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Record Attendance Expected As School
Children Troop To Classes Wednesday
Cafeteria Will
Begin Serving
Meals Friday
More than 800 pupils will troop
to the Southern Pines and West
Southern Pines elementary and
high schools Wednesday morning
for the opening of the 1952-53
academic year.
Classes Wednesday and Thurs
day will begin at 9:00, ending at
noon, with the regular schedule
starting Friday at 8:25. Friday
will be the first full day and the
first day on which the cafeteria
Will be open, again under the su
pervision of Mrs. L. T. Hall.
School buses will run about 30
minutes later than the regular
schedule on Wednesday and
Thursday, buf'will be on schedule
besinning Friday.
Pre-opening day meetings , for
teachers will be held on Tuesday,
Superintendent A. C. Dawson re
ported. Elementary teachers will
meet at 2:30, the entire staff at
3:30, and high school teachers at
4:00 o’clock
He added that last year’s record
opening-day enrollment of 820—
530 in Southern Pines and 290 in
West Southern Pines—will prob
ably be' topped Wednesday.
Seven new teachers are joining
the faculty, Mr. Dawson announc
ed. Miss Emily Person of Louis-
burg will teach home economics.
She has handled the home econ
omics department in the Tarboro
city schools for the past four
years, and was in charge of stu
dent home economics teachers
from East Carolina college, who
did their practice teaching in Tar
boro.
Miss Katherine Boyette of Car
thage, who graduated last soring
from the University of North
Carolina, at Chapel Hill, will teach
one of the first grades.
Miss Dawson Millikan of
Greensboro, who for the past three
years has been a member of the
Kinston school faculty, will teach
second grade work.
Miss Jean McDonald of Carth
age, a graduate of Flora Macdon
ald college and last year a mem‘-
ber of the Fayetteville faculty,
will teach in the third grade.
Miss Annie Mlargaret Brewer,
also of Carthage, is a Flora Mac
donald graduate, and taught in
Smithfield last year. She will be
a seventh grade teacher.
Harry Eee Brown, Jr., of. South
ern Pines, a graduate of the Uni
versity at Chapel Hill, will do sev
enth and eighth grade work. He
taught in Pinehurst one year then
went to Columbia university the
following year to earn his Mas
ter’s degree, and returned to
Pinehurst to teach last year.
Mrs. Roxie Leonard who taught
at Fort Bragg last year is joining
the local faculty, taking one half
of the fifth grade.
The West Southern Pines list is
still incomplete, with two vacan
cies left to be filled. Principal J.
W. Mooro reports.
The complete list:
White elementary school: First
grade. Miss Florence Dawson and
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Officers Capture 47
Alleged Bootlegs
In Weekend Raids
Eight Southern Pines Negroes
were included in a group of 47
alleged bootleggers apprehend
ed last weekend in a giant net
cast by local, state and federal
ABC officers. Three of the 47 face
federal charges.
Beginning at midnight Friday
night, the officers, led by C. A.
McCallum, brought the 39 Ne
groes and eight white men before
magistrate Charles McLeod in
Carthage, who set bend for all
but one, Tom Covington of Addor,
who is being held in jail. The
raids, many cf them simultaneous,
continued all day Saturday and
into Saturday night.
Officer McCallum reported that
one man, Dannie Farrell of Ad
dor, was apprehended while oper
ating his still, found under a trap
door on the porch. Smoke from
the lOO-galloni copper-and-wood
distillery, was routed into the
main chimney of the house,* he
said. Farrell was caught in oper
ation at five o’clock Saturday
morning, with three barrels of
mash and eight and one-half gal
lons of liquor on hand. He is one
of those facing federal charges
General investigation of boot
legging activities began last
April, with federal officers
brought in during the last few
weeks. Radio equipment greatly
aided the officers, said Mr. Mc
Callum, as they picked up sus
pects so fast that patrol cars ran
a shuttle into the Carthage court
house, where Mr. McLeod set
bond" and depute niarsTiall John
Stevenson took fingerprints.
Many repeaters were appre
hended, Tom Covington, for ex
ample, having faced three charges
in superior court on August 18.
His sentences were suspended
then on condition of good be
havior. New cases were found
while the round-up was going on,
said magistrate McLeod. He esti
mated that the whiskey taken was
about half legal and half illicit,
or “white lightning.’’ Fifteen gal
lons of the latter were captured
in addition to that found at Far
rell’s still. Seven cases of bootleg
beer were captured at the Am
bassador Club, outside of Pine-
hurst,-- he reported.
The officers included, in addi
tion to McCallum and Stevenson,
Sheriff McDonald, Constable Guy
McNeill of West End, deputies A.
W. Lambert and A. F. Dees, ABC
officer John K. Sharp, and state
ABC investigators and federal
ATU agents, plus local officers,
whose cooperation Mr. McCallum
cited, in the various towns.
Trials will be held Tuesday in
Carthage.
The Southern Pines men involv-
°d are Yank Williams, William'
Barnes and Norman Chavis. Local
women apprehended are Nannie
Diggs, Louise Tournage, Virginia
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TO BE HONORED
Opening Date of Sandhills Tobacco
Markets Moved Up To September 4
Special Ruling
JULIUS BOROS
Plan Pro-Am Tournament As Feature
Of Julius Boros Day, November 21
Tentative plans for a Sandhills
Open Golf tournfunent'at the Mid
Pines Club,Jiqvediber 2ttr 21 in con
nection with the Julius Boros
Homecoming Day were drawn up
at the first meeting of the tempo
rary committee last Friday at the
Southern Pines high school audi
torium.
Boros, National Open champion,
Tam O’Shanter World’s titlehold-
er and leading money-winner of
the year, captained the U. S
squad to victory this week over
Canada, 20% to 6%.
Temporary Chairman Buster
Patch has called another, meeting
for 8 o’clock tonight at the Elks
club (Southern Pines Country
club), at which he hopes to have
permanent representatives of the
American Legion, VFW, Kiwanis,
Lions, Rotary and golfing groups
of the Sandhills present. These
representatives will elect a pet-
manent chairman for the Boros
Child Accident Insurance
It was announced today by Su
perintendent H. Lee Thomas of
the Moore County school system
that a school child accident insur
ance pr gram similar to that car
ried last year will be offered to
the students of the Moore County
schools this coming term.
Last year’s program proved to
be an outstanding success which
exceeded all expectations. It en
ables the school authorities to see
that every insured student who
sustained a school connected in
jury received proper and adequate
medical care. Many families
would not have been able to pay
these bills and others were re
lieved of the shock •of unexpected
medical expense caused by an ac
cident. The insurance company
paid over 207 claims totalling ap
proximately $3,450 to cover the
cost of medical treatment render
ed.
Mr. Thomas explained that
while the board of education and
the schools themselves have no
legal liability in connection with
accidental injuries received by
children in the performance of
their normal school activities, this
has always been a matter of seri
ous concern to school authorities.
The accident insurance program
greatly relieves an unfortunate
situation for it assures every child
who pays the small premium in
volved of receiving complete
medical care and hospitalization.
A Master Policy will be issued
and held in the office of the su
perintendent. The cost of the in
surance is $1.25 per year per child.
Each student will be given the
opportunity to bring his payment
to school. When the payment is
received, the student’s name will
be placed upon a list of insureds
filed with the policy. The pro
gram has the support of the PTA
the school board, the principals
and the teachers but the most en
thusiastic praise comes from those
who were unfortunate enough to
sustain injuries during the past
year.
Mr. Thomas further stated that
the coverage of the policy goes
into effect one hour before school
takes in and insures the students
against any type of accident that
occurs while ■on the way to
school. The coverage remains in
force throughout the course of the
regular school day and goes out of
force one hour after being dis
missed. This gives complete cover
age of injuries sustained on the
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Cameron Man Held
On Murder Charge
At an inquest held in Carthage
Tuesday night, a jury called by
Coroner Ralph Steed of Robbins
ordered that Clyde Black, 25-
year-old Moore County Negro, be
held for grand jury action. Black
gave himself up to Sheriff C. J.
McDonald Monday night, inform
ing the sheriff he had killed his
wife, Marie Wooten Black, 24,. at
their home between Carthage and
Vsss.
No bond was set at the inquest
Tuesday. Black remained in the
jail at Carthage, but there was a
possibility that bond might be al
lowed and set later this week.
Sheriff McDonald who lives not
far from the scene of the shoot
ing, said that two men brought
Black to the sheriff’s home early
Monday night. Black told the of
ficer he had shot and killed his
wife with a .22 caliber rifle about
an hour previously.
A coroner’s jury was called and
viewed the body Monday nighty
but the inquest was postponed un
til Tuesday because, said the
sheriff. Black was obviously
drunk. The Negro told the sheriff
he was not drunk when he shot
his wife but had been drinking
during the hour before he gave
himself up.
Apparently, the sheriff report
ed, the shooting climaxed a quar
rel between the young couple,
ending months of domestic diffi
culties. Black had come to the
sheriff twice in the past year, the
officer said, to tell of difficulties
with his wife. The sheriff said he
had advised Black to leave his
wife, but the Negro replied that
he owned the home and would
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Day program.
Dugan Aycock, of Lexington,
president of the North Carolina
PGA, has pledged his support of
the pro-am tournament, and the
original plan for an exhibition
match including Boros has been
dropped in light of the proposed
tournament.
A parade is tentatively sched
uled to open the proceedings
Thursday, November 20, followecj
by the first round of the 36-hole
tournament. After the final 18
holes have been played Friday,
there will be a testimonial dinner
with, it is expected, either Sam
Snead or Herb Graffis, noted Chi
cago golf reporter, as the princi
pal speaker..
Mr. Patch expressed a hope that
the Sandhills Open could become
an annual tournament, possibly
rotated among local courses, now
that Pinehurst has cancelled the
North and South Open.
SEASON TICKETS
The Southern Pines Lions
club will begin sale of season
tickets to the High School
home football games next
Thursday, with the proceeds
to go for the purchase of new
equipment for the Blue and
White.
The concentrated drive for
ticket sales will be Thursday
through Saturday, and ducats
may be purchased after that
from any member of the clxjb.
Tickets will be $2.50 for the
six home games of the eight-
game schedule. H. M. "Pat"
Patterson, chairman, reported.
The standard rate is 50 cents
per game.
Audrey W. Brown,
Frank Spears Cop
New Tennis Cups
Audrey West Brown annexed
the women’s singles crowd Sun
day morning in the fourth Sand
hills Invitational tennis tourna
ment for the only local triumph
in the five-day event. Miss
Brown defeated Mary Johnson of
Wilmington, upset victor over sec
ond-seeded Sarah Watson of Co
lumbia, S. C., 6-2, 6-1 for the title.
By her victory. Miss Brown be
comes the first recipient of the
Sandhill Cup, donated by Harry
Lee Brown, Sr., which will go
each year to the women’s singles
winner. The cup will never be re
tired, but a permanent replica
will be kept by each champion.
Defending champion Frank
Spears of Greenville, S. C., cap
tured the men’s singles title for
the second year, and thereby be
came the first holder of the W. M.
Storey Memorial Cup, donated by
Voit Gilmore. Spears teamed with
young Sarah Haynie, /also of
Greenville, to win again the mixed
doubles title which he had won
last year with a different partner.
He failed, however, in his bid for
a triple crown to match his 1951
performance when he and Junior
Montesanti were upset 6-1, 1-6,
6-1 by Whitt Cobb and Tommy
Sutherland of Durham in their
men’s doubles semifinal.
Spears out-steadied the harder-
hitting Jerry Robinson of Raleigh
in the final singles match, win
ning 6-3, 6-3, 6-1. He was re
peatedly able to break Robinson’s
serve in crucial games. Sunday
night, Spears and Miss Haynie
downed Montesanti and Miss
Johnson, 6-2, 6-3, for the mixed
doubles title, after upsetting top-
ranked Audrey West Brown and
John Allen Farfour in the semi
finals.
Robinson and Dr. Fred West of
Raleigh took the men’s doubles
title over Sutherland and Cobb,
6-2, 6-4, 0-6, 6-3, displaying sensa
tional net play in a match marked
by long, hard rallies. The final
game of the last set went to deuce
seven times.
Miss Watson and Mary Boyd,
also of Columbia, defeated ^ the
North Carolina tandem of Mary
Lou Jones, Sanford, and Mary
Johnson, 6-2, 4-6, 10-8 for the
women’s doubles title.
Many of the stars of*the local
tournament are playing this week
end in Greensboro at the N. C.
State Closed tournament, where
Miss Brown won a triple crown
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MANAGER
EARLE B. OWEN
General Manager
For Pateh’s Named
Earle'B. Owen, sales promotion
manager for the Spainhour store
im Hickory, will join Patch’s De
partment Store, Inc., in about
two weeks, to become -general
msnager of the 55-year-old firm.
Mr. Owen plans to come to
Southern Pines the second week
in September, and will be joined
here about a month or six weeks
later by Mrs. Owen, or as soon
as they can secure living quar
ters. Their son, Earle B. Owen,
Jr., is entering Lendir-Rhyne col
lege this fall, and will remain in
Hickory until next Spring. ,
Jack Spainhour, manager of the
Spainhour company store in
Hickory, last week expressed re
gret over losing the services of
Mr. Owen, but wished him' un
limited success in his venture here-
Mr. Spainhour spoke highly of
Mr. Owen’s abilities in the adver
tising department 2Lnd in gen
eral mercantile business, and of
his appreciation of Mr. Owen’s
work with the company during
the past six and a half years.
Mr. Owen went to Hickory in
March of 1946 from Charlotte.
Prior to that time he had lived
in Winston-Salem. He has been
a member of the First Methodist
Church of Hickory, the Lake
Hickory Country Club, and of the
Hickory Optimist Club, qf which
he served as secretary of Boys’
Work.
( Patch’s was newly incorpora
ted Wednesday as Patch’s Depart
ment Store, Inc., with an author
ized capital stock of $100,000,
subscribed stock of $300 by
Ch'arles Patch, Anna Blue and
Avyrl Patch.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker To Study
Possible Eastern Air Service Here
Water Exhibition
To Feature Talent
From Entire Area
The 1952 Water Show of the
Moore County Red Cross, to be
presented at Aberdeen lake Sum
day afternoon at 3 o’clock, is slat
ed to feature talent from the en
tire Sandhills, area.
This will be the third consecu
tive year that a Chapter water-
safety, swimming and diving dem
onstration will be presented, un
der the direction of Dr. John C.
Grier, Jr., with members of the
various summer life saving and
.swimming classes participating.
Members of the USAFAGOS
here will also appear in the show.
Swimming and canoe demonstra
tions will be given by Maj. Bill
Porter, swimming rescues by Maj.
David Steege and by Paul Monroe
of the stEiff of instructors, and
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Installation Of
Fluoridizer Has
Been Completed
Installation of the fluoridizer
at the water plant for applying
fluoride to the city water has been
completed, Ralph Mills, plant su
perintendent, announced this
week.
Southern Pines thereby becomes
the seventh town in the state and
the first in Moore county to to
have the fluoridation process in
stalled, a process approved by
both the American Dental and
the American Medical associa
tions.
The installation of a fluoridizer
was approved by the Southern
Pines Town Board about a year
ago, after much investigation and
discussion and the subject had
been gone into at numerous meet
ings. I
Speaking before the Rotary club
recently Dr. R. B. Warlick gavfe
the history olf fluoridattlon, its
testing and results of its use in
several cities whqre it has been
installed. Benefits are not to be
expected for all citizens, he ex
plained, as they are reaped prin
cipally by children under 10, in
whom! the incidence of dental
caries is greatly reduced. *
Eastern Air Line service to the
Sandhills became a stronger pos
sibility this week, following a con
ference between Julian Bishop, of
Knollwood, and Captain Eddie
Rickenbacker at EAL headquar
ters in New York.
Captain Rickenbacker, president
of Eastern, agreed to consider an
application from the Sandhills for
year-’round air service between
Boston, New York and Philadel
phia and the Knolwood airport.
Mr. Bishop says the famous
World War 1 ace requested him
to gather all pertinent informa
tion on this area, such as popu
lation, number of towns within
a radius of 50 miles, number of
frills and Other manufacturing
plants, especially those with head
quarters offices in the n'Orth, num
ber of their employes, number of
hotels and their guests annually
together with maps of the area to
be served and of Knollwood air
port.
Year Around Service
Captain Rickenbacker told Mr.
Bishop that Eastern would not be
interested in seas'onal service, but
a flight a day the year ’round, for
passengers, mail and express. He
seemed particularly interested in
the growing number of manufac
turing plants in the area which
includes, in addition ,to Aberdeen,
Carthage, Candor, Robbins and
West End in Moore county, Rock
ingham, Hamlet, Troy, Sanford,
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Made As Crop
Matures Early
Five markets of the Sandhills
Warehouse Asscciation will open
Thursday, following a special rul
ing of the five-state Board of Gov
ernors of the Bright Belt Ware
house Association last weekend,
ether markets in the belt will not
open until September 8.
Sandhills markets are Fuquay-
Varina, Carthage, Aberdeen, El-
lerbe, and Sanford. Other markets
in the middle belt are Louisburg,
Warrenton, Oxford. Henders'On
and Durham. Last year, the 52
warehouses in the belt sold 186,-
419,891 pounds, with the 19 mar
kets in the Sandhills accounting
for 60,642, 351 pounds.
Members of the Board of Gov
ernors voted 12-10 to allow the
local group, headed by Arthur A.
Talley ■of Fuquay Springs, to open
earlier because virtually all of
the Sandhills tobacco will be off
the stalks by today or tomorrow,
it was estimated.
Presenting his request to the
Board last Saturday, Mr. Talley
told the gorup that the local crop
IS ready to be sold and that he
felt the Sandhills markets are en
titled to an earlier ■opening date
because of that fact. He said that
the Sandhills markets will make
an adjustment in selling time to
compensate for the earlier open
ing.
Fred S. Royster of Henderson,
president of the Bright Belt As
sociation, read a telegrarn from
F. A. Byrnes, J. R. Suggs, Mrs. J.
Carl Roland, M. M. Beasey, M. A
Broadwell and D'.' M. Spence, ali
of Fuquay, declaring that 95 per
cent of the Sandhills tobacoo* will
have been harvested by the end
of this week.
Sales committeemen of the
Bright Belt Association had met
in Simthfield the previous Thurs
day and postponed the opening of
Middle Belt markets from Sep
tember 2 to September 8. After
learning of this action. Sandhills
warehousem,ent decided to take
their problem to the Board of
Governors.
Previously, the Sandhills Ware
house Association had attempted
to get an opening date earlier
even than the September 2nd one
set for the Middle Belt, because
the local crop was maturing
ahead of those in other Middle
Belt, areas. Denied in this bid, the
Sandhills group voted to pull out
of the Bright Belt Association for
1953.
Makirfg his request for the Sen-
temljer 4 opening, however, Mr.
Talley toldf“the Board of Gover
nors, “We want to stay in the as-
seciation and may come back. We
feel that our problems can best
be worked out 'ss a member of
the familv in the Bright Belt As
sociation.”
Mr. Talley said that he was go
ing to work among members of
the Sandhills Warehouse Associa
tion to try to get them, back in the
fold. He also declared that the
action of the Board taken Satur
day proved that warehousemen
can work out their problems har-
moniouslv.
South Carolina warehouses also
nulled out of the Association be
fore the 1952 marketing season
opened, and Otis P. Joyce of Pam-
lipo, S. C., and Stoneville, replied
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HOLIDAY
The Citizens Bank and
Trust Company, in addition to
most of the local business es-
tai^ishmenls. will bo closed
Monday in observance of La
bor ' Day.
The Southern Pines Post
Office will be closed, except
that general delivery, parcel
post and stamp windows will
be open from 9 to 11 in the
morning. Mail will be distrib
uted to the boxes in the
morning, but there will be
no city delivery.
The Coimty courthouse in
Carthage will be closed, with
the exception of the Sheriff's
oivfice and the courtroom it
self, where recorders court
will be held as usual. The
Board of Cotinly Commission
ers will meet on 'Tuesday in
stead of MGonday.