J^'TW^TVPAfflS SOUTHERN PIKES. NOHT:H CAHOL1NATFRI DAY^MAY a. 19sT ?TWKNTY PAGES < PRICE-TEN CENTS Southern Pines Boy Scouts in Award At Camporee ? sMMHE* ? inirnwwiiii Hi, These boys of Southern Pines Troop ?3 were among 1,500 Boy Scouts who took part in the Occoneechee Council Camporee held last week end on the campus of Duke university?from left, Rod Whiting, James Morris, John McCon nell, Jimmy Menzel, Garland Pierce and Paul "D The Dixie and Lion patrols of Troop 73 were among those who won red ribbons for the sec ond-piace rating of "Standard," as also did Troop 68 of Aberdeen, in the judging on points for setting up camp, cooking, maintaining camp order and discipline, and cleaning up campsite. The scouts pitched camp on a wooded area near the West Cam pus, and in the ensuing three-day period exchanged ideas on camp ing techniques and competed for the awards based on camping skill, conduct and overall spirit. Woodcraft and camping exhibits and numerous activity events kepi them busy. Saturday afternoon, the boys were guests of Duke university for athletic events. Saturday night was the big night, with the ?ouncilwide Scout Circus held on the "freshman field. For this event, 200 Cub Scouts joined the Camporee Scouts and thousands of spectators thronged the field watching the circus from specially built bleachers. All the scouts took part in th< grand opening and the finale fea turing the spotlighted Goddess o: Liberty. Hippodrome acts includ ed camping scenes, construction o rustic bridges and signal toweri and numerous stunts. Scou clowns performed between thi acts. Sunday events began with i colors ceremony and worship ser vice in Duke Chapel. An exhibi of camping and woodcraft equip ment, to which the public was in vited, took place from 10 a.m. t 12 noon. Final assembly at 12:1 p. m. was followed by lunch an the cleaning up of the campsite: after which the boys all left fo home. Duke Vice - President Di Charles E. Jordan was Campore and circus chairman. Countie represented were Moore, Le< Chatham. Cumberland, Durhan Orange, Wake, Harnett, Granvilli Frank''n, Vance and Warren. County Precinct Meetings Set For 2 P. M,, Saturday Democratic precinct committc members are to be held Sat urea at 2 p. m. at the usual meetir places throughout the 17 precinc of Moore, it was announced th week by W. A. Leland McKeithe chairman of the Moore Count Democratic Executive committe At the meetings, precinct coil mittee members and officers W) be elected, also delegates to tl county convention set for the fc lowing Saturday, May 17, at tl courthouse at 2 p. m. In Southern Pines, the precin meeting will be at the Legion H on East Maine avenue, said L. O'Callaghan, chairman. Other c fieers and members of the precin committee are Mrs. Ruth 1 Swisher, vice-chairman; Mrs. L. Woolley, secretary; Ernest W son and Joe C. Thomas. Precinct chairmen are as f< lows: Aberdeen, H. Clifton Blc Bensalem, W. McC. Blue; Ei Carthage, Mrs. Lessie G. Brow West Carthage. E. J. Burns; De River, Mrs. Lucille Hyman; Eui ka, Ernest Home; Greenwood A. Shaw; Highfalls, Charles TJ church; Pinehurst, J. Frank IV Caskill; Pinebluff. M. C. Pick! Ritter, Borden Ritter; Spenci i ville, D. A. Dunlap; Southc Pines, L. V. O'Callaghan; Spi Jason Freeman; Robbins, W. Saunders; Vass, W. D. Smi West End, Edgar Graham. Bloodmobile Here Next Wednesday? ! "Need Continues Great," Is Appeal . The Red Cross Bloodmobile will ! pay its second visit of the year here Wednesday, the last before , next fall. It will be stationed at ! the Southern Pines gym from 11 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. testing donors , and. collecting bioixi to supply ur gent needs in Korea 2nd in mili , t*ry hospitals. I That this need is more urgent . than ever was emphasized this week by John F, Buchholz, counyt blocd program chairman, who said, "Don't let the talks at Pan . munjon fool you?the war is still r Power Wagon I Is Burned Up ? In Forest Fire a Moore county's newest and fin t est power wagon, which in a few _ short months had proved its val _ ue at numerous forest fires, wai 0 completely destroyed by one las 5 Thursday afternoon on US High tl way 1 a mile below Pinebluff. 3> V. E. McCrimmon, of the fire r fighting crew attached to thi Soulhern Pines tower, leapec r. from the vehicle just in time and e almost overcome by smoke, wa :s assisted to safety by other crev members. He was taken to Moori i, County hospital, where he sooi recovered. The fire was a particularly ho "ed vicious one, said Ranger I W. Davis. MeOrunmon was plow ing a line around the fire whe: the wind shifted, it broke ove another line and "crowned swiftly through the trees just ove the power wagon, which burs ?e into flames. iy The vehicle was fully equippe '8 with safety and firefighting dt vices, with some features of ?s tractor and others of a bulldoze n- It was insured, and is expecte 'y to be replaced when another i * available. The fire covered about 20 acre on the Addor estate. Springin ^ up along the highway shoulder, ' " was attributed to a smoker's can less tossing-out of a cigarette froi ct a car' ut This was one of several fin V. occurring during the past wee ,i. after a brief respite granted t ct April showers the past weeken K. Another was going on on the ' L, C. Auman estate at West End : il- the same time, necessitating tl securing of help from Camp Ma :,1_ kail to help fight the Addor fir ie: Eire which took about sev< ist hours to subdue covered appro n; imately 135 acres on the Aum: ep place. :e- Tuesday, a farmer burning c J. a lakesite between Jacksi 'p- Spring failed to keep the bla lc- Springs ad Eagle Springs failed er; keep the blaze under control. B er- fore the Forest Service crew hi irn it mastered about four hours late es, it raced over some 175 acres P. required more attention Wedne th: day, breaking out again in sever spots. on. Casualties reported each wee] average 250 and the hospitals ar< full. If the Korean conflict wer to end tomorrow, the need fo i blood would continue for man months for Ihousands of hospital ized men." Elood supplies remain loo needing constant replenishment The appeal goes out this week t those who have already given, an also to many new donors, to hel make up the quota of 300 pints 1 be secured on the one-day visi On its last visit, made Februar 22, the local collection was 3C pints?a proud record. Mr. Buct holz expressed this week the hop that the next visit would see equaled, or even bettered. He pointed out that the Bloo( mobile is making only three vi its here yearly, wheteas it goi ~ to the other counties on its li four times a year. ~ Volunteer chairmen are ' work in several county commui ities to secure pledge cards in ai vance. Those who have not bet contacted by one of these worke are asked to make their appoin j merits through the Red Cro chapter office here ? or ju !' come to the Bloodmobile as ear s as they can do so Wednesday. The process of giving blood ~ a simple one, without ill effec Tests are given by the medic staff in advance so that those n } able to give safely are not a - cepte l. Healthy persons from * to 60 are eligble to become donor n; Those from 18 to 21 must brir ''i written consent of parent i "I guardian. ! Dr. Mobbs' Long Labor Bears Fruit? IN. C. State Will Undertake Research ; The interest and efforts of a* young Aberdeen physician. Dr. i Robert F. Mobbs, over a period of about four years have evolved in , to an important new project to be [ undertaken by State college at . Raleigh, financed by the N. C. i Junior Chamber of Commerce, to determine the effects on the hu . man body bf DDT and certain other new chemicals of wide spread use. J Announcement was made this jWeek that experiments in this t|little-known field will be under ?, taken by Dr. G. Howard Satter . field, professor of bio-chemistry, i with his son and another helper. i State College officials have agreed _ to turn over the use of their la i boratories for the project, and en dorsement and encouragement r have been given by Governor ? Scott e Results of the experiments may 5 determine State and national leg - islation in regard to the disrtribu i ; tion and control of sprays and in , secticides in which they are em t1 ployed. It is reported that al -.ready certain chemical manufac 11 turing interests have set up funds to fight such legislation, which is now being studied by a spec Congressional committee. Dr. Mobbs gave a paper Tu day night before the N. C. Me cal society, meeting at Pinehu: on one phase of the work wh he has pursued with interns since 1948. This was "The Biol ical Effect of the Vitamin Inosi with the Anti-Metabolite Benzi Hexachloride." Dr. Mobbs' interest in this fi began with his investigation the death of a two-year-old At deen girl, and the near-fatal ness of her brother in May 1! He said the investigation indii ed that fumes from a near chemical plant, manufacturing ricultural sprays, could have b the cause. He began an exhaustive inqi of public health and agriculti authorities to find out just 1 much was known, and what, c cerning the effects of such che cals on human beings. He fo' not only that little was kno but that no department or bur of State or nation had the rcsf sibility for finding out. His quiries made by letter and ] (Continued on Page 5) I Commissioners | Will Organize Defense Council I General Arnold Presents Couniywide Plan To Board | A Moore County Civil Defense ; Council, to be composed of may |crs of all towns and leading citi 1 sens in rural ai eas, will be set up by the county commissioners ac cording to plan outlined by Maj. Gen. A. V. Arnold at their May meeting at Carthage Monday. General Arnold, former U. S military governor of Korea, who has lived in Southern Pines since his recent retirement, was appoint ed county director of civil de fense by the commissioners ir January. According to his plan, the Civil Defense -Council would appoint CD directors in each community whera this has not been done, tc work with him and related agen eics in an overall plan for thi county. Chairman Gordon M Cameroi cf the county board said he wil write the mayors and other lead rs, asking them to serve on thi Council, Several suggestions fo: ? rural CD leaders were made b; the commissioners from thos areas. Civil defense directors were ap pointed some time ago in South era Pines, whose director is Co! Donald Madigan, and in Abcr deen, whose director is W. Sidne; It Taylor. i Budgetary matters occupie e much of the time and attention c r the commissioners in their all y (Continued on page 5) i ,) Cummings Golf ^ Party, Retreat oi Close Mid Pines t. y Closing events on the season' 17 calendar lor the Mid Pines clu will be the 32nd Semi Annu; >e Meeting of the Homer Cumming jt Golf Tournament this weekeiM followed by the annual retreat c j. priests of the N. C. Catholic die s_ cese Monday through Friday. Th ? hotel will then close until Octr st ^ General Cummings and his 4 at to 50 distinguished guests?leac a- ers in the nation's political, jud 3- cial, editorial, medical, bankir >n and military circles?have visite rs the Sandhills every spring an t- fall since 1933. The group changi ss slightly from year to year bi st, General Cummings goes on fo ly 1 ever, a genial host and lively lea< | er of a spirited group, is j They play Saturday for the Rol ts iert W. Fleming Championsh ai; cup, and Sunday for the Van B ot mel Consolation cup. Though tl ic-; group is noii-politieal, the meetir 13,1s expected to take on extra ze ?s.; this election year on account ig the important political conne Dr ; tions of the members, and the fa (Continued on page 5) I Maternal Welfare lag Day The annual drive of the Moore County Maternal Wel fare committee will take place this Saturday. In all parts of the county, tags will be sold on that day, the proceeds to benefit the work for mothers and babies sponsored by this county women's organization. Main purpose of the tag day sale is to raise money as a supplementary fund for emergency needs in connection with the pre-natal clinics of the County Health Depart ment. This year, also, for the first time, a free bed is to be maintained for needy mothers in the Elizabeth Woltz Currie ward. This ward is the gift to the Moore County hospital made through funds raised by the county com mittee, of which Mrs. Currte was the founder and chair man for many years. In Southern Pines, the drive will be carried on under the direction of Mrs. James Boyd, co-chairman with Mrs. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen, of the county committee. Mrs. Claude Reams will have charge of the table by the bank and Mrs. L. T. Avery of the table by the post office. They will bo assisted by Mrs. E. C. Stevens, Mrs. Kath erine MeColl arid others. In West Southern Pines, six churches have undertaken to sell the tags on Mother's Day, under the direction of 1 their pastors and deacons. The Reverends Wells, Ray, Martin, Gilchrist and Deacons Murphy and Gillis. Mrs. Louise Butler and Mrs. Marie Goins are assisting in the ; drive. ) , Cameron Remedies 1951 Oversight } By Holding Town Election This Week Municipal elections were held'* 5 at Cameron Tuesday, just one f year late. 1 ' . "We just forgot to get started e in time to elect last year," admit ted one citizen of the quiet little - village 13 miles north of South - ern Pines, on US Highway 1. "We h3Ve 3 time getting anybody to ? serve, anyhow, and it didn't seem y to matter too much. The old board just stayed on." d Twenty voters went to the polls if at the community house and elect I- ed five commissioners from the slate of seven nominees, also re turning their mayor, flack Trent, to office. The board gives Moore Armed Forces Programs Planned b For Community !s Southern Pines, now having a i, military installation of its own if besides many resident military i- persons, will honor them with a e community observance of Armed )- Forces Day next week. in tk??! T?Wn;,the scho?1 and the 0 USAF Air-Ground Operations 1- school at Highland Pines Inn are i- cooperating in a program to be ig held at Weaver auditorium at 2"1{C id p.m. Friday, May 16. it will last d about 43 minutes and everyone is ;s invited, especially military per it sonnel and their families, said r- Mayor C. N. Page. 1- Gross Will Speak The school band will play, the 0- glee club will sing and there will ip be a special speaker?Brig. Gen jy,; .M Gross, Commandant of le USAFAGOS, who will have a spe ig cial message for the children, st Mayor Page will honor General of Gross in behalf of the town, both c- as representative of the unique ct school located here since last June, and as an "honorary citi ? zen" in his own right. Members of all branches of the armed serv ices, with other distinguished guests, will be present. At USAFAGOS The next day, Saturday, May 17 USAFAGOS will be host at an a) "open house" starting at 1:30 p.m. Most of this program, which will ,s_ include band music and the pre lj. sentation of several awards, will st, be held outdoors, and all are in ch vited, according to word from ty General Gross. g- Part of the program, however, tol will consist of events to be held ne m the projection room, described as An Air-Ground Team in Ac ild tion and "An Evening Planning of Conference," showing in detail ?r- how air-ground operations art 11- precisely planned and carrier 48 through. Since the projector at- room seats only about 100 persons by free tickets will be made availablt ?g- and these will be given out in ad ien vance on a "first come, firs served" basis. They may be se iry cured at the billeting desk at th. ral Inn. If all are not taken up by thi ow time of the program, they will b< in- given out to guests desiring then ni- at that time, nd At Fort Bragg vn. Fori Bragg will also have it ;au customary all-day "open house mi- Saturday, May 17, with a parad in- and dress review, weapons exhi er- bits, demonstrations of the work ings of specialized units, etc. county its first on v/hich women predominate?and it is very like ly the only one, or at any rate, one of very few, in North Caro lina. Three women were swept into office?Mrs. Jewel Hemphill, with 17 votes; Miss Mary Emma Thomas, with 16, and Mrs. W. G Parker, with 14. The only holdover from the old board, Will McNeill, led the slate with all 20 votes. The mayor only got 18 and Hubert Nickens wen' on the board with 14. Also-ran were Robert Laubsch er, 12, and Mrs. Jack Phillips, 6 Needing nominees, the olc board had just turned the job o selecting some over to a nominat ing committee?all women. Witl true civic spirit the ladies pre sented a choice of candidates, am all seemed satisfied with the re suit. Cameron has a population of 28 1(1950 census). It was incorporate< in 1878, 10 years before South ern Pines. Local Couple Loses Daughter In Ohio Tragedy A telephone call Tuesday nigh from Dayton, Ohio, brought t Mr. and Mrs. Alton Scott of Pine dene the heartbreaking news tha their daughter Julia Faye. 23, ha< been shot to death by her husbanc Dr. Granville Rion, who had the killed himself. Mr. and Mfo"s. Scott left earl Wednesday for Dayton, and wer expected back sometime Thurs day. Funeral services for Mr Rion have been tentatively set fc 3 p. m. Saturday at the First Bai tist church with the pastor, D W. C. Holland, officiating. Burii will be in Mt. Hope cemetery. The news was shocking to th: community, where Mrs. Rion gre' up and attended school. She an her husband spent last year wit her parents here, while Dr. Rio] a chiropractor, practiced at Sat ford. They returned to Daytoi Dr. Rion's home town, in January Mr. and Mrs. Joe Boes, sisti and brother-in-law of Mrs. Rio: returned only two weeks ago fro a visit to the Rions. They said th week, "They seemed so happ We had no premonition of troi ble " Few details of the tragedy wei i learned, other than that it appea I ed to have been premeditated c , the part of the husband, wh ! rented a car and took his wi i some miles out of Dayton to pe : form the act. He shot her twic I The first shot was not fatal. T] i second is said to have killed h , instantly i Mrs. Rion was born August 1 - 1928, in Duplin county, and mo t ed to Southern Pines with h - family in 1935. She attendi i Southern Pines school and, for ti 1 vears, Notre Dame Acadetr 2 During her senior year in hi, i school her family lived in Golc boro and she graduated there. An early marriage ended in i s voice, leaving her with a lit * boy, Joseph Michael Clohos: 8 now three years old. She a - Granville Rion, a native of Dt ? ton and graduate of Lincoln Ch (Continued on Page 5) Dawson Presents School Needs of Present, Future Long-Range Plan For District Goes To Commissioners Supt. A. C. Dawson of Southern Pines schools laid a long-range program before the county com missioners Monday with estimated costs, covering major capital out lay needs for this administrative district foreseen within the next five years. While some items are marked "needed now," consideration of others is asked only in the next two to five years. "This is an at tempt," Supt. Dawson said, "to work out our needs intelligently [ in advance, and to provide for 1 their step-bv-step accomplish ment." Biggest item on the list is a new high school building, re quested "prior to September 1955," and with $250,000 given as the es timated cost This accounts for slightly more than half of the total estimate of $495,000. Second biggest need is for 10 additional classes, four for the West Southern Pines school, "needed now," and six for the white elementary school as fol lows: two by September 1953, two by September 1955 and two by September 1957. The new elementary school, . completed with 10 classrooms in | September 1948, has since been ; extended by four "and we are full, lock, stock and barrel," i Dawson declared. "Vfe can manage | another year, but if we keep grow "ling as we have in the past few ."I years?and we have every reason J to feel this will be the case?we will need every one of the addi tional classrooms requested." 1 Other items on the list include: ' landscaping and drainage of both the white and Negro school sites; dressing rooms for the gymna , sium; breezeways connecting ex ' isting buildings; moving home economics cottage to another site; and, for the West Southern Pines school, a cafeteria, remodeling of present building with new lights, chalkboards, corkboards and new chairs where needed; repair of ceilings and floors, and remodel ing and equipping the science laboratory. Mr. Dawson was accompanied by N. L. Hodgkins of the South t ern Pines school board. They ask . ed that "as much as possible" be , included in this year's budget, to j be made up in June and July. j The commissioners did not indi ? cate what they felt they could do ' for Southern Pines schools this n year. e Youthful Tennis 5 sr Play ers Compete r Here Next Week u Drawings will be made Sunday is {or the Moore County Schools w Tennis tournament, which will d start Monday on the municipal h courts, it was learned this week n, from the tournament committee l- of the sponsoring Junior Sand n, hills Tennis association. '? Entry should be made before sr that time through the JSTA presi n, dent, Steve Choate, or the tour m nament committee chairman, Ken is noth Tew. Players who have not y. reached their 19th birthday are J- eligible. Indications at midweek were re that the tournament will be the r- largest since the event was start >n ed by the Sandhills Tennis asso 10 ciation in 1950. Forty to 50 boys fe and girls have entered in pre r- vious years. By Wednesday of this ?e. week, 29 had entered for the boys* tie singles, with good numbers also er for most of the other events? . boys' doubles, girls' singles and !3, doubles and mixed doubles, all in v- both grammar-grade and high er school classifications. Practice is ed <rolng on daily and nightly on the vo local courts. iy. Play will start at 3:30 p. m. gh Monday and continue each after is- noon, with finals to be held Fri day and Saturday, probably at li- night. Trophies will be given both tie winners and runners-up by the sy, senior organization, nd New appointments by President iy- Choate include Patty Woodell as ir- "hsirman of publicity, and Johnny Watkins of membership.
