cov ered workers in North Carolina during the first quarter of 1949 was $41.92, which was a drop of $3.86 from the fourth quarter of 1948, but an increase of 78 cents oven the average for the first quarter of 1948. Total wag es paid in the State in the first quarter of 1949 amounted to $330,822,428. The report shows that 21 of the 100 counties in the State had gains in average number of work ers employed in the first quarter of 1949 over the last quarter of 1948, while 79 counties showed declines in employment. The fig ures for individual counties show the trend of the employment in the 100 units of the State. Wilkes County, the report shows, had average employment in the first quarter of 1949 of 3,719, a loss of 4.86 per cent when compared with the last quarter of 1948. Total wages paid in the county in the first quarter of 1949 amounted to $1,523,148, or an average week ly wage of $31.64. In construction work, this county had average employment of 83 in the first quarter of 1949, with total wages of $30, 775 an average weekly wage of $28.54. In manufacturing, the aver age employment was 2,479, with total wages of $1,006,734 and average weekly wage of $31.23. In transportation and com munication, the average employ- i ment was 160, with total wages ^ of $70,681; in trade, average em-j ance and real estate, the average. ployment was 790 and total wag es $327,176; in finance, insur-i' employment was 48 and total wages $24,744; in service and other activities the average em ployment was 144 and total wag es $63,138. Support the Scouts For Your Electrical Wiring Jobs See RAY WELLS at CAROLINA HOME ^ND AUTO SUPPLY Telephone 53 with this AUTOMATIC A FLOOR FURNAC KONOMICAI iow con ^tONft UW J # w MAI WAU Limdh >*i VNDimimi kTOBM,MC. Complete Installation Including Outside Tanks Call or See Us For Estimates WILKESBORO, N. C cmrmm feed Wilkes Hatchery Hatchers Of "Dancy's Dandies" Highwaf 18 NORTH WILKK8BOSO. H. C EISELE CONSTRUCTION CO. 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