32—NO.
18 PAGES THIS WEEK
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. MAY 4. 1951
18 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
h Airborne,
ctivated, Will
eive Its Colors
od Will Honor
ir-Famed Division
Ih Saturday Review
reactivated 508th Airborne
regiment of World War
will receive its battle
ed colors from; its wartime
nder, Col. Roy E. Lind-
it an 82nd Airborne Divi-
view at Fort Bragg Satur-
Lindquist will present the
the new regimental cora-
Col. Joseph P. Cleland.
inking military command-
duding Lieutenant General
Leonard, will be among
nitaries observing the cer-
10,000 paratroopers of the
lirborne division will pass
w following the presenta-
the colors. Combat veter
the regiment will take part
day long celebrations at
St military reservation.
508th was known during
War 2 as the 508th Para-
nfantry regiment and was
;d to the 82nd Airborne di-
n the Normandy invasion,
time, the 82nd was under
nmand of then Major Geii-
atthew B. Ridgeway. For
ant action during the war,
!th was awarded the Dis
ced Unit citation by the
nt of the United States and
:nch Croix de Guerre with
:wice, by the French gov-
t.
Normandy, the 508th
in the Ardennes-Alsace,
ind and Central Europe
gns. The regiment was
iree times in the Order of
7 of the Belgium Army and
arded the Belgium Fourra-
French Fourragere,' Neth-
Order of Wilhelm and the
lands Orange Lanyard.
tions Board
eives Petitions
Beer Vote
APPOINTMENTS
The town board met in
special session Tuesday to
make some important ap
pointments as probably its
last official act under the
present administration.
Dr. Vida McLeod vras ap
pointed to the school board,
succeeding Lloyd L. Woolley,
whose term expired at this
time. John Howarth, whose
term also expired, was reap
pointed.
Supt. A* Dawson. Jr.,
was named to the Municipal
Recreation Commissions, re-
pleuang P. J. Weaver, former
superintendent, who resigned
to nsove away April 1.
AU «9pointments are for
three years, expiring May 1,
1954.
Fort Bragg Wives
Will Present
Art Exhibit Here
\
ions for a countywide vote
il sales of beer and wine
iresented to the Moore
board of elections last
petitions contain approxi-
2,100 names, which are
process of being checked,
[arry Fullenwider, board
living in Southern Pines,
it is anticipated the board
set to call the election as
the checking process is
ted, which should be well
the 30-day deadline,
sing the names against 17
t registration books, how-
a long and tedious pro-
lore so in Moore county
any other of the state at
. The 1951 General Assem-
ised a law requiring that
of beer-wine petitions
sir precinct numbers along
eir names, greatly facilita-
checking process. The law
juires that each signature
e by its actual owner, not
oxy.
e county’s Rep. H. Clifton
lowever, excepted Moore
lese provisions in view of
t that the dry forces had
put in much work on get-
their petitions, some of
vould have to be done over
aw took effect here.
May 10th will see the opening
of an exhibit from Fort Bragg in
the Fine Arts Room of the Libra
ry. Opening on Thursday the
show will continue through the
following week.
But though from the army post
there will be nothing military
about the exhibition. It is the
work of officer army wives from
the post and Fayetteville, done at
the art classes.which have been
held regularly through the win
ter under the direction of Emily
Forrest, (Mrs. Maxwell Forrest of
Southern Pines).
Of the work done by her pupils,
Mrs. Forrest says: “The theory of
these classes is that painting,
taken up in adult life, as a hobby,
can be learned in a more interest
ing way than as the schools teach
it for a career. A good many of
these amateur artists have never
had lessons, a few have had a lit
tle training. I let them start right
off in any medium they wish, and
learn as they work.
“There are always about three
set-ups going at a time in the
class, perhaps a model for por
traits, a still life subject; one may
be working in clay, another with
a wall paper design.”
All affiliated with the Ft. Bragg
Officers’ Wives club, with the ex
ception of Corporal Cummings,
the group is under the chairman
ship of Mrs. Avner.
Artists who will be showing
their work next week are Eliz
abeth Bell, Rosa Burnet, Glady
Cassidy, Maggie Kelso, Pat Lee,
Rena Norviel, Burke Rail, Dottie
Simpson, Betty Leahy, Alliene
Rozak, Eleanor Allen, Grace
Barskdale, • Janet Holden, Emma
Kurze, Free Avner, Corporal
Cummings.
Their teacher, Mrs. Forrest,
studied at the Academy of Fine
Arts, Philadelphia, and worked
as a commercial and fashion ar
tist. For the past ten years she
has specialized in portraiture.
Bloodmobile Will Return
The Red Cross Bloodmobile,
which paid a successful first visit
to Southern Pines April 9, will re
turn to Moore county Thursday,
May 31, according to announce
ment made this week by Mrs. Au
drey K. Kennedy, executive secre
tary of the Moore County chapter,
American Red Cross.
The one-day event will be spon
sored this time by the Carthage
Lions club and Robbins Woman’s
club in cooperation. Headquar
ters will be the Community house
in Robbins.
John Buchholz of Southern
Pipies, chairman of the county
blood donor program, and volun
teer Red Cross workers will assist
in the undertaking as they did be
fore, said Mrs. Kennedy. Proce
dure will be the same as on the
previous visit, sponsored by the
John Boyd post, VFW, when more
than 200 pints of blood were do
nated by Moore citizens to be
flown to Koreem battlefields and
military hospitals.
Plans for the May 31 blood col
lection were made at a meeting of
Robbins and Carthage citizens
held Saturday at the Robbins
Community house, led by T. I.
’SVilson, president of the Robbins
Lions club. Among those in at
tendance were W. R. Kennedy, W.
Carl Scoggin, J. A. Culbertson, W.
G. Routh and Mrs. Audrey K.
Kennedy.
Mid Pines Pals In North-South Finals;
O’Sullivan Keeps Title - By One Stroke
ATSEDGEFIELD
A number of Sandhills
horses aivd riders were enter
ed in the High Point-Sedge-
field show being held Thurs
day. Friday and Saturday of
this week.
Riding in Thursday events
were Mrs. W. O. Moss of Mile-
Away Farm, James Collins
and Pa^ Blackmore.
Other owners represent
ed are, from Southern Pines:
Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy of
Steven S|tar Stables, and
Mickey Walsh, Stony Brook
Farm, two entries each; W. J.
Brewster of Brewster Stables,
four entries; D. W. Winkel-
m^an. Lakelawn Farm, five,
and Lloyd P. Tate, Starland
Farm, one: from Pinehurst, C.
Louis Meyer, Bilyeu Farm,
two entries.
Manager of the show is
John Bowers, of Black Moun
tain, who has managed sev
eral Sandhills shows in past
years.
O’Callaghan Opens
However the final round of the
49th North and South Women’s
Amateur came out last week.
Southern Pines in general and
the Mid Pines club in particular
could feel mighty proud and hap
py-
Competing Saturday on the
Pinehurst No. 2 course after elim
inating a large and star-studded
field were two girl champions em
ployed as desk clerks at Mid Pines
—husky, smiling Pat O’Sullivan
of Orange, Conn., and dainty Mae
Murray of Rutland, Vt.
Pat, known as the girl with the
terrific drive, made a spectacular
second shot on the 18th hole to
cinch the championship by a one-
up score. Thus she kept the title
she won by an upset victory last
year, to which she has since add
ed numerous other laurels inclu
ding the Titleholders champion
ship at Augusta, Ga., in March.
Miss Murray, a finalist in the
1950 Women’s National Amateur,
gave her close friend, fellow em
ployee and roommate a stiff bat
tle during a good part of the
match, playing probably the
steadier game of the two. Pat
Solid Month of
Conventions Opens
At Carolina Hotel
BO-re IN GREY
The Citizens Bank and Trust
company will be closed next
Thursday, May 10, taking a holi
day in honor of Confederate
Memorial day.
MOTOR CLUB WINS TROPHY
Firnanflf*#! Rllilrlino' brilliantly, then er-
AVIlllUlllg ratically, while Mae plugged right
1 T* along without going to either ex-
INeW JJlSplay Koom t^eme. ah even on the 18th hole,
^ •' both made beautiful drives. Mae
hit her second shot 25 feet from
the pin, while Pat unleashed a
breathtaking iron shot that rolled
to within four feet of the cup. Mae
missed her long putt while aPt’s
was good, and the match was
over.
Both shot a 73, one under wo
men’s par, for the 18 holes.
Each girl has been a winner of
her home state championship, and
their natural though widely dif
ferent talents have put them in
the top brackets of amateur golf
within a short time. This is the
second successive season they
have been employed by the Mid
Pines in jobs which give them
plenty of opportunity to keep
their game at a brilliant polish.
Also on the Mid Pines staff are
Mary Agnes Wall and Carol Dir
inger, two others of the up-and-
coming young stars of women’s
golf today. These also gave a fine
account of themselves in the North
and South, but were eliminated
along with many other excellent
players including some of the top-
ranking veterans of the game.
The Carolina hotel, Pinehurst,
last weekend entered upon a solid
month of conventions, during
which Tar Heels re-discover the
Sandhills, coming from every city
and hamlet from the mountains to
the sea, many of them bringing
their wives for from one to four
days of professional, business and
social events.
The month of conventions;
starting last Friday, April 27, will
actually continue through June
2, giving the great resort hotel its
most extended season in history.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
approximately 200 members of
Delta Kappa Gamma, educational
and scholastic sorority, convened
at the Carolina. On ]^iday and
Saturday, about 75 representa
tives of the U. S. Fidelity and
Guaranty company were also
present in annual convention.
Sunday, members of the N. C.
Dental association began to ai-
rive for a busy four-day session.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
the N. C. Insurance association
is convening, with some 450 mem
bers in attendance.
The N. C. Medical society (see
story elsewhere in this issue) will
take over Sunday through Wed
nesday of next week. Some 900
members of the society and aux
iliary are expected to attend.
In swift succession there will
follow;
May 10, 11, 12, N. C. Oil Job
bers association, 350 members;
May 13, 14, 15, 16, N. C. Automo
bile Dealers association, 600; May
17, 18, 19, Carolina Yarn associa
tion, 600; May 20, 21, 22, N. C.
Pharmaceutical association, 600;
May 23, 24, 25, 26, N. C. Bankers
association, 600; May 27, 28, 29,
N. C. Retail Coal Merchants as
sociation, 450; May 30, 3l, June
1 and 2, N. C. Savings and Loan
League, 250.
Holly wood Hotel
Season Ends Here
Municipal Elections
Will Be Held Tuesday;
Town Slates Listed
Seven Nominees For Local Board, Mayor
Unopposed; Many Contests Seen In Moore
Tuesday is Municipal Election day in North Carolina.
In Southern Pines, voting for mayor and town commission
ers will take place at the fire station from 6:30 to 6:30. Mrs.
Grace Kaylor, registrar, will be assisted by judges Frank Wil
son and Lawrence Grover. Entitled to vote will be all those
whose names are on the mimicipal registration books—906
citizens in all, according to the final count made at the close
of the registration period last Saturday.
♦ Of these, said Mrs. Kaylor, 157
Cicero Council
Will Be Admitted
To West Point
Cicero Council, Jr., of Cameron
Rt. 1, has successfully passed his
entrance examinations for the U.
S. Military academy at West
Point, N. Y., and will begin his
studies there in September, ac
cording to an announcement made
this week by Eighth District Rep.
C. B. Deane,
Young Council graduated June
6,1949, at Riverside Military acad
emy, Gainesville, Ga. He then
went to N. C. State college for
further preparation, looking to
ward taking the West Point ex
aminations. For the past year he
has been undergoing special train
ing at Sullivan’s Preparatory
school, Washington, D. C.
He took the West Point exami
nation March 5 and it was only
this week that the results became
known.
The last Moore county graduate
from West Point was John D. Sit-
terspn, Jr., of Southern Pines, a
member of the class of 1942. Now
a major, he is at present on the
faculty of the Field Artillery
school at Fort Sill, Okla.
Mrs. Perham Sells
“The Anchorage”;
Policies Continue
Expansion of the L. V. O’Cal
laghan plumbing and heating
business and electric appliance
store took place this week, with
the opening of a modern addition
to the O’Callaghan building on
East Connecticut avenue.
The expanded building has one
of the largest and most beauti
ful showrooms of this section,
displaying items from all branch
es of the business for the first time
under one roof.
The front of the building
is continuous, of matching brick,
except that the new part has large
modern display windows of “in
visible glass,” inset at an angle
to eliminate glare and street re
flections. This is an innovation
generally seen only in large city
stores.
Stock of the electric appliance
department has been moved from
the Broad Street store it has occu
pied for the past two and a half
years, and, with added items, is
completely visible through the
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The Hollywood hotel closed
Wednesday morning, slightly
earlier than usual as both he
owner-partners, George and John
Pottle, are preparing to fulfil
commitments as managers of well-
known summer resort hotels.
Jlohn Pottle will leave next
week for beautiful Esseola Lodge
at Linville, in the Great Smoky
mountains of western North Car
olina. He will return to Southern
Pines for weekends until all busi
ness in connection with winding
up the season here is completed.
George Pottle will go May 23
to Heaton Hall at Stockbridge,
Mass., one of the best known of
New England’s long established
inns.
The brothers will have their
families with them for the sum
mer, and each is taking ajong
some members of the Hollywood
staff. Henry Sutton, chef, will be
at Esseola Lodge. Ray Cutliff, of
the dining room staff, has gone
to the Carolina at Pinehurst to
finish out the season there.
The Hollywood will reopen
October 16 for the annual conven
tion of the N. C. Florists -associa
tion, meeting in Southern Pines
for the second consecutive year.
The Moore County Safety Mo
tor club won second prize trophy
in a contest for the Best Dressed
club held Sunday at the motor
cycle races at Hillsboro.
O’Callaglian’s Doubles In Size; All Now Under One Roof
:s Will Balance State’s Economy,
ctor Gillette Tells Kiwanis Club
large, modern ports, frui-
many years of planning,
id study, will be ready at
gton and Mbrehead City
year or in early 1952 to
adustry, commerce and
ure in the State of North
1.
jeorge W. Gillette of Wil-
1, one of the country’s out-
engineers, now serving
utive director of the N. C.
■uthority, sees this as one
[reatest forward steps ever
ken by this state, he told
dhills Kiwanis club in reg-
incheon session Wednes-
the Southern Pines Coun
try club.
Colonel Gillette was among
proponents of the port construc
tion who worked long and hard
to get the dual project approved,
with sliccess'when the 1949 Gen
eral Assembly appropriated $17,-
500,000 for the purpose. His speech
was in the nature of a report on
work done in the meantime, and
why it has taken so long to get
the ports in operation.
Needs Are Studied
You can’t just set up a deepsea
port because you have a lot of
water and a town wanting one, he
said. North Carolina and other
coastal states have many of these.
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iflSBSSS^i
Exterior of the expanded O’Callaghan building shows the modern “invisible glass” windows lighting
the showroom. (Photo by H. H. Turner)
Mrs. Florence E. Perham this
week announced the sale of The
Anchorage, nursing home which
she opened here in September
1947, to Mr. and Mrs. Allen Grant,
who assumed operation May 1.
The large home on East Indiana
avenue, of approximately 15-bed
capacity, was transferred com
plete with all furnishings to the
new owners, who said that poli
cies of The Anchorage as estab
lished by Mrs. Perham would con
tinue without change. About a
dozen patients are in the home at
present.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant have oper
ated a nursing home at Mocks-
ville, near Winston-Salem, for the
past 12 years. Each holds a state
operator’s license and Mrs. Grant,
a native of Baltimore, Md., is a
graduate of the nurse training
school of the Church Home and
Hospital, which is affiliated with
Johns Hopkins.
She served for a time on the
staff of the Johns Hopkins hos
pital.
Mrs. Perham and her husband
E. B. Perham, who came to South
ern Pines from Portland, Maine,
in 1945, will move in mid-May to
140 Nofth Ashe street. Mrs. Per
ham said she will vacation for a
while before resuming profession
al ivork. She is a general nursing
graduate of the Maine Eye and
Ear Infirmary at Portland, where
she was operating room supervi
sor for six years. The Perhams
have a son and two daughters,
all married and living in Southern
Pines—Burt Perham, Mrs. Glen
Bohlander and Mrs. James Luke.
The Grants have two children,
an 11-year-old daughter, Mary
Elizabeth, who entered school
here this week, and a son, Steven,
four.
The Anchorage has in less than
four years of existence establish
ed an enviable name as a homelike
place for convalescent cases, care
of the elderly and cases requiring
special nursing care. The late Mrs.
W. C. Vandenberg was a patient
there for 18 months, during which
time her husband, brother of the
late Senator 'Vandenberg, also
made his home at The Anchorage,
Their son. Air Chief of Staff Gen.
Hoyt Vandenberg, made frequent
flying visits from Washington to
are new registrants, mostly new
comers to town, with a sprinkling
of youths who have reached the
age of 21 since the last registra
tion period.
Voting for mayor will be a sim
ple matter as C. N. Page, who has
held this office since May 1947,
is unopposed for reelection. Write-
in votes wiU be counted for
mayor, however, as also for com
missioners.
Seven nominees for the five
commissioner posts will be list
ed on the ballot, as nominated at
the town caucus held April 24. In
cumbents, listed in order of length
of service, are L. V. O’Callaghan,
C. S. Patch, Jr., Walter E. Blue,
Lloyd T. Clark and H. L. Brown.
New nominees are Ralph L.
Chandler, Jr., and the Rev. J. R.
Funderburk.
All are independent business
men, heads or partners in then-
own businesses, except Mr. Fun
derburk, s minister of West
Southern Pines. A wide variety of
businesses is represented—^nO' two
alike. Mayor Page is a partner
in the McDonald-Page Motor com
pany. Mr. O’Callaghan, veteran
of 25 years’ service on the board
as commissioner’ and also' mayor,
is a plumbing and heating con
tractor, and electric appliance re
tailer. C. S. Patch, Jr., heads the
Tog Shop of Patch’s Inc., depart
ment store established by his
grandfather in the town’s early
days. W. E, Blue is a food mer
chant. L. T. Clark heads the com
bination of businesses known a.^s
Clark’s, Inc.—funeral home, fur-
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July Publication
For Irwin Book,
‘Golden Hammock’
“The Golden Hammock,” by
Laetitia Irwin, is. .slated for publi
cation July 19, according to word
received by the author from her
publishers. Little, Brown and
Company, of Boston.
She is Mrs. Wallace Irwin of
Fairway road. Southern Pines,
author of two novels, a Broadway
play and numerous short stories
and articles' under her maiden
name of Laetitia McDonald. Re
suming her writing career after
a lapse of several years, she is
now using her married name.
The book, most of which was
written here during the winter
and spring of 1949-50. is Mrs. Ir
win’s most ambitious undertaking
to date—the story cf an American
family during the years between
the Spanish-American iand First
World wars, golden years of an
illusory peace in which the nation
was gently lulled as if in a ham
mock, and personal lives were
lived to the fullest without the
distorting impact of one world cri
sis after another.
Mrs. Irwin, a native of Louis
ville, Ky., began writing for na
tional magazines at the age of 19.
Her novels “Young and Fair” and
“The Silver Platter” were serial
ized in the Ladies’ Home Jouma.k
Her play “A Lady Alone” was
produced with Alice Brady as the
star. She married into a writing
family. Her husband has a secure
place in American letters as a
journalist, humorist, novelist and
author of short stories and articles
in leading periodicals. He is the
brother of the late Will Irwin,
journalist, novelist and play
wright, whose wife, Nell Haynes
Irwin, has also , many novels and
short stories to her credit.
The Wallace Irwins have two
sons, Wallace Irwin, Jr., secretary
to U. S. Senator Alexander Smith,
and Donald, with the Washington
bureau of the New York Herald-
see his parents during their stay. Tribung.