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V Drive Carefully Watch Out For School Children Drive Carefully Watch Out For School Children 32—NO. 42 ool Enrollment On First Day, gest In History igular Schedule ader Way, No acher Vacancies ’ ;hern Pines schools opened sday with the largest first- irolhnent in history. A total boys and girls trooped to 530 in Southern Pines and West Southern Pines. Indi- were that these figures considerably increased the next few weeks, year’s total was 788—483 them Pines and 305 in West rn Pines. A. C. Dawson, Jr., report- Southern Pines a high enrollment of 123, as com* vith 113 last year. The larg- rease was seen in the ele- j department—407, as last year’s 370. crease was shown in West rn Pines but Principal loore said he expects 40 or e high school stud.ents and than 150 additional regis- in the grades, as soon as m crop needs lessen within ct month or so. High school lent on this year’s opening s 70, the sarnie as last year, or the grades it was 220. as ed with 235 last year. Graders -eight first graders start- lool in Southern Pines, the fourth grade remain- largest, with 76 pupils. En- by grades Wednesday follows: first, 48; second, id, 54; fourth, 76; fifth, 42; seventh, 38; and eighth, grades filled all 10 old classrooms and three new ones, with the fourth being reserved as a oom. chools opened with a full nent of teachers in all de its. Organizational meet- re held Tuesday afternoon, acher Announced •intendent Dawson the employment ontinued on Page 5) New Marines Finish Boot Camp \ w- PEG. HARRINGTON PEG. PAGE Two Southern Pines marines, Erank A. Harrington, 20, left, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Heller, and Andrew D. Page, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Page, were promoted to private first class when they graduated from boot camp at Parris Island, S. G., August 28. Both of the new Leathernecks from Southern Pines won the Marksmanship medal during their qualification firing of the .30 cali ber rifle. Andy was named color bearer of his platoon. Both came home on a 10-day leave and this weekend will go to their new assignment with a regular unit of the U. S. Marine Gorps. QUIET HOLIDAY As the accident casualty toll for the Labor Day week end rose in state and nation, Moore county law enforce ment officers could look with pride on the holiday record here: no accidents. There may have been a few minor ones but, as far as The Pilot could learn in checking with a number of officers, none were of reportable im portance, and there were few er even of these than on an average week end. ~ In regard to other violations of the law, both Southern Pines Chief C. E. Newton and Sheriff C. J. McDonald at Carthage reported, 'All quiet.' John Stephenson And Son Nearly Drown At Shallotte Queen Dorothy Gets Royal Welcome From Home Folks On Arrival Monday RECEPTION The Student Council of the Southern Pines High school will hold a reception.at 8:30 tonight (Friday) at the school cafeteria for the faculty,. the school board, parents and high school students. The event will be in the na ture of a greeting to old friends, a welcome to the new —a "get acquainted" affair for alL Ligon Will Be ^Installed Sunday; Father To Preach DOD HUNTING! n season for dove and el starts Saturday, Sep- »r 15, in North Carolina, ling to a reminder issu- »rtsmen this week by County Game Protec- W. McDonald, are split seasons. For the first period contin- hrough September 29: icond is January 1-15, or squirrel, the first pe- asts through October 1, he second continuing November 22 through ry 15. re is a reduced bag limit es this year, eight birds y and in possession in- >f 10 as last year. Shoot- >urs for doves will be loon to sunset each day season. The Rev. Gheves K. LigOn will be installed as minister of Brown- son Memorial Presbyterian church at a special service to be held at the church at 8 o’clock Sunday evening. A commission appointed by the Presbytery will conduct the in stallation, as follows: the Rev. G. W. Worth, of Aberdeen, who will preside; Dr. J. E. Ligon, of Mc- Coll,, S. G., who will deliver the sermon; Dr. Sam E. Howie of Eayetteville, who will charge the pastor, and the Rev. Eugene Alexander of Sanford, who will charge the congregation. Ruling elders from the congre gation who will take part will be Walter E. Blue and William P. Saunders. Dr. Ligon, who will deliver the special sermon for the event, is the father of the minister'he will help instal. He is a member of the faculty of Presbyterian Junior college at Maxton. Town Turns Out To Greei National Beauty Winner New York and Washington, D. G., turned themselves inside out to do her honor—and on Monday, the day of Dorothy Swisher’s ar rival home, the home town folks had their chance. . Through careful maneuvering by remote control on the part of the John Boyd auxiliary, the na tional beauty contest winner reached home Monday morning instead of in the middle of Sun day night, facilitating their ar rangements for a triumphal entry. The celebration reached two high peaks that day, the first at 11:30 a.m., on the city hall steps, when Dorothy was acclaimed Queen of Southern Pines, the sec ond time that night when Lieut. Gov. H. P. Taylor officiated at her second coronation in a week, at the Southern Pines Gountry club. Through all the hubbub Dorothy moved as calmly, smiling as ra diantly, as any real queen, yet with such charm and modesty that it was often said, “It couldn’t have happened to a nicer girl.’’ A motorcade of about a dozen cars, containing members of the John Boyd post and auxiliary, met Dorothy and her mother at the county line on their way home Monday morning. Dorothy was transferred to a convertible and a crown of white flowers placed on her hair. She wore a scarlet light (Gontinued on Page 5) Cross Stages Spectacular Show r Floodlights At Aberdeen Lake Service Stations Swap Locations, Everyhody Happy iwd estimated at some >cked to Aberdeen lake night, with more than number, including many 5 attending Sunday night, e second annual summer geant of the Moore Goun- er, American Red Gross, cular entertainment pre- nder brilliant floodlights, mday night performance sented in response to ming popular demand, non island erected in the U. S. Army Engineers ■t Bragg, also the water, the island and the shore, 5 an ample stage for the le island, adorned with s and shrubbery, extend- he diving platform to the participants in the show eir entrances and exits ong the trees or in the etween the supporting ow, billed as "Operation Pine—Adventures of was accompanied by a commentary, touched lor, by Dr. John G. Grier, lehurst, at the mike. Ap propriate music over the amplifi er also accompanied each scene. The spotlight veered from the dramatic sequences being enacted on and before the island to the diving platform, where between- scenes displays of fancy diving techniques were given. The show moved fast, present ing a lively and varied entertain ment which frequently moved the crowd to spontaneous. applause. Old-Time Suits Prelude to GI Joe’s adventures was a display of antiquated bath ing suits loaned by the Jantzen company, longtime manufactur ers of costumes for beach and swimwear. Those wr „er-wearables of past eras were modeled by a group of Pinehursl residents— Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Carter, Erank Mc- Caskill, Carolyn Nelson, Ralph Horner and Gail Hobson Satur day night ,and Mr. and Mrs. James Gilbert, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Lane and ’tto and Mrs. Carter Sunday nigjrhi Corporal Joe’s adventures were presented as a series of dream sequences, the visions of an Army (Continued on Page 5) Two local service station own^ ers entered into an unusual busi ness transaction, and accomplish ed an unusual feat, this week. They swapped stations, each one rnoving his entire business over into the other one’s place. The exchangers are L. H. Mc Neill, who has been in business for a number of years on the cor ner of West Broad and Vermont avenue, and George B. Little, who bought the Page Service station at East Broad and New Hamp shire a couple of years ago, and has been in business there since that time. The move was accomplished late Thursday and finishing touches are going on this week end. The same brand of gas will continue to be dispensed at each station, which means that Mr. McNeill is now supplying Gulf, and Mr. Little is supplying Purol. Both owners seemed well pleas ed at the change. It will give Mr. Little more room for the garage and body repair business in which he specializes. Mr. McNeill will be back at the location where he held his first service station job in Southern Pines, proprietor of the place where he was formerly employed by G. N. Page. J ohn ,H. Stephenson of Southern Pines aijd his son Galvin of Greensboro, narrowly missed drowning in a gallant rescue at tempt while fishing off Shallotte Point late Tuesday afternoon. Both were taken to the hospital at Southport, where at first they were said to be in critical condi tion. The elder Stephenson was reported much improved by Wed nesday night, and it was expected both might be discharged within a day or two. The life of a Mr. Wurtz, of Go- lumbus, Ohio, whose cottage is next door to the Stephensons’ at the isolated fishing resort on the inland waterway, was lost. It was reported he died of a heart attack rather than by drowning. Details of the tragedy were few. The Stephensons, father and son, were reported fishing in their boat, with their neighbor along, when Mr. Wurtz suffered a heart attack, stood up in the boat and fell into the water. Galvin Steph enson plunged after him in a res-i cue effort. His father remained in the boat, attempting to reach his son. They apparently were in the rough-water area where the sound meets the ocean, for a wave strik ing the boat broadside caused the elder Stephenson to lose his bal ance and fall overboard. (Gontinued on Page 5) 31st Division Will Train At Mackall During October County Beer-Wine Vote Tuesday No One Will Be Permitted Within 50 Feet of Polls Polling Places Will Be Open 6 a.m. lo 6 p.m. Voting on whether or not there shall continue to be legal beer and wine sales in Moore county will he held Tuesday, September 11, at the regular polling places throughout the county from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. In Southern Pines the poll ing place is the fire station, the registrar Mrs. Grace H. Kay- lor. Voting on beer and wine will be separate. That is, a voter may indicate he wishes the legal sale of beer contin ued, that of wine stopped, or vice versa. No one but persons officially en titled to be there will be allowed within 50 feet of any of the ballot boxes during the countywide elec tion this year, except foi^ the pur pose of voting. Those officially entitled to re main at or near the boxes are the precinct registrars and official judges only. An exception is made by law for person officially requested for help by a voter incapacitated for physical or other reasons from performing this duty by himself. Written instructions to this ef fect are being distributed this week end to all precinct registrars along with the ballots. List-Checkers List-checkers may be allowed to sit with the registrars only during political elections, when one from each party may be given this priv ilege. Since the coming election is not opposed on party lines, the privilege is not deemed necessary, though anyone may, of course, sit (Gontinued on Page 5) Audrey West Brown Makes Clean Sweep At N. C. Tournament RETAINS TITLES AUDREY WEST BROWN Guardsmen Back From Maneuvers, Move To Armory Lions Club Holds Broom' Sale For Aid To Blind National Guardsmen of the 130th Antiaircraft Artillery batta lion (AW) Moore county, returned Sunday from Eort McGlellan, Ala., following two weeks’ summer en campment which was described as the best training we’ve ever had —and different from anything that has gone before.” They did not bring back their trophy for highest military effi ciency, won last year, for the rea son that no trophies were given this year. The training took the form of a divisional maneuver, and the battalion of five Sandhills batteries was never separated. (Gontinued on Page 5) An Army release this week con firms a rumor that the 31st divi sion will be transferred from Eort Jackson, S. G., to Gamp Mackall. The division, composed of Na tional Guard outfits from Missis sippi and Alabama, activated last January, will move to its new home by convoy starting October 1st. The plan is for the division to spend four weeks at Gamp Mac kall in regimental and combat team exercises or maneuvers, pre sumably in anticipation of trans fer overseas. A small' security force will re main at Eort Jackson during the maneuver month. All organic di vision equipment will be brought to Gamp Mackall, where the train ing period will be equally divided between regimental combat team maneuvers and division exercises. A regimental combat team con sists of an infantry regiment, a light field artillery battalion, one engineer company, an antiaircraft battalion and supporting troops. There are three combat teams to a division, containing a total of 12,000 to 18,000 men. “A new broom sweeps clean” and Southern Pines Lions, mem bers of this community’s newest civic club, are trying to make a clean sweep this weekend of sell ing 2,000 brooms. Members of the club, number ing 38 in all, will participate in a house-to-house canvass here this weekend. Besides brooms, they will sell doormats of the popular cocoa fibre variety, which incidentally are said to be rather hard to pro cure just now. The sale is the Lions’ first money-raising project, initiating their fund for the well-known Lion program of aid to the blind, with which the local club has enthusiastically aligned itself with others of the state and na tion. Local aid-to-the-blind projects will be assumed by the group through this fund, accord ing to Graham Gulbreth, presi dent of the Southern Pines Lions club. Not only the blind but those who would become blind, or near ly so, without aid are eligible to participate in the Lions program. A major part of the local program will be the supplying of spectacles to schoolchildren and others re ferred to them by the county wel fare department. Gen. Wicks And Wife Will Head Freedom Crusade Local Tennis Star Successfully Defends Three Top Titles Audrey West Brown, Southern ! Pines’ most luminous tennis star, I made a clean sweep of all events ifor which she was eligible at the N. G. Glosed Tennis Ghampion- I ships played Thursday through Monday at the Greensboro Goun try club. The slim brown-eyed 21-year- old (she’ll be 22 this month) suc- Icessfully defended her title, first won last year, as state women’s ' singles champion, against the vet eran Anne Martindale of Greens- j boro, in finals postponed from I Sunday afternoon to Monday morning. With Mary Ruth Davis, former ly of Robbins, now of Greensboro, she won the doubles champion ship for the fourth successive year, defeating Miss Martindale and Gertrude Archer of Greens boro 9-7, 6-3. Audrey teamed with Gharlie Morris of Greensboro to defeat Miss Martindale again, this time with Bill Garrigan of Greensboro, by a score of 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 in mixed doubles. This was the fourth time Au drey was a state mixed doubles winner. In other years she teamed with her brother, Harry Lee Brown, Jr., to win this event. Last year the win was recorded as “un- (Gontinued on page 5) Rhy thmette Show Sept. 14 Will Aid School Bus Fund Special Court Term Tonight All Moore county residents are invited to a ceremony in the courtroom at Carthage tonight (Friday) at which portraits of three distinguished native judges will be unveiled, said J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen, president of the Moore County Bar associ ation, which is sponsoring the event. The ceremony will be in the form of a special term of court, starting at 7:30 o'plock. Judge F. Don Phillips will be on the bench and leading legal personages of Moore county and of the state will lake part. All lawyers of the 13th judicial district have been invited, and all members of the Moore county bar are on the reception committee with Judge J. Vance Rowe as chairman. Unveiled will be portraits of Hon. James D. Mclver. Superior Court judge; Hon. W. J. Adams .Superior Court judge and Su preme Court justice; and Hon. H. F. Seawell, State Solicitor and judge of the Federal Board of Tax Appeals. The portraits are memorial gifts to the county from surviving relatives, who will be specially honored guests at the presentation event. Appointment of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Roger M. Wicks, of Southern Pines, as Moore county co-chair man for the 1951 Crusade for Freedom was announced Thurs day by John Harden of Greens boro, Crusade chairman for North Carolina. The Crusade will this year seek enrollment of 25,000,000 U. S. citi zens and contributions of $3,500, 000 to expand its Radio Free Eu rope truth broadcasts to the peo ples behind the Iron Curtain. “With the help of the American people,” said Harden, “we hope to have individual transmitters beamed to each of the Iron Cur tain countries. We invite the co operation of all local groups and individuals in this citizens’ move ment to fight world communism. “The funds contributed by the 16,000,000 Americans who joined the Crusade last fall made possible the powerful new station in Mu nich, which is doing such a magni ficent job of spiking Communist lies and undermining the Red puppet regimes,” Harden said. “Residents of North Carolina par ticipated wholeheartedly in that accomplishment, and I am confi dent will do so again this year. The Crusade is one of the few channels through which each in dividual citizen can make his mo ral force felt behind the Iron Cur tain.” The independent Radio Free Europe broadcasts, he said, expose Communist collaborators and in formers, and keep hope alive in the hearts of the prisoner peoples under Communist domination.- “We are fighting the Communist leaders on their own level with their own weapons,” said Harden. The busier we can keep them in their own backyards, the less chance there will be of their start ing trouble anywhere else. In the words of General Lucius D. Clay, national chairman of the Crusade for Freedom, ‘if we can win the cold war we can prevent it from becoming a hot war.’ ” The community at large will have its first opportunity to see Pat Starnes and her Rhythmettes, plus additional variety acts com prising some of the best of local talent, next Friday evening at 8 o’clock at Weaver auditorium here. The Rhythmettes, a group of lo cal beauties trained by Mrs. Starnes, former Radio City Music Hall Rockette, have been causing a sensation in private appearances with their beautiful dancing and gorgeous costumes. Their show has been undergoing improvement all the time and is now fated “just about perfect.” For New Bus The entertainment is being sponsored by the John Boyd post, VFW, and other interested citizens to finance a new bus for school activities—transportation of the band and athletic teams, for sum mer recreation purposes, etc. The old one is reported just about to fold up, with no money for a new one in sight. This deficiency is expected to be remedied by the Friday evening show, first event of the fall season here. Tickets are on sale by school children and at all local drugstores and restaurants. Tentative plans call for three dance numbers by the Rhythm ettes, one of which will present as a solo act Dorothy Swisher, na tional VFW Beauty Queen, in the Hawaiian dance which she gave as her talent display in New York and which helped her bring home the national trophy. Harem Dance Pat Starnes, who has appeared at night clubs in New York, Gan- ada, Florida and the Dunes club here, will present two solo num bers, including an authentic Egyp tian harem dance. Wanda Saylor, one of the radio land’s liveliest and prettiest sing ers of western songs, will present her specialty for the first time on a local stage, playing her own ac cordion accompaniment. Dot Ghoate, co-producer of the show, with Mrs. Starnes, will sing romantic ballads ,accompanied by Bob Miller and his electric guitar. Bud Harvey will act as master of ceremonies, with Emily Scheip- ers at the piano for the dance numbers. Jimmy Lawson, popu lar local organist, will play if ar rangements for an organ can be made.