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GIVE TO HEART FUND— 'HAVE A HEART!' GIVE TO HEART FUND— 'HAVE A HEART!' VOL. 33—NO. 14 SIXTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1952 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE—10 CENTS Top place winners for W. M. Storey kemorial award—from left* front, E. J. Hartsell, scoutmaster, and Bobby Darst, senior patrol leader, of Pinehurst Troop 7, runner-up; A1 Folley, scoutmaster, Aber deen Troop 68, holding his small personal trophy, and Gene Maynard, senior patrol leader, with Storey award; John Watkins, senior patrol leader, Joe Mar ley, junior assistant scoutmaster, Md Flynn Menius, scoutmaster of third place winner Southern Pines Troop 224. Behihd the boys are, from left, Voit Gilmore, who presented the trophy; Dr. John C. Grier, Jr., of Pinehurst, district commissioner, who supervised the selection of the winner, and Lawrence M. Johnson, Aberdeen, district advancement chairman. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey) Aberdeen Troop Wins Storey Award As Outstanding In County For Year Presenlation Made At Court of Honor Held Here Monday Aberdeen Troop 68 was an nounced Monday night as winner of the coveted W. M. Storey Mem orial trophy, by an unprecedented total of 1,689 points rolled up in a year-long competition with other troops of Moore county. The announcement highlighted the February court of honor held at Weaver auditorium. Southern Pines. Presentation of the trophy for the “outstanding troop of the year” was made by Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines, stepson of the Winston-Salem man whose mem ory it honors. was received in behalf of Troop 68 by Gene May nard, senior patrol leader. To A1 Folley, scoutmaster of .the win ning troop, Mr. Gilmore present ed a small silver bowl, replica in miniature of the huge shining trophy. The small bowl is Scoutmaster Folley’s to keep, as a permanent souvenir of his troop’s achieve ment. The Storey award must be won three times in succession for permanent possession. The announcement, which fol lowed a period of carefully built up suspense, was greeted with prolonged applause by other troops present, who, though mak ing plain their disappointment that they did not win, neverthe less showed themselves good losers. RuAeis-Up Second place winner was an nounced as Troop 7, Pinehurst, with 1,057 points, and third place winner Troop 224, Southern Pines, with 646 points. E. J. Hart- sell is scoutmaster of the Pine hurst troop, and Flynn Menius of Troop 224, with Don Moore and Clifford Storey as assistants. The number of points won by these two troops, Mr. Gilmore announc ed, won for them the classifica tion of “proficient” and they will receive smaller trophies for their achievement. Fourth place winner Troop 206, Pinebluff, with 306 points, and fifth place winner Troop 98, West End, 303 points, earned the,classi fication of "standard,” while sixth place winner Troop 74 of Robbins, with 250 points, was in the “par- OPEN MEETING An open meeting has been called by the Southern Pines Civic club, to take place Mon day at 3 p. m. at the Civic club building, for discussion of plans for the future use of the building. All citizens interested ’ in the subject are invited. The meeting is being held for discussion and expression of opinion only, according to word from the club. No vote will be taken. Democrats Will Recommend Three For Election Board The Moore County Democratic Executive committee will meet Skturday at 2 p. m. at the court house at Carthage to make rec ommendations for the Democratic positions on the Moore County board of elections. The meeting was called by the chairman, W. A. Leland McKeith- en of Pinehurst, on request of Everett Jordan, chairman of the State Democratic Executive com mittee. The county committee is com posed of chairmen of the various Democratic precinct committees. They will recommend three per sons, from among whom two will be selected by the state commit tee. The third member of the county board of elections will be a Republican, chosen by the Re publicans through a similar pro cedure. Present members of the board are Sam C. Riddle, Carthage, and Harry Fullenwider, Southern Pines, filling the Democratic posi tions, and Franklin Hussey, Rob bins RFD, Republican. Mr. Ful lenwider said this week he is not a candidate for, reappointment. It appeared this i^eek that Mrs. S. L. Windham, vice president of Cooking School Slated Next Week At Pinedene, Inc. Another of those famous cook ing schools, featuring prizes, good cooking and demonstrations of latest equipment, will be held for women of the area next Wednes day and Thursday, starting at 2 p. m. Scene of the cooking school this year will be the handsome display room of Pinedene, Inc., Hotpoint appliance dealers, on US Highway 1 about a half-mile south of Southern Pines. As in similar successful events of the past, the Carolina Power and Light com pany is cooperating. Instructor and demonstrator will be Mrs. Grace McKenzie Cox, CP&L home service supervisor. * This will be the first two-day cooking school to be held here in a good many years. No admission fees will be charged, and there is plenty of parking space for all. Mrs. Cox will demonstrate the preparation of a variety of foods, including menu fundamentals for the benefit of new housekeepers, and new dishes to aid experienced housewives in varying their rou tine. Among the prizes given away will be the dishes prepared as part of the program. She will also show new ideas and short cuts, not only in the cooking and serving of meals, but in other household tasks, demon strating the newest in electric stoves, automatic washers, deep freezes and other modern appli ances. / - Red Cross Goal Set, Steed Named Local Chairman A goal of $20,320 has been set for the 1952 fund campaign of the Moore County chapter, Amer ican Red Cross, it was announced this week by A. L. Burney, chap ter fund drive chairman. The campaign is scheduled to begin Monday, March 10. Bishop Co. WiU Double Size of Operation Here New Plans Call For Employmenl of 400 Women Workers Though the new Southern Pines plant of the J. Bishop & Co. Plat inum Works is only halfway con structed, the local operation has already doubled in size in the plans of its owners. Joseph B. Simpson, employ- •'ert manager at the parent plant in Malvern, Pa., revealed here nis week that plans now are to run two shifts, employing about 400 workers at the peak of pro duction instead of 200, as original ly announced. This will take the local plant out of the small-industry bracket and make it a job - opportunity factor of real weight in the life of the community. Chief reasons for the expansion of plans before the plant is even completed lie in the communitv tself and the surrounding area he said. Its attractions have be come more and more apparent tO' company officials on their visits and the numbers and quality of iob applicants have remained con sistently high. Practically all of the workers will be women, with only about If men employed as foremen, and m various types of specialist jobs, even when the production peak is attained. Hypodermic needles for blood collection and administra- ion will be manufactured here. Two foremen were employed •^his week, Harry Howie. Jr., o^ ■“inebluff, just released from the Air Force after reservist duty as a first lieutenant, and Wilbur H. ■'^'’iniamson, of Southern Pines, a graduate of the Sanford High mhool and former employee of *he Robbins Mills. Local Teams Set For Two Major Ca^e Events Scheduled INext Week Five-Day Regional Playoffs Slated For Local Gym ticipating” bracket. Other troops the Najion^ Association of State of the county fell below this num- Bar Association Presidents, which the county committee, will pre- announced side at Saturday’s meeting, as Mr. and quotas for the five McKeithen is planning to attend Driver Training Wins Further Okays; Delegation Will Visit Commissioners major towns of the county as fol lows: Southern Pines, J. N. Steed, $7,200; Pinehurst, Gen. A. L. ber and received no classification is being held in Chicago Sunday. or fail^'i to qualify for other rea- He is president of the N. C. Bar t ' (Continued on page 8) association. ^1,7^ ’ Chairmen of the other county communities are being chosen, and all will be announced next week. Chairman Steed of Southern Pines has selected Voit Gilmore m be his chairman for advance gifts. “Kickoff dinner” preceding the drive will be held Friday evening, March 7, at the Carthage hotel. Several of the .larger commun ities are expected also to have breakfast meetings the day the drive begins, to give momentum to the opening of the campaign and help bring it to a quick and successful close. “Answer the Call” is the Red Cross drive slogan for 1952, to which County Chairman Burney ’s adding another—^brief and to ^he point—for Moore Countv "amnaigners — “DDT — Deter- "'ioa+icn. Devotion, Time: deter- o^ination to raise the quota; devo tion to the cause and time to do it in one day.” ’The Southern Pines school board added its approval last week to that of the Moore County school board lor the installation of a countywide program of driv er training for school pupils 16 years old and up. And Wednesday night of this week, the Moore County Educo club, rheeting at Highfalls, added its endorsement to the plan. The club is composed of superinten dents and many teachers of the county, on whom the task of ad- injnictrptirin would fall. Representatives of the Sand hills Kiwanis club’s public affairs committee, original sponsors of in March. A formal request for installation of the course was made by the club to the commissioners some months ago. ’This has now been strengthened by the addition of the three important endorsements, and may, by the time the commis sioners meet, also have the en dorsement of the third school ad ministrative unit in the county, that of Pinehurst. The Kiwanis delegation plans to meet with the commissioners at 4 p. m. Monday, March 3. They are inviting all interested persons to meet with them there, includ ing parents of high school boys the program, will present it before | and girls who wish their children the coxmty commissioners at their ' given formal driving instruction, regular meeting at the courthouse j with emphasis on traffic laws, in Carthage on the first Monday i courtesy of the road, etc. March of Dimes Collection Here Far Past Quota Through the cooperation of sev eral agencies and many individ uals, Southern Pines came inighty ‘'tose 0 doubting its quota in the March of Dimes, according to a re port made this week by Commun ity Chairman Paul C. Butler. Collections to date total $3,362.- 74. Quota for Southern Pines was $1,750. A few more dollars may come in still, to boost the final report. Several proud achievements were noted by Chairman Butler— $275 from West Southern Pines, headed by Mrs. Julia Evans; $71.65 collected at USAFAGOS, High land Pines Inn, under the leader ship of Sergeant Dixon; $219.89 from a Saturday collection by the VFW auxiliary, assisted by a group of high school girls; $205.47 collected at the Carolina theatre, by courtesy of C. W. Picquet, and $19.50 collected at the Starview drive-in, by courtesy of Bill and Tony Himtley. “The Southern Pines School club,” Community Chest-style set up of the local schools, gave $182 to the fimd. The rest came in through mail solicitation in the residential sections, and a person al canvass of the business district. Doser Blasts Par To Win Pro-Am At Pine Needles Clarence Doser, pro at the Pine Needles Golf club, was the winner of the second in the series of Pro-Amateur matches of the Sandhills Pro-Amateur League Wednesday, when he toured the Pine Needles course in a blister ing 7 under par 64, fashioned from a 34-30. This great round, only one over the course record, won first money in the Pro Sweepstakes and, pair ed with Dr. Martin Vickers of Bangor, Me., won first prize in the Pro-Amateur with a best ball of 31-30-61. Max Forrest of Southern Pines and Capt. Charlie M. Hanes of Charlotte, now stationed at the UEAF Air-Ground Operations 'nhool here, also played with Doser and had a best ball of 32- 30-62 to tie for second and third amateur prizes. Regional playoffs in the official state tournament for boys’ bas ketball teams will ba held at the Southern Pines gym next week starting Tuesday afternoon, and continuing through finals Satur day night, through arrangements made with local school officials by "Hap” Perry, of Chapel Hill, pres ident of the N. C. High School Athletic association. Among the dozen competing team? will be three from Moore Cou'nty conferences — Southern Pines, Aberdeen and Robbins. Ar rangements were completed Wed nesday night and a complete list of the participants was not avail able at presstime. The playoffs will not conflict with the Moore County High School Basketball tournament for these teams, though it starts a^ West End Thursday. The three taking part in the regional event will not enter the county tourna ment until Monday, March 3. An unusual aspect of the play offs is the participation of two teams from the same conference 'uthern Pines and Aberdeen These will meet tonight (Friday'' at Aberdeen. If Southern Pines wins, it will mean a conference tie, which would require a play- ''ff to determine the winner. The "lose tournament schedule would not allow time for an extra gam’e so state officials decided to sched ule both in the regional plav. With the regional event Tues day through Saturday, the Mtoore County tournament next Thurs- -’ay through Wednesday, and the 4.11-State Girls’ Basketball tour nament schedule to be held at Aberdeen March 10-15, cage fans "f the Sandhills have a busy cOu- "le of weeks ahead and should "•°e some superlative playing and historic games. Mrs. Flora Jones, Beloved Teacher, Succumbs At 95 Mrs. Flora Patterson Jones, for many years a beloved teacher and Sunday School teacher in Moore aounty, died peacefully in her sleep at the Anchorage Wednesday night at the great age of 95. She had made her home at the nursing home for t^e past several weeks, but remained mentally ilert and able to assist herself in many ways until shortly before the end. Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Friday at the Jackson Springs Presbyterian church, in which she had been a devoted member for more than 50 years. Officiating will be the Rev., W. H. Brown, retired ihinister of that community. Burial wiU be in the family plot in the church ceme tery. She was born in Moore coun ty November 16, 1856, and spent her entire life in the county, liv ing with a niece, Mrs. John Me- Caskill, at Jackson Springs dur ing her declining years. . . She was one of 16 children born to Neil and Elizabeth McLean Patterson, both of old Scottish pioneer stock. She outlived aP her immediate family, also her husband, Allan Jones, who lived for only two years after their mar riage. Surviving are a host of nieces, and nephews, greatnieces and greatnephews, many living in the Sandhills with others scattered through many states. To. all of •■hem she was their beloved “Aunt Flora,” also to many others who were no blood kin but whom she taught in grade schools of the county, or in more than 60 years as a Sunday School teacher. BLOODMOBILE A reminder to those who signed up to give blood for Korea—the Red Cross Blood- mobile will be at the South ern Pines gym from 11 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. today (Friday). And another reminder, for those who failed to sign—ar rangements have already been made for another visit. The Bloodmobile will return in May. Countywide coverage was effected this time through a widely organized set-up, with several civic clubs participcit- ing, under direction of John F. Buchholz, - county blood program chairman. "The response has been ex cellent and prospects look good for our most successful blood collection," said Chair man Buchholz this week. This will be the Bloodmobile's third visit to Moore county. Petition Presents Viewpoint of Hunt On Ft. Bragg Road ■With the circulation of a peti tion among those who oppose the paving of Connecticut Avenue ex tension to the Fort Bragg, line, this thorny question of the loca tion of the link joining this sec tion with the army’s new road across the reservation comes once more to the fore. The petition, which carries 68 names, most of them of property owners in Moore County, is ad dressed to George Coble, highway commissioner for the Sixth Dis trict. It bases opposition to the paving of this road on three points. The first concerns the re sort business of the section, which the signers “believe is important to the Southern Pines area and the proposed project on Connect icut Avenue would be a direct blow to and have harmful ef fects on the resort business.” Sec ond, Connecticut Avenue, they say, is one of the most beautiful streets in Southern Pines and turning it into a highway to Fort Bragg would produce an unde sirable change in the neighbor- BANK CLOSING The Citizens Bank and Trust company is closed today (Friday) in observance of George Wash ington’s birthday. The main point of opposition, however, concerns the hunt. The petitioners state that “the activi ties of the Moore County Hounds organization constitute a distinc tive feature of the resort business |25tli County Meet Opens Thursday At West End The 25th Annual Moore County High School Basketball tourna ment, oldest in the state, will be held at Sinclair gymnasium. West End, starting at 3:30 next Thurs day and coptinuing through finals Wednesday evening, March 5. Boys’ and girls’ teams of 10 high schools will compete in elim inations each afternoon and eve ning Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday of the tournament period. If past years are any indi cation, each event will take place before a capacity audience, and for the semifinals and finals the gym will be jammed with a crowd of 1,200 to 1,500 persons. Seedings were determined and pairings drawn at a meeting of the sponsoring Moore County Educo club held Wednesday night at the Highfalls school. Of the boys’ teams, Robbins is topseeded, with Aberdeen second, Highfalls third and Southern Pines fourth. The Aberdeen Red Devils, whose record of 91 straight con ference victories has won them statewide fame, are topseeded among the girls. Robbins, which snapped that record two weeks ago, is second. Farm Life third and Pinehurst fourth. Robbins boys drew a bye as opener. Initiating the tournament for the boys will be Carthage and ■Vass-Lakeview at 4:30 p.' m. Thursday, with West End meet ing Cameron at 9 that night. Fri day’s schedule brings Farm Life and Westmoore together at T p. m., with Highfalls 'hieeting the win ner of the West End-Cameron game at 9. Pinehurst and Cameron girls drew byes. 'Vass-Lakeview and Westmoore girls will start the tournament at 3:30 p. m. Thurs day. Southern Pines meets High falls at 7, and Carthage meets West End at 8. Friday, the 3:30 game will see the Aberdeen girls meeting the winner of the Vass Lakeview and Westmoore con test; Farm Life will engage the winner of the Southern Pines- Highfalls game at 4:30, and Pine hurst will meet Cameron at 8. ■Southern Conference Board members from out of the county will act as tournament officials. Fittingly, the location of the sil ver anniversary event will be at the splendid, capacious new gvm named in honor of J. F. Sinclair, West End superintendent for 27 years, pioneer basketball coach snort in that there are between 60 and 70 foxhunts a year and 25 to 30jcr\d promoter of the drags, the latter ranging from [Moore County schools, and found- Young’s Road on the north to theier of the tournament in 1927. ridge south of Vernon Valley! The West End gym was com- Farm on the south, and that this hunting area is bisected by Con necticut Avenue.” Paving of the road, states the petition, would have a disastrous effect on the hunt. The netition closes with the ob- (Continued on page 8) pleted just a year ago and dedi cated to “ ’Fessor” Sinclair at that time. The year before that, at the opening of the brand-new South ern Pines gym, his'25th anniver sary as a Moore County educator and coach was appropriately ob served. Hunter Trials Prove Again This Is Nation’s Top Winter Schooling Ground WOODS FIRE The Southern Pines volunteer ire truck went out about 12:30 p. m. 'Thursday in answer to an alarm from the Manly Avenue section, where woods were afire back of the Bill Bailey home. By E. O. Hippus The Hunter Trials, sponsored by the Moore County Hounds, was held out on the course at the , end of Youngs Road Wednesday, and this annual event ran true to form set during these recent years, as horse after horse made a faultless round of the fences before the large gallery of spectators assem bled on the hill overlooking the course. , Show-ring performances by the many entries, some of which rank among the top show horses of the country, clearly demonstrated the fact that this area now stands as the finest schooling ground for hunters and jumpers in the East. The afternoon opened with a parade of hounds and a short drag laid over the course, followed by the himt staff. A running com mentary was delivered by J. Blan Van Urk, in which the well known sporting writer gave a short history of the pack, paying tribute to James and Jackson Boyd, its founders, and the pres ent joint masters, W. J. Brewster and OzeUe Moss, and described the method of laying a drag in ef fect here. Hounds were laid on the line by master-huntsman Moss, with Mrs, Moss, Jack Goodwin and Kirk Dutton whipping in. They rioted at the start, flashing down hill, where they were turned by the first whip, and immediately hit off the line, which they carried with a couple of nice checks over the rolling fields and in and out of the woods of the picturesque course to finish up hill in front of the gaUery. A worry was staged with appropriate whoops and hoi- helpers in front of the long line of parked cars, sm artificial setting that did not seem in the least to dampen the keenness of the hounds. Huntsman Moss had 15% cou ple out, a compact pack, fast and with good cry. After the first bit of wildness, they settled down and handled easily. Towards the end one couple got way ahead, skip ping one of the close turns on the crarrpod course, but the rest of the pack, held on by a whip, soon (Continued on page 5)
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