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ARMISTICE DAY ARMISTICE DAY VOL. 30-NO. 51 16 PAGES THIS WEEK Soulhern Pines, N. C. Friday, November 11, 1949 16 PAGES THIS WEEK TEN CENTS Group Petitions Election On City Limits Expansion Services Planned For Outside Areas Outlined At Hearing “100 Per Cent” Is Chamber’s Goal A petition containing 136 names, asking an election on ex tending the city limits, was pre sented to the town hoard Wednes day evening by U. L. Spence, Car thage attorney, representing a group of residents of the areas in volved. The occasion was the public hearing on the extension of the city limits, which was held as the opening event of the regular board meeting at the city hall. About 20 residents of the areas proposed for annexation attended the meeting, crowding the meet ing room and the hall outside. Though none of them spoke up in behalf of the annexation, a feyr of those present, it turned . out, were there in favor of it rather than against it. However, the prevailing senti ment of the gathering was one of antagonism toward the move, which would make town taxpay ers a considerable group of resi dents whose homes now lie in a close constricting ring about the municipal boundaries. Mayor C. N. Page, speaking to the group, said, “I do not under stand your antipathy. We are only asking that you join with us in making this a better town. Those of us who live within the town pay our taxes and don’t mind. We want to extend to those outside the limits the benefits of the municipality, and also plan for zoning, which we consider neces sary to orderly growth. “I think you’re wrong , dead wrong,” the Mayor said, “but you have the right to your feelings. That’s the American way. We (Continued on page 5) Directors of the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce, with sev eral additional, members to en large their “flying squadron,” breakfasted (dutch) at the Hol lywood hotel Thursday meeting as a starter on a five-day mem bership drive. Renewals and new member ships will be sought, looking to ward achievement of a $10,844 quota for the year’s estimated budget. Larger than ever before in the history of the Chamber, the budget has been designed this year tO' take care of advertising services formerly supplied by the Town. The committee members were given lists of present members and also prospects, with the ob- ^ ' / ject being 100 per cent participa tion of all local merchants, pro fessional men and others in busi ness here in a full program of civic promotion. “We have a tremendous respon sibility, greater than the Cham ber has ever had before,” said Presidept Harry FuUenwider, in an informal send-off to the group. “The business success or failure of our community in the imme diate future is dependent to a large degree on hoW well all of us do this job. “We are working for the inter ests of every business man and woman in town, whether or not they are represented in our mem bership. We will be successful in exact proportion to the support we receive.” Town Will Abolish Fee System For Police January 1 All Recompense Will Be In Form of Regular Salaries Armistice Day Tree Planting Will Provide Living Memorial; Veterans Plan Ceremony Today PASSES Blue & White Romps Off With District Championship In Game With Pittsboro SEAL CHAIRMAN 24-14 Score Clinches Contest On Neutral Ground DR. BRUCE WARLICK Southern Pines Acquires Bus Station - Almost Dr. Warlick Will Be Local Chairman Of TB Seal Sale Southern Pines almost got a bus station last week, and its fail ure to do so is laid by Chamber of Commerce directors squarely on the doorstep of the Queen City Coach company. Negotiations which have been under way for some time, culmin ating Wednesday of this week, were the subject of a report by Chamber President Harry Ful- lenwider at the campaign break fast of the directors held Thurs day morning at the Hollywood hotel. J. C. Parrish, newly elected di rector, had offered the lower floor of a house he owns on South West Broad street, for use as a bus station on a two-year lease. He would instal the neces sary plumbing (four rest rooms) at his own expense, he said. The space afforded would provide space not only for a bus station but for an office for the Cham ber of Commerce if desired, or for other community purposes. Considerable remodeling, at an estimated cost of $2,000, would be necessary to put it in shape. “We are ready to meet the Coach com pany halfway,” said President FuUenwider, “but their represen tative, on a visit here Wednesday, said they could provide no more than $500. The Chamber is un able to afford the other $1,500.” Mr. Quattlebaum, traffic man ager of the Queen City had esti mated revenue to his company— after deduction of 10 per cent for local opersltion^at from $1,500 to $1,800 a month, he reported, “Even so, they are unwilling to invest more than $500, an inade quate sum.” Considerable work has been done by the Chamber toward es tablishment of a bus station here. Numerous leads have been fol lowed, and impetus had been giv en by this most recent, and prom ising, development. However, when it became apparent a stale mate had been reached, Mr. Par rish formally withdrew his offer. This left Southern Pines right where it was before; probably the only community of this size in the state, perhaps in many states, with no bus station of any sort. Dr. R. Bruce Warlick has been named Seal Sale chairman for Southern Pines, and P. T. Kelsey, who gave his services as chair man for many years, will act as treasurer, according to an an nouncement made here this week by Voit Gilmore, Moore County chairman of the 1949 Christmas Seal Sale. Dr. Warlick, who recently es tablished his dental practice in the new Causey building, is a na tive of Gastonia and a graduate of Wake Forest college. He complet ed his dental training under the ASTP at the Medical College of Virginia and was formerly asso ciated with Dr. E. M. Medlin of Aberdeen. Like the other local Seal Sale chairmen in the county. Dr. War lick will conduct the 43rd anrfual sale by mail rather than by per sonal, door-to-door solicitation. The adoption of the mail sale throughout the county is the main innovation in the plans for this year’s drive, which will be held from November 21 to December 25. To put into effect plans for an improved tuberculosis program in Moore county in 1950, the County Tuberculosis association, which is sponsoring the Seal Sale, must realize $6,200, Mr. Gilmore said. Of this amount. Southern Pines’ quota will be $1,300. Either Southern Pines or Pinehurst has led the county in the amount raised through the sale of Christ mas Seals each year. Total quota for Moore county was set by the association’s bud get committee after a careful study of the 1949 expenditures and of the projects planned for 1950. GOVERNOR COMING Governor W. Kerr Scoil will return to Moore county next week as guest speaker at the annual barbecue of the Moore County Farm Bureau, it was announced by T. Clyde Auman, of West End, Farm Bureau president. The bar becue will be held at 7 p. m., Wednesday at the Carthage High School gym. All members are expected to attend and anyone not a member may come and join the Bureau at this time, said President Auman. Southern Pines High eliminat ed Pittsboro High from Eastern Conference play Wednesday at Sanford by winning the Region 1 District championship. At the same time the local team ad vanced to the Eastern Conference finals. The Blue and White will now meet the winner of the Whit- akers-Elm City game to be played at Rocky Mount Monday night. Looking somewhat sluggish at times the Blue and White spotted Pittsboro a touchdown and an 8 point lead in the opening minutes of the first quarter. Recovering a blocked pass on the Southern Pines 21, May tossed a bullet heave over the middle of the line that Oldham took between two Blue and White defenders. With out breaking stride he raced over for the first touchdown. May con verted to make the score 8 to 0. Southern Pines roared ,back and, on the second play. Dicker- son, taking a lateral from Baker, raced 55 yards for the score. New ton failed to convert and the score was 8-6 Pittsboro. Following the kickoff and an exchange of punts. Southern Pines scored again, this time with Baker taking a pass from Copley to make the score 12-8 as Newton’s conversion try was blocked. Cop ley set up the third touchdown on a pass interception on the South ern Pines 20. After a running play failed to gain, Copley passed to Baker who was pushed out of bounds on the Pittsboro 11. Again Copley passed, but to Page this time and Page went over for the third marker. An attempted pass for the extra point was grounded, and the half time score was 18-8. During haK time intermission the Southern Pines band, with its four majorettes, entertained the crowd with some snappy stunts, and real brassy music. Pittsboro opened the second half by intercepting a Southern Pines aerial, intended for Dicker- son, on their 34 and ran it back to the locals’ 30. After two running plays failed. May for Pittsboro, swinging wide then cutting back sharply and then wide again, raced 30 yards to score. Conver- (Continued on page 5) Southern Pines will abolish the fee system for police and JPs as of January 1, 1950, according to an ordinance unanimously ap proved by the town board in reg ular session Wednesday night. The ordinance was presented earlier as the last official act of John S. Ruggles, former board member, before his recent resig nation. Favored by the , commis sioners, it had been handed to Hoke Pollock, town attorney, for a report on its legality, and pro cedure of putting it into effect. General statutes and an opin ion of the gtate’s Attorney Gen eral indicated no barrier to the passing of the ordinance, Mr. Pol lock reported this week. The delay in putting it into ef fect is to allow time for a study of arrest and witness fees as they have been paid in the past, so salaries of members of the police department might be adjusted up ward proportionately. , According to the ordinance, the fees will go into the general fund of the town, and will be re turned to the officers in, the form of stated salary which is to be made large enough so that they will not suffer loss through loss of the fees. The difference will be that the officers will do their work for a regular salary, which will remain the same no matter how many, or how few, arrests and court ap pearances are made. In abolishing the fee system the community is following the lead of a number of other mimicipali- ties of the state, who have found it outmoded and with potential evils far outweighing the advan tages, it was learned. FRANK MAPLES, Death Of Maples Is Loss To County And Golf World PRINCESS Off will go Miss Southern Pines, our own Dorothy Ann Swisher, to the Carolinas Christmas Festival at Char lotte Wednesday—one of 35 "princesses" from North and South Carolina towns who will have a day and night of glamor and glory in the "Queen City." Chosen by popular ballot from junior and senior girls at the high school, the 17-year- old "junior miss" will be en tertained at luncheon and tea, will ride in a special car in a Grand Parade and will attend a Grand Ball, where selection of "Queen Christmas" will be made. Movie Starlet Audrey Totter and radio stars Fulton Lewis, Jr., and Ted Malone will join city and Festival' of ficials in doing honor to the princesses. Alec McLeod will be Prin cess Dorothy Ann's escort at the ball. She will be accom panied to Charlotte also by her parents. Dr. and Mrs. Q. J. Swisher. Frank Maples, 63, for 47 years superintendent of golf courses at Pinehurst, Inp., died Wednesday about 6:30 p. m. at the Moore Moore County hospital after an illness of about two weeks. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. today (Friday) at Brown- son Memorial Presbyterian church, of which he was ai mem ber, Dr. T, E. Davis, pastor, will officiate and burial will be in Old Bethesda cemetery. Surviving are his wife, the for mer Miss Christian Elizabeth Wicker of Southern Pines; one daughter, Mrs. Harold McAllister, of the home, and two sons, both, like their father, figures well iknown in the golfing world— Hanson, a member of the Pine hurst (Country Club staff, and Ellis, pro at the Raleigh Country club. Mr. Maples was born in South ern Pines October 12, 1886, the year before incorporation of the town, and his life story has been completely identified with the history of the two Sandhills re sort towns. He became associa ted with Pinehurst, Inc., in its early days, and assisted greatly in the development of the golf courses on which its fame became based, During many years of his service at Pinehurst he was as sociated with the late Donald J. Ross, leading golf course design er, who made his home at Pine hurst while designing courses in the Sandhills and all over the country. Mr. Maples was a descendant of Moore County pioneers. His parents were James P. and Finit Timothy Stokes Maples. He was widely related in the Sandhills area. He was active in community (Continued on page 5) Dead of Two Wars Will Be Honored In Revetenl Ocdasion At Carthage Armistice day will be observed in Moore county with a ceremony at the courthouse in Carthage at 10:30 a. m. today (Friday) in which all veterans, their relatives and friends are asked to participate. • Dedication of a living memorial of pine trees planted on the courthouse lawn will honor those of Moore county who sacrificed their lives in both World w^rs. McPherson Named To Presidency of Sandhills Kiwanis Senator Graham Is Visitor In Sandhills Senator Frank Porter Graham, with Mrs. Graham, were distin guished Sandhills gdests this week, relaxing for several days at the Mid Pines following the clos ing of the first session of the 81st Congress. He came quietly and departed the same way Tuesday, to fill a speaking engagement at Chapel Hill—then returned Wednesday for a day and night. The Pilot visited him informally there, find ing him his brisk and alert self, filled with enthusiasm for his job as senator and with pertinent comments on affairs of the nation. With the headlines at that mo ment screaming out the news of the break in the coal strike, an in terview handed us Tuesday by Bud Harvey, of the Pinehurst Outlook, showed him up pretty well as a prophet. Wrote Bud: Sen. Frank A. Graham, taking a three-day holiday early this week at the Mid Pines club, ex pressed his belief that a break in the four-week-long national soft coal strike is imminent. He declared that he had carried the appeals of Mayor 'Victor Shaw of Charlotte and other North Car olina mayors directly to the White House some 10 days ago, and to Cyrus Ching, chief of the national conciliation board. “I urged that, in view of the crucial situation threatening the national economy, every possible step be taken to speed a settle ment of the coal strike,” said Sen. Graham. “I was assured by Mr. Ching that every effort was being made to find a solution and that progress was being made.” The senator,^ who clashed with mine union chief John L. Lewis over wartime coal strikes, de clined to comment on the possi bility of applying the provisions of the Taft-Hartley law to end the strike. Senator Graham, during the last session of Congress, voted against the employment of Ihe law as a strike-breaking weapon. Sen. and Mrs. Graham arrived at the Mid Pines club Sunday and remained until late Tuesday. The junior senator proceeded to Ral eigh Tuesday to fulfil a speaking engagement that evening. Last week. Senator Graham is sued a statement in Washington at the behest of the State Depart ment expressing American grati fication with the settlement of the long-smouldering Indonesian self- rule issue. The Graham state ment was broadcast over “The Voice of America” to Indonesian and Asiatic countries. During the past week, the Mid Pines club played host to Helen Sigel, western amateur women’s golf champion and "►Philadelphia and Pennsylvania titlist. Expect ed at the club-hotel this week was Peggy Kirk qf Findlay, Ohio, prominent woman golfer and win ner of the Augusta Titleholders’ crown last spring. Next week, the hotel will en tertain 48 members of the Con gressional Country club of Wash ington, D. C., making their semi annual golfing junket to,the Mid Pines. Garland McPherson, certified public accountant of Southern Pines, was named president of the Sandhills Kiwanis club, at the annual election held at the lunch eon meeting Wednesday at Ihe Hollywood hotel. The Rev. Zeb V. Caudle, of Aberdeen, was also a ;aominee. Voit Gilmore was elected vice president, an office for which there were also two nominees, the other being Benjamin Wicks. John Howarth, unopposed, was returned to the post of treasurer. From a slate of 14 presented by the nominating committee seven directors were voted in as fol lows: R. L. Chandler, Jr., Dr. P. J. Chester, Dr. C. C. McLean and Jack Younts, of Southern, Pines; J. M. Taylor, of Aberdeen, and L. B. Creath and I. C. Sledge of Pinehurst. Retiring President Hawley Poole conducted the meeting, at which J. B. Claridge, assistant state forester with the N. C. For est Service, was guest speaker. He was presented by Colin G. Spencer of Carthage, owner of one of the largest timber farms in the state and a well-known figure in the forestry world. . Mr. Claridgei spoke mainly on reforestation work of the N. C. Forest Service, with emphasis on the pine woods which form one of the state’s greatest natural re sources. Work of the state nurs ery at Clayton, where pine seed lings are grown for state wide re forestation projects, was discus sed Considerable success is being achieved in the growing of pines from seed, Mr. Claridge said, though the difficulty of obtaining sufficient seed is an ever-present problem. This is a year in which the seed happen to be particularly scarce, he said, hampering the work somewhat. When a quantity of seed is available, they may be sown in various ways. 'Thousands of pounds have been sown from airplanes, with notable success, he said. The Sandhills Kiwanis club will have Senator Hoey as guest speaker November 23, and Sen ator Frank P. Graham December 14. The dedication address will be made by U. L. Spence, of Car thage. Judge J. Vance Rowe will respond for the veterans of World War 1, and Robert N. Page, 3rd, for those of World War 2. Also on the program, speaking in behalf of the project of living memorials of trees planted along highways and for beautification of other spots in the county, will be Hon. Wilbur H. Currie and Colin G. Spencer, of Carthage. Gordftn M. Cameron, of Pine hurst, chairmna of county com missioners, will respond for the county. Officials of American Legion posts of Aberdeen, Carthage, Cameron, Robbins, West End, Pinehurst and Southern Pines, and of their auxiliaries, will be pres ent. All citizens are asked to par ticipate, said Charles W. Swoope, head of the Moore County Vete rans committee and of organized Legion posts. Shields Cameron, of Southern Pines, is chairman of arrange ments for the solemn dedication. Members of the Sandhills post, American Legion, have also plan ned an evening celebration, be ginning with a fish fry supper at 5:30 at the Legion hall on Maine avenue, followed by an hour of Armistice Day recollections by the attending veterans. Square dancing to the music of a local band of old-time Scottish fiddlers will conclude the evening’s pro gram—a “dutch treat” affair. Cardy Horses Win High Honors At National Show Winkelman's Renown Fourth In Stiff Test Home Economists Of State Plan May Meeting Here The N. C. Home Economics as sociation will hold its 1950 meet ing in Southern Pines, it was an nounced following the close of the 1949 meeting this week at Winston-Salem. The convention will bring to Southern Pines early next No vember some 250 home demon stration agents, home economics teachers, commercial home econ omists, dietitians and others of the smart gals who can make with the menu and know their way around a kitchen. The meeting was arranged through astute missionary work done largely by Moore county’s own Miss Flora McDonald, home demonstration agent, who is now serving her second year as a member of the executive board of the state Home Economics as sociation. Miss McDonald had the active assistance of the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce, which sent an official invitation to the group and also provided her with needed information and literature about the town and its accommo dations. Cardy Farms’ horses went into the big time news, this week, fig uring prominently in all accounts of the National Horse Show in New York’s Madison Square Gar den, with Gold Lode, the fine eight-year-old thoroughbred, a consistent winner for this stable, shining forth in winning splendor. Gold Lode, after three spectac ular . rounds in the elimination class Tuesday, entered the con formation hunter championship test in the finals on Wednesday with 24 points, and won the award. Atomic and Hangover placed first and second in the Knock- down-and-out trials, while, in the Open Championship, Atomic tied with the winner. All Afire, of Millarden Farms, Pa., o^nly to miss the jump-off and take reserve place. Thus registering a curious repeat of the performances of both these horses at Harrisburg a few weeks earlier. In the class for middle and heavyweight conformation hunt ers, The Cardy Farms’ Jervis Bay, an old Sandhills favorite, placed second to Portmaker, the winner. Other Cardy ribbons were: 4th to Maple Leaf in the Open Hunt ers, 1st and 2nd toi Gold Lode and Jervis Bay in the Green or Quali fied hunters, 1st to Hangover in the Pen (open to all) and 4th to Atomic. In the Pair class, Jervis Bay, teamed with Miss Rogers’ Victory, placed second. Bob Egan, who rode all the Cardy entries, chalking up some outstanding perfo-rmances, suffer ed a mishap when his mount, Eg- linton, took a sudden dislike to the white gate in one of the hunt er courses. He put in such a quick refusal that Egan lost his seat, suffering a severe cut on the face. Another Sandhills stable repre sented in the Garden was the Lakelawn Stable of Mr. and Mrs. jDwighlt Winkelman. Their Re nown placed third in the Working Hunter Stake.
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