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Peach Fanners Eye
Weather AsCritical
Months Approach
Bumper Crop Is
Forecast If No
Freeze Develops
Sandhill peach growers, with
some 370,000 trees capable of
producing more than a million
and a quarter bushels of fruit,
are f^st approaching the critical
month of their operation and are
asking themselves the perennial
question: will frost destroy the
crop? -
April, which has its ups and
downs in temperature, has been
that critical time in most yeairs.
It’s too early to teU now what
the month will bring; growers
can only hope the comparatively
cold days and nights that have
been experienced since pruning
and spraying started several
weeks ago will continue.
Last year some growers report
ed about 50 per cent df their crop
had been destroyed by late
freezes. The year before the en
tire crop of the Sandhills was
destroyed as were most crops in
South Carolina.
Some growers have decided
this year could mean the differ
ence in whether Or not they will
continue in the business which,
admittedly, has a high profit po
tential if everything goes /right.
To make sure that everything
does go right, at least those
things that can be controlled by
scientific methods, growers are
turning to the Sandhills Research
Station at Jackson Springs. The
station, superintended by Clar-
'ence Black, has contributed a
great deal to peach development
since its establishment.
Many Problems
W. H. Rummage, who suc
ceeded W. C. Capel of Candor as
president of the N. C. Mutual
Peach Growers Society, said re
cently that peach growers are
facing many problems in addi
tion to the ever-present “freeze”
possibility.
He said that conversatiohs
with other growers throughout
the country had indicated that
most feirmers were caught be
tween rising production costs
and selling prices.
Promotion
One of the best ways to com
bat that particular problem, he
pointed out, was to educate the
public to eat more peaches. And
to that end. North Carolina
growers have already stsirted on
an ambitious program of promo
tion. Last year, members of the
society voted to tax themselves
one penny for each bearing tree,
the net proceeds to be used for
peach promotion.
There should be some $3,700
collected for that purpose this
season.
Frost and the price squeeze are
not the only problems faced by
peach growers; the only problem
that has been pretty well Mcked
is insect destruction above
ground.
Old Land For New
Right now Superintendent
Black and his fellow workers are
working on the problem of why
old peach land can not be suc
cessfully replanted. Black said
the answer is not complete yet
but that a great amount of head
way had been made. Nematodes
are part of the answer. In addi
tion, it takes almost five years
to see whether old peach land
Will support a new crop, five
years being the length of time
a tree must grow before it will
bear fruit.
Some growers, like the ex
periment station, are trying now
to use old peach land for new
crops. Results, however, are not
conclusive yet.
Here’s another problem that
peach growers must face each
year: what variety to plant?
The trend is for growers to
plant several varieties so he will
have fruit getting ripe from June
throughout the summer.
The experiment station is co
operating with farmers in trying
tp help with varieties, but not
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 1957
Local Jaycees Bid
For State-Wide
Net Tournament
Southern Pines may be the
scene of the state-wide Junior
Tennis Tournament in 1958, if a
bid made by the Junior Chamber
of Commerce is received favora
bly by the state organization.
The bid, which was presented
at the third quarterly board meet
ing of the state group in Durham
this past weekend, was the only
one received. Norris Hodgkins,
Jr., the local club’s chairman of
activities, extended the invitation,
and later said he thought it had
an excellent chance of being acted
on favorably.
Others attending the state meet
ing from Southern Pines were
James Baird, president of the lo
cal chapter, George WUlcox, Aus
tin Sauls, and Vance Derby.
Amateur Talent
For Follies Show
Invited To Party
A talent party next Monday
night to select the csist for an sim-
ateur show, “Scandals of the
Sandhills,” will be held at the
Pinehurst School auditorium
Monday night at 8 o’clock.
Some 200 prospects, from South
ern Pines, Pinehurst, Aberdeen
and other sections of the country
have been contacted and are ex
pected to be present. It will be
the first opportunity for the
show’s director, who arrives Sun
day from New York, to size up the
talent.
The show will benefit the Pine
hurst Recreation Association
which is presently raising funds to
complete an athletic field and
fieldhouse.
Mrs. L. C. Burwell, Jr., is chair
man of the talent committee, as
sists by Mrs. A. N. Derouin.
Anyone who can sing, dance or
play an instrument, whether ap
proached or not by the talent
committee, is invited to the party
Monday night.
Insurance Law Is
Hit At By Agents
A compulsory insurance law is
not the answer to North Caro
lina’s need for liability protec
tion in automobile accidents,
members of the Moore County
, Insurance Agents Association
were told here Tuesday.
Joseph Scott of Southern
Pines, president of the associa
tion, told the agents that the
“best'course for North Carolina
is to strengthen the present Safe
ty Responsibility Law. We rec
ommend that the law be amend
ed to conform to the so-caUed
model security type safety re
sponsibility law now in effect in
most states.” '
Contrary to popular belief,
Scott said, compulsory liability
insurance is not a safety meas
ure and, in the opinion of many,
actually diverts attention from
safety. He said that, due to limi
tations inherent in compulsory
insurance, such a law does not
necessarily provide monetary re
lief in cases of damage and in
jury in automobile accidents.
The enactment of strengthen
ing laws which would make it
mandatory for motorists to take
out liability insurance has been
the subject of much discussion
in the present General Assem
bly.
Scott said that the insurance
agents in this county stoood sol
idly against any compulsory law.
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FOX HUNTING ON YOUNG’S ROAD
Horse Training Centered On Young’s Road
(Continued from page 1) stretch are F. D. “Dooley”
The buildings are of contempor-! Adams, one of the country’s top
Dr. John Young,
Retired Physician,
Died Here Sunday
Dr. John Hichnor Young, 77, a
former resident of Montclair, N.J.,
died suddenly at his residence in
Southern Pines Sunday.
Dr. Young was a graduate of
Montclair public schools, Amherst
College, and the Homeopathic
Medical College in New York
City. He interned at Flower Hos-
pit^ in New York City. He prac
ticed both medicine and surgery
in Montclair for 50 years.
Funeral services were held in
the Powell Funeral Home here
'Tuesday morning.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs,
Gertrude BeUis Young, of ^uth-
em Pines, a brother, Cullis M.
Young, of Philadelphia, another
brother, Edgar P. Young, and one
sister, Mrs. John Roder, of Holly
wood, Fla.
taking sides. It maintains almost
200 kinds of peaches and anyone
can look them over, hear
pros and cons on each variety,
and their make up his own mind.
Canneries
Canning peaches, a painfm
subject witji some farmers, is
also receiving much considera
tion by several of the Imger
growers. The area has built a
reputation for “fresh peaches.”
To veer from that, some main
tain, would be to lose part of the
reputation. '
On the other hand, some grow
ers are maintaining that addi
tional canneries (there is already
WEIMAR JONES
(Continued from Page 1)
Franklin editor, “65,000 people
able to outvote a million, and
by more than two to one, that’s
serious. As things are at pres
ent, one group of senatorial dis
tricts containing only one-tenth
of the population elects one
quarter of the senators, and an
other group containing one quar
ter of the population elects only
one-seventh of the senators.”
Speaking of the general public
apathy on this subject, Mr. Jones
said he thought it could only
come from lack of information.
“The people,” he said, “do not
realize what a very serious thing
it is.”
Mr. Jones, who is a native Of
Franklin, has been in newspaper
work all his life. A graduate of
UNC, he started work on the
Greensboro Record, then went to
Charlotte for a year on the Ob
server, following this with a spell
the i as an Associated Press reporter.
Until he took over the Franklin
paper, eleven years ago, he had
spent the previous 18 years on
Asheville papers.
and even to take some of the so-
called “fresh” variety.
The growers still feel, how
ever, that come what may, the
business is a good one.
“Even in the bad years when
you can see thousands of dollars
freezing on the trees, you think
of next year,” one grower near
Baseball Schedule'
For Blue Knights
Lists 13 Contests
A 13-day baseball schedule for
the Blue Knights was released
today by Irie Leonard, coach. The
schedule, which begins March 20,
calls for nine home games, six of
them at night.
Opening practice sessions start
ed today with seven returning
lettermen. Leonard said daily
sessions would start next week
and continue throughout the sea
son.
The team, which eompUed a
14-2 won-loss record last year,
will open with West End on a
home-and-home basis.
Returning lettermen are Lynn
van Benschoten, John van Ben-
schoten, Tony Parker, BUly
Hamel, George Reams, Kenneth
Creech and Roger Verhoeff. Sev
eral promising freshmen and
sophomores are expected to fill
the big gaps left when Johnny
Watkins, Bobby Cline, BUly Cox
and Bill Marley graduated.
Here is the schedule;
Wed. Mar. 20. West End. there.
Thurs. Mar. 28. HameL herew
FrL Mar. 29. Pinehursl. there.
Wed. Apr. 3. Sanford, here.
FrL Apr. 5. Vass. there.
Tues. Apr. 9. Cameron, here.
Thurs. Apr. 11. Aberdeen, there.
*Tues. April 16. Vass. here.
•Thurs. Apr. 18. West End. here.
•Tues. Apr. 23. Carthage, here.
•Thurs. Apr. 25. Aberdeen, here.
•Wed. May 1. Highfalls. here.
FrL May 3. Robbins, here.
♦Night Games—8 p. m.
Afternoon home games—3:30 pm.
ary design and employ a roof
treatment that greatly increases
inside area.
Another paddock and more
clearing for pastures are in her
plans. Right now she has about
a dozen horses, most of them
Welsh ponies.
Walsh, biggest operator on the
road, recently bough the log cabin
and stables, originally owned by
Mr. and Mrs. John Tonnele. The
Walshes have remodeled the
house and are now living there.
The stables add 17 more stalls to
hi^ already extensive establish
ment.
Other owners in the mile
steeplechase riders, who has
three paddocks. He recently re
modelled his home, adding a
wing, and has improved his pas
turage.
R. D. “Dickie” Webb, who
rides for the pl^sure of it, has
a small house and stables behind
the Adams’ layout where he
keeps two horses, both jumpers.
Father Milton, a Catholic
priest from New York, also has
stables between Wlalsh’s Stoney-
brook Stables and the Adams
place which he rents out during
the season.
And Ozelle Moss, joint master
of the Moore County Hounds and ^ riders in the annual Stoneybrook
one of the biggest operators in. year), started this past sum-
the area, has acreage along the
road which he is constantly im
proving. He also has stables,
which he > rents out to owners
who do not have their own facili
ties.
To the south of Young’s Road,
beyond the Healy and Kennedy
estates, one of the most intesive
developments in recent years is
transforming th eold Olive and
Goldsmith farms into what will
be one of the biggest training
grounds in the South.
mer and has already remodelled
several houses and stables.
His plans call for the eventual
construction of a three-quarter
mile track on the Goldsmith
place, and enough facilities on
both farms to take care of per
haps 100 or more horses.
Already he has fixed up the
old house on the Goldsmith place,
out Conncticut Ave., where he
and Mrs. Franz live. He has join
ed the two farms, which have a
combined acreage of more than
W. H. Franz, Jr., who has made 350 acres, and plans to have
a name for himself in steeple-' complete horse training-farm op
chasing (he was one of the top' eration ready next year.
West End said. “It’s a good busi-
one) are a necessity to take up maybe a little risky, but
the excess crop in good years, jt."
LIONS
(Continued from page 1)
West End dance trio composed
of Julia Hanner, Nancy Auman,
and Angelina Von Canon, accom
panied by Mrs. Lamarr Smith;
solo by Melvin Williams, Aber
deen, Graham FarrelL accompa
nist^ majorette ensemble. South
ern Pines High School; song and
dance number by Jay Frances
Fisher, Aberdeen; vocal solo, Mrs.
Frank Yandell, Southern Pines;
dance duet, Bonnie Bryant and
Babs Arey, Aberdeen; piano solo,
Dorothy Von Canon, West End;
dance solo, Becky Markham, West
End; and vocal solo, Roger Gibbs,
Southern Pines.
Trumpet solo, David Duke,
Southern Pines; piano solo, Gra
ham Farrell, Aberdeen; vocdl solo,
Diana David, Pinebluff, accompa
nied by Mrs. Ina L. Bullock;
dance solo, Judy Upole, West End;
piano solo, Carolyn Petty, Pine-
bluff; vocal solo, Jean Franklin,
Southern Pines, accompanied by
Mrs. Bullock; dance trio, Clara
Harper, Nancy Tate and Anna-
deUe Smith, Southern Pines; pi
ano solo, Mrs. Wilbur Currie; song
and dance, Mary Lou Troutman,
Pinebluff, accompanied by Caro
lyn Petty; vocal solo; Sylvia
Thompson, Pinebluff, accompa
nied bv Mrs. Wilbur Cv.rrie; vocal
solo, Mrs. Frank Yandell, South
ern Pines; and the final number,
“The Lord’s Prayer,” sung by
Frank Yandell of Southern Pines.
Mr. Coleman will present the
awards immediately before the
final number.
Tickets may be secured from
any member of the Lions Club in
either West End, Southern Pines,
Pinebluff or Aberdeen.
Kiwanis To Lead
Drive For Coimty-
Wide Polio Shots
Intensive efforts to have every
person in Moore Coimty,; from one
day to 45 years of age, inoculated
with Salk polio vaccine have been
imdertaken by the SandhiU Ki
wanis Club, it was announced
following the regular meeting
Wednesday.
Jimmy Hobbs, club president,
said the club had voted imani-
mously to spearhead the drive af
ter hearing that the number of
people who had not been vacci
nated had reached “alarming pro
portions.”
The club, which has members
from almost every community in
the county, has the full coopera
tion of the coimty’s physicians in
the drive.
“We want everyone vaccinat
ed,” Hobbs said. “The doctors,
who are edso alarmed at the seem
ing disinterest in the program,
which is now nationwide, are of
fering their full cooperation by
charging the minimum fee for
providing and administering the*
shots.”
'The club’s Public Affairs Com
mittee, of which Dr. C. Robert
VanderVoort of Southern Pines is
chairmEm, will be in charge of the
Kiwanis program and wiU. at
tempt to persuade every citizen
in the area to get the shots.
PLANS ANNOUNCED
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sociation. Law Enforcement Of
ficers association. Sandhills Ki
wanis club and numerous other
civic and church groups in the
county.
Initial steps toward organiza
tion have been taken under lead
ership of a temporary group of
officers .consisting of Dr. R. M.
McMiUan, Southern Pines, chair
man; Clinton W. Areson, South
ern Pines, secretary-treasurer;
John S. Ruggles, Southern Pines,
membership chairman; meetings
and publicity^ Dr. Fred W. Lang-
ner and Mrs. Valerie Nicholson,
Southern Pines; and other direc
tors Rev. John A. Brown, Dr. J.
C. Grier, Jr., S. D. Sherrerd, Rev.
Thomas Young, Pinehuist; Rev.
F. Eugene Deese, Lawrence M.
Johnson, Aberdeen; C. J. Mc-
Donetld, Rev. W. S. Golden, Car
thage; W. S. Scoggin, Robbins;
Mrs. James Boyd, Miss Alma
Chalker, Rev. Peter M. Denges,
W. H. FuUenwider, Voit Gilmore,
Dr. Vida C. McLeod, J. M. Pleas
ants, John L. Ponzer, Dr. J. W.
WiUcox, Southern Pines.
An entirely new slate of offi
cers will be presented Monday
night for election by the mem
bership to guide the organization
through tis first year.
As stated by the temporary
president. Dr. McMillan, the
Moore Clounty Mental Health
association has no connection
with any other organization,
of similar name or purpose,
which has ever existed previous
ly in this area.
Everyone interested is invited!
to attend the organization meet-|
ing, tp become a member if hej
wishes or just to “find out whati
it is all about.” ■
Theatre Group To
Present “Blithe
Spirit” Tonight
'The Caravan-Pinehurst 'Theatre
group, obviously pleased with the
response to last week’s production
of “Bell, Book and Candle,” will
present another comedy this week
end, with the opening perform
ance tonight at 8:40.
'The play is “Blithe Spirit,” Noel
Coward’s farce that tells the story
of a novelist who persuades a me
dium to hold a seance in his home
so that he might study her as a
character for a novel. Fred Car-
michaeL Barbara WUlgohs and
Pegeen Rose will be seen in lead
ing roles with Carol Arata and
Steve Dunn in support.
Two guest performers will also
have roles: Marian Baer of Rye,
N. Y., who will play the role of
the medium, and Judy Prince of
Pinehurst, who has a supporting
role. Miss Prince appeared in
‘"rhe Common Glory,” first as a
soloist and later as a member of
the cast, for the first five years of
its run. I
held following the performance
tonight, to which the audience is
invited to meet members of the
cast.
Tickets for the production may
be obtained by calling the theatre
or visiting the box office. In
Southern Pines, the public may
make reservations through Bar-
num Realty and Insurance Com
pany.
Special Offer
Because of the interest shown
by many young people in the area
in the forthcoming production of
“Dial M for Murder,” which will
be the production next week, a
si>ecial offer is being made them
by the theatre management.
“AU high school students at
tending the play will pay full
price for the first ticket purchas
ed and only half price for the sec
ond one,” said Fred Carmichael,
co-producer. The offer applies
only for Saturday and is good
only in the balcony.
More than 40 million Ameri
cans own more than 40 billion
dollars worth of series E and H
Savings Bonds. The H Bond pays
interest by check twice a year.
In three years over $3 billion of
An informal coffee hour will be' these have been bought.
RED CROSS
(Continued from Page 1)
Gifts, $4,200; Pleasant Hi11_ Mrs.
Leon Howard, $20; Robbins, J. A.
Culbertson, $700; Roseland, M. T.
Ball, $35.
Spies, Dan Dunlap, $15; Taylor-
town, Mrs. R. B. Crutchfield,
chairman, Mrs. Rosa Watlington,
vice-chairman, $200; 'The Horse
shoe, Mrs. W. G. Caldwell, $25;
Union Church, James Shaw, $25;
Vass, Woman’s Club, Mrs. How
ard Gschwind, $350; West End, G.
A. Munn, $400; Westmoore, Clin
ton Comer, $70; West Southern
Pines, Felton Capel, $200; and
White HUl, Mrs. Arthur Gsiines,
$55.
The Wleigh-a-day-a-month milk
recording plan is the latest ar
rival to the national dairy pro
duction testing family. This
makes a total of three plans spon
sored by the Dairy Husbandry
Research Branch, USDA, through
the State Agricultural Extension
Service for use by dairy farmers.
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