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black, mumbling
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Marina on Uke Norman
_ I waited for nw nshmg
commnions. Rain began to
mU the lake't surface as they
fffmil _ Herman Hidtman of
Rockingham, Tom Higgtns.of
Charlotte
nee driver, also of Ctariotte.
It was four days before the
World 600 at Charlotte Motor
Speedway. Baker and hu
friends were out for pre ? race
lotion, but as they ^.ved
shaking their heads, it was
apparent we would not get on
"""Looks like we're having
some 'Baker luck. said
""Baker is a "hot dog." racing
jargon for a big-name driver.
However, over the last
years he has go'ten the
reputation of a hard lucklorer
In a 14 - year career he had
won twice a. Charlotte and
twice at Darlington. In 1970 he
was leading the field a
Charlotte and ran out of gas
with two laps to go.
"Baker Luck" Ire calls it.
With a storm threatening, we
elected to fish for crapp.es
from piers behind several
cottages where just a few days
previously Higgins and his
father had a field day. catching
one - pounders virtually at will.
But except for two crappies,
small yellow perch and a three
- pound carp (which lut a 1/2S
Hopkins, incidentally), we
were fishless. "Bakers luck
"Weld true.
Then race time. On Sunday
morning commercial flags
around the grandstand snapped
in the wind - Purolator Oil
Filters. ST P. Union 76.
Helicopters hovered and
beautiful girls in red body
shirts and white hot pants
passed outciprettesand pop in
the press box. The infield had
been closed to additional cars
at eight o'clock. A record
crowd of over 80,000 had
gathered to watch 40 cars run
the longest stock car race in
the world, 400 laps around a
1.5 - mile track.
Bobby Allison in a Chevrolet
was on the pole. Baker had
qualified sixth in a red Dodge.
Two warmup laps and the
green flag. Even in the press
box, the start was deafening.
In the first 200 laps, there
were 15 lead changes among
four drivers. Allison set the
pace for most of the last hall.
Baker ran a consistent second.
With 27 laps to go it
appeared that Allison was a
sure winner in a faster car. But
on lap 373, Allison's Chevy hit
aebiu 4i?l cu( both light side
tires, forcing him to pit. Before
he wo running again. Baker
had opened a lap lead. Allison
tried to catch up, but finished
27.5 seconds behind the
Charlotte driver for second
place money.
Baker had a fast car. He set a
track record at 142.255 mph.
And he had a car that could
endure 600 miles at that speed.
But Allison's car was faster, as
Baker later admitted.
In a stock car race, I had
rather be lucky than fast. In
fishing I had rather be lucky
than skilled. With the
Charlottean almost 523,000
richer, "Baker's luck" has
taken on new meaning. Maybe
his fishing luck has changed
too.
Texans Welcome
Army's QB
FINK. Tex. (ANF)?When
Army meets the Texas Ag
gies on the gridiron at Col
lege Station. Tex. Sept. 30,
the entire population of Fink
will be on hand (eight peo
ple)?rooting for the star of
the Black Knights. King Fink
himself.
Cadet J. Kingsley Fink, a
192-pound, six-footer is the
starting quarterback for
Army.
When Fink mayor Patricia
Albright learned of this, she
promptly offered to make the
West Point Cadet an honor
ary citizen of Fink, Tex.
Mrs. Albright will present
Cadet Fink with an honorary
citizenship before the game,
sure to put the town on the
map to stay.
"King Fink" from Eau
Gallic, Fla.. as a freshman
passed for eight touchdowns
and did the same as a sopho
more. a big factor in wins
over Missouri, Rutgers, Pitts
burgh and arch rival Navy.
Incidentally, all male mem
bers of Cadet Fink's family
had been given first names
beginning with J so he had
to settle for just the initial
because they had run out of
names!
? ? ?
Military personnel serving in
Vietnam who have been
briefed by VA on benefits
available to them after
discharge recently passed the
1.800,000 mark. *
OPENING DAY - With school over for the year, what better
way to enjoy the summer sun than an icy dip in the pooL The
camera catches David Isroy Webb in mid-air as he leaps off the
board on the pool's opening day.
Busiest R oads
Winston ? Salem's
Downtown tixpressway (1-40)
successfully defended its title
this year as North Carolina's
busiest road, State Highway
Commission figures revealed
today.
The Winston - Salem
expressway, which now carries
55,500 cars each day, again
won the dubious honor over
Raleigh's Downtown
Boulevard, which had a traffic
count of 50.000 cars daily, less
than last year because of
construction which occurred
there during the year.
Winston ? Salem's
expressway gained 1.500 cars
per day over its 1971 count of
54,000 vehicles.
Two newcomers made the
list, supplanting US 29 at
Concord and Lejeune
Boulevard near Jacksonville
which failed to make this
year's roster.
They were l'S 70 ? 401
south of Raleigh near the old
Municipal Airport and the
Durham Bypass (1-85) in the
Roxboro Street area.
Volume generally was
slightly higher on all of the
highways in the group with the
exception of Raleigh's
Downtown Boulevard.
The top ten and their daily
vehicle counts were:
I . Winston - Salem
Expressway (1-40) E. of Broad
Street, 55,500.
2. Raleigh Downtown
Boulevard (US-401) N. of
Peace Street, 50,000.
3. Greensboro Expressway
(1-40) W. of US 220, 49.300.
4. West Asheville Bridge (US
19-23). 45.000.
5. Clurlotte Independence
Boulevard (US 74) near
Hawthorne. 43.800.
6. Cliarlotte Bypass (1-85)
W. of US 21. 41.000.
7. Fayetteville Bragg
Boulevard (NC 24-87) S. of
Knox Road. 40,500.
8. Winston - Salem North -
South bxpressway (US 52)
40.000.
? 9. Raleigh (US 70-401S)
near old Municipal Airport,
38,500.
10. Durham Bypass (1-85)
near Roxboro Street, 35,000.
Mountain Singing
D?ve Buyer, a 36 ? year - old
Pennsylvania!! who overcame
the tragedy of alcoholism and
drug addiction to embark upon
one of the most inspiring and
penetrating minittries of our
times, will be the principal
speaker at the 48th Annual
^Singing on the Mountain" to
be held at Grandfather
Mountain on Sunday, June 25.
The famous day - long
gospel singing and preaching
event which each year draws
some 20,000 to 30,000
persons, will begin at mid -
morning. Boyer's address will
be presented at I p.m.
Many well known musical
groups will again hold feature
spots on the program,
including the Arthur Smith
troup of television fame. All
singing groups and quartets are
invited to attend the great
annual event on the slopes of
towering Grandfather
Mountain. There is no charge
for admittance to the singing
grounds.
Dave Boyer, gifted with an
innate musical talent, began
working as a singing
saxophonist at the age of
fifteen in night clubs around
his hometown of York, Pa.
Two years later he changed his
name to Joey Stevens and was
signed to be master of
ceremonies at the 500 Club in
Atlantic City, N.Y. From there
his career grew, and soon there
were more and more personal
appearances in other night
clubs throughout the United
States.
But then, Joey became
"hooked" on alcohol and
drugs. Even the stern urgings of
his close friends could not
make him kick his growing
habits. His physical condition
worsened, and he became
separated from his wife and
daughter.
In a drunken stuper in the
early hours of an August
morning in 1965, he was
contemplating suicide while
stumbling across railroad tracks
in Marietta, Pa. He then saw a
little old church, which turned
his thoughts back to his
childhood. He fell on his knees
and "prayed as I had never
prayed before. I realized that
lesus Christ was the only
answer to my problems," he
recalls.
Joey Stevens died that night
.... and Dave Boyer was reborn.
In recent years, with his family
reunited, Boyer has become
one of the netion't outstanding
evangelist>. Talking frankly and
in relevant terms about the
problems of today, he is avidly
sought as a speaker before
youth rallies, high school
assemblies, church gatherings
and evangelistic crusades.
In addition to his busy
appearance schedule, Boyer has
recorded five sacred and gospel
music albums'. "Songs of
Faith," "I Believe," "It's A
New World," "Thank you
Lord," and "Dave Boyer."
Four of the albums have won
Best Vocalist awards from the
National Evangelical Film
Foundation. He is now
president of his own record
company - Reverence Records
of Baltimore, Md.
Dave Boyer's life story has
recently been told in a book
entitled "So Long, Joey." And
a television documentary about
his ministry across America lias
recently been produced and
will be aired in the near future.
Man's Contentment
Nine requisites for con
tented living: Health
enough to make work a
pleasure, wealth enough
to support your needs;
strength enough to battle
with difficulties . . . grace
enough to confess your sins
and overcome them; pa
tience enough to toil until
some good is accomplished;
charity enough to see some
good in your neighbor; love
enough to make you to be
useful and helpful to others;
faith enough to make real
the things of God; hope
enough to remove all an
xious fear concerning the
future.
?Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe <1749-18321
HAPPINESS
Happiness is as a butter
fly. which, when pursued, is
always just beyond your
grasp, but which, if you
will sit down quietly, may
alight upon you.
?Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-18641
Gold is so ductile a metal
that one ounce of it can be
drawn out into a wire 35 miles
long.
Soren Kierkegaard, the
Danish theologian, once
commented: "The Bible is a
letter from Cod with our
personal address on it."
Kierkegaard was right:
whenever men discover or
rediscover the Bible, it is
because they have found it
speaking very personally to
tliem and their situation.
Several years ago former
television and screen actress
Ann Southern suffered a severe
illness which left her
emotionally broken. Small
matters, disturbances, fears,
and concerns were all
magnified out of proportion.
Insecure, she felt hemmed in
on all sides. She found it
almost impossible to make
decisions, much less face the
cameras.
The actress concluded that
she needed some spiritual
resources. She began to pray,
asking simply for faith and
strength. She also turned to the
Bible and some of its great
devotional passages. One day
when her daughter was getting
ready for school for her first
serious examination, the
actress found herself saying:
"What makes you think He's
deserted you when you need
him?"
Suddenly, she realized that
the question was applicable to
herself and her own situation.
As if in answer, she found
Paul's testimony to the church
at Philippi: "I can do all things
in him who strengthens me"
(Philippians 4: 13). From this
day forward she began to
search dilligently through the
Bible for the power to meet
the demands of her daily life.
The words were those of Paul,
but the message was from God
and it had upon it her personal
address. Through a letter
written almost two thousand
years ago, God was able to
speak to her and heal her life.
In 2 Timothy 3:15, the
writer says, "...how from
childhood you have beer
acquainted with the sacrec
writing!..." The Bible can b?
discovered by a man at any
time in his lite, yet it is best il
he makes that discovery early
The best relationship with the
Bible is the relationship thai
has had time to grow and
ripen.
To Timothy is given the
advice, "...continue in what
you have learned..." (3:14).
Thus, our experience with the
Bible is to become a growing
relationship. What we have
already learned becomes the
basis for continued new
learning. And these human
words, written and spoken
thousands of years ago, are the
means whereby God can speak
to us today.
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