jVot^les Asked To
Moore Veterans’
V-J Day Reunion
Plans Under Way For
Aug. 19 Observance
By Aberdeen Lake
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VOL.JI—NO. 38
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11. 1950
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Make-Believe? But It Happens Somewhere, Every Day j Mayor Appoints
^: Madigan Director
^ Civilian Defense
Chairman Charlie Carpenter of
Aberdeen and his committee lead
ers are busy this week with plans
for the MoOre County V-J Day ob
servance and veterans reunion, to
be held for the enjoyment of all
veterans and their fsimilies at Ab
erdeen lake Saturday, August 19.
The Aberdeen American Legion
post and auxiliary will be hosts.
Past Commander E. L. McBride
of the Aberdeen post and Robert
N. Page 3rd, heading the program
committee, are extending invita
tions to a number of distinguished
friends of Moore county, among
them Superior Court Judge F.
Don Phillips of Rockingham, who
has been asked to make an infor
mal talk; Congressman C. B.
Deane, his secretary Maj. John A.
Lang, Jr., Admiral Felix Johnson,
formerly of Aberdeen, and others.
An afternoon sports program is
being organized under the leader
ship of Vice Commander Calcutt
aided by W. H. McNeiH, Jere Mc-
Keithen, Make Pleasants, Haney
Harris and Amos Dawson, Jr.,
Southern Pines coach and summer
recreation director. Tentative
plans call for a baseball game,
water carnival and swimming for
all.
The formal retreat ceremony
will be under leadership of Past
Commander Lawrence Farrell and
J, D. Arey, Jr., who are asking
that the heads of veterans’ organi
zations in the county assemble
their membership in parade for
mation, with caps, insignia and
colors. No formal parade is plan
ned and “summer khakis” will be
in style.
The dutch fish-fry supper will
be followed by dancing. Tickets
are being distributed among the
veterans this week.
Rowe, Johnson
Pass Bar Exams,
Will Join Dads
Two members of the Moore
County Bar were beaming with
paternal pride this week as they
prepared tp welcome new partners
into their law firms—their own
sons.
J. Vance Rowe, Jr., and Law-
repce McNeill Johnson were
among the 115 young men out of
154 who passed their written bar
examinations last week, according
to announcement made Monday
by the State Board of Law Ex
aminers.
Both are from Aberdeen, and
are 1950 graduates of the Univer
sity of North Carolina Law school.
Young Rowe will join his lath
er. Judge J. Vance Rowe of Moore
recorders court, about September
1 in the practice of law at his of
fice in Southern Pines. The new
lawyer and his wife and 17-
months-old son are vacationing in
Boston for the rest of this month.
They will move into a home they
purchased last year on Kensing
ton road here.
Lawrence Johnson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson of Ab
erdeen, will join his lather early
.in October, on his return from a
’trip abroad with his wife. The
young couple, who were married
in June ,1949, sailed this week
from New York on the Queen
Elizabeth lor a delayed honey
moon.
Another member of their class
who passed the examinations held
August 1, 2 and 3 was William
Grey Smith, of Greenville, hus
band of the former Helen Grey of
Southern Pines. He graduated
from Wake Forest before going to
Chapel Hill last year. The Smiths
are staying temporarily with Mrs.
Smith’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Maxwell Grey of Morganton road.
Their plans are said to be not def
inite as yet.
BASEBALL GAME
A baseball game with the
Mamers team, a member of
the Sand-Clay League, will
be played by the Southern
Pines town team on the local
field Wednesday at 2 p. m.
This is one of a series of
» games being currently spon
sored by the Southern Pines
Merchants association.
Plans Will Await
Instructions From
State Headquarters
struck you right between the eyes, didn’t they? No, they’re not pretty scenes—and they’re not
meant to be. For who they are, and what they are, see the VFW story on Page 5. (Photos by Griffin)
Ruggles Appointed
To National Body
For Alcohol Report
TWO POLIO CASES New Classrooms
John S. Ruggles, of Southern
Pines, attending the second an
nual meeting of the National Con
ference of State Programs on Alc
oholism at Yale university this
week, was appointed to member
ship on a committee on federal
legislation, to prepare a report to
Congress on the progress made by
these state programs of education
and rehabilitation.
The report will contain recom
mendations on ways in which ex
isting governm'ent agencies may
cocperate with the various states
in this realistic attact on the pro
blems caused by excessive drink
ing, now recognized as a disease
with both physiological and phy-
chological causes.
North Carolina is one of several
states which have set up such pro
grams.- Mr, Ruggles is chairman of
the a Leo'hoi ism combiittee
of the State Board of Hos
pitals Control, which has develop
ed the infant program until it is
now just about ready to begin to
function. It is a two-pronged pro
gram, featuring temperance edu
cation on the one hand, and re
habilitation of the problem drink
er on the other.
Meeting at Yale university, New
Haven, Conn., August 4-8 were
the following, holding some sess
ions v^separately, others jointly:
The Yale Summer School of
Alcohol Studies (seventh refresh
er course), the National Commit
tee on Alcoholism (fifth annual
meeting) and the National Con
ference of State Programs orr
Alcoholism: (second annual meet
ing). Mr. Ruggles combined {lis
conference attendance with the
summer school refresher course
having taken the basic course on
alcohol studies last summer.
Speaking at one of the joint
meetings was the Rev. Ernest A.
Shepherd, long prominent in the
Methodist ministry, ^ho is now
serving as executive director of
the New Hampshire committee on
alcoholism and secretary of the
National Association of State Pro
grams. He said, ’
"These programs represent
a significant effort to apply
our knowledge to a touchy,
tough old problem:, and deve
lop a way whereby in rela
tion to it, without resort to
controversy, coercion, hate or
"i^ar, human suffering can be
measurably reduced and hu
man happiness observably in
creased".
Other speakers included Dr.
Selden D. Bacon, section of stud
ies on alcohol, Yale university,
and chairman of the Connecticut
committee on alcoholism, who waS
one of the speakers at the N. C.
Alcoholics Anonymous conven
tion held at Southern Pines in
April; Mrs. Marty Mann, execu
tive director of the National Com
mittee on Alcoholism, who- recent
ly spoke by special invitation be
fore a joint session of the South
Carolina 'legislature; and a num
ber of members of the Yale Uni
versity faculty and staff of the
Yale Plan on Alcoholic Studies.
Among other North Carolinans
attending the meeting w?re S. K.
(Continued on Page 5)
Two more children, the
year's fourth and fifth for
Moore county, were reported
as victims of polio this week.
Both were taken Sunday to
Rex hospital at Raleigh, and
both are said to be light cases.
Charles Allen Scarborough,
^ two and a half years old, only
child of Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
Scarborough of Youngs road,
is the first polio victim in two
years within the Southern
Pines city limits. Two in 1948
were in West Southern Pines.
Glenn Foster, 12, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. F. Foster of Vass,
is the third victim within a
month for that community.
Several other children in the
family are under two weeks'
quarantine.
The incidence is still below
normal, even for a non-epi
demic year, it was learned
from the county health de
partment.
Finalists In Junior
Tennis Tourney
Meet This Week
Meet Obstacle In
Mounting Costs
Finals in the Junior Tennis
tournament were scheduled to be
gin last night (Thursday) at 7:30
p. m. under the lights on the mu
nicipal courts. In case they were
not completed, they were to run
over to tonight (Friday), said Di
rector A. C. Dawson, Jr. No re
sults were available at presstime.
Trophies were to be awarded by
the Sandhills Tennis association,
which has been cooperating with
the summer recreation program in
holding the tournament.
During the finals, only one
match will be played at a time.
The finalists:
Junior boys’ singles—Deryl Hol
liday vs. Kenneth Tew.
Junior girls’ singles—Frances
Pearson vs. Jean Morrison.
Boys’ singles—Carlyle Hackney
vs. David Page.
Girls’ singles—Betty Jane Wor
sham vs. Rosemary Dundas.
Junior boys’ doubles — Deryl
Holliday and Kenneth Tew vs.
James Prim and James Humph
rey.
Boys’ Roubles—David Page and
David Bailey vs. Edgar Smith an^i
Carlyle Hackney.
Girls’ doubles—Frances Pearson
and Betty Miller vs. a team not
yet determined.
Low bids received last week on
two new classrooms for the
Southern Pines elementary school
totaled a staggering $32,000.
This represented a general rise
of 25 per cent in building costs in
the past 60 days, the contractors
jsaj,d. Two months earlier, the
rooms could haye been built ac
cording to specifications for the
$25,000 granted by the county for
the purpose.
With prospects of an ever-
flowing school in the coming year,
Supt. P. J. Weaver applied to the
county commissioners Monday for
an increased appropriation, but
was told the tax rate had been
set ,the budget published—there
was nothing they could do.
Whiffling Down
This week the school authori
ties, architect and low bidders are
putting their heads together to
see if they can whittle the neW
constnvition down to the bare
bones, bringing it within $25000.
By a process of elimination of var
ious features they may be able to
do so, and building is tentative
scheduled to start within 10 days
—if miaterials remain available,
and costs don’t continue to blaze
a skyrocket trail.
The low bidders were general
contract, L. T. Cox Construction
company, Sanford, the firm which
built the auditorium and gym
nasium; L. V. O’Callaghan, Sou
thern Pines, heating and plumb
ing, and Bushby Electric company,
Southern Pines, electrical.
All declared their willingness
to cooperate to the fullest to get
the classrooms built by cold
(Continued on Page 5)
P. O. CLOSINGS
The Southern Pines post of
fice will close Wednesday as
well as Saturday afternoons
through September,, starting
at once, said Postmaster A.
Garland Pierce. Closing hour
will be 12 noon on these two
days.
The curtailing of hours was
necessitated by a cutting
down in the allowance for
clerical help in the current
Postal Department economy
program, he said.*
Women Golfers
Reach Finals In
Moore Tourney
Garner Embezzlement Trial Set For
Next Week’s Superior Court Term
Scheduled for trial Wednesday
at the criminal term of Moore su
perior court, opening in Carthage
Monday morning, is State vs. Ber-
ney C. Garner on embezzlement
charges.
Garner was indicted by the
grand jury in May for the alleged
embezzlement of approximately
$10,000 from his employers, the
Southern Pines Warehouses, Inc.,
over a period of years.
Set for Tuesday trial is State vs.
Cameron C. Tally, a manslaughter
case arising from an automobile
accident near Cameron in August,
1947. The case has been contin
ued eight times.
One murder trial is scheduled,
that of Andrew Marsh, of Car
thage RFD, charged with the slay
ing of his stepfather.
R. C. Sercy, charged with beat
ing up his infant daughter in a
drunken rage, will be tried for fe
lonious assault with intent to kill.
Judge Hoyle Sink of Lexington
will preside, and will return to
Moore county in September for
the civil term.
A dozen cases are set for pre
sentation to the grand jury Mon
day. Three of these involve
charges of attempted rape, with
defendants listed as Charles Wil
liams, J. C. Dowd and Frank Bean.
In 'the case against Bean, a white
man, molestation of a nine-year-
old girl is alleged.
Indictments will be sought
1 (Continued on Page 5)
Eleanor Knight, medalist with a
qualifying score of 95, on account
of an ankle injury had to forfeit
her first-round match this week
■to Mrs. John Von Schlegell, in the
upper bracket of the champion
ship flight, women’s division,
Moore County Golf Champion
ship, which is now being played
off at the Southern Pines Country
club.
Mrs. Von Schlegell will play a
semi-final match with Bib Birch,
who defeated Mrs. Julian T. Bish
op in a 20-hole bout. The winner
will play Janice Hobson, who de
feated Mrs. Kenneth Kennedy two
up to become finalist in the lower
bracket, championship flight.
This is the first year there has
been a women’s division in this
annual classic, and what with de
lays and one thing and another on
the boys’ side, the girls’ tourna
ment is proceeding somewhat
more smoothly. Finals will be
played off during the coming
week.
First flight finalists are Bunny
Harrington, who defeated Lib Ed
wards 7-5, and Pauline Holmes,
who won 8-6 over Mrs. Richard
Sugg.
Second flight finalists are Doris
Stubbs, winner over Kay Burns
one up, and Dede Parks, who won
from Jean Edson 6-5.
Record Registration
Seen For Mnnicipal
Election On Tnesday
The facilities of the disaster
relief and preparedness com
mittee of the Moore County
chapter, American Red Cross,
were offered to this commui-
nity last week for home de
fense needs, it was learned
from‘Mayor C. N. Page. The
offer was made by Col. C. P.
Hawes, of Pinehiust, chair
man.
The countywide committee
is set up on a broad basis to
spring into instant action in
the event of disaster. This
is a charter obligation of the
Red Cross.
Donald Madigan this week ac
cepted appointment by Mayor C.
N. Page as Southern Pines direc
tor of civilian defense, a post of
proportions and duration as yet
unguessable.
He said all plans will be held
in abeyance until he hears from
state headquarters. No instruc
tions have as yet been received.
E. Z. ((Easy) Jones , of Burling
ton was last week named state
director by Governor Scott. State
civilian defense headquarters are
now being set up, with expecta
tions that a program to meet pre
sent and future needs will be an
nounced shortly.
No matter what type of program
is planned. Colonel Madigan said,
one thing is certain—it will call
for the cooperation of everyone
in the community, in one capaci
ty or another. Whether, or how,
the program-to-be will differ from
that of World War 2 has not been
indicated. It is anticipated, how
ever, that its scope will be broad
and also flexible, to meet a wide
array of possible contingencies.
Director Madigan is a veteran
of Pacific warfare with the Sixth
army in World War 2, in which
he commanded the 462nd Para
chute Field Artillery battalion.
He underwent training at Camp
Mackal'l and his family lived in
Southern Pines pending his re
turn.
He was hospitalized and se
parated from the service as a
colonel in 1944, returning to Sou
thern Pines to live. He has par
ticipated in a variety of communi
ty activities and is active in the
work of the Southern Pines Elks
lodge, of which he was exalted
ruler last year.
FIRST CASUALTIES
Moore county's first casual
ty of the Korean conflict is
Sgt. Monroe E« Wicker, of
Carthage, Rt. 1, who ■was list
ed among the wounded in a
War Department announce
ment Wednesday. He is the
husbanfd' of Mr^. Annie S.
Wicker.
Mr. and Mrs. Pondexter
Hawks of the Ashley Heights
community, in Hoke county
close to the Moore County
line, received word Wednes
day that their son, Verpole
Hawks, 21, has been missing
in action in Korea since July
16. He is the oldest son of
several children of the family,
who have owned the old
Parnell place on Aberdeen Rt.
1, for several years.
Anglow Tweeds
Purchased By
W. C. Deadwyler
Dale Dwyer Suits
Are Introduced
Mr. .and Mrs. W. C. Deadwyler
have purchased the Anglow
Tweeds building, ; on Midland
road,, and its equipment, and as
Dale Dwyer, Inc., will continue
the business as established by the
Chatfields, 18 years ago.
As Per Mano, Inc., Mr. and Mrs.
H. G. Chatfield and their son Hen
ry B. Chatfield created a distinc
tive position in the world of high
quality for their handwoven wool
en materials and custom-made
clothing, now internationally
known.
Mr. Deadwyler said this week
t!S>at the operations and policies of
the business will continue as be
fore, with the addition of a New
York City workshop where Dale
Dwyer suits are being made and
sold at wholesale to selected
(Continued on Page 5)
488 Names On
Special Books;
749 On Regular
The largest special registra
tion in Southern Pines’ history
is evidence of strong public in
terest in the forthcoming mu
nicipal vote, to be held Tues
day, August 15, at the fire sta
tion from 6:30 to 6:30.
Through the close of the reg
istration period last Saturday,
488 persons had placed their
names on the special books,
and 283 new names had been
added to the 466 on the muni
cipal books, for a total of 749,
said Mrs. Grace Kaylor, regis
trar.
Two measures are up for elec
tion: (1) a le-vy for planned, town-
sponsored recreation, and recrea
tion facilities; (2) financing of
civic advertising and promotion
from the general fund. The first
called for a special registration;
the second employs the regular
municipal books.
Only qualified residents of the
area within the Southern Pines
city limits are eligible for this
election.
The two items to be voted on
are separate and distinct from
each other. One may vote “yes”
for both, “no” for both, or “yes”
for one and “no” for the other,
as he desires.
Though the people must give
authority to, the town board to
spend money for these items, the
laws place restrictions on how
much may be assessed for each.
The recreation levy is restricted
to not less than three cents nor
more than 10 cents on the $100
property valuation.
The civic promotion fund is bas
ed on the total assessed property
valuation, with the minimum set
at one-fortieth, the maximum at
one-tenth of one per cent. Present
total assessed property valuation
is approximately $4,600,000.
Sandhills Open
Starts Wednesday
On Lodal Courts
Seedings will be announced
Monday for the Second Annual
Sandhill Open Tennis tourna
ment, which will start Wednesday
and continue for four days on
Southern Pines’ municipal courts,
under sponsorship of, the Sandhills
Tennis association.
All four courts are expected to
be in play from 10 a.m. through
the evening until the finals, with
a fifth court, that of the Frank De
Costas, available for use to expe
dite matters in the early rounds.
Strict punctuality will be ad
hered to throughout, said Harry
Lee Brown, Jr., chairman. Any
player later than 10 minutes for a
scheduled match will be default
ed. This^s necessary, the com
mittee decided, to keep the match
es moving smoothly and to pre
vent too much “stacking up” if
there should be any weather in
terruptions.
A better balanced field than last
year is predicted, especially in the
women’s division. Miss Mary
Lou Jones of Sanford is defending
champion. A number of topflight
feminine player.s will contest her
title, including Mrs. Andy Grew-
Bear of Caracas, Venezuela, rank
ed second in South America, and
Miss Audrey West Brown of
Southern Pines, N. C. women’s
doubles champion and Eastern
Carolina 1949 women’s singles
champion.
Ed Bender, of Sanford, defend
ing champion among the men, will
also have a number of stiff con
tests on his handfe.
Qther events scheduled are
men’s and women’s doubles and
mixed doubles.
Entry may be made through
Norris L .Hodgkins, Jr., Citizens
Bank and Trust company. South
ern Pines, through Monday, Au
gust 14.
Fishermen Need
New Licenses Now
Fishermen who have not bought
new licenses this month are ad
vised to do so at once, or they will
be liable to prosecution if they so
much as dip a hook into water, ac
cording to a reminder issued this
week by County Game Protector
Woodrow McDonald.
Combination hunting and fish
ing licenses all expired July 31,
New ones are good until July 31,
1951. The combinations and also
all regular hunting licenses may
be secured from the following:
Tate’s Hardware and Electric,
Southern Pines; Aberdeen Hard
ware, Aberdeen; General Office,
Pinehurst; Johnson’s Hardware,
West End; M. M. Poole’s Service
s{ation. West End; Hugh Jackson’s
Service station, (Carthage.
Caretaker, Thagards pond;
Cooper’s store, Lakeview; Mrs. A.
W. McNeill’s store, Vass; L. B.
McKeithen, Cameron; Ritters
Hardware, Robbins.
The licenses may also be secur
ed after store hours from Warden
McDonald, who is living tempora
rily at Braeburn hall on US 1
south, pending completion of his
new home across the road about
September 1.
LAST DAY
Tomorrow (Saturday) is
the last day for regstration
for the beer and wine refer
endum of August 26, for those
whose names are not already
on the general books.
Since the gubernatorial vote
of May 1948, and the senator
ial and county races this
spring all attracted a record
registration and vote, there
are not too many to be added
to the lists. However, in the
two registration Saturdays
so far 91 names have been
added to the precinct books,
said Mrs. Grace Kaylor. regis
trar.