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CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
HORSE SHOW
FOR RED CROSS
MARCH 6-7
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CriAMBER OF
COMMERCE
HORSE SHOW
FOR RED CROSS
MARCH 6-7
VOL. 29 NO. 13
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Soulhern Pines, N. C., Friday. February 20, 1948.
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Dr. Oren Moore,
Miss Corbin Will
Speak At Carthage
Maternal Welfare
Annual Meeting To
Be Held Wednesday
Founder's Memory Honored
C of C Horse Show And Ball
Preparations Proceed Apace
Show Committees
Hard At Work
Plans formulated some time
ago for the annual meeting of
the Moore County Maternal Wel
fare committee are going for
ward, according to the meeting
committee chairman, Mrs. F. H.
Underwood of Carthage, who is
also treasurer of the organization.
The meeting is to be held on
February 25th, at 3 o’clock, pre
ceded by a short business meet
ing at which officers for the new
year will be elected. To be held in
the Carthage Community House,
weather permitting, it will be
moved to the Presbyterian church
if it should turn too cold.
The meeting is expected to at
tract leaders in the field of health
from many sections while a large
local attendance is assured by the
fact that the gathering is to be
dedicated to the memory of the
founder of this cbunty group,
Elizabeth Woltz Currie. In the
speeches of the president, Mrs.
James Boyd, and those who work
with her, Mrs. Currie’s work will
be reviewed and tribute paid to
the continued inspiration of her
influence.
Principle speakers will be Dr.
Oren Moore of Charlotte and Miss
Hazel Corbin, executive head of
the noted Maternity Center of
New York. ,
Dr. Oren Moore, who will be
one of the speakers, at the couri-
ty meeting, is well kiiown not'
only in state medical circles but
aU over the country. He is a past
president of both the state Medi
cal Society and the South Atlan
tic Obstetrical and Gynecological^
Societies. He is a member of the
American Medical Association’s
committee on maternal welfare,
a five-man board, dealing with
, maternal health all over the
country. The author of several
book sin his field. Dr. Moore will
speak to the Moore County com
mittee on; “An Obstetrician s
Observations on Maternal Mor
tality Statistics in the South.” He
will be introduced by Dr. Clem
ent Monroe, chief surgeon of
Moore County Hospital.
Commenting on the local
group’s choice of Miss Corbin to
address the annual meeting, Mrs.
Boyd said; “I feel we are very
fortunate in being able to secure
Miss Corbin to speak to us. She
is a dynamic speaker with wide
experience in this ' field. She
knows our work from the start
when we used to write to her for
advice, and she has long wished to
come down here to see it at first
hand. Besides, she will be able
to tell us what similar groups
are doing'in other parts of the
country. I feel that it is essential
for good work to keep in close
touch with new methods and
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That the First Annual Cham
ber of Commerce Horse show.
Fashion Parade, and Horse Show
ball is a matter of community
wide interest, and that it is depen
dent upon corhmunity-wide coop
eration is illustrated by the fact
that most of the responsibility for
the detail work of the affair has
been handed to independent com-
niittees. General Chairman John
S. Ruggles appointed these com
mittees as soon as the show was
decided upon and many of them,
he said, are already in action.
Actual operation of the show
is, of course, in the hands of com
petent, experienced horsemen
such as Mickey Walsh, Jack Good
win, and many others. Lloyd
Clark is hard at work getting the
Full Weekend Of
Festivities Planned
For March 6 and 7
As springlike sunshine came
pouring down on Southern Pines
after the snow, so plans for the
first annual Chamber of Com
merce Horse show. Horse Show
ball and fashion parade were also
this week rapidly warming up.
Wasting no time. General
Chairman John S. Ruggles, Presi
dent of the Chamber of Com
merce, called his various commit
tees into action as soon as it was
confirmed that the show would
be held, and according to Rug
gles, “the response has been more
than pleasing.”
The horse show is to be for
the benefit Of the local Red Cross
fund drive.
Plans have been slightly chang
ed since the first announcement,
according to Chamber of Com
merce Executive Secretary Tom
Wicker. “We originally planned
NEW LOOK
programs printed as is Herbert, . o j
^ 'xi- j x- • - 1 (^cnlv a Sunday afternoon snow,
Cameron with advertising plac- ^
ards, tickets, etc. A. A. Hewlett
is in charge of working out plans
for, and handling, the parking
problem for the show.'The Cham
ber of Commerce staff is hard at
work on the publicity problems
presented by the show, and Tom
Wicker, executive secretary, is
also serving as secretary of the
show.
Fo' the Hbrse Show ball, Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Collins aro act
ing as co-chairmen. Working with
them are Mrs. W. D.' Campbell,
in charge of entertainment for the
evening; Mrs. Anne Blue, of
Patch’s, Mrs. John Pottle, of Tot’s
Toggery, Mrs. Jean Edson, of
Franjean’s, and Miss Katherine
Wiley, all of whom are helping
with the fashion show to be held
.at the ball.
Other committees which will
swing into action as the show
nears are the ticket sales com
mittee (there will be advance
he said, “but our committee of
horsemen recommended that it
be expanded to a Saturday and
Sunday afternoon show. We
think they’re right.”
Horse Show Ball
The Horse Show ball, however,
will be held as planned Saturday
night, March 6, in the ballroom
of the Highland Pines Inn. Under
the direction of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Collins, of Southern
Pines, the affair is shaping up in
the true tradition of horsemen’s
social affairs. Strictly formal, the
dance will be preceded by an old
fashioned buffet dinner, during
which it is planned to hold a
fashion show. Admission price
for the Horse Show ball and buf
fet, is to be $5 per person.
The show itself will probably
start at 1 p. m. Saturday. The
scene of action will be 'Vernon
Valley Farms, estate of Vernon
G. Cardy, winter resident of Sou
them Pines hailing from Mon
The Sandhills have taken
on the "new look" since the
deepest snow seen here ip
21 years vanished overnight
last Friday. Dissipated as if
by magic in a heavy fog. it
was followed by blue skies,
sunshine and typical Sand
hills warmth.
Schools in town and county
reopened Monday morning,
other activities snapped back
to normal and the snow even
vanished as a topic of conver
sation. A thermometer on a
sunny porch in town regis
tered 100 degrees Wednesday
morning. Hunting, riding and
golf were resumed with
vigor, as the ground quickly
dried: grass look on a new
green, birds chirped and fat
buds began showing on trees
and r>hrubs.
The fuel oil shortage ceas
ed to seem crucial, cind many
householders look a hoUday
from having any fire at all.
gleefully streatching coal and
oil supplies. Window displays
of springtime dresses look on
an inviting look they had not
had before.
In fact, the "new look"
(let's whisper it) is very
much like spring!
Burney Will Head
Red Cross Drive
In Southern Pines
Advantages Seen
In Extension Of
Municipal Limits
Pollock, Burns
Present Facts
Before Rotary Club
sales), the grounds preparation I-tj-eai. Approximately 17 classes
committee, the guest reception gf hunters 'and jumpers are plan
ned, including children’s classes
and the four championship stakes.
Probably eight, at least, of these
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Arnette, Patch
Are Winners In
Golden Gloves
committee, and others.
John Prestage, of White Post,
Virginia, a nationally known
“senioi” judge has been secured
for the show. Ringmaster will be
Clarence “Honey” Craven, well-
known to patrons of the National
Horse show at Madison Square
Garden. These officials are re
ported to be absolutely tops in
their field.
Charles Stitzer, Jr., is at work
on the guest invitation committee
and is making several calls per
sonally on some well-known per
sonalities to ask them to grace
the show with their presence.
VALENTINE DANCE
The Valentine dance, which
was to have been held last Sat
urday night at the Pinehurst High
school, but was postponed on ac
count of unpromising weather
conditions, will take place tomor
row night (Saturday) instead. The
King and Queen of Hearts con
test will be held at this time.
Hounds Going Out Three Days A Week
As Meets Are Resumed In Sandhills
by E. O. Hippus
With the last of the snow a
few little dirty white plunks here
and there in the woods, the coun
try is returning to its normal as
pect. A few fields are a bit soggy
stUl, but on the whole the Sand
hills is putting on a show of its
best-trick-of-the-season, as far as
hunting people are concerned.
That is the extraordinary way it
gets itself dried and back to firni
footing for horses in the wink of
an eye.
Hounds met a week ago for
the first time in several weeks,
with everybody, horses, folks, and
dawgs in the mood to run. And
run they did. First whip V. Moss
viewed, finally, and it confirmed
her every suspicion; a nice big
brushy red fox, slinking along
ahead. No wondpr they ran so
fast and straight. He finally got
away, with a few hounds after
him, on the reservation. Blown
horses and a good, deal of mud
in the eye, the good-hunting
variety, was evidence of a fast
and fraiitic gallop.
Last Tuesday, the meet was at
Stoneybrook and the fine morn
ing brought out a good field of
fifteen or so. Gordon Mendel
ssohn of Millbrook was there,
some of the usual Poughkeepsie
contingent, Messres Schenner
horn, Knobloch and Graham,
Morton Smith of Middleburg,
Mrs. Katherine Toerge on a nice
light brown that looked like Gan-
adore blood, another Middleburg
er, M. Mumford, apologizing for
his lack of a hat and fighting a
good light grey who didn’t feel
in the least inclined to “hilltop,”
according to his rider’s wishes
(Come to think of it, hilltopping
isn’t quite so easy down’yer. Got
to find yourself a hill, to start
off with!)
Others in the field had famil
iar faces, all wearing a grin on
this first super-fine morning. Mrs.
Peggy Mechlin was there but not
on Henry’s Dream. “This is one
of Jinny’s,” she said. It looked
very nice indeed. Mickey 'Walsh
was riding a bright bay with a
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A. L. Burney has been appoint
ed chairman of Southern Pines’
Red Cross fund drive, with a
quota of $6,000 to be achieved in
the 1948 campaign which will be
gin March 1, according to an
nouncement rnade this week by
R. F. Hoke Polldck, county cam
paign chairman.
Needs of the Red Cross, local
and: national, for the coming year,
to be financed by the fund drive,
will be discussed at a dinner and
planning meeting to be held at
the Skycruise club. Resort air
port, Monday at 6;30 p. m.
Attending the meeting will be
.Colonel Pollock; Col. G. P.
Hawes, Jr., county chapter chair
man; Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy,
chapter executive secretary; Bob
Harlow, publicity chairman, and
the following chairmen of the
drive in 16 county communities,
listed here with their 1948 quotas;
Aberdeen, Jere McKeithen, $1,-
600; Adder, Mrs. Henry Adder,
$55; Cameron, W. C. Stephenson,
$300; Carthage, Wilton H. Brown,
$1,475; Eagle Springs-Samarcand,
Advantages to suburbanites of
inclusion within the town limits,
with a summary of present laws
governing city limit extension,
were presented to the Southern
Pines Rotary club at their lunch
eon meeting last Friday by R. F.
Hoke Pollock, Southern Pines at
torney.
Howard Burns, town clerk, was
present also to give facts and fig
ures concerning local taxes, and
what they provide; also what the
revenue brought in through such
an addition would mean in bene
fits to the community as a whole.
The talks were followed by a
discussion period in which a num
ber of questions were asked and
answered by both Burns arid Pol
lock, after which a resolution was
passed, without a dissenting vote,
to ask favorable consideration of
extension of the town limits by
the Chamber of Conunerce, for
presentation to the town board.
Present were several members
whom such a move would di
rectly affect.
Nominations
The discussion was followed by
another important part of the
meeting, the presentation of a
slate of officers and directors by
Harry Lee Brown, chairman of
the nominating committee, for
election to be held in two weeks.
Following a Rotary custom of
presenting more than one name
for each office, these were, for
president, Don Jensen, Garland
Pierce and Paul Van Camp; sec
retary-treasurer, Jtine Phillips,
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N. C. Amateur Softball Tournament
Will Bring 10 Teams Here In August
PROUD NEWS
Proud bulletki of the South
ern Pines March of Dimes:
with an original quota of
$800, Chairman Paul C. But
ler has turned in a report of
$1,722.26 to County Chairman
Blue.
With more than double the
quota achieved, Butler said
that solicitation has ended,
and coin containers have all
been picked up. However,
he said, contributions will
continue to be accepted with
deep gratitude, and will be
added to previous collections
to carry forward the fight
against polio in the county.
A complete report on the
drive will be given next
week.
We think this is a mighty
fine record. Our best salute
goes to all who worked and
all who gave, in this impor
tant cause.
Piedmont Airlines
Plans Inaugural
Flight For Today
Wicker Secures
Endorsement For
Chamber Sponsorship
Future Playoffs Optioned
Fred Arnette, 16, came home
from the 10th Annual Eastern
Carolina Golden Gloves Boxing
tournanrent last week with the
junior lightweight championship
and trophy, won by technical
knockouts over two opponents,
one Wednesday and one Thurs
day ;iight.
Boxing on the Raleigh Inde
pendent team and paired with
Llo'yd Page, of Raleigh, Arnette
sent left jabs to his opponent’s
head and face with such telling
affect that the referee gave him
the decision at 1:32 of the first
t’ound.
In the championship bout the
next night with Junius Murray,
also of Raleigh, Arnette scored
another TKO. This time it took
him longer—one round and 47
seconds of another. Untouched in
the first fight, in the second he
suffered a slightly skinned ear
from a glancing blow delivered
by Murray.
Richard Patch, also 16, who ac
companied Arnette to Raleigh,
was disqualified on account Of a
hurt thumb, which kept him from
passing the stiff physical given
all the boys before entering the
tournament.
.At Wilmington
Both were already Golden
Gloves trophy winners, following
their trip to Wilmington three
weeks before, when Patch won
Rev. H. L. McBath, $425; Eureka
Miss Marie Shuffler, $1’5; Halli-
son - Glendon - Putnam, Leslie
Hewett, $75; High Falls, Thad-
deus Frye, $175; Jackson Springs,
Mrs. Herbert Carter, $165; Knoll-
wood, George T. Dunlap, Jr., $800;
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D. H. Turner Has
Narrow Escape In
Gar-Train Crash
Social Agencies
Re-Elect Officers
The Council of Social Agencies
met on Tuesday night at the
Southern Pines School and re
elected the entire last year’s slate
of officers; Miss Birdilia Bair,
president, Philip J. Weaver, vice-
president; J. A. Phillips, treasur
er, and Miss Katherine 'Wiley, sec
retary. Thirteen of the members
were present.
Donald Madigan read a report
of the Christmas Work, winning
the congratulations of the group
on its extent. The recreational
program for next year was dis
cussed and a committee appointed
to make recommendations for
further activity next year. Mem
bers of the committee are; J. A.
Phillips, chairman, Harry Lee
Brown, Paul Butler, Lamar Jack-
son, Donald Madigan, P. J.
Weaver.
Most important item of busi-
the junior middleweight cham- ness accomplished was the ar-
pionship and Arnette the junior
lightweight in the Southeastern
tournament.
At Wilmington, Patch kayoed
Jesse Sly, of Carolina Beach, in
exactly 55 seconds, while. Arnette
won a TKO over Leroy Bradshaw
of Wilmington, at 1:20 in the first
round.
The boys’ achievement is the
more remarkable in that boxing
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rangement made with the Red
Cross by which this agency would
take over part of the work of the
Council by acting as a clearing
house for all charity cases. It was
felt that because permanent files
could be more easily kept at the
Red Cross office, and it was al
ways open and functioning, this
work would be more efficiently
carried on than by the Council
as in the past.
D. H. Turner, local real estate
and insurance man, had an ex
tremely close call when his coupe
and a northbound Diesel locomo
tive tangled Saturday afternoon
at 4 p. m., in the year’s first car-
train collision at a Broad Street
intersection.
Turner said later he neither
saw nor heard the train, as he
rounded the corner from East
Broad at Pennsylvania avenue,-
until his front wheels were on the
track and he looked up to see the
locomotive right at him.
Going quickly into reverse, he
stalled his engine and the loco
motive caught the coupe’s left
front wheel, spinning the car
about, snapping the door open
and flinging Turner to the track.
He grasped the door and pulled
himself to safety from almost di
rectly under a wheel of the train,
which slowed down as brakes
were quickly applied.
Bleeding profusely from a ’oad
gash on the forehead received
when he struck the street. Turn
er was assisted to Dr. Milliken’s
office, where he received first aid
treatment. The gash and some
bruises appeared to be his only
injuries and a hospital trip was
not deemed necessary.
The train was uncoupled at the
point of contact so the car could
be removed. Damage, restricted
to the front wheel and radiator,
was estimated at around $200.
Thankful for his escape. Turner
has few complaints to make con
cerning the happening, except
that he said trees at the corner
obstructed his view so that the
train could not be seen from East
Broad.
Automatic signals at some in
tersections, with the closing of
others to automobile traffic, was
agreed on by the town board and
Seaboard Airline Railway offi
cials almost a year ago, as a safe-
The inaugural flight of the
Piedmont Airline route from 'Wil
mington to Cincinnati and return,
stopping at Resort airport in this
county, will be held this morn
ing (Friday) barring further com
plications, it was announced by
a Piedmont spokesman Thursday.
The flight will follow in all de
tails that planned as an inaugu
ral for last Friday, which was
canceled on accoimt of weather
conditions.
Leaving Wilmington at 7:02 a.
m.. the first DC-3 21-passenger
plane will land at Resort airport
at 8:02 to pick up passengers, mail
and airmail express.
Joining the flight at Resort
will be Howard Burns, town clerk
and airport committee member
from Southern Pines, and Robert
E. Harlow, Pinehurst Outlook
editor and member of the Pine
hurst Chamber of Commerce, who
will be Piedmont’s guests along
with officials from other towns
along the route.
They will land at Charlotte at
8:48, then fly on to the western
terminal, Cincinnati, stopping en
route at the, Asheville, Bristol-
Johnson ' City-Kingsport, Tenn.,
and Frankfort-Lexin^on, Ky.,
airports. At Cincinnati they will
be honor guests at a luncheon
given by the Cincinnati Chamber
of Commerce.
On the return trip they will
land at Resort airport at 6:17 p.
;m.
From then on the flights will
be operated by this same schedule
daily, with a second round trip
on the same route planned to be
started as soon as business justi
fies it.
Southern Pines will be the
scene of one of the biggest sum
mer events in North Carolina,
when the annual state champion
ship 'torsrnament of the North
Carolina Amateur Softball associ
ation is held here at the high
school athletic field. Choice of the
site was announced Thursday by
the Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce, which is sponsoring
the affair, and Smith Barrier,
sports editor of the Greensboro
Daily News and commissioner of
the softball association.
The possibility of sponsoring
the tournament Here was pre
sented before the Chamber of
Commerce directors at a special
session Tuesday afternoon, and
they enthusiastically accepted the
plans as outlined by Tom Wicker,
executive secretary. Wicker had
already secured the endorsement
of Barrier on Southern Pines as
the tournament site.
Ten Teams Participate
One of the first events of this
type to be held in this district, it
promises to be a large and excit
ing event. Ten teams will partic
ipate, the winners of the eight
districts into which the softball
association has divided the state;
last year’s state champs, the
MooresviUe Moors, and a local
host team.
Winner of the tournament will
be crowned state champion and
will be sent to the regional tour
nament to be held in St. Peters-
'ourg, Fla.
No definite date has been set
for the affair, a double elemina-
tion in which each team must
be defeated twice before being
put out of the running, thus nec
essitating that at least 20 games
will be played. The tournament
will probably run over the better
part of a week, although it will
depend on the course of play.
The absence of lights from the
high school field was at first con
sidered a hindrance, but with the
chance that the field will be light
ed by then, this was overcome by
advantages Southern Pines can
lend to the tournament.
Ideal Situation
“Southern Pines is centrally lo
cated for the entire state,” Bar
rier commented, “and with the
possible exception of the lights,
playing conditions will be good.
You will have the hotel facilities,
the Chamber of Commerce will
have the promotional media, and
the name of Southern Pines will
lend prestige to the entire tourna
ment. And it will bring big-time
softball into a section of the state
wherq it is not now so well
known.”
Sdme of the teams expected
to participate, if past reputations
are lived up to, will be the Hanes
Hosiery nine, the Burtner Fur-
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Stalin, Not Marx, Is Responsible
For Communism, Wood Tells Kiwanis
“William A. Wood,” said Eu-1 considered Marx the arch-villain
the
gene Stevens, “is one of the most
outstanding metallurgical and
chemical engineers of these
times.”
The scene was the clubhouse of
the Pine Needles hotel, and
Stevens was introducing the
speaker of the day to the as
sembled Kiwanis club of the
Sandhills, at their weekly meet
ing held Wednesday. The mem
bers had gathered in the club
house, after taking lunch at the
hotel.
Silhouetted against the pines
beyond the big window'. Engin
eer Wood’s figure loomed tall and
powerful. It was difficult to be
lieve, looking at him, that he had
just owned, albeit with some sat
isfaction, to being 82 years old,
ty measure. Delays have been oc- “and all but the first 14 years of
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casioned by the difficulty of get
ting parts for the signals, accord
ing to word sent the board by
SAL authorities.
A good deal of equipment for
the setting up of the signals has
already arrived, and is awaiting
shipment of the rest.
it,” he said, “spent at my trade.
The speaker, who has spent a
great part of his life on engineer
ing projects in Europe, with the
last years in Russia, and the
eastern section, said he would
take as his subject: Karl Marx.
He said that' he had always
of history, to whom all
trouble in the present crisis in
international relations might well
be attributed. But he had found
he was wrong. He had to admit
that he had never dipped into his
book. Das Kapital, until this win
ter, when, kept indoors and per
force idle by the inclement
weather, he settled down to do
some reading. He decided then to
look into Marx in a serious way.
A Surprise
“And then,” said the speaker,
“I found I was in for a surprise.
1 think it may surprise some of
you gentlemen, too,” he went on,
“to hear that after I had read
some of Marx’s book I found I’d
have to change my opinion of
him. He wasn’t a communist at
all. He was a socialist. He didn’t
believe, that the state should be
all powerful, should own the
land and hold complete power
over a man’s life and property.
But he was for the underdog, the
working people, who have al
ways gotten the worst of things.”
(Clontinued on Page 5)