It's Your Red Cross, Keep It Going! Give Generously! It's Your Red Cross, Keep It Going! Give Generously! VOL. 3t>—NO. 14 16 PAGES THIS WEEK Southern Pines. N. C. Friday. February 25. 1949 16 PAGES THIS WEEK TEN CENTS 29 Freight Cars Sprawl On Twisted Tracks At Vass Moore Red Cross Peacetime Quota Set At $17,420 Fund Raising Drive Planned For March In All Communities Gen. Marshall Presents Race Trophy l* > An intensive drive for funds for the American Red Cross gets under way next week in Moore county as campaign workers seek to raise a total county goal of $17,420. A. B. Patters'cn of South ern Pines, is county cairman. The goal this year is less by far than in previous years. During the war years, approximately $39,000 was asked and last year a total of $19,867 was sought from Moore County citizens. i Mrs. Audrey Kennedy, execu tive secretary of the Moore County chapter of the American Red Cross, pointed out this week that, although the goal is less, the need for meeting it has not dim- 1 inished. | The Red Cross no longer has many of its heavy wartime du ties, but its peacetime services are still badly heeded. | Of the 1949 goal. Southern Pines, under the leadership of Mrs. George Moore, residential division, R. L. Sugg and John Storey, business division, and Mr. and Mrs. William Stratton, advance gifts division, will be asked to contribute $5,500. Carthage, under the leadership of R. G. Frye, will be asked to give $1,350. Robert Page, 3rd, is i director of the Aberdeen cam-1 paign, where $1,500 is requested. Pinehurst will be asked to give $5,500. W. J. Bryan is director of the Pinehurst campaign. Other goals and campaign lead ers are: Addor, $45, Mrs. Henry Addor; Cameron, $300, Mrs. Orene McPherson; Eagle Springs, $375, the Rev. H. A.. McBath and Miss Ellen Maurice.; ETurelja, $100, Preston Blue; Glendon, $25, Mrs. W. Hewitt; Hallison, Put nam, $50, Mr. Parks; High Falls, $175, Miss Ijllian Davis; Jackson Springs, $150; Mrs. Herbert Carter; Knollwood, $800, Dominic DiFat- ti; Pinebluff, $400, W. D. Shan non; Robbins, $1,400, Stacy Brew er Jr.; Vass, $600, Monroe Chap pell, and West End, $400, I. F. Horton. As Gen. George C. Marshall, of Pinehurst, presented the third race trophy he expressed appreciation for the honor. .“Thank you. Gen eral, and I appreciate the honor of having served under you in the war,” was te answer given by Carter Brown, of Tryon, shown on Moonshee above,, The general then clasped Brown’s hand and gave him a warm smile. (Photo by Humphrey) Successful Race Event Is Held Local Track You can count only 26 or 27, but some freight ca s ate hidden under others in the piled-up debris of the worst train wreck the Seaboard Air Line has had in many years. A young veteran, surveying the scene Sunday mo.ning, said, “It looks like the things we saw in Eu rope in the war. Just as if a bomb had hit.” Orangas and cabbages, though, were the only casualties. This splendid picture was made by Emerson Humphrey, of Southern Pines, from a plane piloted by Hairold Bachman, about three hours after the wreck. Wreckers were on the way but nothing had been moved. Tuesday Hunt Honors Founder Boyd; Sunday Wreck Hounds Have Good Sport, So Does Fox Attracts Huge Crowds To Vass It was a day with a rare beni- son upon it. No finer day for hunting has been seen this sea son, said MFH Ozell Moss, than was Tuesday, when the Moore County Hounds gathered for the George Washington’s Birthday hunt, traditionally held- in mem ory of their founder and joint master. “Hounds meet today in honor of Mr. Jim Boyd,” Master Moss, his voice touched with deep emo tion, told the field of half a hun dred, gathered early on Boyd ground. “Just as there are in this entry many of the sons and daughters of his earlier packs, so are there many of his old friends who, here in the Sandhills, cher ish his spirit. May hounds show good sport on this day of mem ory, and wherever he is, may he hear their music.” And it was good music that day, to bring joy to a listening, unseen lover of the hunt. Through the misty morning, without wind, the hounds led in-* to Azalea swamp, where they picked up an illusory trail which was soon lost. Despairing o:^ jumping fox in that deer hunting country, and getting too close to the reservation, they picked up the hounds and moved over to fox land. Behind the McBride stable the puppies got excited ajt a scent they found, but the old sters refused to pay any mind and the fox seemed farther away than ever. Drawing over to Sawdust Head, all at once the whole pack show ed unmistakable signs and it was known Reynard was in the vicin ity. Ah, but he was a smart one! They ran him fgr an hour, on to Skyline airport, crossing High way 1, their cries ringing out, through the brightening morn ing. Another half hour found the hounds halfway to Lakeview and close to the fox, when all at once they lost him. Racing through a swamp and onto several hundred acres of burned ground, he ef fectively cut off his pursuers and vanished into thin