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Permanent County Unit Is Planned
For Cancer Work; Drive Under Way
Funds Will Return
To County If
Committee Is Formed
AUGUSTA FLIGHT
Chairmen. Quotas Listed
Plans for a Moore County unit
of the North Carolina division,
American Cancer society, were
announced coincidentally with
the start of the 1948 cancer con
trol campaign, at a luncheon
meeting at the Carthage Hotel
Tuesday.
Organization of a permanent
executive committee for admin
istration ^nd supervision will
mean that 40 per cent of the
money collected during the April
drives can be brought back to the
county, for cancer prevention and
control.
The luncheon was given by the
Carthage Junior Chamber of Com
merce, which has undertaken
sponsorship of the campaign,
with community chairmen and
representatives of press and radio
* as invited guests. W. B. Hill, pres
ident of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce and chairman of the
campaign, announced this year’s
quota to be $2,500, considerably
above the $1,500 assigned last
year but in line with what was
actually given—$2,403.61.
' Chairman Hill presented Hoke
Pollock, of Southern Pines, chair
man of last year’s successful
drive, who spoke on the value
of the work of the American
Cancer society, and gave sugges
tions concerning conduct of the
drive.
Raleigh Meeting
Mrs. J. L. McGraw, head of the
Carthage drive, and Dave Gins-
burg, assistant campaign chair
man, reported on a recent meet
ing of the North Carolina divi
sion at Raleigh which they attend
ed, and where they learned that,
with a permanent county setup
a large part of the funds may be
used here.
Outlining plans for immediate
steps in this direction — with
hopes of setting up the committee
within two months—they discus
sed possible uses for the returns:
aid to cancer victims, purchase
of hospital equipment for use in
cancer detection and treatment,
or eventually, if the funds are ear
marked and allowed to accumu
late to the county’s credit, a
county clinic or detection center.
Last year, it was reported 180,-
000 died of cancer in the nation,
2,600 in North Carolina, 84 in
Moore county, many of whom
could have been saved with better
Onceir control education, with
facilities for early detection.
Research paid for by campaign
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Golf enthusiasts of this sec
tion may attend the Masters
tournament in high style, fly
ing to Augpsta, Ga.. and back
Sunday in one of Resort Air
lines' super-special 26-passen
ger DC-3's.
The plane will leave Resort
field at 9 a. m. and land at
8:20 p. m. on the return trip.
The trip to-Augusta takes an
hour and 20 minutes. Several
reservations had already been
made by midweek. They may
be made through hotel trans
portation clerks or by calling
Resort ;:ield.
The first Masters Tourna
ment Right from Resort field,
held last year, carried a jolly
crowd representing a num
ber of North Carolina cities.
It is expected this year's trip
will be equally successful.
Two Women Shot,
Negro Railroad
Employee Sought
Maggie Ransom and Thelma
Wilson, Negro residents of Manly,
were in a serious condition from
gunshot wounds at the Moore
County hospital this week, and
James Walker, Negro, also of
Manly, was sought by city police
and the sheriff’s department, as
the result of a sh^ti^ in the
home of the women at Manly
Saturday night.
According to evidence gathered
by the sheriff’s department, Walk
er, accompanied by his wife, en
tered the house where the women
and their families lived, and shot
Maggie in the legs and breast,
Thelma in the stomach. He then
got back into the truck in which
he had driven from his own home
some 400 yards distant and drove
off.
The truck, property of the Sea
board Air Line railway, by whorr
Walker was employed, was found
abandoned and considerably dam
aged at Vass Sunday night.
According to Sheriff C. J. Mc
Donald, Maggie Ransom was in
bed with her husband when Walk
er ar oused the household and be
gan shooting. Thelma was also in
bed. Her husband was not in the
house.
The three couples had alleged
ly attended a dance in West
Southern Pines earlier in the
evening. A quarrel was said to
have sprung up between Walker’s
wife and one df the other women.
After they all reached home
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County Bond Issue I County Commissioners Announce For
Referred To Three
Boards For Study
Revision Seen As
Southern Pines And
Pinehurst Add Claims
Reelection; Henson Files For Board
It was a little Madison Square Garden here last weekend, and
we’ve pictures to prove it! Top—Bob-o’-Link, of Mrs. Audrey K.
Kennedy’s Seven Star StableS, with Mickey Walsh up,»winning the
green hunter chartipionship af' the Sandhills show jusfias they did
at the Garden last fall.
Below is an unusual and newsworthy picture: Spunky (June)
,Fisher, Jr., 12, of Salisbury, who won the Maclay trophy Saturday
to qualify for the Garden, surrounded by Garden and Sandhills Show
riders, all of whom live or winter in the Sandhills. Welcoming
the youngster into the tribe are, from left, Junebug Tate, Gappy
Smith, Ed Daniels, Mickey Walsh, Jack Goodwin and Billy Tate.
(Photos by Humphrey)
The boards of education of the
special districts of Southern Pines
and Pinehurst will meet Monday
afternoon at Carthage with the
county board of education, to de
termine their own needs in the
proposed bond issue for school
building and improvements.
The commissioners at their reg
ular meeting Monday received the
county board’s recommendation
for approval of a $975,000 bond
issue, presented by Supt. H. Lee
Thomas, and also heard requests
of Southern Pines and Pinehurst
representatives for a revision in
their allotments. Approval of the
proposed bond issue was withheld
pending the meeting next Mon
day.
.Since the boards of the city ad
ministrative units, as set up by
state law, have the responsibility
of determining their own needs,
with those of the county system
left to the county board, the com
missioners decided that the bond
issue’s final total should be a mat
ter for cooperation among the
three. Final approval, or disap
proval, is the job of the county
commissioners.
High School Wanted
At the Monday meeting the
Southern Pines delegation, con
sisting of John Howarth and Supt.
P. J. Weaver, asked inclusion of
an additional $250,000 (approxi
mate) for a new high school build
ing, on the grounds that the pres
ent building, part of which was
built in 1895, is obsolete, unsafe
and unworthy of further repair.
The Pinehurst delegation, con
sisting of Supt. Lewis Cannon, I.
C. Sledge, G. L. Black and J. F.
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YDC RALLY
A Moore County YDC
Rally will be held Friday
evening, April 16, at the Club
Chalfonte, according to an
nouncement by J. Hubert Mc-
Caskill, county YDC presi
dent, following a meeting of
Young, Democrats at the
Chalfonte Monday evening.
Capacity is limited to
75 for the buffet supper,
which will begin at 7:30 p.
m. and since the rallies have
always drawn large crowds
President McCaskill suggest
ed getting tickets early. They
may be secured from him at
Pinehurst, Jere McKeithen
at Aberdeen, Lament Brown
in Pinebluff, T. C. Auman at
West End. Clint McCaskill in
Carthage and Roy McSwain
in Robbins.
Arrangements are being
made for a topnotch speaker,
and an excellent program in
line wi(th the traditions of
this lively organization.
Handicraft Show
At Shaw House
Visited By Many
Blue Announces
House Candidacy
Activity Stirring As
Deadline Approaches
Best Of Riders, Horses And Weather
Make Sandhills Horse Show Success
Favorites Win Many
Events, Though Some
Surprises Are Seen
City Limits ‘‘Straw Vote” Draws Scant
by E. O. Hippus
The Sandhills Horse Show end
ed like a Horatio Alger success
story as the local boy walked
away with the honors from under
the superior noses of his great
rivals in the ring. Henry’s Dream
was the local boy owned and rid
den by the local girl, Mrs. Peggy
Mechling, and his winning of the
Response; M.ajority Favor Extension To
The matter of whether or not to
extend the city limits to built-up
sections just over the line is ap
parently one of indifference to
many residents.
Of 899 “straw vote” ballots
sent out last week to Southern
Pines boxholders, only 177 had
been returned by Wednesday
night.
However, of the ballots re
ceived, a preponderant majority
favored the extension, according
to a tabulation by Tom G. Wicker,
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce, which is conducting the
straw vote independently as a
phase of its community service.
Voting for the expansion were
139, with only 38 against it, or 78.5
per cent “pro,” 21.5 “con.”
Of those who sent ballots, 141
are residents, now included in the
city limits, and 36 non-residents.
The residents showed a vote of
130 for, 11 against; the non-resi
dents, nine for the extension, 27
against.
More Ballots Wanted
“These figures are, of course,
only accurate for those voting,” it
was emphasized by Wicker, mak
ing a strong request that those
. who have not sent votes do so be
fore Sunday midnight so that a
true community sentiment- can be
shown. “They are felt to be a fair
ly accurate cross-section of those!
now in the city limits, but not of
those outside. Votes will contin
ue to be tabulated as they come
in, in the belief that every oppor
tunity should be given for expres
sion of public sentiment.”
John S. Ruggles, Chamber of
Commerce president, repeated
that the straw vote has been un
deitaken purely as a community
service by the Chamber, which
has no official stand on the mat
ter at all. It is independent of
any action of the town board
though actuated to some extent
by publicized discussion held by
the board last October. The mat
ter was briefly discussed in regu
lar meeting, then tabled “pending
some expression of public senti
ment.”
Rotary Resolution
The Rotary club, passing on to
the Chamber a resolution favor
ing the extension, was the first
organization to express such sen
timent. It is the function of a good
Chamber of Commerce, said Rug
gles, to perform such services as
the sounding out of the public
sentiment when it is believed
needed.
The map placed on the post of
fice bulletin board, he empha
sized, is only an indication of pos
sible extension, for discussion
only, to reveal where residents
feel extension is needed or not
needed. Expression by letter or
other means will be welcomed,
said Ruggles, and may serve as a
guide if the town board decides
to go on with the project.
Pierce Awarded
Postmaster Job
Eighth Grade Will
Present Exhibit
Tuesday, Wednesday
lenge Trophy, given by Charles
Everest, Jr., in memory of his
sister.
Vernon Cardy’s Bimbalo put in
one of the prettiest performances
of the day to win it, under a beau
tiful ride by Edith.Ferguson. The
lovely grey kept a good steady
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Drive-In Theatre
Named “Starview”
Henry, too, that master of the
surprise ending. Chances are it
was a bit of a surprise for every
one concerned,'horse, owner, the
other exhibitors. The judges
could just say “Because we liked
him best,” and that was that. And
maybe that’s not a bad way to
choose a hunter.
Henry had won the lightweight
working hunters but had been
shown in none of the conforma
tion classes; apparently his own
er had not considered it worth
while to put him in; he was a
post entry in the final $500 con
formation stake and when he won
it over such contenders as Bob
O-Link, winner of every model
class in the Garden last year, of
Faugh A Ballagh, also a Garden
winner and champion of the
Chamber of Commerce Show
here, of Mile Away Farms’ Oc-
tebony, and the two Cardy stars,
Jervis Bay and Bimbalo, spirits
of ammonia. . . at least. . . were
being called for in several quar
ters of the ring.
That was the climax of a very
fine show in which the ribbons
were on the whole pretty evenly
distributed amohg the various
entries.
Ladies Hunters
Perhaps the most outstanding
class of the day and the one that
attracted the most attention was
the I,adies’ Hunters, climaxing
with the presentation to the win
ner of the Eloise Everest Chal-
“Starview” is the descriptive
name chosen by judges Wednes
day, in the contest held last week
to name the Sandhills’ new drive-
in theatre.
For his apt selection T. L.
Campbell, of West New Hamp
shire avenue. Southern Pines,
was awarded a prize of $25 in a
broadcast on WSTS Thursday
morning. Show passes are being
mailed out to the first half hun
dred entrants.
Miss Rheba Matthews, of Carth
age, Rt. 3, also sent in the name
“Starview.” However, her entry
was postmarked the day afteh
Campbell’s, and by previously an
nounced contest rules, this was
to be the decisive factor in event
of a tie.
A total of 349 entries were re
ceived in the contest, which was
widely publicized in press and
radio. Every county community
was represented, besides several
from outside the county.
The theatre, of which Wallace
A. Brown, of Southern Pines, is
manager, was scheduled to open
Thursday night with a showing
of the Technicolor film “Holiday
in Mexico.” Located on Higljway
1 between Southern Pines and
Aberdeen, it has been rushed to
completion during the past few
weeks to be ready for showings
on the spring evenings. It is own
ed by a local corporation of which
D. M. Williams is president, C. A.
Huntley of Aberdeen, vice presi-
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Garland F. Pierce, local insur
ance man, received notice Wed
nesday from Washington, D. C.,
that his name had been submit
ted to the Post Office department
for the position of acting post
master of Southern Pines. Instal
lation will follow shortly accord
ing to the usual procedure, he was
notified.
He will succeed L. T. Hall, who
has resigned to accept a perma
nent clerkship in the Southern
Pines post office. Before his in
stallation in June, 1947, Hall held
a substitute clerkship.
In his letter to Pierce, Repre
sentative Deane had praise for
Hall’s service here, saying he has
'performed his duties most ac
ceptably.”
He will rely greatly on Hall
and Mrs. G. M. Thompson, assis
tant postmaster, as well as others
of the post office staff in learn
ing his new duties. Pierce said
yesterdaji, adding. ‘‘With their
help I hope to maintain the high
standard of service which has
been set.” The local post ofifce
has consistently won high ratings
on its annual inspections.
Pierce, a native of Leominster.
Mass., came to Southern Pines 20
years ago, and served as assistant
manager of* the Belvedere hotel.
He went to the army in December
1943, and was discharged after
two years as a technical instruc
tor with a special trainiiig unit
of the Army Service Forces at
Fort Bragg. On his return he be
came manager of the Highland
Pines Inn, resigning in December,
1947, to devote his full time to
the Paul T. Barnum Insurance
agency, of which he is president.
He is married to the former
Dorothy Stutz of Southern Pines
and they have two children. Gar
land Frank, Jr., 10, and Clonnie
Greer, five years old.
It is understood that an acting
postmaster was sought within the
ranks of the present staff but
none wished to yield the security
of their permanent jobs. The act
ing postmastership, however, ap
pears now to have an extended
Many visitors have been at
tracted daily to the Shaw House
this week to see the exhibit of old
Moore County handicrafts, which
will continue through Saturday
atfernoon with hand-weaving by
Miss Laura Williams, of Robbins,
as the highlight.
Interesting events at the Shaw
House will continue next week
with an exhibit by Miss Martha
Langston’s eighth grade Tuesday
evening and Wednesday. In con
nection with their study of North
Carolina, the boys and girls have
made and collected many objects
of interest connected with Moore
County history and lore. These
will be' on display to their parents
and members of the Moore Coun
ty Historical association at an
open house held Tuesday from
7:30 to 9 p. m., and to the genbral
public from 2 to 6 p. m. Wednes
day.
Many of the articles shown by
the eighth graders have been
handed down from the old days
in their own families.
Monday Opening
The current exhibit is open
from 3 to 6 p. m. A distinguished
gathering was present for its of
ficial opening Monday afternoon,
at which time also Mrs. W. C.
Deadwyler was hostess at tea to
a group of old friends of Mrs.
Scott Newton, member of the ori-
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Applications were filed
last week with the county board
of elections for membership on
the county commission by all of
the present incumbents, Gordon
M. Cameron, of Pinehurst; John
M. Currie, of Carthage, Z. R. Rey
nolds, of Leam'ons; W. H. Jackson,
of Robbins, and T. L. Blue, of Car
thage Rt. 3 (Eureka section).
Also filing for the county com
mission this week was Everett
P. Henson, of West End. Secre
tary of the Sandhill Furniture
company, Henson is well kno-wn
throughout the county, though he
has not held political office nor
filed for any before. He is oppos
ing Gordon M. Cameron, incum
bent, in his district.
Blue Will Run
Announcement by H. Clifton
Blue, of Aberdeen, that he will
be a candidate fer the House of
Representatives again this year,
with the filing of six applications
for five county commissioner jobs
touched off the first political ac
tivity seen in county circles ^ in
this election year.
Blue, who is editor of the
Sandhill Citizen at Aberdeen,
served his first term in the Gen
eral Assembly in 1947. "His an
nouncement this week was brief,
saying only that he expects to
be a candidate for renomination
to the House, subject to the Dern-
ocratic primary of May 29. He
added, however, that he will give
a definite statement next week.
While Blue so far has no an
nounced opposition, rumors are
persistent that J. Hawley Poole,
of West End, means to run for the
House, in which he represented
the coupty for several terms in
the lS30’s. Friends are said to
be pushing his candidacy, though
Poole is taking his time about
making up his mind.
Other Candidate
Only two other candidates for
county office had announced
early this week, according to Sam
C. Riddle, election board chair
man. W. A. Leland McKeithen,
incumbent, announced for the sol-
icitor^ip. J. L. McGraw, insur
ance man of Carthage, filed for
the county board of education, but
it is understood this was a tenta
tive candidacy and may have been
withdrawn by the time this is
published.
In fact, it is understood that he
and H. G. Poole, incumbent, are
almost ready to toss a coin over
which shall make the race. Both
are from Carthage, are good
friejids and each says he had
rather support than contest the
other.
Not Runniing
Two members of the present
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Just As In Bygone Days
Miss LaUra WiUiams at her loom at the Shaw House, where she
StToS “irifpSdude'S ear?; “ every ajtemoon this week as part County
permanent appointment. Historical association’s exhibit of old handicrafts. (Photo by Hemmer)