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Veterans Plan Chicken Fry, Dance For V-J Day Reunion Here August 13 Peach Queen — Pretty As A Peach Simple Observance Wm Mark Fourth Peace Anniversary The annual V-J Day celebration and reunion of Moore County vet erans will again be held in Sou thern Pines, with Saturday, Au- guest 12, set as the date, accord ing to an announcement made this week by Charles J. Swoope, chair man of the Moore County Veter ans committee. The celebration this year will be on a simpler scale than in the past, with emphasis on fun rath er than, formality. The parade, speeches and other official recog nition will be dispensed with, also the ‘‘free feed” which last year plunged the committee deep in the red. The entertainment this year will consist of a chicken fry dutch treat, with tickets sold in ad vance— and a street dance free to all comers. Tickets Go On Sale Tickets for the chicken fry, which will be held from 6 to 7 p. m. at the High School Memorial field, will go on sale tomorrow (Saturday) and may be secured at a non-profit $1.50 each from all members of VFW and Legion posts of the county and of the Sandhill Veterans association. Children under five years old v;ill be admitted free. The dance will be held in the city hall block on East Broad street from 8 o’clock till midnight. The block will be roped off for the occasion and a good .orchestra is to be secured. Friday Meeting Chairman Swoope said that all veterans willing to help with the celebration are asked to meet with the committee at the Legion hut here at 8 tonight (Friday). At BRAGG ROAD The Southern Pines Cham ber of Commerce is going to work seriously to get the Manchester road to Fort Bragg hardsurfaced, following discussion held at the board of directors' meeting Tuesday night at the Belvedere hotel. President Hoke Pollock named a committee composed of Herbert Cameron, Harry Fullenwider and himself to contact Army personnel and promote the project through all other channels of potential help. With many members of both the Army and civilian personnel of the Fort Bragg reservation living here, and many others desiring to make Southern Pines their home, it was considered that improve ment of the road would be a benefit to Fort Bragg as well as to the town, greatly simpli fying commuting along the 26-mile stretch. More Street Signs Needed For Mail Delivery Serviee Tobacco Prices Seen At Better Than S50 For Tnesday Opening Mattocks Picked For All-Stars Gary Mattocks, triple-threat athletic star and 1949 graduate of the Southern Pines High school, has been selected as a member of an all-star basketball team of the eastern conference, which will meet a Western Conference all- star team in a demonstration game at the North Carolina Coaches’ clinic August 10. The information was received this week by Philip J. Weaver, Southern Pines superintendent, and will be officially anounced shortly, as soon as both teams are made up. The game will be a highlight ofj the clinic of the N. C. Coaches’ association, to be held for the first time at Guilford college and Greensboro the week of August 8 and planned as an annual affair. Players for the 12-man aU-star teams are being chosen from all over the state on the basis of their recent cage performance. Mattocks has played basketball, football and baseball with dis tinction throughout his high school career. Last year he was chosen captain of the varsity basketball team. He will enter Greenbriar Mili tary school on a scholarship in September. Carolinas Growers Will Hold Meeting At Florence Today (bounty Tennis Tournament Aug. 8-12; Match With Raleigh Will Climax Week More streat markers will be needed before Southern Pines can get full approval of mail delivery service, said Postal Inspector J. H. Risley of Raleigh following a sur vey made here last week. It was in West Southern Pines he found the markers rnost con spicuous by their absence. While a marker need not be placed on every corner, they should be lo- Janet Menzel, 17-year-old Southern Pines beauty, who won the title of Peach Queen over 18 contestants at the Rockingham Peach Festival last Wednesday, shows that radiant smile as she admires her trophy. For her prize, Janet and a companion wiU attend the Grange Festival at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in August, and will carry a basket of Sandhills peaches to the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale. She will have a week of gaiety there and at Miami—then it’s back to her studies for Janet, who will go to Woman’s college, Greensboro, in September. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey) Reviving Interest Seen In Full Week Of Sport Ahead cated every two or three blocks this meeting tickets will be given at least, the inspector declared. out for disiribution to the various posts in the county. Other meetings to perfect the preparations will be held on suc cessive Fridays August 5 and 12. Post commanders and officers are especially asked to attend these meetings. No other notice than those in the newspapers will be given. Fourth Annual Reunion This win be the fourth year the reunion has been held. The first was in August, 1946. and the sec ond in August, 1947. Last summer, 1948, the V-J event had to be canceled on account of the preva lence of polio at that time and (Continued on Page 8) Health Educators Here To Prepare For Mass X-Ray Two educators of the N. C. Health department. Mss Lulabelle Highsmith and Miss Annie Oak ley, arrived in Moore county Mon day to start preliminary educat ional work for the countywide free tuberculosis X-ray clnic which will be held for eight weeks starting August 26 They will be here most of the time during the coming month, with Miss Highsmith working among the white people of the county and Miss Oakley among the Negroes, to insure a mass res ponse to the visit of four mobile X-ray units of the health depart- Iment. The clinic is being sponsored by the state and county public health offices and the Moore County Tu berculosis association, which is footing the biUs. With the two educators came a state public health clerk to be before a mail route can be estab lished. He said many towns are now using the small cement markers with the street name let tered down two sides, as more permanent ahd less expensive than the metal posts and signs. In other respects. Inspector Ris ley declared, the town lives well up to requirements, and he will recommend the establishment of four postal routes—one in the business section (for twice-a-day (Continued on page 8) Hot Weather Is First Good Break For Peach Crop Local Men Take Trip To Pay Tribute To Bill Sharpe As Friend of Resorts TOLAR ON JOB stationed in the health office at Carthage to do all clerical work, up this week, rising from $2 to $3 Maybe the hot dry weather has burned you up, but it has been welcome to one important part of our population—the peaqh grow ers, who have found it splendid shipping weather for their finest fruit. This week the beautiful Elber- tas were rolling to market, reach ing their destination in prime con dition. It was the first break for the peach growers in a long time, as they have tried desperately to sal vage something from a crop mor tally hurt by early freezes. J. Hawley Poole, owner of extensive orchards in Moore and Hoke coun ties, this week revised his early estimate of about a 50 per cent crop, down to an average 30 per cent. While some few orchards are producing well, others are al most bare, he said Wet weather earlier this month caused much spoilage of the fruit on the trucks, as it turned mushy before reaching the markets. Prices, while good, have not been high enough to offset the great losses of fruit. They were looking tabulations etc The project, toward which local health authorities and the Tuber culosis association have been working for some years, is design ed to provide X-rays for every resident, to detect tuberculosis, actual and incipient, in its ear liest stages. In all groups there is a minoP proportion of people who be past and only a week or two will remain to try to make any money. fit’s been pretty heartbreak ing,” said Mr. Poole. Estimate/of )!the National Peach Council is a have the disease without knowing! total of 750,000 bushels for the it, according to Health Officer! Sandhills, which normally pro- Dr. J. W. Willcox, and by the duce well over 2,000,000. ‘‘The time it makes itself evident, long Agriculture Department’s estimate a bushel on shipments to chain stores, with the prospect that they would reach $5 by the end of the week—but by then the peak will It was no ordinary patrolman who stepped from an unmarked black sedan in Carthage last Fri day, accosted two truck drivers at the traffic light and handed them tickets for speeding. It was Commander Tony Tolar, head of the state highway patrol, implementing his own directive to the patrolmen to crack down on all speeders, especially truck and bus drivers, concerning whom there had been many complaints. On his way from Raleigh to Ashe ville, passing through Carthage he spotted the two peach trucks careening along at too fast a pace and nabbed them when they stop ped for the light. He did not have to appear in recorders court Monday to testify against the drivers, Woodrow Reynolds and Morris Dewit of El- lerbe, for both pleaded guilty. Alpert Appointed To Succeed Moger OnPinebluffBoard and serious treatment is often re quired. Miss Highsmith is staying at of 1,600,000 was so far off every body hollered. 'The man canie back to make another check and the Southland here and Miss we haven’t heard a word out of Oakley is in West Southern Pines, him since.” Walter Alpert, proprietor of the Beauty Rest cafe and cabin camp at Pinebluff, was unani mously elected Monday night by Pinebluff’s town board as a new town commissioner to replace George W. Moger, who resigned from the board to accept a busi ness position in Camden, S. C. Several • citizens of Pinebluff were supported for the vacated office, and the election of Mr. Al pert, who has never sought public office, came as something of a surprise. However, the general re action of Pinebluff’s citizens has been favorable, it is reported. ‘‘Walt Alpert is the kind of man we’re glad to have on the board,” announced Mayor Eutice H. Mills in announcing the ap pointment. “He has stood back of every effort to improve the town, he is intelligent and well liked and honest, and he will sup port Pinebluff’s present program of advancement and good feel ing.” Mr. Alpert came to Pinebluff four years ago, after serving in the Army Air Corps during the war. He is a native of New York state, and is married jand the fath er of a son and a daughter. He is .first vice president of the Pine- * bluff Lions club. State Publicist Tops In Job He's Quitting, Delegations Declare A delegation making the long trip to Morehead City this week, to make testimonial in behalf of Bill Sharpe at his final meeting with his employers, the State Board of Conservation and Devel opment, consisted of Mayor C. N. Page, representing the town of Southern Pines; Herbert N; Cam eron, Chamber _ of Commerce; John Pottle, resort hotels, and Al bert S. Tufts, Pinehurst, Inc. They were among several dele gations from resort towns appear ing at a business meeting of the board Tuesday morning to express their appreciation for the services of State Advertising Bureau Di rector Sharpe. They followed delegations from Wilmington and Asheville, and in brief speeches made by Mayor Page and Mr. Tufts vigorously echoed their sentiments that Bill Sharpe has “really put the North Carolina tourist and resort indus try on the map.” The benefits of his cooperation, energy, imagina tion, wide contacts and lively writing talents have been of in estimable benefit to the state as a whole as well as its resort indus- (Continued on page 8) The week of Monday, August 8, will be Tennis Week in Southern Pines, with the First Annual Moore County Tennis.iournament scheduled from Monday through Friday, and a match between a Southern Pines team and a team from the Raleigh Tennis club set for Saturday evening, August 13. The tournament will be open only to bona fide Moore County players • (male), according to the announcement by Tom, White, Chamber of Commerce manager, who is handling the events on re quest of the local players. All events will be held on the lighted municipal courts, starting at 8 o’clock. Singles will open Monday evening, with finals held Thurs day, and doubles on Tuesday eve ning, with finals on Friday. Each player will pay an entry fee $1, to defray costs and provide player will pay an entry fee of trophips for each event. Deadline for entrance in the sin gles tournament will be 1 p. m. Monday, August 8, and tourna ment drawings will be made at the Chamber of Commerce office at the Belvedere hotel at 2. Those interested in entering the tournament are asked to contact Manager White. Members of the local team who have challenged the Raleigh play ers, and who will also play in the county tournament, are Angelo Montesanti, Jr., Harry Lee Brown, Francis de Costa and A. C. Daw son, Jr. Their interest and that of sev eral others here has brought about considerable more tennisf playing this summer than nas been seen for some years past, and it is- anticipated that the scheduling of an annual tournament will keep the interest going for the fu ture. Much good tennis was play ed in Southern Pines in former years, but lapsed during the war, the disappointment not only of those who like to play but also the many who like to watch. The local courts are said tc be in excellent condition now. PGA DATE CHANGED November 28. not ^Novem ber 6 as previously announc ed, will be the date for the opening of the annual PGA meeting at the Mid Pines, ac cording to announcement hy Bob Harlow, publisher of Golf World at Pinehurst. The change was necessitated on account of a conflict with the reservations previously made at the Mid Pines. The official meeting of offi cers and delegates will con tinue from Monday through Thursday. Clinics and social events will keep many of the group here Friday and Satur day also. The annual meeting is one at which national golf policies are set. Arrangements were perfect ed after guarantee of a $1,000 subsidy made up by Richard Tufts. of Pinehurst. the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce, Frank Cosgrove of the Mid Pines, and the Highland Pines Inn, to cover extra expense arising from having the meeting here in stead of Chicago. More Enlistments In National Guard Unit Are Noted Forest Utilization, Original Growth Impress Student Group Visiting Here Forty students of the forestry division of the University of West Virginia, visiting Weymouth Es tate on a field training tour Wed nesday morning, expressed them selves as deeply impressed by the fine stands of virgin timber seen there, with many trees 100 or more years old. The young men, who were from five states, said that they had sel dom seen such growth, as in most of the places where they live the forests have been timbered over until no original stand remains except, perhaps, in the heart of the inaccessible mountains. They were particularly im pressed with the longleaf pine, which they had never seen before, and Interested in its utilization, present and potential. Traylor Is Guide Don Traylor, resident forester at Weymouth, served as their guide in a long tramp through the woods, stopping here and there while he indicated various types of trees, showed where thinning operations had been' under way and other places slated for thin ning to remove old growth. The boys asked many questions and were ready with notepads and pencils to take down the answers as part of their forest manage ment study. At noon thqy stopped in a shad ed grove back of the Overton barn to eat a picnic lunch pre pared for them at Duke universi ty, their headquarters for the week of inspection tours. During the afternoon they visited the Rice estate at Pinebluff, which has recently become a demonstra tion area of the N. C. Forest Ser vice, and at 4 o’clock came in their buses to the inviting shores of Aberdeen lake. Perspiring from their day in the boiling sun, the boys from the high altitudes gratefully dived into the waters for a half-hour swim before heading back to Dur ham. Spencer Timber Farm (Continued on Page 8) Five more men were sworn into the fast-growing National Guard unit now being organized here, it was learned this week, making an even dozen as a good start toward the minimum of 30 needed for federal approval. Several more have fulfilled aU requirements and are awaiting the return of the commanding officer, Capt. Clifford Carpenter, from a business trip in order to be sworn in. The five added to seven an- noimced by Captain Carpenter last week are Marshall Francis Palmer and Melvin Cushner, of Southern Pines; William Robert Knowlton, West End; Wilbur Louis Edwards, Vass, and Bill Harding Smith, Pinehurst. Edwards is a veteran National Guardsman, having served previ ously in two units. Cushner, ra dio engineer at Station WEEB, is entered as a corporal and will be placed in communications job. A table is set up at the post of fice each Saturday morning to give information and secure ap plications for enlistment in the new antiaircraft battery for the Sandhills, which will be head quartered here. John H. Steph enson will have charge of the table tomorrow, in the absence of Captain Carpenter. Both veter ans and non-veterans are eligible for enlistment, with federal drill pay and other benefits. Age lim its are 17 to 55, though men 36 and older must have had previ ous military or National Guard experience. Enlistment has been under way two weeks. Inspection for fed eral approval must be held within six weeks. Much interest has been shown and no difficulty is anticipated in securing the quired number of men. Two tobacco experts predicted Wednesday that North and South Carolina Border Belt growers will average over $50 a hundred pounds when their sales begin next Tuesday. This is well above the $46.70 average price reported for 1949’s first day sales in the Georgia- Florida belt Tuesday. Last year’s first-day average for this belt was $53.20. Fred Royster of Henderson, president of the Bright Belt Warehouse association, estimated that the opening average on the border markets would be from $50 to $53 per hundred. Following this prediction, Roys ter announced that tobacco ware housemen of the North and South Carolina Border belts wiU meet today (Friday) at Florence, S. C. Stressing that ‘it‘s urgently necessary that all warehousemen attend,” Royster said they then would havp an opportunity to sign contracts with the Flue-Cured Stabilization corporation. This or ganization buys tobacco under the government price support pro gram. W. P. Hedrick, tobacco market ing specialist for the N. C. De partment of Agriculture, based his estimate of Border Belt prices on the fact that tobacco in the belt generally bring^ from $4 to $5 a hundred more than in the Geor- gia-Florida. Weather conditions, he added, may make the U. S. Departrpent of Agriculture reduce its estimate on the size of the 1949 flpe-cur- ed crop. Hot, dry weather in the Middle and Old belts has caused much of the tobacco to ripen prematurely, he pointed out. Reports from there indicate flue-cured production may not reach the 1,155,000,000 pounds predicted on July 1. Royster remarked that reports had come to him that buyers for the Imperial Tobacco company, a British firm, were buying on the Georgia-Florida markets Wednes day. He said “I think that is a good sign,” adding that Imperial buy ers did not enter that market at the beginning of the season last year. A shortage in dollar ex change has forced Britain, usually the best export customer in flue- cured tobacco, to curtail its pur chases. re- Hit-Run Car Is Found In Woods; Two Are Arrested A hit-run accident occurring Sunday about 3 p. m., two miles beyond Eastwood on the Pine hurst-West End road caused seri ous injuries to a Negro woman, Mary Wilson, of Eastwood, and brought about the arrest Monday night oif two young men, Ray mond Ritter and Roy Edward Frye, of West End, Rt. 1. Two others are being sought in connection with the accident and the subsequent flight and hiding of the hit-run car, according to the investigating highway patrol. Ritter, charged with careless and reckless driving and hit-run accident involving personal in jury, was jailed at Carthage in default of bond. Frye, charged with aiding and abetting in hit- run, was freed on bond. According to the highway pa trol report, James Wilson, of East- wood, driving a 1937 Ford, en deavored without success to dodge an approaching car which zig zagged across the road. The weaving vehicle struck the Wilson car, which contained three passengers besides the driver, and caused it to overturn. Leaving the scene immediately, it vanished in the direction of West End. Mary Wilson, mother of James, was taken to Moore County hos pital suffering with a broken arm and injuries to her chest and back. Others in the car were not hurt to any extent. With a description of the car, and the information that it con tained several white boys as pas sengers, the highway patrol insti tuted a dragnet of county roads and early Monday morning found the hit-run vehicle hidden in the woods several miles from the ac cident scene.
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