VOL. 34—NO. 14
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1953
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PRICE—TEN CENTS
Local Teams Working Way Up Toward Saturday Finals
First row, from left—James Prim, manager, i^nne, Julian Pleasani-s, Jonnny Vv atkins, Ken-
Don Cheatham, David Page, David Bailey, Bill neth Tew, John Seymour, Jimmy McDonald.
Huntley, Tommy Buggies, David Woodruff, Third row—Donald Haney, Assistant Coach W.
George Colton, Coach Irie Leonard. Second A. Leonard, Emery Smith. Absent, James Mat-
row—James Collins, James Humphrey, Bobby thews and Jimmy Townshend.
First row, from left—Assistant Coach Don
Moore, Janet Hame Sieger Herr, LaNell Kirk,
Mary Cameron, Frances Pearson, Dorothy New
ton, Patty WoodeU, Coach W. A. Leonard. Sec
ond row—Irene Eaton, manager, Kathryn
Dwight, Patsy Dupree, Geraldine Bethea, June
Bristow, Jackie Davenport, Mary Matthews,
Betty Jo Britt, Phyllis Faircloth.
(Photos by Emerson Humphrey)
F acuity-Alumni
Game Scheduled
Tuesday At Gym
The varsity youngsters will
learn from their elders, and may
be their betters, Tuesday night
when a Faculty-Alumni basket
ball game will be held at the
Southern Pines gym.
The junior class is sponsoring
the event. Performances by the
band, the majorettes and other at
tractions will be highlights. Jim
Hatch will be master of ceremo
nies. A good time will be had by
all. Game time, 7:30.
The women’s lineup will include
the following: Faculty—Polly
Miller, Mildred Whittington, Ruth
Swisher, Aline Todd, Billie Wil
liams, Kay Buice, Mae Dell Ken
nedy; Alumnae (and town)—
guards, Shirley Stuart, Mildred
McDonald, Jackie Morris, Julia |
Rippetoe, Mary E. Hackney, Doris
Pigott, and forwards, Betty Cad-
dell, Sue Hall, Pat Van Camp,
MaybeUe Britt, Nellie Ward, Faye
Hardy.
Men’s lineup: Faculty — Amos
Dawson, Irie Leonard, W. A.
Leonard, Robert Thompson, Don
Moore, Harry Lee Brown; alumni |
(and town) — Norris Hodgkins, I
Tom Hayes, Tom Marshall, Dick I
Mattocks, Bobby Dunn, Page!
Choate, Howard Smith, Don Tray
lor, Harry Chatfield, Ray Schill
ing.
County Cage Meet Reaches Semifinals
Huge Crowds Throng Aberdeen Gym
Tennis Group Will
See Pro Matehes
At Chapel Hill
Four top tennis professionals
now on tour, putting on their
show at Chapel Hill Monday night,
wiU have a large and interested
delegation on hand from this ten
nis-minded community.
Playing the matches at the Uni
versity’s Woollen gymnasium,
starting at 7:30, will be the Aus
tralian aces Frank Sedgman and
Ken McGregor, Davis Cup win
ners newly turned pro, with Jack
Kramer and Pancho Segura.
Thirty-six seats on the front
row have been taken by the
Southern Pines group, and ipore
tickets have had to be ordered,
said Harry Lee Brown, Jr., presi
dent of the Sandhills Tennis asso
ciation.
GET PERMISSION
The grassfire danger season
is at hand. Fire Chief Harold
B. Fowler this week issued a
reminder to all residents of
; 'Tth rn Fines that they must
call the fire station for per
mission before burning trash
on their grounds.
Sometimes weather condi
tions will mean permission
cannot be given, if, for in
stance, the ground is dry, and
the wind is high. Or it may be
necessary for the person wish
ing to do the burning to have
advice as to what time of day
he should biun.
Newton, Dees
Will Have Radio
Tribute Today
Two local law enforcement offi
cers will be honored for their
work in the Louise Dowd Mc
Laughlin murder case of last No
vember, in a network program to
be broadcast over WEEB starting
at 5:15 p.m. Friday.
The half-hour program will be
followed immediately at 5:45 by
one from the WEEB studio, on
which citations will be read and
gold watches awarded to Chief C.
E. Newton, of the Southern Pines
police department, and Deputy A.
F. Dees of the Moore County sher
iff’s department. The presenta
tion will be made by Jack S.
Younts, WEEB general manager,
in behalf of “Official Detective’’
magazine and the Mutual Broad
casting System.
“Official Detedtive” is the spon
sor of the network program, on
which outstanding officers are
cited from time to time. The pro
gram itself will be one of their
regular crime dramatizations (not
the McLaughlin story) and will
conclude with the citing of Chief
Newton and Deputy Dees, both
for their own work and that of
their departments, which worked
cooperatively in breaking the case.
The handsome gold * Benrus
watches—shockproof, wfiterproof,
with minute sweep hand and oth
er useful details—are the, gifts of
the sponsor.
(Early story on Page 12)
A shift in the scheduling late
last week got the Moore County
High School Championships going
Monday night, a week earlier
than had been planned. Four
nights later, the Southern Pines
teams were still in there, and
working their way right on up.
Semifinals were to start Thurs
day night, when Southern Pines
girls were due to meet those of
liighfalls at 8:30. Other Thursday
night games: Aberdeen vs. Carth
age (girls) at 6:30 and Aberdeen
vs. Cameron (boys) at 7:30.
Boys semifinals will be held to
night (Friday) at 7:30 and 8:30 at
which time Southern Pines will
meet Robbins. Best prediction for
the finals, scheduled for Saturday
night: Southern Pines vs. Aber
deen, both boys and girls.
Wednesday night games saw
Highfalls boys advance to the
semifinals by defeating West-
moore 77-40. They will meet the'
winner of the Aberdeen-Cameron
game tonight.
Aberdeen girls scored a one
sided victory over Westmoore, 68-
23.
Jimmy Townshend and Steve
Choate, scoring 17 and 12 respec
tively, led Southern Pines to a
13-46 victory over Pinehurst.
Season Starting ■»
Dunes Club Will
Reopen Tonight
A siu’e sign of the start of “the
season”—the Dunes Club will re
open tonight (Friday), to remain
open until May.
Dave Lester and his Orchestra
will be playing this spring for the
popular dinner-and-dance club,
and an extra attraction for the
opening nights will be Miss Jane
Crockett as guest star. Miss
Crockett, who was Miss Florida
of 1950, is a bright and beautiful
young star of the entertainment
world. She formerly sang with
Bennie Goodman’s orchestra.
Dinner is served from 7 o’clock
at the Dunes Club, which is loca
ted on the Midland road between
Southern Pines and Pinehurst.
CITY MANAGER?
What is the city manager
form of government? Is it
very different from the type
of government Southern Pines
has now—or is it very simi
lar? Would there be advan
tages to this municipality in
making the change?
These are some of the ques
tions citizens here have been
asking Ijdely.
In response to a rising tide
of local interest in city man- .
agement. Mayor C. N. Page
has arranged a meeting for
tonight (Friday) at which the
town board, the municipal
planning board and the "Finer
Carolina" steering committee
will hear a discussion of the
subject. Guest speakers will
be the city managers of Fay
etteville and Laurinburg.
Mayor Joe Tally of Fayette
ville may also be present.
The meeting will be held at
8 o'clock at the Southern
Pines Country club.
Rep. Blue Offers
Bill To Reaetivate
Farm Life Sehool
Rep. H. Clifton Blue asked the
General Assembly Wednesday to
reopen the Farm Life High school
m Moore county, which was con
solidated last year by the State
Board of Education.
He called for reactivation of the
school in a bill which would re
quire the state board to reopen
any Moore school it closed with a
daily average attendance of 55 or
more.
The action was taken, Mr. Blue
said, in response to requests by
the Moore County commissioners
and board of education. In seek
ing the legislation, these two
boards reported that anticipated
enrollment of Farm Life high
school students for 1953-54 was 68
or more.
Farm Life High school was clos
ed when it had, for several suc
cessive years, failed to meet the
minimum state average attend
ance requirement of 60. It was
consolidated with Carthage as of
last September.
“Last year the school had a
daily average attendance of 59.1,
and it would have been greater
this year,” Mr. Blue told the legis
lators. “It has good physical facil
ities, now being employed exclu
sively for elementary students.
The high school was one of the
oldest in the state, and produced
much of the leadership of our
county. At one time a graduate
of it was the superintendent of
public instruction for the state of
Ohio.”
Girl Scouts Will
Have Cookie Sale
Here Next Week
Chocolate or vanilla—take your
choice—the Girl Scout Cookie
Sale is coming up next week!
Girl Scouts of Southern Pines
are asked to come to the Style-
Mart basement between 2:45 and
4:30 p. m. Tuesday, to get their
cookies aud their instructions,
from Miss Grace Thwing, cookie
sale chairman.
They’ll take their boxes—1,-
500 of ’em—out all over town, in
the only money-raising event of
the year in which the Girl Scouts
themselves actually take part.
There is little doubt they wiU
receive a welcome everywhere
they go. The Girl Scout Cookies
are nationally famous for flavor,
purity and quality. You’ll find no
better cookies anywhere—^then, of
course, everyone likes to help the
Girl Scouts.
Proceeds are used for extra
troop activities, enriching the pro
gram which now includes more
!han 150 girls in Southern Pines.
Letters are going out to troop
leaders this weekend containing
information about the sale, said
Miss Thwing.
Lakelawn Farm’s
Haymarket Judged
Champion Hunter
Miss Whirl Wins
Reserve Trophy;
"A Perfect Event"
By SUE BOLLING RANDOLPH
A record crowd turned out
Wednesday on a beautiful after
noon to watch the famed Moor
^ounty Hunter Trials Hundreds
of horse enthusiasts, parked three
deep around the *nob cf the hill on
the Scotts Corners course, saw
Dwight Winkelman, Jr., spark the
compact bay gelding Haymarket
to victory in the Open Hunters
class.
The Open Hunters win quali
fied the eight-year-old gelding
for the championship event, in
which all first and second place
winners were asked to compete
as a field of fox-hunters behind
a field master. Curt Dutton on
Air Force Installation
Will Be Bnilt Nearby;
Bids To Be Sought Soon
^Deane Forwards
PASSES
The hunter trials were the
first of a series of three major
horse events highlighting the
1953 Sandhills season.
The sixth annual running of
the Stonybrook Steeplechase
and Race Meet will be held
Saturday, March 21, at the
Stonybrook track.
The Third Annual Mid-
South Horse show is schedul
ed for the weekend of March
27 at Starland Farms. It will
be sponsored by the Sandhills
Kiwanis cluh.
ON DEAN'S LIST
Doris Bowles, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. G. L. Bowles of Niag
ara, made the dean’s list for the
first semester at Flora Macdonald
coUege, where she is a business
student. Also on the dean’s list is
Sara Margaret McLeod, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. McLeod of
Carthage. Requireent is an ave
rage of 90-94.
W. J. Brewster’s chestnut Why
Not led the eight winners over a
j tricky course, making several
' sharp turns, and pulling up to a
’ dead stop with tfie cry, “Hold
I hard!” to see how many of his
field had their horses enough in
hand to stop immediately, as a
good hunting horse sbculd. In
this test the judges were able to
see how the horses went as a
Held to judge their manners,
jumping ability and pace.
Judges James Blackwell of
Charlottesville, Va., and W. Hag-
gin Perry of (Zlobham, Va. select
ed Haymarket as the horse they
thought the most agreeable and
capable mount behind hounds.
Both judges are ex-Masters of
r'ox Hounds at Farmington and
Keswick, Va. respectively.
Championship Class
In the championship class the
Field consisted of Lakelawn
Farm’s Haymarket ridden by
“Cappy”; C. Louis Meyer’s Fla-
bene, Sylvester Lowdermilk up;
Charles D. Pierce’s Do I Dare,
Glen Wenger up; Mrs. R. H. Dul
aney Randolph on Miss Whirl;
Robert Burke riding Mrs. Ran
dolph’s Good Ship; Joan Walsh on
Stoneybrook Stables French Pas
try; and Mrs. Paul Faut on her
brown mare Dusk ’n Dark.
In the First Season Hunters
Class, attractive Mrs. Dulaney
Randolph piloted her bay gelding j
Good Ship to a popular win. Mrs.
Kandolph is the wife of the Mas
ter of the Piedmont Hounds in
Virginia. She and her mother,
Mrs. Francis P. Sears, of Hamil
ton, Mass., who rides side-saddle,
provided the crowd several thrill
ing rounds. Second in this “green”
class wais Flabene from the C.
Louis Meyer barn. Third went to
the handsome chestnut son of Coq
D’Esprit, Coq’s Stamp, owned by
Mileaway Farm and ably shown
by Miss Evelyn Grundy of Boston.
Trophy donated by Mileway
Farm.
A big entry competed fer the
Vernon Cardy trophy in T’horo-
bred Hunters. Red Money, owned
by L. M. Tate, and ridden by his
son Lloyd, was a popular winner,
with a fine trip over the interest
ing hunting course. Second was
!V rs. Randolph’s grey mare by Coq
D’Esprit, Miss Whirl, who wiU be
making a name for herself in the
horse shows this summer. Little
Trip from Lakelawn Farms won
third. He is being schooled to take
the place of that wonderful old
carrpaigner Renown.
Like A Machine
Joanie Walsh piloted the brown
mare French Pastry to a well-
deserved win in Non-Thorough
bred Hunters. The brown mare
goes like a machine and the pop
ular daughter of Mickey Walsh is
one of the top riders in the United
States, schooling steeplechase and
flat horses as well as makin<j
hunters for the showring and
hunting field. Second went to
Charles Pierce’s bay gelding Do I
(Continued on page 8)
MRS. W. A. WAY
Mrs. Edith Way
Dies; Distinguished
In Orchid World
Mrs. Edith Waldie Way, a long
time resident here, widow of a
distinguished man and distin
guished in her own right, dfed
suddenly Wednesday morning at
her home on the Midland road.
She was 70 years old.
Mrs. Way had not been well
since an illness of last fall, which
left her with a bad heart condi
tion. She had recently- had in
fluenza but was up and auround.
and believed to be getting on
well. Death came as she was
breakfasting in bed.
A memorial service wiU be held
Saturday at 4:30 p.m. at the Vil
lage Chapel in Pinehurst, with the
Rev. Adam Weir Craig, rector, of
ficiating.
The family asks that no flowers
be sent, and that those wishing to
make a memorial gift do so in aid
of Mrs. Way’s favorite charity, the
Kiwanis underprivileged chil
dren’s bed at Moore County hos
pital.
Surviving are one sister. Dr.
Alma T. Waldie, and one brother,
Conrad T. Waldie, pf Philadel
phia; and three stepchildren, Miss
Katherine Way, Washington, D.
C; Mrs. Robert Spence, New York
City, and John J. Way, Abbing-
ton. Pa.
An unassuming, gracious per
son, Who lived a life of quiet serv
ice to science, culture and human
welfare, Mrs. Way was chosen last
December for the 1952 award of
the Sandhills Kiwanis Builders
Cup. She was one of only four
women to receive in in the 26-
year history of the award, given
for “unselfish personal service,
without thought or hope of per
sonal gain.”
She was a medical doctor but
was never called by her title here,
where she was best known for her
growing of orchids. This was first
a hobby and then a commercial]
venture she shared, with out-'
standing success, with her hus
band, the late Judge Way.
Taking up the growing of or
chids as a hobby soon after they
moved here in 1921, they founded
the Carolina Orchid Growers, Inc.
The first large greenhouses were
built about 1928, and were added
to as the enterprise grew and
prospered, becoing a unique
showplace of the Sandhills.
After Judge Way’s death in
October 1948 Mrs. Way carried
on the business until last Novem
ber, when she sold it to Mr. and
Mrs. Karl A. Bridges. She contin
ued to act in a consultant capaci
ty-
She was a trustee of the Ameri
can Orchid society, an office in
which she succeeded her husband.
Just last Sunday she attended the
»>’eptirig of the N C. Orchid socie
ty, held here at the home of Mrs.
Bridges, and introduced the
speaker. She was happy in antici
pation of attendance at the Inter
national Orchid show at Miami,
(Continued on Page 8)
Announcement Of
District Engineer
An Air Force installation of
considerable size, but of na
ture as yet undisclosed, will be
built close to Southern Pines
and Aberdeen most likely
within the coming year, ac
cording to an announcement
received by The Pilot Thurs
day morning.
It was revealed that the Wil
mington District, Corps of En
gineers, U.S. Army, is prepar
ing plans and specifications
preparatory to seeking bids
sometime during the next few
months. Once the contracts are
let, construction will take ap
proximately 90 days. The in
stallation will consist of about
30 prefabricated buildings, to
gether with necessary utilities.
When completed, it will be
manned by the Air Force.
The announcement came from
Rep. C. B. Deane in Washington,
D. C., on information furnished
by Col. R. C. Brown, District‘En-
ginepr at Wilmington.
This is the first official an
nouncement concerning the recent
activities—surveying, taking of
soil samples, etc.—on a tract of
approximately 140 acres in the
area southwest of the Bethesda
road. Army engineers have been
busy there since early in Decem
ber. The land, lying mostly on
the William Reiner and Taft Har-
dister farms, is between Paint
Hill on the north and the Aber
deen road on the south.
It was understood that until the
survey, which would take about
three months, was completed, no
decision as to any military use of
the land would be made. The de
cision, according to this week’s
announcement, is an affirmative
one.
Unofficial reports concerning
the installation are that it is to be
a radar station, though this re
mains in the realm of conjecture'.
It is also reported that the build
ings will include barracks housing
from 200 to 400 men.
Duke Glee Club
Will Sing Here
Saturday Night
The Duke University Men’s
Glee club, one of the nation’s most
famous student choral groups,
will appear in concert at Weaver
auditorium at 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
The presentation will be spon-
scred by the Southern Pines (jivic
club, which has brought the Glee
Club here every season since 1947,
with the exception of 1951.
In these years the group has
won increasing favor with local
audiences, who have come to an
ticipate the annual visits as events
of musical importance and unal
loyed pleasure.
The range, depth and humor of
the programs, the fine craftsman
ship of the young men singers and
the smooth performance given un
der the skilled direction of J. Fos
ter Barnes, Duke glee club direct
or for more than 25 years, lift
these events far above the usual.
Varied Performance
On the program will be selec
tions by the full choral group,
the Triple Quartet, three soloists
chesen by auditions of more than
250 singers, also a group of eight
in a witty “Opera Skit.”
Singing with the group on its
appearance here will be one local
young man, John Beasley, Jr., a
Southern Pines High School grad
uate and mamber of the junior
class at Duke.
Tickets for the concert may be
secured at Stevens Realty office
on West Broad stteet, or at the
door Saturday night.
On Spring Tour
The glee club’s local appearance
will be a part of its spring opera
tour, which began this month
with concerts at Campbell college
and Duke, and will wind up
March 25, 26 and 27 in New York
City. Scheduled for the final three
days are a CBS network television
show, NBC radio broadcast and a
concert at the Biltmore hotel.