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‘ « P GIVE FOR SUMMER RECREATION PROGRAM GIVE FOR SUMMER RECREATION PROGRAM VOL. 30—NO. 30 14 PAGES THIS WEEK Graham Tells YDC Of Responsibilities Facing Country Local Delegation. Attends Meeting At Winston-Salem Southern Pines, N. C. ■a Friday, June 17, 1949 14 PAGES THIS WEEK TEN CENTS Appointed To High State Posts ‘The finest YDC meeting yet” was reported by H. Clifton Blue, of Aberdeen, president, and Moore County members of the North Carolina Young Democrat-1 ic clubs- who journeyed to Win ston-Salem Saturday for the Ex ecutive Committee meeting and midsummer banquet. About 125 members attended the afternoon meeting, and more- than 200 were present at the ban quet at which Frank Porter Gra ham, North Carolina’s junior sen ator, was principal speaker. Both were held at the Robert E. Lee hotel. In the delegation from Moore were President Blue, who presi ded; J. Hubert McCaskill, of Pine- hurst, Eighth District chairman; W. Lament Brown, of Piilebluff, president of the Moore County YDC, with Mrs. Brown; E. O. Led- be-tte^, of Pinehurst; Raymond Wicker, Aberdeen; Mack Calla han, Monroe Chappell and Henry A. Borst, Jr., Vass. Distinguished Guests Among the distinguished guests and speakers were Gordon Gray- of Winston-Salem, acting Secre tary of the Army and Secretary- designate (since confirmed); Hon. Capus Waynick, newly appointed ambassador to Nicaragua; Fifth District Congressman Thurmond Chatham, who introduced Senator Graham; and Hon. Walter Lam beth, of Thomasville, former Eighth District congressman, who was accompanied by his bride of one week. A welcome was given by Wil liam Mitchell- president of the host club,' to which Lamont Brown gave a response which aroused waves of enthusiastic ap plause. Presentation of a gold watch to Ambassador Waynick as the YDC’s going-away gift was made by James Little of Raleigh, na tional committeeman. New Bern was selected as the site for the fall meeting, at which election of officers will be held. U. S. As World Leader Senator Graham in his speech (Continued on Page 5)- JOHN RUGGLES Ruggles On Hospitals Board of Controls W. L. Nicholson Is New Partner At Highland Pines The appointment of John S. Ruggles as one of three new members on the six-member State Board of Hospitals Control was announced Monday by Gov ernor W.*Kerr Scott. He will be sworn ini shortly for a term which will end April 1, 1953. Mr. Ruggles, head of the John S. Ruggles Insurance agency here and a recently elected member of the Southern Pines town board, was active in support of a bill passed by the 1949 General As sembly for the setting up of a state hospital for alcoholics. Moore county’s representative, Clifton Blue, was a leading spon sor of the bill, which at one time appeared lost in a tax-obstruc tionist committee until Mr. Rug gles stirred the interest of mem bers of Alcoholics Anonymous. With letters and telegrams coming in from all over the state, the bill cleared subcommittee, committee. House and Senate in the fipal days of the Assembly. The setting up of the new hospital unit will be one of the principal tasks of the State Board of Hos- (Continued on Page 8) CLIFTON BLUE Blue Wins Party Secretaryship Moore Is State Leader In Poultry Processing Plants Resort Airlines Wins Victory in Fi^ht For Skyernise Certification New Places Open; All Conforming With New State Laws Sky Giants Couldn’t Keep Him Down Moore county’s representative, Clifton Blue, newspaper publish er of Aberdeen, was appointed Tuesday to the important office of secretary of the State Demo cratic Executve committee, ac cording to an announcement by the chairman, Everett Jordan of Saxapahaw. Mr. Blue is president of the North Carolina YDC, which last faU did a monumental job in or ganizing all 100 counties of the state to get out the vote in the November election. He has been highly commended for his work in this regard by Governor W. Kerr Scott, Hon. Capus Waynick, Jonathan Daniels and other party leaders. He succeeds Victor Bryant, Durham attorney who resigned the secretarial post in order to devote more time to his new job as chairman of the .committee to select a president of the Greater University of North Carolina. It had been freely predicted in the state papers that Mr. Blue would succeed to the party post, as the choice of Governor Scott and also of Mr. Waynick, retiring (Continued on Page 8) 75 Kids Turn Out For Play Program; Long On Fun - But Short Of Funds Walter Lee Nicholson, Jr., for merly of Charlotte now in busi ness in Baltimore, has secured an interest in the Highland Pines Inn and will be an active partner with the opening of the fall sea son, it was announced this week by Charles Stitzer, owner of the hotel. Mr. Nicholson and his family will move to Southern Pines where he will be engaged in oper ation of the Inn. Both partners will come here next weekend for local conferences, looking toward a successful season with promo tion of golf and other events at tractive to visitors. The new manager is an enthus iastic amateur golfer and a for mer member of the Charlotte Country club. He attended Duke universty and served overseas in World War 2 as a naval officer. Later he was Assistant manager of the Neo- Gravure company of Chicago- subsidiary of the Cuneo Press, larg est printing concern in the coun try. After some time in Chicago he was sent to New York City as sales manager for the Neo-Gra- vur,. Printing company, a Cuneo associate. For the past two years he has been operating a veterans’ trade school in Baitmore, but has been seeking an opportunity to get back to North Carolina, with the Sandhill section as his preference. He is married to the former Miss Fancesca Braswell of Mis sissippi, who has lived also in Chattanooga, Tenn., and in Scars- dale, N. Y. While in New York City her unusual beauty won at tention and she was a model for both the Powers and Conover agencies. They have a young son, William Lee Nicholson, 3rd. The summer recreation program opened successfully with 75 kids present for the first play session Monday morning, and excellent attendance continuing all week. Forty boys an^ girls showed up to go swimming Tuesday after noon and were transported by the school bus to Lakeview, where the proprietor, W. H. Cook, is giv ing swimming privileges free for the group. There is a life guard. The bus leaves the Men’s club building at 2:30 Tuesday and Thursday afternoons — and the more taken along, said Director A. C. Dawson, Jr., thg merrier. The program is held from 10 a, m. to 12, 2 to 5 p. m., five days a week, with tennis, badminton, baseball, softball, pingpong and other indoor games scheduled along with swimming. A story hour is being arranged and there will probably be news of this next week . Friday evenings, teen-age social events, such as dances dnd picnics, will be held. Headquarters for the program is the Men’s club building, with the town park op- posit^ and the athletic field used for outdoor sports. Less than half the needed fund —$1,100, to be exact—had been received by John Pottle, treasur er, by Thursday of this week. Considerably more wiU be need ed and he asked that those who have delayed in sending contribu tions kindly shoot them on in. This is a program for everybody, not just the neighbor’s little boy, he reminded, as “what helps our young folks helps our whole com munity.” Moore, county has within the last few months become the North Carolina leader in number of poultry processing plants and the quantity of poultry handled com mercially, said Jesse Canady, of Raleigh, state sanitaeian, while on a visit here this week. Mr. Canady spent Wednesday visiting all the poultry processing plants in company with Russell Mills, county sanitarian, to check up on their conformity with laws passed by the 1949 General As sembly in regard to their mainte nance and operation. Until recent months Moore county had two poultry process ing plants, the Carolina Poultry company at Pinehurst, operated by C. H. Ritter and W. C. Moon, and Rouths Poultry plant at Rob bins, operated by W. G. Rouths. • Lately three more have entered business in brand new buildings, especially built—L. M. Hussey’s and A. E. Hussey’s plants at Rob bins, and George Purvis’ at High- falls. Purvis is the only grower also to become a processor. He has a flock of some 20,000 chick ens. In addition there is the splendid turkey processing plant of H. R. Harrison at Eagle Springs. Two Almost Ready Two new poultry plants are just about completed and wiU go into operation soon, one at Robbins and the other south of Aberdeen. Through the plants now operat ing, according to a rough guess hazarded by Mr. Mills, pass some 15,000 fowl each week, aU raised on Moore coimty farms. The dressed fowl are shipped out to points all over North Carolina and also to the north. In addition, there are “uncounted thousands” of live chickens sold through feed stores which provide the feed and also the sales outlets. All this means a growing cash income for the farmer and also for the com mercial processor. Mr. Mills has been working closely with all the processing plants, which now must operate under laws of stringent sanitation very much like those governing abattoirs. They must have smooth, impervious walls and floor, toilet and drainage facilities, screens at doorg and windows, metal eviscerating tables which can be subjected to a constant flow oL water, and other features (Continued on page 8) Becomes Only International Carrier Without Subsidy You’d grin, top if, like Squeak Burwell, you had just won a three- year battle against seemingly hopeless odds. The former AAF lieu tenant-colonel is president of Resort Airlines, pioneer of international Skycruises for which a CAB certificate has just been granted. (Photo courtesy Charlotte News.) Kiwanis Club At Samarcand Manor Hears Leonard Tell of State Program Young Singers Give Enjoyable Concert Sandhills Kiwanians were luncheon guests at Samarcand Manor Wednesday, heard a splen did program by a group of the “singih’est” girl students in the state, enjoyed a tour of the camp- and buildings .and listened to . address by State Commission- dr of Corrections and Training Samuel E. Leonard, who told Search Fails To Dig Up Diggs Young Flier’s Memory Is Inspiration Of High Sehool Award Given By Friend The memory of a splendid Fields, young life- lost in the war, and of a fine friendship between two young men, has flowered into fu ture benefits for other boys, ac cording to a recent surprise an nouncement. The announcement was made by Supt. R. C. Fields of Aberdeen, vdho at the high jschool com mencement of June 3 present ed an award in memory of Lieut. Lawrence Rowe, given by an anonymous donor. The cash award of $50 was pre sented to Walter Wright, Jr., chosen by the school board as highly worthy by character, abil ity and promise, of the honor. In the surprise announcement, which proved deeply moving to the audience. Superintendent Fields said the donor plans to make the award annually, con verting it within a few years to a four-year scholarship at the University of North Carolina. “I did not have the privilege of knowing Lawrence Rowe person ally, as his student days here were before n^ time,” said Mr. “However, I feel it .an honor to serve a school which has graduated a young man of such distinction and inspiration. He deeply impressed those who knew him, and his memory lives in their hearts.” In the audience were Judge and Mrs. J. Vance Rowe- parents of Lieutenant Rowe, who was Moore county’s first war casualty when stationed with the Army Air force in Australia, in August, 1942. Government advice to his pa rents said he was killed in a plane crash. Memory Lives On Not even they know the name of the young man who is thus honoring the memory of their son, other than that he was a col lege mate and friend. Sole possessor of the knowledge is Mr. Fields, who said he first heard from the donor last Novem ber, expressing a desire to estab lish the laward subject to the school board’s approval. Concern ing his reason for doing so, he wrote, “Lawrence Rowe was a (Continued on Page 9) It may not have been James A. Diggs, Negro murderer-outlaw, hiding out in this vicinity last week end but, said local officers as they relaxed their search Sun day, “'There certainly is—or was— someone in those woods who didn’t want to be caught.” They heard him crashing through the Mid Pines forestland just ahead of them Saturday night, heard the splash as he wad ed into the Mid Pines lake and fell down, then sc^rambled up and made his way to a swampy place beyond. The bloodhounds gave out just about then, and an all- night vigil kept by a highway pa trolman and his deputy brought no results. Daylight showed the fugitive’s footprints at the edge of the lake. The search for Diggs started Friday night in the Aberdeen sec tion, when two reports tl^at he had been seen lurking along the highway, brought all the local forces of the law into action, aug mented by members of the SBI from Raleigh and a pack of blood hounds from Rockingham. The fresh trail led into the Old Bethes- da section and ended at the Sea board railroad track. A north bound freight which passed at the height of the search was stopped just beyond Southern Pines and searched by highway patrolmen. The next morning, a report that a suspicious-looking character had' been seen riding the south bound passenger train caused a search of the train when it stop ped here at 9:18. On Midland Road Soon after 11 a. m., John Fer guson, of Southern Pines, report ed that he had spotted a charac ter resembling newspaper pictures of the wanted man, who ducked into the woods -about a mile out on the Midland road as Ferguson’s car approached. All policemen, patrolmen and members of the sheriff’s department joined in the search, which, as the day wore on, became a matter of hot news interest to radio broadcasters, the AP, UP and state dailies. News of the man-hunt crackled forth over the state ,and soon other re ports of “someone resembling Diggs” trickled in over the area. No tall, thin colored man wesir- ing spectacles was safe' from in vestigation. One lanky brown youth spotted at the railroad sta tion pulled forth a paper he ■was carrying with him, stating that he had been stopped at Rockingham and cleared of suspicion of being Diggs. On Homeward Route A report of a colored man walk- them, “The hardest part of our work in correctional institutions is not while the child is with us- but when he leaves—and that is where you can help.” The program, called one of the finest in the annals of the Sand hills Kiwanis club, was arranged by A. L. Burney, of Southern Pines, 1948 winner of the club’s Builder’s cup and one of the nine members of the State Board of Corrections. At the close of the program a gift of athletic equipmeiit for the school was presented by Voit Gil more, jn behalf of the club, to Miss Reva Mitchell, superinten dent. The equipment, which filled a large table- included a basket ball, volleyball, softballs, tennis balls, tennis net and racquets and several other items in sufficient quantity for a group of girls to use. For most of the Kiwanians it was their first visit to Samarcand Manor, which is tucked away in the orchard country of Mineral Springs township, southwest of Eagle Springs. "No Mysteries" The guests were served a de licious meal of country ham and all the trimmings, prepared and served by the young girls of the institution. They were given a welcome by Miss Reva Mitchell, superintendent for the past five years, who told them, “There are no mysteries hepe. We are happy When such groups as yours show interest.” The Rev. Zeb Caudle, Aberdeen minisfer, spoke of the religious program there, shared It took a President to do it— but, at long last, Truman’s nod last week brought certification of Resort Arlines for two of its pro jected Sky-cruises for a five-year period, with a third one pending. The announcement of the Civil Aeronautics Board’s deci.sion meant a victory in the three-year- $150,000 battle of the local air line for practical realization of its original plan of packaged va cation flights. Slugging every step of the way against a combined lobby of 14 major airlines — all of whom thought they could do the job better than the man who dreamed it up—L. C. Burwell, Jr., Resort's president, never' quit to draw breath after the applicaton was filed in July, 1946. While a bat tery of lawyers drew briefs on both sides to present at hearing after hearing, “Squeaky” saw everybody in government and aeronautics who might help. Since last January Washington has been his home. Finally Pres ident Truman himself summoned the ex-combat flier to his private office . to hear his convincing (Continued on Page 5) School Tops in State Latin Contest Another distinct honor has come to the Southern _ Pines school in the announcement that. in the state contest for first-year Latn students, one Southern Pines student has won first place and two honorable mention, giving the local school a top position in the statewide contest. The announcement that Doris L. Bowles had placed first, with honorable mention going to Alec McLeod and Eddie Menefee, was made this week by Dr. B. L. Ull- man, head of the department of classics at the University of North Carolina, through which the Latin tests are given annually. No other school placed more than one student in the top 10, whereas Southern Pines High school placed three, according to the information sent by Dr. UU- man to Supt. P. J. Weaver. , Miss Pauline Miller is teacher of the Latin class. The winning students are all rising seniors. This is the second high educa tional honor to come to Southern Pines within a short time, as in May the elementary school was announced as winner of a nation al art contest, with 23 out of 50 winning entries selected from elementary schools all over the country. The trophy in this contest, held annually by the National Board of Examiners, arrived last week and has been placed in the school library. It is an ivory statuette touched with gold, with a suit able inscription on its base. SAFE DEPOSIT ing along the road toward Sana- by himself, the Rev. F. Craighill torium brought police hot along his trail, to find he was a peaceful citizen wending his way home to supper. How much was real, how much was hysteria will probably never be known. Several circumstances led the police to a positive belief that there was a fugitive in the area. They said they doubted, however, it was Diggs, who is wanted in Norfolk, Va., for the slaying of his wife and two chil dren, and at Hamlet for the near- fatal shooting of a young police man who tried to arrest him. Fol lowing his escape at Hamlet, Diggs was declared an outlaw, to be shot on sight by anyone. Brown of Southern Pines, the Rev. R. R. Ramsey of Jackson Springs and the Rev. Mr. Williams of Biscoe—“a most rewarding work.” District Governor Paul C. But ler- of Southern Pines, commend ed a number of people of the vi cinity who give, or have given service to the Manor in various ways. Some were present, to re ceive his tribute. They included Dr. J. P. Bowen, of Aberdeen; Dr. G. G. Herr, Dr. J. W. Willcox and Charles W. Picquet of Southern Pines; Gordon M. Cartieron, of Pinehurst; J. D. Parker,* of Eagle Springs; Otis Poole, and Rep. (Continued on page 8) The Moore County hospi tal's bronchoscope, donated by the Auxiliary last year, took part* in an operation last Saturday for removal of a dime which had lodged in a man's lung for 50 years. About two weeks before, Arthur Thompson, 64, of Bladenboro, had developed a cough which yielded to none of the usual remedies. He visited his local physician, who X-rayed him and saw what looked like a dime. Thinking it might be a but ton, the doctor had Thompson remove his shirt and X-rayed again. The object was still there. At the hospital Thompson remembered that when he was 14 he caught fire, ran and fell, spilling some coins he was carrying in his mouth. After he was "put out" his mother searched and found the quarter and two pennies, but never did find the dime. Last week Dr. William F. Hollister removed the dime, now Old and corroded. Thompson left the hospital two days later with the coin as a souvenir.
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