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By BILE NORMENT
The Lumberton High School Pi
rates have returned from their
football training trip at Brevard
Junior College. The team was
there for a period of two. weeks.
The City of Lumberton has final-’
ly gotten someone to raise the in
terest of the local citizens in model
airplane contests. Yesterday the
Lumberton Recreational Commis
sion in co-operation with Fire
stone’s store sponsored a contest.
The contest was limited strictly to
rubber band models. I think that
if there are going to be contests 1
that they should not have a re
striction on them, such as enter
ing gas models.
There is very much interest in
gas models in Lumberton and the
modelers want a chance to enter
in contests. The gasoline fans have
already more or less made the air-]
port their own model runway on
Sunday afternoons. But the first
step has already been made in the
direction of promoting model in
terest in Lumberton and let’s keep
it up.
Baseball Commissioner A, B.
Chandler has ordered the Lum
berton Auctioneers to settle
contract differences with its
discharged manager, Red Lu
cas. .
Lucas was released by the of
ficials of the club after the sea-]
son started because the officials’
termed “the club is not going
well.” He was released on June
13.
Chandler warned leagues and
clubs at the same time "that in the
future they are to exercise greater
care and consideration in releasing
managers of clubs in the middle of
the season without making satis ¬
factory settlement of their con
tracts.”
Lucas explained to Chandler that
before the season he had received
in writing, a stipulation that said
that he was to remain as the club’s
manager for the entire season.
The commissioner’s decision for]
the Lumberton officials to settle
with Lucas at the rate specified in
his contract for the remainder of
the 1949 season.
AUK STATISTICS
In the last report of the Howe
News Bureau, long departed Hal
Walther is still leading the Lum
berton Auctioneers in batting with
a .320 average. Lee Bo,hlender is
currently leading the active Auk
players with a .316 mark with Tur
key Tyson hot on his heels with
.311. Jimmy Guinn .with .293,
Harry Spaine with .297, and Joe
Stern with .296 round out the top
five Auk batters.
Lumberton has three players that
lead the league in certain depart
ments. Harry Spaine leads the
league in runs batted in with 110..
Jimmy Guinn with 106 runs scored
leads in that department, and Gor
don McDonald leads the league
pitchers with a 14 won, 4 lost rec
ord for percentages, but he is tied
with the Auks’ Gus Vierra for the
most victories of any pitcher on the
Auks staff with 14 each
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Fireballer Jack Malloy is second
in the Tobacco State League in
strikeouts. Jack has struck out
170, and is headed only by Clancy
Condit, who has 230. But Malloy
does lead the league in bases on
balls with a total of 139, just one
more than Condit has. The Auks
are in fourth place in team bat
ting and third place in team field
ing.
Robin Statistics
Warfield is the unofficial Robin
batting lander with a .397 average.
Warfield’s is not official because he
has only been to bat 63 times. Sim
mons is the official leader with .331
and Peanut Doak following up with
.327. Parnell, Wood, and Brock
man round out the top five hitters
with .302, .268, and .262 respec
tively.
Harrington leads the pitching
staff with 14 wins and 10 losses, 1
with Phieffer second with a 10-7’
record. The Robins are deep in the !
cellar in team hitting with .255, 12
points lower than seventh place
Sanford. But the Red Springs
team is making up for battiing in
fielding where they hold third po
sition in league fielding.
Tomorrow is the last day that
Lumberton baseball fans can vote
for the most valuable Auctioneer
player. The voting ends on Sept. 3,
and a $25 gift will be given to the
winner at the last home game
played by the Auks. Belk’s store
is sponsoring the contest and they
will also give $25 prizes to players
in several departments such as
leading hitter, runs batted in lead
er, best pitcher, etc.
Gus Purcell, who earned his Uni
versity of North Carolina mono
gram last year by adroitly holding
the ball for Bob Cox’s extra point
kicks, frequently is a baby sitter
without compensation for h i s
friends, the Charlie Justices . . .
Joe Gustis, a war time letterman
who was in only one game last
year when he intercepted a pass
and ran 23 yards, will be one of
the outstanding fullback candi
dates on the 1949 North Carolina
football squad . . . Wake Forest’s
football team will make only six
appearances in North Carolina this
season . . . Wake Forest will travel
approximately 6,000 miles this fall
in its ten-game schedule. The
longest will be a 3,000 mile round
trip to Dallas Texas where they
will meet Southern Methodist . .
This season’s schedule is one of the
toughest to have ever been taken
on by a Wake Forest team. They
will meet six teams that played in
major football bowls, last New
Year’s day.
In the above photo Doc Blanchard and Bob Allen, business man
ager of the Charlotte Football Clippers, are discussing Blanchard’s pos
sibilities on playing with the Clippers this fall.
Bob Alien has gone to Washington, D. C., to see if he can get per
mission for Blanchard to play. The final decision of the Army Air Force
Headquarters in Washington was that Blanchard could definitely not
play. —
Here’s Your Chance
To Join Orchestra
Chapel Hill —North Carolinians
will have the opportunity to audi
tion for their State Symphony Or
chestra as Orchestral musicians or
soloists on Sept. 17, when the an
nual fall auditions for the North
Carolina Symphony Orchestra will
be held.
The auditions, a regular part of
the Symphony Society's program,
will be held at Meredith College,
Raleigh, on Saturday, September
17, from 2:30 until 5 o’clock.
These auditions will be open to
Three Youths Held
In Theft Of Auto
THE RED SPRINGS CITIZEN
j THURSDAY, SEPT. 1, 1949
WINDSOR — Three teen-age
boys of Portsmouth, Va., were ar
rested here by police in an auto
allegedly stolen there.
Police said .the three boys ad
mitted they were responsible for
several robberies in recent weeks
in Virginia. They were identified 1
as Eugene Lee, 16, 207 East
Broadmore Street, Portsmouth;
Johnny Baggett, 15, 108 Washing
ton St., Portsmouth, and Fred C.
Roper, Jr:, 15.
State Highway Patrolman C. E.
Whitfield halted the 1949 Mercury
in which the boys were riding on a
routine check. Subsequently the
boys said they had stolen the car
ji Portsmouth. Broken locks on
the car attracted Whitfield’s at
tention to the car.
Portsmouth police identified the]
boys in a telephone conversation. !
The trio admitted breaking into]
several Portsmouth busi n e s s
places, and stealing cigarettes and!
candy which they sold.
The boys said several other
youths were “working with them,”]
and that they had previously
stolen a 1948 Dodge ar.d given it
to another boy.
When they were arrested, all of
the three boys were barefooted
and without funds. They obtain
ed gas for the trip, they told
Whitfield, by having the gas tank
filled, then driving off quickly:
without paying for it.
children (under 17 years of age),
adults and choral groups. Choruses
will be eligible to participate in the
auditions for the first time this
year.
Winners in the soloist division
will be heard in concert with the
Symphony next season. Last sea
son nine children and four adults
appeared with the Symphony.
Members of the Symphony So
ciety Music Committee are judges
for the event. Further information]
about the musical requirements for]
the auditions may be obtained from]
the North Carolina Symphony So
ciety in Chapel Hill.
An Indiana farmer, J. S. An
drew’, has purchased a farm near
Hendersonville where he is setting
up a large poultry enterprise. Hel
expects to have 2,000 laying hens]
and 10,000 broilers when he gets;
in full swing.
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RED SPRINGS, N. C.
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CONGRATULATIONS . . . Charlie Keller of the New York Yankees
congratulates Joseph Petruzzu, winner of the Charlie Keller scholar
ship to the University of Maryland. Joseph, who lives in Mama
roneck, N. Y., is 18 years of age, stands five feet, 11 inches tall,
and batted a clear .500 in his last year of high school baseball
competition
The wild pigs found on some
Bahama Islands are not strictly
land-based animals. They often go
to sea as well. They swim from
island to island in search of food
or to escape the dogs of huntsmen
or natives.
The tomato is legally a vege
table, botanically a fruit. In 1893,
the U. S. Supreme Court ruled
that it is a vegetable. But by bo
tanical definition. the tomato,
snap or green beans,, garden pep
per and many others are fruits.
OWNERS BIRTHDAY
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tomers during the month of August.
The price applies to men’s or women’s suits, dresses, men’s or
women's coats—and the order can be a mixture of any of these
items. This is a cash and carry offer and cleaning must be
picked up during August.
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Don’t Make This
Mistake, Veterans
Veterans bent on getting their]
GI insurance refunds as quickly
as possible were warned of a pos
sible stumbling block yesterday by
J. M. Caldwell, director of the N.
C. Veterans Commission.
“On filling out Item 4 of the ap-1
plication for dividend, preliminary
Veterans Administration test
cases show this glaring error,” tne ]
director said. “That item asks for
the veteran’s service serial num
bers. Under the caption ‘Service
Serial No. (s).,’ there are three
I sections labled ‘enlisted,’ officer/
and ‘other,’ all referring to possi-
I ble serial numbers the veteran
I may have held.”
“The word ‘enlisted’ caused the
misunderstanding,” Caldwell ex
plained. “Tested veterans thought
that meant the date of their en-
lismen and they entered that date
under ‘enlisted.’ Without the vet
eran’s serial number, the Veter
ans Administration cannot process
the application.”
Caldwell added that the appli
cation blank nowhere calls for
date of entry into service, for date
of entry into service is not neces
sary in connection with this ap
plication.
The director again told veterans
not to write to the VA offices for
] their insurance policy numbers or
claims numbers, if any.
“Those numbers are not essen
tial to the processing of the appli
cation,” he stated. “Writing for
them only delays action on the re
funds.”
The director advised veterans to
wait until August 29, the date the
applications will be available .at
all district and county veterans
service offices and from post of
ficers of all veterans organiza
tions in North Carolina.
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