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16 PAGES THIS WEEK SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 11. 1952
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Town Board Buys Equipment, Lets
Contract For Fluoridation System
Traffic Engineer
Recommends One-Way
Plan For Broad St.
CORONER
Van Sharpe Moves ^^ColorfuV^
Career To Job In Washington
Van B. Sharpe of Carthage, a
likely contender for the nation’s
most sued-against citizen, has en
tered on a new chapter in his roU-
Congressman C. B. Deane to find
out “how come.” An equal, or
perhap? greater number, however,
are said to have gone to bat for
The Town Board held its mgu-
monthly meeting Wednesday
night, all five commissioners.
Mayor Page and Town Clerk
Howard Burns being present.
Covering items which ranged from
the purchase of paving equipment
to traffic control to issuing a taxi
license, the business accomplished,
gave a fair picture of the town’s
activities and growth.
Major items reported on pre
sented the fact that in the past
month the town has spent more
than $9,000 for equipment, with
another $3000 voted at Wednes
day’s meeting. The latter figure
has been earmarked for a cash
register, following demonstration
of the machine by a National Cash
Register company salesman. Feel
ing that this labor-saving device
would save office expense as the
town’s business grows ... it is al
ready around $10,000 a month, ac
cording to Mr. Bums
as reduce auditors’ fees through
more detailed and clearer book
keeping, the board voted for the
purchase of a machine. The mo
tion was made by L. V. O’Callag
han, seconded by Walter Blue, and
passed unanimously.
Previous to this, minutes of two
special meetings, of December 17
and 20, had disclosed that the
town had purchased street-paving
equipment costing approximately
$6,000, and that the contract for
installing a fluoridation system
had been let, with the Wallace
Turner Company receiving the
contract. In accepting this firm’s
bid of $3,285, it was explained that
the board was influenced by the
fact that the present chlorinators
had been purchased from this
firm, which already made regular
inspections and these would be
continued with the new equip
ment. This win include stainless
steel containers.
A petition from a small group
in Pinedene, asking that their
property be taken into the town,
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ar-coaster carreer that of federal gharpe, and as long ago as last
employee in a conHort^ly-^- October a petition was circulating
" in the county to back him for his
aried berth in the Small Defense
Plants Administration at Wash
ington.
While no official announce-
! ment of the appointment has been
made, it was known he went to
work at Washington several days .. . . .... ...
ago. He is said to be assistant to'P"®“Z.
RADPri STEED
Steed Sworn In
To Fill Out Term
As County Coroner
Ralph Steed of Robbins was ap
pointed Moore County coroner
^ well Monday by the board of county
commissioners. He was sworn in
Tuesday by Carlton C. Kennedy,
clerk of superior court, to fill out
the unexpired term of the late
Hugh P. Kelly.
Dr. Francis L. Owens of Pine-
hurst served briefly as temporary
coroner, pending the commission
ers’ appointment.
Mr. Kelly, who died December
23, was reelected in 1950 to a two-
year term, which will expire in
December 1952. The office is sub
ject to election in the May pri
mary.
Mr. Steed, a native of Mont
gomery county, moved to Moore
in 1945, following his separation
from Army service, and is associ
ated with his brother in the oper
ation of the Steed Furniture com
pany at Robbins.
He is active in community and
county affairs, is a member of
the Robbins Lions club, the Ma
sonic lodge of Robbins and the
Southern Pines commandery of
Knights Templar.
He is vice-president of the
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present appointment.
Though it could not be ascer
tained definitely here how the ap
pointment was made, or if it was
a congressional one, it seems
Gen. Telford Taylor, head of the
recently-set-up SDPA, at a wage
the neighborhood of $10,000
per year.
A number of Moore County cit
izens, who have long ago lost
count of Sharpe’s judgments,
foreclosures and receiverships, in
cluding federal and other tax
troubles, have phoned or written
TAX LISTING
Mrs. D. J. Blue, list taker
for McNeill township, will be
at the Southern Pines town
hall Monday through Friday
for the next two weeks.
These will be her only times
in Sbuthem Pines, and all
taxpayers of the community
are expected to see her some
time during the period to list
their taxable property for
payment due next falL under
penally of the law.
Today (Friday) she is at
Lakeview, and Saturday she
will be at Vass, also the two
ensuing Saturdays January
19 and 26.
Mrs. Blue will be at Manly
Tuesday, January 29; at Mich
aels store the afternoon of
Wednesday, January 30, and
at Eureka the afternoon of
Thursday, January 31.
Hunting Seasons Close In January
’The month of January is mark
ed with the closing dates of vari
ous hunting seasons, according to
a reminder issued by County
Game Protector W. W. McDonald
this week.
The deer season ended January
1, waterfowl and duck January 5.
Next Tuesday, January 15, will
mark the end of the squirrel sea
son, also of the two-week renewal
of the dove season lasting from
January 1 through 15.
The season on rabbits, quail and
turkeys will end January 31.
The game protector reminded
also that all state fishing permits
expired January 1, and new ones
must be bought for any fishing
from here on through the year.
Himting permits, also the himt-
ing and fishing combinations, last
from July 1 through June 30.
Almost $9,000 was taken in dur
ing the past year in Moore county
for all types of hunting and fish
ing permits, Mr. McDonald said.
These included 328 state fishing
permits, 656 daily fishing permits,
99 county fishing licenses, and a
few non-resident licenses, bring
ing in a total of approximately
$1,500. Hunting licenses sold since
July 1 totaled $7,250. Only a few
delayed hunting licenses are sold
after the first of the year, not
enough to change the total per
ceptibly.
Total license collections repre
sent a slight gain over the previ
ous year.
Morehead Teams Play Here Tonight,
Saturday, In Annual Cage Classic
The Blue and White varsity and'a rampaging Blue and White
Jayvee teams of Southern Pines quintet which has lost only two
High school will meet those of
Morehead City here tonight (Fri
day) and tomorrow night in a re
newal of their colorful series,
which has become a tradition over
a seven-year period.
Starting in 1945, the boys’ teams
of the two schools have met for
a classic battle twice each winter,
with Morehead coming to South
ern Pines in January, and South
ern Pines playing a return bout
in February.
During the two-night engage
ments in each town, the visitors
are guests in the homes of the lo
cal team members, an arrange
ment which has meant friendship
off the courts, no matter how
keen the rivalry at game-time.
Before last year’s games, the
Blue and W^iite held a one-game
edge in the lengthening series,
but Coach Talbert’s varsity and
Jayvee teams made a clean sweep
here and at Morehead to take a
commanding lead in 1951.
The seaside resort team may
be in for trouble this year from
a two and four-point margin. And
for these losses the locals make
no apologies whatever, for, al
though they were playing out of
their class each time, they put on
a battle royal and nearly snatch
ed both games out of the fire.
The Jayvee games start at 7:30
both nights, with the varsity
slated to meet at 9. The school
band will be there in full imiform,
to add color and music to the
show.
Also present will be a character
who through the years has won
considerable local fame for him
self—Coach Talbert, of Morehead
City, a colorful feature of the an
nual competition.
Of broad and generous girth,
addicted to neckties of startling
hue, he slides around on the play
ers’ bench or jumps up, gesticu
lating wildly, as the game goes
from climax to climax—all to the
immense enjoyment of the spec
tators who have learned to follow
the sideline antics about as close
ly as they do the game. —JAP
Paratroopers Face
Trial At Jan. 21
Criminal Term
Commissioners Draw
Panel For Peiit
And Grand Juries
Cooley and Keir were the lead
ing proponents.
Congressman Deane, reached
by The Pilot by telephone, said
he had made some appointments
for Sharpe to see people in Wash
ington about a job “some time
early last fall—so long ago I had
almost forgotten it, until he came
by the office a few days ago and
said he had gone to work.”
He said that as far as he was
concerned, Sharpe got the job on
his Own merits, though he had
discouraged him from the attempt
on the grounds that he was prob
ably too old.
He said it had not appeared to
him at the time that Sharpe was
a controversial figure; that he
had strong support in Cooley and
Kerr “more powerful than I could
ever have given him” and that
he himself had seen Sharpe chief
ly on Washington visits of the
past, when he was nearly always
accompanied and sponsored by
leading citizens fromi down this
WPV.
Deane said he had seen no peti
tion in Sharpe’s behalf; and that
he knew of Sharpe’s business ups
and downs chiefly through arti
cles in Moore County papers,
which had presented much to
ShaiT)e’s credit as well as to his
discredit. “A colorful character”
was the way he was generally re
ferred to, -with some admiration
implied for the way he “'bounced
back” after business misfortunes.
At the office of Senator Willis
Smith, The Pilot was told by Miss
Helen Ross, secretary, that the
Senator “took no stand at all” on
the Sharpe appointment, though
a good many letters were receiv
ed in regard to his case.
Congressman Cooley, chairman
of the powerful House agriculture
committee, is known to have been
a. friend of Sharpe’s for many
years, and at one time left his
duties in Washington to appear in
Sharpe’s behalf at a judicial hear
ing.
At one time Sharpe was known
as a leading industrialist of Moore
county. He reached this position
during World War 2 when his
Carthage Weaving company was
humming away on war contracts,
with a large payroll. He bought
the Moore Central railroad at a
bargain price in order to ship his
•roods out by rail. He purchased
“Hardscrabble,” a palatial man
sion at Pinehurst, also a farm at
Pinebluff and an apartment house
at Carthage.
His troubles began when the
end of the war brought a termin
ation of his contracts. The Car
thage Weaving company was
closed, and the Moore Central was
allowed to fall into desuetude,
being eventually sold for scrap.
Civil suits are still pending
against him by Carthage citizens
affected by the severing of their
rail connection with the outside
world—the file is one of the
thickest in the clerk of superior
court’s office.
Judgments started piling up
against him as long ago as 1943,
and to date number about 60,
some of which have been satis-
fip'^ but not manv.
The plant stayed closed for al
most two years. During most of
this time it wore a federal pad
lock, while the Deputy Collector
of Internal Revenue claimed $269-
First Aid Class
Starts Tonight,
Several In County
Red Cross first aid classes start
ed in Cameron and Pinebluff last
week, one is due to begin tonight
(Friday) at the fire station in
Southern Pines and two will start
next week in Pinehurst, accord
ing to information received from
the Moore County chapter office.
Other classes are to be organ
ized shortly in other parts of the
county, also special classes for
juniors 12-17 years old, said Mrs.
Audrey K. Kennedy, executive
secretary.
The Southern Pines class which
will hold its first meeting tonight
at the fire station will be instruct
ed by Miss Emile Mae Wilson, as
sisted by Frank H. Kaylor. It is
sponsored by the Southern Pines
unit of the N. C. Catholic Lay
men’s association, several mem
bers of which wiR be taking part.
All interested persons are invited
to participate, regardless of church
or club affiliation. Miss Wilson
said.
The class will start at 7:30
o’clock, lasting for two hours, and
will continue for five weeks, with
two evening sessions each week.
The class will decide tonight on
the most convenient evenings for
its regular schedule.
The classes are being organized
as a start toward fulfilment of the
chapter’s 1952 commitment of 5,-
000 persons trained in first aid
essentials. The coiurses are strict
ly up to date, containing new fea
tures such as aid in atomic de
fense, and the recently approved
“back-lift arm-pressure” method
of artificial respiration. This new
method,, written up two weeks
ago in Time, has been foimd more
effective than the method taught qOO due’ in income and withhold-
Thirteen Negroes are among the
80 persons who will be summon
ed for jury duty at the term of
Superior comt, starting January
21, during which three Cam.p
Campbell, Ky., paratroopers are
slated to be tried for the alleged
rape of a young Moore County
Negro woman near Carthage dur
ing army maneuvers last August.
Judge Zeb V. Nettles of Ashe
ville is scheduled to preside dur
ing the term for the trial of crim
inal cases.
An exceptionally large number
of names was drawn for the Jan
uary 21 term jury. The percentage
of Negro names on the list is larg
er than usually drawn for juries
in this county.
The complete jury list follows:
Sandhill township—J. A. Pat
terson, J. W. Causey, Mrs. Alice
Rhyne, Hugh M. Styers, Jack M.
Taylor, E. R. Graham, D. B. Han
cock, George C. Hudson, John
Wright and George Addison,
McNeill township—R. G. John
stone, W. H. Frye, Bessie Clark,
D.A . McLean, Haynes Britt, C. T.
Evans, Jr., Olive Pete Woodruff,
Melvin Williams, Jack Page, Mrs.
Lillian Dabbs, C. B. Gale, N. E.
Andrews and George McCormac,
A. D. Green and Walter McKeith-
an.
Mineral Springs township—J
C. Jenkins, G. C. Robbins, J. P.
Richardson and H. C. Ritter.
Greenwood township—^Mrs. A.
A. Graham, Agnes Womack, and
CaldweU Cameron.
Bensalem township—^Ira L.
Freeman, Albert Williams, D.
Cagle, L. Clyde Brew, A. C. Wil
liams, J. N. Currie, W. C. Lassiter,
L. R. Monroe, Whitford Cole, L. R.
Marley, Jim Williams and Alton
Richardson.
for the past several years and
has been adopted by the Red
Cross, Boy Scouts and other first-
aid-teaching agencies. In the Red
Cross courses now being organ
ized in Moore county, the new
method is being taught for the
first time here.
Individuals and groups wishing
to take first aid are asked to noti
fy the chapter office here or Dr.
John C. Grier, Jr., chapter safety
services chairman, at Pinehurst.
Classes of 12 to 20 members will
be formed as rapidly as needed.
Fifteen qualified instmctors have
been lined up by the chapter
“ready to go.”
ing taxes. The claim dated back
to 1943 and'1944, when the plant
was busy and making money.
In his tax troubles Sharpe dealt
with Washington instead of
Greensboro, and through a re-au-
dito and compromise contract set
tlement, the bill was scaled down
to less than one-fourth.
He reopened the plamt in 1949,
making fish nets, and soon had
government contracts again.
Creditors at last forced the
plant into an operating receiver
ship in July 1949. Two receivers
in succession endeavored to fiU
contracts on hand and even took
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US Chamber Will
Hold Five-Day
Seminar Here
A five-day seminar on “Explain
ing Your Business” will be held at
the Mid Pines club starting Mon
day, January 28, under sponsor
ship of the department of educa
tion of the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce.
Attending will be approximate
ly 150 business leaders from all
sections of tl\e United States.
Arrangements for the seminar
have been made by Paul H. Good,
of Washington, D. C., manager of
the department of education of the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce. An
nouncement released by Mr. Good
this week said the session will
show “how to correct misconcep
tions that lead to misunderstand
ings of our business system” and
will take up “controversial ques
tions on profits, prices, wages, in
flation and other issues.”
The event will open with lunch
eon Monday. Outstanding speak
ers on business subjects will be
heard at morning and afternoon
sessions during the week. A ban
quet is scheduled for Wednesday
or Thursday evening.
Other meetings at the Mid Pines
club during February include steel
warehousemen of the southeast
ern states, convening Friday, Jan
uary 18, and officials of the Wa
chovia Bank and Trust company,
January 23-27. Each group will
include approximately 25 people.
BURNED OUT
Citizens Pass Hat For
School Bus Fund As
Order Goes To State
DmECTOR
I Down Payment For
February Delivery
In Hand - Almost
V
GEN. ARNOLD
Arnold Appointed
County Director
Of Civil Defense
Former U. S. Military
Governor of Korea
Accepts Volunteer Post
Maj. Gen. A. V. Arnold, of
Southern Pines, former U. S. mil
itary governor of Korea, has ac
cepted the position of Moore
County director of civil defense.
The announcement was made
this week by G. M. Cameron, of
Pinehurst, chairman of county
commissioners, who said that Gen
eral Arnold’s task as director will
be the coordination of all civil
defense agencies and efforts for
a “united front” in Moore.
General and Mrs. Arnold have
lived in Southern Pines since his
retirement about a year and a
half ago, following a career of dis
tinguished military service and
responsibility.
A West Point graduate, class of
1912, he later graduated from the
advanced course of the Army’s
Field Artillery school; the Com.
mand and General Staff school,
and the Army War college. He
served at bases in the far west,
and in many other parts of this
country and its extra-territorial
possessions. At the start of World
War 2, he was head of the Field
Artillery Officers Training school
at Louisville, Ky. He saw action
in the Aleutians and the Mar
shalls, then, as commander of the
Seventh Infantry division, on
Leyte and Okinawa.
In September 1942, immediate
ly following the end of the war,
his division was sent to Korea,
where he became the first U. S.
military governor and was also
chief U. S. delegate on the US-
USSR commission to try to bring
about a settlement in Korea—a
task which proved to be impos
sible.
General Officer
From India Is
USAFAGOS Guest
Anna Johnson, aroxmd 60, life
long colored resident of Vass, saw
practically all of her belongings
go up in flames late Tuesday
afternoon. Living alone and mak
ing her living by doing laundry
work and odd jobs, she was in
the yard hanging out -clothes
when she saw flames,-coming out
of the door. She is at a loss to
know how the. blaze started as
she had not had any fire in the
house, she said.
The small cottage was owned
by the Cameron estate, but had
Brig. Gen. A. C. lyappa, chief
signal officer of the Western (Com
mand of the Royal Indian /irmy,
with headquarters at New Delhi,
India, was a guest at the U. S. Air
Force Air-Ground Operations
school at Highland Pines Inn this
week.
General lyappa spent Tuesday
at the school conferring with Gen
eral William M. Gross, comman
dant, and his staff on air-ground
operations and other topics of mu-
'tual interest.
The Indian officer is touring U.
S. military installations through
the invitation of Secretary of the
Public-spirited citizens passed
the hat during the past few days
in a concerted effort to bring the
school activities bus fund up to
enough for a down payment on
the long-desired bus.
The response was quick and
warm, and the fund rose near
enough to the goal so that Supt.
A. C. Dawson, Jr., was able to
place the order through the State
purchasing agency.
With funds on hand or in sight
totaling approximately $1,900, an
appeal is being made ^is week for
amounts large and small, so that
the full down payment of about
$2,150, or half the purchase price,
will be on hand when delivery is
made, probably early in February.
Checks may be made out to the
Southern Pines School Athletic
association, and mailed directly to
Mr. Dawson.
After the bus gets here the col
lection will continue, as the citi
zens’ committee members—^who
prefer to remain anonymous in
this story—have placed their
names on a note for the balance
at the Citizens Bank and Trust
company, and the bank has allow
ed them to do so, in confidence
that the community will carry
through the project so well begun.
School funds cannot be used to
ward the purchase of the activities
bus, the full cost of which must be
made up through outside contri
butions if at aU.
For Varied Activities
Secured through State allot
ment, the bus will cost $4,327.50,
about half what it would cost if
purchased on the open market. It
will be used for transportation of
the teams and the band, for class
field trips, for summer recreation
projects for the young people, and
for many other purposes for which
such vehicles are becoming more
and more a school and community
necessity.
The school has had an activities
bus for the past five or six years.
Second-hand when purchased, it
has been cornpletely worn out. On
the State contract for a new bus
no trade-in can be made. An effort
will be made to sell the old one,
though it is considered likely that
only its scrap value can be real
ized. Whatever it brings will be
added to the new bus fimd, Mr.
Dawson said.
Schoolchildren Give
This fund has been building for
the past several months. Assorted
contributions and proceeds of ben
efit events brought it up to a few
hundred dollars. Donors listed
before this week’s collection in
cluded the Class of 1951, which
made its senior gift in the form of
cash for the fund; $50 from the
seventh and eighth grades, taught
by Don Moore and Mrs. Sue
Owen; the Southern Pines Lions
club, donating proceeds of their
sponsorship of the Pinehurst Lions
Minstrel Revue; Martha Aden
Studio of Dance, proceeds of the
“Yule Capades”; the John Boyd
post, VFW; Miss Buice’s sixth
grade, contributing its $5 prize
from the Rotary club for the Hal
loween window art contest; and
Miss Sutherland’s third grade,
which also won a $5 prize and
gave a major part of it.
New Contributors
New contributors this y^reek
were listed as follows: C. N. Page,
G.H.Leonard, M’Donald-Page Mo
tor Co., Gamer & Bowden, Bryan
Poe Texaco station. Southern
Pines Pharmacy, Citizens Bank &
Trust Co., Broad Street Drug
store,. Ike Woodell, S. R. Jellison,
W. E. Blue and Modem Mairket,
Don C. Jensen, Worsham-Little
Motor Co., Jacks GriU, Garland
Pierce, franjeans. The Pilot.
P. T. Bamum, Inc., John S. Rug-
gles, John Howard, Katherine
Wylie, Charles S. Patch, Jr., W. L.
Baker, Bobby Cline, Peggy Cline,
John E. Cline, Bill Brown, Mrs.
Leon Seymour, John Underwood,
Pollock & FuUenwider, Harold
McNeill, June Phillips, Central
Army Frank Pace. Combat-
experienced, he was a prisoner of | Carolina Telephone C6., E. C. Ste
war of the Japanese for three and vens. Bill Campbell, John C. Os
beeii occupied by Anna, and bv
het mother for many years be- a half years during the Malayan 1 trom, Harold Collins, O. T. Parks,
fore her death. warfare of World War 2. • (Continued on Page 5)
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