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VOL. 35—NO. 16
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. MARCH 12. 1954
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE—TEN CENTS
R. G. Frye, Jr., Is
Fourth Ca^d^date
For Sheriff Job
Carthage Board
Member Announces
He'll Make Race
Hats are piling up in the ring
for Moore County sheriff, subject
to the Democratic primary of May
28. The fourth topper for this
high office went in this week, thalt
of R. G. Fry, Jr., member of the
Carthage town board and proprie
tor of R. G. Frye and Son, funeral
directors, at Carthage.
Mr. Fry, whose father was for
merly sheriff, has filed to defeat
the man who beat his father at
the polls in 1928.
In the race to date are Sheriff
C. J. McDonald, who has served
continuously since 1928; Wendell
G. Kelly of Carthage RFD, a for
mer State Highway Patrol ser
geant, and W. H. “Bunch” Shef
field, an Eastwood store proprie
tor.
Mr. Fry is 37 years old. He
graduated from Gupton-Jones
Embalming College at Nashville,
Tenn., in October 1937 and, after
passing the N. C. State Board ex
amination and receiving his li
cense, entered the funeral busi
ness with his father. He ran for
the office of coroner of Moore
County at the age of 21, was elect
ed and served eight years, then
declining to seek reelection.
Besides being a Carthage town
commissioner he is active in num
erous other civic affairs, and has
been a member of the Carthage
volunteer fire department for 21
years.
He is a member of the Carthage
Rotary Club, Southern Pines Elks
Lodge and Carthage Baptist
Church. He is married to the
former Helen Rose Underwood,
and they have three sons.
NEW ART EXHIBIT
Mrs. W. J. Strallon will ex-
hibil some of her porlrails of
horses and dogs, as well as
other art, in the Library Gal
lery 'sfarting Monday.
Palricia Slratfon. well-
known animal painter, has
executed portraits of a good
many local horses and dogs,
as well as some of the leading
lights of turf and field in Sar
atoga. Millbrook, Virginia,
and other hunting and racing
circles. Reproductions of some
of these have appeared on the
cover of the Middleburg
Chronicle, and other sporting
sheets. She also paints por
traits of people.
Mrs. Stratton's two most
recently finished paintings, of
young Tom Johnston, nephew
of Mrs. Lee Page, and his two
dogs, and the hunting portrait
of Mrs. W. O. Moss on her
kfamed black horse. Dark Vic
tory. will be included in the
coming show.
Camp Mackail
Once More Enters
Defense Picture
The part Camp Mackail wiU
play in the future plans of the de
fense forces has .been a subect of
conjecture hereabouts for many
months. Receipt of word from
Congrsesman C. C. Deane,
representative for this Eighth Dis
trict, sheds some light on this
question of such importance to
this section.
Mr. Deane states that he has
received the following wire from
the Commander, Tactical Air
Command, Langley Air Force
Base, Virginia:
“Unit which moved from Lau-
rinburg-Maxton to Camp Mackail,
N. C., is Detachment 1 of the
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EIGHT WINNERS—This spirited scene shows
some of the top horses and riders of thi3 section
schooling over the obstacles on the Stoneybrook
Racetrack, scene of the forthcoming race meet,
scheduled for March 20.
From left: Dooley Adams, on Errolford, owned
by Mrs. Clara E. Adams, Carlyle Cameron on
King Commander, Joan Walsh on Sun Shower, a
Vernon G. Cardy horse. Nearest the camera:
Williamsburg ridden by L. P. Tate, Jr.
King Commander and Williamsburg are from
the stable of Lawrence Troiano and Michael G.
Walsh and the last three horses are trained by
Walsh, leading steeplechase trainer of 1953, both
in races and money won. King Commander was
leading hurdle racer of last year, with Williams
burg in second place; Sun Shower winner of
three out of four steeplechases at Saratoga, Er
rolford won the Temple Gwathmey.
Of special interest is the fact that three of
these riders are residents of the Sandhills, with
one, Carlyle Cameron, son of Clifton Cameron,
born and brought up within a quarter mile of
the race course. (Photo by Humphrey)
Council Gets Recommendation To Sell
Community Honse,Build New Facilities
Program And Officials Announced
For Stoneybrook Races March 20
Entries Coming
From Top Stables
In Many States
The colors will fly at the
Stoneybrook track, one-half mile
from Southern Pines, Saturday af
ternoon, March 20, for the seventh
Annual Stoneybrook Steeplechase
and Race Meeting, which is ex
pected this year to be the best of
the series.
Deadline for entries is Satur-
CONVERSATION PIECE: Two generations of Burts talk and a
third listens. The Nathaniel Burts and daughter, Margery, join
Mr. and Mrs. Struthers Burt at Weymouth, for a talk about
Author-Composer Nathaniel’s novel and orchestral composition,
both produced since their last meeting. (Pilot Staff Photo)
Nathaniel Burt, New Author^
VisitsiHis Author Parents Here
Spending a few days at Wey
mouth, the writing son of writing
parents relaxed early this week
from a strenuous musical and lit
erary career and told how it felt
to have a first novel praised by
critics fromt coast to coast.
Nathaniel Burt, 41-year-old son
of Struthers and Katharine New-
lin Burt, was in Southern Pines
with his wife, the former Marga
ret Clinton, of New York, and
their little daughter, two-and-a-
half-year-old Margery. They ar
rived late last week from a Flor
ida vacation, leaving Wednesday
for their home in Princeton, N. J.
At Weymouth, the home of Mrs.
Janies Boyd, they joined Mr.
Burt’s parents who are spending
several months here. The reunion
was the first meeting since
Christmas, and the first since the
fine reviews the new novel has
been receiving have started com
ing in. So there was plenty
to talk -oyer. And note-compar-
ing to be done as Author Son and
Author Parents talked over what
happens when your first attempt
makes the grade.
All three of these authors have
now had this experience. Struth
ers Burt’s first novel “The In
terpreter’s House,” was a best sell
er, and he had the unusual rec
ord of never having received a
publisher’s rejectin slip. Mrs.
Burt has had much the same ex
perience, her first ndvel, “The
Branding Iron,” being a record-
breaker for sales. A record that
held up during a writing career
that included 28 novels and many
gtories.
"Scotland’s Burning"
“Scotland’s Burning,” Nathan
iel Burt’s novel that is now draw
ing praise from reviewers, is in
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Miss Sears Here
For Raee Meeting;
Goldiloeks To Run
Miss Eleanora Randolph Sears
of Brookline, Mass, one of the
country’s greatest women ath
letes of all time arrived Thursday
morning in her private car via
the Palmland to stay until the
Stoneybrook Race Meeting Sat
urday, March 20.
Miss Sears, owner of a stable
of champion show horses, and
famed veteran of the race tracks,
will watch her only race horse
Goldilocks H make his debut as
a hurdle racer at Stoneybrook. He
has been in training for the past
year under Michael G. Walsh at
Stoneybrook Stables.
Her half dozen show horses
with their private trainer, Gabor
Faltani, are stabled on the P. S. P.
Randolph place near the Knoll-
wood Airport. They made the cir
cuit of the northern shows last
summer under Walsh’s supervi
sion, scoring numerous wins. One
of them, Sidonia, ridden by Joan
Walsh, was champion working
hunter of the National Horse
Show at Madison Square Garden.
Miss Sears, independent-mind
ed daughter of a wealthy Bosto
nian, became America’s greatest
woman tennis player as a girl, in
the early years of this century.
Later she became a champion
cross-country hiker, thinking
nothing of a 40-mile walk in a
day, and hanging up records with
no sex restrictions. All this made
big news in a day when well-born
young ladies customarily led rath
er prim and sheltered lives.
She is still walking, and just
last week took a brisk 17-mile
stroll from Boston to Brighton.
Though ladies today do about as
they please, that still is news.
Race horses were a great inter
est with her for a good many
years, and her stable- colors of
white and black were seen on
wihners at all the major tracks.
This is an interest she is resum
ing with the eight-year-old geld
ing Goldilocks H. After the
Stoneybrook meeting, which will
open the racing season nationally,
he'will most likely go on the ma
jor circuit in care of Walsh.
Miss. Sears is staying at The
Southland.
day, March 13. So far the race
committee has assurance of the
entries from top stables in North
Carolina (Tryon and Southern
Pines), Tennessee, Arkansas, Vir
ginia, New Jersey, New York and
several New England states.
Sanctioned in 1953 by the hunts
committee of the National Steep
lechase and Hunt Association, the
meeting will be the official opener
for the racing season nationally.
A seven-race card will be pre
sented as usual, starting at 2 p.m.
There will be some differences,
however, from former years.
Eliminated are the children’s race,
also the mule race, a comic fea
ture which at previous race meet
ings wound up the event.
Four of the races will be under
sanction, and will carry purses as
well as trophies for their winners.
These are the Sandhills Cup, two
and a quarter miles over timber,
for a $500 purse; The Yadkin
Purse, a one-and-a-half mile hur
dle test for maidens, $400; the
Silver Run, six furlongs over turf,
$400; and a new race, the Stoney-
brook Open, over hurdles, with
$500 stake.
Non-sanctioned races will be
the colorful Pink Coat, for mem
bers of the Moore County Hounds
on their hunters, in fuU livery,
two miles over timber; the Ladies
Race, six furlongs on the flat, and
a trial race for two-year-olds.
Race officials were announced
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Mystery Wraps
Wrecked Car On
Bethesda Road
Two one-ceir accidents—one of
which remained a mystery this
week—took place in this area Sat
urday, according to information
from the State Highway Patrol.
A 1947 Ford was found turned
over and practically demolished
near Powell’s Pond on’'d;he Bethes
da, road, having apparently been
wrecked when it went out of con
trol on a curve some time Satur
day afternoon.
The investigating patrolman
said the car had Georgia license
plates. There was no sign that
anyone had been hprt. Checking
by the patrol to determine the
owner and driver of the car was
continuing this week.
Sgt. Thomas J. Kennedy, tem
porarily stationed at Camp Mack-
all, ran off the left side of No. 1
highway in his 1951 Chevrolet
south of Pinebluff about 3:30 a. m.
Saturday, damaging his car to an
extent of about $475, but not in
juring himself.
Kennedy walked away from
the wreck which was later report
ed to a highway patrolman who
located the sergeant. He was ar
rested and was convicted of oper
ating an automobile on the left
side of the highway, causing an
accident. He said that he bad been
blinded by. the lights of an on
coming truck.
Thad L. Blue,
County Leader,
Passes Suddenly
Thaddeus L. Blue, 62, promi
nent farmer of the Eureka com
munity, member of the county
board of education and a former
Moore County commissioner, died
suddenly at his home early Mon
day morning following a heart at
tack.
Funeral services were held at 3
p.m., Tuesday at Eureka Presby-
.terian church, conducted by Rev.
Grover C. Currie, pastor. Mem
bers of Carthage Masonic Lodge
No. 181 served as honorary and
active pallbearers and conducted
burial rites in the family plot in
the church graveyard.
Mr. Blue was born February 19,
1892, in the same home in which
he died, then the old McLean
homeplace, where he spent all his
life except for a period of Navy
service in World War 1. He was
the son of John A. and Sarah Jane
McLean Blue, members of Scot
tish pioneer families. Hg was a
lifelong membe^ aiMj,ia deacon of
the Eureka chjirph!'and was teach
er of the Men’s Bible class when
he died.
He served on the board of coun
ty commissioners from 1942 to
1950, and later was appointed to
membership on the county board
of education. He was a longtime
member of the Masonic Lodge.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Mary Kelly, one daughter,
Carolyn, and three sons, Thad
deus L., Kenton and John Kelly
Blue, all of the home; four sisters,
Mrs. John W. Blue, Mrs. Martin
McLeod and Mrs. D. Archie Blue,
all of Carthage Rt. 3, and Mrs.
Lemuel Thompson, of Norfolk,
Va.; and two brothers, D. J. and
John M. Blue of Carthage Rt. 3.
HORSE SHOW
The next in the series of
weekly schooling shows being
pul on by local and visiting
horse owners will be held
Sunday at 2 p. mi in the show
ring at Lakelawn Farms, own
ed by Mr, and Mrs. D. W.
Winkelman.
The public is invited.
The 'Series, taking the place
of the one big Show custom
arily held in the spring, has
aroused much interest and
many visitors. Classes are held
for both children and adults,
with trophies awarded in each
class.
Visitors Invited
To Drag Hunt,
Set Next Friday
The weekly drag hunt of the
Moore County Hounds, usually
held on Saturday, will take place
on Friday, instead next week, on
account of the Stoneybrook Race
Meeting scheduled for Saturday
afternoon.
With hosts of visitors here for
the spring season and many more
expected to arrive daily next
week for the races, special plans
are being made for spectator en
joyment of the drag, according
to W. O. Moss, joint master of the
Hounds.
Spectators are invited to join
the members of the field at Ston
eybrook Stables at 10 a. m. Fri
day. The hiunt will take off from
there, and cars will follow in a
caravan led by Joint Master W. J.
Brewster and Morris Johnson.
The lead car will guide the car
avan to selected spots along the
trail where the liveried hunt may
be seen to pass on the way to the
kill.
The spectators will also be in on
the kill, as the guides, with ad
vance knowledge of where it will
occur, will get the caravan there
before the hounds and hunters ar
rive.
Master Moss wiU be in charge
of the drag, with Mrs. Moss as
first whip and Jack Goodwin as
second whip.
County Democrat
Leaders Will Meet
ThesjMoore County Democratic
Exectitive Committee will elect
a new chairman Saturday, at a
meeting to be held at 11 a. m. in
the courthouse at Carthage.
W. A. Leland McKeithen, chair
man since September 1950, who
has recently been appointed a
special judge of superior court,
said he will present his resigna
tion at that time, and ask that a
new chairman be elected.
The committee will also recom
mend a successor to T. L. Blue,
member of the county board Of
education, who passed away Mon
day morning. The nominee must
be from either McNeill’s or Green
wood township, which compose
the district represented by Mr.
Blue.
Plans will also be made for wel
coming Adlai Stevenson, Demo
cratic party leader, when he vis
its Moore county the latter part
of this month.
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THE HOUSE IN THE HORSESHOE LADY, Mrs. P. P. Pelton,
is shown holding in her hand a coverlet woven by women living
on the old Alston place, now taken over as a project for restora
tion by the state. The key is for the original front door lock. Mrs.
Pelton was born in the fanious old house and estimates the
quilt, which she has always kept, was woven some 60 years ago.
See story on page 6. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
Cemetery Report,
Knollwood Contract
Up For Discussion
Recommendations for the fi
nancing and carrying forward of
a full recreation program, with
adequate swimming facilities and
community centers on both sides
of town, were contained in a re
port of the Municipal Recreation
Commission presented before the
town council in regular session
Tuesday night.
A start was seen in the recom
mendation that the present Com
munity Building on South May
street be sold, as it was said to be
unsuitably located and little used,
and the proceeds used toward
providing more adequate facilities
for both white and Negro citizens.
A motion to this effect was
placed before the council by
Councilman Gilmore, for action at
a second meeting to be held to
night (Friday). This was in ac
cord with the council’s new policy
of discussion at one meeting, ac
tion at another.
The full motion is that the pres
ent building be sold, $400 of the
proceeds be applied to the im
provement of the West Side lake,
and the balance be invested at in
terest until such time as the rest
of the recrfeation program can be
carried out.
Two Centers Proposed
Items in the Commission’s re
port were: (1) that a clear title
be secured as soon as possible to
the West Side Lake property; (2)
that the lake be improved by re
pairing the dam and other needed
work; (3) that “practical and ade
quate” community centers be
built for both East and West
Southern Pines, the former to cost
approximately $20,000, the latter
$10,000, to be paid for by proceeds
of the sale of the building, contri
butions from citizens, orghniza-
tions and churches, and money
given as memorials; (4) that the
maximum tax authorized by vote
of the taxpayers (set by statute at
10 cents per $100, with a mini
mum of three cents) for recreation
purposes be levied by the Town;
and (5) that the swimming lakes
and community centers be main
tained by the town street depart
ment.
Sites were suggested for both
buildings, with reminder that they
had been selectjed without regard
to an overall planning picture,
and so should be considered as
suggestions only.
Cemetery Report
A rqport from the community
advisory committee’s subcommit
tee on the operation of Mt. Hope
cemetery coming up for discus
sion, the council decided to invite
the committee to attend the Fri
day evening meeting. Mayor
Clark said several items might
well be studied further, in the
light of cemetery statistics. These,
presented by City Mariager Cun
ningham, indicated that, neither
under the present plan nor that
recommended by the subcommit
tee, would the cemetery be self-
sustaining. He advised that, be
fore any revisions are made, it
should be determined whether the
cemetery is to continue as a tax
liability, or become a revenue pro
ducer.
Opening of Street
A request made by W. E.
Hughes, that South Saylor Street
be opened across property belong
ing to Mrs. Maude Creeley to the
Old Pinehurst Road, apparently
had the full favor of the council.
Besides opening up considerable
property and making several
homes more accessible, it will
greatly shorten the distance trav
eled by town motorized equip
ment to and from the cemetery
and the garbage disposal ground.
Mayor Clark pointed out, provid
ing a saving in time and money to
the taxpayers.
Efforts to contact Mrs. Greeley
have proved unavailing, andCity
Manager Cunningham said he
would make a final “determined
effort” before condemnation pro
ceedings are considered.
Service Station Ordinance
W. Lament Brown, town attor
ney, reporting as requested on the
constitutionality of the town or
dinance covering the building of
service stations, said he could give
no opinion. In view of the scan
tiness of law covering the matter,
the present ordinance should be
considered valid until a court
rules otherwise, was his advice.
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