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THE PILOT—Soulhern Pines, Norih Carolina
Friday. June 9, 1950
Eight-Day Clock Picks Prize Winners
Golf Event Raises
$50 For Hospital Fund
Mrs. Florence Thomas
Passes In Raleigfh
A check for $50 for th^ Moore
County Hospital building fund
represented proceeds of a benefit
tournament held oh the Pinehurst
No. 3 course last Thursday by the
Pinehurst Golfers association.
The check was to be presented
this week to Paul S. Dana, hospi
tal treasurer, said T. T. Morse, of
West Southern Pines, chairman.
About 200 players participated,
coming from towns in Moore and
also several surrounding counties.
Coby Ransom, of Pinehurst, is
president.
William Harrington, Southern
Pines, was the winner of the 18-
hole medal play event, with 35-
36-71. Second was Junius Rich
ardson, of Pinehurst, with 37-35-
72.
Wednesday, the event was clos
ed to all except Pinehurst cad
dies, Fletcher Gains was the win
ner, with 35-37-72
All 42 members of the class of 1950, as weU as their relatives and friends, were keeping a close eye
bn John Ormsby’s eight-day clock, in the window of Ormsby’s Jewelry store, during the period s o y
‘'^^Surr^ldin^thfbig clock face were pictures of all the graduates. When the clock hand stopped, it
woSd point to a picture of a boy and of a girl, who would receive watches as graduation gifts. Suspense
are the joyful winners-Proctor GoMsmith, sec
ond from left, receiving his watch from Miss Helen Swearingen, Hun^lJireyl
Bailey, receiving hers from Mr. Ormsby. '
Mrs. Florence Bynum Thomas,
72, widow of James Robert Thom
as of Vass, died Wednesday morn
ing at 10 o’clock at the hpme of a
son, J. Elvey Thomas of 904 Vance
street, Raleigh. M:rs. Thomas had
been ill for several months. She
was the daughter of the late Jos
eph H. and Mary Stuart Bynum
of Moore county.
Funeral services were held at
the Vass Methodist church at 4
o’clock Thursday afternoon. The
Rev. A. L. Thompson, pastor of
Fairmont Methodist church, in
Raleigh, officiated, and burial was
in Johnson’s Grove cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. C. S. Cushion of Cornelius
and Mrs. Darius White, Jr., of
Hampton, Va.; four sons, J.
Hampton Thomas of Greenville,
and J .Elvey Thomas, R. Gordon
Thomas and John R. Thomas, all
of Raleigh; three sisters, Mrs. J.
A. Patterson of Winston-Salem,
Mrs. Sue Cameron of Vass, and
Mrs. Catherine Shaw of Robbins,
and eight grandchildren.
PaUbearers .Were Ernest Bailey,
Bynum Patterson and Tommy At
kinson, Southern Pines; J. Mur
phy McDonald, Hamlet; E. B.
Keith, Sanford; and Raymond
Thomas, Cameron.
ATTENTION VETERANS
The Gold Coast of Africa pro
duces more than a million ounces
of gold a year.
The Moore County chapter,
American Red Cross, calls atten
tion of Warld War 2 veterans of
Ohio, Pennsylvania and South
Dakota, how living in this state,
to the fact that deadlines for
bonus payments in these states
are rapidly approaching. For Ohio
the deadline is June 30, for Penn
sylvania and South Dakota July
1. Addresses to which the vete
rans may write concerning their
bonus payments may be secured
at the Red Cross office.
Plan Yonr Summer Comfort Now
with an
.A-ttic F’an
Sandhill Builders Supply Corp.
Phone 8086 Aberdeen
Senior Play Has Many Comic Parts;
Kids Do Well With Mediocre Material
Talents were displayed in the
senior play, given at the school
auditorium Monday night,; which
were worthy of a better yehiqle.
A typical “comedy of errors”
was the three-act farce “Cracked
Nutts,” in which the plot, dealing
with a family named Nutt, was
all confusion, involving stero-
typed characters—the old ; maid
aunt, the designing female and
the absent-minded college profes
sor, the comic colored servants,
the fortune hunter and the lorg-
netted high-society dame.
In their youthful zest and fresh
ness the players brfeathed life into
the stock characters, and wrung
laughs out of them, with a deft
ness beyond \their years and ex
perience, and far beyond the
value of the material. So smooth
ly did the production run, so gaily
were the old cliches handled, it
gives one hope for more worth
while productions in the future,
especially with a fine new audi-
torixim and splendid stage now
available.
“Cracked Nutts” was a long
play. It took a lot of work. The
work paid off in audience appre
ciation of the efforts displayed by
the large cast.
Delores MerrUl and Faye Cad-
dell were pretty in their roles of
the two daft young heroines;
Janet Cornwell, as “Gloomy Gus-
sie” Garfinkle, ever crying doom,
and Dick Ray as the shy and ab
sent-minded Professor Beamish,
did probably the best character
work in the play; Rosemary Dun-
das showed much stage presence
as the self-made Aunt Drusilla,
who found her loye at last; and
Mickey Nicholson and Elmer An
drews,. as Delicious Appleby and
Ccfifusion Jones, made the most
of their comic blackface roles.
Reggie Hamel and Albert
Picquets Move To
Southern Pines
Carl A. Fox
Wins Structural
Engineer License
After almost 40 years in the
Sandhills, 16 of them on Midland
road, two of this community’s best
known citizens have at last be
come legal residents of Southern
Pines.
They are Mr. and Mrs. Charles
W. Picquet, who swapped their
Midland Road hbme for Mercer]
Hufford’s house, the original Dr.
Hart home, on East Massachusetts
avenue at Ridge street, facing the
school. The household, which in
cludes Mrs. Picquet’s mother, Mlrs.
Mildred Rush, moved Monday.
Mr. Picquet is proprietor of the
Carolina theatres in Southern
Pines and Pinehurst. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Picquet hive been prom
inent in the musical and cultural
life of the resort communities.
Mr. Picquet was active in pro
jects of the Kiwanis club and
numerous other civic enterprises
for many years, withdrawing only
recently during a siege of ill
health.
The Huffords will be away for
the summer. Mr. Hufford is pro
prietor of the Manor hotel at
Pinehurst.
John C. Ferguson
Passes Wednesday
John C. Ferguson, 67, of Aber
deen, died Wednesday morning at
St. Joseph of the Pines after an
extended illness. Funeral serv
ices will be held at 2 p.m., Friday
at Page Memorial Methodist
church in Aberdeen, conducted by
rteggie xianiex cuiu the pastor, the Rev. T. J. Vniite-
Adams, as the heroines’ devoted | head. Burial will follow in the
beaux, submitted to numerous in- family plot in Old Bethesda ceme-
dignities in the name of the plot;
and Doris Stephenson as Magno
lia Langsford, a “magnolia blos
som” with gooey “southern” ac
cent, created a real—if repulsive
.— character.
Ray Copley, as the fortune
hunter, and Edna Lou Bailey, as
his snooty ma, were smooth and
scoundrelly.
John E. Rooks, English teacher,
was the director. Makeup assist
ants were Janet Johnson and
Ernestine Calloway. Sound ef-
effects—and these were many and
weird—^we're Bill Horner and Reg
gie Newbon. Lighting was by Bob
Ferguson, and Ernestine Callo
way was scriptholder.
No program credit was given
for the set, which was most at
tractive.
—VN
tery.
Mr. Ferguson, a farmer, was a
member of the Page Memorial
church. Surviving are his wife,
the former Miss Mamie Long of
Moore county; a son, Archie Fer
guson ,of Aberdeen; a sister, Mrs.
Jeannette McDonald of Southern
Pines; three brothers, Frank H.
Ferguson of Raleigh, Sam Fergu
son of Southern Pines and W. D.
Ferguson of Bath; and four grand
children.
Carl A. Fox, of Pinebluff, re
ceived his license as a structural
engineer from the State Board of
Examiners at Raleigh last week,
and will now practice his profes
sion independently as he contin
ues to work with contractors
throughout the state. He is be
lieved to be the only structural
engineer living in this section.
A native of' Yugo-Slavia, hej
studied engineering in Vienna,
and came to this country during
World War 1. He secured a posi
tion with the United Engineering
and Foundry corporation at Pitts
burgh, and lived there for a num- j
ber of years.
Fom 1930 to 1933 he was ini
Russia, where he had been sent
by an American firm to help
with the construction of steel |
miUs on the Manchurian border.
During World War 2, he was anl
engineer for the Fifth Naval dis-|
trict, with headquarters at the
Naval Air Station at Norfolk, Va.,
and helped build numerous hang
ars and other buildings essential]
to U. S. defense. Stopping in the
Sandhills several times on their
way to Florida, he and his wife
decided they liked this part of the
country, and that it would serve
as a central place for his work all]
over the state. It has worked out
that way very satisfactorily. Mr.
Fox said this week, as he has
stayed busy working with con
tractors at Raleigh, Charlotte, |
Wilmington, High Point, Greens
boro and other North Carolina |
cities.
Though a Yugo-Slavian, Mr.
Fox comes naturally by the name
he bears—it is not an American
ized version of an unpronoimce-
able Balkan name. It is a heritage
from a Scotch ancestor who serv
ed with the Austrian army many
years ago, married a Balkan girl
and settled in the Yugo-Slavian
village of Metlika, “which now,”
says Engineer Fox, “is full of I
Foxes.” I
He and his Vienna-born wife,
who came to America six months]
• after he did to marry him, have
one son, who is employed by the
Westinghouse Electric corporation]
at Baltimore.
They have been American citi
zens 1924.
Womble Will Open
Band School Monday
SOFTBALL
The opening game of the
new Moore County Lions soft-
ball league will be played to
night (Friday) on the Pine
hurst field starting at 7
o'clock. First game is Pine
hurst TS. Aberdeen, second
game Pinebluff vs. West End.
There will be no admission
charge. A collection will be
taken to (f^fray expenses and
aid Lions projects in the coun-
*y-
The games will continue to
be held on Friday nights at
Pinehurst through the sum
mer.
Falcons Having Rough
rime In League Play
J. G. Woitible, director of the
school band and glee club, will
hold a summer school for indiv
idual band instrument instruction,
beginning Monday and continuing
for six weeks.
Both beginners and advanced
pupils will be accepted, for two
private lessons weekly. The les
sons will be given in the school
band building.
This is the second year Mr.
Womble has conducted his sum
mer school, in which help is feiven
each pupil for individual accom
plishment and pleasure, and also
for better band once school begins
again.
This summer the director, a
Shriner, received an offer to ac
company the Shrine band to the
west coast to play for the national
convention, but decided in favor
of staying here to reopen his band
school.
The Jamestown Falcons, one of
two baseball teams of the Detroit
Tigers system which trained in
Southern Pines in April, is having
rough going in its league play, ac
cording to word which reached
The Pilot this week. Twelve wins
and 16 losses have put the Falcons
in sixth place in the Class D
PONY (Pennsylvania - Ontario-
New York) League. Olean, N. Y.,
is leading with 19 wins, nine loss
es.
Butler, Pa., which also trained
in Southern Pines, is faring better
in the Class C Mid-Atlantic
League. The Tigers are in third
place, with 12 wins and eight
losses.
Frank Hyde, Jamestown Post-
Journal sportswriter who accom
panied the Falcons here, writes
that the weather, which has been
cold and bad for baseball, is just
starting to break, and that the
team is beginning to shape up,
giving hopes for a better ending
than beginning.
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