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THIRD AMNUAL SANDHILLS OPEN AUGUST 22-26 THIRD ANNUAL SANDHILLS OPEN AUGUST 22-26 32—NO. 39 12 PAGES THIS WEEK SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1951 12 PAGES THIS WEEK PRICE—10 CENTS rtliage Water uiation Still In As Serious pDespite Help rom Local Plant , nd Third Army [ • Ag Carthage, suffering from gravated case of dryness of Toat, is receiving emergency aent which helps relieve the toms without getting near rurce of the trouljle, in the ssed opinion of a number of aginians this week, ng for long periods without ^ater at all ,and with its new plant some weeks short of etion, the town has for more i month been trucking water the Southern Pines plant, at resent rate of about 40,000 is a day. ^or Arch L. Barnes, appeal- Governor W. Kerr' Scott a ago, received immediate n the form of a transmission request to Third Army uarters. Soldiers sent to rea on maneuvers have ar- and set up a mobile purifica- mit beside Mayor Barnes’ new fish, pond. The unit, normal production capacity ,000 to 160,000 gallons daily, ogged up almost at once on srtilizer in the pond, and a iratively thin trickle of 15,000 gallons a day has jmerging. heir “Operation Moisture” )ldiers say they expect to he trouble cleared up in two ee days, with a considerable ng-up of the output. 7Ctr Is Up h al] these efforts, plus some rains in the past few days, ; Continued on Page 8) Meetings Lt Weekend; me Will Speak ng Democrats of Moore and the district will be ig next week end, with im- it doings on the agenda for their two major ’annual Moore County YDC will Friday evening, August 24, ’clock at the courthouse in ige. Officers will be elected, degates to the state conven- amed. Eighth District meeting will Id in the form of a buffet r Saturday evening, August the Southern Pines Country Congressman C. B. Deane of igham will be the main ;r, a'ccording to the an- ement of President Nelson 1 of Scotland county, who reside. orsement of Bill Staton, of •d, the Eighth district’s hte for state YDC presi- are expected to be part of enda at each meeting, he election of county offi- is anticipated the presiden- y swing back in its turn to luthern end of the county, nently mentioned to succeed ? McPherson, of Cameron, t president, is Al Cruce, for st year president of the Ab- 1 YDC, and active in county iffairs for several years. “Congratulations, General!” Moore Golf Finals Will Be Played Friday, Sunday Wallace Sets New Course Record, Will Meet McConnell Mayor C. N. Page of Southern Pines, right, congratulates Brig. Gen. Pearson Menoher, deputy post commander, on receiving his second Distinguished Service medal, and the Presidential Unit cita tion for action in Korea with the 24th Infantry division. Looking on is Mayor Joe Talley, Jr., of Fayetteville. The presentation was made on the post last Friday. General and Mrs. Menoher are residents of Southern Pines. (Army photo) Youth Sentenced For Burning Auto, Insurance Fraud A 17-year-old farm youth, Ross C. Brown of Raeford Rt. 3, plead ed nolo contendere in supetihr court at Carthage Wednesday to charges of burning an auto' and falsely claiming the insurance. He was sentenced by Judge Don K. Moore of Sylva to 18 to 24 months in the youth prison camp at Albemarle. , Prosecuting witness was State Highway Patrolman H. F. Deal of Southern Pines, who indicted the youth May 10, following an ex tensive investigation, for burning his car at Manly, Sunday after noon, March 4. C. C. Duncan, a state insurance investigator, read Brown’s confession, which had been secured by Patrolman iJeal and C. C. Wimberly after ques tioning the youth. In the confession Brown told of parking the car at Manly and sit ting in it “waiting for the high way to clear.” When it did, he said, he poured gas on the front seat from a can he had purchased earlier, go|: out and threw a light ed match inside. “When I got the car to burning,” he related, “I de cided I had done the wrong thing and tried to put it out by chunk ing sand on the fire, but couldn’t . . . I started walking towards town.” On his way into Southern Pines the fire truck passed him, but he kept on going and went to the home of a relative. On the relative’s advice, he went to the Southern Pines police station and reported the loss of his car by fire. Southern Pines volunteer fire men were puzzled at finding a car burning at white heat, v/ith no owner in sight. The patrol- (Continued on Page 5) >st Decorated Colonel Here On Military Observer Team RECREATION The city summer recreation program is heading into its final glorious week. This week, it centers around the two tennis tourna ments, with the dance being held Thursday night. Next week, the regular schedule will be followed for all events, said Lynn H. Led- den, director. Then, Friday afternoon, there will be a giant swimming . party and wiener roast for all who have taken part in any of the sum mer events—kids, volunteer assistants and all. Buses will leave the town park for Aber deen lake at 4:30 p. m., to carry those without other means of transportation. That evening a semi-formal dance will be held at the school cafeteria, starting at 8 o'clock. Hyman Carter Is Critically Hurt In 4-Story Fall John D. McConnell of Southern Pines will meet C. B. Wallace, Jr., of Pinehurst in finals of the Moore County Golf Championship at the Pine Needles Sunday, tee ing off at 1:15 p. m. First flight finalists A. C. Daw son, Jr., Southern Pines, and M. C. Hufford, Pinehurst, will tee off at 1 o’clock. Chester I. Williams, tournament manager, invites the public to see the final matches, which, if they are as exciting as the preliminary bouts concluded this week, will provide a never-to-be-forgotten golfing memory. Mrs. Laura Menoher will play Mrs. Constance Mathe- son at 9:30 a. m. today (Fri day) in the women's finals, having defeated Kitty Wiley 5 and 4 in semifinals while Mrs. Matheson defeated Mrs. M. Evans 6 and 4. An exhibition match Sun day. August 26, will climax the tournament, largest ,of its kind ever held here. Pro Leo Walper will play the winner. Pro Eddie Dodson the runner- up, on the Pine Needles course. A dutch party will follow at Parhaven where where trophies and prizes will be awarded. McConnell started off by top pling the defending champion, and since then his rise has been Bill Woodward, in the first round, steady. In semifinals this week he defeated Jack Carter of South ern Pines, 3 and 2. Wallace, in defeating Jim Bes- ley. Southern Pines, in the semi finals set a new course record for amateurs on bermuda greens—35 on the front nine holes, 30 on the back for an unbelievbale 65. Bes- (Continued on Page 8) ng the first guests arriving y at the Exercise Southern Visitors Bureau (Hollywood was Col. John Corley, most ited colonel in the U. S. and at the time of his pro- 1 from lieutenant colonel in the youngest. 37-year-old officer, who re- from Korea in February, of an eight-man team from iJonroe, 'Va., observing the vers for a comprehensive to Gen. Mark Clark, chief ny Field Forces. nel Corley wears two Le- )f Merit awards, the Sol- medal, four Bronze Stars, arple Heart and the four- 3 of both Belgium and . He is a veteran of 12 cam- altogether, in World War 2 and in Korea, where he com manded the 25th Infantry regi ment of the 24th division. The team, headed by General Makin, who is staying at the Fort Bragg Visitors Bureau, will be here all week, making daily ex cursions to the maneuver area. Besides General Makin,-the group consists of two colonels and five lieutenant colonels, all veterans of extensive combat experience. According to Colonel Corley, whose achievements have been widely publicized, his chief claim to fame consists not in his out size collection of awards but his young army of five children. “T think I ought to have some sort of award for that, don’t you?” grinned the sandy-haired, boyish- looking West Pointer. He lives at Fort Monroe with his wife Mary and the quintet. Hyman L. Carter, 28, son of Mrs. Mary E. Carter of 560 North May street, was critically injured Tuesday, August 7, in a four-story fall in Washington, D. C. The same week the news of the accident reached his mother, she learned that her younger son, Pfc. Wilmer A. Carter, of Camp Camp bell, Ky., had had polio, but was recovering. Hyman, a painter, was working on a scaffold at the Broadmoore hotel when he leaned over to ad just a rope, holding to'a protru ding brick in the wall. The brick crumbled and he plunged to the street. He is in Emergency hospital, where doctors have not yet de termined the full extent of his in juries. Both heels, both knees and his pelvic bones are broken, and his left hip and arm shattered. He is only occasionally conscious. Mrs. Carter and her daughters, Mrs. Rebecca Mulholland and Mrs. Richard Yow, drove to Washington Tuesday night on re ceipt of the message. They re turned home later in the week, but Mrs. Carter plans to go back to Washington soon. Hyman attended Southern Pines High school, leaving here about 10 years ago. He is married and has a two-yesir-old son. Pfc. Wilmer Carter, also mar ried, has been released from the hospital and is now at his home at Camp Campbell, after several weeks’* treatment for polio. His case is said to have been a light one but by his wish the news was kept from his mother, to prevent her worrying while he was under going treatment. He is with the 11th Airborne division. Junior Tennis Finals Slated Friday, Saturday State Champions Will Play In Sandhills Open Next Week VIPs At Hollywood For Maneuver; Foreign Correspondents Expected The usually staid and demure Hollywood hotel hardly knows itself these days. Its block has be come a one-way street, to facili tate the constant movement of staff cars, jeeps and military buses. One-way signs have been placed at either end of theT block and MP sentries are on guard fc enforce them. Inside, teletypes are clacking busily, and the place is alive with Army and Air Porce officers, with a sprinkling of newsmen and photographers. For three weeks starting last Sunday, the hotel will be an ac tive Maneuver 'Visitors Bureau, host to correspondents and mili- Gen. Mark Clark At First Briefing Session Here Finals in two tennis tourna ments now under way here will be held Friday and Saturday nights under the lights, with one event scheduled for Saturday afternoon. In the Junior Sandhills Open, finals in boys’ singles (up to 14 years of age) will be held at 8 o’clock Friday, followed by the girls’ singles at 9 o’clock; boys’ doubles Saturday at 4, and junior boys’ singles at 8. Finals in the Junior-Senior Doubles, in which youngsters are teamed with adults, will be held at 9 o’clock Saturday evening, the masculine and feminine events go ing forward simultaneously on adjoining courts. All trophies will be awarded at the close of the doubles events, about 10 o’clock Saturday night. An enthusiastic entry of young people was seen in both tourna ments, which are sponsored by the recreation program in cooper ation with the Sandhills Tennis association. Boys from the ele mentary grades provided the .big gest number of entries, and elim inations were progressing at mid week with much zip and zest, also considerable skill. Boys’ singles started Monday afternoon with 21 entries; girls’ singles Tuesday afternoon, with nine; boys’ doubles ’Wednesday morning with eight teams and junior boys’ singles (15 to 18) years Wednesday afternoon with seven entries. There were not enough en tries ■ in girls’ doubles, mixed doubles, junior boys’ doubles or any junior girls’ events to include these on the already tight sched ule. The Junior-Senior Doubles tour nament started off Wednesday afternoon with so many entries among the younger boys that a number of the men players are taking on two partners, for sepa rate events. This is apt to cause complications toward the finals. Events for girls were due to start Thursday afternoon, with six or seven teams in play. Dashing and debonair Gen. Mark W. Clark, Chief of Army Field Forces, spoke informally'^ in greeting to a roomful of news and military men at the Hollywood ho tel Monday night, opening the first briefing of Exercise Southern Pine in the “war room” of the Ma neuver Visitors’ Bureau. Handsomer than ever with a touch of grey at the temples, the commanding general of World War 2’s Italian campaigns had spent the opening day of the giant maneuver on the “battlefront.” He would be there Tuesday also, and check back and forth several times during the two-week exercise, “chiefly to observe the combat readiness of the three great divi sions soon to go overseas, the 82nd Airborne, the 28th Infantry and 43rd Infantry.” His information would be used in determining spe cific points for their additional training overseas, he said. Lieut. Gen. John R. Hodge, com manding general of ’the Third Army, maneuver director, inform ed the group, “This is no razzle- dazzle maneuver with a lot of fan cy stuff, but a straight training exercise, kept as simple as we can make it, to bring out certain things we want.” Maj. Gen. W. R. Wolfinbarger, commanding general of the Ninth Air Force, deputy maneuver direc- (Continued on Page 5) CpI. Waddell, 18, Reported Youngest Tank Commander tary observers on assignment to Exercise Southern Pine. The giant maneuver got under way at 5:30 a. m. Monday. Early arrivals among the news papermen included Charles Cord- dry, United Press aviation editor; Edward T. Joyner, of the United Press at Raleigh; Carlos Kumpe, Charlotte Observer; Newton Ful- bright, reporter, and Ira Rosen berg, photographer, with the N. Y. Herald Tribune. Planeload! Coming Arriving Monday by a special plane from Washington, to gather the story of the maneuver’s cli mactic final week for the great American public, will be a battery of newspaper, magazine, radio and newsreel representatives; two State Department staff members, and correspondents of foreign (NATO) publications, haling from France, England, Italy, Luxem bourg, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Denmark and Iceland. Three correspondents of north ern papers, especially interested in the 28th and 43rd Infantry di visions, are living, sleeping, and eating with the men in the field. Living soldiers’ lives, they are granted no-immunity as neutrals. If captured by Aggressor forces, their copy output ceases. For those staying at the Holly wood, teletypes have been pro vided by Western Union for direct transmission of their copy to New York. Briefings are held twice daily in the “war room” and transportation is provided to take the correspondents and observers to the maneuver area at any time. By midweek a great deal of copy had been filed covering phases of the action all along a seven-mile front, and from the air. Nuclear Physicists Four nuclear physicists are among the Hollywood’s guests this week, observing for the At omic Energy Commission. Among military observers on hand for the start of the maneu vers, staying from three to 18 days, were an eight-officer team from headquarters of . the Army Field Forces, Fort Monroe, Va., acting for Gen. Mark W. Clark; and rdpresentatives of such wide spread service outfits as the Army War college at Carlyle Barracks, (Continued on Page 5) Galaxy of Stars Will Be Seen On Local Courts Cpl. Milton Waddell, an 18-yecg:- old colored youth of this commu nity, is believed to be the young est tank commander in Korea, ac cording to a release from the Third Infantry division, with which he is fighting. Corporal Waddell is with Com pany A of the division’s 64th Heavy Tank' battalion. He became a tank commander soon after passing his 18th birthday May 19. He is the son of Mr. an^ Mrs. Joe Waddell of 1092 West New Hampshire avenue. He entered the Army June 16, 1950, a couple of weeks after graduating from West Southern Pines High school. Completing basic training at Fort Knox, Ky., he had two weeks’ leave at home last October, then embarked from Seattle for Tokyo, Japan. He was sent with his unit to Korea in December. Since Feb ruary he has been in pretty con stant combat. He writes home frequently and his letters are cheerful, his mother says, except for showing a trace of homesickness now and then. According to the military release, “The youngster has seen some pretty exciting action. Recently his squad led an assault into the ‘Iron Trjnngle’ where his tank was subjected to fire from a Chinese antitank gun. He just had ■^he . big track wheeled around, and, with one blast, the enemy weapon was knocked out.” Books Open For Beer-Wine Vote Registration starts tomorrow, Saturday, to continue for three successive Saturdays for the countywide beer and wine elec tion set for Tuesday, September 11. Books will be open at the reg ular precinct polling places Au gust 18 and 25 and September 1, with Saturday, September 8, set aside as challenge day. Registra tion should be made during the assigned period by anyone whose name is not already on the county books, and who wishes to vote in this election. Anyone in doubt as to whether his name is on the books should consult his registrar by the final registration date, Sat urday, September 1. Little activity has been observ ed in connection with the beer- wine vote, in contrast with the tactics employed a- year ago, in connection with an election held subsequently invalidated by the State Supreme Court. The fact that four towns in Moore county are now eligible to hold their own special elections in case the county goes dry, is believed to have dampened the ardor of both sides for a real fight. “Doesn’t seem to matter much either way,” one observer—a wet, or maybe a dry—remarked the other day. Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Car thage and Aberdeen can hold their own elections, if the county goes dry, and must do so if legally petitioned. Two state women’s champions and a strong list of men players will be in the galaxy of stars play ing here next week in the Sand hills Open Tennis tournament, which in its third annual renewal is taking its place as one of the leading sports events of the Caro- linas. The field looks even better than that of last year’s successful tour nament, according to Harry Lee Brown,' Jr., tournament chairman of the sponsoring Sandhills Ten nis association. The seeding committee will have its troubles determining the relative standing of two feminine entries, Mrs. Sarah Rushton Wal ters of Greenville, S. C., and Miss Audrey West Brown, defending champion, of Southern Pines. Mrs. Walters holds both the Closed and Open titles in her state. Still in her early twenties, she is rated as one of the south’s leading players. Miss Brown is currently the two-time winner of the N. C. women’s singles title, three-time women’s doubles co-champion, and titleholder in Eastern (Caro lina women’s singles and mixed .doubles. A pretty good guess is that these two fine young women players will meet each other in the finals, providing a notable spec tacle for the large gallery expect ed to be present. The tournament will be held on the municipal courts Wednesday through Sunday, with play going on every day and under the lights at night. Tournament headquar ters will be at the Civic club just across the street. Men Contenders Again a leading contender for the men’s title will be Whit Cobb, of Durham, former South eastern Intercollegiate champion, runner-up in last year’s Sandhills Open and currently holder of the Eastern Carolina crown. Contesting him closely will be Jerrold Robinson of Raleigh, de fending champion in last week’s Eastern Carolina tournament at Rocky Mount and runner-up to Cobb in this year’s finals. They are former members of the David'son College tennis team. A newcomer to North Carolina tournament play who may dash off with all the honors, judging from advance reports, is Frank Spears of Greenville, S. C. Spears, now only 20, was last year’s South Carolina Intercollegiate champion. He recently defeated Bill Um- staedter of Abbeville, former South Carolina champion, in the Mid-Dixie tournament. He will enter the men’s events and also play in mixed doubles with Mrs. Walters, who writes that she fates him “one of the most promising players on the courts today—a Tennis-Playing Pastor Also an entrant for the men’s events is Dr. Fred West, pastor of (Continued on Page 8) WATER PAGEANT Date of the Red Cross water pageant, climaxing the sum mer swimming activities, has been set for Saturday,, Sep tember 1, it was announced by the chapter office this week, and the first tryout for swimmers will be held tomor row (Saturday) at 9:30 a.m. at Aberdeen lake. Any swimmers interested in participating, who have hot already been contacted by the Red Cross, are asked to come to the lake at this time. A large number of swim mers who have received in struction this summer and last under the Red Cross program, their instructors and others adept in water skills are ex pected to take part. An nouncement concerning the pageant events will be made later by Dr. John C. Grier, chapter water safety chair man.