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VOL. 34—NO. 47
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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1953
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^ ‘Alec’ Fields, 66,
Succumbs; Funeral
Conducted Sunday
Soulhern Pines Man
Was Game Prolector
More Than 20 Years
Attended by a large gather
ing of relatives and friends, fun
eral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the First Baptist
church for Alexander Fields, 66,
who was stricken with a heart
attack and died while in the Ma
sonic Temple barber shop on
Bread street Friday morning of
last week.
The Rev. David Hoke Coon,
^ pastor of the church, officiated
at the services. Burial followed
in Mount Hope cemetery. Active
pallbearers were D. E. Bailey,
Melvin Gardner, W. T. Jackson,
C. R. Mills, Howard McNeill and
C. B. Gale.
“Alec" Fields, one of the most
widely known and highly respect
ed men in this area, retired about
four years ago after serving more
than 20 years as Moore County
game protector. An ardent hunt
er, he nevertheless devoted a
great part of his life to the con
servation of wildlife and rigorous
administration of the state’s hunt
ing laws. He was known through
out the state for his services not
only in game conservation but
also in forest protectiem.
Mr. Fields was born in Deep
River township, the son of George
^ and Amanda Cole Fields. He mov
ed to Southern Pines in 1908 and
operated a barber shop.
In 1928 he became one of the
first employes of the newly form
ed N. C. Forest Service. His duties
then combined those of game war
den and forest fire protector. A
one-man fire fighting force, with
small funds at his disposal, he
organized volunteer crews and
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Baptist Asso. To
Meet Next Week
At Two Churches
The annual meeting of the
South Sandy Creek Baptist As
sociation will be held at the
Cameron Baptist Church on
Thursday, October 15, and at the
Flint HiU Baptist Church off
highway 27 between Carthage
and Robbins, on Friday, October
16.
The meeting will open at Cam
eron at 10 a. m. with the Rev C.
V. Comer reading the scripture
and offering the prayer.
^' The Rev. O. J., Hagler of Car-
thage will give the stewardship,
mission committee and evangel
ism report with Dr. J. C. Canipe
of Hendersonville, Baptist State
Convention Secretary of Evangel
ism, leading the discussion.
The report on Christian educa
tion win Ipe made by the Rev. R.
L. Beal with Claude F. Gaddy of
Raleigh, executive secretary of
the Coimcil on Christian Educa
tion of the State Baptist Conven-
tion, leading the discussion.
The historia' report will be
made by Mrs Parks with
the introdu'- mon at 11:50
a. m. by t' Parham.
Lunch at 12:30
with th n begin-
PRICE—TEN CENTS
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(JHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER was celebrated
at the American Legion hut near Carthage Tues
day night when the community welcomed home
two former prisoners of the Communists in Ko
rea—Master Sergeant Gentry T. Frye, left, and
Private First Class Arthur McDuffie, right. Ev
erybody knows the jolly figure in the center is
Santa Claus, who distributed gifts to the two
servicemen, but behind the beard is the face of
Cpl. M. S. Parvin of the State Highway Patrol
who lives near Carthage. “I couldn’t find you
last year, said Santa as he entered the building.
“God bless you both.” (Photo by V. W. Hardee)
Carthage Welcomes War Prisoners
Frye And McDuffie
Greeted At Legion
Hut Tuesday Night
Moore County rounded out its
welcome for its three former pris
oners of the Communists in Ko
rea when Joseph G. Henson post
No. 12 of'the American Legion
at Carthage staged a barbecue
supper and program.
night honoring Master ’^rgeaht
Gentry T. Frye, 24, of Carthage,
Rc-ute 3, and Private First Class
Arthur McDuffie, 27, of Biscoe,
Route 1.
Sergeant Henry Bradford of
Southern Pines, first to return,
had previously been honored in
a “Bradford Day” celebration
here. All three of the men were
in separate prison camps and had
not known each other overseas.
On hand to welcome the two
young men Tuesday night were
Congressman C. B. Deane of
Rockingham; Bob Chriscoe, of
Pinehurst, 12th Dist. Legion com
mander, who read a letter from
Ray Galloway, chairman of the
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SCOUT DRIVE HELD
Results of the one-day Moore
County Boy Scout fund drive con
ducted Tuesday under direction of
Brig. Gen. Pearson Menoher of
Knollwood, were not available at
The Pilot’s press time Thursday.
More than 50 workers in the
Southern Pines collection met at
Holliday’s Coffee Shop Tuesday
mjorning to launch the campaign
with a breakfast rally.
North Carolina committee to wel
come returning prisoners, on be
half of Gov. William B. Umstead;
Carthage Post Commander Bill
Dalrymple and ethers.
Gifts were presented by a port
ly and convincing Santa Claus
played by Cpl. M. C. Parvin of
the State Highway Patrol. He ar
rived in the replica locomotive of
the Moore County Voiture, 40 and
8 Society, with whistle blowing
and bell ringing.
In addition to gifts from mer
chants and individuals, handed
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Harden To Speak
Wednesday When
C. of C. Gathers
Tickets have gone out to all
members cf the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce for the an
nual banquet and Ladies Night of
the Chamber, which will be held
at the Southern Pines Country
club at 7 p. m. Wednesday.
This will be the first banquet
held by the Chamber in several
years and considerable effort is
being expended on making it an
outstanding event, according to
information from Valerie Nichol
son, president pro tern.
J. B. Perkinson'is chairman of
arrangements. However, on ac
count of his present illness, Ward
Hill is taking over as chairman,
with Dr. R. B. McKenzie as toast
master.
Guest speaker will be John
Harden of Greensboro, Burling
ton Mills vice-president in charge
of public relations. Mr., Harden,
a former newspaperman in Char
lotte, Salisbury and Greensboro,
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advisory Corn-
asked to study
dn-street and orf-street parking-
facilities and make recommenda
tions as to solution of present and
future parking problems.
In making the request of the
committee. City Manager Tom E.
Cunningham said that suggestions
about parking which have been
brought to his attention included:
whether the town is getting max
imum utilization of on-street and
off-street parking places, > wheth
er any additional parking facili
ties are needed, whether parking
meters or changes in regulations
would help and what provision
should be made for off-street
parking, either publicly or pri
vately supported.
Requests made to the commit
tee on five other town problems
are listed in detail elsewhere in
today’s Pilot.
LOOKING AT A MAP before starting off Saturday morning
in an attempt to locate a tract of land where it is believed Flora
McDonald, Scottish heroine, once lived, are, left to right: Phillips
Russell, professor of journalism at UNC; Paul Green of Chapel
Hill, author and playwright; R. E. Wicker of Pinehurst, student
of early North Carolina history; Dr. Blackwell Robinson of Chap
el Hill, who is writing a history of Moore county; and Malcolm
Fowler of Lillington, student of local history. The group has
been searching off and on for the land during the past 15 years
and a new clue as to its whereabouts sent them to lower Mont
gomery county Saturday. Mr. Wicker later reported theii' inves
tigation was “encouraging,” but that no definite conclusions
could yet be reached. (Pilot Staff Photo)
Lights Chairman
Wants Reports In
By This Saturday
All solicitors in the fund cam
paign for lighting the school ball
field are asked to make their final
reports by Saturday “so we can
know where we stand,” said
Chairman W. B. Holliday, who
heads the Chamber of Commerce
committee for the project.
A similar request, issued last
week, brought reports from only
one-fourth of the solicitors. “These
looked good but we have to know
more before we can make any
further plans,” the chairman said.
He said 17 solicitors out of a
total of more than 60 had reported
cash and pledges, about half and
half, totaling something over $800.
These came in from only a frac
tion of the downtdwn area, while
the rest of the business district
and most of the residential remain
unaccounted for as yet.
Reports are to be turned in at
the Chamber of Commerce office
until it closes Saturday noon, and
after that to Mr. Holliday at the
Coffee Shop.
A goal of $6,500 has been set up,
to be secured through community
wide canvassing. If this can be
done, another fund available from
the Southern Pines Elks lodge
will complete the sum of approx
imately $8,500 required for the
lighting project. If the total
amount cannot be secured to get
the project under way, the $2,000
will not be available, as this fund
may be used only if applied to the
whole projejet, as originally plan
ned.
Planning, is for nine poles, with
modern floodlights, for night
games on both the football and
baseball fields. The park belongs
to the school and will remain un
der school administration, with
policies for its use, with or with
out lights, vested in the school
authorities.
Mrs. Jones Wins
Value Days Prize
The $25 .grand prize given in
last week’s “Fall Value Days”
event, sponsored by the Chamber
of Commerce, was wOn by Mrs.
Don Jones. Her name was drawn
from estimated 2,500 coupons that
were dropped in boxes at the es
tablishments of cooperating mer
chants. For a complete list of
prize winners, see story on page
12. A report on value days, from
the Chamber of Commerce direct
ors’ meeting, is on page 6.
Brown Announces
Candidacy For
State YDC Head
Friends Meet Here
Monday; Campaign
In Raleigh Slated.
W. Lament Brown of Southern
Pines, solicitor of Moore recorders
court, has announced his candi
dacy for president of the North
Carolina Young Democrats, fol
lowing an enthusiastic meeting of
friends and well-wishers held here
Monday night.
Potential support within the
district, and from a number of
counties in other districts, was
tallied up and found sufficiently
promising for the Moore county
man to be induced to enter the
race.
The group of Moore county
YDC members, meeting in Voit
Gilmore’s office, made plans for
the opening of a headquarters for
their candidate at the Sir Walter
Wednesday night, and for other
promotional activities to take
place during the YDC state con
vention Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday. Mr. Brown left for Ral
eigh Wednesday.
Miss Dbrothy Ann Swisher, a
student at Meredith college, Ral
eigh, will be chief receptionist at
the Brown headquarters. Miss
Swisher was National Beauty
Queen of the VFW in 1951 and in
the summer of 1952 placed third
in the Miss North Carolina con
test. She is vice-president of the
Southern Pines YDC club and will
accede to the presidency in the
event Mr. Brown, now the local
president, is elected to the state
office.
The Moore county man’s entry
makes the presidential race four-
cornered, with two candidates
from the Eighth District. Miss
Edith Marsh of Monroe, now em
ployed in Raleigh, declared her
self a candidate several weeks
ago. Longest in the race and con-
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Hall Named Chairman
Of Hallowe'en Event
Plans for the Hallowe’en Carni
val sponsored annually by the
Southern Pines Rotary club were
made at the regular luncheon
meeting of the club last Friday in
the Village Inn.
Johnnie A. Hall was made gen
eral chairman of the event which
will again feature an outdoor com
munity celebration with booths,
stunts, costume parade, judging
and prizes.
Further details will be announc
ed.
Town Council To Meet
Tuesday; Appointments
To Committees Slated
Moore Favors
2 Bond Issues
By Big Margin
With only one precinct voting in
opposition, Mcore County citizens
expressed overwhelming approval
Saturday for proposed state bond
issues. The proposals were favor
ed by large majorities through
out the state.
As a result of the referendum,
Ncrth Carolina will issue $50 mil
lion in bonds for construction of
school buildings and $22 million
for expansion and improvement of
mental hospitals and institutions.
The unofficial vote in Moore
County was:
As to schools—2,454 for, 406
against.
As to mental hospitals—2,502
for, 308 against.
The Moore County majority in
the school vote was slightly under
the seven-to-one approval for the
state as a whole on the school
bonds and about the state average
of eight-to-one approval of the
mental institutions bonds.
Spencerville precinct, which
includes the Westmoore school
community, was the only one in
Moore county to vote against
either of the proposals. Spencer
ville voted 42-40 against schools
nd 44-35 against mental hospi
tals.
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Waddell Facing
Superior Court
Trial In Wreck
James E. Waddell, Southern
Pines Negro who was driving an
automobile that struck and kill
ed James Everett Lathan, nine-
year-old Negro child at the in
tersection of New Hampshire ave
nue and Hale street September 2,
has been bound over to Superior
court for trial on charges of
speeding and careless and reck
less driving resulting in a death.
Waddell appeared in recorders
court Monday for a hearing.
Probable cause was found by
Judge J. Vance Rowe. Bond was
set at $100. The Lathan boy, a res
ident of New York city, was visit
ing in Southern Pines when the
accident occurred. He was riding a
bicycle when struck by the car.
New Ordinance
On Garbage To
Be Presented
The Southern Pines town coun
cil wjll meet Tuesday night of
next week, October 13, in the
town hall at 8 o’clock.
Under a newly adopted system
of the council, a “memorandum
docket’’ is issued prior to the
meeting by city manager Tom E.
Cunningham, to bring matters to
be discussed to the attention of
council members and the public
and to speed action on these mat
ters during the session.
Following is the memorandum
docket for Tuesday’s meeting:
1. Call mfeeting to order, read
minutes of last meeting. (15 min)
2. Hearing of citizens who care
to be heard. (15 min.)
3. Report of committee on town
code on the town’s garbage collec
tion policies and introduction of
An Ordinance Regulating the Col
lection of Garbage ,'knd Other
Refuse (First reading of the Or
dinance. Public hearing to be set
by Council after advertisement).
(25 min.)
4. Report of the city attorney
on a request by the council for
an extension of the option on the
Rowe property on W. New York
Ave. (10 min.)
5. Consideration of adopting a
policy of not prosecuting out of
state visitors for parking viola
tions (Request of Mayor). (15
min.)
6. Amending the town traffic
ordinance to increase the parking
time on West New Hampshire
Ave. from a 15 minute limitation
to a 2 hour limitation. (10 min.)
7. Appointing members to the
following committees: Recreation
Committee (4 members); Zoning
Board (5 members); Board of
Zoning Adjustment (5 members).
(1 hour).
8. Anticipating funds to be re
ceived by the Town from the sale
of the police station and appro
priating $5,910 for debt service on
the fire station bond anticipation
note due December 1, 1953, and
appropriating $590 for improve-
mehts to the present storage shed
for the new fire truck in order to
protect it from the weather and
low temperatures. (15 min.)
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NEW POLICE OFFICERS who recently began serving with
the Southern Pines police department are Roland Bowers, left,
and Drake Rogers. Bowers is a 1950 graduate of Southern Pines
High school, where he played on the state championship football
team of the 1949 season. He was released from army duty Sep
tember 1 after serving 30 months in Germany as a section leader
in an anti-aircraft artillery unit. He is the son of Mrs. Flora
Bowers of Manly, where he lives, and is not married. Rogers is
a 1950 graduate of Aberdeen High school. Though now living
near Carthage, he plans to move to Southern Pines as soon as
possible, with his wife, the former Kathryn Ann McCaskill, and
their baby daughter, Marilyn Ann. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. C. Rogers who live between Aberdeen and Pinebluff and was
formerly an insurance agent. (Pilot Staff Photo)
No Break Yet In
Sunrise Robbery,
Police Chief Says
Melodrama shifted from the
screen to the office at the Sunrise
theatre Saturday night when a
masked bandit held a pistol on
Nick Stringfellow, manager, and
made off with $369.30 from the
desk on which Stringfellow had
been counting the money at the
close of the day’s business. The
robbery took place about 10 p.m.
Police Chief C. E. Newton be
gan an immediate investigation,
calling in an SBI agent to assist.
While investigation is continuing,
there had been no new develop
ments in the case by noon Thurs
day.
Thought to be a Negro, the man
was dressed in a trenchcoat-type
raincoat and his face was partial
ly hidden by a handkerchief
mask. He pointed an autorhatic
pistol at Stringfellow, demanding
that he put all the money in a bag
and give it to him. He left im
mediately.
Miss Frye Resigns
Post With Town
Miss Myrtle Frye of near Car
thage, who for the past nine years
has been employed in the South
ern Pines town office, has resign
ed, it was announced yesterday by
City Manager Tom E. Cunning
ham. Her resignation was effec
tive Tuesday afternoon of this
week.
The town is now advertising for
an administrative secretary to
fill the vacancy, asking for appli
cants who are high school grad
uates and able to operate various
business machines. Applications
are to be made to the city man
ager at town hall.