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GROUND OBSERVERS —
Shown here are some of the
volunteers who scanned the
skies day and night last week
in an intensive Ground Obser
ver Corps exercise. David
Drexel, county chief of the
air defense service, stands at
left beside the stairs to the
Forest Service fire tower off
Morganton Road. Left to right
on the steps are; Mrs. Harry
Chatfield, Mr. Chatfield, who
is Southern Pines Ground Ob
server head; Louis Scheipers,
Jr., one of more than a dozen
volunteers for the service
from John Boyd Post, Veter
ans of Foreign Wars; James
Hartshorne and Mrs. Harts-
horne. Night watches were
kept from the ground and
day watches from the little
room atop the tower from
Wednesday morning to Friday
afternoon. The small photo
shows Mr. Scheipers at work
in the tower.
(Pilot Staff Photo)
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Dr. Rosser Will
Be Honored With
Dinner At Vass
To honor Dr. R. G. Rcsser, phy^
sician who practiced his profes
sion in Vass and vicinity from
May, 1919, until ill health forced
him to retire several months ago,
the Vass Lions Club has planned
a public dedication dinner to be
held at the Vass Community
House on Tuesday evening, April
19, at which a plaque to honor
Dr. Rosser will be dedicated.
The Club is planning for an at
tendance of 125. A. L. Keith and
C. G. Crockett are in charge of
ticket sales.
Many of the details were work
out out during a meeting of the
Lions Club directors at the Caro
lina Bank in Vass Monday night.
The Vass Woman’s Club is to
serve the dinner, and the follow
ing committees were named: pro
gram—J. A. Smith; W. E. Glads
stone and C. R. Pope; publicity—
Barney Blue and N. A. McGill;
entertainment—Jack Morgan and
Murdoch Cameron.
Members of the board, in addi
tion to those named on commit
tees, are N. N. McLean and Hur
ley Jones. C. G. Crockett is club
president, and N. A. McGill, sec
retary-treasurer.
Further details of the dedica
tion dinner will be announced
later, the directors report.
Dr. Rosser has been a patient
at the Pinehurst Convalescent
Home for several months and will
not be able to attend the dinner.
Tax Office Will
Be Open Daily
Earl E. Hubbard, Internal Rev
enue representative, reminds the
public that he will be at his office
in the post office basement daily,
with the exception of Sunday,
from today (Friday) through
April 15 when Federal Income
Tax returns are due.
Assistance with completing re
turns and answers to questions
about the tax are given free of
charge. He urges that taxpayers
come early to avoid a last-minute
rush.
State income and intangibles
taxes are also due April 15. In
formation about these taxes can
be obtained from the office of
Ralph Monger, Jr., deputy collect
or, in Sanford.
Mrs. Cleary Named
President Moore
Tuberculosis Assn.
Mrs. Timothy Cleary of Pine-
bluff was elected president of the
Moore County Tuberculosis As-
I sociation for the coming year at
a meeting of the board of direc
tors of the Association. She suc
ceeds Norris Hodgkins, Jr., of
Southern Pines.
Other new officers are: the
Rev. J. R. Funderburk of South
ern Pines, first vice-president;
Mrs. W. G. Brown of Carthage,
second vice-president; Dr. T. A.
Cheatham of Pinehurst, treasur-,
er; and Norris Hodgkins, Jr., of
Southern Pines, assistant treas
urer. A secretary will be elected
at the next meeting of the board
of directors in May.
The new directors are:, Mrs. W.
ation have been named, to serve
for two years. The .other eleven
members of the 21-member board
of directors are serving two year-
terms that will expire next year
Teh new directors are: Mrs. W.
E. Gladstone, Vass; Lawrence
Johnson, Aberdeen; Jaihes Hobbs,
Southern Pines; Dr. T. A. Cheat
ham, Pinehurst; Mrs. Mulford
Horr, Pinehurst; S. C. Cureton,
Pinehurst; Mrs. Lola Carter,
Jackson Springs; Mrs. Hazel Phil
lips, Carthage; Norris Hodgkins,
Jr., Southern Pines and Mrs.
Cleary.
Chosen as delegates to the
meeting of the N. C. Tuberculosis
Association in Durham, April 13-
14, were Lawrence Johnson and
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4 Candidates In
Council Election
Lead Filing Parade
Blue First To Pay
Fee; West Southern
Pines Represented
Through noon, Thursday, four
candidates had filed for town
council seats in the election to be
held May. 3.
Filing time will run through
April 15.
A member of the present coun
cil—the only one to file so far—
was the first to pay his $5 fee to
Town Clerk Louis Scheipers, Jr.
W. E. Blue, food store owner and
a veteran in local government
who survived the change-over to
the city manager form two years
ago, filed Thursday of last week.
Next to file was Harry H. Peth-
ick, retired oil company execu
tive, who paid his fee on Monday.
Harry Chatfield, local insur
ance agent, filed on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the list was in
creased to four when T. T. Morse,
an insurance agent in West
Southern Pines, filed.
The coming week is expected to
bring out more candidates, al
though seme members of the
present council may wait until
the final week of filing time be
fore making their intentions
known.
If more than 10 candidates file,
a primary election will be hpld
on April 25.
Registration will open Satur
day, April 16, lor persons who
are not now on the municipal reg
istration books. Persons now reg
istered properly need not register
again in order to vote May 3.
Deadline For Proposal
On Air-Ground School
Is Set For Wednesday
IN FROZEN ORCHARD—
Clyde Auman of West End,
one of Moore County’s largest
peach growers, unhappily
points to frozen peach buds in
one of the orchards where the
fruit kill was 100 per cent last
weekend. He also showed
how some branches had been
frozen, looking brown when
bark is stripped from them,
meaning that the branch itself
will die. Young trees were
especially vulnerable and the
loss in them is expected to be
heavy. The close-up shows
the little buds, to which the
dried flower was still attach
ed. When broken open, the
heart of each tiny developing
peach was black as ink, indi
cating complete destruction
by freezing. The photos show
also leaves shriveled and
withered by cold that went
more than 10 degrees below
freezing. (Pilot Staff Photos)
Garden Tour Is
Cancelled As
Cold Hits Blooms
Peach Crop Wiped Out By 19-Degree
Freeze: Some Tobacco Plants Hurt
Two of the Sandhills’ most pop
ular spring events, the Southern orchardists
Pines Garden Tour and the one- emergency
day showing of Homewood Gar
dens in Knollwood, have been
called off because of damage done
to the flowers by the weekend
freeze.
The dogwood was extensively
damaged, the azaleas almost or
entirely killed and other spring
blooming things ruined, with lit
tle hope of more blossoms coming
out this spring.
1110 garden tour, which was to
have been held next Wednesday
was cancelled after members of
the sponsoring Southern Pines
Garden Club, meeting Monday
afternoon at ^uthern Pines, can
vassed owners of the gardens
which were to have been shown.
All said their gardens were in
such bad condition that they
would much prefer net to show
them this year.
• “We’re not complaining, in
view of the grave economic dam
age suffered by our peach grow
ers and others,” said Mrs. W. D.
Campbell, tour chairman. “In
stead, we started in immediately
planning a bigger and better tour
for next spring.” Several new
gardens, never previously shown
on the tours, have already, been
tentatively listed for the 1956
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The 1955 crop of Moore Coimty'^"
peach growers was wiped out last
Saturday night when the mer
cury hit 19 degrees above zero in
the West End area.
Not one of some 75 Sandhills
who attended an
meeting at Candor
Monday could report a single liv-
Band Boosters To
Meet On April 19
The Band Booster Club meeting
scheduled for March 31 has been
postponed until April 19, it was
announced this week, because of Capel of Candor, president of the
the meeting of the Southern Pines ', n. C. Mutual Peach Growers’ So-
ing peach bud on his trees.
Asked how, long he looked for
a surviving peach, one Moore
County grower said; “I looked
until I was so sick I couldn’t look
any more. I didn’t find a one.”
’The Sandhills disaster, costing
growers many millions, was re
peated through the Southeast—
which was scant comfort for the
local men. They agreed at Candor
Monday that they would cooper
ate with South (Ilarolina growers
in seeking whatever assistance
may be provided at the Federal
level.
Monday’s meeting, said W. C.
A proposal that the Southern
Pines community keep the USAF
Air-Ground School at the High
land Pines Inn by helping the
Federal government buy the Inn
property seemed within sight of
success this week.
First made when a local dele
gation went to Washington in
February to confer with Franklin
Sandhills Horses
Run In Camden
Races Saturday
Attracting inational ‘attention,
Saturday’s 21st running of Jhe
Carolina Cup at Camden, S. C.,
looms as the best renewal in over
two decades. To be contested over
a gruelling three mile timber
course, the featured event will be
supported by six other races over
the turf, brush and hurdle courses,
starting at 2 p. m.
Many Sandhills owners, train
ers, riders and race fans are ex
pecting to attend the Camden
steeplechase meeting.
’The timber classic has lured 11
nominees with Erin’s Cottage and
by Mrs. M. G.
Walsh of Southern Pines, vying
for the favorite’s role. The latter
won last year’s renewal and was
second to Erin’s Cottage when she
won the Sandhills Cup at South
ern Pines on March 19. Aside
from winning the race last year,
Mrs. Walsh captured the event
in 1951 with Gift of Gold, who
also won the ’52 running for Mrs.,
Simon T. Patterson.
Trainer “Mickey” Walsh, aside
from his wife’s ’chasers, will sad
dle Mrs. Vernon G. Cardy’s
Happy Tour, winner of the Pink
Coat Race at Southern Pines, and
Charles W. Stitzer’s Warrior Gay.
Steeplechasing’s leadiing trainer
for the past two years, Walsh will
be shooting for his fourth Caro
lina Cup winner.
Other horses named for the
“cup” are; Mrs. Charles C. Jelke’s
Big Breeze, Mrs. William F.
Buckley’s Silent Boy, Harry S.
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Parent - Teacher Association
Thursday night.
At a directors’ meeting held
Monday night at the home of the
president. Dr. Fred Langner,
there was a lively discussion of
the program outlined by Mrs
Broadus Smith, chairman of the
Ways and Means committee.
Date for the annual concert by
the school band is announced as
May 6. Club officials said they
hoped, by announcing the date
well in advance, that no other en
tertainment will be scheduled so
as to conflict with the concert.
The Band Boosters Club was
formed recently by parents of
students in the band and other
interested persons, to promote in
terest in the band and to help
raise funds for the band’s needs.
ciety, was held “to shape our
thinking” on meeting the disaster.
Proposals to grow supplementary
crops such as watermelons and
cantaloupes were heard at the
gathering. More than a dozen
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Pay TO THE
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FIRST FUND CHECK—First check from the
Marie Hurst fund to aid the seven-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Hurst of South
ern Pines, who is a patient at Memorial Hospital,
Chapel Hill, with a rare blood disease, is shown
here—the result of a benefit chicken fry attend
ed by over 500 persons, and other donations.
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John Buchholz, fund chairman, this week thank
ed all who had contributed in any way and said
that the fund is still open for contributions.
When all bills for the community-wide supper
are paid, there will be an additional amount to
be turned over to the Hurst family, he said.
(Photo W Humphrey)
CAP Plans Dance,
Starts Course In
Radio Operation
Making further plans for their
fund-raising dance April 30,
members of the Civil Air Patrol
this week began a new course in
radio operation, given by Harold
L. Tate, amateur station operator,
after concluding a first aid course
given through the Red Cross.
'The Sandhills CAP squadron
now has a panel tVuck for rescue
work and plans to purchase two
new 1,600-watt generators for
emergency power uses. Proceeds
of the dance will be used to help
pay for the truck and also for
radio equipment.
During the dance, which is for
couples only, two door prizes will
be given at each intermission.
Buster Doyle and the Aristocrats
will provide music for the event
at the Southern Pines Country
Club from. 9 to 1.
Tickets can be obtained from
all CAP members, at Holliday’s
Restaurant and from Jimmy Law-
son, Mrs. Betty Dutton, Harold
Tate, Carl Bradshaw and Harry
Chatfield who is head of the
Ground Observer Corps post in
Southern Pines.
In Pinehurst, those having tick
ets include Fred Wilson, Mrs. Carl
Bradshaw, Bert and Harold Clay
ton and Joe Lopez.
G. Floete, assistant secretary of
defense, the proposal coasted
along for a few weeks without
any decisive action—although a
Chamber of Commerce poll show
ed that 71 of 76 members reply
ing favor trying to keep the
school in Southern Pines.
The school has been earmarked
for removal to Keesler Field, Bil
oxi, Miss., but the local group
who went to Washington in Feb
ruary were assured by the as
sistant secretary of defense that
no final action would be taken
by the department until after the
Southern Pines proposition had
been heard in another conference.
Deadline for that conference
has been extended to Wednesday
of next week and members of a
citizens’ group who are collecting
pledges of local financial assist
ance voiced optimism this week
that they could go to Washington
with a concrete proposal by next
Wednesday.
They said that about one-quar
ter of the minimum amount need
ed had been received in pledges
from business people and others
who comprise about 10 per cent
of the number of persons they
hope to see.
Now working on a spontaneous
basis without a formal commit
tee, the group expects that Harry
K. Smyth, Chamber of Commerce
president, will appoint a formal
committee to make the trip to
Washington.
According to the proposal, the
Highland Pines Inn property
would be bought by a combina
tion of local and government
funds — the government being
able to put in what it would cost
the school to move to Mississippi.
The transfer to the government
would be made with the pro\nso
that the property be returned to
the control of the local corpora
tion, should it cease to be used
for Air-Ground school or similar
purposes.
All persons contribi^ting would
be given shares of stock in the lo
cal corporation according to
present plans.
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DR. MANN
Dr. Delamar Mann
Opening Office
Dr. Delamar W. Mann on Mon
day will open an office for the
practice of chiropody in the Manor
Building at 159 E. New Hamp
shire Ave.
^on of Mrs. Nellie Wells Mann
of 335 E. Indiana Ave., and the
late J. Homer Mann, Dr. Mann is
married to the former Kendra Ir
win of Ansonville, Pa. They come
here from Elizabeth City where he
has been practicing since his grad
uation from Ohio College of Chi
ropody in 1952. Dr. and Mrs.
Mann will live at 300 N. Bennett
St.
Bom in Southern Pines, Dr.
Mann is a 1943 graduate of the lo
cal high school. He attended
Wake Forest College and the Uni
versity of North Carolina and was
in military service. He is a mem
ber of the N. C. State Chiropody
Association, the National Associa
tion of Chiropodists and the
American Foot Foundation.
Majority Moore
Parents Approve
Use Of Vaccine
Of 2,022 Moore County parents
sent letters asking whether they
will let their first and second
grade children take the Salk polio
vaccine, if the forthcoming an
nouncement shows it to be suc
cessful in prevention of the dis
ease, 1,505 have replied in the af
firmative, Dr. J. W. Willcox,
county health officer, said this
week.
Returns on the inquiry, which
was made through each school in
the county, were tabulated this
week. The Moore County pro
gram is part of a national effort
by public health departments and
the National Foundation for In
fantile paralysis, sponsor of the
Salk vaccine tests.
'The survey was made in ad
vance, so that use of the vaccine
could begin immediately, once the
OK is given by the National
Foundation. This is expected
within two weeks.
Change In Ball
Schedule Noted
Farm Life school comes to Me
morial Field this (Friday) after
noon for a baseball contest with
the Southern Pines Blue Knights,
starting at 3:30 p.m. Next week’s
games for the local boys are both
away—at Pinehurst Tuesday and
at Vass Thursday.
CoAih Irie Leonard this week
announced a revised schedule of
games for the remainder of the
season, with several changes from
the schedule printed recently in
The Pilot and also printed on sea
son tickets. The complete revised
schedule appears on page 13.
Southern Pines garnered only
three hits and failed to score in a
10-0 loss to- Rockingham at the
Richmond County school’s field
last week.