Hoke High Bucks To Begin
Football Practice August 5
Football practice begins
Aug. 5 at 5 p.m. but boys who
are planning to play should
already be getting in shape,
Coach John Pecora said this
week.
He advised hopeful players
to practice lifting weights every
other day and to run in 50
yard sprints. They should be
able to run ten SO yard sprints
at full speed by the time fall
practice begins, he said.
He also advised players to
get their shoes now and
practice in them.
The appointments for
football physicals have been
made and letters advising each
player of the time and date
have been sent, Pecora said.
Any boy who has not received
a letter should call him, he
said.
Last year football physicals
were given to 50 boys who did
not come out for football,
Pecora said. This year, if a boy
takes a football physical and
then doesn't come out for
practice, he will be expected to
pay a S5 fee for his physical,
the coach said.
"I'm expecting a large
number of boys out foi the
team this year," Pecora said. "I
feel we are going to have
another good year. The boys I
have talked with this stmimer
say they can hardly vyait t\? get
started. This is an excellent
sign. Our team will be just as
good as our boys want it to
be."
Varsity practice will begin
Aug. 5 at 5 p.m. Junior varsity
practice will start Aug. 10 at 5
p.m. and the 9th grade team
will start on Aug. 12 at 5 p.m.
Mets Beat
Brentwood
The Brentwood Hornets
defeated the Rockfish Mets
16-2 in Little League play July
7 at Brentwood.
Last Friday the Mets
returned home to beat
Brentwood 6 to 5 for their first
win of the season. Barry Wood
was the leading hitter for the
Mets.
Monday at Rockfish the
Brentwood Dodgers beat the
Mets 5 to 2.
DAV's Meet
Friday Night
Hoke County Chapter No.
17 of the Disabled American
Veterans will meet Friday at 8
p.m. at the Sandhills
Restaurant.
An American flag will be
presented to the chapter at the
meeting.
TOP TEJVNIS Pl.A YFRS -- Susan Gillis and Henry Hustetler were winners in the tournament held
at the completion of the summer tennis clinic sponsored by the Kiwanis club. About 25
youngsters attended the classes which were taught by Wallace Hawkins. Vardell Hedgepath and
Benny McLeod of the Kiwanis presented the trophies.
Carter's, Hoke Concrete
Win First Tourney Games
Carter's Tire and Hoke
Concrete came through the
first round of the Slow Pitch
Softball Tournament Tuesday
night, beating Tex-Llastic and
Bargain Motors.
Carter's Tire shut out
Tex-lilastic in the first game 8
to 0. Lonnie Bledsoe pitched a
three hitter for Carter's.
Charles Capps was the losing
pitcher in the game that was a
pitcher's duel until the fifth
inning when Carter's scored the
winning run with one out in
the bottom of the fifth.
Larry llpchurch was the
leading hitter for Carter's,
going two for two. Larry
Phillips and C.D. Bounds botii
had two for tluee.
For Tex-Elastic, Larry
Lunstord, Ed Burney and
Dennis Hawks all liad one for
two.
Hoke Concrete ended the
tournament hopes of Bargain
Motors 11 to 2 in the second
game Tuesday . Wendell Young
was the winning pitcher and
the leading hitter for liokc
Concrete, going three tor three
at bat.
Les Sandy, Joe Upchurch
and Tom Burgess, of Hoke
Concrete, all had a three for
four.
Delton Hardin was the losing
pitcher for Bargain Motors.
Leading hitter on that team
was W.O. Priest, who went two
for three.
Rescue
Squad
Wins* Twice
Rescue Squad won two
games last week in Little
League competition, beating
Lions II to 2 on Monday and
VFW 5 to 3 on Tuesday.
In other games this week,
the Jaycees beat VFW 8 to 7
on Monday and Kiwanis
defeated the Moose 11 to 4 on
Tuesday.
With Our
Service Personnel
Airman Jack Wayne
Sanderson has been selected
Airman of the Month at Loving
AFB. Maine.
He is a member of 42
Security Police Squadron. As
Aii man of the Month he was
awarded a gold badge for a
month and was given a five day
leave.
Airman Sanderson is a
graduate of Hoke County High
School and Robeson Technical
Institute.
He is the son of Mr.and Mrs.
Jack Sanderson of Antioch.
While he was home on leave he
was married to Nancy Ann
Dudney of Lumberton.
Johnnie L. Pearson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ledford Pearson,
Route 2, Red Springs, was
recently promoted to Army
sergeant while serving as squad
leader with Company C. 1st
Battalion of the 171 st Infantry
Brigade's 47th Infantry at Ft
Wainwright, Alaska.
Sergeant Carlton C.
Strickland, whose wife, Mary,
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs
J.H. Britt of Rt. 4, Lumberton.
is now on temporary duty at a
forward bate in the Western
Pacific.
Sergeant Strickland, an
administrative specialist,
supports B-52 St ratofor tress
bombing missions against
enemy targets, KC-135
Stratotanker missions that
provide aerial refueling to the
B-!\2s, and lighter and
reconnaissance aircraft
conducting the air war over
South Vietnam
Me is permanently assigned
to the Strategic Air
Command's 96th Strategic
Aerospace Wing at Dyess AFB,
Tex.
The sergeant is a l(NS7
graduate of Lumberton High
School.
U.S. Air Force First
Lieutenant Ralph S. White.tor.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl A.
Whitener of 503 Highla -d
Ave., Lumberton, is on duty at
Bien Hoa AF, Vietnam.
Lieutenant Whiterer. an 0-1
Bird Dog observation pilot, is
assigned to the 22nd Tactical
Air Support Squadron, a unit
of the Pacific Air Forces,
headquarters for air operations
in Southeast Asia, the Far Fast
and Pacific area.
The lieutenant, who
previously served at Moody
AFB, (la., graduated in I WO
from Lumberton High School
and received his B A degree irf
history in I9h? from the
University of North Carolina.
Lieutenant Wlutener was
commissioned in 1968 upon
completion of Officer Training
School at l ackland AFB, Tex.
His wife, Grinda. is tlie
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. tarl
Shellev of Rt. 4. Nichols. S.C.
Is the hot, sticky weather
getting you down0 That's
because in hot weather your
heart has to work harder to
keep your body temperature
normal The North Carolina
Heart Association's advice is -
don't add to the summer work
of your heart; don't overwork,
overplay or overeat.
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Swan Island Channel off
Cedar Island is nut as heavily
fished as some of the state's
other cobia hot spots. If
everyone had as little luck as
we did there recently, it would
be easy to understand.
Point is, they don't. Einie
Hudson of Vandemere has
been fishing there for years and
he consistently returns with
good catches. One July 4th
several years ago. he had his
best day -? five cobia weigliing
from 38 to 55 pounds.
With Hudson and lus young
son Russ as our guides, brother
Cawood and I fished around
crab pots in the deep channel
on a windy day recently.
Commercial fishermen Itad
been complaining about cobia
tearing the pots apart trying to
get at bait inside.
Our tackle included stout
spinning and conventional rods
and reels and 20-pound test
monofilament. Hooks in the
7/0 to 10/0 sizes are favored
by most cobia fishermen. Thev
are attached to a swivel by a
24-inch section of 80-pound
test mono or some other heavy
leader material.
Cobia do not have largo
teeth, but those they have arc
rough and can abrade the line.
Two-ounce pyramids were
enough to hold in the tide. I
favor a "fish finder" rig which
allows line to pay out without
dragging the sinkers.
While crabs feasted on oui
squid offerings -- and there is a
bumper crab crop this year ??
we caught a bluefish. Cutting it
in half, we hooked it up
through the chin and bony part
of the head and cast it out.
Later we caught a pinfish
and put it out under a large
float. Sometimes this live bait
rig is deadly for cobia.
Sometimes.
Brother Cawood. on his first
cobia fishing trip, was anxious
to help. He diligently checked
the rigs and rebaited in spite of
slight sea sickness that was
beginning to slip up behind me
too.
Lai e in the afternoon, while
reeling in the spinning rig for a
bait check, Cawood felt a slight
resistance, more than a crab
would give.
"What's that!" lie asked,
then answered himself. "Must
be a skate."
WOW Family
Awards Night
On Tuesday nighi. July 21
the Annual Family Awards
Night of the W.O.W. will be
hold at the Woodmen Hall at
6:30 p.m.
We uiste all members u>
come and bring their family
and a picnic basket. Supper
will be 6 3D then the program
will follow. Guest speaker will
be Dr. Thomas Shaver from
Mount Olive
Mrs. Eason
Buried Sat.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Maude Strickland Lason, a
former resident of the county,
were held Saturday in Rocky
Mount. Burial was in Evergreen
Memorial Garden, Wilson.
Mrs. Lason was the mother
of Mrs. W.C. Williford, whose
husband was farm agent in
Moke County several y ears ago.
Besides Mrs. Williford. she is
survived by a son. Will W.
Fason, Jr. of Rocky Mount:
four brothers. Ralph of B.iilev.
Rex of Kdmundson. Wash..
Roscoe of Maplewood. N.J..
and John L Strickland of
Rider Wood. Md.. four sisters,
Mrs. Vivian Finch of Bailev.
Mrs. A.Q. Phillips of
Middlesex. Mrs. T O. Moses of
Aberdeen and Mrs. Mae
Fddleman of WiKon; four
grandchildren and one
great-grandchild.
"No it's a shark." He had
changed Ins mind.
"Why, it's a cobia," 1
shouted just us the fish realized
it was hooked and bore for the
bottom.
It was a small fish for a
cobia -- about seven pounds ??
but even on heavy tackle it
gave a good account of itself.
And, as cobia are want to do it
fell off the gaff, thrashed about
in the boat, and generally made
a nuisance of itself until I
finally was able to still it w ith a
hickory club cobia fishermen
keep abroad for that purpose.
, We dressed the fish on the
spot and packed it in ice.
Filleted and broiled in lemon
butter it was delicious that
night for dinner.
Hudson said the cobia
season in Swan Island Channel
is from late June
until-mid-August In Bogue
Sound, probablv the most
heavily fished cobia spot in the
state, fish show up in mid-May,
but June is the best month.
Ocracoke has fewer cobia
fishermen, but probably gives
up more fish each year than
the other locations combined.
This is mainly because several
charter - skippers there know
how to catch cobia and
regularly fish for I hem in
season.
There is good cobia fishing
on the Pamlico Sound side of
Hatt?ras Inlet, but most
charter skippers would rather
fish offshore. A few can be
enticed to cobia fishing by a
pay ing customer, but most fisli
here go to outbou'ders. Action
at Hatteras ofter extends well
into August.
Baits vary according to
where you arc fishing and to
whom you are talking. At
Morchead City, anglers favor
oily fish such as spots, hogfish
or small gra\ trout. Hudson
likes squid, bluefish. and live
pinfish. Cawood's fish hit a
bluefish head. I letting chunks
are often used at Ocracoke,
while cut mullet and menhaden
aie favored at llatteras.
Cobia look like something
between a shaik and a catfish.
Thcv average about 25 pounds
in North Carolina, but
50-pounders aie common. The
state record, at 97 pounds, was
taken b\ Mary Black in June
1952 ai Oregon Inlet and is the
world's all-tackle iccoid loi
women.
Cobia are stronger, pound
for pound, than channel bass,
and are. it is generally
conceded, much betier on the
table.
North Carolina w.iteis of lor
some of the best Cobia lislung
on the Atlantic coast. But we
didn't prove it at Swan Island
Channel.
(iOI.I I R - ? Catliy lii nmjs sli, >t an SS and an S4 in the first flight
o) the Twin State Junior (lirh iioll Tourney at Shelby on July 8
and 9 to take a second place. Tw enty Jive girls from North and
South Carolina competed at the Cleveland County Country Club
course.
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