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16 PAGES THIS WEEK
VFW Post WiU Welcome 1^00
[State Encampment Here Next Week
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, JUNE 1.
igeanl. Parade,
iguished Guests
Four-Day Program
John Boyd Post, VFW, is
^preparing for the biggest
[ of its life to date—the An-
State VFW Encampment, to
leld here next Thursday
gh Sunday with the local
1 host.
eventful days are being
for the veterans and aux-
members from more than
)rth Carolina posts. A crowd
reen 1,500 and 2,000 at its
fs expected here.
Hollywood hotel, closed
mid-May for the summer
will reopen to serve as
|uarters for the encampment,
isitors are expected to over-
hto cdl local hotels and guest
bhments.
rowd of that size presents
problems and the hosts are
ying all available facilities
[e holding of the business,
and entertainment events,
[ration will take place at the
remodeled post home on
New York avenue. The
auditorium will be the
lof business sessions Thurs-
wday, Saturday and Sunday
pgs, also of the state beauty
»t and contest at 3p.m. Fri-
^ memorial service will be
the auditorium at 9 a. m.,
!/•
>1 Saturday
banquet Saturday evening
11 both the school cafeteria
rmnasium.
Planters warehouse at Ab-
l will be the scene of a bar-
and square dance Friday
Ig, and the big dance Satur-
ght. Breakfast will be sferv-
)wing the dance.
Guests
lumber of distinguished
will be present. Besides
ing officers of the VFW
^xiliary, invited guests will
Cedric Foster, noted MBS
>mmentator, who will be
iquet speaker Saturday
Maj. Gen. Ira T. Wyche,
itired, who will present
S. Senator Willis Smith,
U. S. Senator William B.
and Lieutenant Gover-
!P. (Pat) Taylor of the State
Carolina! These have
[tentatively scheduled to
it the morning business ses-
[hough which will speak on
lay is not yet definite,
tment commander E. D.
! of Jacksonville will pre
fer the business sessions.
)sing item of the encamp-
dU be the election of new
JOINT MEETING
A joint meeting of the
Sandhills Kiwanis and South
ern Pines Rotary clubs will be
held at the Southern Pines
Rotary club Thursday at 12:15
p. m.. in order to hear Cedric
Foster, famed M!BS news
commentator, as guest speak
er.
Foster has recently return
ed from Iran and is expected
to give first-hand account of
conditions there.
He will arrive Thursday to
be a guest at the State VFW
encampment. Thursday and
Friday, his |five-day-a-week
network broadcast will origi
nate at Station WEEB here.
Arrangements for his visit
here have been made by Jack
S. Younts, of WEEB.
Offered the opportunity of
bearing him, the Kiwanis
club scheduled the special
meeting in addition to its reg
ular one. Whether it will be
regular, or special, for the
Rotarians bad not been deci
ded as The Pilot went to
press.
Senior Class Play,
“Dear Ruth,” Will
Be Monday Event
Pageant
Ibeauty pageant and coii-
[day afternoon will present
of beauty and talent, en-
fom a number of posts in
ition for the title of State
Queen. She will be the
larolina entry in the na-
)ntest.
Ite marbles tournament will
[schoolboy champions, en-
that many local posts,
each other for the state
on the municipal tennis
iaturday. The winner will
with adult companion,
iquerque, N. M., as North
’s entry in the national
larbles tournament June
ontinued on Page 81
The curtain goes up at 8:15 p.m.
Monday on “Dear Ruth,” this
year’s senior play of the Southern
Pine^ High school—the most am
bitious dramatic production yet
essayed by a local high school
group.
For a play the whole commun
ity could enjoy, the Class of 1951
reached into the world of Broad
way and picked one of the most
successful of the past half dozen
years. The famed Norman Krasna
comedy had a long and successful
New York run, and also made one
of the most amusing of recent
movies.
The play is in two acts of three
scenes each, covering two days in
the life of a Long Island family
blessed with two daughters. One
daughter, Ruth, is lovely, popular
—and engaged. The other daugh
ter,Miriam, is a, brat of 13. The
brat undertakes a romantic cor
respondence with a soldier, using
Ruth’s name and picture. The
soldier falls in love with his dream
girl and shows up to claim his
bride.
It’s a play of sparkling lines and
unexpected situations, and word
from the rehearsal hall is that the
seniors are giving it a really
smooth production, under the di
rection of Mrs. O. K. Whittington.
Carol Humphrey has the long
and somewhat strenuous part of
Miriam, while Dorothy Swisher is
Ruth. Deirdre Dundas and Gene
Poe are their parents. Others in
the cast are Peggy Mason, Dick
Ray, Bill Welborn, Barbara Peter
son, Reg Newbon and Gerald
’Thomas.
Stage properties are being
handled by Dick Ray, manager;
BiU Homer, Bill Welljorn, Reg
Newbon and Mary Cameron; hand
properties, Barbara Peterson,
Deirdre'Dundas, Dorothy Swisher;
makeup, Catherine Hussey, Louise
Dorn. Bill Horner is electrician,
and Ann Carter and Louise John
son are prompters.
il Mibs Tourney Here Saturday;
Plans State Contest Next Week
on, all you marbles ex-
lere’ll be a Southern
lumament Saturday, with
ide tournament Saturday
week in which the local
>n wiU compete.
[outhern Pines boys from
through the eighth grades
|ited to take part in the
!t. It will be held on the
|al tennis courts at 10:30 a.
lorrow (Saturday) under
ihip of the John Boyd
itewide tourney, in which
)lboy champs will meet
Iturday, will be a feature
' state VFW encampment
rill be going on here at
le. Twenty-three posts
|eld local tournaments, or
ling them this week, and
ir their winners in the
lent.
Trophies will be awarded the
three top winners in the South
ern Pines tournament, according
to Don Smith of the John Boyd
post, chairman for both the local
and state events. Contestants must
wear tennis shoes, and must be on
time—or ahead of time. The VFW
post will provide the marbles, and
standard rules of the game will
prevail.
Winner of the state tournament
will be the North Carolina cham
pion. He will win a free trip by
air for himself and a parent, or
other adult companion, to Albu
querque, N. M., to take part in
the national tournament, also
VFW-sponsored, on June 23.
He will have three big days of
fun, sightseeing and other never-
to-be-forgotten events as well as
the chance to win the grand na
tional title and trophy.
Judge Rules Town
Has No Authority
To Grant Permit
Leroy Lee Appeals
From Decision In
Mandamus Hearing
The Southern Pines town board
has no legal authority to issue a
permit for construction on a
public alley shown on the town
map, Superior Court Judge J. H.
Clement ruled Wednesday in a
mandamus hearing at Carthage.
He de'nied the right of Leroy
Lee, Carthage owner of a variety
store chain, to force the town to
grant him such a permit.
Judge Clement made it plain
that he appreciated the serious
ness of the hearing, and the vital
matters at stake concerning titles,
property values, etc., in Southern
Pines’ confused “alley problem.”
However, “I must find for the
Town,” he said, “'of Southern
Pines would never be able again
to keep a single alley open. You’re
just waking up over there—should
have waked up 50 years ago.
Appeal Is Taken
Spence and Boyette of Carth
age, attorneys for Lee, gave no
tice that they would take excep
tion to several points of Judge
Clement’s ruling in order to carry
the matter to the State Supreme
court.
The hearing was presented by
attorneys for each side in the
form of briefs and affidavits. The
Town of Southern Pines, w-hose
mayor, commissioners and build
ing inspector, Everett V. Walker,
were defendants, was represented
by the firm of Pollock and Ful-
lenwider.
W. A. Leland McKeithen, Pine-
hurst attorney, assisted for the
plaintiff.
The hearing started with a con
cise summing up by Judge Clem
ent of the whole situation, as
gathered from briefs deposited
with him earlier. The attorneys
made one or two minor correc
tions. Plaintiff’s attorneys pre
sented affidavits signed by R. F.
Tarlton, Howard F. Burns, H. A.
Lewis, A. S. Ruggles, John S.
Ruggles, Frank 'Welch, E. V. Per-
kinson, Hiram Westbrook, R. L.
Chandler, Mrs. P. P. McCain, S.
B. Richardson, Everett V. Walker
and others concerning the history
of Southern Pines, its streets and
(Continued on Page 8)
Speakers At Commencement Events
DR. E. M. POTEAT
P. J. WEAVER
Baccalaureate Service Sunday Night,
Graduation Tuesday For Class of 25
FOREST FIRE
A large forest fire was re
ported raging Thursday after
noon in the area between the
Seaboard main line and the
old Raleigh road, some five
miles north of town. Forest
Service men were on the job,
said to have started when a
work crew built a fire near
the railroad and lost control
of it.
An observer estimated the
extent of the fire as about a
mile in length, heading east.
Smoke hung thick over a
wide area.
Drought Nears
Critical Point
On Moore Farms
Community Asked
To Hear Dr. PoteaL
Weaver On Programt
Tennis Champions
Will Defend Titles
On Local Courts
A bunch of champions will be
on hand to defend their titles
when the ’ third annual Moore
County Closed Tennis tournament
opens Wednesday at 2 p.m. on the
Southern Pines municipal courts.
It looks as though they will
have plenty of competition during
the four and a half days of play,
ending with finals played Satur
day and Sunday afternoon and
evening.
Defendng champs are Angelo
Montesanti, Jr., men’s singles; Au
drey West Brown, women’s sin
gles: Page Choate and Malcolm
Clark, men’s doubles, and the sis-
ter-and-brother mixed doubles
team, Audrey West Brown and
Harry Lee Brown, Jr.
Considerable work has been
done on the courts and all that is
needed now to make them tops is
a couple of days of rain, said Har
ry Lee Brown, Jr., tournament
chairman of the sponsoring Sand
hills Tennis association.
Scheduled events, in which tro
phies will be awarded to winners
and runners-up, will be men’s sin
gles, women’s singles, men’s dou
bles, women’s doubles and mixed
doubles. Prizes will be awarded
winners in an additional event, a
consolation round in the singles
division.
Entry blanks have been mailed
to all of last year’s participants,
and may be obtained by interested
persons from Harry Lee Brown,
Jr., Box 745 ,Southern Pines. The
blanks and entry fees must be re
turned by Tuesday. Those enter
ing the tournament will be noti
fied of the time of their first
match by phone or mail. Matches
will be scheduled in the after
noons and evenings during all five
• days.
A drought of some weeks’
standing is reaching the disas
ter stage for crops of this area,
according to reports from the ru
ral sections this week.
Another week without a good
hard rain will bring a showdown,
in the opinion of several agricul
tural workers talked to at Car
thage this week. Scattered shbw-
ers here and there have helped
little or none'i at all. “"What we
need,” one farmer said, “is a good
old-fashioned gully-washer.”
Reports of possible rainstorms
building up for thi§ weekend are
bringing some hope to the des
perate growers. Many are re -set
ting their tobacco plants, in the
clay country the cotton—a larger
crop this year than usual, to meet
defense needs—is being kept alive
through extra cultivation, but in
the sand country the wind lifts
the dry sand to cut the tender
young plants ‘"worse than boll
weevils.” Continuing cool nights
(Continued on Page 5)
The 25 seniors of the Southern
Pines High school in their grey
caps and gowns will march twice
down the aisle in the coming
week, and hundreds of parents
and friends wiU proudly join them
in the observance of both solemn
occasions.
The first occasion will be the
baccalaureate service, to be held
at the Church of 'Wide Fellowship
Sunday night.
The second occasion will be the
graduation exercises, Tuesday
night at the school auditorium.
Time for both events is 8:15,
according to the announcements
made by Supt. A. C. Dawson, Jr.,
who said that all in the commun
ity are invited to attend.
On both ' occasions a specially
chosen speaker will bring a mes
sage of importance to the gradu
ating boys and girls as they make
the big step from high school days
into a bigger world.
The baccalaureate speaker wiH riaum is
be Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, no
ted pastor of Pullen Memorial
Baptist church, Raleigh, who will
deliver a sermon on the theme
“God So Loved the 'World.”
Pastors Take Pari
Taking part in the service will
be three local pastors. Dr. Robert
Lee House, of the Church of Wide
Fellowship, who will ask the in
vocation; Dr. William C. Holland,
of the First Baptist church, who
will give a Scripture reading, and
the Rec. Charles "V. Covell, of
Emmanuel Episcopal church, who
will ask the benediction.
The full glee club, and the girls’
glee club, will each sing a selec
tion, directed by Miss Barbara
Young, who has trained them
during the past year. Music at
this service, as at the commence-
(Continued on page 5)
Highland Pines Inn
Leased For Year As
Air-Ground School
Estimated 10,000 Officers VTiU Take
Short Courses There Starting June 18
The Highland Pines Inn, Southern Pines’ largest hotel,
has been leased for a year to the Air Force.
The building will be used to house the staff and provide
qu^ters for the U. S. Air Force Air-Ground (Dperations school,
which is to be moved here from its present location at Pope
AFB, Port Bragg. Colonel Samuel T. Moore, who has been
commandant of the school at Fort Bragg, will transfer his
headquarters shortly to Southern Pines, to be on hand when
the first class arrives.
The school is expected to open June 18.
^ Announcement of the lease of
the hotel was made by Charles
Stitzer, owner-manager of the
Highland Pines, who returned
Wednesday from the north to
complete the negotiations.
Training to be given here will
be in the joint operation of the
Air Force and ground troops. The
fighting in Korea,, it was stated,
has pointed up the need for close
support of ground vmits by the
Air Force, and the school, started
at Pope AFB last September, will
be expanded to include every
phase of this type of tactical op
eration.
Both Army and Air Force offi
cers will take the training now set
up as a short course of five days
and a longer one of two weeks to
be expanded as the need arises.
Colonel Moore said that he esti
mated at least 6,000 officers will
be graduated by next June, with
about 10,000—“a conservative es
timate”—taking the course.
A permanent staff of from 30 to
40 officers, to include a number
recently returned from action in
Korea, will form the teaching
staff of the Air-Ground Opera
tions school.
Jack Ruggles
Passes Exams For
Naval Academy
John S. Ruggles, 19, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ruggles of North Ridge
street, was notified Monday that
he had passed examinations taken
April 21 for admission to the U.
S. Naval academy at Anpapolis,
Md.
He will enter the Academy in
June, following a leave spent at
home, beginning next Tuesday.
Jack entered the U. S. Navy
last September. In October, dur
ing his period of basic training
at the Great Lakes Naval Center,
Illinois, he was accepted for ad
mission into the Naval Academy
Preparatory school at Newport,
R. I., on appointment by Rep. C.
B. Deane, member of Congress
from the Eighth district of North
Carolina.
Entering the preparatory school
a month after the regular term
started, he joined a special class
which caught up with the others
in time to take the scheduled
exams. Studying a half-dozen in
tensive courses covering the
whole field of high school wOrk,
he passed with an average grade
of 2.98. Passing is 2.50 and maxi-
Chapman Wins
British Open
On Fourth Try
Dick Chapman of Pinehurst
won the British Amateur golf
championship Saturday at Porth-
cawl, Wales, beating Charley Coe
of Oklahoma City 5 and 4 in the
All-American final.
It was 40-year-old Dick’s fourth
try at the trophy, one of golfdom’s
most coveted. Shooting often bril
liant golf in the rain, mud and
wind over the tricky, bunker-dot
ed Royal Porthcawl course, he
made up for previous defeats.
In 1947' he was beaten in the
finals by Willie Turnesa, in 1950
Operation Southern Pine, Frank Stranahan. In 1948, he
(without the final S), postponed was eliminated in the fifth round
from the original date in June, is , Charles Lowery of England
Jack went to five different
schools before graduating in June
199 at Southern Pines High school,
where he spent his junior and
(Continued on Page ^
Maneuvers Slated
In August; Press
Headquarters Here
Two Smart Girls
They are smart, and pretty, too—Carol Humphrey, left, valedicto
rian of the Class of 1951, and Dorothy Swisher, salutatorian. Both
have maintained averages well above 90 throughout'four years at the
Southern Pines High school.
Both girls are outstanding in *var|pus fields and have won num
erous honors during their high school days. Both will be seen in
leading roles in the senior play, “Dear Ruth,” at the auditorium Mon
day evening. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
due to start August 10th, accord
ing to latest Air Force releases.
As in Operation Swarmer, the
last air force maneuvers here,
headquarters will be located in
the Hollywood Hotel, which will
re-open for that period. Mrs. Fitz
gerald, formerly of the Pinehurst
Country Club, and recently busi
ness manager at the Pinehurst
Convalescent Home, will be in
charge. The hotel will be the
headquarters for the press as well
as staff officers of the operation.
Main purpose of the coming war
games, will be to test out meth
ods of cooperation between
ground and air forces. It is expect
ed that at least' two National
Guard divisions will take part,
with the air units , with the prob
ability of more, troops being add
ed as the maneuvers progress.
Wtih the need for close support
of infantry by low-flying aircraft
clearly demonstrated by the fight
ing in Korea, this phase of war
fare is expected to figure prom
inently in the summer training,
tthe ‘'aggressor forces” will be
strafed from the air.
. Troops expected to take part
include the 28th and 43rd Na
tional Guard divisions, units of
the 82nd Airborne, 3rd Armored
Cavalry, and 278th' Regimental
Combat Team. At least eight
fighter-bomber squadrons will be
involved, as well as six squad
rons of troop .carriers and eight
light bomber- and reconnaisance
squadrons, supplied by the Air
Force Tactical Command.
'The maneuvers are slated to be
under the command of Lt. Gen.
John R. Hodge, Third Army Com
mander, a former commanding of
ficer at Fort Bragg.
and Stranahan was winner.
Against the erratic putting and
approaching of his 27-year-old op
ponent and "Walker Cup team
mate, Chapman saved his best golf
Saturday for the last five holes,
when he fired three birdies and
two pars. Coe, whom Chapman
has called “the finest golfer in
America,” did not go down with
out a fight.
The gallery, only about 600 per-
Continued on Page 4)
June Draft Call
Only Five Men;
Local Lad Leaving
John O’Callaghan, of Southern
Pines, is one of the group of only
five young Moore County men
who will leave Carthage for Fay
etteville Monday morning, June
11, for Army induction.
Four of the group, including
young O’Callaghan, will go as vol
unteers, who asked to be sent for
induction now rather than await
a later call. The others are George
Wilburn, McNeill, Eagle Springs;
iWialter Glenn Rambe»aut, 'Vass,
and Gilbert Jurney Shaver, Car
thage Rt. 3.
The only draftee, and only Ne
gro, in the group will be Jesse
James Hockaday, of Aberdeen.
All have passed their physi9al
and mental exams.
For the second successive
month, there is no call for men
to take preinduction examina
tions, according to Mrs. Harry W.
Davis, of Carthage, selective serv
ice clerk.