Costs $l£6Per Man
On Roster for High
School Grid Team
-«
Takes Lol Of Money For!
Sports And Burden Is j
(hi Football Receipts
It takes a lot of money now - I
adays to put a football team on 1
the field and this expensive job
is further aggravate; \vi\et\ t*. ..
found that baseball is almost total1
exper.-; and basketball has to be
outstanding to pay its own way.
Announcing plans to add eight
more sections of bleachers to the,
seating capacity of the Williams
ton Athletic Park. Principal B. G.
Stewart released some figures on
the income and outgo of the ath
letic department of the school in
the past two scholastic years.
Right now it takes about S100
for every man on the football ros
ter to put a team on the field. As
to game equipment it takes $82.20
per player. This includes: Hel
met. S15.9a, jersey. $7.25: pants,
$9.45; shoes. $11.95; shoulder pads.
$15.45. hip pads. $12.85: rib pads.
$8.35; thigh guards, $2.95 The
equipment used in practice adds i
up to the rest of the $100 cost
Total receipts in 1949-50 were
$2,985.70 and disbursements S3,
369.74 while in 1950-51 receipts
were $4,624.33 and disbursements,
$4626.06. Outstanding bills at th(
beginning of the season amount
ed to $463.46 While the income
for 1950-51 was high because o'
the district, sectional and stat(
games, the expense kept pace as £
lot of travel was necessary.
Items of expense listed in the
report covered equipment, trans
portation. game officials, guaran
tees to visiting teams, entrance
fees foi conference and state as
sociation memberships, laundry
and cleaning, lights, oil for heat
ing the gymnasium, painting the
interior of the gymnasium, coa'
for the hot water heater, lumber
fro goal posts, tickets, lime for
iivkhot int' 1 ; , ■ ■
the field, scoreboard for the gyrr -
nusium. rc!niisi»itg the- kvc.-.
nasium floors, insurance on play -
i"-« $200 contribution on the ten
nis courts. S250 stock in lights at
the park, S100 for treating the
bleachers at the park, over $14(1
for lumber for eight bleacher sec
tions after seven had been donat
ed by local lumber firms.
Sources of income for the high
school athletic association include
rate receipts, guarantees from
ither teams on out-of-town con
tests. rentals on gymnasium and
oenefit programs.
The equipment of the Williams
:on teams is now regarded as tops
ind thf athletic department in
tends to keep it that way for the
protection ot the boys who take
part in the schools athletic con
ests. Cost of the equipment has
isen by quite a good margin in
he past seveial years. Meeting
cams from larger schools as it
iocs. Wilhamston has to have
; si-.! equipment to give its team
■qual standing with the other fel
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.. _ By Uncle Sam
HAPPY DAYS
The sun was shining. It had
risen above the trees and tallest
buildings. The streets were de
serted Not many places of busi
ness v ere open tor patrons and
customers. The thousands of city
dwellers were not yet awakened
and aware of the conning of an
other day. They had not yet
|munu'.eu \..r . .c.r. 'and gulped
j their colas, and lit tl ■
How different the ..ue time hap
pv days when all arose with the
dawn. Wtiat a breakfast was
served. Ham and red ham gravy
from a hog that had the feed and
time to put real flavor into that
ham. Eggs laid by hens that had
time to lay a real country egg
then cackle and rest and scratch
and get ready to lay another real
country egg. Today the hens are
hurried and shoved until they do
not have time to lay an old lash
ioned country egg. If they have
time to cackle they have to do it in
high gear getting ready to lay
another modern egg. What a
morning as you walked down the
low on the field.
Purchase c.f a school activity
bus has helped a great deal in
solving team transportation this
year but does not eliminate the
i cost of travel because it is neces
sary to set up a fixed per mile
charge for all those who use the
bus so that insurance, repairs and
depreciation can be taken care of
to some extent.
Basketball has paid it.- own way
for most of the time in recent
years and on good seasons has
netted a small margin but base
ball is a sport which is maintain
ed to round out the athletic pro
gram and its expenses leave to
come largely from football re
ceipts.
If is expected that the addition
al sections of bleachers will be in
place before the next home game
which brings the strong Hertford
Indians here lor one of the sea
son's most important conference
games. Hertford, playing here
on Friday, October ,9, is being
established in many quarters as
the conference favorite.
Williamston fans have been ex
tremely loyal to their teams and
have helped the athletic programs
of other conference schools by
following the Green Wave away
fri i i home, sometimes providing
more Williamston fans than the
home team could muster.
The 1951 Tax
Books Are Now
PAY EARLY
path before sun up smoking, not
a cigarette as sissies smoke, but
an nlH corn cob pipe, a real man's
smoke.
There was never a better drink
for the- Lord- never made a better
drink than a gourd of pure water
out of a spring in the beat of the
day. No pops, no sodas or any
thing else shoved across a bar
could ever equal it. Who would
swap that spring and gourd for!
just common branch water that ;
has to be pumped, filtered, allurn
ed and chlorined and iced hut still
er. j
Ther that good ..id l.SMhiotV. d j
country surnme. dinner, not i
lunch. With vegetables, bacon,
pies and preserve- ami milk just i
out of the spring house, milk that *
del not have to be tested, treated j1
and pasteurized for the cows had i
already pasteurized it. Then the
melons with the dew still on their *
linds. Days of happy living. Not .
only are those days gone hut the ;
country is just about gone with 1
them.
Sometimes I think what a mess 1
the modern city chaps have got- !
ten themselves into but don’t even ;
know it. i
More Churches In
The Open Country
That North Carolina is still ru
ral is graphically illustrated in the
fad that of the 2,950 Baptist
churches in the State, 1,858 of
tiiem are located in open country
and 441 in villages of less than
500 population This means that
2,209 of the Baptist churches in
the entire State are classified sis
rural.
Of the 2.950 churches in North
. ina as listed in the 1951
''■"..'thorn i"t Handbook fm
he year 1950, only 53 churches
nave as many as 1.000 members,
md only 187 churches have more !
,han 500 members, and 643
■hurches in this State have as j
nany as 300 members. This '
neans that less than 700 Baptist
Jhurches in all North Carolina
ire located outside qf rural areas,
rnd also 0 ss than 700 of them as
lave 300 or more members,
fhe largest percentage of all Bap- i
ist churches in the State have j
ewer than 300 members, and ;
re located in communities that
re definitely rural.
In a recent meeting cf the East
ern Group of the Rural Church
Development Program, held at
New Sandy Creek Church in the
Tar River Association on Sep
tember 7, 1951, it was pointed out
that the life blood of our nation
flows from the country, and that
the great hope is to purify the
rural life of our people by a more
intensive, Christ-centered pro
gram working in local rural
churches.
Among the existing weakness
es of the average rural church,
attention was called to the fol
invt iii.u; Nee a n-i rr ?>:•;» training |
■ n thi pj.'-i of U at’i inadequate i
■ pa, ■ , such 'is v 1 "i ' ..'s V; V Cine- j
room church buildings with no I
room for Sunday school classes
and for expansion; too many non- I
resident pastors; lack of sufficient j
course :-, and training the sernina-j
lies for rural church work; the '
lack of teaching and practice if
Christian stewardship; lack of ’
any sort of recreational program
in the rural churches; and lack
of fervent evangelism for reach
ing out to win more people to
build up the churches in numbers
,ind strength.
Among the three greatest needs
today for rural churches were
listed: More ana closer pastoral
ministry; more long-range plan
ning, and more adequate church
buildings and equipment,
TIIE HEADLESS SHAVER
(Camden Chronicle)
Seeing where an oculist had
said that many men hurt their
eyes shaving before any sort of a
makeshift of a mirror, brought to
mind a storv we read a few days
ago about a man who was to be
released as cured alter 20 years
in a mental institution. On the
morning he was to be released,
»*» . . ..
he was allowed to ana ve mini a A ,
instead of having to submit to the [
j-tciitiohs or the-' iiarbcr.hr the
home. Turning to address a re
mark to one of the attendants
who had rome to bid him good
bye. his razoi caught the string
which : upported the shaving mir
ror and it fell to the ground.
When the patient tried to go on
with his shave he looked at the
blank wall. “Well,” he said with
a sigh, 'if that isn't just mv luck.
After 20 years in this place^ on
the very day I'm going to
out. I've cut my head off."
TODAY’S DOLLAR
Our dollar continues to be v
less and less. The tvpical Ai
WSP?
ciill L’onbUflifcri "Yus'
[Hay to buv what could be bo’jJUjJU
Eor oik; dollar a year ago
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