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J (& w It's Your Red Cross, Keep It Going! Give Generously! It's Your Red Cross, Keep It Going! Give Generously! a Legislation Will Release Funds for Garbage Disposal Fill Method Expected To Leave Balance For Sewer Improvements A bill introduced by Rep. H. Clifton Blue in the General As sembly last week will authorize the Town of Southern Pines to use money derived from a 1946 bond issue, and held for three years with the purchase of an in cinerator in mind, to be used in stead for another method of gar bage disposal. Bonds were issued in the amount of $30,000, which was not used at that time as incinerator costs were found to be extremely high. It was anticipated they would come down later to a point where one could be afforded for Southern Pines. ■ Newer methods, however, have in the meantime been developed. The sanitary fill-in, or trench, method, is known to have the town board’s approval, and to be now under investigation by its members. Purchases of equipment and all facilities for this disposal sys tem here will cost about half of the money on hand. The legislative act will permit the use of money thus saved from the $30,000 to be used for enlarg ing and equipping the town’s sewer system. The sanitary fill-in-method of garbage disposal is in use in many North Carolina towns and was initiated last week in Win ston-Salem. “Careful, Motorist!” Is This Fellow’s Daily Warning Four Middle Belt Markets Organize New Sandhills Belt Sanford Meeting Climaxes Prolonged Tobacco Battle Two-Day Freeze May Have Injured Peach Crop, BuddinjI Early Bill Provides Additional Terms Albert Adams, Hi-Y member, places the new eye-catching warning sign into position near the elemen tary school. Four have been given the schools by the Elks. Joanne Goodwin, Ann Singer and Allen Top- nine smile in appreciation at their new metal guardian, clad in bright red and yellow- (Photo D. M. Madigan) f Four-County Cage Meet Next Week Moore county may have a chance to catch up on its over flowing civil docket, through a bill introduced in the General As sembly by Rep. H. Clifton Blue last week, by which additional civil terms are provided in March and in November. By the bill, entitled “An Act to Amend GS 7-70 Relating to the Trial of Superior Court in Moore County, in the 13th Judicial Dis trict,’’ the September term of civil court is extended to two weeks. The bill gives Moore altogether six weeks of civil court, and three weeks of criminal court. Civil terms will begin on the third Monday before the first Monday in March; third Monday after the first Monday in March; 12th Monday after the first Mon day in March; second Monday af ter the first Monday in Septem ber, to continue for two weeks; second Monday after the first Monday in November. Criminal terms will begin on the sixth Monday before the first Monday in March; 11th Monday after the first Monday in March; and the third Monday before the first Monday in September. Lenten Observance At St. Anthony's Elks Provide Unique Warning Signs To Lessen Traffic Danger At Schools Ash Wednesday this week Ush ered in the solemn season of Lent at St. Anthony’s Catholic church, with the blessing and dis tribution of ashes at mass, and the Way of the Cross and (distri bution of ashes at 3:30 p. rn. Today, Friday, and on all Fri days ' during Lent, Way jof the Cross will be held at 3:30 m. Champion teams of four coun ties will meet in tournament for a Sandhills basketball champion ship next Friday and Saturday evening in the Vass-Lakeview school auditorium, under spon sorship of the Sandhills Key club. All will be boys’ teams, deter mined by county tournaments now under way. The Moore champions will, of course, be in there continuing their fight for glory, and negotiations are under way with neighbor counties to provide three more battling quin tets for two evenings of enter tainment for SandhillSvfans. Two tournament games will be played each evening, starting at 7 o’clock. In addition, the Aberdeen girls’ team, of extraordinary record, will play an exhibition game Fri day evening with a team to be announced. Sponsors are trying to arrange a game for them with the Benhaven girls’ team of Har nett county, which has rolled up an unprececiented string of victo ries. However, definite word from Benhaven had not been re ceived at presstime. The Aberdeen girls had their first defeat in more than half a hundred games, their second in more than 70, Wednesday night at Star, when they played the strong Trinity sextet for a score of 37-35. The teams had been paired as the opener of a triple team playoff with Benhaven, through arrangements by the Carolina Basketball association, which had rated the three the best in the state. Billy Caddell, of Aberdeen, is president of the Sandhills Key club, high school leadership or ganization sponsored by the Sandhills Kiwanis club. He is be ing assisted in arrangements for the tournament by Hoke Pollock, of Southern Pines, Key Club ' chairman of the Kiwanis club. TARJEIEEL BANQUET The Mon. J. Melvijle Brougkton, North Carolina's junior senator in the 81st Congress, will be the feature speaker at the Thirteenth An nual Congressional banquet of the North Carolina Democrat ic club of Washington. D. C.. it has been announced by John A. L>ang. Jr., of Car thage and Washington, pres ident. ' The banquet will be held at the Mayflower hotel at 7:30 p. m.. Friday, March 18. Repi. H. Clifton Blue, of Ab erdeen, and probably some others of Moore county wiR go to Ihe Capital City for this functien, which promises to be one of the most brilliant of the season for Washington and the Tartieels. Mr. lang, secretary to Rep. C. B. Deane, of the Eighth district, has serit word to his home county that a very spe cial welcsme will be accorded all attending from Moore and her neigh^ counties. ^^ Springdale Races Attract Several Local Entries Safety Prograna Planned For Many Communities County Ba^etball Tournament Southern Pines High j school opened their play in the Moore County tournament Wednesday night by splitting with •;heir op ponents. The boys nosed out a ^ame, but outclassed, Westmoore High en try 53-27. Southern Pii«s took a 6-0 lead in the opening minutes of play and at half timte was out in front 28-10. Substitihting free ly, Coach Weaver usecfl a mixed team of varsity and resjerves, and the last half was playted mostly with reserves. Baker,y with 17, and Avery with 11 ftopped the scoring for Southern IPines, and, for the losers, Moore with 11 and Ritter, 10, wete outstanding. Coach Todd’s girjs were drop ped out as tournament contend ers by the Elise High girls of Robbins 27-21. Milliken and Men- zel, with 5 points each, led in scoring for the Blue and White, with Coker taking top honors for Elise with 11. Lineups: Boys—Southern Pines, Page, Arnette 2, Baker 17, Bowen 7, Stuart 4, Avery 11, Mattocks 2, Kennedy, Culler 5, Horner, Ha mel 2, R. Kaylor 2, M. Kaylor 1, McLeod, and Grinnell. Westmoore, Moore 11, Ritter 10, McNeill 2, Reeder 1, Chriscoe 3, Kennedy, Brewer, Hare, Noah- key, Dunlap, and T. Reeder. Girls—Southern Pines, Milli ken 5, Sitterson 3, Menzel 5, Guin 3, Humphrey 3, Worsham 2, Bai ley, ,B. Stephenson, D. Stephen- (Continued on Page 8) Five Southem Pines horses have been entered in the annual Springdale races jvhich will ush er in the NationalHunt Race sea son at Camden, S C., March 12. These are Flake, lorregidor and Tagnall, of Stone;brook stables, all of which will be ridden by Mickey Walsh, Jr. Pinch Me, owned by Carlyle lameron, and Graham Grant’s Err.;ee. A number of loca people, in cluding the entire Mihael Walsh family, expect to attend the event, which is sponsred by the Carolina Cup committe of Cam den. Information and reervations may be obtained frm Harry Kirkover, chairman of ’he com mittee, well knpwn in questrian circles here. A five-card event, toiped by the two-and-a-quarter-mie King Haigler steeplechase, has ben an nounced for the Springdah meet ing, forerunner of the Crolina Cup races which will be bid at Camden March 26. It is anticipated that Soiihern Pines and Pinehurst will rave excellent representation in the Carolina Cup event, a highlght of the spring season in the Cro- linas. Four new traffic warning signs of unusual and eye-attracting dqsign, have been given to the Southevn Pines schools by the local Elks lodge, and are placed in position daily on streets approaching the schools to warn motorists to slow down. These are the first of many the Elks hope to buy and give away, as they plan to equip with such signs every school in the coun ties Of their jurisdiction which has a traffic problem. The signals have been in use about a week. A member of the Elks lodge, anxious to see if they actually helped, waited in a hid den position for an hour and a half the other day, watching traf fic behavior as it approached the sign. He said practically every car slowed down as soon as it was seen. The signs are red-and-yellow metal “patrolmen” five feet high, which are placed in the center of the street. The eighth grade has the job of putting a “patrolman” out each morning on Massachu setts avenue, near the Country club drive, and Hi-Y boys assist ing the police in the school patrol put out the other three. Two are on Massachusetts avenue, to pro tect the elementary school cross ings, and two on Highway 1, to cover the approaches to the high school. This is the first step in a traf fic safety plan, designed princii- pally for the protection of chil dren, which has been planned by members of the Southern Pines Elks lodge. Warehousemen from four flue- cured tobacco market towns in the Sandhills decided Wednesday to organize a new marketing belt. Representatives from the mar kets et Sanford, Carthage, Aber deen and Fuquay-Varina, which vithdrew from the Mid(ile Belt last year, attended the meeting. Other markets comprising the Middle Belt are Durham, Hender son, Louisburg, Oxford and War- renton. The warehousemen adopted a resolution calling for the organi zation of the Sandhills Warehouse association as a state corporation. The secression developed over the Middle Belt opening date. Sandhills tobaccomen argued that climate and soil conditions in their area brought tobacco to maturity earlier than in the rest of the i'/Tiddle Belt market section. Hence, they said, the four markets ihould cpen sooner than the first [week of September, the time the Middle Belt season usually starts. Last season, the lour markets opened with the Eastern: North Carolina Belt August 19. But gov ernment graders left when buyers from the major tobacco companies failed to appear. The Sandhills warehousemen lost a court suit in which they charged lour major tobacco firms with conspiracy in not assigning buyers to tke four markets. However, the firms did send buyers to the markets when the .regular Middle Belt season opened ^eptember 2. The warehousemen elected A. R. Tally; of Fuquay Springs as president of the new organization; Jce Wilkins of Sanford, vice-pres ident; and Walter Paramore of Fuquay Springs, secretary-treas urer. Paramore, sales supervisor of the Fuquay-Varina tobac(:o market, is the only officer who is not a warehouseman. Named directors were the three officers and W. M. Carter of Car thage, James D. Bailey of Aber deen, and King Roberts of Varina. Others who attended the meet ing were W. F. Wood of Sanford, who introduced the resolution; C. W. Puckette,' also of Sanford; Hugh Smothers of Carthage, and E. V. Maynard of Aberdeen. POSTMASTER Appointment of A- Garland Pierce as postmaster of South ern Pines was made known to him in a wire from Wash ington, D. C., Wednesday. Senator J. M. Broughton telegraphed him the informa tion that the Senate had con firmed on Tuesday afternoon the recommendation made by President Truman February 17th. Mr. Pierce has been acting postmaster since May 1, 1948. In the permanent postmas tership he succeeds Frank P. Buchan, who held the office for many years before his death in April, 1947. Carthage-Cameroh Trucking Line Seeks ICC Permit A trucking line from Carthage to the Seaboard station at Cam eron, giving the county seat equal “if not better,” service than that afforded by the discontinued Moore Central railroad, has been chartered by the Secretary of State and is expected to go into operation before the end of this month. Stockholders in the newly formed corporation met at the Carthage town hall Tuesday night and elected the following: Fred Flinchum, president; T. Roy Phil lips, vice president; Colin G. Spen cer, Jr., secretary-treasurer; W. B. Davis, manager, and Wilbur H. Currie, director. The next step will be the appli cation for an ICC permit, which will probably be granted within two or three weeks, after which the trucking line will start rolling on a one-round-trip-a-day sched ule, to be stepped up as demand requires. This will probably be the first trucking line in this part of the country to be formed and operat ed as a community project. Stock holders of the corporation, who have already subscribed some $5,000 of the $100,000 authorized capital stock, include most of the town’s leading businessmen and (Continued on Page 8) Growers' Hopes Rise Wednesday Along With Temperature Rising temperatures early Thursday may save the Sandhills peach crop from serious damage, after below-freezing weather, which continued without let-up, from Monday until late Wednes day, had nipped the swelling buds. Definite damage to many of the buds was noted. While several leading growers said on Tuesday that they felt Monday night’s freeze had caused no appreciable hurt, by Wednesday it was a dif ferent story as the thermometer clung to the middle 20’s. Howard R. Harrison, on whose Eagle Springs farm is located a State Experiment station, said that many buds had reached the pink-tipped stage just prior to blooming, and that these showed definite signs of damage. How ever, he said it was entirely pos sible there would be no loss of any consequence, if the cold wea ther should soon relax its grip. It will be some weeks yet before the extent of damage can be de termined. The freeze, reaching a low of 22 by his recording thermometer Monday night, and about 25 on Tuesday, never descended to the “killing” stage, but the continued cold could cause internal injury to the tender buds, he said. Scattered blooms which popped out last week in the unseasonably warm weather were all killeei. There were not enough of these, however, for them to be called a real loss, the growers said. Queried Tuesday evening, T. C. Auman, West End orchardist, was far from pessimistic. “If we had to have a freeze, this is the best stage for it,” he said. “It is sur prising what a bud can stand, and still survive. Blossoms are a different matter. We hardly ever have a real loss in March. April is the month to be afraid of.” J. Hawley Poole and Bob Don aldson, also owners of extensive peach orchards in the West End section, also said they felt little apprehension at this stage con cerning the crop as a whole. Small tobacco plants may , also have been hurt, but not to any great extent, if at all, it was re ported. Beavers Won’t Cooperate In Aberdeen Dam Project SPARED The hard-hunted fox, prac tically within grasp, was spared by members of the Moore County Hounds on their regular hunt last Thurs day morning. The fleeing animaL plainly visible, with the hounds snap ping at his heels, led the field at a hot pace through Knoll- wood, then plunged into the Mid Pines lake. It was a long swim, and he was winded. Watching from ihe shore, his pursuers saw him go down several times and struggle to the top. His struggles grew weaker but he swam on game ly, though it looked for a 'time as though he would not make it. He crawled out on the far shore and lay, limp and gasp ing for breath. "We could have picked him up in our hands," said Ozelle Moss, MFH, later. "We didn't, though. We called off the hounds and went on back home." THE PRESS CALLS ON THE BEAVPR'^' t)Ut finds them not visible, as these shy denizens of woods and water don’t do their work for photographers. , , , Tom Wicker, o fthe Sandhill Citizen, and Valerie Nicholson of The Pilot, take a good look, however, at the 18-foot dam the eager beavers built at the he ;dwaters of Aberdeen lake. Carefully engineered at a turn of the stream,, it has diverted the waters over many aer.3s of woods to the left, and sent it pour ing in a dcizen waterfalls over the left hand bank. Upstream for a quarter mile on the right, small stumps show the smooth sawing of their sharp teeth, and many paths made by the hauling of logs and sticks run through the grass right into the water. _ ^ The dam looks like a heap of sticki and branches in a haphazard pile. Close inspection, however, shows it is a tough, firm structure, closely woven. This is the only beaver dam old timers remember in this section. The sad part is, built a mile farther downstream, it would solve the problem of Aberdeen lake, now em.pty of water since the man-made dam broke last September. (Photo by Preston Matthews)
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