Friday. April 21. 1950
In and Out of Town
E. E. Woodman left Wednesday-f
morning , for his home in Merri-.
mac,' Mass., after spending his,
13th winter at Magnolia Lodge,
L. L. Woolley, district deputy
grand master of the Grand Lodge
of North Carolina, attended a Ma
sonic meeting in Raleigh Tuesday
night and Wednesday.
Mrs. Mary Enders of Spring
field. Mass., is spending some time
at Magnolia Lodge.
J. Bruce Cameron returned
home Monday from Moore County
hospital, where he had been since
Wednesday suffering from a spin
al injury thought to be a ruptured
disc. He is still unable to sit up
for more than a few„ minutes at
the time.
Sunday callers at the home of
Mr. and Mi-s. Dan R. McNeill
were Mr. and Mrs. L. A. King of
Seagrove and Mr. and Mrs. Jen
kins of Star. Mrs. King and Mrs.
Jenkins, the former Misses May
and Leola Brown, lived in South
ern Pines years ago.
Mrs. Billy Reeves and children,
Billy, Jr., and Charles, of Brook-
haven, Miss., have been spending
some time with Mts. Reeves’ pa
rents, Ifr. and Mrs. C. R. Faris.
Her husband. Corporal Reeves,
recently returned from service in
Japan, joined them here Satur
day.
R. P. Brown, who had been
with his wife during her recent
hospitalization at Duke in Dur
ham, has returned to his work in
Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Brown is recu
perating at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. A. W. McNeill. Here for
a weekend visit with her were
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Midkiff of
Brookneal, Va., and Mrs. Ben
Lynes and daughter Elizabeth, of
Lexington, Va.
Mrs. Estelle Cameron visited
relatives in Fayetteville from
Wednesday until Saturday of last
week.
DPNALD M SMITH, JR.
A son, Donald, Jr., was born to
Lieut. an^Mrs. Donald M. Smith
at a hospital in Munich, Germany,
on March 28, weighing seven
pounds, six ounces. Donald has a
sister, Linda, three and a half.
Mrs. Smith is the former Miss
Vivian Wilson of Manly.
jiouthern Pines. North Carolina
Southern Pines Surpasses Red Cross I Winston-Salem
Goal; County Still Short By $1,811 Civic Group Payi
CANCER CAMPAIGN
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Small Rural
Communities Do
Better Than Large
Good Will Visit
ALBERT DONALD HURST, JR.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hurst are
the parents of a son, Albert Don
ald, Jr., born April 16 at Moore
County hospital. The baby, who
IS the first grdndson in the fam
ily of his mother (O’Callaghan),
weighed six pounds, 14 ounces.
Mr .and Mrs. Hurst have twin
daughters, Marie Elizabeth and
Barbara Jean, who wiU be three
years old in June. Mr. Hurst
plans to bring his wife and son
home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Ruggles
spent Tuesday in Raleigh. Mrs.
Ruggles visited Mir. and Mrs. Ed
ward Ruggles while her husband
attended to business.
Miss Alice H. Southworth, who
has been in Winter Park, Fla,,
since December, will return to her
home in Southern Pines this
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. David Hoskins had
as their week end guests their
daughter. Miss Virginia Mae Hos
kins, and her fiance, Sam Wehunt,
both of Charlotte. Miss Hoskins
was maid of honor in the wedding
of Miss Sarah Bogan of Rocking
ham and Jimmy Robinson of
harlotte, which took place in the
Methodist church at Rockingham
Saturday. Week end guests of
Miss Hoskins at her parents’ home
vere Mr .and Mrs. Flay Wehunt
)f Raleigh, brother and sister-in-
aw of Sam Wehunt.
Mrs. Estelle Cameron, Mrs. J.
I. Chisholm and Mrs. G. L. Culler
)f Manly attended the annual
neeting of the Women of the
hurch of Fayetteville Presbytery
1 Fayetteville on Wednesday of
ast week.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Foss, who
lad been visiting Mrs. Nettie
lyers at The Homestead, left Sat-
rdav morning for their home at
Itoneham, Mass., accompanied by
Jrs. Ayers, who will be their
uest for a short while before go-
ig to the home of her brother in
lanchester, N. H.
Mrs. H. S. Knowles, who has
een seriously ill at Moore County
ospital, is now making a satis-
ctory recovery. She is able
< sit up some.
Dr. and Mrs. R. M. McMillan
ft Saturday night for Boston,
here Dr. McMillan was to at-
nd a, five-day meeting of the
merican College of Physicians,
ley plan to return this weekend.
Mrs. John C. Thomas, who,
hile visiting her sister in North
ilkesboro in January, sustained
compound fracture of the left
ikle which necessitated a stay
several weeks in a hospital
ere. has returned to her home
145 West Connecticut avenue,
e has made satisfactory prog-
!s. but is not yet able to be out.
Miss Kate Stewart, formerly of yond.
nebluff but now living in Wash-
fton, D. C., where she ,is em-
)yed. was a visitor to The Pilot
ice Friday.
3r. L. M. Daniels, his brother
sister-in-law. Dr. and Mrs.
I^rizer-Smith Vows
Exchanged April 12
A wedding of much local inter
est is that of Miss Artice Loraine
Smith of Detroit, Mich., and Ed
ward Prizer, son of Mrs. E. Levis
Prizer of Toronto, Canada, and
the late Dr. Prizer, which took
place at Greenwich Village Pres-
o., terian church. New York, on
.A.pril 12.
The bride’s sister-in-law, Mrs.
Jessie Bissett, was matron of
honor, and the bridegroom was
attended by his brothe4 John
Prizer, as best man.
Guests included the. bride’s
mother, Mrs. Bissett; the bride
groom’s mother, Mrs. Prizer; Mipg
Mary Prizer, Mrs. George Palmer,
Mrs. Douglas Prizer, Miss Joan
Prizer of Orange, N. J., Mrs.
Palmer Worthen (Catherine Pri-
zer) of Ithaca, N. Y., and James
Ritchie of Southern Pines and
New York.
The bridegroom, who grew up
and attended school in Southern
Pines where his family resided
for many years, has been trans
ferred fiom Detroit to the New
York office of the Associated
Press.
Less than $2,000 short of their
goal, Moore County Red Cross
leaders this week echoed their na
tional chairman, Gen. George C.
Marshall, with “The campaign
will continue until the quota is
made!”
The amount of $14,670 has been
estimated as the necessary mini
mum for operation of the Moore
County Red Cross chapter during
the coming year.
A tally of all reports to date,
made by the chapter directors at
a meeting Friday night, showed
$12,848.89 reported by campaign
workers since the opening of the
membership drive March 1. This
is $1,821.11 short of the goal.
On the list of communities re
porting were 13 shining names,
out of 33, who have made their
quotas. Some, notably the smaller
communities, have gone far past,
Quotas Passed
Past their quotas (indicated in
parentheses) were the following:
Southern Pines ($4,000), $4,130.70;
Aberdeen ($1,000) $1,101; Eureka
($40) $58.80; Hallison ($50), $51
Hillcrest ($25) $33; Jackson
Springs ($100) $101.51; Lambs
Grove ($20) $32.40; Mt. Carmel
($10) $10.07; Pinehurst $4,000)
$4,306.90; The Horseshoe ($15) $34
Union Church community ($15)
$36.23; White Hill ($10) $17.
Cameron was also reported to
have made the quota, though no
figures were available at the time.
Still working toward their quo
tas (given in parentheses were:
Adder ($40) $3; Carthage ($1,350)
^922; Eagle Springs ($100) $87.40;
Highfalls ($150) $10; Knollwood
''$600) $266; Lakeview ($50) $13;
Leamans ($25) $8; Pinebluff
'■$325) $230; Robbins ($1,400) $760-
Vass ($350) $225.13; West End
$185; Westmoore ($65)
$32.75.
No reports had come in at all
The cancer campaign in
Southern Pines got off to a
slow start, and the chairman.
Mrs. J. S. Milliken. is hoping
for better returns this week
than she had .last, it was
learned.
With a quota of $700 from
this community, the same as
last year, the • first week
brought returns of only about
$150.
"The campaign is a very
worthy one. and we are going
to have to do better than this
if we are going to carry our
share." said Mrs. Milliken.
The drive is being conducted
largely by mail. Whether you
have or havp not received a
letter, you are asked to send
her your gift this week, to aid
in the continuing battle of re
search and education against
cancer.
Raiding Officers
Capture Big Still,
Arrest Three Men
Good will on both sides was
the upshot of a visit paid Wed-
Inesday to Pinehurst and South
ern Pines by a busload of mem
bers of the Winston-Salem Cham
ber of Commerce, out to meet
their neighbors, know their state
md spread the glories of their
I town.
The big Greyhound bus reached
Pinehurst in mid-afternoon after
visiting Thomasville, Denton, Al
bemarle, Mt. Gilead and Ellerbe,
There the group was met by
Harry Fullenwider, president of
the Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce, and in company with
Albert Tufts, of Pinehurst, Inc.,
made a tour of the community.
Coming <5ver to Southern Pines,
they paid a visit to Mile-Away
Farm and the Moore County
Hounds, chosen as a unique
Southern Pines sight. This was
^uch enjoyed by the visitors, es'
pecially the sight of the hounds
£t supper.
At the Hollywood hotel the lo
cal Chamber was host at a social
hour, in which a nuimber of local
citizens took part, remaining
afterward for a dinner at which
the Winston-Salemites were hosts
Sharing the friendly
germ was present but none was
found.
The plaintiff says that he was
then forced to move from Aber
deen to Pinebluff, or, he declares,
he believes Glen Gray would also
have died.
Appeal Was Made
He claims he appealed to the
defendant, seeking more careful
provision for the fumes, which
CEme from an exhaust fan within
100 yards of the Keith home, and
for empty chemical bags which,
he says, were thrown outdoors
and allowed to lie where the wind
could blow the chemical dust
about.
His sufferings, loss of home and
expenses he declares are due to
the negligence of defendant in al
lowing the fumes and dust to be
blown and scattered about.
These are the second and third
suits to be filed by a member of
the Keith family against the Tay
lor company. K. R. Keith, brother
of Gordon Keith, filed suit in
June, 1949, seeking recovery of
$12,000 because, he stated, his
home near the plant had been
rendered inhabitable by the irri
tating and iR-smelling vapors.
CANDIDATES
occasion
One of the largest liquor hauls Albert
in recent months was made by Buggies and Hoke
ABC and ATU officers about n Pollock, past presidents of the
o’clock MondiSy morning, whenu .^u^^^Bne Prim,
they surprised a party of three ^ulerie Nicholson of
Negro men operating a 700-gallon Younts of WEEB
submarine type still in the woods ^ Coleman of
near Cameron. radio station staff.
The men took off through the Speeches were made by the two
trees when the officers arrived, Mr. Page and Winston-
but were apprehended and taken Marshall Kurfees, Presi-
before U. S. Commissioner John Fullenwider, Mr. Tufts and
A. Lang at Carthage, who found Mayor Kurfebs presented
probable cause and set bond of Mayor Page and Mr. Tufts
"'500 each. They failed to niakeP^^'^®®’^® brass desk ornaments,
the bond. replicas of his town’s famous and
The men, who will be tried at P^®^°'‘’i® Coffee Pot. A tape record-
the September federal term atp”®™3de by WEEB.
Rockingham,
James Otisj Considerable friendly promo-
r aulk, 29; George Henry Thomas, tion of both communities, with
21, and Charlie MacArthur, 25. exchange of information, featured
.W Iiaa come in at all Lobelia section of the program!. The visitors spent
from the following communities- county just across the line the night at the Hollywood, going
Pitr not.-Ror,c=io.v, -D-t J where the still was found, on to Carthage, Sanford. .Silor
Sandra Overton Has
First Birthday Party
Sandra Overton, daughter
Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Overton, cel
ebrated her first birthday anni.
versary with a party at the home
of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs,
J. T. Overton, on Bennett street.
The Easter motif was featured
throughout, and each little guest
was presented a bunny wagon
with Easter eggs as a favor.
Sandra’s party guests were Ed
die and John Geer, Dan Blue, Pat
•md Chuck Patch, Patty Perham,
Debra Lawson and Kay Klabbatz.
Also present, to assist with the
entertainment and refreshments
and to share in the ..good time
were Sandra’s parents, her grand-
oarents, the Overtons and Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Klabbatz; Hazel Patch
and Jean Overton.
Big Oak-Bensalem, Clay Road
Farms, Eastwood, Glendon, How
ards Mill, Jackson Hamlet, Rose-
land, Spies.
West Southern Pines has also to
make its report.
T. R. Phillips, campaign chair-
Coverage Is Answer
man, said, ''We have^no doubt in
the world that we will make the
quota, once all the reports are in
provided all our workers make
sure they have done a thorough
Job.
“Everyone—and that means
EVERYONE—should have the op
portunity to give. Full coverage
is the answer for Red Cross is the
people’s organization for service
to the people.
He asked that all chairmen who
have not reported do so at once,
whether they have made their
quotas or not, and that the others
turn in further reports as soon as
possible. “Then we will know
much better how we stand.”
found.
The copper and' wood; still was
destroyed, along with 11 60-gal
lon barrels, five containing raw
mash, six stint mash. Kept as evi
dence were two gallon jars of
fresh-run liquor.
Taking part in the raid, a care
fully planned affair, were ABC
officers C. A. McCallum and C. C.
McGee, ATU men Dunn and
Bradford of Rockingham, Siegers
and Paul of Fayetteville, ABC of
ficer John West of Cumberland
county and Moore Deputy Sheriff
A. W. Lambert.
Caddells Cover Long
Distance On Horseback
How many miles to Elon Col
lege? Ask Mrs. K. A. Caddell and
her daughter Faye. They covered
the distance recently on horse
back, riding their faithful steeds.
Lucky and Archibald.
Leaving at 8:30 a.m. on a Tues
day morning from the stable at
Elon, they traveled until 5*30,
when rain began to fall. They
spent the night at the farm home
of a Cobb family near Coleridge.
The rain ceased at 10 a. m., Wed
nesday and they continued their
trip, arriving in Southern Pines at
6:30 that evening, feeling fine and
with the horses in good shape.
Mrs. Caddell operates the Ala
mance Saddle club at Burlington,
some 75 miles from here, and Elon
College is about five miles be-
DETROIT TIGERS
car Daniels of New Bern, and
s. Dan Smith left Wednesday
a sightseeing trip to Key West,
1. They plan to be on vacation
til May 5.
Vfrs. Sam B. Richardson has
n a patient at Moore County
pital since Monday. She is re
ted to be getting along nicely.
mateur Contest
Planned
"he Ladies Auxiliary, VFW, is
insoring an amateur contest on
Williams-Moore
Marriage Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moore of
West End announce the mEirriage
of their daughter, Ida Fay, to
John Williams, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Q. A. Williams of Eagle
Springs. The vows were exchang
ed in BennettsviUe, S. C., on Feb
ruary 5.
The bride is employed by Cen
tral Carolina Telephone company
in Southern Pines, and Mr. Wil
liams is engaged in sawmiUing
with his father.
Chicken Supper
day. May 19, at the Southern At Manly Church
es school auditorium for the A fried chicken supper will be
befit of the school fund,
vll school children of Moore
knty are eligible and applica-
hs will be distributed through-
the schools next week. Don
|ies will be master of ceremon-
and the committee chairmen
Louise Topping, Ruth Swish-
and Mary Morgan.
served by the women of Manly
Presbyterian church in the Sun
day school rooms next Wednes
day, from 6 p. m. until 8:30 p. m.,
and they are cordially inviting the
public to attend. These monthly
chicken suppers are attracting
large numbers. Proceeds are ap
plied to the building fund.
The first local es^ibition
games between the James
town (N. Y.) Falcons and the
Butler (Pa.) Tigers, farm
clubs of the Detroit Tigers in
spring training here, were
scheduled to be held Thurs
day and Friday of this week.
Game time is about 1 p. m.,
on the town field.
A cordial invitation is ex
tended the public by John J.
McHale, Detroit Tigers rep
resentative, to watch the
daily practice sessions. The
Tigers play in the morning,
the Falcons in the afternoon
to about 3 o'clock. A good
many spectators have been
going out.
The "washing out" process
began with the Falcons Mon
day, and seven boys were cut
off, several of them leaving
at once for other teams.
Housewarming Honors
The J. D. Stephensons
A number of friends surprised
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Stephenson
on the evening of April 7 with a
housewarming at their recently
purchased home at 630 North May
street. The Stephensons qpceived
many useful and attractive gifts
for their new home.
Miss Cad(iell On
Athletic Committee
Miss Pat CaddeU of Southern
Pines is on the softball Eurrange-
ments committee for Meredith
College’s All-State Sport Day to
be observed this Saturday. Swim
ming, tennis, archery, softball and
badminton teams from 13 women’s
colleges have been invited to pEU"-
ticipate.
Allack Is Fatal To
Mrs. Stuart Patterson
Mrs. Jean Jacques Patterson,
56, wife of Stuart Patterson of
Ivy Point cottage, Pinehurst, died
suddenly at St. Joseph of the
Pines hospital Wednesday night, a
short while after suffering
heart attack.
She was an ardent golfer and
was on the way to the golf course
when the attack occurred.
Funeral services will be held at
2 p. m. Friday at the Community
church; conducted by the pastor,
the Rev. Roscoe L. Prince. Burial
will follow in the Maple Avenue
cemetery at Patterson, N. Y.
Carthage, Sanford, Siler
City, Asheboro and Randleman
on their way home.
This was the third good will
tour the Winston-Salem Chamber
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Blue has represented Moore coun
ty for the past two terms in the
House. He has in the past two
years brought statewide political
prominence to Moore county,
through his service as state presi
dent of the Young Democratic
clubs and his appointment as sec
retary of the state Democratic Ex
ecutive committee.
Mr. Page graduated in 1948
from the University of North Car
olina Law school, and is engaged
in the practice of law in Aber
deen. He was an unsuccessful
candidate last year for the Aber
deen town board. He is a veteran
the Aberdeen Post, American Le
gion. He is president of the Sand
pipers, men’s goKing organization
of Southern Pines.
Most sought-after county offices
are those of clerk of court and
register of deeds, both of which
had a field of five candidates by
the close of filing time.
Ralph Steed of Robbins was a
late entry into the race lor clerk
of dourt. Miss Ethel Davis, depu
ty for 22 years and present incum
bent, did not file. Other candi
dates: Hubert McCaskill, Pine
hurst; Alex Fields, Jr., Southern
Pines; Carlton
sleeping accommodations for the
visitors and staff.
Processing of photographs will
continue to be made at Camp
Mackall, where a Signal Corps
unit has set up a full-scale oper
ation of its own, but wiU be dis
tributed from the main center
here. To date some 6,000 photo
graphs have been sent out.
No "Hush-Hush"
Just as the exercise itself is the
biggest thing of its kind to date,
so are the arrangements made to
tell the people about it. There’s no
“hush-hush” about this operation.
The leaders want the nation to
know just what goes on, to make
sure in peacetime that the serv
ices won’t be caught napping, and
that they can handle in beyond-
tomorrow fashion the problems
that war might bring.
The war games involve an area
bound by Camp Campbell, Ky.,
on the west, Langley APB, 'Vir
ginia, on the north, Wilmington
on the east and Shaw AFB', Sum
ter, S. C., on the south. All oper
ations will converge on Camp
Mackall in the last days of April
and the first of May, in a gigantic
airlift sustaining an airhead in
territory held by the enemy at
all vital points.
Some 11.000 naratrooners will
he dronb“d in the climactic iman-
°uver. with 22 000 tons of supplies
and eouinment.
SIX ALARMS
PREMIERE
(Continued from Page 1)
only a minimum of Hollywood
stars to carry the plot. These in
clude Montgomery Clift and Paul
Douglas. “The Big Lift” is rated
as one of the top films of the year.
Pictorial Briefing
For Tuesday night’s audience at
the Carolina theater, it will con
stitute a pictorial briefing on the
maneuvers just ahead, greatest
single airborne operation in his
tory, utilizing the principles of
the Berlin airlift, in tactical ap
plication.
Southern Pines rates the pre
miere by virtue of its nearness to
the maneuver area, which has led
to selection of this community as
the site of the maneuvers’ public
relations headquarters.
“The Big Lift” has been shown
before only in Hollywood pre
view, and to the troops at Camp
Mackall as part of their schooling
1 vs “T a. -11 « 1 '
Mr. pjid Mrs. Patterson had
been prominent members of the . .
Pinehurst winter colony for about Iairlift tactics. It will not be re-
30 years, well known in Sandhills I ^®3®®d for general distribution urn
golfing circles. til after the showing here.
Surviving, besides
band, are two
of New York.
her
daughters.
hus-
both
Dowry vs. Educalion
As a variation on our recent
theme—that the more education
a girl has, the less chance she has
to be married—comes an interest
ing suggestion.
“Why,” asks a magazine writer
■perhaps one with a well-educa
ted and painfully single daughter
—“is it un--American to seek
wife with a little ready money,
but perfectly innocuous to marry
a girl who is going to keep on
with her job because any idea of
marriage would be quite impos
sible if she did not?”
Bluntly, this writer comes
around to the proposal that pa
rents put into a dowry for their
daughter the money that is usual
ly spent for her higher education.
Evidently the ideal plan is to edu
cate her enough so as not to spoil
her matrimonial chances too
much and then tack on the dowry
that has been an important item
of the social structure in other
tiro;es and other lands.
We doubt, however, if this
would work as a general thing in
the U. S. A. The young American
man may be afraid of a too high
ly educated wife, but he is also
inclined to steer clear of one who
lures him to the altar with rash.
Money, like education, can be
used too often as a weapon, he
feels, in the subsequent and in
evitable matrimonial weu*s.
has undertaken, they said.'Twen- Da^CartS!'cL-thag^®"”^^^
nesses were along. ja^es B. Muse, Jr., W. B. Finison
and D. A. McDonald, Jr., all of
Carthage. Mrs. Bessie Griffin, of
Vass, and R. E. (Gene) Bennett of
C^hage had previously filed for
this office, for which Miss Bessie
McCaskill, longtime incumbent, is
not seeking reelection. ' ’
Nobody new appeared in the
race for sheriff, which remains
three-cornered, with C. H. Ben
nett of Carthage and J. W.
(Bunch) Sheffield of Eastwood
challenging the veteran incum
bent, C. J. McDonald of Carthage.
Unopposed candidates on the
ticket are as foRows: State Sen
ate (District 12), J .Hawley Poole,
West End; recorder. Judge J.
Vance Rowe (incumbent); solici
tor, W. A. Leland McKeithen,
Pinehurst (incumbent); coroner,
H. P. KeUy, Carthage (incum
bent); surveyor, R. L. Frye, Car-
mage; commissioners, incumbents
G. M. Cameron, of Pinehurst, L
R. Reynolds of HighfaRs, W. J.
Dunlap of Robbins and J. M. Cur
rie of Carthage; board of educa-
tion incumbents T. Roy PhiRips
of Carthage, Jere McKeithen of
Aberdeen, George Purvis of High-
faRs, J. A. Culbertson of Robbins,
Fred Taylor of Vass.
KEITH
(Continued from Page 1)
chemicals it uses to be scattered
abroad as a menace to public
health.
Autopsy Performed
The defendant relates that his
daughter died in convulsions, of a
cause not then determined; that
an autopsy showed in her lungs
poisonous dust of the same char
acter as that used by the chemical
company, and that those learned
in the medical profession had in
formed him that the child died as
the result of inhaling the poison
ous dust.
Soon after her death Glen Gray
Keith also became ill with a
strange malady, it is alleged, and
was taken to Moore County hos
pital for observation, and thence
to Duke hospital, where he show
ed improvement, becoming ill
again when brought back to his
home at Aberdeen. He was then
removed to Gibson, where he
grew well again without aid of
physician or medical attention,
again falling ill when brought
back lo Aberdeen, the plaintiff
says.
He states that he then took the
child again to Gibson, where he
kept him until he was informed
the Taylor company had ceased to
manufacture their insecticides.
PRESS OFFICES
(Continued trom Page 1)
News; also Jack Thompson, Bob
Gray, Memphis Commercial Ap-
pesl; K’enny Fox, Kansas City
Star; John Norris, Washington
Post; Jim Sheperly, Andy Jones,
Bob Sherrod. Life and Time; Day.
ton Moore, United Press.
Associated Press and AP
Photos, INS, NEA, and Acme
Newspictures wiR also be repre
sented, in the coverage of the vast
airlift operation which will em
ploy both great airborne divisions
the 82nd of Pope AFB, Fort
Bragg, and the 11th of Camp
Campbell, Ky., with more than
600 planes of the Army, Air
Force, Navy and Marine Corps.
The back drawing room of the
Hollywood hotel has been set up
as a chart room and headquarters
for the visiting reporters. One
whole wall is covered by a cello-
phone-protected map of the man
euver area, on which progress of
the war games will be charted for
the daily briefing of all hands
42 Jeeps
Forty-two jeeps have been as-
®^Sned for the use of the corre
spondents in visiting the maneu
ver area at will.
Besides the chart room, the of
fices consist of the Army-Air
Force Ground Center, Communi-
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the kitchen and dining room of
the two-story frame dwelRng. The
alarm was turned in by Flowers,
who was awakened by thick
smoke to find the fire already go-"
ing strong.
After it was beReved the fhe
was out, the truck was caRed
back at 5 a. m. and again at 9 as
the wind brought hidden sparks
to life up under the eaves.
Soon after 11 the truck was
summoned to the Boyd woods a
short distance off Ridge street,
a short distance behind the gate
nouse of Mrs. James Boyd. Dam
age was confined to an area about
100- by 50 feet, with the loss of
a smaR barn. City police acted
quickly on information concern
ing the culprits and apprehended
two small boys of the neighbor
hood, aged six and nine, who had
built a fire while playing hookey
from school. They were turned
over to juvenile authorities. Chief
Newton said.
While the firemen and truck
were at work there a call came by
radio to the police car from the
police station, with news that an
other alarm had just come in.
Leaving a small crew behind, the
firemen answered the caR to the
borne of Arthur Eakins on North
May street. Fire believed to have
originated in the wiring had
started a fire in an upstairs par
tition and smoke was rolling out
from under the roof. The men had;
to do some wall-chopping but got
the fire out with a minimumi of
damage.
In mid-afternoon, the sixth
alarm of the day took the men
and truck to R. S. Parker’s on
North Ashe street. A spark from
an outdoor grill had blown into
a trash pile, and wind had raised
a quick blaze, which was soon ex
tinguished.
Sunday afternoon, the firemen
put out a blaze caused by a short
circuit in the engine of a car be
longing to J. B. Austin, of New
Jersey. Heading north on East
Broad street, between Massachu
setts and New York avenue, Aus-
in had found his car suddenly en
veloped in flames. The wiring, in
strument panel and paint were
badly damaged but the car was
left in repairable condition.
Later that day, quick work was
made of a small fire on the rail
road parkway in front of Welch’s
Gift shop, believed caused by a
spark from a passing train.
A train spark was also credited
with a blaze which burned a half
acre or so of woods just at the
northern city limits on M'onday.
This was spotted by N. C. For
est Service crews on their way
to a fire farther off, and they
stayed long enough to help the
city firemen get it under control.
A sm:aR new building nearby was
threatened for a time.
PEACHES
again. acmre negan ^ork rooms.. John and George
Back at Duke, it is stated, .5 the Holly-
—Sanford Herald child was tested to see if a 'virus tir,r, set aside a good por-
“ Vll us tion of the rest of the hotel for
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Throughout the Sandhills area,
the loss was estimated at a total
of $4,000,000. Peaches which
escaped by virtue of a sheltered
position, and a few odd late-
blooming varieties will make no
appreciable difference, it was con
sidered.
The last April freeze was in
1947. It wrought much destruc
tion but not, it was agreed, as bad
as that of last week.
PIANOS
Cole Piano Company
Neill A. Cole Prop.
Piano Sales and Service
Phone 92-L
Three Points Sanford