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UNITED NATIONS
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OCTOBER 24
UNITED NATIONS
DAY
OCTOBER 24
VOL, 31—NO. 48
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1950
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Moore County New Car Dealers Get Together
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Deer Hunting Season Opens
The above picture of Moore County new car dealers was takefi following a meeting to plan the ob
servance of National Automobile Dealer Week, October 22-28. Pictured left to right^ are; front row,
Chan N, Page, Southern Pines; R. S. Gwyn, Aberdeen; W. S. Taylor, Aberdeen; F. H. Brown, Aberdeen;
T. Roy Phillips, Carthage; Haynes Britt, Carthage and Pinehurst. Back row, standing; Donald Wellman,
Southern Pines’; A- A.. Hewlett, Southern Pines; Thomas L. Black, Pinehurst; Newland Phillips, Car
thage; E. Nolley Jackson, Southern Pines; R. C. Zimmerman, Aberdeen, and Herbert N. Cameron, South
ern Pines. L. H. Cherry of the Cherry Motor Sales here was represented in the picture by Mr. Wellman.
Hoit Caddell of the Kaiser-Frazer agency was unable to attend the meeting. (Photo by Henry H. Turner)
The huntsmen were out in full
force this week, as the season op
ened Monday for hunting deer,
coon, ’possum and squirrel.
The deer hunting season, which
annually brings many out-of-the-
county and out-of-state hunt par
ties to the Sandhills, will be open
until December 2 in Moore, Hoke,
Lee, Harnett, Scotland and Rich
mond counties. It will then re
open briefly December 18, to
close again January 1.
Indications are that the season
will be one of the best in years.
Deer are reported to be plentiful.
considerable success, while a num
ber have already bagged their
limit.
Game Protector Woodrow W.
McDonald this week reminded
hunters that the bag limits must
be strictly observed—daily take,
one deer; in possesion ' at any
time, one; season limit, two. Only
male deer with visible antlers may
be taken.
For coon and ’possum ,the sea
son will be open until February
15. There are no bag limits.
The squirrel hunting season will
last until January 1. Bag limits
are, daily, eight; in possession, 16;
Visiting parties have already had season, 100.
Two Workers Are
Instantly Killed
In Mine Disaster
Town Gives Land
To National Guard
For Building Site
County Fair Opens
At Carthage Monday
W ith Full Program
FOR STATE ALUMNI
Improved Stock
Show, Two Tents
Exhibits Planned
Carolinas Golf
At Pinehurst
Saturday, Sunday
Moore Car Dealers Unite In National
Observance, Express Pride In Wares
The Carolinas’ State champion
ship golf matches between the
state golf teams of' North and
South Carolina, sponsored by the
Carolinas Golf Association, will
be held in Pinehurst on the cham
pionship No. 2 course Saturday
arid Sunday.
The competition will consist of
two separate 18-hole matches, the
first round matches to be played
on Saturday afternoon and the
second on Sunday afternoon. The
state whose team wins the highest
combined total number of points
for the two matches will be the
winning team.
Each state’s team will be repre
sented by 20 top amateur golfers.
Play will be in four-ball matches,
with two players on the North
Carolina team playing against
two players from the South Car
olina team in best ball matches
as well as individual matches.
Team scoring will be on the reg
ular three point Nassau basis for
each match.
The players invited to play on
the two state teams have been
selected by the Carolinas Golf as
sociation, taking into considera
tion each player’s state handicap
as well as his record in past tour
naments in which he has partici
pated.
Golfers on the North Carolina
State team who have already ac
cepted an invitation to play are;
Harvie’ Ward, Jr., Tarboro; Rich
ard D. Chapman, Pinehurst; Wil
liam J. Patton, Morganton; C.
Brook Wallace, Jr., Pinehurst;
Erwin L. Laxton, Charlotte; Ed-
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Moore Civic Clubs
Unite For Meeting
Here Tonight
Automobile Seen
As Great Factor
In Nation's Progress
Kiwanians. Roiarians, Lions
and Jaycees of Moore coun
ty—some 500 members of 12
different service clubs—will
gather tonight (Friday) at 6
o'clock at the Southern Pines
school cafeteria for their first
joint dinner meeting and pro
gram.
A choice of barbecue or
chicken dinner will be served
to the guests attending from
almost all Moore County
towns. For all the clubs, the
meeting will supplant their
usual program this week.
Garland McPherson of
Southern Pines is chairman
for the event, with Jack ,
Smith of Aberdeen as enter
tainment chairman. George T.
Penny, of Greensboro, will
make the main address in
light vein, and music and oth
er enteriairimient features are
scheduled.
An all-Southern Pines enter
tainment program has been an
nounced by Chairman Smith to
precede Mr. Penny’s speech. It
will present music,by the South
ern Pines school glee club in its
first public appearance of the
year, directed by Miss Barbara
Young; vocal solo, Mrs. Dorothy
Choate, accompanied at the piano
by Mrs. Mary Baxter; dance exhi
bition, Mrs. Boyd Starnes; solo,
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Moore County car dealers are
planning to observe October 22-
28 inclusive in recognition of Na
tional Automobile Week.
“Moore County new car deal
ers are planning their observance
in appreciation of past patronage
and to spotlight the many ways
in which they and the automo
tive industry, which they repre
sent here, are contributing to the
progress and prosperity of the
country,” F. H. Brown, chairman
of the Mbore County Automobile
Dealer Week Committee, an
nounced.
“As local businessmen, we real
ize that we can prosper only as
our county and the trade area we
serve grow and prosper. We want
our fellow citizens to know that
we appreciate their patronage and
shall continually strive to merit
thfeir good will and to be of serv
ice to our city. Naturally, we are
proud of our new models, our
modern facilities, equipment,
parts and accessories, which en
able us to provide local car and
truck owners with the best prod
ucts and services on the market
today.
“One of the main objectives of
the community wide program will
be to make residents throughout
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Southern Pines - Pinehurst 36-14
Sudden tragedy struck Monday
afternoon at the bottom of the
300-foot shaft of the Standard
Mineral Company pyrophillite
mine near Robbins, as a mine car
loaded with machinery toppled
over on two workers, crushing
them to death.
The dead are Eugene Brantly
Purvis, 32, and Cox Hussey, mine
foreman, 44, both residents of the
mine area.
Coroner Hugh P. Kelly visited
the scene Tuesday morning in in
vestigating the deaths of the two
men. He deemed an inquest un
necessary but said he will ques
tion all witnesses fully in an en
deavor to fix the blame.
Car Overbcilanced
Albert Boone and Elmer Davis,
employees of the mining firm,
who were in the shaft at the time,
said (that the tragedy occurred
soon after blasting had been done
to lengthen the mine shaft. The
crew had taken a 900-pound jaw
toothed shovel down to remove
the debris. They were unable to
use the shovel and had reloaded
it on the skip car to bring it back
up to the surface.
The weight of the shovel over
balanced the car and as it started
up the 70-foot incline it jumped
the track, falling back and over on
the two men. They were said to
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Walker Appointed
Building Inspector;
Arey Ineligible
Rotarians Seek
Prizes For All At
Halloween Event
Southern Pines virtually clinch
ed the Eastern Class A Group 3,
District 4 conference berth by
eliminating Pinehurst in a thrill-
to
downs on passes from Stuart
Poe to put the game on ice.
It was the stout line play of the
Blup and White forwards, throt-
ingly played six-man grid gameitling the Villagers’ running at-
here at Memorial field Wednes
day afternoon. Score was 36-14.
It was anybody’s game until
midway of the fourth period.
tack, that occasioned Pinehurst’s
downfall. And it was this same
line with hard line and downfield
blocking which paved the way for
Southern Pines led at the first Stuart and Poe on the touchdown
quarter 8 to 0 and shortly after
the second period began, Pine
hurst scored but failed to convert
and the score was 8 to 6 at half
time.
Southern Pines scored twice in
the third period to lead 22 to 6
as the fourth quarter began. Pine
hurst jumped right back into the
game on Morgan’s touchdown and
McKenzie'*s conversion to make
the score 22 to 14. But Southern
Pines scored two quick tourih-
FOOTBALL
Wednesday—Southern Pines
TS. Robbins, 3:30 p. m. South
ern Pines Memorial field.
runs.
Ironically, tailbacks of both
teams, Dicky Kelly; Pinehurst’s
brilliant triple threat, and Rich
ard Newton, Southern Pines’ chief
offensive back, were slowed down
by injuries. Newton left the game
in the second period, and Kelly
could be used only sparingly.
Kelly had fractured a small
bone in his right hand in the Car-
Get out your costumes, kids-
Halloween is just 10 days off, and
the Rotarians are planning a fes
tival of the first order for the
night of Tuesday, October 31.
The witches and goblins, fairies
and elves will be out in full force,
for the big costume parade and all
the fun which will follow.
More prizes for more people
will be a principal aid, said Harry
Fullenwider, Rotary chairman for
for the festival. All merchants are
being asked to donate either cash
or small prizes for contests. These
may be left at Mr. Fulenwider’s
office next week.
Garland Pierce is chairman of
this committee, he said, but will
be out of town during the week.
Herbert Cameron and Bob Dutton
are also on the committee, work-
thage game, and Newton was in-|ing to secure “hundreds of prizes
jured late in the second period of for hundreds of kids.”
Wednesday’s game and appeared I Some of the prizes will be for
afterward only for conversion at-mne contest which is already un
tempts after touchdowns.
Pinehurst was not as good a
team playing without Kelly, but
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der way—guessing the pieces of
candy in the big candy jar. Only
this year Jt is three jars, one in the
window of each local drugstore, tor.
Everett V. Walker has been ap
pointed city building inspector,
replacing J. D. Arey, who was
found ineligible for the post, ac
cording to information received
from Mayor C. N. Page tb,is week.
Mr. Arey lives outside the city
limits and cannot hold city office
for this reason, it was found. The
position of building inspector
comes under the same regulations
of the Local Government Commis
sion as that of police officer or
others named to enforce municipal
laws.
Mr. Arey’s appointment was
made at the September meeting
of the town board and he was to
have taken up his duties October
1. However, he had not begun on
them officially by the time the
matter of his eligibility came up,
so Mr. Walker is in all effects
Southern Pines’ first building in
spector on practically a full-time
basis.
He has been accorded office
space on the second floor of the
city-owned building occupied by
the ABC store. He will be at this
office from 3 to 4 p.m. every Mon
day, Tuesday, Thursday and Fri
day and at other times can be
reached at his home, 210 South
Bennett street.
He will grant building permits
as approved by the town board,
and collect the fees therefor ac
cording to a new sliding scale
adopted by the commissioners in
September; he will see that local
building regulations and zoning
laws are enforced, and also make
regular inspections of buildings
under construction to see that
they live up to all provisions of
the N. C. Building code. The in
spections will be for plumbing as
well as for general construction.
Electrical inspection will con
tinue to be in the hands of W. H.
Mumford, ^city electrical inspec-
A 9,000-square foot tract of land
on the old Southern Pines-Pine-
hurst road has been granted by
the town to the Moore Counj;y
battery of the N. C. National
Guard, according to an announce
ment by Mayor C. N. Page.
The site was approved by Col.
John W. Foreman of the NCNG
headquarters at Raleigh while on
a visit here last week. Colonel
Foreman said construction should
start very soon on the battery’s
first building, a large motor gar
age which will also serve as drill
hall and storage space until the
hoped-for A;:mory can be built.
A state engineer came this
week to make preliminary sur
veys and to stake out the garage
site and parking area.
The tract, which is 300 feet
square, lies between the athletic
field and the town horse show
ring, and is formed partly from
the area developed by a local
group several years ago for horse
shows and the annual hunter
trials. This particular portion,
however, had not been put in u^
and was designed mainly to a(r
commodate overflow crowds.
Parking Space
Staff Sgt. Lennox Forsyth, bat
tery administrative officer, said
it could continue to be used in
this way if needed, as it has been
designated as a parking area. The
area and in fact, the whole bat
tery plant can be used at all times
by the horse show crowds, and for
other community purposes which
do not conflict with Guard activ
ities, he reported.
Mayor C. N. Page said that an
advance consultation was held
with representatives of the Sand
hills Horse Show and Racing as
sociation and agreement was
reached that no conflict would be
' (Continued on page 8)
“POP” TAYLOR
H. W. (Pop) Taylor, executive
director of the N. C. State College
General Alumni association, will
be the principal speaker at the
annual meeting of the Moore
County State College club which
will be held at the West End High
school at 7 ;30 p. m., Wednesday.
This will be a dinner meeting,
to which the alumni are being
asked to bring their wives.
“Pop” Taylor will speak on the
building program and other pro
gressive changes at State, and will
show a, technicolor movie, with
sound, displaying work done by
and centering in and around State
college during a 12-month period.
John M. Currie, of Carthage, is
president of the Moore County
State College club and will pre
side at the meeting. C. C. Linger-
felt, of Carthage, is secretary.
Moore County
Freedom Crusade
Serolls Are Filled
$5,000 Is Goal
To Aid Boy Scout
County Program
Crusade for Freedom scrolls
containing hundreds of signatures
of Moore county citizens are being
gathered up this week from the
various county communities by
Arch Coleman, of Southern Pines,
county chairman for the Crusade,
who will send them to Charlotte
to be speeded on their way to
Berlin.
There, they will be placed with
other scrolls from all over the
country in the base of the “Free
dom Bell” which, in its beautiful
Freedom Shrine now being con
structed, will be dedicated to the
cause of democracy throughout
the world—in Europe in particu
lar.
Mrs. Louise Clarke, Southern
Pines chairman, said that all
scrolls allotted to this community
were filled without difficulty by
persons anxious to do their part
toward piercing the Iron Curtain
with the bell peals of freedom. A
considerable amount of cash was
also donated, to assist with the
work of Radio Free Europe, which
broadcasts to the people living in
totalitarian lands.
Assisting her this week in secur
ing the signatures were Mrs. Leon
Seymour, Mrs. Frank de Costa,
Mrs. E. C. Stevens, Mrs. Ray Mc
Mullen, Mrs. June Phillips, Mrs.
Ralph Chandler, Jr., Mrs. J. W.
Willcox, Mrs. Page Choate, Miss
Barbara Betterly and the Rev. C.
V. Coveil.
Community leaders and repre
sentatives of civic organizations
who will assist in the Boy Scout
fund drive next week met at the
Carthage hotel Monday night to
plan for this countywide project
to raise a quota of $5,000 during
the week October 23-28.
N. L. Hodgkins, district finance
chairman heading the county
drive, reported an enthusiastic re
sponse from those at the meeting.
They felt the Boy Scout program
in Moore has reached such a stage
of success, and has such excellent
coverage and acceptance in Moore
county, that practically every cit-
i?en will gladly do his part.
Tentative quotas were set for
each community, in which the
campaign leadership has been des
ignated—- as follows: Aberdeen,
Pinebluff, Robbins, Vass, West
End, the Lions clubs (actual chair
men to be appointed in each);
Pinehurst, Community church and
Lions club; Carthage, Rotary club;
Cameron, L. B. McKeithen;
Southern Pines, N. L. Hodgkins
and E. C. Stevens.
Each Will Do Share
Each organization and chairman
will work out his own campaign,
planning with a drive committee
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Penn Premier Shows
On Midway Again
It’s Fair Time in Moore
county next week, as begin
ning Monday night and con
tinuing through Saturday the
third annual Moore County
Agricultural fair will be held
on the spacious fairgrounds on
the Carthage-Sanford road,
just a mile or two beyond the
county seat.
Premium books sent out by
the sponsoring Carthage Jay
cees promise bigger and better
prizes in far more classifica
tions than before, indicating
that exhibits will be the best
in the fair’s history. There
will be two exhibit tents in
stead of one, and numerous
other improvements are being
made, to give Moor6 one of the
finest county fairs to be held
in the section.
The Penn Premier shows again
have the midway concession, with
games for children and adults,
“rides,” sideshows and a thousand
bright lights to make the fair a
sparkling sight at night.
Jaycee committees have work
ed hard with agricultural agencies
to see that the fair fulfills its true
function, that of displaying the
best of the year’s work of the
farmer and his household. Organ
izations, industries and business
firms have also taken exhibit
space, to present a varied pano
rama of activities in Moore.
Miss Flora McDonald and E. H.
Garrison ,Jr., home and farm dem
onstration agents, and their assist
ants have worked closely with the
Jaycees and with the rural people
of the county to assure a repre
sentative group of displays.
Stock Show
Special emphasis has been plac
ed on the stock show, which was
last year somewhat neglected in
favor of other types of entries,
and reports are that some splen
did specimens will be on display.
The deadline for entries in all
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CASUALTIES HERE
More than 100 casualties of
the war in Korea have currived
by air at the Station hospital
at Fort Bragg during the past
two weeks, and more are com
ing in all the time, it was
learned this week.
They include men of all
ranks, officers and enlisted
men. The casualties are not
all battle wounded.' They in
clude men injured by other
causes, cases of illness and al-
^o of battle fatigue.
Most of them are men from
North Carolina and other
southern states, as in general
the authorities try to place a
man where his family can
most easily visit him. How
ever. the destination of the
patients is also determined by
the availability of beds and
the type of casualty.
United Nations Flags Will Fly
Some unusual and beautiful i The flags will be flown by each
blue and white flags will be flying'club on some public building of
in Moore county next Tuesday-
its community.
Civic clubs have been asked to
hold United Nations programs
"rhese are official flags of the, during the coming week, and pas-
United Nations day.
United Nations, made by women
of the county’s home demonstra
tion clubs as part of a statewide
study program on the United Na
tions. Four-H clubs and other ru
ral organizations • have also held
study programs, led by State Col
lege extension agents, to secure
complete rural coverage.
Miss Flora McDonald, county
home demonstration agent, said
that almost every club has made
its flag, passing the flags from
member, to member so that each
one could do part of the work in
true cooperative spirit.
tors will speak 'Sunday on this
great international project for
peace and understanding.
Commenting on the flag-making
effort. Federal Extension Director
M.‘ L. Wilson said: “The war in
Korea is a United Nations war.
The United Nations flag is flying
beside our flag and the flags of
other countries. It stands for a
great hope as our flag did in Betsy
Ross’ time. People who help make
and fly United Nations flags will
be doing a patriotic service as well
as widening their understanding
of the present march of events.”