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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25. 1950
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TEN CENTS
Sandhills Markets
Will Open Monday;
Weed Prices Soar
County Beer and Wine
Vole Set For Saturday
MISSING IN KOREA
Opening Day
Records Topple
In Eastern Belt
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From left front row—Sgt. William A. McDonald; Sgt. William E. Bushby; MiSgt. Elbert Stutts; 1st Sgt. Lennox Forsyth; 1st Lt.
William J. Wilson, commanding officer; 1st Lt. James L. Irvin, execu tive officer; SFC Ralph L. Horner; SFC A. D. Hurst; Sgt. Melvin
I Kushner; Sgt. John R. Baker.
’» Second Row—Pfc. William Knowlton, Pfc. James Assad, Pfc. Henson Williams, Pfc. Robert Stuart, Pfc. George McDonald, Pfc.
Dalton McNeill, Sgt. Richard Frye.
Third Row—Cpl. John S. Ruggles, Ret. Billy Blake, Pvt. Dale Covington, Pfc. Coy Bowers, Pvt. Robert Stone, Ret. Marshall Palmer,
Jr., Pfc. Dan Assad, Pfc. Robert Craft.
Fourth Row—Pfc. Proctor Goldsmith, Pfc. Luther Sineath, Pvt. Robert Cox, Ret. DiUon Short, Pfc. Arthur Morgan, Pfc. Harold
Monroe, Pvt. Albert Crissman, Cpl. Richard N. Bailey, Pvt. Peter Rapatas. . ,
Present at the encampment but not in picture: SFC. Arthur G.Melton, Sgt. Carlton Cole, Sgt. Royal Stutts, Cpl. Marshall Palmer,
Sr., Pfc. Jimmie Hunsucker, Pfc. Thomas Koonce, Pfc. Eugene Lee, Pfc. Richard Patch, Pvt. Waylon Bailey, Ret Carrow Moffitt, Pvt.
Ronald McDonald.
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Prison Sentences
Suspended For
Tally, Garner
National Guardsmen Back From Camp
With Top Military Efficiency Award
Three prison sentences, two of
which were suspended on stiff
probationary terms, were meted
out by Judge William T. Hatch
in the closing day and a half of
superior court last week at Carth
age.
Cameron C. Tally, of Flint,
Slich., formerly of Sanford, was
sentenced to not less than 18
months nor more than three years
in prison on a manslaughter
charge, suspended for five years
on the following conditions; (1)
payment of $100 for the use of
Albert Atkins, driver of a car in
collision with Tally’s when Bud
Cotton, riding in the Tally car,
was killed in August, 1947; (2)
payment of a fine of $1,000 in ad
dition to court costs; (3) not to
operate a motor vehicle for five
years; (4) defendant to remain in
jail 25 days before release.
Tally was ordered to pay to
ward the sums mentioned above
$150 in cash at the current term
of court, and $100 per month be
ginning October 10.'
The case had attracted atten
tion through its numerous edntin-
uations, as it was calendared for.
trial eight separate times and de
layed, until finally it became the
LETTERS
On account of the tremen
dous interest in the beer-wine
election Saturday, letters
from our readers have over
flowed their usual space.
Letters will be found on
Page 2. Page 3 and Page 14.
Dairy mple Elected
Chairman County
Draft Board
Battery Makes
Proud Record
at Camp Stewart
Smith, Woodward
Will Play Sunday
For County Crown
Carthage and Aberdeen tobacco
markets will begin their 1950 auc
tion season Monday with the op
ening of the Sandhills belt, which
also includes markets at Sanford
and Fuquay-Varina.
This is the second year ex-
isten(le for the Sandhills belt,
which successfully effected' or
ganization in 1949 after a long up
hill fight. It is the first year in
which the belt has had its own
opening date, one day earlier
than the Middle belt with which
it was long identified.
With prices skyrocketing to new
highs, farmers are looking' for
ward to an opening and season
of unprecedented prosperity.
Old opening-day average rec
ords tumbled this week as an of
ficial average of $5l.01 was set
by the Eastern belt on Monday.
The Department of Agriculture
said this was 11.59 above the first
day last season, and the volume of
offerings on the 17 Eastern Belt
markets was around a half-million
pounds heavier.
In Moore county, two brand-
new warehouse buildings await
the opening,' replacing two which
burned down last fall. The Smoth
ers Brothers warehouse at Carth
age is new. McConnells ware
house, operated by Bill Carter,
and Smothers No. 2 are also ready
to welcome the growers with their
golden loads.
At Aberdeen, the vast New
Aberdeen warehouse just off U. S.
Highway 1, close to the business
district ,is under the manage-
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Cpl. Henry Bradford has been
missing in action in Korea since
July 11, according to a telegram
received last week by his wife,
the former Miss Cleecie Renegar.
They have two little girls.
Corporal Bradford, a veteran
of the North African and Euro
pean campaigns of World War 2,
was a policeman here following
his discharge. He reenlisted in
the Army two years ago, was
transferred to the west coast May
9. He had been in Korea only a
few days when he was reported
missing.
The newly activated Moore
County draft board held its first
meeting Monday morning at Car
thage, felecting W. W. Dalrymple
of Carthage chairman and Allen
C. McDonald of West End secre
tary. The third member is M. G.
Rush of Southern Pines.
The members went over various
instructions received from State
Selective Service headquarters
and heard a report from their
clerk, Mrs. Harry Davis, on a
meeting she attended at Raleigh
Tuesday of last week, at which
clerks from all over the state were
briefed on their jobs,
No draft call has been received
oldest in the backlog of criminal | by the local board. The office is
cases. It was a jury trial.
Embezzlement Case
Berney C. Garner, of Niagara,
pleadng nolo contendere tO' em
bezzlement of more than $20,000
from the Southern Pines Ware-
- iiouses, Inc., over a long period
of years, was sentenced to not less
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all set up ready for business on
the second floor of the Riddle
building in Carthage. The files are
back from Rockingham, where
they remained during a year and
a half of inactivation.
Since the office was opened
August 8 several 18-year-olds
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Drys Meet, Condemn ‘‘That Stuff”;
“We’ll Get It Out,” They Declare
Moore county’s 5tlational Guard
battery returned this weekend
from two weeks’ encampment
with the Military Efficiency
award, the topmost trophy offer
ed to any combat unit.
The silver cup was presented to
Lieut. James Irvin, acting com
mander, at an assembly Saturday
morning at Camp Stewart, Ga.,
where the battery had been at
tached to the three-battalion
252nd group for training. Colonel
Corbitt, commanding officer of
the 252nd, made the award in the
presence of the 1,037 men of his
group.
The award was made for the
highest rating among the group’s
12 units, based on courtesy, at
tendance, cleanliness of mess halls
and sleeping areas, wearing of ^he
uniform, conduct on field and
range problems and general pro
ficiency, as reported by inspectors
who observed all units from the
start.
Best Score On Range
In addition to winning the Mil
itary Efficiency cup, it made the
best score of all three antiaircraft
units in bringing down four towed
targets and one radio-controlled
plane. Forty-millimetre weapons
and 50-calibre machine guns were
used on the range.
Leaders of the battery paid high
tribute to the unit’s “rookies” for
the excellent record which was
made. Almost half the personnel
consists of young men who have
never had military training before.
Twenty-one of the 46 men attend
ing the encampment (plus two of
ficers) were .in this category.
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By Bud Harvey
Watt Smith of Pinehurst will
meet Bill Woodward of Robbins
Sunday afternoon at the South
ern Pines Country club for the
1950 Moore County golf cham
pionship.
For Smith, newlywed pre-den
tal student at the University of
North Carolina, it will be his sec
ond successive finals in this event.
He went to the last round a year
ago and lost to Brooke Walalce of
Pinehurst.
Wallace last week fouled out of
the tournament on a fast-breaking
curve when Woodward, his quar
terfinal opponent, claimed a de
fault victory in a wierd shadow
waltz that saw neither of the two
players make any serious attempt
to contact the other. However,
Woodward was on the scene for
sevetil consecutive days last
week and finally claimed the
match on a technical forfeit Wed-
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Two More Young
Children Are
Polio Victims
Deane Reveals
Some Chiseling
Is Going On
Judge Sink
Dismisses Suit
Abuse of the privileges of the
congressional frank and “exten
sion of remarks” in the Congres
sional Record, with resulting mis
use and waste of the taxpayers’
money, has been called to the at
tention of Cqngress by Rep. C. B.
Deane, a member of the House
Committee on Administration,
whose duties include the prepara
tion of the .Record.
Bills are being prepared which
would correct these abuses, it is
Two young children in widely revealed in an article by Wash-
separated parts of the county were ington Reporter James Free, pub-
reported as polio victims this ished this week. Facts and figures
week, running Moore’s polio tally on the abuses are given by Deane
League Title At
State In Sunday
Tennis Match
Forty-one people, including
several visiting ministers, officals
■of the Allied Church League, and
!four guest speakers, were present
at a meeting of the “dry” forces
held at the First Baptist church
Saturday night.
The Rev. Zeb A. Caudle of
Aberdeen opened the meeting
with prayer, and the Misses Jean
and Irene Olive sang a hymn. Mr.
Caudle then introduced the
•guests and turned the meeting
over to the visiting speakers,
- headed by Wayne Foster, of Char
lotte, executive secretary of the
American Temperance society for
the Carolinas.
Mr. Foster expressed his faith
in the outcome of the vote on Sat
urday, which he declared would
show a great majority against con
tinued legal sales of beer and
wine. He quoted J. Edgar Hoover,
head of the FBI, as saying “alco
hol is at the root' of 80 per cent of
crime.” He told of personal ex
periences with those whose lives
had been wrecked by drink.
He presented E. M. Chalmers,
of Albemarle, field worker for the
American temperance society,
who, he said, was “at Pearl Har
bor December 7, 1941,” adding,
“He will show that if it had not
been for alcohol World War 2
might never have happened.” Mr.
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DONATE A DECK
Playing cards are badly
needed for the patients at the
Fort Bragg Station hospital,
according to an appeal made
this week by Mrs. Ira T.
Wyche, chairman of volun
teer services of the Moore
County chapter, American
Red Cross.
Any decks brought to the
Red Cross chapter' here will
be delivered to the hospital,
where they are needed for
solitaire, two-handed and
four-handed games of all
kinds to help entertain the
convalescent soldiers.
The decks need not be new.
The Southern Pines and Raleigh
men’s tennis teams will meet here
Saturday in the final bouts of the
Eastern Carolina League series,
with the crown at stake. Six sin
gles and two doubles matches wiU
be played, starting at 2:30 p. m,
The two teams are tied for top
spot in the League with seven
wins, two losses each. The Raleigh
team has held the championship
three years straight and defeated
Southern Pines in a close contest
earlier in the series.
Each team will be putting its
best into the field and an after-
n6on of superb tennis is guaVan-
teed, weather permitting.
The matches were announced
earlier for Sunday, but a change
has since been made.
The Southern Pines women’s
team was the League winner on
the distaff side, scoring a straight
series of wins with only two
points made against them during
the entire season of play. The
trophy was awarded at the East
ern Carolina Association tourna
ment at Wilmington August 10-13.'
Schedule changes forced by bad
weather prevented the men from
finishing their series before the
tournament. <
to seven for 1950.
Wayne Moore, two and a half,
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Moore
of Eagle Springs RFD, was taken
sick last Thursday and carried to
Rex hospital, Raleigh, that same
day.
Martha Ann Johnson, 23 months
old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Johnson of between South
ern Pines and Aberdeen, was also
taken sick Thursday. Her illness
was not immediately diagnosed
and she was carried to Rex hos
pital Monday.
Her father is an employee of
in the appendix of the Record, ap
propriately enough, since this is
the part most frequently padded
for personal use.
Deane did not speak against the
right of Congressmen to use the
frank nor to extend their remarks
in the Record. But he did stress
that there has been abuse of these
rights by some Senators and Con-
Moore County voters will go
to their precinct polling places
Saturday to cast their votes
for, or against, the continua
tion of legal control of the
sale of beer and wine. Voting
hours will be 6:30 to 6^30.
In Southern Pines the poll
ing place will be the fire sta
tion, the registrar Mrs. Grace
Kaylor.
In Aberdeen, where a num
ber of Southern Pines citizens
vote, the Legion hut is the
polling place. Raymond Wick
er is registrar.
Voting will be separate on
beer and wine. You may vote,
for the legal sale of one,
against it for the other; for
both, or against both.
A possible obstacle to the elec
tion appeared briefly, then disap
peared this week as Judge H.
Hoyle Sink of Lexington sum
marily dismissed a citizen suit
challenging its legality, with
members of the board of elections
as defendants. The order for the
showcause hearing was signed at
Carthage last Thursday afternoon
by Special Judge William T.
Hatch. Bringing suit were J. O.
Ferguson, Donald A. Jones and
Carl Klabbatz of Southern Pines,
and O. Philip Cole of Carthage.
Refused Injunction
In the hearing held at Monroe,
where he was presiding over a
term of court. Judge Sink dismis
sed the suit on a demurrer orete-
nus, legal terminology for “I wash
my hands of the whole thing.” He
heard no pvidence, made no ruling
on the complaint and refused the
injunction sought by the plain
tiffs, who called attention to the
fact that the election is being held
within 60 days pf another in the
county, contrary to the 1947 stat
ute of the Greneral Assembly; also
that the petitions seeking the vote
are 20 months old.
This suit marked the first time
representatives of the beer indus
try had entered the picture, seek
ing to protect their mans of mak
ing a living. Cole is president of
the Moore County Beer Dealers
association, and he and Ferguson
both own beer sales places in the
county.
Jones and Kabbatz represented
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The most recent evidence of
wholesale use of the franking
privilege he cited as that of the
Committee for Constitutional
Carter’s laundry here. They Rye Government, whose secretary. Dr.
off US 1, near the Clam Box. The. Edward A. Rumely, told the
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MOORE COUNTY CITIZENS COMMITTEE
The Moore County Citizens Legal Control committee, head
ing the fight for retention of legal control of beer and wine
sales in Moore county, consists of 97 outstanding citizens from
all parts of the county, and representing practically all its in
terests.
John S. Ruggles, of Southern Pines, is chairman. Others
on the committee were listed this week as follows:
Walter Alpert, D. C. Atkins, L. A. Austin, O. W. Baker,
Archie L. Barnes, W. Clement Barrett, John Beasley, M. W.
Benedict, D. A. Blue, Jr., Henry McC. Blue, H. L. Brown, W.
Lamont Brown, Wilton H. Brown, Howard F. Burns, Herbert
N. Cameron, Joseph Caviness, W. M. Chappell.
Rev. T. A. Cheatham, H. C. Cheek, Robert Chriscoe, Lloyd
T. Clark, Arch F. Coleman, Ben M. Cooper, L. B. Creath, A1
Cruce, Graham Culbreth, Paul Dana, K. G. Deaton, Atlas B.
Eastwood, Harold M. Fowler, S. F. Garcia, W. Cliff Garner, L.
F. Garvin, A. V. Hanner, H. B. Hardison, Jr., Col. G. P. Hawes,
Jr, E. P. Hinson.
N. L Hodgkins, I. Foy Horton, John M. Howarth, A. A.
Howlett, Harvey Jessup, W. A. Johnson, Hugh P. Kelly, Claude
F. Leavitt, O. W. Loving, Charles Macauley, Col. Donald M.
Madigon, L. F. Matthews, J. Hubert McCaskill, John R. Mc-
Innis, C. H. Meinnis, H. D. Meinnis, N. Archie McLeod, Alex
McKenzie, Garland McPherson, W. H. McNeill, Jr.
H. J. Menzel, Eutice H. Mills, Ralph T. Mills, Dr. R. F.
Mobbs, Joe Montesanti, Jr., C. E. Newton, E. B. Newton, L. V.
O’Callaghan, J. T. Overton, Dr. Francis L. Owens, C. N. Page,
R. N. Page, 3rd, Charles S. Patch, Garland Pierce, R. F. Hoke
Pollock, John L. Ponzer, J. Hawley Poole, M. M. Poole, Roger
Purvis, D. S. Ray.
Glen Rounds, A. M. Sally, U. S. Seals, G. C. Seymour, J.,
P. Shamburger, W. D. Shannon, I. C. Sledge, Elmer M. Simkins,
J N. Steed, J. R. Stephens, Paul Thomas, Richard S. Tufts, C.
Landon Tyson, J. B. VonCanon, Paul VonCanon, Manly Well
man, Hiram Westbrook, Raymond Wicker, Woodrow Wilhoit.
Mrs. Moss Will
Be Judge For
International Tests
'Two North Carolinians, Mrs. W.
O. Moss of Southern Pines and
Nathan M. Ayers of High Point,
have been named on one of 10 na
tional zone committees to stage
tryouts during the fall and winter,
for international equestrian com
petition.
Mrs. Moss is secretary of the
Moore County Hounds, of which
her husband is master. She was a
judge at Madison Square garden
last fall, and is noted as one of
the finest foxhunters and horse
women of the East.
Mr. Ayers is jointmaster of the
Sedgefield hunt.
The appointments were made
by W. Haggan Perry of Colbham,
Va., elected vice president in
charge of this zone by the newly
formed International Equestrian
Competitors corporation. His zone
embraces the Carolinas, Virginia,
West Virginia and the District of
Columbia, which may, through
the newly set up tryout system,
produce one or more representa
tives on the Olympics squad.
Initial tryouts for the 'tfoun-
state zone will be held Septem
ber 3 at Warrenton, Va. This
event will be purely an equita
tion test and riders from the
Carolinas will be provided
mounts.
Following' zone competition in
all sections of the country, the
riders and horses will be assemb
led in Indiantown Gaji, Pa., in late
September. There a 'United States
jumping team will be chosen to
compete with seven other coun
ties.