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Forum On
Industry
Conducted
Workers Of State ‘
Praised For Good
Production Record
Lt. Gov. Luther H. Hodges said
here Tuesday night that industry
has begun to "‘realize more and
more during the past decade that
it ought to get out into the coun
try and away from congested
areas.”
Hodges was one of the speakers
on the program of the develop
ment forum held in Weaver audi-
toriumi for several hundred in
dustry-minded citizens from Har
nett, Hoke, Scotland, Lee, Moore,
Richmond, Montgomery, Anson
Stanly, Randolph and Union
counties. Other counties were also
represented at the forum.
The forum was the 10th and
last of a series sponsored by the
State Department of Conservation
and Development in stepped up
efforts to aid local communities in
obtaining more industrial pay-
rolls\and thus bring about a bet
ter balance betfc^een agriculture
and industry in North Carolina.
Others speaking on the pro
gram were A. B. Johnson, an offi
cial of General Electric Com
pany’s plant at Ashebcro; Warren
T. White, assistant vice president.
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co.,
Norfolk, Va.; Miles J. Smith of
Salisbury, first vice chairman of
the State Board of Conservation
and Development; Ernest C. Mc
Cracken of Raleigh, service divi
sion director for the Employment
Security Commission of North
Carolina; and Director Ben E.
Douglas of the Department of
Conservation and Development.
Stressing the need for more di
versification for industry in the
State, Hodges declared, “We just
simply cannot obtain progress by
waving of a wand or all we
want by just running to Washing
ton or Raleigh.”
'Altitude' Praised
An industrialist of note himself
the lieutenant governor praised
what he termed the “attitude to
ward woi^k” of North Carolina
workers and said industry has
found this a determining factor
in locating plants in this State.
“We really have a wonderful cli
mate of attitude toward work and
we sho”lr) talk mci-p about it to
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BOY SCOUT LEADERS attending Moore
County District Annual Recognition and Instal
lation Dinner, held Monday night in Pinehurst
are shown here. Left to right, front row; Jim
Wilson, district; executive; Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr.,
district commissioner; W. B. “Dobbie” Dobson’
Atlanta, regional Scout executive; Gen, Pearson
Menoher, newly elected Moore District chair
man; Eagle Scout Charles Swaringen, Pinehurst;
W. D. Campbell, chairman. Region Six and new
ly elected president, Occoneechee Council; Her
bert McCaskill, 1953 district chairman; S. P.
Gaskin, executive, Occoneechee Council.
In back row: Ed Swaringen, newly elected
1954 Auto License Plates Will Go
On Sale Here Tuesday, December 1
Motorists Urged To
Buy Licenses Early,
Avoiding Last Rush
Craighill Brown
Has Heart Attack
The Rev. F. Craighill Brown,
former rector of Emmanuel Epis
copal church here' who is now a
teacher and chaplain at the
Berkeley Theological Seminary,
New Haven, Conn., is a patient at
New Haven hospital, following a
severe heart attack suffered at his
home Saturday morning.
The Pilot was informed this
week that he is “critically ill but
making favorable progress.” The
heart attack took place as he was
eating breakfast after having con
ducted an early morning service
at the seminary.
New 1954 State vehicle license
plates will go on sale Tuesday,
December 1, at 9 a. m., it was an
nounced today by Miss Alice
Baxter, manager of the Chamber
of Commerce office where the
Carolina Motor Club’s area sales
office for license plates is located.
The Chamber cl Commerce of
fice has moved during the past
year from its former Broad Street
looEtion to offices at the rear of
the building on Pennsylvania
I Avenue, a short distance north of
j the Broad Street intersection, now
occupied by Eastman, Dillon and
Co. The License Bureau is reach
ed at the rear of the building by
a walkway in from the sidewalk
£t the north side of the building.
Motorists were urged by Miss
Baxter to buy their licenses well
in_ advance of the January 31
deadline and avoid the perennial
last minute rush, which always
finds hundreds of persons in long
queues throughout the state.
This year, the license pistes are
black on orange, reversing the
1953 color scheme.
Certain changes were made by
the 1953 legislature with regard
to licensing of trucks. In general,
licenses will be issued on the ba
sis of the driver’s declaration as
to the empty weight and maxi
mum lor d of his vehicle.
Miss Baxter recently returned
TOWN TAGS
Town of Southern Pines
automobile licenses for 1954,
costing $1 each and required
cif all residents living here
more than 90 days, will go on
sale at the town office De
cember 1, it was announced
today by City Manager Tom
E. Cunningham,
Elks To Entertain
Football Squad At
Banquet Saturday
The Southern Pines High
School football squad will be en
tertained Saturday night at the
Country Club with the Annual
Testimonial Banquet given by the
Southern Pines Elks Lodge;
health and safety chairman, Moore district; Fred
Chappell, commissioners’ staff. Southern Pines;
Fred Flinchum, commissioners’ staff, Carthage’;
W. Lament Brown, newly elected finance chair
man, Moore district; Bill McLaurin, camping
chairman, Moore district; John Ponzer, new
vice-chamman, Moore district; Clarence Thomas,
new activities chairman, Moore district; Al
Foley, new j^ganization and extension chair
man, Moore district; Lawrence Johnson, 1954
advancement chairman, Moore district, and Paul
Ward, Cubmaster, Southern Pines.
(Photo by Hemmer Shop)
Scouters Install
District Leaders;
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Awards Presented
Approximately 175 Boy Scout
representatives from Moore Coun
ty and their wives attended the
annual Recognition Dinner held
Monday evening at the Pinehurst
School Cafeteria. Various awards
and remarks by several speakers
completed the event, which was
under the direction of Dr. John C.
Grier, Jr., of Pinehurst, Moore
County Scout Commissioner.
Following the dinner, Hubert
McCaskill of Pinehurst spoke otj
the progress of Scouting in 1953,
and detailed accounts were also
given by chairmen of the various
operating committees. The main
speaker was W. A. Dobson of At
Hard-Surfaced
Cut-Off Road To
Fort Bragg Opens
Work Starling This
Week On Road To
Link With Route 211
A new hard-surfaced road that
will speed and ease traffic to Fort
Bragg from; the Sandhills, running
from Bethesda Road, just north of
Pcwell’s Pond, to the “Fort Bragg
cutoff” and Manchester road in
tersection and thence into the
military reservation, is now open.
Forrest Lockey of Aberdeen,
10th Division highway commis
sioner, said that the new 24-feet-
wide road, with wide shoulders, is
3.1 miles in length and has been
landscaped with special care. Per-
sjjns who have driven over the
road describe it as a scenic drive.
Signs were to go up on the road
this week, Mr. Lockey said. The
commissioner also noted that
work is starting this week on cut
ting right of way for a cut-off
road that will run from the new
road to Highway 211, the Aber-
deen-Raeford highway. The new
cut-off will run from an extension
of the road by The Ark apart
ment house, will cross the new
Fort Bragg road and will contin
ue to 211. This road will be of
great service in driving from
Southern Pines to Raeford.
Union Service To Open
Thanksj^ivin^ Holiday
Schools To
MR. FUNDERBURK
lanta. Region Six Scout Execu
tive.
Addressing his remarks to lead
ers of Scout units, Dobson asked
that the men of tomorrow might
look back upon “the time when
they were in your troop in the
days of their youth.” He spoke of
how much is owed today to the
Scoutmasters of yesterday. “I like
Tickets for the event are on to clothe our statistics with flesh
sale, admitting the public up to j and blood,” he continued, "‘par-
the capacity of the dining room,! (Continued on Page 8)
after Elks and their guests, have j
been accommodated. John Rug-
glesj chairman of arrangements
and ticket sales, said Thursday
Formal Opening of
Shaw House, New
‘Loom House’ Set
Formal opening of the Shaw
that tickets are still available.
Jerry Ashton and C. N. Page are
co-chairmen for the event. John
E. Cline will be toastmaster. Phil
Weaver, former Southern Pines
school superintendent, of Greens- ^naw
- boro, has been invited to attend ! winter season will
from a Carolina Motor Club li- but it was not known Thursday | place Sunday afternoon, No-
cense school at Raleigh. During | if he and Mrs. Weaver would be I vember 29, it was announced to-
the all-day meeting. Club mana- able to come. Dr. Robert McKen- i Ernest L. Ives, pres-
zie of Southern Pines has been in- th® Moore County His-
vited to repeat a humorous skit Association. Tea will be
that was enjoyed at last year’s i 2 to 6 p.m.
banquet. ‘loom hpuse”—a log cabin
rrv, . uioved to the Shaw House grounds
The James Milhken Memorial I f^^^ Upper Moore County and
Trophy sponsored by the John authentically restored and fur-
Boyd Post Veterans of Foreign nished-wiU be open fpr inspec
tor tion by the public for the first
geld footballs and letters to play- time that day, Mrs. Ives said.
I The Shaw House, owned by the
Exalted Ruler B. C. Doyle of Historical Association, is located
the Elks Lodge will make the ad-' at the intersection of S. Broad
dress of welcome. ; Street and No. 1 highway.
Historical Group
To See Film Ou
Colouial Times
A film on Colonial Williams
burg will be shown at the first
meeting of the Moore County His
torical Association, to be held in
the-Southern Pines Library Tues
day evening, November 24, at 8
o’clock, it was announced today
by Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, president
of the association.
The film pictures 18th century
life in Williamsburg, in sound and
color, Mrs. Ives said, and runs 44
minutes.
Also, on the program will be re
ports on transfer of the old Brit
tain Sanders house from a site
near Deep River in Upper Moore
County to the Shaw House
grounds here and also a report on
the early history of Moore County
being written by Dr. Blackwell
Robinson of Chapel Hill.
The program announced today
replaces a tentative program, an
nounced recently, featuring a talk
by W. D. Campbell on the whal
ing museum at Mystic, Conn.
gers were instructed by State of
ficials in the application of new
licensing regulations.
During the license season, the
Carolina Motor Club’s business
hours will be from 9 a. m. to 5
p. mi.
FOR'EASTERN TITLE
The Blue Knights of South
ern Pines High School were
to play the football team of
Stantonsburg High School of
near Wilson for the Eastern
North Carolina six-man
championship last (Thursday)
night at 8 o’clock at Camp
bell College, Buies Creek.
Coach Irie Leonard said
that if Southern Pines won,
the Blue Knights will face the
Western champions in a game
at Memorial Field here on
Thanksgiving Day.
Due to The Pilot’s presstime
late Thursday, it was impos
sible to piiblish the results of
the Stantonsburg game in this
week’s paper.
Funderburk To
Run For Eighth
District Office
Coble Funderburk, Monroe at
torney and former member of the
State Senate and House of Repre
sentatives, today announced his
decision to enter the Democratic
primary next May for the Com
grass, representing the Eighth
N. C. District. The post is now
held by Charles B. Deane of Rock
ingham, also a Democrat.
Mr. Funderburk, a native of
Union County, has been conduct-
^ ing a survey of the 12-county dis
trict for the past several weeks.
He said that he has received much
encouragement from all sections.
A former feather and athletic
j coach, Mr. Funderburk has been
, practicing law in Monroe since
;1932. He represented Union
County in the State Legislature
j in 1935 and in the State Senate in
1941 and 1943.
I Born on a farm 12 miles south
of Monroe, the son of Howard and
Sloane'Jones Funderburk, Mr.
Funderburk attended the county
schools and received his AB de
gree at Furman University. He
taught school for four years be
fore obtaining his license to prac-
tic law after studying at Wake
Forest College. He is a deacon in
the First Baptist Church and has
been teacher of the Men’s Bible
Class for 20 years.
I iv/r" lit’ T^^'^ri6d to
the former Miss Faire Lathan and
they have three children, Bar
bara, 12, Jimmy, 8, and Jerry, 7.
Rritish General
To Visit School
Major General G. S. Thompson,
British director of land-air war
fare, from the War Office, Lon
don, England, will arrive at the
tfSAF Air-Ground School Tues
day, it was announced today.
General Thompson, who is in
the United States to study tactical
air operations and the difference
between the United States and
United Kingdom system of air-, vuwn \
ground warfare, will be accompa- ; open Friday, November 27
nied by a British officer, Lt. Col.
C. F. O. Breese.
Have 4-Day
Vacation
Residents of Southern Pines
and Moore Couhty are preparing
: for Thanksgiving on Thursday of
next week, November 26, with a
general holiday in prospect
throughout this area, highlighted
by rel^ious services in most com
munities and family gatherings.
Union Service
In Southern Pines, the observ
ance will begin Wednesday night
at 7:30 when the annual union
Thanksgiving service, sponsored
by four Protestant churches, with
the public invited, will be hold at
the First Baptist Church, corner
of New York avenue and Ashe
street.
The Rev. C. V. Coveil, rector of
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, will
preach and ministers of three oth
er churches will have parts in the
service—the Rev. David Hoke
Coon of the First Baptist Church
the Rev. C. K. Ligon of Brownson
Memorial Presbyterian Church
and Dr. Oswald W. S. McCall, in
terim pastor of the Church of
Wide Fellowship.
The offering will be for the
Christian Rural Overseas Pro-
gram. The choir, with represent
atives from aU the churches, will
be under supervision of the host
I church choir.
Thursday Service
Holy Communion will be cele
brated- at Emmanuel Episcopal
Church Thursday morning at 10
o’clock, with the offering going to
the Thompson Orphanage at
Charlotte.
School Holiday
Students In' " Southern Ptnes
schools will have a holiday from
nocn, Wednesday to the follow
ing Monday morning. The school
cafeteria will operate only on
Monday and Tuesday of next
week. This holiday schedule ap
plies to both white and Negro
schools.
General Holiday
■There will be a general business
holiday, with most stores and of
fices closing.
The Southern Pines post office
will have no city delivery, the
general dbhvery window will be
open from 10 to 11 a.m., mail will
be dispatched to boxes as usual,
outgoing mail will be dispatched
as usual and the lobby will be
open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Co. here and other banks flirough-
out the county will be closed.
Town Office Closed
Thanksgiving will be a holiday
for town employees and the town
office will be closed. As there
will be no garbage collection on
Thanksgiving Day, City Manager
Tom E. Cunningham urges citi
zens to clear garbage and refuse
from their residences during the
two days before ' Thanksgiving,
whichever is their regular collec
tion day. The town office will be
Pay
ment is due in November on 1953
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i
Lalesi Change Most Exciting
Five Pretty Yearlings Now At Starland
APPRECIATION DAY—Mayor Lloyd T. Clark, left, and Brig.
Gen. William M. Gross, commandant of the USAF Air-Ground
School at the Highland Pines Inn, are pictured here as they spoke
briefly in ceremonies at town hall marking Appreciation Day
last week, when Air Force personnel and their families were
guests of townspeople at an open air supper in the adjoining
park. The event also served as an Armistice Day observance
(Photo by V. W. Hardee)
By E. O. HIPPUS
The horse world of the Sand
hills has seen many changes and
it looks as if the most exciting
might be the latest.
A good reason for that prophecy
may be seen -cut at Starland
Stables' on the Midland Road.
There Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Tate
I Jr. have five of as pretty year-
j lings as you would find in ary a
I stable in this state, and not in
very many others. There -are three
[colts and two fillies, one of the
latter being perhaps the star from
a breeding angle, but all can boast
high-class bloodlines.
The Tates started buying year
lings at Belmiont last June. With
the expert advice of Mickey
Walsh, of Stoneybrook Stables,
who will train the string, to
guide them, they picked up two;
then found another they liked at
Saratoga, and the remaining pair,
and probably the best of the lot,
were bought at the Keenland sale
in Kentucky two weeks ago, when
the Tates drove m/er to Lexing
ton with Mr. and Mrs. Walsh.
All Yearlings Well Bred
All the youngsters are outstand
ing in breeding, tracing their an
cestry back to some of the great
est money-winners on the track.
Cosmic Bomb is the sire of two,
the black colt out of Paris, and
the black filly whose dam is Fair
Stay, by the famous sire. Fair
Play. Both mares have been good
producers of winners and Fair
Stay, a stake winner, won 16
races. Four of her colts have been
winners, and this filly looks as if
she would follow their lead. She
is graceful, light-moving, with a
fine breedy head. The sire of both
these yearlings. Cosmic Bomb,
won more than $248,890 in his
day.
■The colt bought at Saratoga is
a bay, well-developed 'for a year
ling, with the shoi"t top-line, deep
girth and fine strong quarters of
a jumper. He is by Reply Pay out
of Miss Curtsey, and if he doesn’t
pan out on the track, as he ought
to, according to his breeding,
somebody is gding to get a grand
hunter.
As if this weren’t enough of a
good thing, we move into a still
higher bracket with the last two
on the list, the ones the Tates
brought back from Lexington.
These are a dark, brown colt by
Equifox, and the one already
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CHAIRMAN PRESIDES—Ferrell H. Brown of Aberdeen (cen
ter), chairman of the Moore County Red Cross Chapter, presided
last Wednesday night at a quarterly ‘dutch’ dinner meeting of the
chapter’s board of directors, held at the Pine Needles clubhouse.
At left is W. W. Jefferson of Atlanta, Ga., vice-president of the
American Red Cross for the Southeastern area, and at right is
Mrs. Audrey Kennedy of Southern Pines, executive secretary of
the Moore County Chapter. Mr. Brown and other officers of the
chapter will serye until July 1 of next year when new officers,
elected at the annual meeting of the chapter in the late spring,
will take over. (Photo by Humphrey)