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J. €•> Historians Elect Talbot Johnson, Plan New Projects Shaw House Will Open Next Week; Markers To Be Set J. Talbot Johnson, of Aberdeen was elected president of the Moore County Historical associa tion for 1948-49, at a meeting of the directors held as opener of the season, Tuesday evening at the home of W. A. Leland McKeithen, in Pinehurst. Announcement of the reopening of the Shaw House tea room Wed nesday (December 1) with discus sion of other prlojects for the com ing year fqptured the busy meet ing. Other officers named were: W A. Leland McKeithen, president for the past two years, first vice- president; George Maurice, Eagle Springs, second vice-president; Ju lian Bishop, Southern Pines, third vice-president; Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, secretary; Mrs. Katherine McColl, assistant secretary; John S. Buggies, treasurer; Voit Gil more, assistant treasurer. Mrs. Ives will again be in charge of the Shaw House tea room, operated in the century-old Shaw homestead at the southern entrance of Southern Pines, pur chased and restored by the asso ciation, and successfully operated as a tea room last year. Open from 12 noon to 6 p. m. daily (except Sunday), the tea room will not only serve small graups, but it will be available for special parties on notice given in advance, and also for selected (Continued on Page 5) Southern Piues Stutiou In IVIodern Dress Christmas Seals Being Sold For County TB Aid Chamber Resumes Pre-War Custom; Other Plans Made (Photo by Humphrey) Seaboard Station Remodeling Done; New Beanty and Comfort Are Added —And As It Used To Be GAME FILMS Downtown District The first event to be spon- ™ t Large Home In project, purchase of flood lights for the High School Memorilal field, will be the showing of some choice foot ball and baseball films at the C<anmunJty building at 8 p, m. Tuesday. Movies of the Carolina- Georgia football game, also higUights of the 1948 World Series will be presented here. Both films are new to the sec tion and are said to reveal the action clearly and dramati cally. for an evening of real entertainment for the fans. Slimi Forsyth is chairman of the project, with Raymond Cameron and John Talbert on bis committee. E. C. Stevens, N. L. Hodgkins and Hoke Pollock have accepted trus teeship of the fund, whose eventual goal is some $14.- 000. VFW Post Buys Sign Replacement Proposal Handed Elks Will Banquet Football Team At Hollywood Hotel The John Boyd post, VFW, this week made a down payment on a home of their own—the old Scott house, fronting on West New York avenue just behind the Welch Gift shop, purchased on recommenda tion of the site committee after a five months’ search. The committee—^Frahk Neely, chairman, Raymond Cameron and Doin J ones—recommended the purchase at the Monday night meeting after having investigated numerous properties about town in the post’s search for a perma nent headquarters. Purchase was effected for $7,250. Arrangements were made for a down payment and a mort gage, instead of paying the whole amount at once, so the post could make some needed improvements —planting of the grounds, shing ling of the front of the building and others. To Committee The Southern Pines lodge, BPO Elks, will hold their third anmiai testimonial banquet for the Southern Pines High School foot ball team at the Hollywood ho tel Saturday, December 11. , ' The program for the evening has been planned to provide an evening of entertainment for members of the squad and their dates with speeches held to a min imum, according to word from those in charge. Tentative plans call for an ex cellent dinner, the presentation of gold footballs to the lettermen and medallions to the remainder of the squad by the Elks, thru the office of Coach Dawson; the awarding of “the most valuable senior player” award by a, repre sentative of the Veterans of For eign Wars, and a few remarks by some well known sports fig ure. Guests of the lodge will be the members of the Squad, the mana gers, cheer leaders, Supt. and Mrs. P. J. Weaver, Coach and Mrs. A. C. Dawson, Mayor and Mrs. C. N. Page and a number of other loyal supporters of this year’s Eastern Conference champions. After the banquet, the lodge will sponsor a dance for the young people at the Civic club. The interior of the 10-room, two-bath house is said to be in good condition, ready for imme diate occupancy, which is made possible by the fact that tenants in the house have recently moved out. The post’s lease on the present clubrooms in the Straka building, occupied for the past 20 months, will expire December 31. It is believed that the new quarters will be ready before that time. They will be headquarters for activities of both the post and the newly organized auxiliary, ac- eording to C. S. Patch, Jr., post commander. John D. Stephenson will be club manager, following resignation of Frank Neely to ac cept another position here in town. Mr. Stephenson, who has been assistant manager to Mr. Neely, will have Carl Klabbatz as his part-time assistant. Only' a part of the building will be used at first. The kitchen and other rooms will be opened as the need is felt, and as improvements and furnishing can be effected, said Commander Patch. The Spott house, once one of the community’s fine homes, in by gone days was the oiily house and central structure of the ’ block bounded by New York, Broad, Massachusetts and Bennett streets. It has recently been obscured by (Continued on Page 8) The proposal of members of the Southern Pines Garden club to re place the town billboards with smaller signs, attractively plant ed, has been referred to a com mittee by members of the town board after a meeting with inter ested persons Tuesday morning. Joe N. Steed and E. C. Stevens, of the town board, Hoke PoUock and Tom Wicker, representing the Chamber of Commerce, and George Pottle and A. C. Reed, representing local hotel interests, will meet to discuss the proposal from all angles and make recom mendation to the town board. Meeting Tuesday at the city hall were these and others, inclu ding Mayor C. N. Page, D. A. Blue, Jr., and L. V. O’CaUaghan, of the town board; Charles Stit- zer, of the Highland Pines Inn; Mrs. Lee Sobuta,' of Jefferson Inn; John Pottle, of the Hollywood ho tel; W. C. Hilderman, of Pine Cone Lodge; Mrs. Agnes Gruebl, of Colonial Inn. George Pottle is from the Hollywood, and A. C. Reed from the Belvedere. The proposal to beautify the northern and southern entrances to town, with a change in the type of sign used, was presented to the board in regular session Novem ber 16 by Mrs. P. P. McCain, pres ident of the Garden club, and members Mrs. Katherine McColl, Mrs. E. C. Stevens and Mrs. W. D. Campbell. The present billboards, put up some 20 years ago, have been the subject of some controversy of re cent years, as some have felt their method of advertising the town is not particularly attractive. Di rectors of the Chamber of Com merce some months ago sent a re quest to the town board that bet ter looking signs replace them, and that a uniform design be used wherever signs are found neces sary throughout the town. Sentiment of the meeting last week appeared to be that a change to a more attractive type of sign would be welcome provi ding the new signs are large chough to be clearly visible to approaching motorists, and state their message as clearly as do the present ones. The two billboards now main tained cost $22.50 each, or $45 a month, for eight months of the year, or $360 a year paid to an outdoor advertising concern. | Ancient "Depot" No Longer Eyesore The remodeling and moderniz ing of Southern Pines’ railroad station, built early in this cen tury, was completed this week after five months’ work, at an estimated cost to the Seaboard Air Line railway of close to $60 - 000. ’ Citizens this week are gazing admiringly at what used to be their old eyesore; now painted'a dazzling white with a deep green band at its base, its roof line changed, its waiting rooms fluo- rescently lit, handsome and clean, with radiators replacing the old central stove and'a Shed running the full length of the block. Nine ty-nine feet and nine inches, to be exact. The shed, known as “butterfly type,” is something new. Only two others have been built in the state, at Raleigh and at Hamlet. The two sides of its roof slant up ward, instead of down, in an in verted V design, with a copper gutter at the joining. Rainwater running into the gutter flows down the metal posts supporting the roof, and out into a storm sewer at Vermont avenue. This is just' one of the station’s up-to-the-minute features. An other is the “masterplate” surfac ing the cement of the shed floor, made of ground steel mixed with cement, to keep d?)wn dust. Wailing Rooms The two waiting rooms, for whites and Negroes, are just alike, except that for the Negroes is slightly smaller. Their doors are chromium-trim- rned, their floors of a new plastic tile, Flexichrome, in marbled car amel color edged in black. Wains coting is of walnut-colored Ma sonite, walls above are of plaster in sand finish, in a pastel aqua shade, woodwork is a soft green- blue. Rest rooms are tiled throughout, with modern fixtures. . The 1948 Christmas Seal sale of the Moore County Tuberculosis as sociation opened this week, with thousands of little messengers of goed cheer—the familiar and be loved seals, of honored tradition— placed in the mail for prospective purchasers. Chairmen throughout the coun ty will conduct their campaigns in their 6wn way, by mail or by persopal solicitation, or both, to collect as much as possible for the prevention and control of tuber culosis, and aid to its victims in this county. This is one of the only campaigns to be carried on without ^ny quotas. Community Chairmen The Rev. Tucker G. Humphries, of Southern Pines, this week an-, bounced chairmen throughout the county who are working with him for another successful campaign: Southern Pines, A. B. Patterson ^Continued on Page 8) NORMAN CORDON Kiwanians Elect Poole President, Hear Cordon Sing N. C, Opera Star Tells Of Plans For University Work Miss McDonald Receives Highest National Honor Miss Flora McDonald, of Car thage, Moore County home dem- onstratioh agejit, left today (Fri day) for Chicago, where she will receive the Distinguished Service award of the National Home Dem onstration Agents’ association at its annual meeting to be held De cember 1-5. Only six North Carolina home agents have received this honor before. This year three of them have been chosen for the award, the highest professional honor for home demonstration agents. Oth ers will be Miss Florence Cox, of Halifax county, and Mrs. Elizabeth L. Tuttle, Forsyth county. The award signifies outstanding service for 10 years or longer, co operation in projects of the State Home Demonstration Agents asso ciation, and effective cooperation with other county and stale agen cies in general. Miss McDonald is a native of Me ore county, member of an old Scottish pioneer family. She has served as home demon stration agent in the county for 14 years. Before entering Exten sion Service work, she taught home economics at Robbins, Lu- cama and Woodleaf. She is now serving her third terra .as chair man of the southeastern district of the North Carolina Home Agents' association, and was secretary of the state organization for one year. In Moore she works with 21 home demonstration clubs, and in many county and community pro- u IT "t support is considered Ceilings have all been lowered to important, and is generously giv- ^ u 1®“’ worthy causes and cam- In tlmir office dividing the two paigns carried forward in the (Continued on Page 9) I county. J. Hawley Poole, of West End, prominent peach grower of Moore and Hoke counties, a form er Moore representative in the General Assembly and member of the state board of agriculture, was elected president of the Sandhills Kiwanis club at its luncheop meeting Wednesday—a meeting distinguished also by a talk and two songs by North Carolina’s own top-bracket music star, Nor man Cordon. Mr. Poole was unanimously elected, after he had been persua ded to withdraw his own nomina tion for his friend Jack 'Taylor of .Aberdeen. Also on the slate as presented by Howard Burns, nominating committee chairman, and elected by acclamation, were John S. Bug gies, vice president; John M. Howarth, secretary-treasurer; C. J. McDonald, Jack Taylor, Boj.d Creath, M. C. McDonald, Voit Gilmore, W. B.' Corxton and Dr. E. M. Medlin, directors. The meeting was held at the Hollywood hotel, with President Leland McKeithen in the chair. Norman Cordon, presented by J. Talbot Johnson, of Aberdeen, spoke informally and enthusiasti cally of his three great loves— North Carolina, music and foot ball. Has Serious Plans Broad - shouldered, strapping (six feet four inches) and a man of vibrant personality, he spoke with laughter throughout, but left no doubt of his seriousness when it came to revealing plans close to his heart. It was his love for North Caro lina, he said, which has brought him back to his native state (he was born in Little Washington, raised in Charlotte) after 12 years, first with the Chicago Opera com pany, then with the Metropolitan. ; Now he is serving his state and its university as associate direc tor of the extension division, with one^ goal in view—the bringing of (Continued on Page 5) Christmas Lights Will Sparkle Here By Next Week End Chairmen Named; Work Of Year Told At Meeting Christmas lights should be sparkling in the Southern Pines busmes district by next weekend, if plans of the Chamber of Com merce are carried through as plan ned. Reports of Col. Wallace W. Simpson, of the Christmas lights committee, and Tom Wicker, sec retary, made at the regular meet ing of the board of directors at the Community building Tuesday evening, -were to the effect that the cords owned by the old Junior (Chamber of Commerce (now ex tinct), now in M'orris Johnson’s keeping, are available; that cables loaned out to two or three places are to be returned, and that all that it appears now will be need ed are the bulbs. And lots of them. With the number of bulbs and the lighting expenses still to be figured, the directors appropria ted $150 of the current budget to pay for the project. Slim Forsyth, present to express thanks for the Chamber’s cooperation in the Vet erans’ committee’s Armistice Day events, offered the help of his VFW committee in putting up the lights. This was gratefully accept ed. Arrangemeifts are to be left with Colonel Simpson for prizes for the Christmas lights contest, in the business and the residential sections. New Offices Secretary, Wicker reported that work on the new'offices of the Chamber and the Merchants as sociation, to be established in the Belvedere hotel, was due to start at once, for completion within a few days. President Hoke Pollock, presiding, said he would appoint a committee of members who were on the board when the Chamber offices were set up in the Com munity building three years ago, to attend to details of the moving out. Theyare to see that the build ing is left in as good condition as it was found, or better. He said John S. Ruggles would be asked to serve as chairman of this committee. Besides thanking the Chamber (Continued on Page 5) Big Barbecue Wednesday Night At Mile-A way Scouters Handclasp Transfers Chairmanship * w -’S, tbage hotel last Friday. ' chairman, at the annual district banquet and meeting at the Car- BurntyTust gimiUlefToTtS ^P^'^er, with A. L. tiv^and Tom ZrhL . m Campbell are Roy Liles, of Raleigh, council execu- field executive just glimpred' and Lee Counties, with L. W- Hewett, departing V., S.e s.«ry Page 16. by Caviae.s, With the theme of “aU you can eat for two bucks,” the Chamber of Commferce is making prepara tions for a large crowd and a big time at its barbecue and chicken fry to be held Wednesday evening at Mile Aaway Farm. Tickets have been on sale since Monday and early reports indicate that they are going well. Ozelle Moss, a newly elected Chamber director and proprietor of Mile Away'Farm, is in general chjarge of the preparation and cooking of the food, and promises that there will be plenty for nil Mrs. Jean Edson is in charge of a committee who will serve the barbecue and other food, A1 How- lett is in charge of parking, and Harry Lee Brown is the ticket sales chairman. Mr. .Brown said that tickets are available from the members of the BPO Does, at the Elks club, at any of the three drug stores, at the Belvedere hotel, at the Chamber of Commerce office, from most of the Chamber direc tors, and from several of the high school students who are helping, with the arrangements. A ticket entitles the holder to all the chicken and barbecue, with trim mings, he is able to consume. Proceeds will be evenly divided between the fund for the unifornls for the high school band, and the Chamber of Commerce treasury. Serving will start at 6 o’clock and will continue as long as there is one empty plate to be filled, said Mr. Moss. There will be plenty of room for parking. Tickets will be on sale at the gate for latecomers. There is shelter at Mile-Away in case of rain, and the outdoor fire-
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