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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. AUGUST 10. 1951 16 PAGES THIS WEEK
PRICE—10 CENTS
Irrested For
5gal Sale In
ore ABC Raids
i.¥e More Taken
i Montgomery
srder Clean-Up
PRESENTATION
iniy and federal officers,
ig out early Sunday morn-
Dunded up a total of 15 per-
vvhite and Negro, in various
of the county whom they
charged with violations of
'ohibition laws.
Charles S. Hopla, of the
pass Service station, was
2d with selling wine on
ly; another, J. S. Assad, of
few England camp. Manly,
Belling beer on Sunday. All
hers were charged with il-
possession and sale of either
d or nori-taxpaid whiskey,
anufacturing was involved,
nty ABC Law Enforcement
r C. A. McCallum said the
s were made on the basis
lercover investigation which
ued from April 22 to the
f the arrests. While some li-
svidence was picked up at
place, no large quantities
secured, the largest being
cases of “white liquor” tak-
the home of Richard Brown,
Southern Pines. Brown was
Ked as a “wholesaler”
as most of the others were
o be “retailers.”
he Sunday sale cases. Of- i
An Oak Leaf Cluster to the
Distinguished Service medal
■will be presented to Brig.
Gen. Pearson Menoher, dep-
ut'y post commander at Fort
Bragg, during a retreat re
view to be held on the Main
Post parade ground today
(Friday) at 4:45 p. m.
The presentation will be
made by Lieut. Gen. John R.
Hodge, commanding general
of the Third Army.
Lieut. Gen. John W. Leon
ard, Fort Bragg post comman
der, has issued an invitation .
to all persons in the Fort
Bragg area to attend the re
view.
Gleneral MIenoher will re
ceive the medal for action in
Korea while he was assistant
commander of the 241h div
ision. The General and his
wife have been residents of
Southern Pines since early
last fall.
Legion Resumes
Hospitality For
Soldier Guests
The upstairs “bunk room” of
the American Legion hall, ■which
housed hundreds of soldiers vis
iting here during World War 2,
has been reopened for the use of
servicemen here during the man
euver period, it was announced
this week by Commander F. M.
Press And Visitors’
Bureau Opens At
Hollywood Hotel
Correspondents And
Top Observers Will
See Maneuvers
yicCallum said a number of j Dwight of the Sandhills post
protests Had been made!
department.
defendants were carried be-
ustice of the Peace H. P.
at Carthage, and all made
for their appearance in re-
s court Monday, August 27.
rating in the raids were
' and state ABC officers,
entatives of the federal
Continued on Page 5)
The post’s house committee,
composed of Shields Cameron,
Don Hurst and Carl Klabbatz,
have prepared the room for a
new season of hospitality to
stranded soldiers, rebuilding the
bunks and fetching out equip
ment which has been stored
against emergency use.
The bunk room provided sleep-
(Continued on Page 5)
Activity got under way this
week at the Hollywood hotel,
which has been closed since June,
as the military took over in prep
ara'tion for the press and other
special guests expected for the
maneuvers August 13-27.
The resort hotel will serve as
press headquarters and a visitors’
bureau for Exercise Southern
Pine, largest maneuver since
World War 2, a joint Army-Air
Force training operation climax
ing the preparation of thousands
of troops for their transfer over
seas.
Correspondents, photographers
and special observers will make
their home at the Hollywood, be
ing extendd every courtesy by the
armed services to make their stay
a pleasant one, while being trans
ported daily to the maneuver
area.
Invited By Pentagon
Invitations have been sent out
from the Pentagon, from an in
vitation list prepared in the pub
lic relations department. Just
who has been invited or who has
accepted, had not been learned by
military authorities here this
week.
However, The Pilot was inform
ed, it is anticipated that represen
tatives of newspapers interested
in special units will arrive this
weekend. They will send to their
home papers news of such units
as the great 28th and 43rd Nation
al Guard divisions, composed
mainly of Pennsylvania and New
Englanders, whose final seasoning
(Continued on Page 5)
Jefferson Inn Changes Hands
'If
... "
Town Board Passes
Tested Law Against
Door-to-Door Selling
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Holtzclaw, former owners and operators of
the Hotel Raeford at Raeford, are the new owners of the Jefferson
Inn, well-known resort hotel on New Hampshire avenue.
W. W. Sherifian Sells Jefferson Inn
To Mr. and Mrs« Oscar Holtzclaw
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Above—four little boys working hard at making themselves better understood: from left, Billy
, Charles Jones, Jimmie Jones and Wayne Kelly, with Miss Flora Kelly, their speech improve-
;eacher, at the Southern Pines school.
Below, little Carolyn Sea well of Aberdeen cheerfully works to overcome a host of troubles
ng from spastic paralysis. Helping Carolyn at the speech improvement workshop is Mrs. Shields
(Photos by Emerson Humphrey)
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Teachers Helping
15 Children In
Speech Workshop
some
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Talking is the easiest thing
peope do, but others have
a hard time making themselves
understood, which raises a big
barrier between them and the
world.
Fifteen children of the Southern
Pines-Aberdeen area are getting
help in removing this barrier—
slight for some, greater for others
—at the first speech improvement
workshop ever held in Moore
county, now under way in a six-
weeks course at the Southern
Pines elementary school.
Their troubles range all the way
from a little boy’s lisp to the se
vere difficulties encountered by
a child with the muscular non
coordination of spastic paralysis.
Other troubles receiving indivi
dual treatment, with special ex
ercises for each child, are stut
tering, sound substitution—such
as “w” or “1” for “r”; poor articu
lation, or missing articulation,
where some sounds cannot be
made at all.
Several such workshops are be
ing held throughout the state,
(Continued on Page 14)
Well-Known Resort
Hotel Goes Back
To Early Days
The Jefferson Inn, 40-year-old
resort hotel on West New Hamp
shire avenue, was sold this week
by W. W. Sherman, of West Hart
ford, Conn., to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Holtzclaw, operators of the Hotel
Raeford, at 'Raeford, for the past
five years.
Sale price was $40,000 for the
two-story hotel, containing 30
guest rooms and 23 baths, situated
on a spacious lawn; all equipment
and furnishings of the building,
and the “Annex,” two-apartment
brick building in the rear contain-,
ing the steamheating plant.
Mr. and Mrs. Holtzclaw, who
previously operated hotels at
Cedartown, Ga., and Walterboro,
S. C. took possession' this ■wfeek.
They will do considerable reno
vation and some remodeling be
fore the inn opens in the fall, in
corporating two or three apart-
General Officers
At USAFAGOS
Three Air Force generals, a rep
resentative of the Royal Canadian
Navy, key numbers of the Nation
al Guard units throughout the U.
S., together with regular Army
and Air Force personnel were
among the student officers taking
the weekly indoctrination course
this week at USAF Air-Ground
Operations school at Highland
Pines Inn, commanded by Brig.
Gen. William M. Gross.
Maj. Gen. Robert W. Douglass,
Jr., commanding general of the
Eighteenth Air Force, Troop Car
rier; Brig. Gen. Haywood S. Han
sel!, Headquarters USAF; Brig.
Gen. A. L. McCullough, command
ing general, 514th 'Troop Carrier
Wing, Mitchell AFB; and Lieut.
Comdr. H. J. G. Bird, Royal Can
adian Navy, are among the dis
tinguished U. S. and Canadian
student officers receiving instruc
tion in air-ground operations at
‘USAFAGOS,” a school unparal
leled in U. S. military history.
Key personnel of the armed
services, including commanding
generals, are sent through classes'
in modern tactical warfare, taught
jointly by Army-Air Force com
bat-experienced instructors.
ments in the hotel building.
The Holtzclaws are well known
and highly regarded in hotel
circles, according to Mrs. J. J.
Banigan, who with her husband
has managed the Jefferson Inn
since last September, and who
served as agent for the sale trans
action, assisted by W. Lament
Brown as attorney.
Mr. and Mrs. Banigan, who
came to Southern Pines from
Rhode Island, have taken an
apartment at 180 North May
street and will remain as resi
dents here, they said this week.
Mrs. Banigan also acted as agent
for W. W. Sherman, owner, in the
sale of the Southern Pines Coun
try club to the Elks Home, Inc.,
last December.
Mr. Sherman bought Jefferson
Inn, rated as one of the leading
small hotels in the East, in the fall
of 1946, several months after pur
chasing the Country club.
The Inn dates back to about
1912, when J. S. Reynolds remod
eled two frame buildings into one
long rambling structure, gave it
the name it bears today and open
ed it as a hotel. During the en
suing years he did considerable
remodeling and improvement of
the building, finished the exterior
in Spanish-type plaster, and land
scaped the grounds. About 1944
he sold it to E. H. Mills and
J. F. Carter. Carter later bought
out Mills’ interest,, and in 1946
sold to Sherman.
J. B. Gifford was manager dur
ing the two years of ownership
by Mills and Carter (then Carter
(Continued on Page 8)
WATER BONDS
The immediate sale of $20.-
000 worth of water and sewer
bonds, to serve the needs of
this fast-growing community,
was authorized by the town
commissioners Wednesday
night.
Ce;rtMication of the issue
by the bond attorneys was
presented to the board, which
decided last March to proceed
with needed expansion of the
water and sewer lines. Some
of the ■work has already been
done and more contracted for,
chiefly ser^ving new residen
tial developments.
Mr. Burns estimated the
number of water service con
nections since January 1, 1949,
at about 200, "two-thirds of
them in the past year. There
have been a dozen in the past
two weeks."
The board agreed also to re
quest the CP&L for street
lights needed in the new
Knollwood Apartment section,
Town Takes Action
On Fluoridation
And Health Clinic
Car Hits Cameron
Depot, Soldier’s
Wife Is Killed
V-J BALL
Moore County veterans and
their families will salute V-J
Day with a ball, to be held
Tuesday evening in the Pine-
hurst American Legion hall,
on the Pinehurst-Aberdeen
road.
Paul Gray, formerly with
Harry James, and his orches
tra will play for the event,
a "scrip" dance open to the
public. The A. B. Sally, Jr.,
post, American Legion, of
Pinehurst, is host for this
year's celebration.
The dedication of the Pine
hurst Legion hall and pres
entation of the colors, origi
nally planned to be held at
this time, has been postponed
until fall, according to Char
les W. Swoope of Pinehurst,
general chairman.
The wife of a Negro soldier sta
tioned at Fort Bragg was believed
instantly killed early Sunday
morning, ■w'hen her car struck
the Seaboard station at Cameron
with an impact which knocked
the frame building several inches
off its base.
Mrs. Frances Cameron, 28,
came over the hill which drops
to an abrupt curve at the sta
tion, and apparently failed to
see it in time. The car was
“smashed together like an accor
dion,” observers said. A Sanford
ambulance rushed her to the Lee
county hospital, where she was
pronounced dead on arrival, and
the funeral director gave it as his
belief she had died at once. “Her
injuries were such I do not be
lieve she could have lived a min
ute,” he said.
Bennie Wells, of Sanford,
Seaboard night operator at
the station, was in the building
at the time it was dealt the ter
rific blow. He was uninjured.
Mrs. Pearson was the wife of
Sgt. H. L. Pearson, of the 524th
Training battalion. She had spent
Saturday evening with her moth
er-in-law, who was visiting in
Troy from Birmingham, Ala., and
was returning to Fort Bragg about
1 a. m. when the accident occur
red.
The body was shipped to Chat
tanooga, Tenn., for burial. Coro
ner H. P. Kelly ruled the death
accidental.
The gouthern Pines town board
took action Wednesday night in
two matters dealing with the
community’s health. In both Dr.
J. W. Willcox, county health offi
cer, who had been especially in
vited to the meeting, offered
helpful comments.
The commissioners voted un
animously to ask the permission
of the State Board of Health to
treat the city’s filtered water
with fluoride, in order to have
the preliminaries completed in
case fluoridation is found practi
cal here. This permission is nec
essary for the installation, and
the State Department of Health
keeps a continuous eye on the
process once it is installed.
Dr. Willcox informed the board
that the Moore County Medical
society, after discussing the flu
oridation process from all angles
several weks ago, had given it un
animous endorsement.
Dr. R. B. Warlick, a member of
the Mayor’s committee for the
study of fluoridation, reported the
investigation is continuing, and
read a letter from Dr. Zachary
(Continued on Page 8)
Junior Open And
Junior-Senior
Tennis Next Week
Two tennis tournaments for
young people will be held on the
municipal courts next week, start
ing Monday, sponsored by the
Sandhills Tennis association with
cooperatio of the city recreation
program.
The Junior Sandhills Open will
have events for boys and girls up
to 14 years of age, and for juniors
15 to 18. A handsome trophy for
junior boys is being donated by
the National Guard. Other tro
phies, for winners and runners-up,
will be provided by the Sandhills
Tennis association.
The Junior-Senior Doubles
tournament, first of its kind ever
to be held here, will go forward
at the same time, with separate
evnts and trophies. In this tour
nament, the young people will be
paired in doubles with adult play
ers of experience, in order to
sharpen their game—though, some
members of the STA suggest, it
might work the other way
around.
Partners have already been
picked in several instances, but
where this has not occurred, the
sponsors will arrange partner
ships.
For both tournaments, registra
tion may be made at the Fox Hole.
This should be done by the close
of the recreation hours Saturday,
so that pairings may be made
Monday morning and players no
tified in time to start their match
es Monday afternoon.
Residential Areas
Protected; Citizens
Asked To Cooperate
The Southern Pines town board
has adopted a foolproof ordinance
against door-to-door solicitation
—and now it is up to the people to
see that it is enforced, by report
ing violations direct to the city
police
The law is foolproof by virtue
of the fact that it is the same one
upheld by the U. S. Supreme
Court, in a test case taken up
through the lower courts from a
Louisiana town last May.
The ordinance was adopted by
the town commissioners in
monthly session Wednesday night
as an amendment to the one al
ready on the town books, which
failed of court sanction in its first
trial at Carthage several weeks
ago. It ordains that solicitors, ped
dlers, itinerant merchants or
transient vendors of merchandise,
books, magazines or photographs,
visiting residences uninvited to
sell or take orders for thpir wares,
are committing a nuisance and
misdemeanor, punishable as such.
The law has become famous as
the “Green River” ordinance,
named for the Wyoming town
which first passed it in the 1930s.
Since then this, or a similar law,
has been adopted by a number of
towns throughout the nation, but
its constitutionality was always
in doubt, until a magazine sales
man lent himself to a test case
which went to the highest tribu
nal in the land.
Southern Pines adopted a some
what similar law thr^ or four
years ago, following citizen pro
tests against aggressive magazine
and photograph salesmen. It pro
vided that such solicitors had to
secure a town permit before com
mencing operations—and these
permits were hard, or impossible,
'to get.
A Charlotte saleswoman ,for a
religious publidation,' arrested
here last spring for peddling her
periodical without a permit, con
tested the law in recorders court
on grounds of freedom of religion
and freedom of the press. She got
off scot-free.
Rather than test this law in a
higher court, the Southern Pines
town board instructed the town
atorneys to investigate the “Green
River” law, which had just met
the highest court test in the na
tion successfully.
Its chief advantage is that no
permit is involved, or possible; in
stead of informing the town clerk,
the householder deals directly
with the police, who can take im
mediate action, terminating the
solicitation at once. They can ar
rest “on information and belief,”
for violation of the ordinance.
Its disadvantage is that it cov
ers only residences, not business
places. The difference, explained
Town Attorney Harry Fullenwi-
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TOWN LIABILITY
If you or your car gets hit
by a city-owned vehicle, don't
Worry—on the financial
score, at least. Insurance is in
effect, to take care of such
contingencies.
It hasn't been long since no
town Wcis liable in case of
such accident. However, the
1951 General Assembly pass
ed an act removing this gov
ernmental immunity, except
where municipalities specifi
cally resolve to retain it.
By the simple act of pass
ing no such resolution, and
by taking out insurance, a
to^wn assumes liability, pro
tecting not only the public
but itself, it was explained to
the town board Wednesday
night by Town Attorney
Harry Fullenwideir. "All you
have to do is sit tight," he
said. "The General Ass^nbly
did all the work."
From Town Clerk Howard
F. Burns it was ascertained
that the To^wn of Southern
Pines has had insurance to
take care of such, accidents,
for the past two <a three
years.