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ART WORK DISPLAYED—Emily Forrest, Southern Pines artist, pictured with some of the work.done
by members of the Fort Bragg Officers Wives Club art group, on display this week and next at the Fine
Arts room of the Southern Pines librairy. The artist—Mrs. MaxweU Forrest in private life—is instructor
of the group, which meets each Thursday on the post. Many talents are shown in the display of the
paintings and sculpture by the officers’ wives, all amateurs. (Photo by Redmond Tyler)
82nd Airborne Heads For Texas,
Leaving Large Empty Spaces Behind
A huge convoy started stream-,
ing out of Fort Bragg at dawn ^P^^es throughout all the neigh-
Sunday morning, carrying th^ boring communities. The convoy
vast 82nd Airborne division to
ward Texas and their spring man-
■ euvers, an operation due to take
about a week.
Removing some 14,000 men at
one clip has left the Division area
a ghost town, and large empty
State Supervisor
Visits Hospital
Of “Mother John”
The Mother John Hospital of the
Lord, Negro nursing home be
tween Aberdeen and Roseland,
was inspected Wednesday by a
state investigator, who said it will
be closed by state authorities as
soon as she has made her report.
Mrs. May Pemberton, supervisor
of homes for the aged with the
State Department of Public Wel
fare, spent the afternoon at the
Mother John home. She was ac
companied by Mrs. W. B. Cole,
county superintendent of public
welfare.
Thev interviewed each patient,
iadadiiig several old people and
two young men in six tiny rooms.
None were from Moore county, it
was learned from Mrs. Cole, who
added that county authorities re
ferred no patients there.
The place is run by “Mother
John,” head of a religious denom
ination which relies on prayer for
the healing of all ills^ Attention
was drawn to it by Coroner Ralph
G. Steed’s report of the death
there January 27 of a 14-year-old
South Carolina girl. A sufferer
from diabetes for three years, she
died of dianetic coma following
the withholding of her daily in
sulin shots for a week. Since the
shots were stopped with the con
sent of the girl and her father,
there was ho criminal liability, the
coroner said.
An investigation by M. R. Mills,
county sanitarian, showed the
“hospital” to be operating without
a license, and failing to meet any
state standards of sanitation. The
matter was turned over to
Austrian Group
Will Be Seen Here
In Colorful Show
was said to be the largest of divi
sional size since World War 2,
eclipsing even those of giant size
which brought the 28th and 47th
Infantry divisions to Exercise
Southern Pine near here last Au
gust.
Members of the 82nd live in the
Division area and in numerous
Sandhills towns, with the greatest
concentrations of them in South
ern Pines, Fayetteville and San
ford. Packing, crating and stor
ing has been going on in all these
communities for the past several
weeks.
At Fort Hood the men will'
enter on intensive training for
“Exercise Longhorn,” the 17-day
maneuver, which is scheduled to
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welfare department,
jurisdiction.
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which has
COOKIE SALE
The annual Girl Scout
Cookie Sale, sponsored by the
Central Carolina Girl Scout
Council, will get under way
Monday. Instead of taking
orders in advance for later de
livery, as in previous years,
the Girl Scouts will sell and
deliver the boxes of crisp, de
licious cookies at the same
time. Proceeds of the sale will
be used for expenses of the
Central Carolina Council in
four counties, with each troop
retaining five cents on each
box for its own activities.
Girl Scout leaders ask sup
port of this project by all cit
izens, helping to assure con
tinuation of Girl Scout sendee
in the community. The cook
ies are the only things Girl
Scouts sell during the year.
A free week at camp next
summer is being offered by
the cookie manufacturers to
the Girl Scout of the Central
Carolina area who sells the
most cookies.
Miss Grace Thwing of
"Thwinoease," 650 East Indi
ana avenue, is organi-^ational
chairman for the cookie sale
in Southern Pines. She asks
that persons wishing cookies,
who are not canvassed by
Girl Scouts, please notify her
and cookies will be delivered.
The Sandhill Music association
proudly announces their fourth
attraction for the 1951-52 musical
season—the Austrian Students
Goodwill Tour, presenting a gay
medley of Austrian folk songs,
folk dances and Viennese music,
Saturday, March 1.
Programs of the Austrian Good
will Tour are constructed around
a simple plot, blending in a har
monious whole the authentic folk
music and dances of their colorful
homeland.
All young students or school
teachers selected through audi
tions, the eight girls and 10 boys
come from the Alps, the Tyrol,
Carinthia, Styria, Upper and
Lower Austria, Innsbruck, Graz,
Salzburg and legendary Vienna.
Experts in the songs, dances,
and musical instruments of their
regions, the student ambassadors
were selected for this unique pro
duction by the "Buero fuer Stu-
dentenwanderungen,” an organi
zation founded after World War
1 by Dr. Osker F. Bock, lector at
the University of Vienna. This
“Office for Student Tours” was
formed as a token of gratitude
for aid rendered Austrian stu
dents by the college students of
the United States and Great Brit
ain.
In their fields of study the
Austrian students resemble any
American university group.
Among them are students of mod
em languages, medicine, law,
geology, music, mineralogy, dram
atic arts, education, fine arts,
journalism and commerce. While
on their tour of American cities
and universities, the Goodwill
Group members hope to become
thoroughly acquainted with the
American way of life, and to
write and lecture about it when
they return home.
In addition to the evening per
formance at 8:30 p. m., Saturday,
March 1, at Weaver auditorium in
Southern Pines, there will be a
matinee perforrnance' at 2 p. m.
sponsored by the Southern Pines
Rotary club for the school bus
fund. Tickets may be obtained at
the Barnum Realty Company of
fice on West Broad street, or from
any Rotary Club member.
—sound off—speak your piece?
You’ll have the opportunity at
the American Legion hut next
Thursday at 8 p. m., when an open
forum discussion of any and all
subjects will be held. Everybody’s
invited, and there’ll be no holds
barred.
Arch Coleman has accepted the
post of moderator for this unusual
program. It is designed to last
100 minutes, with each speaker al
lowed up to three minutes to say
his say—no more, unless the audi
ence demands it.
If there’s any subject you’d spe
cially like to hear discussed—the
“alley question,” city limits, poli
ties, or will we have snow?—drop
pared to get up and spill your
ideas. You may get agreement, or
you may get the reverse. In any
case, you’ll get a hearing.
Whether you want to talk or
not, you don’t want to miss this
evenings—it promises to be a fruity
one. It’s the brain child of Mr.
Healv, vice commander of the
Sandhills post, with the aid of
several other post officials. L. L.
Woolley, adjutant, and W. E. Cox,
Jr., finance officer, are other
merhbers of his committee. There
will be no charge of any sort.
Newcomers to the town are espe
cially invited. Ladies of the aux
iliary will serve light refresh
ments.
Annual Hunter Trials
Wednesday Afternoon;
Many Entries Listed
“^Formal Himt Ball
Wednesday Night
At Carolina Hotel
NATIONAL LEADER '
County Gets Modern Radio Protection
In Aid of Law Enforcement Agencies
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TREE PLANTING
Drivers along West Penn
sylvania Avenue are noticing
with pleasure the row of trees
which has been panted on
the North side of the street.
Located along the newly made
sidewalk they should provide
welcome shade and also help
to control the runoff of rain
water on that side.
Suggestion for the tree
planting came from the
Southern Pines Garden Club,
the organization which i^ant-
ed the grounds of the school
and has shown practical and
continued interest in beauti
fying the town.
The Pennsylvania Avenue
trees are maples and syca
mores from the Holly Tree
Nurseries. They were planted
by the town crew.
Here is surely an example
of the ideal in cooperation
between imaginative and in-
terresfed citizens and. a re
sponsive town board.
Moore ABC Board
Finances Installation;
Will Tie In With State
Donors Sought
To Sign Up For
Bloodmobile Visit
A new system is being tried out
to be sure of getting the quota of
blood for Korea, when the Red
Cross Bloodmobile makes its re
turn visit here next Friday, Feb
ruary 22, under sponsorship of
the Moore County chapter.
Success depends however, on
thorough cooperation throughout
the county in signing up donors
in advance, according to John F.
Buchholz, blood program chair
man.
Members of seven county com
munities have accepted local
chairmanships, and, with Mr.
Buchholz as Southern Pines chair
man, will work through personal
solicitation to make definite quo
tas.
Southern Pines has a quota of
150 blood donors.
Others are; Carthage, 40—T.
Roy Phillips, chairman; Stowe
Cole, Jaycee president; R. C. How
ard, Lions Club president; Em
manuel Son tag, Ralph Lassiter.
Pinebluif, 40—Norman Van
Boskerck, Lions Club president.
Pinehurst, 70—^Frank McCas-
kill. Lions Club president.
West End, 50—Earl Aiunan,
Lions Club president.
Robbins, 50—Chairman to be
announced.
Aberdeen, 75—^Ralph Klein-
spehn, Aberdeen Hosiery MUl.
Vass-Lakeview, 50—C. A. Mc
Laughlin, Vass Lions (^lub presi
dent.
Preliminary reports this week
Law enforcement in Moore
went streamlined last weekend, as
the new county radio hook-up
went into operation, centering in
Sheriff C. J. McDonald’s office at
Carthage and penetrating to the
farthest reaches of the county.
Cars of Deputy A. F. Dees and
ABC Officer John K. Sharpe were
equipped last weekend, while
those of the sheriff and ABC Of
ficer H. V. Chandler are being
equipped this week. Those of
Chief ABC Officer C. A. McCal-
lum and Deputy Lainbert are be
ing traded, and installation will
be made for them when their new
cars arrive.
) Expansion planned for the im
mediate future will be in the way
of tie-ins with the Southern Pines
police radio, also the State High
way Patrol tower at Wadesboro in
the growing North Carolina net
work for civil defense.
The county installation is being
financed by the Moore County
ABC board to the tune of approx
imately $7,000.
Long promoted by Sheriff Mc
Donald, the project received the
okay of the county commissioners
last summer and work started on
the installation soon after that.
Jack Younts, general manager of
Radio Station WEEB in Southern
Pines, worked closely with the
ABC board in selection of the GE
equipment, most modern of its
kind. 'The actual installation was
in the hands of Mel Kushner and
Joe Warren, WEEB engineers,
with finishing touches put on last
week by Rufus King, General
Electric engineer from Charlotte.
Deputy Dees and ABC Officer
Sharpe toured the \;ounty with
their new equipment Saturday,
testing it along every highway
from border to border and into
adjoining counties, and reporting
fine reception all the way.
The radio proved its speed and
effectiveness in two or three min-
“jobs” over the weekend, it
was learned from the sheriff’s of
fice. “The saving in long-distance
calls alone will be tremendous,”
was the report.
You lift a receiver, push a but
ton, signal the car you want and—
start talking. It’s as simple as
that. Main difference from use of
the telephone is that the switch
must be thrown “over” to change
from sending to receiving, and
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MRS. EUSE PERKINS
BPO Does Will
Convene Here For
District Meeting
Members of the three Droves of
BPO Does now existing in the
state, Charlotte, Wilmington and
Southern Pines, will hold their
annual district meeting here Sun
day and Monday, with the South
ern Pines Drove as hostess organ
ization. District and national offi
cials will be present.
Headquarters will be the South
land hotel, with most of the activ
ities centering around the South
ern Pines Country club, local
-home, of the Elks and Does.
The Elks win enter the program
at one important point, as hosts
for the dance which will close the
meeting Monday night.
Registration will be held at the
clubhouse from 2 to 5 p. m. Sun
day, with a tea under way starting
at 3 o’clock.
Monday’s program will open at
8 a. m. with the President’s
Breakfast at the Southland. Oth
er events of the day . will be at the
clubhouse. The first business ses
sion, 9:30 a. m. to 12 noon, will in
clude introduction of the Supreme
President, Mrs. Elise Perkins of
Minneapolis, Minn., and her
speech, followed by ritualistic
work by the visiting Droves. The
afternoon business session starting
at 1:30 p. m., will be highlighted
by more ritualistic work and elec
tion of officers.
A buffet supper will be held at
6:15, with Mayor C. N. Page and
Dr. D. W. Whitehead, Exalted
Ruler of the Elks Lodge, as guest
speakers.
A public session from 8:30 to
9:30 will feature a ritualistic serv
ice by the Charlotte Drove, and a
Flag Day ceremony by the South
ern Pines Drove. The dance will
begin at 9:30 o’clock.
Mrs. Kay Page is general chair
man for the meeting. District of
ficers are: Mrs. Lola Jurgenson,
Wilmington, president; Mrs. Clara
Scheipers, Southern Pines, vice-
president; Mrs. Mary Weeks, Wil
mington, secretary, and Mrs. Kay
Page, Southern Pines, treasurer.
Bobcat Shot By Fort Bragg Ranger
Being Mounted For Moore Co. Hounds
A full-grown bobcat weighing, taxidermist Wednesday
over 50 pounds was kiUed at the
head of Mott lake, near Haeford,
Tuesday afternoon, by a beautiful
shot from a .22 in the hands of
mom-
show 172 donors signed up, with Sgt. Albert W. Mullins, Chief
ing. Before he left, the big cat ly
ing in his pickup truck on West
Broad street here was an object
of much curiosity to the passing
most chairmen not having report
ed as yet. “If the quota is reach
ed in every community, that won’t
be too many,” Mr. Buchholz said.
Ranger on the Fort Bragg reser
vation.
Sergeant Mullins, on routine
patrol, heard the animal’s high-
We are aiming for 300 pints as pitched mating call, and respond-
the minimum to make the trip ed with a tender “mew.” Stepping
worth while for the Bloodmobile.
We can take care of a good many
more. Of course there are always
some who are not accepted for va
rious reasons—we have to allow
for those.
“We just don’t want to fall
down on the job the way we did
last time. This is a responsibility
for everybody.”
The Bloodmobile will be sta
tioned at the Southern Pines gym
from 11 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. next
rut into a country road, he saw
the creature, heading toward him,
pause as if saying to himself,
“Let’s hear more of that.”
What he got instead was a bul
let squarely between the eyes at
about 70 yards, killing him in
stantly.
The beautiful, dangerous crea
ture, its soft, speckled hide un
marred, was givn bv the sergeant
to his friend Ozelle Moss as a
crowds.
Few of them had ever seen a
bobcat, one of the most destruc
tive of woodland creatures, sav
age in its attack on all kinds of
game, and also on humans if cor
nered. Dogs who think they have
an easy prey have been tom to
ribbons by their sharp claws and
teeth.
Fairly numerous in Sandhills
forests many years ago, they dis
appeared for several years, but
have lately been making a come
back in a small way.
Sergeant Mullins, a high expert
rifleman, says he has killed eight
in the past three years, and re-
norts also that
Some 75 entries from local and
out-of-State stables are exp<HH;ed
to take part in the Hunter Trials
of the Moore County Hounds, to
be held Wednesdav starting at 2
p. ni. on the Scotts Comer course.
Youngs road.
The trials, a traditional high
light of the Sandhills winter hunt
season, will be followed that eve
ning by the formal Hunt Ball at
the Carolina hotel, Pinehurst. ’The
gener^ public is expected to at
tend in large numbers, and the
“hunt crowd”'will all be there,
many in their formal pinks. Ar
rangements are being made for a
number of dinner parties in the
Crystal Room before the ball
The series of events makes the
day a red-letter one on the local
sports and social calendar.
Classes announced for the Hunt
er Trials are as follows: ’Hjorough-
bred Hunters, Non-Thoroughbred,
Hunters with Amateur Riders, and
Open Hunters, also the pictur
esque Hunt Teams of Three, in
which the teams may be made up
from one stable, or from several
Challenge trophies will be award
ed in every class.
The Moore County Hounds
themselves will be seen in two
colorful events, the Parade of
Hounds and the short drag.
The Scotts Comer course, a two-
mile run with brush and timber
jumps, is unique in that it is vis
ible in every part from the large
parking area.
The championship class will be
judged differently this year than
last. Instead of using the point
system for champion and reserve,
blue-ribbon winners of the four
huntet classes will be tested in a
special event. A fieldmaster will
put them through their paces, em- •
ploying stringent tests in which
their fine qualities may be com
pared by the spectators as well as
by the official judge.
Henry C. Baldwin, of Westches
ter, Pa., one of the country’s top
horsemen, will serve as judge.
Announcer will be Dennis Crotty
of Pinehurst. J. Blan Van Urk,
of Mt. Kisco, N. Y., author of
numerous books on hunting and a
member of the Royal Dutch Hunt,
will also have an important part
on the program. He will act as
narrator and conunentator during
the two feature events, the Parade
of Hounds and the short drag, in
terpreting them for the benefit of
non-hunting guests.
There will be a new champion
ship trophy, as the old one was
retired last year by Bright Light
of the Seven Star Stables cm his
third-time win. Bright Light has
been sold and is not expected to
compete again. However, Times
Square of Vernon VaUey Farm,
last year’s reserve champion and
a veteran winner, is expected to
make a strong bid for the top tro
phy this year.
He will have plenty of competi
tion, according to a preliminary
list of entries made up this week.
Among out-of-state owners rep
resented will be Mrs. F. P. Sears,
Hamilton, Mass.; R. H. Dulaney
Randolph, MFH of the Piedmont
Hunt, Middleburg, Va.; James Mc
Kinnon, Elmyra, N. Y.; Mrs. Chris
Thomas, Toronto, Canada; J. Binn
Van Urk, Mr. and Mrs. A1 Moss,
and Mrs. Diana Parker, Mt. Kisco,
N. Y.; George Watts Hill, Jr., Dur
ham; Morton W. Smith, Middle
burg, Va., Mrs. Franklin King.
Chestnut HiU, Mass., and F. Duly
Adams, Monkton, Md., and South
ern Pines.
Local owners listed include
MUe-Away Farm, Stonybrook
Stables, W. J. Brewster, C. Lcniis
Meyer, A. C. Alexander, Starland
Stables, Vernon Valley Farms, B.
A. Tompkins, and others.
Parking spaces and single tick
ets to the Hunter Trials may be
reserved by a telephone call to
Mile-Away Farm, or from Bob
Smith, Carolina Hotel doorman.
Arrangements for dinner parties
may be made at the Carolina and
tickets for the baU may be secured
at Mile-Away.
This will be the first year the
Hunt Ball will be held at the Car
olina. In previous years it has
■ 'V...., U..OU rangers at Fort iiat}
irom 11 a. m. xo a:du p. m. next | Tv-o<,=r,t +v,o n/rni^i-o CrAiritv Bragg and Camp Mackall are now been at the Highland Pines Tnn,
Friday. Its medical and technical Hounds. Mr. Moss turned it over,conducting an intensive campaign!Southern Pines, now tmder lease
(Continued on page 8) to Red Overton, who took it to alto get rid of them, by trapping, to the U. S. Air Force.