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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1954
TWENTY-FOUR PA
Soulhern Pines 42# Old Town 14 — Undefeated During Season
Blue Knights Win State Six-Man Football Title
QES
By JUNE PHILLIPS
Trailing 12 to 14 at halftime, an
inspired Southern Pines football
team stormed back in the second
half with a spectacular offensive
display and an airtight defense to
cop the state six-man football
championship from Old Town
High in Bowman Gray Stadium,
Winston-Salem, the night before
Thanksgiving Day.
It was the third time that a
team from Southern Pines had
wiMi the coveted championship
cup; the first time in 1947 from
the Lexington Orphanage, and in
1949, again in Winston-Salem
from Clemmons High.
But this time the victory was
doubly sweet for Southern Pines
fans and their favorite team, the
Blue Knights. Last year, this same
Old Town High smashed a good
Southern Pines team 44 to 30 for
the state championship in a game
played at Southern Pines on
Thanksgiving Day.
And if the victory was a double
sweet portion for the Blue
Knights, it was much more for
their coaches, the Leonards,
Coach Irie (Bunk) and Coach W.
A. (Dub). It was their first cham
pionship team, although several
times they have sent teams
knocking at the door.
Both coaches were smiling
broadly in the dressing room
after the game; both declared it
was a team victory. And it was
just that, plus a superb season’s
coaching job done by the Leon
ards, and some neat scouting of
Old Town in their final game by
Coach Dub.
Old Town’s Panthers took the
field first and went through spir
ited warm-up drills. Although it
had rained intermittently all
afternoon in Winston-Salem, the
Bowman Gray Stadium turf was
in excellent condition.
When the Old Town squad re
tired to the fieldhouse, their high
school band, led by a bevy of high
stepping majorettes, paraded onto
the turf, snapped to attention and
everyone arose as they played the
national anthem.
As the Old Town band retired
the Southern Pines High band
came marching smartly on the
field and to this observer the Blue
Knight majorettes appeared to be
outdoing the struttin’ Old Town-
ers. The band formed a double
lane down near the field house,
and the Blue Knights raced out
behjnd Southern Pines’ flying girl
cheer leaders. It was colorful; all
a part of a great American fall
festival, and a wonderful show
our high schoo'l kids were putting
on too—a thrilling spectacle even
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PORTRAIT OF VICTORY—The camera
caught a variety of expressions on faces of the
Southern Pines Blue Knights, just after the Old
Town game ended last week in Winston-Salem
—but it’s evident they didn’t lose the contest.
This candid shot of the brand new State Six-
man champs shows, left to right: Billy Cox,
Charles Watkins, David McCallum (partly vis
ible), Johnny Watkins, John Van Benschoten,
James Humphrey, Bobby Cline, Bill Kessler (in
rear), John Kay, Lynn Van Benschoten, Joe
Diggs and Bobby Parker. At right is R. W.
(Pap) Tate, a loyal booster of the team.
(Photo by Humphrey)
Two From Moore
On All-Eastern
James Humphrey, Southern
Pines back, and Gerald Cribb,
Aberdeen end, are assigned berths
Elks To Fete
Squad Tonight
The Football banquet for mem
bers of the Southern Pines High
School state championship squad,
given annually by the Southern
Pines Elks Lodge, will be held at
the Country Club tonight (Friday)
at 7 o’clock.
Carl Goerch of Raleigh, radio
commentator and writer, will be
the principal speaker. Bryan Poe,
exalted ruler of the lodge, will
preside.
Gold footballs will be presented
by the lodge to first team mem
bers and medallions to other
squad members. Letters also will
be presented.
Tonight’s event will be the
ninth staged by the Elks for local
squads.
Dancing for students and guests
will follow tije program.
Morris Johnson is chairman of
the Elks arrangements committee
whose other members are C. N.
Page, Ike Woodell, W. B. Holliday
and John S. Ruggles.
Tickets for the public, up to ca
pacity, are available from commit
tee members or by calling 2-8911.
/WONDERFUL'
"It was a wonderful sea
son." Coach Irie Leonard of
the Blue Knights summed up
this week, after the local boys
had copped the State six-man
football championship. "We
had to rebuild an entirely
new team and we got 100 per
cent out c»f all the boys."
Already looking ahead to
the 1955 season, the coach
noted that only one squad
member. Garland Pierce,
would be lost by graduation.
"It looks like' a good team
next year," predicted the
coach, "but other teams we
play have young squads, too.
There'll be some lough com
petition and some great
games next year."
Students To Sell
Basketball Season
Tickets Saturday
High school student volunteers
will sell season basketball tickets
in the business section Saturday
morning, cooperating with the
Lions Club which is sponsoring
Recorders Court
Adds Second Day
Recorders Court at Carthage
next week will begin holding a
session on Friday, in addition to
the Monday court, Judge J. Vance
Rowe and Solicitor W. Lamont
Brown annouqced this week.
The second session will be held
each week on Friday for a month,
to see how the machinery of oper
ating the court is affected, and
will then be continued on Friday,
if satisfactory, or on some other
day.
The change was necessary in
ordfer to handle the increased
number of cases coming before
the court.
Event Last Week
Opens Promising
Season For Hunt
The Thanksgiving Day hunt of
ficially opened the season for the
Moore County Hounds, according
to tradition of many years’ stand
ing.
Stating at Refugio Farms,
home of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Adams, the opening meet unoffi
cially marked the 40th anniver
sary of cne of the most famous
winter hunts in the nation.
The hunting horn was sounded
by W. O. Moss, joint MFH, who
served as huntsman, as the field
started off on a winding course
through five miles of woods,
meadow and valley—across the
Collins and Healy estates, a por
tion of the Notre Dame Academy
grounds, over Mile-Away Farm
and to Lakelawn Farm, scene of
the kill.
Whipping in were Mrs. W. O.
Moss, Dennis Crotty, Kirk Dut
ton and Jack Goodwin, while L.
P,. Tate served as fieldmaster.
There were 20 in the field—a
number due to increase weekly
from liow on as members of rec
ognized hunts in northern and
mddwestern states journey south
ward to pursue their favorite
sport in Moore. At the peak of the
season, the field will reach 60 to
75.
The pack is in first-rate condi
tion, according to Master Moss,
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PTA May Sell
Subscriptions
To Raise Funds
Meeting Advanced
To Thurs., Dec. 9,
Due To Christmas
A program of raising funds
through selling magazine sub
scriptions will be considered at
the December meeting of the
Southern Pines Parent-Teacher
Association to be held Thursday,
December 9, in Weaver Auditori
um at 8 p.m.
R. R. Doak of the Curtis Pub
lishing Co., will speak on this
method of fund raising. The
school glee club, directed by Miss
Nancy Mackie, will sing several
Christmas songs.
Starting with next week’s meet
ing, two attendance prizes will be
given—one for a high school
grade having the highest percen
tage of parents of its pupils pres
ent and one for an elementary
grade, on the same basis.
One purpose for which funds
might be raised is to buy addi
tional visual aids for the school.
Proceeds of an October box sup
per purchased a biscope for the
science section.
There was no Noverriber meet
ing because of the conflict with
Thanksgiving. Regular meeting
date of the PTA is the last Thurs
day of each month, but the De
cember meeting was advanced to
avoid the Christmas rush.
PRICE—TEN CENTS
R. Li. Brooks Shot In
Back At Rural Store
POPPY SALE ,
"Buddy poppies" will be
sold all day Saturday on the
streets of the busiftess sec
tion by members of the Aux
iliary of John Boyd Post, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars. Pro
ceeds of the sale are used for
charitable purposes in aiding
needy veterans and their
families.
Urgent Request
Made For Early
Holiday Mailing
An urgent request to patrons of
the Southern Pines post office to
do their Christmas mailing early
was made this week by Postmas
ter Garland Pierce.
Pointing out that the local post-
office has been cut further on
clerical and carrier allowances—
and so will not be able to hire any
extra help for the Christmas rush
—the postmaster asked'that pack
ages for out-of-state destinations
be mailed not later than Decem
ber 11; that packages for North
Carolina destinations and also out-
of-state Christmas cards be mailed
not later than December 16; and
that local cards be mailed by De
cember 20.
“In order to give the needed
service, we.^shan have to distri
bute the work load over a longer
period of time,’’ Postmaster Pierce
said. “The cooperation of patrons
will be appreciated.”
Another result of the personnel
curtailment is that there will be
no Saturday or Sunday opening of
post office windows. However,
additional windows will be open
ed for package mailing during the
regular post office hours.
(Continued on page 5)
on the AU-Eastem six-man foot-1 sale,
ball team chosen this week by I It is expected that -a table will
the News and Observer, Raleigh |be set up in front of the Citizens
ggjjjj Trust Co., and the tick
ets will be sold by students at oth-
newspaper,
Players were selected by a poll
of 20 coaches in the area.
Humphrey, 155 pounds and
standing 5-10, is a Junior. Cribb,
175 pounds, 5-11, is a Senior who
scored 15 touchdowns during the
sesson and rates highly on de
fense.
Others picked for AU-Eastem
are Tommy Stanton of Stantons-
burg, end; Billy Wallace of Clark-
ton, center; and John Frazier of
Rowland and Ray Tuten of Bath,
backs.
Navy, Marine Reserve
Unit Here Proposed
All persons interested in start
ing a Navy and Marine Corps Re
serve unit here are asked to send
a card with name, rank or rate,
serial number, address and tele
phone number to Box 1177 or Box
571, Southern Pines.
The nearest Naval Reserve unit
now is at Durham, pointed out
Jmmie Lawson of Southern
Pines who brought this pro
posal to the attention of The
Pilot. If enough Reserve members
show interest, he said, a meeting
er locations. The Lions wiU give
three cash prizes—$5, $3 and $2—
to the three students selling the
largest number of tickets.
Season tickets, at a saving of $2
over admission prices to the 10
home games individually, are also
on sale by all members of the
Lions Club. Each game will fea
ture both a boys’ and girls’ con
test.
First home games for the local
squads will be against Robbins
Friday night, December 10. The
teams were to open the season
against Farm Life School at Car
thage Thursday night of this
week.
HOSPITAL OPEN HOUSE
Many residents of this area vis
ited Moore County Hospital Sun
day afternoon for an open house
and tea that marked the 25th an
niversary of the institution. A
special radio broadcast, telling
the story of the hospital, was
made on Station WEEB at 1 p. m.
Visitors were conducted on tours
of the building during the after
noon. Details of the hospital’s his-
magnitude and such terrible de
structive ■ power that we are be
ginning to see an era of peace
which could well be the davra of
an end to all war.” He then noted
that for the first time in 20 years
there is no active battlefield any
where in the world today.
wm'^be''hei?’tJ^'oik f^ fxpanding services were worldja growta^mmpelltag de- Retaliatory Power
held to work out plans, reported m last week’s Pilot. terrent to general war, of such Why isn’t this weapon the great-
SCHOOL COMMANDANT SPEAKS TO LIONS CLUB
Hydrogen Bomb Seen As Deterrent To War
Speaking to the Lions Club last+
Friday night at the Southern
Pines Country Club, Brig. Gen.
Daniel W. Jenkins, commandant
of the USAF Air-Ciround Opera
tions School at the Highland Pines
Inn, said that long-range strategic
bombers and the hydrogen bomb
may well be the restraining force
that can bring peace to the world.
Introduced by C. S. Patch, Jr.,
program chairman. General Jen
kins was making his first address
to a local civic club since he be
came commandant at USAFAGOS
a few months ago. National se
curity, with emphasis on the role
of the Air Force, was his topic.
“Even the maddest perpetrators
of aggression have rarely in his
tory started a war in which they
didn’t calculate their chances of
winning were at least 50-50,” the
speaker pointed out. “Today, on
the other hand, there seems to be
a moral certainty that whoever
ventures to attack this country as
sures the obliteration of his own
nation.
“Will anyone knowingly take
this risk? I don’t think so.”
For the first time in history,
said General Jenkins, there has
emerged in the form of the hydro
gen bomb and the bomber that
can take it anywhere in the
GENERAL JENKINS
■♦■est threat to us, since we tradi
tionally never start a war but wait
for the first blow to fall? General
Jenkins asked. He answered it
with another question: “With one
airplane packing so much retalia
tory power, can, an aggressor ac
cept anything less than a 90 to
100 per cent knockout in his ini
tial wave and hope to survive
what foUows?”
The Air Force officer believes,
he said, that the world “is going
through a historic transition pe
riod from a dark age in which
men dared to start war into an
era in which they dare not . . .
The prospective penalty for par
ticipation in a general war or for
being caught in the path of a war
is complete annihilation for both
sides. Even the most reckless
leaders must surely pause when
they contemplate this fact.”
Hopes for peace do not, the gen
eral stressed, rest whoUy on mili
tary strength: “The greatest hopes
for lasting peace lie in the concert
of men who have the will to bring
that condition about.”
If that will is' lacking or hedged
about with terms that would ren
der any agreement sterile, then,
said General Jenkins, there must
be “some instrumentality of re
straint that will force a state of
peace on unwilling belligerents . .
(Continued on Page 5)
Great-Nephew Of
CoL Alston To
Attend Meeting
Other Kin Invited;
Historical Assn.
Will Meet Tuesday
Three descendants of Col. Phil
lip Alston, owner of the Deep
River township “House in the
Horseshoe” and participant in a
Revolutionary War skirmish
there, will be introduced to mem
bers and guests of the Moore
County Historical Association
Tuesday night at the Soulhern
Pines Library. The Association
will convene at 8 p. m. for its
first meeting since last Spring.
Mrs. Ernest Ives, president Of
the Association said this week
that Lacy Alston of near Pitts-
boro, a great-nephew of the pa
triot colonel, is expected and also
Mrs. W. E. Futrell of Sanford, a
great-great niece of Colonel Al
ston, and her daughter, Alston
Futrell.
The Alston House, slated to be
come a state-owned historic site,
is now owned by the Moore
County Historical Association
which has begun restoration work
with funds contributed for that
purpose. A report on the project
will be made at next week’s
meeting.
The meeting was announced by
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, president of
the Association, who will preside.
She said that no formal program
had been planned but that gen
eral discussion of Association pro
jects will be invited, with all
present urged to take part.
Pethick Talks To
Kiwanis; GoerchTo
Speak December 10
At this week’s meeting of the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club, Harry H.
Pethick of Southern Pines told
fellow Kiwanians of his experi
ences in Indo-China where he
represented the Standard Oil
Company.for many years. His de
scriptions of the country and
stories of hunting and shooting
where game and birds are prolific
were greatly ehjoyed. He was pre
sented to the club by Dr. Bruce
Warlick.
It was announced that Carl
Goerch, co-publisher of The State
magazine, will be the speaker at
the annual Kiwanis Ladies Night
meeting to be held Friday night,
December 10 in the Mid Pines
Club.
Youths Held;
Victim Has
‘Good Chance’
R. L. Brooks, about 60, mana
ger of a store in the rural Lobelia
community east of Vass in Hoke
County, was shot twice Tuesday
morning in the back. He survived
and is a patient at Moore County
Hospital.
Arrested and held for further
investigation are two teen-age
Negro boys, cousins who live
within sight of the store, Alvis
Faulk and Irvin McLeod. They
are in jail at Raeford.
While the motive for the shoot
ing was uncertain, it was appar
ently robbery. The boys fled
when Brooks, though shot twice
with .22 calibre bullets through
the right lung, walked to his
nearby home before he collapsed.
Shot In Back
According to reports from
neighbors in the community, the
boys entered the store and bought
some cheese, with Faulk carrying
a single shot .22 calibre rifle.
They then asked fcr rifle cart
ridges and, when the manager
turned to get them from^ the back
of the store, he was shot in the
back. He was shot again in the
back as he left the store for his
home, it was reported, both bul
lets passing through the right
lung.
“That foci Alvis Faulk has shot
me,” Brooks’ wife quoted him as
saying as he entered their home.
He recognized both boys and gave
their names to investigating offi
cers. The attending physician
at Moore County Hospital said
Thursday morning that Brooks
was improving though, still in
“‘rather critical” condition. He
was given “an excellent chance
of recovering” by the doctor
Thursday.
Brooks was in profound shock
when he entered the hospital, the
physician said, but has come out
of it well, after many blood trans
fusions.
Bullets In Body
Both bullets are still in his
body, the physician said, but are
not in dangerous places, so sur
gery for their removal will prob
ably not be undertaken at this
time.
The doctor said that it is hoped
the lung wounds would heal them
selves and not require surgery.
This, he said, is possible.
The store where the shooting
took place is owned by N. M. Mc-
Keithan of Aberdeen who also
has a business establishment at
Vass.
Mink From Moore
Given Mrs. Scott
At Washington
A large delegation of Moore
County residents joined the crowd
of over 1,000 Tar Heels who gath
ered at Washington, D. C. Mon
day for the swearing in ceremo
nies of Senator W. Kerr Scott and
Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
Included in the Moore County
delegation were: T. Clyde Auman
of West End, who presented a
mink scarf to Mrs. Scott (made
from mink skins trapped and pro
cessed by Mrs. R. B. Jarvis Of
Carthage, Route 2), John D. Mc
Connell of Southern Pines, T. Roy
Phillips of Carthage, who present
ed Senator Scott with a twist of
tobacco, R. H. Hyman of Deep
River township, R. N. Page III
and C. A. (Tony) Huntley of
Aberdeep, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Stanley, Jr., of Carthage, Route
3, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Monroe of
Cameron and others.
VFW Renews Its
Appeal For Toys
Fred Hall, chairman of the Christ
mas Cheer committee of the John
Boyd Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, this week repeated an ap
peal to the public for broken or
old toys which can be repaired
or painted for Christmas gifts to
children in needy local families.
Toys may be left on the porch of
the post home opposite the post
office on New York Ave.
Hall said that the committee is
preparing barrels to be placed in
grocery stores for food gifts to go
in Christmas baskets the post will
distribute, working in cooperation
with the county welfare depart
ment.
The chairman also said that
Drove 42, BPO Does, will aid in
the Christmas basket project this
year.
CAP CADET DANCE
There will be a dance at the
Civic Club tomorrow (Saturday)
night beginning at 8 o’clock, spon
sored by Civil Air Patrol cadets,
who are seeking to raise funds for
the purchase of uniforms. Dance
music will be furnished by Jim
Hatch and ’The Downbeats. There
will be refreshments.
MEMORIAL SERVICE
The public is invited to attend
the annual memorial service for
deceased members of the lodge,
to be held Sunday at 2 p. m. in
the Country Club by the South-
pn Pines Elks Lodge. The service
is one of the major ceremonies of
the lodge’s year.