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VOL. 26. NO 31.
Southern Pines. N. C., June 28. 1946
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Sports Run Gamut Of Activity With
Tennis, Golf, Softball Tournaments
Part Of Full Summer Program For All
Dawson Doing Top Job"*"
As Coach-Coordinator
Sanclay Baseball holds the
limelight of the local summer
sports, but there are several other
groups of organized sports now
hard pushing the Sanclay Leagu
ers for top popularity spot.
On Wednesday the Southern
Pines Sanclay team downed Troy
to the close score of 4 - 3, Vest
pitching the entire game for the
home team, each team' getting .
8 hits. Troy scored all three runs
in the 3rd, while Southern Pines
took their one run in the third
and three in the sixth.
The Southern Pines team of
Sandhills Golfing League bids
fair to be the champs of all the
nearby towns. As yet the golfers
have to taste their first defeat,
beating Wadesboro on Wednes
day 19 1-2 to 10 1-2 for their fifth
straight win.
Also of great interset through
out the community is the Sum
mer Sports Program that has
been put into effect through the
Agencies.
Part of the Summer Sports Pro
gram is the new golfing instruct
ion set-up started yesterday at
the Country Club for youngsters
between 10 and 18. A. C. Dawson
will be at the Golf Club to hold
group and individual instruction
Thursdays and Fridays for boys
and girls respectively.
Of special interest is the for
mation of a Softball League be
tween the four townships of Sou
thern Pines, Pinehurst, Aberdeen,
and West End. Chan Page has
been instrumental in getting the
Southern Pines team together,
cooperating^ with A. C. Dawson.
To date the weather has rained
out two games. West End has won
one from the SP team, while on
Wednesday at Pinehurst the local
team fell to Pinehurst 5-0. These
games will be played at night in
Pinehurst as soon as the lighting
equipment can be installed. The
next game will be here in Sou
thern Pines today, with Aberdeen
at 6 o’clock.
An archery range has been set
up at the Country Club out by the
Bar-B-Que pit and three bows
with plenty of arrows are on hand
for any and all who care to have
a fling at the Robin Hood Sport.
In the recent tennis tourna
ment ,the ladies singles went to
Audrey Brown, the ladies doub
les to the team of Audrey Brown
again paired with Miss Shoate
The Mixed Doubles were won by
still again Audrey Brown and
Charles Hackney.
In the Men’s Singles Ed King
of Pinehurst defeated A. Montes-
anti, Jr. 6—3, 7—5, 6—3. And in
the Men’s Doubles a hotly con
tested match went to A. Montes-
anti Jr. and A. Blue, who defeat
ed L. McBride and F. DeCosta
6—2, 5—7, 6—4, 7—5. . .a total of
54 games.
KERBLAM!
The heavens over Southern
Pines have been putting on
quite a show of late. From
sunshine to showers in the
flick of an eye. From blue
clear skies to buckets of
water in the air before stroll
ers can seek shelter. And one
little fellow about four years
old got caught out. . . by a
clap of thunder. He was amb
ling uncoticernedly along be
tween Montesanti's Tailory
and Besrory when the thun-
dergod burst his cloudbag
directly above his head.
Standing a mighty thirty-
odd inches in normal times,
this youngster, from tip of
on-end hair to pavement,
must have streatched the
measuring tape a good five
feet. He lept straight up and
he hit the pavement a-
bellowing and a-running.
with hands clapped to ears.
When last seen l^e was bank
ing for the turn at the corner
at Welch's gift shop, still
bellowing, still holding ears.
But it is authoritatively re
ported that his mother
caught up to him as he was
passing the Post Office.
No Flying Start
This Year For
Sandhills Peaches
New Factory, New Road, Old Peddlers
Are A Sample Of What Transpires
At Busy Chamber Of Commerce Session
OLD AGE?
Bikini To Be Birth Scene Of New Warfare
Most World War 11 Weapons To Be Outdated
Rev. C. H. Storey
Dies In Aberdeen
The Rev. Charlton H. Stbrey,
pastor of the historic Be-
thesda Presbyterian Church, died
suddenly at his home here to
day following a. heart attack suf
fered a week ago.
Ordained in September, 1914,
he held these pastorates; First
Presbyterian Church, Bryan,
Texas, 1914-1920; First Presby
terian Church, Corsicana, Texas,
1920-1923; First Presbyterian
Church, Corpus Christi 1923-1929;
St. Andrew’s Church, Wilming
ton, 1929-1943, and Bethesda
Church of Aberdeen from 1943
until his death.
He was the author of the book,
“The Bible Doctrine of Sin,’’
which was published in 1925.
The funeral was conducted by
the Rev. R. R. Ramsey, pastor
of the Jackson Springs Presby
terian Church and long-time
friend and associate of Dr. Storey,
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The peach crop in the Sand
hills has not gotten off to a fly
ing start In fact, the early Red
Birds and the Mayflowers have
only come to one third of the
owners’ estimates.
The Early Rose and the Jubi
lees, however, promise to be
shipped in the same volume as
last year.
According to local peach au
thorities, the quality so far has
been “pretty good.’’ That’s be
cause “the growers this year have
really picked up drops and spray
ed diligently.’’
But it is still too early to tell
whether or nol; the majority of
peaches have been stung yet or
not. If they have, the worm
blight will take its toll. If not,
a good crop can again roll out
of the Sandhills.
Just this last Monday OPA
came out and lowered the ceiling
on the “North Carolina Variety”
peaches. It was $2.51 per half
bushel, but it is now $2.05. The
full bushel has been lowered from
$4.65 to $3.76. When asked: “What
would you say the reason is be
hind OPA’s Ipwering the prices,
the embittered reply was: “If you
can get any reason out of the
OPA, brother, you’re good”! But
he added: “It’s all based on that
parity set-up of theirs and the
expected crop.”
The height of the peach season
will hit the Sandhills about the
last week in July or the first
week in August, when the Hileys,
This July first may mean the
end of warfare, not warfare as a
whole, but warfare as practiced
and developed by man since the
invention of gunpowder and ar
mor plate. »
The Atomic Bomb will have its
first complete test on this July
first ... on a far-distant group
of Pacific atolls, known as Bikini.
It is possible, according to some
scientists, that Bikini Atoll will
n,o lohger exist on July second,
it' may have been wiped from
the face of the Pacific in the first
test of the atomic blast. But this
is a definitely minority belief.
Nearly one week ago, on June
24, Bikini held a preview. A
dummy Atomic Bomb was drop
ped by a superfortress amid the
yast fleet assembled—42,000 men
4,400 animals, 200 ships and 150
planes. Vice Admiral Blandy ex
pressed his “complete satisfaction
with the dress rehersal.”
This coming Monday will see
the real thing. It will be “Able
Day.” Man has become able to
destroy to a drgree as yet unfath
omable. July 2 will tell the first
chapter of the story.
There will be three chapters
to ^his story, if everything goes
acc6r&ng to plan. The first bomb
dropped will be of the type drop
ped on Nagasaki, capable of dev
astating an area of ten square
miles. The first bomb will be
dropped by a B-29 flying from
Kwajalein Atoll “as close to the
seventy-five ship target array as
the bombardier can put it.”
The second chapter Will cover
a shallow underwater burst of
atomic violence, held three
four weeks later.
The third and final chapter will
be several weeks after the second
test, and this time will be a deep
water blast. This is the chapter
about which least is now known.
When “finis” is written to the
third chapter of the Bikini tests,
a new era will undoubtedly have
begun in warfare. It may mean
the ultimate scrapping of prac
tically all World War II weapons.
But it is feared that the “fission
blast” • of the atomic bomb is but
one of the many deadly weapons
of warfare that will be a part of
this age we have now entered.
We must wait for time to tell.
Young Golfers Get
25c Greens Fees
FREE CLINIC
It has been announced that W.
W. Sherman, new purchaser of
the Southern Pines Country Club,
has started a policy of encour-
agertient to the teen-age golf as
pirants.
Said Sherman: “Today’s young
sters will supply tomorrow’s
great golfers. We can build for
the Club’s future by making it
possible for the youngsters to
get out there and swing those
clubs.”. .
Following up this belief, a new
greens fee has been set up at
the Country Club for those be
tween-the ages of ten and eight
een—a greens fee of twenty-five
cents a day. Saturday afternoons
and Sundays are the only days
that the club courses will not be
available to the youthful golfers.
Much favorable comment has
been expressed by all who have
heard of this low-rate greens fee,
according to A. C. Dawson, who
has agreed to give group as well
as private instruction to the golf
ing youngsters.
Golf instruction for boys began
Thursday, June 27th, and will
be held today for the girls for
Your child's last chance
for free immunization from
Whooping Cough,. Typhoid
Fever. Diphtheria, etc. will
be this coming Wednesday,
July 3, at the Southern Pines
High School.
The Moore County Health
Department announces that
Miss Mary Swett, Public
Health Nurse, will be on
hand to see to it that every
thing runs smoothly and ef
ficiently.
This is a Free Clinic, pri
marily for the white people
of this area who need medi
cal aid for their children.
Clinic hours will be from
10:00 to 11:00 AM. Bring your
children early and help
stamp out disease in Moore
County.
HOLIDAY
Young Democrats
Hold Dinner Meet
At Lakeview Hotel
and the Elbertas hit their peak- the first time.
Carthage To Stage Big Celebration
July 4 .,, Free Auto .. . Beauty Contest
Carthage Jaycees say that the
Independence Day celebration
which they are staging in the
county seat on July 4th will be
the biggest affair of all the sever
al annual events sponsored by
their organization. Archie L.
Barnes, Jr., Chamber of Com
merce president, has invited ev
eryone from “the surrounding
countryside and neighboring
towns” to spend the Fourth in
Carthage, promising “fun for all
the family, all day long.”
The single event of the day
which seems to be drawing most
attention is the baseball game
scheduled at Carthage for the af
ternoon of the 4th, at which a
new Plymouth automobile will be
given to the holder of the lucky
ticket. Mr. Barnnes has announc
ed that the game itself will be
a contest between High Falls and
Siler City. The highly touted Lem
Seawell, the 46-year old man who
still Is going strong as a ball play
er, probably will be on the mound
for the Moore County team.
Events for the all-day celebra
tion at Carthage will begin with
a short concert by the Sanford
High School band at about 9 a.
m. A few words of welcome will
be spoken by Mayor E. J. Burns,
and the fun will be on.
A beauty contest will be staged
during the morning hours to sel
ect a queen for the day and it is
expected that all Moore County
communities will be well repre-
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Some fifty business establish
ments in Southern Pines are
planning to close for the Fourth
of July. As the date comes, this
year, on a Thursday, many of
the food stores are going to
observe their usual Wednesday
afternoon closing; some are; and
many of the other stores also will
close for both days.
The complete list is given, with,
as far as possible, closing times,
in the full page ad carried this
week.
Celebration of the Fourth is
fitting, and such a national holi
day should, surely, be observed
by everybody. Customers will
join with this paper in wishing
all a “Glorious Fourth!”
USES Holiday
No service will be given at the
Pinehurst Fire Station, Pine
hurst, N. C. by the U. S. Employ-,
ment Service or Unemployment
Compensation Commission on
Thursday, July 4th, a legal holi
day..
Two claims will be taken on
qualified applicants for unem
ployment compensation or read
justment allowance on Thursday,
July 11th.
A group of Moore County
Young Democrats, thirty-two in
number, held a dinner meeting at
the Lakeview Hotel, in Lakeview
on Monday night for the purpose
of extending an invitation to the
YDC clubs of the 8th Congress
ional district to hold their meet
ing in Moore County this summer.
The group voted unanimously
to extend the invitation. Several
committees were named to pro
mote the rally, when the invita
tion is accepted, which appears
almost certain. The tentative date
of Tuesday, August 27 has been
set for the proposed rally and it
will likely be held at the club
Chalfonte between Aberdeen and
Pinehurst.
The meeting was presided over
by H. Clifton Blue, Moore County
YDC president, who announced
that he would not be a candidate
to succeed himself at the county
convention to be held, probably
the first part of September. Mr.
Blue has srved as County YDC
president since 1941. Following
Mr. Blue’s announcement a few
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A Russian scientist named
A. A. Bogomolets is upsetting
the applecart of our accept
ed “span of life." Whereas
the Good Book puts three
score ten as a ripe old age,
.according to Bogomolets you
can double that score.
His book the "Prolongation
of Life" claims that old age
is an illness and can be treat
ed as such. Director of the
Kiev Institute of Experimen
tal Biology and Pathology,
discoverer of the famed life
prolonging serum ACS, Dr.
Bogomolets would have one
believe that old age is going
to shift from the sixties to the
hundred and fifties.
Some of the cases cited by
scientist Bogomolets are:
Norwegian Joseph Gurring-
ton who, back in 1797, lived
to be 160. . . . with his oldest
son 103 and his youngest 9.
Then there were the two Hun
garians who were married a
mere 147 years. John Roven
was 172, and Sarah, his lov
ing wife a youthful 164.
Rumor, however, claims
that whatever Dr. Bogomo
lets can do to prolong the life
of others, high blood pressure
prevents his helping himself.
Progress Slow In
Robbins Gunfight
Latest word from Moore Coun
ty Hospital is that Chief Moxley,
Robbins Chief of Police and par
ticipant in the recent gunfight
there, still has the “No Visitors”
sign on his door, but that his con
dition is greatly improved.
It is expected that Chief Mox
ley will soon be able to answer
questions necessary for holding
the Coroner’s Inquest and at that
time much of the confusing testi
mony concerning the shooting
should be cleared up.
Walter Brown, uncle of the
slain Bascom Brown, and twice
shot in the fight, was released
from the Hospital on Wednes
day.
Bascom is buried, not in the
cemetery in Robbins, but in one
that is about seven miles on the
other side, adding another bitter
stroke to the Hemp-Robbins
feu'd.
Possible new light has been
thrown on the affair by the re
ported account of an eye-witness
who was passing by on the other
side of the street when the
trouble broke out.
According to this witness, the
Browns were not under arrest,
as previously reported, but that
Chief Moxley had placed Earl
Bird under arrest. The Browns
saw Bird under arrest and called
out some evidently scathing re
mark to Chief Moxley. Moxley
told Bird to go on to the jail and
went after the Browns.
Three is some confusion as to
whether the Browns pushed the
(Continued on Page 8)
Southern Pines Mayor Announces
Country Club Sale Restrictions
Announcement was made to
day by Mayor O’Callaghan of the
completion of the sale of the Sou
thern Pines Country Club on last
Thursday, June 20th, to W. W.
Sherman of West Hartford, Conn.
The property, acquired by the
Town under terms of leases on
July 1, 1937, and bought on June
12, 1944, for the sum of $20,000,
was sold for $31,000. Mr. Sherman
had made an offer for the prop
erty, operation to be taken over
October 1, 1946, in the amount
of $35,O0O. The difference be
tween his offer and the selling
price, $4,000, was an adjustment
allowed for estimated operating
loss for the summer months.
The Town took the property
over in July 1937 after the Di
rectors of the Country Club in-
formted the Commissioners they
were unable to continue further
operation and it was going to be
necessary to close unless arrange
ments could be made for someone
to operate the club and its golf
courses. The Clubhouse and
courses were very much run
down; sandclay greens and sand-
clay tees were in use at that
time, making it impossible to
compete with Pinehurst, Pine
Needles, and the Mid-Pines Club,
which had recently installed
grass greens. After operating the
club for one year, the Town found
it was necessary to install grass
greens, as well as to re-sod and
re-vamp fairways. During the
nine-year period of operation, the
Town has had an operating loss
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: Docket Full Of Many
Local Improvements
When the Board of Directors of
the Chamber of Commerce held
their regular “fourth Tuesday”
meeting on June 25 th, many
things of considerable interest to
Southern Pines and the Sandhills
were aired. Usually to be seen
and heard in the Civic Club are
the antics of youngsters around
the ping pong table. Last Tues
day there was the comparative si
lence of a more serious body of
business men and women.
At 8:05 p. m. Executive Sec
retary Lennox Forsythe read the
minutes of the previous meeting
and the business session was on.
President Reuben DuBose pre
sided and ten directors were pres
ent five absent.
First discussed was the prog
ress made obtaining subscriptions
for buliding a proposed
factory here. It is expected
that a complete report can be
n\ade on this project within sev
eral weeks.
The equipment and furniture of
the former USO Club was an
nounced as officially purchased
for. the Civic Club.
John Ruggles delivered a bond
covering the positions of the
Treasurer and the Secretary, two
thousand dollars each. The bond
is filed with the Paul T. Barnum,
Inc.
A letter was read from L. T.
“Judge” Avery concerning the
paving of the Fort Bragg road, a
project now in its formative
stages. The letter was turned over
to the Road Committee with in
structions to write letters en
dorsing the project within the
next ten days.
It was reported that Harold A.
Collins had agreed to allow the
Chamber of Commerce to use his
lot for parking area. Other land
owners are to be contacted.
Judge Rowe is to prepare papers
protecting Mr. Collins, so that
when he wants to build his de
partment store there will be no
legal entanglements'.
It was requested that the town
officials be approached concern
ing setting up a special area for
out of town produce sellers. Com
plaint was that these people are
setting themselves up in front of
local stores and dispensing their
merchandise.
Said L. D. McDonald of A & P:
“It’s not so bad their selling their
produce in front of the store, be
cause it’s not often the same as
we carry. But they come in to
g0.t paper bags to put the stuff
in.” A good bit of laughter greet
ed this sally.
It was requested that a yearly
schedule be set up on approved
holidays and all places of busi
ness be contacted for their ap
proval of schedule. This would
eliminate confusion as to opening
and closing of places of business
on holidays.
Robert Reed told of hearing
very favorable comments on our
new highway directory ^ign eight
miles below South Hill. Said sign
was reported to be in very promi
nent location and^ attractively
painted.
At one point the “Highway Di
rectory Sign” was referred to as
a ‘‘Bill Board” and this brought
groans from the assembled men
and women. “Remember Struth-
ers Burt! Never say Bill Board!”
So Highway Directory it is
henceforth. The meeting was ad
journed at 9:40.
JACKS GRILL TO CLOSE
During most of the month of
July, from July 9 to August 1,
Jack’s Grill will shut its doors
for the general purposes of hav
ing an all-’round interior face
lifting. “Jack’s”, alias O. R. Con
rad, assures his many customers
that come the end of July the
doors will reopen and serve one
and all with bigger and better
helpings of everything, in even
slicker and neater surroundings
than present.