132—NO. 31
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JUNE 22. 1951
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
PRICE—10 CENTS
May Adopt
ted Ban On
le Solicitation
[S. Supreme Court
les Anti'Canvass
iinance Valid
1S. Supreme Court decision
: 4 may reinstate for South-
an ordinance against
lo-house solicitation, which,
Itly different form, was re-
pound “unconstitutional” in
recorders court,
supreme Court ruled in a
|e brought up from Alexan-
that the town was with-
tghts in enforcement of an
Ice much broader than
rn Pines’. The local ordi-
equired a town permit for
lion by itinerant magazine
pk sellers, and photograph-
le Alexandria law forbids
ely all types of house-to-
lending except that of dairy
|m products, unless the
expressly invited by the
t)lder.
Pollock, town attorney,
j plans to submit the ordi-
low tested in the highest
the land, to the town
I Mayor C. N. Page express-
faction in the test case, and
imagines the board wiU
the law.-
lern Pines’ ordinance was
■about four years ago, on
Ints by numerous citizens
It-of-town canvassers were
nuisances of themselves,
lice have routed a number
Izine sales crews since that
fone protested until a cou-
lonths ago when a Miss
Flanagan, of Charlotte,
periodical of the Seventh
Iventist church, refused to
|en warned, was fined, in
; and appealed the verdict,
counts, one of breaking
ordinance and the other
^ion of a state Taw requir-
ermit. Miss Flanagan was
|to recorders, court. A bat-
Iharlotte lawyers present-
3, bearing down on the ar-
of freedom of the press
Jdom of religion. They ar-
at such a law was uncon-
lal, and Judge J. Vance
|iw it their v/ay, nol pross-
chargds.
ling to the Supreme Court
luch freedoms are not in-
las the goods offered for
(readily available by other
oy anyone who ’ wants
ling to Time, the ordi-
as tested is known as the
iRiver” ordinance, for the
FOR MACKALL
Congressman Charles B.
Deane of the Eighth Congres
sional district announced
Thursday that the Defense
dei.Wtmient has requested
Congress for the sum of $515.-
000 to build training facilities
at Camp Mackall during 1951-
52.
This request for Camp
Mackall was included in the
. list of military public work
projects to meet the construc
tion needs of the Defense de
partment throughout the
country during the next fis
cal year.
The Army department has
informed Rep. Deane that the
training facilities to be con
structed at Camp Mackall
will equip this military train
ing area lb serve more effec
tively as an adjunct to Fort
Bragg.
Thrice-W ounded
Sandhill Soldier’s
Return Is Sought
Patrol Warns of
Maneuver Traffic
On Local Roads
Convoys Bringing
Thousands of Troops
Into Mackall Area
ter in local courts, just as
hern Pines’, for the same
Soldiers here on weekend “lib
erty,” an MP patrol in a staff car
and CD’s hunting homes for their
families are about the only signs
so far around here of the increas
ing activity a few miles down the
road at Camp Mackall.
Reports place the influx of sol
diers so far at from 2,000 to 6,000
at Mackall, with more coming in
every day preparatory to the great
August maneuvers. At its peak,
from August 10 to 25, “Exercise
Southern Pine” is expected to
have at least 110,000 troops in ac
tion.
Chief C. E. Newton said he has
been informed that a company of
MPs will be on duty, and some
will be stationed here when they
arrive. In the meantime a staff
car has been on a constant patfol
of Raeford, Aberdeen, Southern
Pines and Pinehurst for the past
two weeks.
The maneuver is expected to be
the largest since pre-war days,
and, unlike those of 1949 and
1950, will extend considerably be
yond the Camp Mackall bounda
ries. Military movements in con
nection with the exercise will take
place in Lillington and Dunn in
Harnett county, extend through
Cumberland county to Lumberton,
and touch Laurinburg, Raeford
and most likely Aberdeen and
Southern Pines.
From the Fayetteville State
Highway Patrol Command, which
has jurisdiction oyer this area,
came a warning to all citizens of
a heavy crossfire of traffic on the
highways during the next six
weeks. Thousands of troops will
be moving into the maneuver area
by convoy. The heaviest influx
is expected about the middle of
July.
Military police will work with
highway patrolmen in directing
control of the stepped-up traffic.
Vacation seekers were urged to
begin their trips early to avoid
rrieeting the convoys, which may
be expected on the highways at
all times of the day and night.
Logistical Command
Serves Forces
On Both Sides
The 30ist -Logistical Command
under the command of Maj. Gen.
Crump Garvin, arrived last week
at Fort Bragg, where it is to per
form a key role in the forthcom
ing Joint Army-Air Force Exer-
some of which failed to he would have been among the Southern same
time, elements of the 301st have
moved to Camp Mackall, where
they will constitute the Aggres
sor Service Command or
Pfc. Wesley R. Shaw, 21-year-
old Moore County soldier, has
seen his share of war and then
some, it is believed by relatives
who are endeavoring to secure
his return-home from the Korean
war area.
He has been wounded three
times since he was sent to Korea
less than one year ago. Following
the third wounding he was re
moved in April to a military hos
pital in Japan, where he has since
had an appendix operation and
has been ill with malaria and
pneumonia.
His brother, T. P. Shaw of
Charlotte, and his father, T. J.
Shaw, who lives at Charlotte with
his elder son, have written to U.
S. Senator Clyde E. Hoey and also
to Reps. C. B. Deane and Hamil
ton C. Jones asking that they do
all they can to speed the return
of Pfc. Shaw to'the states.
His sister, Mrs. Frances Shaw
Flack, and his mother live in
Southern Pines on East Indiana
avenue. The family formerly liv
ed at Pinehurst, where Wesley
Shaw attended school and was
employed at Hobbs’ and Resort
markets before entering the Army
in November 1949.
He was transferred overseas
with the 24th Infantry last June
and in July was rushed to the
front in one of the first outfits to
enter combat. He was wounded
in the shoulder by a coinmunist
rifle bullet in December. He was
hospitalized, returned to combat
in April and the next day was
Summer Recreation Schedule
LYNN H. LEDOEN, Director. Headquarters—Fox Hole
Monday—Band instruction (advanced), high school bcuidroom,
10 a.m. - 12 m.
Story hour at Mrs. W. M. Edwards, 235 N. Ridge St, 10:30 a.m.
to 12 noon.
Baseball. Memorial field. 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday—Sewing class, high school, 10 eum. - 12 m.
Tennis instruction (girls), municipal courts, 10 a.m. - 12 m.
Swimming Aberdeen lake. Bus leaves town peirk 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday—Baseball, Memorial field, 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Thursday—Cooking class (place fo be announced), 10 a.m.-12 m.
Tennis instruction (boys), municipal courts. 10 a.m.-12 m.
Swimming. Aberdeen lake. Bus leaves town park 2:30 p.m.
Friday—Band instruction (beginners), high school bandroom, 10
a.m. - 12 m. (Starting June 29 with meeting of interested chil
dren and parents.*
• Friday or Saturday night—^Dancing at school cafeteria.
Monday through Friday—Pingpong. checkers, etc., at Fox Hole
(except Tuesday afternoon); tennis and badminton, municipal
courts.
Play Program Coes On Full Schedule
Of Sports And Instruction Next Week
Formation Of Teams
Seen As First Step In
“Little Lea^ne” Plan
NEW DUTIES
Green River, Wyo., which wounded again by a naortar shell.
e first law slamming the
solicitors back in 1931.
en more than 400 com-
have adopted similar or- j
Later in April, back with his rifle
company, young Shaw was
wounded a third time.
In the ordinary course of events
ntinued on Page 5)
first due for a rotation furlough.
However, when he went back to
combat after his first wound he
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oining of Beach Wardrobe, Cash,
lanks For Local Folks’ Kind Act
hyllis Faircloth, aged 15, weary, hungry, travel-stained ^d
had no place, they said, to spend
the night.
They seemed to be nice young
folks and Mr. Ritter took them to
his home on North Broad street.
Out of the kindness of their
hearts, he and his wife gave them
supper and lent them changes of
clothing. They bathed, rested
and accepted the hospitality of the
Ritter home for the night—^the
couple in a guest room, the sister
in Phyllis’ room.
The next morning they ate a
hearty breakfast. To make the
rest of their trip, they said, they
would sell the radio and heater in
their car. To help them along,
Mrs. Ritter gave them a few dol
lars out of her hbusekeeping
money.
The travelers expressed their
deep gratitude for all the Ritters
had done. They never knew, they
said, that people lived in this
ock Thursday morning
e returned to the home 6f
dparents, Mr. and Mrs. A.
Etfter a visit to the K. A.
at Elon College, and
?ood many things missing
room.
were the contents of a
which she had carefully
vith new clothes for a
ing trip to the beach,
im a box on her dresser
0 bill, which was to have
spending money for the
jne, too, was much of her
ents’ faith in human na-
en they discovered the
leir payment for hospi-
d kindness to strangers,
y night, Mr. Ritter met
cs downtown and heard a
They were two young
nd a young man—a mar-
)le and the wife’s sister,
1. Traveling south in a
DeSoto, they seemed to
orry plight.
ad been arrested at San-
a traffic violation, they
. the fine and costs had
all the money for their
rip except 40 cents. It
iring rain. They were
AGSCOM, according to a release
from headquarters of the 301st
Logistical Command.
The mission of the 301st will he
that of support for aU major
Army elements in the maneuver.
This involves the furnishing of
support to both the Third Field
army and the Aggressor Force.
In order to accomplish this mis
sion, a detachment of officers and
men under the command of Col.
Donald P. Wylie was selected
from Headquarters 301st to func
tion as Headquarters Aggressor
Service Command (AGSCOM).
The main body of the 301st has
been designated as the .Third
Field Army Service Command of
3ASCOM.
The “Aggressor” is a hypothet
ical enemy .force Whose purpose
is to increase the reality of the
maneuver by attacking, ambush
ing and generally harassing the
U. S. Forces during the exercise.'
Headquarters AGSCOM has been
set up in a converted service club
at Camp Mackall.
Exercise Southern Pine will be
the largest regular training exer
cise during the 1951-2 fiscal year,
world who were so kind. With It will have as its objectives the
repeated thanks, they drove away, training of Army and Air Force
Thursday morning Phyllis came units in large scale offensive and
home, to find her room had been
rifled.
Police and the highway patrol
were alerted, but without much
hope of catching the ungrateful
guests.
defensive operations. It will fur
nish experience for both services
in close tactical air support and
airborne drops oi troops, while
developing and testing joint doc
trine.
Brig. Gen. Pearson Meno-
her, resident of Knollwood,
Southern Pines, assumed du
ties Tuesday as deptily com
mander of Fort Bragg.
He has been serving as
chief of staff of V Corps head
quarters since his return to
this country in 1950 from
Korea, where he saw action as
assistant commander of the
24th Infantry division. In his
new post, he succeeds Coi.
Richard C. Mallonee as dep
uty to the commanding gen
eral. Lieut. Gen. John W.
Leonard.
General Menoher is a na
tive of Virginia, a graduate of
West Point, and a veteran of
three wars. The Menohers
purchased th6 H. G. Chatfield ’
home in Knollwood last fall.
Net TournaHients
Set In Augnst For
Adults, Juniors
Second Annua!
Sandhills Open
Set Augusl 22-25
Directors of the Sandhills Ten
nis association, meeting Tuesday-
night, scheduled four tournaments
for August, two of them for sen
iors, one for juniors and one a
combination.
Major tournament and climax
of the season will be the Second
Annual Sandhills Open, set for
August 22-25. Invitations are to
be sent some of the leading play
ers of the state. Many applications
are expected, and anticipations
are high of turning out as success
ful an event as last year’s.
The Open is scheduled to fall
between the Eastern Carolina
League tournament, to be held
this year at Rocky Mount August
12-18, and the North Carolina
Closed championships, set August
30-September 5 at Sedgefield, and
will draw players from both.
The three other tournaments to
be sponsored by the local group
will be held simultaneously from
Monday, July 30, through Satur
day, August 4. They will include
the First Annual Junior Sand
hills Open, a Junior-Senior
Doubles tournament, and a hand
icap tournament for senior play
ers climaxing several weeks of
“ladder” matches.
The Moore County battery, N.
C. National Guard, is donating a
cup for boys’ singles champion in
the Junior Open.
H. L. Brown, president of the
Sandhills Tennis association, an
nounced the following committees
for the Sandhills Open: tourna
ment Harry Lee Brown, Jr., Wal
ter Harper, Bill Bowman, Audrey
West Brown; courts, Francis de
Costa, Angelo Montesanti, Jr.,
Malcolm Clark, Howard F. Burns,
Page'Choate, Steve Choate, Ken
neth Tew; trophies, Marion de
Costa, Angelo Montesanti, Jr., N.
L. Hodgkins, Jr.; social, George-
anne Austin, Marion de Costa,
Birdilia Bair; housing, Francis de
Costa, N. L. Hodgkins, Jr.; bleach
ers, A. C. Dawson, Jr., Angelo
Montesanti, Jr.; concessions, F. E.
Stubbs, H. L. Brown, Sr., Stanley
Austin.
Ledden Plans ^de
Range of Activities
For All the Kids
The community summer recrea
tion program will get into full
swing Monday ,with activities
scheduled from 10 a.m. to 12 noon
and from 2 to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday.
Activities which will start up
next week are the story hour, by
Mrs. Walter M. Edwards at her
first grade schoolhouse, 235 North
Ridge street, at 10 a.m., Monday;
band instruction (advanced) by
Mr. Ledden, at the high school,
Monday at 10 a.m.; sewng instruc
tion for girls by Mrs. Broadus W.
Smith, at the high school, Tues
day at 10 a.m.; swimming instruc
tion by Peggy Phillips, certified
Red Cross instructor, at the Tues
day aisd Thursday afternoon swim
sessions at Aberdeen lake; tennis
instructions for girls Tuesday and
for boys Thursday, starting at 10
a.m. on the town courts.
Band Insiruciion
Band instruction for beginners
W. A. L. McKEITHEN
McKeithen Elected
President State
Bar Association
Southern Pines,
Aberdeen Kids
Play Warm-ups
will open with a meeting of inter- Army service in
ested boys and girls, with their
parents, at the high school band-
room next Friday morning, June
29. These lessons will be given
free by Mr. Ledden, who will be
band director at the high school
next year.
It is hoped to start cooking in
struction this week, but a place
and a volunteer instructor or in
structors have yet to be secured
and this may not start until the
first v/eek in July, s-aid Director
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Fine, Clean Crop
Of Peaches Seen
Ripening In Area
Prospects for. a good, clean crop
of fine quality peaches are the
best in years in the Sandhills, it
was learned this week from two of
Moore county’s leading growers,
though they said early estimates
of a “bumper crop” may be exag-
jgerated.
I A large May drop has percep
tibly reduced the crop, said J.
Hawley Poole, of West End, own
er of orchards in Moore and Hoke
counties. T. C. Auman, also of
West End, said most trees whose
fruit is due to ripen in July -ap
pear to be bearing a capacity load.
However, the early varieties are
somewhat scanty, on account of
the long dry spell.
Picking of Early Rose and other
clingstones, good for pies and
pickling, is going on now. Ripen
ing in succession, from the first
week in July through the last, will
be the delicious “eating peaches”
Jubilee, Hiley Belles, Georgia
Belles and Elbertas.
Peach lovers who were denied a
single taste of their favorite fruit
last year, on account of one of the
worst early freezes in history, will
benefit this year from ideal condi
tions which prevailed during the
winter and spring. Growers who
last year were borrowing from the
government in order to carry on
can look forward to lining their
pockets well this year.
A meeting of shippers, growers
and volume buyers will be held at
the schoolhouse in Candor tonight
(Friday) at 8 o’clock, headed by
Hugh Martin of the State Bureau
of Markets, to discuss transporta
tion and advertising plans.
W. A. Leland McKeithen, Pine
hurst attorney, solicitor of Moore
recorders court since 1946, was
elepted president of the N. C. Bar
association at its 53rd annual con
vention held at Sedgefield last
weekend.
Mr. McKeithen has previously
held several committee appoint
ments in the association, and is
widely known among lawyers of
the state.
A native of Aberdeen, he is a
graduate of Davidson and the law
school of Duke university. He is
World War 2, in which he rose
from buck private to captain.
He is chairman of the Moore
Coufity Democratic executive
committee.
In the leadership, of the Bar as-
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Two local baseball teafns of
boys nine to 13 have been organ
ized, and are playing warm-up
games in the expectation that a
“Sandhills Little League” of a
half-dozen teams may soon get
under way.
In Aberdeen, 30 boys reported
for their first practice last Tues
day, and several practices have
been held since that time.
Organization of the “Little
League,” following a pattern al
ready set up over the state and
nation, may comprise teams of
Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Aber
deen and Pinebluff, if plans of
several interested persons mature
as expected.
What is needed chiefly at this
stage. The Pilot learned this
week, is sponsors among local
civic clubs in each town, to help
build up the teams, promote lo
cal interest and provide the stim
ulus of adult support.
In this community, the South
ern Pines Lions club has assumed
sponsorship of one team, which
has been organized by W. R.
Thomasson. The other team, or
ganized, by Ray McDonald, has
gotten ’a good start without a
sponsor, but is looking for one.
The Aberdeen entry is being di
rected and sponsored by the Rob
bins Mills. Coaches are James
Muse, Johnny Sloan, Jackson
Smith and Robert Wilson.
Game Sunday 4 p, m.
The local teams have played,
several games and some fine
young players are being develop
ed, their organizers revealed this
week. The community is asked to
come to their next game to be
held at Memorial field Sunday
at 4 p. m., and see for themselves
this latest adjunct to the sports
life of the town. •
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Beaver .Multiply In Moore Streams,
Protected By All-Year B,aii On Hunting
County Game Protector W. W.
McDonald is shown here with a
dead beaver, evidence in a case
which resulted in penalties for
two defendants' in' county court
this week. (See court story, Page
12.)
This was the first case,involving
the killing of beaver in the his
tory of the local court.
A few beaver were released by
the government in Drowning
creek eight or 10 years ago. War
den McDonald said. These have
multiplied • considerably, and are
now to be found all through the
streams and branches of lower
Moore, where they have built a
number of dams.
However, he said, there is no
time in the year when it is not
unlawful to kill a beaver in North
Carolina, something which is not
generally known.
Such being the case, there is no
percentage in killing one. Even
if it did not render the killer sub
ject to arrest and punishment
(maximum fine is $200) there is
no sale of a pelt from North Car
olina to any legitimate dealer. Nor
is beaver good to eat.
The beaver shown here is a
medium-sized one, weighing
about 35 pounds. Some are 50 to
60 pounds in weight. The fur is
thick, soft, shaggy and a rich dark
brown in hue. The paddle-shaped
tail, used by the beaver in plas
tering mud and soil into his dam,
and also as a rudder in swim
ming, is one solid flat muscle with
smooth leathery skin. The beav
er has two sharp front teeth al
most an inch long, with which he
can gnaw down trees of small to
medium size. He drags the trees
to the site he has carefully sel
ected for the building of a dam
(he never chooses a stream which
will run dry) and uses them as
stakes and braces for the dam.
Employing engineering methods as
old as time and as modern as to- and thrive.
morrow, he then places brush and
Sticks strategically to make a
structure which is almost inde-
structable, creating a pond where
the beaver community can live