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VOL. 28 NO. 20
TWELVE PAGES
Southern Pines, N. C.- Fiday, April 18. 1947
TWELVE PAGES
TEN CENTS
Rotary Banquet
Tonight Honors
Basketball Teams
Ladies' Night
Also Observed
At Civic Center
An annual event dear to the
hearts of Southern Pines Rotari-
ans, as well as to the high school
boys and girls and to all local
lovers of sports, will take place
tonight (Friday evening) from 7
to 9 o’clock, when the Rotary
club is host to the boys’ and girls’
basketball teams, ' which last
month concluded an unusually
lively season.
The banquet will climax the
season for the players not only
as the tribute of the Rotary club,
but also as the time and place for
the awarding of the highly priz
ed gold basketballs and varsity
letters, presented the boys by
their coach, A. C. Dawson, and
the girls by theirs. Miss Aline
Todd.
The Rotarians will observe
Ladies’ Night at the same time,
bringing their wives and sweet
hearts to the banquet, which will
be served at the Civic Center by
members of the Civic club, head
ed by Mrs. L. D. McDonald.
Through courtesy of James
Warman, proprietor of the Dunes
club, the Dunes club band will
provide dinner music from 7 to 8;
also the Doyle trio of the Village
Inn will furnish their own brand
of entertainment, through cour
tesy of George Buttry.
Morris Johnson, Rotary presi
dent, will preside, and Lloyd T.
Clark, president- elect, will serve
as toastmaster.
Presentation of the gold bas
ketballs and varsity letters will
take place after dinner, and the
teams, numbering 55 young
people altogether, will elect their
honorary captains for the year.
H. N. Cameron is chairman of
the Rotary entertainment com
mittee in charge of the event, as
sisted by Garland Pierce and
Graham Culbreth, and early this
week announced all plans com
plete, and but one regret—that
the parents of the team members
could not also be invited. “It is
simply a matter of space,” he
said. "We will have around 100
present, and that is all that can
be accommodated.”
The banquet will supersede the
regular Friday luncheon meeting
for the Rotarians this week, and
visiting Rotarians are asked to
get make-up cards from the club
secretary to keep their atten
dance up if desired.
Editorial
MISGUIDED IDEALISM
Henry Wallace is a visionary,
a fine man, devoted toi his coun
try, a true seeker after the good.
He sincerely believes that the
United States is being misled in
a moment of greatest crius. He
believes it is his duty to say so
and that, now that he is a private
ctiizen. he is at liberty to speak
his mind.
He surely would be at liberty
to dlo so in his own land, to his
own, people. This is the essence
of democracy. But democracy
ateo means the acceptance of the
will of the majority.
That will is not yet entirely
decided. It is gradually being
crystalized through debate in
our Congress. Here is where'
Wallace should be, helping to de
cide that will. Instead he is pre
senting to the- world a false pic
ture of'American opinion.
In so doing he does a grave
dis(service to the cause of peace,
wthile in so violating the spirit of
democracy he betrays the Com
mon Man of every land.
its
TOURNAMENT DATES SET
The state high school golf tour
nament, to' be held this year at
the Southern Pines Country club,
will take place Thursday and Fri
day, May 8 and 9, according to
word received by A. C. Dawson,
of the Southern Pines High
school, from the North Carolina
association.
The local school will be host
to young golfers from all over
the state, who will play as teams
and will also compete in indivi
dual play for the state champion
ship.
BETTER
The 18th of April in '75
was differesl from the 181h
of April in '47.
Then Paul Revere rode to
call his countrymen to arms
against the British: today hib
descendants and those of the
men stgainst whom he fought
share a common hope for
peace.
And so One World comes
just a little nearer.
Contest Prizes
To Be Awarded At
Historians’ Meet
Here’s Proud Result of Red Cross Drive
Rondlhaler Will
Speak, Historic
Spots Be Visited
Two important announcement^
came this week from Leland Mc-
Keithen, president of the Moore
Cfc(unty Historical )associ|ation—
one concerning the association’s
next meeting, which promises to
be of unusual interest; the other
concerning some very special
guests and honors to be awarded
them.
These guests are two high
school and two elementary grade
pupils from four schols of the
county, winners in the Moore
County Historical contest con
ducted ip all schools of the coun
ty this spring.
Struthers Burt, E. T. McKeith-
en and Philip J. Weaver were
judges, and selected from among
thirteen essays, poems and fea
tures the following, for prizes
listed:
High school division—^first
prize, $10, “History of MoOre
County,” by Lewis W. Pate, 12th
grade. Southern Pines; second,
$7.50, ‘•'Union Church,” by Viola
Fore, 10th grade, Cameron.
Elementary school division—
first prize, $7.50, “History of
Pinehurst,” by Ann Davis, eighth
grade, Pinehurst; second, $5,
‘‘History of Moore County,” by'
Mary Lou Cameron, sixth grade
Aberdeen.
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Team Wins Two
Conference Games
Here This Week
Two Radio Stations Complete Plans
For Stations Serving Sandhills Area
The happy scene above occurred at the Sandhills Kiwanis club luncheon last week, when Moses
C. McDonald, of West End, chairman of the county Red Cross fund drive, invited chapter officers and
community chairmen to be his guests, and. took the occasion to present Col. G. P. Hawes, chapter
chairman, with a check for $17,930.06, campaign cgllections to date. Since then more contributions
have come in, for a total of $18,258.56, far above the quota. In the picture are, left to right, L. L.
Biddle II, Pinehurst chairman; Garland McPherson, chapter treasurer; Miss Marie Shuffler, Eureka
chairman; Herbert G. Poole, Carthage chairman; Chairman McDonald; J. D. Arey, Jr., Aberdeen chair
man; Colonel Hawes; Rev. Harvey McBath. who took over as chairman of feagle Springs for Mrs.
Fletcher Bost when she was hurt in an accident; M rs. Audrey K. Kennedy, executive secretary; David
L. Packard, Pinebluff chairman. (Photo by Humplirey)
POPPY DAY
Fashion note for tomorrow:
a bit of scarlet for your
blouse or lapel! You'll be
able to buy it anywhere
downtown, for tomorrow's
Poppy day, the annual event
sponsored by the American
Legion auxiliary for aid to
veterans and their families.
The poppies are made by
ill servicemen at the Fort
Fort Bragg hospital, and the
money they bring goes to aid,
nof only these men, but the
families of those who died
in the war or who returned,
not to home but to hospitals.
When one of the young
girls assisting Mrs. L. A. Des
Piand, chairman, offers you
a popy for sale, see it as an
opportunity to express, in a
small but effective \7ay>'your
gratitude to these men and
your wish to serve them as
they have served you.
' The price of a poppy is
small—but a lot of them add
up to a lot of help.
Stoenner Band
Here Tuesday For
Firemen’s Ball
Dawson To Head
Enlarged Summer
A Voter Looks Over The Record Play Program
The Minutes Of The Last Meeting
by June Phillips
Snapping back into the win
column after dropping tilts to
West End and Aberdeen, South
ern Pines defeated Robbins High
Friday and Jonesboro Tuesday
for a .500 percentage in the con
ference standing. Both the wins
were costly however, Arnette
first string catcher feoing out of
the Robbins game after being
badly spiked in both hands by
a runner coming home, and Mat
tocks, short stop, getting a
broken finger in the Jonesboro
game.
Tied up with Robbins 5-all in
the seventh. Southern Pines
scored the winning run on Per-
bam’s single. Baker’s sacrifice,
and Blue’s double to the center-
field fence, bringing Perham in.
Final score—Southern Pines 6,
Robbins 6.
The Jonesboro game was a
free hitting and scoring affair,
with Southern Pines out in front
all the way. Featured in the
game was a sizzling double play
that retired Jonesboro in the
sixth inning. Maddox of Jones
boro got on through an error,
and on a three-two pitch Rosser
slammed a hot bounder to Baker
who fielded the ball perfectly,
threw to Perham covering sec
ond, and Perham whipped the
ball over to Blue on first to com
plete the play and retired the
side.
Jonesboro scored three runs in
the seventh but the rally was
shut off when Harrington ground
ed to Perham for the out, and the
final score was Southern Pines
9, Jonesboro 7.
This game was scheduled to
have been played at Jonesboro,
but their too-wet field brought
the game here and Southern
Pines will meet Jonesboro there
on Tuesday. The game with
Cameron, rained out Wednesday
of this week, will be held here
next 'Thursday, all of which, with
the Pittsboro game played here
today (Friday) forcasts a busy
v/eek for the Southern Pines
players.
Royce Stoenner and his orches
tra, featuring Skeets Morris and
Janet Bruce in a galaxy of musi
cal ideas and novelties, have been
secured to furnish the rhythm for
the 14th Annual Firemen’s ball
of the Southern Pines Volunteer
Fire department, which will be
held Tuesday night, April 22, at
the Squthern Pines Country club.
“The Young Man from the
West,” Royce Stoenner, with his
trumpet and sax and his orches
tra, were well on their way to the
top when the war came along,
when the whole orchestra, With
one exception, entered the air
corps. During the past year the
band has been reorganized and
has played in top spots across the
country, including night clubs,
colleges and universities. “A
great band” has been the consen
sus of musical opinion, first fate
in rhythm and in entertainment
value.
Couples only will be admitted
to the dance, for admission of
$2.50, and proceeds will go to the
Firemen’s Benefit fund. The
dance begins at 9:30 and lasts
“until.”
Federal Funds Cut
Lunchroom Costs
With the approval of a $6,000,-
000 appropriation by Congress
for continuation of the school
lunchroom program, the situation
in Moore county loked immed
iately brighter, and, though Su
perintendent H. Lee Thomas said
he had received no instructions
beyond this month, he has been
advised that half the usual
amount of federal funds »will be
available for reimbursement for
March and April lunchroom ex
penses.
Most school lunchrooms of the
county, which were forced to in
crease their prices last month
when the appropriation was cut
eff, have lowered them again,
and with definite assurance that
federal funds will continue
through the year all are expected
to bring prices down to former
levels.
Still problematical is whether
the lunchroom program will be
continued next year, as this may
entail further federal appropria
tions.
Local Team Defeated
By Narrow Margin
Just to keep them from being
too cocky over wins in the first
two matches, players from the
Southern Pines Country club
bowed to those of the Laurin-
biij-g club there 23-19, in the
Sandhills Golf League match
played Wednesday.
A delegation of 28 players went
down from the local club, making
14 matches' played for the close
total score. The Southern Pines
club will play the Fayetteville
club team, there, next Wednes
day.
"Town Meetin' " And
Election On Way
Cause Pondering
Town election tithe calls for a
brief review of tlte happenings
of the past two years while our
present board and mayor have
held sway. A picture of much that
has taken place may be gained
from" a peAisal of the mirititbS of
the town meetings to be found in
the big ledgers in the town clerk’s
office, open to every voter.
While largely concerned with
the details'of the town’s house
keeping such as weekly payrolls
and other bills, tl^ record shows
some noteworthy accomplish
ments. Some will please some
people and some others; a few
will please nobody, but that is
not to say they were not desir
ably.
As we are a resort town, pri
marily, it is not surprising to find
many of the acts of the board
dealing with the entertainment
field. Thus we find the affairs of
the country club looming large,
while the last entry to date re
lates to the spring horse show.
1945 'Starts
1945 meetings start with ap
pointments to the school board:
John M. Howarth is appointed
for three years, while the three
year terms of Mrs. J. S. Milliken
and Norris L. Hodgkins, which
started in 1944, are noted, both,
it is seen, will terminate this
present June.
The business of running the
country club took up a lot of time
in 1945, as did its sale in 1946.
One can readily understand why
the town fathers heaved a sigh
of relief when it was taken off
their hands.
Taxi parking regulations were
made, more M. P.’s sought to help
out around Gene Hayble’s cafe,
rules were 'set up governing the
location of stables for horses, cows
or pigs within the town limits.
The mayor was voted a salary of
$600, a small enough sum, it
would seem, for the beating this
hardworking official has to take.
Another piece of business which
takes up many typewritten' pages
in the ledger of 1945 is that of
the bond election to-build morq
roads, better sewers, an incinera
tor. The special election was held
Dec. 18th., but, as the 1946 ledger
shows, it was found that, due to
the high cost of construction
bringing bids to well over, the
$30,000 limit voted, the incine
rator could not be built. The
money appropriated was invest
ed in government bonds until it
should be needed.
A Few Complaints
The matter of our poor tele
phone service was taken up by
the board and ran over into 1946.
After various skirmishes with the
local authorities a letter was re
ceived from the manager assur
ing the board that the service was
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BABE WINS
Flash! Mrs. Babe Didrick-
son Zabarias won over her
opponent. Miss Lencyzk,
4-2 in today's big match in
the IVomen's North and
South at Pinehurst. See
earlier story on page 5.
Purchase Agents
Convene Today
At Highland Pines
Conventions to be' held during
the next two weeks will bring
several hundred guests to Sou
thern Pines in two events held
annually at Highland Pines Inn,
the Carolina-'Virginia Purchasing
Agents association meeting today
(Friday) and tomorrow, and the
191st district conference April
24-25.
The Purchasing Agents associ
ation, numbering some 150, wDl
convene at 2:30 p. m. today with
the president, C. E. 'Williams of
the Erwin Cotton mills at Dur
ham presiding over a .closed*meet
ing. R. C. Haberkern, vice presi
dent in charge of purchasing of
the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.,
Winston-Salem, will conduct a
forum at 3:30, and during the
afternoon informal industry
group forums will be held on coal,
fuel, government, paper and con
tainers, textiles and utilities.
A banquet will be held at 7:30,
and numerous distinguished
speakers will address the group
in Saturday business sessions.
Joseph D. Ross, of Asheboro,
district governor, will be presid
ing officer for the Rotary district
convention, which will open
next Thursday afternoon. The
two-day rneeting wi)l fea
ture several business sessions
with speakers and also some soc
ial events. Some 200 Rotarians
and their “Rotary Anns” are ex
pected.
A district meeting of county
farm agents was held at Highland
Pines Inn last weekend.
Child Hurt In
Rainy-Day Crash
The pouring rain of Monday
afternoon got the blame for a col
lision at the corner of West Broad
Street and Connecticut avenue
about 5:30, when a ’41 Ford
driven by Mrs. E. D. Clement of
Knollwood,^ and a ’36 Oldsmobile
driven by J. D. Spivey of San
ford met almost head-on.
Mits. Clement and Mrs. John
Fitzgerald, in the Clement car,
received a bad shaking up, and
little Michael Fitzgerald, one
year old, also in the car, suffered
a gash on his head which neces
sitated a couple of stitches, "the
front fenders and headlights of
both cars were considerably dam
aged.
Local police investigated, but
at last report no charges had
been preferred.
Council Will Again
Sponsor Recreation;
Fund Aid Pledged
A summer recreation program
wlil be sponsored again this
year by the Council of Social
Agencies, similar to that success
fully held last year but wider in
scope and including mpre activ
ities for girls, it was decided by
the council in monthly session at
the Southern Pines school Tues
day night.
Amos C. Dawson, school ath
letic director, will again head the
program, and, since Miss Aline
Todd, girls’ physical education
director, was unable to take the
job as his assistant, a woman di
rector will be sought to lead ac
tivities for girls.
The enlarged program, with in
creased compensation for Daw
son, was undertaken at the sug
gestion of Eugene C. Stevens,
town board member and council
^p'presentative lof the ciitiZens’
committee, who said that this
committee would support the
program as it did last year, rais
ing $1,000 toward expenses.
The recreation program was
designated the council’s major
project for the present, with
other phases of its work, desig
nated under the heading of
health, social service and the
Christmas fund, tabled for atten
tion in the fall except for emer
gency needs.
A report of the Elks club
showed considerable aid, in the
form of food and clothing, pro
vided a needy family in emer
gency. Since others had assisted
in the same case, and several
more cases were needing atten
tion, Mrs. J. H. Towne, executive
secretary, was appointed to in
vestigate all cases brought to the
council’s attention, referring
them to the proper agency in an
effort to prevent overlapping
services. Mrs. James Swett was
named her assistant in this work.
Miss Birdilia Bair, newly elect
ed chairman, presided over the
meeting, at which 24 members
v/ere present.
One Buys Building
Here, Other Leases
New Construction
From being a community witli
no radio station at, all, it looked i
this week as though Southern
Pines was moving forward rap
idly toward becoming a com
munity with two of them—a
matter which is causing some
head-shaking among those who
wonder if the airwaves can get
too full.
In what appeared to be a race
to see who can get on the air
first, the Sandhills Broadcasting
corporation, of which John C.
Greene, Jr., is manager, announc
ed the purchase of the‘brick
building at 113-115 East Broad,
and his plans to start immediate
ly cn it remodeling into a modern
studio for Station 'WSTS for the
building of which FGC permit
was received March 28; and at
the same time a release from the
Sandhills Community Broad
casters, Inc., through Jack
Younts, president and general
manager, announced a building
is to be built immediately for its
studios by George Buttry, local
businessman.
Lease Signed
This was confirmed yesterday
by Buttry, who said a 10-year
lease had been signed for a
building of 1,050 square feet, for
w^hich materials are already ar
riving and. which should be com
pleted within 30 or 45 days. It
will be located on five acres of
ground between Southern Pines
and Aberdeen, below the 'Village
Inn property, and its 220-foot
IVincharger tower will be built
directly behind it.
Yoqnts stated that he plans to
move here within a short while.
'Greene is already in residence,
in an apartment on 'West Ver
mont avenue.
The building from which Sta
tion 'WSTS expects to go on the
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School Committee
Members Reappointed
Reappointment of a number of
school committee members whose
terms were expiring was an
nounced this week by County
Superintendent H. Lee Thomas.
The following will serve until
1950:
Aberdeen, H. M. Kirk; Carth
age, Earl McDonald, Mrs. H. F.
Seawell, Jr.; Robbins, Dan G.
McCrimmon, James Steeds; High
Falls, R. H. Upchurch, Wiley C.
Purvis; Farm Life, Sam Hill,
Mrs. T, L. Blue, Murd Kelly;
Vass - Lakeview, C. L. Tyson,
Redga Thomas; West End, W. A.
Johnson, Mrs. M. C. McDonald;
Westmoore, D. A. Dunlap; Pine
hurst, A. H. Garrison, Jr., I. C.
Sledge.
Cancer Drive Off
To Good .Start In
Town aiid County
Eleven high school boys and.
girls did some fine work Tues
day afternoon, first day of the
cancer control campaign.
With special containers in
hand, they went up one street
and down the next, from one
business house to another, and
collected a total of $183.26 to
ward the Southern Pines quota
of $500.
The rest of the quota Mrs. W.
F. Hollister and Mrs. Virgil Lee,
local chairmen, hope to secure
through mail solicitation. Proud
of the first day’s results, they
gave credit for a fine start to
their young canvassers—^Bill War
ner, Windham Clark, Bob Mc
Clellan, Carolyn Chester, Dot
Gale, Scotty Burns, Danilla Fras-
sinetti, Peggy Phillips, PaV Cad-
dell, Shirley Dana and Amelia
Willcox.
In the meantime, Hoke Pollock,
of Southern Pines, county chair
man, added some names to the
list of community chairmen an
nounced last week. They are Mrs.
H. A. Bost, Vass, where the
Woman’s club has undertaken
sponsorship; William P. Saunders,
Robbins; Mary Ritter, West End;
Mrs. Pete Phillips,, Cameron.
Pinehurst’s quota has been set
it $400; Aberdeen, $200; Carth
age, $200; Robbins, $200. No
quotas have been set for the
other communities.
Many Happy Returns
To Howard's Bakery
Congratulations to Howard’s
Bakery on the conclurion of its
initial, and successful year—and
if the birthday cake with one
candle is one of Howard’s own
fine cakes, it will be a perfect
celebration.
For Howard’s delicious cakes,
cookies and fine breads have be
come well and favorably known
during the past year in Southern
Pines, where the bakery filled
a long felt need. ,
And to its war-veteran proprie
tor—here are best wishes from
The Pilot, for many more success
ful years ahead, and lots of birth
day cakes.
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