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VOL 29 NO. 19 12 PAGES THIS WEEK Southern Pines, N. C., Friday. April 2, 1948. 12 PAGES THIS WEEK TEN CENTS 4 JTl 1947 Construction Adds 1600,000 To County Valuation Overall Appraisal Shows Values Up From Last Year New construction erected, or in process of erection in Moore county in the period January 1, 1947-January 1, 1948. added at least a half million dollars to the total property valuation, accord ing to figures released this week by Miss Maida Jenkins, county tax supervisor. The total of, new construction in 1947, for tax valuation pur poses, amounted to $610,180. Sit ting last week as a board of equal ization and review, the county commissioners met with few pro tests of the evaluations. Minor ad justments may change the total somewhat. Miss Jenkins said, but the total figure should be con siderably past the half - million mark. Total property valuation for 1947, as fixed by local boards of Moore County citizens, amounted to $26,015,962, a considerable rise over the 1946 evaluation. Citizens serving as appraisers in groups of three, some of them serving on more than one board for evaluation in several town ships, were S. C. Riddle, W. E. Kelly, R. W. Pleasants, J. D. Me Innis, R- C. McLean, J. A. Kelly, Mrs. Bessie Brooke, D. A. Dun lap, E. J. Freeman, L. B. Ritter, B. F. Howard, A. L. Poe, W. Ml. Cole, W. A. Tyson, James Camp bell, D. W. McNeill, J. A. Shaw, E. B. Harrington, C. F. Leavitt, J. D. Arey, G. E. Griffin, R. B. Donaldson. The countywide appraisals were made during March and members of ithe tax supervisor’s office gave up their Easter Monday holiday to the totaling of the thousands of appraisal figures. Little Old Ford Rattled Right Along Horse Show This Weekend Highlight Of Tourist Season Events Friday, Saturday, Sunday On Town Showground Large Crowds Expected If you’re worried about whether your car can make the grade in the state inspection lane to be set up here next week, just take a look at what breezed right through in Carthage two weeks ago. That’s N. C. Petree, Carthage RFD, at the wheel of his 1914 Model T, equipped with kerosene lamps and Klaxon horn. M. W. Thomas affixes the seal of approval as Supervisor W. Carlos Thomas looks on. The lane will be in operation in Southern Pines beginning to morrow (Saturday) through April 14. —(Photo by Caviness). Handicraft Exhibit At Shaw House To Open With Weaving Demonstration NO NEWS Connecticut Man Fatally Stricken On Golf Course Death struck suddenly on the golf course-Tuesday when George ^ortimer McCombs, 48, of Bridge port, Conn., playing with a group of friends at Mid Pines, suffered a heart attack at the 13th tee at 12:15 p. m. and died at once. Two doctors playing behind came immediately to lend assis tance but found him already dead. He had been thought to be in ex cellent health but his friends, who came down from Bridgeport in a group to spend Easter week here, said he had been under con siderable recent strain. A' rosary service was held for him at the Sandhills Funeral Home chapel Wednesday after noon, conducted by the Rev. Her bert R. Harkins and the Rev. Ed ward Rigney, of St. Anthony’s Catholic church. The body was then sent to Bridgeport, where further services will be held Sat urday at St. Augustine’s church, with burial at St. Michael’s ceme- tary, Stratford, Conn. A requiem mass will be held for him at St. Anthony’s church here, conducted by Father Har kins, pastor, at 8 a. m. Saturday, the same hours as the service in Bridgeport. This will be attend ed by Bridgeport friends who are staying out the week at the Park View, where McCombs was also a guest. Except for the fact that he is married, no information was available here concerning his im mediate family. No news as I'et on the mat ter of the Southern Pines sta tion. It appears that the chief engineer and others in au thority in this matter now absent from Norfolk for sev eral days ctre still occupied, drawing up specifications and figuring on various as pects of the proposed changes. So, to date, all that can be said is that there wtU be radical changes made, in line with the discussions held within the past months with Southern Pipes citizens. "An entire remodeling and renovation job" is the phrase which must satisfy all con cerned until the details prom ised by the railroad, men, come ;lhTough. Saunders Heads Umstead Gampaign In Moore County Mrs. Busbee's Talk Monday Will Start Week's Showing Of Native Industries $975,000 Bond Issue Is Planned For Improvements To Schools In County WICKER TO BROADCAST This week’s announcement that W. P. Saunders, of Robbins, has been chosen to manage Senator Umstead’s campaign ' in Moore coupty is about the only sign of political activity seen - around here so far. Saundehs- mayor of Robbins, vice president and general mana ger of the Robbins mills, is an old hand at successful manage ment of political campaigns. In 1942 he was Moore County man ager for Senator Bailey, who car ried every precinct against the late Robert T. Fountain. In 1946 he managed Bill Horner’s cam paign for congress. While Deane won in the district by a small margin, Horner carried Moore county by a substantial margin. No appointment in the county had been made this week in con nection with Broughton’s cam paign in opposition to Umstead, nor in connection with the cam paigns for governor. The contest between Charlie Johnson and Kerr Scott for the gubernatorial position is assuming major proportions. Several coun ty leaders have been prominently mentioned in connection with the managership of their campaigns but so far, in listing their leaders a few at a time, neither has reach ed Moore county. Plans are shaping up well, it is reported, for the Historical As sociation’s week of handicraft ex hibits and, demonstrations, which is to open April 5th at the Shaw House here. The event will open formally at three o’clock on Monday, with a talk by Mrs Jacques Busbee of Jugtowii. Mrs. Busbee is an au thority On edrly Moore County lore, particularly as regards the handicraft of the section, in which she and her late husband have always taken an active in terest. A tea, in honor of Mrs. Scott Newton, former owner of the Shaw House through her fore bears, will be given by Mrs. Dead- wyler, to which several of Mrs. Newton’s old friends have been invited. Miss Laura Williams, of near Robbins, is all set to bring down her loom, hand-made and in the family for several generaions. She will weave every afternoon and visitors to the weaving dem onstration will be able to pur chase lengths of the fine hand- woven .material. There will also be exhibits of other handicraft, such as cover lets, pottery, blankets, rugs. Add ing further interest to the occa sion will be the family heirlooms which have been loaned by va rious ones of the old Moore County families. Among thesd will be the silver sword of revol tionary days which belonged to John McFarland, early pioneer of these parts. It is now in the possession of Charles Swope, who will lend it to the Association for the week’s exhibit. Tea will be served as usual in the Tea Room,, with the exhibit rooms open every afternoon, be ginning April 5th. Next Wednesday at 4:30 WEEB will present Tom Wicker, execu tive secretary of the. Southern Pines' Chamber of Commerce, in a special program directed to lis teners in the Sandhills. This is one of the regular Wednesday af ternoon features entitled “The Voice of the Sandhills.” Activities of the Chamber of Commerce will be reviewed, in cluding results of the current NEW BUSINESS Spring floods down thisaway .. but floods of tourists, not the us ual kind of spring freshet. Streets qre filled with cars, hotels are filled to overflowing with guests, tourist homes are bursting at the seams as the warmer .weather brings the vacationers down to start their spring season in the South and follow it back up North again. Along with the golfing tourists, and the tennis tourists, the tired tburists looking for a rest and the energetic ones ready to take up any sport that offers, are the horse show tourists. These have been lured here by tales of “the best bunch of show horses ever collected in one spot outside of the Garden.” And, for once, the ballyhoo is the real thing. There is no doubt of the high calibre of the horse flesh col lected in the Sandhills right this minute. These top show horses will all be seen in the Sandhills Show due to take place, this Friday, Satur day and Sunday out at the Swamp Fox Course (Town Show Grounds, or Old Tilghman Place, take your choice of titles.) They will perform in the ring, over the outside course; in classes for hunters, jumpers, hunter hacks . . . but never just horses. But just horses, they are, never theless, and they will delight the eye by their looks and their jump ing win send' shivtTS down the susceptible spines of all who go to see them. It is a fair guess that all will, and that the show tliis year will draw the same large crowds that came from far and near last spring to the first of this annual Sandhills spring event. Evidencing the great interest hereabouts in the' “young entry” is the fact that Saturday morning has been turned over to classes for children. Many local partici pants as well as outsiders will take part in the events for horse manship and also children’s hacks and hunters. The last afternoon of the show: Sunday, will see the wind-up of the keen competition of the en tire show season in the Sandhills as forrher champions come up against each other for the last time. The open jumper stakes, young hunter stakes, conforma tion hunter and working hunter Stakes, and the grand champion ships will be decided that after noon. Prize money for the show totals $3,500, one of the largest amounts (Continued on Page 8) Classrooms For Aberdeen Auditorium Included For Southern Pines, • The Moore County board of ed ucation, meeting Tuesday after noon at the office of Supt. H. Lee Thomas at Carthage, voted to rec ommend that the county commis sioners call an election for pub lic approval of a bond issue for $975,000 for improvements to school plants throughout the county. With no definite amount speci fied for any item, proceeds of the bond issue are designed to cover the following, with the phrase “and other needed additions” added in each case: atiditorium at Southern Pines; physical edu cation buildings at Carthage, Farm Life, West End, Westmoore and High Falls; lunchroom at Pinehurst; classrooms at Aber deen, Cameron and Robbins. The phrase “and other needed additions” makes the list ex tremely flexible, it is pointed out. While the Aberdeen district com mittee has been assiduous in seeking construction of a new elerpentaffy school building, its plan of building it as an annex to the present high school build ing could be covered by the des cription “classrooms and other needed additions.” For the Southern Pines district, the bond issue will apparently in- (Continued on Page 8) Soldier In Hospital, Wounded By Knife A business, which looks as if it were particularly appropriate to this resort community, is being started this week by two World War veterans. Tony Reece and Ted Barrow, Jr., have hit on the idea of “cleaning in the home” as something that will fill a long- felt need and are assembling the necessary equipment getting straw vote on the extension of the themselves all set to start right Southern Pines city limits. in. W. J. Ramos, a soldier stationed at Fort Bragg and living at the Waverly apartments here, was taken by ambulance to the Moore County hospital, then on to the Fort Bragg General hospital late Saturday night, suffering from knife wounds in the abdomen and thigh. It was reported that the wounds were self-inflicted but this could not be confirmed. He was said to have been drinking. The wounds were not thought to be critical. The case is in the hands of the military police. Ramos had been living at the Waverly since the first of the year with his wife and her sister, both of whom were employed in Southern Pines. A W. J. Ramos was arrested here last summer on assault charges after administering a beating to his wife on the public street. Carried before Magistrate Bailey, he was released when his wife withdrew her charges and would not testify. RED CROSS Four communities have gone over the top in the cur rent Red Gross drive, but with 12 others still in the race. the Moore Counl'y Chapter, in response to re- ' quests from headquarters, is continuing its efforts. The "war emergency" outlook is being squarely faced here as everywhere. The county fund now stands at $21,646.28, with the four "top" towns of Southern Pines. Knollwood. Pinehurst. and Robbins responsible, in that order, for a great part of it. Though this puts Moore County over the top it is felt the other communities will wish to go on and contribute their share of the vitally needed funds. BASEBALL With one defeat, three wins and a rain-check to show for their first five games, the Southern Pines High School baseball team will play two games away from home this coming week—Tuesday at Deep River, and Wednesday. West End—and one game at home. Played on the local field will be a game with Aber deen next Friday afternoon. Victories were scored over Hamlet Friday, Elise Monday and Laurinburg Tuesday on the home field, before good crowds which included many former high school bdys and girls home for Easter. 'Other spring visitors are finding the games a good source of enter tainment as the local lads get into their swing for some lively ball. Golf Stars In Top Form For Red Cross Match Frost At Easter Nips Blossoming Peach Orchards Damage Eslimated At 50 Per Cent In the Red Cross benefit match played Tuesday afternoon on the championship course of the Pine hurst Country club, Bobby Locke of South Africa and Johnny Palm er of Badin defeated the amateur team of Frank Stranahan and Dick Chapman one up, Vith Locke scoring best medal play, a 67. It was a good exhibition throughout, witnessed by an en thusiastic gallery for which the Pinehurst Red Cross marked up 732 paid admissions at $I each. This put the chapter far past its already-achieved quota. The most spectacular shot was made by Chapman on the sixth hole, one of the most difficult short holes in the business, when he practically sank his tee shot. It landed within four inches of the hole. At the 17th hole, Stranahan holed a curling putt of about 20 feet for a 2, to keep alive the match which then stood at 2 down for the amateurs with two to play. The match was lost on the 18th green, which was halved in 4’^. Satevepost-ers And Subject REMINDER Have you checked and mailed that postcard placed in your mailbox by the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce this week? Did you read the letter that came with it—not with just a casual glance, but care fully, all the way through? This is just a reminder to all thinking citizens to do both of these things, for some tangible expression of public senHlment on the proposed extension of the city limits. It should be emphasized that the map in the postoffice is an old one and outlines far more than the area contem plated. As the postcard indi cates, this is to be confined to areasi^ "which the town is pre pared to provide 'with such minimum services as water, sewerage, garbage collection, fire and police protection." In other words, the thickly pop ulated parts just outside town, with special emphasis on the southern entrance, along Highway 1. The coun try places would not be in cluded. Also, the entire plan is most tentative, -with, thus far, no action or even official dis cussion taken by the Town Board. Damage done by the Easter frost to the large peach orchards of the county amounted to prob ably around 50 per cent, it was estimated by E. H. Garrison, Jr., county farm agent, after a check up around West End and in other sections Tuesday. Though one or two early varie ties of peaches had already fin ished blooming, others, including the favorite Elbertas, had just reached the “danger stage” and suffered to a great extent, he said. The temperature, falling stead ily from springlike warmth after Saturday’s showers, dipped belo'W freezing Sunday night and again Monday, for a double blow at a crop which was reaching the peak of bloom some two weeks early. The early blossoming had, in fact, already caused headsbaking among the peach growers who knew by experience what an “April freeze” could do. As a mat ter of fact, this was a March freeze and the danger of further hurt is not yet past. If frost does not come again the Easter freeze may have prov ed beneficial, according to the view of one old-timer, who was quoted as saying it “did a good^ job of thinning-out and will pre vent a glut and low prices.” Some of the smaller orchardists, how ever, who saw almost tljeir whole potential crop killed, found little cheer in the situation. The Associated Press report es timated damage in the Sandhills section at 40 per cent, and far heavier in South Carolina, con centrated in Spartanburg county. Early gardens and other fruits besides peaches were also severe ly nipped, though damage ap-' peared spotty—^far more severe in some sections than in others. On Foiling land, low spots were hard hit while high spots were in most cases left untouched. Sensing the shivery weather Sunday, growers held up hopeful fingers for a sign of the wind which might “blow away” the frost. However, the night ap proached with deathly calmness, rendering conditions ideal for the maximum damage from a mini mum frost. Fireplaces and furnaces which had known no blaze during the fine warmth of pre-Easter March were lit again, coal piles scraped and the last drops of oil wrung from reluctant drums. Spivey Makes Bond Pending His Appeal R. F. Spivey, former restaurant owner of Robbins, made bond of $15,000 at Carthage Friday pend ing his appeal to the North Caro lina supreme court from a second degree murder conviction. Held without bond in the Moore County jail since the fatal beat ing of his wife, Evelyn, Novem ber 2, Spivey went free for the first time in many months. In the three-day trial, held at a special session of Moore Coun ty superior court, the state asked conviction on a charge of first de gree murder. The defense placed its chief reliance on the evidence "hat the death had been the re sult of a drunken fracas, with no indication of premeditation. BECKWITH GARDENS Everywhere you saw Vernon Cardy the week before Easter, you also saw Harold H. Martin (center) and BiU Shrout (right), following him about getting all the dope for a Saturday Evening Post articlei Harold Martin, an Atlanta newspaperman, is one of the Satevepost’s top ranking special writers, mainly employed on foreign assignments. Photographs by Shrout formerly adorned the pages of Life, now are exclusive with the Post. While here they attended tjie hunter trials, took the trip to the Camden races, met and made friends with Sand hills folk at the hunt buffet at Vernon Valley Farms last Friday. Both said their assignment to “do” Southern Pines’ horse-loving, hard-riding, trophy-winning Canadian, Cardy, was one of the most enjoyable they had had. (Photo by Humphrey) The beautiful Beckwith gar dens on Crest road, Knollwood, will be opened to the public Wed nesday afternoon from 2 to 6 o’clock, with proceeds going to the Mobre County Hospital auxil iary. 'Tickets may be secured at the gate, according to announcement by IVIrs. A. L. Burney, chairman of the auxiliary’s finance com mittee, or may be bought in ad vance from Mrs, W. D. Campbell and Mrs. Burney. Southern Pines; Mrs. Wilbur H. Currie, Carthage; Mrs. H. N. Steed, Candor; Mrs. J. S. Hiatt, N. C. Sanatorium.
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