FOOTBALL CONTEST
When Garland C. Norris Co., of
Raleigh, distributors of “Golden Tap”
drinks, announced their football guess¬
ing contest in Tit
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State last week,
hundreds of letters poured in, making
predictions as to the outcome of the
games in which liig Five teams are
playing this season.
We haven’t had time to check up
on the actual number that have been
received, nor have we gone through the
entire list of predictions. From what
we have seen, however, it seems that
the fans of North Carolina arc pretty
evenly divided on the outcome of the
Dukc-Carolina game, with Duke rul¬
ing as a slight favorite. Duke is also
picked to beat Pitt. About one-third
of the letters wo have opened thus far
favored Pitt: the other two-thirds fa¬
vored Duke.
Garland C. Norris Co. is offering
three cash prizes to the fans who come
closest to predicting who the winners
will be:
First prize, $25.
Second prize, $15.
Third prize, $10.
It is apparent that a tremendous
amount of interest is being taken in
the contest and that the outcome will
be eagerly awaited. And, for the ben¬
efit of those who are participating, we
might say that just because you may
make one or two bad guesses during
the early part of the season is no
reason for you to think that you are
out of the running. The folks who
pick the winners in the first few games
may go haywire in their predictions
as the season grows older.
The vast majority of contestants
got off to a rather bad start as a result
of Saturday's game between Carolina
and Wake Forest. Nine out of ten
picked Carolina to beat the Baptists.
However, that’s no reason for them to
get discouraged, because they’ve still
got plenty of chances to make a come¬
back.
The State-Davidson game went ac¬
cording to the prediction of seventy-
five per cent of the contestants. And
practically everyone seems to have
picked Duke to beat V.M.I.
Following next Saturday's games,
we’ll probably have a number of more
misses, because there are some fairly
close games on tap — Wake Forest vs.
Furman, Clomson vs. State, and Duke
vs. Tennessee. In glancing through the
lists, we observe that nearly everybody
has picked Carolina to beat Davidson.
BODIE ISLAND
LIGHTHOUSE
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One of the most valuable beacons
on the Atlantic coast stands on Bodie
Island, below Nag’s Head, on the wa¬
ters of Oregon Inlet where Nimrod’s
gift to sports fishermen is thousands
of pounds of channel bass each season.
Hat ter us lighthouse tower is taller
and Ocracoke light, older hut Bodie
Island light fills u dangerous gap be¬
tween Cape Henry and Cape llatteras
and holds the distinction of standing
on the first tract of beach property
sold in Dare County.
Bodie Island light, distinguished
by day by its broad black and white
horizontal bands, is as valuable to
fishermen navigating the inland wa¬
ters of Albemarle and Pamlico sounds
as it is to ships ut sea oil the North
Carolina coast. Its 100,000 candle-
power beam is visible at night for a
distance of more than
1У
miles in all
directions.
There have been lighthouses on Bo¬
die Island since 1848 when the first
beacon was placed there. Re-built to
a greater height in 1859 it was de¬
stroyed by Federal forces during the
War Between the States after the Bat¬
tle of llatteras Inlet. Five sailing ves¬
sels are said to have been wrecked off
Bodie Island while the new light was
built. Completed in 1872 Bodie Island
light soars 103 feet up from the com¬
paratively smooth beuch blinking its
warning signuls now every few min¬
utes.
The oldest deed on record in Dare
County conveys the 15-acre tract of
land on which Bodie Island light
stands to the Federal government.
John B. Etheridge and his wife, Fan¬
nie, transferred the land to the U. S.
Lighthouse Service in consideration of
only $150.
Oregon Inlet, over which the great
light stands guard, was opened by the
We imagine that by the middle of
October, we'll be able to discard about
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or 70 per cent of the predictions
that have come in, and from then on,
the list will continue to be narrowed
down rapidly. As we recall, nobody
ever has made a perfect score in
previous contests. The best record
made in the past has been two misses.
And so we say again, just because you
picked Carolina to l>eat Wake Forest
last Saturday doesn’t mean that
you’re out of the running. Nearly
everybody else did the same thing.
great storm of 1S4'S and named for the
first vessel that passed through, the
Oregon, of Washington, N. C.
STATION WPTF, in Raleigh, is
going forward with it' preparations
for increasing the power of the station
from 5,000 to 50,000 watts. This in¬
crease in power will put it on a par
with the other more powerful radio
stations of the country.
It is not yet known definitely when
the change will be inaugurated, but
it is expected to go into effect some
time around the first of February.
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