4 t: € VOL. 28. NO. 18 16 PAGES THIS WEEK SoHthern Pines, N. C.. Friday, March 28. 1947. 16 PAGES THIS WEEK TEN CENTS Drys Counter Legislation Proposal With Referendum Plan Of Their Own Issue At Peak As Assembly Nears End The “liquor question,” which referendum proponents had de clared should lie quiescent until the right to a popular vote was established, has risen right up in the past few days, as those who feel retention of liquor controls in Moore county might be the part of wisdom tried to get to gether with those who want them removed. It was checkmate this week as referendum forces, when offered a plan for legislation for a vote on the ABC stores, decided they did not like it; and proceeded to draw up a counter plan of their own, in legal form like the other ready for the legislative hopper. And there is yeU a third plan in the running, one which Repre sentative H. Clifton Blue, queried this week by The Pilot, says thinks will take ■ care of the sit uation and which he personally intends to follow. Finding neither .proposal satisfactory to both sides, he withdrew to a position he had held before-that of offer ing no legislation at all, and lett ing the referendum come, about, if it will, through procedure set up by North Carolina law.. He said, however, he reserved the right to act as he saw fit re garding any legislation Senator W. H. Currie might offer. . About the only thing every body seems to agree on—and this in itself is a triumph for those seeking to abolish controlled liquor sale here—is the people’s right to have a referendum if they want it. The first plan, reported to have Senator Currie’s favor,,was drawn (Continued on Page S') BALL TEAM Southern Pines is to have a baseball team again this year, to play in a semi-pro league now being organized to go into action around the first of May. The league will include Raeford, Laurinburg, Aber deen, Rockingham and either Hamlet or Bennettsville. At an informal meeting held Wednesday night at the Community center, it was decided to sell stock in the^ Southern Pines . Baseball club, at $10 a share, with half shard ? also on sale. C. N. Page was named business manager, and A. C. Dawson, who presided over the meeting, is to be league director. West End Game Opens Baseball Season Thursday Six Weeks' Series Schedule Announced Practice Under Way NCEA Election Is Awaited With Much Interest Local Group At Asheville Includes Candidate Dawson Forest Fire Damage Reported; Cooperation Asked Moore County Forest Warden Ernest W. Davis and James A. ■Pippin, district forester of the North Carolina Forest service, this week released the following figures on forest fire damage in • the county during the calendar year 1946. Moore county . had 66 forest fires during 1946. Causes were as follows: campers and hunters -3 fires; railroads - 2 fires; debris burning - 6 fires; smokers - 23 fires; lumbering - 1 fire; miscell aneous - 31 fires. A total of 10,302 acres were burned, including 1,162 acres of merchantable timber, 7,253 acres of young growth, and 1,887 other acres. The approximate total damage based on state-wide appraisal figures was $12,000, Moore county has a total of 306,904 acres of woodlands and 3.3 percent of the forest area was damaged by forest fires. This re presents a decrease of 10 per cent in both number of forest fires and acres of woodlands dam aged, based on forest fire records for the last five years in Moore county. Forest Warden Ernest W. Davis stated that climatic conditions during the spring of 1946 were (Continued on Page 5) Government Seizes Carthage Weaving Company’s Plant The Carthage Weaving com pany, owned by Van B. Sharpe, of Pinehurst and Carthage, was attached and sealed last Friday by the U. S. commissioner of in ternal revenue for North Caro lina, for non-payment of federal taxes. A placard on the door an nounces its seizure “by virtue of warrant for distraint,” and a U. S. Treasury seal is over the lock. It was not known what other property of Sharpe’s, if any, has been seized. It has been learned that nothing has been heard from the government in respect to Sharpe’s Moore Central railway, placed in receivership two-weeks ago through action of a group 6f Carthage citizens. The probability is that only the weaving company is involved. Application has been made for a 30-day extension of time over the 20 days allowed C. W. Short receiver, to prepare a survey of the railroad and to get estimates on the cost of putting it back into operation. A hearing was set for Wednesday of this week, but, aside from the fact that Short has flu, it was reported to have been found impossible to com plete the work by this tiihe. ■ A Raleigh company is at pres ent' estimating on the rebuilding of the track and equipment, and _ contractor was expected in this week to estimate on the rehabili tation of four trestles along the 10-mile spur. A preliminary estimate arriv ed at by Short set the minimum (Continued on Page 8) AIRPORT FIRE Raiort Airlines, Inc. at Resort airport was garvely threatened for a time Tues day night by a brush fire which sprang up in the woods to the northwest of the field, and spread rapidly in the wind. With the alarm given about 10 o'clock, the fire con trol service and airport per sonnel fought the blaze for an hour and a half, finally gelling it under control just short of the runways. All the company's planes were endangered except one I which was at LaGueirdia field. N. Y. The fire was first seen by J. A. Solelher of the Resort staff, who was teaching a ground school class, and who promptly rounded up help by telephone. The fire dwtroy- ed timber over an estimated dozen acres. Thik( was the second fire to threaten the tirport within a month. The baseball season will open for the Southern Pines High school team with a game next Thursday, April 3, with West End, to be played here, it was announced this week by Coach A. C. Dawson. In fact, with a lively basket ball season now at an end, spring is ushering in a whole series of baseball games for the local lads, and diamond fans may look for ward to excitement from April 3 until the middle of May. The complete schedule as an nounced by Coach Dawson fol low: April 3, with West End, here; April 9, with Aberdeen, here; April 11, with Robbins, here; April 15, with Jonesboro, there; April 16, with Cameron, here; April 18, with Pittsboro, here; April 22 (or 23—exact date to be announced later), with Jonesboro, here; April 25, with Robbing', there; April 28, with Cameron, there; April 30, with Carthage, here; IVfay 2, with Car thage, there; May 6, with West End, there; May 9, with Aber deen, there; May 13, with Pitts boro, there. A big highlight of the baseball season will also be the Wake Forest-Cornell game, to be held on the local athletic field April 8.' Arrangements were made through Wake Forest Coach Jim Weaver, brother of Southern Pines Superintendent Philip Weaver. Sponsored by the city planning board for the benefit of the fund for development of the athletic field, the game repre sents a return to a happy pre-war custom of bring big-time collegi ate games here. This one should be a treat for all local fans, and should also bring many visitors from other points in the state. The athletic field house, built from a Quonset hut through the generosity of an anonymous donor, should also add greatly to the pleasure of the games for both the teams and fans. Rapidly nearing completion by E. J. Aus tin, contractor, the field house will have dressing rooms for the teams and the public. It repre sents fulfillment of one of many long-felt wants of the athletic field—and a most important one. Tryouts are now being held for the high school baseball team, and practice, delayed for a time by bad weather, is well under way. Moore County Hounds Sponsor Hunter Trials As Initial Events Of Sandhills’ New Show Grounds Entries Coming Fast For Easter Show; Over 100 Horses Expected A delegation from the Southern Pines school faculty left yester day morning (Thursday) for the NCEA state convention at Ashe ville, which is being held through this weekend, and where elections for state officers should indicate the feelings of the majority re garding the opposing NCEA-South Piedmont views. In the local group were A. C. Dawson, high school principal, of four candidates for the one office of vice president; Mrs. Ruth Swisher, who as his campaign manager has been active over several weeks, and is no doubt continuing her activity at Ashe ville; Miss Martha Langston and Mis^ Hope Bailey. Ballots cast in election of local units all over the state are to be opened Saturday, with results made known Sunday. With entries in from the two Oarnlinas, 'Virginia, New York and Canada, and more arriving daily, it is now expected that well over 100 horses will compete in the spring horse; show of the Sandhills Racing and Horse Show association, scheduled for Easter Saturday and Sunday. The first entry received was that of Dwight Vi,. (“Gappy”) Winkelman, II, for “Flying Ti ger,” whom the 13-year-old hunt er and jumper horseman of Sou thern Pines and Syracuse, N. Y., has hunted this season with the Moore County Hounds. Cappy took a blue ribbon last year with another of his mounts, “Grey Mist.” Other entries include those of Lex Marh, Charlotte; W. O. Buie, High Point; Lindsey Holcombe, Mt. Airy; John Francis, Mr. and Sandhills League Match Series Starts Wednesday In the Southern Pines umt,; ^ shuford, Charles and Dawson received WO per cent of - ^ Hickory; Dr. N. G. Baird) 17 votes cast, with R. L. Fritz i g. McIntyre, III, D. T. of Hudson receiving 13 votes for j ^ — president, against four votes for elude Grigg of Albemarle, his opponent. Scattered announcements, off icial and unofficial, from widely separated points have paired Fritz and Dawson together as a potential winning team, and in dicate the South Piedmont plan, for which they stand, has found much favor. An unofficial report indicates they carried the Moore County unit preponderantly. Sim ilar returns have come in from the Hickory unit, where Dawson e- ceived 86 votes-,' "with his op ponents receiving from zero to four. It has been reported also that Fritz and Dawson have won majority votes in Mecklenburg, the Greensboro city unit and also in Stanly county, home of Grigg. The issue to which the election gives expression have been hard- fought ones in NCEA ranks, with varying plans for raising teacher salaries as their basis, and the entire state, including those who determine its appropriations, is watching with interest the action at Asheville this -weekend. Lambeth, Lumberton; O. O. Whitlock, Wilmington; Bayne Walker, Greensboro; Charles Lewis (“Chuck”) Haywood, III, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Henkel, ’Tur- nersburg; Lt. Col. H. H. Beving- ton. Fort Bragg; A. C. Alexander, Lloyd M. Tate, Bob Hobson, Pine hurst; J. B. Westbrook, Colum bia, S. C.; U. S. Randle, Camden, S. C.; Rick Coker, Hartsville, S. C.; Mr. and Mrs. George Green- halgh. Berryville, Va.; Vernon Cardy, Montreal and Southern Pines; Dwight W. Winkelman, Syracuse, N. Y., and Southern Pines; Mr. and Mrs. Ozell Moss, Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy, M^’s. J. C. M;echling, James Collins, Harold Collins. Southern Pines. Information and box ^eat res ervations may be had by calling Southern Pines 7191, or by -writ ing John L. Bowens, manager Sandhills Horse show, P. G. Box 448. The horse show office is in Belvedere Hotel building. Cardy* Moss, Walsh Stables Are Winners In Feature* Classes Crowd Braves Wind To See Fine Show Moss and Cardy Horses Dominate Show at Camden HOSPITAL AUXILIARY The monthly meeting of the Moore County Hospital auxiliary will be held at the Nurses’ home Tuesday morning, April 1, at 10:30 o’clock. Andrew Eadie Makes ileroic Rescue Phillips Russell Tells Historians To Traek Down Unrecorded Lore Andrew M. Eadie, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Eadie of May street, saved the life of a five-year-old lad of Warwick, R. I., in a tragic accident there last week. A second child, a boy of only four, lost his life when the two broke through rotten ice on a lake near their home. Eadie, attracted by the screams of a woman who had observed the youngsters in the water, se cured a skiff and pushed it out over the ice. He pulled both chil dren from the water, and success fully completed the perilous trip back. However, it was found that the younger boy had already died of drowning. Andrew Eadie spent his boy hood here, attended the Southern Pines school and State college, and was a member of the Sou-th- ern Pines Boy Scout troop. He now lives in Providence. POLIO CONFERENCE Members of the Moore County chapter of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis have been invited to a statewide pre paredness conference on polio myelitis, to be held at Goldsboro April 3 by the National Founda tion and the state department of health. The conference, first of its kind, will be attended by local health and Foundation officials, welfare and school personnel and leaders of clubs interested in polio prevention. Local history as yet unrecord ed, preserved only in places, rel ics and fee memories of the old, is a fertile field for study and far more rewarding than history learned from textbooks, a small but appreciative audience was told by Phillips Russell, Univer sity of North Carolina professor of history and journalism, at the March meeting of the Moore County Historical association Tuesday night. Professor Russell, author, jour nalist and president of the North Carolina Society of County His torians, took his audience severe ly to task for neglecting many liv ing evidences of history all about them, while conunending them for the start they have' made in the restoration of the Shaw house. The Shaw house, he said, is well worthy, of preservation, and of fulfilment toward its prom ise of being a real museum of Moore Coimty history. With it as a nucleus, he suggested that the association widen its scope to dis cover the true facts of the story of Southern Pines, of other coun ty communities and finally of the county as a whole, recording abundantly as they go along. Historic Figures His specific advice spoke elo quently of hi|3 own deep know ledge and love for the Sandhills. Born in Rockingham, he said he “remembered well these sandy roads from childhood.” Yet, learn ing of Revolutionary generals from his textbooks, he learned nothing of Richmond county’s own General Harrington until adult years, then had great dif ficulty locating his grave. • There is some evidence, he said, that Flora McDonald lived m Moore county, and that when her husband went to war it was on a Moore County farm that she remained to await his return. If this is true, it is recorded no where. lYhy, he asked, should not the local historians track down-the clues—verify the story- one way or the other? In some Scotch history books, he said, it i/j not even recorded that she came to this country at all. “Children should learn the liv ing stqry of their own town and county first of all! This is what they are interested in—this is what will make the past come alive. Throw aside the textbooks, with their dull dates and facts re lating to every par^ of the world but their own! It’s far more im portant for a child.of the Sand hills to learn the .story of the Cape Fear than of the Euphra tes, or to see the actual spot Corn wallis passed than the date of the battle of Yorktown—a date which I never learned myself, and it doesn’t matter,” he said with a smile. “And as for you grown folks-- it’s very well to collect old furni ture and glass, but how about old facts—old folks—old legends? History is a living thing. History NMlected “Some may thin^ Moore coun ty’s history is slight and of little value, and it may be if you go by what has been written down —but I see it as vivid, ridi and (Continued op Page 8) With six Country Club teams playing 10 matches each—five at home and five away from home— the Sandhills Golf league has mapped out a busy schedule for its tournament season of two months, beginning the first week in April and continuing through the first week in June. Play will be on every Wednes day for the 10 weeks, with no game of the series canceled on ac count of weather. If a game is rained out another day will be set, or the match will be played at the end of the series. The series will conclude with a grand tournament on a date in June yet to be set, played at one of the member clubs with the Southern Pines club as a strong contender for the honor. The Southern Pines Country club team, sponsored by the Sandpipers club of local rnen golfers, will play the following schedule: aU away from home, April 2, Richmond County Coun try club; April 9, Lumberton; April 16, Laurinburg; April 23, Fayetteville; April 30, Wades- boro; at home. May 7, Richmond County; May 14, Lumberton; May 21, Laurinburg; May 28, Fayetteville; June 4, Wadesboro. A strong array of golfers has come out for the Southern Pines Country club team and it is ex pected that a majority of them will play in each series. They are follows: Jack Carter, Arthur Atherton, Meredith Hearndon, William Wiggs, Howard Burns, John Underwood, Henry Graves, Bob Page, Jr., Emerson Humph rey, William Wilson, Tony Moh- tesanti, Angelo Montesanti, Dante Montesanti, N. D. Howard, Pat Patterson, Dick-Sugg, Elmer Davis, Boots Matthews, P. V. Hatch, Philip Torza, L. H. (iherry, Jr., Bert Weatherspoon, George Pottle, Hermann Grover, Dan Farrell, Philip Weaver, A. C. Dawson, Eugene Maples, Tommy Grey, Claude Reams, J. K. Mason, Harold Hoffman, Barrett Harris, Harry Chatfield, Charles Everest, (Continued on Page 8) Horses owned by Vernon G. Cardy of Montreal and Vernon Valley Farm, Southern Pines, and those being stabled at or owned by the Mile-Away Farm were the 'oig winners at the Cantiden, S. C., horse show which last Saturday officially opened the 1947 show season in the Carolinas. Mr. and Mrs. Ozell Moss were particularly successful with the young horses in their training school, earning three firsts, four seconds and two thirds, and the Cardy horses won two of the three principal events, the Open Working Hunter and the Light weight Hunter, and also took the reserve hunter championship, four seconds and several other :ibbons. Cardy’s “Lightland,” American hunter champion of 1944, winner of the Lightweight Hunter class in Madison Square Garden in 1946, proved to be in top form to win the lightweight event oyer an outstanding flield including “Bealewalk,” brown colt owned Mrs. Forrest Sherman of The horse world of Southern Pines appeared tremendously sat isfied this week with the success of the Moore County Hounds hunter trials Wednesday after noon; at how well the new show grounds worked out despite high winds and the fact that the fields are not yet grassed; and particu larly with the fact that the four major winners of the trials were the Mile-Away Farm, Vernon Valley Farm, and Stoneybrook Farm, the three major stables of the district. Actually Vernon G. Cardy’s Vernon Valley Farm entries, by taking two of the four major events, played the big role in the show, but the outstanding show ing of the Walsh hunt team, rep resenting Stoneybrook Farm, and the brilliant performance of Mile- Away’s Dark Victory in the mid dleweight hunters put a shining light on both of *the latter wins. Judges Fred Bontescou, of Mill- brook, N. Y., and Ernest White, of Syracuse expressed them selves as enthusiastic over the high standard of competition. And the crowd of several hun dred spectators, comfortably watching from their cars parked on the gently sloping hillside from which the entire course was , visible, expressed them selves as more than pleased at the line layout of the new grounds, on which work has been going on with feverish but effec tive haste for the past few weeks to get them in good shape for this event and the forthcoming Easter show. For once the sec tion has a showground with plenty of room for all. Hunter Teams The Stoneybrook Stables’ .hun ter team, captained by Mickey Walsh, tourned the two-mile “Swamp Fox” course to win (Continued on Page 5) by , , Washington, D. C. and ridden by Mrs. Moss. The Vernon Valley Farm chestnut thoroughbred was later named Reserve Hunter Champion. The Canadian owner rode his personal mount, “Times Square,’’ to win the Open Working Hunter over a ’field of 34 entries. It was the first appearance for Cardy and the big brown horse in the show ring since he won the Open Green Hunter class at the Royal Winter Fair at Toronto last year against an international field of (Continued on Page 5) CHILD HURT The high March wind caused one of the strangest and saddest accidents of the year at Carthage Tuesday. Playing in the pichoolyard shortly after noon, little Grace Frye, eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Frye, was struck by the school flagpole, an unus ually tall and heavy one. when it was blown over by :':he wind. Taken at once by ambu lance to the Moore County hospital it was found she had a fractured skull, with a bad head wound; a broken arm, and severely bruised chest. Her condition was re ported to be critical. Fashion Show Draws Oh’s and Ah’s As Lovely Models Show New Styles "Nation's Top Golfer" Spends Night Here Coinciding nicely with an ar ticle in Life rating him as “the nation’s best golfer since Bobby Jones,” Ben Hogan, of Fort Worth, Tex., arrived Sunday to spend the night in Southern Pines before playing in the Pinehurst amateur-pro foursome Monday afternoon. , With Mrs. Hogan, he was a guest at the Belvedere hotel. Timing was good also on an other of the Pinehurst players, Dick Stranahan, whose name was in banner heafeines Sunday as he led at the half in the Greater Gteensboro Open with a score of 67. Beauty and fashion paraded in the full flowering of postwar charm at the Easter Fashion Promenade, revived for a gay and fashionable audience at the Car olina Hotel ballroom, Pinehurst, Monday evening. . , Looking as far from mundane things as the topflight fashion designers could make them, the gala new styles performed the practical service of raising over $1,500 for local organizations, the Moore County Hospital auxil iary, the Moore County Historical association. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Many agencies cooperated in the gala benefit affair. Local women and winter visitors Ser ved as committee members and patronesses. Some also served as models, equaling in glamor and charm four professional models secured through Razook’s, and flown from New York City by Resort Airlines as their contribu tion to the success of the show. And the designers-including such names as those of Anthony Blotta, Hattie Carnegie, Txaina- Norell, Rosenstein and Maurice Rentner, had outdone themselves in providing the most distinguish ed and enchanting of the advance spring styles. New Fashion Notes The longer street skirt, the shorter dance' frock, the moulded hiplines and rounder shoulders, the radiantly feminine look of every creation, drew admiration and even applause. Moving down a specially built runway banked with Easter flowers, the youth ful models were the personifi cation of charm and grace. Madame, Razook opened the show with a few words of thanks to Mrs. George C. Marshall, hon orary chairman; Mrs, Harry Norris, chairman, and others who had put their time and talents into the show. Walter Scott’s orchestra played a running ac companiment as the mannequins paraded in their glory, and Miss Virginia Adams, of Germaine Monteil Cosmetiques, New York, made a descriptive presentation of each gown. (Continued on Page 8)

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