HAPPY
NEW YEAR
1951
HAPPY
NEW YEAR
1951
VoL. 32—NO. 6
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 29. 1950 EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
HS-Alumni Qassic
Will Draw Crowds
Saturday Night
Ancient Basketball
Rivalries Will Have
Fid! Sway At Gym
The annual High School-Alumni
basketball game will start at 7:30
p.m. Saturday at the school gym.
The game traditionally draws a
large crowd, presenting one of the
top athletic events of the yegr and
climaxing some noted rivalries.
When famed orchestra leader
Phil Harris named his zany song
hit of the year “The Thing,” he
^was acclaimed far and wide for his
originality. Such is fame.
But back in the past for as
many years as local basketball
fans will admit to remembering,
‘the Thing* here has been the
Game. And the Game is that al
most legendary High School vs.
Alumni basketball game.
Set for tomorrow (Saturday)
night this year, unlike Mr. Harris’
‘thing’ the Game has no wide ac-
, ‘claim to fame, but it has a follow
ing—and what a following. Play
ed on a bitter cold night last year,
with the new gymnasium not
quite completed and heat coming
from an' improvised heating sys
tem, the game drew a roaring
crowd of some 650 fans, the sec
ond largest of the entire season.
The appreciative crowd was not
^disappointed, as they saw two bit
terly contested games with the is
sue in doubt until the final whis
tle. The high school boys won
'thmr game by a one point margin
with one minute to go, but were
forced to freeze the ball to win.
In just as good a game, the high
school girls’ team bowed out by
a one-point margin to the Alumni
with five seconds left. In those
five seconds, Shirley Dana drove
in with a looping southpaw hook
tpwm the ganie for the Alumni.
> It k basketball such as this, bas-
. ketbaU at its best, which each year
has zoomed the attendance at
these games.
Saturday night’s game is e:
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NEW YEARS DAY
City and county offices,
banks, some businesses and
the library will be dosed
Monday. New Years day. The
monthly meeting of the coun
ty commissioners and the
weekly session of recorders
court will be postponed to
Tuesday. This will be the first
session of recorders court
since December 18.
The Southern Pines post
office will observe holiday
hours, with'the window open
only from 8 to 10 a. m. There
will be no mail delivery
though box mail will be put
up; and outgoing mail will be
worked as usuaL
Eureka Child
Is Tragedy Victim
Of Christmas Week
Post Office Has
New Forms For
Alien Registration
The local post office has the
, forms on which aliens must report
themselves to the government be
tween January 1 and January 10,
according to A. Garland Pierce,
postmaster.
All aliens except those legally
here on a temporary basis are re
quired to fiU out the forms, turn-
„ ing them back in at the post office
before the deadline date. This is
a provision of the Internal Secur
ity act of 1950, t^ie anti-subver
sives law, by which the Commis
sioner of Naturalization and Im
migration must be informed of
their present addresses.
Displaced persons in this coun
try must file the reports like other
aliens, in addition to the separate
® reports required by the Displaced
Persons Commission in January
and again in Jime of each year.
The forms to be filled in at this
time require the alien registration
numbers. Follow-up reports must
be made each year within the
same 10-day period after the be
ginning of the year, as long as the
law is in effect.
Failure to comply, the Immigra
tion Service has warned, will
bring federal prosecution.
Donald LaVeme Michael, eight-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
M. Michael of the Eureka com
munity, met a\ merciful and in
stant death about 5 p.m., Tuesday
when a large tractor fell over on
him in the front yard of his home.
Flames engulfed the tractor as
soon as it fell, and binned over a
considerable part of the yard be
fore members of the family and
neighbors could put them out, and
lift the tractor from the little
burned body.
Coroner Hugh P. Kelly said the
child’s skuU was crushed. He gave
a ruling of accidental death.
Donald was said to have been
on the tractor seat, turning the
machine around in the yard, when
it struck a tree and toppled over,
throwing him off the seat and
crushing him beneath its weight.
Someone went to the airport,
about two miles away, to tele
phone for help to Southern Pines.
The fire truck with three of the
volunteer firemen rushed to the
scene with police escort. An am
bulance also went. When they
reached there, though, it had. been
found that Donald was past any
aid they could give. The body
was covered to await the coroner.
Donald was born October 24,
1942. He w^s a second grade pu
pil at the Farm Life school, be
sides his parents he, is survived
by a brother, Carl James, aged
nine, and his paternal grandmoth
er, Mrs. J. M. Michael, of Carth
age Rt. 3.
Funeral services were held at
Yates-Thaggard Baptist church
Wednesday afternoon, conducted
by the Rev. William J. Hancock.
Burial was at Cross Hill cemetery,
Carthage.
Chamber Moves
To New Office
For New Year
COMING EVENTS
Will Open
Headquarters
On Broad Street
The Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce will move this week
end from the Belvedere hotel, its
headquarters for more than two
years, to a freshly renovated and
modem office in the Sunrise thea
tre building.
The new office has its entrance
and a double display window on
Broad street. It has a cream col
ored ceiling with fluorescent
lights, plaster walls painted a jon
quil yellow, and brown composi
tion-tile floor, giving a bright sun
ny effect. The back and front
walls are paneled in natural-wood
weltex. The office is heated, and
has a rest rOom and full basement
for storage.
Arch F. Coleman, president, and
the directors are busy assembling
furniture for the new office, where
the secretary, Mrs. Donald Scheip-
ers, will be on duty beginning
January 2. She will be in charge
of a number of new business serv
ices which will be offered under
Chamber auspices soon.
Soon after the move an “open
house” will be held for the com
munity. In the meantime, mem
bers of the Chamber and others
who are interested are invited to
drop by and see the new quarters.
The move was dictated by the
feeling that, in order to render the
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March of Dimes
January 15-31;
Chairmen Listed
Saturday, December 30—High School - Alumni basketball game.
School auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 31—Fourteenth Winter Informal Horse show,
Carolina ring, Pinehurst, 2 p.m.
Monday, January 1—Happy New Year!
Wednesday, January 3—School holidays end.
Thursday, January 11—Organ recital by Mrs. Mildred Hendrix,
Duke University organist, Emmanuel Episcopal church, 8 p.m.
Friday, January 12—Wallace Lee, magician, sponsored by Civic
club, auditorium, 8 pan.
ABC and ATU Officers Arrest 37 In
24-Hour Marathon Of Raids Through
Moore and Two Ne^hboring Counties
FBOM KOREA
Historic Manly Home
Burns Christmas Eve
Community Aid Pours
Out To Faimly Of
Seven Left Homeless
CITY TAGS
A lot of Southern Pines cit
izens are postponing buying
their city license tage. it was
learned this week from How
ard F. Burns, town clerk.
With just one more month
to go, only 232 tags had been
sold up to Thursday of this
week, of an anticipated sale
of an anticipated sale of al
most 1,000.
Last yegr approximately
900 tags were sold to South
ern Pines mofor vehicle own
ers. They must, by town ordi
nance. be affixed to motpr ve
hicles owned by persons resi-.
dent in the city limits by Feb
ruary 1. A number of others
in the outlying community
also bought them last year
for identification purposes
when they are away from
home.
The teigs are on sale at the
city halL
Homeless Children, Childless Homes
Get Together Dec. 25; All Are Happy
Children without homes, homes
without children—when these get
together at Christmas, there is
happiness all around.
■Uiat was the case this Christ
mas season, when two couples
came to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. S. Jonker, on Youngs road,
and each pair took home a young
ster for Christmas.
Hie Jonkers have a boarding
home for children. The children
come to them through the welfare
department, from distressed
homes—or sometimes because
they have no home at all. At this
time they have nine little board
ers, ranging in age from a few
Mr. and Mrs. Tom C. Vann and
two children, Mrs. W. C. Ferguson
and son Bob were left homeless
when flames roardS through their
homestead at Manly about 2
o’clock on the morning of Sunday,
Christmas Eve.
The barking of Bob Ferguson’s
pet collie chained in the yard is
credited with the saving of their
lives. With only minutes to spare,
they ran out into the yard in their
fnightclothing, to watch itheir
antebeUum home become a blaz
ing torch which lit the sky for
miles.
Mrs. Ferguson’s part of the
house burned first and fastest,
and nothing could be saved. With
the help of friends and neighbors
who came in throngs, the Vanns
saved some furnishings and Cloth
ing.
The flames were seen by Her
bert N. Cameron of Southern
Pines, who came to help unload
oil at the Sinclair place nearby.
He gave in the alarm at Southern
Pines and the truck and volun
teer Jiremen respont^d, but found
the. house doomed by the time
they reached there. Manly has no
water facilities.
LandimiaTk Is Destroyed
The rambling frame homestead,
known as the Peter Cornelius
Shaw place, was built well over
a century ago. The heart pine of
its ancient timbers offered no re
sistance to the flames. Mrs. Vann
and Mrs. Ferguson, sisters, and
descendants of the pioneer Shaw,
had lived in the house almost all
their lives. It was filled with the
accumulation of several genera
tions of a single family’s living.
Only a fraction of the loss was
covered by insurance.
The origin of the fire remains a
mystery. It. appeared to start in
the kitchen, but members of the
family say there was no fire in
the stove. The coal stove had not
been used since Saturday break
fast. For the meal prepared and
eaten Saturday night, the elec-
Christmas Sights,
Lights, Exhibit
Another March of Dimes is on
the way, to be held from January
15 through January 31, according
to a reminder issued this week by
H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, who
will serve as chairman for the
campaign for the ninth successive
year.
With North Carolina and Moore
county continuing on the debit
side of the infantile paralysis
ledger, the campaign each year
assumes greater importance. Ex
penses are going right on for
young victims of the polio epi
demic of 1948 and of earlier years.
The Moore County chapter met
these expenses during 1950 as
long as it had funds. When these
gave out, the National Foundation
took over in full. Having just
passed through the worst polio
year in history (though North
Carolina was not among the more
stricken states in 1950) the Foun
dation is now scraping the bottom
of the barrel.
Moore county’s 1951 quota has
not been officially set. It is be
lieved, however, said Chairman
Blue, that it wiU be approximate- t> „•
ly the same as last year’s! which; Remain Dn VICW
was $7,360. Community quotas j
will be assumed by the chairmen;
at Mr. Blue’s annual campaign
supper, for which the date has
been tentatively set at Friday,
January 12, the place to be an
nounced later.
Since Mr. Blue will be serving
at the same time as Moore coun
ty’s representative in the General
Assembly, he has chosen com
munity chairmen who, he says,
are tried and true, and on whom
he will depend to carry on the
campaign in their respective areas
to its traditional successful con
clusion.
He listed them this week as fol
lows:
Southern Pines, Paul C. Butler,
chapter chairman; Aberdeen, John
Bowman; Addor, Mrs. Sadie
Troutman; Carthage; Edward J.
Burns; Cameron, Mrs. Pete Phil
lips; Eagle Springs, Herbert
Bost; Farm Life, T. H. Lingerfelt;
Jackson Springs, Mrs. E. W. Bru
ton.
Highfalls, Thad N. Frye; Lake-
view, Mrs. Louis Bellet; Niagara,
Mrs. Elwood Parker and J. M.
months to a few years old. Seven
have mothers of their own. These
mothers, some of them at great
sacrifice, each made a Christmas
of some sort for her child.
But there were th e two little
ones with ho mothers. Their prob
lem was solved by a young Army
couple. Sergeant and Mrs. Criss,
also by Mr. and Mrs. Caddell of^
Carthage, who came asking, “Any Patterson; Pinebluff, Mrs. Leon
babies we can borrow?”
The Crisses took the little boy,
the Caddells the little girl. Santa
came for each child “.They were
all so happy,” said Mrs. jonkers.
“It was a wonderful Christmas
—^for them all.”
Wylie; Pinehurst, J. Frank Mc-
CaskiU; Robbins, Miss Sallie
Greene AUison; Vass, Monroe
Chappell; Westmoore, to be ap
pointed; Manly, Richard Frye;
Glendon, Mrs. june Harrington;
Hallison, Mrs. A. L. Poe.
The Christmas season extending
through the New Year weekend
still contains much to see in the
way of beautiful decorations.
Hundreds have visited the life-
size, lifelike Christmas scene fili
ng practically the eT^tire yard of
the S. S. Benson home on West
Vermont avenue. The floodlit
scene with Babe in manger, Mary
and Joseph, wise men and camels,
sheoherd an& sheen, was designed
and made by Mrs. Benson.
On the porch of the C. S. Patch,
Jr., home at Ashe street and Con
necticut ayenue, Santa has paused
*to lay down his pack, take 3' chair
and relax. The jolly, lifesize
Santa was made by Mrs. Patch,
who happens to be a niece of Mrs.
Benson.
In front of the D. W. Winkel-
man home on East Massa'^husetts
ayenue, the “biggest Christmas
tree in town” soarkles with hun
dreds of colored lights.
A half mile of Christmas Rghts.
'with more than 1.300 bulbs, put up
bv the Chamber of Commerce
continifes to brighten the down
town area.
Tbe Christmas art exhibit.^ re
productions of great paintings
from th e Metronolitan Museum
in New York City, remains on
view in the Fine Arts room of the
library.
trie stove was used. The possibil
ity of faulty wiring is eliminated
by the fact that all lights in the
house were turned on as soon as
the flames were discovered. They
stayed alight till the flames ate
their way through the walls and
ceilings.
Mrs. Ferguson went to bed only
about a half hour before the dog’s
barking aroused her. She says she
is sure there was nothing on fire
when she retired.
Community Gives Aid
After the fire the Vanns, with
Ann, 13, and Tommy Junior, 11,
Mrs. Ferguson and 18-year-old
Bob came to the Southland in
Southern Pines, where they were
accorded the hospitality of the
hotel.
This was only the beginning.
As the news spread of the tragedy
striking the well-known and be
loved family at Christmas, they
were overwhelmed with gifts, be-
seiged with invitations. Friends
and strangers alike came bring
ing food and clothing. The Elks
club provided shoes and glasses
for Mrs. Ferguson and Ann Vann
before the day of the fire was
over. The John Boyd post, VFW,
took up an instant collection, and
a basket and funds also came from
the First Baptist dhureh.
Restaurants. Invite Them
Practically all local restaurants
wanted the family to be their
guests. They.ate with the Hamels
Sunday, had Clhristmas dinner at
Jack’s Grill and received a meal
ticket, for use any time, at the
Coffee Shop. The Blue Mirror also
invited them all for a meal “any
time.”
The BPO Does provided cloth
ing immediately. Mrs. D. E. Cros
by of the Midland Dress Shop
completely outfitted Mrs. Vann.
Bruce Cameron offered his gar
age to store the things saved from
the fire, and Herbert Cameron
loaned a truck to move them.
As The Pilot goes to press more
gifts and offers of aid keep com
ing in till they have reached a
point it is impossible to list them.
'The Vanns and the Fergusons
say, “We don’t know how we will
ever thank everyone enough. We
appreciate everything.”
One deeply appreciated offer
was that of a place to stay. Mrs.
Estelle Cameron, their near
neighbor at Manly, offered them
her entire home.
The prospect at midweek, how
ever, was that they would move
into a house in Southern Pines
during the New Year weekend. As
oon as the word gpt around, peo
ple began, giving furnishings, ap
pliances and other household
items. Lloyd Clark asked The Pi
lot to state that if anyone with
something to give has no way to
transport it, call him and his
truck will be right around.
Mrs. Vann and Mrs. Ferguson
are the daughters of the late Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Phillips. Their
mother was the former Christian
Ann Shaw, daughter of Peter Cor
nelius Shaw and granddaughter
of C. C. Shaw, who built the
Shaw House in Southern Pines.
The land on which both the Shaw
House and the house at Manly
were built, also the entire area
between, the sits of most of
Southern Pines, was part of the
old Shaw’s Ridge, granted to the
family by the King of England in
pre-Revolutionary days.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillips spent
their early married life in Char
lotte but moved back with their
three children to the old home at
Manly in 1905. Mrs. Phillips died
in 1919, Mr. Phillips in 1925. Their
daughters Mary (Mrs. Ferguson)
and Cornelia (Mrs. Vann) contin
ued to live there after their mar
riages. Their brother William is
vocational agriculture jteacher at
the Raeford High school.
*
uti. r.uiYu tiAN
Democracy Is
Korea’s Hope,
Says Dr. Han
A young doctor from Seoul,
capital of South Korea, now
working with the staff of N. C.
Sanatorium at McCain, last Fri
day told the Rotary club many
pertinent facts concerning his
homeland and the dilemma in
which it finds itself today. The
meeting was held at the 'Village
Inn.
Dr. Eung Soo Han, 29, is spend
ing two years in this country on
a United Nations Fellowship. Last
year he was at Duke hospital,
Durham. Since June he has been
at the Sanatorium storing up
knowledge concerning the treat
ment and control of tuberculosis,
a disease which is one of Ko
pea’s great problerns. When he
came over, his plan was to return
in July 1951 to Seoul, where he
is on the faculty of his alma
mater, the Severance Union Med
ical college, founded by Metho
dist and Presbyterian missionaries
from the United States. What the
future contains for him now, he
does not know.
But he holds confidently to the
thought that it will bring reunion,
before long, with his young wife
and two-year-old daughter Yun
Kyung—“Bright Star.”
Word Comes Through
The months since the war began
have been hard for him. Months
went by without any word com
ing through from his family.
Then, three weeks ago, through
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Local Officers Aid
In Pre-Christmas
Whiskey Clean-Up
County and federal enforce
ment officers made a 24-hour
sweep of Moore county last Fri
day and Saturday, touching brief-
v also on the borders of Ran
dolph and Harnett counties, to
breakup a large number of illicit
'iquor selling operations and ar-
“est 37 persons, nine white and 28
colored.
County ABC Law Enforcement
Officer C. A. McCallum, of Car
thage, said the raids climaxed un
dercover investigations which had
'een going on since November 8.
Practically all of the men and
vomen arrested were classified
as independent small retailers,
though one or two were said to
have the status of wholesaler.
Liquor was seized in small to
medium quantities. Most of it was
“Carolina moonshine” — nontax-
paid.
The marathon of raids started
on the edge of Randolph county
Friday evening and went, on all
that night and the next day,
winding up on the border of Har
nett Saturday about 7:3.0 p. m.
Between the start and the fin
ish, the officers swept through
sections of Robbins, Putnam, Car
thage, Southern Pines, Taylor-
town, Jackson Hamlet and Addor.
On 24-Hour Duty
They made the circuit with the
sheriff’s office at Carthage as the
hub of operations. On the job
there for approximately 24 hours
were Sheriff C. J. McDonald, who
received and labeled the liquor
for evidence in future trials; U. S.
Deputy Marshal John H. Stephen
son of SouthernnPines, who did
all the fingerprinting and assisted
in directing the raids.; Investiga
tor Victor L. Armitage of the Bal-
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New Telephones
Again Delayed;
Vass Plans Told
Winter Informal
Horse Show At
Pinehurst Sunday
The 14th annual 'Winter Infor
mal Horse show will take place
Sunday in the riding ring of the
Carolina hotel at Pinehurst, with
post time for the first class set for
1:30 p.m.
The show is conducted on an in
formal basis and entries may be
made at the paddock to Dennis
Crotty, who wiU conduct the
show. There will be no entry fee
and the show is also free to spec
tators. Prizes, donated by the ho
tels and some of the business
establishments in Pinehurst and
vicinity, will be awarded to the
winners of the various classes.
Judging will be by Frank Ad
ams, of Elmont, Long Island, N. Y.
The full program follows:
Horsemanship — 1, riders 12
years of age emd imder; 2, riders
16 years of age and vmder.
Green Hunters—1, open; 2, five
years and under.
Working himters; open jump
ing; khock down and out; chil
dren’s hunters; bridle path hacks.
Those intending to enter the
show are asked to be qn time so
the program may be run off with
out delay.
Delay in receipt of a vital piece
of equipment will postpone the
changeover to Southern Pines’
new dial system for a month, per
haps longer, it was learned this
week from John E. Cline, presi
dent and general manager of the
Central Carolina Telephone com
pany.
It had been expected the new
equipment would go into use Jan
uary 1. Everything is ready, even
the new telephone books, but must
await the arrival and installation
of an emergency interrupter, a
complicated apnaratus for use in
the event o:| power failure
through storm or other causes,
said Mr. Cline.
Delivery had been promised for
December 15 and has now been
aet at January 15. When it is in
stalled, the changeover will be
made at the end of the month.
Eouinment for the new Vass
switchboard, to serve Vass. Cam
eron and the area bet-nr^y^n, is now
on order and installation is ex-
nected to be comnleted bv next
Tuly. The Central Carolina recent
ly applied for. and w°s granted,
authorization by the State Utilit-
Hies Commission to proceed with
this new switchboard, which it is
°xpecta£ wnll start off with 100
or rnore subscribers.
The telephone comnanv has
nurchased a lot in Vass behind N.
M, McKeithan’s store and will
build a small brick building to
bouse the new installation similar
to that which has been built at
Carthage.
HOLIDAY TO END
Classes will be resumed al
public and private schools
here Wednesday mondng,
JaTinaty 3, following the
Christmas recess.
The Ark. Notre Dame acad
emy and tbur Ledv of Victory
scho<^ will aU reopen on Hist
day.
County schools in general
will reopen Tuesday. January
2.
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