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VOL. 28 H0.38 12 PAGES THIS WEEK Southern Pines, N. C-Friday, August 15 1947. 12 PAGES THIS WEEK TEN CENTS Q © '& ts Grand Jury Finds Health Department Still Lacks Space Recommendations Have In General Been Carried Out Palomino Baby V-J DAY The grand jury, making their tour of duty Monday afternoon, found things generally in good order, again recommended measures for adding needed space to the health department and made a few other recommenda- ins, of a minor nature. Their report follows: NORTH CAROLINA mOore county TO HONORABLE j'. A. ROUS SEAU, JUDQE PRESIDING: We, the Grand Jury, submit the following reports and recom mendations: BILLS OF INDICTMENT Six (6) bills were presented to the Grand Jury and acte5 upon as follows: All six (6) were re turned as true • bills. COUNTY .TAIL We visited the county jail and found that it had been impossible to carry out the recommendations made by the preceding Grand Jury, due to shortage of mater ials; otherwise, the jail was found clean and in good order. COURT HOUSE We find that except for the health department all recommen dations of the preceding Grand Jury have been carried -out. We recommend that as soon as pos- \sible that those recommendations be carried out in order to afford more room for the health depart ment. We found one typewriter in the health department badly in need of repair or' replacement. We recommend thae purchase of a new typewriter for the of fice of Supt. H. Lee Thomas. Mr. Thomas, so far, has been unable to secure cabinets for blue prints need of repair or replacement, in his office. We recommend repair or re- (Continued on Page 8) This beautiful little palomino colt, believed to be the first ever born in Southern Pines, has created much interest here, especially since, at the age of two weeks, he started following his mother over the jumps at the Caddell stables. Sired by a three-fourths palomino and pne-fourth Arabian, and out of Sensation Princess, herself a thoroughbred, the little colt, of perfect conformation, is considered a valuable little animal. Sieger Herr, 12-year-old daughter of Dr. G. G. Herr, is the owner of Sen sation Princess and her colt, born July 8, and all three are shown in the happy family picture above. (Photo by Turner) Jury Convicts Webb Of Perjury In Sending Mother-In-Law To Dix Hill BARN BURNS Young Democrats State Convention Set Sept. 19-20 The 1947 annual convention of the North Carolina Young Dehio- crats will be held in Raleigh September l9 and 20, with the Sir Walter hotel as headquarters, it was c^nnounced following a meeting last Saturday of a spec ial convention committee of which H. Clifton Blue, of Aber deen, w^s a member. The committee was appointed by Basil Whitener, president, at a meeting, at Raleigh Saturday of the state executive committee of which Blue, chairman of the Eighth district, is also a member ' T^e executive committee ac cepted the Raleigh invitation but left the special committee of five to set the dates. Deftnite confir mation is to be made shortly, said’ Blue this week, as soon as it can be ascertained that the dates as set will not conflict with other important state meetings. The executive committee meet ing was also attended by J. Hu bert McCaskill and Miss Helen Fields of Pinehurst, Ray McDon-. aid of Southern Pines and Mon roe Chappell of Vass. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Horner accompanied them to Raleigh. Patty Is Improving, May Return To School Patty Dupree, 11-year-old polio victim, is getting along well at her home here now, and doctors have informed her mother, Mrs. W. T. Dupree, that there is a pos sibility she may enter school on time this ;;all. She is being given special ex ercises at home, and can walk a Ittle about the house. She was taken to Duke hospi- talWednesday for observation, and must go again in about six weeks. The doctors said the re covery of the little girl, stricken last June, was nothing short of a miracle. The county's first tobacco barn fire reported here this season took place Wednesday morning on the W. C. Leslie farm at Vass, where a new barn completed just last week caught fire during its first curing, and burned to the ground. The barn was said to be a well built one with concrete foundation and oil burner. Cause of the fire, and , the amount of loss, were not re ported. Swimming Classes For All Ages To Begin Next Week Superior Court Judge Vacates Restraint On Sharpe Apartment Sale Come out to Aberdeen lake and learn to swim! Or, if you can already swim— but not very well—Ifearn to swim better; and if you can al ready swim well, take a life sav ing course. Courses for beginners on up are being sponsored by the Moore County chapter, American Red Cross, starting next Wednesday, and continuing on Mondays- Hhrouigh Fridays through the first week in September. Instructors will be the haft dozen young men and women, al ready excellent swimmers, who are taking the life saving instruct ors’ course at the lake,' taught by James Da'vis, of the Red Cross area office. Davis will supervise all courses of the August-Sep- tember schedule. Boys and girls are asked to register in advance at the Red Cross chapter office here, or at Aberdeen lake. Classes will be as tmllows: Beginners (those who cannot swim at all, or only a little), 11- 11:30 a. m. for ages six to nine, 11:30-12 noon for age 10 and up; intermediates (those who can swim on both fI^ont and back 25 yards or more), 11-11:30 for ages seven to lOj 11:30-12 noon for age 11 .and up. ^ Junior life saving (for ages 12-15 who can swim at least 100 yards on both front and back), 11 a. m.-12 noon; senior life sav ing (for age 16 and older), 5:30- 6:30 p. m. PASSES LAW EXAM William L. Brown, of Pine- bluff, was one of 61 fcandidates ’who passed Written examinations bf the state board of law exam iners, and are now entitled; to practice Jaw in No^th Carolina. A superior court jury at Carth age Wednesday found R. L. Webb, 01 Eagle Springs, guilty of per jury in connection with the com mitment of his stepmother-in-law to the state hospital at Dix Hill last April. Sentence was deferred. The trial began Tuesday after noon and .lasted until after the noon recess Wednesday, present ing an array of witnesses, many of them neighbors of the Webbs, with ^hom Mrs. Molly Wilson, stepmother of Mrs. Webb, makes her home. These included J. W. Monroe, Herbert Bost, J. W. Page and a number of others, who said they had known Mrs Wilson for 20 to 30 years, that she “had not changed in that time” and they believed her to be of sound mind. Mrs. Wilson herself took the stand to testify that her stepson- in-law had repeatedly asked her to leave, and had suggested that she turn over to him her interest in the home, which she said she had refused to do. Though her testimony was somewhat contra dictory, in general the little old lady, whom her neighbors de- slared to be a regular attendant at the Baptist church and Sunday school, showed good presence and composure on the stand. Doctors Testify Dr. John A. Symington, of Car thage, testified that he had ex amined her at the request of her relatives last January, and found her to be of “wandering mind.” Trusting Webb’s description of her behavior in the home, and told that she had “grown worse,” he felt justified in signing com mitment papers without further examination March 20. Dr. J. W. Willcox, of West End, said that, though he had made no specific exarriination for sanity, be had seen her off and on for a .number of years, and hearing also from her relatives of her be havior, had also signed the com mitment paper. John Willcox, clerk of court, took the stand to say that he had committed Mrs. Wilson to the hos pital as prescribed by law on re ceipt of commitment papers sign ed by two reputable physicians, and after a hearing in which the relatives gave their description of her behavior. He,'had had her taken to Dix Hill April 16, then brought back three days later on notification by the doctors there; that her mental condition was not such as to require hospitaliza tion. She was then returned to her home, where she has stayed since. Deputy Sheriff Lambert, who took her to the hospital and (Continued oh Pause 5) Cn account of The Pilot's Thursday noon deadline, no writeup of the county V-J celebration here can be given this week. Look for the story and pictures in next week's issue! Thursday morning, the sun was shining, the flags were out, army and navy uniforms were beginning to appear about the streets, and every one had a big smile for every one else. The reviewing sland at the park was ready for digruHarSesL Committees were winding up final de tails after weeks of work for the biggest and happiest cele bration ever. Half holidays had been de clared in Southern Pines, Carthage and Aberdeen for the occasion, and other r-^mmunities of the county were no doubt following suit, lo allow every veteran and all Moore County families io fake pari. Town Team Wins Three Straight To Regain Top Spot Water Trucked From Southern Pines To Aid Carthage In Grave Emergency 41. By Slim Forsythe The past week’s action on the Peach Belt League baseball front finds Southern Pines back in sec ond place with 18 wins and nine losses. Lifist Saturday afternoon the local boys toured to Rockingham and had a field day, defeating the Steele mill team 24-1. Pate was the heavy hitter for Southern Pines, getting four hits out of five times at: bat, one a long hit home, run scoring three runs Clyde Dunn and Joe Garzik hit in four runs apiece,, Chan Page was the winning pitcher. The game went to only five innings by agreement of both teams. A game was scheduled for last Tuesday afternoon with the Rock ingham team but they called Tuesday afternoon to cancel, thereby forfeiting to Sputhern Pines, official score, 9-0 in favor of the local boys. On 'Wednesday afternoon the scrappy Raeford club played here and had the local boys 7-0 in the last of the seventh inning. At that time Southern Pines exploded all over the place and scored five runs. Perham and Dunn were walked. Newton and McRae singled follawed by another single from the bat of Dave Worsham. Newton knocked in Dunn, Mc Rae knocked out a fly to left field, scoring Newton, then Clyde “Red” Smith knocked a pretty two bagger to right field scoring McRae and Worsham. This made the score 8-5. Raeford went scoreless in the first of the eighth. In the Sou thern Pines half of the eighth Perham singled, Dunn singled, McRae was safe on an error, scor ing Perham. Walt Harper, batting for Worsham, singled scoring Dunn and McRae. Joe Garzik went 'to first on an error. Red Smith singled scoring Harper, making the score nine to eight. Bill Upchurch received McKeith- en to pitch this half of the eighth inning, McKeithen going to sec ond 'base. In the top of the ninth Mc- Auley, Raeford catcher, was walked, McKeithen singled and on the throw-in McAuley scored, tying the score nine to nine. In the last half of the ninth Sou thern Pines was scoreless, Mc Keithen pitching for Raeford. In the top of the 10th, Chan Page receiving Woody Davis after he had walked one batter and hit another, held Raeford scoreless. In the Southern Pines half of the 10th, Harper singled, Garzik was safe on a fielder’s choice tfiat caught Harper out at second. Red Smith * was walked, then Chan Page won his own ball game by hitting a sharp ball down the l^ft field foul line, scoring Garzik and ending the ball game. SUMMARY R H E Raeford 9 13 2 So. Pines 10 15 7 Batteries: McKeithen, Up church and McAuley, Pate, Davis, Page, Seals and Neal. Industrial Plants, Cannery Close As Tank Is Found Dry Southern Pines this week was elping out h^r neighbor town of Carthage with large shipments of water from the water plant, to help relieve a shortage at the county seat which was declared the worst in a number of years. As the Carthage water tank dried right up, leaving the stand pipe only half full, in the short age which has been increasing over the past few weeks, the town went under stringent re gulations Monday designed to re duce the use of water to a mini mum. Industrial use of water was cut off and such plants as the Currie Lumber company, the Colin G. Spencer planing mill and the Model Laundry and Dry Clean ers were forced to shut down. Such activities as the washing of cars and the sprinkling ot lawns have been under a ban for some two weeks. Cannery Closes 'The new cannery at Highway Prison Camp 606 was also closed Monday. It was to the use of thousands of gallons of water by the cannery in the past two weeks that the drastic short age was attributed in Carthage. The town has been selling water to the camp to increase its in come but was unprepared for the greatly stepped-up use brought On by the cannery operations. On Tuesday, arrangements were made with the Town of South ern Pines to secure water for Carthage, transporting it in two 1,000-gallon tank trucks borrow ed from Fort Bragg, and a'milk tank truck of around 3,000 gall ons capacity, loaned by the Coble Dairies, Inc., of Lexington. Coming down to Carthage Tuesday, the milk truck tanked up at Lexington, and has since, with the military trucks, been plying back and forth between the Southern Pines water plant and Carthage. Wednesday morning it was reported that the trucks had worked until 3 a. m. and that jsome 35^000 gallons had been sent over. Rain Gives Hope The_shortage originated with the prolonging of the midsummer dry spell, which has been acute at Carthage and northward in the county. A two-inch rainfall Mon day afternoon promised some re lief and Tuesday morning the water was found pouring into the tank again, giving hope that the situation may soon be relieved. At the Southern Pines water plant, things were reported “in fine shape,” with plenty of water to supply local needs and help out the sister town in her crucial condition. NO SPECTATORS A vivid flash, a whiplike crash of thunder and a de luge of rain at 1:45 p. m. last Friday were immediately fol lowed by fhe fire alarm call ing out both trucks of fhe Southern Pines fire depart ment to the Taft house, 445 South East Broad street, oc cupied by the family of Cpl. W. O. Martin, where light ning had followed a wire into the electric range. Following the wettest ride ever experienced by our firemen, the drenched crews were able to stop the incip ient blaze without difficulty. This was one fire at which there was a notable lack of spectators. Speedboat Races Bring Pro Drivers To Lakeview Sun. Training Schools Set Next Week School bus drivers for 1947-48 who have not previously qualifi ed will attend drivers’ schools to be held at the Carthage High school Monday, Tuesday and ■Wednesday, according to a sche dule sent to county principals this week by Supt. H. Lee Tho mas.- Glenn Taylor, representative of the state highway safety division, will conduct the one-day schools, giving classroom instruction from 9 a. m. to 12 noon and road tests from 1 to 4 p. m. Attending Monday will be drivers from Southern Pines, Carthage, Cameron, Vass-Lake- view. Farm Life and Aberdeen schools; Tuesday, Pinehurst, West End, Robbins, Westmoore, High Falls; Wednesday, Pinckney, Berkley, Academy Heights, West Southern Pines and Vineland. Principals are supposed to have their lists of drivers and alter nates for the county’s 74 buses made up by the end of this week, and see that those who have, not driven school buses before attend the drivers’ school at the time and date indicated. Another of those exciting speedboat race events, bigger and better than the first, is promised sports lovers of this section by Jimmy Allen, of Lakeview, for 2 p. m. Sunday. The first races—the Sandhills first in history—drew a crowd of more than 3,000 to Crystal lake, Lakeview, last month, arid pre parations are being made for a far bigger crowd this time. Pro moter Allen said. Among outstanding profession als scheduled to race this time are Sweeney Prosser, Sonny Todd and Doug Creech of Charlotte— the lafter also well-known motor cyclist; Henry West, of Chapel Hill, O. L Lackey, of High Poi'nt and Douglas Marks of Sanford. Sleveral others are expected. All who have definitely announc ed that they will race are hydro plane drivers, However, if any arrive with runabouts a special event will be staged for them, 'said Allen. The drivers have raced in num erous events in this and other states, know all the fancy tricks possible to their speedy little craft and can be counted on to give onlookers some real thrills. Six races will be held of throe heats each, and it is planned to have each heat consist of five of the mile-long laps about the lake instead of four as before. As in the previous event, Aber deen Post No. 72, American Leg ion, is the sponsor and is in charge of the advance ticket sale. Admissions will also be available at 'che gate. Mt. Hope Will Be Enlarged By Terrace Addition Town Board Asks Seaboard To Build New R. R. Station MEETING AUGUST 26-27 The district forest service meet ing will be held in Southern Pines August 26-27, not September ^6- 27 as reported through error in last week’s Pilot. Forest Service firefighting crews of eight counties will at tend the meeting, for instruction in latest methods of prevention and control of forest fires, with demonstrations of procedures and equipment. Mt. Hope cemetery, a new rail road station, parking meters and speeding, among other things, claimed the attention of the town board in regular session at the city hall Wednesday evening. Mt. Hope, whose plots on the first and second terraces are now almost all sold, will be enlarged by the development of a third ter race, on city-owned land adjoin ing the cemetery to the south, it was decided. Plans for devel opment were approved as submit ted by A. B. Yeomans, landscape architect, who designed and and planted the original area. It whs decided to ask him to super vise also the planting of the new terrace so it will be in keeping, with the rest of the cemetery, fam ed as one of' the most beautiful in the land. Engineers will be employed at once to set the grades and draw up specifications for bids, with the hope of letting, contracts and getting the work under way in time for fall planting of pines and evergreen shrubs. Railroad Station A strong request for a new station has been placed before the Seaboard Air Line by the board on recommendation of Mayor C. N. Page, it was learned, with no report as yet except that the matter of giving Southern Pines a modern, attractive sta tion is “under consideration” by officials of the railroad. A. C. Nichols, of Wilmington, former city manager at Wilming ton, Greenwood, S. C., Clear- lyater and Daytona Beach, Fla., was present as representative of the Karpark corporation of Cin cinnati, O., to demonstrate their autorqatic parking meter. This is the second parking meter to be displayed to the board, and the commissioners asked many ques tions concerning their aid in pjarking problems, tnaintenance and potential revenue. Compliments were forthcoming from several commissioners for the police department on the noticeable improvement in speed ing and traffic violations about ■town. These ■ have been a matter for serious consideration at board meetings during the spring and summer, and the subject of a special conference with Chief C. E. Newton recently, on which Mayor Page reported Wednesday night. Support Promised Full cooperation was pledged by the chief in behalf of his de- partihent, the mayor said, and the board determined to continue in full support of the program, de signed to check heedless speed ing in and through town, and other offenses. The D-4 tractor authorized for purchase at the July meeting, for street maintenance and other city uses, has been found to be un available at this time and an order placed now may not be fill- (Continued on Page 8) Heavy Peach Crop Drained Of Profits By Rapid Ripening, Production Costs ‘This has been the most expen sive season the peach grower has ever known,” T. C. Auman, of West End, told a Pilot reporter averaging $2 a bushel—a good price, except in view of the tight squeeze of production costs. It was an - unusually heavy , . ' . . waD dii - uxiu.ouctiij' nceivy this week. While prices opened [ crop, estimated at 3,100,000 bush- well and stayed fair, few peach growers made ahy real money. Their labor, sprays, even their cartons cost far too much.” Thqn, right at the peak of the season last week, rapidly alterna ting sun and rain abruptly ripen ed every peach left on the heavy boughs. Too ripe to ship, they were be ing bought up by residents of the countryside for canning and ;"reezing. Thousands of bushels have fallen to the ground to rot, or are hanging in thick clusters on the trees, their rosy-golden color be traying their rich ripeness, so costly to the growers. ^ As the season for shipping end- Both boys and girls are eligible, ed, the delicious Elbertas were els in the Sandhills area, about 10 to 15 per cent greater than last year. It was also unusually clean and wormfree almost throughout the season. Weather conditions at the end brought an outcropping of worms in some orchards, but in general a strict control was maintained over the healthy crop. Science has developed a num ber of chemicals which peach growers are using with varying success, and Auman recommends benzine hexachloride, which he has found ‘‘best by test.” If someone would develop a chemical to keep peaches from ripening too fast, a lot of Sand hills growers would be happier men.
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