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16 PAGES THIS WEEK
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 19. 1951
[nty Dealers Will Contribute Cars
Driver Training In Moore Schools
I A.
wanis Urges
stalling Course
Next September
dual-control-equipped cars
iver training will be provi-
oore County high schools by
halers of the county, thus
ig the biggest obstacle to-
establishment of the long-
■for driver training and ed-
course.
announcement was made
sday at the Sandhills Ki-
Club luncheon meeting, at
members of the county
ssioners, the county board
ication and the Southern
md Pinehurst school boards,
eir school superintendents,
resent by special invitation.
2rs making the cars avail-
ithout cost, for use begin-
September 1952, were list-
follows by Garland Mc-
chairman of the public
committee, which has been
■ge of the Kiwanis project:
olley Jackson, of Jackson
Southern Pines (Ford); T.
k, of Pinehurst Garage Co.,
nehurst (Chevrolet, Cadil-
irrell Brown, of Midsouth
Aberdeen (Chevrolet); and
Phillips, of Phillips Motor
1C., Carthage (Plymouth-
le dealers were present ex-
r. Jackson, who was un
attend.
The Officials
it is up to the county, said
an McPherson to take the
ith an investment of some
in the specially-equipped
be renewed each year
tie cooperation of other
of Moore communities—
15,000 per year will be
to employ four full-time
p, and operate the cars,
the four cars and teachers
on a schedule which
encompass all white and
ligh schools, every boy and
be taught to drive cor-
n reaching the age of 16.
inancing of the program,
irman said, would be left
lounty commissioners. His
on was that those viola
driving laws should be
to pay for it all, through
d fines in county court, if
bund legal, thus relieving
ity taxpayer^ of any bur-
REGISTRATION
Registralion for the county
beer-wine election Tuesday,
November 13, will start this
Saturday, and continue for
three successive Saturdays,
ending November 3.
Mrs. Grace Kaylor, regis
trar. will keep the books
open at the fire station from
9 a. m. to 6 p. m. on the reg
istration days.
Municipal books only will
be employed, and should not
be confused with the precinct
or school district books. If
you voted for the present
Mayor and town commission
ers, or in the recreation elec
tion of August 1950, you
should be on the books. If
you have moved into town
as recently as six months
ago, you should register now,
if you wish to vote on this
issue.
If in doubt as to your reg
istration or qualification—
see the registrar.
Four Men Brought
From Georgia On
Break-In Charges
J. Vance Rowe, of Moore
•s court, speaking briefly
ort of the program as a
mtinued on Page 5)
The home of Mr. and Mrs.
George L. Moore, 275 West New
Hampshire avenue, was broken
into Friday afternoon and an es
timated $1,000 worth of jewelry
and miiscellaneous items were re
ported stolen.
By Monday night four white
men, brought here from Swains-
boro, Ga., were in jail at Car
thage. The stolen jewelry items
were recovered and the men had
admitted the theft.
Chief C. E. Newton said he is
checking the records of the ar
rested men, who gave their names
as Charles William Doak, 27,
Presque Isle, Maine; Clarence
Harold Henry, Jr., 22, and Wil
liam Herbert Henry, 21, brothers,
of Miexico, Maine, and Sidney
James Campbell, 42, of Maiden,
N. C., whom the Maine trio had
picked up as a hitch-hiker in
Washington while driving .south.
They were given a hearing by
Judge D. E. Bailey before being
committed to jail, and bond for
each was set at $3,000, which they
failed to make. They will be tried
in superior court in January.
The theft was reported to local
police Friday night, when Mr. and
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Sportsmen Find
Good Hunting As
Deer Season Opens
First Buck Bagged
By Raymond Gillis
of Aberdeen Party
Many hunting parties were out
to greet the opening of the deer
season Monday, and at least 10
hunters got their bucks before the
day was many hours old.
In one party of 16, all from in
and near Aberdeen, who went out
shortly past 6 a. m., toward the
Hoke County line, four deer were
killed within about two hours.
First honors—and, so far as could
be learned, first honors for the
county for the day—went to Ray
mond Gillis, who had his day’s
bag limit by 6:30. Other deer were
shot by Archie Phillips, W. T.
Matthews and Adrian Lowder.
Phillips, deer hunting for the first
time, killed the largest in the
crowd.
Deer hunting should be as good
as, or better than, last year in
Moore, said County Game Pro
tector Woodhow W. McDonald,
who reports that the animals are
plentiful throughout the woods,
and scattered well out by recent
maneuvers in the vicinity. As the
season goes on they will likely
bunch together more, but right
now they should be found in al
most every well-wooded area of
any size.
The warden was kept busy all
day Sunday and well into the
night responding to hunters’ re
quests for permits. While no re
ports had come in from other sell
ers located throughout the coun
ty, it is presumed most of them
also did a good business. The per
mit buyers included many coming
into Moore from other counties.
The split season on deer will be
effect until December 1, then
from December 17 to January 1.
Permits may be secured from the
usual places throughout the coun
ty and also from Warden McDon
ald at his home on US 1 south op
posite Braeburn Hall.
Tufts Will Receive
Tree Farm Award
At Lions Meeting
Seaboard Alters Signal Plans
To Save Trees On Broad Street
Prompt action by Seaboard Air
Line officials, in the face of a
spontaneous wave of citizen pro
tests, has saved the magnolias and
longleaf pines along the Broad
Street right of way.
The trees will not be cut. In
stead, said C. I. Morton, Seaboard
superintendent, the company will
spend $10,000 more than original
ly planiied for the installation of
automatic signals, to mount them
cn cantilever-type bridges which
will hold them up and out over
the tracks. Planting along the
right of way will be affected only
in the moving of four shrubs at
the Massachusetts Avenue cross
ing.
Previously, it had been planned
to instal ground-type 'signals,
which would have had to be set
back from the tracks on either
side, necessitating cutting of
“everything over four feet high’’
to permit the stringing of high-
voltage wires, and to give clear
visibility to engineers of oncom
ing trains. The tree-cutting pro-
gram^ would have cost the tall
trees on the west side of the main
line from Connecticut to New
York avenue, and on the east side
from Massachusetts to Indiana.
The announcement made in last
week’s Pilot stirred the citizens to
vigorous action. It rose spontane
ously on all sides. There was no
time for concerted action—the
tree-cutting was scheduled to have
started Monday morning.
Telegrams. Phone Calls
The Rotary club meeting Friday
for lunch, and the Lions club
meeting Friday night sent tele
grams of strong protest.
Francis Stubbs and Sam Rich
ardson, with B. G. Patterson as
sisting, got up a telegram Friday
afternoon containing some 140
signatures—“and we could have
secured three times as many
names if there had been time,”
said Mr. Stubbs. The only thing
which cut the list short at that
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Fair Opens Monday;
LuLong Will Crown
Moore County Queen
Week of Fun
At Carthage
Fairgrounds
Homecoming Displays FewDut Clever;
Barnum Sad-Clads Win Grand Prize
ir Starts For Carolina, Makes
Touchdown In Saturday Game
WILDCAT
E three SPHS six-man
Graduates playing varsity
■his year is Bob Harring-
re, of the University of
ipshire. “Rebel” Harring-
jarting left end for the
champions of the Yan-
erence. He is the son of
nice Harrington of the
, J hotel.
vs of another Southern
yer, see story in next
Big Bill Baker had his big mo
ment Saturday—or rather, the
first of what his fans here confi
dently believe will be the first of
many big moments as a member
of Carolina’s famed football team.
The Southern Pines High School
graduate, a member of . the UNC
freshman team last year, was put
into the game against the Univer
sity of South Carolina by Coach
Carl Snavely as starting right,
and within a short time caught an
11-yard pass and plunged over for
the first Carolina touchdown.
Baker went into the game as a
sub, replacing Benny Walser, reg
ular No. 1 right end, who was out
of the lineup with a shoulder in
jury.
It was a great honor for the
sophomore player, an opportunity
he had looked forward to through
years of coaching and hundreds
of hours of practice, and he made
the most of it. He brought the
spectators cheering to their feet,
and the cheers echoed Sunday in
all major Tar Heel sports columns.
Carolina, incidentally, won the
game by two touchdowns, 21-6.
A program writeup says of Bill,
“Although he had played nothing
but six-man football prior to com
ing to Carolina, he ended up as a
standout of the freshman squad
of 1950. 'Now a sophomore,
Carolina coaches regard him as a
fine prospect. He’s 18, weig!hs 213,
stands 6-3 and needg only experi
ence to become a star.”
Bill is one of three products of
Southern Pines six-man football
now playing the varsity game. All
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The Tree Farm award of the
N. C. Forestry association a'nd
the Southern Pine association of
New Orleans will be presented
to* James W. Tufts of Pinehurst
at the weekly meeting of the
Pinehurst Lions club Wednesday
evening, it was announced this
week by William S. Edmunds, of
Wananish, executive director of
the N. C. Forestry association.
Main address of the evening
will be by George R. Ross, direc
tor of the N. C. Department of
Conservation and Development,
who will make the presentation.
Others taking part in the program
will be Fred Claridge, administra
tive assistant of the N. C. Depart
ment of Conservation and Devel
opment, and Mr. Edmunds.
The award is given to certain
outstanding growers of timbei*
who, over a period of five years,
carry out a , model forestry pro
gram on their woodlands, inclu
ding a rigorous observance of ap
proved practices, management
and fire control. The woodlands
are first inspected by a team of
professional foresters, who make
an initial report. Final approval
is given by a committee of pro
fessional foresters appointed by
the sponsor associations. This
committee for North Carolina in
cludes Mr. Claridge; John Gray,
extension forester of the N. C.
Extension Service, Raleigh, and
R. A. Vogenberger, forester with
the Tennessee Valley Authority,
.A.sheville.
Of only 69 such awards made
in North Carolina during the past
10 years, this will be the third to
come to Moore county. Previous
awards to Moore County wood
land owners have gone to Colin
G. Spencer, of Carthage, and to
James and Daniel Boyd, of Wey
mouth Estate, Southern Pines.
The award includes a “Tree
Farm” sign given and erected by
the State.
AIRMEN RESPOND
Eight airmen of the staff of
USAFAGOS, at Highland
Pines Inn, responded with im
mediate action when word
reached them of the plight of
a young Southern Pines col
ored man, a stranger to them.
They heard that the youth.
Parnell Mines, was at Duke
hospital needing an immedi
ate and critical operation, but
that the hospital would not
undertake the operation with
out the assurance of at least
six pints of blood.
Appeals made in various
places, it appeared, had prov
ed fruitless—until they reach-
the airmen.
Eight of them were plan
ning a fast trip to Durham
today, so that Parnell
Mines might have blood.
Fire Destroys
Carthage Gym;
Arsonist Blamed
Tots, franjeans
Are Winners; No
Foodstore Entries
Announcement of the winners
of the Homecoming Day window
display contest among local mer
chants was made Thursday by
Arch F. Coleman, president of
the Chamber of Commerce, which
sponsored the annual event.
A delay was caused in the mak
CAPT. MONTESANTI
Blood Shortage
Serious, Declares
Capt. Montesanti
Capt. Margaret Montesanti, of
the Army Nurse Corps, who is on
leave with her family here alter
14 months at Letterman General
Army hospital in California, said,
“They need blood out there.
“The Korean casualties are
coming in fast. When they need
- in mo I. vviieu iney neea
mg of the announcement on ac- whole blood during an operation
count of the fact that the judges nothing else will do. The supplies
found no eligible window displays
in one classification, the food
stores. With three classifications
open for prizes, and one grand
prize for all, a change in the orig
inal plans had to be made.
Their decision:
Miscellaneous classification—
WE WON
Southern Pines was a proud
town Wednesday, when the
Blue & White won the Home-
comiing game 34 to 12.
For the story of this great
game see Page 5.
Barnum Realty and Insurance
r company, $5.
The gymnasium of the Carthage Apparel stores—two prizes of
High school, a frame structure $5 each, to franjeans and Mrs.
Hayes’ shop-Tots Toggery, a tie.
Grand prize—Barnum Realty,
---LuLong Ogburn — “Miss
North Carolina”—will be one
of the .iudg-es of the beauty
contest of the Moore Countv
fair next week, and will crown
the oueen, it was announced
by W. Stowe Cole, Carthage
Jaycee president.
The Smithfield beauty won
third place in the Miss Ameri
ca contest at Atlantic City in
September, after capturingr the
state crown at the North Car
olina Ja.vcee convention.
Arrangements for her ap
pearance Wednesday nio-ht
will provide the Moore fair
with an outstanding attrac
tion.
Fair Week” for Moore county
starts Monday, with the opening
of the Moore County Agricultural
fair on the fairgrounds near Car
thage, sponsoreid again by the
Carthage Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
The Jaycees, spo-nsors of the
fair since 1948, promise an even
bigger and better exposition than
those of previous years, each of
which has been more successful
than the last.
A wide range of exhibits will be
on display in the two large tents,
while livestock will be shown in
a permanent building.
An outstanding exhibit will be
that of the N. C. Motor Carriers
Safety division. This exhibit has
hitherto been shown only at the
large fairs throughout the state.
The Moore Coimty fair will be
the smallest at which it has been
placed on view. According to W.
B. Hill, general chairman of the
fair, and Jaycee President Stowe
Cole, it will be well worth see
ing.
Monday night will be the gala
opening night. The fair will come
to an official close Saturday
night. In between will be a full
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some 18 years old.^was practically
destroyed by fire 'Yuesday night,
and the work is believed to have $10.
been that of a “firebug.”
The loss will cause no change
in the present plans of the coun-
Honorable mention (no prizes)
went to the Carolina Power and
Light company, H. L. Brown
ty board of education, it was Agency and Macks Five and Ten.
learned from H. Lee Thomas, su- The prizes, totaling $25, will be
permtendent, as work was due to delivered this weekend, as soon as
begin on a new gym sometime be
tween now, and Christmas. The
sum of $50,000 had been appro
priated by the county commis
sioners for this purpose, with
more to be added in next year’s
budget if needed.
The fire started in the east end
of the building soon after 8 p. m.
and for some three hours resisted
the efforts of the Carthage volun
teer firemen to bring it under
control. When finally downed
about 11 o’clock it had gutted the
structure, and a survey made
since has revealed that the dam^
age is beyond repair. Major re
pairs on a frame building where
a considerable number of people
gather are no longer permitted
by the state school authorities,
Mr. Thomas said.
Also burned was about $2,500
worth of new lunchroom equip
ment in temporary storage, of
which about one-third may be
salvageable, also $1,000 worth of
football equipment including all
the high school team’s uniforms.
Insurance carried on building and
equipment totals $10,000.
While no actual clues have been
uncovered pointing to the work of
an arsonist, the fact that an at
tempt was made about a month
ago to set the building afire leads
to this belief, the superintendent
reported. Paper wrappings of fur
niture stored in the basement
were found to have been set afire,
but had burned harmlessly away.
There was a local police investi
gation and the suggestion was
then made that the SBI be called
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Mr. Coleman, who has to sign the
checks, gets back from an out of
town trip.
Though the displays were fewer
this year than in previous years,
the judges rated their quality
high and their ingenuity and ori
ginality “delightful.” Originality
was the main point, it was re
ported, which gave the Barnum
display a fine edge above the rest.
This display, labeled “After the
Game Is Over,” showed 12 round
paper-pie-plate faces peering over
a green paper picket fence. Feet
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School Musicians
Will Play With
are very low. The hospital scra
ping bottom.
“People just aren’t giving the
way they ought.”
If everyone could just see what
a big west coast military hospital
is like these days, they would
find some way to give blood—
frequently, cheerfully and as a
chief duty and obligation to the
men engaged in battle in Korea,
she affirmed.
In the operating room alone, at
Letterman, 20 to 30 pints of
blood are used on an average day,
and “they use more than that in
the wards,” said Captain Monte
santi. The hospital has its own
blood bank but when supplies run
out they have to get blood from
the Memorial Blood bank of the
San Francisco Red Cross—and
sometimes this runs out too. And
Letterman is just one hospital.
“Not long ago the Memorial TTC IVja-vv Ttanrl
bank sent out a call for O type OcUHl
blood—100 pints were needed im
mediately in Korea. They called
and called for about a week. I
don’t know if they ever got it,”
she said. She praised the Ameri
can Red Cross for its work in col
lecting the blood and expediting
it to the places where it is need
ed so badly—Korea and the big
military hospitals in Japan and
on the west coast. However, they
seem to be up against a terrible
obstacle, she said, in the apathy
of the general public.
Captain Montesanti declares,
‘No donor need worry about
whether his blood is needed, and
whether, once taken, it is used. It
is absolutely necessary, and many
times it means a boy’s life sav
ed.” In certain instances blood
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10 Cents For An Easter Biddy
W. H. McNeill, of the McNeill and Company feed and seed
business here, received a letter last week which he declares is
unique in his long business experience.
The financial transaction mentioned in the letter he says he
does not in the least recollect, nor does any member of his staff.
He is responding to the writer with deep thanks—not so much
for the amount of money enclosed, a somewhat inconsequential
sum, as for the tremendous boost it has given to his faith in
human nature, which cannot be measured in terms of money.
The letter follows, as it came to him written in pencil, on
a sheet of school notebook paper, from an Eastern Carolina
town—name of writer withheld:
Dear Sir,
“I bought two Easter biddies from your store about 12
years ago for my little boy. I paid you 10 cents. They were
10 cents each. Was going to pay you the other dime in a few
days. My husband was laid off from work, so we had to
move, so I am sending you the dime now to get it off my
mind.
“The Bible says that this way of salvation is clear and
straight, and if I know my heart today I want to live above
sin. Thanking you for the credit in the past;
Yours truly, Mrs. ”
at-
Some of the outstanding high
school band members of this sec
tion will have the opportunity to
play with the U. S. Navy Band,
by special invitation, when this
famous organization performs
here Saturday, October 27.
Invitations have been sent to
all high schools of Moore coun
ty, and also those of Hamlet,
Rockingham and Sanford, invit
ing them to participate in
tendance at the afternoon con
cert at 2 p. m. o’clock at Memor
ial field. Band or other school or
ganizations selling 100 tickets will
receive 25 tickets free, and the
schools having bands may select
an outstanding member to play
with the Navy Band for one or
more selections.
About 500 tickets have been set
aside for use by schools accept
ing this invitation, said Voit Gil
more, president of the Sandhills
Music association, sponsor.
The U. S. Navy Band will pre
sent an evening concert, as first
offering of the Association’s 1951-
52 series, in addition to the after
noon performance primarily for
schoochildren.
Program of the afternoon con
cert was announced this week as
follows: The Star Spangled Ban
ner; II Guarany Overture (Carlos
Gomez); Shawl Dance (Frank
Skinner); The Chase — English
Post Horn Solo (Leo Stanley);
Fiddle Faddle (Leroy Anderson).
Ritual Fire Dance (Manuel de
Falla), harmonica solo; Symphony
No. 5 in E Minor (The New World
—Dvorak); The Song Is You (Je
rome Kern), baritone solo; Jos
hua (Paul Yoder); The Three
Trumpeters (G. Agostini); Bac-
chanale from Samson and Delilah
(Saint-Saens); The Stars' and
Stripes Forever; Anchors Aweigh.