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MOTORISTS! WATCH OUT FOR CHILDREN LOT MOTORISTS I WATCH OUT FOR CHILDREN VOL. 31—NO. 35 16 PAGES THIS WEEK SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JULY 21. 1950 16 PAGES THIS WEEK TEN CENTS Moore Tobacco Is Best In Years - If Weather Holds Curing Under Way; Some Will Be Ready To Sell By August 1 Moore county farmers were this week starting to barn one of the finest looking crops seen here in many years—crossing their fin gers in hopes the weather would allow them to get it all in the bam in good condition. The crop is somewhat water logged after about three weeks of solid rain, E. H. Garrison, Jr., county farm agent, reported. Af ter an unusually wet spell, a sud den onset of hot dry wehther can affect the plants just like a wilt. 'Working as fast as they could, the farmers would not be able to save it all, or even a large proportion. So the next two weeks will tell the tale. By then the first curings should be completed and the rest of the leaves, if they survive, should be hardily mature. Some early-birds among the growers had already.cured a barn ful by last week, but most of them were just starting to cure, a pro cedure which should continue for three or four weeks. Border Belt Markets Some tobacco will be ready to market by August 1, date of the opening of the Border Belt marts (Continued on Page 8) New Hospital Kitchen In Use VFW Sound Truck Gives Warnings For Safety’s Sake Were you a jaywalker last Sat urday afternoon? If so, you may have heard a loud voice calling attention to your error. Did you back your car out of a parking space without looking to make sure all was clear? If so— that same voice from the skies called 'everyone’s attention. Whether you broke, any safety rules or not, if you were anywhere In the downtown area, you heard the voice and recognized the good sense of what it was saying, The safety sound truck which patrolled the streets for several hours, issuing reminders of traffic safety and courtesy rules, marked the enthusiastic entry of the John ‘Boyd post, VFW, into the hsts of safety campaign .sponsors here. That was Karl Klabbatz driving the truck, Harry Chatfield at the mike, and Don Jones, post com mander, says they saw plenty to correct. ‘They came back from their patrol wondering out loud why more, and worse, accidents, don’t happen,” he added. The truck will be out again tomorrow, (Saturday) afternoon, so watch out for it—and listen to its vC'arn- ings. As the truck made its tour, oth er veterans of” the post walked the streets handing out safety litera ture. Also, by police permission, they are putting safety stickers on the windows (right rear) of park ed cars. The stickers offer the challenge—“I’m a Safe Driver— R-U?” The veterans are planning a pa rade Saturday afternoon, July 29, climaxed by^some tableaux, both humorous and grim ,at the town park. Joe Warren, WEEB radio announcer, will be the narrator . for the tableaux. Wednesday, Commander Jones will go on the • air on Station WEEB at 7:15 p.m. with a safety program, in which he will be as sisted by Announcer Warren. The following Wednesday, August 3, he will be heard on Station WSTS —same time. The VFW post is maintaining the “accident report board” at the post office, started in May by the Moore County chapter, American ^ Red Cross, and kept up through June by the Southern Pines Ro tary club. All this is part of the work of the Southern Pines Safety Coun cil, of which the VFW post is a member. Each month since April (when the town board started off) some local organization interested , in safety has headed up the cam paign. So enthusiastic are the VFW members over the project, reports Commander Jones, that they plan to make it an annual event. The kitchen and dining rooms in the new wing of the Moore County hospital went into use this week, while work is still being done on finishing the upper floors for private rooms and wards, ac cording to E. T. McKeithen, hos pital administrator. The new kitchen, twice as large as the old, is said to be the last word in functional designing. Fix tures and equipment are practi cally all stainless steel. All equip» ment is installed except for two or three'minor items, and these will be in shortly. The best of the old equipment is also still in use, sup plementing the new. ^eauty. and efficiency combined are seen in the tiled floors and walls, wide windows and fluores cent lighting. The old kitchen and dining room are being converted into an outpatient department, with addi tional space for giving basic metabolism tests, jnaking electro cardiographs, and a blood donor service. This week also the hospital lin ens, drugs and surgical supplies and other items which had out grown their storage space, were being moved from the main hos pital into the wing, where ample space has been provided. Construction was begun about three weeks ago on the ad'dition to the Negro wing, which will be ready in two or three months, adding a modern four-bed ward, two semi-private rooms, a bursing station and utility room to the fa cilities for Negro patients. Ad joining space is being rearranged to give this wing everything it needs for efficient care of the sick. The addition for Negroes was made possible through the gen erosity of a private individual. The $400,000 wing is being paid for by donations from individuals and organizations from all over the county, plus funds from the Duke Endowment. A $25,000 ap propriation was recently made by the county commissioners to help with construction costs. About $14,000 remains to be^ given , for conjpletion of the wing as plan ned. BASEBALL Mayor Page, Dawson Bring Back Facts From Chapel Hill On Town Recreation WHY WAIT? Registration for the munici pal election August 15 slow ed down — understandodily— during the past week, but the brakes are off now. Let's get on the books! The vote for a recreation levy calls for a new registra tion. Wednesday of this week, only about 75 had roistered —not nearly as many as sign ed the petitions calling for the vote. The election for the town advertising and promotion fund uses the old books/ but you'd better check and see if you're on. Registration will take place Saturdays at the firehouse (hfrs. Kaylor, reg istrar) and the whole week of July 31. Why wait? Local Draft Plans Still Uncertain 70 N. C. Towns Have Municipal Programs) All Ages Take Pari There’s no definite news ' yet concerning Selective Service ac tivities in Moore county, and mighty little in the State. The July 8 bulletin that local boards were to be set up again, and that of July 11 that the first draft (nationwide) of 20,000 men would be in uniform by Septem ber 30, are just about the last any body’s heard—though not the last they expect to hear. No, sir. • Allen McDonald, of West End, member of the Moore county local board which was inactivated a year and a half ago, said he had received a form letter confirming the fact of reactivation, and add ing that further instructions were to go to the chairman. Maxwell Rush, of Southern Pines, board chairman, is vacationing in Ver mont. His plans (subject to change) were to stay there until well into August. What mail has been forwarded to him from State Selective Service headquarters, if any, is not known. He said when he left “if anything urgent came up” he would return at once. Gene Stewart, of Carthage, third member of the board and former chairman, resigned several months ago. No word concerning appointment of a new member had been received, early this week by any of the three persons whose task this will be: Miss Ethel Da vis, superior court clerk; Sam C. Riddle, chairman of the county board of elections, and H. Lee Thomas ,county superintendent of schools. When the draft gets into opera tion eligible men of 25, not yet 26, will be the first called Up for ex amination, according to word from Colonel Hershey, chief of the National Selective Service. Most of these who are able-bod ied are also veterans, and it is not expected that even a modest quo ta can be filled from the non-vet eran ranks. Succeeding calls will be by birthdays, working on down toward the 19-year-olds. The present feeling is that youths of 19 and 20»are comparatively safe from being drafted—that the eli- gibles of 22 and 23 will fill the lists as needed. Small communities as well as large ones Ere joining the growing list which have town-sponsored recreation departments and year- round programs. Dr. Harold D. Meyer, retiring director of the N. C. Recreation Commission, told a large group of town officials .and recreation executives at Chapel Hill Saturday. In the group attending the meeting, part of a three-day pro gram of the Commission, were Southern Pines Mayor C. N. Page and A. C. Dawson, Jr., local high school teacher and coach and di rector of the summer retreation prograrrS here. “I came away with u stronger feeling than ever before that a recreation program on a perma nent basis is something every town should supply its people, especially its youth,” said Mayor Page this week. Integral Function Discussion held during the afternoon, in which Mr. Dawson took an active part, reflected to day’s thought that recreation is an integral function of town gov ernment, as much as the water de partment and fire department. It makes a town healthier-minded, happier, friendlier, more attrac tive to outsiders and hiore rev' ing to its residents. Also—^most important, the Mayor felt—it is the best weapon against juvenile delinquency. The summer program) now be ing held in Southern Pines, fin anced by donations of individuals and organizations, came in for some of the discflsson, and recre ation leaders expressed surprse that “so much could be do^ne with so little.’’ The variety and scope (Continued on Page 5) A series of three, perhaps five, baseball games will be sponsored here by the Sand hills Merchants association, stsrrting. next Wednesday afternoon, according to plans announced Thursday by Lloyd C. Clark, president. The first game will be next Wednesday, with Laurinburg or Raeford as a probable op ponent of the town tecim. Other games are to be ar ranged, for ensuing Wednes days, with game time set at 2:30 p. m. at the High School Memorial field. Arrangements have been completed for the game of August 9, which will be with Mamers, Harnett County en try in the Sanclay League. The town team, which has been playing informally here . and at neighboring towns, has : a number of high school col lege players in its member ship. Vass Child Is Polio Victim While Attending Camp 40 Moore Campers Are In Quarantine An 11-year-old girl who de parted happily with other young sters for a week at 4-H camp (Monday of last week, before the week was out became Moore county’s first 1950 polio victim. As a result 40 other Moore County boys and girls who were at Camip Millstone, in Richmond county, are spending two weeks in quarantine, according to Dr. J. W. Willcox, county health officer. He said the children are under close observation and the two weeks should be enough for any symptoms to develop, if they are going to. What precautions are being taken in Lee, Harnett and Pender counties, which also had children at the camp. Dr. Willcox said he I does not know but presumes they are the same as in Moore, as Dr. [Reeves, Richmond County health [officer, checked fully with state [health authorities and made rec- I ommendations accordingly. , A Light Case I This week Anne Mae Ferguson, ] daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ferguson of Vass, was reported to be “doing nicely” at Rex hospi tal, Raleigh, where she was taken Friday. The case appears to be a light one, with no holdover' of paralysis. Anna Mae complained of a headache Wednesday following a I swimming period at the camp. She was found to^ave a slight tem- jperature and an Ellerbe physician consulted by telephone, pre scribed rest and a sulfa drug. She slept well that night but in the morning her fever had risen slightly and Moore county leaders at camp,, W. G. Caldwell and Misses Barbara Connally and Dorothy Fields, decided to bring her homte. Following examination by a (Continued on Page 8) Southern Pines Special Vote And Beer-Wine Election Will Both Be Held As Scheduled Holds Services In Historic Church -m - * 'stj. Si ‘ >*• J Judge Sink’s Decision Victory For Both Sides Chaplain Major Ariel H. Achtermann, formerly of Southern Pings, in the pulpit of 600-year-old St. Martha’s church, Nurnberg, Ger many. See story on Page 10. (Army Photo) Prices Go Up In Wake of War News; Flurry of Buying Seen - Few Hoarders A small and spotty flurry of “panic buying” was detected lo cally in the past few days, as citi zens suddenly began to sense a rush toward war. It was hardly enough to be noticed — nothing like the grabbing reported in many larget cities—but there it was. Merchants discouraged such signs as they saw and hoped they would go away. A spot-check up and down the street this week found then! all, from Mayor Page on down, hold ing to one theme: “There is plenty of everything. No signs of short ages. But there will be if people start hoarding.” “To buy what you don’t need just because you’re afraid you won’t be able to get it later makes it harder for everyone, including yourself,” said Mayor Page. “It isn’t what I call being a good American.” No word of shortages has come from distributors or wholesalers. Except for cars, which are still on a delayed-delivery program—^they have never caught up since the war—the country is filled with goods and foodstuffs, far more than it had at the onset of World War 2. Prices Up The buying flurry—or prema ture profiteering, in some cases— has, however, sent prices up to some extent on many wanted items, especially foods. This isn’t the fault of the retailers, who are as indignant about it as you are. No explanations have come out —and for a nation with wheat practically running out of its ears, a one-cent jump on a loaf of bread is puzzling. At Colonial Stores, Manager Howard Hoffman said he had seen little unusual buying except in sugar and coffee. “Some people load up on these every time they come in the store.” W. E. Blue, at the Modern Market, said the same thing, adding that some peo ple who were buying cigarettes by (Continued on Page 8) Eastern Airlines Challenges Resort On North-South Service To Sandhills President Burwell Answers Right Back Eastern Airlines, Inc., one of the major powers of the air which fought (unsuccessfully) the appli cation of Resort Airlines for its International Skycruise certifi cate, is in there punching again. This time. Eastern complains that Resort’s application to ren der north-south service to the Southern Pines-Pinehurst airport would, if granted, hurt Eastern’s business. Such service isn’t need ed anyway, claims EAL. Local demand would indicate a need, L. C. Burwell, Jr., Resort’s president, replied this week—and ss for hurting th eir business, if Eastern wants to serve the Sand hills, come on over! (Many Sandhills officials, pri vate citizens and organizations have acquainted the CAB with the needs for Resort’s north-south service, and for those who haven’t yet done so—there’s still time.) A pointed exchange has gone on between Eastern and Resort, which is of interest here. In a telegram to the CAB July 12, Gambrell, Harlan and Har wich, of Atlanta ,Ga., EAL coun sel, make a request and a protest: “In re applicatibn of Resort Air lines for exemption order author izing air transportation of persons and property between Southern Pines-Pinehurst, North Carolina, and New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Miami during the period June 20, 1950 through Oc tober 31, 1950, Docket 4544 “As counsel for Eastern Air Lines, Inc., we have not received copy of' above application, al though Resort obviously is pjo- posing domestic air transportation which would seriously divert traf fic from Eastern’s certificated ser vices. The authority sought by Resort is identical with that which it has previously been denied by the Board. There is no public need lor Resort’s proposed serv ice—the services of presently cer tificated carriers such as Eastern and Piedmont being fully ade quate—and it would be contrary to the public interest. We are to day writing Resort lor a copy of its application under Docket 4544, and will, if necessary, elaborate further on Eastern’s position in this matter after we have exam ined that document.” L. C. Burwell, Jr., of Pinehurst, (Continued on page 8) NEW CLASSROOMS Bids on building two new classrooms for the Southern Pines elementary school, with four as an alternate bid, will be received next Friday, July 28, at 2 p. m. at the high school, after advertising in the News and Observer last week. School Architect W. H. Dqitrick of Raleigh will pre side. The county commissioners have agreed to construct at least two classrooms, and if double that number may be built at a considerable saving, say they will go ahead and build that many, as all will be needed soon. The need for extra class rooms will be acute with the opening of school this fall, said Supt. P. J. Weaver. They^will gel along as best they tan under crowded conditions un til the two (or four) new rooms are ready, per haps with the start of the sec ond half of the school' year. Red Cross Rescue Squad Ready For Action Organization of a rescue squad, ter immediate action in case of a water emergency, has been com pleted by-the Moore County' chap ter, American Red Cross. Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr., of Pine hurst, announcing the squad list, shid this week that the important thing for everyone to remember is—in case of emergency, call the American Red Cross. Any member of the squad may glsO' be notified, so it is well to note which ‘one lives nearest the lake at which you and your fam ily swim. The procedure in case of a mes sage to either the Red Cross office or a squad member follows along identical lines. At the Red Cross office, Mrs. David Mallon, secre tary, will flash the message to each squad member. Any mem ber receiving the message direct will notify the Red Crbss office before leaving for the scene of the emergency. Members of the squad include (Continued on Page 5) Injunction Ends; "Fraud" Charges Held Unjustified The question of which election shall be held next month, the Southern Pines special election August 15 or the beer and wine referendum August 26, resolved itself with victory for both sides at a special hearing called Thurs day morning before Ji/dge H. Hoyle Sink at Greensboro. v-The Southern Pines municipal election, against which the Allied Church League of Moore county secured an injunction last Thurs day, is to proceed “without let or hindrance,” said the judge, dis solving the injunction. The beer and wine referendum may also be held as scheduled, he ruled. The judge disregarded law passed by General Assembly of 1947 that no beer and wine elec tion may be held within 60 days of any other election in the same county. He went back instead to* a law of 1943, which says that no election already set may be in validated by any other. . Judge Sink found as a fact that “there was no fraud or Con spiracy” on the part of Southern Pines town officials, as charged in the Allied Church League’s peti tion, bnt that “they had acted in pursuance of their duties and ob ligations” in calling the special election and seating it for August 15; also, that there was ‘“'no frau dulent act or intent on the part of the officials or any citizen” in the matter of petitions for the rec reation levy. The Allied Church League through its .attprney. Hi F.- Sea- well, Jr., had secured the in junction order, signed by Judge Clawson 'Williams at Sanford, who set the date for a showcause hearing for July 29. However, through efforts of Hoke Pollock, Southern Pines town attorney, the earlier hearing before Judge Sink was secured, on the legal grounds that no due notice of the injunction had been given the defendants in the League’s action. In such case, a hearing may be called within time limitations, which were met. Attending the Thursday morn-, (Continued on Page 5) Rep. Deane Urges Reactivation of Camp Mackall An effort to have Camp Mack- all, World War 2 paratrooper training center, reactivated has been launched by Rep. C. B. Deane. The Eighth District Congress man announced Monday he had requested Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, and appropriate authorities, to order the big air borne training center reactivated “in the light of increasing defense operations.” Deane told Johnson that Camp Mackall now has, on a standby basis, a headquarters establish- m'ent of more than 50 buildings valued at over a million dollars, standing on 6,542 acres of land and including a mile-long, sur faced air strip. Because of this, coupled with the Army’s recall rights to an additional 56,000 acres now under Interior Department control, the reactivation of Camp Mackall would be “a natural,” Deane’s of fice said. The proxim'ity of Mackall to Fort Bragg, where most of this country’s airborne units now are based, also was pointed out by Deane, who recalled that during World War 2, Mackall, Bragg and the Laurinburg-Maxton Air Base formed a triangle which was the largest airborne training cepter in the world.