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5) Aberdeen Girls,/ Highfalls Boys Are County Champions Upsets marked the going for the boys, while the girls more or less ran true tO' form, in semifinals and finals of the Moore County basiketball tournament Friday ana tiiurday nights. In the boys’ game, the Highfalls boys emerged as county cham pions, to trie surprise of all, in eluding themselves, through a combination of inspired playing and freakish luck. Accomplishing the impossible—defeating the top-ranking Aberdeen team 'in the semi-finals 56-55—seemed to set them afire and they led Robbins in the finals all the way to win the championship 66-50. Robbins’ defeat of Southern Pines boys in the semifinals was another one of the upsets which marked the closing days of the annual event, held at the Aber deen gym. Near Riot In the Highfalls-Aberdeen game * a near riot ensued when, in the final minute of play in one cf the closest games of the tournament, the referefe called a foul on an Aberdeen player. This gave High falls two free shots, both of which were made by Elmer Seawell with invincible calm. The result was the downing of the defending champions by the photo-finish score cf 56-55. > Aberdeen had led at the half 31 to 23, but Coach Appanaitis sent his boys back in the second half with a spirit that erased the lead in a matter of minutes, and rolled to an eight-point lead in the fourth quarter. At this time Aberdeen got several quick bas kets, and when the final moment came had h one-point lead— quickly reversed, then the whis tle. f Robbins won its way to the finals by dropping Southern Pines in another close game, 60-58 clos ing in fast in the fourth quarter to wipe cut the Blue and White’s 11-point lead. / EIGHTEEN PAGES Spectacular Kill By Local Hounds By SUE BOLLING RANDOLPH MUSICAL EVENT A musical event of the week will be a sacred concert to be given by the Men's Glee Club of the University of North. Carolina, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Weaver auditori um. It is being sponsored by the Ministerial association and no admission is being charged. For picture and more infor mation, see Page 11. Duncan McGill, 23, Killed In Truck Wreck In Virginia Duncan Hector McGill, Jr., 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. McGill of Vass, lost his life when the trac tor-trailer truck in which he was riding careened off State Route 100 near Pulaski, Va., and crash ed into' a telephone pole about 7 a. m. Sunday. He was asleep in the cab of the truck, which was owned and op erated by Joshua David Matthews of Carthage, Rt. 3. Matthews was thrown^clear of the wreck and suffered only minor injuries. Police who investigated said the truck, loaded with paper for mak ing cardboard crates, was round ing a curve when the load appar ently shifted, the shift causing the big vehicle to go out of control. A flat tire on the trailer is reported to have been a contributing fac tor. The victim lived for a few min utes after the impact, but was dead before he could be removed from the jammed sleeping com partment. A crowd which overflowed the church and adjacent Sunday school rooms attended funeral services held for him Tuesday af ternoon at the Vass Presbyterian church. Officiating were the Rev. R. L. Beal, minister of the Vass Baptist church, and the Rev. C. K. Taffe, Presbyterian pastor. Burial was in Johnson’s Grove cemetery. “Junior,” as he was known, was Do You Believe In Signs? PRICE—TEN CENTS If so, you can believe that Southern Pines has something really attractive now, marking the entrances to the town. (Pilot Staff Photo) ChamberWiIlHold|Petitions Are Started For Local Election On Conncil-Manaj^er Plan A Divided Opinions Shown At Meeting At Country Club 1953 Membership Drive Next Week Directors Reveal Program Of Work For Coming Year The Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce, planning its 1953 membership campaign next week, is presenting a program which its directors believe can be success fully accomplished. iney are ready to work—in fact, some have already started-^ as soon as the necessary funds start arriving. Johnnie A. Hall will head the membership drive,- to be conduct ed by means of bills, then follow ups. ‘■'We’ll call on you if you wish, but we’d rather put that time on working fo-r the Cham ber and getting results,” he said. The program was developed through ideas of each director, given to Program Chairman Dr. DRIVE LEADER Au • ' 1 t ®fuc6 AVarlick. Several proiects Above IS shown one of the four' more dignified, appealing signs in were cut out because “we want attractive signs placed by the keeping with the character of the to do what we say we’re going to Town at points marking the en- town. do, and nc-t promise whit cL’t teance and exits of Southern j More than two years ago the be fulfiUed.” With support this Pines. They are located at - the I town board set up a committee to ' southern city limits where Broad | study the need for a change. Their street and US Highway 1 meet; at report favored the change. ' How- the northern limit on US 1; at US ever, there were stiU delays, as 1 and Morganton road, and on the some, of the business and hotel Midland road. At the first two people felt that signs such as the olBces they supplant large, un- women desired might be harder sightly, billboards. There were no j for motorists to see and read, display signs at the other two | “People might go right through Southern Pines without knowing it,” some said. Sentiment gradually shifted, however, and the new signs have earned considerable praise as Their erection is the culmina tion of several years of earnest work on the part of a number of local women, mostly comprising the leadership of the Southern ' ing attractive and also easy to see Pines Garden club, which Jias ' and to read civic beauty as a main objective, j They were patterned after those We are sorry that a picture we ; generally used throughout Chapel made of these ladies with the) Hill, the design for which was se- sign did not turn out well—we would like to have shown them, and maybe we will have an oppor tunity yet. They were Mrs. P. P. born in Vass March 20, 1929, the McCain, first president (for two elder son of Duncan and Olera I terms) of the garden club; Mrs. ’The Moore County Hounds, fuU of fight after their recovery from a bout of the flu, staged a spec tacular kiU on Tuesday as the cli max of a long run bn the trail of a native grey fox. Circling, as greys do, the fox crossed directly in front of Ver non G. Cardy and Dwight W. Win- kelman, then leading a group * ff down the No. 3 firelane below Skyline airfield. Hounds rolled him over in the s^^'ub oak just be- “It was the most spectacular kill I’ve ever seen,” commented Mr. Cardy, former master of the Eg- lington Hunt near Toronto. “There we were,” said Mr. Car dy, “moseying along up the fire- lane, with Jack Goodwin, Bud , (^Leonard, Red Overton and Bon ‘‘Freels just behind us. Suddenly down from the airfield came a big grey with the pack running as one not more than two yards behind him. He jumped down into the lane, crossed and jumped out the other side. He seemed to leap three feet into the air and at the same time the bitch Lena, leading the pack, jumped, too, and caught hiir in the air. He never made a |\|^,ound.” McCraney McGill. He graduated in 1948 from Vass-Lakeview High school, where he was popular with both pupils and teachers. In spare time he helped his father in his business and with his pleasing personality won many friends. He served seven months in the Navy and for some time had been em ployed by the Tee-Cee company in Vass. Mr. McGill was married to the former Miss Opal Baker of Vass and they have one daughte Deb orah Jane, a year old last ''xr- day. Other survivors are his parents; a brother. Airman 3|c William Robert McGill of Shaw Field, Sumter, S. C., and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. W. D. McCra- W. D. Campbell, second president; Mrs. J. S. Milliken, third and cur rent president; Mrs. Ernest L. Ives and Mrs. James Boyd. ' These ladies and others appear ed before the town board from time to time, and in other ways cured by Town Clerk and Treas urer Howard F. Burns. Paul Van Camp adapted the pattern to scale (somewhat larger than in Chapel Hill). The Southern Pines Warehouses, Inc., built the signs, while Frank Kaylor did the steel work and Angelo Montesanti, Jr., turned the spindles on either side of the signs. W. H. Wilson did the painting. The black letters on white back ground are Garamond style, rated (Mrs. Boyd in her paper. The Pi- the easiest of sll to read. Hounds met at the Lakelawn stables of Mr. Winkelman, with 30 in the field. MFH and Hunts man OzeUe Moss drew the covert Active pallbearers were James Hudson, Charles Cameron, Bill Wood, Pete Mashburn, A. R. Laubscher, Jr., and Lacy Frye. Honorary pallbearers were Jesse Coore, J. D. Matthews, Ed gar Brewer, Buster Cameron, Glenn Knox, Max Edwards, Bob by Lee Lassiter, Charles Parker, James Key, C. G. Crockett, Jr., Billy Jessup, Mack Callahan, and Pete McRae. ot) worked to replace the outmod ed and untruthful billboards (“11 Hotels—6 Golf Courses”) with The Garden Club members plan to beautify the sign locations, and do some planting around them. Chamber Adopts Business Calendar, ‘‘ApprorahCard” Plan For Solicitors Schoolboys Get Fire Out Before Truck Arrives Boys of the West Southern Pines school had a good laugh on below the pasture blank. Rain ^^e volunteer firemen last Thurs day when the fire truck showed up looking for a fire, and there was falling and scent was catchy. But the diehards kept on hop ing and the master drew the iWasn’t any. swamp edges till hounds found There had been—but the boys again. Reynard took us a merry fallen to work with a will ohase towards the airpOrt and got it o-ut before' the fire r j Qhround in a big circle; then check- tyixck could get there. It was one ‘ ed. Hounds were cast, but the I said, they didn’t check was a good one. Suddenly txxind that the laugh was on them, the pack burst into full cry. Staff everybody would cooperate as and field were away at a hard .promptly and efficiently, it would gallop and, in the open woods jmake us feel fine,” Chief Fowler cleared of scrub, all got a view of I said. the big grey fOx. However, the j The fire was started in riders along the firelane were brush behind the new A program of business closings^'*'^''^-'.. - for the year and an- approval-card business committeCj..^^ teUs the system for regulation of non-busi- solicitor he must present~Ilrt|card ness solicitation were unanimous- before his request can be co^- ly adopted by the directors of the ered, as this is a poUcy of the Southern Pines Chamber of Com-Chamber of Commerce adopted and enforced by the membership. merce Tuesday night. 'they were presented by Miss Katherine T. McDonald, chairman of the better business bureau, as worked out with her conunittee. Neither plan is binding on any member, it was emphasized, but both are offered merchants and The solicitor must then apply to the Chamber of Commerce of fice, present his request in detail, then await decision (24 hours). The Chamber secretary contacts , ^ the chairman of the better busi ^r the use of |ness committee, who secures each businesses of committee member’s confidential Southern Pines in the belief that vote, screening the request The committee will consider the re quest from the standpoint of the community and civic interest. One main project for each civic club year, the program, can be expand ed next year. Dr. 'Warlick be lieved. This year they plan: 1. To continue answering mail inquiries, distributing booklets and information, at the Chamber office. 2. To continue the auto-license sales bureau in cooperation with the Carclina Motor club. 3. To establish up-to-date credit binreau files and expand the par ticipation of all members employ ing credit. 4. To establish a uniform calen dar of business closings through out the year. 5. To sponsor sales value events at suitable times in spring and fall. 6. To set up an approval-card system for the screening of ad vertising solicitation campaigns. 7. To hold a membership ban quet following completion of tbe campaign. 8. To cooperate fully with the State Advertising Bureau throughout the year for statewide and nationwide advertising. 9. To cooperate with the U. S. Highway 1 association and other agencies serving the civic inter ests of Southern Pines as a resort and tourist center. 10. To work toward securing meetings and cenventions which can be locally served. 11. To cooperate with other agencies in the attraction of suit able industry for the area. 12. To cooperate in continuance of the annual Julius Boros tour nament. Present at the meeting were President Pro Tem Valerie Nich olson, E. W. Small, Robert F. tlgimeron, J. Graves Vann, Jr., Katkerine T. McDonald, Earle B. Owen^^-?Ioe Warren, J. A. Hall, John Po'ttJ?. Joe Montesanti, Jr., Dr. R. B. Vfarifefe^ One AirmanKiHed, Another Injured As Car Overturns A group of citizens had pe titions prepared Thursday morning addressed to the county board of elections, re questing the calling of a vote in Southern Pines on estab lishment of the council-mana ger form of government. The petitions were prepar ed by Attorney W. Lament Brown on request, and were to be placed in several local business places and taken about the streets during the day. A minimum of 25 per cent of qualified registered voters is required. With 1,406 names on the municipal books at the last election, this will take 352 names. (Earlier story be low.) The council-manager movement got some strong boosts last Friday night, and also received some body blows. The bocsts came in the form of speeches made by some invited guests. Mayor Joe Tally of Fay etteville and the city managers of Fayetteville, Laurinburg and San ford, at a meeting held at the Southern Pines Country club. The body blows were delivered in the form of inferences that the movement toward establishment of this form of government here W. A. L. McKEITHEN Red Cross Drive Starts Tuesday Following Dinner A quota of $22,455 has been as signed to Moore county to take care of expanding Red Cross needs and services, and will be the objective in the annual fund raising campaign which will start next Tuesday. W. A. Leland McKeithen, Pine- hurst attorney outstanding in' county and state legal circles, who could, or would, become a politi- will head the 1953 campaign, this cal or personal issue, week announced a complete and I The meeting was a joint one of county wide organization — his the town board, the municipal community drive leaders, with the planning board and the “Finer quota assigned to each. He will have as his assistant an other attorney, Allen W. Brown, of Robbins, who will have charge of the northern part cl the coun ty- Kickoff, Dinner Community chairman and county chapter officials will meet Monday evening at 7 o’clock for a kickoff dinner at the Carthage Hotel to complete campaign plans arid hear a summary of the needs that must be filled. The vast in crease in the numbers of service men and veterans in the country during the past year, the resump tion of war services in many areas and the ever-growing need for blood have placed burdens on the Am.erican Red Cross and local chapters which will require the greatest response in history from the people. Loc^ Committee George H. Leonard and John C. Ostrom have accepted the chair manship for Southern Pines, with a quota of $7,500, Their advpnce- gifts letters were mailed out last week. Their organization includes; Mrs. D. 'W. 'Winkelman and Mrs. Annabell'e Pearson, residential chairmen; Jack S. Younts and 1912. For 28 years Valerie Nicholson, publicity; John gradual over the, Ponzer and Jack Carter, indus- howevpr, it trial; W. B. Holliday, commercial; jnow been ej Mrs. Richard McCoy, Knollwood I the Carolina” committee, called to disseminate information on the council-manager plan, and to get the ball rolling toward a town vote. Washed His Habxls Mayor C. N. Page presided, but before it was over had made it plain that he washed his hands of it; the movement had been defin ed as a controversial issue, and one by one each of the three groups present had become dis qualified, or disqualified them selves, as a logical starting-point. Present were a few persons not belonging to any of the groups, who also took a hand in the go ings-on. None of this was the fault of the guest speakers, who made businesslike presentations of how the plan was working in their towns, answered a good many questions and then sat back look ing startled as the fireworks be gan to pop. History Of Plan The council-manager plan nothing new. It originated in early version in Staunton, 1908, and was first adopti present form in Sumt beneficial for all. Calendar ^ Regular closings recommended are New Year’s day, Easter Mon- should be allowed. Projects'for day, July 4, Labor day. Thanks- local schools and organizations 1. ahead and enjoyed the real close up of the kiU. At the hunt breakfast which i! lollowed at Vernon Valley Farms, residence of Mr. and Mrs. Cardy the brush was awarded to Mr. Petchak, Mr. Hart, from Montreal, receiving the mask. Mr. Freels and Mr. Overton received pads. some West Southern Pines gym by two six- year-olds playing with matches. The flames werie leaping high just as the schoolchildren were get ting out and Principal J. 'W. Moore turned in the alarm. How ever, a bunch of the schoolboys didn’t wait on the firemen—^they just went to work on the fire. giving, two days at Christmas and Wedn^day afternoons throughout the year except the two immedi ately before Christmas. Recom mended daily closing hours are 9 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Monday through Friday, and 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Saturday. Not recommended for business in general is the prac tice of staying open Wednesday afiternoon before a Holiday on Thursday, unless it is Christmas Eve. Exceptions are to be made for specific businesses, such as food stores or drug stores, which have problems peculiar to them selves, to be decided among them selves. Approval Cards The advertising regulation sys tem, involving the use of an ap proval card is one the directors said “has long been needed, and is long overdue.” By this system, the merchant approached asks the non-business solicitor for his card from the Chamber of Commerce better should be allowed. Projects for surrounding areas should be care fully considered on a business ba sis. Prices on program advertis ing should be carefully consider ed. If the request is approved, the better business chairman will no tify the secretary to issue the ap proyal card, generally specifying a time limit. If disapproved, the solicitor will be thus notified. An accident near Laurinburg Tuesday night killed one young airman of the staff of the USAF Air-Ground Operations school here ,and seriously injured an other. Airman 1|C Milton Bryant Bra- cey, 21, lost his life when the car he was driving went out of control on US 501 and overturned sev eral times. His companion. Airman 2|C Bernis C. Bennick, 22, was taken to Scotland County hospital suf fering from a broken jaw and Apartments; Mrs. Eveleth Rich-1and cit arcJ.5Pri, Manly; Mrs. Gurney |sevM Bowls?, Niagara; W. T. Huntley, C^ Jr., Pfhede^e; Brice Hemphill,_ West Soutfi.ell?. Pines. (Continuea 8) Lucile Cumn Will Appear I W STATE RETURNS A representative of the N. C. Department of Revenue will be in Southern Pines next Wednesda'v to help taxpayers of this area with their state income tax returns, according to announcement by Ralph Monger, deputy commissioner, of Sanford. He will be in the federal revenue office in the post: of fice basement from 9 a.iT^ to 2:30 p.m. A beautiful and glan woman with one of the finej tralto voices in the world is i uled to appear in concert multiple lacerations. He March transferred Wednesday afternoon auditorium, to Fort Bragg Station hospital. Lucile Cummings, star Airman Bracey’s body was tak en to his home town of Rowland, Metropolitan Opera, freq guest artist on the NBC where military funeral was held Phone Hour, also with the Thursday afternoon at the Pres byterian church. The military es cort was Staff Sgt. Thomas J. Lewis, Jr., of the Air Force school.. Pallbearers were chosen from among his friends at the school, which also provided the firing squad. No details as to his sur vivors were available. Airman Bennick is from Con cord. He has been working f«r the past two months as a part- time announcer for Radio Station WEEB. thl Symphony and other great chestras, will be the next attral tion in the current series of Sandhills Music association. The U. S.-born singer is known as “America’s foremost contral to.” She has become an intema- tionslly famous figure in opera not only for her voice, but her charm and dramatic ability, which have brought her the award of some of the choicest roles in the Metropolitan’s reper toire. at heac Anj nightl able
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