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A SALUTE
TO OUR
ARMED FORCES
A SALUTE
TO OUR
ARMED FORCES
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Moore Democrats
Will Assemble At
Carthage Saturday
Officers^ Delegates
Will 3e Elected;
Chairmen Will Report
The call for all good Democrats
and true to attend their biennial
convention at 2 p. m., Saturday
was sounded this week by W. A.
Leland McKeithen, of Pinehurst,
chairman.
The convention will be held at
the courthouse in Carthage. All
precinct chairmen are asked to be
present, along with delegates
elected at the. precinct meetngs
last Saturday. Precinct chairmen
will report on elections of officers
held at their local meetings.
Business of the convention wUl
include election of officers for the
next two-year term, and of dele
gates to the state Democratic con
vention at Raleigh next Wednes
day.
■ All candidates for election sub
ject to the primary of May 31 are
especially invited to attend, said
Chairman McKeithen, and will be
given opportunity to speak if they
feel inclined. In fact, a number
of informal speeches may be ex
pected, if tradition is followed,
containing messages from Demo
crats to their fellow Democrats at
this time of party activity.
Mrs. S. L. Windham of Aber
deen is vice-chairman of the coun
ty committee, and Miss Bess Mc-
Caskill of Carthage is secretary-
treasurer.
Precinct Meeting
L. V. O’Callaghan was reelect
ed chairman of the Southern
Pines precinct Democratic com
mittee, _at the biennial precinct
meeting held last Saturday after
noon at the Legion hut.
Mrs. Ruth W. Swisher was re
elected vice-chairman, and Jerry
V. Healy was named to the of
fice of secretary-treasurer.
Delegates to the county conven
tion to be held at Carthage Satur
day were chosen as follows: L. V.
O’Callaghan, Mrs. Ruth W. Swish
er, Jerry V. Healy, Mrs. James
Boyd, L. F. Garvin.
Fourteen were present at the
precinct ipeeting, at which Chair
man O’Callaghan reminded all of
their responsibilities in view of
the coming Democratic primary,
and urged a large attendance at
the county convention.
Staff Completed, Work Under Way-
County Civil Defense Has Fine Start
WEDNESDAY GAME
Merchants of the town will
stage a baseball game next
Wednesday on the high school
field for the benefit of the
bleacher fund.
No lineup has been an
nounced as yet. and the pitch
er is not to be named until
game time. The opposing
teams will include a number
of former pro and semi-pro
players, along with a number
whose chief experience has
been in the "Sandlot League."
A good contest, with plenty
of incidental excitement, is
anticipated. Game time is
3:30 p. m.
90 Dancers In
Aden Studios’
Revue Tonight
A brilliant show, brimming
with color and music, is promised
in “Let’s Dance,’’ third annual re
vue of the Martha Aden Studio of
Dance, to be held at Weaver audi
torium at 8:15 tonight (Friday).
Ninety children of Southern
Pines and Pinehurst, with a few
from Carthage and Sanford, will
be seen in solo and group dances
in 19 production numbers. Most
ambitious undertaking of the
Aden Studio to date, its high mo
ment of artistry will be reached
in a ballet, variations from “Le
Lac de Cygnes’’ (Swan Lake)
made famous by Pavlowa and her
troupe.
Anne Hamor, talented teen-ager
from Pinehurst will take the Pav
lowa role as the “Swan Queen,”
with Louis Nunnery as her part
ner in the pas de deux.
Tap, acrobatic, comic and char
acter dances will be seen in the
other numbers, with music, songs
and a wealth of colorful costumes.
The production numbers include
“Let’s Dance,” “Hi Neighbor!”
“Old McDonald’s Farm,” “Festi
val in the Forest,” “Ballet Meets
Jazz,” “Keep Young and Beauti
ful,” “Daughter of Rose O’Grady,”
“Piano Roll Blues,” “On 42nd
Street,” “Gold Diggers of 1952”
and others.
Special sets, with a new type
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Director Arnold
Holds Organizational
Meeting At Club
of
Criminal Court Next Week
With 53 cases calendared for a
three-day term, and 16 to go be
fore the grand jury for bills, the
criminal term of Moore County
superior court due to start Mon
day at Carthage appears in ad
vance to be a crowded one.
Recorders court will be held
Saturday of this week instead of
Monday, and not again till Mon
day, June 2.
One defendant will go before
the grand jury charged with
murder. This is Martha Jane
Snuggs, Negro, of Addor, who shot
her mother while attempting to
shoot her brother in a family ar
gument. No manslaughter or rape
cases are calendared, though one
defendant is charged with 'At
tempted rape, and another with
assault and battery with intent
to commit rape.
Well over two-thirds of the
cases listed are for driving while
drunk, reckless driving and other
highway safety law violations
which have come up from the
lower court on appeal.
Warrant docket (for grand jury
action): Bobby Sheppard, embez
zlement; Ros'coe Brown, public
drxuik, disorderly trespass and re
sisting arrest; Jesse Chisholm, as
sault and battery with intent to
commit rape; Howard Jenkins, at
tempted rape; Wtilliam Wooten,
The organizational meeting
the Moore County Civil Defense
held Monday night at the South
ern Pines Country club, revealed a
well-knit program already under
way, under the trained hand of
the county CD director. Brig. Gen.
A. V .Arnold of Southern Pines.
A purposeful start was revealed
in the fact that every place on the
special staff and operating staff
had been filled by General Ar
nold, and that these were present
100 per cent, some with consider
able accomplishment already to
their credit.
Also present were a number of
mayors and rural leaders appoint
ed last week by the county com
missioners, on General Arnold’s
request, as an advisory council-
several key men in the services
set up by the staff members, and
representatives of cooperating
agencies, the principal one being
the Red Cross.
The meeting clicked off without
wasted motion, showing the re
sults of having at the head of this
vital program a man of wide mili
tary and executive experierice be
fore his recent retirement, includ
ing the post of U. S. military gov
ernor of Korea. His staff is also
largely composed of men with of
ficer experience.
Hazard Foreseen
In opening the meeting. General
Arnold gave his view that the
chances of Moore county’s becom
ing a primary defense area are so
slight as to be non-existent. He
foresaw, however, a peculiar haz
ard in that this county is only 175
miles from the Savannah River
H-bomb plant, on the direct route
of any enemy planes which might
approach via the polar route.
He also envisioned conditions
in which evacuees from cities
which suffer as primary targets
might find haven here.
He presented Lieut. Col. Dean
E .Hess, a top combat pilot in
World War 2 and in Korea, who
trained the South Korean air force
and is now an instructor in air-
ground operations at the USAF
Air-Ground Operations school at
Highland Pines Inn.
Radar Network
Colonel Hess spoke on the radar
network now being thrown up
curound the North American conti
nent, describing in general the ex
tent of its protection, and also the
limitations to which it is liable at
present.
Such a network, he said, does
not obviate the need for well-or-
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Dr. Herr Resigns
After Many Years’
Service To School
Town Board Tables
Resignation Uiiitil
After Commencement
breaking and entering; Bobby
Hunter, B & E and larceny; Elver-
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Younts Heads Raid Warning Service;
Aircraft Spotters Will Be Trained
structural organization of the
air raid warning service of Moore
county’s civil defense program is
practically completed, with the re
cruiting and training of volunteers
now ready to begin, according to
Jack S. Younts of Southern Pines,
assistant director in charge of this
service on the CD operating staff.
In a full report made at the or
ganizational meeting held at the
Southern Pines Country club
Monday night, Mr. Younts reveal
ed that first steps were taken to
ward an air raid warning network
over the state as long as three
years ago.
The county organization will tie
in with the State Highway Patrol
system, which, alerted from a se
cret mountain site, will flash in
stant radio warning in the event
of the approach of hostile aircraft.
Key men in the county air raid
warning service are Carl Brad
shaw, in charge of a Civil Air Pa
trol unit now in process of forma
tion; Ed McKenzie, airfields, and
Robert N. Page III, aircraft ob
servers.
Charles McLeod is in charge of
police activity and Joe Warren of
radio, in giving warning.
/ Communications assistants are
Ed C. Smail, telephone; Mel Kush-
ner, radio; Lloyd Dahmen, CAP;
Col. Calvin H. Burkhead, ham ra
dio; Woodrow Davis (or his suc
cessor), fire; C. A. McCallum, law
enforcement agencies.
I Of these, the phase of most im
mediate importance is that in
charge of Mr. Page, whose aircraft
observer program will coordinate
with the Ground Observer Corps
set up, with filter centers, under
Army auspices. The first filter
center has already been set up at
Charlotte.
Mr. Page is now recruiting vol
unteers to serve as aircraft spot
ters, and wants to hear from any
one who wiU work in this impor
tant branch. A training team from
Raleigh has been alerted and will
come to Moore as soon as a suffi
cient number of spotters has been
recruited.
(Reports on other services of the'
Moore County Civil Defense will
be made by The Pilot as they are
completed, or become ready to re
cruit volunteers.)
60 Young People
In Tennis Meet
On Local Courts
About 60 boys and girls, most
of them playing in both singles
and doubles, are taking part in the
Third Annual Moore County
Major item of importance to
come before the meeting of the
town board held Wednesday night
at the town hall was the receipt
of a communication from the
school board notifying the com
missioners that Dr. George G.
Herr, for many years chairman of
the board, had submitted his res
ignation.
In bowing to the chairman’s
wishes, the school board wrote
that they were referririg the mat
ter to the town as coming under
its jurisdiction.
In the discussion that followed,
involving many expressions of re
gret, it was voted by the commis
sioners that, while recognizing the
doctor’s reasons for wishing to re
tire, the board would table the
matter of accepting his resigna
tion, hoping that he will remain
in office until after the Com
mencement exercises.
Traffic Safety Award
Fittingly marking an improve
ment in traffic hereabouts was
the presentation at Wednesday’s
meeting of a Safety Award to the
town, for the record of no fatal
ities here in the year 1950. The
presentation was made by Ollis D.
Griffin, local representative of the
Motor Vehicles Department’s
Highway Safety Division.
Mayor C. N. Page received the
award for the town and in accept
ing it spoke feelingly of the need
for improvement in this field. He
noted that no award would come
to Southern Pines for 1951, due to
the fatal accident on Massachu
setts avenue, and said that he
considered safe driving to be one
of the major problems of today.
He urged the need for driver
training and a renewal of com
pulsory automobile inspection.
In presenting the award, MPr.
Griffin said that Southern Pines
was one of 25 towns in his district
to receive similar notice. Other
Moore County towns with no fa
talities for 1950 are Cameron,
Vass, Aberdeen, Carthage, Rob
bins, Keyser, (Addor), Pinebluff,
Jackson Springs, Manly, and El-
lerbe. The awards are presented
to towns under 5000 in popula
tion.
The remainder of Wednesday
night’s meeting, at which all the
board except L. V. O’Callaghan
were present, was occupied with
routine matters, involving in most
cases, referral to committees for
study and action.
Miss Frances Pratt appeared
before the board with Building In
spector Everette V. Walker to re
quest permission to enlarge her
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Community Invited To Programs
Honoring Armed Forces Day Here
“Open House” At
USAFAGOS With
Decoration Rites
The USAF Air-Ground Opera
tions school at Highland Pines Inn
will be host at an Armed Forces
Day “open house” Saturday after
noon.
The program will open at 1:30
p. m. with a band concert in front
of the school, and a welcome from
Brig. Gen. William M. Grdss, com
mandant of the school, and Lieut.
Col. Lamar Welch, deputy com
mandant. Music will be by a
Ninth Air Force band from Pope
AFB.
An indoor program will follow
at 2:25 to which the public will
be admitted up to the number of
100—the capacity of the projec
tion room. The program will
demonstrate in dramatic form the
precision planning of an air-
ground operation, and how it is
carried out. This is in two parts.
The Evening Planning Confer
ence” and “The Air-Ground Team
in Action.”
Decoration Ceremony
At 4:10 p. m. a formal outdoor
ceremony will be held at which
General Gross will award decora
tions to two staff instructors, new
ly returned from Korea.
These are Capt. Sam H. Slaugh
ter III, of Kyle, Texas, who will
receive the Distinguished Flying
■Cross, and Capt. John F. McCar
thy, of Denver, Colo., who will re
ceive the Legion of Merit.
Captain Slaughter, a veteran
pilot of World War 2 and of 100
combat missions in Korea, has
been cited for his “courage under
fire, ability ajici devotion to duty,
in volunteering to locate and aid
in the rescue of two critically
wounded American soldiers in
enemy territory.”
Captain McCarthy is a CBI and
Alaskan Air Command OSS vet
eran of World War 2, who receiv
ed a spot promotion to major
while in Korea, where during one
period of his service (his citation
reads) he “wrote ^all reconnais
sance intelligence procedures used
in air support, ground support and
the interdiction campaign against
the qnemy’s supply routes.” He
wears eight battle stars.
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Glen Rounds Will
Address Seouts
At Court of Honor
REGISTRATION
Saturday is the last day for
registration of new voters be
fore the Democratic primary
of May 31.
Books will be kepi open by
Mrs. Grace Kaylor, registrar
for this precinct at the fire
station Jrom 9 a- m. to.6:30
p. m. For Aberdeen precinct
J. V. Ferree is registrar and
the Legion hut the registra
tion place.
Eligible to register, if they
have not previously done so,
are those who have lived in
the state one year and in the
precinct six months. Military
personnel tempoxeudly sta
tioned here may secure ab
sentee ballots from Sam C.
Riddle, Carthage, chairman of
the county board of elections.
Also eligible to register at
this lime are those who will
become 21 years of age by the
national election day—No
vember 4.
Rites Wednesday
At Aberdeen For
“Mother John”
Funeral services were held at
Aberdeen Wednesday afternoon
for “Mother John,” widely-known
Negro faith healer and spiritual
leader of the Solid Rock Church
of Holiness. She died Saturday
afternoon, after telling members
of her family, friends and follow
ers for several days that she knew
she was soon “going to take her
good rest,” She was 58 years old.
■ Services were conducted in her
church in the Broadway commun
ity, attended by a large gathering
of followers from her congrega
tions in North and South Carolina
and representatives from a con
gregation of which she was “over
seer” in Brooklyn, N. Y. Burial
was in the Berkeley cemetery at
Aberdeen.
“Mother John” became associat
ed wth the Solid Rock Church of
Holiness at Fayetteville in 1932.
After moving to Aberdeen in 1939
she became the outstanding leader
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New Town Lake
Filling, Ready
For Swimmers
Town Will Salute
Military Personnel
At Friday Event
Members of the armed forces
living in and near Southern Pines,
also all members of the commun
ity in the uniform of their coun
try in other parts of the world,
will be honored at an Armed
Forces Day observance to be held
today (Friday) at 2:15 p. m. at
WJeaver auditorium.
Children of the Southern Pines
school will be present, also as
many of the staff and faculty of
USAFAGOS as are able to attend
at that time. 'The general public
is invited, said Mayor C. N. Page.
Several distinguished guests are
expected to be present, including
representatives of all branches of
the armed services, and of local
veterans’ organizations and their'
auxiliaries.
Am'os Dawson, school superin
tendent, will give a welcome, and
colors will be presented by a color
guard from the USAF Air-Ground
Operations school.
Special honor will be paid to
Brig. Gen. William M. Gross,
USAFAGOS commandant, both
as representative of the school,
a military installation of unique
importance, and as a distinguish
ed and valued member of this
community.
General Gross will make a brief
talk with an especial message for
the young people.
The program wiU include sel
ections by the school band and
glee club, and a benediction by
the Rev. C. K. Ligon, a veteran
of Pacific warfare with the U. S.
Navy.
Schools Tennis tournament on the
municipal courts this week. They
are from Southern Pines and Pine
hurst ^high and elementary
schools.
With such a large entry list, and
playing only in the afternoons
(starting at 3:30), it appeared at
midweek that finals will be held
Saturday and Sunday, instead of
Friday and Saturday, as previous
ly announced. Some final events
will probably also be scheduled
for Saturday and Sunday nights,
especially if there should be a
hold-up on account of weather.
Through Wednesday, the weath
er was perfect. Only singles events
were played in the first three
days. Drawings for doubles were
to be made late Wednesday and
Thursday.
In the grammar school division,
34 boys and nine girls entered; in
the high school division, eight
boys and eight girls. Prospects
were that there would be 13 dou
bles teams of grammar grade
boys, with five of girls; and seven
doubles teams of high school boys
with four of girls. Mixed doubles
teams of undetermined number
were expected to enter in each
division.
The tournament is sponsored by
the Junior Sandhills Tennis asso
ciation, aided by the senior asso
ciation, which is donating trophies
for winners and runners-up for
each event.
Commencement
Speakers Named
Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, state sup
erintendent of public education,
will be the commencement speak
er at graduation exercises of the
Southern Pines High school, to be
held Tuesday evening, June 3, it
was announced this week by Supt.
A. C. Dawson..
Delivering the baccalaureate
sermon Sunday afternoon, June 1,
will be Dr. Claude Bowen, pastor
of the First Baptist church of
Greensboro.
Monday night will be the night
of the senior play, a three-act
comedy now in rehearsal entitled
“The Big Surprise.”
The May court of honor for the
Moore district of Boy Scouts will
be held at Pinebluff Monday at
8 p. m.
If the weather is good the cere'
mony wiU be held outdoors
the shore of Pinebluff lake, by
campfire light, said Lawrence M.
Johnson, Aberdeen, advancement
chairman. If it rains, it will be
held at the Pinebluff Methodist
church.
Glen Rounds, nationally known
author, artist and illustrator, who
lives at Pinebluff, wiU be the
speaker for the entertainment
program. Mr. Rounds grew up on
a ranch in South Dakota, and has
written many books dealing with
western lore, ranch life and ani
mals of the western plains.
Advancement and merit badge
awards will be made to scouts of
county troops. All the scouts,
their parents and friends are in
vited to attend, Mr. Johnson said.
North Carolina Justice
In the prompt conviction of ten members of the Ku
Klux Klan, North Carolina Justice has been well served.
The trial at Wilmington was in federal court, the kidnap
ping of the Klan’s victims across the state line having
brought the FBI into the case, but North Carolina officials
and newspapers took the lead in bringing about seizure of
the offenders and a North Carolinian was the judge. Two
of the defendants were already under sentence, for simi
lar crime in the state, convicted by a North Carolina jury.
Thus our state has struck hard and swiftly at these of
fenders against her laws. This is, we submit, a clear dem
onstration, of which, in our history, there have been many,
that North Carolina is ever a leader in the cause of justice.
- The progressive liberal spirit that stands for freedom
under the law has made this country strong and fearless.
It shines, a beacon of light and a guiding star by which
each one of us may constantly check our course. It is
good to see that spirit shine forth so unmistakably here in
our Old North State.
Southern Pines’ new swimming
lake has been filling up all week
and should be ready for swim'
mers this weekend, it was learned
from Howard F. Burns, town
clerk, who has supervised the
preparations.
Posts linked by a chain have
been placed at the deepwater line
°° offshore, and advice to swimmers
is to stay within the area thus
marked out. It is plenty big
enough, and deep enough for the
average swimmer, going out to a
depth of about four and a half
feet. Only expert swimmers
should go beyond the chain.
Work done on the new recrea
tion place has included the clear
ing out of debris and tree stumps
from the bottom of the lake, and
sanding of the swimming area and
the shore, creating a beach.
More sanding of the beach has
to be done. Some clay has had
to be used in building it up, which
means that rain might make it
more of a morass than a beach,
the city fathers warn.
The surrounding woods have
been cleared, ■out and underbrush
cut away, leaving the small pines
and dogwoods which are growing
up in profusion and should make
of the lake park a beauty spot in
future.
The lake is on NC Highway 2,
from the Midland road to Manly.
The highway cuts off sharp to
the right just past the Southern
Pines city limits sign on the way
out of town. It may also be reach
ed from the other way, by Manly.
The town has made only the
most basic improvements in order
to ready the lake for use by warm
weather. Additions planned for
later on include a diving raft,
boat pier, outdoor fireplaces and
picnic facilities, also—some day—
bath houses and maybe a recrea
tion pavilion. It is anticipated that
civic organizations and youth
groups will build some of these.
82nd Airborne
The 82nd Airborne Division
will mark the nation’s observance
of Armed Forces Day Saturday
by holding a division review and
maintaining open house for the
public throughout the day.
The review will be at 9:30 a.
m. at the division review field.
Static displays of airborne equip
ment in the vicinity of the Field
will be open to the public before,
during, and after the review.
These will include parachutes,
communication items, weapons,
and miscellaneous equipment used
in paratroop drops. Guides will
answer questions concerning all
phases of airborne operations.
Dayrooms, barracks, and other
installations in the various unit
areas will be open for inspection
by families and friends of per
sonnel. The noon meal will be
served at unit mess halls at pre
vailing rates to invited guests.
The division museum will also
be open all day to visitors. Guides
will be on duty to answer ques
tions and explain the history of
various items. These include,
among others, the wartime colors
of the 82nd Airborne, most deco
rated in World War 2; various
German weapons; the original
surrender document of the 120,-
000-man 21st German Army pro
claiming its unconditional surren
der to the 82nd Airborne Division;
the original decree signed by
Queen Wilhelmina of the Neth
erlands awarding the Military
Order of Willems to the Division;
picture's of combat jumps; the
Field Marshal’s epaulets of Her
mann Goering, captured by an
82nd trooper; an SS trooper unit’s
Dress Flag, and many other itfems.
At Fort Bragg
Latest weapons, radios, elec
tronics, first aid equipment and
other apparatus will be displayed
at Fort Bragg on Armed Forces
Day Saturday.
The Open House wll be held
ture a parade by the 82nd Air
borne Division and a demonstra
tion of casualty removal by heli
copters. For the ladies’ benefit
will be a food demonstration by
the Third Army Area Food Serv
ice school.
The Open Houqse will be held
from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. and will
close with an evening parade by
the 18th Airborne Corps Artillery.