SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 17. 1952
Moore Boys And Girls In 1952 4-H Chick - Chain
Above are pictured Moore County 4-H club
members who had pullets in the 1952 chick-
chain. These members entered their pullets in
the annual Hightails poultry show. Front row,
left to right—Shirley Jenkins, West End club
(Owner of Grand Champion chickens); Betty
Oldham, Highfalls club; Joyce Martin, Eagle
Springs club; Nancy Hall, Vass-Lakeview club;
Neil McKenzie, West, End club; Carl Comer,'
Cameron club.
right—Patsy McDonald,
fields, Carthage club;
Ruth Matthews, Carthage club; Earl Simpson,
Huh-M Carolyn Lee, Carthage
club, M. C Graham, West End club and Harold
Fountain, West End club.
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Resort Inns Open
With Welcome For
Convention Guests
Pines Already
Busy, Hollywood
Opens In Two Weeks
The opening of the Mid Pines
club last weekend signified the
season was on in Southern Pines,
and that of the Hollywood hotel
October 31 will see it in full
swing.
These are the only two resort
hotels left to Southern Pines
Sin« the Highland Pines Inn
“joined the Air Force.” Pinehurst
hotels opend early this month,
with the opening for regular
guests set for October 25 at the
Carolina following a series df
conventions.
Renovations and beautification
have taken place in both local inns
during th summer. The Holly
wood is recognizing its 40th sea
son with the installation of an ele
vator, of a highly superior type,
to make the third floor as acces
sible as the second. The dining
room has been redecorated. At
the Mid Pines, new offices are in
use, and a handsome new black
and white tiled floor beautifies
the lobby.
Both hotels report good advance
reservations, with many already
for next spring. The Mid Pines
is managed by Mr. and Mrs.
Frank E. Cosgrove, the Hollywood
by George and John Pottle.
Staffs are largely the same as
last year at both hotels. At Mid
Pines, a golfing center, Julius
Boros will return as pro, with the
added glory of having won the
National Open and Tam-o Shanter
Club world championship during
the summer. The quartet of girl
champiops weU known to the
the Spdhills are back in their
hotel jobs—^Mae Murray, of Rut
land, Vt.; Pat O’Sullivan, Orange,
Corui.; Carol Diringer, Tiffin
Ohio, and Mary Agnes Wall,
Menominee, Mich.
The Hollywood will open with
a return convention of the North
Carolina Traffic Clubs, a railroad
men’s Organization.
The Mid Pines has already wel
comed two conventions, the Bab-
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Brownson Church’s ‘‘Sale of Brick”
At $1 Per May Finance New Building
PRIZE WINNER
M5bs Avard Pauline
("Polly") Sproul, formerly of
Pinebluff, now living in Dur
ham. was announced Wednes
day as fbe winner of a first
prize in art at the State Fair
now under way at Raleigh.
Miss Sproul was awarded a
prize of $20 for a water color
painting.
She is employed at Duke
university, in charge of stu
dent assistants at the univer
sity cafeteria.
Here’s Procedure
For Securing
Absentee Ballot
Just two more Saturdays to
register for the general elec
tion November 4!
If you are already on the
county books, you needn't
register again. If in doubt,
check with the registrar.
If you are registered, but will
Dwight Heads Effort
To Raise $60,000
For Initial Work
(Mrs. Banigan
In Custody Of
N. Y. Authorities
Church Trustees
Issue Warrant
For Extradition
The long-sought Mrs. J. D. Ban
igan is in the hands of the law in
New York, and may be returned
to this ccunty as soon as certain
matters are cleared up to the sat
isfaction of the authorities there,
according to information reaching
here this week.
When, as and if she is fetched
back to Moore county she will
face plenty more that needs clear
ing up, with plenty of people, in
cluding a high percentage cf the
local bar membership, ready and
eager to do it. They will have to
wait, though, till she serves her
30 days in jail for contempt of
court on order of Judge Zeb V.
Nettles, issued last July, after she
took off for New York instead of
keeping a date for a civil hearing
in May.
Suits for judgment filed against
Mrs. Banigan individually, or with
her husband, for non-payment of
personal bills, or as a real estate
agent, have now mounted to near
ly $10,000 and indications are
there are several more in the off
ing.
Church Issues Warrant
The latest is a warrant for em
bezzlement of $1,200, issued by
trustees of the Brownson Memo
rial Presbyterian church, which
was forwarded to New York this
week on receipt of the following
telegram:
“Julie D. Banigan now in cus
tody of New York county awaiting
hearing for violation of proba
tion. Send specific details of any
indictments in your jurisdiction,
including dates, names and
amounts involved, 'also any addi
tional complaints of i civil or
Town Meetinj* Wednesday Ni^ht
Bond. Election
Discussion Slated
At Auditorium
drive which got under way at a
recent Rally Day at the church
at which some $2,000 in cash was
raised, about $20,000 in
three-year^ pedges. The cash
amount stood this week at $10,000
the pledges at $31,000, it was
learned from the Rev. Cheves K.
Ligon, pastor.
He wasn’t feeling too compla
cent about it, though—“the gdm is
still a long way from being in
be away and unable^toreaTh yourlSed hyl. h" GrLtTd^H^ a’
re°ct ofSmanSya"i'rS^^^ to reTch Se'^gotl
chairman Mocre County board'^^of I work°k
elections, Carthage. He^wmsend era mon^h ""
you an application to fill out,
If you have wondered why
people around town are wearing
round lapel pins which say “I Sell
Brick” or ‘T Bought Brick,” they
aren’t some new kind of camr
paign button. Each denotes trans
action by which one netv brick
has been added to the pile for the
new educational building of
Brownson Memorial clj^ch.
Going price of each brick is $1
breughfnood d?al more^° have,criminal njture^ Advise whether
TU.. A ■ ■ . to lodge your warrant
rhe device is part of the $60,000 in New York county requesting
. extradition to North Carolina. Ir
vin W. Halpern, General Court
Session of New York.”
• The telegram came addressed to
the county solicitor. Solicitor W.
Lamont Brown turned it over to
District Solicitor M. G. Boyette,
whose task it is tQ' assemble aU
the evidence for presentation to
the grand jury, and also to seek
return of the defendant to face the
charges.
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Reminder cf the town meeting
Wednesday night, for discussion
of the coming bond election for
civic improvements, was made by
Mayor C. N. Page this week.
The meeting will be at Weaver
auditorium at 8 o’clock. All the
townspeople are invited to attend
and register their reaction, asking
questions or just listening, as they
wish.
Determined by the town board
as pressing present needs of the
growing municipality are the fol
lowing, listed with estimated
costs: new fire truck, $20,000; new
fire station, and remodeling of
old one to provide storage for
other town-owned vehicles, with
needed furnishings for both, $34,
000; combination police station
and jail, $96,000; extension of
sewer system, $10,000. These are
“outside figures,” the mayor said,
arid it is likely they actually will
not cost that much.
Mavnr Page said numerous cit
izens have discussed projects with
him, some objecting and others
approving, and he feels that most
of those who object are failing to
understand the need; also, that it
is not anticipated the bond issue
will affect the tax rate. “The
board wants everything to be
made clear,” he said. “You bring
the questions and we’ll try to
have the answers.”
The Wednesday meeting is the
time and place to object if you’re
going to, he indicated, so that the
board may have accurate knowl-
ledge of public sentiment on the
proposal.
‘We mav be trying to progress
too fast. However, we have some
feal problems,” he said.
“Changes cf some sort must cer-
tainlv be made in the present set
up. This appears to the board as
the most all-round satisfactory
long-range plan. Those who don’t
agree may have better ideas,
we’d like to hear them.”
It was noted that never, in the
Moore County Fair
Will Open Monday
With Shows, Exhibits
DEMOCRAT RALLY
Southern Pines Democrats
are planning a rallV Saturday
evening, November 1, just
three days before the nation
al election.
The precinct committee, of
which L. V. O'Callaghan is
chairman, and the Southern
Pines Young Democratic club,
headed by W. F, Henderson,
will cooperate in an event
plans for which are still in
the formative stage.
Whether it wiU be a
"speaking," a street meeting
or a torchlight parade has
not been determined, but full
details are expected to be
ready for, annoimcement next
week—^if the committee in
charge cam quit talking poli
tics long enough, to put their
heads together.
Anyway — Democrats, get
set! With election fever
mounting in the' Icuid. you
might know something would
be stirring in Southern Pines.
Umstead Credits
Democratic Party
With Major Gains
A jam-packed Moore County
courthouse cheered to the echo'
Saturday night the Democratic
candidate for governor, William
B. Umstead, as he called on the
crowd to elect as president of the
nation “a man who means what
he says and says what he means
to do; a man who trusts the peo
ple and talks sense to them; a
Two Free Days
For Schoolkids,
Big Midway
"Miss North Carolina"
Will Crown Beauty Queen
and man who tells the truth.”
ent
which you must return to him, in
an envelope he will send you for
the purpose, and which he will
Other members of the finance
committee, which has charge of
the drive, are Henry Graves, J. M.
turn over to your registrar un-‘p!®f^^”o’'
’tion Dfl-i/ TVio Reams and Mrs. Howard
Butler, -rhe $60,000 they hope to
opened on Election Day. The bal
lots must reach him by the day
before, at latest.
The procedure is similar to
that for servicemen, except that
the man in service applies for the
apolication forms at his station.
Be sure and find out what your
precinct is, or Mr. Riddle may not
be able to figure out where you
are registered. He informed The
Pilot this week that many absen
tee ballots were coming in with
out any indication of the home
precinct, or with “Don’t Know”
written on the name space. Many
of these canrtot be delivered.
Southern Pines is (you guessed
it) in Southern Pines precinct,
Mrs. Frank H. Kaylor is registrar.
secure will it is estimated, pay for
a finished first floor and hulled-
in second floor to be completed
later, according to plans drawn
by Donald Case, a member of the
congregation.
When the finance committee
completes its task, the building
committee will, take over. Other
committees have been set up to
carry the work„^ toward eventual
completion and use. F. M, Dwight
is general chairman of the pro
ject.
The Brownson Memorial
church, dating back to 1939. has
a tradition of building along “pay-
as-you-go” plans which have been
Joe Carter And
Mrs. Clark Are
SPCC Champions
Finals in the annual tourna
ments of the Southern . Pines
men’s and women’s golf associa
tions were played Sunday, con
cluding five weeks of match play
over the Southern Pines Country
Club course. The new club cham
pions, who received their tro
phies following a buffet dinner
that night, are Joe Carter for the
men, and Mrs. Virgil Page Clark
for the women.
Carter defeated Harold Collins
1 up, while Jim Besley won the
V.- 4. i! 41. 4 1 „ , occasion was the rallv held
the Young Democrats Clublf
Moore County in the Carthage
courthouse. Conducted by county
YDC chairman Douglas David, of
Pinebluff, the gathering heard, be
sides Mr. Umstead, brief address
es by Congressman C. B. Deane,
Representative H. Clifton Bluej
State YDC president W. D. Har
rison of Rocky Mount, Lamont
Brown, president of the Moore
County YDC, and former county
YDC president W. A. Leland Mc-
Keithen, chairman of the County
Democratic Executive Committee.
With the speakers on the ros
trum was the vice chairman of
the state Democratic executive
committee, Mrs. John T. Richard-
^n, and a group of state officials:
Commissioner of Agriculture Bal-
lentine. Commissioner of Labor
Forrest Shuford and Commission
er of Insurance Waldo Cheek; also
District Solicitor M. G. Boyette
and Judge J. Vance Rowe.
Umstead Stresses Record
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Registration place is the Southern' adhered to from the be^
Pines fire station.
ginning.
Brown Elected By Tennis Group, Calls
Youth Program ‘Proudest Achievement’
With many achievements in its tennis player who wasn’t a good
four short years of which to be ' “
proud, its youth program is the
finest, 'Harry Lee Brown, Jr.,
newly elected president of the
Sandhills Tennis association, told
about 40 members gathered in
annual meeting Monday night.
In outlining plans for the future
the retiring president, Angelo
Montesanti, Jr., also stressed the
value of the junior tennis program
here, not only to the young people
but the town as a whole. “I fig
ure this is the best way we can
repay the town for its favor in
building these splendid courts—
in promoting the kind of recrea
tion that builds good citizens, I
have never,” he added, “seen a
sport.”
The two spoke informally on
the present and the future of the
association. The past was taken
care of by Francis E. Stubbs, the
first president, who now lives in
Greensboro and who had returnd
especially for the occasion, to see
the small group which had band
ed together in 1949 now a well-
knit, enthusiastic organtzation.
Tribute to WUson
He paid tribute to the late P. A.
Wilson of Vass, a charter member,
for helping the as.sociation get a
good start along lines which have
assured continued high standards,
cooperation and success. A mem-
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STAMP CLUB
The Southern Pines Stamp Col
lectors club will hold its first
nieeting, following the summer
recess, at the Park View hotel at
8 o’clock tonight (Friday). All
persons, of any age, interested in
stamps as a hobby are invited to
attend.
MORNING AIRMAIL
A new morning airmail
flight will start Monday, ac
cording to advice from the
Southern Pines post office.
Mail closing will be at 10:20
a. m. here, for the Piedmont
Airlines flight at 11:20.
This is in addition to the
afternoon airmail already
operating, for which the local
closing is 3 p. m. Both flights
are westbound, connecting at
Charlotte with planes flyiiig^
north and south.
consolation from Jack Carter 2
and 1.
The second flight was won by
Don Moore, who defeated Dr
Boyd Starnes 1 up in 20 holes
CoiKolation winner was O. T
Parks, who defeated J. P. Wal
lace 1 up in 21 holes.
J. S. Edwards -defeated Ken
Giesler 1 up to win the third
flight, and the consolation was
won by Tom Hobson over Jim
my Townshend, 2 up.
Gordon Clark defeated W. A.
Lewis 1 up in the fourth flight,
and Norris Hodgkins, Sr., won the
consolation from Harry Pethick
3 and 2.
In the fifth flight, David Gins-
burg defeated P. T. Hayes 1 up.
The consolation was won by Ed
Tucker oyer Walter Alpert.
Barney Avery won the qualify
ing medal.
In the women’s tournament,
Mrs. Clark won her first cham-
nionship, with Mrs. Harold Col
lins as runner-up. Consolation was
won by Mrs. Gladys Hodgson with
Mrs. Phoebe Rust as runner-up
Sunday night "the men and
women, with their wives and hus
bands, met at the Country Club
for a buffet supper and prizes
were awarded at that time.
ern Pines voters turned down a
bond election for civic improve'
ments.
Prizes Awarded
Loeal Firms In
Window Contest
There were 14 entries in.the an
nual window decoration contest
sponsored by the Southern Pines
C^hamber of Commerce in connec
tion with Wednesday’s Homecom
ing game, and franjean’s, Carolina
Power and Light company and
Tots’ Toggery were announced as
winners, in that order, at the half
during the game.
Winning honorable mention
were Patch’s, the Style Mart, and
Barnum Realty company.
The franjean window, decorated
by the staff, featured a girl wear
ing the Southern Pines insignia
and colors, and a red devil at 'op
posite sides of the window, each
tugging at a beautifully wrapped
prize package done in blue and
white. A small rubber doll rep
resented the Candor Red Devils.
A sign proclaimed: “They’ll get
no prize package from us.”
The Carolina Power and Light
window held the team names, a
display rack in blue and white
and red, on which were shown
electrical supplies with the fol
lowing advice to the team: an
electric heater, “Get Hot”; a mix
er, “Mix ’em up”; a trimmer.
Mow ’em down”; a fan, “Cool
’em off”; a vacuum cleaner.
Next week is fair week for all
of Moore county, and thousands
are expected to fill the county
seat for the fifth annual Moore
County Agricultural fair which is
again being sponsored by the Car
thage Junior Chamber of Com
merce. Last year’s event was a
great success and the sponsors re
port they are expecting an even
bigger and better exposition this
faU..
“We have completed plans for
the fair,” Hoover Carter, president
of the Jaycees stated,” And hope
to give to the people of Moore
and adjoining counties a most in
teresting and entertaining week.”
The Jaycees are looking for
ward to a record number of ex
hibits, and as in the past there
will be a large tent erected with
ample, space for taking care of
them. This exhibit tent will go
up on the fairgrounds on Satur
day in plenty of time for the peo
ple of the county to place their
entries. No exhibit can be enter
ed after 6 p. m. Tuesday.
There will be plenty of space
for exhibits and the Jaycees urge
all who can to enter their prized
articles.
As Jias been the case during the
past two years, one of the high
lights of Fair Week will be the
beauty contest, to be held Wed
nesday night. Winner of this event
will be crowned “Miss Moore
County High School.” C. C. Ling-
erfelt, chairman, said a large
number of entries has been re
ceived from the schools of the
county. Miss Barbara Ann Har
ris of Salisbury, "‘Mass North Car
olina of 1952,” is expected to be
on hand for the event and to
crown the winner. Any high
school of the county who would
like to enter their favorite in this
event can do so by contacting
Claude Lingerfelt, or any mem
ber of the Jaycees.
Last year’s winner was Miss
Sylvia Davis of Carthage.
The fair will open Monday night
and will come to its official close
Saturday night, October 25th, as
suring an entire week of the fun
and merriment that always goes
with a typical county fair.
Tuesday will bring the “Grand
Opening” when all white school-
children will be admitted free,
with the main gate opening at 12
noon. The colored children will
enjoy the same privilege Friday. .
It is the hope of the Jaycees that
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Opening Of Sandhills Resort Season
Gets Full Activity Program Under Way
By TIM HYDE
(Stale Magazine)
More than the usual interest in
the opening of the Sandhills re
sort area is evident this year, with
a potential Little White House and
a not-so-potential Little Execu
tive Mansion located in this re
gion.
If Gov. Adlai Stevenson of 111-
“Clean ’em up”; a clock, “Now is the Democratic nominee for
the Tirne,” and the hands pointed the Presidency, is elected in No
te 3:30. Ralph Leach, John How-
arth and Paul Butler arranged the
display.
The third prize winner, listed as
Tots’ Toggery, was the window
shared by Tots’ Toggers and Mrs.
Hayes Shop. In this the Candor
captain was hauling his prostrate
players from the field in a wagon
as the Blue and White captain
stood by. Mrs. Graves, Mrs. Mine
and Mrs. Britt of the staff decor
ated the window.
Jim Hatch, Charles Bowman,
Patsy DuPree and Ann Craft,
high school students, decorated
Patch’s window, which showed a
Southern Pines cheerleader and a
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vember, the log cabin on Paint
Hill, near Southern Pines, may
become the vacation retreat for
the President. '“The Cabin” is the
home of (Governor Stevenkon’s sis
ter, Mrs. Ernest Ives, and her hus
band, a retired diplomat. Mrs.
Ives, who has lived in “The
Cabin” from November to May for
a dozen years, also is expected to
serve as White House hostess if
her brother should defeat Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower in the elec
tion.
And up north of here, at the
county seat of Carthage, is the
residence of Herbert F. Seawell,
Jr., Republican nominee for Gov
ernor of North Carolina, whose
father sought the office when the
state went for Hoover in 1928. As
“Chub,” as his friends call him,
says, “With the Little 'White
House at Southern Pines and the
Little Governor’s Mansion at
Carthage, people will hardly be
able to stand us.”
Pinehurst, the sports center of
the Sandhills—a 50 by 30 mUe
area which is a kind of half-step
Between the Piedmont Hateau
and the Coastal Plain—will be
gin its 58th season on October 1,
with the opening of the Pine
hurst Country club and the in
formal opening of the Carolina
hotel. Added to the schedule of
the winter golf capital of the
world is the new North and
South match play Seniors’ golf
championship, which replaces the
North and South Open, a pro
amateur tournament, on the pro
gram. More than 1,200 invitations
have gone out to leading senior
golfers all over the country, and
the response has been enthusias
tic.
Tentative? plans for a Sandhills
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