DRIVE
CAREFULLY—
SAVE A LIFE!
DRIVE
CAREFULLY—
SAVE A LIFE!
-NO. 35
14 PAGES THIS WEEK
trol Reports Series of Accidents;
Injured In Crash Near Cameron
— ■
^arming Given of
iuickened Traffic,
tareless Driving
pter a long lull in which
safe-driving campaign
ned lo be taking effect, a
her of accidents occurred
week—some reported
e, and numerous minor
which are not reported,
raffic is picking up all
the area, perhaps on ac-
1 of the military situa-
Whatever the cause, lo-
patrolpen this week urg-
■reater caution on the part
111 drivers.
I people were injured, none
^ly, in a head-on collision
en two cars Sunday eve-
about 8:45 on the curve
the Niagara road leaves US
by 1, about a mile north of
fcrn Pines.
|ted at Moore County hospi-
various lacerations and
were Mrs. George Harris
Ir. and Mrs. Charlie Drew
Ithern Pines, also Odell Nor
J Burlington. Treated at St
Is hospital were Earl Ross
|er, 25, and Miss Naomi
of Burlington. All were
Id at once except young
|er and Mrs. Harris, who re
Continued on Page 8)
leers Witness
fdents, Make
idy Arrests
Buence of odd accidents
pre last weekend was dis
hed by the fact that a State
ly Patrol car was right in
fdle of two of them, once
victim of collision by an-
ar, the other time nearly
pars, a tractor-trailer mov-
and the patrol car were
in the series, with some
j done to all of them. Net
as one man arrested for
J and reckless driving, one
leless and reckless and
driving, two for public
Iness and one for careless
Ikless, drunken and hit-
ring. No one was injured.
Iriver piling up the last-
impressive set of charges
name as Dr. Everett A.
of Winston-Salem.
I south on US 1 near the
ptrance to Aberdeen lake
|man H. F. Deal was driv-
a, he had the patrolman
|ss to the following series
FIRST CASE
Faye Pope, 10-yeax-old
daughter of James M. Pope
of Carthage Rt. 3, was found
to have polio, following tests
administered Sunday night at
the Moore County hospital.
The little girl was taken
immediately to the Central
Carolina Convalescent Cen
ter at Greensboro. No official
report concerning, her condi
tion had been made to the
health department early this
week, but her case was said to
be probably a light one.
This is the first case of
polio reported for Moore
county this year.
Paving Begins On
Manchester Road
By Army Contract
and almost hitting a
bn by Mrs. Ernest Harris
|ern Pines, Dr. McMillan
Impted to pass one driv-
I A. Ferguson, of Raeford.
I the left rear of Fergu
he bounced over to the
|, passed Ferguson on the
|d side, knocking down
|d warning sign at the
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iE ACCIDENTS
I more accidents were
this week, including
which a patrolman
jserved as unexpected
shooting across US
|y 1 south from the
erdeen road toward
Motors Monday eve-
ad fetching up sharp
I a light pole, crossed
front of the patrol
by Patrolman C.
rly. TTie car was bad-
aged and the driver,
Coolidge McKenzie,
Zest End Rl. 1, was
he forehead! Euid spent
pht at Moore County
His companion, Ver-
prt, was unhurt. Mc-
was arrested for
driving and careless
bless driving.
|d-on collision involv-
rmy truck and civi-
lat the NC 15 and 211
lion below Abercteen
fay morning sent the
ver to Moore County
I Soldier-driver of the
^s bound over to re-
ourt on reckless diriv-
bes. Names of the two
re not available at
Grade Separation
Bridge Planned
For Cameron Crossing
The long-awaited paving of the
Manchester road on the Fort
Bragg military reservation started
Monday, with the prospect that
the job will be completed by
Christmas.
Announcement that the contract
had been let to the C. G. Tate
Construction company of Concord
was a surprise announcement
made last Thursday by Brig. Gen.
Pearson Menoher, deputy post
commander at Fort Bragg.
General Menoher said that the
road will be hardsurfaced all the
way from the present surfaced
road near Pope AFB to the end of
the reservation, Which is bordered
by county roads of both Moore and
Hoke counties. It will have an
eight-inch stabilized base with
surface of a bituminous material,
with' concrete crossings at inter
vals for tanks and other tracked
military vehicles.
Cameron Crossing
Along with the announcement
came another of great importance
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Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Irwin, on the terrace of their home on Fair
way road. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
“Golden Hammock” By Laetitia Irwin
Gives Vivid Picture of Another Day
Carrier Service
Will Start Monday
For New Areas
NOVELIST ON AIR
Laetitia Irwin, whose novel
"The Golden Hammock" was
published Thrirsday, will ap
pear today (Friday) as guest
star on the Mary Margaret
McBride program on the ABC
net'work.
Broadcast over WJZ, New
York City, at 1 p. m., the
program will be heard in this
section over WNAO, Raleigh
(850 on your dial). WFLB,
Fayetteville, is also an ABC
station and will probably
carry the program.
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin are
spending the siunmer at Se-
tauket, L. I„ N. Y. The book
was written in Southern
Pines, where they are resi
dents during most of the year.
Peach Growers
Facing Crucial
Two-Week Period
Warmly Human Novel,
Lavishly Detailed,
Published This Week
This week marked the publica
tion of “The Golden Hammock,” a
novel of the South in the early
years of this century, and the
emergence of a new adopted-Tar
Heel author, Laetitia Irwin of
Southern Pines.
Issuance of the book Thursday
by Little, Brown & Co. of Boston
marks more of an accomplishment
than meets the eye. Years ago
Mrs. Irwin, then Laetitia McDon
ald, wrote a couple, of novels,
numerous short stories and arti
cles and a play, which was pro
duced on Broadway. Then she
married Wallace Irwin, journalist,
novelist and humorist, and laid
her own writing aside. She raised
two sons to manhood, became a
grandmother three or four times
over, and only then hied herself
back to her typewriter to do the
best writing of her career—no
mean feat, as any practicing writ
er can tell you.
'In the Great Tradition"
Winter visitors in Southern
Pines for many years, the Irwins
The next two weeks are crucial ^ bought a home here five years ago
ones as far as the Sandhills peach and have stayed here since except
County Tax Rate
Upped For School
Building Program
Tenlative Rai© of
$1.35 Will Finance
Immediate Needs
Board Favors Water
Fluoridation, Okays
Social Security Plan
.iaik
COMMANDANT
For full summary of esti
mated county budget for 1951-
52. see bottom of Page 10.
A tehtstive tax rate of $1.35 was
set for Moore county by tbe com
missioners in special session last
Friday, based on an estimated
property evaluation of $34,000,000.
This represents an overall in
crease of 25 cents over last year’s
rate of $1.10. Actually, according
to John C. Muse, county auditor,
the rate for general purposes has
been decreased three cents, to
$1.07 per $100 valuation, while 28
cents has been added toward fi
nancing the countywide school
construction program.
The apportionment for capital
outlay is 30 cents greater than last
year, to provide new school build
ings and equipment and to replace
the Pinehurst elementary school
burned last September.
This represents a concession to
the “pay-as-you-go” plan of the
county board of education, as op
posed to a bond issue for county
wide school construction, which
the commissioners favored. While
not following all the way the plan
presented by the education board,
the additional tax is expected to
furnish funds for capital outlay
estimated at from $450,000 to
$500,000 during 1951-52.
Seventy-nine cents of the total
tax rate has been assigned for cap
ital outlay (school buildings and
equipment), or 58 and one-half per
cent of the total tax le'vy. In ad
dition, 88 per cent of ABC profits
are to be appropriated for school
purposes.
The tax rate was set following
presentation of budgets from all
county departments, and the com-
missioners are at present working
on the estimated needs and ten
tative distribution of funds.
Local Police Will
Join Countywide
Radio Hookup
COLONEL GROSS
Colonel Gross
New Commandant
Of USAF School
City carrier routes of the South
ern Pines post office will be ex
tended, starting Monday, to take
in some new areas, including re
cently built-up blocks in the Edge-
wood and ;^oUwood develop
ments within the city limits.
Authorization requested about
two weeks ago was quickly grant
ed by the postal department, re
ported Postmaster A. Garland
Pierce.
Blocks to be included in the ser
vice are the 300 and 400 blocks of
West Delaware avenue; 200 and
300 blocks on Crestview road; 800
and 1,000 blocks of North Leake
street; 500, 600 and 700 blocks of
North Bennett street; also the 200
block of West Rhode Island ave
nue.
Parcel post and COD deliveries
by truck will, however, not start
until August 1.
Collection of mail in the neigh
borhood of the multiple-unit
Knollwood apartments began
Thursday of this week, with the
removal of a little-used box from
another section of town to this
new suburban development.
The extension of city carrier
service will add some 325 patrons
to the approximately 2,000 now
receiving mail delivery, said Post
master Pierce. Since the service
was established 16 months ago, the
number of carrier service patrons
has more than doubled, and is
growing every day. Post office
boxes are all taken, a condition
which prevailed when the carrier
service began March 15, 1950, and
in- fact was a prime reason for its
establishment. “It is hard to real
ize today that there was opposi
tion to the service,” the postmas
ter said. “There is certainly no op
position apparent now, and new
families moving in take for grant
ed their mail will be delivered.
“The change was made at ex
actly the right time, though it
could not be foreseen then how
valuable it would become within
a few months.”
crop is concerned, it was learned
from John P. Capus, reporter with
the federal-state market news of
fice here.
With favorable weather condi
tions, the popular Elbertas and
Georgia BeUes, soon to start mov
ing out in heavy supply, can make
up to the grower for earlier dis
appointment. A big percentage of
the shipments made up to now
has consisted of fruit dwarfed by
weeks of drought, bringing poor
returns.
The next two weeks will be the
peak of the season, and the out
look is wonderful for the good
orchardist. However, prolonged
rain can make the fruit soggy, or,
if followed by a heat wave, can
make it ripen too fast. Growers
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Youth Drowned
In Farm Pond;
Third In July
for spending thq summers at Se-
tauket. Long Island, N. Y. Her
longtime friend and neighbor in
Southern Pines, Struthers Burt,
wrote her there last week, “Dear
Tish—God bless you, my child,
you’ve written a real novel; full-
fledged, full-bodied and in the
great tradition. You’ve made a
place, and a period, and the peo
ple who lived in them come to
life, and walk up and down, and
talk. Fascinating! My congratu
lations.” His wife, Katharine New-
lin Burt, caUed “The Golden Ham
mock” “a golden book, full of
(Continued on Page 8)
Civic Club Will
Be Soldier Center
On Week Ends
Col. William M. Gross, current
ly under nomination for promo
tion to brigadier general, was
aam.ed commandant of the the U.
S. Air Force-Air Ground Opera
tions school herb Thursday by
Lieut. Gen, John K. Cannon, com
manding general of the Tactical
Air Command.
He succeeds Col. Samuel T.
Moore, founder and first com
mandant of the school, who, how
ever^. will remain on the job as
deputy for air.
Colonel Gross will assume his
duties immediately, coming here
from TAC Headquarters at Lang
ley AFB, Virginia, where he has
been serving as assistant chief of
staff.
A 1934 graduate of West Point,
he saw more than three years’
service in World War 2 as com
mander of the First Combat
(Continued on Page 5)
Southern Pines city employ
ees are to have the benefits of
the social security program,
starting at once.
In fact, it will be retroactive
to the first of this year, with
the Town paying up the ar
rears from January 1 to July 1
in order to get the program go
ing immediately.
The program was made
available by the 1951 General
Assembly to city and county
employees of North Carolina,
hitherto excluded from the
benefits, including old age and
survivors insurance, enjoyed
since 1937 by most private em
ployees. Action to set up the
program in Southern Pines
was taken by the town board,
unanimously, Wednesday
night.
The board also voted to invest
an item of radio equipment, to
cost about $175, which will make
the local police radio a part of a
countywide hookup and a Moore
County-State Highway Patrol
hookup, soon to be installed under
sponsorship of the county ABC
board. This will provide two-way
communication by radio among
practically all law enforcement
agencies of the county.
Directors Vote
To Offer Facilities;
Volunteers May Help
Bloom Family
Is Burned Out;
Donations Asked
Moore county’s third drowning
in a two-week period took place
Saturday afternoon in the farm
pond on the Thomas place near
Cameron.
Harry Lee Foy, 22, Negro to
bacco worker from BennettsviUe,
S. C., drowned while swimming
with several other workers in the
pond. Paul and Cortis .Thomas
are owners of the farm.
Coroner H. P. Kelly rendered
a verdict of accidental drowning,
and the body was sent to Ben-
nettsville for burial. Details of the
happening are not known.
Two of Moore’s drownings have
been in farm ponds, built for fish
ing and conservation purposes
rather than for swimming. Nancy
Ruth SeaweU, aged seven, was
the first victim, drowning Sun
day, July 1, in the pond on the
Tom Flinchum place near Car
thage. Willie Blue, Negro youth
of Sanford, drowned Wednesday,
July 4, while swimming in the
lake at Oakland Park, Negro rec
reational center near Lakeview.
The farm home of Benjamin B.
Bloom, on Vass Rt. 2, was com
pletely destroyed, with all its fur
nishings, by fire last Thursday
night. The family barely escaped
with what they had on.
No details of the fire have been
learned, except that, with no
water available, there was nothing
Mr. and Mrs. Bloom and their two
young children could do except
watch their home and all posses
sions burn.
The Red Cross, following inves
tigation of the tragedy, immedi
ately supplied some essential
items and opened its facilities for
reception of contributed goods.
Mr. Bloom is a World War 2
veteran, and both the VFW and
local Legion post are helping.
However, much is needed in the
way of furnishings, utensils, bed
clothing, etc., also clothing for the
two little boys, aged five and
three. Donations may be taken to
the Red Cross headquarters on
South Broad street, for immedi
ate delivery to the Blooms.
The disaster-stricken family is
temporarily housed in a storage
building on the Doub farm, the
same farm where they have been
renting.
The Civic Club building will be
opened to members of the armed
forces each Friday, Saturday and
Sunday starting today, from 2 p.
m. until late in the evening.
Members of the board of direc
tors, meeting Tuesday morning,
decided to offer the hospitality
of their spacious building on North
Ashe, at Pennsylvania, while the
maneuver period is on.
Desks and stationery will be
aavilable for letter-writing,
games, cards, puzzles and maga
zines for recreation and a soft
drink dispenser for refreshment.
Two hostesses will be on duty at
all times, to extend the friendship
of the community to all visiting
and resident members of the arm
ed forces.
For those who wish to help in
this worthwhile activity, there are
several ways, the directors said.
They may offer their services as
hosts or hostesses for short or long
periods, for which they should call
Mrs. H. W. Allen, phone 2-4122;
or they may conljribute cards,
games, jigsaw puzzles, magazines,
blotters, stationery or ink. These
may be taken to “Thwingease,”
650 East Indiana avenue, or a
phone call to Miss Grace Thwing,
2-8362, will bring her to pick them
up, with thanks.
The directors said they will ap
preciate the cooperation of the
community, and hope to make
this a real community project in
the memorable tradition of the
club, which opened its building
as a busy USO during World War
2.
Mrs. E. W. Marble is president
of the Civic club, and Mrs. H. W.
Allen chairman of the hostess
committee. Other members of the
board present at the meeting were
Mrs. Minnie Austin, Mrs. R. L.
Chandler, Sr., Miss Norma Shir-
ing, Mrs. Virgil Clark, Mrs. W. E.
Cox, Sr., Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins and
Miss Grace Thwing.
Corporal Parvin
Comes To Moore
In Patrol Change
Cpl. M. S. Parvin of the State
Highway Patrol has been trans
ferred to Carthage from Smith-
field to head patrol operations in
Moore county, following the pro
motion and transfer of Sgt. Wen
dell Kelly, and a re-districting
which gives this area a new head
quarters.
Carthage has formerly been
headquarters for the district com
posed of Moore, Montgomery,
Stanly and Cabarrus counties. It
is now a part of District 4 with
Lee and Chatham counties, hav
ing Siler City as headquarters,
with Sgt. Victor Aldridge in
charge.
In promotions effective July 1,
Sergeant Kelly became a tech
sergeant attached to Troop Head
quarters at Fayetteville, Sergeant
Aldridge received his promotion
from corporal and Corporal Par
vin from private first class.
He is a native of Little Washing
ton, in Beaufort county, and was
a salesman and sales supervisor
for the National Biscuit company
for five years before joining the
Patrol. He graduated from patrol
school in July 1941, served four
years at Wilmington, three years
and eight months at Lumberton,
and at Smithfield from April 1949
until this month.
He is married and has three
young sons, Butch, 12, Bobby,
seven, and Pat, 15 months. He is
searching hard in Carthage for a
home and will bring his family
from Smithfield when he finds
A request for fluoridation of the
city’s water supply, a proven
method of reducing tooth decay
among children, met with a decid
edly favorable reception from the
town board at its regular meeting
Wednesday night.
Citizens appearing in behalf of
the plan—Dr. R. B. Warlick, Dr.
R. M. McMillan, Voit Gilmore and
J. N .Steed—were appointed by
Mayor Page as a committee to se
cure practical details. Technicali
ties of the plan will then be dis
cussed with the Mayor, Town
Clerk Howard Burns and Ralph
Mills, city chemist and water plant
superintendent.
It looked as though the first
step had been taken toward lining
Southern Pines up with some 250
progressive towns and cities of the
nation, more than 100 of which
now are using fluoride in their
water, while about 150 more have
approved the plan and are pre
paring to install the process.
Mr. Gilmore acted as spokesman
in explaining their mission, and
noting that two North Carolina
cities, Charlotte and Durham,
have recently taken the step. Dur
ham approved the process Monday
night of this week, on information
given by Dr. John C. Brauer, dean
of the University of North Caro
lina dental school, who gave it his
unqualified endorsement.
Dr. Warlick, a Southern Pines
dentist, related the history of the
(Continued on Page 5)
Lightning Causes
Deaths, Injuries
In Maneuver Area
one.
Sergeant Kelly, Moore County
native and longtime member of
the State Highway Patrol, is re
taining his home at Carthage,
spending weekends there and
traveling back and forth to his
new base of operations.
Lightning striking two widely
separated points in the maneuver
area Wednesday about noon killed
two officers on Camp Mackall and
injured 10 soldiers, four of them
seriously, in bivouac near Lilling-
ton.
No details were available con
cerning the fatalities, other than
confirmation of the fact.
Information concerning the
other accident said six men were
knocked unconscious, and all re
ceived first aid and artificial res
piration. Four found to be in
serious condition were sent to the
Fort Bragg Station hospital suf
fering from shock and bums. The
others were returned to duty after
emergency treatment.
Names of the men were not re
leased. They were in the area of
th 51st Medical Clearing company,
where a medical officer and sev
eral enlisted men were treating
a heat exhaustion patient.