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VOL. 34—NO. 44
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Hundreds
To Attend
Kids’ Day
Air-Groimd School,
Xiwanis Sponsoring
Fun For Youngsters
National Kids’ Day, sponsored
by the Sandhills Kiwanis Club
and the USAF Air-Ground Opera
tions school will be conducted for
aU Moore County children 10
through 16 years of age on Satur
day, September 26.
Hundreds of children from 11
schools of the county are expect
ed to be present for an afterijoon
program that will feature the
thrills of seeing jet aircraft in
flight and a drop by 20 paratroop
ers.
Events of the day have been
worked out by the Kiwanis club’s
committee for boys and girls
work, headed by J. D. Hobbs, and
Major John F. McCarthy, project
lofficer representing Brig. Gen.
WiUiam M. Gross, commandant of
the Air-Ground school at the
Highland Pines Inn.
National Kids’ Day is a nation
wide observance, sponsored
throughout the U. S. A., Alaska
and Hawaii by the Air Force and
Kiwanis International.
Morning Program
For a group of contest winners
from schools of Moore county, the
program will begin in the morn
ing on Kids’ Day. Contests are
now going on in the schools, fea
turing model plane building, es
says on the U. S. Air Force and
making suggestions for uniforms
of the Women’s Air Force (WAF).
Winners in each school will be
chosen and from this group per
sonnel at USAFAGOS wiU
choose the final winners before
September 26.
’These winners will assemble
at the Highland Pines Inn at
10:30 a. m. September 26, to be
giieeted by their ‘^counterpart”
staff at the school whose positions
they will assume for the morn
ing’s events.
The top winner of all the con
testants win assume the post of
General Gross, school comman
dant.
Schedule for the program then
continues as follows:
11:00—^Totm of the classrooms,
mess hall, library, motor pool and
other points of intereift at the
school.
11:20—^Military formation or
dered by the boy or girl comman
dant.
11:30—^Formation with colors to
award contest winners with
badges. All youngsters taking
part in the “course” at USAF
AGOS will be awarded “diplo
mas.”
11:45—Staff officers and their
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Catching Up On %osV Christmases
Sgt. Henry Bradford, who spent headed by Mrs. Harry Chatfield, I pulled the
the Christmases of 1950, 1951 and the tree symbolized the ser-
1952 as a prisoner of the Com- geant’s three “lost” Christmases,
munists in Korea, is shown sur- The Christmas sign, like a “Wel-
rounded by his family near the' come Home” sign not shown in
Christmas tree whose surprise' the photo, was made by the
unveiling climaxed welcoming Training Aids section at the
^remonies for him Monday.'USAF Air-Ground school. The
Daughter Gai), 14, is at the left, presents were provided by mer-
Little Idalou (Tinkie), four years chants, a number of whom gave
Sales 51 vent To
Be Condueted
October 1, 2, 3
Member firms of the Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce will
unite in a three-day fall sales
event October 1, 2 and 3. Partici
pating will be retailers and others
within the Chamber membership
whose business is of such a nature
that special buys can be offered
to shoppers at that time.
Plans for the event are being
perfected by the Chamber’s Bet
ter Business Bureau, of which
Miss Katherine McDonald is pres
ident, assisted by Earle B. Owen.
Advertising is being planned to
attract both the local and out-of-
town trade.
The event will mark another
“first” for the Chamber, as it is
not recalled that a cooperative
sales event has ever been staged
in Southern Pines before. It is ex
pected the project will become a
regular phase of the Chamber’s
annual program, to be held in
both spring and fall.
old, is unwrapping one of the
many presents under the tree. At
right is his wife, Mrs. Cleecy Ren-
egar Bradford. Decorated in se
cret behind a canvas curtain, by
credit certificates so that the ser
geant could pick the items he
wanted most. The tree was on one
end of the front porch of the VFW
Post Home and was completely
a VFW Auxiliary committee I hidden, until Mayor L. T. Clark
canvas curtain down.
The sight was greeted by a gasp
.of surprise and pleasure from the
crowd assembled for the cere
monies. The XVUI Corps band
from Fort Bragg, seated on the
lawn, broke into “Jingle Bells.”
When the excitement died down.
Sergeant Bradford made a hit
with the crowd whey he said he
wouldn’t try to open all the pres
ents then “or I’d be here all
night.” Then, with obvious emo
tion,, he said: “Thanks, everybody.
And God bless you all.”
(Photo by V. W. Hardee)
S^t. Bradford Welcomed By Town
Tributes Paid By
Mayor, 2 Generals
For 'Bradford Day'
Sgt. Henry Bradford, a husky,
smiling soldier who survived
three years of Communist impris
onment in Korea, was welcomed
Monday by the town he has called
home for the past 15 years.
Sparked by the John Boyd
post, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
and its Auxiliary, in cooperation
with the USAF Air-Grcund
school, other organizations, mer
chants and individuals, “Henry
Bradford Day” turned the town stockade on the Yalu river, went
out in a celebration like nothing through the celebration like a
ever seen here before.
“We’ll remember this day all
our lives,” said one prominent cit
izen between bites of fried chick
en at an outdoor supper staged in
cooperation with the Elks club
at the Southern Pines Country
club when the parade and the
speeches were over.
A lot of others felt the same
way.
Sergeant Bradford, who less
than 30 days before had been eat
ing his rice with chopsticks in a
'We Lei The Days Pass By'
Misery Was Routine For American
Soldiers In Korean Prison Camps
Duke Football Team
To Spend Night Here
The Duke University football
team will spend tonight (Friday)
at the Southland hotel here en-
route by bus from Durham to Col
umbia, S. C., for the opening
game of the season with the Uni
versity of South Carolina. The
team wiU eat at Jacks Grill while
in Southern Pines.
You’d have thought he’d had'*'
enough of the Army.
In 1948, Henry Bradford was 36
years old, an age when most men
begin to feel a yearning for peace
and comfort creeping up on them.
But Henry Bradford had been in
the Army most of his adult life
and he couldn’t seem to get it
out of his blood.
In September he enlisted for
three years. That was just the
length of time he had been out
of the service, following World
War II—as a Southern Pines po
lice officer, driving a taxi and
driving a truck for Taylor Chem
ical Company, Aberdeen.
Henry Bradford had a right to
be tired. He had been overseas
three years (life runs in three-
year cycles for Sergeant Brad
ford—as it turned out, he was just
a month over three years as a
prisoner in Korea). He had been"^
with the battered and battering
First Infantry Division. He was
one of the few tough, skilled.
lucky infantrymen who went into
Africa with the First in 1942 and
fought in Africa, Sicily, France,
Belgium, Holland, Germany and
Czechoslovakia, all the way with
the First Division. He was on the
Normandy, Africa and Sicily
beachheads and he was in the
“Battle of the Bulge.” The fact
that he got home showed he had
a talent for survival—a talent
that would be tested to its utmost
in Korea, a place that most
Americans had scarcely heard of
when Bradford re-enlisted in |
1948.
Raised on a farm in Illinois,
Bradford grew up in a family tra
dition of Army service and he
went into an Army-run Civilian
Conservation Corps CE^mp (rem
ember the CCC?) when he was
still a kid. When he was 19, he en
listed in the Army.
In the. late 1930s, while station-
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pian waiting to wake up and find
it wasn’t true.
He and his family were par
aded through the town with two
bands, he was congratulated by
the mayor, two generals and other
speakers and he was showered
with gifts, cheers, applause, hand
shakes and general admiration.
Mayor Lloyd T. Clark spoke
the feeling of the entire town
when he said during the welcom
ing ceremonies:
‘‘We’re sorry we can’t have
every Southern Pines man who
has made'a sacrifice in war here
today. . . Henry, we’re awful
happy to have you home.”
In honoring Sergeant Bradford,
the town felt it was honoring also
all others who have'suffered and
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Bradfords Will
Visit Illinois
Sgt. and Mrs. Henry Bradford
and their daughters, Gail and
Tinkie, and Mrs. J. C. Renegar,
Mrs. Bradford’s mother, were to
leave today (Friday) for Illinois
to visit two brothers and a half-
sister of the sergeant who live in
that state. As a child he lived
near Carmi, Ill. His parents are
deceased.
Tl^ Southern Pines family ex
pects to be gone a week or more.
Sergeant Bradford is to report to
Fort Jackson, S. C., Octobef^ 14.
He will ask that he be stationed
at Fort Bragg when he is reas
signed to Army duty. He expects
to continue in Army service.
A statement of appreciation by
Sergeant Bradford to the people
of Southern Pines appears else
where in today’s Pilot.
Driving Skill
Of Teen-Agers
Can Win Prizes
VFW, USAFAGOS To
Sponsor Contesis
In Roadeo Saturday
Licensed drivers 16 through 20
years of age will have a chance
to win trophies and prizes of cash
or merchandise for their driving
skill Saturday when a “Teen Age
Roadeo” is run off in Southern
Pines.
As part of the continuing
‘‘Operation Impact” traffic safe
ty program, the Roadeo is spon
sored jointly by the John Boyd
Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
and the USAF Air-Ground Opera
tions school.
Events will begin on Ashe street
near the municipal tennis courts
at 9 o’clock Saturday morning. No
prior registration or application is
needed. If a contestant is there,
he can-take part.
Open to boys or girls, the con
tests will offer the following
awards
First prize—trophy plus $15 in
cash or merchandise.
Second prize—trophy plus $10
in cash or merchandise.
Third prize—trophy plus $5 in
cash or merchandise.
Fourth and fifth prizes, cash or
merchandise, amount not listed.
Trophies will be contributed by
the Air-Ground school. Cash or
merchandise will be contributed
by cooperating merchants.
Skill Stressed
Driving skill will be stressed in
all the contests. Such feats as
I driving in and around objects
without moving or touching them
or starting and stopping without
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Gridders Beat
West End 68-22
By JIM HATCH
Southern Pines High School
team took the field Wednesday af
ternoon to once again win a hard-
fought football game. This time
West End bowed in defeat to the
onrushing Blue and .White team,
68-22. '
The West End game was South
ern Pines’ second contest and sec
ond victory of the 1953 season.
The Blue and White boys play
here again next Wednesday after
noon, September 23, facing Row
land.
Many fumbles and beautiful,
long runs were the highlights of
the afternoon. Blocking and tack
ling by both teams were highly
praised by all who saw the game.
Touchbacks were also seen as the
Southern Pines team caught two
West End players behind their
own goal.
Campaij^n For Lights
At Ball Park Starts
Goal Set At
Clean-Up Urged
Next Week; Ask
Report Hazards
Next week will be Clean-Up
Week in Southern Pines, sponsor
ed by the Southern Pines Cham
ber of Commerce in cooperation
with the Town, urging all citi
zens to “Clean Up—Paint Up—
Fresh Up” in preparation lor the
fall season.
Climax of the week will be
Saturday, designated as Children’s
Safety Day, toward the observ
ance of which all businesses and
householders are asked to inspect
their property closely, and get rid
of everything which could present
a hazard to children.
This is the time of year when
Southern Pines, as a resort, pre
pares for the seasonal influx of
winter residents, golfers, tourists
and the hunting people, reminds
Dr. R. B. Warlick, chairman Of
Clean-Up Week for the Chamber.
Let’s put our best foot forward,
and live up to our reputation as
the most beautiful town on the
eastern seaboard,” he urged this
week.
Call 2-6491
From Monday through Satur
day the town trucks will be out
every day to pick up refuse
which citizens are unable to dis
pose of. This is" the one week in
the year they will collect “yard
litter.” Leaves, grass and other
trash for collection ^should be
placed in containers on the park
ways. If the-truck fails to come
by within a reasonable time, a
call to the cit ymanager’s office
at the town hall—telephone
2-6491—will bring it.
Citizens are also asked to call
City Manager Tom Cunningham
or Dr. Warlick in regard to possi
ble hazards to children, such as
old chests or iceboxes.
Residents are also asked to re
port any lots which have become
unsightly through growth of
weeds or accumulation of trash.
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18,500; Now
Have $2,000
A campaign for funds to light
the town ball park will get under
way this weekend, sponsored by
the Southern Pines Chamber of
$7,000 Offered For
Police Slation Site
A special meeting of the town
council has been called by City
Manager Tom Cunningham for 5
p. m. today (Friday) at town haU
to consider an offer of $7,000 for
the former police station-ABC
Store property on New Hampshire
avenue.
At their last meeting, council
members set $7,000 as the mini
mum amount they would accept
ior the property, but they are not
obliged to seU. The meeting is
open to the public.
State College Alumni of County
To Have Banquet, Program Tonight
DR. BOSTIAN
Dr. Carey Bostian, chancellor of
North Carolina State College, Ral
eigh, and other outstanding speak
ers will appear tonight (Friday) at
a dinner meeting of the Moore
County State College Alumni as
sociation. The event will begin at
the Southern Pines Country club
at 7:30 p. m., with a preceding so
cial and fellowship period.
Also on the program are Frank
Turner, president of the state
wide N. C. State College Alumni
Association, and Everett Case,
basketball coach at State, who
COACH CASE
will show his new basketball film,
“High Lights,” on which he will
comment.
Dr. Bostian’s appearance in
Southern Pines is one of the first
he has made since becoming
chancellor.
The event is for members of the
Moore County association and
their wives and guests. The as
sociation has a membership of
about 80 in this county and a
large attendance is expected.
Some communities have promised
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Commerce with a goal of $8,500.
The sum to be collected is about
$6,500, as a fund of approximately
$2,000 will be made available as
soon as it is matched, said W. B.
Holliday, chairman.
The decision to get going at
once on the collection for the
lights, long desired in the com
munity, was made at a meeting of
Chairman Holliday and members
of his committee with representa
tives of various town organiza
tions at the Chamber office Tues
day night.
Meeting with the group were
W. L. Barber, General Electric
power apparatus specialist, and
Jay M. Whitbeck, engineer with
the Crouse-Hinds Co., manufac
turers of floodlighting equipment.
Both came from Charlotte to pre
sent their floodlighting plan to
the group, with information on
costs.
Questions Asked
A group of about 20 men and
women was present to hear them
ancf ask questions. They repre
sented the Chamber of Com-
naerce. Elks, Rotary, Lions, VFW,
Business and Professional Wom
en’s club, the Southern Pines
schools, the Municipal Recreation
Commission and the Citizens
Committee. All other local organ
izations are being invited also to
join in the project.
Detailed for their benefit was
a plan by which both the football
and baseball fields can be light
ed.
The plan calls for a total of nine
poles equipped with wide-angle
aluminum floodlights. Various
phases of the plan were presented
—putting up and equipping six
poles only, for the football field,
with the others to be added later;
putting up nine poles and equip
ping only six at first; and install
ing and equipping the full num
ber needed—the most economical,
from the long-range viewpoint.
Consensus of the meeting was
that the complete job should be
the mark to shoot at, as to do the
work all at once will save hun
dreds of dollars in labor costs.
Mr. Holliday later named the
following as members of his steer
ing committee: Earle B. Owen,
C. N. Page; Joe Garzik, Ward Hill,
June Phillips, Voit Gilmore, Jack
Younts and Walter Harper.
Canvass Opens Today
Mr. Owen was appointed his
assistant in charge of a communi
ty-wide canvass, in which both
business and residential districts
will be covered door-to-door,
block by block. Block solicitors for
the business district have already
been selected and are expected to
start their collection today. Sol
icitors for the residential areas
are expected to be named next
week.
In addition, each local organi
zation is being asked to aid the
project with funds raised in their
own groups, through special pro
jects of their own planning.
Chairman Holliday is requesting
reports from each of these by
Saturday, September 26.
"Coin Be Done’'
While little hope is entertained
that such a large sum can be
raised in time for the present foot
ball season, he said, “It is pos
sible that this can be done, if all
work together with a will—and
in any event for next spring’s
baseball season.” A system is be
ing set up to keep an accurate
record of all contributions, and if
for any reason the goal cannot
be reached within a stated time,
all the money will be refunded to
the donors.
The special fund of almost
$2,000 is that of the Southern
Pines Elks Lodge, resulting from
a similar campaign started sev
eral years ago. It was placed in
trust with the provision that it
would be applied to the original
purpose if matched within five
years, otherwise it 'would revert
to the Elks’ general fund. The
five-year period expires Decem
ber 31.