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VOL. 31—NO. 41
14 PAGES THIS WEEK
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1950
14 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Audrey West Brown Wins Tennis Title
In Wednesday Finals At State Event
Upsels Topseeded
Mrs. Clapp For
Singles Crown
Doubles Championship
Successfully Defended
KILLED
' Audrey West Brown of South
ern Pines fulfilled the promise so
well displayed on local courts to
win, the singles championship
Wednesday morning at the N. C.
Closed Tennis tournament at
Greensboro.
Wednesday afternoon, she team
ed with her partner of 1948 and
1949, Mary Ruth Davis of Greens
boro (formerly Robbins) to win
the doubles finals too, successful
ly defending the state title for the
second time.
This made brown-eyed Au
drey. 20-year-old rising senior
at Carolina, the undisputed
queen of the tournament, and
caused much joy. but little
surprise, in her home town.
Those who have witnessed
her smooth, accurate game
know she's no flash in the
pan. and are speculating on a
^ future of nationwide glory
' for her.
Seeded No. 2, she stroked her
way to finals against topseeded
Mary Clapp of Siler City, who
beat her in finals of the ECTA
totimament at Wilmington three
weeks ago. She turned the tables
on Mrs. Clapp 6-1, 6-3.
k The doubles title was retained
by a victory over Mrs. Clapp and
Mary Johnson of Wilmington 8-6,
6-2.
Mixed doubles, not originally on
the schedule, were added to the
toiunament program this week as
some bright candidates appeared.
Audrey and her brother ' Harry
Lee were scheduled to play in this
e*vent starting Thursday.
Malcolm Clark, brilliant 17-
year-old Southern Pines player,
met a couple of waterloos on the
way to the junior singles and
doubles finals. He is also entered
in men’s singles, to be played off
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
i Audrey, a product of South
ern Pines schools (and a stu
dent at Queens college, Char-
1 (Continued on page 8)
CPL. H. C. CAMERON
Henry Cameron
Killed In Aeeiden't
At Air Force Base
Unofficial Totals, Beer and Wine Vote
Saturday, August 26, 1950
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Aberdeen
464
287
460
290
Cameron ’
147
307
147
310
E. Carthage
128
218
no
236
W. Carthage
182
339
154
369
Deep River
18
95
17
96
Eureka
26
71
25
72
Bensalem
47
431
51
432
Highfalls -
11
183
11
183
Pinehurst
415
81
411
85
Pinebluff
126
140 '
129
139
Southern Pines
682
216
661
243
Spies
17
40
16
41
Spencerville
36
258
36
258
Robbins
111
427
123
419
Ritters
16
209
17
211
Vass
115
163
117
165
West End
130
193 .
131
195
TOTAL
2671
3663
2616
3736
They Did It, Folks; Rural Precincts
Tip Scales Heavily Against Control
Three Sandhills Towns In Losing Batile;
Out Go Beer And Wine—Theoretically
Record Enrollment Is Foreseen
As Southern Pines And County
Schools Open Wednesday A. M.
School Bus Fleet
Ready To Transport
6,500 To School
Woodward Wins
County Title In
Sunday Finals
Bill Woodward of Robbins de-
ieated Watt Smith one up on the
18th hole Sunday, to be acclaimed
champion of the Moore County
tournament at the Southern Pines
Country club.
It was a dose match all the
way, with first one, then the oth-
,er breathing on each other’s neck.
Smith was one up at the end of
the first nine, two up at the 13th,
but Woodward came up from un
der to achieve a final victory.
First flight finals will be held
Sunday, when Carlos Fry pf Car
thage will meet Barney Avery of
Aberdeen. Fry defeated Henry
Davis of Carthage two to one, in
semifinal play.
Second flight finals were com
pleted last week. In the third
flight, M. G. “Doc” McRae of
Southern Pines defeated J. P.
Garrison of Aberdeen two and
one.
Cpl. Henry Clifton Cameron,
18, son of Mrs. D. D. Cameron of
South May street and the late Mr.
Cameron, was instantly killed in a
truck accident Saturday morning
at Castle AFB, Merced, Cal.
The body is being sent home by
train, accompahied by military es
cort, and is expected to arrive to
day (Friday) or tonight.
The news came to Corporal 1
Cameron’s mother from Colonel
Bicking, commanding officer of
the Air Force base, where the
youth was attached to the Medical
group of the 93rd Station hospital.
Few details were given.
Funeral services will be held at
3 p. m. Sunday at Brownson Me
morial Presbyterian church, con
ducted by the Rev. W. O. Nelson
of Robbins, and an Army chap
lain. Burial will be in Mt. Hope
cemetery with full military lion-
ors.
This is the third time in recent
years that sorrow has struck deep
in the Cameron home. A brother,
T|4 Daniel D. Cameron, Jr., died
of battle wounds on Luzon in
April, 1945, at the age of 21. His
body was brought fiome for re-
(Continued on Page 8)
Moore county’s crusaders
against legal control of the sales
of beer and wine had it pretty
much their own way Saturday,
“drying up” beer by a majority of
992 and wine by 1,120.
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
—to no one’s surprise—and Aber
deen—to a good many people’s—
gave their predominant vote to
legal control. They stood alone,
though totals showed valiant min
orities in aU the other precincts
struggling to maintain the status
quo.
Though the returns show both
East and West Cartilage precincts
YDG District
Rally Saturday
At Country Club
KILLED IN ACTION
The first Moore county boy
to be reported killed in action
in Korea is Cpl. Ralph Holder,
about 20, of Carthage, Star
route, whose parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. Holder, received a
telegram to this effect last
week.
The telegram said Corporal
Holder was killed July 27.
He enlisted in 1947 and had
been overseas almost a year,
being first stationed on Oki
nawa. His parents were not
aware that he had been mov
ed to the scene of the fight
ing.
Surviving besides his pa
rents are four sisters, Mrs.
Lewis Cooper and Mrs. John
Darnell of Carthage, Mrs.
Robert Paschal of Bonlee, and
Mrs. Charles Sullivan, Jr., of
Sanford: and four brothers,
Billy, James, Robert and La
cy, of the home.
Will You Be Among 24 To Be Killed
On NC Highways Labor Day Week End?
“Drive as you would have the
other fellow drive”—that’s the
■theme for the Labor Day week
end, when North Carolina motor
ists will have their last summer
holiday fling, and 24 of them are
expected to fling themselves into
eternity.
The prediction that Friday-
through-Monday casualties will
reach this figure was made by the
N. C. Department of Motor Ve
hicles, based on the facts that 21
were killed during that time last
year, and highway fatalities are
up this year by 13 per cent.
Department officials expressed
the hope that this figure would
prove too high.
However, they are passing up
no bets in the effort to reduce the
holiday toll.
All leaves for highway patrol
men have been canceled for the
week end, during which 1,100,000
vehicles are expected to be on the
highway at one time or another.
The Highway Patrol will re
lease each hour the report on fa
talities, injuries and accidents,
which the state’s three press ser
vices will distribute to newspa
pers and radio stations.
The coming week end is ex
pected to be the heaviest in point
of highway travel of any holiday
week end in the state’s previous
history, as coastal and mountain
regions exert their strongest call,
bolstered by final performances of
“The Lost Colony” at Manteo and
“Unto These Hills” on the Chero
kee reservation.
The annual whirl of YDC meet
ings, always a focal point of in
terest in Moore, starts tomorrow
(Saturday) night with the Eighth
District Rally at the Southern
Pines Country club; continues
with the county convention next
Friday night at Carthage, and
winds up with the state conven
tion at Asheville September 14,
15 and 16.
A number of Moore County
Young Democrats will attend all
three. Other counties and dis
tricts in the state are holding sim
ilar meetings at this time. ■ V
Congressman C. B. Deane of
Rockingham will be the featured
speaker at the District Rally. A
number of state officials are be
ing invited to attend ,along -with
YD officials and members and
senior party chairmen of the dis
trict’s 12 counties. A “social hour”
will be held at 6 o’clock, a ham
supper at 7 and the “'speaking
program” at 8. Hubert McCaskill,
of Pinehurst, district chairman,
will preside. Mayor C. N. Page
of Southern Pines will bring
greetings from the town, and W.
Lamont Brown will give a wel
come from the Moore County
club. T. R. Phillips of Carthage
will present Representative
Deane, who is expected to bring
a message of serious import con
cerning the national and interna
tional situation.
At the county convention to
be held at the courthouse next
Friday at 8 p. m., officers will be
elected for 1950-51, also delegates
to the state convention. Miss
Myrtle Frye of Carthage, former
ly first vice president, is now act
ing president of the club.
Some talk has been heard con
cerning candidates for various of
fices, a serious matter in Moore,
where politics are taken seriously
and the YD club is an organization
of considerable weight.
Paul C. Butler, of Southern
Pines, who has served with dis
tinction as treasurer for a number
of terms, is being boosted for
president by a number of sup
porters.
Way land Frye, of Carthage, a
recent Wake Forest graduate, is
being mentioned as likely YDC
timber. He is apt to be given op
portunity to show his leadership
and service capacities, perhaps as
the new treasurer.
went substantially “dry,” a re
port from the county seat was to
the effect that Carthage, within
its actual municipal limits, went
for control by a small margin. The
rural voters of each of the large
precinpts weighted the scales
against them.
Several Factors
Victory of the “drys” combined
several apparently irrelevant fac
tors. One was the mimsters and
thfe other good folk, whom no
one doubts are sincere in their be
lief prohibition will succeed here,
though it never has anywhere
else Another factor was the Re
publicans, traditionally “dry”
where legal control operates un
der a Democratic administration.
The heavily Rfepublican pre
cincts of Deep River, Bensalemi,
Highfalls, Spies, Spencerville and
Ritters turned out a record vote.
They also changed the final count.
A check shows that elimination of
these precincts would have seen
a victory for legal control.
Other Interests
How much religion had to do
with their vote may never be
known. Certainly other interests
entered in.
Showing the list of six precincts
listed above to ABC Officer C. A.
McCallum, the Pilot reporter ask
ed, “Do you have much trouble
with these precincts in cleaning
up stills?”
He looked at the list handed
him without further explanation.
Add Cameron precinct and you’ll
(Continued on Page 8)
Schools of the Moore County
system will open Wednesday
morning except at Aberdeen,
where the opehing will be held
a week later, according to an an
nouncement made last week.
Enrollment at the county
schools is expected to reach 6,500.
That of the special administrative
units of Southern Pines and Pine
hurst will bring the total to ap
proximately 8^000, of whom some
5,000 will ride to school in buses,
from every corner of the county.
Teacher lists for the county
system as announced by Supt.
H. Lee Thomas will be found
on Page 16.
Two-thirds of the county’s
schoolchild enrollment is white,
attending nine high and 10 ele
mentary schools. The Negro chil
dren, constituting slightly more
than one-third, attend two high
and 13 elementary schools—a
By error the Vass-Lakeview
school story on another page
of this paper gives Thursday,
September 6. as the opening
day. Wednesday the 6th is,
of course, correct.
LABOR DAY
General holiday 'wdll be
observed as usual on Monday
—Labor day.
City and county offices will
be closed, and recorders court
will be held Tuesday, with
jury trials followin’g on Tues
day of the ensuing week, Sep
tember 12.
At the Southern Pines post
office, the general delivery
and stamp window will be
open only until 10 a. m. There
will be no city delivery. Out
going and box mail will be
worked as usual.
The. Citizens Bank and
Trust company will close for
the day.
Fishingv golf, swimming
and picnicking will be the or
der of tlie day, as Sandhill
folk follow their compatriots'
example in celebrating this
peculiarly American national
holiday.
New Classrooms
Are Being Built;
Cafeteria To Open
Record Opening
Prices Seen On
Sandhills Marts
Red Cross
‘‘Aquacade” At
Aberdeen Lake
number which consolidation may
soon reduce.
Southern Pines pupils consti
tute about 12 per cent of the
schoolchild population, and those
of Pinehurst about eight per cent.
At Aberdeen, largest of the
county system, a new elementary
school is being rushed to comple
tion. Delays have been experi
enced in the construction, and it
may be several weeks more be
fore the school is ready. District
Supt. Robert E. Lee will make an
announcement this week as to
which classes are being held
where. A new gymnasium is also
being built, and part of the old
gymnasium, in the high school
building, is being partitioned to
form new clasrooms, jm'th the
rest retained as an auditorium.
O. D. Gnffin. field supervi
sor for this district with the
State Highway Safety Com
mission of the N. C. Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles, said
that W. T. Carroll, head mech-
ic at the county school gar
age, has reported to him fliat
all school buses have been in
spected, and necessary repairs
made. He said a thorough
check of each was made by
the State Highway PatroL
There have been delays in this
department also. Six replacements
(Continued on Page 5)
Boys and girls of the Southern
Pines school district, embracing
corporate Southern Pines, Pine-
deAe, Knollwopd, Manly and Ni
agara, will start the school year
1950-51 next Wednesday morning.
Opening hour for the half-day
session Wednesday and Thurs
day will be 9 o’clock for all
grades. Permanent schedules will
probably be set up by Friday, said
Supt. P. J. Weaver.
He would make no guess as
to the ■ opening-day enroll
ment. Preparations, however,
are beng made for an "un
precedented number." Last
yqar's figure for all schools
was 733, an increase of 130
over the year before. By
year's end it had risen by
more than 200, ■vtith most of
the increase' in the elemen
tary grades.
Students arriving at the South
ern Pines ’ elementary school
building will find work already
under way toward its enlarge
ment, amply large when new two
years ago but now like the Old
Woman Who Lived in the Shoe.
Work is due to start the first of
next week on four new classrooms,
two to be rushed to completion for
use this winter, the other two to
Record opening-day prices ever
since the start of the tobacco sea
son brought a torrent of tobacco ji^g finished as funds become avail
A real “aquacade” will be on
view at 3 p.m. Sunday at Aber
deen lake, sponsored by the
Moore County chapter, American
Red Cross, as the climax of its
water safety prograrn of the sum
mer.
The public is cordially invited
to witness the show, which is
planned to entertain as well qs in
struct, said Dr. John C. Grier, of
Pinehurst, safety services chair
man.
Dr. Grier and his •water safety
group are in charge. Demonstra
tions have been planned by Ed-
wina Hallman, Richard Kaylor,
Frances Campbell and Milt Ly
ons, certified Red Cross instruc
tors. L. L. Hallman will be on
hand with a public address sys
tem and Herbert Cutter will be
in charge of a first aid station—
reminder of another phase of Red
Cross service.
Participants in the show will be
20 or more of the young people
who have taken part in the water
safety program this summer, as
instructors or pupils in different
classes.
, The all-Moore County cast will
demonstrate many forms of res
cue work and safety practices
while swimming and boating.
S'wimming styles will be display
ed, and a diving show will present
both fancy and comic diviqg.
Stunt swimming will wind up the
program, which will last an hour
or more. <
to Sandhill markets Monday, to set' able.
another record, but to hurt sec
ond-day prices as warehouse
floors overflowed.
The Department of Agriculture
figure of $61.70 as the Sandhill
Belt’s opening-^ay average was
$12.88 over last year’s high prices.
Old Belt tobacco mingled with
Sandhill tobacco to present a bum
per harvest picture.
All markets will close Monday,
Labor day.
The struggle to cope with Mion-
day’s oversupply reportedly left
much tobacco on the floors and
stacked up in all available space
on some of the markets, so that
a good many farmers arriving
Tuesday took their cargo home.
Prices dropped $2.95 per 100
pounds (average) to create a more
satisfactory situation for the buy
ers, hut on Wednesday were com
ing back Ap and are expected to
stay strong during auction ses
sions to come.
Crowds thronged the streets of
Aberdeen and Carthage, Moore
county’s tobacco centers, and
business was at a peak.
The five Sandhills markets—in
cluding Ellerbe, which managed
Deane, Ballentine
Will Be Speakers
At Farmers Day
to stay in the swim this year—j Carolina Power and Light corn-
marketed 2,220,858 pounds on the pany, serving as home service
opening day, compared with last economist during 1946-47.
year’s 1,909,080. ghe married Lansing T. Hall of
Remaining markets of the Mid- Southern Pines and for the past
die Belt opened Thursday. (Continued on Page 5)
Hospitality, entertainment and
events to interest everyone are
promised at Aberdeen tomorrow
(Saturday), when the countywide
all-day Farmers day will be held
under sponsorship of the Jaycees.
Both Congressman C. B. Deane
and State Agriculture Commis
sioner L. Y. BaUentine will make
addresses, announced Jaycee pres
ident A1 Cruce. The “speaking”
will be held about the noon hour,
when a 25-cent chicken stew din
ner will be served.
On display will be the most
complete assortment of modern
farming equipment ever gathered
together in the Sandhills, through
courtesy of local dealers and dis
tributors of nationally kno-wn
makes of equipment and machin
ery.
A beauty contest beside Aber
deen lake will present about 20
lovely young ladies of-the S'and-
hills, competing for an array of
handsome prizes.
A number of other contests will
be held and prizes awarded.
Events will start at 10 a. m. and
wind up with a street dance in
the evening.
Merchants and civic organiza
tions are cooperating to make the
day a success.
Both high and elementary
school students and their parents
will be delighted at another long-
anticipated addition—the new
cafeteria, marking the end of
“lunch in a paper bag” schooldays.
Regular lunches will probably not
be served until the week after
school starts, said Mk. Weaver,
as some important equipment has
been delayed in arrival.
The school board announc
ed the employment of Mrs. L.
T. Hall, a graduate home
economist, as cafeteria man
ager. Mrs. Hall, the former
Miss Elizabeth Eberle of
Wheeling, W. Va., attended
Capital university, Columbus,
Ohio, and graduated from
Muskingum college. New Con
cord, Ohio. She taught home
economics in the Wheeling
public schools, then went
with the Ohio Power com
pany as home service econo
mist.
During the war she was a WAC.
On her separation as a captan in
1946, she came to Southern Pines
to visit her parents. While here
she accepted a position with the
Miss Wintyen Visits UN, Has Trouble
Keeping From Talking Back To Malik
Miss Mary K. Wintyen of
Southern Pines is normally a gen
tle and well-mannered person, not
accustomed to socking people in
the jaw.
She admits to having had a
strong wish to do just that, on a
recent visit to the Security Coun
cil of the United Nations, at Lake
Success, N. Y. She happened to
get there on the very afternoon
Jacob Malik, Russian representa
tive and Council chairman for
August, made his big key speech
against the United States.
He lambasted this country as an
“aggressive and imperialistic” na
tion for more than an hour with
out taking a breath, Miss Wintyen
reports. “I was never so mad in
my life,” she declared. “It was all
I could do to keep frpm getting
right up and answering him my
self.”
Miss Wintyen and a companion
had been able to secure reserva
tions, and lucky they did too, for
thousands jammed the place hop
ing, vainly, to get seats. There is
space for only a few hundred. At
first they were seated in the TV
room ,where they observed the
proceedings on television, hearing
through earphones the English
translation made instantaneously
as Malik spoke in Russian. Later
they were able to get seats in the
Council chamber itself.
The lengthy speech was follow
ed by a word-for-word English
translation of equal length, for the
record. This consumed time
scheduled for other proceedings—
the French translation, and the
seating of the North and South
Korean delegates. By the time it
was through, it vras so late that,
to her great disappointment, the
Southern Pines woman could not
stay to hear Warren Austin’s re
buttal.
Malik remained poker-faced
throughout, poring over his notes
during the translation period as H
to make sure not a syllable wa^
omitted or changed. Austin and
the other Council members wore
deeply serious expressions as they
listened through their earphones.
Miss Wintyen believes that ev
eryone who possibly can should
visit the UN sessions. “I under
stand now so much better what
we are up against,” she said, “and
what a job lies ahead of the Coun
cil in reaching harmonious deci
sions.”