Study Children's
Sports Programs
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In tj^e last two years an interest
ing controversy bas arisen over
the growth of midget sports in the
United States. By midget sports,
we mean all organized sports for
youngsters twelve years of age or
under.
In 1950, the National Recrea
tion Association Congress set up a
committee from the recreation
field to formulate principles f
guidance to be followed by -•.•im
munity recreation leaders.
This committe. of twenty-three
members met the next year and,
in J952. the committee released a
number oi conclusions and sug
gested principles concerning high
ly organized competitive sports
tor youngsters twelve and under.
The committee found that spoils
for tho*-. under twelve years of
age should not be "highly organiz
ed, competitive athletics." The
committee considers any athletic
activity which involves a consid
erable amount of leisure time, of
the youngsters, spent in formaliz
ed practice, which encourages
large-scale attendance by adults,
which involves a selection of win
ners on state, regional or national
schedules, highly organized.
Thus intra-mural competition
in football, basketball, tennis or
other sport is not considered high
ly organized. The committee felt
that the failure of many midget
sports programs, in the highly
competitive field, was that they
did not provide every boy with a
chance to compete to the best of
his ability, even though he was
not one of the best players in his
particulai runununity.
The committee also felt that the
fundamental goal in all midget n
crealioTial program.- should he the
development of the qualities of
good citizenship, and the satisfac
tion of basic human needs, such
as acceptance, adventure and re
cognition. and also happiness.
l! CHANGE IN FOE II
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The Bear Grass-VVintlsor '
basketball game scheduled for
Windsor Tuesday night was
not played and Bear Grass is
to meet Oak City at Bear
Grass tomorrow (Friday) at
7:00 o’clock, it has been an
nounced.
Originally Tarboro was to
have played at Bear Grass on
Friday night.
Jamesville Boys
Defeat Oak City
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Jamesville High School's Red
Terrors defeated the Oak City
hoys Tuesday night, 02 to 20 aftei
leading all the way. Jamesville
was ahead 17-3 at the quarter, 27
to 4 at the half and 44-18 at the
close of the third period.
Scoring for Jamesville were:
Bobby Rogers 11. Ronnie Modlin
19. Bobby Hardison 18, Ken Mod
lin (second string junior) 11. Gar
land Hardison 1. Douglas Gard
ner. a first stringer, was out of
i the game. Bobby Hardison and
Bobby Rogers did good defensive
work. Scoring for Oak City were
Edmondson 3, High 5, Manning 2,
Ramsey 0. Purvis'!). Henson 5, and
Leggett 4. Bobby Hardison foul
ed out during the last few min
utes of play
| Jamesville plays Williamston in
j Jamesville tomorrow (Friday)
I Further, the committee feels
jthat competitive athletes should
be only a part of the total com
munity recreation program, which
should include activities like out
door living, games, music, drama
| and the arts and crafts This field
is too often neglected m favor ot
some highly organized and high
ly competitive midget sport. It
also suggests that equal funds be
allowed for the recreation oppor
tunities of girls, compared with
those of the boys.
Fewer Hen Than
Women In Nation
At Present Time
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Htiluiice Ih'lwcen Tin* Two
Prediotetl By The
Demographers
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A lot of words haw boon said
on the subject since the 1950
census reported that for tin1 first
time in America's history there
are now more women than men
In. the. country.
Poop), don't tike the idea— par
ticularly people who are women.
Girls have been forging ahead
on various fronts the past few
decades, but constituting the ma
jority of the population doesn't
happen to be one of their goals.
This is one field in which they
prefer to be backward — for ob
viously sound reasons.
But no matter how you look
at it. such statistics are intrigu
ing.
It would appear that the rea
son women outnumber men is
not because there ate originally
more women than men but be
cause they outlive men.
Anyway, the demographers are
not alarmed. And they should
know They are the professional
nose-counters. They measure the
movements and quality ol popu
lations. Even though there is cur
rently an excess of women over
men, they do not consider this a
pit molt need t rend.
They believe that in the nor
mla course of events something
night.
Oak City’s gn ls edged the las
sics from Jamcsville 36-30. Scor
ing fol Jamcsville were Nell li.o
dison 6, Peggy Gardner 4. Ann
Styons (i. .b an Stevenson 2. Betty
Lou Griffin 17. Carter and Rea
son were defensive leaders. For
Oak City, Peggy Lillcy 22, Shir
ley Bryant (i. and Shirley Leggett
10.
very close to a balance will be
maintained. ;
They keep going back to the,
fascinating fact, which nobody
thus far has offered to explain, |
that every country which has ^
maintained reliable vital statis
tics over any period of time re
ports there are more boy babies
horn than girl babies. The ratio
is sometimes as high as 105 boys
to every 100 girls.
Tins is emphasized in the Unit
ed States by the fact that in the
age group of 10 years and under
boys considerably outnumber
girls.
Up to age 45 single men still
outnumber single women. In a
1951 survey of the marital status
of the population 14 years and
Over, there was a margin of about
650.000 singlt males over single
females.
In fact—now hear this, girls
| single men continue to outnum
ber single women, but to a lesser
degree, from 45 years of age and
up.
The exeess of women over men
I enters the picture in the category
of tlte widowed and divorced. In
this area women strikingly out
number men.
These are given as possible
: reasons Husbands are usually
[ older than their wives and statis
1 tieally less likely to survive them.
Age for age men have higher
! mortality rates than women: old
er men are more likely to re
marry than older women; the
: more hazardous occupations are
I carried on by men; and fatalities
I resulting from childbirth arc vast
ly diminished
Keeping women “down on the
j farm" is apparently harder than
| keeping men there In rural and
farm areas single women air
scarce as hen's teeth.
Apparently the girls flock to
I the i dies and the\ favor the ones
10.000 and over in population It
■ is practically a rule that in towns
and cities uudei that figure there
are more men than women. In
cities over that figure women out
number men.
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Williamston, North Carolina
Between 1870 and 1910 when
America experienced the greatest
influx of immigrants, the major
ity were men. Since quotas be
came effective in the 1920V. ex
perts have counted immigrants
as beine a negligible factor in
the male-female population ratio.
It is interesting to nob. how
ever, that the thousands of war
brides immigrating since 1940
have upset the traditional pro
ponderance of male over female
immigrants.
The Bureau ot tile Census ism t
m the business of playing Cupid.
It maintains a record of the ratio
of men to women in every city
but has mi breaker.-fen shower
indicating areas ol dense c.inceii
t ration.
Coal to supply electricity gen
eration at the new Joppa. II!.
plant of the Atomic Energy Com
mission will he unloaded at the
rate of 800 tons per hour.
Many Homes Past
30 Years 01 Age
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Houses grow old a lot faster
than people.
As a man passes the age of 30,
| the insurance people say, he can
reasonably expect to reach 71
But a 30-year old house an t
there are 293,000 beyond that aye
in North Caro'tna alone, accord
mg to the lias Appliance Manu
facturers Association -can be
downright decrepit
il it doesn't suflei from hard
c’uti" of the ptumbmg or xclero
ris of Iho heat in, a\ -Inn (JAMA
says, it’s more than likely a vie
time ot eulinary threinhosis or
laundry let-down.
"Assuming an old house re
mains structurally sound, its dol
lar value and livability depend!
on proper faeilities foi ventilia i
tion. fdi’ light and heat, for food
p:< pa-ration and preservation, and
for peisomil and household hy
giene." the trade group explains
"This makes home moderni/.a
tion, like preventive medicine foi
humans, a worth', investment, fr
I net, with a large group of Nortf
Carolina's 71)2.000 non-farm dwel
lings nmv past the 30-vear mark
modernization becomes a pro
requisite to the continued healtt
and well-being of thousands o
Tar Heel families'
UAMA reports that while prog
less has liein made Ih.oughou
the nation in modernization of ex
ist:p.!J homes, investment in the
field still lags behind the out!:;
lot nevv construction in ptiwa
North Carolina, as in the rest o
the country, expenditures I'm
maintenance and repairs of non
farm homes have averaged ahou'
30 percent of the value of new
residential construction. com
pared with a ratio ol well ov i .»(
Farm Profit* Hit \etr
l.tm Since Korean War
The farmers' share of consumer
spending for food has dropped to
the lowest point since the begin
ning of the Korean war. according
'u lln Agriculture Department.
Farm prices declined .three per
cent in Dec-mber. •. nding the year
12 per cent under the level of u
>i t ago. mi at the lowest level
m oiore than two years The farm
1 ->.hirer’s .Cure of the food
dollar has dipped to an average
of 46 cents, compared with 49
•••■lit.- a ' m ago oid 50 cents for
the 1951 average
percent III the five year-’ from
1930 ti 1940.
Tin total Hue-cured tobacco
prodiK tion in North Carolina in
195:» i estimated at 904,320.000
pounds, the third largest crop on
it 'cord.
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