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Southern Pines, N. C.. Friday, November 1, 1946.
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British Golf Pros To Make First
U. S. Appearance At Pinehurst Sunday
Rees, Ward Play
Smith and Hogan
In Scout Benefit, 2 pm
An international exhibition
pitting two of the most promis
ing English professionals against
the great Ben Hogan and Horton
Smith, will be played at the Pine
hurst Country Club Sunday af
ternoon, November 3. The match,
first of its kind in the country
since before the World War, will
be staged for the benefit of the
Boy and Girl Scouts of Pinehurst.
The Britons, Dai Rees and
Charles Ward arrived from Eng
land by air a few days ago to
make their first tournament start
in America in the North and
South Open Championship which
begins at the Country Club Tues
day, November 5. Thus Pine-
hurst’s famous old tournament
will have the distinction of re
storing international competition
in the USA after a lapse of seven
years, Rees and Ward, like all
their countrymen, saw no com
petition during the war, both be
ing in the armed services, and
no tournaments having been
played in the British Isles for the
duration. However Rees beat the
great Byron Nelson in the last
Ryder Cup matches played in
England before the war. He and
Ward both made a good showing
in the British Open last summer,
tieing for fourth place behind
Sammy Snead who took the title.
Sunday’s exhibition match
against Ben Hogan, who holds
the Pinehurst record with his 17-
under-par 271 in the 1942 North
and South Open, and Horton
Smith will be played over the
number two Championship
course. Play begins at 2 p. m.
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PARK HERE
The new parking lot on
Pennsylvania Avenue is now
ready to be put to good use>.
The Town Board has had it
cleaned up and hopes that
the owners of adjacent build
ings will use it and in that
way relieve the congestion
on Broad Street.
Radio Station Is
Proposed For
Southern Pines
New Business Wails
Permit To Get Under
Way In Local Setting
Arrangements are underway to
locate a radio station in Southern
Pines to serve Moore county and
all towns within a 75-mile radius,
John C. Greene, Jr., who will be
manager of the proposed station,
announced this week.
Mr. Greene and F. L. Faber of
Sanford, owner of the Brown Au
to Supply stores with branches
in Southern Pines, Aberdeen and
Sanford, are incorporators in the
Sandhills Bfoadcasting Corpora
tion. The corporation filed appli
cation two months ago with the
Federal Communications com
mission in Washington for per
mission to operate a station, the
only one in the Sandhills.
They are waiting at present
for the final grant which Mr.
Greene expects within the next
month. Locations for the studio
and transmitter have been inves
tigated but construction will not
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Three Little Girls From School
MEET: Barbara Shoemaker,
Amelia Willcox, “Miss Southern
“Junior Miss Southern Pines,”
Friday.
“Little Miss Southern Pines,”
Pines,” and Patricia Radcliff,
winners of the Contest held last
The Misses Willcox, Radcliff,
Shoemaker, Win School Contest
Amelia Willcox, Barbara Shoe-
make and Patricia Radcliff were
chosen from 122 contestants as
winners in the “Miss Southern
Pines Contest” conducted by the
senior class of Southern Pines
High school in the school auditor
ium Friday evening.
Barbara Shoemake, sponsored
by the Sandhill Sport shop, won
the title of “Little Miss Southern
Pines.” Twenty-six young misses
from grade one through three
participated in this group.
Contestants from grade four
through eight competed for the
title of “Junior Miss Southern
Pines”. Patricia Radcliff, spon
sored by Mrs. Ralph Chandler,
was winner in this section.
The ‘Miss Southern Pines High
school” contestants were divided
into three groups: sport, after
noon, and evening clothes. Peggy
Jean Cameron from the sports,
Amelia Willcox from the after
noon and Jeanne Sadler from the
evening dress group participated
in the finals. Amelia Willcox,
sponsored by Valet cleaners, was
selected as “Miss Southern Pines
High School.”
Also on the program was Mrs.
Dorothy Choate, singing “Ah,
Sweet Mystery of Life” and
“Kiss Me Again”; Miss Joyce An
derson, “Dancing in the Dark”,
and Miss Jean Olive, “Without a
Song.”
Lewis Pate introduced the pro
gram, and T. K. Campbell, Mas
ter of Ceremonies, kept the show
rolling. ’
A Skycruiser Takes A Look At The Sandhills
Southern Pines Defeats Hope Valley
Before Record Crowd Now Leads For
Eastern, N. C. Six-Man Football Title
VOTE
Resort Airlines Start First Skycruise From
New York to Southern Pines November 7th
Yuletide Festival
As Town Project
Urged by C of C
Communily Sing And
Christmas Tree Are
Suggested Features
Details of a Christmas festival,
to be undertaken as a community
project, were presented to the
Board of Directors at the Cham
ber of (Commerce meeting Tues
day night.
Col. Donald Madigan, executive
secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce, explained plans for
such a festival with* every civic,
religious and fraternal group par
ticipating, each being respomsi-
ble for a part of the activities.
A fgeature of the program is a
community tree in the park, dec
orated in full Christmas regalia,
with a lighted manger scene be
neath. Here a week before
Christmas a vesper hour will be
observed with Christmas music
played over a loudspeaker system
for one hour in the evening. The
high school glee club is to be ask
ed to present a program 'of Yule
music one evening, and a com
munity sing is planned another
night for the vesper service.
The merchants will participate
by decorating their display win
dows in the Christmas theme, and
everyone is to be asked to have
seasonal decorations around their
homes. Colonel Madigan pointed
out community cooperation as
the keynote of the festival which
he anticipated as an annual af-
:tair.
Only 25 per cent of the reports
from the Chamber of Commerce
drive were made. Colonel Madi
gan expects the goal to be realiz
ed if the remaining reports are
as encouraging as those already
turned in.
Pierce and Welch
Buy Scott Home
Announcement was made this
week of the joint purchase of
the old Royall Scott homeplace
by Garland A. Pierce and Frank
Welch of Southern Pines from
Leon Seymour of Aberdeen.
The new owners are repainting
inside and out of the house, lo
cated on the southwest corner
of Broad Street and New York
avenue. They have no immediate
plans for the adjoining lot. In
the next year, however, or as
soon as materials and labor are
available, they intend to build
a mercantile center on the site.
ABERDEEN BOY ENLISTS
John Reid Wicker, 18, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie H. Wicker
of Aberdeen, has enlisted in the
army for 18 months.
BOO!
"The goblins have got
Henry!"
"Susy's ridin' a broom
stick!"
"Jimmy's joined the bats
in the belfrey!"
"Hear that to-wit, to-woo?
That ain't an owl, that's Cou
sin Lem: clean lost his
;nind!"
"And old Unc Ned, he's riz
right out o' the ground and
here he comes, a-dancin'
down Broad Street as chip
per as a jaybird!"
"Hey! What on earth is
this, anyway?"
"T'aint anything on earth!
It's Halloween in Southern
Pines. It's the time when
Sandhill goblins holler and
witches screech and ghosts
moan. And all Rotarians put
out to give the people of the
town the best time ever!
Torza-Carter Duo
Win Week-Long
Golf Tournament
Climaxing a week of brilliant
golf, Felice Torza, 26-year old
Connecticut open golf champion,
and Jack Carter, local star golf
er, were the winning duo in the
finals of the first Sandhills four-
ball. bestball handicap tourna
ment, played over the Mid-Pines
and Pine Needles courses last
week.
George T. Dunlap, Jr., former
national amateur champion, and
Maj. William D. Campbell of the
Southern Pines team were de
feated six to five by the Torza-
Carter combination.
Shooting par golf last Friday
despite the rain-soaked course,
young Torza and Carter defeated
Chris Dumphy and Karl Andrews
of the Pinehurst team one up a^-
ter a grueling battle fought over
the 6,394-yard Pine Needles
course.
Torza and Carter were three up
at the turn but lost the 10th, 11th
and 12th to tie the match, halved
the 13th with par fours, won the
short 195-yard 14th with a birdie
two, and halved the remaining
holes after a 10-foot putt for- a
par four on the 431 yard 18th to
clinch the semi-finals.
Dunlap and Campbell in a
match with Ernest Mevo and Dr.
Aldo Sala of Ridgewood, N. J.,
were rained out on the sixth
where they resumed the match
the next morning.
In Thursday’s round the Torza-
Carter team won out over Sam
uel D. Penna and Vinson Giudice
of Ridgewood, N. J., three to two.
Dunlap and Campbell of the Pine
Needles team ousted E. G. B.
Riley and H. J. Hewat two to one
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Twenty Businessmen
Arriving Thursday By
Air For Weekend Golf
The Golfland Skycruise be
tween New York and the Sand
hills, sponsored by the Resort
Airlines Skycruise club, will be
inaugurated Thursday, November
7, when a party of 20 New York
businessmen will be flown to
Knollwood Field.
Just thre hours after they board
the 21-passenger Douglas DC-3
at LaGuardia Field in New York,
they will arive at the local air
port between Southern Pines and
Pinehurst.
Major Lewis C. Burwell, presi
dent of Resort Airlines, Inc.,
Knollwood field, said planes'were
now flying to New York one day
and back to the Sandhills the next
with stops at Wilmington, Del.,
and Washington, D. C. Gradually,
iie says, there will be daily fligj
north from the local field
Last Sunday’s New York Times
introduced the Skycruise club of
Resort Airlines, Inc. That was
when the first party was made up
to come here to the winter capi
tal of golf”
The club furnishes all air and
ground transportation and will
assist members upon request, to
secure accomodations. The club
has a working agreement with
all the larger hotels in the Sand
hills area which enables it to
secure reservations.
This is one of 11 vacation
cruises, originated by Resort Air
lines, to cater to the busy execu
tive, enabling him to weekend at
distant points without delay en-
route.
The program of these inclusive
(vadation skycruises covers th,e
western hemisphere. They include
The Islands Skycruise, Miami to
Nassau and Havana and the Car
ibbean.
The Palmlands Skycruises, to
Florida resorts;Wonderlands, to
transcontinental scenic wonders;
Skyland, to the Great Smokies;
Play lands, to the Adirondacks;
Northlands to Alaska; Coastlands,
to Atlantic City, N. J.; Highlands,
to the Canadian and Northwest
Rockies, Sunlands, to Southern
California; and Latinlands, to
Central America.
Nine SP Scouts Attend
Council at Chapel Hill
Nine young scouts, nucleus of
a Boy Scout troop now being re
organized in Southern Pines, at
tended the Occoneechee Council
in Chapel Hill last weekend.
Highlight of the Scout gather
ing, which included scouts from
the II counties in the council, was
the Carolina-Florida game Sat
urday afternoon in' the Carolina
stadium.
Those representing Southern
Pines were: Malcolm Clark, Bill
Baker, Roland Bower, Johimy
b^Callaghan, Donald, Kenneth
and LeRoy Riggleman, Qarletpn
Kennedy and Tommy Avery.
Tuesday is not the time for
anyone to be Little Jack Hor
ner. It is the day to come
out and cast your vote for
the one you want in public
office for the next several
years.
You may consider voting
unnecessary and unimpor
tant in this election, but your
candidate deserves your sup
port. In this, as in all elec
tions. it's your duty to exer
cise that much-talked-about
right of an American citizen.
Voters To Elect
State and County
Officers Tuesday
16 Democrats, Six
Republicans Listed
On Election Slate
Voters of Southern Pines, along
with every other North Carolina
Community, will go to the polls
next Tuesday, November 5, to
elect state legislators and judicial
and county officials.
The polls, located at the com
munity center on the corner of
Ashe street and Pennsylvania
avenue, will be open for 12 hour
voting from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
S. C. Riddle, chairman of the
Moore County Board of Elections,
has announced the slate of candi
dates. Democratie candidates
number 16, with only six Repub
licans on the 16 office ballot.
The Democratic slate includes
M. G. Boyette for solicitor of- the
13th judicial cRstrict; W. H. Cur
rie and L. M. Chaffin for state
senators of the 12th senatorial
district; H. Clifton Blue for mem
ber of the state House of Represe
ntatives; John Willcox for clerk
of Superior court.
Charles J. McDonald for sheriff;
Bessie McCaskill for Register of
Deeds; J. Vance Rowe for Judge
of Recorder’s court; W. A. Leland
McKeithen for prosecuting att
orney of Recorder’s court; Hugh
P. Kelly for coroner; W. N. Mc-
Lauchlin ‘for surveyor; and John
M. Currie, W. H. Jackson, Jr., L.
R. Reynolds, T. L. Blue and Gor-
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Durham Team In
Great Running Game
Fights To Finish
By June Phillips
Before a large and wildly en
thusiastic crowd Southern Pines
defeated Hope Valley High of
Durham here Wednesday, 24 to 6.
The victory places the Blue and
White in the number one spot in
the Eastern Conference race for
the six-man football title.
But the score does not tell all
the story, neither does it indicate
the closeness of the game as the
two teams,, both undefeated,
stood up and fought it out for
every yard. Hope Valley, highly-
touted leader of the Eastern title
race, lived up to all pre-game no
tices that they would be a tough
foe displaying the powerful run
ning attack that had carried them
through four straight victories,
and keeping Southern Pines fans
on the anxious seat until late in
the third quarter. Brilliant de
fensive end play led by Arnette,
Harrington’s backing up of the
line, and the alertness of the sec
ondary defense, plus better re
serves, spelled the difference be
tween the two teams.
It was this defensive play of
the ends that checked Johnson,
the visitors’ star back, and nulli
fied Hope Valley’s passing attack.
But this boy Johnson was no
flash in the pan, but a constant
threat. When he broke into the
clear for 20 yards, and sidestep
ping, dodging, headed for pay
dirt, only a brilliant tackle by
Jim McCall of the secondary
staved off what seemed a cer
tain score. Dollar, Johnson’s run
ning mate, got off some beautiful
kicks, one leading to his team’s
only touchdown, , but it was
Thomas, a reserve back, in for
Johnson who scored for the vis
itors.
Although the tackling and
charging of both teams was hard,
the game was remarkably clean
and free of penalties. Southern
Pines losing 10 yards for offsides
and too many time outs and Hope
Valley duplicating, a total of 20
yards in penalties.
Play By Play
The Blue and 'White quickly
scored after receiving the kickoff
which Straka returned from the
10 to his 27 yard line. Grey whip
ped a long pass to Harrington
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Dazzling Display Of Blue And White
Brightens Windows All Over Town
That football train am a’comin..
on Broad Street in a dazzling
whirl of white and blue that
ought to inspire any team to vic
tory.
You can see the actual train in
the window of the Five and Ten.
That is, you can see it if you look
over and around and through the
kids that have their noses pressed
to the pane. Drawn by an impress
ive diesel it circles slowly around
a curved track, blue banners fly
ing; we could almost see the pass
engers hanging out of the win
dows and hear them giving a
long cheer for the Blue and
White.
All up and down the street the
store windows were decorated in
the competition for the Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce
award.
Most impressive window is
that of the Barnum Agency, full
of the good photographs of our
players, taken by Col. Don. Mad
igan. Though not actually decor
ated, in the sense that the others
are, it is attracting perhaps more
attention as each passerby stops
to pick out the familiar faces.
It is interesting to see the in
genuity which some of the stores
have shown in using their pro
ducts as decorative material. The
Southern Pines Pharmacy has
made a most attractive display,
using the fluffy copperized scour
ing balls as a sort of frame for
their blue and white foreground.
Next to it, the McNeill Co. feed
store sits happily back, realizing
that its exterior is already about
as blue and white as they could
get it.
The dress shops, of course, have
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THE WINNERS
Winners in the football dis
play window contest were
announced at the half at the
Southern Pines-Hope Valley
game Wednesday afternoon.
Prizes of five dollars each
were presented by the Cham
ber of Commerce to the three
first-place winners,
A & P received first prize
among the food stores group
with Modern Market in sec
ond place. Fran jean's was
winner in the clothing stores
coitt|es:|. Tots" Toggery get
ting honorable mention, and
Hayes Bokstore was top-
place receiver in the miscel
laneous stores competition,
with the Paul T. Bamum
Agency having honorable
mention.
Other stores with notable
displays were Holliday's Cof-
feeshop. Western Union, Mrs.
Hayes Shop and Carolina
Power and Lig^t Company.