St Office, With Allowance Cut,
CCS Big Jam Unless Patrons Help
dy Mailing,
Sper Addresses
11 Aid Santa
rou don’t want Santa Claus
; down completely this year,
ur Chrstmas shopping early
'et those packages in the
t offices everywhere face re
allowances at a time when
€ demands are shooting up,
will take cooperation by all
patrons to get successfully
gh the Christmas rush. The
em Pines post office is no
tion.
number of local patrons has
ised by about 10 per cent in
st year. Postmaster Garland
I estimated this week, and it
like the biggest Christmas
Yet the allowance for ex-
Ip during the December rush
een cut considerably below
■ last year.
hope to meet the situation
reading the work load over
days, and more days,” Mr.
said. ‘‘We will need all the
ur patrons can gve us. Par-
Dr distant states should be
mail by the weekend of
iber 8. Everything to be
red out of Southern Pines
I be en route by December
Sundays
an aid in getting gifts on
vay, the parcel post window
open Sundays from 2 to 6
beginning at once—Decem-
And this isn’t too early to
those “Do Not Open Till
mas” stickers,
master Pierce listed the fol-
ways patrons can help out
the next four weeks:
MAIL EARLY; (2) See that
mail and parcels are com-
addressed, with box or
number; (3) If you have a
local names to send mail to,
■e uncertain of the address-
the information (including
:ding addresses) from the
ffice at one cent per name;
member to bring your key
getting box mail—a dozen
people a day forget, taking
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HERE TODAY
Congressman C. B. Deane
wiU be at the city hall in
Southern Pines from 2 to 3
m. today (Friday) to see
any and all citizens who have
matters they wish to discuss
with him.
He will be at Aberdeen also
sometime during the day, and
will speak that night before
the Aberdeen Lions club.
The visits are part of a
"conflerencei and speaking"
tour during which the Con
gressman seeks to cover his
district during the interim be
tween sessions of Congress.
Last Friday he was at Carth
age and Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday of this week
visited Davie, Davidson and
Montgomery counties.
I^atrolmen Make
Big Whiskey Haul
In Speeding Car
h'lRST PiAJNiO QUARTET: Four play as one.
First Piano Quartet Will Present
Rich Classical Fare Here Tuesday
Highway Division
Will Hardsurface
Bethesda Road
Quick Action Taken
To Save Trees At
Old Bethesda Church
Platinum Co. Plant
Construction Starting
Within Two Weeks
ELECTED
Two State Highway patrol
men who stopped a car for speed-'
ing south of Pinebluff Monday}
night raked in one of the largest
cargoes of taxpaid whiskey ever
to. be captured during illegal
transit through this county.
The 1947 Dodge four-door se
dan—equipped with special
springs and shock absorbers, so
aiiu sauuK, aosoroers, SO
tho«e^’“SnTnrofrTm its. Overload would not be
952 AUTO TAGS
52 auto license tags will
n sale Monday. December
t the Southern Pines
mber of Commerce office
Iforth West Broad street,
newal cards have been
ed out from Raleigh, and
Id be in the hands of all
>r vehicle owners by now.
office staff at the
nber office is small. Your
lag purchase can be
led much more expedi-
ly if you apply early. Of
se, if,you like to wait in
you can always wait till
last minute—most people
and cuss themselves out
t, too.
apparent—yielded approximately
75 gallons of three standard I
brands of taxpaid whiskey. Thi \
load consisted of 20 cases of pints '
and half-pints in cases and the
equivalent of another five cases
in paper bags.
'The 21-year-old driver, Clar
ence Preston Brendle of Winston-
Salem, Rt 6, was taken before
Magistrate Hugh Kelly at Carth
age Monday night and was placed
under $1,000 bond for appearance
in recorders coupt next Monday,
charged with iUegally transport
ing whiskey and operating a car
with improper license plates,. The
car was impounded.
Patrolmen H. F. Deal and C. G.
Wimberley reported that about
9:30 o’clock Monday night they
had stopped a truck not far south
of Pinebluff for a routine check
of the driver’s license. The locally
owned truck had pulled into a pri
vate road about 50 feet off the
highway—from which point the
patrolmen saw the Dodge shoot
past on the highway “at a high
rate of speed.” They gave chase
and stopped the auto a few miles
south of Pinebluff. The driver
got out and walked back to the
patrol car, but the officers gave
the Dodge a check and spotted
'Famed Musical
Group Playing At
Weaver Auditorium
The magnificent music of four
grand pianos, playing composi
tions of the great composers as
The decision to pave part of
Bethesda Road was taken recent
ly by the Sixth District of the
State Highway Popartment and
the work will start shortly, it
was reported by Division Engin
eer T. G. Poindexter of Asheboro
this week.
The section to be paved stretch
es from the end of Page Memor
ial Highway, where it enters Old
Bethesda Cemetery, north to the
Ark Schpol corner. There the
pavement will end, to await final
decision on the route of the pro
jected road connecting this sec
tion with the planned army road
circling the Fort Bragg reserva
tion.
The road plan came as a sur
prise to many Aberdeen residents
who were not aware of the pro
ject. Alertness on the part ot
some of these, on seeing stakes
placed along the roadside, brought
the discovery that many large and
beautiful trees, including some in
the grove around the historic
one instrument of infinite range church, were to be cut down.
some bottles in bags sticking out
under one corner of a blanket that
covered most of the neatly-packed
whiskey.
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N
VoiT GILMORE
Gilmore Elected
To Head Sandhills
•
Kiwanis Club
Volt Gilmore, president of the
W. M. Storey Lumber company.
Southern Pines, was elected pres
ident of the 'Sandhills Kiwanis
club at its weekly luncheon meet
ing held Wednesday at the Holly
wood hotel.
Others elected were: T. Roy
Phillips, Carthage, vice president;
John Howarth, Southern Pines,
secretary-treasurer (a re-election);
and directors R. L. Chandler, Jr.,
Dr. C. C. McLean and Jack S.
Younts, Southern Pines; Jack M.
Taylor, Lawrence Johnson, Aber
deen; Nelson C. Hyde, Aberdeen
and Pinehurst; M. C. McDonald,
Davidson Speaks To Historians
Old North Carolina Architecture
Chalmer? Davidson, youth-
.hor, historian and member
Davidson College faculty,
an enchanting speaker be-
e Mocxre County Historical
tion Tuesday night, as he
ed the architecture of col
and antebellum days in
Carolina,
talk was illustrated with
rome slides from pictures
made on original-research
itions. Most of the build-
ictured were in Piedmont
Carolina, with one or two
he Edenton area. Among
st interesting were those of
vidson college campus and
lage of Davidson,
he pictured group were
plain and elegant, restor-
tumbledown, all, however,
7er 100 years old and ex-
■ing architectural details
•f their era.
Exploded
oded in Dr. Davidson’s talk
the two great myths—the
ibin myth and the tall-
s myth.?’ Neither the log
of presidential cartooning,
colonnaded portico of the
icized “old south” are
typical of the nation’s early days,
he said.
Far more typical were the
Jacobean and Georgian dwellings
which Englishmen built as nearly
like those at home as possible.
75 Brave Weather
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, president of
the Moore County association,
presided over the meeting, which
was held at the Southern Pines
library. About 75 were present
from all over the county despite
cold, rainy weather. Mrs. Ives
greeted several new members, in
cluding Mr. and Mrs. Falls of
Jackson Springs, General and Mrs.
R. B. Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Jack
S. Yoimts. She had a special
greeting for Mrs. Jacques Busbee,
who had braved the elements to
come all the way from Jugtown.
In a brief business session E. T.
McKeithen reported that two
sites had been approved by the
historic markers committee, of
which he is chairman, for endorse
ment to the State for marking.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., reported
all bills paid, dues nDw payable
and about $900 in the bank. Mrs.
Katherine McCoU, of the Shaw
House committee, announced the
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West End.
The new officers and directors
will be instaUed in January.
Friday, December 14, has been
set as the date of the annual La
dies’ Night banquet, to be held at
the Mid Pines club, according to
(Continued on Page 5)
HONEYMOONERS
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hart
Sterling, Thanksgiving Day
newlyweds, attended the
movie at the Carolina theatre
Sunday night. Spending their
honeymoon at the Carolina
hoteL Pinehiust, they phoned
over to reserve seats, and
when they camie tried to buy
tickets like anybody else—
but Manager Charles Picquet
plotted them in the lobby and
ushered them in as his guests.
Relaxing in Section B, they
enjoyed "Detective Story" on
the screen where their own
unages have frequently flash
ed. Few in the audience were
aware of the fact that they
were there.
Mrs. Sterling is better
known as Anne Jeffreys,
beautiful North Carolina-born
musical comedy star and film
actress, recently triumphant
on Broadway in "Kiss Me
Kate." Her husband is a pop
ular leading man of the
screen.
'They're not only good-
looking and talented," com
mented Mr. Picquet later,
"but as nice young folks as
you could want to know. I
was proud to have them."
and richness, will bring to Sand
hills music lovers an unforget
table thrill Tuesday evening.
The occasion will be the con
cert of the nationally famed First
Piano Quartet, to be presented by
the Sandhills Music association at
Weaver auditorium at 8:30 o’clock
as the second offering in its 1951-
52 series.
The program was announced
this week as follows by Volt Gil
more, president of the association.
I— Variations on Caprice in A
Minor, Opus 1, Paganini (well
known as the Quartet’s radio sig
nature); Prelude and Fugue in C
Minor, Each; Rondo (“Hoffner
Serenade’'), Mozart; ’Trout Varia
tions, Schubert; La Companella,
Liszt.
II— Invitation to the Dance,
Weber; Ecossaises (etudes “Double
Thirds,” “Harp” and “Butterfly”),
Chopin; Magic Fire Music (from
“Die Walkure”), Wagner; Second
Hungarian Rhapsody, Liszt.
III— Malaguena, Lecuona; Clau
de Lune, Debussy; Polichinelle,
Villa-Lobos; March (from “Love
for Three Oranges”), Prokofieff;
Polka (from “The Golden Age”),
Shostakovitch; La Danza (Taran
tella), Rossini-Liszt.
Single tickets, or season tickets
at a reduction for this and the re
mainder of the series, are being
sold at the Barnum- Realty com
pany or may be purchased at the
door. For the reserving of the
seat of your choice, advance pur
chase is advised.
However, on petition to the high
way officials, it was arranged to
make changes in the plan which
would save some of the finest
trees. This spirit of cooperation
on the part of the department re-
■eived high praise in many quar
ters.
E. T. McKeithen, an elder of
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PRESIDENT
President Kerk
Announces Plans
On Visit Here
Tree Planting On
School Campus Is
Garden Club Gift
HAROLD McAllister
ChamberCampaign
Seeks 100 Percent
Busmess Support
“We can continue the work of
the Chamber of Commerce only
if all the business people support
it, and we’re going to do our best
, 11 mn ill • 1 Ti- uuier Ulooa aenvaxives. It is ex-
that from time to time
old McAllister new president of ^^her types of hypodermic
the Southern Pmes Chamber, to Needles will be added t^ose in-
Plans have been completed for
the new J. Bishop & Co. Platinum
Works plant here, and construc
tion is expected to begin in about
two weeks.
The announcement was made
here this week by Paul C. Kerk,
president of the Malvern, Pa.,
firm, through Norris L. Hodgkins
and John Howarth of the South
ern Pines Development corpora
tion.
The plant will be a modern,
sir-conditioned building of fire-
resistant construction, on the site
next to the water plant on the
Carthage road purchased- by the
company from the Town of South
ern Pines last summer.
It is expected that the plant
will go into operation sometime
in March 1952.
Products to be manufactured
here will be hypodermic needles
for use by hospitals, the AmeriT
can Red Cross and other blood
collection agencies in the coUect-
ing of blood, and the administra
tion of whole blood, plasma and
other blood derivatives. It is ex
directors and members attending
the campaign breakfast Thursday
morning at Hamel’s' Restaurant.
itially manufactured here.
When in full operation the new
Southern Pines unit of J. Bishon
«T u V ,1. , .t J oouinern rines unit o-i j. LJishon
“I believe that if they are faced », -uriii *1. onn
ith the choice, all our bu.sine-ssa.s ^ ^
Public Invited To
Football Banquet
At Club Tonigbt
The general public is cordially
invited to attend the annual Elks
Club testimonial banquet for the
Blue and White football team, to
be held tonight (Friday) at the
Southern Pines Country club, said
General Chairman D. L. Madigan
this week.
However, he said, as a courtesy
to the BPO Does, who will pre
pare and serve the meal, tickets
must be purchased in advance—
no one other than the squad meiii-
bers, coaches and cheerleaders
will be admitted without a ticket,
and no tickets will be sold at the
door.
Tickets may be secured from
members of the Elks Club com
mittee, or by telephoning 2-8911.
On the committee besides Chair
man Madigan are C. N. Page, John
S. Ruggles and Bryan Poe.
John McConnell will be toast
master for the testimonial ban
quet, the sixth annual such event
to be tendered the team by the
Elks as climax to the football sea
son. Team awards will be made by
the coaches and the presentation
of the Most Valuable Player tro
phy, given annually by the John
BjDyd post, VFW, will be made
by Warrant Officer Lennox For
syth.
Weaver auditorium and its neigh
bor, the school gymnasium, have
been enhanced in beauty' by a
tree-planting project recently
completed under auspices of the
Southern Pines Garden club, at a
cost of approximately $850.
Magnolias and Japanese hollies
of considerable size have been
planted by the Holly Tree Nur
series according to the landscape
design of E. A. Morell, proprietor.
A few large trees were chosen
rather than a number of small
shrubs as more in keepng with
the size and classic aijchitecture of
the buildings.
Magnolia trees 18 to 20 feet in
height have been planted in a
semi-circle about the front of the
gymnasium, and against the auai-
torium on either side of the high
front entrance. Beside the broad
steps of the auditorium on each
side Japanese hollies 20 years old,
with an 18-foot spread, have been
placed.
Except for the seeding of the
grounds, this is the first planting
which has been done about the
building since they were complet
ed a year and a half ago.
Besides the considerable initial
cost which Mr. Morell scaled
down somewhat because of the
civic nature of the project—^the
Garden Clyb members decided to
budget $75 annuaUy for mainte
nance of the planting.
Mrs. William D. Campbell is
president of the Garden club. Mrs.
E. C. Stevens served as chairman
of the planting project.
with the choice, all our businesses
will wish the Chamber to con
tinue.”
It was rather a solemn occasion.
The group was starting off on this
year’s membership drive with
about $1,000 in debts—including
$382.87 in withholding taxes it
had been unable to pay last year.
Yet the dozen workers pres
ent evinced their faith in the
Chamber’s purposes and -future
with an enthusiastic resolution to
contact all members, past and
present, also non-members of the
business community, during the!the project
people, mostly women, with an
annual payroll well over $500,000.
Workers will be locally employ
ed and trained. Application for
emploj^ment may be made
through an employment office to
be set up here sometime early in
the year.
Mr. Kerk and A- B. Coussmak-
er, managing director of Johnson,
Matthey, Ltd., of London, with
which the Pensylvania firm is af
filiated, were in Southern Pines
for several days this week attend
ing to matters in connection with
Contract for the new building
is exoected tc be let within a
few days, with the probability be
coming week. With 100 per cent
dues-paying membership, the
Chamber will be on firm financial
footing with all bills paid and'^ng th^t R wijj gTirri^orth C^
money in the bank,* to continue olina firm.
its program of community promo-!
tion and business betterment.
Barely 50 per cent of business
firms and individuals supported
the Chamber last year, it was re
vealed. Said President McAllister,
‘Yet the work of the Chamber
benefits us all—non-members as
well as members. We hope this
year that everyone will help, and
give us the opportunity to do the
type of job we all want
need.”
The idea of dissolving the
Chamber brought a chorus of pro
tests. Who then, it was asked,
would answer the flood of mail
inquiries—some 1,500 per year?
Who would give infornaation to
those who come to the Chamber
office daily?
Then there is the newly es
tablished auto license bureau,
serving 10,000 people of the
Moor e-Hoke area; also the credit
bureau, now in good shape and
available for all businesses to use.
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Officers Bringing
Alleged Rapists
COMING EVENTS
Friday. November 30—Elks Club Testimonial Football banquet.
Southern Pines Country club, 7;30 p. m.
Sandhills Wildlife club, Page-McDonald Co„ 8 p. m.
"Open House" at Woman's Exchange. Pinehurst. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m,
Saturday. December 1—Pinehurst Lions' Minstrel Revue, Weaver
auditorium. 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, December ♦—First Piano Quartet concert. Weaver au
ditorium, 8:30 p.m.
Friday. December 7—Opening basketball game. Southern Pines
vs. Cuthage, school gymnasium, 7:30 p.m,
Friday. December 14—Sandhills Kiwanis Club Ladies Night ban
quet, Mid Pines club.
Saturday. December 15—"Bertha, the Beautiful Typewriter Girl."
presented by High School Dramatic club. Weaver auditorium,
8 p.m.
Tuesday. December 25—^Merry Christmas!
Friday, December 28—SPHS-Alumni basketball game, gymnasi
um, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday. January 2—All-Star basketball game, sponsored by
John Boyd post, VFW. gymnasium, 7:30 p.m.
Deputy Sheriffs A. W. Lambert
and ABC Officer H. V. Chandler,
Jr., drove to Camp CampbeU, Ky.,
and'this week to bring back three par
atroopers to face trial in Moore
superior court for the rape of a
Negro girl August 15.
The men, all white, will be
lodged in jail at Carthage to await
trial at the January term.
Six paratroopers were involved
in the mass assault on the 19-
year-old woman, Lula Mae Artes,
according to information she gave
Sheriff McDonald and the investi
gating Army authorities. One of
these, who is said to have endeav
ored to prevent the attack, is ex
pected to be the state’s witness.
It was from him the names of
the others were learned.
The other two, according to in
formation received by Sheriff
McDonald from the Army’s CID,
were not arrested with the rest.
They were away on a pass when
the investigation led to the group
at Camp Campbell, and never re
turned. They are officially listed
as AWOL and are now being
sought.
However, said the CID, the men
who were jailed, and who are now
being returned to Moore county,
are believed to be the real cul
prits, with the others possibly
guilty only of aiding and abetting.
All three are said to have con
fessed to the crime.
The assault took place during
maneuvers, at night on a road
near a Negro church. Seized with
the woman was an 18-year-old
boy, who was held immobile at
gun point while the soldiers rav
ished the woman, according to the
information both of them gave.