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LET THE RED CROSS TEACH YOU TO SWIM “’UiqliFallt RolrHwfA y1«l«naon ^ndor / . nqreona '.armaqt Cameron pll , , l-aUvKji/'Vass f ^llerbc p, —‘-‘- Pin , jAbcraicn LET THE RED CROSS TEACH YOU TO SWIM VOL. 33—NO. 31 Sandhills Firemen Elect Fowler To Vice-Presidency All-Day Convention Program Dedicated To Tom C. Vann The Sandhills Firemen’s associ ation, holding its 26th annual con vention Wednesday in Southern Pines, advanced N. L. Van Bos- kerck of Pinebluff to the presi dency from the vice-presidency, and elected Harold B. Fowler Southern Pines assistant fire chief, to the office of vice-presi dent. E. P. Leatherbury, of Hamlet, longtime secretary-treasurer, was reelected to this post. The program for the day was dedicated to the memory of Tom C. Vann, longtime member of the Southern Pines volunteer fire de partment, who died suddenly in May 1951. • The association voted to chsirge dues for the first time in its his-' tory—$5 a year for each member department, to be employed for (Continued on Page 8) SIXTEEN PAGES J£H™g^N_PINES^ORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, JUNE 20. 1952 Three ]\ew Graduates Bring Honor To Coniniunity SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE—TEN CENTS Robbins Woman Reports Theft Following Fire WARNER HODGKINS Southern Pines this week honors the three young men pictured above, all graduates of Southern Pines High school, now bringing special distinction on the school and the com munity in three separate fields. Bill Warner, left, ^graduated Thursday from Harvard. His diploma bore the rare words “magna cum lauda.” He is believed to be the first local graduate to win this dis tinction from a major educational institution. Lewis Hodgkins, center, who graduated June 9 from St. Luke’s Theological seminary McCAIN Dean Brown Returning For Ordination of Local Youth at Sewanee, Tenn., will be ordained into the Episcopal ministry at a special service here Tuesday. He is the first local graduate to be so ordained. John McCain, right, in receiving the de gree of Doctor of Medicine from the Univer sity of Virginia, is carrying on the high tra dition of his family, as both his father and grandfather served the State with distinc tion in the field of medicine. For more information on all of these young men, see below: —f Mrs. Jessie Burroughs of Rob bins, returning last week from vacation trip, found not only that a fire had occurred at her home during her absence but also, she reported to Sheriff C. J. McDon ald, that $7,000 in cash had disap peared from the residence at some time during her absence. The fire, which occurred Friday night, June 6, was put out by the Robbins fire department. Starting in a double clothes closet, it was reported to have confined to the closet, its contents able amount of clothing, which was burned up—and its immedi ate surroundings. Origin was un determined. There was considerable volun teer help on the fire, it was learn ed, a^d people went in and out, l^ut firemen said screens, windows and doors were locked after it was over, with G. B. Williams owner of the-house, on hand to supervise the job. Mrs. Burroughs, returning the following Tuesday, reported the money was missing from its place of concealment, a metal box fas tened to the back of a vanity table across the bedroom from the The Very Rev. F. Craighill Brown will return to Emmanuel Episcopal church, where he was a rector for 18 years, to assist in the ordination of Lewis Hodgkins, his former parishioner and student. In the solemn service at 11 a.m. Tuesday, over which Bishop Ed win A. Penick.will preside. Dean Brown will serve as preacher. He left Southern Pines in the summer of 1949 to become dean of St. Luke’s Theological seminary at Sewanee, Tenn. , Young Mr. Hodgkins entered the seminary that fall, following graduation a consider- from Duke. (See picture and story jjj adjoining column). This will be the second ordina tion service for Emmanuel church —the first, however, for a local young man. Participating clergy will be the Rt. Rev. Edwin A. Penick, Epis copal bishop of North Carolina; the Very Rev. F. C. Brown, for mer rector of the church, now BILL WARNER, son of Mrs. Ruth Warner Swisher and the late William B. Warner, graduated from the local high school in 1948 with a record of all E’s cr better. He was president of his freshman class, president of the Student Council in his senior year, served as business manager for all ath letic teams, was president of the Teen Age club and member of Beta club and Hi-Y. His scholastic record won him a Harvard Club scholarship when he entered Harvard the University of the South, .Se wanee, preacher; the Rev. C. V. Coveil, present rector of Em- Rev. Harry S. Cobey, of Ham let, litanist; the Rev.- Joseph O’Brien of Durham, chaplain of Episcopal students at Duke, epistoler. Full Recreation Program Under Way Five Days A Week, Starting Monday T - ^~ Softball League May Be Formed; Volunteers Listed The summer recreation pro gram will get into full swing next week, starting at 10 a. m. Mon day. Events will continue thereafter for 10 weeks, with activities from closet which had caught fire. The'^*^ 12 noon and 2:30 to cord had been cut and box as well as money was gone, she Said. The sheriff’s department is as sisting Robbins Chief of Police W. H. Hester in investigation. Clues, however, are admittedly scanty, or non-existent, and with the lapse of time the quest ap pears to border on the edge of futility. Mrs. Borroughs, an employee ^ of the Robbins Mills, lived alone in the five-room bungalow. She is at present a patient at St. Joseph of the Pines hospital. i 4:30 or 5 p. m. every day, Mon day through Friday, of each week. There will also be dancing for the boys and girls every Friday Besides the scheduled events, oingpong, checkers and other types cf games will be played at the high school club—“The Fox Hole’’—every day, said Coach Irie Leonard, director. Tennis and bad minton will also be under way every day at the town park. Plans for an adult softball league are being tentatively made, pending the formation of some local teams. Any team interested in league play is asked to let Coach Leon ard know. He announced volunteer in evening at the school cafeteria, 1 structors and helpers this week and square dancing for adults las follows: every other Wednesday evening, starting this week, at the-South ern Pines Country club. The schedule of activities is published on this page. Read ers are asked to clip it for reference, and to watch the paper in case any changes have to be made. Summer Recreation Schedule IRIE LEONARD, Director. Headquarters—Fox Hole MONDAY—Football class (grades 7-12) at Memorial field, 10 a.m.-12 m. Story Hour at elementary school library, 10:30 a.m.-12 m. Baseball at Memorial field, 2:30-4:30 p.m. TUESDAY—Sewing class (girls 10 years and up) at home eco nomics cottage, 10 a.m.-12 m. Tennis instruction (girls) on town courts, 10 a.m.-12 m. Swimming Aberdeen lake. Bus leaves town park 2:30; back at 5 p.m. • WEDNESDAY—Pingpong, checkers at Fox Hole, 10 a.m.-12 m. Tennis, badminton at town park, 10 a.m.-12 m. Baseball at Memorial field, 2:30-4:30 p.m. THURSDAY—Pingpong, checkers at Fox Hole, 10 a.m.-12 m. Tennis instruction (boys) on town courts, 10 a.m.-12 m. Swimming Aberdeen lake. Bus leaves town park 2:30, back at 5 p.m. FRIDAY—Cooking class at home economics cottage, 10 a.m.-12 m. Golf instruction (boys and girls) at practice tee. Southern Pines Country club 10-11 a.m. Baseball at Memorial field, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Dancing at school cafeteria in evening. DANCING for boys and girls at school cafeteria every Friday evening. ' SQUARE DANCING* for adults at Southern Pines Country club every other Wednesday night—June 25, July 9 and 23, August 6 and 20. dean of the school of religion at T ^niereanarvara, and this has thp TTnivovcU,, c- I been renewed , each year as his I grades remained consistently ht the top. He majored in econoniics and was awarded a B. S. degree. He has received through Jona than Daniels, North Carolina Democratic national committee man, an appointment as usher for the national Democratic conven tion at Chicago in July. This ap pointment will give him access to the :"loor. LEWjIS HODGKINS, a 1944 graduate of Southern Pines High school and 1949 graduate of Duke, will be ordained into the diacon- ate of the Episcopal church at a solemn service to be held at 11 a. m. Tuesday at Emmanuel church here, of which he has been a member since childhood. Lewis must serve as a deafcon of the church for a year before becoming a full priest. He will leave the day after his ordina tion for Alaska, where he will serve as priest-in-charge of St. Elizabeth’s mission, Ketchikan. He is the son of Mr. and Mts. Norris L. Hodgkins, and is the first member of his family to enter the ministry. JOHN LEWIS McCAIN; also a Southern Pines High School grad uate of 1944, graduated in 1948 from the University of North Car olina, where he also took his first two years of medioine. After a short vacation in South ern Pines following his gradua tion at the University of Virginia Medical school, he will begin his internship at Philadelphia Gener al hospital. He is the son of Mrs. P. P. Mc Cain of Southern Pines and Red Springs (where she is dean of women at Flora Macdonald col- jlege) and the late Dr. P. P. Mc Cain. He is also the grandson of the late Dr. L. B. McBrayer. First Dr. McBrayer, then Dr. McCain, served as superintendent of the N. C. Sanatorium, the post office of which has now, by con- aressional action, been re-named McCain. Each served in turn as president cf the National Tuberculosis as sociation, and was rated a state Cpl. Bradford In POW Camp Thinks Of Home, Garden Second Letter Comes From Local Man Held By Communists Cpl. Henry Bradford, in a com munist POW camp in Korea, is thinking of the garden he planted more than two years ago, and the beans and greens he wasn’t here to eat. He’s thinking of spring and summer in North Carolina', Sun day school at the First Baptist church, and most of all of his family—^his wife Cleecy, his little girls, Gail, 12, and Idalou, three and all the rest. While the truce talks falter and fail, he wishes for pictures of all the folks—^not knowing that pic tures, letters and presents have gone into the mail for him time after time, ending up nobody knows where. Mrs. Bradford received this week her second letter from her husband, a prisoner of the com munists since July 1950—scarcely a week after he arrived there, ap parently going into action imme diately. The first letter came last Janu ary, soon after Corporal Brad ford s name had been released on the first—and last—list of prison ers given by the communists, at a time when it seemed the peace talks were getting some place. That first letter, while bringing joy and relief to his family, brought more heartache too. It followed the pattern set in dozens of others which came at the same time to waiting relatives in this country, cataloging the food their captors werb said to have given them at Christmas and Thanks giving, and rendering thanks to the Chinese for their excellent treatment. With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Bradford said the second letter “sounds lots more like Henry.” It hurts, though, she said, that he seems not to have received any of the mail that has been sent. Much of the letter consists of questions —quetions about the family. How can the answers get to him? Then there’s his garden. Before he left with his outfit in May 1950, shipping out from the west coast in June, he came home pretty, (Continued on Page 8) Boros of Mid Pines Wins National Open Son-In-Law of CLEAN-UP WEEK Next week will be Clean-Up Week in Southern Pines, ac cording to announcement from the local Chamber of Commerce. Harold A. McAllister, presi dent, urged that the members take the lead in a strenuous clean-up campaign, and that the citizens as a whole fix up, fresh up and clean up their homes, grounds and places of business. "It's been a long time since we had a concerted Clean-Up Week," said President McAl lister, "and we're beginning to show up. Southern Pines is known as the Town Beautiful —let's justify this name." Cosgroves Scores Upset Victory Julius Boros, Mid Pines pro for the past three years, won his first [major championship as a tourna ment player this week—and it was a big one, the National Open, finals of which were played Sat urday over the Northwood course at Dallas, Texas. The upset victory—score 281, one over par—over most of golf- dom’s top figures made the 32- year-old son of Hungarian immi grants the undisputed king of golf. His biggest previous achieve ment had been his progression to the quarter-finals of the National Amateur in 1948. Boros is a native of Fairfield, Conn., and athlete in high school there and at Bridgport univer sity, His interest in golf was stir red when he worked as caddie in With a busy season under way 1^1® boyhood, and he became a —two tournaments already held, proficient amateur. Taking three more coming up—the Sand- Pines job in 1949 hills Tennis association this week his entry into profession- launches its fourth annual mem-I him also tO' ro- bership campaign. Memberships provide a major means of support of the tourna ment program, for which trophies, engraving and tennis balls alone cost approximately $700 a season according to Angelo Montesanti Jr., president. Growth of the Memberships, Tournaments *3n STA Agenda mance, marriage and personal tiiagedy. He married “Buttons” Cosgrove, golfing daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Cosgrove, Mid Pines proprietors. She died last September following the birth of their son. News accounts of Saturday’s Sewing—Mrs. Marshall Palmer, Mrs. R. W. Norton, Mrs. Phillip Rawlins, Mrs. Broaddus Smith. Cooking—Mrs. Grace Cox, home service supervisor with the CP&L. Story Hour—Mrs. Elliott Shear, on. Girls Tennis Instruction—Harry Lee Brown, Jr., and Betty Jane Worsham. Boys’ Tennis Instruction— Harry Lee Brown, Jr., Steve Choate, Kenneth Tew. Dancing Instruction — Betty Jane Worsham, Roxie Leonard, Sylvia McLeod. Baseball—Bill Huntley, Jr. Howarth Named To Chairmanship Of School Board LAKE NOT READY Contrary to a previous—and premature — announcement, the new town lake is not ready for use, said Mayor C. N. Page this week. "I would prefer to have the water tested by county health authorities before general use is made of our new lake," he said. "This has not yet been done. The beach and parking area also have yet to be com pleted. When we get them in shape we will have the tests made, and we hope to give the green light to swimmers with in a short time." Progress is also being made toward securing of a lake for the Negro community, he re ported. Definite announce ment on this should be ready within a few days. tournaments and an expanded referred to Boros as an junior program this year will run Quiet” man, who just costs somewhat higher, he added. playing” as Ben Hogan, Under the leadership of Mem- Snead, Ralph Guldahl, Porky bership Chairman Stanley Austin, Johnny Bulla and other the campaign aims for a minimum names fell by the wayside, of 150 members for 1952-53. In . After the victory an embarras- addition to active memberships at ®^ug situation developed. It was $1 each, of which approximately found that Boros, who is not a 50 have already been secured, ^^A member, had, naturally, not honorary memberships may be peen invited to the PGA tourna- taken out at $5 each. Minimum I uient starting Wednesday at goal for these is 25. Louisville, Ky., and that no provi- Support of all interested in out- ®ion had been made for an invi- door sports, civic service, whole- pafion for the National champion, some youth activity and the top- if he should turn out to be a non flight tournament program offer- Piember. ed by the association is being This possibility had apparently sought. not been envisioned. Entry fees to the two major ^ golfer must serve a five-year tournaments (Sandhills Invita- apprenticeship to qualify for PGA tional and Junior Invitational), ’^^’^hership, iu the ordinary soft drink sales at the tourna- course of events. Tournament offi- ments, sale of used tennis balls cials invited him anyway and he and occasional benefit events pro- went to Louisville from Dallas, vide some revenue for the associ- However, finding there was dis- ation. It is anticipated that mem- sension in the PGA ranks concern- berships will make up the essen- fhe invitation, he withdrew tial difference and enable the hour before tee-off time. “I’ll group to meet its budget success- await my regular turn for PGA fully this year. membership,” the new champion Plans for the, upcoming tourna- ®aid. “I plan tO' be a PGA mem- ments were made at a meeting of bar for many years to come, and the association held Monday night want all the other members to be at Southern Pines Cottages, home | (Continued on page 8) of Mr. and Mrs. Frank de Costa. The Sandhills Junior Invitation- I MrS Kill O’ VlntivM al will be held Wednesday through * o ^ IClim Sunday, July 30-August 3, with t> m v the Junior-Senior Doubles follow- OOat 1 ragedv? ing the ensuing week. I O y “ The Sandhills Invitational (for merly the Open), which has be come one of North Carolina’s lead-1 Funeral services for Mrs Vera m tennis events, attracting Muse King, 43, who dS as\e states, [result of a boat accident at North Beach, Md., Sunday, will be held Funeral Today name will be held August 20-24. Harry Lee Brown, Jr., is tour nament chairman. Elks Club Proposed For Community Center; Tucker Named Co-Chairman John M. Howarth, a member of the Southern Pines school board for 15 and a half years, was elect ed chairrrian by the board in spe cial session Tuesday night. He succeeds Dr. G. G. Herr, wKo re cently resigned after 20 years in the chairmanship. Mr. Howarth was appointed to the board in November 1938, to fill out the unexpired term of Dr. E. L. Prizer, following Dr. Prizer’s death in September of that year. The board welcomed a new member, Harry Menzel, appointed for a three-year term by the town board last week. A number of routine matters were taken up at the meeting. and national leader in the field of tuberculosis, as well as of public health in general. Each man spent most of his life in public service. Announcement was made this week that the State will erect a historical marker near the birth place of Dr. McBrayer in Bun combe county. He served as that county’s first public health offi cer, and reorganized the public h^'alth department of the City of Asheville into what was consid ered a model for the state. Another child of Dr. and Mrs. McCain, Irene, is also carrying on the family tradition. She is a doc tor and has married a doctor. Edward A. Tucker will serve as co-chairman of the Southern Pines "Finer Caro lina" committee, it was an nounced Thursday by John S. Ruggles, chairman. At Monday's meeting. Chairman Ruggles secured permission of the committee to share the work with a co- chairman, to be chosen by the executive committee. Mr. Tucker, head cif the E. A. Tucker Distributors, Inc., and of Eastern Auto Stores, Inc., was named. The Tuckers moved to Southern Pines from Fort Lauderdale, Fla,, in January 1949. They have four children, and live at 885 Youngs road. The purchase by the Town of the building and grounds of the former Elks Home on South May street, for use as a park and com munity center, is favored by the Southern Pines “Finer Carolina” town board. The plan was discussed pro and con at a meeting of the commit tee, held Monday night at the Southern Pines Country club, and when put in the form of a motion was unanimously approved by the gathering of 14 representative civic leaders. The discussion arose from a sug gestion passed on by John F. Buchholz, chairman of Project No. 1 on the list of five in the “Finer Carolina” contest being sponsored by the Carolina Power and Light company. The project mainly con cerns the acquisition of a com munity center for use by citizens and groups . of all ages—Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, teen-agers in general, adult groups and others wishing to hold indoor or outdoor meetings or events. Some points brought out in the discussion: (1) though the proper ty has been unoccupied for more than a year, its popularity as a committee’ . and recommendation recreation center has steadily in to this effect will be made to the (Continued on Page 8) today (Friday) at 2 p.m., at the First Baptist church. Mrs. King, who was living in Washington and was employed in the Pentagon at the time of her death, was alone in a rowboat dur ing. a day’s holiday at the Mary land resort when it was struck by a cruiser. She was taken from the water by state police but died en route to a hospital. Officiating at the funeral serv ice will be Dr. W. C. Holland, pas tor, and burial will be in Mt. Hope cemetery. She was born in Moore county August 31, 1908, daughter of John and Edna Rotzien Muse. She at tended Cameron High school and Jater moved to Southern Pines where she lived for a number of years. About six years ago she was employed for a time at Sey mour Johnson AFB, Goldsboro, then went to Washington. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Wayne Trogden of Asheboro, and Mrs. John Howard, Kansas City, Kansas; four grandchildren; her mother, Mrs. John Muse of Southern Pines, and five sisters, Mrs. Eugene Foshee, Southern Pines; Miss Margaret Muse, Car thage, Mrs. Gregg Nance and Mrs. Gilbert Brower, Asheboro, and Mrs. Frederick Morrill, Pittsburg Calif.