Golf Club Obtains 30-Day Option On Property at Crab Point The Morehead City Country club has obtained a 30-day' option on a piece of property at Crab Point belonging to Dave Battle Webb, Morehead City. John Crump, Warren Beck and Robert Banks were ap pointed by President John Morris at Monday's golf meeting as a committee to have a surveyor make a contour map. Ellis Maples of Raleigh U sched-4' uled to look at the property and give an estimate on cost of laying out a course. M. T. Mills, W. J. Blair and I. E. Pittman were appointed to handle funds. On the membership committee are Bud Dixon, J. C. Harvell, L. V. Jenkins, Dr. Russell Outlaw, Banks, H. Earle Mobley, D. G. Bell and Bernard Leary. Grover Munden is chairman of the publicity committee and serv ing with him are Dr. Outlaw and Miss Ruth Peeling. . Dr. Morris planned a luncheon I meeting for presidents of all the civic organizations in Morehead City to ask their help in the mem bership drive. This meeting took place yesterday at the Waterfront cafe. A list of the clubs and repre sentatives invited follows: Alfred Cooper, Atlantic Beach; Grover Munden, publicity; Warren Beck, secretary of the golf club; Jimmy Wallace, Jaycees; D. G. Bell, chamber of commerce; Miss Peel ing. Business and Professional Women's club; Joe DuBois, Ameri can Legion; Paul Jones, Elks; Mrs. E. A. Council, Woman's club; George McNeill, Rotary; Oscar All red. Lions; Mrs. Marion Mills, Junior Woman's club; Harvell, mer chants association; James B. Willis, Masons; R. H. Dowdy, Emeritus club. Agreement was reached to have shares in the club remain at $100 each but a person may buy any number. The next meeting will be at 4:30 p.m. Monday at the civic center. Two Ships Dock Tuesday Al Morehead Ciiy Port Docking at Morehead City port . Tuesday were a transport and a tanker. The transport was the j Sanborn, APA 193. It picked up Marines tor maneuvers near Camp t Lejeune. j The tanker, the USS Morris Hess, ? from Texas City. Texas, discharged its cargo of fuel oil and returned to Texas City. Due today is the tanker USNS Pecoyic. ft will- pick up jet fuel "for the Navy. New Bern Cagers Down Morehead Morehead City cagers lost two games to New Bern Tuesday night at New Bern. The boys' score was 66-54 and the girls' 58-47. Scoring high for Morehead was Larry Woolard with 16 points and second high was David Freshwater with 15. The defensive leader was Woolard. Sonny Fones and Jimmy Duffee scored 15 each and Robbie Kennel was defense leader for New Bern. There were 56 fouls called in the boys' game. Quarter scores: Morehead City 12 28 43 54 New Bern 14 32 50 66 In the girls' game Janice Lewis scored 18 points for Morehead and Ann Long was second with 13. The defensive leader was Ann Hardy. High for New Bern was Sybil Hel ium with 34 and Pat Patterson had 19. The defense leader was Pat Lancaster. The fouls called in this game amounted to 65. Quarter scores: Morehead City 8 14 35 47 New Bern 12 24 39 58 CpL James Lewis Betnras From Korea Balllefronl Cpl. James T. Lewis, United States Army, recently returned from Korea, has been assigned to Fort Jackson, S. C., pending further assignment. He is the son of James Lewis, 206 S. 14th St., Morehead City. Corporal Lewis, on 30-day leave, is now visiting relatives in Nor folk and will return to Morehead City this weekend. Golf- A Community Asset (Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of articles on estab lishment of a golf course in a community. The articles are writ ten by Dr. John Morris, president of the newly organized Morehead City Country club. This organiza tion is working now toward building a golf course in the Morehead City area). There are now approximately 5,000 golf courses in the United States. Of them about 2,950 are 9-hole courses. Private clubs (3,073) constitute the largest group, next comes the privately owned pay-as-you-play course classification (1,061) and then the (736) public courses. There are about 2,742,000 active golfers in the United States. Over 60 per cent of the 73,000,000 rounds of golf played each year are played on the pay-play and public courses. The great extent of traveling done by golfers accounts for many of the smaller clubs accepting de sirable guests for a round on pay ment of fee without introduction by members. That income has been a fairly substantial item in sharing the cost of upkeep of these courses. The visitors become roving adver tisements for these towns and their inhabitants because of the delights of the courses and the hospitality of the clubs. Golf courses have been establish ed in numerous small towns by cor porations in attracting and holding a high grade of employees. Univer sities and colleges also have in stalled excellent golf courses in smaller towns as golf has a high place in physical education pro grams. Its value as a "carry-over" sport gives golf a prominent place in modern school athletic activities. How exceptionally well golf sa tisfies a need in a smaller town recreation facilities was demonstra ted at military training establish ments during the war. Due to trans portation difficulties and inadequa cy of recreation facilities at small towns numerous courses were built or taken over by the Army and Navy. Golf instruction and practice ranges were built and hundreds of +S I thousands of young men learned the game. Indoor war work also brought many new converts into golf as an entertaining and healthy change of activity from factory jobs. Today the wartime influences are reflected in the greatest wave of play the game evier has known. High schools, colleges and golf practice ranges are bringing into golf constantly increasing waves of players. The result is that a small town that does not have a golf course today is not keeping itself attrac tive to its younger people or pro viding its middle-aged men and wo men with a community recreation asset they'll appreciate and support financially. The new golf club in the larger city is so financed and has so much expert talent personally available that its particular needs for gui dance in the earlier stages are read ily supplied. There are a number of success ful nine-hole clubs in towns of 3,000 population, so it may be safe ly said that the normal town of this size having no golf course needs to take prompt action. Among the be nefits of installing a golf course are: (1) Providing play facilities that add to the attractions of the community as a place to live. (2) Community advertising ? there is no "dead town" with a "live" golf course. (3) Self-financing, not only of the golf course but of a community park in addi tion, if the enterprise is properly planned, con structed and operated. In the case of towns having less than 3,000 population, there are many instances where a golf course is desirable. Wherever the resort business is either established at present or may be developed, it will be found that a good golf course will draw profitable busi ness with an added income that ex tends far beyond the limits of the course. Beaufort Teams Wallop Camp Lejeune I B?au?ort defeated Camp Lejeune I in two games Tuesday night at * Belter Your Home . . . Better Your Living HONE FURNISHINGS ABE AN IMPORTANT INVESTMENT You Get More for Your Furniture Dollar Than Any Other Dollar You Spend! ? HOWS LIVING in your home? Is it comfortable? Attractive? Satisfying? Home furnishings are an investment in LIVING. To get your money's worth, they must pay dividends in comfort, wearability and beauty. 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Vivian Lohr Advances To Finals oi Tourney Play Vivian Lohr is now moving into the finals of the billiard tourna ment which will be held tonight at the Beaufort Bar. Monday night he defeated Holden Ballou 50-25 and 50-18 and Wednesday "Skikie" Thomas was defeated by him 50-32 and 50-26. Billy Styron won over George Morris Tuesday night with the scores of 50-46 and 50-33. Last night's results and the out come of finals to be played to night will be in Tuesday's edition of THE NEWS-TIMES. Hoop Schodnio TONIGHT 7 :30 p.m. ? Beaufort al Trenton. 7:30 p.m. ? Tournament play at Newport. SATURDAY 7:30 p.m. ? Tournament finals at Newport. TUESDAY 7:30 p.m. ? Dover at Morchead City. During the 1948 season, Stan Musial collected five hits in a game four times to tie Ty Cobb's major league record. (kW sevenstab eh,^Pe 90 PROOF SEVEN SIAR 90 PROOF $3.65 4/5 Quit &30 Full Piat mm Mhf n mi in mm mm m ? mm ? mm m. im* Mi M?UM)>aM?k*Ski|* HMMMI