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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HORSE SHOW FOR RED CROSS MARCH 6-7 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HORSE SHOW FOR RED CROSS MARCH 6-7 * Injunction Sought ^ To Stop School Building At Vass State Licensing Board Declares V Law Being Violated Hearing Set For March 8 Action which has long been threatening, seeking an injunc tion to halt construction of the new Vass-Lakeview school, was begun last week in Moore Coun ty superior court by the State Board of Licensing Contractors j(gi against the Moore County board of education. The action took the form of a complaint that the building of the school, estimated to cost around $200,000, is going forward without the employment of a li- ^ censed general contiractor, and, thus is in violation of laws in tended for safe and sound con struction of public buildings; and states that an injunction is the •4 only adequate remedy. A court order signed by Judge W. A. Harris sets the date of March 8 for a hearing during the Scotland County superior court at LaurinbuTg, at which the respon dent is to show cause why such injtmction should not be issued. Thirty days is given the re spondent to answer the com plaint. d Filed By Mann Supt. H. Lee Thomas, execu tive secretary of the county board, said Tuesday that no notice or summons had been served on him. The complaint was filed by War ren J. Mann, of Raleigh, execu tive secretary of the state board. According to his complaint, the Vass-Lakeview school building is proceeding on a “force account” basis. N. N. McDonald of Aber- deen is superintendent of the county construction crews engag ed in the project. Dan Farrell, of Aberdeen, chairman of the county board ,of education, told The Pilot some time age chat the state board had given them several reminders ,by mail and in personal visit of a representative to Superintendent Thoifias, that they considered the a building of the school under the present set-up to be in violation of the law. Procedure The law sets forth a procedure to be followed in the erection of public buildings costing more tb^n $10,000, by which a licensed general contractor is to be hired following due advertisement for low bids. Farrell said that the board had followed the precedure up to the point of selection of the low bid der, when it was found that the lowest bid submitted was far above their estimates of what the building should cost and what they had to spend. A bidder from Sanford was at one time selected, then dropped when it was found he was not li censed. Alter that, he said, in the _ cContinuea on Page 5) May Paint Some Hunting Scenes 1 A Major Step Towavd War We talk a lot about the Americaoi Way. Is the humiliating way America has acted on the Palestine issue the American Way? We proposed the plan adopted as the UN decision. Then with BrUain's help we sabotaged that decision at every point. A group in the state department, strongly influenced by the British, the military, the secretary of national defense and the oil mhii, have caused this country to reverse itself. This act, we firmly believe, is contrary to the wishes of the people. Is this the American Way? Is the legalistic quibbling of Sena tor Austin's statement, the sort of quibbling we have condemned in the Russians over and over again, is this the way an American delegatei should speak? We do not think so. Neither the manner of delivery nor -the sentiments expressed compare very well with the great Ameri can words of our history. We believe this step taken at Lake Success is mistaken, that it is treason to the American heritage of honor and justice, that it is a crushing blow to the UN, the only hope for peace. By refusing to back the UN decision with force, we have taken a major step in the direction of war. Red Cross Workers On Mark, Get Set And Ready To Go For March Campaign The Pilot proposes to send a telegram to the American delega tion urging a reversal of their stajnd. Readers who would like to add their names may do so by stopping at the Pilot office today, Friday. Horse Show Site Changed As Entries Start Coming In For March 6-7 Event One-Day Drive Here Monday For $6,000 Local Quota such exciting colors. (Photo by Humphrey) they fascinate me. . .” Young Portrait Painter Gives Exhibit Starting Saturday At Highland Pines MATERNITY WORK One of the largest meetings ever held in Moore County for a welfare project took place Wednesday in the Car thage Community building when an audience, estimated at more than 170, gathered to honor the memory of Eliz abeth Woltz Currie and hear reports and plans of the Ma ternal Welfare Committee, of which she was the founder. Highlights of the meeting were the speeches of Dr. Oren Moore of Charlotte and Miss Hazel Corbin, leader in maternity work in New York, and the announcement of the creation of the Elizabeth Woltz Currie Fund. This fund will be used in some part of the new mater nity wing to be erected by the Moore County Hospital, which will bear the founder's name. - Further details of Wednes day's meeting will be given in next week's Pilot. Reception Will Open Showing By Betty Warren Jones The Annual Chamber of Com merce Horse show on March 6 and 7, originally scheduled to be held at Vernon Valley Farms, has been moved to the Southern Pines Horse Show grounds on Old Pine- hurst road, according to an nouncement of the Chamber of Commerce, which is sponsoring the show for the benefit of the American Red Cross. LENTEN MISSION A Lenten mission will be con' ducted next week at St. An thony’s Catholic church under auspices of the Redemptorist Fathers of the Charlotte mission unit, with the Rev. James Pat rick Clune, C. Ss. R., presiding. The mission program is to be an; nounced at both masses Sunday. Town Clerk Burns Gets Above It All As Guest On Piedmont’s First Flight Piedmont Airlines started off right on the dot last Friday morn ing, with the first regularly scheduled east-west service in North Carolina and the first reg ular flights touching on Resort airport. Though unfavorable weather has preventd regularity of the flights during the first week of operation, comments on all sides were enthusiastic concerning the advantages to the section of the air link between the eastern coast on the one hand, and the wide leaches of the entire midwest and western United States on the other. Great possibilities were seen by Howard Burns, who was a guest on the inaugural flight as Southern Pines’ town represen tative, and reported later on the easy and comfortable trip to Cin cinnati, and back to Charlotte. Bob Harlow, of Pinehurst, was also along, and practically all oth- - er towns along the route had one or more representatives in the party, said Burns. Only one thing went wrong. Fog over the moun tains caused a delay in the take off from Charlotte on the west bound trip, so that the whole schedule was thrown out of line and on the return trip clearance was refused by the air authorai- ties at Charlotte for a landing at the unlighted Resort Airport lueld. Lucky Break ’The Sandhills representatives were struggling with a difficult decision—whether to fly on to Wilmington, stay in Charlotte for the night or start out for home by bus or train, when luck came their way. L. H. Cherry, Jr., of Southern iPries, who had caught the plane at Cincinnati on his way home from a western trip, had left his car in Charlotte, and was driving home. So they revert ed to a slower, but still highly satisfactory, method of travel. Lunch At Cincinnati The great, busy airports at Lex ington and at Cincinnati were also of interest to the tnavelers. (Continued on Page 5) The Highland Pines Inn in Sou thern Pines will be the scene of a “ond'-Woman show” beginning Saturday afternoon when an ex hibition of more than 25 works of Betty Warren Jones, well- known painter and portrait artist, will be on display in the ball room of the inn. The show, con sisting mostly of portraits, in which Mrs. Jones specializes, will begin at 3 o’clock Saturday and will last until 6 o’clock. The paintings will be on display through the coming week. Charles Stitzer, Jr., manager of the Highland Pines, announced that a special showing of the paintings will also be given Sun day from 4 to 6 p. m. This will be preceded by a concert of salon music by the Triomkin trio from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During the opening of the show, on Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Jones will entertain at a recep tion which will be held concur rently with the exhibition. Mrs. Jones has studied at the Natignal Academy of Design, the Cape School of Art, Province- town, Mass., the Reineke acade my in New Orleans, and with Jerry Farnsworth in Sarasota, Fla. During the war she was with General Electric company, de signing mprale posters. Previous Exhibits Many of her paintings and por traits have been exhibited before', notably at the North Shore Art association in Gloucester, Mass., the La Tosca Pearl National com petition, New York City, the Al bany Institute of History and Art, Albany, N. Y., and the Graham Memorial in Chapel Hill. Mrs. Jones lived for some time in Chapel Hill, while her husband attended school there, and one of her best-known works, the por trait of Lennox Robinson, well known Irish playwright and di rector of the Abbey theatre in Dublin, Ireland, was done while he visited in Chapel Hill as guest lecturer with the Carolina Play- makers. Born in 1920 in New York City, Be.tty Warren Jones has been sur rounded by art all her life, as her father is Jack A. Warren, famed New York commercial artist. Revealing that she was much interested in horses and riding, she said that she would like to paint a hunt scene. “The hunting coats fascinate me,” she .said, “I’d love to try a painting with, such exciting colors.” The Highland Pines exhibit will last through the w.eek, start ing Saturday, and Mrs. Jones will probably be in Southern Pines for about two weeks. ' The move was made necessary by the growth in size of the show and the feeling that traffic, park ing and seating facilities at Ver non Valley Farms would not be Sufficient,' said John S. Ruggles, general chairman, The opening gun in a month long whirlwind of show-horse events, the Chamber of Commerce show will be mostly for local horses and exhibitors, presenting many fine horses already winter ing here. Following this show and tenta tively scheduled for March 20 will be the famed hunter trials of the Moore County Hounds. Climax ing the month of shows will be the Annual Sandhills Horse shov/ to be held April 3 and 4 at the show grounds. The Chamber of Commerce Horse sho'jv was shaping up to be a big event in itself this week, as plans went forward for it and for the Horse Show ball, to be held at the Highland Pines Inn Satur day night, March 6, as a part of the inaugural week end of spring horse activities here, A number of show entries have come in, the first person to file being Mrs. D. A. Sutherland, who entered her horse. Hazard, in the lightweight hunter class and the working hunter stake. 17 Classes ' Showing 17 classes, including children’s, and with four cham pionship stakes, the show itself will be an excellent send-off for local horses expecting to hit the horse show circuit during the coming spring and summer sea son. Classes will include working hunter stakes, young green hunt er stakes, the colorful Corinthian, in which members of a recognized (Continued on Page 5) Rotarians Elect New President, Other Officers Alton Clark Buys Carolina Gardens From M. G. Backer Pinebluff Group Asks Board For Elementary School Purchase of the Carolina Gar dens Florist shop by Alton Clark from its founder and proprietor, M. G. Backer, was announced this week, effective Tuesday. With the exchange of owners a modern flower shop in the heart of town passes into the hands of an army veteran whose service was preceded by many years of training and experience in the florist business. Clark, a native of Goldsboro, started out in this field when he was a high school lad in Durham, where his family had moved. He helped in the afternoons and on Saturdays at Hibberd Florists, one of the top businesses of this na ture in North Carolina, and later became a full time employee, learning the business under trhe watchful eye of Chris Hibberd himself. He then went to Bronxville, N. Y., to become assistant and later manager of The Nosegay, Inc., florist to many fine families of that section. He was there 16 years before entering the army. He saw overseas service and, cap tured in the Battle of the Bulge- spent many months as a prisoner of the Germans. To Southern Pines Liberated by the British, then discharged as a staff sergeant soon after the war’s end, he came to Southern Pines, where his pa rents and his brother, Lloyd Clark, were living. His father has since died and his mother makes her home in Durham. He worked for his brother for a time and then became office manager at Vass Industries, a po sition he will maintain while op erating the Carolina Gardens. In this dual employment he will be assisted at the florist shop by (Continued on Page 5) A petition bearing 350 signa tures of citizens Of Pinebluff, Ad- dor and Silver Springs, request ing the building of a elementary school at Pinebluff for these com munities, was presented to the county board of education meet ing at Carthage Tuesday by a resolute delegation from the south end of the county. The group was told by Chair man F. Dan Farrell that the pro per procedure is for them first to secure the approval of the Aber deen district committee on the proj'ect, then to bring it before the county board. No action can be taken, he said, until this is done. ' Don C. Jensen was elected president of the Southern Pines Rotary club for 1948-49, at elec tions held by the Rotarians at their weekly luncheon meeting at Pope’s restaurant last Friday- By established custom, the out going president, Lloyd T. Clark, will assume the office of vice president. Elected with Jensen were Harry Lee Brown, secretary treasurer (a reelection), and di rectors E. J. Austin, Virgil Clark, Will Wiggs and Russell Lorenson. Officers and directors will not be installed uptil July. Rev. Roy N. Houghton, of New Haven, Conn., a member of the Milford, Conn., Rotary club and at present a Pinehurst winter vis itor, was the speaker of the day, bringing to the club an inspira tional message relating to busi ness and everyday living. D. B. Nettleton, of Milford, Conn., and Pinehurst, was also a visitor at ihe meeting. Sgt. Henry D. Moss, of Val halla, S. C., guard of honor who accompanied the body of Pvt. Victor A. Ritter from Charlotte last Friday, was guest of Lloyd Clark at the luncheon. Visiting Rotarians were Robert A. Rupp, Hamburg, Pa.; Earl Sprague, Bridgeport, Conn., Herbert D. Ackley, New Haven, Conn.; Dr. Hugh N. Trant, Roanoke, Va. Counfy Organized To Win One great big day of campaign ing and canvassing, with a great big reward at the end of it—$6,000 for the Red Cross! That’s what the Southern Pines Red Cross or ganization is planning, with Mon day as the day and high hopes that the setting of its sun will see the quota raised. It may be optimistic, said A. L. Burney, local chairman, but he and his workers believe it can be done and are going to set out to prove it. Everyone can help, he suggested, by being ready with a generous contribution for this most worthy of causes. If you are at home, stay there I until the block-canvasser gets to ' you—she’ll be there as fast as she lean make it! Under the banner of Mrs. J. D. Milliken and Miss Laura Kelsey, residential district chairmen, a full corps of canvass-- ers is being mobilized for the big day: In the business district S. B. Richardson, chairman, will also have his workers out. In West Southern Pines, Prof. J. W. Moore heads up the can vassers. MARCH OF DIMES With something over $5,000 in hand and several reports yet out standing, H- Clifton Blue, of Aberdeen, this week announced the county March of Dimes, of which he served as campaign chairman, to be well past the goal. "Early Birds" This week the “early birds” have been at work—^the special gifts committee, headed by Maj. W. D. Campbell, wbo, it is hoped, will roll up a big backlog toward that quota before door-to-door solicitation gets under way. Tuesday, loose ends will be gathered up, return visits made on those who weren’t at home Monday, and Wednesday after noon all workers wiU report both cash and pledges, in full, to their chairmen at the Red Cross chap ter rooms on Broad street. Preliminaries for the big drive will take place this week end, when on Friday and Saturday all workers call by the chapter rooms to pick up their campaign mate rials. Sunday has been designated Red Cross Sunday. Local pastors are incorporating reminders of the drive in their church bulletins for the day, and it is expected that some of them will mention it in their Sunday messages. Planning Meeting Chairmen of town committees of the 1948 Red Cross campaign fund met Monday night with county chairman R. F. Hoke Pol lock at the Skycruise re,stauiant to discuss the annual March so licitation for Moore’s quota, which this year is $19,867. The following attended the meeting: R- F. Hoke Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. Garland Mcherson, Jos eph McGinley, Samuel Richard son, Mrs. Audrey Kennedy, Mrs. Catherine Ball, Miss Hilda Ed wards, all of Southern Pines; La ment Brown and Manly Wellman, (Continued on Page 51 Elementary students from the three communities now attending the Aberdeen school, which they must reach by a lengthy bus ride, total 132, the citizens said— enough, they thought, to justify the building of a school, espec ially in view of crowded condi tions at Aberdeen. With the expected increase in population when the new mill starts operation, conditions there will be even more crowded, they declared. School Planners Farrell said a group of archi tects and school planners was to visit the Aberdesn school this -week, to recommend ways to re model it to accommodate the ex- oected attendance. Members of the delegation spoke right up to say that they thought it would be better to put new classrooms, if any are to be built, into a new school at Pine bluff. ' Teachers living in retire ment at Pinebluff may be drawn back to their profession to teach children of the Pinebluff area, they said. (Continued on Page 5) Harrington Goes To County Roads As Police Are Freed Of Assault Charge Appeal to superior court, with bond set at $500, was noted in the case of Dan Harrington, Ne gro, of Southern Pines, tried in recorders court Monday and found guilty of charges of public drunk enness, resisting arrest and as sault on an officer. In a countercase in which Po lice Officer Irvin Morrison of Southern Pines, with John (Jarby and Niles Maroni, military police assigned to this area, were charg ed with assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful punish ment, the case against Maroni was nol prossed, and Morrison and Garby were found not guilty. The case, a long and unusual one, took most of the afternoon. Conflicting stories were told by Harrington and the officers, as Harrington claimed to have been set upon by the two MPs as he was walking home the snowy evening of Jan. 31, beaten bur- ther by Officer Morrison and left overnight in a cold jail with no medicaV attention. He claimed to lhave lost eight teeth in the af fair and testimony of Dr. W. H. Ross and other was to the effect that he had also suffered bruises about the head and mouth. Just One MP Only one MP, John Garby, was present, and in no way assisted in the arrest, it was testified by Morrison and others. Evidence of numerous witnesses supported their story that Harrington was very drunk. Morrison admitted striking Harrington, who, he said, had resisted strenuously, had hit and bitten him. He had not asked for medical attention and had re ceived none, as he had continued in belligerent mood_ in jail, it was testified. There were no eye witnesses to the arrest. Harrington had sev eral character witnesses, and wit nesses to his condition on release :crom jail. Solicitor McKeithen brought out that Harrington’s record was a spotty one, containing two in dictments in superior court and a penitentiary term- for rape.. (Continued on Page 5)
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