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UNTY VOLUME XIII Horace Faulkner Elected New County 4-H Leader President 't'l _ 4 TT t I 1. T « r T ' « '.'-i ‘uuu juvauti a fji julie® County met January fith in the Ag riculture Building;' Mrs. W. W. Lowery, president, presided and Mirs. Wilnier Mallard /gave the de votional. The president. appointed the fol lowing committees: State Fair ex hibit—Mrs. Thomas Johnson, Mrs. Bruce Johnson and Thomas Hum phrey. National 4-H Club Week— Mrs/ LinWood Cox, and Mrs. Hor ace Faulkner. Beaman Nance, assistant county agent, reported that there would be a recreation workshop in Trenton on February 5th and each communi ty olub is asked to have three adult - leaders attending. ' Mrs. Wllmer Mallard, chairman of the nominating committee, re ' ported that officers for the coming year are: President Horace Faulk ner, Vice President Mrs. Thomas Johnson, and Secretary Mrs. Al ton Norris.- ■ ':.J For the program, Mrs. Lowery gave a report of the 40th National 4-H Congress held recently in Chicago. TKfe next meeting will be March 22 at 7:30 in the Agriculture Build ing. • / Marriage License Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports the^ issue of four marriage license in the past week to the following couples; { James Edward Chadwick, 20, to Ella Louise Jongs^.^ oy^J* \ Eric L. Kane, J9, of. New' Bern to Obelia Mae Parker, 19, of Kins ton. Mike Jerry Moore, 22, of Pam lico County to Lena Evelyn Mur rell, 18, of Trenton route }. Roy Lee Battle, 29, of Comfort to Violet Eifbanks Messer, 21, of Kinston. Solicitor Rouse Not | Re-election Robert D. Rouse Jr. of Farmville, Solicitor of the Fifth. North Caro lina District, has announced that he will not seek re-election. The Fifth District is comprised of Pitt, Pamlico, Greene, Craven, Jones and Carteret counties. Rouse is completing his second four year term, He Was elected in 1954 and was unopposed in 1958 for his second term. He is a member of the North Carolina Judicial Council an4 past President 'of the North Carolina District Solicitors." In answer to an inquiry about future political plans, he stated that he had none at this time. He ex pects to devote full time to the pradtice of law. Five Divorces Open Lenoir Court Session The first work Monday when Judge William J. Bundy of Green ville convened a one-week term of Lenoir County Superior Court was the grainring of five divorces, each on grounds of two-year separation.. The divoroed couples were Flos sie S. Miller, Marjorie Craft from Joseph Leon Craft Jr., Nancy S. B. Diclcerson from Leslie Edwards Dickerson,. Livingston Hart from Louise R. Hart and Kathryn B. Jones fn!% Abram Jones. La Grange Break In Seventeen year-old William Best of La Grange route 3 was arrested over the weeknd and charged with breaking in Leyden’s Market in La Grange, from which about $100 in cash was stolen. The young negro had $96.80 on Four Jobes Arrests During the past week Sheriff Brown Yates, reports four arrests: Earl Victor Humphrey of High Point was booked for drunken driv ing, James West Foy of Maysville was also accused of drunken driv ing, Morris Gilbert Lee of Pollocks ville was charged with public drunk enness and Delbert Norris Banks of Trenton route 1 was arrested on a capias from Vance County, where Banks had failed to appear in court to answer to a speeding charge. Action on Criminal Calendar is Rapid In Lenoir Court Term With Judge William J. Bundy of Greenville presiding work oh the criminal calendar of Lenoir County Superior Court this week has been fast, if not furious. •Cases cleared from the docket include the following: Alexander James Simons, Charles H. Boehler, both charged with fail ure to yield the right of way, nol possed, Carita Johnson, the same charge, drew a directed verdict of not guilty, John Burton Jr. was found not guilty of failing to stop for a stop sign, Floyd Lee Jr. drew six months in jail for a second drunken driving offense. Ella Williams drew six months for violating the liguor laws, Lillie Smith Hill was fined $10 for speed ing, Isaac Cartnon was found not guilty qf^ju^ftitig,. ^enj^j||e term foti assault with a deadly wea pon but the jail term was suspend ed on the condition that she not violate any law for a two - year period. A mistrial was declared in the hearing of drunken driving charges against Linser Carroll McIntosh, when the jury became hung at 11 for conviction and one for acquittal. Jones Lenoir arid Students Among 141 Getting ECC Degrees —--I-I-. Nebraska Finance Company Suing Jones County Couple The Dial Finance Company of Omaha, Nebraska, a mail order Fi nance firm lias filed suit in Jones County Superior Court against Mr. and Mrs. William F. Canady for $291.23 and interest. The company complains that the Canady couple borrowed $500 on -March 25, 1958 and has now a bal ance of $291.23 on this obligation. Five Jones Students On ECC Honor List Three lists of students at East Carolina who have received official recognition from the College be cause of their excellent records in academic work during the fall quar ter of the present school year have been announced. , Included on the lists are the names of 733 students, of whom 240 are men and 493 are women. North Carolinians number 673 and students from outside the state 60. Forty-nine men and women who made the grade of "A" on each subject taken, the highest mark given at the college, received top honors for scholastic achievement in an “All A's” List. The Dean's List and the Honor Roll include the names of students whose work was considered worthy of special mention and commenda tion. The Honor Roll, with 488 repre sented, is composed of undergrad uates, who made at least two qual ity. poillLS- per^ credit hour, #jn all. Work .taken; with' no grade below “C”. The work completed by these students was well above average. Jones County is represented on the honors lists as follows: ALL A’S: Joyce C. Jones, Tren ton. HONOR ROLL: Lottie Faye Boy ette, Rt. 1, Trenton; Sue F. Little ton, Billie Melvin, and Mary C. Pierce, all of Maysville. Students who completed their work at East Carolina College it the end of the fall quarter include 141 candidates' for degrees, Regis trar John H. Horne has announced. With other members of the Class of 1962, graduates of the fall quart er whore are eligible for degrees will receive their diplomas at the innual commencement exercises, scheduled for Sunday, May 27. All of the fall-quarter graduates it East Carolina are North Caro linians except five, who come from Georgia, Illinois and Virginia. The 136 North Carolinians represent 44 tounties of this state. Those completing their work at the end of the fall quarter include 103 candidates for the bachelor of science degree, which is awarded in the field'of teacher education. Seventeen will receive the master of arts degree; eight the master of irts in education degree; and thir teen the bachelor of arts degree. JONES: B. S. — Lottie Faye Boyette, Rt. 1, Trenton; Carolyn Hope Daugherty, Rt. 2, Dover. LENOIR: B. S. — Vivian Carol Barrow, Rt. 2, Snow Hill; Linda Rouse Paderick, Kinston; Jean Arthur Riggs, Kinston; James Hor ace Speight Jr., Kinston; Vonnie Lou Noble Stocks, Deep Run; Bobbie Jo Sufton, Rt. 3, LaGrange. Charlie Mitchell Re-elected Young Republican Group The annual meeting of Lenoir County Young Republicans was held January 15th at the courthouse. The highlight of the meeting was the election of new officers for 1962 and discussion of the forthcoming State. CdaventiotH - Officers for 1962 include the fol lowing: President Chas. J. Mitchell, Vic-President Mrs. Stanley A. Beutler, Secretary Mrs, Julian Ca meron, Assistant Mrs. Raymond A. Graig, and Treasurer James W. Benson. The club made plans for the forth coming Convention of the State Federation to be held Feb. 3 at the King Cotton Hotel in Greensboro. Will Football Strike Out Baseball as National Pastime? By Jack Rider Will Pro-Football replace base lba.ll as the “National Pastime”: that lis the question frequently posed by .expert poseurs. Most widely circulated among the recent of this questioning breed was Oliver Kuechle, sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal, who .told a Dallas gathering of Associated Press managing editors that base ball was on the way out, and pro football on the way in. Kuechle declares that baseball leadership is “inert and stuffy, baseball ownership is selfish and ruthless, that players are equally selfish and ruthless, baseball’s ov erall stupidity is colossal and that jlong baseball games will combine •with these aforementioned weak ness to put an end to baseball’s reign as the National Pastime. Perhaps, but a former sports ed itor and, present president of a minor league baseball team (such as myself) has a slightly different notion. , Football is to baseball, as the *b_aaJaiaV9 a a ala - a, Am 1 V* o 11 a t “Twist” is to classical ballet » .c-_ Admittedly, at the moment far more Americans are “Twisting” tjian are engaged in ballet, at any level either spectator or participant. But who would dare assert that sqjjrimings ,of the, ’ replace J»Bet to so far fetched as a first glance might indicate. Kuechle admits that baseball is a competitive, but not a combatant sport. He infers ’ that we prefeT combative sports. If so, how would he explain the utter misery of that most combative sport: Boxing? With a skyrocketing population, the 20-hour 'week just a couple of strikes away, and national prosper ity still living on easy credit if would seem to a backwoods sports expert that there might very well exist sufficient sports thirst for both to prosper. Pro-football could hardly exist through the heat of summer — ev en on a one-a-week schedule, not to mention the two-a-week Keu thle suggests is just abound the gridiron corner.' ” V - But aside from the seasonal problems that’ confront' both oi these great sports there are other factors of weighty concern to those who have the time to spend on the psychology,of sports — both from the participant and the spectator The political experts, declare — at least the conservatives do — that thpre is a trend toward conserva tive thinking in Our nation. Baseball is a game of tha indivi dual. ball is an organized mob >nal moments in which vidual may shine, hist even ' with the support of his ■ ten masked mates. The pitcher on the mound, the batter at the plate are completely alone and totally against each other whep they face. No one can throw a block, or a tackle at that last key moment and either push that horsehide over the fence or past the slugger. fielding is either an error or an assist for each of the nine defen sive players on the baseball field. The shortstop who bobbles a hot one cannot holler “foul” at the sec ond baseman. It is his own little red-face and error. Even in such beautiful moves as the double play, in which team work is a necessity, it is still the fault of one or the other of those taking part when it does not work proper ly. Football is a rah-rah sport! filled With complicated rules, and hidden in the mass of muscle that is called the “T-formation" and 90 per cent of the' wildly cheering fans who freeze or drown in open stadia wouldn’t' know who the game win ner was if there wasn’t a score board. . j The wildest pair of football fans ever exhibited sat in front of . me at a “feud” high school game. They ripped and they roared and they iheered. Then when the first punt vas booted down field, one turned to the other in a hoarse whisper | How many football fans know | the difference between a punt and a place kick ? Between a tquchback and a safety? Between a first down and a touch down ? Baseball is an open game, a game of great science and skill. Football is either a tight huddle or a squirming mass of men. Even the Dodgers, late of Brooklyn, nev er managed to pile up more than three or four men on a single play. Assuming that everything is wrong with baseball that Kuechle says, that takes nothing away from the game. Admittedly: Prosperity with its boats, beach cottages and other par ticipant sports such as bowling and golf have diverted many from the baseball turnstiles, but also from football. Kinston, this year is re-entering professional baseball after a five year absence, and with great en thusiasm for a small town that has bowling, golf, hunting, fishing, foot ball, basketball and dozens of other competitors. Arguing over which is the “Na tional, Pastime” will not heLp either baseball or football. The claim /to the title all through the years has been nothing more than the fig ment of a sports writer’s imagina tion. More people go fishing on the average day when the temperature ig. titan attend all but the fisherman nan, who only.lies about hia catch, his car’s gas &:• mileage and how “little” he spends on his sport. Kuechle moans about the selfish ness of baseball players who shave on TV for money, but all through a very long football season the na tion has beerj watching football players brag about their favorite cigaret, while looking out from an empty stadium ui>on some filmed moment in their sparkling career. From the standpoint of a minor league club official, let me close this by agreeing completely that the bonus system has been and is stupid in baseball. Baseball players seldom are prepared to move from the campus to the majors. They need seasoning in the minors, and if the major leagues would put a reasonable ceiling on their bonus payments and spend what they save in bolstering the minor leagues both the majors and the minors would benefit greatly. On the subject of game length: When people will sit in 20-degree weather for three hours to watch anything it’s hardly compatible to complain about two and a half hours on a balmy summer evening in shirt sleeves, when it’s probably too hot to sleep at home anyway. Television did hurt baseball, un doubtedly, but people have just about gotten a blurred eye full ofv these summertime re-runs and the Kinston Baseball Company expect? in 1962 the biggest attendance in the history of the “National Pas time” in its beautiful stadium. ■ . 'V yy,*.'.-• v I-.1,
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