GIVE TO
RED CROSS
FLOOD RELIEF
GIVE TO
RED CROSS
FLOOD RELIEF
14 PAGES THIS WEEK
14 PAGES THIS WEEK
larlotte Doctor
ports Success
Fluoridation
jocal Commiiiee
Sets Helpful Data
hi Results And Cost
ter 21 months of fluoridation
e Charlotte city water, tooth
/ showed a reduction of 23
:ent per 100 white children
lined, and 30 per cent per 100
o children examined, accord-
;o information received this
by the local fluoridation
littee from Dr. Zachary M.
, Charlotte dental health of-
added, “It is too early to
any improvement in the
age groups but we do look
ferd to such improvement
the coming year. . . In
where fluoridation was
[id earlier, the caries reduc-
are quite significant.”
prlotte has been adding flu-
to its filtered water since
I 25, 1949. With the exception
period from May 21 to Au-
, 1949, fluoridation has been
luous. Examinations of chil-
I apparently took place to-
the end of the last school
lln giving the percentage of
reduction found. Dr. Stadt
|ins, “This refers to the aver-
er 100 children examined of
knent teeth decayed, missing
Ee of extraction and rbquir-
Jilraction, and filled. In den-
Iralnce this is referred to as
IMF.”
Us Slight
annual cost of fluoridation
City of Charlotte hqs been
Iratively slight—in terms of
^x rate, less than one per
ibr Southern Pines, pump-
average half-million gal-
pearly, Dr. Stadt estimated
pst would be around $511
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I Day Plans
ler Way With
ihurst As Host
Officers^ Wives Give Service
A social organization of officers’
wives, all of them new to the
Sandhills, had barely got organiz
ed before it took on a new objec
tive, and was rendering a real
service here.
Ten of them, using their own
cars, are in a volunteer Motor
Service of the Red Cross, ferrying
children of the Sandhills com
munities to and from the Crippled
Children’s League speech im-
the Country club as the scene of
their meetings. Then came the sug
gestion, “Why not offer our serv
ices to the Red Cross in a volun
teer group?”
They found a project ready and
waiting, as the speech improve
ment school was about to begin.
The group was authorized by Mrs.
W. W. Simpson, of Pinehurst,
Motor Service chairman of the
Moore County chapter. Red Cross,
* V,.-!.
provement course now under way:to take on the job, with thanks.
at the Southern Pines school.
The group met for the first time
Thursday, July 19, at the South
ern Pines Country club. It includ
ed wives of a number of staff
members of the USAF-Ground
Operations school. Highland Pines
Inn, with some wives of Ninth
Ten of the group are using
their own cars and time on the
project, each one making the
rounds one day every two vmeks
to pick up the children who need
transportation, and to take them
home again.
They are Mrs. Harold C. Beatty,
Air Force officers attached to I Mrs. Philip C. Rawlins, Mrs. Har
Pope AFB, Fort Bragg. Irison M. Harp, Jr., Mrs. Jack De-
They decided to meet on first,'Haas, Mrs. P. T. Keilor, Mrs.
and third Thursdays to make
friends with each other, and have
a social good time. The Elks as-, ^
sured them of a welcome in using Williams.
Clyde W. Huether, Mrs. Avery
Keller, Mrs. Monte Grimes, Mrs.
LeRoy J. Manor and Mrs. Kelso
McConnell Upsets Champ In 1st Round
Of County Tournament At Pine Needles
[annual Moore County Vet-
-J Day celebration will be
pis year at Pinehurst, with
B. Sally, Jr., post of the
ban Legion as host,
lies W. Swoope, of the
|rst post, chairman of the
vide event, said a meeting
-J Day committee will be
[is weekend to perfect the
The committee consists of
nders of all county vet-
posts, the president of the
[Is Veterans association,
[t V-J Day chairmen, serv-
an honorary capacity,
ttive plans, said Mr.
call for “keeping it sim-
brief evening program,
by a Victory Ball at the
lious Legion hut.
program is expected to
[around dedication of the
ImC) built during the past
|d presentation of the new
given by Mrs. F. H. Krebs
hurst as a memorial to her
leant Dowd Is
ian Casualty
HAMEL WINS
The pingpong tournament
held at the Fox Hole last
week -under the city summer
recreation ■ program reached
an exciting finish last Friday
morning.
Billy Hamel was winner,
with Deryl Holliday as run
ner-up. In the consolation
match. Tommy Buggies won
over Johnny Watkins.
Sixteen boys entered 'the
tournament, which continued
through five successive morn
ings under direction of Lynn
H. Ledden, recreation direc
tor.
National Guard
Leaves August 18
For Summer Camp
Four Flights In Play;
Women Golfers
Enter Semifinals
■Catherine Dowd, of the
pd community, on Pine-
ro, has been notified that
Sgt. Thomas Dowd, was
action July 15 in Korea,
bation was sent the
[that the body of the young
loldier will be brought
Ir burial. No plans have
Ide pending further word,
|hat the services will be
the Free Will Baptist
of which he was a mem-
Int Dowd attended Acad-
|ghts High school, leaving
enter the Army during
lar 1. He reenlisted when
Iwas up, and was station-
Irt Bragg until his trans-
|eas last fall.
stationed for a time on
Ind there married an Ha-
1 girl. He entered combat
hr his arrival in Korea,
pn action most of the time
death.
Fifty-two enlisted men and four
officers of the National Guard—
the full strength of Battery D of
the 130th Antiaircraft Artillery
battalion—are expected to leave
Southern Pines Saturday, August
18, for their annual two-week
summer encampment.
This year the Guardsmen from
Carolina and Tennessee, who
make up the 30th Infantry divi
sion, will go to Fort McClellan,
Ala.
Capt. W. J. Wilson of Southern
Pines will be in command of Bat
tery D, composed of Moore Coun
ty men, one of five batteries with
battalion headquarters at Rae-
ford. I
Warrant Officer Lennox P. For
syth announced plans for the
summer encampment this week.
He said that employers have been
most cooperative in giving the lo
cal members their opportunity to
attend the encampment, so the
battery could train as a full unit,
and that 100 per cent of member
ship is expected to take part.
He said trucks of the battery
will leave at 5 a. m. of the ap
pointed day, joining others in a
convoy en route. Members not ac
companying the trucks and equip
ment will be taken on a special
troop train, which will be made
up at Warrenton and pick up
Guardsmen all along the way.
It was also announced that the
National Guard’s recruiting pro
gram will continue through Au
gust 14, and men who enlist by
that date will be allowed to ac
company the unit on summer
training.
This will be the first time the
unit has trained with the 30th di
vision. Last year it was attached
to the 252nd Antiaircraft group of
Wilmington for training purposes.
Last year the local battery was
selected from all of those in train
ing at Camp Stewart, Ga., for
the award of the coveted Military
Efficiency trophy, one of only two
awards maae at the encampment.
They have declared their intention
of bringing the trophy back home
with them this time.
They anticipate also that, by the
time they return, the new motor
storage building, to be used as an
armory, will be completed on the
Old Pinehurst road. 'They will
move into their new home at that
time.
First round matches of the
Moore County Golf Championship,
played off last week on the Pine
Needles course, saw a big upset as
the 1950 champion. Bill Woodward
of Robbins, was dethroned by
John D. McConnell of Southern
Pines.
The defending champ kept his
defenses up until the 18th hole,
when McConnell made a par 4 to
Woodward's bogie 5, defeating
him 1 up.
Sixty-four golfers in four full
flights in the men’s championship,
with 13 qualifying for the wom
en’s championship, constituted the
largest field in the history of the
annual event, said Chester L Wil
liams, manager of the tournament.
The women’s championship was
added last year.
Second round match,fs for the
men will end next Wednesday,
semifinals August 15 and finals
August 26.
Semifinals for the women are
already under way, with those de
feated in the championship flight
dropping back into the first flight.
Grand windup of the tourna
ment will be held Sunday, August
26, when an exhibition match will
be played at Pine Needles by Leo
Walper and the champion vs. Ed
die Dodson, Southern Pines Coun-,
try club pro, and the runner-up.
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PRESS HQ
The State News and Adver
tising Bureau will have an in
formation center at the press
headquarters to be established
at the Hollywood hotel during
the maneuvers, it was learned
on reliable authority this
week.
The center will be staffed to
provide information to the
visiting correspondents and
distinguished guests concern
ing the Sandhills and North
Carolina, and to help the
guest writers get stories and
pictures they may want in
this area.
A transportation corps to
serve the visitors, ferrying
them back and forth to the
maneuver area, is moving this
week onto the grounds of the
new National Guard building
on the Old Pinehurst road..
The press headquarters,
combined with a visitors' bu
reau, will be opened August
10. The invitation list, prepar
ed at the Pentagon, has not
been revealed.
School Opening
Set September 5;
Teachers Listed
A^^ressor Units Move Into Field
As Vast Convoys Head South For
Start Of “Exercise Southern Pine*'
The opening date for the South
ern Pines schools will be Wednes
day, September 5, it was an
nounced this week by Supt. A. C.
Dawson, Jr.
The teacher lists for both the
high and elementary schools have
been completed. Nine, new names
appear on the list of 24, seven
of them in the elmentary grades.
Several teachers are looking for
apartments, and Superintendent
Dawson said he would greatly
appreciate it if townspeople who
will have apartments available
by September will let him know.
Irie Leonard, 30-year-old
Greensboro native, will fill the
position of high school principal,
and teacher of history and physi
cal education, vacated by Mr.
Dawson when he moved into the
Brig. Gen. Stuart Cutler, center, pictured in a World War 2 con
ference which has renewed news interest at this time.
The officer on the right is Lieut. Gen. Matthew^j^Jlidgway, then
commander of the 13th Airborne Corps, now commanoer of the Unit
ed Nations forces in Korea.
Since this picture was made. General Cutler has retired and is now
living in Pinehurst—one of nine generals who have chosen the Sand
hills for their permanent home. The second instalment of their
superintendents job. Mr. Leonard ’ story, written by Nancy Boyd, may be found on Page 9 of this issue. • • ^lantry division, which wil
is a graduate of Guilford college. I General Ridewav. General Cutler then Henntv nhiof iv, , eneral Eisenh<wers west
Explorer Scouts
Leave Sunday For
Camp Philmont
Charles Merrill and Charles Co-
vell, Jr., Explorer Scouts, will
leave Raleigh Sunday morning
by special bus on a momentous
trip.
With Boy Scouts from a num
ber of North Carolina councils,
and some from Georgia who will
join them eh route, they will
spend two weeks at Camp Phil
mont, the national Boy Scout
camp in New Mexico.
The trip will be a leisurely one,
with many interesting things to
do en route. The first .night will
be spent on the Cherokee reserva
tion in the Great Smoky moun
tains, \Vhere they will see the his
toric pageant-drama, “Unto These
Hills.” Monday they will visit
other points of interest, including
Lookout mountain.
At Birmingham, Ala., the boys
will have a conducted tour
through the steel mills, getting a
close look at a great industry of
the South and of the nation.
Camp Philmont is. world-famed.
It is the center of the national
Boy Scout camping program, larg
est and finest of its kind in the
nation, probably in the world. So
far as is known, the two South
ern Pines boys are the first of
this community to go there.
They are members of the Ex
plorer Scout unit sponsored by
the Southern Pines Elks club.
is a graduate of Guilford college, | General Ridgway, General Cutler, then deputy chief of staff in
where his education was inter- j charge of planning, and Brig. Gen. R. F. Stearley, in charge of opera-
rupted 1^ four years service in, tions, are pictured discussing plans for airborne invasion of Holland
the Air Force during World War. before they flew to France to meet with General Montgomery
2, a large part of it spent over-l
seas. He is receiving his master’s
degree in school administration
at the University of North Caro
lina this summer.
During the past three years Mr.
Leonard has been teaching and
coaching at the high school at
Walnut Cove, near Winston-Sa
lem. Mrs. Leonard has been teach
ing English there. They have no
children.
Lynn H. Ledden, who will teach
science in the high school and
band in both the high and ele
mentary schools, came to South
ern Pines in June as director of
the summer recreation program,
and is already well known to
Most Realistic
Maneuver Nears
X-Day In Sandhills
Fighting units of the Aggressor
forces moved into the field this
week, deploying into tactical pos
itions in the preliminary phase
of the great joint Army-Air Force
maneuver “Southern Pine” sched
uled to start Moni^ay, August 13.
The move brought some 8,000
men of the more than 10,000 Ag
gressor troops from the Camp
Mackall bivouac to the western
area of Fort Bragg. The action
was completed in less than two
days, avoiding main highways as
much as possible. Some 2,000 Ser
vice Command units remained on
Mackall.
During the coming week the
fighting forces will rehearse for
the coming warfare, which will
serve to train some 160,000 troops
of the Aggressor and “U. S.”
Forces in action as realistic as
possible without an actual enemy
on hand.
The tactical units will return
briefly to their home stations
shortly before X-Day. Just what
action will initiate the maneuver
is not known except to a handful
of top-level planners. The action
is free on the part of the “T. S.”
comm.ander. He will have a dead
line for attack. If he does not do
so, he can expect an attack from
the Aggressors — though from
what quarter, and how it will
come, he may not know.
Exercise Shortened
The maneuvers', originally
scheduled to last three weeks,
have been cut short by one week
as several major units are to be
sent overseas. One of these is the
28th Infantry division', which will
General Gross
I
Gets His Star,
By Congress’ Act
Brig. Gen. William M. Gross,
commandant of the USAF-
Ground Operations school at
Highland Pines Inn, was promo
ted to this rank from that of col
onel; by act of Congress last Fri
day.
emu io tureauy wen Known to General Gross came here two
many here. He is a graduate of ■' ago to assume command of
the Sanford High school, where school. He has taken a home
he played in the band and wasi®"^ Valley road, owned by Mrs.
drum major for four years, and Ramsey, and will move
of Wake Forest college, where he!y® family from Langley
majored in science, and was in
the band and the college sym- — „ v-umucu, m-
phony orchestra. For the past two ficer in World War 2, led the first
years he has been science teach- ""
er and coach at Deep River High
school in Lee county. He was
Large Field Seen
F orSandhillsOpen;
Cobb Will Return
ihis family from Langley AFB
Va., within two or three weeks.
General Gross, as a combat of-
of the famous and historic
Schweinfurt raids, which deliver
ed knockout blows to the great
married last Saturday to Miss German ball-’-aearing industry
Jean Porter Lloyd of Sanford, j "which hastened the end of the
Miss Winifred Bodie, of; war.
Thomasville, will teach music and
direct the glee club, succeeding
Miss Barbara Young, who resign
ed to be married. Miss Bodie has
thi>ee music degrees, the latest
one from Columbia university,
and a dozen years of teaching and
supervisory experience. She was
music teacher in the High Point
city schools for 10 years, and for
the past two years has been music
supervisor in the Rocky Mount
city schools.
The rest of the high school fac
ulty remains the same as last year.
In Elementary School
Miss Florabelle McIntyre, of
Maxton, will teach one of the two
first grades. A graduate of Wom
an’s college, she has taught for
the past four years in the Reids-
ville city schools.
Miss Geneva Applewhite will
teach one of the second grades.
She is a graduate of Queens col
lege at Charlotte, and for the past
three years has taught at Laurin-
burg.
Miss Maydelie Kennedy will
teach the other second grade. She
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Heading the lead group in the
first raid. General Gross returned
“on a wing and a prayer”—^the tip
of one wing missing, and with
only two ships remaining of his
original group of 18.
After the cessation of hostilities,
the First Combat Wing, with
Gross flying the lead ship, airlift
ed more than 10,000 American and
Allied prisoners of war from
Barth, Germany, to England in
48 hours on clockwork schedule,
receiving the highest commenda
tion.
A graduate of the United States
Military academy, class of 1934,
General Gross is one of the few
Air Force officers to achieve im
portant posts in both tactical and
strategic, as well as Troop Car
rier, Commands. These assign
ments included assistant chief of
staff, A-3 (operations); Eighth
Air Force Service Command; chief
of staff. Ninth Air Force (Troop
Carrier Command); and assistant
chief of staff. Tactical Air Com
mand, which is commanded by
Lieut. Gen. John K. Cannon; and
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A fine turnout from many towns
in the Carolinas is expected for
the Third Annual Sandhills Open
Tennis tournament, which will be
held on the Southern Pines muni
cipal courts August 22-26.
A considerably larger field is-
anticipated than in last year’s ex
cellent tournament. The annual
event is sponsored by the Sand
hills Tennis association.
The Civic club building will
serve as headquarters for the tour
nament, through the generous 'of
fer of the directors of the club.
Players in Raleigh, Sanford,
Durham, Goldsboro and Chapel
Hill, among others, have shown
interest and players are expected
to enter from each of these towns,
according to Harry Lee Brown, Jr.
tournament chairman. At least 10
players from Raleigh, seven times
champion in the Eastern Carolina
League series, are expected to
take part.
Among early entries is Whit
Cobb of Durham, runner-up in the
men’s singles last year and a fa
vorite in state tennis circles. He
received last January the trophy
awarded by the Southern Inter
collegiate association as “athlete
of the year” for 1950.
Last year’s men’s singles win
ner, Lieut. Bill Stack, one-time
Davis Cup player for Austria, will
not be able to defend his title, as
he is in Korea. However, Audrey
West Brown of Southern Pines
will be present to defend her
crown in the women’s singles.
Dr. Fred West, “the tennis-
playing parson,” 1951 Wake coun
ty champion and former winner
of the Texas State Open, will be
among the players from Raleigh.
He is pastor of the Hillsboro
Street Christian church of the
capital city. Other members of
the Raleigh team expected are
Jerry Robinson, C. R. Council and
Charlie Morris, also a former
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ern defense troops in Europe, first
returning to its base at Camp At-
(Continued on Page 5)
250 Miles of
Convoys Bringing
Two Divisions
Approximately 250 miles of
convoy serials—if all of them are
placed end to end—will be con
verging on this area from Sunday
until the start of the maneuver
Exercise Southern Pine.
They will consist of more than
4,500 vehicles bringing troops of
the 43rd Infantry division from
Camp Pickett, Va., and the 28th
Infantry division from Camp At-
terbury, Ind., to Fort Bragg.
The 28th division, which will
leave its home station in six daily
movements held its final review
at Camp Atterbury Wednesday
morning, to the accompaniment
of movie cameras grinding out
film for possible use in a forth-
conaing Mario Lanza film. The
review took on extra drama in
view of the fact that the 28th will
be sailing for Europe soon.
A large part of the 28th will be
transported by train, according
ito a report received Thursday
from Col. John Oliver, maneuver
transportation director at Fort
Bragg. The rest will travel in 2,-
000 vehicles, traveling on US
Highway 74 to Laurinburg, US
15A to Fayetteville, and on into
the encampment area.
All of the 43rd will travel by
convoy, traveling on US Highway
1 to Raleigh, 15A fo Lillington
then over NC Highway 210 to the
bivouac area.
Civilians driving on these roads
are cautioned not to pass, or to
break into motor convoys passing
through city streets. Motor con
voys will he spaced at short inter
vals, epecially in congested areas,
and will be widely spaced on the
highways in order to allow civ
ilian vehicles to pass.
There will be Highway Regula
ting Points, (HRP’s) staffed by
transportation office personnel to
regulate the spacing of convoys.
As nearly as possible, all convoy
travel is scheduled to terminate
in bivouac areas during afternoon
hours.