lup And White,
lorehead City
leet Here Tonight
historic Basketball
Battles Are On
Friday, Saturday
Morehead City high school bas
eball teams, accompanied by
eir colorful coach, Gannon Tai
nt, are here for games Friday
might) and Saturday night with
e Blue and White Varsity and
lyvee teams.
There is some question who is
e gresiter favorite of Southern
tnes basketball fans. Coach Tal-
;rt or his fast-breaking, red-
lirted teams.
It is the fifth annual appearance
;re for the ocean city resort
■nm, continuing a keen rivalry
jtween the two schools which
egan in Chapel HiU in 1946. Be-
ind this rivalry is a story that
ives an insight to Coach Tal-
ert’s tremendous popularity with
court fans. ,•
Five years ago, after a shaky
art, the Southern Pines basket-
all team made a victorious come-
ack that wound up in a playoff
t Chapel HiU with Mfirehead
Ity, for the Eastern Conference
tie.
Confounding their most opti-
liatic supporters, the Blue and
IThite shackled the fast-breaking
ffense of the coastal resort team,
nd went on to take the cham-
.ionship from their powerful ri-
It's "Happy New Year" for
the Chamber of Commerce
which moved this week to
new headquarters in the Sun
rise Theatre building, oppo
site the Seaboard passenger
station.
Mrs. Donald Scheipers, sec
retary, has been on duty there
since the reopening of the of
fice Tuesday, following the
New Year holiday. The tele
phone has been moved and
has the same number as be
fore—8932.
-.aFumishings are somewhat
scanty as yet, and Arch F.
u Coleman, president, was go
ing around this week trying
to rustle up some more, to be
acquired through loan, gift or
purchase. He asks, however,
that members not wsul to caU
by, but to drop in any time
to inspect their attractive
.office.
National Guard
Building Okayed;
Bids Are Sought
More counfounded than anyone
resent was ebuUient Coach Tal-
>rt, flamboyant wearer of daz
ing cravats which make the tra-
itional Christmas gift neckties
lie by comparison.
Immediately following the game,
se Morehead City mentor came
irer to the Southern Pines bench
nd barked at Coach Dawson:
Can’t do it again!”
“Can,” said Dawson. "Sit
own.”
And from this coaches’ confer-
-oe on the players’ bench at
awyel HiU' began a brilliant
orre-and-home basketbaU series
rhich has highUghted the winter
ports season of both resort
chools ever since.
Southern Pines has won eight
ut of the 15 games played, and
U but one have been close, with
wo extra period games. The
forehead City Jayvees have an
dge in wins over the local Jay-
■ee team, however.
The high school band will en-
srtain between halves. Tip-off
ayvee game, 7:30 p. m. —JAP
loliday Was Quiet
lere; Business,
hisses IKesime*
Bids are being sought up to
January 30 for construction of a
building for the Moore County
battery, N. C. National Guard, fol
lowing approval of the local plans
by state and Army authorities.
Following the opening of the
bids by Lieut. Col. M. H. Austell,
U. S. property and disbtusing of
ficer at Raleigh, contracts will be
let and construction should begin
at once on the property given by
the Town on the Old Southern
Pines-Pinehurst road,
The building, designed primari
ly for motor vehicle storage will
also serve as a drill hall until such
time as an armory can/be built.
There is ample space for both on
the wide tract of land.;
Once the battery is in its own
home, its leaders say,/the “lid will
be off” on enlistments. These have
had to be held do^^ on account
of the lack of ,/present space,
though many applications contin
ue to be received.
A half dozen inembers were re
cently added to /take the place of
members who 1^'ave gone into oth
er branches of active service.
These were arihounced by Admin
istrative O^icer Staff Sgt. Len
nox Forsyth as follows: Kermit
Green, William Green, Leon Wil
liams, of r^agle Springs; James
Marks, Aberdeen, and Cran
ford G^ner, Manly, all recruits;
also rac. Robert Campbell of
Abdrdien, a transfer from a
South/Carolina unit.
Thdse bring the strength of the
batt^y to 51 including two offi
cers
Qerk, Register
Ask Restoration
Of Fee System
Whiskey Cleanup Goes On; 14 Arrested
In Moore And Neighboring Counties
Lee, Montgomery, Harnett And Hoke
Negro Farmers Ask
Commis^oners For
Farm, Home Agents
NEW YEAR BABY
. The classically beautiful spire, just completed last
'year, of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian church stands
as a symbol of the way our thoughts and hearts ttim at
this New Year of 1951.
The gentle music of the church bells answers om:
questions, doubts and fears with a call to prayCT. One his
tory-making half-century ends; another begins—^it is a
solemn moment. Whatever may come, let us be together
in this, our prayer, for peace, and the safety of those we
love.
Series of Accidents Mars Holidays;
11 Receive Injuries of Varying Degree
No action was taken by the
county commissioners Monday on
a suggestion that the clerk of
court and register of deeds offices
which were placed on a salary ba
sis December 4, be returned to the
fee system on which they had for
merly been operated.
The suggestion was made to the
commissioners by Carlton Kenne
dy, clerk of court, and Mrs. Bessie
Griffin, register of deeds, both of
whom were elected to the offices
in November and began their ser
vice with the county December 4.
Both Mr. Kennedy and Mrs. Grif
fin, who is clerk to the board of
commissioners, stated their views
on the matter Monday.
It is not within the power of the
commissioners to change the sal
ary system back to a fee system.
This must be done by the state’s
general assembly. It was an act
of the 1943 General Assembly,
amended in the 1945 session, that
originated the change going into
effect last month. However, the
two county officials were ready to
go on record with their opinions
of the salary system, and to start
efforts to revise the new system
by bringing the matter before the
county board.
'T^ Trial" Desired
If efforts to change the system
are made in this year’s General
Assembly, it is likely that such ef
forts would start with a resolution
by the commissioners asking for a
change. No such resolution was
forthcoming Monday, however,
and the board appeared cool to the
suggestion, with no dissent offered
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Moore county's first baby
of the New Year and the new
half century arrived just two
minutes past midnight Sun
day—a bouncing boy. weigh
ing eight pounds seven
ounces, bom to Mr: and Mrs.
Willie Earle Prince of Aber
deen.
The new little Prince (not
immediately named) was
born at St. Joseph of the
Pines hospital. At last report,
mother and baby were doing
fine.
Duke Organist
Will Give Recital
Thursday Evening
ABC, ATU Officers
Say They Believe
Job Is About Done
One "Big Shot" Taken;
Others "Small Potatoes"
A recital by Mildred L. Hen
drix, Duke University organist
and organ instructor, will be pre
sented at Emmanuel Episcopal
church Thursday evening, Janu
ary 11, at 8:15 o’clock, sporisored
by the St. Anne’s Guild of the
church. It is open to the public.
This win be a return engage
ment of this well-known artist.
Mrs. Hendrix gave a concert here
last February, also imder sponsor
ship of the Guild, which was en
joyed by a large and appreciative
audience.
ON jLIBRARY BOARD
dwanis Officers
kre Installed
ae business year 1951 got un-
yay here Tuesday morning
gneral New Year holiday,
^escribed the holiday
quiet one, as had
ras weekend im-
few fire-
|ng signal-
century’s
le, all was
schools re
bday, and in
district on
the Southern
fa new teach-
vson of Cra-
fes Miss Eddie
rd, S. C. Miss
It the start of
Ber to be mar-
, Officers of the Sandhills Ki-1
v.'anis club for 1951 were installed 1
at ‘the luncheon meeting held
Wednesday at the Hollywood ho
tel, with J. O. Talley of Fayette
ville, lieutenant governor of the
jPoiArth division, Carolinas dis
trict, as presiding official.
Taking office were Lewie L.
TTallTTian, of Aberdeen, president;
Dr. P. J. Chester, Southern Pines,
vice president, and John Howarth,
Southern Pines, secretary-treas
urer; also directors B. U. Richard
son, Pinehurst; R. F. Hoke Pol
lock, Southern Pines; J. Vance
Rowe, Aberdeen; Harold A. Col
lins, Southern Pines; M. C. Mc
Donald, West End; T. Roy Phil
lips, Carthage, and John F. Tay
lor, Pinehurst.
Mrs. L. T. Avery, of Soulh-
em Pines, was appoinled lo
membership on the Moore
County library board, by the
county commissioners in ses
sion at Carthage Tuesday.
Mrs. Avery succeeds A. B.
Yeomans of Southern Pines,
who recently resigned from
the board on account of ill
health.
Mr. Yeomans served as
chairman from the time the
board was organised until
about three months ago,
when Stuart Evans, of Rob
bins, was named acting chair
man in his place. Other mem
bers of the library board are
Mrs. J. L. McGraw. Carthage:
MTS. Jack Phillips. Cameron:
Archie Kelly. Eagle Springs:
and Mrs. Alma Edwards, Hal-
lison.
Damage To Cars
Runs Inlo
High Figures
Legionnaires Ask
Aid In Tonight’s
Hospital Mission
Her program for next week will
include both secular and religious
music, as last year. For interest
and variety Mrs. Hendrix goes
back to composers of the 17th,
18th and 19th centuries, of whose
work she has a wide repertoire.
She has been Duke’s official or
ganist for seven years, and is well
known through her recitals given
the first Sunday of each month at
the Duke chapel. She has given
concerts in numerous North Caro
lina cities.
Several accidents marred the
holidays in this vicinity, according
to reports of the State Highway
Patrol. A total of 11 people re
ceived injuries, though none re
mained in local hospitals more
than a day or two. Nine cars
were damaged, most of them to
the extent of several hundred dol
lars.
Besides the accident in which
the Faw children were hurt (see
story elsewhere in this issue),
there was another on Christmas
Eve, occurring about 1:40 a.m., on
NC 211 near Abeirdeen, when a
’37 Chevrolet, driven by Carlie
McRae, Negro, of Aberdeen, was
struck by a ’48 Plymouth owned
by Raymond Barber, driven by
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Tonight—“Old Christmas” to
the Scotch—^the Sandhill post,
American Legion, will send a
group of local talent to entertain
the patients at the Station hospi
tal, at Fort Bragg, casualties of the
warfare in Korea.
The Legionnaires are desirous
of taking along cigarettes and
other small items as gifts for the
men, and ask that cigarettes and
cash be contributed by citizens
whose hearts are with them on
this mission.
An appeal made just before
Christmas brought forth one con
tribution, just one dollar, they re
vealed—ancf this won’t buy many
cigcirettes.
Additions to the Veterans Cheer
Fund of the Legion post, also cig
arettes, may be left at any drug
store in town before 4 p.m., today.
A music graduate of Woman’s
college, Greensboro, she studied
under leading organ and piano
teachers of Philadelphia and New
York City. In New York, she did
graduate work in organ under
Clarence Dickinson, of the Brick
Presbyterian church, and David
McK. Williams of St. Bartholo-
Wallace Will Give
Hagic Show Here
New lions Clubs of Southern Pines,
Cameron, Plan For “Charter Nights”
j June graduate
^f North Caro-
lice teaching at
■two classrooms
■he elementary
vard well, and
weather con-
eady by Ea.rter,
Weaver. Con-
! West Southern
due to break
I now and may be
]fek. Only the gm-
_ been let. with
Png and electrical
i next summer if
ble.
To Garland McPherson, South
ern Pines, retiring president.
Lieutenant Governor Talley pre
sented a past president’s button
and certificate of service. A ris
ing vote of thanks by aU the
members expressed appreciation
of the club for the work done by
all outgoing officers during the
past year.
In accepting the presidential of
fice of the countywide organize
tion, Mr. Hallman gave stress to
the 1951 theme of Kiwanis Inter
national, “Freedom is Not Free,’
'’■nd reemphasized the Kiwanis ob
jectives of service, unity and
brotherhood. In working toward
national and international broth
erhood and peace, he said, the
first steps should be made at
home, with unity in Moore as a
primkl goal
Wallace, the Magician, will give
a performance at the school audi
torium next Friday evening, Jan
uary 12, at 8 o’clock under spon
sorship of the Southern Pines
Civic club.
This is the first full-length pro
fessional magic show to be seen
here in some years, and the first
opportunity the Civic club has had
to feature a well-known North
Carolina expert in the art of ma
gic.
Wallace paid an outstandingly
successful visit here at one time
in the past. He is now ably as
sisted by his wife, and together
they give a performance which is
said to baffle the most skeptical.
He is said to carry more equip
ment for amazing acts than any
other one-man show in this sec
tion.
Moore Now Has
10 Clubs. Top
Number In State
Draft Tests Given
Last of Moore’s
Availables of 21
mew’s.
Huffman Leaves
For Aberdeen Job;
Chandler To ABC
C. L. Huffman, a member of
the Southern Pines police de
partment since October, 1949,
has become night officer vdth the
Aberdeen police department ef
fective January 1.
The January caU for 65 men,
who went to Fayetteville Wed
nesday for preinduction tests,
completely exhausts Moore comi
ty’s 21-year-old 1-A’s, it was
learned from Mrs. Harry W. Da
vis, county draft board clerk, at
Carthage.
A call has come for 40 men to
be inducted into the Army Janu
ary 22. This call is exactly twice
the size of the previous monthly
“take.” All of these will be men
who were examined in the fall.
All are 22 years old, except for
two who are 21. The rest of the
21-year-olds have either been ex
amined or will be this month
after which the 20-ye:)r-olds will
be going for tests—^theJn those of
19.
The bottom of the barrel is
close. Unless Congress makes
changes in the draft law the 1-A’s
will soon be exhausted. Possibil
ities for more manpower to build
up the armed forces to estimated
requirements appear now only to
be (1) married men, (2) veterans,
(3) the 1-A’s—^re-screened with
physical and mental standard
somewhat relaxed.
Tickets are being sold by all
Civic club members, headed by a
committee composed of Miss
Grace Thwing, Mrs. L. L. Woolley
and Mrs. W. E. Cox, also at the
Stevens Real Estate and Insurance
company office on Broad street.
In Aberdeen, they may be pur
chased from Mis. Neil McKeithen,
and in Pinebluff from Miss Nancy
MiUer.
'The organization of the Cam
eron Lions club last Friday night,
following within a month that of
the Southern Pines Lion club,
gives Moore county 10 Lions
clubs, a number exceeded by no
county in the state and equaled
by only one, it was learned from
Normna Trueblood, of Elizabeth
City, state secretary.
Mr. Trueblood assisted at the
organization meetings of both
groups. The Southern Pines club,
of which W. L. Baker is president,
has about 25 members now and
expects to have between 35 and
40 when its Charter Night is held
later this month. Fred Chappell
is chairman of arrangements for
the Charter Night, which will be
either January 16 or 26. In the
meantime, the charter roster is
being expanded, projects being
studied and supper meetings are
being held each Friday night at
the Village nn.
The local club was sponsored
by that of West End.
The Cameron club started with
about 25 members at a meeting
held with Mr. Trueblood aijd a
committee of the Pinebluff club,
its sponsors. Present from Pine
bluff were the club president, En
tice H. Mills; Manly WeUman,
Douglas David and Leon Wylie.
Officers were elected as follows;
Paul 'Thomas, president; Kent
Harbour, secretary-treasurer; first
vice president, Henry Gilchrist;
I second vice president, Jim Mc
Pherson; third vice president,
Robert Laubscher; tail twister, L.
C. (Buck) McKenzie; lion tamer,
Ralph Wallace; directors, two
years, M. W. Harbour and Truett
Jones; one year, James Graham
and Raymond McKinney.
The Cameron Lions will meet
tonight (Friday) at the Presbyte
rian church, nad thereafter on
the first and third Thursdays of
each month at 7:30 p. m. at the
school cafeteria.
Charter Night has been set for
February 16, with Jim Kelly as
chairman of arrangements.
As with the Southern Pines
club, members joining before the
issuance of the charter will be
rated as charter members.
He succeeds H. V. Chandler,
who accepted the position of as
sistant county ABC law enforce
ment officer, a post which has
been vacant since the resignation
of C. C. McGee two months ago
to go to Randleman as chief of
police.
Officer Huffman has in actual
ity worked two years with the
Southern Pines department, as he
was on MP duty here for a year
before his discharge from the
Army 15 months ago. A native of
Mobile, Ala., he' is married and
has two children, a seven-year-old
son and a little girl of three and
a half. They have been living at
The Homestead heye and expect
to move within the near future to
Aberdeen, where Officer Huffman
will be assistant to Chief Lamar
Smith.
County Boy Scoi
Campaign Ck)al of
$5,000 Is Sighted
Chandler is also a veteran of
Army service. He served with the
infantry in the Pacific theatre in
World War 2, and before and since
that time was in business with his
father in Rockingham. He joined
the Aberdeen police department
in October 1949. He is married,
with two children. They will con
tinue to make their home at Aber
deen.
In his new work, through ap
pointment by the coimty ABC
board, Chandler will serve as as
sistant to C. A. McCallum, of Cai-
thage, ABC law enforcement of
ficer for Moore.
i
ABC and ATU officers contin
ued their round of raids on al
leged illicit whiskey sellers last
Friday night and on into Saturday
morning, arresting 14 persons in
Moore and its neighbor counties
of Lee, Hoke, Harnett and Mont
gomery.
Two white persons and 12 Ne
groes were added to the tally of
nine whites, 27 Negroes arrested
exactly one week earlier in a 24-
hour marathon of raids. “We feel
we have just about cleaned up the
trouble-makers,” said Moore
County ABC Law Enforcement
Officer C. A. McCallum. He add
ed that cooperation with other
law enforcement officers and
agencies to clean up in bordering
areas of other counties, as well as
in Moore itself, made it a far more
•satisfactory job, as the liquor bus- i|
iness went on largely across coun
ty lines.
Added to three cars seized in
the pre-Christmas raids was one
more seized last week. Very lit
tle whiskey was taken, practical
ly all of it “white lightnin’,” said
Officer McCallum. Most of the
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i
Moore county’s quota of $5,000
for the 1950 Boy Scout campaign
was either in hand or in sight by
the first of this year, it was learn
ed from N. L. Hodgkins, who serv
ed as co-chairman, with E. C.,
Stevens, of the coimty campaign.]
Both chairmen expresed theiJ
pleasure in the outcome of th^
campaign which, though it took:
'a little longer, resulted in the
raising of more money than in
previous years. They expressed
appreciation for the work dc
by the various community
men, and in particular the
clubs which sponsored th^
in several communities.
Part of the money wilij
to pay Moore’s shatre o^
coneechee Council bujJ
the rest will furthe
ing within the Mo
The' $250 raised/
End’s quota wa
town’s Commji
as the first
be attempt
and a succ^
manship of P^
W. S. Johnson,"