Green Waves Take,
Two Over Oak Citvi
Boys Surprise By 1
Getting A Wider
1 Lead Than Girls
l)a\ is Top Sourer for Boys.!
( lotI rain Leads Girls
\\ itli I 7 Points
Although the early part of both,
games was played on fairly even,
terms as the lead changed hands,
and ties developed often, the Wil
liumston High School teams fin
ished strong to take a double vic
tory over Oak City High in the
Williamston gym Tuesday night.
The girls moved into the lead in
the second quarter and remained
ahead to win 26 to 15 while the
hoys did not move out front until
after the half but won by a wider
mai gin. 37 to 21.
In an extremely cold gym that
made playing difficult for the two
^ teams and watching painful for
the fans, the Williamston girls got
behind early in the game when
Joyce Harrell dropped in a field
goal after Alice Pe aks had missed
a free throw for Williamston, hut
Dannette Bailey tied the count on
a field goal and both teams miss
ed free throws. Williamston
moved out front on a field goal
and free throw bv Edna Coltrain
but Harrell tied it up at 5-all on
• a free throw and field goal be
fore Coltrain put Williamston out
front to stay with a field goal at
the close of the quarter.
Bi iley got Oak City oil to a good
'■tart with two free throws early
in the hoys game but foul shot:
by Watson McKcel and Raymond
Davis knotted the count. The
Jamesville Stars
Still Winning
Although they held Spit Martin
to his lowest score of the season,
the Plymouth Stars found that two
others were hitting the hoops also
and lost to Jamesville's All Stars
55 to 37 at Plymouth Monday
'night. It was the fifth in a row
for Jamesville.
Tied with Spit Martin at 17 was
E. L. Martin while Billy Brewer
accounted for 15. Henderson Mi
celle made 4 and Buddy Gardner
and E. E. Brown 1 each. Vaughn
■ was high man for the losers with
1 12 points. Alexander got 9 and
Tugwell 7.
The game was played on pretty
i even terms during the first two
quarters but after the intermission
i Jamesville pulled away and won
| by a good margin.
, Green Wave moved out front by
i one point on a free throw by Dav
is but Briley hit from the l'lodr
• to move his team ahead again and
the lead changed hands several
times before the end of the half, at
which point the count was tied up
j at 10-all with both teams playing
cautious ball. Williamston's lads
moved out front to stay shortly ,
after the second half opened on i
shots by McKeel. Davis and Regi- !
i nald Coltrain while High and j
Briley hit the hoops to keep Oak >
City in contention.
The boys’ teams showed lack of
• experience. Oak City having but
two veterans on its squad while
Wil]ian?ston hud one. It was the
first game of the season for Wil
' liamston and Oak City has not
i played many. Briley was the of
j tensive leader for Oak City with
12 points while Raymond Davis
[was top man for the winners with
j 15. Williamston’s entire team
j plcved wo 11 on defense while for
Oak City big Mi La whom was the
! defensive tower of strength and
Briley bundled the ball well. In
(Ajpj^eormg -teehind Davis for Wil
i Iiuuust-on were Reg Coltrain 7.
John Rogers and Watson McKeel
' 5 eac h Everett 4. and Edwards 1.
• Behind Briley for Oak City were
High with 5, McLawhovn 3 anti I
Etheridge 1.
In the girls game more expert
ienee on both teams was apparent
but the cold made it difficult fur
them to handle the ball. Williams,
ton started a veteran team with
the exception of one t'orw ,nl
while Oak City had but one or
two inexperienced player in the
starting six.
Edna Coltrain led Wilhamst. n's
girls with 17 points, the highest
for any player in the doublehead
er. Alice Peaks made ti and Dan
nette Bailey 3. Joyce Harrell with
8 and M. Bland with 7 did all the
scoring for the visitors. Hutchin
son was outstanding as a gua 1 foi
Oak City while Jean Bailee along
with Priscilla Robot son and Verle
Leggette did good work for the
Green Wave on defense Substi
tutes for Williamston included
Rhoda Faye Peel and Louise Cor
ey at forwards, Patricia Wynn at
guard. For Oak City Bullock was
the third starter at forward, Hop
kins. Bunting and Hutchinson at
guard with D. Bryant as a substi
tute. Others listed on the score
included M. Hopkins
By quarters the girls from Wil
liamston got 7 in the first, a m the
second, 11 in the third and 3 m the
fourth. Oak City score I a in the
first 0 in the second, 7 in the third
and 3 in the filUith.
In the boys game Williamston
score 6 in the first quarter, -l in
the second 12 in the third and 15
in the fourth while O; k City got
4 in the first (i in the -econd, 8 in
the third and 3 in the fourth.
Starting for Williamston were
Harrell Everett and Reginald Col
train at forward, Raymond Davis
at center and Watson McKeel and
John Rogers at guard James Col- !
train saw action early as a gua id ,
substitute while late in the game
Gloyden Stewart, Billy Harris and
Jack Edwards saw action for Wil
liumston. Oak City started Ilv
man and Briley at forward. Me
Lawhorn at center, High and Eth
fridge at guards The visitors
substituted frequently, Hopewell.
Smith, Manning and Bland get
ting into action Others listed on
the rostei included Edmondson,
Hollis and Edwards.
With the -.core at 22-20 in favni
of Williamston shortly alter the
third quartei opened the Green
Wave boys made then move liar
•'ell Everett dropped in a basket
Coltrain followed with two in a
rotv on close-in jump shifts and
then Rogers and MeKi el hit from
the loreeoui t for 10 points in a low
and a moment later Rogers added
another It. ket and Coltrain again
connected lor a field goal that put
the game out ot the reach of Oak
City. Jack Edwards scored the
final point ol tin game when he
made good on one of two free
throws.
Tins was the only game schedul
ed for Williamston prior to the
, Christina - holidays and it is not
likely that an> other county hr h
school teams will plaj again b«
■ fore the first of the year. Farm
I Lite comes to Williamston Jan
I uary 2 and then goes to Beai Gi as- j
Ion tin 5th while Williamston is
at Robersonville on the 5th
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Williamston lias a record of twoj
! victories and two defeats this year. I
Woodland has Inst a game to Con- '
was hut is understood to be un
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Bobby Taylor and Jerry Fore
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capable help has been provided
by Junie Peel. C T Roberson and
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durant ancf Lancl v Griffin helping
dunrig the holidays David Car
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formers and manager of the team.
Farm Life Ends
Play 'til January
The basketball teams of Farm
Life High School closed their 1950
play Monday night by splitting a
doubleheader with Bath High of
Beaufort County. The Farm Life
boys won 49 to 31 but the girls
dropped their game by one point,
49-48
The game with Bath was the
third of the fall for Farm Life’s
teams. The girls previously had
lost to RobersonviHe. 36 to 21, and
to Jamesville, 81 to 44 The boys
were defeated by Robersonville,
36-29. and by Jamesville, 19-14. t
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CAPITAL REPORTER
Raleigh, N. Dei’ Another j
your has passed and hero il is
Christmas again the season of
"piace on earth, good will toward
men.’'
With things the way thi\\ are,
it's a little hard to sit down and
write about political double-deal
ing in Raleigh and North Caro
lina Many talks will have an
empty chair at the Christmas
dinner table either for a son
lulled m Korea or for one headed
that way
Five years aye1 we foolishly
thought we had settled thuyas for
a while for at least the usual 25
years between wars. It looked as
though ill) months in the Marine
Corps might have helped accom
plish somethin;; Rut light now it
just looks like lit) wasted months
Unfortunately, there is no
peace and very little good will
Some folks talk about "when"
or "if" we net into another war
They should tell that to the boys
being shot at in Korea, nursing
frozen ; yet and ;f'r* stint ten lingers
as they kill to keep from being
killed The fighting may be “eon
tabled" in Korea right now, but
if t.hi - ain't war, then I don’t fig
ure very straight
So, there is no peace.
Good will? Look at folks snarl
ing at each otliei in the Christmas
shopping rush The anti-Scott ad
mini; t ration folk • aren’t exactly
- play nic, pattyc tike and the all
out supporters of the Governor clo
not exactly show brotherly love
to their opponents Die Republi
c ans tlnnk any thing goes so long
as il discredits the national ail
ministration and President Tru
man. The prestdi nt w i it . nasi .'
notes The Russians or '1 !
then leaders greedily eye wan Id
conquest, and freedom seems to
dwindle in the world as we call
each other names and bicker iv
er matters that in the overall pie
lure are so infinitely small a to
be ridiculous
Used to be that folks sat down
at Thanksgiving Day and thanked
Gfod f. r their blessings A month
later they would sing carols, read
again the wonderful story >1 .he
birth of out Lord, and rerledieate
themselves to making a better
world at they celebrated his
birthday ('hrislina:
Now Thanksgiving seems to be
mainly a football date and a rig
n.d fur a high pro ,sure Christmas
pies -nt sale campaign. The nds
tell you that rio child can be hap
py without a $50 cowboy suit or a
$100 train >et They even chan
ged the name of the day from
"Christmas” to "Xmas", because
it would taki up less space in
the advertisements. They should j
have changed d to "$rnas”, it
would havi been more appropri- j
ate.
Before Christmas turned into a
time of the gimme.-,, folks used to
hi lp their neighbors when tin y
were m trouble Now so-called |
social service agencies time their
fund-raising campaigns to take
advantage of the "Christmas
spirit”. Give us a donation they i
say, and free your conscience |
You have to worry about the poor,
the sick, the weary m mind and
spirit. We ll do it for you, they
say. Yes, for a cash donation you
can salve your conscience. When |
folks need help, instead of a 1
Heart guide I helping hand they :
ran get if they’re lucky a hand ,
jut from a soulless agency expert
with one eye on the budget And, I
lun't forget, you can subtract that
lunation from your income tax re
turn.
Of eoui'se. we have all of the
Coming hack aftci the holidays,
Farm Life w ill travel to Williams-1
on for a county game, I
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
With reports yet to come
from two of the nlost danger
oils weeks in the year tor
highway travel, the accident
toll already stands at a shock
ing figure for 1950 The only
consolation in the figures is
the decreased number of
deaths It's been a long time
when someone didn't lose his
life on the highways in this
county at Christmas time
The following tabulations
offer a comparison of the ac
cident trend: first, by corres
ponding weeks in this year
and last and for each year to
the present time.
50th Week
Accidents In,I'd Killed Dam'fte
1950 fi 1 0 $ 1,700
1949 2 0 0 450
tlompariMins To Itate
1950 I mi 81 9 $41,240
1949 195 (it) 7 29.07,5
government agencies that help us
be impersonal about being iur
"brother'.', keeper." Just let the
legit lature or congress -vote
: them a share of our tax money
i anil they do the job We don’t
I have to worry ourselves with the
insane, the tubercular patient, the
jailbird. No, we just have to
: watch very carefully that they
don't vote too lug a slice ol >ur
tax money, because otherwise
they might ha\v to raise taxes
.nd that would be terrible, oven
• hueh folks are starving or Iv
mg id s line preventable illness
Ri rhaps typical of the attitude
of many of us is the story told the
other day by Evangelist Hilly
I Graham According to him, a Los
Angeles woman was downtown
1 shopping and happened to walk
by a store window which had on
display the Christmas Scene >f
Christ s birth "Can you imagine
that.” she exploded, "even the
Church is trying to muscle in oui
Christmas.”
Yes. things are m such shape
that you wonder sometimes il
even the Lord Jesus is getting i
little discouraged with us, per
! haps feeling that lie wasted 111:
.time coming to earth some nine
teen hundred and fifty years ago.
Hut, being at heart an optimist,
I it seems to me that we still can
clo something about the situation
First: We can remembr r "unit
ed we stand, divided we fall"
Republicans, Democrats, Dixie
erats, conservative.', liberals, big
business, labor, all can remember
that we age Americans first and
need desperately to work togeth
er to get our country ready to
meet its worst threaten since its
for mation. Get the job done, then
go back to our bickering among
our selves, if we mu: t
Second: We must convince the
peoples of the worjd that we have
no quarrel with them: that we re
spect tire individual; that we want
to live m peace; that we really
have only “good will" for them
Of the two, the first jot) is the
easier We always have been able
to put our efforts together and
light off outside threats, saving
our family scraps until the :om
mon enemy has been defeated
The second part is harder Re >
pie who have been trampled foi
generations, as they have in Ku
rope and Asia, do not easily be
lieve that you want to help rath
er than exploit them Bui con
vince them we must, and alter
convincing them it we can we
must help them to a better way of
life That’s a continuing job, not
just une of showing them the
way with a short-term loan
There's a boat soilin'.; Rook that
pretty weli points the wav--oven
though too many folks have fin
gotten it lately. It's the Bible It
tolls us to love our neighbors. It
tolls us to treat other folks the
same we'd like them to treat us
And it tolls us to fight evil
The wav is clear It's up to us
and it's later, much later, than
you think
Meantime, things are about like
ru'd expect. The State Health
.'apartment is looking I >r a huild
rig site They have the money and
f e building plans And they have
r cm i n Caswell Sp tare for the
u b .ni.. :. •• t:.i > ilo 1" want
• put it ’. . . . oceans the.i the
ow building would be right next
t some of Raleigh's worst slums.
Isn't that something'.’ An agency
t'.iat's designed to help the nil
healthy, who, incidentally, usual
l\ are poor and tisualls live in
slums, doesn't want to be close
to them. In other words, the un
healthy are annoying to the vers
agency that's supposed to help
them
Can you think of a better loca
tion for a health building’’ Seems
as though il should be close to the
folks it's supposed to help. 1’er
haps that would give some of the
healthy, well-paid, well-led health
! department executives a better]
picture of their job.
Or, perhaps it would be better
for the legislature to take the
money that is appropriated for
the Rleaming glass, metal and
stone health building and use it
to clean up those “offensive'
slums ,
Our North Carolina senators
amt representatives practically all
have been singing the same sons'
latch -"pull the boys out of Ko
| rea" Most Tar Heels I've talked
to seem to feel that, now that
we're in the fight we've got In
; keep going.
But the way things are going,
our representatives and senators
: probably will get their wish Kx
eept that instead of being "pulled
out” our magnificent fighting men
1 may get "chased" out by the over
! whelming Chinese Red hordes.
4 It's no tea party, and it's not
a fight we can quit It's a fight for
our life or death, and wed bet
iter quit trying to be nice. We'd
better fight with everything we
have, A-Bomb, II Bomb, anything
else on hand. You don't use Mar
quis of Queensbur.v rules when
you're lighting for survival
It s nigh on the time for the
j General Assembly to convene, and
'all of the aetivit.v shows it Folks
are scrambling around, cooking
up things they want to get. across.
Others are lining up opposition to
things they think will come up.
For example, the North Cam
lira Merchants Association re
cently sent out a letter advising
merchants that the State Admin
istration would request the leg
islature to remove all exemptions
to the sales tax. Same letter calls
on merchants to work on their
representatives if they are op
posed to removal of exemptions.
The automobile dealers also are
getting set to wage quite a cam
paign against lifting the S15 sales
tux limit on a single item. They
would be the hardest hit bv such
a move
Many legislators are going on
public record is being opposed to
"any increase in either taxes or
expenditures " They are being
naive il may be possible to keep
from Raising taxes. But expendi
tures either will have to go up -
what with the rising cost of eve
rything-or else services will
have to be cut. Rising costs likely
will bring more income from our
amc taxes so that the budget
can be balanced, but anyone who
doesn't think State government
the next two years is just a lit
will be more expensive during
the next two years is just a little
on the silly side.
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