lighway 1 Will Be
kRerouted To Avoid
Cameron Crossing
4,000 Feet Of New
Road Construclioti
Planned By State
Highway 1 is to be com-
ietely re-routed at Cameron,
liminating completely the dan-
ferous Camefon intersection,
Lne of many accidents, and also
|e curve at the old Moore Cen-
gl Railway crossing, according
' a map from the State Highway
Eld Public Works commission
bosted at the coiirthcuse in Car-
lage.
The map was received Decem-
er 5 with a letter to the ccunty
ommissioners asking that they
tudy it and make protest, if they
3 wished, ivithin 30 days, accord-
ig to Miss Bess McCaskil, secre
iry to the commission. If no pro-
:st was made, said the letter from
le highway officials, the pro-
osed re-routing would go on the
St of authorized state projects,
he 30 days have elapsed without
rotest.
The map shows new road co:
trucJtion projected for appro
nately 4,000 feet, or slig’
nore than three-quarters c
die, scuth from Little ci
reek bridge: deviating froiJ
resent route of US 1 at t1]|
loore Central crossing
sining it at a point ab
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POLIO CHAIRMAN
Receipts For 1949
Put Post Office In
$50,000 Bracket
Gain Seen In All
Departments For
Best.Peacetime Year’
H. CLIFTON BLUE, of Aber
deen, has accepted the chairman
ship of the March of Dimes for
Moore county, to begin January
16. This will be his seventh suc
cessive drive and he will be as
sisted b-i- n^ny of his former
rr'’j^„_,^riHHIHk'rnen..„pthei;s are
1 be
he
With totaling of receipts for
1949, the Southern Pines post of
fice moved up into another brack
et, the $50,000-$60,000 a year class.
Receipts in all departments
amounted to $50,455.33, according
to announcement by Postmaster
A. Garland Pierce.
Only immediate noticeable gain
will be an increase of $100 per
year in the postmaster’s salary.
However, the new rating definite
ly enhances the local post office’s
prestige and is one more indica
tion of the community’s consist
ent growth.
The new total makes 1949 the
biggest peacetime year in the post
officej’s hirtory, representing a
considerable gain over 1949 re-
cepits, previous peacetime high,
of $43,954.75. A good gain in all
departments was noted. However,
aid Mr. Pierce, much of the in-
ase is attributable to a rise in
tal rates in several classifica-
Continued on page 5)
Moore county's "bloodshed boxscore" for 1949 is a grim one
—13 persons killed in highway accidents during the year. Three
of ^ the accidents, of which one occurred in April, two in Decem
ber, took two lives each.
In 1948, eight persons were killed in highway accidents in
Moore.
As in this county, the tragic toll rose throughout the state,
as shown by the "bloodshed boxscore" released by the N. C.
Department of Motor Vehicles. This shows 840 persons killed
in North Carolina during 1949, as compared with 734 in 1948;
the injured totaled 9,617 during the year just past—7,490 in 1948.
The total of some 16,000 personal tragedies in two years with
death occurring in 1,654 of them, is a figure almost too staggering
to realize. Yet the toll will continue, until these become some
thing’ more than statistics: a personal warning to every driver
of a car or truck to Be Careful, for his own sake, that of his pas
sengers and of those on the road or in the approaching car.
The New Year weekend just past raised the boxscore b^ninb
killed, 91 injured from December 31 through January 2. Of these,
seven were killed, 71 injured on the first two days of 1950.
Morehead Teams Play Here Tonight,
Tomorrow In Fourth Annual Classic
Local Group Promotes]
Cooperative Idea In
Seekinj^ Air Academy
m
—And Governor
Agrees; Scott And
Ross Pledge Support
To Push N. C. As Site
Mayer C. N. Page,' Harry Ful-
lehwider, Lloyd T. Clark and
John S. Ruggles, as a group of
citizens vitally interested in the
idea of securing the U. S. Air |
Academy for
Soqth^T
W. Her
>n
Of
mse
ming
non.
NEW YEAR BABY
The honor of being Moore
county's New Year baby fell
to little Miss Mary Catherine
Carpenter, who was bom at
St. Joseph of the Pines hospi
tal at 7:06 a. m. January 1.
She is fhe daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. K. Carpenter,
Jr., of Pinebluff. At latest re
port baby and mother were
doing splendidly, and would
soon be going home.
W. J. Sanborn
Succumbs Monday
At Age Of 93
tor the
Av pas-
Jt the
with
Inven-
;;hris-
lently
Ell be
fden.
Death came early Monday
moiitiii;; tf 'Pou'.hcrii Pine.':’
“grand old man,” Wilbur J. San
born, who at 93 years, of age was
one of the community’s most be
loved citizens as well as very
probably its oldest.
He died at his home on East
Connecticut avenue about 2:30
a. m. following several weeks of
failing health. He underwent a
minor operation some three weeks
ago at the Moore County hospi
tal and failed to rally satisfactor
ily. Death, however, came unex
pectedly.
He was the father of Ruth Burr
Sanborn, distinguished author,
who died June 29, 1942.
Funeral services were held at
the Church of Wide Fellowship at
2 p. m. Wednesday, conducted by
the paster, the Rev. Robert . Lee
House. Burial was in Mt. Hope
cemetery, beside his daughter and
his wife.
Active pallbearers were A. C.
Dawson,, Jr., P. J. Weaver, N. L.
Hodgkins, Herbert N. Cameron, P.
P. Pelton and E. J. Austin. Hon
orary pallbearers were June Phil
lips, Harry A. Lewis, D. H. Turn
er and George W. Case, of South
ern Pines, David Packard and J.
W. McMillan of Pinebluff.
Mr. Sanborn was born Septem
ber 19, 1856, in Colebrook, N. H.
He was a merchant for many
years in Framingham, Mass.,
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PASSES
Blue & White Will
Meet Old Rivals
In New Gymnasium
With games tonight (Friday)
and Saturday in the new gym,
starting at 7:30, Morehead City
and Southern Pines will continue
a keen basketball rivalry of four
yegrs’ standing. A large turnout
cf local fans is expected for the
first showing of the series here
since 1947.
The rivalry began in 1946 at
Carolina’s indoor stadium at
Chapel Hill, when the Blue and
White wrested the Eastern cham-
oionship from the boys from the
Oceanside. Coach Talbert, of
Morehead, just couldn’t believe
it, and immediately challenged
Coach Dawson to a two-game
home-and-home series to begin
the following year. Dawson ac
cepted, and the Blue and White
took three out of four in 1947 and
two games to one in 1948, the
year only . one game could' be
played at Morehead on account
of the giant ice storm.
Last January, the locals broke
even in the four-game series. In
total of victories, the Blue and
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Opening Of Mail
Delivery Serviee
May Be Delayed
W. J. SANBORN
Mail delivery service for South
ern Pines will probably be delay
ed beyond the scheduled date of
January 16, as steel and coal
strikes have prevented delivery
of some needed equipment, ac
cording to word received by post
master A. Garland Pierce from
the postal department.
Steel sorting tables and cabi
nets are needed lor the cM’ried
service, and must be set up, ready
to use, before the go-ahead sig
nal can be given. These have
been on order since last Septem
ber and latest word is that the
delivery date is extremely uncer
tain and possibly remote.
Other equipment is on hand,
said Postmaster Pierce, and Harry
Chatfield, Harry Klabbatz and T.
K. Atkinson have been named
temporary carriers, to deliver mail
on three routes until civil service
examinations can be held for ap
pointment of permanent carriers.
Contract will be made with
Cherry Motors Sales, low bidder,
lor use and maintenance of a
parcel post delivery truck as soon
as the service goes into effect.
Collection boxes have been receiv
ed, to be placed at strategic
places about town, but cannot be
set up until the starting date for
the service is set and appropria
tion made.
The Town has placed markers
on many unmarked streets, prin
cipally in West Southern Pines,
in anticipation of the service.
Householders in the populated*
sections, most of which will be
covered by the mail routes, are
asked to prepare lor the service
by procuring their porch mail
boxes, or by having letter slots
'placed in their front doors, and
by seeing to it that their house
numbers are prominently dis
played.
The inauguration of city deliv
ery will provide a variety of ser
vices for local post office patrons,
which are. listed in lull in an ab
stract posted at the post office en
trance.
Force
Pines, visited Governor'W. HerJ
Scott Wednesday with an entiM
ly new idea for getting a gover
ment facility.
The idea was cooperation, not
competition, with other towns and
cities seeking the proposed new
government project. First and
foremost, they told the Governor,
they thought all interested in the
Academy should support the idea
of bringing it to North Carolina.
Individual sites could then take
Gen. GEORGE C. MARSHALL,'their chances wit^ the survey
committee of army engineers.
The local men reported that
Governor ScoStt received them,
and their idea, with the utmost
cordiality, and pledged his full
support. He referred them to
peorge Ross, director of the de
partment of conservation and de
velopment, who he said will be in
charge cf the project for the state.
.Advantages Felt
A highly satisfactory interview
followed with Ross, and/the dele
gation returned hom^-'fn cheerful
mood. “Getting it in North Caro
lina is the important thing,” said.,
Mr. Fullenwider, president of thj
• (Continued on Page 5)
is by way of being the count-
most popular guest spealcer, smee
his arrival at his Sandhills hbme
last month. He spoke last night
(Thursday) at the Pinehurst Fo
rum and next Wednesday will
speak before the Sandhills Ki-
i wanis club at the Highland Pines
Inn.
McPherson Is New
Kiwanis President;
Projects Proposed
Lieutenant Governor
Douglas Is Present
For Installation
The Sandhills Kiwanis club met
foi* luncheon Wednesday at the
Highland Pines Inn in Southern
Pines. Installation of new officers
and directors was the order of the
day, accomplished, under the ef
ficient direction of the lieutenant
gevernor of the Fourth Kiwanis
district, Preston Douglas of Lum-
berton, and Hawley Poole, outgo
ing president of the club.
New officers taking over for
the year 1950 were Garland Mc
Pherson, president; Voit Gilmore,
vice-president; John M. How-
wdlrth, secretary-treasureti whjo
was not present. I. C. Sledge of
Pinehurst, Jack Younts, R. L.
Chandler, Jr., and Dr. P. J. Ches
ter of Southern Pines, and Boyd
Creech of Pinehurst, were new di
rectors present.
, President McPherson, in his in
stallation address, stressed the
point of citizenship. He urged the
club ti^ take a more aggressive at
titude toward civic responsibility,
both as a club and as individual
members. In response to his re
quest for suggestions from mem
bers as to projects to be taken up
during the coming year, Paul
Dana of Pinehurst offered several
which, he said, seemed to him
worthy of attention.
First on his list he put the mat
ter of liability insurance for driv
ers of cars. Saying that he con
sidered that good drivers, with no
accident or traffic violation rec-
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Women Pilots Of
Carolinas Plai
Mid Pines Meel
The Mid. Pines club wi|
host to 20 women pilots o^
and South Carolina, all m|
of the “Ninety-Nines”
quarterly sectional meeti^j
Sunday, January 15.
The women flyers w«
verge on the Knollwood j
in mid-morning. The ’ousinessi
meeting and luncheon will follov
at the Mid Pines, at wiiich time
the lady pilots will discuss planfj
for joining in the annual mas
flight of private planes to the Mi]
ami Air show, and the subsequenB
over-water jump to Cuba under ^
Army and Navy aerial escort.
The “Ninety Nines,” officially^
known as the International OrF
ganization of Women Pilots, nurij
bers 1,200 members. The Card
linas section is headed by Don^
thy Shackleford of Columbia,
C., as governor and Peggy Ler
nox, presently of St. Petersburg
Fla., as vice governor.
Local members are Mrs. Carl
Bradshaw and Mrs. Walter Hyatt
of Pinehurst. Mrs. Hyatt is a
member of the New England
chapter who winters in Pinehurst.
Mrs. Bradshaw made the arrange
ments for the meeting here.
Following the luncheon, the
group will return to the Knoll
wood airport fo'r,‘'‘spot landing”
competition.
Hound Work and Smart Foxes
By E. O. HIPPUS
Moore County foxes have had
some close calls during the last
few weeks but brushes are still
in the right places, according to
their owners’ opinions. Hounds
have found every time they have
gone out; not a blank day, to date,
but so far, brushes are intact . . .
their wearers have gotten clean
away.
The last few weeks have been
busy ones out at the Mile-Away
kennels. During two of them,
hounds went out eight times, with
two bye dfays added to the regu
lar schedule. One of these was
the hunt/near Pinehurst with the,
meet at 1:he Carolina an(J a break
fast theffe afterwards, "rne,
was the ijlways popular c
drag, for - the specif'
the you ng pepi.
spending! their
haps one;
about thtj
ber of ch
their start crossing a country here,]
and the special d.rag, when th^
line is laid in easy country witl]
the top rails dropped on the par
els, is a treat to everyone.
Hound Work
Perhaps the best run of tli
early season ,according to enth
siastic reoprts, took place l|
Thursday
their 1q
swar
^ea
Ms worked upj
out of
kfoj