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Robbins Bearcats
Re^onal Winners,
Will Play At Duke
County Champs
Score New Win
At Roseboro
The Robbins Bearcats of Elise
• High school won the Class A re
gional basketball chamnionshiT'
Saturday night, and will meet
other regional winners in the statc
high school championship to be
played next weekend at Duke
university, Durham.
The Bearcats defeated Camp
LeJeune Friday night and Massev
Hill Saturday at Roseboro to be
come regional winners.
They had previously won the
district playoff held at the South
ern Pines gym, and between th°
two collected the Moore Countv
championship in the tournament
at West End last week.
In the regional playoff, th'-
score was 53 to 46 for Robbin'-
against LeJeune, with Haithcock
marking up 13 points for winners’
hie-h scorer. Tha,t night Massey
Hill beat Richlands 45 to 30. Score
of the finals was: Robbins 43,
Massey Hill 42—a one-point dif
ferential between two superb
teams at their best.
T. McNeil scored 16 points for
Robbins for the all-team high
with H McNeil contributing nine
vital points.
The State tournament, held like
the playoffs under sponsorshin of
the N. C. High Schobl Athletic
association, will take place in
Duke’s great indoor stadium and
is expected to draw large crowds
from all over the state. It will be
played next Thursday, Fridav and
Saturday, March 13, 14 and 15.
Trophy Awarded In Pink Coat Race
N,
State Tourney
At Aberdeen
Nearing Finals
Two mightv champions came to
gether Wednesday night in the
earlv rounds of the State Girls
Basketball tournaiment taking
place this week at the Aberdeen
gym.
They were Goldston and Aber
deen, both widely famed for their
prowess. Aberdeen scored an un
set victory over the second-seed
ed Goldstonites by making a goal
in the final 30 seconds, breaking
a tie and winning by 54 to 52.
In fir<!t round games plaved
Wednesday night, topseeded Lin-
colnton, twice champion of the
event, won over Clarkton bv 71
j-i. P. (Junebug) Tate grins happily as he receives the handsome
Challenge Trophy for the Pink Coat race at the Stonybrook Steepe-
chase, from its donor Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy. Supervising the pro
ceedings is Vernon G. Cardy’s Racormick, the winner, who made it
in a breeze, coming in five lengths ahead of his nearest competitor.
From left—Jockey Tate, Mrs. Cardy, Mrs. Kennedy and Vernon Car-
dy, of Montreal and Southern Pines. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Big Crowd, Fast Horses, Surprise
Finishes Feature Stonybrook Races
Fifth Annual
Steeplechase Seen
As Most Successful
ing its share of excitement and
drama.
The day, incidentaUy, was the
finest the infant springtime had
Thrill, wh„ provided
a crowd of some 3,500 cheering breeze. The parking area was
fans Sunday afternoon at the | crowded with cars, three tiers of
Fifth Annual Stonybrook Steeple
chase and Race Meet. Surprise
finishes were the order of the day,
with each of the seven races add-
Local Stables
Have Entries In
Springdale Meet
to 47, and Cool Snrings'defeated^^tJ‘^Sf“^'^®y^^V^To“’S- C-
Windsor 68 to 44. Three Quarter-
final games were scheduled for raced m the Stony-
Thursdav night, with semifinals Sunday,
tonieht (Fridayl starting, at 7:30,
and finals Saturday.
Aberdeen’s close win over Gold
was that of the sixth and feature
race, the Broad Hollow, a two-
mile run over timber. Refugio, the
acknowledged favorite, took the
lead going away. The veteran
racer, a winner in the Grand Na
tional at Aintree and of the $15,-
Several horses from two local,®®® handicap at Chevy Chase, was
,«ble. U, co„p^'SS’'ol
in the Springdale race meet to be,top steeplechase rider for the past
' -—I three years. He maintained his
them, extending a third of the
way around the t rack. Their oc
cupants constituted the largest-
best-dressed and best-natured
gathering seen at a Sandhills
sporting event in a long time.
« P"?®! Mickey Walsh, OzeUe Moss,
Plans Given For
Mid-South Show
In Starland Ring
Record Entries
Seen For Event
March 22 and 23 -
Twenty-five classes for hunters,
jumpers, hacks and horsemanship
are on the card for the second an
nual Mid-South Horse Show to
be staged in the picturesque ring
at Starland Farms, midway be
tween Pinehurst and Southern
Pines, Saturday and Sunday,
March 22 and 23.
The premium list was announc
ed this week by Lloyd M. Tate,
manager of the show ,and features
events for hunters and jumpers,
many of which are wintering in
the Sandhills. ,
Many outside stables, however,
have sent in entries, among them
Mrs. Richard Coker and Miss Pen
elope Coker of Hartsville, S. C.;
June Fisher of Meadowbrook Sta
bles, Charlotte, and his riding
children, Junie 13, and Libby,
nine,; the Thomas Stables of Otta
wa, Canada; Joseph Green, of
Middleburg, Va., C. C. Criser, Hot
Springs, Va., and others.
Many of the mounts to be judg
ed here have been ribbon win
ners in the National at Madison
Square Garden, New York, and
several of them have been cham
pions there.
Always one of the most color
ful classes in any show, that for
Corinthian hunters, has attracted
a big field. The class requires the
hunters to be ridden by amaturs
who are members of a recognized
hunt, in full hunting attire, over
an outside course typical of hunt
ing country. The event for hunt
teams, also to be ridden in hunt
ing pink, is another class ..alwyas
appealing to the ringside crowd.
There will also be events for
bridle-path hacks, children’s
horsemanship and children’s hunt
ers.
The show, sponsored by the
Sandhills Kiwanis club, is for the
benefit of the Moore County hos
pital, Pinehurst, and St. Joseph-
of-the-Pines hospital. Southern
Pines. The show committee coni’
CP&L Offers Plan For Community
Improvement, With Cash Prizes
John Ruggles
and some of the same riders will
also be seen at Camden.
Gift of Gold, an English import.
ston started a near riot in the ^is debut last year as sur-
crowded gym, as the validitv of Prise winner of the Carolina Cup
the final basket was hotly disnu- at Camden. Owned then by Mrs.
te-i b^r poTvio of those cieselv pon-^Michael Walsh of Southern Pines,
cemed. With the crowds yelling he has since been purchased by
and milling, it apneared for a time Mrs. Simon T. Patterson of Pitts-
as th.cuvh trouble mivht ensue but^hurgh. Pa. His home has remained
then thin vs quieted down and the at Stonybrook Stables here, and
tournament went on. (Continued on page 5)
and Lloyd P. Tate, and judging
the classes will be (Charles Barrie,
of Teaneck, N. J.,
The new show ring on the es
tate of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd P. Tate
(Continued on Page 5)
Italian Air Force
Officers Studying
Elected Chairman
Local Committee
The Carolina Power and Light
ompany unwrapped a big sur
prise Tuesday night with the an-
louncement made at a dinner
held at the Southern Pines Coun-
ry club, of a year-long contest
‘toward a finer Carolina” for all
lommunities it serves.
Town leaders and other repre
sentative citizens, numbering
bout 100 with their hosts, at
tended the dinner, motivation of
which had been kept as a closely
uarded surprise.
It was one of 69 dinners held
in the CPc&L territory that night.
Others in Moore were at Carth
age, Aberdeen and Robbins.
Presiding at the Southern Pines
2vent was John Howarth, who pre
sented his confrere of the CP&L,
Paul C. Butler, at the appropriate
•Jme.
Mr. Butler made a formal pre
sentation of the $8,850 prize con
est, for community improvements
'Pde between November 1, 1951,
and November 1, 1952. He steered
the gathering along toward an
enthusiastic acceptance and an
election of a chairman, who took
office under protest but unable to
withstand the unanimous acclaim.
This was John S. Ruggles, who
expresed his view that Southern
Pines would, and could, meet such
a challenge with profit and suc
cess. He said his steering commit
tee would be chosen from repre
sentative local organizations in
terested in community promotion.
Either their heads or persons
whom they would delegate, would
be invited to meet with him soon
for forrrulation of some plans.
Mr. Ruggles was a reorganizer
of the Chamber of Commerce in
1946 and served as-its president
for two terms. He was elected to
the town board in 1949 but re
signed when appointed to the
State Board of Hospitals Control.
His community activities have
since been limited by those of his
work in state interests, and also
by health reasons. His unanimous
election Tuesday night indicated
his service of the past is remem
bered, and that he has been miss
ed at home.
As explained by Mr. Butler, the
One-Way Traffic Plan
On Broad Street Will
Be Given 90-Day Trial
Some Changes
DANGER
"Kids, keep away from ihe
fire station when the alarm
sounds," urged Assistant
Chief Harold B. Fowler this
week. "The volunteer firemen
are coming in fast, and the
fire truck has to get out fast.
Boys and. girls in the way can
be a real hazard." One fire
man dashing to the station in
answer to an alarm Wednes
day almost ran down a young
ster who had gotten himself,
and his bicycle, right into the
thick of things. Chief Fowler
said.
He asks that parents coop
erate in preventing this dan
gerous practice.
A reminder for motorists
was added—"If the fire truck
comes along behind you with
a red light blinking and siren
sounding, pull aside and let it
by. even if you know it is
leaving a fire. It may be on
the way to another, as was
the case Wednesday."
“Four Freedoms”
Award Will Be
Made To Marshall
Gen. George C. Marshall of Lis-
combe Lodge, Pinehurst, wHl re
ceive the Four Freedoms award
lof the United Nations at a dinner
‘o be held at the Waldorf-Astoria
’rntpl. New York City, tonight
(Friday).
General Marshall, former Gen
eral of the Army, Secretary of
"^ate aud Secretary of Defense,
father of the Marshall Plan, wiU
fjjp award from Gen.
Carlos Romulo, former President
of the Philippine Republic and
''n°-+^me bead of the General As-
'errblv of the United Nations, now
■'!’airman of its Four Freedoms
ooromittee.
lead with ease once and a half
times around the oval, five A a. T TC A IT A
lengths or more from his nearest U •SAJP AlrUo
competitor, while the rest of the
field strung out behind with pano
ramie effect.
Thundering around the curve
for the home stretch, Jo-Jo, own
ed by Chris Greer of Middleburg
Va., Carlyle Cameron up, surged
from third place past Happy
Quest, overtook Refugio on the
last jump and pounded into first
place, finishing by a length.
After Refugio, coming in sec-
(Continued on page 5)
Cross Is Burned In Moore Yes, That Was
Moore joined the list of “fiery quired by the county, adjoining
the site where a Negro consolida-' A .rw
ted school is to be built. KCUlly AmeCUe,
The three-foot crossarm of the
cross” counties, now growing in
the state, with the report by Con
stable Garner Maness, of Shef- u* me
fields township, that a five-foot‘^^o®® been wired firmly to the
cross was burned Saturday about and tha wood had hi-pn
midnight two miles north of Rob
bins.
“I don’t believe the Ku Klux
Klan had anything to do with
this,” Constable Maness comment-
upright, and the wood had been
chipped with an axe to make it
bum better.
It was learned there has been
some dissatisfaction expressed in
regard to the building of the
school there, both among nearby
®d. From Sheriff C. J. McDonald tnere, Dotn among nearby
it was learned that if it was the Z among mem-
work of the Klan, it was the first neighboring Negro
sign seen in Moore of any KKK,™““%,t* Bellview whos°
activity children will be among the pupils
-T , . ... the school. They have said
No report had been they prefer to send their chil-
made to the sheriffs departnient dren to the newly expanded and
early this week, and indications i,.f,nsolidated school at Carthage,
were there would be no concert-1 j^gt nine miles away,
ed investigation. Burning a cross,! Supt. H. Lee Thomas renorted
with no accornoanymg threats or | “Puj. ^lans for the school have not
terroristic activities, or signs of, changed.” It is to be a four-
connection with an illegal organ-jrporn elemehtarv school, he said
ization, is not an unlawful act, !...,riiarjng the one and two-room
unless owners of the property Bellview, Zion Grove and Long-
want to prosecute for tresoass. schools Contracts are to b-’
Constable Maness reported he lot earlv in the summer, with
had several calls concerning the f’onstruction exnected to be com-
cro.ss-burning, from nearbv resi- nieted for the fall term,
dents of the communitv, which is Residents of the section wher«
Iprgelv Negro. He found a five- cross was burned, located on
fo'^t cnoss s+urdily constructed Pobbins-Seagrove road (NC
fa+tv nine blazing awav oh a base-17051, are, said to be con=i'‘ierably
ball diamond on land recently ac-' worked up over the happening.
No Motion Picture
A number of people in Southern
Pines and Pinehurst, seeing a tall,
handsome man with strikingly
ifamiliar features last weekend,
thought to themselves, “Why,
there’s Don Ameche! No, it can’t
be. Remarkable resemblance!”
Some spoke to him, and found
it was indeed Don Ameche, one
of the school.' They°have‘^Ta‘id°5 the most popular and famous
they prefer to send their p},ii. ftars of all time, who was spend
ing the weekend here as the guest
of Bill Brown at his cottage at the
Highland Pines Inn.
He put in most of his time play
ing golf at Pinehurst, and attend
ed early mass and took commun
ion Sunday at St. Anthony’s Cath
olic church.
He left at 4:33 that afternoon on
the Piedmont Airlines flight to
Charlotte, where he was to catch
the 5:15 airliner for New York.
Quite a little crowd gathered
at the airport to see him off, and
found him a person of charm and
courtesy, as, flashing that famous
smile, he gave autograohs and
posed for pictures on request.
Two officers of the Italian Air
Force are spending the week at
the USAF Air-Ground Operations
school at Highland Pines Inn, tak
ing the intensive one-week indoc
trination course on assignment
from NATO.
They are Capt. Renato D’Orlan-
di and Capt. Silvio Basile, whose
careers have been quite different
but who have much in common.
They were classmates at the Ital
ian Flying school at Caserte, flew
heroically for their country dur
ing World War 2, and were high
ly decorated. They became ene
mies of Germany when they re
fused to join the Republican Fas
cists when the war ended for
Italy, though Germany was still
fighting.
At that time ihe Germans plac
ed a death penalty on Captain
D’Orlandi’s head, but he escaped
to Rome and became a liaison of
ficer with the Allied forces. Cap
tain Basile was imprisoned by the
Germans and sent to a prisoner of
war camp in Poland. When the
Russian breakthrough came he
was transferred to Holland, where
he was liberated by the Allies in
1945.
Both are slated for important
assignments on their return to
Italy. Captain D’Orlandi will be
with Headquarters, South Euro
pean Forces, at Florence, while
Caotain Basile is assigned to the
Italian War college, also at Flor
ence. Neither is married. Both
are skilled in speaking English.
This is their first visit to the
United States but it is “strictly
business” with no sightseeing
trips this time.
Also a student in this week’s
class at USAFAGOS is Comman
der Urcel B. Holloway, assigned
by the U. S. Navy from Washing
ton.
S°crptarv of the Army Frank
-lo ivxi. ijuiici, me Pa”*’ i*! expected to make the nre-
plan calls for entry in the con- sentation address. Many distin
test by April 1, at which time the euished UN and US officials of
steering committee will list five
oncjects selected for achievement
during the year.
These need not be completed
during the year, if the goal is set
at partial achievement with fur
ther work to follow.
The projects may be any sort
I’nhancing the community, and
can include any started, or finish
ed, between the retroactive start
ing date and the close.
■The CP&L will cooperate by as
sisting with all types of pubiicitv
media during the contest, and by
giving first prizes of $1,000, sec-
''"d i-irizes of fl:75n. in three classi
fications in both North and South
Carolina—towns of 1,000 popu-
in+ibn or less, towns of 1.001 to 2,-
500 and towns above 2,500. Census
figures of 1950 will be used
E’here will also be 15 $100 “hon
orable mention” prizes given in
each state.
In a'ldition, two grand prizes of
(Continued on Pace 5)
’’ast and present will be guests at
the dinner, including former Sec-
retarv of State Sumner Welles.
Geeersl Marshall left the Sand
hills Wednesday, and. before go-
in v to New York Citv, was to
make addresses at La^vrereeville
Preparatory school and Wellesley
'ollege. returning home Sunday.
Made In Parking
Hours And Area
One-way traffic on Broad street
from Massachusetts to Vermont
avenue will be given a 90-day trial
as soon as the markings can be
made, by decision of the town
board at its regular meeting Wed
nesday night.
Traffic will flow south on West
Broad and north on East Broad,
with crossing possible at any in
tersection, according to a plan
previously presented to the board
by a state traffic engineer.
The motion was passed with one
dissenting vote, that of Charles
S. Patch, Jr., who said he thought
the plan should be tried, but at
^ome other time of year, prefer
ably September.
The other commissioners ex
presed their view that now, when
traffic is at its height and irrita-
tiens of the present system are
many, is the time to try out the
plan. It is. designed, they said, to
eliminate many of these irrita
tions, give traffic a smoother flow
and get 20 per cent or more traf
fic through the downtown district
with much greater ease than is
now experienced.
Whether the plan accomplishes
all that is desired cannot be seen
without a trial, and when traffic
is at full flow is the best time to
find out, they thought, estimating
it would take only “about a week”
after installation before motorists
would be used to it. At the end
(Continued on page 5)
NAME FIVE
What is your idea of the
five most important commun-
i+v nrojects , for Southern
Before selecting which ones
■win be Hst“d f«r this com-
sri fho CP&T. "Finer
^Carolina" contest. Chairman
.Tr-v-i c,. niirr-Ties said he
wants to hear from everybody
in fow-i.
Perticioetinig organisations
will he asV«vi to n-esent the
,, their mem
berships, to get ideas, but;
r'— - T-sTio is invited ;
make suggestions, ' on
v’'''wh can be secured
offino, at Mr.
(iffir.o or just on a ulrij
o* naper, T"ai1ed to
The nroi^cts ’»'u®t
en bv Aoril I. For
tails see the ront«^
elsewhere on this
Bobcat Launches
His Last Attack
On Sgt. Clere
A second enormous bobcat-—
dead—was displayed here last
week, shot by Sgt. Roy Clere,
Army ranger, in warding off an
attack by the animal on the Camp
Mackall reservation. It weighe
about 70 pounds, with cla
deadly three-fourths of an ^
length.
The first to be seen
many years was that
A. W. Mullins, chief
Bragg, about
was being stuff©
Moore County
Sergeant
Mullins out o
2, along with
is furtherin
eliminatio:
way on
the
mak
“Old Pines” By
Janies Boyd On
UNC Spring List
“Old Pines and Other Stories,”
by James Boyd, is on the spring
publication list of the University
of North Carolina Press. It is a
ollection of short stories by the
famous author, most of whose life
was spent in Southern Pines—the
first fuch collection bearing his
name, as his other books were all
novels, with one volume of poet
ry.
The collection will include 10
stories, eight of which appeared
in magazines, with two hithertq_
unpublished. Magazines
sented include the
Mo-nthly, Scribners,
Evening Post,
American Mei
Home Compar
ed stories
for publi
now
them.
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