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PRICE—TEN CENTS
RESTORED CABIN—J. W. Causey, left, a'hd
Roy Newton, members of the Moore County
Historical Association’s restoration committee
for the log cabin moved to the Shaw House
grounds, are shown here inspecting the complet
ed structure. They are looking at the chimney,
built by Ed Calcutt who lives between Southern
Pines and Aberdeen, with stones fitted together
in the pioneer manner. Such chimneys used to
b^ built with mud, not mortar, and the wide
overhang of the eaves above them was to help
protect the mud from washing out. Mr. CaI^sey
was instrumental in obtaining the building and
Mr. Newton actively supervised the construction
throughout. (Pilot Staff Photo)
Shaw House, Old Cabin Will Open
Even! Set Sunday;
Cabin Thought To
Be 200 Years Old
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The public will be permitted to
get its first close inspection and
interior view of the restored old
log cabin on the Shav/ House
Grounds Sunday afternoon when
the Moore County Historical As
sociation will open the historic
Shaw House to serve tea from 2 to
6 p. m. and will arrange for vis
iters to see the smaller building
on the grounds.
Originally a dwelling probably
built nearly 200 years ago, the old
cabin is now fitted up as a “weave
house’’ and cooking house—pur
poses to which such pioneer cab
ins were placed after the owners
had constructed larger dwellings
nearby.
The Shaw House, located at the
intersection of South Broad Street
and No. 1 highway, has been care
fully restored as an authentic
home of more than a century ago
Aid is operated by the Historical
Association, of which Mrs. Ernest
L. lyes is president, as a tea room
during the Fall, Winter and
i Spring.
On display in the log cabin are
an old loom, a spinning wheel,
old cooking utensils used in the
big fireplace and other articles
from pioneer times.
The old cabin was given to the
Historical Association by E. V.
Hogan of Norman and James
Allen of Star, lumbermen who
owned the land on which it was
located in upper Moore County.
Members of the restoration
committee for the cabin were
Mrs. Katlierine S. McColl,.J. W.
Causey, Norris Hodgkins, Jr., and
Roy Newton who supervised the
reconstruction. Mrs. Ives has
worked closely with the project
since its inception. Actual moving
and reconstruction took place last
summer.
The building is known as the
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Christmas lights will be
sparkling in the downtown
district by the first weekend
in December, according to
plans of the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce, re
ported by W. B. Holliday,
. chauman of the lighting pro
ject.
Mr. Holliday and his coni-
miittee will complete their
p..ans at a meeting to bo held
at the Chamber office Friday
night.
Lights have been up in
some North Carolina cities for
tire past week or 10 days. "We
tnink that's too early,’' the
Chamber chairman said.
"Let's enjoy our Thanksgiv
ing—then turn our minds to
the Christmas >season." He
urged that early shoppers in
vestigate the local stores be
fore making any plans to rush
off arid shop elsewhere. "Our
merchants have full .stocks of
brand-new merchandise
ready for your gift-shopping.
They will have some beauti
ful displays, to fulfil your
every Christmas wishi."
Silver Star For
Korea Gallantry
Awarded Woodall
A Southern Pines soldier who
single-handedly crushed a six man
Communist attack on his position
has been awarded America’s third
highest combat award in Korea.
M|Sgt. Robert G.. Woodall of
140 W. Vermont Avenue received
the Silver Star for the gallantry
he displayed while supervising a
work detail repairing “Sandbag
Castle,” a UN outpest, it was re
vealed in an Army announcement
this week. At the time, he was
a member of Company C in the
40th Division’s 224th Infantry
Regiment.
While Woodall’s crew was
working, six Communist soldiers
charged from their positions 25
yards away, spraying the UN pos
ition with their “burp guns,” the
announcement said.
“Woodall im.mediately exposed
himself to the enemy fire and
Eifter several bursts from his car
bine, killed four of the enemy and
forced the remaining two to re
turn to their position,” his cita
tion relates.
“While firing into the enemy
group,” adds the citation, he “was
hit by several fragments of white
phosphorus, but he disregarded
the great pain and remained in
position until the enemy with
drew.”
Before he had his wounds treat
ed the master sergeant checked
the positions of all his men.
The Southern Pines soldier,
now first sergeant in the 224th
Regiment’s Headquarters Com
pany, received the award from
Maj. Grn. Fidgely Gaither, 40th
(Continued on page 5) ■
Brittain Sanders cabin. Efforts to
learn more about its origin are
continuing. This week, Mrs. Mc
Coll searched recorcis in the
courthouse at Carthage and found
in a book of old records copies of
several original land-grants from
(Continued on Page 5)
TAG SALE HOURS
Robert S. Cameron, chair
man of the auto license sales
bureau at the Chamber of
Commerce office on Pennsyl
vania avenue, today announc
ed sales hours for 1954 license
plates that will go on sale
there Tuesday morning.
The office will be open
from 9 to 5 daily, except on
Wednesdays when it will
close at noon and on Satur
days v^hen it will close at 1
p. m.
Mrs. Ruth Brown has been
employed to assist Miss Alice
Baxter. Chamber of Com
merce secretary, it was an
nounced. They will stagger
their lunch hours so the office
will not close in the middle
of the day.
New Building To
Be Consecrated
By Church Sunday
Special Services To
Be Held Ai Church
Of Wide Fellowship
The newly completed Religious
Education Building of the Church
of Wide Fellowship, on Bennett
Street, will be. consecrated at 11
a. m. Sunday with seryices to
which all friends c.f the church
are invited. After the services,
there will be a conducted tour of
the new building.
The new structure replaces the
former Sunday School Building
which was destroyed by fire on
the morning of February 13, 1950.
The wooden frame building that
burned was originally the First i
Congregational Church of South- i
ern Pines, organized in 1897. Up
on completion of the new church
sanctuary ip 1927, the former
church building was remodeled
for use by the Sunday School. j
Designed by William Henry
Dietrick, Inc., architects, of Ra
leigh, the new building has, in.
addition to Sunday School rooms,-
a chapel, pastor’s study and of-j.
fice, choir room.-, nursery, church'
parlor, model kitchen and a fel
lowship hall with a seating cap- :
acity of about 220 persons.
Service Ouflined j
Organ prelude by Mrs. L. D.
M'cDonald, followed by the pro
cessional hymn.
Call to worship by the Rev.
Tucker Humphries.
Scripture reading by the Rev.
(Continued on Page 5)
Letter Carriers
To Aid Drive For-^.'
Disease Suffeiders
Robert Henderson of Southern
Pines will be cb-chairm.an in the
“Letter Carriers’ Marcfi fox Mus
cular Dystrophy,” serving with
the U. S. Postmaster General Ar
thur E. Summerfield, honorary
national chairman of the
“march.” All local letter carriers
will take part in the “march.”
Mr. Henderson is cne of 100,000
letter carriers across the United
States who will call on every
American home the day after
Thanksgiving to collect funds to
help victims of muscular dystro
phy, a fatal disease affecting hun
dreds of thousands in the U. S.,
most of them children.
Henderson, who is secretary
and treasurer of Local Branch
4316, National Association of Let
ter Carriers, said that the’’ four
letter carriers here will take part
(Continued on Page 8)
Midland Road Trimming Discussed
Zoning Board Sets
Meeting November 30
At the request of Donald Case,
chairman of the town Zoning
Board, City Manager Tcm E. Cun
ningham has called a meeting of
the board for Monday, November
30, at 4:30 p. m.
Purpose of the meeting, Cun
ningham said, is to consider rec
ommending an ordinance to the
town council which would redis
trict certain residential areas of
the town to single-family, two-
family and multiple-family dwell
ings.
Club Members, Officials Confer About Trees
Tree-trimming methods of4-
crews employed by the Carolina
Power and Light Co., to keep
their wires clear of contact with
branches came in for detailed dis
cussion at a conference last Fri
day afternoon, with specied atten
tion to recent trimming on Mid
land Road, between Southern
Pines and Pinehurst, that has
brought criticism from members
of the Southern Pines Garden
Club and others.
Attending the conference were
Mrs. J. S. Milliken, president of
the Garden club, and Mrs. L. T.
Avery, Mrs. R. E. Rhodes and
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, club members;
Mrs. A. L. Burney, member of the
Civic Gardening Club; J. N.
Steed, Ward Hill and Cliff Story
of the’Carolina Power and Light
Co.; and J. A. Saunders, assistant
landscape engineer with the State
Highway and Public Works Com
mission.
Following a discussion at the
CP&L office, the group inspected
the trimming on Midland Road.
Result of the conference was that
Mrs. Milliken is to accompany a
trimming crew and Mr. Story—
who is in charge of all trimming
in a ‘ 12-county area—^to attempt
further cutting that will improve
the appearance of at least one of
the places where trimming has
been done in an unsatisfactory
manner.
First set for Monday morning
of this week, this effort was post
poned to Tuesday morning of next
(Continued on Page 8)
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Blue Knights To Play For Six-Man
State Football Championship Here
Thanksgiving
Day Contest
Set For 2:30
A Southern Pines High team
that was rated preseason as haw-
|ing the makings of being “good”
and given an outside chance by
I Coaches Bunk and Dub Leonard
I to go places, finds rainbow’s end
here Thanksgiving afternoon in a
contest with Old Town High for
j the State’ six-man football cham
pionship.
Thursday, the game day, is a
fitting climax, too, for this com
munity with a predominantly New
England background. Not too
many years past Thanksgiving
without a football game on the
New England menu was turkey
without dressing; a plate served
with cranberry sauce missing. It
was simply just not Thanksgiving. \
And appropriately enough South
ern Pines, a leader for a long time
in six-mna football, suggested
Thanksgiving as the date when it
first met a team in the State
playoffs.'
Third Title Game
This is the third time officially
that the Blue Knights have car
ried the banner and hopes of the
East Conference into play against
the West for the State title.
In 1947 Southern Pines had one
of the greatest six-man football
teams in the South. Sweeping a
nine game schedule that year, the
local high school ended its season
on Thanksgiving by walloping
Lithonia High, Georgia champions
of that year.
But that year no state cham
pion was declared although the
Southern Pines team met and de
feated the best teams of the East
and West.
In 1948 at Winston-Salem the
local high team lost the state title
ta Clemmons high representing
the West. But in 1949 here on
Thanksgiving day the Blue
Knights again met Clemmons for
the State championship and this
time Southern Pines humbled the
Western entry.
Tough Opponent
Of keen interest to followers of
the home team are its chances
against Old Town here Thursday.
Scouting reports indicate a
healthy respect for the Western
Conference champions. Indica
tions are that Southern Pines
must play its best game , of the
year to defeat the visitors
Winning handily over all op
ponents this season. Old Town de
molished Courtney High last
week in the Western play-offs
after Courtney took an early
touchdown lead.
The visiting team runs its plays
from the powerful single wing
formation, a formation that is be
coming popular again and one
that favors a pO'Wer team. Old
Town is a power team. Their run
ning plays are directed inside and
outside the ends, but preferably
(Continued on Page 5)
PROUD FAMILY—Parks Garrison, Aberdeen Boy Scout, is
-pictured wfth his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Garrison of Aber
deen, as he receives from his mother the top-ranking Eagle Scout
badge during a Moore District court of honor ceremony in Page
Mernorial Methodist church at Aberdeen Wednesday evening of
last week. Merit badges can be seen on the sash over the Scout’s
shoulder. Other awards made to Scouts, including boys from
Southern Pines, are listed elsewhere in today’s Pilot.
(Photo by Humphrey)
Crazed Young Men ‘Spouting Religion ’
Wreck Grill, Assault Owner, Officers
Kennedy Brothers of
Robbins Route Sent
To Mental Hospital
Harvey Kennedy, 23, and his
brother Frankhn, 20, of Rebbins,
Route 1, were committed to Dix
Hill, State hospital for the insane,
Wednesday, following their par
ticipation Friday night in what
Sheriff C. J. McDonald called one
of the wildest and strangest epi
sodes in his 25 years as a law-en
forcement officer.
Both standing over six feet and
described by officers as strong
and rangy, the two young'men,
apparently in a crazed condition,
appeared late Friday night at a
drive-in grill operated by A. C.
Burns, between Robbins and Rob
bins Gross Roads.
Here the brothers:
Completely wrecked the estab
lishment, which was still open for
business, smashing windows and
interior equipment and throwing
and breaking everything on
which they could lay hands, to
the extent of an estirnated $2,-
000 to $3,000 in damage. ’
Assaulted and threatened with
bodily violence the proprietor and
others.
Blocked traffic on the nearby
highway and mauled Highway
Patrolman J. F. Swaim, who is
stationed at Rebbins, so badly
that he had to retreat for rein
forcements, and also later attacked
heriff McDonald and Deputy A.
W. Lambert, injuring the deputy
on face, shoulder and arm.
Shouted and prayed continually
during their depradations, exhib
iting a religious mania that was
incomprehensible to all witnesses,
continuing for over an hour until
after they were subdued by offi
cers. ■ .
(Continued on Page 8)
‘WORST PLACE’—This view of trees on Midland Road shows
what Garden Club members termed the “worst place” as to un
sightliness of recent tree trimming by power company crews.
The photo shows trees trimmed off straight across, beneath
wires, and also above, where all branches were removed from one
side of several trees at a right angle to the flattened trees below.
The power wires are not visible but run parallel to the road from
the pole seen at right. Further trimming will be undertaken here,
under supervision of the Garden Club, in an effort to reduce the
unsightliness. (Pilot Staff Photo)
PILOT OUT EARLY
Today’s Pilot is being pub
lished Wednesday in order
that readers can have their
papers before the Thanksgiv
ing holiday on Thursday and
so the staff can have a holi
day. '
Early publication has limited
the size of the paper and the
extent of news coverage and
some news and features that
would otherwise have been in
this week’s paper are neces
sarily omitted.
While the paper is dated
Friday, readers are asked to
remember early publication
in reading this week’s edition
which announces certain
events that will be over by
the Friday publication date.
Banquet For Squad
Slated Saturday;
Weaver To Attend
The annual Testimonial Ban
quet given by the Southern Pines
Elks Lodge for the high school
football squad will be held Satur
day night at the Country Club.
John Ruggles, chairman of ar
rangements, said that the event,
originally scheduled for last Sat
urday, was postponed a week in
older that it might be held after
the State Six-Man Football
Championship game here on
Thanksgiving Day.
It was also announced this
week that Phillip Weaver, former
superintendent of Southern Pines
schools who is now assistant su
perintendent at Greensboro, and
Mrs. Weaver will be here for the
Thanksgiving Day game and will
remain for the banquet Saturday
night. While in Sduthern Pines,
the Weavers will be house guests
of Mrs. A. W. Atherton at Brae-
burn Hall, No. 1 highway, south.
Jerry Ashton and C. N. Page
are co-chairman for the banquet.
John E. Cline will be toastmaster
and Exalted Ruler B. C. Doyle
will make the address of welcome.