Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-08-24
BY DON GRAY
Charlotte Observer

man who coached some out
standing football teams at Will
liam and Mary College in Vr-
gInli is now molding neglected
and underpriviledsed N. {.
boys into worthwhile young
men.
As director of Boys Home of
n. c. AT Lake Waccamaw.
Rube McCray is designing the
plays that will mean better
lives for his squad"
The popular coach resigned
at William and Mary two years
ago To get away from the pres
SurcS of big-time football. He
and his charming wife, Hester,
moved frCm the Williamsburg
campus 10 Boys Home just pri-
or to the dedication of the
Homes first modern cottage in
July of 1858.
The S55,000 cottage. built
with contributions from Tar
Heel Civilian clubs, enable
Boys Home to increase its en-
rollment from five to l6.
Another cottage, built by
Lions Clubs all over the stale,
was recently dedicated and will
make room for l6 more young
Sters in September. The Lions
Cottage is valued at 100000.
The state Jaycee chapter has
also adopted Boys Home as
project and is now raising
funds to build another cottage.
OptimiSt clubs are showing
increased interest in the reha-
bilitatiOn effort. Members thr-
oughout the state are being
asked TO join the Boys Home
"Bucks-A-Month" club. Each
OptimiSt club in the state will
be asked to raise funds to sup
port a building program later
on.
McCray is happy Boys Home.
supported entirely by volunt-
AIRY contributions, is beginning
TO grow but he's also unhappy
because there isn't now room
for many other boys who need
help.
The former athletic director
says 8 or 10 l6-boy cottages
are needed to accommodate tine
present waiting list in Welfare
Department files.
II Boys Home were bigger il
could become the answer to a
juvenile judges prayer. Judges
are often faced by boys who
have possibilities but no op-
portuniticS.
A lads home is broken, his
life full of despair.
Because there is no other
place to go, the judge sends
him to a training school.
Boys Home offers Christian
environment to youngsters for
tunate enough to be admitted
DR.. Ellen Winston, y. c. Wei
fare Commissioner, says Boys
Home is providing a service
not now offered by any other
child caring institution in the
state"
BY providing care and train
ing in the l6-boy cottages, Nc
Cray and his staff see to it that
all boys live real home life eX-
pcrienccS. a boy may stay I'M
til he becomes adjusted and his
family relationships improve
until he's placed in a foster
home, until he completes high
school or until he becomes OF
age to enter the Service.
No one is sent to the lax,
resort for definite period OF
time. The age range for admit
tance is 10 10 10 and applica-
tons are made through loca
welfare departments, juvenil,
judges and domestic relation.
courts.
Applications are considered
on a basis of whether tn,
Home thinks it can help the
boy.
Lake Waccamaw. largest ma
tural lake between Maine ant
Florida. Is a perfect setting fol
the n-sectarian, non profit
corporation.
All facilities are located OF
a l5-acrc site On the western
shore Of the huge lake of
Highway "a. 8 miles east OF
Whitcvillc.
The property was purchased
in 1868 for $4,000. All bu
$4,000 Of the debt has beer
1ai rHd the Martha and Spen.
= Love tauria'.ur OF Greens.
'orr res pic red 60 take al,
Of the b lance.
A 3-StuTy home on the prop
erty is now used as an admins