CLEAN UP PAINT UP FIX UP CLEAN UP PAINT U^ FIXUP rown Board Extends Business District, )efers Decision On Piedmont Proposal ^ Public Alley Used As Building Site Ties Up Construction OPEN MEETING Civilian Defense Sirens Will Sound Practice Blasts The town board meeting at the ity hall Wednesday night unan- mously approved the extension if. the business district to the outhern city limits on the west ide of the Seaboard tracks. A special hearing had been an- lounced for that night on the lubject. Though no one appeared n person to protest it, a petition was presented signed by nine property-owners registering their opposition to any change in the sxisting zoning of the area. How ever ,the wording of the petition was such that it appeared their abjection was to the location of a service station there, an<^ it was taken as such. A change in the zoning ordi nance regarding service stations in the business district will be ponsidered at a special meeting next Wednesday night, when pro tests may be heard. One Stop a Day? Mayor C. N. Page read a letter from Piedmont Airlines asking approval on their resumption of service October 15 at the local air port, with just one flight each way stopping daily. On advice of Town Attorney Hoke Pollock, it was decided that mayors of other towns involved, also the county commissioners, be asked to a conference before an answer is given, and that the reply be one with the support of all. The mayor reported that he plans to appoint a municipal rec reation commission, to administer funds brought in by the recrea tion levy recently approved by the voters. He said he will pre sent the names at the October regular meeting. Parking Congestion Foreseen Possible solutions <»f parking congestion foreseen on the 100 block of West Pennsylvania ave nue when the new A & P super market is opened, were studied by the board. One submitted by Otto B. Edwards, post safety en gineer at Port Bragg and chair- (Continued on Page 8) An open meeting of the town board will be held at the city offices Wednesday at 8 p. m. at which change in a portion of the'zoning ordi nance will be considered. The section under consider ation forbids' the establish ment of a service station or public garage anywhere with in the business district. The board has in mind! the addition of the words "except by the approval of the mayor and town commissioners." Anyone interested in hav ing his or her say one way or the'other is invited to come and say it, said Mayor Page. Tryoul Next Friday; Madigan Presents Program To Board Pinehurst Man Held In Slaying Of Brother-In-Law Charley • Calcutt, 42-year-old Pinehurst painter, died in Moore County hospital at 1:55 p. m. Wed nesday of wounds sustained from a shotgun blast at his home 24 hours earlier. County officers are holding Cur tiss Frye, another Pinehurst painter, the brother-in-law of Calcutt, in Carthage jail in con nection with the slaying. No for mal charges have been made. Coroner H. P. Kelly will hold an inquest at 8 p. m. Monday. Physicians gave Calcutt a doz en transfusions during the futile 24-hour battle to keep him alive. The shotgun blast,' fired at close range, had torn its way through the entire right side of the man’s abdomen. Lloyd McNair, a Negro taxi driver and eye witness of the shooting, said Frye had hired his cab to drive him from his own home to that of his brother-in- law. McNair said Frye was carrying the shotgun, in one hand and a live rooster in the other. At Cal- cutt’s home, he said, Frye strode (Continued on Page 8) Southern Pines' civilian de fense set-up will move into being with a sample sounding of an air-raid "alert" and "all- clear" next Friday after noon. September 22. The "alert" will be sound ed by the fire whistle for three miipifes starting at 3 p. m. Twenty minutes later, will be heard the one-minute "all-clear" signal. After this is done once, ac cording to Dl. Lf Madigan, civilian dlefense director, it may never have to be done again. If is necessary once, in order to let the people know just what the signals will sound like. However, Director Madigan told the town board Wednesday night, he does not favor constant practicing as part of the defense program, until there is some sign that it is needed. Presenting highlights of a ten tative program on request of the commissioners. Colonel Madigan secured their unanimous approval on the sounding of the signals at this time. He told them that, after study of the local situation and of what some other communities are fac ing, he feels that wartime danger 1 may come to this community only as part of a wide area, rather than as a specific target. There may also be dislocations without dan gers, as in the case of possible mass evacuations from cities to smaller towns. He said in making the plans on request of State Director E. Z. Jones, for integration with the state plan, he felt that “planning for the worst” in the expectation that it probably would never hap pen, was safer than making little or no plans and perhaps have the need for them arise. The program calls for general (Continued on Page 5) Clifford B. Maness, itinerant ^ preacher of upper Moore, one of the hardest workers and gospel quoters on the “dry” side in the recent beer-wine election, his son Clifford Eugene ' and his wife Glennie Stutts Maness were ar rested last Friday night when of ficers stopped their car on the Highfalls-Robbins road and found three cases of “white lightning” in the trunk compartment. Maness disclaimed aU know ledge of the liquor, declaring that someone who had “something against him” must have put it in there. However, sufficient clues were provided by the arrest to sew up a cage against Earl York and his mother Ruth Evelyn York at Asheboro Monday, with indica tions that further arrests will be made. Ten cases containing 50 gallons of illicit liquor were found at the York home, said ABC Officer C. A. McCallum. He said York has been known as a big-time opera tor aind wholesaler, and that the law has had its eye on Maness for three or four months as a suspected distributor for the out fit. Commuter Maness has been working late ly as a barber at Siler City, com muting between that town and Moore county, and evidence indi cates that he has been hauling the Randolph County liquor in regularly on his homeward trips, McCallum said. Constable Garner Maness of Robbins and Patrolman R. L. Ap ple,, who. stopped the Maness car, found the trunk compartment locked, but were able to see the liquor inside when they removed the back part of the seat. They then broke the compartment open. They turned the Manesses over to federal authorities, who took them before U. S. Commissoner J. A. Lang at Carthage for a hear ing. He found probable cause on transporting illicit whiskey for sale and set bond of $500 each, which they made. They will be tried at the March term of federal court at Rockingham. Preached Fervently Maness is said to have lived in. the Putnam community all his life. He is not formally connected I with a church, but for a number j of years has supplied rural churches of the section, and held 'sidewalk meetings” at Carthage and other towns. He has preached fervently against the evils of alcoholic bev erages, and never more vigorously than during the recent campaign,, when he would return from his Siler City trips and then visit about the county with other preachers and “dry” leaders in order to enlist more votes against legal sales. Community Clean-Up» Paint-Up, Fresh-Up Week Starts Monday Chamber, Town, School, Churches ROTARY CHIEF All Cooperate Gappy Winkelman Chosen To Train For US Equestrian Team—Maybe Olympics The Southern Pines Rotary club will be host today (Friday) to Cur tis Smithdeal, above, governor of the 281st district of Rotary Inter national, who is making his an nual official visit to each of the district’s 32 clubs. He will confer with President E. J. Austin and other local Ro tary officers on the club’s admin istration and service activities. He is president of the real es tate firm of Curtis Smithdeal, Inc., [nigh Point, and a past president of the High Point Rotary club. Will Be Kickoff For Fall Season Dwight W. (Cappy) Winkelman, Jr., teen-age son of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Winkelman of Southern Pines,, was adjudged first of four top place winners in a special equitation contest held at the Warrenton CVa.) Horse show Sun day, September 3, and will go to Indiantown Gap, Pa., liext Wed- inesday to start a month’s train- |ing with winners of similar con tests from all over the country. Scout Camporee At Pinebluff Lake This Weekend N. C. Democratic Leaders Prepare For Fall Campaign The third annual camporee for Boy Scouts of Moore county will be held at the new Pinebluff lake and recreation park today (Fri day), Saturday and Sunday. A full routine of outdoor camping has been scheduled, according to Leon Wylie of Pinebluff, district camping and activities chairman. This will be the first time the camporee has been held as the opening event of the fall program, rather than the climax of the pro gram at the end of May. Several other innovations will feature the event. One will be a special in struction course in marksmanship and firearms safety, to be given by a representative of the Rem ington Arms company. Other outdoor activities will include swimming, cooking, camp making and crafts. The first fall Court of Honor will .be held Saturday night, as part of the camporee. Scout Bus ter Keith of Pinebluff will receive his Eagle badge at this time, ac cording to announcement made this week by Voit Gilmore of (Continued on Page 8) From the group will be selceted a team of topflight riders to rep resent the United States in forth coming international corapeti tions, possibly culminating with the Olympic Games in 1952. Cappy will be the only North Carolina rider in the training group. He was entered by Mrs. W. O. Moss of Southern Pines, one of two North Carolina mem bers of the International Eques trian Competitions committee for Zone 4, composed of North and Sbuth Carolirta, Virginia, West Virginia and the District.of Col umbia. Set up to select a team to main tain the American tradition in the international contests, the volun teer International Equestrian Competitions, Inc., this summer divided the country into 10 zones, with judges in each state to help select candidates. In Zone 4, the Warrenton Horse show was chos en for the holding of the equita tion contest, to yield winners for special training. With 22 entries from Zone 4, Cappy won easily over them all. If he comes through the arduous training period as well as he did the initial event, he will join the team which will give this coun- try representation in international competition for the first time in a number of years. They will first meet teams from other countries at the Pennsylvania Horse show late in the fall, then in swift sue cession will compete at Harris burg,, Madison Square Garden and Toronto. Next year will bring further op portunities fot the upholding of Old Glory in the horse show ring —all looking toward the grand climax, if the international pic ture clears two years, hence: the Prize of Nations, Three-Day Event (Continued on Page 8) Blue and White Opener Wednesday vs. West End The Southern Pines High School football schedule was announced by Coach Dawson this week as follows;; September 20, West End here, 4 p. mi,; 29. Troy there. October 4, Carthage here, 3:30; 11. Aberdeen there; 18. Pinehurst here, 3:30; 25, Rob bins here, 3:30. November 1. Red Springs here, 3:30 (Homecoming Day game): 10, Badin there. Group playoffs will be held November 10, the district championship November 17, Eastern Conference cham pionship November 23 and State Championship Novem ber 30. Season and single tidkets are being sold to the home games, with the season tickets representing a saving for the series of five. Meeting West End here at Mem orial field Wednesday afternoon. Southern Pines will kick off their local grid season to begin defense of their six-man football, state title. (Continued on Page 8) Home Economics Teacher Arrives At Long Last “Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix- Up” week—a “week” of 12 working days which will bring benefits to the whole community— will be sponsor ed by the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce start ing Monday, September 18, and continuing through Sat urday, September 30. Colorful posters are being placed through the town to act as reminders to all •'isi- nessmen and householders that this is the face-lifting, cleaning - up, pitching - out-of trash time of year for their establishments, residences and grounds. The cooperation of the Town has been secured, as last year, in the removal of all trash, no matter what kind and how big the piles are. If your containers won’t hold the stuff, that doesn’t matter dur ing “Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up” week. Just put it out front—^the truck will get it. It is requested, however, that this be done on the regu lar garbage dollection days if possible, so the truck can check every place by maldng its regular rounds. In the case of an unusual amount, a phone call to the city office will assure that the truck will come by. Also, said Harry Fullenwi- der. Chamber of Commerce president, citizens are asked not to put off their cleaning- up and trash-putting-out till Saturday. As the collectors work only until noon on that day, an unusual amount of work might result in the leav ing of some trash over Sun day. The Chamber is cooperating ty Council in urging that this period be employed for the elim ination of household hazards, and for the making of repairs in both homes and business places that will make for greater safety for adults and children. The Southern Pines school is also cooperating, it was reported by A. C. Dawson, Jr., a Chamber of- Commerce director and school faculty member. He said that high school students will give the grounds a good cleaning-up, and that the buildings also will have a thorough going over. Some of the suggestions of improvements needed at the (Continued on Page 5) Mayor’s Proclamation Here is a real “personality picture” of four of the state’s Big Wheels in the Democratic party pub- Ushed here bv courtesy of the Raleigh News and Observer. Seated at the typewriter, center, m typical g" neri A».n.bly ,epr-e„Mve, Ab.rd„„ Pubb.her H CUm„ Blue N. C P«ty secre- tary. Standing are, from left, Senator-Nominee Willis Smith, N. C. Party Chairman Everett Jordan of Saxapahaw and National Committeeman Jonathan Daniels. • i .u o- The picture was made on the opening Monday of the state party headquarters at the Sir Walter at Raleigh, to work in the fall campaign. Chairman Jordan sounded a call for unity of all Democrats in the election November 7, and the winning back of counties which had “slipped over into the Republican column.” WHEREAS, the general health and -welfare of our citizens depend on wholesome surroundings arising from good clean living conditions, and WHEREAS, the lives and property of our people are endangered by cluttered conditions in homes, business places, alleys and streets, inviting fire and other disaster, WHEREAS, our community more than most others has a tradition of beauty and neatness, and the charm which arises from the loving safeguarding of these prec ious characteristics, THEREFORE, I, C. N. PAGE, MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF SOUTHERN PINES, do hereby designate the period September 18-30 as the official annual “Clean-Up, ' Paint-Up, Fix-Up” week, and call upon all ^citizens, adults, and children, also all departments of the city, civic or ganizations, clubs and others to cooperate with the South ern Pines Chamber of Commerce in taking an active part in insuring its success. This, the 15th Day of September, 1950. « C. N. PAGE Mayor of Southern Pines Success in securing a vocational home economics teacher for the Southern Pines High school, after several years of effort, was an nounced this week by Supt. P. J. Weaver. Miss Lillian Rosenberger, a 1950 home economics graduate of Woman’s college, Greensboro, ar rived Monday and is already at work, with about 25 girls as pu pils.' Miss Rosenberger is from Lynchburg, Va. She comes highly recommended. A temporary classroom in the high school building has been set aside for the course, which will emphasize sewing and textiles during the first half year. When the two new elementary class rooms now being built are com pleted, first and second grades now using the home economics cottage will be moved into them and Miss Rosenberger and her pupils will move into the cottage, which was built several years ago but has never been used for its original purpose. In the mean- (Continued on Page 5) GEN. MARSHALL It looks as though once again Gen. George C. Mar shall has a busy lime ahead, which will probably cut into his relaxing - time at his Pinehurst winter home in the months ahead. His appointment Monday by President Truman as Sec retary of Defense, following the resignation of Louis Johnson, was a new testit- monial to the unabating es teem in which our beloved neighbor is held. The wave of approval of the appointment reported by press dispatches was matched in the Sandhills, where gen eral rejoicing was in the air. The approval came from Washington and also from the Korean front, where it was said to have caused a tremen dous anidl instantaneous lift in morale. His friends in the Sandhills offer General Marshall their most deeply-felt good wishes for the arduous days ahead— hoping the job may not be too long and that he may be able, some day, to enjoy his long- anticipated rest and retire ment.

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