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fine type- of young man who ora finding worth-while careers’’
in the U. S. Air Force is the airman portrayed in this pester pointed by Gail
Phillips, noted artist. Mr. Phillips is one ef several illustrators contributing
their tolents to the Recruiting Service poster series on a public service basis.
Southport Wins
From Waccamaw
Southport scored another dou
ble victory over visiting Wacca
maw squads here Monday night,
the girls winning by a score of
50 to 35 and the boys coasting
to a 33 to 13 victory.
Catherine McRacken scored 24
points to lead the Southport at
tack in the opening- game and
was trailed by Rebecca McRacken
with 20. Each of the twins had
seven field goals in the first.
Purvis had a big night from the
scoring circle with a total of 18
points for Waccamaw.
Billy Dosher led the scoring in
the boys game with 10 points.
Stanley made 4 points for Wac
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Jim Thorpe Is Voted Number One
Football Player Of 20th Century
Carlisle Indian Star Half
back Of 1911-12 Is Picked
On 170 Of 391 First-Place
Ballots In AP Poil
By HAROLD CLAASSEN
NEW YORK (AP) Jim
Thorpe is the greatest U. S. foot
ball player of this century in the
opinion of sports writers and
broadcasters who participated in
the Associated Press' poll.
Thorpe combined the love of
combat with the Indian’s cunning
and grace to gain his place in the
sport's hall of fame in 1911 and
1912, playing halfback for the
now defunct Carlisle, Pa., Indian
Institute.
None of the modern players i
could nudge the six-foot two j
inch, 190-pound Sac and Fox!
warrior from first place.
Of 391 voters who took part in j
the mid-centurv poll, 170 put j
Thorpe on top. Harold iRed) |
Grange, Illinois’ galloping ghost :
of the mid-twenties, was second;
with 138. Bronko Nagurski, Minn
esota’s strongman of the Grange!
era, was third .with 38, followed1
by Ernie Nevers of Stanford and
Sammy Baugh of Texas Christian.
Charles Trippi of Georgia,
whom Thorpe rates as the great
est player he ever saw, got only
three votes and finished eighth
in the ranking. The Dixie dynamo
also was surpassed by Don Hut
son of Alabama and George Gipp,
Notre Dame immortal. Hutson
received six votes, Gipp four.
Thorpe bowed out of football in
1929 after his team, the Chica
go Cardinals, lost to Grange and
the Chicago Bears, 34 to 0. An
Associated Press account of the
game says Thorpe “was unable
jto get anywhere. Now in his for
ties and muscle bound he was a
mere shadow of his former self.”
For many football followers
Thorpe’s exhibition in the 1911
game against Harvard, then the
ruler of the footbajl universe, was
the greatest of his career. Thorpe
himself rates his the 1912 game
with Army as the greatest thrill
of his career.
Against Harvard, With his legs
encased in bandages because of
the pounding they had taken in
victories over Lafayette and Penn,
Thorpe kicked four field goals
and plunged 70 yards in nine
plays for a touchdown that
brought the Indians an 18 to 15
victory. The decisive field goal
was booted from the 48-yard line.
In the first three minutes of the
Army game Thorpe carried three
Cadets across the goal to score
his first touchdown. Later, he
caught an Army kick on his 10
and raced 90 yards for the score
but the run was nullified by a
penalty. Army kicked again,
Thorpe caught the ball, this time
on the five. He wove his way 95
yards for the touchdown.
He finished that day by scor
ing 22 of the Indian’s 27 points.
Army, second only to Harvard in
Eastern rankings had 6.
After his college career he
turned to professional football and
helped what is now the National
American Football League with
his play while a member of the
Canton, Ohio, Bulldogs.
Stories of his exploits among
the professionals are legion. Once
he is reported to have downed a
six-man wall of interference with
a single block.
Another time a brash young end
from Chicago, playing for the
Massilon, Ohio, Yellowjackets
stopped the famed Thorpe on two
successive end sweeps.
Thorpe called a halt in play
and told the youngster, "Don’t do
that. These people have paid
money to see old Jim run, not to
see him stopped.”
On the next play, Thorpe ran
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the same formation. As he sailed [
past the end he gave the flanker j
a stiff arm and hip that flattened !
him.
Thorpe scored, then returned to |
the injured played. "Thanks for
seeing' it my way. Rock. Thanks
for letting old Jim run. The end ;
was Knute Rockne, later to j
establish a football reputation of i
his own at Notre Dame.
Just Rich And
Pros Can Play
Says Red Paper |
Moscow, Russia, Sheet Gives
Its Version Of American
Sports And Those Who
Participate In Them
MOSCOW—It is claimed here
by a Soviet newspaper that the
only people in the United States
who can afford to engage in
sports are t lie rich and profes
sionals.
Komsomol Pravda declared that
sport in America is not available
to the workers and farmers be
cause they have neither mopey
nor time for it.
The paper went on to say that
“In America there can engage
in sport only the narrow class
of rich students and the relative
ly small number of professionals.”
Komsomol Pravda claimed that
reecntly there have been demands
that U. S. youth get into sports.
It added that these voices are
chiefly from the American mili
tary who see in sport a valuable
means of military training and
militarization.
The paper quoted General
Eisenhower, now president of
Columbia University, as favoring
wider development of spout on the
grounds that every good soldier
during the past war had been
connected in one way or another
with sports. It said: “For the
newly-appeared claimants to world
domination sports is necessary
for the preparation of ‘good
soldiers'.”
It added that military consid
erations dictate the kinds of sport
played in America. It said that
“America militarists set their
hopes on sport because bourgeois
sport kills thought, conscience,
humanity.” It said American box
ing, for instance, has long since
turned into a repulsive sadistic
spectacle in which criminals and
gangsters engage and in Which
there are a greater number of
fatalities than anywhere else in
the world. It also said wrestlers
continually are thinking up newer
and more repulsive means of
shocking spectators.
The paper stated that Ameri
can football, hockey, auto and
bicycle races, and other sports
are organized to assure the maxi
mum number of deaths and Inaim
ings. It said this is considered a
necessary flavoring in order to
please the American public.
Komsomol Pravda wrote: “Ame
rican sport educates the youth of
the U. S. in the spirit of human
ity hating and cruelty, implants
in it sadism and other beastly
; instincts and makes uncontrolled
| ‘supermen.’ It is just this type
j of ‘good soldier’ which the im
I perialists wish to see.”
The paper said that at present
all physical education classes have
ibeen transformed into schools for
| the preparation of sport instruc
| tors for the Army. It said
militarization has penetrated the
! YMCA and other sport institu
! tions. It added that ordinary
; people of America are resisting
j actively the attempt to militarize
j sports.
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Foiling The Ashes
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aluminum foil like this young lady is doing. First measure the width
and depth of the fireplace. Then cut strips of foil four inches longer
than the fireplace so that the foil can extend up the sides to form a
shallow tray. If more than one strip is required, the strips can readily
be joined by a simple double fold. Either 12-inch or the heavier 18
inch foil may be used. Three layers of the former are recommended,
while two layers of the latter will suffice. When the tray becomes filled
with ashes, it is a simple matter to remove the andirons and empty
the tray, after which the tray may be reused. This labor-saving idea
is typical of the many new foil applications housewives have reported
to The Aluminum Association.'
Young Asheville
Girl Sings With
Little Symphony
Musical Organization To
Feature Miss Josephine
Cunningham At Lumber
ton And Elizabethtown
Miss Josephine Cunningham,
young soprano of Asheville, will
appear as soloist with the North
. Carolina Little Symphony when
the Orchestra appears in Eliza
bethtown on Feb. 8 and Lumber
ton on February 10.
Petite Miss Cunningham will
present three numbers with the
State Symphony: “Alleluja” by
Mozart, “Lo, Here the Gentle
Lark,” and the aria, ‘‘The Queen
of Night” from The Magic Flute.
Soloist three times last season
with the North Carolina Sym
phony, Miss Cunningham sang
with the Orchestra in Asheville,
i Chapel Hill, and before the State
' Legislature in Raleigh.
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‘Prince Of Elusiveness’ Is Safely
In Hands Of State Prison Guards
James Prince, who might be
i dubbed by officers as "Prince of
' Elusiveness,” is in State Prison
I and probably will be extended no
i more courtesies either by officers
| or prison guards.
An 18-year-old Tarboro resident,
Prince has already chalked up this
| record:
Stole an automobile in Nash and
I received 12 months; escaped after
j serving nine days; stole another
car in Raleigh and got caught
speeding in Whiteville last week;
darted through a rest-room win
j dow 12 feet from the ground and
stole another car in Whiteville and
got a» far as Red Springs; tried
by Judge Paul Frizzelle and given
six to eight years, not counting
his unserved Nash term and possi
ble prosecution for escape and
the Raleigh theft.
Deputy Boyce Martin escorted
Prince and three other prisoners
to Raleigh Thursday. In the party
were Ralph Lashley, sentenced ro
from five to seven years for for
gery and returned to finish out
a previous five-year sentence;
Carver Cribb, sentenced to eight
to 10 years for attempting to
drown his wife; and Johnnie
Tyson, the 19-year-old Hallsboro
lad who drew 12 to 15 years for
the attempted rape of eight-year
old Hazel Pratt, the child of a
neighbor family.
The deputy sheriff made sure
the "Prince of Elusiveness” would
be in his custody when he got to
State Prison by handcuffing him
to another prisoner.
CATHOLIC INFORMATION
Can You Keep A Secret ?
Honestly?—and never breathe
I it to a soul ?—as long as you
live ?—even though the one who
told it to you might crucify you ?
- —even thdugh it might make no
difference to the one who told
you?
That would be a pretty hard
bargain, wouldn’t it ?—one might
almost say an impossible bargain;
and yet thousands of people enter
into a pact of that sort every
day, without the least twinge
| of hesitation.
We Catholics trust the seal of
| confession. We can go to a Cath
olic priest, anywhere, and confess
that we have done anything, from
making an unkind remark to poi
soning our Uncle Humphrey; and
we know with absolute certainty
that, as far as we and the con
fessor are concerned, the matter
is dead. We might as well have
I shouted it down a well. Never
will that priest betray what we
| have told him. At the time, he
may have expressed pain, regret,
or horror; our sins may or may
not haye been forgiven; but, no
matter what, they are a dea 1
issue as far as he’s concerned.
What gives us that assurance?
History: the record of priests
through the centuries. Of the
! priests in hundreds of thousands
who have served Christ through
the ages, a rare few may have
lost their faith; but never have
they been known to reveal who
told them what in the confession
al.
Think back on it yourself.
Wouldn’t the inside story on the
confessional make a snappy arti
cle for some cheap magazine? —
and have you ever seen such an
article? Have you ever heard of
an ex-priest, real or bogus, who
even pretended to be specific
about what he heard in the con
fessional? Have you ever heard
of a priest’s trying to blackmail
a penitent? Never in your life!
Think of cases .. . think of any
possibility which might seem to
justify a priest’s breaking the
seal, and we can say that in no
case would he do it—in no case
has he done it. More: He may
not bring up the matter again
with the person who confessed it.
And still more: he may not let
such information even affect his
actions!
Ask anyone who has gone to
confession. He’ll be able to tell
you. Or look up the story of St.
John Nepomucene in the Catholic
Encyclopedia. He was the Bohem
ian confessor who suffered his
tongue to be ripped out of his
mouth rather than divulge the
confession of a penitent.
If it’s anything Catholic, ask a
Catholic or write P. O. Box 351,
Whiteville, N. C.
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A Reminder .... to All Employers
What's It About?
Who Is Affected
What Do I Do ?
If you need any assist
ance in handling this
matter, please call on
any Waccamaw Bank.
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you.
A new way of handling social security taxes and
with-hoiding taxes.
All employers who take out social security taxes,
old age benefit taxes, and income taxes (with-hold
ing taxes) from the pay of the people who work for
them. That means all stores, lumber mills, and other
businesses whose employees pay social security taxes.
If the total of all taxes you take out of your em
ployees' pay for the month of January exceeds
$100.00 you must deposit these taxes in a qualified
Depositary for Federal Taxes by Feb. 15, 1950 (or
send them to the Federal Reserve Bank.)
All units of the Waccamaw Bank are qualified as
Depositaries for Federal Taxes.
Therefore, on or before Feb. 15th bring us your
form 450, Federal Depositary Receipt (a pink card
board form with your name and number on it) with
your check or money for the total amount of taxes
you have held out of your employees' pay during
January.
If the total of these taxes is $100.00 or more you
must deposit them by Feb. 15, 1950.
If the total of these taxes with-held by you amounts
to less than $100.00 you can wait to deposit them, if
you prefer, until the end of the following month, or
until the total amount exceeds $100.00. However,
regardless of the amount, these taxes must be depos
ited just after the end of each quarter (the end of
March) so that you can get a receipt to go with your
report which must be sent in during April.
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