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VOL. 31—NO. 32
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SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JUNE 30. 1950
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Kennedy, Griffin,
Willis Smith Lead
n County Runoff
Montesanti Wins Memorial Trophy
Voiers Flock To
Polls To Reaffirm
Original Choices
For tabulation of votes by
precincts, see Page 14.
Moore county Democratic voters,
company with those of the rest
if North Carolina, braved the
immer’s severest heat to go to
le polls in numbers unprecedent-
for a second primary, to cast
leir votes in two county contests
id the U.S. Senate race Saturday
In none of the three was the
result changed, as far as
luthern Pines and^ the county
ere concerned. Those who led
the first primary did so in the
icond, only by a wider margin in
ich case.
Carlton C. Kennedy, former
luthern Pines town board mem-
ir now resident in his old home
iwn Of Carthage, became the
iminee for clerk of superior
lurt by 2,936 votes in the county,
er 1,982 polled by Hubert M|c-
.skill of Pinehurst. (First pri-
iry vote—2,329 to 1,804.)
Mrs. Bessie J. Griffin, former
|wn clerk of Vass, won out over
A. McDonald, Jr., of Carthage,
the register of deeds nomina-
>n, by 2,914 votes to 1,927. (First
hmary vote—2,334 to T,882.)
maforial Race
decisive reversal in the State
^e Raleigh Attorney Willis
ith the senatorial nomination
incumbent Frank P. Graham,
mer President of the Univer-
[y of North Carolina. Moore
inty gave Smith 2,989 votes to
ham’s 2,038. (First primary
;^2,548 to 2,281.)
oting was reported quiet over
county.
h almost all precincts more
were cast in the senatorial
itest than in the first primary,
[wever, this did not mean, more
iple went to the polls as the
returns were more than 300
irt of the 5,340 bast in the sher-
race of May 27.
e total of votes cast for Gra-
and Smith in Moore last Sat-
'■ay was 5,027. On Mhy 24, it
been 4,829. Smith’s votes roll
up, Graham’s down,
in the statewide vote Senator
iham, who in the first primary
polled 303,000 votes, received
j,000; Smith, who had 250,000
lore, garnered a massive 277,-
in the most marked reversal
;he history of elections in North
•olina'.
:e Issue
o new issues were brought out
he interval. However, spurred
three U. S. Supreme Court
•segregation decisions, the
les of race prejudice were
ed to white heat by the
forces, using newspaper ads
anonymous handbills, in
leches and via grapevine.
Holiday Observance
Angelo Montesanti, Jr., right, is shown holding the beautiful P.
A. Wilson Memorial trophy, of which he became the first holder as
well as Moore County champion Saturday night by winning the
men’s singles finals of the Second Annual Moore County tournament.
Shown with smaller trophy above is Hugh Bowman, of Aberdeen,
runner-up. Both are former members of their college tennis teams,
Montesanti at State, Bowman at the University of North Carolina.
Their match, played to a score of 4-6, 6-3, 8-6 was called by ob
servers one of the closest and most brilliantly played ever seen on
the local courts. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Town Kids Flock
To Summer Play
Program Events
Recreation highlights of
the week—
There will be a dance to
night (Friday) at the school
gym.
Next week's Tuesday swim
session will be held on Mon
day instead, on account of
holiday crowds at the lake
July 4. Bus leaves town park
at 2:30 p.m.
The first inlertown baseball
game (boys 8-15) was played
at Pinehurst Thursday. Oth-
, ers are being scheduled for
next month.
Teen-age boys* tond girls,
register for pocket-money
jobs at the Foxhole. Citizens,
phone 5193 for baby-sitters
and willing workers eit other
spare-time jobs.
The recreation program got into
full swing this week, with daily
events and splendid attendance,
said Director A. C. Dawson, Jr.
More than 50 boys and girls are
joining the twice-weekly swim
sessions, and fun of many kinds is
going on all the time.
The first story hour, held Mon
day at 10:30 at the elementary
school, brought a crowd of 20
youngsters to hear stories told by
Mrs. Elizabeth Shearon, and twice
that many are expected next
week.
Twelve girls started the feewing
course with the first class held
Tuesday at the high school, 10
a.m. to noon. This will be a
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Other trophies went to Audrey
West Brown, women’s singles
winner, and Betsy Barnum, run
ner-up; Audrey West Brown and
Harry Lee Brown, Jr., mixed
doubles (for second consecutive
year) and Millie Montesanti and
Page Choate, runners up; Mal
colm Clark and Page Choate, men’s
doubles winners, and Angelo
Montesanti, Jr., and Harry Lee
Brown, Jr., runners-up; also to
Betty Jane Worsham and Bill
Wilson, winners of the consola
tion singles.
A good gallery was on hand
throughout the tournament and
interest remained high, despite
the fact that it was prolonged
over three weeks’ time. As the
matches were played off the sur
vivors included several attending
summer school and available for
play only on weekends.
The general calibre of play was
the highest yet seen in a tourna
ment here, was the general opin
ion, with several of the matches
reaching ‘‘big-time” excellence.
The tournament was sponsored
by, the Sandhills Tennis associa
tion. The Association’s next event
will be the Second Annual Sand
hills Open, to be held early in
August.
General holiday will be observ
ed Tuesday, July 4, and a good
many businesses will also be
closed Monday or Wednesday to
give their employees a real va
cation.
Siervice stations and garages
will be closed Sunday through
Tuesday, so it is advisable to
stock up on gas Saturday if you
plan to do much driving. Most
food stores will close Tuesday
and Wednesday. Since there is
little uniformity in the holidays to
be observed. The Pilot advises
readers to check with an ad placed
by a number of merchants in this
issue, to see just who is closing,
on what days.
County and city offices and
the Citizens Bank and Trust com
pany will, of course, close Tues
ci=.y.
Tuesday will be tried Tuesday of
next week instead.
Post office winows will be open
till 10 a. m. There will be no mail
delivery. Incoming mail (for
boxes) and outgoing mail will be
worked as usual.
Many will be heading for Car
thage, to enjoy the county Fourth
of July Festival. Others will be
trekking to beaches and moun
tains. Local golf courses will have
plenty of company. Local lakes—
Aberdeen, Crystal and Pinebluff
—are expected to be filled. On ac
count of the anticipated crowds,
the Tuesday swim session of the
local summer recreation program
will be held Monday instead—the
bus leaves the town park at 2:30
p. m.
The word from the Southern
Pines Safety Council is “Happy
Eventful Day Planned
For July 4th Festival
Tuesday At Carthage
AIR SERVICE
Jury trials scheduled for Holiday—Drive Carefully!
Census Shows Township Growth; More
People, Houses, Farms In McNeills
ECONOMY MOVE
The drastic Post Office
economy move will deprive
Southern Pines of more serv
ice beginning today (Friday),
said Garland Pierce, postmas
ter, adding that he feels the
measure is only temporary.
The Department has refused
to renew the mail truck con
tract at its present figure and,
with the contract expiring to
day, Mr. Pierce said he had
no choice but to suspend par
cel post and COD delivery
service. Also suspended will
be another service of the
truck, mail collection from
the boxes (except that in
front of the post office) at
8 p. m.
A foot carrier will be as
signed to the outlying sections
and cards will be delivered
notifying carrier service pa
trons of parcel post or COD
packages, which they must
then get themselves from the
post office.
873 More Farms
In County Now
Than In 1940
Colonial Stores
Supermarket Has
Gala Opening
Boy Scouts From
All Moore Towns
Attend Jamboree
loore Children Going To Polio Camp;
Ine Vacation On Pamlico Shore Ahead
’Ians Made To
Telcome Eastern
'arolina Youngsters
iree Moore County children
I two from Hoke will make an
fting journey together July 17
Lttle Washington, where
will spend three weeks at
Imp on the Pamlico river. They
Ithrilled at the prospect; their
j overflows in excited chatter
nyone who will listen. With-
iemur they are embarking on
Cries of immunization shots,
[)st as many as if they were
into the Army. That’s a
ttl price to pay, for such a
Iderful adventure.
|)r these children are all polio
Most of them will be
Hng braces, an accepted item,
equipment at this particular
', whose young guests will
on referral from nine ortho
clinics of eastern Carolina.
Ikosen fromi Moore county
Evelyn Ometa Brown, 11,
|;hter of Mrs. G. C. Brown of
Springs, Rt. 1; Martha Ja-
Davis, 10, daughter of Mr.
|Mrs. H. L. Davis of Steeds,
one of the first victims of
the 1948 epidemic; and Pauline
Key, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. M. Key of Carthage, Rt. 3.
Martha and Pauline both had
operations at Rex hospital, Ra
leigh, early in May, and are wear
ing casts, but these are expected
to be removed in a week or two,
in plenty of time for the girls to
go to camp.
Contributions
It costs $50 to send each child
to the camp, and this expense is
being met in Moore through con
tributions of the Carthage Rotary
club and the Robbins chapter of
the Order of Eastern Star.
The Red Cross Motor Corps is
providing transportation for the
Moore County youngsters and
those from Hoke who will join
them at Carthage early on the
day of the journey. Public health
nurses are readying them for the
trip.
Physiotherapist On Duty
Miss Celeste Hayden, physio
therapist for this area with the
state departm,ent of health, who
is well known to the Moore Coun
ty polio children, will be on full
time duty throughout the entire
camp period so that the regular
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Six special Seaboard coaches
last week transported Boy Scouts
of the Occoneechee Council from
Neuse Station, near Camp Durant,
to Valley Forge, Pa., where they
are taking part in the first Na
tional Jamboree to be held in this
country in many years, attended
by 47,000 Boy Scouts and their
leaders from all over the nation,
and some from foreign lands.
Thirty-five Moore District
scouts and three leaders went to
Camp Durant Monday, to board
the special coaches on the Jambo
ree train. They will return July
7th.
The leaders are J. C. Stewart,
Robbins; Wilbur Currie, Pine
hurst, and A. P. Farmer, West
End.
The Scouts:
Southern Pines—Charles V. Co-
vell, Jr., Dick Ray, Charles Mer
rill, Jimmy Menzel, Edgar Smith,
David Bailey, Kenneth McCrim-
mon, George A. Morrison, Joe
Horner.
Aberdeen^—Ralph E. Morton,
Jr., A1 Cruce, Jr., Jack Taylor, Jr.,
George Gwyn, James Duffie, Bob
by Hornbuckle.
Pinehurst—^Robert Barrett, Lar
ry Hartsell, Charles Swaringen.
Richard Hamor, Roy Smith.
Pinebluff — Lawrence Wilson,
Shaun Cleary, Hugh A. Keith, 3rd,
W. Jerry Adams.
Robbins—^Andrew A. Vanore,
Jr., James A. Culbertson, Jr.,
James Bray, L. G. Maness, Arnold
D. Lambert, Lawrence S. Currie.
Carthage—Jerry McLean, John
Barringer.
West End—William A. VonCan-
on, Franklin Farmer.
Cameron—Mack Trent.
Hundreds of women thronged
the remodeled and modernized
Colonial Stores supermarket
Thursday morning—in fact, the
opening of the doors found a long
line waiting.
Invitations had been sent out all
over the county and not only
Southern Pines but many other
towns were represented in the ad
miring crowds.
Greeting the visitors at the
door, company and store officials
distributed baby orchids to the
first 300 who entered, and this
didn’t take long. The customers
also signed for prizes to be given
in a lucky-number drawing in the
evening—10 generously filled food
baskets. Ten Armour Star smok
ed hams will be given away Fri
day and 10 more food baskets Sat
urday, with the store staying open
till 8 o’clock Thursday and Satur
day nights and until 8:39 tonight
(Friday).
Remodeling has been going on
a couple of months in the store’s
expansion program, and the store
was closed the first three days of
this week for the final transfor
mation and rearrangement of
stock.
What the visitors this week are
seeing is a store 20 feet wider
than it was before (space former
ly occupied by the Village Grill
has been taken in) with a full
plate-glass front, and an interior
as smartly styled and convenient
ly arranged as can be found in
any big city.
A color scheme of pastel green
and white has been adhered to in
the general redecoration, with
plenty of color touches livening it
up—lucite letters in candy pink
and green in a bright wallband,
attractive pictures on the walls
and the rich-hued fruits and veg
etables themselves, reflected in
slanted mirrors.
Plastic indicators in cream and
green standing high over each sec
tion tell a customer in any part of
the store where she may find just
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While 30 per cent more popula
tion has been wedging itself in a
10-year period into the narrow
confines of the Southern Pines
city limits, which have not been
expanded since 1930, the “fringe
growth” of this community is re
flected in an increase of 1,309
persons in the township from
1940 to 1950.
McNeills township grew from.
6314 to 7623 within that time
cording to a comprehensive “pre
liminary official” release from W.
Lamont Brown, Eighth District
supervisor of the census, covering
townships as well as towns, also
the nurhber of dwelling units and
of farms.
The increase in McNeills repre
sents well over half of the grain
seen in the county as a whole.
Dwellings
In that tirre 663 dwelling units
were added in the township, 263
of them in Southern Pines. The
total number of dwelling units in
McNeills township in 1950 stands
at 2,346, one for every 3.25 per
sons; in 1940 it was 1,683, one for
every 3.75 persons.
In Southern Pines in 1940, 3,-
225 persons lived in 1,019 dwell
ing houses—one for every 3.17
persons. In 1950, 4,179 persons live
in 1,382 dwelling units, an aver
age of only 3.02 persons to each
unit.
The 1950 figure shows 15
these dwelling units to lie
Sandhills township, housing
pesons.
280 More Farms
McNeills township is shown to
have 442 farms, an increase over
280 in 1940. Where 162 additional
farms came from, the census re-
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A number of wires and let
ters have gone out in the past
week to Joseph J, O'Connell,
CAB chairman, in support of
Resort Airlines' application
for regular north-south serv
ice out of Knollwood airport.
Besides the official tele
grams from mayors of South-
er|n Pines, Carthage and Ab
erdeen, many private citizens
in the three towns and Pine
hurst have given support in
this manner.
If you have delayed adding
your word—do it now. Harry
Fullenwider, Chamber of
Commerce president, who is
representing the Sandhills
towns in the move, again this
week counseled urgently that
all persons interested pitch in
and help. Address Mr. O'Con
nell as Civil Aeronautics
Board chairman, U. S. De
partment of Commerce,
Washington—and let Con
gressman Deane know how
you stand too. He's helping.
Grand Parade,
Beauty Contest,
Ball Game, Dance
Program Starts 9:15 a.m.
Six Local Men
At Governor’s
Safety Conference
Six Southern Pines citizens
_! met at Raleigh Tuesday with
' about 500 others of the state, call
ed together by Governor Scott to
initiate and carry through a study
of one of the state’s biggest prob
lems—^highway safety.
Labeled the stv'-'y conference
of the (governor’s Advisory Com
mittee on Highway Safety, the
hand-picked group representing
all parts' of the state, and all
o'’ar<=s of life in North Carolina,
met in the morning at the Textile
building at State college. During
the afternoon, the gathering broke
up into 19 subcommittee sessions.
Five of the local citizens at
tending were appointed by the
Governor. The sixth, A. C. Daw
son, Jr., vice chairman of the prin
cipals’ division of NCEA, substi
tuted for his chairman on the edu
cation committee, which has as its
task development of a safety pro
gram for inclusion in the curricu
lum of the public schools.
Of the others. Jack S. Younts,
a memiber of the Advisory com
mittee, was assigned to the pub
lic information group; John S.
Ruggles, to laws and ordinances;
Arch Coleman, to a subcommittee
on drivers’ licenses; and Otto B.
Edwards, to one on uniformity of
signs, signals and markings. O.
D. Griffin, an employee of the
Highway Safety division of the
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“Corre early, stay late, meet
your friends in Carthage and have
a big time all day Tuesday,” is
the countywide invitation extend
ed by the Carthage Jaycees to
the Fourth of July Festival to be
held at the county seat.
This traditional event will offer
s series of enjoyable features for
all ages, beginning with the wel
coming address by Mayor Arch
L. Barnes at 9:15 a. m. and wind
ing up with the Grand Ball at
the school gym at which the beau
ty queen will be crowned.
The Jaycees have gone all out
to make this, the seventh Moore
County Fourth of July Festival,
the biggest and the best of all.
Committee chairmen have been
hard at work and no expense has
been spared, according to the
word from the county seat.
Mayor Barnes, who will start
eff the day’s proceedings, is a
member of the sponsoring Junior
Chamber of Commerce. He is one
of the youngest mayors in the
United States, and generally re
garded as one of Moore county’s
mest popular and able young men.
His address will be followed by
a concert by a crack unit of the
famous 82nd Airborne band from
Pope AFB, Fort Bragg.
Street Events
Street events to follow the band
concert from 10 to 11:15 a. m., will
include all these favorites of fun
and frolic, watermelon eating
contests for both white and color-
, watermelon grabbing, pie eat
ing,- foot races and others.
“Lum” Riddle is chairman of
this phase of the celebration.
The beauty contest at 11:15 will
present a group of Moore county’s
loveliest young ladies competing
for the honor of being crowned
Miss Carthage. Dave Ginsburg
and Arch Barnes are co-chairmen.
At 12:15 a luncheon recess will
be taken. During this time many
picnic lunches will no doubt be
spread, sandwiches and soft
drinks may be purchased at con
cession stands run by ladies’
groups and the restaurants of
the town will also be open and
ready for a crowd.
Grand Parade
At 1:15 the big parade will be
held, with the handsome floats
traditional to the Festival. On one
of these Miss Carthage and her
maid of honor will ride in queen
ly state.
The parade will be led by the
82nd Airborne band unit, followed
by the famous twin color bearers
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No, that’s not a wall built across the road but the top of a giant aluminum trailer van, which turned
over on its side last Thursday afternoon on US Highway 1, at the Morganton road intersection. Fitting
neatly from curb to curb, it blocked the highway for more than an hour.
The 200-hp diesel van of the McLean Trucking company, Winston-Salem, carrying a 16,000-lb. load
of merchandise from Bridgeport, Conn., to Atlanta, Ga., got to skidding in a shower as it rounded a
curve and jackknifed. The tractor, facing exactly backwards ,is hidden behind the big trailer. The
driver, W. I. Ingram, was unhurt.
Chief C. E. Newton and highway patrolmen, above, directed traffic along other routes while wreck
ers worked to remove the obstacle. (Photo by Henry Turner)