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MOORE COUNTY
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VOL. 30—NO. 49
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines, N. C.
Friday, October 28, 1949
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Chamber Accepts
$10,000 Budget
for Coming Year
Breakfast Nov. 10 '
Will Initiate
Membership Drive
The Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce directors, meeting at
the Belvedere hotel Tuesday
night, accepted the largest annual
budget in the organization’s his
tory, for estimated expenses total
ing $10,844.25.
The budget, presented by W.
Lament Brown, budget committee
chairman, had advertising as its
largest single item of expense.
This is an obligatiori recently
handed to the Chamber by the
Town, which has handled the re
sort advertising for 25 years.
Most of the budget is to be rais
ed through membership dues, and
plans were made at once for a
membership and dues-collecting
campaign as the essential prelim
inary to starting the year’s work.
The campaign, it was decided,
will open with a dutch breakfast
at the Hollywood hotel Thursday,
November 10, and continue for
five days. The 15 members of the
board of directors will attend the
breakfast, each bringing a mem
ber to work with him as partner
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North and South
Opens Tuesday On
Pinehurst Course
Qualifying play for golfers not
on the invited list for next week’s
47th annual North and South
Open tournament wjll be held
Monday at the Pinehurst Country
club.
The $7,500 event will get under
way next Tuesday with the 72
holes of play scheduled to wind
up Thursday with 36 holes.
Players exempted from Mon
day’s qualifying round include all
former winners of the North and
South, the National Open and the
PGA events, those who played
here on the last day of the 1948
tournament, the low 30 and ties in
this year’s National Open, all
match play qualifiers in this
year’s PGA tournament, and a
limited number of other tourna
ment winners at the discretion of
the tournament committee.
Tony Penna will defend the
honors he won a year ago in a
field that already includes Sam
Snead, Johnny Palmer, Clayton
Heafner, Claude Harmon and Am
ateurs Frank Stranahan, Dick
Chapman, Robert Sweeny and
Jimmy McHale. Entries close Sat
urday night. The qualifying
round is open to all pros and am
ateurs who have a club handicap
of three or less.
On-the-scene broadcasts .will be
given by WEEB during the Open
through its short-wave VMF mo
bile equipment, which will follow
the play. Tho broadcasts will be
logged at selected times during
the three-day meet, both over >,he
local station and as “fed” to a net
work of four or more other sta
tions of the state.
ANY FIX?
Deer hunters—if you get a
good picture of your "kill,"
please bring it to The Pilot.
If it is clear enough for a
newspaper cu't. we will gladly
publish it. for other hunters
and non-hunters to admire.
Somehow we can't figure
out a way for our photogra
pher to be right on the spot—
He's good, but not that good.
So if you happen to hunt
with a camera as well as wiith
a gun, please bring the results
to The Pilot. 'Thanks!
Eighth Grade’s
Prize-W inning
Display On View
I
The prize-winning exhibit of
the Southern Pines Elementary
school, which was awarded $]ob
at the State Fair at Raleigh last
week, has been set up at the Mc-
Donald-Page Motor company and
will be on display for the local
public during this weekend.
“Open house” for the home
town debut of the display, which
shows the “model community” of
Southern Pines in miniature, was
scheduled to be held from 7:30 to
9 last night (Thursday) and will
be repeated SUnday from 3 to 5
p. m.,/with members of the spon
soring eighth grade and their pa
rents acting as hosts and hostess
es.
Studied Community
The seven-by-12-foot exhibit,
showirig mnay buildings and in
dicating various local activities,
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Welcome NC Presswomen!
The N. C. Presswomen’s associ
ation will hold its fall meeting
Sunday at the Hollywood hotel
beginning at 12 noon, bringing to
Southern Pines some 50 or 60
faminine “headliners” and “bylin
ers” from all over the state.
The Pilot will be host at a pre-
prahdial social hour, and the
Town of iSouthem Pines will, be
host at dinner. Members of the
town board have been invited to
be present, and Mayor C.; N. Page
will give a greeting, as will also
Harry Fullenwider, presideivt of
the Chamber of Commerce.
Among others on the informal
dinner program will be two Sand
hills authors of newly published
books. Manly Wade Wellman and
Glen Rounds.
Freck Sproles, woman’s editor
of the Charlotte News, president
of the association, will be in
charge of the program to take
place during the afternoon, in
which various members wjll lead
in panel discussions of their work
with emphasis on the “woman’s
angle.” Among panel speakers
will be President Sproles; Zoe
Kincaid Brockman, society editor
Emd columnist of the Gastonia Ga
zette, former president of the N.C.
Poetry^ society; Harriet Doar, so
ciety editor of the News and'Ob
server; and, in a joint panel dis
cussion of a “woman-run paper in
a man-run town,” Katharine
Boyd, editor of The Pilot, and her
assistant Valerie Nicholson.
Several forms of entertainment
have been planned for the guests
if time permits, including a tour
of the town conducted by mem
bers of the Chamber of Coni-
merce, and tea at Weymouth, the
Boyd home.
Bessie Cameron Smith and Cor
nelia Vann, of The Pilot, will be
in charge of registration. Mrs.
Nicholson, as eastern chairman of
the association this year, is in
charge of arrangements.
About a dozen members will
arrive Saturday night for dinner
and a planning session.
Ghosts, Witches Ride
Here Monday Evening
Rotarians Plan
Full Program For
Halloween Carnival
Safe-Sane-Fun For All
McDonald Starts
Tuesday On Job
As Game Protector
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Sandhills Music Association Formed;
Plans Symphony Gincert For Spring
RESORT ISSUE
BLUE 8t WHITE
With their win over Jones
boro last week, and a 46-6 vic
tory over Pinehurst Wednes
day night, the undefeated
Blue & White gridders start
ed on the dizzy upward spiral
of conference play.
A game with West End Sat
urday (8 p.m.) on the lighted
Pinehurst field, and one with
Aberdeen hare at 3:30 p.m.,
Wednesday will also be con
ference games, the winner to
compete for the district title,
by Wednesday, November 9.
Opposition will be provided
by the winner of an upcom
ing contest between Pittsboro
and Red Springs.
The Blue & White's fans
know that anyfhing can hap- '
pen—^yet they're watching
that date of November 16,
when the Eastern Conference
champion will be determined;
the winner to play for the
slate championship, probably
on Thanksgiving day.
Since last year's state game
was in the west, this year's
will be oo an eastern field.
, And boys, dat ole dabbil
Clemmons is moving right on
up.
Woodrow McDonald, young
Army veteran, will take over the
job of county game protector Tues
day, succeeding Alex Fields, who
is retiring after many years of
service.
The announcement was made
by C. M. Capel, of Mt. Gilead, dis
trict game protector, who said
Mr. McDonald was chosen from
a i^eld of seven candidates. H.e
has been actively at work as a
deputy, assisting Mr. Fields and
learning the job, since September
2.
He is a native of Moore county,
the son of A. D. McDonald, of the
Old Bethesda road, and was edu
cated in the Aberdeen schools. He
was employed in Aberdeen until
the war, when he went into serv
ice with the Quartermaster Corps.
,He was trained at Camp Lee, Va.,
after induction at Fort Bragg,
then spent two years in Iceland
and 18 months with the U. S.
forces in England.
Following his discharge he was
employed for a time at the
Southern Pines post office. He
left on account of an illness which
required a prolonged recupera
tion, and from which he has now
for some time been entirely well.
He is the brother of Ray Mc
Donald, of Southern Pines. They
have another brother, Alton, liv
ing with their father at the home
place.
He is married to the former Mrs.
Mary Blevins and they are living
at the Manor apartments on East
New Hampshire avenue, where
he may be seen or telephoned
(6784) by those needing a game
protector’s services.
Mrs. Moss Chosen
To Judge Juniors
At National Show
By E. O. Hippus
Southern Pines is basking in the
pleasant news that its Jinny Moss
is going to be a judge in the Na
tional Horse Show at Madison
Square Garden this ypar.;, .
Mrs. Moss who is, of course,
first whip to the Moore County
Hounds of which her husband,
Ozelle Moss, is Master, will judge
classes in equitation, pony classes
and all junior classes (the 18 and
under group). Her companions in
the team of three lady-judges are:
Mrs. Marjorie Hewlett of Long Is
land fame, and Mrs. Ruth Guitar
of Warrenton, Va.
The local gal who is going to
make so good, is leaving next
Thursday night. She judges No
vember 5th and 6th and will stay
on through the rest of the show.
She will be visiting Mr. and Mrs.
B. A. Tompkins, who are almost
as well known in the Sandhills as
Jinny herself.
Mrs. Moss is not too busy with
plans for the show to be doing the
usual thing out at Mile-Away.
That means: e::f:ercising horses,
schooling, young ones in the ring
and under saddle and, above all,
working with hounds.
Puppy Drag
The pack which has been exer-
cisipg on the roads for some time
now, has been out hunting every
day this past week. Dry weather
has made scenting donditions a
bit uncertain, but a cub was view
ed one day and run for a short
distance.
On Saturday, the puppies will
go out for their first hunt. 'The
meet, a completely informal one
and, presumably, on invitation,
will be at the Kennels at 9 a. m.
“Probably,” says the Master about
this always uncertain event. Ev
erything is “probably” when it
comes to the young entry; any
thing may happen and generally
does.
So: to judge and puppies both,
your reporter permits himself a:,
“good luck, folks!”
Homer Cummings’ Party of Headliners
Enjoying 34th Sandhills Tournament
Some 40 or 50 nationally prom
inent figures, are arriving this
weekend at the Mid Pines club to
narticipate in the 34th renewal of
the Homer Cummings Golf tour
nament, a semiannual social and
golfing party for headliners.
Among those exepcted to arrive
Thursday or Friday were Sen.
Scott Lucas (D.-IIL), Senate ma
jority leader. Sen. Brien McMa
hon (D.-Conn.), ■ chairman of the
Senate Atomic committee, Assis
tant Secretary of Defense Ste
phen T. Early and former heavy-
weight boxing champion Gene
Tunney.
Also Dr. Paul F. Dickens,
Washington physician; T. Howard
Duckett, Maryland banker and
attorney; Daniel F. Norton, N. Y.,
president of the Nestle company;
Superior Court Judge P. B. O’Sul
livan, Orange, Conn.; Assistant
Attorney Gen. A. Devitt Vanech;
Judge Sam Whitaker of the
Washington Court of Claims;
Frank A. Thompson, St. Louis
lawyer; M. A. Morrissey, chair
man of the board of the Ameri
can News company; and Dr. Pa-
ternot of Switzerland, chairman
of the board of the Nestle com
pany.
The golfers will qualify for
handicap ratings on Friday, and
compete for tjhe Robert V. Flem
ing trophy, established by the
president of the Riggs National
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November means the Sea
son is starting and that means
that the Pilot's Resort Issue
is due to be published.
The two go hand-in-hand.
The Season's coming gives
the. pep to the Resort Issue
and that great and glorious
tome. (48 pages last year!)
full of pictures of the hottels,
horses, hunts, homes, and
heayen-knows - what - elses
of the Sandhills, starts the
Season off with a bang.
. Already the Golf section,
the‘ Horse Beeticm, > i|!he X®
Olde Timey section are get
ting their front page layouts
set up. If the ads keep on a-
pouring in, the staff is going
to have to invent some entire
ly new ideas.
How about: The New Bus
Station section , or the Millen
Park section? There's been
enough said about both to fill
quite a few pages.
Kennedy Resigns
As Commissioner
Beeause of Move
Carlton C. Kennedy, member of
the Southern Pines town board
since May, resigned this week
on account of his recent move to
Carthage, disqualifying him by
law, from continued membership
even though he maintains a busi
ness connection here.
This has been the second resig
nation of a board member this
month, leaving only one, C. S.
Patch, Jr., of the three new com
missioners elected in May still on
the board.
“The double loss has been un
usual and unfortunate for the
town,” said Mayor C. N. Page this
week, “and has taken from the
board two 6f its most valuable
members. My personal regrets
have been deep and sincere.”
John S. Ruggles resigned Octo
ber 3 on account of his member
ship on a state board, prohibiting
other public office holding. He
has been replaced by Walter E.
Blue.i
No action can be taken on Mr.
Kennedy’s resignation imtil the
regular 'meeting of the board No
vember 9, Mayor Page said, and
may not be taken then.' “With a
four-man board, there is no hur
ry.” He said that several names
of possible successors have been
presented for consideration. Peti
tions for one, L. T. Clark, were
handed the board at its October
meeting. Others also have strong
support, said the mayor, though
not in .petition form.
Carthage, N. C.
October 21, 1949.
Honorable C. N. Page, Mayor
Town of Southern Pines.
It is with deep regret that I
find it necessary to hereby submit
my resignation from the Board of
Commissioners of the Town of
Southern Pines, effective imme
diately. I ,have moved my resi
dence to Carthage, therefore, I
am no longer eligible to hold pub-
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Elects Officers;
Chooses Directors
From Entire County
The Sandhills Music Association
came into being Tuesday night.
The place of birth of this new
society was the Southern Pines
Library where some 40 citizens of
this and adjoining towns met to
choose a name for their venture,
elect officers, draw up a list of
proposed directors, and make def
inite plans for the coming to this
section of the North Carolina
Symphony orchestra, the first
goal of the society.
The four officers elected by ac
clamation were Voit Gilmore,
president, Mrs. Ralph Chandler,
Jr., secretary, William F. Hender
son, treasurer, and Dr. William
F. Hollister, drive chairman. Di
rectors proposed were Aberdeen:
Mrs. Henry Page, Jr., Pinebuff:
Mrs. Manly Wellman, Carthage:
Mrs. Colin Spencer, Jr. (who was
present and accepted the office,)
Vass: Alton Cameron, Pinehurst:
Charles Picquet, West End: Mrs,
Horton, Robbins: James Culbreth,
Southern Pines: Mrs. James Boyd
and E. C. Stevens. A small work
ing executive committee was
chosen from this group.
Stale Orchestra To Come
A discussion followed of plans
for the proposed concert by the
state orchestra. David Ashburn,
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Scout Banquet At
Carthage Tuesday
The big dining room of the Car
thage hotel will be filled Tuesday
night, when Scouters of the coun
ty assemble there for their an
nual meeting and banquet start
ing at 7:30 o’clock.
They will come from all county
communities, for Boy Scouting
now permeates into every part of
Moore and wherever it is found
adult volunteers are playing a
large part in its progress.
Scoutmasters, assistant scout
masters, troop and pack commit
teemen, neighborhood commis
sioners, district chairmen and oth
ers who administer the program
in Moore county will be present
to greet a number of Occoneechee
Council officials and also some
distinguished guests, in this big
meeting of the year.
District Chairman W. D. Camp
bell will preside. The main speak
er will be Fred Dixon, of Raleigh,
Council commissioner, and also
representing the Council will be
Harold R. Makepeace, of Sanford,
president, and 'Welty Y. Compton,
Raleigh, executive. A special
guest will be Bruce Boyers, for
mer Moore County field execu
tive and assistant Council execu
tive, now executive of the Tusca-
rora Council with headquarters
in Goldsboro. Several officials of
the Lee County and newly elected
Cumberland County district com
mittees will be present. ^
Officers will be electedxo serve
the district next year,. Chairman
Campbell and each district chair
men will make his annual pro
gress report. Goals for the com
ing year will be set.
L. T. CLARK
Clark Elected To
Head Merchants;
Directors Named
Members of the Southern Pines
Merchants association meeting
last Thursday night elected Lloyd
T. Clark president and Herbert N.
Cameron vice-president of their
year-old organization.
Col. P. G. Shearman, manager,
will serve as secretary and treas
urer.
Elected as directors, to serve
with the president and vice pres
ident on a governing board, were
Ralph Chandler, Jr., E. Nolley
Jackson, Norris L. Hodgkins and
L. V. O’Callaghan (the last two
elections). Walter E. Blue, as re
tiring president, will also serve
on the board.
Colonel Shearman, reporting on
progress made during the past
year, emphasized the building up
of the Credit Rating bureau, the
organization’s major project,
which he said now has a file of
2,000 individual names, with con
fidential rating prepared from
reports of their creditors. Reports
asked by local members number
ed 121, out-of-town 248, a total of
369 for the year.
More Local Use Urged
More use of the Credit Bureau
by local members was urged by
President Clark, who said he felt
that many were not aware of the
value this could be to their busi
nesses, and how to make the most
of the facilities this provided.
Seven members testified to
ways in which it had helped them.
One member said that several in-
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The big news this week is Hal
loween, which is coming up Mon
day, October 31, with all the eic-
couterments of weird costumes,
noise-makers, fun and frolic to
which the young folks—and the
old ones too—look forward from
year to year.
In Southern Pines it’s some
thing to look forward td, not to
dread as in so many towns. The
reason? The Rotary club’s big
Community Carnival, held in the
heart of downtown, with every
body welcome, especially the kids.
For the boys and girls the Ro
tarians have gone “all out’ this
year as always, with each one
taking part in preparations for
what looks like their biggest and
best carnival of all.
Parade at 7 P. M.
Lloyd T. Clark, chairman, this
week announced the program of
events, which will start at 7 p. m.
with the Grand Costume parade.
Entrants will assemble on East
New Hampshire avenue just off
Broad, beside Patch’s store, where
an area , will be roped off for
them. Led by the school band
and high-stepping majorettes,
they will proceed along Broad
past the reviewing stand, where
out-of-town judges will do their
best in selecting the prize win
ners.
The parade block will be light
ed and kept clear of traffic for
the entire evening, and all activ
ities will take place there, with
the reviewing stand doubling as
a stage. Chairman Clark will be
master of ceremonies, assisted by
staff members of WSTS and
■WEEB. 'The program, will be in
terspersed with music.
Following the parade and
award of prizes, at about 8:15 a
laugh-provoking novelty event
will transpire—a “firemen’s un
dressing race” with a group of
teen-age boys participating. They
will race from end to end of the
block, divesting themselves of va
rious articles of clothing as they
go, and then getting them back
on again, the prize winner to be
the first to end up neatly and
completely clad.
Dance Revue
At approximately 9 o’clock a
dance act will be put on by pupils
of Martha Aden’s School of Dance.
This will be the first public ap
pearance for these youngsters and
an unusual and beautiful little
“revue” is being prepared.
At 9:30, announcement will be
made of the winner in the candy
jar guessing contest, held all this
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Deane’s Announcement For Reelection
Starts More Political Talk In County
Congressman C. B. Deane of the
Eighth district last week issued a
statement that he plans to be a
candidate for reelection to the
House next year, thereby spiking
(for the second time) strong nun-
ors that he planned to run for the
Senate, and also getting the polit
ical ball rolling toward the 1950
election.
Deane, who is now serving his
second term, denied that he plan
ned to oppose Senator Hoey or
anyone else in the Senate race.
The statement was an open an
swer to a prediction of Bob
Thompson, editor of the High
Point Enterprise and political ra
dio commentator, that Deane
would do so.
With an announcement already
made in Moore county by J. Haw
ley Poole, of West End, that he
will be a candidate for election to
the State Senate, discussion of
matters political, desultory last
summer, have lately begun to take
on an animated tinge. The elec
tion seeins a good distance away
—yet the primaries, which tradi
tionally determine such matters
in these parts, are only seven
months off, and the first of the
year should see real activity start.
No announcement has been
forthcoming from Former Senator
Wilbur Currie, of Carthage, and
opinion seems divided as to
whether he wiU run. Some vow
they have “heard him say he will”
while others feel Poole will have
WILL RUN AGAIN
“C. B.”
no contest—-from the Currie cor
ner, anyhow.
Blue Will Run
H. Clifton Blue, of Aberdeen,
Moore’s representative in the Gen
eral Assembly for the past two
terms, has made no formal an
nouncement but frankly tells any
one who asks that he plans to run
again. To friends who thought he
might consider a try for the Sen
atorial job, as possibly more ele
vated in state affairs. Blue says
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