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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 ntinued on Page 5) 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 (Continued on Page '8) 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 (Continued on page 8) 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.