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VOL. 30—NO. 16
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines, N. C.
Friday. March 11. 1949.
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Forestry Service
Expansion Plans
Revealed to Board
Disposal Area Won't
Harm Tower Site,
Says Mayor Page
Plans for greatly increasing the
usefulness and beauty of the
Southern Pines fire tower sit'e
were revealed to the town board
in regular session Wednesday
night by J. A. Pippin, of Rock
ingham, district forester with the
N. C. Forest Service, as he asked
the board to consider carefully
its reported decision to use adja
cent city-owned property as a
garbage dk*''a^al site.
Mr. Pippin and County Fire
Wsirden E. W. Davis, who accom
panied him. received the assur
ance of Mayor C. N. Page and
the commissioners that, if the
sanitary fill-in method they are
considering should prove obnox
ious to its neighbors, the site
can easily be changed.
However, said Mayor Page, cne
big reason for adoption of the
method is its elimination of odors,
pests and other nuisance general
ly associated with the old-style
“dump.”
“We will certainly not do any
thing to hurt you, and I believe
you will find the board which
succeeds us will feel the same
way,” the mayor said. “We are
too appreciative of what the fire
tContmued on Page 6)
BOND VOTE SET
Champs Will Meet
In Key Club
Tourney Tonight
The championship basketb2ill
tournament sponsored by the
Sandhills Key club will be held
at the Vass-Lakeview gym to
night (Friday) and Saturday
nights, instead of Thursday and
Friday of this week as previously
announced.
Teams to be presented Friday
night to battle for a mythical
“championship of champions”
will be the boys’ teams of Elise
High school at Robbins, winners of
the Moore County tournament, vs.
Deep River, Lee County cham
pions; and Lumberton, Robeson
County champions, vs. Aberdeen,
the Moore County runner-up
team. .
Saturday evening games will be
between the two winners, also be
tween the champion girls’ teams
of Aberdeen and Burnsville (An
son county.)
The Aberdeen girls, of out-
st2mding record in the state, will
meet the Burnsville team, a sex
tet which has scored more than
2,000 points this season.
Play will begin each night at
7 o’clock. Referee will be H. H.
Howard, Greenwood High School
coach, and either A. C. Dawson,
Jr., or P. J. Weaver of th e South
ern Pines High school.
Members of the Key club, a
countywide high school leader
ship organization, have been as
sisted in arrangements for the
tournament by a committee from
The special election in the
Southern Pines school district
for a $90,000 school bond issue
will be held Tuesday. April
26, by approval of the county
commissioners this week.
This will call for a new reg
istration of all voters of the
district.
Registration days will be
four successive Saturdays be
ginning March 26. Saturday,
April 23, immediately preced
ing the election, will be Chal
lenge day.
The $90,000 represents the
maximum needs for comple
tion of contracts, and equip
ping of a gymnasium and au
ditorium-cafeteria for the
Southern Pines elementary
and high school. Funds avail
able, amounting to $195,000,
were found to be far from suf-
ficent. Bonds in the full
amount of $90,000 may not be
needed and in this event they
will not bg issued, said Supt.
P. J. Weaver. However, it
was deemed best to set the
amount high enough to lake
care of all contingencies, and
to assure the construction of
the two buildings as planned,
and their adequate and mod
ern equipment.
Educational Forces
At Capital Include
Many from Moore
MARCH AND APRIL IN THE SANDHILLS
Dawson Is Leader;
Mrs. McCain Speaks Out
Southern Pines had a deep in
terest, along with the rest of the
state, in the great mass meeting,
attended by some 5,000 people
held at Raleigh last Thursday in
the interest of betterment of the
public schools.
Groups from all parts of Moore
county, including mostly those
connected with the schools, were
among those from- all North Caro
lina counties gathering at the Me
morial auditorium for the event,
a public hearing for proponents of
increased state aid for schools held
by the joint appropriations and
education committee.
A. C. Dawson ,Jr., of Southern
Pines, president of the state
NCEA, was a leading figure at the
meeting, calling on many promi
nent speakers, from Dr. J. Y. Joy
ner, superintendent of schools un
der the late Governor Aycock, to
Southern Pines’ own Mrs. Paul P.
McCain.
Cheers for Mrs. McCain
Speeches were varied and effec
tive, and the crowd showed its
enthusiasm frequently by cheers.
Some of the best and biggest
cheers were for Mrs. McCain, one
of the state’s best known leaders
in many fields, who is now an ele
mentary teacher at the Vass-Lake
view school.
Some parts of her speech, it is
understood, drew down contumely
upon her from certain ones in the
county. It’s not hard to see why.
Mrs. McCain explaified the
school budget generally is inade
quate. There should be more
money she said, for improving
sanitation and maintenance.
“I feel,” she said, “that the
Sunday, March 13—Pinehurst Junior Horse show; Springdale
races, Camden.
Monday, March 14—"It's a Great Life," Southern Pines High
School play. 8:15 p. m., Pinehurst School auditorium: Pine-
hurst Horse Show ball, Carolina hotel.
Tuesday, March 15—Tea at Shaw House for Historical Associa
tion members, 4-6 p.m.
Wednesday, March 16—Hunter Trials on Swamp Fox course. 2:30
p.m.; Gala Hunt Ball, Highland Pines Inn, 9:30-12:30 p.m.
Thursday, Friday, March 17-18—Scenes from Southern Pines
history, portrayed in costume by eighth graders at Shaw
House; special guests Thursday 7-9 p.m.. public Showings
Friday 3-5, 7-9 p.m.
Friday, March 18—BPO Does, Southern Pines Country club.
Saturday through Tuesday, March 19-22 — Tin Whistles Golf
championship, Pinehurst Country club.
Wednesday, March 23—Sandhills League series opens. Pine
Needles club.
Monday, March 28—Dinner at the Dunes club, benefit Guild of
St. Joseph of the Pines.
Tuesday March 29—Guild "open house" at St. Joseph of the
Pines, 3-5 p.m.
Wednesday, M^rcb 30—Wake Forest-Comell baseball game. High
School Memorial field; Sandhills League, Pine Needles.
Thursday, March 31—Pinehurst Forum.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, April 1-3—Sandhills Horse show.
Swamp Fox course.
Wednesday, April 6—Sandhills League, Pine Needles.
Monday, April 11—Fashion Promenade, presented by F,. R. Ra-
zook, Carolina hotel, Pinehuri^t. ^
Tuesday .Wednesday. April 12-13—Southern Pines homes and
gardens opened to State Garden tour.
Wednesday, April 13—Benefit Harness Horse Race matinee,
Pinehurst: Sandhills League, Pine Needles.
Thursday. April 14—Pinehurst Forum.
Sunday, April 17—^Easter.
Week of Monday, April 18—Annual North and South Amateur
Golf championship, Pinehurst.
Week of Monday, April 25—^Annual North and South Womon's
Golf championship, Pinehurrt.
Saturday. Sunday, April 30-May 1—Sandhills Skeet champion
ships, Pinehurst Gun club.
Moore Hounds’ Hunter Trials On
Swamp Fox Course Next Wednesday
Sandhills Horse Show Is Coming Event
Grade Will Present
Miniature Pageant
At Shaw House
the parents Kiwanis club—Hoke
Pollock, chairman, the Rev. Zeb
A. Caudle, W. T. Shaffin, M. C. country children deserve the best.
McDonald and R. G. Wallace. (Continued on Page 5)
State Garden Tour Will Follow April’s
Blossoming Train From Coast To Hills
Southern Pines will be one of
17 North Carolina towns which
will throw open their gardens,
beautiufl homes and historic land
marks in successive events cover
ing the entire month of April, for
the 1949 Garden tour.
Mrs. Wesley Taylor, of Justa-
mere farm, Greensboro, chairman
of the statewide event, recently
announced plans for the parade of
beauty visiters will follow from
the coast to the mountains.
In the Sandhills where early
blooming will match brilliant dog
wood with pastel peach blossoms
against longleaf pine at the peak
of the spring season. Southern
Pines is going all out with two
days, April 12 and 13, of flowers,
gardens and horse-golf events.
Though the Sandhills resorts have
regularly, for many years, been
invited to join in the famed State
Garden tour, this is the first time
the invitation has been accepted
as it is the first year there has
been an organization to sponsor
the participation in a garden-
wise way.
Garden Club Is Sponsor
As one of the first projects to
be undertaken by the recently or
ganized Southern Pines Garden
club, of which Mrs. P. P. McCain
is president, the local participation
promises to be one of the “highest
highlights” of the tour. Many
beauty lovers of this and other
states will be brought here to en
joy two full days of the glamor
ous Sandhills springtime.
A 28-page booklet, available
from local garden clubs and the
State News Bureau, Raleigh, high
lights opening events at Goldsbo
ro and Wilmington. On April
Fool’s day, Goldsboro’s score of
private gardens will be shown on
guided tours climaxed by visits to
Cliffs of the Neuse State Park.
From April 1 through 3, Wilming
ton’s annual Azalea Festival has
a flower show, a Ted Malone
broadcast, and a song festival
(Continued on Page 5)
A miniature pageant portraying
life in a Moore County family 100
years ago will be presented by the
eighth grade of the Southern
Pines school at the Shaw House,
authentic century-old home, next
Thursday and Friday.
The presentation will be given
from 7 to 9 o’clock Thursday for
directors of the Historical associ
ation, parents of the dighth grad
ers and several other special
guests.
Friday, it will be presented for
the public from 3 to 5 and from
7 to 9 p.m. The performance will
be continuous between the allot
ted hours,,according to Miss Mar
tha Langston eighth grade teach
er.
Groups of about 10 visitors at a
time will be taken through the
house by guides to see in one room
the family at work (carding, spin
ning, weaving); ih another, the
family and their friends at play
(a squate dance, with real old-
time fiddlers); and in a third, a
fireside scene in the evening.
The family portrayed by the
young people wiU be that of
“Squire” C. C. Shaw, who built
the house and raised his family
there. It remained in the hands
of the Shaw family until modern
times ,when it was purchased by
the Historical association, and re
stored as a “living museum” of
olden days.
Several adults will be seen in
the pageant ,taking the part of
older people. Fiddling for the
square dance will be in charge of
Arch Yarbrough. Members of the
Historical associatiqn and others
are serving as consultants. These
include Mrs. L. T. Avery, Mrs.
Jacques Busbee, Mrs. Ernest Ives,
Manly Wellman, Mrs. C. E. New
ton, D. R. McNeill, Mrs. John
Cline, Mrs. Kate Shaw Newton
(who was born and raised in the
Shaw House) and Miss Hope Bail
ey, of the school music depart
ment.
Costumes, furnishings, work ar
ticles used by the family, square
dances and music will be authen
tic of the period portrayed.
Carbee Roche and David Bailey
will serve as narrators, guiding
the visitors through the rooms
where the scenes are shown
explaining particulars of each
scene.
Morning performances both
Thursday and Friday will be held
for children of the other Southern
Pines grades and for eighth grad
ers of other Moore County schools,
who will receive special invita
tions to attend. There will be no
admission charge.
L. V. O’Callaghan
Showroom Opened
On East Broad
The next, and third, major horse
event for the Sandhills following
the hunter trials Wednesday will
be the Third Annual Sandhills
Horse show, for which tentative
plans were announced this week
by Dwight W. Winkelman, general
chairman.
The show will be held on the
Swamp Fox course Friay, Satur-
ay and Sunday, April 1, 2 and 3.
Classes will be held Friday
night, Saturday afternoon and
night and Sunday afternoon. Plans
call for some 36 classes, with
$4,500 in prize money attracting
of prizes, assisted by Vernon G.
Cardy, Ralph K. Trix, James W.
Tufts, C. N. Page and Howard F.
Burns. Louis Scheipers is chair
man of the ticket committee, with
David Sutherland and Ralph Trix
in charge of boxes. Mrs. Fred
McBride and Mrs. David Suther
land are trophy chairmen; W. O.
Moss, entertainment; Morris John
son, H. G. Norton, ground's; South
ern Pines Chamber of Commerce,
parking.
Dennis Crotty will be jumpmas
ler and announcer. John Young
blood ringmaster, 'J.' T. Overton
assistant ringmaster, and Martha
Quattlebaum secretary. Conces-
some of the best horses and riders ^ sions will be handled by the aux
in the country. ' iliaries of the Moore, County hos
William Brewster is chairman pital and St. Joseph of the Pines.
War Games on Vast Scale Planned
For April and May at Bragg, Maekall
A smart array of moliern elec
tric appliances, frorri kitchen
clocks on up to the latest in
stoves and refrigerators, was re
vealed to the public last Satur
day with the official opening of
the new L. V. O’Callaghan show
room and sales department, on
East Broad street next to WSTS.
■ Frank Neely has been placed
in charge of the showroom, which
will be operated independently of
the L. V. O’Callaghan plumbing
and heating business on East
Connecticut avenue. The move
gives the department Broad
Street window frontage as well as
much more space,, so that a con
siderably larger stock can be car
ried.
Stock now being shown in
cludes a full line of eGneral Elec
tric appliances, also. Admiral
ranges, and Youngstown sink
and cabinet units for the modern
“electrical kitchen.” Many im
provements over old models are
shown in the new, representing
fulfilment of the most visionary
dreams of those who went
through war and postwar appli
ance shortages.
The building is that formerly
occupied by the Style-Mart store,
which has moved across the street
to the corner of Pennsylvania
and Broad, its new location mark
ed by a large neon sign.
For the history-repeats - itself
departnlent comes news this
week that the largest field train
ing exercises that the Army has
held since war days will take
place during April and May, at
Fort Bragg and on the Camp
Maekall reservation.
“Exercise Tarheel” wiU be gi
gantic war games involving an
attack by Task Force “Victor” on
a mythical “Aggressor” Force.
According to Gen. Jacob L. Dev-
ers. Field Forces commander at
Fort Bragg, the exercise will be
“designed to train army units in
troop movement and field opera
tions under simulated combat
conditions, and to provide opera
tional training for Fifth Corps
Headquarters.” Some 16,000
troops will be involved.
Task Force Victor,incl'uding Fifth
Corps Headquarters, the entire
82nd Airborne diwsion, tank, ar
tillery and service Units of the
First, Second, Third, Fourth and
Fifth armies and tactical units of
the Air Force’s Continental com
mand, will assemble during the
period April 10-20, getting set
for the start of the war games
April 21.
According to word from Fort
Bragg, the National Guard and
the Organized Officers Reserve
will be used to the fullest
extent possible, with the regular
troops.
Units of the “enemy” troops,
built around the specially, train
ed “Aggressor Force” from the
Ground General school at Fort
Riley, Kansas, will gather at Fort
Bragg starting, April 1.
Lieut. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem,
Third Army commander at Fort
McPherson, Ga., wiU command
“Exercise ’Tarheel,” represented
in the field by Lieut. Gen.,^ John
R. Hodge.
Major units participating, be
sides the 82nd Airborne, -will be
the 44th and 758th Heavy Tank
battalions and 98th Field Artil
lery battalion, of Fort Bragg; 73rd
Heavy Tank battalion, from Fort
Benning, Ga., and the Third Arm
ored Cavalry regiment, from Fort
Meade, Md.
C. S. PATCH
Patch Resigns
From Town Board
The resignation of Charles S.
Patch as a town commissioner was
announced this week by Mayor C.
N. Page ,who said.it had been ac
cepted with deep regret by the
board.
“We will miss Mr. Patch’s help
on town problems,” said Mr. Page.
•■‘He has a long and outstanding
record of service to the town, and
has been one of our most valuable,
and valued members.”
However, he said, the board
was forced to respect Mr. Patch’s
reasons for resigning, which he
gave as follows in a letter to the
mayor:
“For some months I have real
ized that I was not able to give as
much time as I should to town af
fairs, and have at the same time
been depriving someone else from
getting acqua’inted with the mat
ters of town government. I feel
that it is time for me to get out
and let some younger man take
(Continued on Page 5)
LIFE PARTY
"LIFE Goes to a Party"—or
will be going to one May 14-18
when a group of some 100
staffers of the weekly picture
magazine comes to the bfid
Pines for golf .fun and busi
ness.
The party will be headed by
Henry Luce, president of Luce
Publications which publishes
Life, Time, Fortune and Ar
chitectural Forum. They will
arrive by special train, to
have the Time of their Life in
the Sandhills.
On Its Way With a Merry “Put-Put”—The Moore Safety Motor Cluh
and
:
Sandhills motorcyclists came put-putting from, all directions Sunday afternoon to meet on the shore of Crystal Lake, Lakeview, and
form their own club—the Moore Safety Motor club.
Lined up with their vehicles, above, are seen, from left—Mrs. Ramona Clinton and husband, Sgt. Dick Clinton, and Bill Hall, Southern
Pines; Bill Threatt, Fayetteville; Pete Kaylor, Southern Pines; Thornton Little, Pinebluff; Sam. Greenway, Fayetteville, district organizer
for the American Motorcycle association; Dick Patch, Ben Lucas, Southern Pines; Howard Gschwind, Vass; "Pommy Dunn, Pinehurst; Mrs.
Hugh West, Hugh West, Lakeview; Peggy Griffin, Hamlet; Jack Stahcil, Southern Pines; Ronald Littleton, Aberdeen; Herbert L. Price,
Robbins; Mrs. Tommy Dunn, Pinehurst; J. A. Springer, Southern Pines.
Timber Races, Hunt
Parade Programmed;
Ball ai Highland Pines
The 12th Annual Hunter Trials
of the Moore County Hounds will
be held at the Swamp Fox course
on the Old Pinehurst road Wed
nesday, begnning at 2:30 p. m.,
with timber races featured along
with several hunter classes.
It will be followed at 9:30 p.m.
by a gala hunt ball at the High
land Pines Inn.
Mrs. W. O. Moss is chairman for
the trials, which will open the
horse show circuit for the Caro-
linas, with representative entries
from,< New -York, Canada, New
Jersey, Virginia, Maryland and
North and South Carolina. Most
of the horses are already here in
winter training.
The program will open with the
colorful Parade of the Moore
County Hounds, in the form of a
miniature drag hunt run over the
outside course. The famous Moore
County pack will be seen in full
action, followed by the liveried
field consisting of the officers of
the hunt.
In the ensuing program, a gen
tlemen’s and also a ladies’ race
will be run over the stiff timber
course, visible from the grand
stand for its entire length of one
and a half miles.
Lightweight, middleweight and
heavyweight hunter classes will
be held, also a class of hunt teams
of three horses each.
A crew of workmen has been
busy during the past week erect
ing panel fences and getting the
course in top form for the trials,
an outstanding event of the spring
season in the Sandhills, and sec
ond of a series of major horse
events to be held in Southern
Pines this year.
Mickey Walsh is chairman o-f
the race committee, assisted by
David A. Sutherland, Vernon G.
Cardy, Jack Goodwin and Ed
Daniels. Fred McBride will be in
charge of parking and Mayor C.
N. Page in charge of policing.
Plans were completed at a meet
ing of the show committee held
Monday evening a’t the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Winkel
man.
The hunter trials are held an
nually to qualify hunters of all
grades, and have been made a
public event as a benefit for the
Moore County hunt, with upkeep
of the, hounds as a major item.
This is the only event for their
benefit during the entire year.