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VOL. 28 NON. 49
18 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines, N. C.- Friday, October 31, 1947
18 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Halloween Spirits
Will Hold Carnival
In Downtown Area
Rotary - Sponsored
Celebration Qffers
Entertainment For All
The ghosts and the goblins will
be on the prowl tonight—it’s Hal
loween!
Out from their hiding places
will come prancing and dancing
the merry spirits of darkness.
Sights will be seen, noises will
be heard such as are seen and
heard on no other night of the
year, as the spirits keep the an
cient vigil of All Saints.
They’ll be gathering along
Broad street soon after dusk, and
the fun will carry on until late
in the evening.
As it has for many years in the
past, the Southern Pines Rotary
club is heading the Halloween
festival here, and under the di
rection of Rev. Tucker G. Hum
phries, chairman, plans have been
made for a sequence of joyous
events.
The first of these, about 7 p.m.,
will be the grand parade, when
all the little Halloween spirits in
their weird dress will march from
the Brown and Clark service sta
tion to the post office and back
again, on the west side of Broad
street. Reviewing stands will
have been placed along the way,
and in the main stand, directly in
front of the Sandhills drug store,
the King and Queen of the festi
val and the judges will sit. They
will choose the best costume, the
fuimiest, the most horrible, other
superlatives in many classifica
tions, and prizes will be awarded
to their wearers.
On. the Air
Around the main stand many
other activities will center — a
“broadcasting” program, in which
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Deane Urges Aid
To Resort Airline
In CAB Hearings
Jumping into the fight to fur
ther the cause of Resort Airlines
as a prime necessity for the
Sandhills, Bob Harlow, editor of
the Pinehurst Outlook, who be
lieves in direct action for some
thing you believe in, wrote to
Congressman Deane last week, in
an effort to enlist his sympathies
in this cause so vital to the wel
fare of the resort business here.
Outlining the present situation
and the attempt being made by
the local company to secure a
certificate of necessity from CAB,
Harlow described in his letter the
apparent blocking which was go
ing on and pled with Deane to
do all he could to help.
Deane is also a man who be
lieves in vigorous action. His re
ply was prompt and to the point.
“Bring all your promotional
agencies together in the Sand
hills,” he wrote Harlow, “all your
civic clubs and Chambers of
Commerce. Hold a general meet
ing at an early date and from
this group name a steering com
mittee to go to Washington and
get behind this proposition. We
will call On our senators for their
assistance. When your delegation
gets to Washington I will ar
range for senatorial and congres
sional support to appear with
you.”
Southern Pines citizens are
glad to point out that they are
one jump ahead of this good ad
vice!, having already mobilized
support behind the local airline.
The Chamber of Commerce went
on record as favoring prompt ac
tion, and took immediate mea
sures to implement their stand,
while the Town Board appointed
a committee consisting of E. C.
Stevens and Charles Patch to
speak for the town.
L. C. Burwell, president of Re
sort Airlines, expressed strong
appreciation of the efforts being
made in the Sandhills. He sug
gested that a delegation be ready
to act as soon as possible after
the close of the present hearings
^n Washington, now being at
tended by all officials of the
company.
Victorious Southern Pines Team With State’s No. 1 Football Fan
With Coach Weaver at the lelt. Coach Djwt,on at tim light, the Blue and Whites posed for their picture yesterday with a smiling
fan in their midst. Governor Giregg Cherry. Left to right, kneeling are Richard Newton, Carlton Kennedy,' Richard Patch, Bill Sledge,
Bobby Culler, Governor Cherry, C- L. Worsham, Fred Arnette, Gerald Thomas, Carrow Mbffitt, Albert Adams, Elmer Andrews. Back row.
standing—John Calloway, George Hodgkins, Jimmy Dickerson, Howard Burns, Jim McCall, Andy Page, Richard Kaylor, Dillon Short,
George McDonald, Bill Baker, Alfred Viall, Gary Mattocks, Reggie Hamel, Roland Bowers, Ted York, Gene Poe, Dickie-Ray, Eugene
Maples, Joe Bennett and Billy Warner, business manager. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Governor Heads Enthusiastic Crowd
Witnessing Homecoming Game Here
Southern Pines Wins 28-14 Over Fine
Six - Man Football
Promotion Attracts
Fighting Team Of Lexington Orphans Wide Attention
Before an overflow crowd of
some 2,000 odd spectators. Sou
thern Pines removed a great Lex
ington Orphanage team from the
previously unbeaten ranks by the
score of 28 to 14, here Wednes
day.
It -was a great Lexington team,
and they played their hearts out
in the game^played just as you
would expect a team to play, that
until Wednesday had won 29
straight games.
But it would be simply stating
a fact to say that the Orphanage
lost Wednesday to a better team.
Southern Pines’ blocking was a
little better than the Orphans,
their tackling a little more sure.
Time after time Taylor and Go
ins, the Orphanage team’s two
great backs, broke into the Sou
thern Pines secondary line
where a good block would have
shaken them into the clear, but
the Blue and White line stripped
the blockers to leave the runner
on his own for the secondary to
bring down.
It was only by good tackling,
with a smile at, times from Dame
Fortune that Taylor and Goins
didn’t get loose. And it was the
hard charging of the Southern
Pines forward wall that caused
Lexington to have two punts
blocked, both of which led to
two Blue and White touchdowns.
First Quarter
Lexington’s D. Taylor took
Baker’s ■ kick-off on the goal lin&
and returned to the Orphans’ 24.
From here Lexington launched a
powerful drive that carried to
the Southern Pines 5, D. Taylor
and Goins alternating on the ball
carrying, with Taylor getting off
the longest run of some 20 yards.
With it fourth and one to go on
the 6, Lexington fumbled and
Baker recovered for Southern
Pines on the Blue and White 8,
but Southern Pines fumbled on
the first play from scrimmage
and the Orphanage recovered on
the 8.
This time the Lexington team
would not be denied. Two run
ning plays advanced the ball to
the 5-yard line, and from here
D. Taylor passed to Blackstone
for a touchdown. Goins took Tay
lor’s pass for the extra point to
make the score 7 to 0.
Mattocks took the Lexington
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Day Declared Success
The v.^eather gods reached
down into their packet of days
marked “extrem.ely Choice,” and
nulled out Wednesday, Southern
Pines’ Homecoming day, com
plete, with.,, blue skies, brijliant
sunshine, balmy breezes and all
the other accoutrements of per
fection.
Other gods involved were as
propitious, and as a result the
day proceeded exactly as plan
ned. Even better—for you can
hope for, but not plan, a foot
ball victory over foes who have
licked you twice before; with a
good score, 28-14; touchdowns
evenly spaced quarter by quar
ter, and each team maneuvering
at dramatic pace, showing up at
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Windows Festive With Blue and White
As Merchants Join In C of C Contest
Veterans Throw
Weight Behind
Hospital Project
Grand prize for the prettiest
window decorated in honor of
Homecoming Day in Southern
Pines went to the Colonial
Stores, Howard Hoffman man
ager, and a nice fat $10. accom
panied the well deserved award.
Other stores winning in the
window-dressing contest were:
Among the food stores: 1st prize
and $5.00 to W. L. Baker; honor
able mention to Charlie Everest’s
Jewel Box. Clothing stores: 1st
prize and $5.00 to Franjean, hon
orable mention to Tot’s, next
door. Miscellaneous: 1st prize
and $5.00 to Mrs. E. Holt’s dec
oration in the 5 and 10, honorable
mention to Dick Sugg’s Sandhill
Sport Shop window.
And what a galaxy of blue and
white dancing football players
and cheer leaders decorated our
town this week! The prize-giv
ing was the least of the excite
ment as everybody fussed and
fumed with paper and ribbons
and paint. When the windows
were finished, passersby gathered
to do their own prize awarding.
Let’s take a look up and down
street and conduct a special Pilot
survey.
Starting with the north . . .
well, Tarheels, you’ve got to
start somewhere, haven’t you? . .
There was Mr- Baker’s window
and it happens to be a prize-
winning window, too . We think
the judges must have made their
awards according to the work and
ingenuity involved. And not a
bad idea, perhaps. The Baker
window depicted a scoreboard
with all of Southern Pines’ seven
victories chalked up on it. At
the bottom was that blank space,
to be filled with . . . nice it turned
out to be another victory, isn’t it?
Next to the Baker window was
that of R. A. Warren, a clever
arrangement of blue and white
boxes and items of jewelry.
From there we moved into the
realm of the dress shops. Patch’s
Vv'as utilitarian as well as gay,
with sturdy sweaters and well-cut
sportswear. Next came the win
ner of the awards for clothing
stores: Franjean. A white hud
dled affair turned out, on closer
inspection, to be the visiting team
well snowed under in the center
of the model field, by a blanket
of Christmas snowflakes. Polka
dots of flakes sparkled on the
windpw-pane. Across the way
was Tot’s. And there they were,
of course, a whole bevy of them
cheering for the Blue and White
while across sat a beaming Penny
in spectator-sports dress of the
best. Nifty all round, and earn
ing a well-deserved honorable
mention.
The window of the 5 and 10
was without doubt the best de
signed of any. Using only items
of sale, such as blue and white
Kleenex boxes, small footballs
and blue-clad dolls, the window
was a delight of color and gayety.
Glamour! And how! In the
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A joint meeting of the John
Boyd post. Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and the Sandhill post,
American Legion, is being called
by their respective commanders,
C. S. Patch, Jr., and Jack Reed,
to be held at 8 p. m., Monday at
the VFW clubroom to discuss
promotion of the Sandhills as the
site of the proposed Veterans’
Administration hospital.
This will be a regular meeting
night for the VFW, and post bus
iness may be attended to after
the hospital discussion.
It will be a special meeting for
the Legionnaires with the one ob
ject in mind—suppoit of the hos
pital project.
The announcement was made
following an informal session
held at the Belvedere hotel Mon
day night at the invitation of A.
C. Reed, member of the Chamber
of Commerce hospital site com-
:coittee.
Attending were a group from
the VFW post meeting held ear
lier that evening; Congressman
C. B. Deane, of Rockingham, and
VFW Department Commander E.
C. Snead, of Wilmington, VFW
guest speakers; and several Le
gionnaires. Several of the vet
erans were members of both or
ganizations, and representatives
of Pinehurst and Aberdeen, as
well as Southern Pines, were
present.
Snead came along “as a friend,”
it was emphasized, not taking
part in the active discussion, as
he lives in another district and
his interests are, of necessity,
statewide.
Deane Gives Supporf
Dearie, however, whose support
is deemed essential to the project,
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Louise Milliken
Chosen Queen For
Charlotte Festival
Local Contest Will
Proceed As Scheduled
Wednesday Evening
Town Board Plans Bond Election For
Floodlights, Grandstand At Ballpark
MARTS CLQSE
Tobacco markets at Carth
age and Aberdeen, in com
pany with other flue-cured
markets of North Carolina
and Virginia, closed after
their Tuesday sales ob
servance of the sales suspen
sion brought about by Great
Britain's ban on tobacco im
ports.
Prices were said to have
wavered sharply on all mar
kets following announce-
mient of the British move,
made last Thursday.
Next Monday has been
suggested as a reopening
date, with the likilihood,
however, said to be that the
markets will remain closed
a week or more while a fed
eral financing program fpr
the rest of the season is be
ing worked out. Tobacco
marketing officials of the
two states are reported to be
in conference over the situa
tion with agriculture depart
ment chiefs at Washington.
The Moore County crop is
reportedly only about half
sold.
Senator Hoey
Heard By Kiwanis
And Many Guests
Southern Pines was the host
to a bevy of celebrities Wednes
day, the Kiwanis Club leading
off with the honor of having, as
their guest speaker at the weekly
lunch at the Southern Pines
Country Club Senator Clyde L.
Hoey, former governor Of the
state.
Louise Milliken, senior at the
Southern Pines High school, was
chosen “Miss Southern Pines” to
represent the town at the Char
lotte Christmas festival Novem
ber 12, in a hurry-up vote held
in advance of the scheduled con
test when it was found the festi
val deadline was Monday.
The school contest will proceed
as planned, it was announced this,
week by Miss Phoebe Wither-'
spoon,, advisor of the senior class,
which is sponsoring the event.
Some 50 entries had been made
by business firms and individuals
early this week, and “Little Miss
Southern Pines,” !’‘Junior Miss
Southern Pines” and “Miss Sou
thern Pines” will be chosen at a.
program to be held Wednesday
night at the Pinehurst theater.
The entries will be chosen
from the first through fourth
grade group, the fifth through
eighth and tbs high school. With
out of town judges doing the sel
ecting, Miss Milliken may or may
not be chosen next week and it is
quite possible the school will
wind up with two “Miss South
ern Pines” instead of one.
Senator Hoey addressed one of
the largest gatherings ever to at
tend a Kiwanis lunch. Guests, in
cluded several press and radio
officials here from Raleigh, while
every section of the Sandhills
was represented.
At the speakers’ table were,
besides Kiwanis president Paul
Butler, Senator Hoey, Mayor
Chan Page, Dr. W. C. Mudgett,
first president of Kiwanis when
it was started here 25 years ago.
Dr. Robert M, McMillan, who in
troduced the speaker. Mayor For
rest Lockey of Aberdeen, W. P.
Saunders, of Robbins, manager
of the Colonial Mills, Hawley
Poole, former representative in
Raleigh, A. L. Burney.
It had been hoped that the
speaker would devote his re
marks to a description of the
Marshall plan, and the audience
was not disappointed. Opening
his speech with some of the good
stories for which he is famous,
Senator Hoey soon took up more
serious matters. He described
the conditions which existed in
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Signals Delayed;
Railroad Suggests
Closing Qf Streets
Support Given Airline
The town commission met in
called session at the city hall
Tuesday at 11 a. m. to discuss
several matters of vital import to
the town, which, it was reported
by Mayor Page, could not well
wait until the regular meeting.
Of prime importance was con
sideration of a bond issue for
which public election would be
held, to provide additional facili
ties for, and maintenance of, re
creation programs for both white
and Negro residents.
Major features of expense
would be the purchase and in
stallation of floodlights at the
athletic park, and the building of
a grandstand, possibly with
bleachers as well. A sum would
also be set aside for specific use
by the Negro citizens.
As estimated by the board, the
full program would cost some
$20,000. No decision was reached
pending the securing of an accu
rate estimate on the cost of build
ing the grandstand.
Installation of the , floodlights
on a town financing plan has
been urged for some time by the
Chamber of Commerce. At the
start of the meeting Mayor C. N.
Page read a letter from John S.
Ruggles, Chamber president, in
answer to one from the town
board containing the information
that, according to advice of the
town attorney, an election would
be necessary.
' Ruggles’ letter Expressed the
Chamber’s favor toward such an
election.
A reserve fund earmarked “for
necessary expenses” which the
Chamber had suggested be drawn
on for the purpose, cannot be so
used, according to the attorney’s
advice.
Bringing up the question of the
need of community support of
Resort Airlines, which faces a
CAB denial of its franchise to
serve this section with regular
flights, the mayor found the
board in unanimous opinion that '
such support should be given.
He named E. C, Stevens and C.
S. Patch as members of a com
mittee to express the feeling of,
the town of Southern Pines, that
such service is of definite com
munity value and should be al
lowed.
Howard Burns, secretary, read
a letter from the Seaboard Air
Line office, notifying the board
that the automatic signals prom
ised for the Connecticut, Penn
sylvania and Massachusetts ave
nue are in’ process of being as
sembled, but that all the essential
parts cannot yet be procured.
Prospects are that the lights,
promised for late this year, will
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However, with the students do
ing all the voting Monday, Lou
ise took the honors, based ort
looks, personality, popularity and
all the things that go to make
up a teen-age “glamor girl.”
To Greet Motorcade
She will play her queenly role
first on Tuesday afternoon, when
the Charlotte motorcade comes
to town (scheduled at 2:45 p. m.).
This will be one of five motor
cades visiting towns of the Char
lotte trading area in the interest
of the Christmas festival, and the
Chamber of Commerce of the
Queen City has requested that
the mayor and the town’s
“queen” be on hand at the city
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Senator Hoey At Sandhills Kiwanis
With their distinguished guest. Sen. Clyde R. Hoey, at the Ki
wanis luncheon meeting Wednesday are seen, left to right. Mayor C.
N. Page, Dr. W. C. Mudgett, first president of the club, and Dr. R.
M. McMillan, who presented the speaker.
(Photo by Emerson Humphrey)