VOL. 34—NO. 42
Bradford
Day Plans
Announced
Released Prisoner
To Arrive Sepl. 9
Al San Francisco
Preliminary plans for a Henry
Bradford Day celebration, wel
coming home the Southern Pines
Army sergeant who spent 37
months in a Communist prison
camp in Korea, were announced
today by Louis Scheipers, com
mander of the John Boyd Post,
Veterans of Foreign wars, the
sponsoring organization.
Meanwhile, a telegram from the
Department of Defense to Mrs.
# Cleecy Renegar Bradford said
that her husband would arrive
in San Francisco, Calif., Wednes
day, Septemiber 9, on board the
U. S. Navy Transport General
John Pope. The telegram said
that Sgt. Bradford would be
processed at Fort Mason, or Camp
Stoneman and would be “placed
on leave without delay.”
Date of his arrival in Southern
^ Pines will depend on whether he
flies or comes by train in mak
ing the transcontinental trip.
Whatever the date, plans being
made here assure him a rousing
welcome.
To Colled Purse
One feature of the celebration
in which all residents of the town
are invited to take part is collec
tion of a sum of. money, as well
. as suitable merchandise from
• business establishments, to be
presented to Sergeant Bradford.
Any one wishing to make a con
tribution to this fund is asked to
get in tou :;h with Sam Richardson
at the E. C. Stevens Real Estate
office on Broad street.
Mr. Richardson is treasurer on
a 15-persons committee appoint
ed by Commander Scheipers to
make preparations for the Henry
r Bradford Day.
^ Other highlights of the tenta
tive program will be an honor
guard furnished by the National
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Clean-Up, Safety Day Slated
PRICE—TEN CENTS
A clean-Up week, sponsored by
the Chamber of Commerce in co
operation with town official^, will
begin Monday, September 21, to
run through Saturday, September
26, it was announced today.
Unique feature of the clean-up
'week will be designation of the
final day, September 26, as Chil
dren’s Safety Day when all citi
zens will be urged to examine
their premises for dangers that
will injure children, and correct
any dangerous conditions.
The Safety Day feature was
adopted in view of recent trage
dies over the nation involving the
loss of lives of children in aban
doned refrigerators, wells and
similar hazards.
The town council is expected to
pass a resolution at its meeting
next week designating Children’s
Safety Day and offering the
town’s cooperation in eliminating
hazards individuals cannot cope
with.
It is noted also that September
26 is National Kids Day when
school children from over the
county will gather at Southern
Pines to enjoy a program spon
sored jointly by the U. S. Air-
Ground Operations school and the
Sandhills Kiwanis club.
Traditional clean-up procedures
and planting of winter rye grass,
in preparation for the resort sea
son, will be stressed during the
week.
WINNERS OF SANDHILLS TROPHY-Mildred Gruebl,
Southern Pines, left, and Mary Lou Jones of Sanford, with the Sand-
hill trophy, which they won in women’s doubles in the Eastern Car
olina Tennis tournament recently held at Goldsboro. The handsome
trophy 28 inches tall, was donated by Mrs. P. T. Barnum for the
SandhiH Tennis association, and was awarded for the first time this
year. The winners will share possession of it for a year, retaining
miniature trophies. Miss Gruebl is playing this week in the N. C.
Closed Tennis tournament at Greensboro. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
First In Series Of Golf Tourneys
To Be Played Here This Week-End
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C. of C. Sponsoring
Events, Replacing
Big Tournament Plan
t
The Southern Pines Chamber
of Commerce will not undertake
sponsorship of a major golf tour-
Council To Meet
Tuesday; Agenda
^ To Be Drawn Up
Next regular meeting of the
Southern Pines town council will
be held Tuesday night, September
8, at 8 p. m.
In line with a system discussed
by the council at a special meet
ing last week, persons who wish
to appear before the council are
asked to call City Manager Tom
E. Cunningham at town haR and
1^ tell him the nature of their busi
ness and approximately how long
they think they will need to pre
sent it.
This system is being tried in an
attempt to budget time more effi
ciently at council meetings which
have been running four or five
hours in length, often lasting un
til well after midnight.
The city manager will draw up
an agenda for each meeting, at-
® terrpting to allow sufficient time
to discuss each subject adequate
ly but also to dispose of it in a
reasonable time.
Information from persons who
intend to appear at the meeting
will be valuable in drawing up
such an agenda, Cunningham
said.
Roadeo’ Slated
September 19 For
Younger Drivers
Youths 16-20 Will
Compete For Prizes
In Driving Contests
“Operation Impact,” the con
tinuing traffic safety program
that has been going on in South
ern Pines since June, will be cli
maxed Saturday, September 19,
with a “Teen Age Roadeo” of
fering trophies and prizes to li
censed drivers 16 through 20
years of age in contests of driving
skill and safe practices.
The Roadeo, like the entire
Operation Impact program, is
sponsored jointly by the USAF
Air-Ground school and the John
Boyd post. Veterans of Foreign
Wars, with assistance and coop
eration of O. D. Griffin, field rep
resentative cf the Highway Safe
ty division of the State Motor Ve
hicles department.
To be eligible to enter the Road
eo, young drivers must not have
received a traffic ticket in the
past 12 months.
The roadeo will be held on Ashe
street between New York and
Pennsylvania avenues.
Sipeeding Cut
Police Chief C. E. Newton and
the Southern Pines police depart
ment have been cooperating with
“Operation Impact” during
which, the chief reports, there
has been a noticeable decrease in
speeding.
More than 400 Air Force and
civilian drivers in this area have
signed a safe driving pledge dur
ing Operation Impact and have on
their cars a star pledging them to
obey all speed laws. The slogan,
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LABOR DAY
The Southern Pines post
office will be closed Labor
Day, Monday, September 7.
The general delivery window
will be open one hour, 10 to
Ha. m. Mail will be distrib
ute to boxes as usual. There
will be no city delivery of
mail or parcel post.
A general htiliday closing of
stores and offices will be ob
served here Monday. The Cit
izens Bank and Trust Co. will
be closed. Tobacco markets
at Aberdeen and Carthage
will suspend sales for the day.
Schools here and throughout
the county will have a holi
day Monday.
Resignations
Not Accepted
The resignations of two South
ern Pines police officers, Ray
Backlund and Kieth Marks, which
were submitted Wednesday of last
week, had not been formally ac
cepted at noon Thursday, accord
ing to City Manager Tom E. Cun
ningham.
“There is no change from the
situation as it was a week ago,”
Cunningham said.
Injuries In Bike
Accident Fatal To
James Lathan, 9
James Everett Lathan, nine
year-old Negro boy, died early
Wednesday morning in Saint
Joseph of the Pines hospital as a
result of injuries sustained Tues
day afternoon when his bicycle
was struck by an automobile at
the intersection of New Hamp
shire avenue and Hale street.
Police Chief C. E. Newton, who
investigated, said that James E.
Waddell, Southern Pines Negro
who was driving the car, is be
ing held on an open charge, under
$1,000 bond, pending a hearing in
recorders court Monday.
A resident of New York city,
the Lathan boy was in Southern
Pines visiting his grandmother,
Mrs. Augusta Caviness of 313
Gaines street. The fatal accident
occurred when he turned the bi
cycle into New Hampshire avenue
from Hale street.
Waddell, driving on New Hamp
shire avenue, turned his car over,
damaging it considerably, in a
futile attempt to avoid a collision.
The intersection is in the low-ly
ing section between Southern
Pines business area and West
Southern Pines.
The boy is the son of Mrs. Isa
bel! Lathan of Bronx, N. Y.,
who is the daughter of Mrs. Cav
iness and a former resident of
Southern Pines. The body was to
be sent to New York Thursday
night and funeral services are to
be held in New Jersey Saturday.
Further details were not availa
ble.
nament this fall, but instead will
cooperate with the Southern
Pines Country club in holding a
series of weekend tournaments.
The first will be held this
weekend, over Labor Day, and
will be a three-day event—Satur
day, Sunday and Monday. Others
to follow each weekend in Sep
tember will be two-day events. If
successful, it is planned to con
tinue them every other weekend
through the fall and into the win
ter.
Pros, amateurs, men and wom
en, all are welcome, to enter the
medal play kickers’ handicaps, for
which both handicap and low
gross prizes will be awarded.
Prizes are being secured through
local merchants by a tournament
committee composed of Bus
Patch, Harold Collins, Jack Car
ter and Gordon H. Clark, club
president.
Given Wide Publicily
The events are expected to pro
vide sport not only for local golf
ers, hotel guests and winter vis
itors, but to attract pros and ama-
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SENATOR LENNON
5 New Projects
Undertaken By
Local C. of C.
The Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce passed a big milestone
Tuesday night, undertook five
new projects and heard some un
settling news.
The milestone was the pay
ment of the last of some old bills,
dating back almost three years,
which the present directors inher
ited ;WheA they took office last
January. The total of about $700
had been reduced by regular pay
ments to $214. E. C. Smail, treas
urer, was authorized to mail the
final checks to the creditors.
The move leaves the Chamber
debt-free for the first time in five
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High School Will Launch Football
Season Against Ellerbe Wednesday
Southern Pines High opens its
six-man football season here Wed
nesday afternoon with Ellerbe
, High.
On the basis of past perform
ance the Richmond County school
may be a tartar for the local club.
For the past 10 days the Blue
and White has had two workouts
a day. It is no secret that the
coaches have had the squad go
ing at top speed with an eye to
getting ready for what is regard
ed as a tough opener.
Three practice days are left be
fore game time and many rough
spots remain to be ironed out, but
there are some bright spots. The
Blue and White is not totally
without experience.
Game time will probably see up
front Page and Morrison at the
end positions, and Warren at cen
ter. All of these are letter men
and are capable performers offen
sively and defensively. Reserves
Bill Marley and Harold McNeill
seem certain to see action up
front too.
In the backfield veteran Tom
my Ruggles looks like a starter
at blocking back. Ruggles is also
the point-after-TD kicker. Bobby
Cline, a stockily built reserve,
will also see plenty of action at
this spot. Given some experience,
Cline looks to be a comer.
James Humphrey or Johnny
Watkins will receive the call for
the wingback post. Both of these
boys are up from the reserves.
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WITH SUN SHOWER, six-year-old gelding and
surprise winner of the $7,500 Shillelah’s 50th
Anniversary Steeplechase Handicap at Saratoga
Springs, N. Y., are pictured left to right, Mickey
Walsh of Southern Pines, trainer; Mrs. 'Yemon
G. Cardy, owner, and Vernon G. Cardy, of
Southern Pines and Ste. Marguerite, Quebec,
and Scotty Riles up. Mr. Cardy is a prominent
Canadian hotel owner and Southern Pines sea-
sonal resident and is currently president of the
Mid South Horse Show association. In the
Saratoga event. Sun Shower, bought by Mr.
Cardy for his wife this year, paid $46.50 to $2.
Sun Shower beat James F. McHugh’s Sundown
er by a length and returned a purse of $6,175 to
his owner, according to news reports of the
race. Sun Shower turned the two miles over
13 jumps in 4:l0, just short of a record for the
event.
Education Board
Endorses School,
lospital Bonds
Expect County Will
Get Up To $500,000
If Bonds Approved
Meeting at Carthage Tuesday
night, the county board of educa
tion formally endorsed the pro
posed North Carolina $50 million
bond issue for schools and $22
million bond issue for mental in
stitutions.
Present at the meeting and vot
ing for the endorsement were J.
A. Culbertson, chairman, T. L.
Blue, Jere McKeithen, T. Roy
Phillips, George Purvis and H.
Lee Thomas, secretary of the
board and county superintendent
of education.
While the board of education
is primarily interested in the
school bond issue, members also
endorsed the bond issue for men
tal institutions, recognizing the
need in that field also. Chair
man Culbertson said.
Citizens of North Carolina will
vote October 3 to determine
whether the proposed bonds shall
be issued.
Amount For Moore
While an exact figure is not
available on the amount Moore
county would get if the school
bond issue is approved, Mr. Cul
bertson said the county will prob
ably receive between $450,000
and $500,000.
Total needs of the Moore Coun
ty school system are estimated at
about $1,300,000, the board chair
man stated. Bond funds, plus an
appropriation that might be ex
pected to amount to $300,000 or
more, for capital outlay in the
regular school budget for the next
fiscal year, would go a long way
toward meeting the county’s
needs, he pointed out.
Registration
For Bond Vote
Starts Sept. 5
Registration for the October 3
state schools and hospitals bond
election starts Saturday to con
tinue^ through September 19.
Any one on the general elec
tion books, in the precinct in
which he now resides, need not
register again in order to be able
Lennon To Address
YDC Rally Satnrday
Young Democrats
Of 8th District
To Gather Here
Democrats from the 12 sprawl
ing counties of North Carolina’s
Eighth Congressional district will
convene at Southern Pines Sat
urday for the district’s Young
Democrats^ annual dinner and
rally at the Country club.
An address by Senator Alton A.
Lennon, who was appointed by
Gov. William B. Umstead to fill
out the unexpired term of the late
Senator Willis Smith, will high
light the event. It will be the
first appearance of the senator in
Moore county.
Al Cruce of Aberdeen is chair
man of the Eighth District Young
Democratic clubs. J. Douglas Dav-
is president of
the Moore County YDC, host or-
ganization for the gathering.
Election of district officers is
on the program.
Festivities will open with a so
cial hour from 5:30 to 6:30 p. m.,
with the dinner following at 7*
County Meeting
For members of the Moore
County YDC, the social hour will
be broken by a county meeting at
6 o’clock for election of officers
and attention to other business.
This annual meeting was called
President David, after consult
ing With other YDC members in
the county, as it was thought the
maximum number of Moore "YDC
members would be present at that
time and the need for another
meeting would be dispensed
with. ,
In addition to the rank and file
of Young Democrats from
throughout the district. State and
district party leaders are expected
to attend.
Presence of Senator Lennon,
“surprise” appointment to the va
cant Senate seat, is expected to
greatly increase interest in the
rally.
The Wilmington resident, it was
noted in a series of stories about
him by John Sikes of the Star-
News newspapers there, was, from
1930 to 1934 “tireless in his efforts
to organize Young Democrats
clubs throughout Eastern North
Carolina.” So he doubtless has a
warm spot in his heart for YDC
organizations.
Named July 10
Senator Lennon was appointed
July 10, following the death in
office of Senator Willis Smith
June 26. Names of about 70 per
sons were suggested to Govern
or Umstead during the 14 days
between Senator Smith’s death
and Lennon’s appointment. Sus
pense grew during the two weeks
while the governor was ponder
ing the appointment. Those men
considered the most likely choices
were passed over and the appoint
ment came as a surprise to most
observers.
Senator Lennon was born at
Wilmington August 17, 1906. He
attended high school there and
was graduated in law at Wake
Forest college p 1929. He has
since practiced law at Wilming
ton, serving for some years as
judge of the New Hanover record-
ps court and as a State Senator
in the 1947 and 1951 sessions of
the General Assembly.
to vote.
However, Sam C. Riddle of
Carthage, chairman of the Moore
County board of elections, rec
ommends that any one in doubt
as to his or her registration
check up on the matter with pre
cinct registrars. Most of the reg
istrars and polling places will be
the same over the county as they
were in last year’s elections, Mr.
Riddle said. Registrars will be at
polling places on the three Sat
urdays during the registration
period. At other times they may
be reached at their homes or
places of business.
Mrs. Grace Kaylor will have
the Southern Pines precinct books
open at the fire station Saturday
from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
In the October 3 election, citi
zens of North Carolina will de
cide for or against issuing $50 mil
lion in bonds for building schools
and $22 million in bonds for im
proving and expanding mental
i hospital facilities.
Lennon May Talk
Saturday During
Aberdeen Event
Senator Alton A. Lennon has
been invited to speak at the an
nual Farmers Day celebration to
be held in Aberdeen Saturday.
■i^e senator, making his first
visit to Moore county since his
appointment, is expected in
Southern Pines to address the
Eighth District YDC rally Satur
day evening at 7 o’clock.
Asked by Aberdeen Jaycees to
arrive in Moore county in time to
speak at the Farmers Day event
at Aberdeen lake at 5 p. m.. Sen
ator Lennon replied that his
schedule might not permit him to
arrive by 5 o’clock but that he
would try to speak in Aberdeen
before attending the Southern
Pmes rally.
The Farmers Day program will
be conducted throughout the day
at Aberdeen lake, with a variety
of entertainment events.