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REMEMBER
SATURDAY IS
OLD SHOES DAY!
TGU 31—NO. 12
18 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines, N. C.
Friday, February 10. 1950
18 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
hike Gift: $40,000
iwells Hospital
iiiilding Fund
Two-Thirds Available
With Balance Payable
When Campaign Ends
The building campaign of the
core County Hospital took a
arp spurt forward this week,
ith the news that the Duke En-
jwment has appropriated $40,000
aid in the new construction
ogram.
The news came in a letter to
ilbur H. Currie of Carthage,
esident of the hospital board,
3m Marshall I. Pickens, assoc-
e director of the Hospital and
phans section of the Endow-
;nt. Mr. Pickens visited the
spital on Monday and went
er the new wing with Admin-
rator E. T. McKeithen, lunch-
with him and the staff after-
rds.
The resolution appropriating
gift to the local hospital,
ted February 1st, specifies that
sum vfill be made over to the
spital board, as local funds
ine in, with the first payment
$24,000 immediately available,
e balance, of $16,000, will be
hand as the campaign pre
sses, with Duke contributing
percent to the community’s
lety percent of the entire cost,
rhis action on the part of the
:ke trustees is another instance
many in which the Endowment
shown its interest in the
>ore County Hospital. At the
le the original building was
It Duke made a donation of
,000 to the building fund,
ile ten or twelve years ago,
en new X-ray apparatus was
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ealtli Center For
oiinty Is Offered
y Medical Group
Boy Scout Week Swings Into High Gear
To Celebrate Scouting’s Fortieth Birthday
Inspection of troop exhibits to by all troops of the land on 'Sat-
be held today (Friday), a Cub
Scout- banquet tonight, the
■‘Shoes - for - Europe” collection
Saturday and church services
Sunday will climax the obser
vance of Boy Scout week which
has been going on in all commun
ities with keen interest reported.
All troops of Southern Pines
and the county have put in a good
part of the week preparing origi
nal exhibits centering on Boy
Scout activities. Today the dis
trict camping and activities com
mittee, headed by Leon Wylie of
Pinebluff and accompanied by
other sccuters, will make the
rounds of inspection. Awards will
be made to the winning troops.
In Southern Pines, the inspec
tion group will see outdoor ex
hibits prepared, by each of the two
troops. Troop 228 has pitched
tents in the town park, putting
up the flag and hauling it down
with appropriate ceremony daily.
Troop 73 has pitched tents on
the grounds of the Scout hut, and
has also built an ornamental rus
tic gateway.
Shoes For Europe
The shoe collection, by which
old used footgear will be gather
ed to send to European countries,
will be a “good turn” performed
urday.
The local troops will divide the
tov/n for canvassing purposes, and
all householders are asked to
have shoes—any kind, from baby
shoes to No. 12s—^ready to con
tribute.
Church Services
Services at three local churches
at 11 a.m., Sunday will be attend
ed by uniformed Boy Scouts and
Cub Scouts, with members ofi the
adult committees in charge of
scout work also invited to attend
in a body. Especially prepared
sermons will bb delivered, and
all parents are being urgently in
vited by the scoutmasters to at
tend as a mark of interest an^
support.
Members of Troop 73, of which
Millard Dozier is scoutmaster,
will go to the sponsoring Emman
uel Episcopal church, where the
sermon will be delivered by the
rector, the Rev. C. V. Coveil. Boy
Scouts will act as ushers. Mem
bers of the troop will be guests
Et the parish house after the serv
ice for the shewing of a film on
the National Cathedral at Wash
ington.
Dr. W. C. Holland, pastor of the
First Baptist church, will con
duct the service there for Troop
228, sponsored by that church.
Elliott Shearon is the scoutmas
ter.
Cub Scout pack 73 is sponsored
by the Brownson Memorial Pres
byterian church, and its members
will attend the service there, con
ducted by the pastor. Dr. T. E.
Davis.
Cub Seoul Banquet
The Cub Scouts will hold their
annual Blue and Gold banquet in
Fellowship hall of the Presbyte
rian church tonight at 7 o’clock.
Pack 73 will be one of 20,000
packs holding similar events
across the land at this time, as
part of the National Boy Scout
week celebration.
The pack presented a handsome
pageant in conjunction with their
Achievement night January 26,
which was also part of a nation
wide observance, the ‘‘Crusade to
Strengthen the Arm of Liberty.”
Knighthood and crusading formed
the theme, with much shining
armor in evidence, made and sil
vered by the boys in their den
meetings. About 50, Cub Scouts
and their den chiefs took part,
with Alex McLeod, of Troop 73,
a den chief, acting as “chief
knight” to bestow the accolade
of knighthood in turn to new boys
coming into the pack.
May Be Chance To Secure
Better Quarters For
Crowded Department
4oore was one of the counties
ned by the Medical Care com-
ssion in a list, issued this week,
counties slated to receive
alth Centers.
Inder the provisions of the Hill-
rton bill Health Centers, where
iroved, may be established
(Ugh federal and state funds,
government agencies paying
ercent of the cost on copdition
the county raise the remain-
35 percent.
"he status of the project, as re
ds the county, appears to be in
ibt, as yet. According to Dr. J.
Willcox, county health officer,
re has been no formal applica-
made by the county for a
1th center; Gordon Cameron,
imian of the board of county
imissioners, stated that no ac-
was contemplated by the
rd.
difference of the count/ offi-
s to the project is not reflected
he general attitude. The sta-
of the health department has
j been a matter of anxiety to
public. Situated as it is in the
floor of the court house, with
iequate office space, it is felt
the efficiency of the person-
is severely taxed by the
iped quarters, while the trip
and down the steep flight of
rs is a heavy strain both on the
•kers there and on patients, old
pie and those in poor health,
must visit the clinic rooms,
several times, attempts have
made by the commissioners
emedy this situation, when the
artment was for a time moved
the bEisement, but no definite
:res3 was made,
he matter has not yet come be-
! the county board of health,
agency empowered to handle
1 matters, but members, que-
on the subject, stated that
y felt it was an opportunity too
i to miss.
r. E. M. Medlin of Aberdeen,
imenting that the office was
most unsuitably located, said
felt that the board would be
ch interested in the Medical
e Commission plan for the
ity department and that it
dd be taken up at the next
ting.
Several Towns Go
Over the Top In
March of Dimes
Communities began popping
like popcorn over the top this
week in the p^io fund drive, ac
cording to Chairrrian H. Clifton
Blue, who listed the following aS
having passed their quotas; Lake-
view, $111 (quota $50); Addor,
$41.53 (quota $25); Carthage, $1,-
000 quota assured; Eagle Springs,
•well over $100 quota; Farm Life,
over quota of $75.
Word from chairrrien at Vass,
Pinehurst and Southern Pines, is
that “the situation ' is well in
in hand—we’ll make it.” Reports
from Cameron and Westmoore
are not so cheering—their chair
men are having difficulties. Mr.
Blue asked that citizens of these
and other areas where the quota
has not yet been sighted rally
round and get the job done. “If
you’ve not been approached, see
j'our chairman—don’t let our
polio victims down,” he urged.
"Square dance for round
dimes.' is what they say they'll
be having at the Legion hut
Saturday night when the
weekly get-together, to the
♦unes of Squire Dan'l Frye
and his Scotch fiddlers, will
be for the benefit of the,
March of Dimes.
"Come and dance, so that
others may walk," is the in-
vitai^on issued by the Legion
naires to all and sundry.
Their weekly square dances
are becoming famous for good
old-fashioned music, and an
old-fashioned good time—this
time in a cause which will ap
peal to all.
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Scouts’ Tree Planting Conservation
Contest Is Off To Remarkable Start
Piedmont Airlines
Gets CAB License
Of Regular Routes
Local Field Listed
With Other Slops
On East-West Flights
Four thousand little pines set
out in one day is the remarkable
record of troop 224 of Southern
Pines, who with the other Boy
Scouts of the county are taking
part in the tree planting contest
for the Storey Lumber company
trophies.
Troop 224 is under the sponsor
ship of the Baptist church and has
as its scoutmaster, EUiott Shearon,
with Dubbs Leonard, new basket
ball coach at the local school, as
sisting him.
Almost 25,000 loblolly pine seed
lings have been set out in Moore
county since January 25 as result
of the contest now 4n progress, it
was announced this week by Voit
Gilmore, chairman of Boy Scout
Advancement in the county.
The two troops in Southern
Pines have planted a total of 8,000
seedlings while troops at Pine-
bluff and West End have set 'out
5,000 each. ‘Other planting by
scouts has taken place in Carthage
and Cameron.
This contest, which was launch
ed by Gilmore at the January
Scout Court of Honor, will con
tinue until the tree planting sea
son ends in April. “All Scouts
think this is about the most en
joyable and worthwhile project
they have ever undertaken,” Gil
more said, and added that he now
estimates that at this rate the ini
tial planting of 25,000 seedlings
will be but a fraction of the total
' accomplished by April.
Professional foresters have been
assisting various troop.s in select
ing the planting sites and instruct
ing the scouts in the proper tech
niques of setting out the young
pines, while various landowners
have made their land available
for this purpose.
(Continued on page 51
MAIL DELIVERY
\
Pinehurst To Feature Skeet Shoot
Of Top Service Teams Over Week End
Four teams from different
branches of the armed services
will be among the competitors in
the Mid-Winter Skeet Champion
ship meet to be held at the Pine
hurst Gun club tomorrow (Satur
day) and Sunday.
Entries for this newly-instituted
mid-season championship meet
have been received from the U. S.
Naval Air station at Memphis,
Tenn., the Mterine Corps base at
Camp LeJeune, and the Army at
Fort Bragg. Fort Bragg will send
two five-men teams, the Navy and
Marines each one team. The ser
vicemen will compete in the indi
vidual events as well as the team
matches. They will have plenty
of topflight competition from civi
lian shooters which will include a
team from Fayetteville, Sam Mar-
ston and' others from Coumbia, S.
C., and High Point’s crack Seborn
Perry.
Entries are also expected from
Charlotte, which may send a team
and a number of other centers.
The meet will open Saturday
morning witlji a 50-target Sub-
Small gauge shoot, anS in the-af
ternoon there will be a 100-target
20-gauge event. On Sunday
morning the All-Bore 100-target
championship will be shot. The
champion in each event will re
ceive a trophy and brassard, and
trophies will go to the class win
ners, a trophy and brassard to the
High Over All for the entire meet,
and trophies to each member of
the winning five-man team.
The shoot, which is being hand
led by Albert S. Tufts of Pine
hurst, is registered with the Na
tional Skeet Shooting association
and will be conducted in accord
ance with the Association’s 1950
rules. All intending competitors
are advised to bring their NSSA
membership card and shoot rec
ord card for classification pur
poses.
Headquarters for the meeting
will be the Holly Inn.
The award of a 1,700-mile air
transportation route by the Civil
Aeronautics Board to Piedmont
Aviation, Inc., of Winston-Salem,
was upheld by the Supreme court
in a decision announced Tuesday.
State Airlines, Inc., of Char
lotte, had proposed a similar route
centering in the Carolinas and
Virginias, extending west as far
as Louisville and Cincinnati, but
the CAB had ruled in favor of
Piedmont. \
The court’s 6-2 decision was de
livered by Justice Black. Justice
Reed wrote a dissenting opinion
in which Justice Frankfurter
joined. Justice Douglas took no
part.
Following the CAB ruling in
favor of Piedmont, State Airlines
asked a review by the U. S. Court
of Appeals. 'That court decided
there was insufficient evidence to
support the CAB award to Pied
mont. The A.ppeals court also
held it had no power to order the
board to approve the route State
Airlines proposed.
An appeal by the Justice de
partment to the Supreme Court
followed. State Airlines also ap
pealed.
For AdaplEtbility
In upholding the CAB order.
Justice Black said that “Congress
plainly intended to leave the
Board free to work out applica
tion procedures reasonably adapt
ed to fair and orderly administra
tion of its complex responsibili
ties.” •
Although the routes Piedmont
sought differed considerably from
those awarded. Black said they
were all in the general area cov
ered by consolidated hearings of
the Board.
The Supreme Court majority
ruled there was no ground for the
contention by State Airlines that
it did not have a fair hearing.
Black said: “The Board found
both airlines fit and able, but
found the evidence of qualifica
tions as between the two weighted
on. Piedmont’s side.”
[ Davis' Statement
i T. H. .Davis, president of Pied-
jmont Airlines, in a statement
^made at Winston-Salem Tuesday
. night, said, “While there has nev-
,er been'any doubt as to the ulti
mate outcome of the route award,
jl am Very happy that the matter
•is at last clarified beyond dispute
: by the U. S. Supreme Court 6-2
'decision which stated that Con-
i gress plainly intended in the Civil
Aeronautics Act to leave the board
free to work out application pro-
forest fires, the first of reasonably. This conclu-
Tates Buy Race Track;
Steeplechase Planned
THEIR CHOICE
So Gordon Gray is to be the
next president of the Univer
sity of North Carolina.
The great educator, for
whom many hoped, was ap
parently not to be found. Or
perhaps he has been found.^
That is the guess of the Trus
tees committee.
Among those in whose
hands the choice lay, was
Southern Pines' Mrs. Paul P.
McCain. Hers are capable
hands, one pair among eleven
other pairs of capable hands.
As we look back on Ihe tire
less, conscientious manner in
which these trustees carried
on their task we may feel Sure
that the man they hit on.is ex
tremely likely to be the right
one.
To them go the thanks of
the state for a job well done,
and to ■ Gordon Gray, their
choice, the good wishes of this
newspaper.
Groups To Discuss
Organization of
Safety Council
Date for the start of mail
delivery service here—prob
ably on or about March 1—
should he made known, next
week, said A. Garland Pierce,
postmaster, who revealed that
the delayed equipment arriv
ed Monday, and he has re
quested the postal depart
ment's authorization to start
the service.
Sites for collection boxes
about town are being set this
week, and a questionnaire is
to be mailed out to patrons to
find out how many will want
to retain their boxes at the
post office, said Postmaster
Pierce.
Since the new service was
forced mainly by the congest
ed mailbox situation, hope
was expressed that most of
those on the delivery routes
will release their boxes. There
has been a long waiting list
for some time, and many pa
trons are outside the delivery
area.
Organization of a Southern
Pines Safety Council will be dis
cussed at a meeting to be held to
night (Friday) at 7:30 o’clock at
the high school building, to which
the public is invited.
Invitations have been extended
to a number of local organizations
to send representatives, to the
meeting, signed by Mayor C. N.
Page, Chief of Police C. E. New
ton, Fire Chief L. V. O’Callaghan
and O. D. Griffin, field represen
tative of the N. C. Highway Safe
ty Division.
Mr. Griffin will conduct the
meeting and will explain the pur
poses of such a Council, which in
cludes the detection of local haz
ards, formulation of safety pat
terns for the community and the'
dissemination of safety informa
tion in every phase of life.
Cumberland Visitors
He will present several repre
sentatives of the Cumberland
County Safety Council, which
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To Revive Racing On
Old Sandhills Course
In 1951 Spring Meet
An ambitious $100,000 plan to
rehabilitate the old Sandhills
steeplechase course and bring
major league steeplechase racing
back to this resort was confirmed
this week by Loyd P. (Junebug)
Tate of Pinehurst, member of
one of the Sandhills’ foremost
riding families.
Confirmation came on the heels
of the announcement in Baltimore
Friday that the Safe Deposit and
Trust company, trustees for the
estate of Mrs. Tate, the former
Anne Cannon Reynolds, had ap
proved the release of $130,000 of
the textile-tobacco heiress’ trust
funds. The fund was released by
the trustees, earmarked for the
purchase and development of the
457-acre tract on the Pinehurst-
Southern Pines road. Tate and the
19-year-old heiress were wed in
November, 1948, and are the pa
rents of a young son, Lloyd, Jr.
Tate said that he and Mrs. Tate
plan to restore the steeplechase
course and construct stables on
the site. He added that their long-
range plans would provide addi
tional stabling for transient
horses which would be brought
into Pinehurst for the race meet
ings. The Tates maintain their
own Starland Stable which num
bers several of the finest show
hunters and jumpers in the coun
try.
Home Site' Bought
• On the land which the Tates
bought from the Barber estate,
and which runs north from the
race course tract, are several
small lakes. These offer ideal
house sites and it is here that the
young pair hope eventually to
build their home, according to re
port. This is on part of the South
ern Pines watershed land, bound
ed by the airport roads.
The old Steeplechase course has
not been used as such since 1941.
It is presently occupied by the
Parhaven golf driving range,
.owned and operated by Leo Wal-
per, who bought the land and
built a ranch-type clubhouse and
dwelling early in 1948. Tate said
that the sale contract will not re
quire Walper to abandon his
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Forest Fire Crews
Battle 3 Blazes
Two
any size in a long time, also a
fire dangerously close to a trailer
camp brought the N. C. Forest
Service fire fighting crews out
in force last Friday and Monday.
They also inspired a warning
from Forest Warden Woodrow
Davis, “The windy season is at
hand—the most unpredictable of
the year and the worst for forest
fires. Be careful!”
Friday afternoon, the crews put
in four and a half hours subduing
a blaze on tracts belongiijg to T.
L. Blue and to a Mr. Martin, of
Carthage, near Clay Road Farms.
The rough and swampy nature of
the terrain made the battle par
ticularly difficult. The tracts had
been cut over, but young growth
WES springing up and a consider
able amount of it was destroyed
a.s the fire burned over some 65
acres.
Monday afternoon brought two
fipes, one on property adjoining
the J. C. Bertrand estate near
Pinehurst, owner undetermined.
Men and tractors from the Bert
rand place, Sandy Woods, gave
yttoman service in helping the fire
crew, and in keeping the fire off
their land. As it was, the flames
jumped over and burned about
three acres of Bertrand timber,
and' about 42 acres of the woods
adjoining.
Strong, changing winds Mpn-
day made this fire > a stiff one to
fight, and the men were at work
three Ihours before suppressing it
about 6:30 p. m.
Earlier on that windy aver
sion of the Court proceedings be
tween State Airlines and the Civil
Aeronautics Board leaves Pied
mont free to enlarge the scope of
its operation and to give contin
ued better and more frequent ser
vice in the carriage of njail, pas
sengers and express to the 30
some communities which we
serve.”
The 1,700 mile route, which
Piedmont has been operating
since February, 1948, breaks down
into four separate operational
routes:
Route 1: Norfolk to Newport
News to Lynchburg to Roanoke to
Charleston, W. Va., to Cincinnati.
Route 2: Roanoke to Danville tc
Winston-Salem to Greensboro ta
Raleigh-Durham to Fayetteville
to Wilmington.
Route 3: Louisville to Lexington
to Tfi-Cities (Bristol-Johnson City
Kingsport) to Winston-Salem to
Greensboro to Raleigh-Durham to
Goldsboro to New Bern and, in
season, to Morehead City.
Route 4: Wilmington to Fayette
ville to Southern Pines-Pinehurst
to Charlotte to Asheville to Tri-
Cities to Lexington to Louisville-
Cincinnati.
Piedmont planes total flying an
average of 10,000 miles daily. In
1949, they carried a total of 86,000
passengers.
Trailer camp, where a pine straw
fire had got out from under con
trol, was spreading and menacing
several homes. The fire fighters
put it out without harm to nearby
noon, the crews went to the Allen houses or the trailer camp.
T. ROY PHILLIPS will be ^
chairman; and ARCH L. BARNES s
will be assistant chairman, for thes
county wide Red Cross fund-rais
ing campaign to be held during;
the month of March.
Both are Carthage businessmen.
Mr. Phillips, founder and presi-j
dent icf the Phillips Motor com
pany, Inc., is a member of the|
county board of education. He is|
a native of Moore county andl
taught for some 13 years at the I
Westmoore school.
Mr. Barnes, mayor of Carthage,
is proprietor of the Blackwood!
store. He is an outstanding mem-l
her of the Carthage Junior Cham-|
her of Commerce and has served!
as its president.