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VOL. 30—NO. 18
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines, N. C. Friday. Marcji 25, 1949.
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
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Town Vote Nears;
Carthage Orders
New Registration
Elections May 3;
Aberdeen Caucus
Set For Monday
■ I
With one town caucus already
set, and commissioners of other
towns cocking an eye on the cal
endar, imminence of the munici
pal elections of May 3 is beginning
to be felt.
The Aberdeen caucus will be
held Monday evening, five weeks
in advance of the election date.
Mayor Forrest Lockey, who has
held office for a number of terms
and was reelected in 1947 by ac
clamation, has indicated that he
will not be a candidate this year.
In Carthage, the town board has
ordered a complete new registra
tion, which has not been held
there for many years. The books
are said to be in poor shape, filled
with the inaccuracies wrought by
the pasage of time. Miss Jessie
Wallace, town clerk, will keep the
books at the town hall every day
from Saturday, April 2, through
April 23, and Mayor W. D. Sabis-
ton this week reminded Carthage
citizens that, if they mean to vote,
they must register.
In Southern Pines, no step has
been taken as yet other than con
firmation of Tuesday, May 3, as
Erection day. The town caucus is,
by custom, held on the Friday eve
ning preceding. However, said
Town Clerk Howard F. Burns this
week, since the town no longer
has a school auditorium in which
to hold a meeting there may be
difficulty in finding a place to ac
commodate a crowd the size a
caucus is generally expected to
bring out (but seldom does). No
plans for the caucus have been
made as yet.
John Beasley Is
Congressional P age
J^outhern Pines and Moore
coimty have a new representative
in Congress in the person of John
Beasley, Jr., who left Sunday
night for Washington, D. C., to
become a congressional page. He
is there on request of Congress
man C. B. Deane, of Hockingham,
Eighth District representative.
John plans to stay a month or
longer, depending on how it fits
in with his school work, as he
says he does not wish to miss
graduation with his class here.
However, school is held for tha
pages, and he is not apt to miss
out in that way, besides getting
some extra education in govern
ment and politics.
John is a junior at the South
ern Pines High school, where he
is a member of the Beta club, the
Hi-Y and also of the Sandhills
Key club, countywide high school
leadership organization. He serv
ed during the current school year
as manager of the football and
also the basketball team. He is
also vice president of the Teen
Age club.
He is 15 years old, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Beasley of East
Indiana avenue. His father is the
publisher of the Moore County
News at Carthage.
HARRY L. BROWN
Rotarians Elect
Harry L. Brown
To Presidency
Many Visitors
At Friday Luncheon
Members of the Southern Pines
Rotary club, holding elections at
their luncheon meeting Friday,
elevated Harry L. Brown, their
secretary for the past three and a
half years, to the presidency for
1949-50.
Don Jensen, outgoing president,
by Rotary custom will become
vice president. Russell Lorenson
was elected secretary, and di
rectors in addition to the officers
will be' Lloyd T. Clark, Ray Mc
Donald and Harry Fullenwider.
Installation of officers will be
held in July.
The portion of the business ses
sion not occupied by the election
was devoted to discussion of ar
rangements for the Rotary ban
quet for the high school basket
ball squads, set for Wednesday
night at the Hotel Lakeview
under the general chairmanship
of A. Gartand Pierce.
With the coming of the spring
season, the ranks of Rotary guests
and out-of-town members has
shown an appreciable increase,
and at last week’s meeting, held
at Dante’s restaurant, 16 out-of-
town Rotarians and 'two ,visitors
were present.
Rotarians from other places
keeping up their attendance-rec
ords with the local group were,
on Friday, Ed Ferney, Yonkers,
N. Y.; George W. Wheelfight, Leo
minster, Mass.; C. O. Butler, Lau-
rinburg; E. J. Lienert, Buffalo, N.
Y.; Frank A. Van Duzer, Albany,
N. Y.; the Rev. Mack Summey,
Valdese; Fred B. Howland, Titus
ville, Pd.; William B. Smith, Wor
cester, Mass.; Hal Jones, Natick,
Mass.; A. T. J. Contie, Harrisburg,
Pa.; John , Appleby, Highland
Pines Inn; Gil Herbert, Torring-
ton. Conn.; A. T. Thom, Kitchen
er, Canada; Raymond F. Kroll,
Philadelphia, Pa.; Bayard Coop
er, Salisbury, Md.; George H.
Gersen, Bronx, N. Y.
Guests of Rotarians were the
Rev. Ottis J. Hagler, of Carthage,
and Archie Gushurst, Forest Hills,
N. Y.
Harry M. Vale Jr., Buys Beautiful
Foxhollow Farm From Hugh G. Sicard
The sale of Foxhollow Farm^ on
Youngs road, by Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh G. Sicard to Mr. .and Mrs.
Bkuxy M. Vale, Jr., was comple
ted last week. The new owners
are now in residence, while Mr.
and Mrs. Sicard have returned to
their home in the north.
The sale included the wooded
estate of 114 acres, also many of
the furnishings of the house,
which, directly overlooking a
large lake with gardened banks, is
considered one of the most beau
tiful and unusual of the Sandhills
section.
It was built in 1938 by Mr. Sic
ard, then a bachelor, of New York
City. He designed it himself, as
a two story lodge built entirely
of cypress logs. The lake was de-
vdoped from a small mill lake,
on whose banks a grist mill stood
in long-a^ days.
Wings were added to the lodge
from time to time, and it was
furnished with carefully selected
Americana and collectors’ items
from all over the world. Miss
Catherine Pearson, Southern
Pines interior decorator, assisted
Mr. Sicard in the distinctive dec
oration. Peter Dowd assisted in
the landscape architecture, with
natural evergreens,. thousands of
gardenias and azaleas and other
flowering plants creating a rustic
haven of almost unbeheveabld
beauty.
Before leaving last week, Mr.
Sicard brought to the Southern
Pines library a number of books
which Mrs. Dorothy Avery, coun
ty librarian, says may be rated
among the finest gifts the library
has ever received.’
Many are bound in leather, gold
tooled, with fine engravings, and
are examples of the typographer’s
art at its best.
Among them are such works
as the writings of Lincoln and
Jefferson; Hume’s History of Eng
land, Bancroft’s History of the
United States, Smollet and Adol
phus, Field Book of the Revolu
tion, a beautiful edition of Robert
Louis Stevenson, and many
others.
Library Wing Will
Be Opened With
Ceremony April 2.
Dr. Julian Boyd.
Paul Green Will
Be Among Guests
Saturday, April 2, thas been
chosen as the date for the open
ing of the new wing of the South
ern Pines Library. The time will
be 5:15 p. m., with 5:30 set as the
time for the opening ceremony.
The people of Southern Pines,
it is announced, are to be the
guests of the Library association
on this occasion, when this addi
tion to their library will be for
mally presented to the town.
However, while the meeting is a
public affair, with everyone in
vited to come, special invitations
Chapel Hill who will, with Major
the commissioners, and a few
guests from far away. Among
these are Dr. Julian Boyd of
Princeton and Paul Green of
Chapel Hill whp will, with Mapor
Page, take part in the program.
The two principal speakers,
both close friends of the late
James Boyd, are distinguished in
their fields. Dr. Boyd, besides be
ing librarian of Princeton univer
sity, is a historian of note and is
now engaged in editing the let
ters of Thomsa Jefferson; Mr.
Green, who wrote the introduc
tion to James Boyd’s “Eighteen
Poems,’’ is a playwright, novelist
and poet, and creator of those
great pageants and works of art,
“The Lost Colony” and “Our
Common Glory.”
The wing comprises, besides
the Fine Arts Room, the James
Boyd Room, with its entrance hall
in which are hung a collection of
historical autographs. In the room
itself are the source books of
American history, from which
Boyd drew the authentic detail
for his novels. Here, also, is the
model of the famous ship, “Bon-
homme Richard,” in which John
Paul Jones won his victory over
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Elks Will Receive
Service Award At
VFW Dedication
A certificate of community ser
vice, with emphasis on service to
veterans, will be presented to the
Southern Pines Elks lodge by the
John Boyd post, VFW, on the oc
casion of its Golden Anniversary
celebration and dedication of its
new home here Saturday ,April 9.
Award of the certificate has
been confirmed by the North Car
olina department on recommenda
tion of the local post, according to
C. S. Patch, Jr., post commander.
The citation is'being given for a
num,ber of Elks activities, among
them their continuing program of
veterans’ welfare and relief, and
single events such as the show and
party given for veterans of the
Fayetteville hospital last fall.
.A number of acceptances have
come in for the banquet to be held
in connection with the dedication
ceremony. Commander Patch said,
among them that of Rep. Harry
Van Der Linden of Hickory, Ca
tawba County representative in
the General Assembly and North
Carolina VFW department com
mander.
A special guest at the banquet
will be Gen. George C. Marshall,
a member-at-large of Post 1 (na
tional) of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. Other distinguished guests
have been invited; A state wide
broadcast, originating at WEEB
here, will be held at 3:30 p. -m.,
nreceding the banquet, at which
time other posts of the state will
hold special meetings to listen and
participate ip th^ Southern Pines
Golden Anniversary celebration.
Both outgoing and incoming of
ficers will be recognized in the
course of the celebration, which
will come between the time of
election and the installation.
Nominations made at the post
meeting Monday night give John
H. Stephenson a clear field for
post commander. A post trustee
and holder also of two national
chairmanships, he was unopposed,
as was Commander Patch for the
office ot trustee. There are two
or more candidates for all other
offices.
The election will be held Mon
day, April 4, and the.new officers
will be installed April 17.
Camp Mackall Reactivation Begins;
Red Cross Calls For Reading Matter
Word that Gamp Mackall is be
ing reactivated, in preparation for
“Exercise Tarheel,” war games to
be held during April and May, was
brought yesterday to Mrs. Audrey
K. Kennedy, Moore county Red
Cross executive secretary, with a
request that the local Red Cross
chapter help provide reading mat
ter for the men.
The first of some 27,000 troops
are being moved into the Mackall
area today (Friday). An urgent
.'•equest for magazines, “who-dun-
its,” “pocket books” and those pe
rennial favorites of the soldier on
relaxation, comics, is issued by
Red Cross field directors in charge
They may be brought to the local
chapter office on South Broad.
The provision of reading matter
will be the only thing 'local citi
zens are being asked for, so far, in
connection with the anticipated
tremendous influx of troops into
the area. They are to be allowed
no furloughs, nor even any “A”
(overnight) passes, but will be
kept within maneuver bounds.
Accordingly, the Red Cross
worker's warned, visiting relatives
are to be discouraged from setting
up abode, or taking rooms nearby.
They will not even be allowed to
see the men during the maneuver
period. Cooperation of Southern
Pirfes citizens in this regard is
sought, Mrs. Kennedy said.
Spring Ceremonial Of Oasis Temple
Will Bring Large Throng Here In May
BASEBALL GAMES
Baseball fans will see two
good intercollegiate games
here next week—Wake Forest
vs. Washington and Lee uni
versity Tuesday, and Wake
Forest vs. Cornell Wednesday.
Both games will be held on
the High School Memorial
field, starting at 2:30 p. m.
Midnight Fire
Destroys Building
Accommodations Sought
In Homes. Guest Houses
A fire of undetermined origin
in the town of ‘West End early
Monday morning totally destroyed
a business and apartment building
in the heart of town, damaging an
adjoining service station apd, since
the telephone switchboard was in
the burned building, cut West End
off from telephone servied for a
day and a half.
Emergency repairmen of the
Central Telephone company of
Charlottesville. Va., which owns
the office at West End, set up a
temporary switchboard and par
tial service was reestablished
Tuesday.
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
fire trucks answered the alarm
but found the building so far gone
that they concentrated their ef
forts mainly on saving others of
the block. The local truck, man
ned by five volunteers, went out
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■ The spring ceremonial of Oasis
Temple of Charlotte, whose juris
diction covers all of central and
western North Carolina, will be
held here May 13 and 14 through
arrangements made by John E.
Cline, of Southern Pines, chair
man of the convention committee.
Between 1,000 and 1,500 Sltfin-
ers are expected to attend, far be-
yopd the town’s normal capacity
in addition to its usual rush of
spring visitors, and Chairman
Cline is issuing a call this week
for rooms to be opened in private
homes, to be added to hotel and
guest house accommodations.
Householders who will receive
one or more Shriners, many of
.whom will bring their wives, are
asked to register as soon as pos
sible with Tom White, manager
of the Chamber of Commerce at
the Belvedere hotel. Guest house
proprietors who wiU reserve fa
cilities for the convention are also
asked to let Mr. White know, as
he plans to keep a complete ros
ter of available space.
Some 200 members of the uni
form units and their wives will
stay at the Highland Pines Inn,
Hollywood, Park 'View and
Southland hotels. Candidates,
numbering approxirhately 100,
with their wives will be accom
modated at the Belvedere hotel
and Jefferson Inn.
Band Concert, Parade
The program for the two-day
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Sandhills Horse Show
Have Ni^ht Events
SALUTE
Hats off to Governor Scottl
In the Graham appointment
he haS| sho-wn a quality of
statesmanship which is evok
ing vociferous "I told you
so's from jubilant supporters.
If 'there are a few groans mix
ed with the cheers that will
not surprise this hard-hitting
governor, famous already for
his courage.
The Pilot feels that this is
a splendid appointment and
that the groaners may safely
hold 'their fire. Dr. Graham is
no hot-headed fanatic. He
sees things clearly, steadily,
decently. His will always be
the voice of wisdom, and
peace.
For loo long a time only the
big business interests of the
slate have been represented
in Washington. This appoint-
meift of Dr., Graham places
the slate a step ahead in the
democratic process.
Carthage Plant
Gets Huge Order
From Government
Will Add Workers
Immediately, $2,000
Daily Pa'yroll Seen
After Six Long Years — Journey’s End
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Van B. Sharpe, head of the Car
thage Weaving company (see
story on Page 3) said Thursday
that his company has received
government contracts which will
total between $700,000 and $800,-
000.
He said this will mean stepping
up his payroll to between $1,500
and $2,000 daily for the next six
months, and that he will take on
additional workers, preferably
skilled, up to about 250. Some will
be chosen from applications on
hand.
He was not at liberty yet to
disclose the nature of the con
tracts, he said.
His creditors have all agreed to
delay execution of judgments
against him, it was .revealed, ex
cept one, represented by W. D.
Sabiston, attorney, mayor of Car
thage, who, said Mr. Sharpe, is
“getting ready to close me up.”
Mr. Sabiston ,queried by The
Pilot, said, “I certainly have been
preparing to execute judgment oh
behalf of my client, who has
waited a considerable length
of time. If Mr. Sharpe can make
a payment, or will give satisfac
tory evidence that he will do so
within a reasonable length of
time, I am sure my ‘client will
meet him halfway. I can answer
this better when I know the na
ture of the contract the Carthage
Weaving company has received. I
am glad of any good fortune that
Lighting Arranged;
Entries Coming In
For Three-day Show
The north will vie with the
south for the' coveted trophies and
ribbons in the Third Annual Sand
hills Horse show to be held on the
Swamp Fox course here Friday
night; Saturday afternoon and
night, and Sunday afternoon,
April 1, 2, and 3.
Already more than 100 entries
have been received, including a
number of hunters and jumpers
which were winners in the Na
tional Horse show at Madison
Square Garden this fall. The en
tries are about equally divided
above and below the Mason-Dixon
line ,with many of the country’s
leading stables represented.
Prominent southern exhibitors
whose colors will be seen include
Mrs. Gregory McIntosh’s Josephs
Coat of Warrenton, Va., champion
three-year-old at the National
Horse show last fall; Mrs. George
Watts Hill’s Blue Ink from the
Quail Roost Farms of Durham;
Frosty Morn, an eight-year-old
open jumper owned by Rick Cok
er of Hartsville, S. C.
From the north will come the
string of Vernon G. Cardy, promi
nent Canadian hotel owner and
possessor of some of the best
jumpers on the North American
continent; and Mrs. Audrey K.
Kennedy’s jumpers from the Sev
en Star stables of Southern Pines
and Brookline Mass., like the Car
dy horses consistent winners at
Madison Square Garden.
The Seven Star jumpers will be
ridden by the noted trainer, Mick
ey Walsh of Southern Pines.
Lieut. William Seibert of Fort
Bragg will represent the Army
with two open jumpers.
$4,000 in Prizes
Dwight W. Winkelman, past
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Registration For
School Bond Vote
Opens Saturday
Madi^i
h Elected
Exaljthd Ruler of
Elks Lodge
No wonder Mary Ciszak smiles. As she alighted from the traij
the Seaboard station one night last week, to be greeted by Fathi
F. Hill, assistant pastor of St. Anthony’s Catholic church, she
nearing the end of a journey which began six years ago.
At that time she was removed by the Germans from her horn]
Posen, Poland, which she has not seen since. Since the end of
war she has been in DP camps in Germany, until she^ was broughi
this country under the current “displaced persons” program, an(
Southern Pines as this community’s first “DP.”
She is living with the Sisters at St. Joseph of the Pines hospii
helping them in care of the sick. (Photo by Don Madigij
in
the
to
to
Registration for the Southern
Pines district’s school bond elec
tion will open Saturday, with
Harry Fullenwider as registrar
keeping the books at the city
hall.
The books wRi o.oen for four
succes,'=ive w;.eks. On Saturdays
thropgh April 16 they -will v>c at
the city hall, from 9 a. ni. to 6 p.
m, bn other days, registrants may
enter their names on the books
at Mr. Fullenwider’s law office
on East Peilnsylvania avenue, op
posite the city park. Joe Monte-
santi, Jr., and C. S. Patch, Jr., are
judges.
An all-new registration is re
quired, and the vote, to be held
comr&rsharpe’rwa^-and wTll Tuesday, April 26, will be decided
certainly do all that I can to help 1 ^ simple inajority.
him, if it appears Yo my client^ 1 ^eek approval of the
interest ” i Qualified voters on a $90,000 bond
issue, to cover difference between
estimated costs and funds on
hand, for the construction of two
buildings, a gsonnasium and audi
torium-cafeteria for the high and
elementary schools, and for their
complete equipment.
The figure of $90,000 is an out
side one, said Supt. P. J. Weaver,
desigiied to take care of all con
tingencies and make sure all cori-^
struction and equipment billsj
paid. Bonds will be issued'
in sufficient amount to meej^c
needs.
The county commissioner^ nil
on preparing their 1949-50
get, find ttiat they can a^pjC
ate money to take care of part'
the equipment costs, for the audj
torium “and-or” cafeteria. Thejl
have indicated the possibility tha1(
they may do so, but say they'"
cannot at this stage commit them
selves to a definite figure. '
Construction costs, now in an |
extremely fluid stage, may also
have gone down considerably by
the time building gets ubder way,
and, said Mr. Weaver, the con
tractors have guaranteed to pass
on all such savings to the dis
trict.
Cost changes have been noted
in a number of the necessary
building materials in the past two
months, mostly in a downward
direction.' So far, however, Mr.
Weaver said, the continued rise
in the price of steel has offset the
[general doiynward trend.
!embers of the Southern Pines
lodge, meeting last Thurs-
ay night, elected Donald L. Mad-
gan to the post of exalted ruler,
in which he will succeed A. B.
Patterson at the installation April
7.
Mr. Madigan, a former army
colonel, has been secretary of the
lodge for the past three years. He
has ‘been active in BPOE affairs,
serving as chairman and mem
ber of a number of important
committees.
Elected with him were M. G.
McRae, leading knight; Howard
L. Hoffman, loyal knight; John
Ormsby, lecturing knight; Robert
N. Smith, secretary; James J.
Kerrigan, treasurer, and Herbert
Cutter, tiler.
C. N. Page, L. D. McDonald
and Howard F. Burns were nam
ed trustees.
Other officers are appointive,
to be announced by the new .'x
alted ruler on the installation
night. Ceremonies that evening
wiU be conducted by John E.
Cline, of Southern Pines, district
deputy of the Grand Lodge.