Tennis Teams
Split Matches
At Wilmington
The Southern Pines boys’ and
girls’ tennis teams split their
matches with the Wilmington
teams at the coastal city Satur
day morning. The girls won their
match 4-2, while the boys lost
theirs in a close and vigorously
contested battle, 5-4, taking all
the doubles matches to three sets.
They went down Friday in the
school activities bus and spent the
night in adjoining cottages at
Wrightsville Beach. The Wil
mington teams entertained them
with a buffet supper at the beach,
and swimming was enjoyed both
days. They came back Saturday
night so as to be home for Moth
ers Day.
Accompanying the teams were
four teachers, their tennis coach
Harry Lee Brown, Don Moore,
Miss Kay Buice and Miss Anna
Margaret Brewer. Young people
in the party were Frances Pear
son, Dorothy Newton, Betty Jo
Britt, LaNell Kirk, Geraldine Be
thea, Lillian Bullock, Ginger
Woodell, Kenneth Tew, Steve
Choate,. Deryl Holliday, Johnny
Watkins, Claude Reams, Julian
Pleasants, Wilbur Dixon, James
Matthews, James Prim and
George Colton.
Three Injured
In Collision
Near Robbins
Three persons were injured, ione
of them seriously, and two cars
were badly torn up in a collision
which took place early Sunday
evening on NC 27, five miles
above Robbins Crossroads.
The investigating patrolman re
ported that Roscoe Burns, 39, of
Eagle Springs Rt. 1, who was
traveling alone, turned left across
the highway directly in front of a
car driven by Raymond Sanders,
35, of Robbins, who had his wife
and mother-in-law, Mrs. Anna
Jane Freeman, as passengers.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanders both suf
fered cuts and abrasions in the
ensuing crash, for which they re
ceived emergency treatment at
Moore County hospital. Mrs.
Freeman was admitted as a pa
tient and it was found she had a
broken collarbone, broken wrist
and internal injuries.
-Burns, who was uninjured, was
cited to Moore recorders court for
careless and reckless driving.
ArmedForces
Airman l|c Jimmy Dickerson is
back home after three months in
Japan. Transferred to Japan by
air last February on a special tour
of duty, he arrived back at his
base. Turner AFB in Albany, Ga.,
last Friday just in time to get
here Saturday night and be home
for Mothers Day.
He will be with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Dickerson, on East
Illinois avenue during the rest
of his TO-day leave.
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Friday. May 15, 1953
Young Musicians’ Concert Reveals
Many Fine Talents In Varied Program
The Young Musicians concert,"^
held at the Pinehurst Country
club last Saturday night under
sponsorship of the Sandhills Mu
sic association, was a gratifying
event in every way.
Presenting the pupils regarded
by the music teachers of the
county as their most promising, it
qualified splendidly as entertain
ment—a rare thing to be able to
say of any student recital.
It was also a fine fruition of the
association’s movement, started
three years ago, to further the
knowledge and enjoyment of mu
sic in the everyday life of Moore
county.
Improvement Shown
THE FIRST SHOVELFUL OF DIRT for the
Brownson Memorial Presbyterian church’s new
$60,000 Sunday School building was turned by
Walter E. Blue, who has been superintendent of
the Sunday School since it was organized in
1935.
Shown with him above are, from left, Mrs. C.
A. Maze, a charter member; the Rev. C. K.
Ligon, pastor, and Mrs. Catherine Shaw, another
charter member who helped break the ground
14 years ago for the church building, which the
new structure will adjoin.
The ground-breaking took place Wednesday
afternoon of last week. It was raining but that
didn’t dampen the joyous spirit of the group of
faithful members who gathered for a brief serv
ice in the church, and the symbolical rite out
side. Actual construction began this week.
(Pilot Staff Photo)
Major Jordan In Local Address
Warns Of Government “Flimflam”
Chief. Warrant Officer Henry
Roberts recently received his pro
motion to this rank from that of
Warrant Officer (jg), while serv
ing with the Third Infantry in
Korea.
In the Army for the past 10
years, he has beerr in Korea since
December 1952. His wife, the for
mer Miss Nancy Wilson of Manly,
is employed at the USAF Air-
Ground Operations school. High
land Pines Inn, in secretarial
work. He is the son of Mrs. Edwin
Roberts of Brentwood, L. I., N. Y.
An audience of between 300 and" “
400 heard Major George Racey
Jordan, author of the recent best
seller “From Major Jordan’s Di
aries,” deliver his message at
Weaver auditorium last Friday
night, “The American people have
been sold down the river, but
we’re not going to be flimflammed
any longer.”
In a talk sponsored by a group
of civic and patriotic organi/a-
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tions, free to the public, the -Air
Force reserve officer now on in
active duty, urged a thorough
clean-up of government “from top
to bottom” to eliminate all sub
versive tendencies. “Because
there are new faces on the top
level,” he stated, “there is no sign
the danger is past.” He is willing
to go along with the new admin
istration, he said, until it proves
itself, but in the meantime, having
told his story before two congres
sional committees, he is stumping
the country to carry it to the peo
ple.
The story he told mostly cpn-
cemed his duties as a lend-lease
expediter in 1943 and 1944, in
charge of expediting materials,
supposedly military, to Russia,
then heavily engaged in war with
Germany. His suspicions were
aroused by the vast quantities of
shipments which, he thought,
could not be called military—mil
lions of dollars’ worth of women’s
dresses and infants’ wear, scarce
'metals—cobalt, uranium and zir
conium; a whole power plant, and
the plates and other equipment
for the printing of U. S. invasion
money. He began noting down,
he said, in his diaries the goods
which went to Russia by air, first
from the Newark airport, then
from the air base at Clreat Falls,
Mont., totaling some nine billion
dollars’ worth in aU.
He said he protested to his su
periors but the protests were
smothered and the great “give
away” went on. Among those re
sponsible for the gifts, also the
obstructions, he called the names
of Harry Hopkins, Averill Harri-
man, Charles E. Bohlen and oth
ers. He admitted he did not have
the full picture, as his position
was one who saw the “tail-end of
events as they whisked by,” bat,
said he, he became convinced,
through observation and investi
gation, that a vast “flimflam
game” was under way.
In a question period, to the que
ry “Why did Eisenhower let Boh
len go to Russia?” Major Jordan
answered that he did not know
whether recent changes in Wash
ington had done much to change
the State Department, that appar
ently the new President did not
care to start a fight in his first 100
days, and that his personal pre
diction was that “Dulles wiU be
the first Cabinet member to be
changed.”
To another inquiry, “What can
we do?” he told of an organiza
tion he was affiliated with com-
MAIL SPEED-UP
Southbound mail—to South
Carolina, eastern Georgia and
Florida—is getting out of here
faster in the mornings
through a new Highway Post
Office connection, said Post
master A. Garland Pierce.
Mail deposited before , the
7:45 a.m. closing goes south
on the 8 o’clock HPO, which
now makes a direct connec
tion with the Florence (S. C.)
HPO at Fayetteville.
This will give a much fMter
connection with the southern
beaches this summer than has
been possible hitherto.
Child Suffers
Hand Injury In
Freak Accident
R. E. Craft’s
Mother Passes
A six-year-old Negro child,
George Junior Washington, suf
fered severe injury to two fingers
of his left hand in a freak acci
dent Tuesday.
Sitting on the back porch of his
home, the child reached out to
ward a washing machine which
was in operation and got his fin
gers caught in the machinery.
He coma not be extricated and
members of his family rushed to
the police station to secure help.
Officers Lamar Smith and Keith
Marks went to the rescue and af
ter considerable work with the
machine succeeded in freeing the
child. They took him to a physi
cian, then to a hospital for emer
gency treatment.
He is the son of Charlie and
Beulah Robinson of West South
ern Pines.
It was a sad Mothers Day for
Robert E. Craft, cf North Ashe
street, his five brothers and three
sisters.
Surrounded by her children,
their 85-year-old mother passed
away Sunday afternoon at her
home in Eastover, S. C. She was
Mrs. John Franklin Craft, moth
er of nine, grandmother of 21 and
great-grandmother of 18 descen
dants.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at McLeod
Methodist church in the Eastover
community, on Highway 76 be
tween Columbia and Sumter.
Mrs. Craft, the former Char
lotte Fraylick, was a native of
the community, and spent her
life there. Her husband died in
1935. She was- ill for several
months before her death.
Air Force Officers
From Norway Visit
Air-Ground School
posed of 93 patriotic societies and
other groups, called the American
Coalition, also one which individ
uals might join, the Alliance of
Patriots. Membership fees are
used, he said, for the planting of
articles in magazines, the distribu
tion of reprints and the issuance
of bulletins to all members giving
the “true facts” of national af
fairs. On the policy-setting board
of these organizations he named
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., John T.
Flynn and others. Headquarters is
the Sub-Treasury Building at
Wall and Nassau streets. New
York City, which, he said, “has
been given to us for our work.”
Major Jordan was introduced
by Arch Coleman. Flags of the
various veterans’ organizations,
which had joined other groups in
sponsoring his talk, adorned the
stage.
The major spoke earlier this
season at the Pinehurst Forum,
returning to the SandhiUs on spe-
cia Irequest of the local groups.
An old friend of Martin Gentry of
Southern Pines, he was the guest
Two officers of the Royal Nor
wegian Air Force visited the Air-
Ground Operations school at
Highland Pines Inn last week,
while making a three weeks’
orientation visit to the United
States.
Lieut. Col. John P. Ogland,
commander of Anti-Aircraft Ar
tillery Group West, and Lieut.
Col. Nenrik Sverdrup, comrhand-
ant of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery
school, were the latest in the
series of Air Force officials Of
NATO lands to visit USAFAGOS
for observation purposes.
Arriving Wednesday, the offi
cers were guests of the school un
til their departure Friday for New
Orleans, La.
Bringing music to the people in
the winter concert series and the
annual visit of the N. C. Sym
phony orchestra, the associa
tion’s program must finally be
judged by the extent and quali
ty of the people’s participation.
Teh Young Musicians concerts,
improving each year from early,
somewhat stumbling, beginnings,
were shown last week to have
reached a stage where everyone
concerned can feel real pride in
what is taking place.
The concert presented 18 selec
tions, played or sung by 18 young
performers, 13 of them boys and
girls of school age studying with
county teachers, each of whom
selected just one; and five of
them former students now furth
ering their studies at college or
university.
“There was not a poor perform
ance in the lot,” was the comment
of one music-wise listener. The
consensus was that all were above
average, a few brilliant. Two or
three were weighted down with
poorly chosen selections, their
talents shining through despite
the handicap. The program as a
whole was rated as entirely en
joyable, nicely balanced, stimula
ting pride in the quality of the
talent being produced, and the
teaching by which it is being nur
tured.
Several Outstanding
It would be difficult, also un
wise, to render judgment on each
performance here. By the same
token, there are some it is impos
sible not to mention, since they
showed such fine gifts, so well
displayed;* In this class easily
falls, first. Miss Mary Jo Davis,
of West End, now a piano student
at Greensboro college. Miss Da
vis first showed her unusual tal
ent as a high school girl, pupil
of Paul Peck, at the first Young
Musicians concert held in May
1950. Her playing of Schumann’s
Novelette, Opus 21 and 8, showed
her gifts to have broadened and
deepened and her technical mas
tery of the instrument to be ac
companied by a rare understand
ing.
Another Greensboro college
student. Miss Mary Louise Mc
Donald of Carthage, singer, gave
a richly moving interpretation of
the Verdi aria “Ah, fors e’ lui,”
with Miss Davis as accompanist.
With fine upper register, slight
immaturity in the lower. Miss
McDonald’s voice was lovely to
hear, with promise of greater
things.
Of the younger performers,
young Roddy Prince, of Pine
hurst,, aged about six, waded with
confidence into the piano compo
sition “O Polichinelo,” by Villa-
Lobas. A little difficult for him,
the piece nevertheless sparkled
under bis precocious
BLACK WIDOW
Stevie Frye, five-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Frye of Vass, was winner in
a bout with a black widow
spider last Friday morning,
although he was bitten in
nine places.
Stevie's crying aroused his
parents about 4 a. m. Think
ing his pain was from a vac
cination, his mother gave him.
an aspirin tablet. When he
continued to cry, she investi
gated thoroughly and found,
not only the places where he
had been bitten, but the spi
der itself, dead m the child's
bed.
The parents rushed the boy
and the .spider to Moore Co\m-
ty hospital, where their opin
ion that the spider was a
black widow was confirmed.
Stevie was given treatment
promptly and suiffered no
more ill effects.
is president.
In the planning and' presenta
tion of the 1953 concert the group
worked with^Irs. N. L. Hodgkins,
chairman, and her committee
composed of T. R. Howerton, Mrs.
James Boyd and Dr. W. M. Peck.
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BASEBALL TIME
AGAIN
tracted, considerably larger than
could be accounted for by the rel
atives of the young people.
One fine result of the program
has been the organization of the
Music Educators of Mocre Coun
ty, with the music teachers as
members. While cooperation with
the Sandhills Music association in
the annual youth program was
the prime motive, the organiza
tion will serve many a useful re
lated purpose in music education
in the county. Miss Sara Wilson
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An airmail special from
Mrs. Rocky Quillen at Waco,
Texas, relieved the minds of
her parents this week ae to
her safety following Mon
day's tornado.
Mrs. Quillen, the ^former
Theresa Montesanli, wrote a
graphic description of the
twister which left downtown
Waco a mass of wreckage,
from which more than 100
bodies (had been removed two
days later, with more to come.
She and her husband. Mas
ter Sgt, Quillem who is sta
tioned at Waco AFB, came
through it all right, she said.
musician-
ship, well trained by his teacher
Miss Sara Wilson.
A young girl, Jacky Scoggin, of
Robbins, pupil of Mrs. H. G.
Poole, showed a delightful talent
in Mendelssohn’s “Hunting Song.”
A little irregular in the transi
tions, her playing was neverthe
less excellent and well worthy of
a more mature performer.
Showing Their Wares
Not the least merit of the
Young 'Musicians concerts is that
they give the youthful singers
and instrumentalists a chance to
shew their wares before an audi
ence of musical knowledge and
interest. Almost every performer
displayed a good measure of the
poise and showmanship necessary
to a complete fulfilment of their
art, responding well to the audi
ence-stimulus, getting as well as
giving enjoyment.
A good-sized audience was at-
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rates averaged 2 per cent lower
of Mr. and Mrs. Gentry during his in the first quarter of- 1953 than
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