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High Times By GLO and TOOG. Another week has past, so here we are letting yon in on the latest news and gossip in and around Southport high school. Friday afternoon on olir local dia mond the Southport baseball team played Williams. The score ended 15 to 5 in favor of South port. Fans are urged not to for get to keep posted with the games and to attend them all. The seniors presented their class play, “Almost Eighteen” on Thursday afternoon mostly for the bus children, then on Friday night for everyone. It turned out to be a big success, although it took many horns of practicing during and after school. Director H. T. _ Sanders and the characters did - a grand job. * Thursday night was a big event i for the glee club and the chorus ~ of the grammar grades. They L -journeyed to Bolivia to show the I people part of their work during - ,Jhe year. The trip was enjoyed •* ..by all. We want to say that each „ ■•school's part in the program was ^ put over nicely. Seen Around: Harold Spencer _ "sharpening a pencil . . . Danny - Harrelson working on his English _ notebook . . . Elliott Hickman - ..Writing a report . . . Nancy Swan, * Janice Swan, Bobby Cullis, Bert - Tam Burriss and Billy McDowell chatting during study hall . . .Iris - ■ftnbon reading a book . . . Boyce Spencer and Billy Dosher taking « Hfe easy looking through maga zines . . . Pete Larsen interested in a book . . . Gene Russ getting bis English home work . . .Lena Ward chatting with Linda Hick man . . . Catherine and Rebecca McRackan sewing1 away in Home Economics . . . Dwight King fuss ing in history . . . Tommy Bow mer arguing in history . . . Bobby Spencer always getting into mis chief . . . Bill Cranmer and Jerry Spencer working on a motor scootei . . . Lorraine Whitley late for Glee Club . . . Patricia Adams practicing her announcement for the Glee Club number . . . Bernice Phelps fussing as usual . . . Darrell Fisher roaming through the halls . . . Agnew Fulcher sleepy-eyed first thing in the mor nfhg at school . . . Stuart Arring ton studying . . . Latitia Hick man singing away in Glee Club . . . G. W. Fisher and Leroy Stanley working on the props . . . Robin Hood roaming through the halls . . . Mary Ann Loughlin and Patricia Adams almost late for the festival . . .Ramona Frink doing nicely on her solo at the festival . . . Danny Harrelson, Billy Dosher Merle Muncy, Dwight King and others at Bo livia Thursday night to enjoy the entertainment . . . Charles Rob bins and Leroy Stanley selling tickets for the Senior play . . . Bill Cranmer late for school . . . The girls Glee Club doing nicely at the festival with their songs . . . Delight Gay studying French homework . . . Sue Williamson sick in the hospital last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday but well now . . . Jackie Marsh all smiles Monday morning . . . Joan James talking during study hall to Peggy Arnold ... A hen party during the week-end celebrating Stuart Arrington's sixteenth birthday which was enjoyed by all . . . Mary E. Lupton giggling around the halls . . . Harriett Corlette chatting in classes as usual . . . Everyone enjoying the Senior play. Guess we better stop for now. See you next week and most any where around. POTATO SLIPS 150 BUSHELS PORTO RICA SLIPS \ his is good, clean seed stock and these slips have been recommended by agricultural specialists. M. T. McRacken (On River Road) — Soulhport, N. G. SOUTHPORT WINS Southport Wins From Williams Local Nine Takes First Game ' In Class B Championship ! Elimination Series By Score 15 To 5 i BY JIGGS POWERS SOUTHPORT—Southport High : School's baseball team defeated' the Williams High Aggies, 15-5, 1 in the first of their Class B ! championship series. The contest 1 was played here on Friday after- | noon. Gene Russ twirled the Victory for the aggregation coached by i H. T. Sanders, and did a fine i job tif it,, as he allowed the in vading Columbus nine only six i safeties. Williams, meanwhile, used a j quartet of pitchers in an effort to | halt the avalanche of base-hits j and errors that gave the Porters a 10-ron victory margin. Their frosh ace, J. T. Fisher who had a record of 4 wins and no losses until Friday, opened on the hill and retired the locals without mishap in the opening frame af ter his club had secured one run off the slants of Russ. However, the roof fell in on Fisher, and Williams, in the second rack as the Sandersmen counted eight times. Before the fire was out, Catcher Andy Anderson and Fish ed had exchanged plaees--with I Anderson doing the hurling and Fisher catching. David Gasque was the third moundsman for W'illiams, going on in the 6th, and Sammy Gore, who had gone nine innings against Tabor City the night before, fol lowed in the seventh. Billy McDowell, former White ville Legion star, led the South port hitting by belting a 2-run homer and a double in 4 trips. Doug Watts garnered a triple and single in the same number of tries. Andy Anderson, Williams catch er. was the star of his team. He hit a home run in the 8th with a mate aboard and added a sin gle in 4 trips. It was Anderson’s sixth four-master of the season. The teams resume the two-game j set next Friday, April 28, at Williams. Should Southport win, they will be champions of their PENNSYLVANIA V tires l TRACTOR TIRES On any job... in any weather, Pennsylvania Tractor Tires will give you sure-footed trac tion every foot of the way. Big and husky. .. they're built to grip and go ... bite hard and deep in any kind of going. See i us today for your Pennsylvania Tractor Tires. ANY SIZE ANY PLY BLACK’S SERVICE STATION —TIRES —WHEELS —RIMS— W. C. BLACK WHITEVILLE- PHONE 110-1 group in B-2 play and will ad vance to the district play-offs. However, should Williams win [ Friday’s game, a third contest will be necessary to decide the group champ. Williams— 100 001 030—5 6.7 Southport 080 104 20x—15—14—3 Fisher, Anderson (2), Casque <61, Gore (7) and Anderson, Fisher (,2), Anderson (6) Russ and Bowmer. Southport continued its winning ways Tuesday afternoon with a 10 to 3 victory over the New Han over JV's. Russ pitched three in nings and Billy McDowell finished up. Russ aided the Southport cause with a terriffic homer, but the batting star was Gene Ful wod, who had three for four. Southport fs placing Bolivia here this afternoon in a county tilt. Southport Class Present Play “Almost Eighteen” Success fully Presented By Mem bers Of Senior Class Here Friday The Senior class of the South port school presented a three-act comedy, “Almost Eighteen,” dir ected by Principal H. T. Sanders, ! in the school auditorium Friday Conservation Of Water Important Lowering Water Table Is Danger Affecting Produc tion Of Farms In All Sec tions The water that runs off the land and goes down the rivers in floods Is not going into the soil to raise the soil water table or replinish springs. This is one of the major reasons, says S. L. Purvis, Chairman of the Bnins wick County PMA Committee, why city people as well as far mers have direct interest in ef fective conservation. The lowering water table in many parts of the country, he points out, emphasizes the need for increasing all efforts to con night. A large audience was pre sent. The characters were as follows: William Barry — Leroy Stanley: Grace Barry — Claire Potter; Beatrice Barry —• Lena Ward; Mrs. Granville , — Rebecca Mc Rackan; Eddie Barry — G. W. Fisher; George Jones — Robin Hood; Ann Sherman — Linda Hickman; Tommy Granville — Tommy Bowmer; Sally Davidson -— Catherine McRackan; Mr. Merritt — Bobby Spencer; Miss Dalrymple — Peggy Arnold. The business manager was Doris Stephens and the stage managers were Billy McDowell and Charles Robbins. j serve both soil and water. The I two usually go together. The j conservation practices which are effective in checking and controll i ing erosion at the same time are | effective in checking runoff and I floods. j The Chairman explains that | the work being done by farmers cooperating in the Agriculture | Conservation Program is to ac | complish this purpose. Terraces ion the hillside, conteur farming, and grassed waterways all help to keep the soil from washine away. For this reason, the chairman explains, the financial assistance which is aiding farmers to carry out conservation practices also is helping to maintain the water supply of the people in the cities. This is especially true of the work being done on the higher pasture and range lands on the Nation's major watersheds. He points out that holding- back the runoff from melting snows and rains there is particularly vital in protecting city water supplies down below. attended fitneraTJ Mr. and Mrs. Billy Bragaw and Mis. Helen G. Bragaw of South port and Mesdames Ed Mallison and Ann Lake of Wilmington attended the funeral of Mrs. John G. Bragaw in Washington Sat urday. Candidate For Sheriff Friends, remember what I have told you before: T am making no special promises nor committments in order to gain support. If I am nominated and elected the only thing I will be under obligation to do is render fair and impartial service as leader of our organized law enforcement. I wouldn’t want the office of Sheriff un der any other conditions. Ed V. Leonard i Ounce for Ounce ! i , III M ■ <) i #y/ ...and 2 Full Classes in Each ' !2o:.Bottle! 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