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DL. 31—NO. 14
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines. N. 3.
Friday, February 24, 1950
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
own Will Wage
11-Out Safety
rive In March
[First In Series
Of Sponsors For
[Accident Prevention
Boy Scouts Give Pinebluff Town Board Good Advice
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safety campaign during the
^nth of March, sponsored by the
vn of Southern Pines, will be
opening gun in a war against
bidehts—the year-round safety
fgram of the newly organized
ithern Pines Safety Council,
rticular emphasis will be placed
I safe driving and “motor man-
rs.”
Cooperation of all local agen-
|s and all citizens will be asked
the campaign. Mayor C. N.
ge and other members of the
im board will go on the radio
j>r WEEB at 4:30 p. m. Tuesday
Ith an introductory program,
time is also to be scheduled
JWSTS. A month as nearly free
Ipossible of highway and traffic
lidents will be the goal,
phe Southern Pines schools Will
W a campaign during April,
the Red Cross has tentatively
^epted the leadership for May.
through the year, local organ-
Itions will take their turn Each
In+h’s program will be different,
lugh the object—a safer com-
Inity—will be the same. '
^uch were the plans laid at the
lond meeting of the Safety
rncil, held Tuesday afternoon
Ithe high school, led by Chair-
In Pro Tern Otto B. Edwards,
|ed by Executive Secretary Pro
O .D. Griffin.
cident Reports
the Council will meet monthly,
[was decided. Each upcoming
lety campaign will be preview-
tat these meetings. Another im-
tant feature will be reports by
enforcement officers of acci-
its and arrests of the preced-
month, with emphasis on ac-
lent causes and suggestions for
bventive measures,
f’olice Chief Newton and High
ly Patrolmen Rhyne and Par-
expressed their willingness to
|)perate in this way.
Jiscussion was held as to the
itribution each agency could
Ike—some with services, somi
[sponsors of the monthly cam
igns .and some as assistants in
fese campaigns. The possibility
J exending the movement to
|.er Sandhills towns was favor-
ly discussed.
|iticipanls
lose attending the meeting,
the agencies represented, in-
[ded Mayor C. N. Page, Town
Southern Pines; Chief C. E.
|wton,'police department; State
ghway Patrolmen J. P. Rhyne
Wesley Parrish; Mrs. Audrey
I Kennedy, Red Cross executive
tretary, and Dr. John C. Grier,
kt aid and water safety chair-
In of the Moore County chapter;
jc. Stevens, Sandhills Kiwanis
|b; Woodrow Davis, N. C. For-
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Troop 206 of Pinebluff took over their municipal government for one day during Hoy Scout week,
then returned at a later meeting of the regular board to report on their findings and make some rec
ommendations. They suggested putting a combination lock on the firehouse; police supervision of the
Pinebluff lake area; retiming of the stoplight on Highway 1; surfacing of the lakeward street and re
building of the town hall.
Mayor E. H. Mills, himself a Boy Scout not so loiig ago, took courteous note of the temporary city
fathers’ suggestions, thanking them without committing himself, after the fashion of public officials.
Some commissioners, though, pointed out that the state bond issue will take care of the road to the lake,
a local bond issue of the town hall improvements.
Above in serious conclave are seen, standing. Mayor Mills (right). Town Clerk Manly Wellrnan (left)
and between them Pinebluff’s all-GI board: Walter Alpert, Harry Howie and Clay Parker.
Their Boy Scout prototypes are seated directly in front of each: right, Mayor James Smith; left. Town
Clerk Buster Keith; between them from left, Ray Smith (fire chief fo ra day), Dick Gates and Frederick
Schnell. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
ON TO RALEIGH!
Folfes from all over Moore
county will join a caravan
which wRl l^ve the Aber
deen school Monday at 4 p.
m., headed for Raleigh where
the Aberdeen Devilettes will
meet the Benhaven girls'
team of Harnett counity at the
new Coliseum at 7 o'clock.
This will be a long-antici
pated meeting of champions.
Bo^h teams have won state
wide attention for their fight
ing spirit and remarkable rec
ords—>no defeats in three
years for Benhaven, only
three defeats in 104 games
over a four-year period for
Aberdeen.
Aberdeen girls may be
dread enemies on Moore
County courts but.in a state
wide championship they're
Moore's favorite girls. Mayor
Forest Lockey of Aberdeen
has proclaimed a half-holiday
Monday so everybody in town
can go. Many in the caravan
will decorate their cars. Po
lice escort will accompany he
procession of cheering fans.
Bij* Crowd Expected
For Stony brook Races
CHAIRMAN
Pingpong Tourney
Set For Saturday;
Many Entries Seen
REV. C. V. COVELL
Cardy Summoned Moore County Basketball Tournament
On Currency Law Starts Tuesday In Local Gymnasium
Violation Charges
Summonses were issued at Mon
treal February 7 ordering Vernon
G. Cardy, retired Canadian hotel
magnate, to appear in court to
answer charges of violating for
eign exchange control board reg
ulations, according to an Associat
ed Press dispatch.
The lour summonses, returnable
the following Monday, were sign
ed by Judge Gerald Almond on
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
complaints charging violations in
volving a total of more than
$500,000.
Mr. Cardy, 60, disposed of his
controlling interest in five eastern
Canadian hotels to the Sheraton
Corporation of America early in
February. Assets of the corpora
tion, which he had headed, were
said to have had a book value of
$15,000,000.
One complaint charges that be
tween February 9, 1947 and last
January 28, Mr. Cardy unlawfully
dealt with, or caused to be dealt
with, $200,000 in United States
currency. The second complaint
charges that while he was a resi-
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*ews Fight Five Fires In Two Days;
Worst One May Be Firebug’s Work
ON IRIS
Mrs. Frederick Wilcox, na
tionally known garden au
thority famed also as a de
lightful and informal speaker,
will make a talk on "Iris" at
the Southern Pines library at
8 p. m. Monday.
The Southern Pines Gar
den club is spoiisoring Mrs.
Wilcox' visit as an event open
to the public.
Though there will be no
admission charge, the Red
Cross will benefit by the pro-
. gram. A silver offering will be
taken to help the Garden club
defray Mrs. WUcox' usual
fee, which she turns over in
tact to the Red Cross.
The program is expected to
contain much of interest to
non-gardeners as well as gar
deners. Mrs. W. D. Campbell
is president of the Southern
Pines Garden club.
Weymouth Award
Will Be Made At
Kiwanis Meeting
High School Teams
Will Battle It Out
For 22nd Series
HISTORIANS
William S. Powell, of Ra
leigh. will be the guest speak
er at the February meeting
of ll^e Moore County Histor
ical society, according to an
announcement by J. Talbot
Johnson, of Aberdeen, presi-
enl.
The meeting will be held at
p. m. Tuesday at the South
ern Pines library, and will be
open to the public.
Mr. PowelL who is only 30
^ears old. is chief researcher
^or the Department of Ar
chives and history, working in
close cooperation with the di-
ector. Dr. C. C. Crittenden.
|His work carries him to all
oarts of the state in search of
|background material and all-
Ibut-forgotten items of histori-
fcal lore. He has also done con
siderable writing along his-
llorical lines.
Plans are being made to
show color film of Orton
[plantation in azalea time as
Ian additiionail pro^ami fea-
llure. 'The board of directors
Iwill meet at the cljsse of the
■program.
A 14-hour battle against fire
which spread over about 800 acres
of T. C. Auman’s land near West
End Monday was laid to incen
diary action, according to County
Forest War^n Davis of Southern
Pines. He said an investigation is
under way.
The fire, termed by Warden
Davis the “biggest and toughest”
he has seen in his three years of
service here, was one of five an
swered by the N. C. Forest Service
crews in two days. On both Sun
day and Monday, the blazes
doubled up in a way to tax both
men and equipment to the fullest.
Volunteers aided in all four
fires.
Sunday, two alarms came five
minutes apart. The first called
the men to the Eagle Springs
section, where fir^, threatened the
Eagle Springs Branch church and
• The Tree Farm award of the
N. C. Forestry association and th9
Southern Pine Association of
New Orleans will be presented to
the James Boyd estate, Wey
mouth, at a program sponsored by
the N. C. Forest Service at the
Sandhills Kiwanis club Wednes
day.
Receiving the award jointly will
be James Boyd, Jr., representing
the Boyd family, and Don Traylor,
Jr., resident forester in charge of
forest management at Weymouth.
The coveted award recognizes
the carrying out of a model fores-
ty program, with rigorous obser
vance of approved forestry prac
tices, forest management and fire
control.
James A. Pippin, of Rocking
ham, district forester of the N. C.
Forest Service, has prepared a
urogram of speakers distinguished
in forestry and related fields. Ap
pearing briefly with him on the
program will be F. H. Claridg».
assistant state forester; Walter E.
nearby Negro community. A Puller, administrative assistant
three-hour fight brought it under j of the state department of conser-
nontrol after about 85 acres of thejvation and development; Dr. R.
Graham property had been burn- j. Preston, director of the N. C-
ed over., 1 State College school of forestry;
Jumps Two Roads William Edmunds, of Wananish,
The second alarm' took the rest executive director of the N. C.
of the men and apparatus down Forestry association; John D.
[Highwav 1. where fire starting on Chalk, executive Hce president of
1 " (Continued on page 8) (Continued on Page 5)
The 22nd annual Moore County
High School basketball tourna
ment for both boys and girls will
get under way next Tuesday night
here in the new .Southern Pines
gymnasium. Southern Pines vs
Carthage girls will be the first
pairing.
Started in 1929 with the first
games being played in a Carthage
tobacco warehouse, the Moore
County tournament may be the
oldest consecutively held such
event in the state. Every year it
has grown in popularity with bas
ketball fans in the county, and
also attracts attention far out of
the Sandhills area. Until this year
no gymnasium has had quite the
seating capacity to hold all of the
people who wished to^ see their
favorite basketball teams in ac
tion. The splendid new gym, how
ever, will be able to satisfy all de
mand for seats, although some of
the basketball games between old
rivals will strain even this spa
cious structure to the limit.
A. C. Dawson, Jr., director of
physical education for the South'
ern Pines school, has made ar
rangements to bring over the
bleachers from the Pinehurst
gymnasium, which will add some
300 seats to the present seating
capacity. This will give a total
of some 1400 seats, including those
for' the players. No such crowd
has ever before attended tourna
ment games, but it is expected
that at times all seats will be
taken.
For many years the tournament
has been held under the sponsor
ship and direction of the Educo
club, organization of male mem
bers of the teaching profession in
Moore county, and to them and
their work can the meteoric rise
in interest in the tournament be
traced.
Tuesday night following the
Southern Pines-Carthage girls
game, the West End boys will
meet those of Farm Life school.
Wednesday, the tournament will
really start warming up. At 3 p. m.
the West End and High Falls girls
play, followed at 4 by Pinehurst
and High Falls boys. At 6:30 p. m.
will come the Westfnoore girls vs.
Farm Life game, and at 7:30,
Cameron vs. Westmoore boys.
Wednesday night the play will be
topped off at 8:30 when Pinehurst
girls play the winner of the Tues
day set-to between Carthage and
Southern Pines.
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An event as exciting to specta
tors as to players is anticipated in
the pingpong tournament to be
held at the Southern Pines school
gym tomorrow (Saturday) eve
ning starting, at 7 o’clock.
Six tables will be in play right
on up to the finals, in men’s
doubles and singles, women’s
doubles and singles and mixed
doubles. About 40 entries are in
hand or expected, said Frank de
Costa, president of the sponsoring
Sandhills Tennis association. Some
of those playing are already
known as topflight tennis players,
and are expected to display some
of the same skills at the pingpong
table.
Entries have been made from
Southern Pines, Aberdeen and
Sanford, and are expected from
other towns. Deadline for entries
is 3 p. m. Saturday. They may be
made at the,H. L. Brown agency
on West Pennsylvania avenue and
must be accompanied by entrance
fees—50 cents per person per
event, 25 cents for high school
students.
Proceeds will be used to help
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Fast, Exciting
Spectator Event
At New Gymnasium
Rev. C. V. Covell
Will Head Local
Red Cross Drive
Seven Events Present
Outstanding Horses
And Riders Sunday
Flat, Hurdle, Timber,
Junior Events Listed
A big crowd looking for thrills
■and finding them—is expected
to turn out Sunday for the Third
Annual Race event sponsored by
the Chamber of Commerce, which
will be held on the one-mile
Stonybrook course starting at 2
p. m.
A rearrangement of parking
space will assure room for all,
and with three entrances this year
no congestion is anticipated. How
ever, race officials asked that
spectators arrive as early as pos
sible to facilitate the handling
of so many cars.
Reserved parking spaces have
been going fast this week, said
Col. P. G. Shearman, Chamber
manager, who is in charge of this
chase of the preparations. Space
has already been reserved for
some invited guests. Among these
will be Brig. Gen. A. L. Sneed,
Maj. Gen. I. T. Wyche, both of
Pinehurst; Charles J. Parker, di
rector of the State News Bureau
at Raleigh, and his assistant John
The Rev. C. V. Covell, rector of G. Hemmer, of Pinehurst, all
Emmanuel Episcopal church, has j bringing parties. George L. Ross,
accepted the chairmanship for the director of the state department
Local Attorney
Recommended For
Elections Board
Chappell Is Alternate;
Riddle, Shields
Are Renominated
Red Cross fund campaign in
Southern Pines, it was announced
by T. R. Phillips, of Carthage,
county campaign chairman, this
week.
Mr. Covell has this week as
sembled an organization of work
ers to go into action at the first
flash of the green light Monday,
March 8. One of them, in fact,
will move into action before then.
That is Preston T. Kelsey, ad
vance gifts chairman, who is al
ready on the job.
Assisting with the canvass
which will take place week after
next for a community quota of
$4,000, will be Maxwell G. Rush
and June Blue, in the business
district, and Mrs. S. T. Wallis, res
idential.
Mrs. Wallis has divided the
town into two parts and handed
over half for canvassing purposes
to her assistant, Mrs. Margaret
Mills Cameron. Mrs. Cameron is
getting her group together and
says they will be made known
next week:
Actively canvassing with Mrs.
Wallis will be Mrs. Bryan Poe,
Mrs. J. W. Causey, Mrs. George
Leonard, Mrs. E. Nolley Jackson,
Mrs. J. J. Spring, Mrs. F. E.
Stubbs, Mrs. J. R. Marsh, Mrs. E.
C. Stevens, Mrs. Ruth W. Swish
er, Mrs. Harry Menzel, Mrs. W.
E. Cox, Sr., Mrs. Sydney Evert,
Mrs. R. L. Chandler, Mrs. Frank
Buchan, Mrs. Roy Newton, Mrs.
J. H. Childs, Mrs. Fraser Knight,
Mrs. Jack Goodwin, Mrs. Fred
Chappell, Mrs. A. C. Dawson, Jr.
Two members of the county
board of elections whose three-
year terms expired this month
have been recommended for reap
pointment, according to their res
pective party chairmen, and a
new member, W. Harry Fullenwi-
der, has been proposed to succeed
John S. Ruggles of Southern
Pines, who recently resigned be
fore the expiration of his term.
Names of Sam C. Riddle, of
Carthage, who has been serving
as chairman of the three-man
board, and Mr. Fullenwider, a
Southern Pines attorney, • with
Monroe Chappell of Vass as al-
termite, have been transmitted
by M. G. Boyette, Moore Demo
cratic Committee chairman, to
'state Democratic Chairman Ever
ett Jordan. The three were nomi
nated at a meeting of the conuty
committee, composed of precinct
chairmen, held at Carthage Feb
ruary 11.
L. S. Shields, of Carthage, has
been recommended for the lone
Republican spot on the three-man
board, it was learned from F. L.
Trotter, of Robbins, Moore Repub
lican chairman. His name has been
sent to Sim DeLapp, State Repub
lican chairman.
All the recommendations are
subject to the approval of the
State Board of Elections, which is
expected to announce the appoint
ments for all counties within ai
few days.
of conservation and develonment.
has also indicated his intention of
being here if possible.
Virgil Clark is in charge of the
narking committee. E. Nolley
Jackson is general Chamber chair
man for the event. H. L. Brown
is in charge of ticket sales, and
has announced that tickets are
available at all local drugstores
anri his office on West Pennsyl-
'mnia avenue. Jaek S. Younts has
ii-ndlod tha nuhlicitv job. Other
cviomhor of Commerce members,
Fullenwider,
nrpsirinnt. havo been working
hard to make his the finest race
in Sandhills historv.
Horses taking part in the-seven
events include some of the finest
of the eastern seaboard, from sta
bles known wherever horsemen
gather. Riders match the horses in
excellence, to make a topnotch
show for race lovers.
The events are; first race, “The
Pines,” quarter mile on the flat,
catch weight, five entries; second,
“The Shelton,” riders 18 years of
age and under, quarter mile, catch
weight, five entries; third, “The
Silver Run,” 3-8 of a mile
on the flat, catch weight, five en
tries; fourth, “The Manly Hur
dle/’ mile and a half hurdle race,
catch weight, six entries; fifth,
“The Woodbury,” quarter mile on
the flat, catch weight, five entries;
sixth, “The Oklahoma,” half-mile
flat race, catch weight, two en
tries; seventh, “The Broad Hol-
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Red Cross Services Told As Chairmen
Meet At Carthage; Quota Is $14,672
PEACH QUEEN
A little college freshman
this week laid aside her books
and took off for five glamor
ous days at Fort Lauderdale,
Fla.
There Miss Janet Menzel,
of Southern Pines, is receiv
ing the honors due her as roy
alty. The gala trip is her big
prize for being chosen Queen
of the Sandhills Peach festi
val al Rockingham last July.
She was given a silver cup
at the time—dates of the Flor
ida trip were indefinite, as
they were to be those of the
Orange festival for which the
lime had not been set. Last
week she received the sum
mons. Authorities at Wom
an's college, Greensboro,
gladly let her go—Janet is
smart as well as pretty, and
her marks won't suffer.
She will take part in an
other beauty contest — and
they'll have to be mighty
pretty to beat golden-haired
Janet. Her mother, Mrs. Har
ry Menzel, is with her. Both
are guests of the Rockingham
Merchants association for the
week. They will return Sat
urday night.
A quota of $14,672 will be
sought by the Moore County
chapter, American Red Cross dur
ing the month of March for serv
ices which are rendered through-*
out the county, and for aid to the
National Red Cross for disaster
and safety services through-out the
nation.
The membership of every one
of Moore county’s 20,000 adults
will be the goal of the March cam
paign, so that each may partici
pate in this organization which
belongs to the people, it was ex
plained by T. Roy Phillips, of Car
thage, county campaign chairman,
at a dinner meeting of community
chairmen and chapter leaders held
Wednesday night of last week at
the Carthage hotel.
Ellis Fysall, Southeastern Area
representative present as guest
speaker, expla-ined that most of
the money collected will remain
in the county, for service to vet
erans and servicemen and their
families; first aid, water safety
and home nursing instruction;
production of articles needed in
veterans’ hospitals and relief
services of various sorts within
Red Cross policy limitations. Pol
icy restricts these services to
emergency relief until the com-
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