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Sandhilk League Trophies Awarded At Tournament Fine Peach Crop Seen For Sandhilk ““ CONTEST
Here are the trophy winners of the Sandhills League golf tournament, played at the Southern
Pines Country club Wednesday, June 11—extreme ie|t. Kay Hardison of Wadesboro, who posted 'a 74
for low gross m the field of 187 players and extreme right, Howard Burns of Southern Pines, whose 66
was low net. Between them are; left. Will Wiggs captain of the Southern Pines team, and right,
Jimmy Humphries, captain of the^ Fayetteville team, holding the trophy for which they tied for first
place in the 10-week six-club series. Each club will retain the trophy for six months.
(Photo by Humphrey)
Good Work , Seen
In 4-0 Victory
Over Aberdeen '
By Slim Forsythe
Woodrow “Lefty” Davis, left
handed hurler, pitched the Sou
them Pines Town team to a 4-0
victory over Aberdeen here Wed
nesday afternoon, allowing only
four hits, striking but five men,
and issuing only two free passes
to first base. Wicker, Aberdeen
first baseman and one of the
league’s dangerous long hitters,
was twice a victim of Davis’ con
trolled port side hurling and was
limited fo two sir^gles his other
two times at bat.
•“Red” Davis, Aberdeen hurler
delivering overhand, sidearm and
submarine balls, held the local
club scoreless until the seventh
inning, when Big Curt Bettini,
local left-fielder, reached first
as Conley booted a hard hit
grounder. Joe Garzik, right-
fielder, attempting to sacrifice,
was safe on first when Davis
hobbled the bunt and threw wild
to first, advancing Bettini to sec
ond. “Lefty” Davis then laid
down a perfect bunt along the
first base line, advancing the run
ners one base. “Red” Smith, third
baseman, singled to left field,
jscoring both runners. Clyde Dunn
then poled out a.long two bagger
I scoring Smith from first base.
This made the score 3-a at the
end of the seventh.
Eighth and Ninth
In the Southern Pines half of
the eighth “Doc” McCrae doubled
to left field. Les McNeil was safe
at first on an error by W.icker,
McRae scoring all the way from’
first. Buchan flyed out to the
Aberdeen pitcher, catching Mc
Neil off first base for a double
play. Bettini grounded out to
shortstop, retiring the side.
Aberdeen in the ninth inning
led off with Wicker , getting an
infield single. “Red” Davis was
safe on a fielder’i choice. Wicker
being thrown out as he nose-div-
TEAM LEADS
The Southern Pines ieaib
continued to hold the lead in
the Peach Belt League stand
ings this week, with six
games won, one game lost,
for a percentage of .857.
Closest competitor is Rae-
- ford, with six- games won,
three lost—percentage .666.
Standing of other teams in
the league ,sb far, with games
won, lost and percentage, is;
Laurinburg, 4, .571; Ham
let, 4, 4, v500; Bennetisville,
2, 6, .250; Aberdeen, 2, 7.
.222.
Saturday's league games
will be; Southern Pines at
Laurinburg, Hamlet ai Aber
deen, Bennettsville at Rae-
ford. The next local game
will be with Hamlet at the
Bouthem Pines athletic park
Monday at 4 p. m.
Lakeview .Thrown
Open To Public;
Guard On Duty
Thogh the early peaches., have
been scant and poor,- hurt by the
long-delayed springtime, pros
pects are excellent now for a good
peach crop during the rest of the
'season as the later varities ma
ture, with a seven per cent great
er harvest anticipated than last
year’s.
Frank Parker, head of the Fed-
eral-N. C. Crop Reporting ser
vice, estirnates that the North
Carolina crop—the greater part
of which cOmes from the Sand
hills—will reach 3,383,000 bush
els, as compared with 3,160,000
bushels harvested in 1946.
Throughout the Sandhills the
peach- trees are heavy with fruit.
The annual May “drop” is over
and further thinning by hand has
been necessary on many of the
Elbertas. Insects have not been
too bad, this year, and the fruit
looks clean and of top market
value, Parker reported.
Robert F. Stewart, of Pinebluff
Sandhills representative of Rob
ert T. Cochrane and Company of
New York, peach sellers on a
nationwide scale, supports Park
er’s verdict with 'his ■ own. “The
incoming varieties look fine, abd
prospects are excellent for an un
usually good harvest.”
The next variety to come in
will be a comparative newcomer
tb the peach markets, the eight-
year-old Jubilee, declared to
equal the longtime favorite
Georgia Belle in flavor and qual
ity. The excellent Early Rose will
also come in in a week or 10 days,
Snd from then on it will really be
peach time in the Sandhills, and
in the markets they supply.
A disappointing early variety
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Council Gives $100 For Lake Safety
“Golf World”
Mates Entry Into
Magazine Field
Welcomb to “Gplf World
Bdb Harlow’s new weekly golf
magazine, which starts off tijis
week with a fine initial issue and
some 5,000 subscribers all over
the United States. i
The Sandhills’ first national
magazine, edited and printed at
Pinehurst by the capable editor
of the.Pinehurst Outlook, begins
with a 16-page Time-size issue
jam-packed with news and pic
tures of the golfing brotherhood
and sisterhood.
An eye-witness account of the
St. Louis Opep is the lead story'
and* among other headlines noted
of both articles' and departments
are International Golf, Golfing
Holidays, Golf Literature, In
strflction Tips, Women’s Golf,
Canadian Golf, Golf in the
Movies, Intercollegiate, Profes
sional and Amateur. The style is
terse, the print job neat.
There are 18. pictures and a re
spectable sprinkling of ads. Ar
thur J. Williams is assistant edi-
Allison Fields, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Alex Fields of Sbuthern
Pines, has been ,pmployed for a
second season as life guard at
Crystal lake, Lakeview, accord
ing to Jimmy Allen, proprietor of
the parkland adjoining Lakeview
hotel. ^
At the same time A114n an
nounced that swimming facili
ties of the ■ large lake are being
thrown open to the public with
out charge. „
There will be {he usual charge
for bath house and locker facil
ities. *
The new life guard went on
duty last week, soon after re
turning home for the summer
from South Carolina Medical col
lege at Charleston, where he Ms
taking , a pharmaceutical course.
He will be at the lake from 10
a. m, to 6 p. m. daily.
He is a 1943 graduate of the
Southern Pines High school, and
served during the war as tail
gunner on a B-17. He saw much
action during 21 months overseas.
Two new speedboats have been
added to the Lakeyiew equip
ment for water sports, it was re
ported. The lake is one of the
finest of the section, with a beach
and gradually sloping sandy bot-
merstom. While there are depths
of 25 feet for experienced sv^im-
mers, these are far out from "the
shore.
With Southern Pines’ share in
the, water safety program at the
Aberdeen lake reported jet at
$225, the Council of Socim Agen
cies meeting Tuesday night voted
to contribute $100 to the fund as
a part of its sponsorship of sum
mer recreation here.
A survey made recently at the
lake showed that more of the
bathers were from Southern
Pines than from any other part of
the county, the Council was in
formed by Paul C. Butler, Sou
thern Pines representative on the
countywide water safety com-
rnittee, and member of the Sand
hill Kiwanis committee which
hds been promoting the project.
The rest’ of the local quota is
expected to be miade up by var
ious organizations interested in
youth welfare, with public solici
tation to be used' only as a last
resort, Butler said, adding that
individual donations would, how
ever, be gladly accepted.
The total amount to be collect
ed in the county is $1,000, to in
clude the lifq guard’s salary, cost
of constructing the stand (this
has already .been done), purchase
of a lifeboat and the roping off of
the deep-channel danger area.
Local men and boys will also be
employed to be on duty with the
life guard on Sundays and holi-
ilays.
On The Job
The guard, Robert Elliott,
physical education major at the
University of North Carolina, is
already on the job, working
seven days a week from 12 noon
to 7 p. m.
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Sanatorium Enters
Pretty Nurse In
Hospital Contest
But Raeford Girl
Is District Winner
For July 1 Judging*
MRS. MIAMI FRAZIER DENNY
Budget-Busy Commissioners Meet;
Tax Boost Seen As Needs Are Studied
Resort Airlines
CAB Conference
Set For July 16
A pre-hearing conference has
been set by the CAB for July 16
at Washington, D. C., on the Re
sort Airlines’ application -for
federal franchise for a wide
spread system of resort aircruises.
This will be the first st'age of
the formal hearing of the case,
which has been in preparation
for more than a year, and which,
because of its intelnational char
acter, has been assigned a special
niche alone rather than in a
group of applicants as is usual.
Rent Control
Survey Made Here
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New Teacher Coming,
Another Is Sought
Lillian Harlow is business and ad
vertising manager.
All teachers of the Southern
Pines district schools have been
reappointed, and as far as is
known now all will return with
the exception of Mrs. Burney Mc-
Cotter, librarian at the Southern
Pines school, it was announced
this week by Supt. Philip J.
Weaver.
Mrs. McCotter, who has moved
to Salisbury, will be succeeded by
Miss Elizabeth Padgett, of Ellen-
boro, a graduate,of Appalachian
State Teachers’ college. Miss Pad
gett has been teaching the third
grade in a Rutherford County
school.
Attendance during the past
year has^ given the Southern Pines
school an allotment of one addi
tional teacher by the state, and
a matheniatics teacher, prefer
ably a man, is being' sought.
Weaver said.
VFW Posl Continues
Blood TY;wng Project
Dr. Thomas M. Lide, Moore
County Hospital pathologist, will
be nresent at the John Boyd post,
VFW, meeting Monday night to
do a “repeat” on the blood typing
so successfully accomplished sev
eral weeks ago.
Blood typing will take place at
9 p. m., following the regular
meeting at 8 o’clock. Members
who have not had their blood
typed should be on hand, said
Post Commander C. S. Patch, Jr.,
and non-members will he wel
comed.
The previous typing of blood
of the VFW members has already
been useful, as three calls for
donors have been made from the'
list secured by the hospital at
that time. The project calls for
10(1 per cent typing of the mem
bers as a service to the hospital
A survey was being made here
this week and last to determine
if rent control shall continue.
R. S. Cromartie, Jr., rent direc
tor for this area with headquar
ters at Fayetteville, was conduct
ing the Survey, for a report to
be made to the regional office.
Among towns visited—with 'Sepa
rate reports to be made on each
were Southern Pines, Aberdeen,
Pinehurst and Carthage.
An answer as to whether de
control shall take place in single
towns or the area generally may
be expected within 30 days, said
Crpmartic. No answer will mean
no decontrol—yet, anyway.
Indications at present are that
controls will rernaih for several
months, at least. While the rent
situation seems to be slightly bet
ter, it is still far from normal.
The building of more than 1,000
apartments in converted struc
tures at Fort Bragg may relieve
the situation only as far as over
crowded Fayetteville is concern
ed, without being perceptible in
surrounding towns, it was be
lieved. Anticipated new indus
trial building in the arfea is also
being taken into account, and
may prolong the controls.^
illrs.
GAME AREA
Reconversion of the Sand
hills Resettlement area from
the war ulses to which it has
been devoted for some years,
to become a giant r^reation
and game preserve for North
Carolina, appeared this week
as a definite probability.
The War Department has
^agreed to return the 60.000
acres at Hoffman to the de
partment of the interior, ex
cept for the cantonment and
airfield area, which will be used
as auxiliary units to Fort
Bragg.
The plan- then, promoted by
Congressman C. B. Deane, is to
leage it to the North Carolina
department of conservation and
development; and Washington
dispatches this week reported
that Deane was notified con
tacts were being rhade' toward
this end.
Urgently needed fire and
game protection would be re
established throughout the area
under the Istate agency, accord
ing to information received by
Deane.
Check For $115,000
Received As County's
Share Of ABC Profits
Roth Improving At
Wilmington Hospital
Bill Roth, who was injured
June 20 in an automobile acci
dent near Acme, in which his
companion, Joe C. Thomas, Jr.,
was killed, was reported this
week to be improving, at the
James Walker Memorial hospital
at Wilmington.
He will probably be brought
this weekend or early next week
to his home here, where he will
remain for a time under-medical
care.
Both his jawbones were broken
in the accident. Other injuries
were a severe concussion; bruises
and lacerations.
The two young men, both war
Veterans 20 years old, were trav
eling .alone in the Thomas car to
the coast for a day or two of
fishing, when the car went out of
control about 5 a. m. As it over
turned the boys were throwh out
and young Thomas was instantly
If you hear plaintive music in
the courthouse halls, it’s the
county commissioners singing the
“Budget-Making Blues.”
With estimated requirements of
all departments in hand, they
are holding extra meetings this
Resort Airlines is represented
in the case by Polk and Neal, at
torneys of Washington, D. C., and
also by Cochrane, McClenaghan
and Lassiter of Charlotte. Maj.-L.
C. Burwell, president of the cor
poration, and C. L.' Burwell, vici
president, arq expected to attend
the conference, with representa
tives of these firms. Examiner
James Keith of the civil aeronau
tics board will conduct the hear
ing.
Intervention is anticipated be
fore that date from a number of
competing airlines. If their claims
are ruled out a “certificate of nec
essity and c'bnvenienc'e” will be
month to complete the 194748 i ^®fued the local airline, and dates
killed.
James Primm Carolyn
Ann and James, Jr., spent two
days last week with M!rs.
Primm’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Ruby
and the community, said Patch. Deese in Charlotte.
MADIGAN'S PHO'TOS
The excellent Boy Scout photos
on The Pilot’s front page and in
an advertisement last week were
by Col. D. L. Madigan, not by
Emerson Humphrey, to whom
credit was incorrectly given.
budget for the better than half-
milhon dollar business which is
Moore county.
The annual headache Ms report
ed to be an even bigger one than
usual this year, and it’s a fore
gone conclusion that the county’s
present tax rate of 90 cents will
go up. The question is, how much?
The desire to keep the tax rate
low, and at the same time to meet
all reasonable demands of these
high-cost days fias the commi^qg
ioners on a grill, and present in
dications are that taxes will go
up in two easy stages: the first, a
slight increase in taxes this yea
and second, a revaluation up
ward of county property within a
year or 'two.
The present valuation is aVound
$24,00(),00, to which it was low
ered from around $32,000,000 by a
straignt percentage cut in 1932
Don’t be surprised if the next
year or two sees the valuation up
much closer to the pre-depression
figure than it is now.
The commissioners are said to
have had a visit at one of their
recent meetings from a profess
ional tax evaluator, an expert in
his line, who would like to start
in right away on the job here.
The catch in this was that his ser
vices come high, and he can’t be
employed this year unless he can
be fitted into the already tight
budget.
The total amount budgeted last
year was $575,649, for all county
services—general fund and
courts, health, welfare, ' “poor
fund”, debt service and schools.
Collections for 1945-46 were bet
ter than 90 per cent, and it looks
as though they will be higher
this year—a creditable record.
Well over half went to the
county schools, for which a total
of $306,405 was budgeted.
Though increased demands
from practically all school dist
ricts may well boost the new
school budget ^^considerably high
er, they may not be such big ex
tra burdens on the individual
taxpayer, for the schools get some
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will be set for formal proceed
ings to follow.
The proposed air routes will
extend along transcontinental
ways, and from Alaska to South
Arnerica, taking in most of the
major resorts of this hemisphere
Headquarters will, remain at
Resort airfield between Southern
Pines and Pinehurst.
To prove that a trained nurse
can be not only useful but ex
tremely ornamental, just take a
look at the picture accompanying
this story.
The pretty girl you see is Mrs.
Miami Frazier Denny, of Kan
napolis, chosen “Miss Sanatorium
Nurse of 1947” to enter the state
wide contest for the title “Miss
North Carolina Student Nurse of
1947.”
She mi§h*t, in fact, be regarded
as the combined Sanatorium-
Moore County hospital entry, for
with the rest of the senior class,
she has spent the past year at
the Moore County hospital and,
in fact, is still there, for a termi
nal summer period following
graduation June 1.
She was chosen “best all
round” in her class.
Her selection in the contest^
sai^ Miss Eula E. Rackley, nurs
ing superintendent at Sanato
rium, was based, according to the
contest rules, not only on looks,
® but also on aptitude for nursing
and spirit of service.
As good as she is. Miss Olive
Geraldine Maxwell, of Raeford,
was adjudged just a shade better’
in the district elimination held
at Fayetteville Wednesday night.
Miss Ma:;{well, a student nurse at *
Baker-Thompson Memorial hos
pital at Lumberton, won out not
only over Miss Denny but also
entries from the Fayetteville and
Hamlet hospitals.
Miss Maxwell is now in for a
fine tirrte, whether she wins the
Etate contest or not. With eight
other district winners, she will
be the guest of the North Caro
lina Hospital association at Ra
leigh for the final judging July
1. Judges will be a group of prom
inent North Carolinians headed
by Kay Kyser, and the queen
will be crowned with appropriate
festivity by Governor Cherry.
She will also win a handsome
award.
The contest is being sponsored .
by the North Carolina Hospital
association as part of its campaign
to recruit the 1,000 student nurses
needed to rheet fall enrollmen
quotas of the 39 North Carolina
nurse training schools. Assisting
in the campaign are the North
Carolina Good Health and the
North Carolina Hospital Savings
association. . _
CONTRACT TO BE LET
The general contract' for the
■yass-Lakeview school building
will be let July 1, it has been
announced by Supt. H. Lee
Thomas. Contracts have been let
for the heating, plumbing and
electrical work.
CUB PACK PICNIC '
Cub Scouts of Southern Pines’
newly formed pack will hold
their June pack meeting Wed-,
nesday at 6 p. m. in the form of
a picnic at City Hall park.
All their families are invited
too, and each family will bring
its own picnic basket for inclu
sion in the feast. A small court
of honor will be . held, closing
pack activities until September.
It’s All In Fun-And Fun For All At
Rotary-Elks Big Ball Game Wednesday
What there is so amusing about
a dignified businessman shedding
his dignity is hard to say, but
the fact remains that it is.
A large number of Southern
Pines’ local lights will so demean
themselves next Wednesday af
ternoon for the entertainment of
all their friends and ill-wishers,
in^ a baseball game to be staged
between the Rotary club and the
Elks.
They also have a worthier pur
pose-augmenting the fund of
the citizens’ planning commission
for improvement of the athletic
field, to wihch all the proceeds
of the game will be turned over.
In fact, so energetically are
both Elks and Rotarians selling
tickets, it’s a question as to whe-'
ther they will have aqy'strength
left to play. John Cline is head
of ticket salgs for the Rotary Club
and C. B. Johnson for the Elks,
with every'member of their re
spective organizations on the
ticket sejlers’ list
And from the two lineups, the
game is going to be well worth
the sum of 60 cents that is asked
Rotary Lineup
June Phillips, manager of the
Rotarians’'team, this week an
nounced his . lineup as follows:
Stanley Austin lb; Dr. L. M.
Daniels, 2b; Bob Smith, ss; Har
old Fowler, 3b; Tucker Humph
ries, c; Will Wiggs, If; Morris
Johnson, cf; Johp Ormsby or E.
J. Austin, rf; Colon Osbourn, Har
ry Lee Brown, A. C. Dawson,
pitchers; utility men, John Cline,
■yirgil Clark, J. D. Arey, Al Hew
lett, Lloyd C:iark.
Elks' Lineup
Lineup for the Elks—Pat Pat
terson, lb; Anton Reese, 2b; Boots
Matthews, ss; Chan Page, 3b;
John Ponzer, If; Jack Carter cf;
Bill Bushby. rf; Chief Ed New
ton, c; pitchers, to be selected;
utility men. Jack Johnson, How
ard Burns, Paul Butler, D. A.
Blue, Col. p. L. Madigan, Mal
colm Grover, Donald Jones, J.
Aubrey Smith, George Thomp
son.
Both lineups are 'tentative, the
managers emphasize, depending
on whom they can catch at game
time. It is understood that a”num
ber of men are planning quick
trips out of town.
Some little embarrassment was
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