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Visit USAFAGOS
Party Headed By
Air Chief Marshal
Fuen R, Riddhagni
Air Chief Marshal Fuen R.
Riddhagni, commander in chief
of the Royal Thai Air Force, and a
party of officers from Thailand
are arriving at the USAF Air-
Ground Operations school here
this week. They are visiting jn
the United States as guests of the
chief of staff of the U. S. Air
Force.
In Southern Pines they will re
main several days and will be
briefed in the techniques, doc
trine and tactics of the Air-
Ground team, The visit to the
United States is giving the Thai
officers first-hand information
about USAF organization, train
ing and operation procedure and
equipment, according to an an
nouncement from the Air-Ground
school.
Also in the party are: Group
Captain Manob Suriya, deputy
chief of staff, intelligence, of the
Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF);
Wing Commander Tragool Thava-
ravej. chief surgeon, RTAF hospi
tal; Wing Commander Siddhi Sa-
vetsila. Air Academy instructor,
RTAF; Flying Officer Riddhagni,
son of the air chief marshal; and
the USAF escort officer, who is
traveling with the party through
out the United States, Lt. Col.
James H. Gunn.
At the Highland Pines Inn,
USAFAGOS headquarters, the
party was to be welcomed by
Brig. Gen. W. M. Gross, comman
dant. Exact time of arrival was
not revealed in the announcement
of the visit made earlier this
week.
Air the visiting Thai, officers
speak English and have previous
ly traveled, studied or lived in the
United States.
Air Chief Marshal Riddhagni,
who is in undisputed control of
the RTAF, is pro-Western and
pro-American. He is a member
of the parliament of Thailand and
a graduate of the Royal Thai Mil
itary Academy. He trained with
the RAF in England. His son is
a graduate of Washington State
college.
Wing Commander Thavaravej
is a fellow of the International
College of Surgeons and has a di
ploma in surgery from New York
university. He was chief of a
flight evacuation team in Korea
in 1951 and has traveled exten
sively in the United States.
Group Captain Suriya attended
Lafayette college in Pennsylvania
and is a 1937 graduate of the
United States Military Academy,
West Point, N. Y. He was an in
structor in the Royal Thai Mili
tary Academy, left military serv-
i^ for a time to fly as a commer
cial air line pilot and returned to
-TEN CENTS
TROPHY WINNERS in junior Sandhills tour
nament are pictured here. First row, from left,
Pattie Woodell, Frances Pearson, girls’ doubles
runners-up; Lillian Bullock, winner of girls’ and
junior girls’ singles, also, with Gail Hobson,
girls’.doubles; Pattie Britt, girls’ singles runner-
up; Gail Hobson, junior girls’ singles runner-up,
winner girls’ doubles.
Second row, kneeling—Johnny Watkins, boys’
singles and doubles’ runner-up; Stamps How
ard, junior boys’ singles runner-up.
Back row—Billy Hollowell, boys’ singles win
ner;^ Kenneth Tew, junior boys’ doubles win
ner, singles runner-up; Richard Makepeace,
junior boys’ singles and doubles winner; Maur
ice Everette, Robersonville, junior boys’ dou
bles runner-up.
Not in picture—John Savage, Joe de Bruehl,
boys’ doubles winners, and Billy Hamel, boys’
doubles runner-up. (Photo V. Nicholson)
Scouts To Hold First ‘Swim-All’ Next
Week; Court of Honor Also on Program
the RTAF as deputy chief of
staff, intelligence.
Wing Commander Savatsila is a
1943 graduate of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and was
trained by the OSS in the United
States during Wolrld War 2. He
0 operated with the Free Thai unit
during the Japanese occupation.
The visit of the Thai Air Force
officers to Southern Pines takes
on added interest against the
background of a visit to this com
munity last January by Puang Su-
wanarath, a Thailand provincial
governor. Mr. Puang had known
Lewis Pate of Southern Pines in
Thailand and came‘"here to see
Mr. Pate’s sister, Mrs. Fred
’ Woodruff, and others.
Parents, Leaders To
Join Boys For Picnic
Supper, Pinebluff Lake
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A giant “Swim-All” for all the
scouts of Moore District of the
Boy Scouts of America will be
held Wednesday, August 5, at
Pinebluff Lake.
Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and
Explorers with their leaders and
parents will participate. Registra
tion begins at 2 p. m.
In addition to a general super
vised swim, there will be a swim
ming meet with races and relays,
water games, and diving contests.
At 6 p. m. the boys will enjoy
with their parents and leaders a
picnic supper on the community
unit plan. ’
At 8 p.m. there will be a Camp
Fire with each troop. Cub pack,
and Explorer pack staging their
favorite stunts and songs.
A District Court of Honor under
the direction of District Advance
ment Chairman Lawrence John
son of Aberdeen will be held at
the Camp Fire.
' Pictures of the district camp-
oree taken by District Health and
Safety Chairman Clarence
Thomas will also be shown.
It is expected that the Scouts
who attended the National Jam
boree at Irvine Ranch, Santa
Ana, Calif,, will make a report.
This “Swim-All” will be the
first of its kind held in Moore
District, and it is expected to be
come an annual event.
^ Local Players
Win Trophies
In Tennis Event
Court Expecting
Heavy Docket
Judge J. Vance Rowe and Sol
icitor W. Lamont Brown are ex
pected to face a heavy docket in
Moore Ccunty recorders court
Monday when the court convenes
for the first session since July 20.
Normally, the week between
each session of the Monday court
brings enough cases to keep it
busy all day. With a backlog of
two weeks’ cases, the court can
expect a very busy day Monday.
The county commissioners also
meet Monday, with their chief
'item of business expected to be
formal adoption of the 1953-’54
county budget that sets a tax
rate of $1.35, the same as the pre
vious year.
AREA chairman
E: Nolley Jackson of Jackson
Motors, Inc. has accepted the
appointment of Area Chaii-man
for the North Carolina Automo
bile Dealers Association it was
announced by Association Presi
dent T. L. Black of Pinehurst.
Jackson will represent the State
and National Automobile Dealers
Associations in this county dur
ing the ccming year. As county
chairman, Jackson will also head
the Fall membership campaign in
this area for NCADA and NADA
and will participate in Area
Chairmen Day which will be held
in Raleigh in October.
AA Sponsoring
Public Meeting
Friday Evening
The Southern Pines group of
, Alcoholics Anonymous is sponsor
ing an educational meeting in or
der that the public may be more
informed on alcoholism as an ill
ness and a public health problem.
Church and civic leaders, city
and county officials, and all others
interested are urged to attend this
meeting, at the Southern Pines
Civic Club at 8 p.m., Friday, July
31st.
The speaker has an intimate
( knowledge of the subject and tells
an outstanding story, say mem
bers of the sponsoring group.
Men’s, Women’s Choruses Chosen For
Talent Show; Tots Entered In Contest
(Also see story, page 6)
Members of the men’s chorus
who will take part in “Onstage
America,” the musical minstrel to
be presented Thursday and Fri
day nights of next week, for the
benefit of the Church of Wide
Fellowship’s building fund, have
been chosen as follows:
Lloyd Woolley, Norris Hodg
kins, Jr., Dr. Dave Whitehead,
Jimmy Hobbs, R. W. Tate, E. J.
Austin, Charley Austin, Hubert
McCaskill, J. D. Sitterson, Tom
Shockley, Leighton Hall, W. N.
Benjamin, Dr. McKenzie, Bob
Dodds, and James Prim.
The show will be given at
Weaver auditorium at 8:13 each
night featuring traditional black
face comedy and music, directed
by Miss Nyla Anne Jester of In
dianapolis, Ind.
Taking part in the Pickaninny
Chorus will be Mrs. Eleanor Poe,
Miss Merva Benjamin, Mrs. Lil
lian Miles Raymond, Miss Blanche
Sherman, Mrs. Sybil Austin and
Mrs: Algene Hoskins, who will
read the children’s number, “Cin-1 and A1 Fields.
derella.”
, The chorus of teen-agers will
be listed next week.
Miss Mary Jane Prillaman, pres
ident of the church’s Fellowship
Forum, is in charge of advertising
conimittee. Harry Pethick is
chairman of ticket committee.
Reserved tickets will go on sale
Monday and Tuesday at Sandhill
Drug company.
Entries in the “Tiny-Tot” pop
ularity contest so far are:
Alice Austin, Shiela Aubin,
George Chappell, Anne Frances
Wilson, Rickie Kobleur, Robert
Peeler, Eddy Davis, Sharon and
Charley Shockley, Don White-
head, Jane and John Buchholz,
Brad Rush, Becky Talbert, Linda
Dawson, Peggy Patch, Vincent
Currie, Ray Cummings, C. L.
Worsham HI, Judy Steed, Vicky
Woodell, Penny Henderson, Pce-
gee Lawson, Lorraine Jensen,
Philip McRae, Buddy and Anna-
belle Smith, Guy Scheipers,
“Scoot” Stephenson, 4ane Blue
Southern Pines, group of ten
nis-playing young people, the
Junior Sandhill Tennis associa
tion, successfully staged their fifth
annual tournament last week- —
the Junior Sandhill Invitational,
held on the municipal courts.
Though the entry list was dis
appointingly small, comprising
only 33 players, the quality was
high and players came from Dur
ham, Tarboro, Robersonville,
Goldsboro, Kinston, Greensboro
and Sanford, in addition to Pine
hurst and Southern Pines.
Finals held Saturday, during
the day and evening, also Sunday
afternoon, drew large galleries,
especially on Saturday night. At
that time they were swelled by an
enthusiastic delegation from San
ford, here to cheer Richard Make
peace, 18.
Young Makepeace, captain of
the tennis team at Fishburne Mil
itary school, Waynesboro, Va., de
feated Kenneth Tew of Southern
Pines in a hard-contested match,
6-1, 3-6, 6-4, to win the junior
boys’ singles championship and
trophy. Also Saturday night. Tew
and Makepeace teamed to win the
doubles championship, 6-4, 6-3
over Maurice Everette of Rober
sonville and Stamps Howard of
Tarboro; and Billy Hollowell of
Kinston defeated Johnny Watkins
of Southern Pines 6-3, 6-3 in boys’
singles.
Girls’ finals were played during
the day, and at the trophy-award
ing Saturday midnight, conducted
by W. F. Bowman, vice-president
of the Sandhill Tennis associa
tion, Southern Pines’ Lillian Bul
lock, aged 14, was presented tro
phies for three championships—
junior girls’ and girls’ singles, al
so, with Gail Hobson of Pinehurst,
the girls’ doubles.’
To win the junior singles Lillian
defeated Gail 6-2, 6-4, and, in the
girls’ event, she defeated Pattie
Britt, 6-2, 6-3. Runners-up in
girls’ doubles were Patty Woodell
and Frances Pearson and the
score was 7-5, 7-5.
In boys’ doubles played Sunday
afternoon, John Savage and Joe
de Bruehl of Goldsboro defeated
Johnny Watkins and Billy Hamel
of Southern Pines.
The tournament started Wed
nesday, its opening delayed by
showers until late afternoon. Only
three first-round matches could
be played at that time. From
then on the weather was good and
the matches reeled off in swift
succession. '
Malcolm Clark served as advis
er from the senior association,
working with tournament com
mittees from the junior group
throughout the event. Also as
sisting was Audrey West Brown,
state women’s singles champion,
who is on a two-mouth leave of
absence from her job in Burling-
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Support Sought
For Golf Event
Here In November
C. of C. Checking To
See If Needed $3,000
Will Be Forthcoming
Directors of the Chamber of
of Commerce will conduct a sur
vey during the next two weeks to
determine whether they will pro
ceed with sponsorship of a golf
tournament here in the fall.
The tournament would be one
to attract major pros on their itin
erary from north to south in the
fall, and also provide a worth
while event for local and out-of-
state amateurs.
Advice secured from Dugan
Aycock of Lexington, president
of the Carolinas PGA, is that
such a tournament can be held in
a very worthwhile way, attract
ing a star entry list of pros, dur
ing the third week in November,
with a minimum purse of $2,500.
Several hundred dollars’ ex
penses will run the “nut” up to
approximately $3,000 and the ob
ject of the survey is to see if the
community will support the event
financially, said Joe Montesanti,
Jr., Chamber of Commerce spe
cial-events chairman.
Desirable Time
The third week in November
will be the most desirable time
for the tournament, Aycock re
ported, as that now presents a
lull in the schedule from the end
ing of the-northern circuit to the
beginning of the Florida winter
play. The Chamber’s plan, if it
can get up the purse, is to hold
the tournament on the Southern
Pines Country Club course. If
there are as many entries as an
ticipated, there will be an over
flow, to be accordodated at Mid
Pines and Pine Needles.
The tournament is planned as
a successor to the Julius Boros
Invitational centered at Mid Pines
last fall, held as a community
event honoring the winner of the
U. S. Open and Tam O’Shanter
championships with the chamber
acting as coordinator for a South
ern Pines-Pinehurst committee.
It was anticipated at that time
that the tournament could possi
bly be held each year in honor of
the new U. S. Open champion.
However, Ben Hogan, the 1953
winner, is turning down all in
vitations and has said he will not
play again until the Masters at
Augusta in the spring. .
Chairman Montesanti called a
meeting last week of local mem
bers o| last year’s committee, then
a special meeting of the Chamber
directors was held Monday night
at the Chamber office.
Directors Enthusiastic
Feeling of the directors was that
it would be a splendid thing for
the community to continue with
the tournament, and establish it
as an annual event. They were
willing tO' undertake sponsorship,
but felt they could not underwrite
expenses without first ascertain
ing that contributions would be
forthcoming to make up the nec
essary funds.
T. E. Cunninj^ham Will
Start Duties Monday
City Manager
Will Live At
COMMISSIONER SCHEIDT
Scheldt Appeals
For Alertness In
Stopping Accidents
Has Faith Ordinary
Man' Will Respond;
Wants Driver Training
Asserting that he wants “the
people of North Carolina to be
alerted as they have never been
alerted before” in the fight to
prevent traffic accidents and fa
talities, Ed Scheidt who was ap
pointed Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles a month ago, told mem
bers of the Sandhills Kiwanis
club Wednesday that they can be
of tremendous help in this effort.
Introduced by Paul Butler, who
recalled that Mr. Scheidt had
spent 21 years in the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation with nine
years as head of the Charlotte
FBI office, Mr. Scheidt spoke at
the regular luncheon meeting of
the club at the Southern Pines
Country club.
Two other speakers also touch
ed on safety subjects during the
meeting. Stanhope Lineberry,
chief of the rural police of Meck
lenburg county, pointed out that
traffic accidents have taken more
lives in the United States than
have all our wars and said the ex
perience in his county shows that
“the more arrests that are made,
the fewer accidents and fatalities
we have.”
Appeals To Drivers
Flighway Patrolman C. G. Wim
berly of Aberdeen, stationed in
Moore county, made a brief
emergency announcement” as
part of the state-wide program in
which patrolmen are going into
civic club meetings this week to
appeal for cooperation of drivers
in traffic law enfbrcement. He
urged drivers to take down li
cense numbers of vehicles viola
ting traffic laws and send the
numbers to Raleigh. The driver
of the vehicle will be notified,
said the patrolman, and will be
asked to assist in safety efforts
by good driving in the future.
Courteous drivers should nlso be
reported, to be commended by
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Knollwood Apts.
T. E. Cunningham, Southern
Pines’ new city manager, is due
to start his work here Monday.
Mr. Cunningham and his family
—his wife is the former Marian
Goodrich of Sanford and they
have two children. Tommy Junior
and Tamara Jean—are expected
to arrive here Saturday.
The Cunninghams will live at
the Knollwood apartments, 417 W.
Delaware avenue.
Exact time of his arrival was
not known at town hall, but he
was expected to complete Friday
his duties as principal officer of
budget and finance in the office of
the city manager, Richmond, Va.
Biggest item of the many that
are stacked up for action at town
hall, awaiting arrival of the city
manager, is the 1953-54 budget on
which the council has deferred ac
tion until his arrival.
Mr. Cunningham was chosen
from a list of 110 applicants for
the city manager post—^the first
in the history of Southern Pines.
Public Hearing
Slated August 11
On Zone Changes
A public hearing on proposed
zoning changes on Bennett street
and New York avenue will be
held at the tcwn office August
11 at 8 p. m., it was announced
this week. Such a hearing is re
quired by law before any change
in the zoning status of any part
of town is approved.
On Bennett, the proposed
amendment to the zoning ordi
nance would change from resi
dential to business category the
frontage on South Bennett street,
to the depth of the lots or to a
depth of not less than 100 feet,
from Pennsylvania avenue to
New York avenue on both sides
of the street. (
Tentative approval of this
amendment was given by the
town council after J. Vance Rowe,
Jr., recently appeared at a bo«rd
meeting on behalf of an unnamed
client who, said the attorney, was
particularly interested in the west
side of the street, and the south
erly .half of the block.
Also up for public hearing is
a proposed change from residen
tial to business on East New York
avenue, the southerly side from
“West Broad street to South Ben
nett street—not affecting that
portipn already in the business
district.
Under the law, the amendment
could not become effective if
there is a protest by 20 per cent
or more of property owners con
cerned or the property owners
immediately at the rear or across
the street—unless there is then
a favorable vote by three-fourths
of all members of the town coun
cil.
MODEL BUILDER Frank Kaylor of Southern Pines examines
a tiny steam-driven generator (fastened to front of locomotive
cab) that he helped inv^t and perfect and which has brought
him recognition throughout the United States, in Canada and in
England. One of the midget generators has been bought by a
model builder in Thailand. See story page 11 for details.
(Pilot Staff Photo)
Police Station '
Transfer Awaits
Approval By FCC
Moving the police station to
town hall, as approved by the
town council, awaits approval by
the Federal Communications
Commission in ’Washington, Chief
C. E. Newton said this week.
Strict Federal regulations re
quire a permit to move a radio
station, including police radio in
stallations, even for a few blocks
in the same town. Chief Newton
said application for the change
has been filed with the FCC.
Moving of the ABC store, for
merly next door to the police sta
tion, to the O’Callaghan building
this week means that K. Y. Poe,
who has been combining his du
ties of night watchman at the
ABC store with service as night
desk clerk and radio operator at
the police station, will be unable
to continue in the police station
post.
Frank Viall is serving tempor
arily as night desk clerk and ra
dio operator. Mr. Poe will con
tinue as night watchman for the
ABC store at its new location.