yOIr aAr-NO. i9 TWENTY PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. MARCH 28, 19S2 TWENTY PAGES PRICE?10 CENTS Events Calendared For Garden Lovers is Springtime Arrives In Sandhills ? Peach Trees Will Reach Peak of Bloom This Weekend Springtime ? nowhere lovelier than in the Sandhills?made her presence known this week by many an indubitable sign. Budding leaf, song of bird, blos soming azaleas and a tender new warmth in the air have all sig naled her arrival. Dogwood trees this week show ed a faint silver frosting, herald of the lavish snowy bloom for whmh this springtime resort is world - famous. Early this week peach orchard' of the section burst out in a spate of rosy color. Word from the peach growers is that they will reach their peak of loveliness probahlv by this Sunday. Best places to view them are in the West End section of Jffoorc countv, and sooth of Candor La Montgomery county. Two rare treats for flower lov ers are calendared for week after nevt. The first is the Southern Pjnes Garden Tour Wednesdav April 9, an event which annually draws hundreds of visitors to en >oy the beauties of local gardened homes. Five lovely homes wlil be opened to guests on that day, un der auspices of the Southern Pines Garden club. Also on the tour arc the restored Shaw House, which will be the tour headquarters, and the North Carolina wing of the Southern Pines library, both hold ing a special appeal for levers of antiques. The second event will be the opening of the Homewood Gar dens, f ormerly the Beck with Gar dens in Knol'wood. an annual benefit of the Moore County Hos pital auxiliary. These famous azalea gardens planted in a fairy land sequence of colors, one of the oldest and finest such gardens in the state, will be oDcned to the public on two afternoons, Easter Sunday and Monday, from 2 to 5:30. Change Seen In Elections Board: Brown Withdraws The State Board of Elections iast week confirmed the choices of the Democratic and Republi can executive committees for members of the county board of elections. Democratic members approved were S. C. Riddle and W. Lamont Brown; the Republican member, L. G. Thomas. Since his name was submitted, however, Mr. Brown, a Southern Pines attorney, has become a can didate for the office of county solicitor, and said he must regret fully withdraw his name. Hubert McCaskill was the al ternate choice of the Mocre Coun ty Democratic committee, and it is expected he will replace Mr. Brown when the board of elec tions is qualified by the clerk of superior court at Carthage. Mr. Riddle, of Carthage, is a re turnee to the hoard, which he , has served as chairman for a num ber of years. Mr. McCaskill is1' from Pinehurst, where he is em- i ployed by Pinehurst. Inc. He has i been active in politics for severa1 : years, having served as chairman ' of the Moore County YDC and for i two terms as Eighth District chair- i man. LOVE THAT MAN! Why fret over the cost of a new Easter outfit for your wite when a little poetry ju diciously composed will solve the whole problem? So reasons Warren Thomas, Cameron railroader, and hus band of the former Isabel Mc Keithen, teacher in the South ern Pines schools two years ago. Isabel mentioned a televis ion program, "The Big Pay off," to her husband a short time back, suggesting how easy it would be for him to write them a letter (it must be written by the husband) telling why his wife should have the items advertised. The idea appealed to him. i Tuesday cl this week Mrs. Thomas heard her name call ed as the winner ot a $330 outlay to be delivered in time for Easter. The letter had not only been written, but it had been made into poetry. Madrigal Singers, Guest Artists Will Be Heard Tonight j An unusual treat is in store for music lovers at Weaver auditori um tonight (Friday) when the Madrigal Singers will present their first formal concert, at 8:30 o'clock. Three music facultv members from Flora Macdonald college, will add th"ir talents to the va ried crogram, given under spon sorshin of the Sandhills Music as sociation These euest artists will be Miss Nyra Turbeville, harpsi chordist: Miss Rachel Prothero ce";st and James Cobb, tenor. Friday's program will include, besides the madrigals in which this group specializes, selections from a Handel cantata, sung only once before in this country, a group of sacred selections from the choral music of Bach and Mueller, spirituals and American folktunes. Bach is also represent ed in Miss Turbeville's selections, played on, as they were written for, the harpsichord. Miss Pro j thero will play two movements from Brahms and Handel cello sonatas. The Madrigal Singers are a eroup of Sandhills people?pro fessional men and women, busi nessmen, housewives, and others ?who first met to sing informal ly for their own oleasure, a year and a half ago. They have since been rehearsing every Fridav eve ning. Under the direction of Mrs. R. L. Prince of Pinehurst. a erad- ] uate of the Westminster Choir school, they have worked with a 1 serious determination for perfec tion, and have reached an amaz- ' inc n"ak of musical skill. Soloists from the Madrigal i Singers will be Dr. Bruce Warlick, ; Mr. Thomas Howerton and Miss Merva Benjamin. I The bass section includes Dr. R 1 Bruce Warlick. Dr. W. F. Hotlis- 1 ter. the Rev. Adam Weir Craig. ' rVlex McLeod L. L. Hallman and i Norman Caudle Tenors are Dr. William Peck, Thomas Howerton ] and William Benson; altos, Mrs , L,. B. Cieath, I)r. Lvnn Johnson i Mrs. Marshall Morris, M!rs. Thomas Howerton, Mrs. Adam ] Craig, Mrs. Bryan Poe and Mrs. L ' Owen; second sopranos, Mrs. Nor- < (Continued on Page 8) , Townshend, Worsham Win Top Awards At Rotary Club's Basketball Banciuet !! J Jokes, songs, good "eats" and aj series of awards marked the an-| nual banouet for the basketball souads held Wednesday evenin" bv the Southern Pines Rotarv elvh The event, held at the South ern Pines Country club, wound U" in a rollicking sauare dance in which students, teachers, parents and Rotarians all tcok merry part The banauet is held each year I as a salute to the Southern Pines Hirh School basketball players on the conclusion of their busv sea-| son It was also the Rotary Ladic Might. Major awards for bcth team*j were the trophies for most valu- j able player, presented by the John' 1 Boyd post, VTW, as memorials to I two deceased members. Georgr C. Burns and Rufus Morrison; the i-hcice of honorary captain, made bv vote of the squads, and most improved player, by vote of th -caches. Announced as 1952 winn-rs o'j the VFW trophies were Betty! Tane Worsham and .Tim Town-i v?od; honorarv captains, Pet-' Dana for the girls and David i Woodruff for the boys; most >m ??roved, Sieger Herr for the girls ! David Bealev for the bovs. , ctars were awarded to Barbae-1 Onin Bettv Jane Worsham. Pete! Dana. BaNelle Kirk, Peaches! (Continued on page 8) Students Rejoice In Ne*-v Bus. (Community's Gift "Thenks, everybody!" is the word from students of Southern Pines elementary and high schools as they show their delight in their new activities bus, a gift to the school from the community. The blue and-white bus, a modern safety-equipped vehicle seating 33, arrived in February and is already seeing plenty of use. The students might add, "Don't forget?the job is only half done!" Community contributions paid half of the $4,300 purchase price as a down payment and the rest must be collected during the coming months. A start has been made on a similar campaign in West Southern Pines, where a new activities bus is reported to be a dire need of the school. Acquisition of the two buses has been chosen as a project of the Southern Pines "Finer Carolina ' contest. See story below. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey; i McKeithen Ketires, Brown Will File ! For Solicitor Post ; First signs of activity in connec tion with county offices to be voted on this year came this week with the announcement from W. j A. Leland McKeithen, of Pine hurst, that he would not be a can didate for reelection as recorder's court solicitor, and that of W. La mont Brown of Southern Pines that he will file for the office. Judge J. Vance Rowe, queried by The Pilot, said he plans to file again. Mr. McKeithen, a native of Moore, was first elected solicitor of the Moore court in 1938, and has been reelected every two years since that time. In 1944 he won the office in absentia, as he was then on duty with the armed forces in World War 2, with an appointee, W. D. Sabiston, acting in his stead, at court. * In making his announcement this week Mr. McKeithen said he had no plans to run for any other office, and intends to devote his time to his law practice in Pine hurst and his current duties as president of the N. C. Bar asso ciation. "I wish to express thanks to the voters of Moore county who have given me such fine support in elections over a 12-year period. It i has been a privilege to serve the 1 county, and the friends I have ' made in this capacity mean more ; than I can say," he declared. i "It has been a great privilege to t serve with Judge J. Vance Rowe. and with all the very able '.aw en- < Forcement officers in the county? the sheriff's department, city po- ; lice departments, ABC officers, 1 tiighway patrolmen and others, f rheir cooperative spirit has made l my work a pleasure." 1 W. Lamont Brown, in offering aimself for the solicitor's post, be- 1 omes a candidate for elective of- i Eice for the first time. f A native of Raeford, and, like r Mr. McKeithen, a graduate of Da- c /idson college, he lived and work id in Washington for a number of f /ears, choosing the law as his ca- s :eer in 1941, five years after leav- ? ng college. Studying law at i Georgetown university at night 1 md in special sessions while con- i tinuing his government work, he ? von his law degree in 1945. He returned to the Sandhills r the following year and, after be- I ng admitted to the North Caro- i ina and Moore County bars ir. t 1947, practiced at Abe ieen for a ? /ear and a half. In January 1949 jJ re opened his office in Southern |t Pines, moving to this community 11 from Pinebluff soon after. c He was a member of the town; i ward while living at Pinebluff. In |t 1949-50 he was president of the 11 Moore County Young Democratic jl dub. He is a director of the it Moore County hospital. He has if seen active in Boy Scout work for | T several years and since November i 1950 has been chairman of the if Moore district, Boy Scouts of \ America. j RESCUE TRUCK The Civil Defense Rescue Truck, ihe latent thing in emergency apparatus. will visit Southern Pines Wednes day afternoon on a statewide four under eusoices of the N. C. Council of Civil Defense at Raleigh. Word from E. Z. Jones, state director of civil defense, is thst the truck will be here at 3 p. m.. coming from Fay ?iteville. where it will be dis played earlier in the day. Col. Don L. Madigan, South ern Pines civil defense direc tor, said the truck will be lo cated on East Broad street near the town hall during its visit here. Everyone is invited to inspect it. The truck may be purchased by individual cities if desired, on a vetch - ing-funds basis. Admiral Dundas Passes In Hospital At Roanoke, Ya. Vice Admiral John George law :encc Dundas, CB, CBE, of the j British Royal Navy, retired, died! Wednesday morning at the Veter ins hospital at Roanoke, Va., where he had been a patient for i hree weeks. His death followed an illness of several years dating from services o his country during World War !. He was retired in 1948. Fol owing a visit in 1948, he and his amily returned here in 1948 to ive, and last year purchased a lome on Valley road. He was married to the former diss Ruth Coleman, whose par ents Mr. and Mrs. Arch Coleman, brmerly of Minneapolis, Minn., low live at Skyline, near South ern Pines. Surviving besides his wife are our daughters, Mrs. Penn Wat ion, Jr., of Goldsboro; Rosemary ind Deirdre, students at Duke iniversity, and Sandra, of the lome: one son, John, of the home; ind two sisters, Lady DeMorley ind Miss Iva Dundas, of England. Admiral Dundas served as chief >f staff to Admiral Harwood's Eastern Mediterranean Command n 1942-43, with" headquarters at Alexandria, and then went to Al ders as chief of staff to Admiral lohn Cunningham, commander of he entire Mediterranean fleet. In 944-45 he was an assistant Chief if Naval Staff. During one pe iod of the war he was captain of he cruiser Nigeria on the peril >us tnirmansk convoy. His ill icalth, which caused his death at he age of 58, was directly trace ihle to Ihe crucial period of the | Junkirk evacuation, when, serv- ' ng witli the emergency command j it Dover, he went practically' without sleep or meals for 10 his-' (Continued on Page 8) tomm unity (.enter Leads r ive Projects Listed In Bid For "Carolina's Finest" i I r "Five projects picked and| ready to go!"?that is the word from the executive commtitee of i the steering committee intrusted with the task of choosing South ern Pines' entry in the "Carolina's Finest" contest sponsored by the Carolina Power and Light Com pany. Meeting at the Mid Pines Club under the chairmanship of John Ruggles, following the Kiwanis lunch on Wednesday, the commit tee, consisting of the chairman and Jerry Healy, Herbert Camer on, Mayor C. N. Page, John Buch holz and Schools Suuperintendent A. C. Dawson, staged a nose-to the-grmdstone session. With the April 1st deadline in view, the ?hairman outlined briefly the five projects that had headed the lists of those who had responded to the questionnaire: 32 responses cut of the several hundred that had been mailed to citizens of the town Each project was assigned a chairman in conformation with the organizational scheme sug gested by the utilities company. The chairman, it was agreed, would then select his working committee whose duty it will be tc draw up a plan for the project onder their jurisdiction and cany on until its completion. It was stipulated that these working "ommittees would be made up of : 'he overall committee represent or the different civic and service organizations in town. Follcwing is the list of projects ' ~hosen, with the name of the chairman appointed for each one: ' (1) Community Center, I John Buchholz, chairman. (21 Beautification and Planting, Mrs. W D. Camp- 1 bell, chairman. i (3) Recreational Area of t Swan Lake, Jerry Healy, I chairman. (4) Bringing small indus- t tries here, including the Bishop Company, N. L. Hodg- , kins, chairman. ( (51 Schools Activities bus, ; including a bus for West t Southern Pines, C. N. Page, chairman. TROTTING RACES The first trotting matinee of the year is scheduled for Sun- 1 day afternoon at the Pino- ' hurst race track, with many of the youmj trotters and pac- ] ers in training there this sea son to be seen in action. Some of the leading stables of the country ere wintering at the track, with 17S horses using the new mile track and the f old half mile course daily. To prevent interference with the Mid-South Horse show, postponed to this Sun day from last when it wax rained o it, the matinee has been scheduled for 1:15 p.m. Horse show officials have moved lheir starting time i - back to 2:45, thus giving horse lovers an opportunity j to take in both events. H orse Show Finals Will Be Held Sunday Nine Classes Are Rained Out; Time Changed The firals' prcgram of the Mid South Horse show, drowned out hv 5 spring drizzle Sunday, has "fri rescheduled for this coming Sunday, Place will be the same? Starland Farms, the Tate place, between Southern Pines and Pine hurst. Time has been moved from 2 to 2:45 p m. so as not to conflict with the trotting races. Nine classes remain to be judg ed. including some of the best of he two-day event, which are to clin-ax the show. With parking .paces all sold out end many g?n ?r I-admission tickets also sold i large crowd was expected?and still is. All tickets sold wtll be good next Sunday, according to the sponsors. Sixteen classes were judged Saturday, when fine weather pre vailed n rning and afternoon. Re sults will be found on Page 7. With their fingers crossed for good weather, sponsors and ex hibitors are anticipating the com oletion Sunday of what started off as the finest horse show yet U be held in the Sandhills. Put on by the recently chartered Mid South Horse Show association, :t is sponsored by the Sandhills Ki wanis club. Sandhills Tennis Association Plans Summer Tourneys Junior Division Will Be Organised At Meeting Thursday Plans for the formation of a Junior Tennis association and a tentative scheduling of a series of tournaments starting in May were announced by Angelo Mon tesanti, Jr., president of the Sand hills Tennis association, this week. A meeting will be held in the elementary school library Thurs day at 7 p. m. for all young peo ole, up through 18 years old, in terested in joining a junior tennis group. Plans fcr the senior group in clude a widening of activities for the younger people during the coming season, starting with the formation of their own group, and the planning of several tourna ments just for them. In announcing the tournament dates. Hary Lcc Brown, Jr., call ed attention to the change in the :andhills Open end Junior Sand tills Open from open to invita tional events. The tentative schedule follows woore County High and Elemen tary School tournament, May 5 0; Moore County Closed Cham pionships, June 4-8; Junior Sand tills Invitational, July 28 - Aug ist 2: Junior-Senior Doubles, Au ;ust 4-8: Sandhills Invitational, Vugust 20-24. The series has been established hrough four successful years, luring which they have greatly widened in interest. The Sand tills Invitational (formerly Open) s rated as a "top sports event of he Carolinas. The plans got under way at a neeting of the association held ast Monday evening at the home J Mr. and Mrs. Frank de Costa. Gift Of Gold, I Jim's Cherry In Carolina Cup \ Gift of Gold will race again at Camden Saturday for the Caro ina Cup, which he won in a sur rise debut last year?but he may lave strong competition from a tonybrook st-ablemate, Jim's Cherry, a newcomer from Ire and. The Walshes of Stony brook ook the wraps off Gift of Gold or the April 1951 event. After that he went on to become the na tion's top timber racer for the ?ear, with four wins out of five starts. Again this year, in Jim's jherry, the Walshes are unwT&p ing a surprise package. Mickey Walsh brought htm last summer rom Ireland, where he had rolled ip an impressive series of wins "or the past eight months he ha? lad the benefits of Walsh traln ng at Stonybrook, and is now ad judged ready for the American acmg scene. Gift of Gold, now owned by Vlrs. S. T. Patterson of iPttsburgh now wintering here) will have is rider the same jockey who rode ltm to victory last AdHI?F. (Continued on page 8) Dawson On Panel At State NCEA Convention Today Supt. A. C. Dawson of the Southern Pines schools will take "art in a discussion panel before the Division of Higher Education this morning (Friday) at the state ^CEA convention, being held at Asheville Thursday through Sat urday. Mr. Dawson will appear on the oanel in his capacity as state chairman of the United Forces for Education, a position which he has held for the past four years. The discussion, on the theme "The Place cf Colleges and Universities in Public Education in North Car olina." will have Dr. B. G. Childs, of Duke university, as chairman; Dr. W. H. Plemmons, of the Uni versity of North Carolina, as mod erator. and the following as panel members: Mr Dawson; Dr Den nis Cooke, president of High Point college; Dr. A. M. Proctor, of Duke university, and B. L. Smith, superintendent of Greensboro schools. Mr. Dawson is a former vice president, president and legisla tive chairman of the state NCEA. He has for the past five years been a leader in the organization in active furtherance of its ob iertives of imnrovemctns in schools, and in teaching conditions and inducements. He will this time also be attend ing as a delegate of the local NCEA unit, with Don Moore of the clementarv faculty Mr Moore and High School Principal Irie Leonard were elected as dele gates but, on account of the death of Mr. Leonard's mother Wednes Hay. Mr. Dawson is replacing him as alternate on the local delega tion. Headquarters of the convention is at the George Vanderbilt hotel. The Southern Pines delegates are staying at the Asheville-Biltmore and the panel discussion will be held at the Battery Park. Fires Race Over 3.(100 Moore Acres; Hundreds Battle Wind-Driven Flames A half-dozen fierce forest fires acrd through the woods of south - ? ri Moore countv last Thursday 'aT-aoine a total area estimated >y County Ranger E. W. Davis of he N. C. Forest Service at ap >roxinnately 3,000 acres in a 10 nile radius. The fires started independently, nd at one time five were raging i t'etching available firefighting -et-scnnel to the limit and neces itotlng a radio call for volunteer! -eip "Strong winds which kept] h- "fi"g direction made the fires] >articu!arly hard to fight," Rang-: ?I Davis said. "It was practically! ;mpossible to find the head of the fire?or if we did, it headed off in another direction by the time we got to work." The first fire broke out at about noon. Others cropped up during the next four hours. It was past 11 at night be fore the last was brought under control, and firefighters stayed on the job till past 3 a m. They were out again by 8 a. m, the next dav i-spelling the woods for fresh outbreaks and extinguished two in the Niagara section. A dozen or more homes were threatened by the fires but all (Continued on Page 8)
