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Hingle Legacy On Baseball Diamond
By Ron Barthet
Baseball was his first choice, no matter what. He was a man who lived to help people, whether it was delivering milk each and every morning or delivering the newspapers every day or whether it was sitting behind home plate at the Community Center serving as umpire.
He was Arthur "Boobie" Hingle, an institution in Covington. Everyone was his
friend. He died Friday morning while getting ready to go on his milk delivery route.
"Boobie" Hingle would have rather play baseball than eat, his wife said. He was dedicated to the program at the Covington Community Center, having been with it ever since it began. He was a coach and umpire, but most of all, he was a supporter, a reliable standby.
When the Dixie Boys went to Alexandria a couple of weeks ago to try for the state title, he was there, lending his support, although friends said he hadn't been feeling well. It was the first week he had had off in some 26 years of delivering milk for Prats Dairy, not counting the week off he had after an accident.
He had been married for 25 years, and before working at the dairy he had worked in surveying. He was a native of Burwood, but an adopted native of Covington and its people.
His customers recall the time when a hurricane was coming on Monday morning and Hingle went on his milk rounds late Sunday night so they could have their milk before the winds got too high.
Hingle had been a resident of Covington for some 40 years and was a member of the Robert H. Burns American Legion Post No. 16 as well as a veteran of the U. S. Army. He served in the Pacific during World War II. earning a campaign medal with five bronze stars.
His 16 year old son took him to the hospital Friday _morning in that milk truck after he had begun to complain of pains in his chest. Shortly afterwards, he died, only a week after receiving a plaque in appreciation for his many years of work with the Community Center's baseball program and the hundreds of kids it involves. Covington mourns his loss.
The St. Tammany Farmer August 8, 1974
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