GIVE TO THE
MARCH OF DIMES
HGHT POLIO!
GIVE TO THE
MARCH OF DIMES
FIGHT POLIO!
fL. 31 NO. 8
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines, N. C.
Friday, January 13, 1950
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
inebluff Voters
X
kay Bond Issue
)r Civic Projects
80 Pe? Cent Of
Registered Voters
March To Polls
PRESIDENT
ffearly 80 per cent of Pinebluffs
jistered voters flocked to the
as Tuesday, to approve all
project^ bond issues for a
of $17,000. A total of 139
;es was cast.
aie largest sum, $10,000 for
jrovement and extension of the
m’s water system, drew 92
es of approval over 42 of dis-
t. The $5,000 asked for pur
se and improvement of the
rm-ruined Pinebluff lake had
votes for and 53 against. And
voted to raise $2,000 for re
ading of the Town Hall and
ction of a storage shed, to 53
linst.
?he size of the vote is said to
re surprised everyone in Pine-
,ff, where ahnost no serious
;n debate on the various pro-
als had been heard prior to
ction. The victory for all three
ipositions, decisive but not
irwhelming, was generally seen
characteristic of Pinebluff,
ere strong differences of opin-
have, from the community’s
'innings, made public affairs
eresting.
The election results are being
led another triumph lor May-
E. H. Mills and his hard-work-
board of town commissioners,
ly Parker, Walter Alpert and
rry Howie. It was poiilted out
it the $17,000 to be raised by
■chase of bonds is not expected
raise the present tax levy rate,
any of those who voted no
re disappointed or angry, they
/e so far kept it to themselves,
ervers say. *
4ayor E. H. Mills, present as
final votes w^re counted, dn-
iinced that the town board will
:et Monday night to consider
mediate plans for putting the
voted funds to work.
‘The big vote and decisive vic-
■y for all three propositions
)ws that Pinebluff is strong in
ipirit of progress,” he said. “As
m as it is humanly possible,
U finish doing what v, e start-
out to do—improve our water
item, provide the swimming
ilities for which every Pine-
iff child and most Pinebluff
alts are eager, and complete the
ilding of our storage shed and
vn hall.”
Building Permits For 1949
Set Record High Of $407,600
Building permits lor Southern exclusive of the school. Was resi-
Pines in 1949 totaled $407,600, dential as only three permits for
March Of Dimes Helps Him March
which most likely set a new high
record for this community.
Permits for both 1947 and 1948
wre approximately $250,000—
which was considered good.
The figures for 1949 given this
week by Elmer Davis, city build
ing inspector, show the new gym
nasium and auditorium account
ing for more than half the total—
$207,000. Other new building in
Southern Pines amounted to $174,-
100; .alterations to existing build
ings, $14,700; new homes in West
Southern Pines, $11,800.
Almost all of the new building,
business building were issued.
There were for the Southern
Pines Warehouse offices, the Cau
sey building on South Broad
street and the Blue Mirror Res
taurant, built by , DrL L. MJ.
Daniels.
Three ydsjrs in a row Have
seen permits issued for unusually
large building projects—in 1947,
the new elementary school, $120,-
000; in 1948, the Seaboard passen
ger station remodelifig, $59,000,
and last year the gymnasium and,
auditorium, on which consider
able work remains to be done.
FOR HUNTERS
GARLAND McPHERSON was
installed last week as president of
the Sandhills Kiwanis club.
Two Are Arrested
F ollowingBreak-In
At Cardy Place
arshall Draws On Rich Experience^
or Speeches At Two Sandhill Events
Deputy Sheriff A. J. Dees said
this week that he Arrested A1
Dowd, Negro, of West Southern
Pines, and Robert Maynard, In
dian, of Fayetteville December 28
in connection with a break-in
which took place one week ear
lier at the home of Vernon G.
Cardy near here.
The men waived hearing and
were released on bond for their
appearance at the January term of
crimjnal court, where they will
lace breaking and entry charges.
The arrests were effected
through the following of a few
slight clues, the first being that
“a car with a New York license”
had been seen in the vicinity.
Dowd and Maynard recently re
turned to this section from New
York.
Southern Pines city police aided
in breaking the case, said Deputy
Dees.
' Entry into the Cardy home,
whose occupants have not yet
come south for the winter, was
made through a basement door
and also the kitchen door. , A
vault in the basement was brok
en open and a quantity of liquor
taken. There were indications
also that some canned goods had
beeij stolen from a storage closet.
A number of hunters ap
pear unaware that the season
on wild duck and geese closed
last Saturday, also that/the
squirrel season was over as
of January 2, this week said
Game Protector Woodrow
McDonald.
The brief dove season,
which opened December 31,
will close this Saturday, Jan
uary 14.
The deer season closed
December 15.
Hunters of the quail, wild
turkey and rabbit have two
more weeks of sport till the
closing of the season January
31. Hunting of the coon and
possum will end the next
day, February 1.
Mrs. Claude Hafer
Passes In Oliio;
Taught Musie Here
Brown Ready To
Take Applieations
For Census Jobs
Mrs. Claude Hafer, 69, piano'
teacher here for 26 years, died
Tuesday at Wadsworth, Ohio,
where for the past 11 months she
had made her home with her
daughter, Mrs. Arthur Olmsted.
Death occurred at 2:30 a. m.
Funeral services were held at 4
p. m. that same day at the Hil
liard Funeral chapel at Wads
worth, conducted by the Rev. Mr.
Mathes cf the Reformed church.
Cremation followed.
Mrs. Hafer long held a respect
ed place in the cultural -life of this
caretaker.
, community, where she taught
The vault was badly damaged, j several generations of children.
The entry was discovered by a 'jjgj. standards of musicianship
'were of the highest, and, though
'her pupils regarded her as
I “stridt,” she won their loyalty
land their parents’ gratitude for
ithe excellence and integrity of
I her -leaching.
j Though a brilliant musician,
I she seldom displayed her own tal-
Speaks At Forum
On Problems Of
War And Diplomacy
Tells Kiwanians Of .
Red Cross. ERP. UN—
Urges, "Get The Facts"
jents in public and took-her great-
iest joy in^ developing those of the
I (Continued on page 5)
W. Lament Bro\^, appointed
as Eighth District spuervisor of
the 1950 census, returned from
Washington last Friday after four
days of intensive instruction, to
face the big problem of setting up
an organization of some 400 work
ers by April 1.
Saturday, he opened the district
office at Lexington, and said this
week that all is now ready for
the reception of job applications.
Candidates for the jobs are ask
ed to write to the District Office,
Bureau of the Census, Lexington,
for information and application
blanks. Blanks will be sent to
those who have already applied,
Mr. Brown said.
Everyone over 21, of either sex,
is eligible to apply. Personality
and education -requirements are
such as will be necessary in the
task of interviewing hundreds of
people, securing information from
them as expeditiously as possible
and filling in the lengthy ques
tionnaires clearly and efficiently.
.Agricultural Census '
In the rural areas, an agricul
tural census will also be taken.
In both towns and country, many
questions are to be asked which
have not hitherto been included
in the census. ‘
The work will begin every
where April 1. Needed will be
hundreds of enumerators, some
to work about two weeks in ur
ban areas, others six weeks in ru
ral areas; also crew leaders to
work approximately two months.
Tabulators and clerical help will
not be employed until consider
ably later, after the job is well
under way.
Pay rates have not been estab
lished but will be in accord with
general remuneration for inter
viewing or office work, it is an
ticipated.
.As Of April 1
Everyone alive on the date of
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Bond Issue Saving
Lessens Increase
In Water Rates
Board Discusses
Traffic, Trucks,
Trailers, Tennis
This picture, made a year and a half ago, shows one of Moore
county’s 67 young polio victims of the epidemic' summer of 1948—
Glenn Britt, of Star, Rt. 1, a guest by courtesy of the March of Dimes
at the Moore County Hospital polio convalescent center, set up with
March of Dimes help. The March of Dimes funds helped all the chil
dren—is still helping many. In the meantime, new epidemics have
struck in other parts of the country. Many dimes and dollars are
needed. Don’t fail the kids, in the campaign January 16-31.
' (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Polio Chairmen Meet Tonight To Set
Quotas, Plan Drive Starting Monday
NATIONAL GUARD
What we are struggling for,”
d General George C. Marshall
the Pinehurst Forum audience
week, “is such a profound
ace that it is difficult to impress
on our people the need for ade-
at military support of the pro-
am. That is natural. That is the
ly cur people are made."
General Marshall was speaking
fore one of the largest audi-
ces ever assembled in the Pine-
rst Country Club. The seats,
rich had been turned this year
face the grill end of the room,
ire filled to capacity With, it
IS estimated, more than three
tndred, including members and
eir guests from all over Moore
mnty, come to hear their fa-
cus neighbor of Pinehurst and to
y tribute to the man who had
ilped to guide the nation
rough the difficult* years of the
ar, into the still difficult years
peace,
iitti In Democracy
Not once, but over and over the
rmer Chief of Staff and Secre
cy of State expressed his faith
the democratic way, the Amer
an way, of doing things. Per-
ips that was the most interest-
g thing about the general’s talk:
grasp of the civilian view-
)int and his belief in it. At one
)int he said, speaking of his
irly days as a, Statesman:
“A military man must not be
le proponent of a proposal in a
mov-acy. Our people are bred
om way ’uazir to have a suspi-
i-cn of the military. And it is
ght that it should be so.”
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Gen George C. Marshall, presi
dent of the American Red Cross,
spoke about his new job for the
first time in North Carolina as
guest speaker Wednesday before
the Sandhills Kiwanis club, meet
ing at the Highland Pines Inn.
He had spent practically the
whole time since his appointment
in the fall “just learning” about
the great Red Cross organization,
said the former Chief of Staff and
Secretary of State, estimating
that he would be doing that for
just about a year. “The Red Cross
is a tremendous business. It does
a tremendous work, and has tre
mendous problems and a budget
to match,” he said. “It will be
campaigning ^oon for funrfs to
meet that big budget and all'it
asks of anyone is just to ‘‘get the
facts.’ ”
With characteristic straighfor-
wardness the General headed di
rectly into the subject of “Army
gripes” about Red Cross, smiling
ly classifying them as a prime ex
ample of “Army grousing.” “I’ve
heard them all from experts,” he
said. “In the Army just about
everything gets groused about—
it’s an inherent part of the life, a
fundamental expression of Amer
ican liberties and seldom if ever
has anything to do with the
facts.”
Much Traveling
He revealed that he traveled
some 7,500 miles by air during
the fall getting acquainted with
Red Cross chapter chairmen and
officials in key cities all over the
country, and will leave Sunday
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^ \Exhibition Of Graphic Arts,
Now On View At Library
The local unit of the Na
tional Guard is holding its
drill sessions Wednesday eve
nings. instead of Fridays, at
the National Guard hall dur
ing January and February.
The temporary change is due
to conflicts ■with basketball
events, in which a number of
the members lake part.
A unit caretaker. Elbert H.
Stutts, has been employed
with the rank of sergeant, to
look after the battery's equip
ment. This gives the battery
two full-time permanent em
ployees, the other being Sgt.
Lennox Forsyth, administra
tive officer.
New jnembers :-;eported
this week by Sergeant For
syth include one ex-service
man, Cpl. Paul Finch, and
four recruits, Robert Stewart,
Coy Bowers and Carl Eugene
Lee.of Southern Pines, and
Albert Crissman of Vass.
Everest Memorial
Trophies Will Be
Sandpiper Awards
“Everybody seems to like etch
ings,” said Miss Churchill, assist
ant librarian at the Southern
Pines Library, who has watched
people filing by her desk to go on
into the Fine Arts Room where
this most recent exhibit is hung.
It appears that the show, like the
first one, of Christmas paintings,
is highly popular with the public.
Like the first, also, this is a
loan exhibit, but it is of orginals
FRIDAY, THE 13th
"Doubly unlucky" is whal
the dictionary says of Friday
the 13th.
Unable to cross fingers be
cause of their use in a good
many other capacities. The
Pilot staff sends up a silent
hoi>e. May no evil eyes,
hexes, poltergeists oar «milaz
critters take a sudden shine
to the presses .. . not to men
tion typewriters, galley
sheets, copy-hooks, typeset
ters. or grey-matter, so-call- •
ed, of those responsible for
same!
We once learnt a Norwegian
charm to use on such occa
sions. It went: Skatta, vatta,
go aring . . . or something
like that, and it meant, we
were told, "black cat go
around'."
So, this Friday the 13th,
Cat, just keep going!
and comes from a local collection.
One of the items is also by a local
artist, Ruth Doris Swett, daugh
ter of 'Mrs. William Swett of
Southern Pines.
Miss Swett, whose favorite sub
ject is pine trees, is represented
by a drypoint study of three long
leaf pines; “The Littleton Pines.”
Miss Swett’s etchings, (“two pines
and one palm,’ she says!) hang in
the Library of Congress, as well
as in many private collections.
Seven artists beside^ Miss
Swett, are represented in the li
brary show. Levon West, Whose
subjects are taken from his sur
roundings. . . he has spent most
of his years in the mountain states
of the west. . . is an artist whose
reputation is showing a steady
growth. The Library show in
cludes “Mountain Ranger,” “The
Prospector,” a study of an old-
timer, leading his laden pack-
horses across the flats, “Night
Riders,” three cowboys riding
out in the dusk toward a skyline
of flat-topped buttes. His spirited
‘Emigrants, Montana” shows a
horse herd being brought in by
the night-herder. ‘‘Indian Moth
er” 'shows a different artist and
a different locale. . . in other
words, different “West.” ’The fig
ure of the Indian woman with the
baby on her back, looking across
at her pueblo home, is an appall-
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Moore County citizens 'wflll again
have the privilege of aiding in the
fight against polio, in the annual
March of Dimes campaign which
will get under way Monday morn
ing and continue’ through the
month.
H. Clifton Blue, of Aberdeen,
who for the seventh consecutive
year will h^ad the fund raising
drive in Moore, has called a meet
ing for tonight (Friday) of all the
community 'chairmen, to set quo
tas and outline plans for the
campaign. They will meet with
the chapter officials at the Hotel
Charmella, at Vass, at 7 o’clock.
Moore’s quota will be the same
as last year—$7,360. In 1948 this
amount was doubled. Always gen
erous in this drive, the citizens
were fired by actual experience
with polio seen in the epidemic of
that summer, in which Moore was
one of the nation’s worst-hit coun-
A saving cf $20,000 on the water
bond issue is going to enable the
Town to effect a considerable re
duction in the previously estima
ted water rate charges.
This conclusion was reached
at the town board meeting Wed
nesday night when the figures on
the bond sale of January 10 were
submitted by City Clerk Howard
F. Burns. The contracts, which
had been figured at $275,000 when
the bond issue was voted, actual
ly came to $255,000. This reduc
tion, with the estimated savings
that will take place in operation
jwhen the new pump and other
machinery is installed will enable
' the board to make the saving in
rate.
Action was immediately taken
to place the water tax rate at an
increase of 12 per cent, instead
of the 15 per cent originaly plan
ned, over the present rate f^r town
residents. However, in taking this
step, the board decided to raise
the minimum rate, now allowed
for golf courses and swimming
pools, to a 25 cent minimum. This
will more nearly cover the cost
cf such service, .which has been
running at a slight deficit.
Consumption Doubled
The city clerk gave compara
tive figures on the water situa
tion. In 1939, he said, the gross
revenue for water was $27,000;
last year it was $45,000, (with
rates the same). There were 80
new water connections added to
the list last year, making between
1,400 and 1,500 consumers in all.
A matter in connection with the
rates, which was tabled for fur
ther discussion, was a recent
meeting between members of the
Knollwcod community and the
board to take up the question of
charges in that section. With the
easement granted the town by
Knollwood in 1925 specifying
that the residents should be treat-
(Gontinued on page 8)
List Takers Start
Tax Listing Job
After getting a late start in
their tax listing, all list takers
swung into action last week' and
are busy in the various townships
of Moore county.
Mrs. Don J. Blue, McNeills
ties. The memory of that time is i Township list taker, will be at the
-iin iu. J Southern Pines town ’
Trophies given by Charles P.
Everest, Jr., in memory of his
mother and grandmother will be
established for the annual Sand
pipers club four-ball match play
tournament, it was learned this
week.
The first to be given will honor
the winners of the tournament
just concluded, won by Howard
F. Bums and W. L. Bachelor over
Barrett Harriss and Joe Monte-
santi, Jr. The finals were play
ed on the Pine Needles course
last Sunday, after some delays
caused by the illness of one of
the finalists, and also the necessi
ty of a play-eff which ran to 45
holes.
The trophies will be presented
at the spring meeting and ban
quet, held annually in conjunc
tion with the Pine Dodgers club.
Mrs. Marjorie B. Everest, moth
er of Mr. Everest, died in April
1946. Mrs. Eloise H. Tracy, his
grandmother, died in February
1949. Both were well known here.
Their son and grandson is an en
thusiastic golfer and member of
the Sandpipers club.
These will be the second and
third memorial trophies establish
ed for Sandpiper tournaments.
First presentation of the Arthur
Atherton Memorial trophy, given
by Mrs. Atherton in memory of
her husband, a member of the
club, was made following the
spring tournament last year.
still strong, the need for aid to
the victims continues as well as
the battle against further epidem
ics. Mr. Blue said this week, “I
am sure the county will do equal
ly well this year, if not better.”
Chairman Blue and ’Paul C.
Butler, head of the county chap
ter of the National Infantile Par
alysis Foundation, will carry their
message to the public over 'WEEB
at 4:30 p. m. 'Wednesday, on the
regular half-hour “Voice of the
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hall from
Monday through Friday inclusive,
during the next two.weeks.
She started off last Saturday at
Clay Road farms, moving over to
Niagara Wednesday and Lake-
view Thursday, will be at Eureka
this afternoon (Friday) and at
Vass tomorrow (Saturday). She
will return to Vass also on the
next two successive Saturdays,
January 21 and 28.
She will be at Manly the last
day of the month, January 31.
Judge Sees Jury’s Good Work As Sign
Citizens Becoming More Law-Minded
Jury trial day held at Carthage
Tuesday resulted in 100 per cent
convictions, for the first time
since the resumption of such trials
by recorders court last May.
The results caused Judge J.
Vance Rowe to comment, “I be
lieve ou? citizens are becoming
more law-enforcement - minded.
It can’t help but do good, to bring
36 citizens to court each month
and impanel them to try cases of
law violation.” He complimented
the jury at this week’s monthly
session of trials, saying. “It went
about its business in a serious-
minded manner and I believe its
decisions were fair.”
The whole morning was taken
up by the trial of Theodore Brow
er, 18-year-old Negro of Robbins,
who pled not guilty to a charge
of failing and refusing to support
an illegitimate child. Found guil
ty, Theodore was sentenced to six
months on the roads, suspended
on payment of costs and stated
stipends for the support of the
child, also medical expenses con-^
nected with its birth. The defen-
at $350.
The other jury trial was that
of John Gaines, of Sanford, Rt. 1.
He was convicted of drunken
driving and given the usual pen
alty—60 days suspended on pay
ments of $100 fine plus costs,
$150.05 in all, with license revo
cation for 12 months.
The state accepted from Walter
Maples, Jr., of Southern Pines a
plea of careless and reckless driv
ing and speeding, instead of
drunken driving and careless and
reckless driving. He was fined
$25 and costs.
James Hardin Allen, of Rob
bins, Rt. 2, was found guilty of
driving without license but not
while license was revoked, as he
had been charged. Prayer for
judgment was continued on pay
ment of costs, which amounted
to $30.95.
Continued were the following:
charged with drunken driving,
Archie Lee Furr, James Harry
David, C. H. Freeman, Richard
Jerome Almond, James D. Tyson;
drunken driving and careless and
dant gave notice of appeal to su-1 reckless, Paul Howie, Jr., James
perior court and his bond was set 1 Clyde Cooper, James Ransome.