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VOL. -NO. 45 LOT TWENTY PAGES iH *1 <V'; i•i» THE .SOUTHERN PINES HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SQUAD,/undefeMed this year, will face the Aberdeen Red Devils Wednesday afternoon of next week at Memorial field here in the Homecoi^ing game of the 1953 season. Bottom row, left to right; Coach Ir^ie Leonard, James Humphrey, Bill Marley Johnny Wat kins, BiMy Cox, Bobby Renegar, David Page, Harold McNeill Assistant Coach W. A. Leonard. Second row, same order: George Morrisoii, Joe Smith, Don Cheatham, Jerry Daeke, Paul Probst, ''i N ‘Fall Value Days’ Set Next Week By Local Merchants Some 30 local stores and other businesses, members of the Southern Pines Chamber of Com merce, are expected to take part in the “Fall Value Days” event next week. Special buys will be offered next Thursday, Friday and Sat urday in Southern Pines’ first co operative sale, sponsored by the Chamber’s Better Business Bu reau. A prize-drawing event will be featured. i; “Every effort is being made to make this a worthwhile sale, at tractive to both local and out-of- town shoppers,” said Miss Kath erine McDonald, Bureau chair man. “While many stores will of fer selected ‘specials,’ others are planning to place almost their entire stock on sale. Much of the stock is brand hew, purchased for the new season. Opportunity will be offered shoppers to fill their immediate needs at considerable savings, also to do their advance Christmas shopping.” Advertisements next week will contain coupons, to be deposited in each participating store or shop. Names will be drawn for prizes at close of business Saturday, then aU the containers will be’ brought to a central location for 1 . the grand prize drawing. Grand, prize will be a $25 purchase cer tificate good at any of the partic ipating business places. The “Fall Value Days” planning committee is composed of Miss McDonald, chairman, Earle B. Owen, Mrs. Lee Powers, J. T. Overton, Mrs. Jean Edson, Miss Kitty Wiley, Joe Montesanti, Jr., C. W. McLaughlin and L. D. Mc Donald. Blue And White Will Face Aberdeen In Homecoming Game Next Wednesday SPHS Team So Far District Masons <*• Gather Here For- Supper, Program Is Undefeated; To Have Rally Tuesday The traditional lively rivalry of Aberdeen and Southern Pines on the athletic field will be revived Wednesday afternoon of next week when the Blue and White football team of Aberdeen High school will meet the Aberdeen Red Devils at Memorial field here. The 1953 game may see the clash of two undefeated teams as Southern Pines has been victori ous in its first three starts and Aberdeen was undefeated as of Wednesday this week, although it had another game to play be- fcre next week’s game here. Sponsored by the student coun cil a reception will be held in the Community Center (former Elks club) on May street for Aberdeen and Southern Pines High School students only, immediately fol lowing the game next Wednes day. At 6;30 p. m. Tuesday, behind the gyymnasium. Southern Pines students will hold a pep rally, probably to be follow-,d by a parade with the High School band through the business sec- j tion. While plans had not been completed today, it was expect ed that merchants would be ask ed to use window decorations on the homecoming game theme in the days preceding the game. Bobby Cline, Tommy Ruggles, Garland Pierce. Third row same OTder; David McCallum, Gilbert Harbart, Emery Smith Charts jlme'^r Walter, Jimmy Menzel, Don’Burney James Collins. Top row, same order; Manager James Prim’ Richard Bethea, Billy Hamel, Joe Diggs, John Ray, JamS MorrT-’ son, Kenneth Creech, Assistant Manager Bobby Parker. Missing from the picture are Paul Warren and Phillip Morgan. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey) Town’s Deficit Now Appears To Run To $20,000 Deficit of the Town of Southern Pines for the 1952-53 fiscal year estimated recently at $10,000, will probably run about $20,000, Tom K. Cunningham, city manager, told members of the town council in a special meeting Tuesday af ternoon. Audit of the town’s books for the 1952-53 year has been com pleted by representatives of the John C. Muse accounting firm of ^nford, but the official report of the audit has not yet been receiv- ed. Cunningham said the $20,000 figure was based on his conversa- tions with the auditors. W^hen the full audit is received, the city manager will give a re port to the council, stating reasons for the deficit. 'The town’s recently adopted budget assumed a deficit of $10,- 000 and held proposed expendi tures to a minimum in order to wipe out the deficit without in creasing the $2.20 tax rate that has been in force for several years. If an additional $10,000 deficit shows up in the full audit report, it will mean some more financial I belt-tightening for the town. I TO PREACH SUNDAY Dr. J. Earl Danieley of Elon College will preach Sunday morning, September 27, at the Church of Wide Fellowship at 11 o’clock. Thrills, Fun For Youngsters Set For National Kids’ Day Saturday Boys and girls of Moore county who are 10 through 16 years old are looking forward to a big day Saturday. It will be National Kids’ Day ^sponsored throughout the nation William by the U. S. Air Force and Ki- wanis International and in Moore I County by the USAF Air-Ground Operations school and the Sand- I hills Kiwanis club. For most of the hundreds of I Moore County children who will j converge on Southern Pines in Ischool busses, the program will ■begin with a welcome and enter- Itainment program in Weaver ^auditorium at 1 p. m. For a group of contest winners Ivho will all be chosen by Satur- llay, the day begins at 10:30 a. m. when they will take over staff positions at the Air-Ground school, receive their awards and lunch with their “counterpart” staff officers, including Brig. Gen. M. Gross, commandant. J J. D. Hobbs, boys and girls work chairman for the Kiwanis club, and Major John F. Mc- 1 Carthy, project officer reptesent- |ing General Gross, have wdrked out a program that should pro vide thrills and entertainment ga lore for the youngsters. Following a welcome at the auditorium and two movies there. Air Force busses and private cars of Kiwanians will transport the boys and girls to “Drop Zone Charlie” on the Fort Bragg res- (Contlnued on Page 8) Over 135 Masons from the 12th Masonic district met Monday night at Southern Pines Lodge No. 484 for a fish supper and to hear an address by the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, Edwin T. Howgrd of High Point. Represented at the meeting were the lodges of Aber deen, West End, Laurinburg Rockingham, Raeford, Hamlet and Southern Pines. Also present was Congressman C. B. Deape of Rockingham, who gave the response in behalf of all attending this first official visit of the Grand Lodge officers, follow ing a welcoming speech by George Thompson of Southern Pines. Rev. A. D. Leon Gray, head of the Oxford (Masonic) Orphanage, gave a stimulating report on cur rent progress of the 80-year-old, $2,500,000 institution. Over 30() children are now being cared for at an average annual cost of $870 per child, he pointed out. Gray is chaplain of the North Carolina Grand Lodge. Other officers present included (Continued on page 8) School, Hospital Bond Vote Nears; Needs Outlined 77 Classrooms Are Needed In County, Committee Reveals Only a little over a week re mains before voters of North Car olina go to the polls October 3 to decide whether the state will is sue $50 million in bonds for school construction and $22 mil lion for expansion and improve ment of mental institutions. Registration for the election closed last Saturday. Registrars will be at polling places Saturday for challenge day when the right of any registered person to vote can be challenged. . A new registration was not re- cjuiied. Any person on the general election books in the precinct where he new resides is privileg ed to vote October 3. As the time for voting ap proaches, the Moore County com mittee working for approval of the bond issues points out the pressing needs for funds as ap plied to this county. Local and state-wide need for better schools and better mental hospitals is described in detail in a statement by the committee ap pearing on page 17 of today’s Pi lot. The statement points out that in Moore county the immediate school needs include 50 white and 27 Negro classrooms, 14 special type classrooms for white schools and 10 for Negro schools, as well as several cafeterias, gymnasiums and auditoriums. The statement stresses that property taxes will not be in creased if the bond issues pass, whereas taxes would have to be increased for the county to take care of these needs without state aid, and it would take a much longer time to do the job. As for mental hospitals, the committee points out that Moore coimty has 101 patients in mental I hospitals today with 13 persons! on a waiting list for these insti tutiens. Dr. Woodson To Speak At Men Of Church Banquet Dr. Marshall Woodson, presi dent of Flora Macdonald college. Red Springs, will be the main speaker in the Fellowship hall of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian church Friday night when the Men of the Church will hold their annual Ladies Night banquet. The event will begin at 7 p.m. Dr. Woodson heads an unusual and interesting program arranged by a committee headed by Graves Vann. Mrs. P. P. McCain, former (Continued on Page 8) RESOLUTION SETS CHILD SAFETY DAY Following is a resolution adopt ed by the Southern Pines town council setting September 26 as Children’s Safety Day and urging cooperation in eliminating haz ards to children: “Whereas recent tragedies in volving the loss of lives of inno cent children have pointed out the dangers of unused refrigerators, abandoned wells and similar haz ards, and ‘ Whereas Southern Pines loves its children and wants maximum protection for them, now ‘Be it resolved by the Town Council that September 26, 1953 shall be known as Children’s Safety Day, All citizens are urged on that day to examine their premises and surrqundings for any dangers that could injure chil dren. Any dangerous conditions that cannot be corrected by the individual should be reported im mediately to the City Manager, phone 2-6491. The full cooperation of the Council and City Manager is pledged to make Southern Pines a safer place for children.” Safety Day brings to a close a town-wide clean-up week spon sored by the Chamber of Com-1 merce. PRICE—TEN CENTS Dame Flora MacLeod to Visit Sandhills; Clan to Gather At Red Springs Will Appear Here At Church Event Tonight Dame Flora MacLeod of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, chieftan of the Clan MacLeod, will arrive in the Sandhills today (Friday). She landed et New York Tuesday of this week. Making her first public appear ance in Southern Pines Friday night at the annual Ladies Night dinner of the Men of the Church in the Fellowship Hall of Brown- son Memorial Presbyterian church she will go on through a crowded week’s schedule highlighted by an address to be made at Old Bethes- da Church homecoming at Aber- deen Sunday and a gathering of MacLeods at Flora Macdonald col- lep, Red Springs, next Tuesday afternoon. Hundreds of persons, many de scendants of the Highland Scots who settled in the Cape Fear val- I M spread throughout I North and South Carolina, are ex pected to attend both of these events. T her 74 years Lady Flora is a forceful person ality whose wit, charm and hu- manitarianism have been widely recognized. She is the 29th chief- tan of the Clan MacLeod. Her late husband was publisher of the London Times. She was made a Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II during the re cent coronation, one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a British woman. Her visit to North Carolina is part of a nationwide good will tour during which she is encour aging organization of the MacLeod clan in this country. Such organ ization IS expected to follow her meeting with the MacLeods and McLeods at Red Springs next week. Following is a summary of highlights in Lady Flora’s visit to the Sandhills: Friday (Today) . Arrive at Raleigh-Durham air port Friday morning. (Her grand sons Ian MacLeod and Patrick Gordon, who are accompanying her on the trip and will take part in events in this area are arriving by air Saturday). She will be met at the airport by Mr. and Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson of Aber deen and N#rth Carolina officials. She will visit the state capitol af ter arrival. Reception at the Johnson home where she will be a guest, Friday evening, also visit to the Men of the Church dinner here, following the dinner. (See story elsewhere in today’s Pilot). Saturday Will be greeted at the Johnson home by Mayor E. M. Medlin of Aberdeen, Mrs. Evelyn Pleasants, town clerk, and Miss Margaret McLeod of Aberdeen. At 11 a.m. will appear at the DAME FLORA MacLEOD Many Expected For Homecoming At Old Bethesda Morning Services, Lunch, Afternoon Program Scheduled Old Bethesda Presbyterian church near Aberdeen will be the scene Sunday of probably the largest and most publicized home coming in its history. Observing the 163rd anniver sary of founding of the church, the homecoming this year will be host to Dame Flora MacLeod, dis tinguished Scotswoman visiting in the United States. Chairman of the event is J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen and it was on his invi tation that Lady Flora is making ^ the visit to Aberdeen. Events qf the homecoming day will follow the customary pattern with a worship service in the aooear ar rho morning at 11:15, picnic lunch on 1 Collins Department ktorT, wh ch the ffroiind.<: nnrl an ..rill J , , . » wiiicii NEW NURSES at Moore County hospital include two who have studied under the scholarship program of the Sandhills Vet erans Association. Grouped around Miss Margaret Moser direc tor of nurses (seated), are, left to right. Miss Frankie Mann of Kannapolis; Miss Ida Martin McDonald, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. p. A. McDonald, Jr., of Carthage; and Miss Peggy Ann Cole dai^hter of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Cole of West End, route. Miss McDonald and Miss Cole won SVA scholarships, provided by contributions of the people of the county, in 1950, the only year m which two scholarships have been given. Miss Mann studied with Miss McDonald at Presbyterian hospital, Charlotte, and ac companied her to Moore County hospital. Miss Cole studied at Cabarrus County hospital. Concord. Under the scholarship pro gram, all expenses of a student nurse are paid and she agrees to return to work as a nurse for a year in Moore county after grad- (Pilot Staff Photo) the grounds and an afternoon pro gram, during which Lady Flora will speak, at 2:15. Rev. C. W. Worth, pastor of Be thesda church, will preside at the (Continued on Page 8) George Bowers, Drake Rogers New Officers Two vacancies in the Southern Pines police department have been fUled, Police Chief C. E. Newton announced today. The new officers are: Roland Bowers, 22, a grad uate of Southern Pines High school now living in Manly, who is a veteran of army service. Drake C. Rogers, 21, a graduate of Aberdeen High school now liv ing on Carthage, Route 3, who has been an agent with the State Cap itol Insurance Co. of Raleigh. Bowers is single. Rogers is mar ried, with one child. Bowers began work with the department Monday. Rogers will start Saturday. They replace Officers Ray Backlund and Keith Marks who resigned. will be decorated in MacLeod col ors, in Aberdeen. Tour of the Sandhills Saturday (Continued on page 8) THE REV. ALASDAIR JOHN STON will deliver the morning sermon at Old Bethesda church Sunday. He is pastor of King- Lassie church near Edinburgh, Scotland, and has been serving on an exchange basis this summer at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Is land, Canada. The morning serv ice is set for 11:15.