m
VOL 28 NO. 39
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines. N. C-Friday, August 22, 1947.
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
League Playoffs
Begin, Town Team
In Second Place
Shaughnessy Rules
Followed In Series
This Week, Next
Southern Pines moved into the
Peach Belt League playoffs start
ing this Thursday afternoon,
after reaching and maintaining
second place in the league.
Laurinburg wound up in first
place, Hamlet in third and Rae-
ford fourth, with Aberdeen and
Rockingham in fifth and sixth
places respectively.
The Peach Belt championship
will be determined by the
Shaughnessy playoff system, with
the first and third teams meet
ing for two games out of three,
second and fourth teams doing
the same and the two victor teams
to play five out of seven series,
to end the season and crown the
champion team.
The system set Southern Pines
to the task of defeating Raeford
for the privilege of champion
play, with Laurinburg opposing
Hamlet.
Playoff Rules
Rules of the playoti were de
fined at a meeting of League of
ficials held Wednesday evening
at the Civic club, conducted by
John S. Ruggles, president.
The rules: (1) Games start in
the home field of the higher rank
ing team,; (2) In case of a third
game in the playoff, location will
be decided by lot, also the seventh
game, if there is one, in the second
and final series; (3) The first ser
ies will be played Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday of this week,
the second begining Monday and
through next week until finished;
(4) Games start at 4 p. m. except
Saturday, when the hour will be
3:30 p. m.; (5) All League play
ers will be admitted free to any
playoff game; (6) Umpires will
be furnished in accordance with
Rule 10 Of the original rules
(home team to furnish base um
pire, visitors plate umpire). Sou
thern Pines and Raeford to have
3 ball and strike umpire from
Aberdeen, and each team to fur
nish a base umpire unless a Fort
Bragg umpire can be obtained.
Chicken Barbecue
A chicken barbecue for all
teams was planned for Monday
at 7:30 p. m. at Aberdeen lake,
expenses to ,be paid out of the
League treasury.
It was decided the committee
will select a trophy or pennant
to be awarded to the winning
team.
Present at the meeting were
J. B. McLeod, J. E. McAuley, Bill
Upchurch, of Raeford; C. N.
Page, J. W. Wickerson, Joe Gar-
zik, Walter Harper, C. T. Dunn,
Jr., J. E. Newton, Bob Henderson,
A. C. Dawson, Jr., John S. Rug
gles, Southern Pines; L. B. San-
gleton, Vic Snipes, Curt Ramsey,
Laurinburg; C- L. Wicker, J;r.,,
Harry Harris, Aberdeen; V. P.
Nettles, Hamlet.
(Continued on Page 8)
Veterans March to Music of 82nd Division Band
As Moore County veterans of two wars and all branches of service march down Ashe street
toward the reviewing stand, Maj. John A. Lang, Jr., chief marshal, leading the way, draws abreast
of the Civic club, and salutes the Gold Star mothers on the porch.
Kenneth Epps, of Southern Pines, is carrying the national colors. Flags of the Aberdeen and
Sandhills Legion posts also head the marching group of some 100 veterans. (Photo by Bob Caviness)
Vets V-J Observance Memorable For
Colorful EventSy First Rate Speakers
Thousands Enjoy Countywide Reunion
And Celebration In Southern Pines
A worthy observance in every
way of a great occasion was
the Moore County veterans’ cel-
-ebration of the second V-J Day
anniversary, held last Thursday
in Southern Pines.
A crowd variously estimated
at from 3,000 .to 5,000 turned out
for the levent—practically every
one in Southern Pines, with
Moore County residents from
every community, visitors from
nearby counties and distinguish
ed guests from more distant
places.
Though the celebration was
not scheduled to begin until
noon, uniforms were seen about
,the flag-bedecked streets from
ear^y morning—uniforms many
of their wearers had not had on
for a year, or maybe two. Vete
rans greeted each other gaily.
For many, it was a real reunion.
Picnic lunches were spread on
specially built tables in the city
park during the noon hour. Fam
ilies dined from their picnic bas
kets, or bought sandwiches and
drinks from the Legion auxiliary
stand.
Gold Star Mothers
Nineteen Gold Star mothers
registered at the Civic club,
where they were guests of honor
at a buffet luncheon prepared by
ladies of the Sandhills Legion
auxiliary, their hostesses for the
day.
They had as special speaker
Mrs. W- ,L. Wood, of Warrenton,
second departmental vice presi
dent and third area chairman,
who paid first of all a tribute to
Coaches Find Weather Plenty Hot,
Football Practice Not So Much So
Yellowing leayes, lazy'wisps of
blue smoke in the-valley at even
ing time are nb longer the only
certain harbingers of fall, but the
crunch of young bodies hurtling
into a pigskin can be relied on as
being the unfailing foreteller of
fall and the football season being
near,
Tuesday afternoon, answering
Coach Dawson’s call, some dozen
high school gridsters reported
for practice, and, clad in shorts,
began workputs in earnest for
starting positions on this year’s
Blue and White.
■The workout lasted for only hn
hour, and if they revealed any
thing of the makeup of this year’s
team, it was the fact that even
toughened athleWs can go soft
during a long summer vacation.
The sqUad wak divided into
two groups, with] Dawson taking
over one and Phil Weaver hand
ling the other, with the empha
sis on pass throwing and pass re
ceiving as the nAain dish, and
positional play and offensive for
mations taking upt the balance of
the afternoon. '
New Plays Developed
More will be said later about
offensive formations as the squad
rounds out, and Dawson and
Weaver get an opportunity to try
some new offensive plays they
developed in the summer to be
adapted to the talents of the
somewhat less experienced Blue
and White squad.
By the end of this week some
30 boys are expected to be tak
ing part in the workouts, and
next week heavy equipment will
be issued.
“I want to get the boys into
condition as early as possible,”
Coach Dawson said. "Our first
game is two weeks after school
opens, and if we delay the start of
practice some of my boys would
not be quite in condition. “That
condition is important because
we risk a lesser likelihood of in
juries. It’s been our experience
that the better conditioned teams
don’t get injured easily.”
SchAdule Plans
Asked about the schedule,
Dawson said that it haSn’t been
(Continued on Page 5)
the distinguished lady she was
replacing, Mrs. Thomas W. Bird,
of Charlotte, North Carolina de
partment president, who met a
tragic death just four days
earlier.
A sweet and gentle lady and
a charming speaker, Mrs, Wood
spoke not only of the boys who
would not return but of those
Who had come back to hospitals,
and of all the Legion auxiliary
is doing to make their lives hap
pier. She asked the prayers of
the mothers, to help prevent an
other war.
Also a luncheon speaker was
Rear Admiral J. G- L. Dundas,
lately of the British Royal navy,
married to an American wife and
lately come to this community
to live. He carried his hearers
back in imagination to the dark
days of warfare in both America
and England, and paid tribute to
the glory of those who had given
their lives for freedom-
Mrs. R. L. DesPlands and
Mrs. Dan McNeill gave readings,
and Mrs. Chatfield sang, to piano
accompaniment by Mrs. L. D.
McDonald, following which Le
gion ladies took their guests on
a motor trip about Southern
Pines.
At W. Southern Pines
In the meantime 15 Negro
Gold Star mothers were guests of
honor in West Southern Pines,
where a fish fry was held for
them and all Negro veterans at
tending the celebilation. Jim
Bethea, Cary Saunders and Rev.
L. L. Bennett were in charge of
this part of the program, and an
army chaplain from Fort Bragg
was present to give a blessing.
Several Legionnaires were pres
ent for the pre-luncheon program
from the Sandhills post, and D.
Di. Shields Cameron (presented
the speaker, John A. Lang, Jr.,
of Carthage, secretary of Con
gressman Deane, who spoke in-
spiringly of the Negro’s part in
the war and the role he played
in the victory.
Baseball Game
Beginning somewhat late, the
baseball game scheduled for 2
p. m.-, with all veterans as guests,
took place on the town athletic
field before a tremendous and en
thusiastic crowd. A picked team
from the 505th Parachute Infan
try regiment at Fort Bragg, play
ing without substitutions, bowed
4 to 1 to the Peach Belt All-Stars-
The magnificently played game
concluded with the eighth inning
as parade time was, near.
The Fort Bragg lineup includ
ed Jacobs, first base; Hendrick
son, second base; Odom, third
base; Hennessy, right field; Al
britton, left field, Sausville, cen
ter field; Guinn, shortstop; Biggs,
catcher; Parker, pitcher. The
Peach Belt players, drawn from
all clubs of the six-member
league, had a longer lineup as
(Continued on Page 5> ■
SENATOR UMSTEAD
Resort League
Playoff Begins
Monday Evening
With interest mounting toward
the playoff, which begins next
Monday night, the Resort Soft-
ball League standings were as
follows Tuesday of this week:
Aberdeen, eight wins, two losses;
Southern Pines, six and five;
Pinehurst, four and six; Carth
age, three and eight.
A game betwelan Pinehurst and
AberdeeSi Tuesday pijghtv post
poned from last Friday and un
reported at this writing, plus the
final matches Thursday, were
expected to bring upsets, how
ever, so that just which will play
whom Monday night was a mat
ter for speculation.
Monday night’s winners will
play on succeeding nights at the
lighted Pinehurst field where the
Resort series is being held, until
two wins out of three determine
thie Moore County champion
team. The playoff schedule will
be posted about town and an
nounced over WSTS, said Harry
Chatfield, manager.
Monday Matches
Good crowds have been drawn
during the past two weeks to
witness some exciting double
headers. Monday, Southern Pines
suffered its first loss in some timb
when Pinehurst made 13 runs,
with 13 hits and no errors, over
the local players’ six runs, eight
hits and six errors. Kivett and
Kennedy were Pinehurst pitcher
and catcher, Cathay and Nieal
Southern Pines.
Aberdeen took Carthage that
night 5-0-
Friday, August 15, Southern
Pines and Carthage met with the
(Continued on Page 8>
Two Stolen Cars
Recovered From
Forest Hideaway
Police Follow Trail,
Find Worsham And
Johnson Aulomobiles
Fnillowing an old, abandoned
road into the deeply wooded
swamps between Lakeview and
Thagards pond late last Satur-
d, \ afternoon, local law enforce-
n,( ni. officers discovered in a se-
i' 11 cache two 1946 model cars
stolen from Southern Pines, one
\iit,i.ist 14 and the other July 11.
CI ushed leaves, broken limbs
nml an occasional tire mark in
the marshy trail led Chief C. E.
Newton, Patrolman Sessoms and
Sgt. Wendell Kelly of the state
highway patrol to the Plymouth
Ihliixe sedan stolen from C. L.
Wuisham, the object of a state
wide search for the past six
weeks; and the Plymouth four-
door sedan belonging to L. J.
Johnson of Siler City, driven
here by his brother-in-law V-J
day, and stolen about 7:30 o’clock
that evening.
In Good Condition
No one was with the cars, and
they were abstracted from their
woody haunt by a wrecker. They
were found to be in good shape,
though the Johnson car had a
bent fender, and stripping oper
ations had already started on
Worsham’s. Battery and horns
taken from it, however, have
been recovered, though a tire is
still missing.
Both cars had been taken from
their parking places near the
heart of town, Worsham’s in
front of his home on East Penn
sylvania avenue, the Johnson car
from Pennsylvania near Broad.
^ Gets Free Gas
Not content with the free
(though short-lived) acquisition
;of an automobile, the thief of the
Johnson car also secured free
(Continued on Page 5)
Farm Fish Ponds
As Income Source
Aim Of Resolution
Full Teacher Lists Announced For
Opening Of Southern Pines Schools
Band Teachers Added
YDC MEETING
Moore County Young Dem-
crats, after a summer recess,
are already a-stir with plans
for their re,newed program
of activities'!, (after serving
notice with a bang-up ban
quet and meeting last spring
th^t the war interruption was
over and they were back in
the field.
The call is being sounded
for all YDC members to at
tend the annual convention
at the courthouse in Carthage
at 8 p. m. Friday. September
12, when new officers will be
elected, also deles|ates to the
state convention.*
The convention, to be held
at Raleigh September 19 and
20, is already drawing the at
tention of the Moore County
folk, a number of whom have
reserved rooms ‘at the Sir
Walter. Hubert McCaskilL of
Pinehur^ti presidenti and
ath^er YDC county oj^fioers
are expected to attend, also
H. Clifton Blue, of Aberdeen.
Eight District chairman, and
members from this and other
Sandhills towns.
Fair Not Possible
For This Season;
Festival Proposed
To Both Faculties
Schools Preparing For
Opening September 3
Southern Pines schools are
readying for their opening Sep
tember , and will have' a full
complement of teachers.
The teacher lists released this
week by Supt. Philip J. Weaver
show that practically all of last
year’s faculty members are re
luming.
Two additions are noted in the
Southern Pines High School fac
ulty, Miss Elizabeth Padgett,
librarian, replacing Mrs. Burney
McCo-tter, resigri^ed, and J. G.
Womblle, of Charlotte, who will
teach science and band.
A 1933' graduate of Davidson
college, who took postgraduate
work at the University of North
Carolina and Appalachian State
Teachers’ college at Boone, Wom-
ble has had considerabltei exper-
iende in both his specialties and
comes highly recommended.
Weaver said.
He taught for a time at the
Cannon High school at Kannap
olis and directed its band, one of
the largest and best known of
th|e state. During the war he was
a radar technician at thie Glenn
Martin Aircraft • plant in Mary
land.
He comes to Southern Pines
(Continued on Page 8)
The board of supervisors of the
Upper Cape Fear soil conservat
ion district, comprising Moore,
Lee and Harnett counties, have
gone on record as proposing a
change of legislation to permit the
sale of fish from private ponds
by their owners-
A resolution to this effect has
been incorporated in recent min
utes of the board, to go before
the board of conservation and
development, according to J.
Hawley Poole, of West End, chair
man of the district board of su
pervisors-
As far as is known, this is the
first such body to make such a
proposal and the hope is that it
will be taken up by other bodies
having the interests and increas
ed income of farmers at heart,
for new legislation at the next
General Assembly.
The supervigors, an elective
group of farm leaders, head a
body of soil conservation tech
nicians at work in the counties
of their district. The resolution
came as a ndflection of the sen-
timtents of many of the farmers
whom they serve, Poole said.
Income Desired
Many of them have had fish
ponds developed on their pro
perty and others would like to, in
keeping with a long range pro
gram of conservation and deve
lopment, but find costs prohibi
tive unless income can be deriv
ed from them.
Legislation against the sale of
fish from such ponds has been in
effect of several years, promoted
by special interests within the
state.
As one farmer put it, “We
should have as much right to
sell the fish from our ponds as
the chicken from our flocks.”
Cbst of Developemenl
There are a number of fish
pounds in Moore county, develop
ed at a cost of from $200 to
$6,000. According to C. A- Mc
Kinney, county consearviationist,
the average cost is around $50Q
but ■ several pounds have .cost
thaeir owners from $5,00() to
(Continued on Page 8)
The Moore County fair cannot
be held this fall as planned, as
it has been found a state charter
will be necessary and it will take
90 days to get one, it has been
learned from Arch Barneg, pres
ident of the Carthage Junior
Chamber of Commerce, which
had planned to sponsor the lair
in October.
Permission was secured from
the, county commissioners last
month. Though they started too
late this year, they won’t be
caught napping next year as
steps will be taken shortly to
charter the group as a Moore
County Fair association, Barnes
•said.
In the meantime the Jaycees
are considering, a Tobacco Fes
tival for this fall as forerunner
of the fair, but no definite decis
ion has been made.
Meeting with them at their reg
ular session at the Carthage hotel
Monday night was a representa
tive of the Virginia Greater
shows, with whom they have plac
ed an application for a show
ing in October, 1948.
The only dates open this fall,
it turned out, are the same as
those on which the Lee County
fair will be held. Decision as to
the holding of the Tobacco Fes
tival will depend on whether the
dates can be rearranged so there
is no conflict with other nearby
festivals or fair events.
Kids Say Farewell
To Summer With
Picnic and Dance
While not quite a farewell to
summer, today (Friday) will mark
a farewell to much summer plea
sure >for young people of the
community, as the recreation pro
gram sponsored by the Council
of Social Agencies comes to a
close after 10 happy weeks.
The winding-up wil be in keep
ing with the rest of the summer
program—an all-day frolic and
swimming party at, Aberdeen
lake, with a dance at Lakeview in
the evening, for the teen-agers;
and for the younger children, a
half day at the lake begining at
2:30 p. m. The life guard will be
on duty.
For all there will be a picnic,
at which they will be guests of the
program: hot dogs, ice cream,
cold drinks and plenty of other
good things.
The ice cream will be the gift
of Coble Dairies, Inc., through
Courtesy of the Jewel Box, local
'ice cream parlor and favorite
teen-age hangout-
Returning in the late afternoon,
tieen agers will gather at the
Civic center at 8 p. m. for trans
portation to Lakeview, where
they will dance in the pavilion
overlooking beautiful Crystal
lake. Directors Dawson and Miss
Aline Todd will supervise.
Public Invited To Demonstrations
By Fire Fighting Crews Of District
All sessions of the district
meeting of the North Carolina
Forest Service, to be held here
Tuesday and Wednesday, will be
open to the public, according to
County Forest Warden Ernest W.
Davis.
One in particular is expected
to draw quite a crowd—a four-
hour demonstration of new fire
fighting equipment and tech
niques, to be held on the horse
show grounds beginning at 1:30
p. m. Tuesday.
Whether anything will be ac
tually set on fire for demonstra
tion purposes Warden Davis said
this week he did not know, but
if you see a blaze, sit tight. There
will be plenty of people to put it
out and they will do it in the
most efficient and scientific way.
The demonstrations will be
part of the instruction of the
fire fighting crews from eight
counties, keeping them up to
date in their vital task of pro
tecting thousands of acres of tim
ber land against the enemy fire.
Fish Fry
Other sessions of the two-day
meeting will be held at the Amer
ican Legion hall, except for the
Tuesday night fish fry, whSch
will be at Aberdeen lake. A cho
ral group of 40 to 50 voices or
ganized from Sandhills towns
will sing old favorite songs' as a
special entertainment feature.
Most of the time, however, the
foresters will concentrate on
their work, with such instructors
as W- J. Biechler, state forester;
J. R. Spratt, assistant state fores
ter and chief of forest fire con
trol in North Carolina; Robert
Shaw, N. C. Forest Service pub
licity director; Roger Huff, man
agement forester with the U. S.
Forest Service; and several dis
trict foresters.
In charge of the meeting will
be J. A. Pippin, district forester
and N. T. Faulkner, district ran
ger, both attached to the district
office at .Rockingham.
Opening Session
The opening meeting at the
Legion hall, beginning at 10 a.
m. Tuesday, will introduce the
visiting officials to make brief
talks on yarious phases of forest
fire control. The afternoon dem-
(Continued on Page 8)