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Will Sponsor Basketball Tournament February 23-25 rDf ill Be Date* For County Tourney Boys and Girls From Eight High Schools Will Com. pete For Title Wilkes county basketball ^tournament will be held Febru F?ry 23, 24 and 25 in Wilkesboro I gymnasium under " auspices of the North Wilkesboro Optimist i club. Boys and girls from all eight high school teams in the county will participate, making a total of sixteen teams from North Wilkesboro, Wilkesboro, Millers Creek, Mount Pleasant, Moun tain View, Traphill, Roaring River and Ronda high schools. Coaches of all schools will 0 meet with a committee of the Optimist Club the first week iui February to arrange pairings for! NOTICE! ning Monday, Dec. 5, the V." peginmi City Radio Repair i will be in a position to give you complete service on dis mounting, repairing, and in stalling auto radios. Their prices are fair and reasonable. The" City Radio Repair is located on East Main Street in North Wilkesboro. > Telephone 402 ne tournament. The Optimist club will handle all arrangements for the tourna ment, Including fhe securing oi all officials. ' Coaches will select the all county teams and members will be presented gold basketball tro phies at the close of the tourna ment. A county tournament was not held last year, and schools will welcome the return of this annu al event under sponsorship of the Optimist Club. Competition is always keen for the coun y title and every school is r?"T' t to put forth maximum iff-it to win. News Reports Of Basketball Games In Coiihty Asked The Journal-Patriot snorts department would like to eor ry a news account, including lineups and individual scores, of all baskethbll games in which Wilkes teams partici pate. The boys and girls pl-ri',-r on the high school teams in Wilkes deserve that much recognition and publicity, and coo eration on the part of the participating schools is earn estly requested. Some schoo's have already adooted the pol icy of naming a student sports writer, who will write ac counts of the games and s~nd them to The Journal-Patriot. This plan will greatly facili tate the task of sports news coverage and will be high'y beneficial to the schools. ft is very rare that anybody receives anything without making some effort to get it. and the same is true relative t? publicity for high schools sports. f,pps And uatawna In Pythian Bowl Will Be Played Saturday Afternoon In Salisbury; Many To Attend Appalachian Mountaineers and '"ntawba will play Saturday aft ernoon, December 10, two p. m., at Catawba stadium at Salisbury in the first Pythian Bowl eame, which will also be the first col lege bowl contest in North Car olina. Pythiens and Dokiet. are spon soring the game for benefit of 'h? Pvthian Orphans Home and tickets are being sold here ancl throughout the state by Pythians and Dokies. The price of the tickets is $3 each. This bowl matches two out standing ttams of the North ^t^te conference. In their prev ious meeting this year Appalach ian won n tn 7 at Wins'on-Sal pm. Roth teams have good rec ords and are capable of playing a very exciting contest, with vic tory going eithe- way. Rand Here Going North Wilkesboro high school band will take part in the big parade in Salisbury prior to the game and will be one of the bands playing at the game. North Wilkesboro Dokies and Pythians are taking the local band to the game. Large a tendance is expected ?t the game, and many from this community are going. Tick ets have been on sale for some time, and those who do not have ic ets will have no trouble lo a in<r a 1 >dge member anxious to sell. Groce Will Play Another reason for many lo cal fans to attend the game will be that Jack Groce, former G\^V 100 SUITS t GREATLY REDUCED FINEST FABRICS! FINEST STYLES! LOWEST PRICES! Due to the unsually late fall we are overstocked on men's suits. So we selected 100 suits from our regular stock of superbly styled and fabric-ed suits and reduced them down for quick Clearance . . . Come in today and select your suit for Christmas. Reduced s37? *45 M Reduced to? ?24" S39-M Reduced to? '19-75 "MARLOW'S MEN'S SHOP wiiKesDoro naiiDacK, will be ini the starting lineup for Appa-| lachian and is expected to have a lig part in the Mountaineers' offense, as he has done since breaking into the varsity lineup early1 in the season when he was moved up from the freshman squad to the varsity. To Name Beauty Queen Still another reason for a large attendance from this area is the sponsoring of a North WPkes boro girl in the Beauty Qeeen competition. Miss Dotti" Wint ers, daughter of G. Sam Winters 'ias been entered by Pythian lodge here, number 67, and wlii ride on a float in the parade. Reports from Salisbury indi cate that there will be a dazzl ing parade of 100 or more units, which will have an escort of planes from the Salisbury "air port. There will be a dozen or more bands and plenty of color for the big event. ?? o Use of alfalfa for grazing has cut the turkey feed bill of three Piedmont farms by at least 25 per cent. Millers Creek Is Winner Double Bill By RAY CHURCH Millers Creek high school scored a double victory in has ketball over Ronda Thursday at Mi'lQrs Creek, with the girlf winning 23 to 17 and the boys 34 to 22. W. Snider paced the attack for Millers Creek girls with 12 poin's, while Prevette with 7 led Ronda girls. In the boys' game "hittington with 15 was high scorer for Millers Creek. Dur ham with 8 topped the Ronda team. Lineups and summaries: Girls' Game Millers Creek 23 Ronda 17 McGlamery 6 Cooke 6 W. Snider 12 ? Myers 4 Robinson 5 - Prevette 7 McNeil Thorpe Woodie Johnson G. Snider Cockerham Subs: Millers Creek?Johnson, I. Snider, Minton, Cooper, Chuich; Ronda?Myers, Pardue. ijTe at half?M. C. 13: R. ?. LETTERS TO SANTA Summit, N. C. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 10 years old I have been a good boy, and I want a pair of shoes, gloves, bas ketball and goal. I. hope you will have a good Christmas this year. I know I will. I'm in the sixth grade this year. I go to school at Mt. Pleasant. I haven't mimed a day so far. Hope 1 don't. Please don't forget my sister and the other boys and girls. So long, old boy. Love, LOWELL TOMLINSON. wwwtwww Boys' Game Millers Creek 34 Ronda 22 Pierce Durham 8 B. Snider 4 Sparks 4 El ledge 5 ? Greene 6 Whittington 15 ... White 3 Kilby 8 Hoots 1 Subs: Millers Creek?P. Sni der, Osborne, Delp, Church, Faw 2, Lovctte; Ronda?York, Hurt. Score at half?M. C. 15; R. 9. Yadkinvllle boys and girls will play Millers Creek at Millers Creek Friday night. The Yadkin county school always has fast teams and exciting contests are assurfed. Summit, N. C. Dear Santa Claus: I am having my 8th birthday the day after Christmas, Dec. 26th. Please bring me a big doll that can talk and cry. 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