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VOL. 32—NO. 4
22 PAGES THIS WEEK
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 15. 1950
22 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Young People Portray Moore Family of 100 Years Ago
Supreme Court’s
Ruling Puts Moore
In Beer Muddle
August Election
Held Illegal, But
What Comes Next?
Wyandotte Worsted Company of
Maine Bnys Acreage At Lakeview
As Site of Lar^e Indnstrial Plant
Board Authorizes
Mayor To Act
In Civil Defense
It looks like an old-fashioned Christmas card, but it’s a scene from the eighth grade’s historical
pageant, “An Evening at Shaw Ridge,” showing family life in Moore county 100 years ago. The play in
three scenes was given December 6 at Raleigh before the N. C. Society for the Preservation of Antiqui
ties, and last Thursday at the school auditorium for all eighth grades of the county in the morning, and
the public that night.
In Scene 3, above, “A Fireside Gathering,” the Shaw family of 1850 was portrayed by Duke Whiting,
and Frances Pearson as the mother and father, Dick Ray, Edward Cheatham, Charles Bowman, James
Williams, Jackie Haines, Dorothy Newton, Norma Boles, James Collins, Gail Givens, Marie Bowers and
Charles Covell. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Children Burned
In Durkam Fire,
Small Boy Dies
Two little grandchildren of Mr.
and Mrs. J. O. Blue, of Lakeview,
were burned, one of them fatally,
in a fire which destroyed their
home on Durham, Rt. 5, Tuesday
afternoon.
Wmiam Daniel Thompson, aged
three, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gar
land Thompson, died of his burns
at Watts hospital Wednesdav.
E’uneral services were held
Thursday morning at Hillsboro,
home of his father’s people. His
four-year-old sister, Sarah Mar
garet, remains at the hospital “in
critical condition.”
The tragedy occurred when the
mother, who said she seldom left
her children, made a quick dash
into town to take her husband’s
lunch to him at his business and
to make an insurance payment.
She was gone frpm home only a
very short time. Returning, she
saw smoke pouring from under
the eaves of the house, and her
little children clawing pitifully at
an upstairs windownane.
The mother, barred by flames
from entering the front door,
broke through a downstairs win
dow to reach the children and
snatch them from the fiery room.
She rushed them in the car to
Watts hospital without taking
time to the alarm. Firemen
wtere notified by the hospital,
and went to the home to find
onlv ashes and cinders.
As they st^od there, three oth
ers of fhe familv’s seven children
got off a school bus nearby and
were confronted by the sight of
a.nile of a^hes where their home
had been. They flung themselyes
tn the ground bursting into tears.
Thoy vrere comforted by the fire
men who assured them that their
mother and little sister and broth
er had not been lost.
It was reported the family had
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Three Moore Boys On Casualty Lists;
Cpl. Meyers Wounded, On Way Home
CHRISTMAS ART
Reproductions of paizilings
by the world's great artists
tell the Christmas story with
glowing beauty and color at
the Southern Pines library
this season.
A loan exhibit from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York City was put in
place in the Fine Arts room
this week by Mrs. C. A.
Smith, member of the arts
committee of the Library as
sociation, assisted by Miss
Mary Bowman, an artist vis
itor from Gloucester, Mass.
The Metropolitan loan ex
hibit of last Christmas drew
hundreds of visitors to the
Fine Arts gallery during the
season. This year's showing
comprises a different, and lar
ger, selection of masterpieces
which promise even greater
enjoyment.
Draft News
Blackout Lifted;
Inductees Named
From Changjin To
Southern Pines
By Christmas
A brief but total blackout of all
draft news, including names, calls,
quotas and deliveries, which pre
vailed last week, was lifted Wed
nesday by order of State Selective
Service Director Thomas H. Up
ton.
Mrs. Harry W. Davis, Moore
County draft board clerk, there
upon released the names of the
following Moore County men who
were sent from Carthage tO’ Fay
etteville Tuesday for induction
into the Army;
White men—Albert Cornelius
Thompson, Willard Clayton
Lewis. James Wendell Oliver,
(Continued on Page 8)
Names of three Moore county
boys on Korean casualty lists this
week brought sorrow—but in one
case a happy sequel followed al
most at once.
Reported as wounded were Cpl.
Peter Meyers, brother of Mrs. Lois
Beauregard of Southern Pines,
and Pfc. Bradley Williamson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Williamson
of Steeds.
Missing in action is Cpl. Rufus
C. Poindexter, son of Mrs. Collie
Poindexter, Carthage, Rt. 3.*
After receiving news last week
that her brother had been wound
ed, Mrs. Beauregard had a phone
call from him Wednesday. He
said his wound was not serious,
that he had been flown to the
west coast, would be sent to a
North Carolina hospital and ex
pects to be “home for Christmas.”
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‘‘Peahead” Walker
Will Speak At
Football Banquet
Korean Wounded At Bragg Hospital;
Tarheel Lad Survived ‘Tunnel Incident’
By Valerie Nicholson
A 20-year-old Tarheel in the
Station hospital at Fort Bragg
grins happily, though occasionally
wincing with pain, as he relaxes
in his hosnital bed and ^reflects on
how good it is to be home.
At one time home seemed a
place he would most likely never
see again. Pvt. Ray Hanchey, of
Wallace, was for about two
months a prisoner of the North
Koreans, a survivor of a forced
SCHOOL HOLIDAY
Boys and ^1$ of the Soufh-
eni Pines schools will have
Christmas holiday starting
with the close of school on
Wednesdjay. Then—no more
classes until Wednesday, Jan
uary 3.
m arch of more than 300 miles and
of the grim “tunnel incident”
which cost the lives of 200 or
maybe 300, American soldiers.
His wince of pain comes from
the fact that his right leg, shat
tered by a communist’s bullet and
in a cast, is taking a long and
painful time to knit. Other bul
lets passed through his upper
i^odv. but fortimat^lv sti-iVinv no
vital parts, as he fell and “play
ed dead’ in a group of 25 or 30
prisoners being subjected to a
quick and crude mass execution.
“We didn’t know what was
up,” says Private Hanchey, who
looks even younger than his 20
years. “They had marched us
along for days and days, about 25
or 30 miles a day through the
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Members of the Southern Pines
High School six-man football
squad, their managers and coach
es will be honored by the South
ern Pines Elks at the annual foot
ball banquet, to be held tomorrow
(Saturday) evening at 7 o’clock
in the school cafeteria. Douglas
Peahead” Walker, famed Wake
Forest coach, will be the speaker,
and Mrs. Walker will also be pres
ent.
Also invited to attend are Jim
Weaver, physical education di
rector at Wake Forest, who is the
brother of Southern Pines’ school
superintendent Philip J. Weaver;
Bill Baker, Ray Copley and Andy
Page, who graduated from six-
man football here to play for Car
olina, and Gary Mattocks, another
Southern Pines alumnus, now
playing for Duke.
Awards will be made by Coach
A. C. Dawson, Jr., recognizing
the achievements of the team in
the season just ended, in which
they rolled up an impressive
string of victories and were run
ner-up for the Eastern Conference
title.
Parents, friends and fans may
buy tickets for the banquet, and
are cordially asked to attend, said
Don L. Madigan, chairman of ar
rangements. For the first time in
vears the town has, in the school
cafeteria, a place large enough to
admit everyone, permitting th=
'General invitation to be extended
Just to make sure the food wiP
?o around, he asks that.tickets. o°
secured in advance at one of-the
local drugstores or at the Elks
club.
The State Supreme Court on
Wednesday ruled that the election
by which Moore county banned
the legal sale of beer and wine
was not legally held.
What was to happen next,
though, was not made clear. The
decision could mean that the re
sults of the election are illegal,
and that beer and wine dealers
may reopen their shops. It could
mean that another election will be
necessary.
Two municipal elections have
been scheduled in Moore, January
9 in Southern Pines and February
6 in Aberdeen.
In view of the existing confu-
The Stale Attorney Gener
al's office is studying Moore's
mixed-up beer situation, but
an opinion is not expected be
fore the middle of next week
or later.
This is the latest informa-,
lion, received Thursday from
District Beer Inspector H. H.
Grimm at Carthage, who had
just received a phone call
from C. A. Upchurch, Jr., state
ABC chief at Raleigh.
If the Attorney General
rules that beer can be sold,
the certified judgment must
still be tiled at Carthaoe. Mr.
Grimm says he will then no
tify all beer dealers, returning
their permits and setting a
date tor all to start selling at
once.
In the meantime he warns
them—don't jump the gun!
Those who sell beer before
the assigned dale won't get
their permits back at all.
sion, on the advice of Town Attor
ney Hoke Pollock the Southern
Pines town board decided to go
ahead with the preparations for
the municipal election. Advertis
ing will continue so as not to
throw off the schedule if there is
much delay pending clarification.
Registration of new voters will
begin Saturday as advertised.
Local beer dealers were notified
Wednesday afternoon by their
representatives in Raleigh that re
tail beer sales could be resumed
within 48 hours and began making
their preparations.
However, Attorney Pollock said,
his latest advice was that the Su- pitiful, and welfare department
preme Court s decision was about, ^an’t stretch to provide that
12 pages long, it had not yet been g^tra bit of Christmas cheer which
fully deciphered in all its points j^eans so much. The families will
and it may have to go back before appreciate anything, says Mrs.
a superior court judge. This -i^^aiter B. Cole, welfare superin-
would be at the next term of su-
Mayor C. N. Page on Wednes
day night asked for, and received,
authority from the t6wn board to
proceed with the setting up of a
coordinated civil defense plan for
Southern Pines.
This will be done in cooperation
with the civil defense director,
Col. D. L. Madigan, along lines he
has already laid out, and will in
volve coordination of local agen
cies an dfacilities to take care of
any forseeable war emergency.
“It seems to me it is high time
this were done,” the Mayor said.
“Perhaps we are ahead of a good
many other towns—of the state,
maybe the nation. They appear
to be moving slowly, while things
in other parts of the world are
moving fast. We may never need
organized civil defense—but to
need it, and not have it, is a far
worse eventuality.”
On hearing a general outline of
Colonel Madigan’s plan as given
to the town board some weeks
ago, Hoke Pollock, town attorney,
had advised that authority from
the board must be given, for legal
correctness, before any part of it
could be put into effect.
Doctors' Parking
Discussion of parking problems,
including special privileges now
granted to doctors, occupied a con
siderable part of the board’s time
at this week’s regular session. In
deciding which doctors were due
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Here’s Chance To
Share Christmas
With Unfortunate
COMMISSIONER
perior court here, which will open
at Carthage January 22 with
Judge Clement of Winston-Salem
presiding.
Or, Raleigh sources pointed out,
the Moore County election board
and the State Attorney General
may have to provide the answers.
All this arises from the fact that
the Supreme Court limited its
study to the election alone. Asso
ciate Justice Devin, who wrote the
opinion, declared that, since a mu
nicipal election had been held in
Southern Pines August 15—only
11 days before the county beer-
wine vote—^the time limit of the
county election did not conform
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COMING EVENTS
Friday, December 15—Sandhills Kiwanis Club annual banquet
and Ladies Night, Mid Pines club. Cub Pack meeting, Presby
terian church, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 16—Elks Club annual football banquet,
"Peahead" Walker, speaker, school cafeteria, 7 p.m.
Sunday, December 17—"Yuletide Memories," Christmas cantata.
Church of Wide Fellowship, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, December 19—Basketball: Southern Pines vs. Hamlet,
auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 20—School Glee Club Christmas program,
auditorium, 11 a.m. Elks Club Santa Claus party. Elks lodge,
2-5 p.m. Cub Pack meeting, auditorium, 7:30 pmu School
holidays begin.
Saturday, December 30 (tentative)—AJumni-varsity basketball
game, school auditorium, evening.
Sunday, December 31-^Fourleenth Winter Informal Horse show,
Carolina ring, Pinehurst, 2 p.m.
Wednesday, January 3—School holidays end.
Friday, Jeinuary 12—^Wallace Lee, magician, sponsored by Civic
club, audilorium, 8 p.m.
Announcement
Ends Long Period
Of Negotiation
Moore Citizens
Given Credit For
Full Cooperation
Brown Appointed
As Replacement
On Town Board
The Moore county welfare de
partment is making its annual
Christmas appeal in behalf of
many unfortunate persons of
Moore county — neighbors both
white and colored, including fam
ilies with young children, and old
people who know the pain of be
ing forgotten at this time of year.
The plight of many of them is
tendent, but what the majority
need most are shoes and warm
garments.
Cash, toys, blankets and any
useful article will be gratefully re
ceived, and there wiU be someone
who can use anything you give.
Acting as chairmen in the various
communities are the following:
Col. Don F. Madigan, Southern
Pines; Mrs. Foster Kelly, Pine
hurst; M. B. Pleasants, Aberdeen;
Vass Lions club, Vass and Lake-
view; Junior Chamber of Com
merce, Carthage; Woman’s club,
Cameron; Manly Wellman, Pine-
bluff; J. F. Sinclair, West End;
Carl Scoggins, Robbins.
Items may also be sent or taken
to the welfare office at Carthage.
H. L. Brown was the unanimous
choice of Southern Pines town
commissioners, in regular session
Wednesday night, to fill the va
cancy in their ranks left by the
resignation of E. C. Stevens last
month.
In presenting Mr. Brown’s name
to the board to fill out the unex-
pired term till next May, Mayor
C. N. Page said he had been ap
proached by a number of citizens
in behalf of the appointment. The
commissioners each said they also
Jiad had word of Mr. Brown’s
strong support, and several letters
were on hand giving further evi
dence.
To this support, stronger than
that of any other candidate, the
commissioners added their per
sonal words of commendation for
Mr. Brown. In seconding W. E'.
Blue’s nomination of him, L. T.
Clark said, “I have worked with
him in numerous organizations
and projects and I don’t know ot
a finer, more conscientious citizen
in our town.”
Mr. Brown is the third appoin
tee on the board following a mem
ber’s resignation, since the elec
tion of May 1949. This turnover
of more than half the members in
one term is unprecedented in the
recorded history of the town.
The new board member, a na
tive of Bedford, Va., has lived here
since 1935, when he moved his
business and family from Char
lotte. He is proprietor of the H.
L. Brown Agency, distributor for
Underwood typewriters in nine
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Kids Will Be
Elks’ Guests At
Christmas Party
Announcement was made this
week by the Wyandotte Worsted
company pf Waterville, Maine,
that they are exercising their op
tions held on a number of tracts
at Lakeview, six miles north of
Southern Pines, for a site for the
building of an industrial plant for
the manufacture of woollen‘cloth.
The site of approximately 260
acres lies partly on the south side
of US Highway 1, with the great
er portion, however, on the north
side, extending beyond the Sea
board main line to and including
the Hotel Lakeview property. It
includes the whole of Crystal lake,
one of the finest bodies of water
in this area, which will provide an
ample supply of water for the
plant operations.
The announcement comes after
a long period of negotiations
which began last April. Options
were secured from a long list of
property owners during the sum
mer and early fall. During the
past few weeks, exhaustive water
and soil tests have been made, lo
cal advantages studied and com
parisons made with sites under
consideration in other southern
states, culminating in the fippl
selection of the Sandhills by the
Wyandotte company as the loca
tion for their fifth manufactirring
plant, their first in the south.
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The Southern Pines Elks club
will hold its annual Christmas
party for all the kids Wednesday
from 2 to 5 p.m., with Santa Claus
as the chief attraction and special
ly honored guest.
Santa will receive his young
friends in the clubhouse grove if
the weather is fine, indoors if it is
bad. Favors, candy and fruit will
be given each small boy or girl, up
through nine years of age. There
will be a lighted Christmas tree,
and the school band will play and
the majorettes perform.
The clubhouse, already flood
lighted for the Christmas season,
will provide a festive background
for the occasion.
Several hundred youngsters an
nually attend the party.
Don L. Madigan is chairman, as
head of the club activities commit
tee, a large group of active Elks
all of whom will assist in one ca
pacity or another.
The BPO Does are also assisting
with some preliminary work. Af
ter the party, the Elks will have a
buffet supper for their member
ship in the clubhouse.
GLEE CLUB
The Southern Pines High
School Glee club will give a
program of Christmas songs
at the school auditorium at 11
a. m. Wednesday. This will be
the group's first public ap
pearance of the year. The
community is invited.
Ca’^ols and hvmns. rounds
and folk melodies from other
lands will tell the Christmas
story, as the boys' and girls'
glee clubs sing separately,
then together. Soloists will be
Albert Crissman, Coy Bowers
and Ed Cheatham'. Guest so
loists fromi the elementary
school will be Linda Thomp
son. fourth grade, and Dolores
Maready, fifth. ’
The glee club has sung this
year at two chapel programs
and also for the county inter
club dinner meeting held in
October. The Christmas pro
gram will give parents and
friends their first opportunity
to hear them under their new
director. Miss Barbara Youngi.
CANTATA
The annual Christmas can
tata of the Church of Wide
Fellowship, a highlight of the
musical year in Southern
Pines, will be given at 5
o'clock Sunday afternoon un
der ^he direction of Mrs. L. D.
McDonald.
This year's offering, "Yule-
tide Memories." will present
the church's three choirs,
comprising . more than 60
voices. Added to the senior
choir will be the newly form
ed junior and young people's
choirs, wearing their colorful
new vestments for the first
time together.
Tom Cordon and Mrs. Page
Choate will be soloists.
Among the regular church so
loists who will be heard are
Wesley Stoltz, Mrs. Bryan
Poe, Miss Mary Alice Tate
and Miss Merva Benjamin.
The cantata is said to be
one of the most beautiful of
modern choral literature, rich
ly appropriate for the opening
of the year's most sacred sea
son. Members of all churches,
also non-church members of
the community are invited to
attend.