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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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