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VOLUME 28 NO. 2
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Soulhern Pines. N. C., Friday, December 6,. 1946.
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
4 Testimonial Dinner For Football
. Team Held Here Wednesday Night
First Team Players
Recognized; Coaches
Receive Surprise Trip
The same enthusiasm that has
attended Southern Pines football
games through the past season
was in evidence at the testimon
ial dinner the local Elks lodge
gave in the team’s honor at the
Country Club here Wednesday
night.
The same people that sat cheer
ing from the stands as the local
six stacked up victory upon vict
ory, convened in the Country
club dining room to recognize the
team, their managers and cheer
leaders, as a group and indivi
dually, for the fine spirit and
sportsmanship they have shown.
Following the dinner. Dr. G. G.
Herr, one of the team’s most ard
ent Buppovters, presented gold
footballs from himself and his
daughter, Seigar, to star and
letter men including: Robert Har
rington, Ted York, Fred Arnette,
Robert Straka, Robert McLeod,
Alton Blue, Clyde Smith, Eugene
Maples, Joe Bennett, Tomipy
Grey, Billy Baker, Jim McCall,
Gary Mattocks, T. K. Campbell,
and manager Bill Warner.
Coach A. C. Dawson gave stars
to Harrington, York, Arnette,
Straka and McLeod, all of whom
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Leaders In Seal
Drive Announced
Community chairmen for the
40th annual Christmas seal drive,
that got underway here last Mon
day, have been announced by
Mrs. Anna F. Cheatham, Moore
County chairman, who has di
rected the county campaign for
the past 17 years.
Only a few of the letters
containing seals which were
mailed to local residents
Monday. November 25. have
been heard from. Chairman
Patterson' and Treasurer
Kelsey reported yesterday
"It's just as we feared. Peo
ple are pigeon-holing themi
with all good intentions, but
we want those dollars now."
Mr. Patterson said.
^The chairmen are: Aberdeen
Mrs. Kitty Page Blackmore;
Cameron, W. C. Stephenson; Car
thage, .Charles J. McDonald; Eu
reka, Miss Mary Black; Eagle
Springs, Mrs. Fletcher Bost;
Glendon, Mrs. W. A. Parson.
Robbins, Arnold Swindell and
W. J. Dunlap; High Falls, Miss
Lucy Reynolds; Jackson Springs,
Mrs. Lola Carter; Mount Holly
club, Mrs. T. J. Seawell; Pine-
bluff, Mrs. Earl Lampley; Pine-
hurst, Mrs. Robert J. Horr; Sam-
arcand Manor, Mis Ruth Ruch-
tContinued on Page 8)
CHILLY FIRE
At 8:25 o'clock Tuesday
morning. December 3, with
the thermometer down to
18 degrees, the Southern
Pines firemen received their
first alarm in over two
months when they were call
ed to the .Churchill house,
on Page street near New
Hampshire Avenue, to ex
tinguish a chimney fire. No
damage was done.
Firecrackers Are
Off Limits When
Used In Towns
Renewed Interest
In Scout Program
Evident At Rally
Burney Calls For
Support Of Parents
In Redruiting Boys
HUNTING BEGINS
Many resic^ents of Moore Coun
ty are about to develop “fire-
crackeritis” as a result of the
use of explosives, and officers
are stressing the fact that in
towns and at places of public
gatherings are “off limits” for
their use.
No firecrackers are sold in Sou
thern Pines, where a license fee
of $500 is required, and there is
a city ordinance prohibiting their
use except by a permit from the
police department, violation of
which is a misdemeanor punish
able by a fine of not less than
$5 and reaching considerably
higher in the discretion of the
judge.
However, Chief Ed Newton re
ports that boys are purchasing
these explosives elsewhere and
bringing them back here to shoot.
Officers in an endeavor to put
a stop to this, have caught a
numbep of first-offenders and
cautioned them and, according to
Chief Newton, these boys have
cooperated; But all have not yet
been rounded up.
In Carthage when the situa
tion began to reach the nuisance
stage, the City Fathers gave pub
licity to the fine hanging over
the heads of any who might be
convicted, and for the past few
days not many crackers have
been heard.
Sheriff C. J. McDonald has re
ceived complaints from West End,
which is not an incorporated
town, hence does not have town
officers to whom complaints can
be made.
Vass commissioners have also
been hearing a number of compl
aints, and residents are hoping
that the situation will soon clear
A membership increase of 50
per cent, four new Boy Scout
troops in the county, and eight
new cub packs for boys between
nine and 12 were cited by A. L.
Burney las the 1947 goals for
Moore County Boy Scouts, at an
enthusiastic rally held at the
community center here Tuesday
at 7:30 p. m.
Mr. Burney, organization and
extension chairman of the Moore
County chapter of Boy Scouts,
pointed out that in the past two
months there had already been
a 16 per cent increase in county
scouts, with two new troops and
two cub packs organized. / “But
this is only a start,” he reminded.
He stressed the importance of
father-son companionship in the
guidance of a boy. “The question
fathers should ask themselves is.
How long does it take to raise
a boy, and what is his value?’ ”
Renewed interest in the Sou
thern Pines scouting program
was evident at the rally, attended
by around 30 scouts, between the
agesof 10 and 15 and 45 parents
and friends. ’
up.
As one citizen expreissed it,
“Aside from the danger to them
selves, young people who feel
that they are mature enough to
handle demolition crackers should
feel too grown-up to do such
childish thiiigs as throwing them
where they could be a menace or
annoying sick and nervous people
with the noise.”
Locals Lose To Lexington, 12-6,
In Close Match For Championship
by June Phillips
louthern Pines for the East
; 1 Lexington Orphanage for
t West battled it out here
T nksgiving for the State Six-
Man (Football championship in
an action packed game that kept
an overflow throng in suspense
for four quarters and the issue
in doubt until the final whistle.
Both teams had come up to
this game undefeated, both
boasting powerful offensives, but
with the Lexington boy^ slightly
favored due to injuries to four
regular starters on the Blue and
White.
The two teams fought each
other to a standstill in the first
half, although in the first quarter
Lexington twice was in the Sou
thern Pines five-yard line but
couldn’t push the ball over as
the Blue and White forwards
threw up' a rugged defense that
Covington, the visitors’ pounding
fullback, couldn’t penetrate, and
a slashing tackle caused Tay
lor to fumble. After a punt ex
change Lexington again was
driving hard toward paydirt
when they recovered a Blue and
Wllite fumble ion the 17, but
again they were halted on the
5.
Backs to Wall
In the second quarter Southern
Pines had their backs to the wall
as the result of a pass intercep
tion by Newcomb and were run
back to the locals’ five-yard line.
Again the Blue and White held
and took over on the 10, when
Harrington broke through to
throw Taylor for a nine-yard loss
on the fourth down.
Early in the third quarter SoU'
them Pines scored when Har^
rington blocked Taylor’s kick
and,recovering the loose ball,
raced over for the touchdown,
but the try for points was block
ed. Lexington came right back
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Roland Bowers, troop bugler,
opened the rally with a call to
colors, followed by a prayer by
the Rev. Tucker G. Humphries.
Col. Donald Madigan, local
scoutmaster, was in charge and
reviewed the situation now fac
ing the local scouts.
“Scouting was one of the first
organizations to suffer when our
attention was directed away
from civilian activities to the
war,” Colonel Madigan said. “To
day the Occoneechee Council is
ready with a finer program than
ever. All that is needed now are
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Stoneybrook Entry
Takes Blue Ribbon
Thirty hunters attended
the drag hunt beginmng at
Mile-Away farmi Thanks
giving morning.
Following this formal op-1
ening, fox hunts are schedul-'
ed every Tuesday and
Thursday morning with drag
hunts on Saturdays.
Ex-Sailor Radiy
Burned In Blaze
Which Razes Home
James Larrimore,
Cameron High School
Student, Is Victim
A horse from Stoneybrook
stables here and ridden by
Stonyebrook’s Mickey Walsh
came through in a jump-off to
take the blue ribbon in the
chief event of the first gymkhana
of the Pinehurst season in the
riding ring of the Carolina hotel
on Thanksgiving day.
The horse, “It’s Up”, that made
the big time recently by compet
ing in the International Horse
show in New York’s Madison
Square garden, won the open
jumping with a perfect perfor
mance over the bars from Mrs.
W. O. Moss of Mile-Away farm.
Southern Pines, who rode Flag
Dola.
The-: gymkhana opened with a
Pet show, which drew a large
entry of dogs of all sorts and a
couple of pets of the odd variety
—a tame skunk and a raccoon.
The skunk, exhibited by Lynn
Sherrard, took first place with
Jill Buffum’s beautiful collie dog
coming in second. The raccoon,
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Lined with cuts and severely
burned from his waist up in a
fire which destroyed his home
and its contents early Thanks
giving Day, James Larrimore,
young white ex-serviceman who
lives out from Cameron, is now
expected to survive although it
was thought that there was little
if any chance when he was ad
mitted to Lee County Hospital
in Sanford Thursday morning.
Details of the fire are lacking,
but the Hoke County sheriff,
who made investigation, said
that the general opinion was that
Larrimore lay down smoking a
cigarette arid fell asleep, then
jumped through a window to es
cape from the burning building.
The fire was discovered about
5:00 a. m. by children of Andrew
Garner, who saw the reflection on
their window and called their
father. It was known that Larri
more planned to attend a ball
game the night before, and his
mother, Mrs. Sarah A. Larri
more, in order not to be alone,
had gone to the nearby home of
her brother to spend the night.
Neighbors who arrived first at
the scene feared that Larrimore
had perished in the flames.
Later, a trail of blood was
found and fears of foul play arose,
to be somewhat allayed when
blood-stained window glass was
discovered. The trail circled for
three-quarters of a mile or more
and led back to the premises,
where Larrimore was found. He
is quoted as saying that he jump
ed out the window, but he was un
able to give an account of the hap
penings, and on Friday, when-he
was visited by the Hoke County
sheriff, was still in such critical
condition that the attending phy
sician did not think it wise for
him to be questioned.
The Larrimore home, which
wasl ocated in Hoke County near
where Moore, Harnett and Hoke
join, was completely destroyed
together with all of its contents
except a few articles which were
on a back porch.
Larrimore served around two
and' one-half years with the U.
S. Navy and since his discharge
several months ago was enrolled
in the high school at Cameron.
County Officials
Sworn In Office
Monday Morning
Clerk Of Court
Administers Oath
At County Courthouse
Moore county’s recently-elect
ed officials in major county posts
were installed at the courthouse
in Carthage Monday at 10 a. m.
when Clerk of Court John 'Will-
cox administered the oath.
The successful candidates in
the November general election
ordinarily take office on Decem
ber 1, which date occurred on
Sunday this year and was thus
postponed.
W. H. Jackson, Jr., of Robbins,
county commissioner; Hugh P.
Kelly of Carthage, county coro
ner; and W. M. McLauchlin of
near Carthage, county surveyor,
were the only new officers in the
group of 12 who were sworn in.
Others taking the oath of of
fice were: county commissioners,
Gordon Cameron, Pinehurst,
John M. Currie, Carthage, T. L.
Blue, 'Vass, and L. R. Reynolds;
sheriff, C. J. McDonald, Carth
age; Register of Deeds, Bessie
McCaskill, Carthage; judge of
Recorder’s court, 'Vance Rowe,
Southern Pines; county solicitor,
Leland McKeithen, Pinehurst.
M. G. Boyette of Carthage, so
licitor of the district court, will
subscribe to the oath before the
first of the year when his term
begins. Wilbur Currie of Carth
age and Clifton Blue of Aber
deen, representatives to the state
legislature from this area, will
not be sworn in until the Gen
eral asembly convenes.
Renown Is Leader
In SP Horseshow
Mrs. Nichols Chairman
Of Hospital Auxiliary
Mrs. M. G .Nichols of Southern
Pines, was re-elected Chairman
of the Moore County Hospital
auxiliary for 1947, at a meeting
held Wednesday in the Nurses’
home. Also re-elected were Mrs.
Paul Dana of Pinehurst, first
vice-chairman, Mrs. H. E. Bow
man of Aberdeen, second vice-
chairman, and Mrs. F. Craighill
Brown of Southern Pines, secre
tary. Mrs. J. B. Edwards of Ab
erdeen succeeds Mrs. Everett
Allen as Treasurer.
Because the first Wednesday
in January falls on New Year’s
day, the annual meeting of the
organization will be held on the
second Wednesday, January 8,
McDonald-Page Motor
Company Opens Here
Renown, seven-year old bay
gelding owned and ridden by
Dwight W. Winkelman, Syracuse,
N. Y., led a string of 20 hunters
over a stiff course of rail jumps
and panel fences to capture the
open hunters class Thursday af
ternoon in the Thanksgiving
horseshow before 1200 people
who surrounded the scenic hunt
ing course at the Southern Pines
Country club.
. Stonewall, a bay gelding owned
by Anne Cannon Reynolds, West
Palm Beach, Fla., with Billy Tate
up, was second in the class. Bally
Bunty, owned and ridden by Mrs.
Fred Wilmhurst, of Rumson, N.
J., was third.
Mickey Walsh’s Hubba Hubba,
a Southern Pines entry, with Mr.
Walsh in the saddle, led a string
of 16 jumpers after a jump off,
to clear the bars at five and
three-quarters feet, demonstrat
ing some of the most spectacular
riding of any shown here this
season.
Say When, an entry from
Stoneybrook stables, ridden by
Miss Joan Walsh, finished sec-
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Announcement of the opening
of the McDonald-Page Motor
company, owned and operated by
Ray McDonald and Chan Page,
was made this week.
Located on the site of the old
Southern Pines garage, the first
in town, it has been remodeled
and showrooms have been built
to display new Plymouths and
DeSotos for which Mr. McDon
ald and Mr. Page will be local
agents. Cleaning, washing and
general repairs. are offered to
keep old cars conditioned until
new ones become more avail
able.
DONT FORGET!
Don't forget to attend the
50th wedding anniTersary of
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hayes at
the book store at 11:00
o'clock Saturday mominsr.
They'll be looking for you.
Local Planes At
Air Show Sunday
Deep Riyer Coal Mine Loeated Near
Cumnoek In Lee County May Open ^
For Operation Within 60 Days
POSTPONED
The gymkhana scheduled
for Sunday, December 8. at
Soulhern Pines has been
postponed, according to an
announcement made Thurs
day by Louis Scheipers,
Chairmna of the Gymkhana
Committee. The new date
will be announced later.
Reported Most
Promising Mine
In Entire State
Flattened Shot Is
Grim Evidence Of
Man’s Close Call
A buckshot which flattened in
to button shape when it struck
Kenneth Womack’s skull isy evi
dence of the close call this young
man of upper Hoke County had
last Saturday in an accident
which occurred while he was
deer hunting with five other men
on his father’s place in the Lo
belia community.
After having had the shot re
moved at Lee County Hospital
in Sanford, Womack stopped in
Vass on his way home Saturday
afternoon and showed the leaden
disk to inquiring friends. He em
phasized the fact that the shoot
ing was purely accidental. Ac
cording to his account, the six
men were hunting when five
deer passed between him and a
man from Fort Bragg, who was
about 150 yards away. Both
Womack and the other man shot.
Approaching, the Fort Bragg
hunter called out: “Did you get
hiih?” Womack replied:“You
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Basketball Season
Is Now Underway
By Jimmy deBerry
The newly activated Southern
Pines Basketball Club dropped
another heartbreaker Monday
night, this time to Pinehurst.
Pinehurst scored a field goal in
the last fifteen seconds to take
the game, 35-34, after a Southern
Pines attempt to freeze the ball
had been foiled. Big Art Pate
scored twelve points for Sou
thern Pines, while Smiley Rain
ey flipped in a like number for
Pinehurst.
The number of spectators was
disappointingly small, possibly
due to a lack of publicity. The
next home game will be played
in the High School gym Monday
night at 8 p. m. against Rob
bins, after a trip to Seagrove Sat
urday night.
The merchants of Southern
Pines have contributed a large
sum for uniforms which will be
duly recognized. To them we
wish to express our appreciation.
An Associated Press statement
last week that the Walter Bled
soe and Company coal mine at
Cumnock in Lee county is “sla
ted to begin operation within 60
days” was termed “too definite”
and ‘premature” by O. G. Gates,
superintendent for the Bledsoe
company, this week.
Mr. Gates said that a repre
sentative of the Greenwood Min
ing company, Scranton, Pa., as
sociate of the Bledsoe interests
which acquired the mine in Au
gust, had visited the mine last
week. The representative said
plans for preliminary work were
pending and a decision to begin
work there might be made with
in 60 days.
A “large scale” development of
the Deep River coal field, lying
in Lee and Chatham counties,
northwest of Sanford, was fore
cast last August when the Bled
soe and Greenwood companies
leased extensive areas or mining
rights at the Deep River field.
The Bledsoe company is describ
ed as one of the largest coal-pro
ducing organizations in the
States.
According to Mr. Gates, it will
take several months to get the
mine ready to produce coal bn a
paying basis. “We could mine
coal- today, but we could not
mine it economically. You can’t
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British Officer
Kiwanis Speaker
Rear Admiral John G. Dundas.
C.B.E., Chief of Staff in the Med
iterranean, British navy ,in an
address to the Sandhills Kiwanis
Club, at the Southern Pines Coun
try Club, Wednesday, paid tri
bute to American gunnery in the
shooting down of enemy aircraft
in the North Sea and to the fine
spirit of co-operation of the All
ied Navies.
He related his experience in the
evacuation of Dunkirk and told
of removing 250,000 British and
French troops. He declared in all
of his naval experience he had
never before seen so many diff
erent kinds of ships as were put
into use in the evacuation. He
explained that these troops were
landed at Dover with no guns,
equipment or food. This immed
iately placed a serious problem
before the Army Chief of Staff
to get these men re-armed to
fight again.
Admiral Dundas spoke briefly
of the splendid cooperation of the
American fleet in 1942 in con-
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Gay Christmas Foreseen For Tot-Age
(
Youngsters In Galaxy Of Toys
Several planes from the South
ern Pines area were included in
the large number that centered
the attention of the thousands of
persons who were present Sun
day for the dedication of the fine
new Rockingham-Hamlet air
port.
Resort Airlines sent a Seabee
for demonstration purposes with
Frank Morrow and Walker
Menne in charge.
From Skyline, Harold Bach
man and Dr. George Heinitsh
flew down in a new Cessna,
which was on display along with
another of the same type which
Gordon Brown piloted for the
new owner, Austin Goolsby.
Andy Green flew an Aeronca; C.
N. Bradshaw and Virgil Clark
attended in a Stearman biplane,
(and Bu^on (Biiown and Bill
Bachman went in a Taylorcraft.
If the toys in local stores are
to be taken as an example, San
ta’s pack is going to be a noisy
one this year, clanging and jang
ling with metal playthings, the
likes of which have not been
seen since before the war.
Although indications are that
mommas and poppas are doing
their shopping early this year,
many counters are still full of
shiny metal trucks, cars, guns,
airplanes, 'fire engines, wagons
and games.
Brown’s Auto Suply company
has the largest offering at this
time. Pistols galore, both cap and
automatic variety, tricycles,
skates and wagons occupy one
half the store, making it look
like Santa’s re-loading station.
This is the first time since
1941 that steel has appeared in
children’s toys. Quality of the
goods as well as quantity has
made merchants and shoppers
happier than in preceding years
when substitutes resulted in
makeshift articles. .
The Sports shop still hks a
number of toys, although most
of the ones left are along the ed
ucational line. There are wood-
burning sets, microscopic sets
and musical instruments such as
banjos and xylophones." •
The trend of the times is re
flected in many items such as
the well-known black toy revol
ver, so dear to the hearts of cow
boy - and - Indian - age young
sters. The latest model encases
batteries, bulb, film and lens, and
at the squeeze of a trigger,
throw pictures on the wall or
ceiling of a darkened room. The
films cover such subjects as at
omic power. United States presi
dents and “Robinson Crusoe.”
The five - and-ten has a good
supply of toys, specializing in the
miniature house furnishings and
aluminum kitchen utensils. Four-
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