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HELP DEFEAT
CANCER
COUNTY QUOTA
$2,500
HELP DEFEAT
CANCER
COUNTY QUOTA
$2,500
G Of C Fund Drive
Well Received,
Work Continues
PRESENT! Moore County’s Bookmobile Is Here, And At Work
More Money Needed
If Chamber Work
Is To Proceed
Workers of the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce, starting
off Tuesday morning on a drive
for additional funds, 48 houiis
later had banked $1,158 with sev
eral hundred dollars more record
ed in pledges.
Contthuing with their work in
hopes of raising at least $3,000—
they figure at least this much will
be necessary for the next half
year’s budget—^the workers were
nevertheless enthusiastic about
the way the drive is going. “Our
reception everywhere has been
splendid,” several of them said.
“People seem to feel we are do
ing a good job, and they are anx
ious for us to keep on.”
Tom G. Wicker, Chamber sec
retary, was especially happy over
the number of new members en
rolled, which he’ said he regards
. as a real step forward for the or
ganization. “Not until everyone
with business interest here is a
Chamber of Commerce member
' can we hope to fulfil the full pro
gram, of benefit to all, that we
are aiming for,” he said.
Dutch Breakfast
The dfive, which it was hoped
could be accomplished in one day,
“kicked off” with a dutch break
fast at 8:30 a. m. Tuesday at the
Hollywood hotel, where good
food, and some straight talk from
President Ruggles and the secre
tary braced them for their work.
Figures were presented to show
just how much is needed, and
why. Reports on past achieve
ment and plans for future work,
prepared in leaflet form, were dis
tributed.
“Unless we can get more funds
we will have to liquidate,” Rug-
g\es said. “We have a lot to show
far the past few month?’ work,
but it has cost us. I believe the
jsusinessmen approve our costliest
item, the employment of an exec
utive, and that they will want us
to keep on.”
Directors who had volunteered
f9r 'the collection work, with
team mates chosen from the
Chamber membership, were pres
ent as follows: A. A. Hewlett, L.
T. Clark, E. Nolley Jackson, H. N.
Cameron, J. T. Overton, C. N.
Page, W. H. McNeQl, John E.
Cline, A. C. Reed, W. B. Holliday,
Garland McPherson, Hoke Pol
lock, \ June Blue, John Pottle,
John S. Ruggles, Miss Jean Ed-
son, Mrs. John Pottle, also Sec
retary Wicker.
"Attendance pluperfect I"
That is the mark that
Eighth District tarheels are
chalking up to the credit of
their representative, Charles
B. Deane of Rockitigham andl
the Capitol. Washington, D.C.
Representative Deane has
the record, at present unique
among his North Carolina
colleagues, of never having
missed a session at the House*
since he took office.
We call that taking your
job seriously. Congratula
tions, C.B.D,: may you keep
right on singing out; "Pres
ent!" for many sessions to
come ... if you can stand it!
Top Tournaments
Bring Golf Gentry
To Local Courses
South Africa wins again! And
you don’t have to be a UN expert
in the Sandhills to register ap
proval. Everyone who saw Bobby
Locke play his grand game on
Wednesday felt that he deserved
the victory and that the CaTOlinas
had been won, once more, by an
outstanding golfer and sportsman.
In the final round Locke hosed
out Johnny Palmer of Bradin,
runner-up, by a single stroke
with a 271, 17 under par for the
72 holes.
In the Sandhills this week it
was getting so thick with golf
balls whizzing through the air
that people were beginning to
see things. Not tin disks, this
time, but pearls. Pearls in the
air and stars on the ground is the
tale, as the big golfers of the
state and nation, gathered here
for a series of top events, show
ed what they could do. .
At the Mid Pines, it was the
Carolinas Open. Here, on the
sporting course, one of the most
beautiful as well as one of the
most tricky hereabouts, the South
African Bobby Locke on Tuesday
had shot sub par golf for the sec
ond straight day.
Johnny Palmer of Badin better
ed the Johannesburg pro’s 18-hole
figure with a smart 32-33—65 to
go with.his first round score of
70. His 135 left him four strokes
off Locke’s 36-hole pace of 131.
Locke put together nines of 34 and
I 33 in fashioning his 67 over the
6,661-yard Mid Pines layout in
Tuesday’s play.
Wednesday morning brought the
tension to critical pitch as Locke
and Palmer appeared at mid-day
with twin scores. The African lion-
tamer had gone out in 32 and
back in 39 to give him a round
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Full Slate On File For County Offiees
With Contests Noted In Two Quarters
COUNTY TICKET
“At long last”-Moore county’s bookmobile, held up for years by war restrictions, has arrived as one
oI th" iL. lifts . county c.u piako to its pcopla. Shown obo.o three ot
A. B Yeomans, left, chairman of the county library committee, which pronioted the purchase, Mrs
Dorothy Avery, county librarian, who has been driving her personal car on the county routes to deliver
books; G. M. Cameron, at right, chairman of county commissionfers, who by appropriating the fu
signified their belief in this important phase of the Moore County library s work.
^Mrs. Avery went out on trips last week and this in the bookmobile, the first time on her longest
route, a 90-mile round trip to Westmoore school, whsre 171 books were taken out. 'The bookinobile can
[;arry’500 books, in shelved compartments opening on each side and in the roomy interior. A tab e
lets down from the back to use as a library desk. Tiie Library is seen in the background^
Below—Mrs. Avery shows how the side compartments operate. (Photos by Humph ey)
Election Officials
Listed By Board
For All Precincts
Two Leading Hospital Groups Elect
Moore County Administrator As Head
Edwin T. McKeithen, admin-'
istrator of the Moore County hos
pital since 1931, was in the past
week recipient of double honors
in his profession. |
Installed April 14 at Winston-'
Salem as president of the North
Carolina Hospital association, he
was lelected and installed two
days later as president of the Car
olinas-Virginia Hospital Associ
ation Conference, at the annual
meeting held April 15-16 at Roan-1
oke, Va. |
The Conference includes assoc
iations of North and South Caro^*
lina, Virginia and West Virginia.
In his position as head of the
conference, one of his major
duties will be the correlation of
work of the North Carolina Hos
pital association with that of its
sister states, for a coordinated pro
gram of progress.
The North Carolina Associa
tion elects a year in advance of
installation. He was elected to
Hhe presidencey at the annual
convention held at Winston-Salem
a year ago.
A native of Aberdeen, McKeith
en has lived there all his life and
was in business there until he
becamb administrator of the h5s-
pital 17 years ago. He is a grad
uate of Davidson college.
He Ras been active in various
community and county aflfairs,
served for a number of years on
the Moore County road commis
sion before the state highway
Election officials for the regis
tration of voters and conduct of
the voting in the Democratic pri
mary were announced this week
by the county board of elections.
Registrar is named first. Demo
cratic judge second and Republi
can judge third for each precinct,
as follows:
Aberdeen—D. F. Giles, Ray
mond B. Wicker, J. K. Melvin.
Bensalem—R. C. McLean, Allen
Monroe, D E. Cole.
Cameron—J. W. Wicker, W. M.
Harbour, Raymond Thomas.
East Carthage—R. W. Pleas
ants, J. E. Muse, J. M. Fields.
West Carthage—D. A. McDon
ald, Jr., T. L. Baughn, A F. Boyte.
Deep River^—James Campbell,
W. A. Tyson, Floyd Willcox.
Eureka—Mrs. D. J. Blue, W. M.
McLeod, Mrs. J. I. Primm
Highfalls—G. L. Wilson, Frank
Maness, J. B. Powers.
Pinehurst—^H. F. Kelly, Ellis
Fields, Henry B. Frye.
Pinebluff—Mrs. W. K. Carpen
ter, Doug David, A. G. Wallace.
Bitters-=-B. F. Howard, Barden
Ritter, T. J. Reynolds.
Robbins — Charles Farlow,
James F. Steed, E. T. Dennis.
Spies—E. F. Sheffield, E. J.
Freeman, Jr., W. T. Brown.
Spencerville—^Mrs. H. L. Ken
nedy, James Teague, W. C. Gar
ner.
Southern Pines — Thomas G.
Wicker, Hiram Westbrook, Max
well G. Rush.
Vass—Mrs. B. P. GuUedge, C.
A. Cameron, Willie Klingsmith.
West End—Harold Markham,
W. E. Jackson, Clarence Gordon.
HELP!
The following have filed for
county office, subject to the
Democratic primary of May
29, according to announce
ment by the board of elec
tions at the close of the filing
period Saturday:
For county- commissioner:
John M. Currie, District 1: W.
H. Jackson, District 2; L. R.
Reynolds. District 3; G. M.
Cameron, E. P. Hinson, Dis
trict 4; T. L« Blue, District 5,
All incumbents, except Hin
son.
For county board of educa
tion; H. G. Poole. District 1;
W. S. Evans, District 2; G. H.
Purvis, District 3; Jere Mc
Keithen, W. D. Shannon, Dis
trict 4; Fred Taylor, District
5 Poole. Evans and Purvis
are incumbents; F. Dan Far
rell, District 4, and L. B. Mc
Keithen. District 5, did not
seek reelection.
For judge of recorders
court, J. Vance Rowe; for so
licitor, W. A. Leland Mc
Keithen; incumbents.
For the House: H. Clifton
Blue.
Athletic Field
Dugouts To Be
VFW Post Gift
No Opposition To
Blue For House
Key Club Sponsored By Kiwanians
For Moore Co. High School Students
E. T. McKEITHEN
commission took over road build
ing and maintenance, and also
served for many years on the
board of managers of Samarcand.
He is a charter member of the
Sandhills Kiwanis club, formed
25 years ago, and is now a life
time honorary member. Active
in Bethesda Presbyterian church
of Aberdeen, he is at present
chairman of its board of deacons.
Married to th,9 former Miss
Norman Leland of Charleston, S.
C., he has three sons, E. T. Mc-
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“It’s the jumpingest mule I ever
saw!”
Don Traylor says that and Don
knows mules. Anyway this here
mule has jumped out of every
thing he’s been put into so far in
an endeavor, we take it, to go
back home. Only he doesn’t go.
Doesn’t know where home is, we
suppose, any more than Don who
is working hard to find out.
Anybody who is out one good
farm mule can go look in the Boyd
stable and see if this is it. All
Don knows is that it isn’t his
mule, and that it’s raising al
mighty cain. Not only jumped out
of the barn window'but then over
all the fences, inspiring the rest
of the stock to do likewise.
For the sake of Don’s reason,
the lives of the farm stock and
the future of farming out on Wey
mouth estate, may the mule’s
owner show pp right soon!
Organization of a Key club, Ki- j
wanis-sponsored high school stu
dent organization, was effected
at a meeting held at the Carthage
hotel last Wednesday Aveningl,
and plans are to have it chartered
and ready to begin a full program
on a countywide basis at the start,
of the next school year. j
In that word “countywide” is
the only hitch, as in the 23-year
history of Key clubs all have been
established in individual schools,
none so far embracing a county
system.
However, the situation was the
same when the Sandhills Kiwanis
club won its unique charter for
countywide organization, and it is
believed the Key club can be es-
talbished on the same basis, ac
cording to John S. Ruggles, chair
man of the Kiwanis committee
working to get the club under
way.
Meeting with the committee at
Carthage last week were princi
ples from seven of the 11 high
schools of the county, each bring
ing three students to form a char
ter membership.
Election Held
Officers were elected as fol
lows: Bobby Farmer, West End,
president; John Beasley, South-
Pines, vice president; Billy
Whitesell, D. J. Yarborough,
Pinehurst; Proctor Goldsmith
Reggie Hamel, Southern Pines:
Belly Nelson, Bobby Thomas
Robbins; Marvin Holder, Way-
Ion Thomas, Vass-Lakeview; Joe
Currie, Sherrill Rush, West End
Members are selected on a basis
I of scholarship (which must be
maintained at a high level, or
^ membership is lost); leadership
ability, and good character. The
club is made up of boys from the
sophomore, junior and senior
classes, for projects of service to
school and community.
Principals Attend
Principals attending the Wed-
nesc^ay night meeting included
R., C. Fields, Aberdeen; H. V
Chappell, Carthage; Lewis Can
non, Pinehurst; P. J. Weaver
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Work was due to begin this
week on a new gift to the ball
park—dugouts for home and vis
iting teams, to be given by the
John Boyd post. Veterans of
'Foreign Wars.
With the new bleachers now
on order, gift of the Southern
Pines town team, this will mean
an even more greatly improved
field, with the improvements
testifying to the civic spirit and
generosity of citizens of Southern
Pines.
The/quonset hut fieldhouse built
a year ago was also a gilt. Most
of the funds came from an anon
ymous donor.
After excavation has been made
by high school students, the
building of the dugouts will be
in the hands of a VFW committee
composed of Charles Swoope, A.
D. Hurst, Ed Newton, Raymond
Cameron and Walter E. Blue, Jr.,
following plans being drawn up
in cooperation with Supt. Philip
J. Weaver. Swoope, a contractor,
will be in charge of the construc
tion of the dugouts, one on each
side of the field.
Low Roofs
They will be about 35 by seven
feet long, lined with cinder block
and cement, of a depth to allow
team members to watch the game
through open windows as they
relax. They will be roofed, but
low enough not to interfere with
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Caddell, Aberdeen, secretary;
Duncan McGiil, Jr., Vass-Lake-
view, treasurer; directors, O. D.
Wallace, Jr., Carthage, Kenny
Bristow, Pinehurst; Lamar Sum-
merford, Elise High school, Rob
bins.
Other charter members are
Walter Wright, Jackson Smith.
Aberdeen; Eugene Motsinger,
Sandy Thomas, Carthage; Max
SOLOIST
Carmien Gagliardi, tenor
with the Ford Symphony
Hour over NBC, will be the
soloist at the 11 a.m. service
Sunday at the Village Chapel
in Pinehurst, it was an
nounced by the rector. Dr. T.
A. Cheatham*
Gagliardi, ■winner of criti
cal as well as popular suc
cess, is rated as one of the
finest young singers of the
day. He gave a concert a
month ago at the Pinehurst
Forum. Visiting in the Sand
hills for the spring season,
he will again lend his tal
ents to a local event, for a
real treat for music lovers
of the section.
McKeithen, Shannon
Oppose For Board
The filing deadline of 6«p. m.,
Saturday for the few county of
fices open to election this year
found candidates on file for_ all
and contests in only two quarters.
These were between Gordon M.
Cameron, present chairman of
county commissioners, and Ever
ett P. (Red) Hinson, -both running
for the commission from District -
4; and, from the same district,
two neophytes for the county
board of education, Jere Mc
Keithen of Aberdeen and W. D.
Shannon of Pinebluff.
An anticipated contest failed to
develop in the race for represent- ^
ative to the General Assembly. H.
Clifton Blue, filing on the last
day, finds himself unopppsed for
the job he held in 1947.
A general feeling that J. Haw
ley Poole, former representative,
might run persisted, imtil late in
the day. Others had also been
mentioned.
Ref^endum Issue
With the matter of a liquor ref
erendum conaing up—and you can
be mighty sure that it would, no
matter who was in office—the
race between Poole and Blue
would have been a hot one. The
chances are that it would have
been damaging to both, not to
mention the county as a whole,
through no fault of their own.
With plenty of other issues at
stake, the “liquor issue” would
have overshadowed them, and the
two men would have found them
selves tagged willy-nilly with the
labels “wet” or “dry.”
Each is personally “dry,” but
aware of the viewpoints of all in
terests, and against pre-election
“commitments” with their vote-
dredging connotations. It is no
secret that those who believe in
the controls and good business of
the ABC stores want to see them
remain; nor that there is a strong
faction that would like to shut
them up and return Moore county
to the prohibition era. Each side
sees legislation as its proper re
source, which puts any legislator
on a spot.
Not On Spot
Blue has so far, it is under
stood, refrained ^ from climbing
right square onto the spot, though
opposition could have pushed him
there.
To visiting delegations he has,
however, expressed his belief in
the referendum as the instrument
of democracy, “if the people want
it.”
His only official statement so
far has been one of gratitude for
the confidence evidenced in the
lack of opposition, handing him
the job of representative without
a contest. This is a bigger job
than it was when he went to the
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Supporters At Work, Candidates Visit
As State Contests Enter Last Stretch
No matter what peaches and
corn may do later, the candidate
crop is doing fine, providing food
for talk, food for thought and
plenty of good handshaking.
Several fine specimens of the
crop have been seen around lately
and chances -are that more of
them will be shown from time to
time. Working the crop is keep
ing a number of our leading citi
zens busy, and they’ll be busier
and busier until May 29.
Oscar Barker, Kiwanis speaker
last week, was the first guberna
torial candidate to present himself
in these parts. However, Tuesday
brought another—State Treasurer
Charles M. Johnson, who spent
the day visiting from town to
town, spoke at the Carthage
Methodist Men’s club that eve
ning and did some more visiting
when the meeting was over.
Looking neat, pleasant and re
laxed, he dropped by The Pilot
about 9 o’clock. With him were
Leland McKeithen, of Pinehurst,
who is handling his campaign in
the county, and Lamont Brown of
Aberdeen and Pinebluff—good le
gal company! Dr. L. M. Daniels is
handling his Southern Pines cam
paign.
Scolt To Speak
Thursday night another bright
star on the political (gubernato
rial) horizon was slated to appear
in the person of W. Kerr Scot't,
speaking at a dinner at the High
land Pines Inn at 6 o’clock, and
at the Carthage courthouse at 8.
This seemed to mean a short
speech here—on which, unfor
tunately The Pilot cannot com
ment this week, on account of
press day exigencies setting a
Thursday noon deadline.
T. C. Auman is managing Scott’s
campaign in the county, and John
Ruggles and others are keeping
the ball rolling in Southern Pines.
Senatorial candidates Umstead
(incumbent) and Broughton, both
of whom have spoken in the comi
ty during the past year, appear
to be working other fields, though
Umstead’s supporters are letting
no sun set on an idle day. If
Broughton has named a county
manager. The Pilot hasn’t heard
about it. However, Umstead
picked a man everybody in the
county knows—W. P. Saunders of
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