Gicndon
narcond Cof^tuiit / j
^^Mkopqs, Ccmcnon p)i
\kfe^^d l.ak«vi?)v’Vass f
. , l.ak«vii?)v’vas
Plerbe
Pin
^l^irdnen
ana/
nlj/
ILOT
VOL. 31—NO. 13
12 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines. N. C.
Friday, February 17, 1950
12 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
hamber Issuing
New Booklet On
Southern Pines
10,000 Copies of
Informational Folder
To Be Distributed
A wide range of information
irought up to date will be includ-
d in new advertising folders
bout Southern Pines, whose copy
fas approved and publication au-
horized by the Chamber of Cbm-
aerce directors Tuesday night.
A “first printing” of 10,000 was
uthorized. This was estimated to
le^some less than a year’s sup-
ily, as the folder is to be distri-
(uted in quantity to automobile
jiubs, travel agencies, the State
.dvertising Bureau, local hotels
nd guest houses and other agents
trough which it may reach the
jublic. It will also be sent out
ndely by the Chamber of Com-
lerce in answering inquiries
bout Southern Pines.
The subject matter of the eight-
anel folder has been prepared by
k)l. P. G. Shearman, Chamber of
Jommerce manager, and includes
historical and descriptive sketch,
’Iso a map of the town; tables
bowing average humidity and
smperature at different times of
ear; informational listings of ho
ds, tourist homes, motor courts,
estaurants, hospitals, convales-
ent homes, country clubs and golf
burses, riding stables and
tiurches.
It also has a coastal map show-
ng Southern Pines’ location on
le Seaboard Air Line, US 1 and
1 relation to other eastern cen-
jrs.
This will be the first town ad-
'ertising folder to be made avail-
ble here since the town found it-
elf to be limited by law in spend-
.ig money for promotion, and
iimed the job over to the Cham-
er of Commerce. During p^epar-
tion of the folder the Chamber
as been sending out mimeo-
raphed information sheets.
W. Harry Fullenwider, presi-
ent, led the meeting Tuesday
ight. A number of routine sub-
jcts were discussed. President
‘ullenwider reported the receipt
f a message that Army engineers
ivestigating sites for the pro-
osed U. S. Air Force academy
rill visit Southern Pines some
[me this month.
Flames Attack Conf^re^atioiial Sunday School Building j Civic Leaders Aid
In Organization of
Safety Council
Will Promote
Safety Consciousness,
' Accident Prevention
Lluke Organist To
i*lay Here Sunday
A recital by Mildred L. Hen-
■ix, Duke University organist,
nd organ instructor, will be pre-
mted a't Emmanuel Episcopal
[lurch Thursday evening at 8:15
clock, sponsored by the St.
.nne’s Guild of the church.
The recital will reitresent a
imbination of one of the state’s
lost notable musical talents and
ne of its finest church organs,
'he Emmanuel Church organ,
ift of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Crock-
in 1948, has not before been
eard in public performance, out-
de of regular or special church
jrvices.
Mrs. Hendrix, who has been
•uke’s official organist for six
ears, is well known through her
icitals given the first Sunday of
ach month at the famous Duke
hapel. She has also been heard so
ir this year at Raleigh, Sanford,
ocky Mount and Danville, Va.
ihe is a music graduate of
Voman’s collegte, Greensboro,
nd has studied under leading or-
an and piano teachers of Phila-
elphia and New York ,doing
raduate work in organ under
[larence Dickinson, of the Brick
kesbyterian church, and David
IcK. Williams of St. Bartholo-
lew’s, both in New York City.
Her program here Thursday
/ill present a variety of secular
nd religious music, of the 17th,
8th and 19th centuries. It will
aclude the following selections:
Trumpet Voluntary, by Henry
’urcell; Gigue Fugue, by Dietrich
iuxtehude; two chorale preludes
-Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,
nd Sheep May Safely Graze, by
Jach; Toccata and Fugue in D
linor, Bach; Piece Heroique,
lesar Franch; Bible Poems, Jar-
mir Weinberger; Toccata from
Fifth Organ Symphony,”
Charles Mbrie Widor.
^ I
j vWffxPy I
1 f
Firemen working at the left (unseen) have momentarily quelled the flames on that side—but a new
gush of them breaks out to the right on the Church of Wide Fellowship annex. This dramatic picture,
made about midway of the two-hour battle, shows two firemen momentarily distracted .by the sight from
their arduous tasks at the back.
Windows at the rear are those of the ladies’ parlor. The blazing roof and Gothic window are those
of the kitchen. Except for the roof, both were comparatively undamaged. (Photo Emerson Humphrey)
Church of Wide fellowship Annex Suffers
$50,000 Blaze; Main Building Is Saved
'V >,■«'
-'r -4
.V.'
, M 1
Here’s how burned building looked 40 years ago.
Forestry Service Moves Into Mackall
In Long-Range Development Program
District Forester J. A. Pippin,
in charge of the Rockingham Dis
trict office of the N. C. Division
of Forestry, announced this week
that plans have been completed
for the N. C. Division of Forestry,
of the N. C. Department of Con
servation and Development, to
conduct a long range general for
estry program on the approxi
mately 60,000 acres of forest land
of the Camp Mackall reservation
situated in Moore, Richmond, and
Scotland Counties.
This program was formulated
on a cooperative agreement with
the North Carolina Wildlife pro
ject. Operating funds for the first
year will be furnished by the N.
C. Wildlife Resources Commis
sion. It is expected that the for
estry project will become self-
sustaining after the first year, the
necessary operating funds to
come from the sale of forest prod-
EXHIBITION
Spring flowers are joining
the birds in the Fine Arts ex
hibition at the Library, this
week.
Camellias, spirea, jonquils,
japonicas bloom in gay profu
sion along the shelf beneath
the soaring humming-birds
and doves and cardinals in
their frames. If you happen
to be in there when a mocker
is carrying on in the magnolia
just outside, it's confusing, to
say the least.
And near perfection, to say
the most.
The exhibit will remain till
Monday when it will be re
placed by Patricia Herring
Stratton's portraits, paintings
o- horses and dogs, and dec-
orc ted glass.
Three Volunteer
Companies Fight
Fire To a Standstill
ucts, with proceeds to be paid di
rect to the Wildlife Resources
Commission.
Supervision of all forestry ac
tivities on the thousands of acres i
of this area will be carried on by
the N. C.Department of Conser
vation and Development, Division
of Forestry. Sandhills Area For
ester Richard J: Robertson, for
mer Assistant District forester
attached to the Rockingham of
fice, has been placed in charge of
the general program. Irvin York
of Hoffman, veteran fire fighter,
has been named Sandhills area
ranger. W. J. Rivers, longtime em-1
ploj-ee of the Wildlife Resources
Commission and refuge manager,
will be in direct charge of ail
Wildlife activities on the area and
will work closely with Mr. Rob
ertson.
A general forestry and game of
fice has been set up at Indian
Trail Camp a mile south of Hoff
man. A fire station has been con
structed at the Hoffman fire
tower to house the fire fighting
equipment, which will include
fire trucks; Crawler tractor and
fire plow equipment, and other
fire fighting tools. Fire fighting
crews to man this equipment will
be employed.
It is anticipated that a long
range forest, management pro
gram will be carried out on the
thousands of acres of the reserva
tion. This will include the plant
ing of thousands of tree seedlings.
It will be the aim of the Division
to take care of the thousands of
trees on the area and to protect
them from forest fires. Stands of
trees that are too thick will be
thinned, in a manner to promote
forest growth, and a beneficial
well-balanced forestry program
carried out on all n .rts of the res
ervation.
Fire breaking out soon after 2
p.m. Monday in the wooden por
tion of the Church of Wide Fel
lowship practically gutted the 52-
year-old structure, but volunteer
firernen in a stiff two-hour fight
prevented all but some superficial
damage to the newer jpain church
auditorium.
The wood shingle roof and walls
of the old building provided ready
fuel for the flames which were
breaking out from eaves to roof-
tree, pouring forth massive clouds
of smoke, within rninutes after the
alarm sounded. Firemen arriving
promptly had their work cut out
for them. Alarms were sent out
to the Aberdeen and Pinehurst de
partments and within 10 minutes
these, too, were on the job, scal
ing the walls with ladders to the
blEizing roof and sending streams
of water to the leaping inferno in
side.
Despite their hard efforts the
fire crept from the old building
up under the roof of the brick
church auditorium, and a number
(Continued on page 5)
A move toward greater safety
in all its phases was made last
Friday evening, when representa
tives of the town board, tfie fire
departmei^t and more than 'a doz
en leading organizations and agen
cies met to form the Southern
Pines Safety Council.
Mayor C'. N. Page, greeting the
group which met at the high
school, stressed the recent increase
in highway and safety accidents,
which he called'“one of the great
problems of our time.” He ex
pressed the hope that this com
munity’s accident rate could be
kept low through study and safe
ty education by the council, and
added his belief that “safety train
ing must begin with the children.”
Otto B. Edwards, post safety en
gineer of Fort Bragg, was elected
chairman pro tern, with O. D.
Griffin, field supervisor of the
State Highway Safety division, as
executive secretary pro tern. Oth
ers attending said they would re
port on the project to their vari
ous agencies, and bring back word
at the Council’s next meeting,
Wednesday, February 22, as to
their desire toward active partici
pation in the Council.
How To Do It
How a safety council works,
promoting safety education
through poster cdntests, quiz
shows, bicycle clubs and parades
and other promotional projects,
also through continuing study of
conditions in the community was
described by I. B. Julian, chair
man of the Cumberland County
Safety Council, and F. E. Byrd,
Jr., past chairman .
Mr. Byrd is superintendent of
Cumberland schools. Mr. Julian
is chairman of the board of educa
tion.
Rapid growth of the city of
Fayetteville and its giant “sub
urb,” Fort Bragg, had clogged the
streets with traffic and given the
city one of the highest accident
JContinued on Page 5)
REGULAR SERVICE
Stonybrook Races
Set February 26 th;
Entries Comin^ljln
GAME TUESDAY?
We can't tell you where
the game will be—or even
if there will be one for the
Blue and White. All we can
say is, if there IS a game,
it's apt to be the season's hot
test to date.
It's like this: winding up
their conference schedule, the
Southern Pines basketballers
were to medt Elise High of
Robbins Thursday night—too
late for The Pilot to publish
the results. At the time this
is written the two are tied
for top spot and who would
win was anybody's guess.
Winner of the Thursday
game will meet Carthage's
fireball team, winner in an
other conference in district
play Tuesday night on a neu
tral court.
Tuesday night's winner will
continue in slate play—and
after that the sky's the limit.
Local And County
Polio Drives Are
Nearing Quotas
Chairman Blue
Reports Several
Towns Over Top
The regular service will be
held Sunday at the Church of
Wide Fellowship, whose main
structure was only slightly
damaged by fire, according to
the Rev. R. L. House, pastor.
The adult Sunda'y School
classes will also meet in the
church auditorium Sunday
morning, and the Fellowship
Forum Sunday night. Chil
dren's Sunday School classes,'
up through the Intermediates,
will meet at the high school
building.
Workers are busy at the
church this week cleaning up
the smoke and grime result
ing from Monday's blaze in
the Sunday School annex.
Announcements that “the quota
is in sight and we hope to go over
this weekend” were made Thurs
day by both Paul C. Butler,
Southern Pines community chair
man, and H. Clifton Blue, county
chairman of the polio fund-raising
campaign.
Mr. Butler said, “We are very
close to making our $1,700 and
contributions expected this week
end should certainly send us over
the top. By the time all our re
ports are in I hope to turn over
a sizeable amount above and be
yond the quota.”
Mr. Blue said he had reports on
hand 'totaling about $5,600 to
ward the county goal of $7,360.
This includes the amount report
ed from Southern Pines, but not
those of Pinehurst and Aberdeen
where work is still going on.
The report of $1,013.49 from
Mrs. E. S. Adams at Carthage
gave the total quite a boost this
week.
Practically all communities re
porting have passed their quotas,
though mostly by small margins,
he said. Final round-up is being
made this week by all canvassers
to make sure no one has been
missed,
Chairmen’s reports have indi
cated the following in hand (quo
tas in parentheses): Addor, $41.63
($40); Carthage, $1,013.49 ($1,000);
Cameron, $228.67 ($200); Eagle
(Continued on Page 5)
Chamber Sponsors
Second Annual
Postwar Race Event
One-Mile Course Being
Put In Top Shape
Boy Scouts Are Busy About Their Tree Planting
A
fin*
■
’Ji
When the boys shown above are grown men, they can return to find a forest growing from pine seed
lings they are planting in a useless field.
The reforestation project is being inspired throughout Moore county by the offering of troop prizes,
locally given, for the planting of seedlings.
Above, boys of Troop 228, sponsored by the First Baptist church, start reclamation of a tract on W.
A. Wright’s Ridgecrest farm, west of Pinehurst. Giving planting instructions (right center) is Wilford A.
Leonard, of the high school faculty. Kneeling at right is Elliott Shearon, scoutmaster.
Thousands of seedlings have been planted in the county by Boy Scouts since the project started a
month ago. , (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Races to be held at Stonybrook
Farm Sunday afternoon, February
26, will be under sponsorship of
the Chamber of Commerce, whose
directors are busy on plans to
make this an outstanding event
of the season, according to Presi
dent Harry Fullenwider.
This will be the first “horse”
event of size to be held in the
Sandhills this year, and will inau
gurate the spring season, tradi
tionally the peak of the resort
year here.
Mickey Walsh, owner of Stony
brook Stables and track, veteran
rider and trainer, is serving as
manager. He has announced that
there will be “plenty of horses,”
possibly more than at last year’s
successful race event, the first to
be held here since before the war.
Among prominent jumpers will
be Moonshee, aged chestnut geld
ing owned by Carter W. Brown of
Tryon, winner of the two-mile
timber race last year. Among
other horses expected are jump
ers from the stables of Arthur
Reynolds, also of Tryon; racers
from Jack Kroes’ stables at Tean-
eck, N. J., and racers and jump
ers from the Stonybrook Stables.
Mr. Walsh and a crew of men
are busy getting the picturesque
one-mile course in top shape.
Five Classes
The afternoon card will feature
five classes, as follows: The Shel
ton, 1-4 mile on the flat for
junior horsemen; The Pines, 5-8
mile on the flat for ladies; The
Broad Hollow ,feature race of the
card, two miles over timber
course; fourth. The Silver Run,
1-2 mile open flat; and The Stony
brook Steeplechase, 1-2 mile over
hurdles.
Mr. Fullenwider has appointed
E. Nolley Jackson as Chamber
chairman of the'event, with Her
bert N. Cameron, L. T. Clark and
Jack S. Younts as members of his
supervisory committee. Special
committees are to be appointed
during the coming week and Col.
P. G. Shearman, Chamber of
Commerce manager, will assist
them all.
Invitations Issued
Publicity is already going out
over a wide area. Special invita
tions are being sent to Gen.
George C. Marshall, Gen. Ira T.
Wyche, and Gen. John R. Hodge^
commanding officer of Fort
Bragg, also to a number of State
dignitaries including Governor W.
Kerr Scott; George S. Coble,
Sixth District highway commis
sioner; George L. Ross, director
of the state department of con
servation and development;
Charles J. Parker, director of the
State News and Advertising bu
reau; Col. Tony Tolar, comman
der of the State Highway Pa
trol; Col. L. C. Rosser, of the
State Department of Motor Ve
hicles; mayors of surrounding
towns and others.
(Continued on page 5)
MEANEST
Title of Meanest Person goes
to the unknown who pushed open
a back window at the Sandhill
Citizen office at Aberdeen Wed
nesday night and made off with
between $65 and $75 in March of
Dimes funds.
The money had been left in an
unlocked safe by H. Clifton Blue,
Citizen publisher, who is county
chairman for the current polio
fund campaign. The mean thief
could not plead ignorance of the
fact that he was taking polio cam
paign money, as school envelopes
used for the collection had been
ripped open and a number of
checks scattered around.
With a fistful of folding money
—including '$20 of Mr. Blue’s—at
his disposal, the robber scorned
the change and checks, as far as
could be immediately ascertain
ed.
The sheriff’s department is in
vestigating. Chairman Blue said
he would see to it personally that
the polio fund suffers no loss—but
he surely hopes they catch the cul
prit quick.