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)L. 31—NO. 23
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
SOUTHERN PINES. N. C.. FRIDAY, APRIL 28. 1950
Ister’s Prime Minister And Wife
Tour Farms And Orchards of Moore
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Sir Basil And
Lady Brooke Are
Sandhills Visitors
ink dogwood, iced tea and
d chicken eaten with the fin-
outdoors—these have been
>ng the most charming of their
nt new experiences, this week
;ed the prime minister of
them Ireland and his lady,
are visiting here,
r Basil and Lady Cynthia
T/ke are spending the week
uests of their faiends Mr. and
Ernest L. Ives—unofficially,
:h is the part they are en-
ag best of all.
le pink dogwood, along with
white, they revel in every-
re. The iced tea and fried
ken turned up in a picnic
h served them by Mr. and
W. W. Jackson, of Jackson
ngs, whose farmi home they
ed Tuesday.
The visit was part of a tour
he farming areas on which
were guided by Miss Flora
onald, county home demon
ion agent. Mrs. Ives, an old
at country doings, went
g too. But even the home
onstration agent was hard
to it to keep up with the
-ranging agricultural talk of
distinguished guests.
King Interests
eir interest in farming is
and genuine. Sir Biasil was
ster of Agriculture before he
prime minister (with an in-
il as Minister of Commerce).
own a large farmi in Ulster
Lady Brooke is chairman of
ommittees set up to adminis-
he Women’s Institute pro
in Ulster. This, she explain-
similar to our hom.e demon
ion program, except that all
ers are volunteers,
er the picnic lunch Sir Basil
ogether with Mr. Rankin on
war experiences—the prime
iter’s home was a camp for
U. S. soldiers during the
and Lady Brooke conferred
!stly with Mrs. Rankin on
ng, deep-freeze processes,
Mirs. Rankin had plenty of
ers. She is one of the prize
makers and canners of the
i Springs home demonstra-
club, “A delightful time,”
ihe visitors’ verdict on their
GRAHAM MANAGER
T. C. Auman, West End
farmer and peach grow
er, has accepted appointment
as manager of Senator Frank
P. Graham's campaign in
Moore county, it was an
nounced Wednesday by Jeff
D. Johnson. Jr., state cami-
paign manager for Senator
Graham, at Raleigh.
Mr. Auman has long taken
a leading part in affairs of the
county, especially in agricul
tural affairs. He has served
years as president of the
Moore County Farm Bureau,
and is a founding member
and president of the Moore
County Artificial Breeding
association. He headed the
1949 CROP drive in the coun
ty. He is a member and past
president of the West End
Lions club.
Mr. Ajiman, a State College
gradulate, successfully man-*
aged the campaign of his
classmate, W. Kerr Scott, in
Moore.
Impressive List
Of Fourth Estate
Covering Swarmer
y spent the day popping in
out of nuexpected places
Thousands of words were ream
ed off with Southern Pines date
lines at the Hollywood hotel this
week, and others are going out
every day in connection with Ex
ercise Swarmer. Newsreel and
■‘still” photographers began
functioning at Tuesday night’s
showing of ‘‘The Big Lift,” though
it is understood their best work
lies ahead, once the maneuvers get
under way. An AP wirephoto out
fit was set up at the hotel for
the first-time-in-history transmis
sion of pictures direct from; South
ern Pines. The stories got out by
two special Western Union wires,
telephone and teletype.
The Army honored the gentle
men of the press with a party
Tuesday night at the Hollywood,
and Wednesday afternoon both
Army personnel and the visiting
correspondents were partied by
the Town of Southern Pines. The
Chamber of Commerce seized the
opportunity to distribute litera
ture about the town, and also
dropped in at the turkey | obliged with information in an
of Dr. T. A. Cheatham andiwer to numerous inquiries.
N. C. Symphony
Presents Concerts
Here Wednesday
Tickets Are Still-
Available For
Evening Performance
Some tickets will be available
for box-office sale for the N. C.
Symphony to be presented at the
new school auditorium Wednes
day evening, it was learned this
week.
With such a large auditorium
available for the first time, a “sell
out” could not be made in ad
vance. However, those who wish to
have their choice of seats are still
advised to buy their tickets before
concert time, at the Barnum Real
ty company on West Broad street.
The famous orchestra of 63
pieces, directed by Dr. Benjamin
ciwalin of Chapel Hill, will pre
sent a free concert for schoolchil
dren of the county in the after
noon. Tickets have been rationed
out to the various schools.
The night program, to begin at
8:30, will present the following se
lections: Trumpet Voluntary, Pur
cell; Symphony No. 3, Opus 90,
Brahms; Ballet Music from Wil
liam Tell, Rossini; Arkansas Trav
eler, arranged by Guion; Rumba-
leros Camarata; Ballet Suite No. 1
two exeferpts), Gluck-Mottl; In
a Ranch House—Portrait of a
Frontier Town, Gillis; Tales from
the Vienna Woods, Strauss.
The appearance of the N. C.
Symphony orchestra here is the
first formal offering of the Sand
hills Music association, and the
first full orchestral performance
for the Sandhills. The acquisition
of a new auditorium has made
possible the securing of the full
N. C. Symphony, rather than the
Little Symphony of selected pieces
which usually plays in the state’s
smaller towns. Only state-support
ed synjphony orchestra in the
country, it is rated On a par with
most of America’s fine orchestra,
and in its tours about the state
has brought the best in orchestral
music to many thousands of listen
ers.
TEN CENTS
D-Day For Exercise Swarmer
D-Day for Eercise Swarmer has
been set for today (Friday), ac
cording to an announcement by
General Norstad listed some dis
tinguished visitors who will be
on hand before and during the
Lieut. Gen. Lauris Norstad, com- S^rTlvin^G Gill“ommi;^^^^^
manding general. Early today the
first of 32,000 troops are scheduled
to be committed into an airhead
entirely by air, and supported by
equipment and supplies put in by
phrachutes.
The first action will be the
plummeting of elements of the
11th Airborne into the first drop
zone near tie cantonment area of
old Camp Mackall, hitting the
ground in approximately the same
spot where the 11th was activated
in World War 2, seven years ago.
The road rip took them into the
Pacific war, the postwar occupa
tion of Japan and back to Camp
Campbell, Ky., not returning un
til today to the place of their ori
gin.
After the maneuvers, the 11th
Airborne will participate in a
ceremony naming the drop zone
Luzon, in honor of their Phiippine
campaign.
ing general of the Third ■ Army,
who served as deputy commander
of Exercise Tarheel a year ago:
Thomas Finletter, secretary of the
Air Force; Gen. Mark Clark, com
manding general of the Army
Forces at Fort Monroe, Va.; Frank
Pace, Secretary of the Army; Gen.
Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of the
U. S. Air Forces; Gen. J. Lawton
Collins, Chief of Staff of the U.
S. Army.
A total of 671 planes will take
part in Exercise Swarmer, v^ith
a ti'oop list from the three ser
vices involving 60,000 men. The
Army’s three primary units will be
Headquarters V Corps, the 82nd
and the 11th Airborne divisions.
More than 26,000 tons of equip
ment and supplies will be dropped
in an extended airlift operation,
effecting a buildup to breakout
proportfcns fend maintaining a
sustained military offensive.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Arriving Today For
State Convention Here
MEDAL OF HONOR
New Southern Pines Auditorium Is
Completed, Will Be Used This Week
Handsome Building
Will Fill Real
Community Need
Basehall Cluhs
Departing, May
Return Next Year
^ade Stevick at Pinehurst,
e the huge flocks of gobblers
ed their admiration. They
d the Sandhill Furniture
y at West End, attracted by
ng furniture was made from
Many angles of the Fourth Es
tate were represented on the
scintillating roster of guests: Aus
tin Stevens, N. Y. Times; (j. B.
Mien, N. Y. Herald Tribune;
Price Day, Baltimore Sun; Al-
gany here. They toured bert A. Rushton, Army and Navy
large apple and peach or-'Times; Vance Johnson, San Fran-
s near West End, where
Brooke grieved over the
^-killed peach blossoms, but
ed the rich bloom of the
(Continued on Page 5)
cisco Chronicle; John McCul
lough, Philadelphia Inquirer;
John Hughes, N. Y. Daily News;
Jack Thompson, Chicago Tribune:
(Continued on Page 5)
■est Fire-Fighting Crews Continue
eary War; Eight In One Record Day
EMERGENCY
state of emergency in
ird to the danger of fire
been declared by District
ester James A. Pippin of
kingham for the counties
i4oore, Anson, Chatham,
Montgomery, Richmond
Scotland.
ire hazards were declared
>e at their highest peak in
'ears, with several days of
L needed to eliminate the
at.
orester Pippin asked ob-
'ance of the following: No
sh burning—all permits
indefinitely canceled;
lie utilities, railroads and
itruction companies are
id to cease all types of
aing; railroads using coal-
ling engines are asked to
mine them closely for fire
:s: public school teachers
lid instruct their pupils in
St fire prevention; in
It of a forest fire, all dt-
> are asked to pitch in
help suppress it; all fires
ildl be reported to the
rest fire tower promptly
ntizens, county police and
e Highway patrolman.
Eight forest fires in Moore
.county Sunday set’a new record
for the county fire fighting crew
of the N. C. Forest Service, al
ready weary and worn with their
worst season in many years—
ever.
Old timers say that 1941-42
brought a dry windy season as
bad for forest fires as this one.
County Forest Warden E. W. Da
vis says this is the toughest he
remembers, and this week repeat
ed his warning to be careful,
“With the woods as dry as they
are now, anything can start a
fire,” he said. “It will take not
just rain, but several days of it
to help much.”
Sunday brought the month’s to
tal of reportable fires since April
1 up to about 30. These have been
interspersed with daily “spot
fires” extinguished before much
damage is done.
A Saturday alarm by highway
natrol radio took the crew to the
farm of Naoma Leslie, about three
miles out of Carthage toward San
ford, where a fire started to “burn
off new ground” got out from
under control. About 16 acres of
woods were burned over.
Sunday morning, the crew was
summoned to Eagle Springs and
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The Jamestown Falcons, with 27
men aboard their special bus, left
early Thursday morning for their
home base in New York, after
three weeks’ of spring training
here.
The Butler (Pa.) Tigers will de
part next Wednesday.
They leave a community well
pleased with its venture into be
ing a spring training site, satis
fied that pleasure and benefit ac
crued to both sides and hoping
that the boys will come back next
year. Besides providing continuing
entertainment for the town’s base
ball fans, they made many friends
and numerous homes were open
ed to them.
Harry Fullenwider, president of
the Chamber of Commerce, which
was instrumental in helping the
two farm clubs of the Detroit Ti
gers locate here this spring, said,
“We have been honored to have
the Falcons and Tigers with us.
They have been a pleasure to en
tertain and we are looking forward
to their return.” Chief of Police
Newton said, “They have certain
ly been the best of guests, giving
no trouble at all to our depart
ment.” Mayor C. N. Page echoed
their sentiments.
Falcon Manager Bob Shawkey,
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The new 'school auditorium is
getting off to a flying start.
Reckoned one of the finest
small ^hool auditoriums in the
state, its extra-curricular place in
the community promises to be
great. If plans for its use by lo
cal organizations continue at the
present rate, it is sure to rank
as one of the most popular, as it
is already one of the most attrac
tive of tive, of town assets.
Starting with the opening ses
sion of the Alcoholics Anony
mous convention today, the hall
will be used by the Red Cross for
a safety program next Tuesday
while the following evening, Wed
nesday, the State Symphony will
present there its first program in
the Sandhills, under the sponsor
ship of the Music Association.
Built by the Cox Construction
Company of Charlotte from the
plans of Raleigh school architect,
W. H- Dietrich, the hall was, this
week, receiving the finishing
Carolina Bank To
Open Branch
In Vass Monday
POPPY DAY
Buy a poppy toihorrow
(Saturday) in honor of our
war dead, and help the living
veterans too with your con
tribution.
The scarlet flowers will be
sold by high school girls
downtown all day, under aus-
picies of the American Le
gion auxiliary. The poppies
were made by veterans at the
Fayetteville hospital, who
have worked in their beds*
opy shop. The proceeds will
go into the auxiliary’s fund
for needy veterans and the
families of the war dead.
“Lest we forget” — don’t
forget to wear a poppy.
The Carolina Bank will open its
branch office in Vass at 10 a. m.
Monday, May 1, in the od Bank
building, giving the town facili
ties which have been sorely miss
ed since the doors of the Bank
of Vass closed some 20 years ago.
W. 3. Morgan, an empeyee of
the Carolina Bank in Carthage,
will be cashier the new office.
He was married last fall to Miss
Betty Shankle, assistant Moore
County home deo.-^.nstration agent,
and they are expected to make
their home in Vass.
The Local Management com
mittee is composed of N. M. Mc-
Keithan, Vass merchant; A. L.
Keith, Vass merchant and thea
ter ovmer, and L. B. McKeithen,
well-known business man of Cam
eron.
The new office is not to be ‘^just
a teller’s window,” but a full-
powered branch to make loans
and handle all normal banking
practices, according to L. R
Creath of Pinehurst, executive
vice president of the Carolina
Bank, which already operates in
Pinehurst Aberdeen and Carth
age.
The building, which for the past
several years has been used as a
barber shop, has been thorough-
y renovated and new fixtures have
been built and installed. The vault
had never been removed.
Opening of the Bank will mark
the fruition of efforts started sev
eral months ago by Vass citizens
to get the Carolina Bank to open
a branch there. They presented a
petition, and upon investigation,
the bank officials were of the
opinion that there was sufficient
business there to justify the es
tablishing of a branch. After a
series of meetings and conferences
full approval was given by the
State Banking Commission and
the Federal Deposit Insurance cor-
'poration.
touches for its opening. Wiring
was being connected up, the floor
was about to have its asphalt til
ing laid in aisles and lobby and,
on the big stage, men were busy
with the arrangements for back
drop and wings.
By day the auditorium is a
striking sight with the sunshine
pouring in through its high wide
paned windows. It strikes across
the white walls, shining on the
soft brown of the wooden seat-
backs topped by their faintly glis
tening rims of 'dull chrome. It
lights the blue of the seats, the
same soft blue as the sky outside.
These seats are comfortable as
well as handsome. They are well-
designed froqi the seeing angle,
too. Not only is the floor gently
sloping, but, by an ingenious de
vice, the seats in the middle sec
tion are sq^ arranged that no one
is directly behind another. This
result is obtained by having seats
of three different sizes in each
row.
Another unusual feature of the
auditorium is its ceiling, made of
“accoustical plaster,” the finish
left soft to act as an absorbent
cushion for sound.
The hall, which is 60 by 70 feet,
will seat 720 people, and the
stage, 28 by 37, is large enough
to accommiodate symphony or-
ohestras and college glee clubs
which, it is hoped, will be among
the entertainments to be enjoyed
there in the future.
The state symphony orchestra
will be the first performers to
take the stage. By next Wednes
day night, when this famous and
beloved group of musicians take
their places behind the footlights,
the soft grey backdrops and the
;tage curtains of royal blue are
“■^pec^ed to be in place, with
matching draperies on the big
side windows.
As Director Swalin mounts the
podium and raises his baton, next
Wednesday evening and the first
strains fllL the great hall, these
sounds, it is confidently believpd,
will usher in an era of lovely
music and delightful entertain
ment in the Sandhills, in an audi
torium worthy of the best, of
which every citizen of Moore
County may be proud.
Master Sgt. Jake W. Lindsey, a
member of the John Boyd post,
VFW, of Southern Pines, is one
of two holders of the Congression
al medal of honor stationed at
Fort Bragg. He was the 100 th
man to be awarded this highest of
decorations, for outstanding cour
age in World War 2.
Sergeant Lindsey, who is from
Lucedale, Miss., is taking part in
Exercise Swarmer as a jumpmas-
ter with the 505th AIR, 82nd Air
borne divisiop.
(Armed Forces Photo)
Red Cross Plans
Tuesday Program
At New Auditorium
A public meeting, with a pro
gram of varied items of interest,
will be held at the new school aud
itorium at 8 p. m. Tuesday, teeing
off the May safety campaign in
Southern Pines as the Moore
County chapter, American Red
Red Cross, assumes sponsorship
for the month.
A demonstration of first aid
procedures in both usual-and un
usual siuations will be given by
Frank Kaylor, assisted by a num
ber of boys and girls of the South
ern Pines schools.
A damatic film, “Paradise Val
ley,” will be showit, presenting a
safetymessage in 20 technicolored
minutes.
L. Lewie Hallman, of Aberdeen,
chapter vice chairman, will be
master of ceremonies, presenting
Ellis D. Fysal, of Atlanta, Red
Cross area director -of safety ser
vices, for a brief address. Anoth
er anticipated speaker is Col.
James R. Smith, new commander
Off the State Highway Patrol,
though at the Pilot’s presstime it
had not been learned if he'could
come.
(Continued on page 5)
Local People Take
Pari In Eventful
Three-Day Program
Southern Pines will welcome
this weekend several hundred
members of AA groups, with
many non-member friends, who
will attend the Third Annual N.
C. Alcoholics Anonymous con
vention from Friday evening
through Sunday afternoon.
They will fill thfe hotels, motels,
guest houses and .inns, and for
their business sessions and
speeches will gather at the new
school auditorium, opening for
this meeting for the first time.
Social functions will center at the
Highand Pines Inn, with a Satur
day night barbecue at Aberdeen
lake.
A richly varied program has
been prepared by a committee of
the Sandhills Intergroup associa
tion, whose local members have
worked hard to make this the best
of conventions.
Speakers will include distin
guished specialists in alcoholic
studies, as well as outstanding
members of AA.
Saturday afternoon will be turn
ed over to the entertainment of
the guests, with a long list of lo
cal facilities listed for their ben
efit—golf courses, tennis courts,
theatres, riding stables, fishing
lakes, guided tours and a mer
chants’ contea,t.
The Friday evening session at
8 o’clock at the auditorium will
be preceded by a half-hour of mu
sic by Jimmy Lawson and his
Hammond organ. Mayor C. N.
Page will welcome the guests. An
A A member will respond, and ■
Walter E. Vassar/ of the Vassar
Studios at Greensboro, will sing.
Gardner to Speak
Two talks will feature this
session, one by Yvelin Gardner,
associate director of the national
committee for education on alco
holism, with headquarters at the
Yale clinic. New Haven, Mass.,
the other by an AA member of
New Brunswick, Canada, a for
mer Southern Pines resident.
The Saturday morning session,
opening with organ music bv
Jimmy Lawson at 9:30, will con
tinue at 10 with two- talks by AA
members of Baltimore and Chi
cago.
Address by Socioiogisl
A Wadesboro group member
will preside over the Saturday
evening session, which will offer
a super-magic show, “Gordon’s
Magic Carpet,” put on by Scott
(Continued on page 5)
Kids Will Stage
Bicycle Parade
Saturday 2 p. m.
/
Star-Studded Audience Sees
^^Big LifV^ At Carolina Theatre
Maj. Gen. William H. Tunner, itors of papers of surrounding
who commanded the Berlin airlift,
told a picked audience at the Car
olina theater here Tuesday night
that “wc are prepared to put on
the same operation in defense of
oUr country anywhere, any time,
for a period of any duration, re
gardless of geography or climate.”
The showing, which presented
“The Big Lift,” drama made by
Twentieth Century-Fox in Ger
many during the airlift against
the Russian blockade, took place
on the evei^ of D-Day of Exercise
Swarmer, bn nearby Camip Mack-
all. In the audience were 50 Army,
Air Force and Navy pilots of the
Berlin airlift, here to participate
in the nine-day airlift climaxing
the maneuvers; top brass of the
exercise, and of Fort Bragg; re
tired generals and admirals liv
ing in the Sandhills; mayors and
their wives, also newspaper ed-
communities, and a battery of vis
iting press representatives
especially invited by the Secre
tary of Defense to view the man
euver operations.
Also in tht audience were rep
resentatives of Twentieth Cen
tury-Fox, which had taken over
the 320-seat theater for the occa
sion; and of Pratt-Whitney, Lock
heed and Fairchild aircraft com
panies, here to witness the func
tioning of their aircraft under
airlift conditions.
Special guests included Sir Ba
sil Brooke, prime minister of
Northern Ireland, and Lady
Brooke; and Lieutenant Gover
nor W. P. Taylor, with Mrs. Tay
lor.
Parade of Heroes
The occasion constituted the
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Boys and girls of the Southern
Pines elementary school will hold
a bicycle parade Saturday at 2
p. m., to- climax the schools’ Ap
ril safety campaign held in co
operation with the Southern Pines
Safety Council.
Drummers from the Southern
Pines school band, cars filled witli
town officials and a unit of the
Moore County Red Cross, which
will take over the safety cam
paign in May, will also be in the
parade.
An escort of police and the State
Highway Patrol will conduct the
decorated bicycles, with costumed
riders, along the chosen route:
from the Johnson-Browh Furn
iture Store cO-rner along West
Broad to Vermont, thence to East
Broad street and back to the town
hall.
More than 100 bicycle riders are
expected to take part, according to
Miss Billie Williams, faculty saf
ety chairman during the month.
M'ore impressive even than he pa
rade will be the knowledge that
each rider has passed a biclcye
safety test of 40 questions, and
each bicycle has been checked for
mechanical safety by a high school
committee.
Bike decals and membership
cards in the N. C. Bicycle Safety
club have been awarded the chil
dren who took and passed the
test, pupils from the third through
the eighth grades.