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c GIVE TO THE MARCH OF DIMES FIGHT POLIOI GIVE TO THE MARCH OF DIMES FIGHT POLIOI Polio Drive Nears Final Stages With Few Reports Made Contributions Will Be Collected During Saturday Radio Rally The Moore County polio fund drive is meeting with a good re sponse in many quarters, it is iri- dicated by the few reports which have been turned in, and some special coming events are expect ed to give it an extra boost. Among weekend events will be a listener-participation “cempaign party” to be given by WEEB Sat urday afternoon, and a dance to- night(Friday) at the Aberden Warehouse, given by the Aber deen Police Athletic club. Danc ing will start at 8:’0. Manly, reported by Chairman L. F. Garvin last week to have gone over the top, remains the first and only county community to make this report. A second report this week is that the quota of $50 has been doubled. Mack Callahan, atVass, said his toAvn is “on the verge” and he hoped the weekend would see the $300 quota made. At Robbins, Chairman Ralph Steed also said said things are going well and he hopes to make an announcement next week. Paul C. Butler, South ern Pines chairman, reported his town still some distance short of the goal. He announced the appointment of the Rev. L. R. Bennett as gen eral chairman of the Negro divi sion, with J. W. Moore in charge of Negro schools. The colored peo ple are hard at work and appar ently doing an excellent job, he said. Radio Rally A gala time for all on the air and a big lift for the March of Dimes will be the WEEB rally, to be held in the form of a street broadcast here in front of the Citizens Bank and Trust coihpany, beginning at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow (Saturday). Cars are to be stationed in Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Carth age, Robbins, Pinehurst and va rious other places throughout the county, and as listeners telephone in their willingness to make a do nation, the cars will go straight to their homes and make collection. Arrangements are being worked out with the Central Carolina Tel ephone company for a special phone by which collect calls may bp received direct by the broad casting team of Ed Cox and Joe Warren. Announcement will be made over the air as to who is calling. Credited to Home Town In the case of donors who live too far for the pickup to be made at once, names will be taken and someone will come for it later Saturday or on.Sunday, said Jack Younts, station manaer, in charge of arrangements for the “party.” Gifts will be credited to the communities from which they come. The Southern Pines High school band will be at the scene and will broadcast at intervals throughout the program. County and community leaders will (Continued on Page 5) ANNUAL BANQUET William H. Neal, vice presi dent of the Wachovia Bank and Trust company of Win ston-Salem, will be the guest speaker at the annual mem bership banquet of the South ern Pines Chamber of Com merce, to be held Tuesday evening, February 8, at the Highland Pines Inn. Mr, Neal is not only one of the state's best known men in banking and business circles, but is also much in demand as one of the finest of dinner speakers. Roy Grinnell, chairman for the event, said some special entertainment features are being planned, including songs by Tom Cordon and dances by Martha Aden Bow er. A large crowd, including most of the membership and many guests, is expected, and at the Tuesday night board of directors' meeting, tickets were rationed out to the di rectors, from whom they may be secured as long as they last. The event will be formal for the ladies. Season’s First Gymkhana Here Sunday Afternoon The Shaw House Offers Old-Time Hospitality To All (Photo by Humphrey) The Shaw House, standing at the entrance to Southern Pines, welcomes the stranger and adds charm and distinction to this southern gateway. The property of the Moore County Historical Associa tion, the old home has been restored and outfitted with early North Carolina furnishings. The first gymkhana of the sea son for Southern Pines will be held Sunday at 2:15 p. m. in the horse show grounds at the South ern Pines Country club, it was announced this week, by Louis Scheipers, chairman of the eques trian committee. The Southern Pines High School band, newly uniformed will play before the show. Mr. and Mrs. Williamhurst, of New? Jersey, will be the judges. Lloyd (Junebug Tate of Pinehurst will be the announcer, and ring masters will be Morris Johnson, and J. T. Overton. It will feature six events, two of them for children; also broomi polo and a potato race, always en joyed, which generally provide some tense moments along with the fun. This will, in fact, be the first gymkhana held here in well over a year as those of last winter, scheduled every other week, were canceled on account of unfavor able weather. Weather conditions this year have been much better, with springlike days, and a good crowd is expected out. A number of Southern Pines riders who have been riding in the Pinehurst gymkhanas are ex pected to take part in next Sun day’s event, for which the sched ule follows; Children’s horsemanship, for riders up to 14 years of age broom polo; green hunters, four years and under, on the outside course, with judging based 75 per cent on performance, 25 per cent on conformation; children’s work ing hunters, inside the ring, per formance 50 per cent, horseman ship 50 per cent; open jumping; potato race. There is no admission charge. Parking space is also free and plentiful, said Mr. Scheipers. Honeymoon Here Will Be Prize On Weekly Broadcast Pilot Reporter And President Truman Both Have Fine Time At Inauguration V) By Valerie Nicholson Inauguration day at Washington last week was a great occasion for at least two folks—a bright, brisk, businesslike man named Truman, and your Pilot reporter, who watched shivering and pop- eyed while one historic event af ter another was unrolled. Of course there were several million other people there, who seemed to be having a fine time too. Hemmed in with rain fore and aft, Thursday itself was a day like a diamond. The sunwashed streets were bright with flags— even the trolley cars wore them. I found one warm spot—Con gressman C. B. Deane’s hospitable office, where a gay crowd con vened. Mr. Deane and his secre tary, John Lang, of Carthage, with pretty Miss Virginia Webb of Rockingham, made everybody feel at home, andHhe guest book became filled with Eighth District names. There’s something about North Carolinians—they reaUy have fun when they get together. Wander ing around the marble halls of the House office buildings reading the brass plates with names of repre sentatives from many states, I saw many doors open. The j oiliest crowds, the most fun were to be seen in two of them on that -floor —C. B. Deane’s and also Thur mond Chatham’s, where the Win ston-Salem folks were foregath ering with happy yells. In Senate Building I ran over to the Senate build ing too (and that’s some run, for just one block) but too late—the inauguration hour was near, and our Senators were meeting at the Capitol briefly beforehand. Here, too, office doors were open, secre taries busy receiving the folks from home. I was impressed anew with how accessible are the men who run our government. You can drop in on them any time, when they are at their offices, just as you can on the folks next door. As noon approached, I joined the crowds converging on the Capitol building, channeled by ropes and guards to the vast plat form in front. Yes, I had an in vitation to sit there, one I appre ciated more fuUy as I found how (Continued on Page 14) Southern Pines will be a widely publicized honeymoon haven, be ginning weekend after next, when the first pair of bride-and-groom radio prize-winners to be select ed by a Cincinnati station will ar rive by plane for a weekend at the Highland Pines Inn. Station WCPO, powerful Mutual affiliate, is offer ing a honeymoon at Highland Pines, plus air transportation hefre and back, as the prize on a new romantic quiz program, to begin next week. The first couple will arrive by Piedmont Airlines Friday, Febru ary 11, to remain until Monday, St. Valentine’s day, when they will be flown back to their home town. Thereafter, a new pair of lovebirds will fly here each week end as long as the program lasts. The station has enlisted the co operation of the Highland Pines Inn management and the airline in providing this very special, and unusual, prize, and Charles Stit- zer. Highland Pines manager, said he plans to roll out the red car pet and in every way give the young people a memorable time. In this he will have the aid of the Chamber of Commerce, whose directors heard with interest of the program at their Tuesday night meeting, and forthwith del egated their manager, Tom White, to arrange for all possible cooper ation. Director Roy Grinnell said he will give the courtesy of the greens at his Pine Needles golf course to those honeymooners who happen to be golf-minded, and suggestions were made as to various other ways in which members can help. Flowers, sou venirs, a tour of the Sandhills, rid ing, and participation in other lo cal sports were all suggested. Jt was felt that many merchants and others will be glad to have a part in such an excellent oppor tunity to spread the good word about Southern Pines. Besides the publicity on the broadcasts, which will cover the midwest, it is expected that news stories will be carried in the all Cincinnati newspa pers. The program bids fair to be a popular one, with many local tie-ins, and the virtues of this resort as a honeymoon heaven and beauty spot should be well (Continued on Page 8) NOVEL NEWS A novel by Katharine New- lin Burl, to be published by Scribners in March, has been chosen as a selection of the Fiction Book club and will be brought out in a specicil edi tion for their membership later in the spring. The novel, "Strong Citadel," will be the 27th for the Southern Pines author. Choice by the Fiction Book club is a distinction for an author, with its practical as surance of best. seller sales. Nationwide advertising in mass-circulation media is also something not to be low-rat ed. The club's current selec tion, "Bright Feather," by Robert Wilder, with two pop ular historical romances as membership dividends, is currently advertised in Life. Mrs. Burt and her author husband, Slruthers Burl, Sou thern Pines residents for more than 20 years, are at present away on a journey to the Virgin Islands. Neighbor Towns Will Have Speedy New Mail Service Visitors Enjoy Hospitality At Old Shaw House Horse Race Pro;*ram To Be Sponsored By Chamber Next Month STOPLIGHT MAIL CLOSING Nine p. m. is the final clos ing hour for both north and southbound mail at the Southern Pines post ' office, according to Acting Postmas ter A. Garland Pierce. The mail closing schedule has recently undergone some revisions, on account of train schedule changes, and this u the way it stands now: Northbound, 9:30 a. m., 6:15 p. m. and 9 p. m.; south bound, 5:30 p. m. and 9 p. m. Additional mail service be tween Southern Pines, Aberdeen and Pinehurst will be inaugurated Monday, by cooperation of the three post offices and their air mail carrier. First class mail will be carried on special trips twice a day, leav ing Southern Pines at 7:10 a. m and 1:45 p. m. These are the same trips which have been made for some time for the collection of airmail for Resort field. Local closing time for the early trip will be 6:45 a. m., and of course mail posted the night, be fore will also be carried. Delivery will be made at Aberdeen at 7:20 and at Pinehurst at 7:30. Mail will also be picked up at these two places and the return to Southern Pines will be at 8 a. m. In addition, there is the regu lar mail trip to Pinehurst at 9 a. m., with 8:30 as the closing time here. The afternoon round trip, leav ing here at 1:45, stops for business at Resort field first, reaches Pine hurst at 4 p. m. and Aberdeen at 4:15, returning here at 4:30 p. m. Both delivery and collection are to be made at all points, giving the three towns probably as good mutual first class mail service as there is in the country. Through this service it is pos sible for anyone in any of the three towns to send a letter to either of the others in the morn ing, and receive an an^er that same afternoon. Acting Postmaster A. Garland Pierce of the local post office said that mail for these trips posted in the street mailbox will be pick ed up each time, as it is at all mail closing hours, day or night. The Shaw House has been the scene of several charming enter tainments this spring. Even more frequented has it been, however, as a delightful place to drop in for -a quick informal lunch. If you are a big party you gather about the huge round table with its quaint lazy-susan turn-top. The hot dishes and cool, spicy green salad in its wooden bowl will be placed on the center circle, to be whirled ’round as each one takes his choice of the good things. If there are only two or three for lunch, Evelyn sets the square table in the front room. There, with the fire crackling merrily near by, the white native pottery from Coles looks quite at home on the old pine table. Coles is the wizard potter of Star, from whom most of the Shaw. House pottery was bought. W. Cole died a while ago. but the family is carrying on and the pottery is as lovely as ever. In front of the fire stands* a trivet holding the big yellow pot of baked beans. They are cooked according to a recipe given to the Shaw House kitchen by Mrs. Jac- CContinuea on Page 5) "Stop--Turn Right on Red" is the clearly visible legend on all four sides of metal crowns being placed this week on all Southern Pines stoplights. "And we mean it," said Chief C. E. Newton. "This law is going to be enforced." That means no going straight ahead, no turning left when the red light shows -- no go ing at all, in fact, unless you are turning right. And even then, you must stop before proceeding'. Many towns permit no mo tion at all when the light is red. Some motorists have found it confusing that cars here may turn right. Howev er, it is soon found to be a greater convenience, and does not interfere with the smooth flow of traffic. However-watch that light! If it's red. Stop. Other wise you break a town ordi nance and are subject to ar rest and a fine. Commissioners Let Contracts For Courthouse Work New Race Track At Walsh Place Will Be Used Sanford Attorney To Speak Before Local Historians Early Moore County history will be the subject of the next session of the Moore County His torical Association, at the meeting to be held next Friday, Feb. 4th, at 8 p. m. at the Southern Pines Library. The meeting will have, as speaker, Harold W. Gavin of San ford. Mr. Gavin, who is a prac ticing attorney of the Lee Coun ty town, has long been interested in local history and has made some research into the period when Lee County first came into being. This neighboring county was once part of Moore. It was the so-caUed “pocket section,” which stretched almost as far west as the Allston home in the bend of Little River, and took in what is now Lee County. Many of the most interesting tales of early times centered in this section. Later it “seceded” from Moore and it is about these circum stances that Mr. Gavin is expected to tell. Mr. Gavin is weU versed in the history of those times, having spent much time and energy in research and the “poking around” that local historians love, and his thnt Inn! hrntiiri iiih 1iii|i|i, .inil lii_ talk is expected to be a highlight in the Series which started, last month, with the paper on Colonel James Moore by Manly WeUmhn of Pinebluff. Moore county commissioners, who must handle budgets and dole out appropriations for many county needs, were smiling this week over the prospect of getting at last something they themselves have wanted for a very long time - additional office space in the courthouse at Carthage, made pos sible by the complete renovation of the basement floor. Bids were opened and contracts let at a special session Monday for the partitioning of seven down stairs offices, remodeling of the present rest rooms for white and colored men and the installation of new, large rest rooms for court house employees, and for white and colored women. The auditor’s office on the first floor will be made larger by the addition of space now occupied by a women’s rest room. In the basement, all the tempo rary partitions now in use will be torn down, and an all-new, all- modern appearance will be pre sented. The general contract was let to O. W. Godwin of Dunn on a low bid of $8,784. Mr. Godwin was also low bidder on the contract for the Berkeley school at Aberdeen, which he has now under con struction. The plumbing contract went to H. H. Grimm of Carthage, for $2,518.40. The electrical contract, it was found, will need . some changes in specifications and bid- , ding will be reopened for this next Monday. A number of bids on all con tracts were received. “We hope to comply with all the recommendations of all the grand juries for the past 12 years,” said G. M. Cameron, chairman of coun ty commissioners. Grand juries have been unanimous, it seems, in urging the renovation, for more space and convenience, and better sanitation. Conditions have long been crowded. Hazards were also seen in such details as the steep and well-worn concrete steps (Continued on Page 5) The first horse race program for the Sandhills since pre-war days (except for timber races at the hunter trials last spring) will be staged under auspices of the Southern Pines Chamber of Com merce sometime late in February, according to tentative plans pre sented to the directors meeting at the Belvedere hotel Tuesday night. The site will be the new race track, five-eighths of a mile in circumference, now being com pleted by Mickey Walsh at his Stonybrook Stables. With some 20 excellent race horses wintering here, and good prospects of co operation from their owners, the directors said they thought a fine program could be worked out, to draw a large crowd of spectators and provide some unusual thrills. The exact date was to be set at a dinner meeting of the Chamber committee with representative “horse people” of Southern Pines and Pinehurst, to be held this week at the Highland Pines Inn. It was expected that details of the event would be worked out at this meeting. Heading the Chamber planning committee for the races is Herbert N. Cameron, assisted by E. NoUey •Jackson, Lloyd Clark and Hoke Pollock. Both flat and jumping races are planned, with the program tenta tively calling for several running races with thoroughbred horses, some steeplechase events, a relay race, q children’s race and some novelty events such as a mule (Continued on Page 5) Tempers Rise As Long Line Awaits Car Inspectors A lot of angry automobile and truck owners sat in the sun on the Aberdeen road Thursday morn ing, fuming as they waited for hour after hour for the scheduled: car inspection to begin. Due to have started at 8 a.m., the inspection had not begun by close to noon and the word ha& been passed that it would be 1 o’clock or later before the first car could get in the lane. With more than 100 ^ cars lined up by 8, no sign was seen of an inspector until about 10, when two of them drove up, set up part of their equipment, said they would have to go to Carthage for the rest, and drove away. By 11 many of the cars had left, but others came and the average re mained at between 80 and 90. One Southern Pines business man had two vehicles and a trail er, needed in his business, wait ing from 8 o’clock on. A farmer of near Pinehurst said it would be the fourth day he had lost from pressing affairs—two at Carthage, when inspectors could not get to him in a day’s work; a third when he passed the lane and a minor defect was found; and Thursday,- when he had to have a checkup after the repair was made. The waiting owners got togeth er in indignation sessions all dur ing the waiting time, and the consensus was revealed in one truck owner’s statement, “It’s a good law and we’re for it but in practical application it is lousy.” Fowler Sentenced To Die March 11; Two Go To Prison; Full Docket Seen Jack Fowler, alias Jimmy Da vis, alias Happy Jack, alias Laughing Papa, Tuesday after noon became .he first man to be sentenced to the gas chamber by a Moore county superior court. One or two sentences to the electric chair are on the conty’s record, but no' death sentence from Moore has been carried out in more than 20 years. Found guilty of murder in the first degree without recommenda tion of clemency, the dapper sad dle-colored Negro hardly changed expression as Judge W. H. Bob bitt, of Charlotte, sentenced him to die March 11 for the axe mur der of a Negro woman, Mamie J. Wilkerson, at Vass in November, 1947. A packed courtroom heard the choosing of the jurors, 10 white men and two Negroes, Monday afternoon, and the opening phases of the trial. A crowd again ap peared Tuesday to hear the piti ful testimony of several small children of the slain woman, whose mother was instantly killed before their eyes with an axe wielded by her erstwhile lover, as she sat in her rocking chair at hejr home. (Continued on Page 5)
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