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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1957
Page
16
An era of baseball economics is described as players like Eddie Yost discuss pension reforms and postwar business realities. The piece contrasts old attitudes with modern financial awareness, noting higher monthly pensions and players managing agents, incorporations, and wealth beyond salaries.
Jim Beatty, Maryland rival Burr Grim, and Duke stars led a crowded ACC indoor meet in Raleigh. Beatty surged on the final lap to win the one and two mile races as Maryland kept the conference crown with 61 1/2 points. Duke took third in the team standings and Florida State led the nonconference division. Sime of Duke won the 60 yard dash but withdrew from the hurdles with a sore groin after a long trip home from Rangoon.
A Milwaukee context emphasizes the Braves home base at County Stadium with a sign near an east side restaurant noting its distance from Home Plate. The playful line reads Kalt's 29 952 feet N E of Home Plate, reflecting local sports lore.
Through Saturday ACC Service Bureau data shows North Carolina leading in scoring and field goal percentage while South Carolina tops rebounding. Maryland and Wake Forest lead in defense and free throw accuracy with Clemson and NC State among leaders in fouls and rebounds. Grady Wallace edges Len Rosenbluth in scoring average.
UNC Pericola and Fred Lentz each scored 16 points for the Bulldogs while Wherry had 25 and Jerry Records 21. In other action Duke seeks revenge on Virginia, and Maryland visits Georgetown after finishing ACC play. Davidson fell to Wofford 79 59 in the Southern Conference with Semi Mintz scoring 20 and Dick Weeks 15.
Sam Daniel of Leaksville leads the North Carolina State Tennis Assn rankings for 1957 in men singles with Sara Walters of Charlotte topping women’s singles. Whit Cobb, Duke coach and association president, released the list. The report lists top pairs in doubles and top players in junior divisions across Greensboro Charlotte Kinston Asheville Southern Pines.
Kay McFarland of Englewood high school is a 6 foot 3 inch, 170 pound senior athlete dominating football, basketball and track. He led Englewood to the Northern Colorado football crown and state class AA final, earned all-Metropolitan and all-state football honors, starred in basketball, won state broad jump, and ran on the 880 and 440 relay squads.
Yale is identified as the third oldest university in the United States, highlighting its long-standing status in American higher education.
Washington reports that a House Agriculture subcommittee will hold a hearing soon on cotton problems and soil bank payments. NC growers led by 16 Cleveland County farmers criticized four acre minimums and weather and boll weevil damage reducing allotments, with national comparisons showing major cutbacks from 1946 50 averages.
The group formerly Cotton Promotion Group has renamed as the North Promotion Carolina Cotton Assn Inc and elected Wiley J. Long Jr of Garysburg president. The board expands to 12 cotton producers and eight allied interests with Robert Morgan re elected vice president. T H LeCroy becomes secretary treasurer and J A Shanklin assistant secretary. The aim is to promote cotton use in NC and seek legislative approval for a referendum on a small bale assessment to fund a full time executive secretary and other activities.
Dr. William C. Pressly rejects closing Peace College amid plans for a new consolidated Presbyterian college at Laurinburg. He supports merging Peace College Flora Macdonald College Red Springs and Presbyterian Junior College Maxton while awaiting charter waiver action. Peace College trustees chair William McPherson notes strong Raleigh alumnae and local support to keep Peace open for area students.
More Navy transports arrived to load Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point Marines for five weeks of Vieques training and Caribex joint maneuvers in Panama with Army Navy and Air Force units. Vermilion and Rockbridge docked as rain lashed port and eight smaller ships prepared to sail. Brig. Gen. Arthur Brunelli led the largest movement in months, returning May 11.
A Prime Minister Nehru's aircraft suffered an engine fire Monday causing a forced landing on a deserted airstrip near Raichur, 119 miles southwest of Hyderabad. Nehru and all aboard stepped out unharmed.
Donna Jo Gribble, 21, and Steve Miller, 21, married at First Presbyterian Church North Hollywood after 731 performances of The Drunkard. Gribble stars as heroine and wife during the run whereas Miller plays her half brother in the melodrama.
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