Markets Remain
Open, Carry Fight
To Court Today
Delegations Will
Attend Hearing
At RalWgh
Middle Belt Merger Sought
Tobacco sales went on in
nominal fashion this week at the
four Middle Belt markets which
are seeking to become affiliated
with the Eastern Belt, and which
opened without buyers from the
major companies on the Eastern
Belt date (August 19) at Carth
age, Aberdeen, Sanford and
Fuquay-Varina.
With independant buyers tak
ing some of the product and the
, warehousemen buying most of it
at current high prices, the mar
kets were, attempting gamely to
stay open in hopes a court decis
ion would bring them the vital
buyers.
The companies are to appear
tefore Judge W. C. Harris in
Wake County superior court this
morning (Friday) to show cause
why they should not be request
ed to furnish buyers to the
markets.
Conspiracy Charged
Court action was started last
_ Friday by the 11 warehouses in
volved. Discrimination and con
spiracy to ban the markets was
charged in the action, with de
fendants named as follows: R. J.
Rejmolds Tobacco company. Im
perial Tobacco company, Liggett
knd Meyers, American Tobacco
company, American Suppliers,
Inc., J. P. Taylor and Company,
Dniversal Leaf Tobacco company,
Timmonsville Tobacco company,
Reidsville Tobacco company
Bright Belt Warehouse Associa
tion, Inc., and Export Leaf To
bacco company.
Attorneys for the warehouse?
in the action are Robert A. Cot
ton of Fuquay Springs and Wil
kins P. Horton and Daniel Bell,
both of Pittsboro.
Monday , an answer to the
suit was reported to have been
filed by one defendant, the
Bright Belt Warehouse Associa
tion, Inc., which denied the
charges on the ground that it “is
not now and never has been in
the business of buying tobacco.”
The answer was filed in Wake by
Fred S. Royster, president of the
association, and his attbrney, J.
M. Broughton.
H. Clifton Blue, secretary of
the sales supervision board of
Aberdeen and Moore pounty,
made the statement for the mar
kets that they wish to become
associated with the Eastern Belt,
and that much tobacco of this
area has formerly been sold on
Border and Eastern Belt markets.
Meetings
The warehousemen will meet
at Sanford tonight (Friday) to
discuss the results of the court
action and determine their next
move, if it is unfavorable to their
cause.
Aberdeen warehousemen, with
a number of local businessmen
Waits Long But Gets His Fish
Resort Airlines
Recommended For
Farflung Routes
Progress Made To
Cerlificatibn For
Hemisphere Cruises
Victory In Long Battle
SCHOOL BOND VOTE PASSES
WITH CLOSE MAJORITY OF 81
Four ]\ew Cases Of Polio In County,
School Opening Delayed To Sept. 15
n waiting 28 years for this,” said Winky Chatfield
(left), as he hauled the nine-pound large-mouth bass seen above
out of the waters of Thagards lake last Friday. Winky was kind
enough to allow his brother-in-law, James Prim, to hold the prize
for this picture, while he himself displayed a string of more ornery
members of the bass family, by way of contrast.
While the big fish sets no record for these parts, its equal is
seldom seen among bass, even the large-mouth variety. As the news
got around the local fishermen went flocking out, and soon the
quietest of sylvan lakes was said to rfesemble Times Square. A happy
weekend of sport was reported—though no more nine-pounders.
(Photo by Turner)
Registration Starts Monday;
County Draft Board Gets Set
CHAMPS
The Robbins team was the
winner in the Peach Belt
playoffs held last week, with
Beaunit of Rockingham con
testing the championship.
Champions and members
of all Peach Belt teams, wi!th
League officials and others
who assisted, will celebrate
the conclusion of their second
successful series with a
chicken barbecue, to be held
tonight (Friday) at the Aber
deen lake.
and iairmers of Moore county,
held a meeting at Aberdeen Wed
nesday night. Support of the
markets and their cause was af
firmed.
A number volunteered to join
an Aberdeen delegation attend-,
ing the hearing at Raleigh today,
where it is expected that delega
tions from Carthage, Sanford and
Fuquay-Varini will also be on
hand.
In the lack of buyers and the
court action, the four markets
are encountering continued hur
dies in their long fight to open
with the Eastern Belt. For some
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Grid Practice Starts With Youngsters
Kept On Sidelines By Quarantine
Answering Coach Dawson’s
call for fall football practice be
ginning Monday afternoon at
High School Memorial park, 20-
some youngsters tanned to vary
ing shades were on hand to greet
their coach, most in good physi
cal condition and eager to get
going.
From last year's great team,
lettermen on hand were Gary
Mattocks, Jimmy “Cotton Top”
Dickerson, Andy Paga*. Richard
Newton, and “Mac” Patch, backs,
Richard Kaylor, Joe Bennett,
Bobby Culler and Bill Baker,
linemen. Missing from the open
ing roll call was Fred Arnette,
stocky end, Albert Adams, and
George McDonald, backs. All
three of the last-named, however,
are expected this week or early
next.
Reporting from the reserve
squad were Carlton Keimedy,
Reggie Hamel and Dillon Short,
along with Raymond Copley,
husky transfer from Carthage
High. I
The above named don’t add up
to 20, as C. L. Worsham, Coy
Bowers, Edward Mehefee, Roy
Newton, Edgar Smith, Dickie
Mattocks, and Eugene Lee will
ruefully testify.
None of them believed it, when
in issuing the call. Coach Daw
son said that for the present,
only those boys over 16 could
take part in the workouts. And
so promptly, at 4 o’clock these
seven boys were on hand for
practice.'
It was a reluctant group of
youngsters told to go to the side
lines, as the polio quarantine ex
cluded them from the workouts.
As a matter of record, football
practice was called only after
consultation with members of the
school board and the county
health officer. Dr. J. W. Willcox.
Since the quarantine applies only
to those under 16, Dr. Willcox
said that he felt light football
practice such as signal drills and
conditioning exercises would be
all right.
With the opening game with
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Central Office At
Carthage. 3 Other
Registration Points
W. E. Stewart, of Carthage,
has been selected as the third
man on Moore county’s now-com
pleted draft board, and plans this
week were being rushed through
in preparation for the new selec
tive service rgistration which
which starts Monday, Aug. 30.
Maxwell Rush, of Southern
Pines, and Allen McDonald, of
West End, were the first mem
bers approved. From them came
word Wednesday that a central
office is to be set up in Carthage,
on the second floor of the new
Riddle building close to tke stop
light.
Registration will take place at
four points located conveniently
about the county: the central of
fice at Carthage, the Community
building at Southern Pines, the
Robbins school building and the
West End school building. They
will be open from 8 a. m. to 5 p.
m. daily except Sundays and
legal holidays.
Staffing of the offices will be
in charge of Mr. Stewart at Car
thage, Mr. Rush at Southern
Pines, Mr. McDonald at Wesj End
and School Superintendent Hack
ney at Robbins.
All men between 18 and 25
must register, regardless of vet
eran or reserve status, except
those actively in service in some
branch of the armed services of
the country.
Men born in 1922 after August
30 will register Monday.
Those born in 1923 will regis
ter August 31 through Septem
ber 1; in 1924, September 2-3;
1925, September 4-7; 1926, Sep
tember 8-9; 1927, Septembfer 10-
11; 1928, September 13-14; 1929,
September 15-16; before Septem
ber 19, 1930, September 17-18.
As men born September 19,
1930, and later reach their 18th
birthdays, they must register
within five days.
This is an entirely new regis
tration, it was emphasized. The
selective service files for the last
war have •been closed, and so far
as is known now will remain so.
Men being separated from the
armed services are to report to
the selective service office with
in 30 days of their discharge,
though they will not, as veterans,
be drafted.
Under the selective service act
now in effect, those exempt from
the draft, which will begin in
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Resort Airlines, Inc., with head
quarters at Resort field, wa?
given a big push forward toward
bigtime opc^ration with recom
mendations .made this week by
Civil Aeronautics Board Exam
iner James S. Keith, in an 85-
page :’eport.
Examiner Keith recommended
that the airline be authorized, for
an experimental period of five
years, to operate a specialized
air service “between the co-ter
minal points New York City,
Philadelphia, Washington, Pitts
burgh, Lleveland, Detroit and
Chicago and intermediate points
in the United States, also the
Caribbean area. Central America,
Mexico and Canada.”
The “specialized service” is the
all-expense air vacation, or “Sky-
cruise,” in which Resort Airlines
pioneered, and which is now
their own exclusive specialty.
Musi Be Ratified
The proposed air service must
be ratified by the full Civil Aero
nautics board and the President
of the United States before it can
go into effect. If this is done. Re
sort Airlines will become the first
postwar, certificated passenger
airline, from the thousands that
started up after V-J day, and in
cidentally will be, at one fell
swoop, one of the largest of
United States carriers in point
of authorized mileage.
The qruise?>itf carsf, lessen-
gers from resort to resort in
planned, prepaid vacation trips
all over the western hemisphere.
The granting of the certificate,
which has been sought by the
airline for over two years, will
preclude Resort’s operating a re
gularly scheduled north and
south passenger service from the
headquarters field in this county.
Both kinds of certificates cannot
be granted a single carrier, ac
cording to information received
from L. C. Burwell, Jr., president,
and the transcontinental and in
ternational Skycruise service
must understandably become
their choice.
Resort Stop Here
However, Mr. Burwell said,
steps are to be^ taken to have the
Southern Pines-Pinehurst'stop in
cluded as a regular resort stop on
their cruises orginating in the
east and midwest and heading
south. This will bring many visi
tors here for a day or two. Resort
field will remain headquarters
for all their operations, he said,
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Four new cases of polio were
reported early this week, just as
the county board of health had a
meeting scheduled to consider the
lifting of the quarantipe after two
polio-free weeks.
Two of the cases were children
of West Southern Pines, the
first polio victims within the
Southern Pines city liniits during
the three-month epidemic period.
The others were a small broth
er and sister, children of Mr. and
Mrs. DeWitt Caviness of Eagle
Springs.
The county board of health,
meeting at Carthage Monday
night, extended the quarantine to
midnight, September 14, postoon-
ing the opening of all schools to
September 15. There is a possi
bility it may be extended even
further. Dr. J. W. Willcox, county
health officer, gave it as his opin-
ion that schools should not open I
until at least two more weeks
free of polio should have been
passed.
Monday afternoon, Charles
Caviness, aged four, was taken to
the Guilford Polio Center at
Greensboro.
Monday night, Harold Stroman,
six-year-old Negro of Penn
sylvania avenue. West Southern
Pines, was taken to the Kate Bit
ting 7i,eynolds Memorial hospital
at Winston-Salem with what ap
peared, it was said, to be a pretty
severe case.
Harold lives with his grand
mother, Sarah' McGill, on Penn
sylvania avenue. His mother is a
patient at the N. C. Sanatorium.
His father, Shelley Stroman,
works in the north.
Tuesday, Miss Mary Swett, go
ing to the Caviness home at Ea
gle Springs to quarantine the
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Five Precincts Of 17
Carry $375,000 Issue
For Aberdeen Schools
Total Vote 3,051
N. C. Softball Toumament Ends As
Romancos Cop State Title, Trophy
Five-Day Event Seen
As Community Success
With the tournament- wise
Roanoke Rapids Romancos going
all the way through the N.C.A.S
A. tournament undefeated, the
curtain came down Wednesday
on the big summer, event here,
with the Coca-Cola- awarded
Winnex’s Vophy in the. hands of
tne Romahcbs. ' ' ’■
Miss Witherspoon
Resigns Teaching
Position Here
Miss Phoebe Witherspoon,
teacher of English and speech at
the Southern Pines High school
for the past three years, has re
signed to accept a position in her
home state of South Carolina, it
was announced this week by Sunt
P. J. Weaver.
Miss Witherspoon, who is from
Laurens, S. C., will go to the Un
iversity of North Carolina to take
her master’s degree in public
health, then will join the South
Carolina public health depart
ment as a public health educator.
Miss Witherspoon has served as
senior class advisor, which has in
volved supervision of many senior
class activities, with the recently
published Year Book among the
most outstanding.
In her capacity as teacher of
speech, she directed a number of
school plays, including a series
of radio plays presented during
the past year.
This is the first resignation this
year of a member of the high
school faculty. No attempt will be
made immediately to replace her,
said Mr. Weaver, as it would be
difficult to secure a suitable per
son this late in the summer, and
other teachers will divide her
Work.
The occasion marked the fifth
time the Roanoke Rapids team
had won the championship, as
they took it four times straight
from 1939 through 1942.
Runner-up was the Champion
YMCA team of Canton, nosed out
in the finals by the Romancos,
2-1, as famed Russ Deberry of
Roanoke hurled his best gamp of
the tournament. The game clinch
er was a home run by Chet Sims,
Romance shortstop, with a man
on base. Sims had 11 hits for
15 trips to the plate during the
entire tournament, and was the
recipient of the Leading Hitter
trophy. To complete the Roanoke
trophy sweep, Deberry was
named the outstanding pitcher of
the affair.
Sixteen games were played in
the tournament, and in the en
thusiastically expressed opinion of
many spectators, they were all
alive with color and thrills. To
,Home dyed-ih-the-wool baseball
fans, who had come to jeer, the
speed and skill involved in the
“little brother” of diamond sports
was a revelation.
Speedy Eliminations
Five games were played on the
first day, last Friday. Saturday,
five more were played, and when
the dust had cleared from Mem
orial field. Concord, Mt. Airy, and
de^nding champs, the Mooresville
Moors, had all been eliminated
from the double-elimination
tourney.
Sunday’s three games saw
Chapel Hill and Wilmington fold
their tents and silently steal
away, while Gastonia and Bur-
Mil of Greensboro followed after
Tuesday’s semi-finals.
That left the championship up
to the Romancos and the Canton
Y’s, and it was the Romancos who
won not only the tourney, the
trophy, and the state champion
ship, but also the coveted trip to
the regional tournament of the
U. S. Amateur Softball associa
tion, to be held in St. Petersburg,
Fla., beginning September 4.
While most of the teams left
for home when their part in the
tournament was over, the win
ners celebrated Wednesday even
ing with a party at Jack’s Grill,
with their handsome trophy as
table centerpiece.
Good Event, Poor Gate
The Chamber of Commerce,
sponsors of the event, reported
it a success from a sports view
and also the boosting of August
trade in town.
However, said Chamber Secre
tary Tom Wicker, it was less suc
cessful at the gate. '‘The crowds
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FOR BABE RUTH
A spray of flowers went to
Babe Ruth's funeral from the
Moore County Legion Post
Baseball team.
According to an account of
the funeral in a New York
paper, the token of remem
brance from Moore county's
young players to baseball's,
dead hero was displayed with
others about the coffin of
George Herman Ruth, as he
lay in the Yankee Stadium
for the last tribute of the
crowds.
The flowers were sent by
wire by the Carolina Gar
dens here, through arrange
ment by Charles Swoope,
Sandhills Legion Post com
mander. It was not known
here what sort of flower?
were used, as that was left to
ihe New York florist
The bond issue for Aberdeen
schools, presented to the county
electorate for approval Tuesday,
squeaked by on a narrow margin
of 81 votes, with 3,051 voting.
A total of 1,586 voters approved
the bond issue, with 1,485 against.
A sharp cleavage of'the northern
and southern halves of the
county was shown, as precincts
in the northern and central sec
tions (except Robbins) voted
against the issue, and those of the
southern half (except Pinebluff)
voted for it.
In fact, it was only the con
certed action of the Southern
Pines, Pinehurst and Aberdeen
precincts, with the heaviest vote
and largest majorities, which
saved the day for the Aberdeen
schools.
Twelve of the 17 precincts of
the county had majorities against
the issue, with three of them
showing not a single vote on the
affirmative side.
Vofe Count
The tally by precincts (affir
mative vote listed first, negative
second): Aberdeen, 754, 23; Ben-
salem, 5, 145; Cameron, 5, 88-
Deep River, 2, 84; East Carthage!
20, 103; West Carthage, 31, 153-
5, 19; Highfalls, none!
135; Pinehurst, 124, 36; Pinebluff,
54, 160; Southern Pines, 341, 9;
Spies, none, 53; Spencerville, 1
161; Robbins 164, 145; Ritters’
none, 100; Vass, 42, 27; West End’
18, 44. ’
It was pointed out by appreci
ative Aberdeen citizens that the
precentage of affirmatives in
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Broadcasters Of
State Will Meet
Here In October
io
whom the telegram was sent.
Appraisal Board
Is Being Selected
The county commissioners have
definitely decided, it appears, to
use a local board for the 1949
countywide property revaluation,
rather than employing a profes
sional appraiser.
While no definite information
has been released, it is understood
that the commissioners spent a
good part of their Monday meet
ing discussing the personnel of
boa(rd, and selecting several
names. J. D. Arey, Sr., of South
ern Pines is said to be one of
them i
Diffculty is being encountered,
it is said, in finding five men of
requisite experience and ability,. iirsr large conven-
who are als» free to devote sev- tion on the new season’s calendar
eral months to this work. for Southern Pines.
The North Carolina Association
of Broadcasters will hold its an
nual meeting in Southern Pines
October 22 and 23, it was am
nounced this week by Jack S.
Younts, of local radio station
WEEB, by whom arrangements
for the meeting were made.
Around 150 are expected to at
tend, including representatives of
radio stations in all parts of the
state, officials of all major net
works, and others of radio-con
nected interests.
Harold Essex, general manager
of WSJS, Winston-Salem, is pres
ident of the organization.
The Mid Pines will be head
quarters for the convention,
though it is anticipated that oth
er hotels about town will also be
called on for rooms.
This is the first large conven-
New Pipe Organ, Memorial Pulpit
In Use Sunday At Emmanuel Church
Sunday morning, the congrega
tion of Emmanuel Episcopal
church will hear for the first time
the tones of their new pipe organ,
one of the finest of the section,
representing a dream of many
years fulfilled.
The organ, whose installation
was completed this week, is the
gift of Mrs. C. T. Crocker, of
Pinehurst and Fitchburg, Mass.,
a member of Emmanuel church.
The room housing its many pipes,
and complex apparatus was built
as an annex to the church build
ing as the gift of Mr. Crocker.
Also at this Sunday’s service
will be seen and used, for the
first time, the new pulpit, espec
ially designed to harmonize with
the other church furnishings, gift
of Mrs. Paul T. Barnum in mem
ory of her husband.
Thus to this beautiful small
church are added two more gifts
of devotion, of which there have
been a number during the past
few years. The altar rail was
given by Mrs. P. T. Kelsey in
memory of her parents. The altar
^itself, of restjrained design, its
dark oak touched with gold, was
given last year by Mrs. Fraser
Knight in memory of her hus
band, Lieutenant Commander
Knight. ThC' throne supporting
the cross bears ah unusual medal
lion design. It shows a golden
anchor, also a rainbow, two sym
bols of Christian hope, symbol
izing the life and death of this
gallant young naval officer, lost
during the recent war with the
submarine he commanded.
The three-brianched candle
sticks on the altar were also
given by Mrs. Knight, one in
memory of her grandmother, the
other in memory of her hus
band’s.
Designed by Rector
Most of the furnishings have
been designed by, or following
the suggestions of, the rector, the
Rev. F. Craighill Brown, who be
gan by having pews built to his
own pattern when he first came
here from the Orient 18 years
ago. The high ceiling timbers are
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