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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,
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‘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
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.