BARBARA MYRICK
Aberdeen Devileltes
TONIGHT'S THE BIG NIGHT!
TONY PARKER
S. Pines Blue Knights
(Humphrey Photos)
Over 1,000 Expected To See
S. Pines-Aberdeen Contests
More than 1,000 highly partisan
fans are expected to pour into
the Southern Pines big gym to
-night (Friday) to witness a re-
i newal of the most colorful, if not
i the oldest, basketball series in
I North Carolina, between South-
i ern Pines and Aberdeen.
■ The Aberdeen boys’ and girls’
^ teams’ are favored, but the odds
r,
/ National Guard
^ Rated ‘Excellent’
After Inspection
Highlights of recent National
Guard weekly drills'”were the pro
motion of three enlisted men, and
the announcement this week of
the rating of Excellent attained
by the unit on its annual general
inspection.
Capt. 'William J. Wilson, com
pany commander, announced the
promotion to corporal of Pfc. Don
ald T-. Cheatham, of Southern
Pines, in recognition of his out
standing training record, includ
ing recent active duty training at
The Artillery School, Fort Bliss,
Texas, Eind his demonstrated lead
ers' p .ability and !iiter.'’'st in the
umc. Promoted to private first
class rank were Privates James
Lee Alexander cf Carthage, and
Frank W. Price, Jr., of Aberdeen.
Captain Wilson said this ’week
that he was pleased with the re
sults so far in the recruiting drive
inaugurated during the first week
of January. Guardsmen enlisted
since the start of the drive are;
Corporal Ray Kirby Schilling,
Privates Winferd Allen Cox, Rich
ard Louis Kobleur, Jr., Richard J.
Parshley, and Joe Frank Diggs,
all cf Southern Pines; and Pri-
• vates George Edward Cheatham
and Willard R. Dunlop, of Pine-
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have dropped rapidly this week,
and it is a hardy soul indeed,
with more sentiment than judg
ment, who will give or take
points. The outcome of both
games may well rest on the shoul
ders of Lady Luck. Two weeks
Ego it was Aberdeen by 15
points.
Southern Pines’ running rough
shod over Pinehurst last week has
sent the Blue Knight stock sky
rocketing. Particularly when
Aberdeen barely squeaked by the
same Pinehurst by a one point
margin.
Started Slo'wly
Coach Dub Leonard’s Blue
Knight squad started rather slow
ly but have been coming along.
Their 6-1 record is not quite as
good, as the 8-1 record of Aber
deen) who is undefeated in the
county, but the only conference)
defeat charged to the Blue
Knights is an early season loss to
Carthage. j
Coahh Hugh Bowman of Aber-,
deen will send onto the local
court a veteran team—one with
poise and more than an expert-1
ence advantage. 'The Red Devils
have that—3’ seniors and 2 juniors
will start—but they also have a'
terrif c' height advantage. Their
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place Tuesday night and two
p’ore Thursday, while four
Eagle Springs Negroes were
arrested Sunday in connection ■
with theft of‘'two rifles from thei
J. C. Caldwell store at Eagle
Springs January 9.
A Fort Bragg soldier,
George Meleius, 22, of Twin
Rocks, Pa., and a Sanford
youth, Charles Lloyd, Jr., 17,
admitted to officers in Lee
County Tuesday that they
were responsible for several
Moore County break-ins, it
was learned here Thursday.
They were to be given a
hearing before Magistrate
Charles MacLeod in Carthage
Thursday. Officers said that a
total of about a dozen break-
ins have been reported in
Moore, some of which are
listed in the accompanying
story. The confessions tfoUow-
ed identification of a pistol
Meleius had as one stolen in
Moore, officers said.
Deputy Sheriff A. F. Dees of
Aberdeen listed the location
goods taken and method cf entry
of the five Tuesday night break-
ins as:
Lane’s Garage on No. 1 highway
south, just out cf the Southern
Pines town limits; set of mechan
ics’s tools; forced a door,
John Lane’s Gulf Service sta
tion near the garage; rifle and
cigarettes; entered through win
dow.
Hudson’s Service Station, 'Vass;
nothing reported missing; in
through window.
Buddy McRae’s store, 'Vass;
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AWARD RECEIVED—Brig. Gen. Daniel W.
Jenkins (center), commandant of the USAF Air-
Ground Operations School in the Highland
Pines Inn, and members of the treinsportation
section at the school examine an Award for
Safety presented to the school by Tactical Air
Command, recognizing the school’s having won,
the ’’Operations Impact” safety campaign in
1954, when its vehicles were involved in no ac
cidents. In fact. General Jenkins reported this
week, the transportation section has driven over
500,000 miles in 803 days without an accident.
Left to right with General Jenkins are; T-Sgt.
James R. Cloninger, T-Sgt. Milton Wilson, Capt.
David L. "Callaway, transportation officer, and
S-Sgt. Magnor Aughtry. The “Operation Im
pact” campaign was conducted with cooperation
of civilian police officers and civilian drivers
throughout the Sandhills area last year. M-Sgt.
Sylvin T. Barrett, who also assisted in supervis
ion of the safety campaign, is not in the photo.
The motor section daily operates four buses,
four Air Force carry-alls, five staff cars and
three trucks. Governors and turn signals were
installed on all vehicles and there are daily in
spections. (Air Force Photo)
Stoneybrook Race
Scheduled For
Sat., March 19
Charles Stitzer of Southern
Pines, executive secretary of the
Stoneybrook Hunt Racing Associ
ation, said this week that the Na
tional Hunt Association, at its
meeting in New York City last
■week, had given the first race of
the Spring season to the local As
sociation, setting it for Saturday,
March 19.
Mr. Stitzer said that there
would be a meeting of the Stoney
brook Hunt Racing Association at
an early date. The March 19
event will be the seventh annual
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Fred Weaver To
Address P. T. A.
Fred Weaver, former Sandhills
resident and now dean of student
affairs at the University of North
Carolina. Chapel Hill, will speak
on what young people lack schol
astically and emotionally at col
lege entrance, during the regular
meeting of the Southern Pines
Parent-Teacher Association to be
held in Weaver Auditoriuum at
8 p. m. Thursday of next week.
The program is'designed to pre
cede a panel discussion, with
three teen-agers and three adults,
that has been scheduled for the
February meeting. The Rev. C
K. Ligon will conduct the devo
tional at next week’s meeting.
Ground Broken For W, Southern Pines School
STOREY TROPHY TO
BE GIVEN MONDAY
The Storey Memorial Tro
phy, given annually to a
Moore County Boy Scout
troop for general excellence
during the past year's activi
ties, will be awarded at a
court of honor progrcim, to be
held by troops of the county
at the Community Church ir
Pinehurst at 7:30 p. m. Mon
day. Merit badge and ad-
vanoement awards will be
made.
AiJT^roval Seen
ji. i.
For School Bill
The local bill in the General
Assembly asking authority to
transfer $10,000 from the South
ern Pines school debt service fund
to the capital outlay fund is ex
pected to be ratified by both
houses at Raleigh. j
The bill, introduced by Sen.
Hawley Poole of West End in the
Senate, was one of the first rati
fied there. Rep. H. Clifton Blue
of Aberdeen introduced an iden
tical bill in the House which was
reported unfavorably by com
mittee, but only at request cf Mr.
Blue who in this manner killed
his own bill, since the Poole bill
had been ratified, thus saving du
plication of effort and records.
Such a procedure is customary
the Aberdeen man said this week.
The switch in funds was re- i
quested so that contracts could be 1
let, despite shortage of capital out- |
lay funds, for the Phase B high I
school unit and an elementary
school unit in West Southern I
Pines. I
Residents of West Southern
Pines joined with local school of
ficials last Friday morning in
ground-breaking ceremonies at
the site cf a four-classroom ele
mentary school building which
will be located south-west of the
gymnasium on the West Southern
Pines school grounds.
Preliminary work at the site
was interrupted for the event and
construction is proceeding im
mediately. ’The building, as ex
plained Friday is the first unit in
a proposed 15-classroom structure
which will also contain a cafe
teria. The unit now under con
struction will include the heat
ing plant for the entire completed
building. Cost is $54,337.
Band, Glee Club Perform
On hand for the ceremonies
were: the student body cf the
West Southern Pines School, with
faculty members and Principal J.
W. Moore, who presided at a pub
lic address system, the band, di
rected by J. C. Hasty, and the
glee club, directed by R. T. Sim
mons.
Seated in a line of chairs fac
ing the students were members of
the SC'ufhern Pines board of
school trustees: Dr. 'Vida McLeod
L. F. Garvin and John Howarth,
chairman; Supt. A. C. Dawson
the architects of the building, T
T. Hayes, Jr., and Thomas F.
Marshall, of Southern Pines; the
contractor, W. L. Jewell, of San
ford; and West Southern Pinos
school and civic leaders, including
Mrs. Emma Stubbs, Mrs. Emma
Brown, Mrs. O. J. Saunders, H.
F. Faison and others.
Pastors Take Part
The Rev. T. L. Parsons gave an
invocation that followed the na
tional anthem at the beginning of
the program and the Rev. G. D
McNeill delivered the closing
prayer.
Two members of the school
board were unable to attend—N
L. Hodgkins who is a patient at
Moore Conuty Hospital, and
Harry Menzel. Both sent their
greetings.
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Leonard Elected
CofC. Head But
Says Can’t Serve
George H. Leonard, Jr.,^was
elected president of the Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce
Tuesday night, but said later that
he could not accept the job.
The new board of directors, in
stalled at this week’s meeting,
unanimously elected Mr. Leonard,
a holdover director from last year,
in absentia. He . returned that
night from a trip- out of town too
late to attend the meeting.
Later, Mr. Leonard said he
“deeply appreciated” the compli
ment, would like very much to
serve but, as the owner of two
businesses in the North, will have
to spend much of his time there
during the coming year. He said
he felt, though, that this would
not interfere with his continuing
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Superior Court
To Open Monday
A one-week term of Superior
Court for criminal cases will
open at Carthage Monday, with
Judge Allen H. Gwyn presiding.
About two dozen cases are
slated to go before the grand jury
and the trial docket lists more
than 70 other cases. The calendar
schedules cases through Thurs
day. -
Lonnie Mitchell, Niagara Ne
gro who is accused of killing an
other Negro from that communi
ty, Onnie Davis, more than a year
ago, is slated to be tried for mur
der.
A driving wind and rain Tues
day evening turned to ice and
sleet during the night and Sand
hills residents awoke to a cover
ing of snow over ice that made
driving hazardous—but no seri
ous accidents were reported
throughout this area. '
Schools of the county system
were closed Wednesday and pu
pils in Southern Pines were dis
missed at noon. On Thursday
Southern Pines and Aberdeen
schools were open as usual, but
others were Closed, including
Pinehurst schools, Notre Dame
Academy and Our Lady of "Vic
tory School in West Southern
Pines.
Kids Have Fun
Children getting an unexpected
vacation had a field day in the
rare snowfall which began to melt
Wednesday afternoon as the tem
perature rose, giving it a consis
tency suitable for making snow
men, many of which were fash
ioned here and elsewhere. Per
haps thp largest and most im
pressive was one built off Penn
sylvania Ave., near the Park "View
Hotel.
Many other children, victims
of a current epidemic of measles,
chicken pox and flu in this area,
were unable to take advantage of
the unusual chance to play in
snow.
All highways in this area were
clear by noon, although there was
considerable slipping and sliding
by cars earlier in the morning on
highways or city streets on a
grade.
Local police reported that Miss
Claire Sylva, an employee of the
Carolina Hotel, Pinehurst, re
quired hospital treatment, with
14" stitches taken in facial cuts,
after her 1949 Che’vrolet left Pee
Dee Road, striking two trees,
about 250 yards north cf the Mid
land Road intersection, at 2:30 p.
m. Wednesday. Road conditions
played a part in the accident.
Reported to local police, but net
investigated by them, was an ac
cident in which two other Caro
lina Hotel employees were in
volved when a 1954 Plymouth
driven by Miss Barbara Lydnick,
with Miss Ann Petfo' as passen
ger, collided with trees near the
Pine Needles golf course. Both
the occupants of the car were
treated at St. Joseph’s hospital,
but the extent of their injuries
was not known.
WIELDING THE SHOVEL—Among West Southern Pines res
idents helping to break ground for a new elementary school
building were Mrs. Emma Brown (top left); Larry Vowles (top
right), kindergarten pupil, who is expedted to enter the first
grade in the new building this fall; H. F. Faison (lower left),
president of the West Southern Pines PTA; and Mrs. Emma
Stubbs (lower right) who turned the first shovel of earth in cere
monies Friday. West Southern Pines elementary school pupils
watch from the background. Others taking a turn with the
shovel were members of the Southern Pines board of school trus
tees, Supt. A. C. Dawson, the Rev. J. A. William.s, West Southern
Pines minister and Thomas Ray, president of the West Southern
Pines High School senior class. (Pilot Staff Photos)
Dr. Grier Given Seouting Honor
Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr., of Pine
hurst, was awarded the Silver
Beaver award by the Occoneechee
Boy Scout Council at its annual
banquet, held last Thursday in
Raleigh. Dr. Grier is Moore Dis
trict Commissioner, and has been
active in local Scouting since
1950.
Mocre District won the attend
ance award, for the ninth consec
utive year, with a total of 54
scouters present. It took second
place for all Scouting activity in
this 12-county Council during the
year. A total of almost 500 adult
leaders attended the event, held
in the ballroom of the new State
College Union Building.
Action was taken to provide
Moore District with a full-time
Scout Executive, as a result of
the raising of over $8,500 in
Moore during the last fund drive
Jim Wilson of Southern Pines has
served both Moore and Lee Dis
tricts, but as soon as Lee is pro
vided for, Wilson will serve only
Me ore County troops.
Honor was paid to W. D. Camp
bell of Southern Pines, retiring
Council president, by naming a
DR. GRIER
recently-acquired area on the
John H. Kerr Lake near Hender
son as “The “W. D. Campbell Ex
plorer base” “for the use of the
Boy Scouts ... in recognition and
appreciation of his devoted serv-
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