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VOL. 34—NO. 30
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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JUNE 12.1953
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BULLDOZER—OR GIANT SAND-CRAB? Ro
land Norton scratches his head in perplexity at
sight of the hefty machine almost buried in mud
and sand.
The bulldozer, loaned by W. O. Moss, was
spreading sand on the drained bed of the South
ern Pines town lake Monday afternoon when it
plopped down into a hole. All efforts to budge
it were imavailing. Mr. Norton, town foreman
of streets and public works, who is supervising
the lake-improvement project, secured the loan
of a crane which pulled it up Tuesday morning.
and the work went on.
A workman recalled that, long ago, before the
lake was dammed up, it was common legend
that a turpentine still had been located there.
There was a well, and it is believed that that is
what the bulldozer fell into. On the mound
partly seen behind Mr. Norton was found a thick
mass of charcoal, with greasy traces of turpen
tine still in the sand.
The water is being turned back into the lake
this week, Mr. Norton said, and it should be
ready for swimming the week after that.
(Pilot Staff Photo)
Little League Series Starts Monday;
15-Boy Local Team Picked This Week
(See Schedule on Page 8)
The summer series of the first
Moore County Little League will
start Monday with games at Pine-
hurst and Robbins.
The “Southern Pines Little
Lions,” as the local entry has been
dubbed, will play its first home
game Wednesday, against Pine-
hurst on the school ball park. All
games start at 5:30 p.m.
The opening game will pit
Southern Pines against Pinehurst
at the baU park there, with Albert
Tufts of Pinehurst pitching the
first ball and Mayor L. T. Clark of
Southern Pines at bat. After that,
the game will be turned over to
the boys. A pre-game ceremony
Two Prison Camp
Escapees Caught
After 10 hours
Two short-term convicts from
the State Prison camp at Car
thage enjoyed only a 10-hour
period of freedom following their
escape from the prison road gang
while at Highway 21
between West End and Pinehurst
Tuesday morning.
Robert E. Martin, 33, of Rae-
ford and Baltimore, Md., was
serving a 12-month sentence on a
charge of the possession of non
tax paid whiskey. This was his
second prison escape. Charles
Snow, 22, a native of the North
but whose last residence was
High Point, was serving a six-
month term for larceny and re
ceiving stolen goods. Both are
white men and were committed
to prison in May.
Both escaped fronj the prison
gang when they managed to get
between the highway truck and
Walter F. Davis, the guard about
11:30 a. m.
With the use of prison blood
hounds and the assistance of the
State Highway Patrol, both men
were caught at the Pine Acres
Grill between Aberdeen and
Pinebluff at 9:30 that night.
will be held.
Forty-five young fellows from
eight to 12 years of age have come
out for tryouts held here during
the past two weeks, and the final
selection of 15 for the team was
to be made Thursday afternoon,
according to Irie Leonard, director
and coach.
Observei's at the ballfield re
cently report .that, if the tryouts
are any indication, some exciting
games are in store and that the
little fellows are showing them
selves true artists on the diamond.
The team will be made up of
five boys 12 years old, five 11
years old and five 10 and under.
Uniforms are being provided by
the Southern Pines Lions club,
which is cooperating with the
summer recreation program in lo
cal sponsorship. Other teams in
the League are being similarly se
lected at Pinehurst, Carthage and
Robbins.
The Little League is a nation
wide movement of many years’
standing, which has grown tre
mendously in popularity within
the^ast few years until now it in
cludes busy teams of small boys
aU over the United States. It is
organized on the lines of real ma
jor-league baseball, even with its
own World Series as climax.
With the Lions providing the
uniforms, the summer recreation
program wiU provide equipment
and trasportation, and incidental
expenses will be financed through
voluntary offerings taken at each
game.
Lieut, (jg) David D. S. Cameron.
USNR, arrived home June 5 after
completion of three years’ tour of
duty with the Atlantic fleet. His
service included several cruises
into the Caribbean, and a six-
months stay in the Mediterranian.
For the past year he has been on
the staff at CINCLANT Fleet
headquarters in Norfolk, Va.
He entered summer school at
the University at North Carolina
at Chapel Hill Wednesday and
wiU be a high school teacher at
Winston-Salem next fall.
‘‘Stoneybrook Purse” Will Be Feature
At Belmont; Walsh To Present Trophy
Two new feature events to be
run at Belmont, N. Y., next week
wiU be named in honor of North
Carolina race meetings now un
der the flag of the United Hunts.
One of these will be “The
Stoneybrook Purse,” for which
the trophy will be presented by
M. G. “Mickey” Walsh, owner of
the Stoneybrook race track at
Southern Pines, scene of the ama
teur race meeting which opens
the steeplechase season in March.
The other will be “The Block
House Purse,” named for the an
nual spring hunt race meeting at
Tryon. Presenting the trophy will
be A. D. Plamondon, Jr., owner
of the famed Block House estate.
home of the Tryon course.
The Block House Purse will be
run Thursday and The Stoney
brook Purse Friday, during the
two - day program of the United-
Hunts-at-Belmont Park race
meeting.
Mickey Walsh and Mickey, Jr.,
left this week to join Miss Joan
Walsh at Belmont. Several
Stoneybrook horses have run in
recent races on the famous Bel
mont track and through last week
had scored a first and a second
place win.
The United Hunts Racing as
sociation, a non-profit organiza
tion, uses the proceeds from the
Belmont meeting to assist ama
teur racing in this country.
Local Woman
Falls For Old
Pocketbook Game
The old “pocketbook game”
is still being worked. It worked
right in the middle of town, on
the corner of Broad street and
Pennsylvania avenue, about 3
o’clock Monday afternoon. As a
result Jennie Pugh, respected Ne
gro domestic, is out $36 and
would have lost more if she had
had more on her person.
“This is one of the oldest swin
dles in the world,” said Police
Chief C. E. Newton, to whom Jen
nie later made a tearful report.
“Everyone in the world ought to
know it by heart by now. It seems
folks never will learn.”
Jennie said she was accosted
by a colored man who asked her
if she knew where he could en
gage a “cheap lawyer.” As he en
gaged her in conversation he
turned and said, “Look at that
.mah pick up that pocketbook.”
A tall, slim Negro was doing just
that, nearby, and as he observed
them staring came over to them.
“I seen you pick that up,” the
first man said. The other opened
the pocketbook and riffled the
greenbacks inside. “Looks like
about $200 in here,” he said. “I’ll
give you each $40 if you won’t
tell.”
'The two men chatted back and
forth a minute, then the second
one stated he was going to take
the money and go see his boss, a
white man. As he disappeared
down the street Jennie and her
companion walked together along
Pennsylvania to Ashe street, dis
cussing this odd happening.
At the Ashe Street corner, the
tall slim man reappeared, stating
that his boss had examined the
contents of the pocketbook and
found $2,000 in there, also a war
bond. “I’ll give each of you $700
not to tell anybody,” he said.
There was a difficulty, though—
he had to have some money to
make change, and he didn’t want
to go to the bank, under the cir
cumstances.
Jennie gave him her $36, the
first man said he would go get
more change, and the two walked
off together toward Broad street.
When they broke into a trot,
as if by mutual consent, in front
of the Graves Building, it occur
red to Jennie suddenly there was
something wrong, and she went
to the police station in tears.
On hearing the story. Chief
Newton couldn’t hold much hope
of her getting her money back.
However, he drove her about
town for some time in the police
car to see if she could spot the
con men. They had apparently,
however, left town at once, or
hidden .themselves away, and
could not be found.
Both men are described.as hav
ing “gold in their teeth.”
Pinebluff Zoning
Case Non-Suited
In Moore Court
Judge Rules No
Relaiion Between
Ordinance, Trailer
The Pinebluff zoning ordinance
case, brought by Pinebluff town
officials against Odes Spurlin in
Moore recorders court, came to
an apparent quick end Monday
when Ju'dge J. Vance Rowe ruled
a non-suit.
He said it was clear Pinebluff
had a valid zoning ordinance, also
that a trailer had been placed on
a residential lot. However, he
said, since the ordinance failed to
forbid trailers, he saw no viola
tion.
Contention of plaintiffs’ coun
sel that the ordinance was per
missive, rather than prohibitive,
got no place fast. A permissive
law is one which, in stating what
can be done, prohibits those
things not named. Pinebluff’s or
dinance, like many others, per
mits the construction of one-and
two-family dwellings on its resi-
dnetial lots under specified con
ditions, supposedly restrictive.
The case, first in the local
courts involving criminal—or any
action for violation of a zoning
law, got under way early in the
afternoon as Judge Rowe first
overruled a motion to quash the
indictment, made by defense
counsel the week before, on
which he had ordered a contin
uance for study; and, second, re
fused to allow g motion by plain
tiff to amend the warrant.
First and only witness called
to the stand was Eutice • Mills,
mayor of Pinebluff, who was ask
ed to state his name, rseidence,
office, confirm that there was a
zoning ordinance and locate on
the town map the residential lot
owned by Spurlin on which he
has placed his house trailer.
The state then rested.
Cross-examination of Mayor
Mills centered chiefly on the val
idity of the ordinance and the
townspeople’s support of it.
The law was drawn up in accord
ance with the recommendations
of the N. C.League of Municipali
ties, using the wording employed
by towns all over the state, and
had been adopted with due legal
process, the Mayor testified.
Defense counsel, moving for
dismissal of the suit, noted, “All
they have done is show that a
trailer is sitting in a residential
area, and if a trailer isn’t a one-
family dwelling I don’t know
what it is.” In the midst of argu
ments as to whether or not a
trailer was a dwelling within the
meaning of the ordinance. Judge
Rowe ruled all the definitions im
material as “There is nothing be
fore the court to show that the
(Continued on Page 8)
Summer Recreation Program
June 15 - August 21—Hours 10 a.m. - 12 noon: 2-5 p.m.
Headquarters—High School Club (Fox Hole) and
High School Athletic Field
Irie Leonard, Director
MONDAY—Baseball at high school field (boys 12-17), 10 a.m.-12 noon.
Story hour and play hour at Elementary Schobl library. Mrs. Ray
McDonald in charge, 10:30-12 noon.
Tennis, badminton, horseshoes, checkers, croquet, table tennis at
town park and Fox Hole, 2-5 p.m.
Little League baseball at high school field (boys 8-12), 5:15-6:30 p.m.
TUESDAY—Sewing class for girls at home economics cottage (all
ages). Mrs. Storey in charge. 10 a.m. - 12 noon.
Tennis, badminton, horseshoes, checkers, croquet, table tennis at
town park and Fox Hole, 10 a.m. - 12 noon.
Swimming parly at Southern Pines or Aberdeen lakes, 2:30-5 p.m.
WEDNESDAY—Tennis, badminton, horseshoes, checkers, croquet,
table tennis, at town park and Fox Hole, 10 a.m. - 12 noon.
Baseball for adults and high school students at high school field,
2:30 - 5 p.m.
Little League baseball at high school field (boys 8-12]{, 5:15^:30 p.m.
THURSDAY—Tennis, badminton, horseshoes, checkers, croquet, l2ible
tennis, at town park and Fox Hole, 10 a.m. - 12 noon.
Swimming parly at Southern Pines or Aberdeen lake, 2:30-5 p.m.
Dancing for boys and girls at Community Center, BPO Does in
charge, 8:15 - 10 p.m.
FRIDAY—Cooking class at home economics cottage (for girls of all
ages) Miss Buckner in charge, 10 a.m. - 12 noon.
Baseball for boys (12-17 years), at high school field, 10 a.m.-12 noon.
Tennis, badminton, horseshoes, checkers, croquet, table tennis, at
town park and Fox Hole, 2-5 p.m.
Full Summer Recreation Program
Opens Monday, Five Days A Week
— 4-
Sports, Swimming,
Dancing, Cooking,
Story Hour Slated
The summer recreation pro
gram will open Monday, to con
tinue for 10 weeks, presenting
a full schedule of activities. Irie
Leonard, high school principal
and coach, will again be the di
rector.
Sessions will be held from 10 a.
m. until noon, then from 2 to 5
p. m. Monday through Friday of
each week.
Volunteers assisting Mr. Leon
ard are Miss Carol Buckner. Mrs.
Doris Storey, Mrs. Ray McDonald
and Mrs. Hubert Cameron. He
said this week he needs more vol
unteers, and would like parents or
other interested persons who will
help with one phase or another
of -the program to call him at
once.
Thursday Dances.
Also listed among the volun
teer helpers are the BPO Does,
who will supervise the Thursday
evening dances for the teen-agers
at the Community Building.
Various other local Sgencies
are cooperating in the program,
such as the Red Cross, under au
spices of which swimming in
struction will be given, and the
Southern Pines Lions club, co
sponsor of the “Little Lions,” of
the Moore County Little League.
Listed on the schedule (see bot
tom of page) are basebaU,
story hour, sewing and cooking
classes for girls, twice-a-week
swim sessions and a wide selec
tion of indoor and outdoor sports
—^tennis, badminton, checkers,
croquet, table tennis, etc.—at the
Fox Hole and town park.
Swim Sessions
For the swim sessions, young
sters will meet at the park at 2:30
p. m, Tuesdays and Thursdays for
transportation to a nearby lake
in the school activities bus. The
Southern Pines lake will be used
as soon as it is ready. Until then,
the swimming will take place at
tl^e Aberdeen lake.
Headquarters wiU, as usual, be
at the Fox Hole on East Pennsyl
vania avenue, behind the Park
way Cleaners. Baseball headquar
ters will, of course be at the school
ball park. Along with baseball for'
boys 12-17 Monday mornings, and
the Little League for younger
boys, a weekly practice game for
adults and high school boys will
be held Wednesday afternoons
from 2:30 to 5.
Clip and File
All residents, especially those
with young folks in their families,
are asked to clip the recreation
schedule and keep it for refer
ence. If any changes have to be
made, notice will be given through
The Pilot.
This is toe third summer the
program has been held as part of
the municipal recreation program.
For about six years it was financ
ed by individual subscriptions,
until a vote of the people gave the
town a recreation department in
1950 (effective in the summer of
1951). It has grown in size and!
popularity each year and now at
tracts an attendance of several
hundred.ybung people. A similar
program is conducted in West
Southern Pines.
Mr. Leonard, recreation direc
tor, is a graduate of Guilford col
lege, where he was a three-letter
athlete, and also has his M.A. from
the University. He taught at Wal
nut Cove before coming to South
ern Pines High school as princi
pal and coach in September 1951.
He is a, veteran of World War 2,
in which he won the DFC and Air
Medal, with three Oak Leaf clus
ters, as a flight engineer in a B-29
over Europe. He is married and
has an infant son.
“STAR FOR EVERY CAR”—that’s the immediate aim of “Op
eration Impact.” Long-range aim is saving lives.. Left, Brig.
Gen. W. M. Gross, USAFAGOS commandant, with his star. Right,
Capt. Jack DeHaas holding the plaque with 112 signatures.
Center—Chief C. E. Newton, beaming his approval of the
whole thing.
Since the picture was made Tuesday, the John Boyd post,
VFW, has joined in. See story below. (Photo by Sgt. Bowman)
“Operation Impact” Gets Under Way
At USAFAGOS; VFW Post Co-Sponsor
“Operation Impact” is under ♦
way—with an impact which may
save your life, or the life of some
one you love.
It is a new phase of warfare—
the battle against highway acci
dents, personal injury, property
damage and sudden death.
Sponsored by the Tactical Air
Command in all its installations,
it has been taken up with a will
by the USAF Air-Ground school
at Highland Pines Inn, a TAC in
stallation, and has spread from
there to the John Boyd post, VFW.
You, as a car owner and driver,
are invited to stop by the VFW
post home, sign your name and
win your star—the star which,
pasted on your windshield, signi
fies that you are a part of “Opera
tion Impact,” too.
The star stands for a pledge
that the car will stay within legal
speed liniits, no matter where it
is, and who’s driving or who’s
looking, through Labor Day.
Chief Approves
The person most pleased about
the whole project is Police Chief
C. E. Newton, who said as Opera-
Swimming lessons lo be given in conjunction with Red CrcsS'
chapter.
Qualified life guard lo be on duly at Southern Pines lake.
Dancing for teen-agers each Thursday night under direction of
BPO Does at the Community Center.
Volunteer workers assisting Mr. Leonard are Miss Carol Buckner,
Mrs. Doris Storey, Mrs. Ray McDonald, and Mrs. Hubert Cameron.
All mothers and dads or interested persons who will assist with
the summer program are urged lo call Director Leonard at 2-7482.
tion Impact got under way this
week, “This can be one of the fin
est things that has ever happened
to our town and its citizens. There
is just one way to curb speeding,
and that is for the drivers them
selves to realize its seriousness
and do something about it.”
“Operation Impact” got its start
in Southern Pines a couple of
weeks ago with a program at
USAFAGOS, at which the main
speakers were Brig. Gem W. M.
Gross, commandant, and Sgt. Vic
tor Aldridge of Siler City, head of
the State Highway Patrol in this
area.
. Maj. Harrison M. Harp, Jr., was
put in charge of the school pro
ject. He is being assisted by Capf.
Jack DeHaas, transportation offi
cer.
112 Signatures
Major Harp was very happy this
week over the results so far. The
program is an entirely voluntary
one. On a large plaque have been
placed the signatures of 100 per
cent of the school personnel, ex
cept for two or three who are
away on vacations at the moment.
All Civil Service employees of the
school have also signed. All told,
the plaque contains 112 signa
tures, representing 115 cars pledg
ed to kay within the speed limits.
Stars for the cars were given
out this week and you may have
already seen them around town.
VFW Is Joint Sponsor
So successful was the project at
USAFAGOS that it was decided
to let the civilians in on it, too,
and the John Boyd post, through
its commander, Louis Scheipers,
was invited to undertake joint
sponsorship.
Commander Scheipers will pre
sent “Operation Impact” to the
post members at their regular
meeting Monday night.
In 'the meantime, though, the
honor plaque, made by Capt. John
Tullett of USAFAGOS, was sent
to the post home Thursday after
noon ready to receive signatures.
Stars are also available at the
post home, for the signers to place
on their windshields. They are at
tractively designed decals, a fit
ornament for the windshield of
any car. You may sign the
plaque, and get your star, any
time between 4 p.m. and midnight.
Commander Scheipers said.
Solemn Pledge
He added, “The VFW is proud
to have been chosen by the Air-
Ground school to help in ‘Opera
tion Impact.’ I can’t imagine a
more worthy project for our co
operation. There is just one way
to curb this senseless highway
killing and that is for every driv
er to make a solemn pledge to
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FLAG DAY
A Flag Day ceremony will
be held at 5 p.m. Sunday at
the Southern Pines Country
club, presented by the South
ern Pines Elks Lodge. The
public is cordially invited.
This is an annual rite to
stress anew the significance
of our flag. Walter Harper is
chairman of the observance,
and the program will be led
by Dr. David W. Whitehead,
past exalted ruler.