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FOR CHILDREN
VOL. 31—NO. 36
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JULY 28, 1950
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
All Rowes — All Greater University of N. C.
We doubt if any family can be found anywhere more loyal to their state University than that of Judge
and Mrs. J. Vance Rowe. From left to right, Arthur, a new graduate of Aberdeen High school, who will
enter the University in the fall to study law; Gladys, June graduate of Woman’s college, Greensboro;
Douglas, June graduate of State college; Catherine (Mrs. Robert D. Corey, of Chicago) Woman’s college
graduate; Riley, State college engineering graduate; J. Vance Rowe, Jr., June graduate of the Univer
sity law school; Mrs. Rowe, a former Woman’s college student, and Judge Rowe, of Moore County re
corders court, UNC Law School alumnus. Only one daughter, Eleanor, of Raleigh, departed from fam
ily tradition.
The Rowes live in Aberdeen, but Judge Rowe’s law office is in Southern Pines, where son Vance, Jr.,
•will join him soon, so we’ll just claim them all. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Moore Co. Golf •
Tournament Has
Biggest Turnout
12-Foot, Four-Ton Statue of Saint
Placed On Roof St. Joseph’s Hospital
’ Sixty-eight county golfers, the
largest turnout in the history of
the Moore County Championship,
explored the fairways at the
Southern Pines Country club dur
ing the past week, seeking quali
fying berths in the annual event.
Four golfers—three from Pine-
hurst and one from! Southern
Pines—deadlocked for the medal
at 75, including Brook Wallace of
PinehurSt, the defending cham
pion, and Watt Smith of Pine-
hurst, 1949 (Jefeated finalist.
Others bracketed in the play
off for medal honors were George
il ottle of Southern Pines and J.
Frank McCaskill of Pinehurst.
A score of 85 or better was re
quired to make the championship
flight, and the large field permit
ted a division into three other
flights for match play whioh
started Thursday.
Match play in each flight will
continue from week to week with
players permitted to arrange their
matches between Thursday and
Wednesday of each week.
In the title flight, the defend
ing champ appeared to have the
' toughest assignment in the first
round when he tackles hardhitting
Bob Smith of Pinehurst.
Seven Southern Pines players
qualified in the championship
bracket, giving the town’s golfers
a slight edge on Pinehurst which
qualified sixj, including three
deadlocked for the medal. Aber
deen produced two championship
flight golfers, with the 16th mhn
from Robbins.
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SCHOOL OPENING
Just five and a half more
weeks of vacation, kids! Forty
days, to be exact, before the
school bells ring.
Wednesday, September 6,
will be the opening date for
both the Southern Pines and
Moore County schools, ac
cording to announcements
made by their respective su
perintendents this week.
Teacher List
Is Completed;
New Names Seen
Gift of Former
Pine Needles Patron
Teacher lists for the Southern
Pines schools have been complet
ed for 1950-51, with several addi
tions and changes announced this
week by Supt. P. J. Weavqr.
Four new teachers are on the
list, two in the elementary school
and two to serve both elementary'
and high school grades.
Art for all grades is being added
to the curriculum with the em
ployment of Don Moore, of Reids-
ville, a 1950 graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina. He
will teach the seventh grade, with
the schedule arranged so that
part of his time can be devoted to
the teaching of art, which has
long been felt as a need in the lo
cal curriculum. Mr. Moore is a
World War 2 veteran.
The music program is being
broadened by the addition of Miss
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VFW Post Plans Saturday Parade And
Tableaux As Climax Safety Campaign
The John Boyd post, VFW, will [to the Johnson-Brown corner at
climax their July safety campaign
Saturday with a downtown pa
rade and tableaux on the town
park.
The tableaux will show “how
not to drive” and will present
grimly reajistic presentations of
what happens to drivers who vio
late safety rules, to innocents who
may get in their way nad to the
cars involved. Joe Warren will be
narrator for the tableaux, which
will feature plenty of realism.
Cars will a'lso be spotlighters
. in the parade, which will begin
at 2:30 p, m. Models displayed will
range from the very new, back
ward through time to the antique.
Safety on the highways and pre
paredness for emergency will be
stressed, with the cooperation bf
VFW members, business firms and
the Red Cross. The VFW sound
truck will lead the way.
The parade units wil lassemble
at the VFW club at 1 p. m. and
at the appointed time will pro
ceed to liennett street and around
Massachusetts and Broad; thenc
along West Broad to Connecticut,
across the tracks and up East
Broad to New York avenue. At
New York and Ashe it will come
to a halt and the tableaux will
be quickly assembled.
Saturday afternoons during the
past month, the VFW post, coop
erating with the Southern Pines
Safety Council, has had its busy
sound truck all over the streets,
speaking out in no uncertain tones
to errant drivers and pedestrians,
and giving safety reminders to all
within hearing distance. This ex
tended a couple of blocks in all
directions, wherever the truck
went.
Post members also distributed
safety literature and applied safe
ty stickers to parked cars.
Th5 campaign has been one of
the most enthusiastic held here
since the start of the Council’s
continuing safety project. Com
ments have been favorable and
cooperation has been good.
Last fall a former patron of the
Pines Needles hotel arrived at the
hotel building and went to the
desk to register, as he had many
times in the past. He was sur,pris-
ed to be greeted, not by the desk
clerk he expected to see but by a
smiling Catholic nun, and , still
more surprised to find that the
Pine Needles had become a hos
pital, St. Joseph of the Pines.
“Why don’t you have a cross or
statue outside. Sister, so folks can
tell what it is?” the visitor, a good
Catholic, asked. “We hope to
later,” she told him, “but we’ve
still pretty new, you know—^have
to watch our pennies.”
“I’ll see that you have a stat-
tue,” he told her.
This week a beautiful statue of
St. Joseph, husband of Mary,
loved patron of the sick and dy
ing, smiles down benignly from
the rooftop of the hospital, the
gift of Matthew H. McCloskey,
head of the great M. H. McClos
key general contracting firm of
Philadelphia. The statue faces out
over the terrace and rolling golf
course, and when floodlights are
installed within the next week or
two, will be visible at night for
miles.
St. Joseph’s pedestal is 60 feet
from the ground, his head ap
proximately 75 feet up, on the
five-story building, tallest any
where in the Southern Pines area
and located on a high ridge.
Two Copper Crosses
Also in the next week or so,
two copper crosses, six and a half
feet high, will be installed gt
either end of the building, replac
ing the weathervanes which have
been a distinguishing n^rk of the
hotel, and identifying it definitely
as a religious institution.
Getting the 12-foot, four - ton
statue in place was a major oper
ation, requiring plenty of skilled
work before and after.
It was made at Heltonville, Ind.,
by the Heltonville Limestone
comipany, ' and transported to
Southern Pines by the Turner
Trucking Service of Reading, Pa.,
and Greensboro, moving engin
eers. The Turner company also
supplied a 20-ton crane and 100-
foot boom for putting it into place.
Edward Evans, general super
intendent of the McCloskey com
pany, came to the hospital two
weeks in advance, and attended to
all details of bracing the roof and
preparing a pedestal strong
enough to hold the statue. A nat
ural pedestal was partially formed
by the ornamental stonework of
the roof cornice. This was enlarg
ed and strengthened with 1,500
brick.
Hoist Requires Balance
When the* statue arrived on
huge trailer Tuesday morning,
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Three Registrations At Once
With a county election and a double-barreled municipal
election heading this way with the month of August,
Southern Pines citizens are apt to find themselves con
fused by the different registration regulations.
Books for the beer and wine referendum of August 26
will be the same as those used in the county and state
primary and second primary just past. These are the
general books. Those whose names are not on the books
may register for three successive Saturdays, beginning
tomorrow, July 29, and continuing through August 5 and
12. Books will be closed August 12. Residents of the
Southern Pines precinct vote here in this election—others
at their own precinct polling places in the county.
The municipal election includes two issues: (1) a vote
on a recreation levy of not less than three cents per $100
valuation, nor more than 10 cents, for which a complete
new registration is necessary; (2) a vote on an appropria
tion from general tax funds'for civic advertising, promo
tion and business improvement, the amount appropriated
to be not less than one-fortieth nor more than one-tenth
of one per cent of the total assessed valuation of property
within the Town. For this, the books employed for mu
nicipal elections are used.
For registration, for the recreation levy vote, and addi
tion of names to the town books for the advertising appro- _
priation vote, books will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.'
tomorrow (Saturday) and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. all next
week, Monday through Saturday. August 5 (next Satur
day) will be the closing day for both municipal registra
tions as well as Challenge day for them both. Registrants
and voters must live within the city limits of Southern
Pines.
Mrs. Grace Kaylor is registrar, and the firehouse the
registration place, for all.
She reported that as of the first of this week, about 180
names had been placed on the new registration list for the
recreation levy vote.
CAB Denies Request
For North And South
Service By Resort
GAME SUNDAY
Judge Rebukes League Officials For
Petition’s “Intemperate” Language
HOME WANTED
Do you have a downtown room
you would care to lend, or rent for
a small sum, to a group of the best
people in town?
Alcoholics Anonymous is hunt
ing a new home. They are having
to leave the clubroom they have
occupied for more than three
years. It has been rented to some
one else.
They need a place they can use
for nieetings and also for informal
gatherings in both day and eve
ning hours. They have furnish
ings, a soft-drink stand and other
paraphernalia. “Most of all,” a
spokesman said, “We need pri
vacy.”
“We appreciate greatly having
had the use of t’^e clubroom we’re
leaving. We’ll be just as grateful
to anyone else who makes it pos
sible for us to continue our meet
ings and work,” he added.
Legion Installs
‘Officers, Plans
V-J Observance
Order Lifting
Injunction Contains
Stern Reprimand
The Cape Fear Dodgers will
meet the Southern Pines town
team on the local field at 3
p.m. Sunday, in the second of
a current invitational series
now being sponsored by the
Sandhills Merchants associa
tion.
A game, for which the guest
team has not yet been an
nounced, will also be held
Wednesday afternoon, and
others on several subsequent
Wednesdays.
Frequent showers reduced
the crowd at the first game of
the series Wednesday of this
week. The first event of the
doubleheader, presenting
boys' teams of Raeford and
Southern Pines .was rained
out after a couple of innings.
The feature game was played
to an excitin gfinish—a fine
fast contest thoroughly en
joyed by the die-hards on the
bleachers. Score: St. Pauls 4,
Southern Pines 2.
Mrs. Millen
Passes, Rites
At Middletown
Too Different From
Regular Operations;
"No Need" Seen
The newly elected officers of
Sandhills Post No. 134, American
Legion were installed Tuesday
night at the American Legion
Hall, District Commander Charlie
Swoope conducted the colorful in
stallation ceremony.
Installed were .Commander A.
Don Hurst; First Vice-Command
er Charles S. Meares, Second Vice
Commander Raym,ond P. Cam
eron Adjutant and Finance Offi
cer Jerry V. Healy, Caplain Dan
R. McNeill, Judge Advocate Jack
S. Younts and Sergeant-at-Arms
Jack L. Roberts.
Commander Hurst wiU an
nounce committe chairmen and
appointive officers at next post
meeting.
The post membership heard a
report fromi Commander Swoope
on the recent state convention at
Charlotte, and also a detailed re
port was given of the Memorial
Day exercises conducted under
chairmanship of Shields Cameron.
The program.’ of the Memorial Day
services was ordered recorded.
Also Chairman Cameron was au
thorized to ask the Commission
ers to have a map made marking
the exact location of each veter
an’s grave in the Mount Hope
cemetery to insure their proper
decoration on memorial occasions.
The coming observance of V-J
Day on August 14 was discussed.
Members of the permanent V-J
The order signed last Thursday
moning by Judge Hoyle Sink at
Greensboro, finding both South
ern Pines’ municipal election and
the beer and wine referendum
legal, was received Thursday
morning by Hoke Pollock, town
attorney.
In taxing officers of the Allied
Church League with the costs.
Judge Sink included in the order
a strong reprimand for their atti
tude as expressed in their petition
for injunction against the local
vote.
The Injunction, signed July 13
by Judge Clawson Williams, was
set aside. It had been held pre
viously that the beer and wine
referendum, set for August 26,
was invalidated by the other, set
for August 11, on account of a
1947 law holding that no vote on
alcoholic beverages could be set
within 60 days of any other with
in the county.
Judge Sink’s interpretation,
based on a law of 1943, was that
no election could be invalidated
by another once it had been offi
cially called by the county board
of elections, by due process of law.
The beer and wine vote was
called May 30, antedating by one
month the setting of the municipal
vote by the Southern Pines town
board.
In finding all in order in the
matter of the Southern Pines vote.
Judge Sink concluded his order
as follows:
“The court observes with much
regret that the plaintiffs allege
themselves to be group of citizens
interested in temperance and that
the complaint filed in this cause,
by them), represents the grossest
intemperance in language, insin
uation and innuendo. The Court
finds as a fact that the recotd dis
closes nothing sustaining the alle
gations of fraud and other bad
faith and misconduct set forth in
the complaint. The Court regrets
and makes judicial notice of its
dislike of careless charges and
countercharges in records present
er to a Court of Justice.
Mrs. Edmund Millen died
early Tuesday at St. Joseph of the
Pines hospital, where she had
been a patient since last Friday,
following a stroke sustained
Thursday at her Piney Woods
home.
Friday was her 65th birthday.
Mrs. Millen had been in poor
health for more than a year. She
did not recover consciousness fol
lowing the stroke. According to
her wish, her body was cremated,
and a remembrance service will
be held Monday at the Christ
Universalist church of Middle-
town, N. Y., of which she was a
lifelong member. Burial will be
at Walkill cemetery. Mechanics-
town, N. Y.
Mrs. Millen and her family had
been identified with the life of
this community for more than 40
years.
She was the former Gladys Vir
ginia Mlillen, daughter of Edmund
Millen, Sr., of Middletown, and
married her cousin, a young man
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Resort Airlines’ application for
an exemption order to render
north-south service to the Sand
hills via the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst airport, which they
lease, has been denied by the
CAB.
The decision was regretfully re
ported this week by Rep. C. B.
Deane, who has been in constant
touch with the CAB in the inter
est of the application, which was
strongly endorsed by town offi
cials and civic leaders of the
Sandhills towns.
The application was vigorous
ly opposed by Eastern Airlines
and other major interests of the
air transportation field, on the
grounds that Resort’s franchise
for packaged vacation cruises (on
which regular operational stops
are made at the local airport) does
not cover such passenger service;
so that it would cut into their
business.
The nearest airport at which
Sandhills passengers can secure
plane service in any direction,
since suspension of Piedmont’s
daily scheduled service here, are
at Fayetteville (east-west only),
Charlotte and Raleigh.
Findings of the CAB in the case
were reported as follows:
“1. That the service for which
Resort requests an exemiption is
so different from the special type
of operation Which it is authorized
to perform by the terms of its cer
tificate, as to raise complex ques
tions which could best be deter
mined in a certificate proceeding;
“'2. That Resort has not estab
lished that there is a need for the
service it proposes;
“3. That Resort has not other
wise stated matters to warrant
granting the relief it requests;
“4. That Resort has failed to
establish that the present enforce
ment of Section 401-A of the Act,
to the extent that it prevents the
service proposed, is or would be
an undue burden upon it by rea
son of the limited extent of, of un
usual circumstances affecting, its
operatiqns, and that such enforce
ment is not in the public interest;
THEREFORE IT IS ORDERED
that the application of Resort,
Docket No. 4544, be and is hereby
denied.”
Border Belt Markets Open Tuesday
Fayetteville and Lumberton
markets, opening next Tuesday,
with others of the Border belt
are making a strong bid this week
for tobacco from the Sandhills
belt, much of which will be ready
considerably in advance of the
opening of the Sandhills markets
August 28.
Giving zest to the preparations
was news from the Georgia-Flor-
ida flue-cured markets, which
opened last Monday with prices
considerably higher than those of
last year. Anticipation is that the
strong prices will continue and
that opening sales will be large.
The Georgia-Florida markets
reported at midweek that the
practical top price was $65 per
hundred, with several grades of
lugs and cutters bringing $64.
The Fayetteville market sold
more tobacco in 1949 than any
other one sale market in^the N. (j.
Border belt, and more than any in
the Fayetteville area included in
other belts, according to statistics
from the State Department of Ag-
riculure. They are set this year
to top their 1949 volume of 8,348,-
286 pounds if possible, and to pay
out more than the almost $4,000,-
000 they put in growers’ pockets
last year.
At Fayetteville
This season the Big Farmers’
Warehouse at Fayetteville will
again be operated by the owners,
R. H. (Bob) Barbour of Fuquay
Springs and Fayetteville, and P.
L. (Buddy) Campbell of Angier.
Wellons Warehouse, owned by
Jesse and Cliff Wellons of Fay
etteville, will be operated again
i (Continued on Page 5)
Day committee suggested that a
dutch fish fry be held for all vet
erans and their families, who
would buy their tickets in ad
vance so as to prevent the over-
No Resignations From National Guard
crowding 'kt the last minute of
previous affairs of this sort. The
new commander was instructed to
confer with officers of other vet
eran’s organizations and arrange
for a joint celebration for all in-juation may sidetrack our applies
terested veterans. Ition for an armory.”
Not a single resignation from
the , local battery of the National
Guard has been reported since
the Korean conflict began, this
week said Sgt. Lennox Forsyth,
administrative assistant of the
battery. On the contrary, applica
tions for admission have been
stepped up and there is now a
considerable waiting list.
The battery was frozen at a
membership of 50 for some time.
Though restrictions have now
been lifted with the granting of
new federal funds, a voluntary
limitation is being maintained on
account of a lack of training fa
cilities. “We siniply don’t have
room,” said Sergeant Forsyth,
“and we’re afraid the current sit-
The move to secure a federal
armory for the battery has the
support of the county commissen-
ers, town officials and other in
terested agencies and persons.
The battery at present is occupy
ing a remodeled garage of the
Belvedere hotel.
Organized last fall, the battery
is now getting ready to attend its
first summer encampment. Forty-
six men and two officers, Lieut.
W. J. Wilson, commanding, and
Lieut. Jamies Ervin, executive,
will make the journey. Only four
men are unable to go.
Employer cooperation has been
perfect, it was learned, and of the
four unable to attend camp, none
is being denied this vital training
period through lack of employer
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