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MOORE COUNTY
HOSPITAL
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MEMORIAL WING
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MOORE COUNTY
HOSPITAL
VOL. 30—NO. 48
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines, N. C. Friday. October 21, ,1949
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Hunters Give Prompt Greeting To New
Deer Season, SandhjQls’ Best In Years
Venison Is Main
Dish This Week
Some Lose Shirt Tails
The opening of the deer season
Saturday saw the hunters starting
out promptly, in parties made up
all over Moore county and also
coming to the Sandhills from all
pctrts of the state.
The deer this year are fine and
plentiful, said Game Protector
Alex Fields. No sign has been
seen in Moore of the illness which
has struck them down in many
parts of the south, amounting in
some places to an epidemic of
mysterious origin.
Hunting parties shot some 20
buck the first day, and each daj
since has brought new accounts
of excellent sport. Among the
earliest parties in' the field were
members of the Winston-Salem
Gun club, who got nine deer, and
of the Hamlet Gun club, who got
three.
Little sleep was secured by Mr.
Fields Saturday morning after
midnight, as parties from long
distances kept arriving at his
home on Morganton road eager
to get their licenses and start out.
He didn’t mind being awakened,
though, he said—he’s proud of
Moore’s deer hunting reputation,
“the finest in the state,” and the
more who come to enjoy the sport
the better he likes—provided they
observe aU the laws.
No Protector Chosen
He is being assisted this year by
Woodrow McDonald, of the Old
Bethesda road, who was sworn in
September 2 as deputy game pro
tector and will become county
protector November 1, when Mr.
Fields will retire after 21 years of
service.
Announcement of the approval
of Mr. McDonald for the job by
the State Wildlife Cpmmission,
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TITLE WINNER
Dorothy Ann Swisher, 17-year-
old member of the junior class,
won the title of Miss Southern
Pines in a lively contest held at
the local high school last week,
and will represent this commun
ity at the Carolines Christmas fes
tival to be held November 16 at
Charlotte.
Music Lovers Will
Meet Tuesday To
Plan For Concert
Citizen Petitions
Recommend Clark,
Ask Tennis Courts
AT STATE FAIR
If plans materialize as discussed
by a group of music lovers, meet
ing in the Southern Pines library nents of more tennis courts were
Town Board Gels
Two Requests With
Many Signatures
Two petitions were presented
to the town board at its October
meeting held last Thursday eve
ning, one presenting the name of
Lloyd T. Clark to fill a vacancy
on the board, the other asking
the construction of two new ten
nis courts beside the present pair
on the town park.
Petitions bearing the signatures
of 214 citizens asking Mr. Clark’s
election were presented by Harry
Fullenwider, Joe Garzik and Her
bert N. Cameron. Mr. FuUenwi-
der spoke in behalf of the peti
tioners, recommending Mr. Clark
as a civic-minded citzen and tire
less worker for the community’s
good, respected for his achieve
ments and cooperative spirit.
Mr. Clark was nominated for
town commissioner at the ,elec-
tion held last May but declined at
that time to run. The 214 signa
tures number more than the votes
received by any one commission
er in May except the top man, L.
V. O’Callaghan, who had 215
votes. E. C. Stevens, second high,
had 211. .
Mayor C. N. Page, paying per
sonal tribute to Mr. Clark’s ac
complishments, said the request
would be duly considered by the
board.
More. Tennis Courts?
Signatures on the voluminous
petitions presented by the propo-
Visitors to the exhibit
buildings aX the State fair at
Raleigh this week will see no
more attractive sight than the
'exhibit of the Southern Pines
Elementary schooL Led by
the eighth grade as coordin-
atml. all gfadles contributed
to the display.
In a space seven by 12 feet,
a miniature Southern Pines
has been laid out. Consider
able artistic license has been
taken, but the highlights will
be recognized by all familiar
with this community—center
ing. neiturally, on the beauti
ful school building.
Other principal buildings,
golf courses, riding rings, pine
forests laced with bridle
trails are all charmingly pre
sented. A special feature of
the decoration is a mass of or
chids showing 10 species,
given by the Carolina Orchid
Gardens.
Beer Referendum
Scheduled First
Tuesday In March
Contracts Let For Resort Inns* Opening
Equipment Of New
School Buildings
Heralds New Season
Low Bids Total
$22,744 For Gym,
Auditorium, Cafeteria
COMMISSIONER
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GOOD SCORE
The four Robson brothers,
who have been deerhunting
together since childhood,
went after the buck in south
ern Moore this week for a 100
per cent score.
Monday morning early.
Hurshel shot a five-point
buck, William a 10-point;
Tuesday, Edwin got an eight-
point, Lawrence a six-point.
The,r father. Vender, went
with the boys as usual. His
score so far—^zero. That's all
right, be says; his tally for a
lifetime of good hunting in
the Sandhills is around 40
deer and will be more. Hur-
shel's kill was his 37th; Wil
liam's, the 18th or 20th; for
Edwin and Lawrence, this
week's kill was their first.
All live at the Robson home
near Southern Pines except
William, who is from Rock
ingham.
Tuesday night, the Sandhills will
be able to enjoy a concert by the
State Symphony orchdstra this
coming spring. ..
The meeting took place ifi re
sponse to a letter sent out by Mrs.
James Boyd, Eugene Stevens and
Voit Gilmore. Some 17 people in
all, with Mr. Gilmore as tempor
ary chairman, and Mrs. William
F. Hollister serving as' secretary,
joined in a discussion which cov
ered various angles dealing with
the bringing of music to the Sand
hills.
The State Symphony Concert
was set as the major goal.
-Though the talk was informal
there was no doubt of the earnest
ness of all present to add this at
traction to this section’s program
of seasonal events.
Mr. Gilmore described a talk
he and William F. Henderson had
had with Benjamin Swalin, direc
tor of the orchestra. Dr. Swalin
had outlined the whole proposi
tion and offered to come down
himself later and talk it over with
all those who were interested.
The consensus appeared to be
that not only the symphony but
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uncounted but represented, they
said, not only players but many
non-players of the game. Frank
de Costa, president of the fed'enG
ly organized Sandhills Tennis as
sociation, Walter Harper and Page
Choate appeared in behalf of the
project. '
Local interest in tennis is at
such a stage just now, Mr. de
Costa said, that more space is ur
gently needed, or many younger
players may become discouraged.
Almost every day and night, he
noted, games are going on and
many are waiting their turn. The
Tennis association, formed to fos
ter such interest, is up against the
blank wall of inadequate facili
ties, he said.
He presented a sketch showing
how the new courts could be lo
cated on the park at the least
sacrifice of space and trees.
To Commissioner O’Callaghan’s
suggestion that the courts might
be located somewhere else, using
up no public park space, Mr. de
Costa said he thought this would
not be the same thing: that the
high spectator interest here is
largely dependent on a central lo-
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The county board of elections
meeting at Carthage Friday night
set the first Tuesday in March as'
the new date of the countywide
beer and wine referendum.
The date had previously been
set at November 2, on presenta
tion of petitions circulated under
auspices of the Allied Church
League. However, the holding of
a bond election for a water plant
in Southern Pines on September
6 nullified this date as it came
within the 60-day limitation pre
scribed by law.
With the likelihood that another
vote will be held in Southern
Pines this winter, on extension of
the city limits, the problem fac
ing the board of elections was the
selection of a date which would
be outside the 60-day limitation
for this vote at one end, and the
primaries of May 29 at the other.
The city limits vote here, if it is
petitioned at public hearing No
vember 9, must be held by the
first week in January to allow the
beer vote the first week in March.
If petitions bearing the names
of 15 per cent of residents and
qualified voters in the areas in
volved are presented at the hear
ing on extending the city limits,
the election will most likely be
held. Notice has been served by
opponents bf the measure that the
petitions have already been circu
lated and contain a full measure
of,names and more.
Contracts were let by the school
board last Thursday for most of
the major items of equipment for
the new auditorium, cafeteria and
gymnasium of the Southern Pines
High school. •
Total of low bids accepted for
the auditorium seating, cafeteria
tables and chairs, and gymnasium
bleachers and backboards was
$22,744, according to Supt. P. J.
Weaver. When installed they
will give the new buildings a
place among the best equipped of
the state and section.
All the items are entirely mod
ern and were chosen for practi
cality and durability as well as
usefulness and good looks, Mr.
Weaver said.
The 740 auditorium seats, for
which the contract went to the
Universal Equipment company of
Raleigh, were priced singly at
$13.49 for a total of $9,982. They
will be of natural colored wood,
with plywood back and blue mo
hair cushion seat, with serpentine
rather than coil-type spring in
suring .pasting quality as well as
comfort.
For Cafeteria
Universal also won the contract
for 40 cafeteria tables at $35.56
each, ,total $1,430. These are a
popular type with strong hard
wood frames and formica tops in
tan linen effect, permanent glaz
ed and easy to clean.
The Clark Furniture company
of Southern Pines was low bidder
on 250 Thonet chairs, of bent
wood, with saddle seat, a fayored
modern cafeteria type. At $6.20
each, these totaled $1,550.
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Robbins Child Is
Fatally Burned
W. E. BLUE
Walter E. Blue
Succeeds Ruggles
On Town' Board
Rodeo, Aesop Get Colorful Treatment
Greenwood Will In Newly Published Books By Rounds
Be Speaker At
Merchants’ Meet
Thompson Greenwood, of Ral
eigh, assistant executive of the
N. C. Merchants association, will
address an open meeting of Sand
hills merchants at the Church of
Wide Fellowship at 8 p. m., next
Thursday. j
Mr. Greenwood, a well-known
newsman and columnist in addi
tion to his statewide work with
retailers, is coming here under
auspices of the Southern Pines
Merchants association, to speak
on the work of the state and local
groups and ways in which mer
chants can cooperate for better
business in their own communi
ties.
Merchants of Pinehurst, Aber
deen, Carthage and other towns
of the section are being given an
especial invitation to attend the
meeting.
Mr. Greenwood was asked here
as speaker for the local 'Mer
chants’ Association annual meet
ing this week, but could nof come
at that time. It was decided to
have the local meeting, with elec
tion of officers and other business,
at the scheduled time, and meet
again next week with guests from
the surrounding area for the spe
cial purpose of hearing Mr. Green
wood.
Glen Rounds has done it again
-or rather, twice again, with the
publication of two more of the
handsome juvenile books for
One Killed, Five
Injured In Crash
On Pinehurst Road
A driver failed to keep his eyes
on the road—and the next instant
a car and a pickup truck were
twisted steel and shattered glass,
while in them and on the road lay
a dead of dying woman, four
adults and four children, all in
jured but a tiny baby in its moth
er’s arms.
Mrs. Minerva Ann Hays, of Sea-
grove, Rt. 1, became Moore coun
ty’s eighth highway casualty of
the year in the collision on the
Pinehurst-Jackson Springs road,
about four miles from Pinehurst,
Sunday about 4 p.m. Her son,
Walter Vernon Hayes, 19, who
was driving the pickup, giving his
mother, sister and his sister’s
three small children a ride, came
over the crest of the hiU and saw
the approaching car.
He told Patrolman J. P. Rhyne
that, when he saw the driver was
looking the other way, he blew
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which the local cowboy-author-
illustrator is well known.
These, in the opinion of Rounds
fans, are probably his best, and
will surely rank at the top of
worthwhile books for young folks
published this. fall.
One, Aesop’s Fables, is a J. B.
Lippincott publication. The oth
er, Rodeo (subtitled “Bulls, Broncs
and Buckaroos”) is published by
Holiday House. As Rounds does
all his own lithography for the
many illustrations, and designs
every detail of his books from
jacket to colophon, it takes con
siderable time, and these have
been in preparation for the past
two years in the Rounds home on
Massachusetfs Avenue extension.
Rounds makes no claim to being
the author of Aesop’s Fables,
cheerfully handing the credit for
this to Aesop, but Rodeo is his
own to the last comma. In fact,
no one else could have written it.
Many Animals Pictured
The charm of the Aesop book,
aside from the brief wisdom-filled
tales themselves, lies in the multi
plicity of lithographed illustra
tions, beautifully colored. The
makeup, with harmonizing touch
es of color throughout, lures the
reader from page to page. While
Rounds is thought of primarily as
a “horse” artist, he shows himself
equally deft with hare, tortoise,
fox, cock, mouse, frog, lion, camel,
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County Workers
Busy In One-Week
Boy Scout Drive
The first report—only one so
farr.|-in the current one-week Boy
Scout fund campaign showed the
community of Aberdeen repeat
ing its splendid performance of
last year in being the first to go
over the top.
Under A1 Cruce, chairman, who
also served in this capacity last
year, the Aberdeen workers made
their $400 quota in one day’s
work, collecting an additional
$200 for local Boy Scout uses.
Other communities are expect
ed to report within a week, said
A. L. Burney, county campaign
chairman, expressing confidence
that > the $4,200 county quota
would be speedily amassed.
The value of the Boy Scout pro
gram is too well known for sup
port of the citizens to be lacking
at this crucial point, he declared.
Community chairmen are as
follows: Pinebluff, Leon Wylie,
Aberdeen, A1 Cruce; Southern
Pines, N. L. Hodgkins; Vass,
the Lions club; Cameron, L.
B. McKeithen; Eureka, T. L.
Blue; Carthage, Joe H. Allen;
Robbins, Roy McSwain; West
End, M. C. McDonald; Pinehurst,
Hugh Carter. Each has selected
his own group of workers.
H. L. Bryant, principal of the
Berkley school, Aberdeen, accept
ed the chairmanship of the Negro
division for the county, Mr. Bur
ney said. The county funds go to-
word financing full council and
district programs for both white
and Negro scouts.
The Southern Pines drive got
off to a good start with a break
fast held at Jacks Grill Monday
morning. The Aberdeen drive also
opened with a breakfast.
A blonde baby girl, Angelia
Elizabeth McNeill ,not quite two
years old, was fatally burned
when her dress caught fire in the
yard of her home at Robbins Sat
urday afternoon.
Angelia had been playing with
her half-sister, Gayle, who is a
little older. Unknown to their
mother, they had discovered a
fascinating new game—striking
matches and lighting pieces of
paper with them. Suddenly a
piece of binning paper fell into
Angelia’s lap. Flames shot up
about her^body and face.
Inside the house, the mother,
Mrs. Holt McNeill, heard the child
screaming. She ran out and tried
to beat out the flames with her
bare hands, severely burning
them in the process. The child
was rushed to the Moore County
hospital, where she died that
night.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at the Robbins
Baptist church, conducted by the
Rev. Reid Harris, pastor. Burial
was in Pine Rest cemetery.
Surviving are the mother and
father; one half-sister, Gayle, and
a half-brother, Billy; the paternal
grandfather. Coy McNeill, of
Moore county, and the maternal
grandparents, who live in South
Carolina.
Walter E. Blue, merchant, was
elected by the town board in spe
cial session last Friday to fill the
unexpired term of John S. Rug
gles, who resigned as town com
missioner recently in order to fiU
appointment to the State Board
of Hospitals Control.
Mr. Blue was sworn in immedi
ately by Mayor C. N. Page.
Though he has been active in
community and also in church af
fairs, this is the first time he has
held public office. He is retiring
this week as president of ttie
Southern Pines Merchants associ
ation, which he has served in this
capacity during its first year of
life. He is currently serving his
second term as a director of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Blue is an elder in the
Presbyterian church and Sunday
School superintendent of Brown-
son Memorial church here. In
1948 he was commissioner of the
Fayetteville presbytery at \ the
General Assembly held that year
in Montreat.
A riative of Moore county, he
moved to Southern Pines in 1927
and was manager of Pender’s
store (now Colonial Stores, Inc.)
for 11 years. He resigned to be
come a partner in the Modem
Market, which opened in Septem
ber, 1937, of which he is now sole
owner and manager.
He is married to the former
Miss lola Blanche Poole and they
have two children, Walter E. Blue,
Jr., a student at State college, Ral
eigh, and Mrs. Richard Maybin of
Toluca.
Mid Pines Hosl To
Meetings, Gk>lf
Champions On Staff
WUl Follow Soon
Olher Openings
Like flowers in the spring, re
sort hotels and entertainment
places are popping open this
month, bringing in the new sea
son with all the traditional pomp
and glory.
The Mid Pines—now to be call
ed officially the Mid Pines club—
opened Saturday, following the
Carolina hotel at Pinehurst by
just two days. The changing of
the name should entitle this popu
lar hostelry to full USGA club
recognition, and golf events are
expected to be stepped up in both
quality and quantity through ftiis
new development.
Three New England state cham
pions are on the hotel staff this
year—Ruth Woodward, Massa
chusetts; Pat O’Sullivan, Connec
ticut, and Mae Murray, four-time
title-winner in Vermont. Johnny
Bulla wiU be associated with the
club as playing pro, taking time
out only to make the winter cir
cuit and returning here in the
spring. Bulla’s assistant at the
Westmoreland club, Pittsburgh,
Pa., Zeke Browning, will be resi
dent professional.
The Mid Pines club has already
hung out the flags for two large
and distinguished meetings dur
ing its opening week, the N. C.
Urological association, which
brought 60 medical men and their
^ests for their 19th annual meet
ing, and more than 100 factory
and sales executives of the great
Burlington Mills, convening to
day.
The textile men will spend this
week end in golf and social activ
ities. Several department heads
from New York City are to be
present.
Next week, the Mid Pines will
be host to two more distinguished
groups—^the Automobile Dealers
of Virginia and North Carolina,
meeting Wednesday and Thurs
day, and on the week end, the
33rd semiannual Homer S. Cum
mings golf party of 50 or 60 na
tionally known legal, judicial and
political headliners.
The former U. S. Attorney Gen
eral and his friends have been
coming to the Sandhills since 1932,
and nobody ever has a better time
than they. A tournament is held,
and a. trophy and consolation are
awarded.
Hollywood Hotel
The Hollywood hotel will open
Sunday, October 30, with the N.C.
Presswomen’s association as their
first convention. The presswom-
en, representing editorial and
news departments of almost all
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Elks, Does, Donkeys To Battle It Out
Monday In Zoological What-Have-You
FIRST RETURNS
The hospital drive is begin
ning to take on material form.
With the first batch of contri
butions listed, coming from
only the very small portion of
Moore County citizens who
have been solicited thus far,
an idea can be gained as to
general progress. $16,763.42
is the sum chalked up to date
to the credit of the "Drivers."
With solicitors only just
starting in most localities, the
chairman ,G^neral Ira T,
Wyche, with proper army
caution, admits to being "fair-^
ly optimistic."
"I am reiterating the pol
icy." General Wyche said,
"that the drive will continue
until we have attained odr
goal. The initial policy con
templated canvassing every
person in Moore County, and
that policy has not been
changed."
The donkeys are coming! If
you don’t believe it be out at the
ball park Monday at 8 p. m. for
the most incredible, implausible,
impossible game of softball ever
played here—^the Elks v§. the
Does, their lady counterparts,
mounted on sure-enough donkeys.
Yes, it’s a Donkey Softball
game, with 15 of the brutes, all
sizes, shapes and colors and each
with its own distinct personality,
according to the manager of their
home ranch, the Lazy K.
Each animal, he claims, is a
graduate of “Donkey College” and
a past master at his own particu
lar specialty—base stealing, slid
ing, bucking or just plain stand
ing still.
All the players except the
pitcher and catcher will be mount
ed. In their precarious position
they have to run bases, field balls
and make aU the other plays. At
the same time they must cope
with the donkey’s ideas as to how
to play the game.
John E. Cline, manager of the
Elks team, claims to have assem
bled the greatest ^oup of ball
playing, burro-riding players in
the country. However, his boast
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There’ll Be A Hot Time In The Old
Town Monday Evening, October 31
Rotarians are going around this
week looking mysterious. They
know things they’re not teUing.
All kinds of exciting things—and
they all mean fun for the kids on
October 31.
Next week, said Chairman L. T.
Clark, full plans should be ready
fo^sannouncement, with ,a pro
gram of events for a full evening
for the young folks at the ninth
(or is it 10th?) annual HaUoween
community carnival sponsored by
the Rotary club.
Committees Mr. Clark named
last week are already hard at
work, and some new ones were
appointed at a meeting held Wed
nesday night to cover further de
tails.
Parade Plans
John E. Cline was named chief
marshal of the parade, for which
more complete plans are being
made this year than ever before,
to insure every costumed young
ster’s being seen by judges and
crowd alike. 'This means skillful
handling of the crowds rather
than the kids, for it is the adults,
crowding in to get a close look,
who appear to have caused con
fusion in the past. '
'The parade wiU be at 7 o’clock,
after which wiU come side shows,
a pie eating contest (Virgil Clark
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