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VOL. 36—NO. 14
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1955
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE—TEN CENTS
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Seven youths from Puerto Rico are shown on
their way to jail after receiving six months’
sentences in Moore recorders court at Carthage
Monday, with Deputy Sheriff A. F. Dees in the
background. They will go to first offenders’
W. P. Saunders
Heads Red Cross
Drive In County
The annual Moore County Red
Cross membership campaign will
begin Monday, March 7, with a
quota of $15,940 it was announced
this week by W. P. Saunders,
chairman of the 1955 Committee
for Membership and Funds. Gor
don Clark of Southern Pines and
John A. Tuckerman of Jackson
Springs are co-chairmen with Mr.
Saunders.
This committee draws attention
to the vast amounts of money
spent by the Red Cross on the
many disasters which occurred
last year. They point out that
over $600,000 was spent in North
Carolina alone to aid the victims
of Hurricane Hazel.
Chairmten. and Quotas
Local chairmen and community
quotas are listed as:
Aberdeen, $1,400, Dr E. M.
Medlin; Addor, $35, Mrs. Henry
Adder; Bensalem-Big Oak, $30,
Mrs. J. A. Kelly; Cameron, $150,
Mrs. June Talley; Carthage, $900,
Mrs. J, M. Lane; Clay Road
Farms, $35, C. L. Ragsdale; Eagle
Springs, $110, Mrs. L. E. Falls;
Eastwood, $35, W. J. Sheffield;
Eureka, $25, A. T. Perry; Glen-
don, $30, Richard A. Dewd; Hal-
lison, $55, Mrs. A. L. Poe; High-
falls, $100,
LARKINS TO SPEAK
AT YDC DINNER
John D. Larkins, Jr., N. C.
Democratic Party chairman
and legislative counsel of
Gov. Luther H. Hodges, will
address Young Democrats of
Moore County when they
gather at the Carthage Hotel
for a dinner meeting Wed
nesday, March 9, it was an
nounced this week by Voit
Gilmore of Southern Pines,
county YDC president.
The dinner is set lor 7 p.
m., with a preceding social
hour at 6:30. Tickets are
available from Lamont
Brown, Paul Butler and Mr.
Gilmore, all of Southern
Pines.
Thomas Family Is
Helped, Plan Save
Toward New Home
Mrs. Purvis Thomas and family
of Vass, who have been staying
with relatives in the community
since their home with practically
all their belongings burned
Saturday night two weeks ago,
are hoping to get settled this
week in a farm house in the com
munity.
Much kindness has been shown
the family in their distress, and
camp if a fingerprint check supports their
claim of no wrongdoing previous to a robbery
near Pinebluff Saturday. They were caught
within two hours by the State Highway Patrol
radio and alertness. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
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they appreciate it greatly. Cloth-
Roland Upchurch; | ing and many articles of furniture
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TOURNEY SCORES
AT A GLANCE
The Moore Coimty basketball
tournament, at the Robbins gym,
was to continue with semi-finals
games Thursday night—Robbins
and HighfaUs girls and two boys’
games—Southern Pines vs. Aber
deen and Farm Life and West-
moore. Finals are set for Satur
day night; no games are scheduled
for tonight (Friday).
FRIDAY
Girls
Carthage 75, Farm Life 42
Westmoore 60, Cameron 42
Boys
Farm Life 60, Cameron 47
SATURDAY
Girls
Vass-Lakeview 60, Pinehurst 56
Boys
Robbins 65, Vass-Lakeview 48 .
Southern Pines 62, West End 47
MONDAY
Girls
West End 63, Southern Pines 62
HighfaUs 69, Westmoore 43
Boys
Farm Life 47, Carthage 39
. TUESDAY
Girls
Aberdeen 60, Carthage 52
Boys
Westmoore 65, Pinehurst 62
Aberdeen 82, Robbins 52
WEDNESDAY
Girls ,
Aberdeen 76, West End 61
Robbins 85, Vass-Lakeview 62
Boys
S. Pines 63, HighfaUs 44
have bSen given them, also dona
tions cf money from various
sources. All of the money that can
be spared from: immediate needs,
Mrs. Thomas is placing in a fund
to help replace the home. Several
churches, the local school, and
other groups have collected items
and cash.
The family’s unfortunate posi
tion was brought before the 464t
Communications Squadron :
Pope Air Force Base, by O l|c
Roy L.' Harrison. Captain Roland
J. Rosenberger, Communications
Squadron commander, and Air
man Harrison took a voluntary
contribution last Friday. The
squadron, one of the smallest in
number of personnel assigned at
Pope, donated $65 which was sent
to Mrs. Thomas. .
Captain Rosenberger stated,
“We recognized this as a very
needy case and just >wanted to do
something to help the family get
back on its feet. This is typical
of the generosity of the Commu
nications Squadron which recent
ly contributed 106 per cent to the
March of Dimes on the basis of $1
per rhan assigned.’’
Mrs. Thomas, at the sudden ac
cidental death of , her husband
less than four years ago, was left
with eight children, the youngest
about a month old; tragedy struck
again last October 29 when the
second oldest child, 14, was acci
dentally killed by a shotgun blast.
The oMest daughter has since
married, and she and her hus
band were living with Mrs.
Thomas. The other children range
in age from three and a half to
13: boys 6 and 13, girls 3 1-2, 9
and twins 11.
Get 6 Months In
Snatch-Run Case
With one of seven Puerto Rican
youths acting as interpreter,
translating into Spanish the words
of Judge J. Vance Rowe and Sol
icitor W. Lament Brown, Moore
County Recorders Court at Car
thage witnessed something new
in a courtroom scene Monday
when the seven, aged 18 to 25,
were sentenced to six months in
the North Carolina first offenders’
camp for a Saturday snatch-and-
run robbery.
Four of the seven could speak
no English at all. Only one, Jony
Diaz, understood the language
well enough to translate for the
others.
The seven, traveling in a car
with Florida plates, robbed A. M.
Batchelor of about $20 at his
service station on US Highway 1.
just nor th of Pinebluff and led
just north of Pinebluff and led
85-mile an hour chase into Hoke
County, shook him off at McCain
and were arrested by State High
way Patrolman J. H. Millard of
Fayetteville as they stopped for
gas west of Raeford within two
heurs of the theft.
At first, through Diaz, all
pleaded not guilty, and it looked
as though each was going to
claim he was one of the quartet
who stayed in the car, while the
rest follcwed Batchelor into the
station for change, snatched his
money and ran.
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Work Begins On
Construction Of
Catholic School
Elementary Unit
Of Notre Dame To
Be On Ashe Street
Preliminary work began this
week for a school building at the
corner of Connecticut Ave. and
Ashe Street, to which the elemen
tary section of Notre Dame Acad
emy is expected to move at the
beginning of the school year next
fall.
A building permit issued by the
Town to the Most Rev. Vincent J.'
Waters, bishop of the,,Catholic Di- I
ocese of Raleigh, lists estimated I
value of the structure at $75,000. '
Plans approved by Building In- [
spector W. J. Wilson call for four
classrooms, an assembly room and
kitchen and other facilities. Pro
posed future construction would
add four more classrooms at a
later date.
The one-story masonry struc
ture in a modem style will face
on Ashe St. The Catholic Diocese
of Raleigh for some time has own
ed the entire frontage on the west
side of Ashe St., between Connec
ticut and Vermont Aves. St. An
thony’s Catholic Church, at the
corner of Vermont and Ashe, is on
property that adjoins the' school
site.
It is understood that plans call
for future construction of living
quarters for sisters who teach in
the school, this building to face
Connecticut Ave. The church
property runs west almost to the
location of the Boy Scout hut in
the middle of the block, between
Ashe and Broad Sts.
Clearing of the lot and staking
out of foundation lines have been
going on this week.
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Proposal To Buy Hij^hland Pines
Inn May Hold USAF School Here
Purchase With
ROBBINS TO GIVE
HOSPITAL $L000
Robbins Mills, Inc., will
give $1,000 lo the Moore
County Hospital building
fund, it was announced this
week by Mrs. John E. Dixon,
member of the board of direc
tors, and Frank Roberts, vice-
president.
The textile firm has plants
at Robbins and Aberdeen in
Moore County and at Raeford
and Red Springs.
Over $100,000 is sought in
the current building fund
drive which was touched off
by a gift of $50,000 by Mr. and
Mrs. H. Arnold Jackson of
Pinehurst, for construction of
an emergency department in
memory of their two sons
killed in accidents.
If the local fund is raised,
some $200,000 in state and
Federal funds will be made
available to carry out a $300,-
000 renovation project that
will include a new children's
section and other major im
provements at the hospital in
Pinehurst.
PRESENTATION—Mrs. Michael Walsh presents to D. W.
Winkehnan the Moore County Hounds championship trophy, at
the Hunter Trials last Saturday afternoon, for his Little Trip,
shown here, winner of two classes in the trials.
(Photo by Humphrey)
Little Trip Wins Two Classes To
Take Championship At Hunter Trials
Jimmie Thomas Hurt
In Spill; Big Crowd
Sees Colorful Event
Little Trip, owned by D. W.
Winkelman of Lakelawn Farms,
winner of two classes in the hunt
er trials held Saturday afternoon
at the Scotts Comer trial grounds,
was awarded the Moore County
Hounds championship trophy
There was no reserve champion.
Six classes were run off on the
picturesque up-hill-and-down-
dale course, including the cham
pionship class composed of first
and second place winners of the
other hunter classes. Judges were
Robert Fairburn, MFH Spring
Valley Hounds, Mendham, N. J.,
and D. D. Odell, Malvern, Pa.
There were four spills, only one
resulting in injury. Jimmie
Thomas of New York City, riding
Mileaway Farms’ Unusual, was
thrown when his horse fell at a
tricky jump on the long course in
the open hunter class. He was
THE PRESIDENT WEARS SIZE 12
Ike Thanks Local Girl For Gift of Socks
Jean
grader
Nolen Bushby, seventh
at the Southern Pines
schools, likes Ike—and Ike has
good reason also to like Jean. Be
cause of Jean, the President of the
United States has a very fine and
fancy pair of socks in which to
pursue his favorite sport—golf.
Twelve-year-old Jean has some
thing, too — a letter signed
“Dwight D. Eisenhower,” thank
ing her for the beautiful socks. It
is by way of being her most cher
ished possession.
It occurred to Jean la^t Novem
ber that the President might like
a pair of socks. Jean loves to
knit, and thought she’d enjoy
knitting him some for golf. But
what size? She sat right down and
wrote to him to find out—acting,
incidentally, as a splendid good
will ambassador for her home
town and one-girl Chamber of
Commerce. '
Requesting information as to
his sock size, Jean added informa
tion of her own—that since he
liked to play golf, he ought to
know that the best golf courses in
the whole country are right here
at Southern Pines and Pinehurst,
eight of them.
Eisenhower’s private secretary
wrote back: “Desir Jean — Your
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taken to Moore County Hospital
suffering from shock and a leg in
jury.
Lcirge Gallery
The large gallery of spectators
enjoyed the panorama of the two-
mile courusue, the spectacle of
the horses being put through
their paces and the springlike
weather.
Taking part in the event were
three previous champions of the
hunter trials, Lakelawn Farms’
Renown and Haymarket and Ver
non Valley Farms’ Times Square.
Also drawing much interest were
Mrs. C. E. Adams’ veteran Rufu-
gio, only horse in the United
States to have started and finish
ed in the Grand National at Ain-
tree, and Battlewick, son of Bat
tleship, only American horse ever
to win at Aintree. Riding Refugio
was F. D. (Dooley) Adams, na
tion’s leading steeplechase rider.
Mrs. W. O. (Ginny) Moss was Bat-
tlewick’s rider.
Trophies and ribbons were
awarded in each class. In most,
there were both a challenge and
permanent trophy for the winner.
Mrs. Michael G. Walsh awarded
the trophy to the champion. Den
nis Crotty was announcer.
Winners Listed
The winners:
First Season Hunters: 1, Re
ward, owned by Mileaway Farms,
Ed Daniels up; 2, Falcon, owned
by Mileaway Farms, Mrs. Henry
Wheeler up; 3, Happy Town,
owned by Vernon Valley Farms,
Percy Knott up; 4, Miss Louanna,
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JEAN BUSHBY
Shows Letter From Ike
Cub Scout Show
Slated Saturday
The second annual Craft, Hob
by and Pet Show of Cub Scout
Pack 73—scheduled for 1:30 to 5
p. m. Saturday at the Straka
Building on N. E. Broad St.—
will include dogs, parakeets, fish,
stamp collections, model planes,
cars and ships, bird houses and
many other itemfe, Cubmaster
Paul Ward said this week.
Advance ticket sales are going
well, the Cubmaster said, and
predicted a large crowd on hand
to see the show. Refreshments
will be available. |
Pets in the show must be own
ed by the Cubs or their families
and craft Eurticles must be at least
50 per cent made by the Cub him
self.
Local, Federal
Funds Planned
A Pentagon conference in
Washington last Friday has pro
duced a proposal that may—if
local cooperation is adequate—
keep the USAF Air-Ground
Operations School at the High
land Pines Inn.
The proposal, still in the forma
tive stage, would call for pur
chase of the Inn property with a
combination of local and federal
funds and deeding it to the gov
ernment, preferably with a pro
viso that it would be returned to
community ownership should the
government cease to use it for
the school or other purposes.
Taking part in the Whshington
conference were . Mayer L. T.
Clark, Town Attorney W. Lamont
Brown, Charles Stitzer, head of
the Stitzer Hotel Co,, which is
owner of the Highland Pines Inn;
a representative of Howarth and
Howtarth, Philadelphila auditors
for the hotel firm; John Lang,
secretary of Congressman C. B.
Deane; and Franklin G. Floete,
assistant secretary of defense, in
whose Pentagon office the meet
ing was held.
Forming the background for
the conference is the already an
nounced move of the Air-Gronnd
School to Keesler Field, Biloxi,
Miss., in line with a directive that
all military installations in the
nation are to be moved as soon as
possible to government-owned
property. The school is at the
Highland Pines Inn under a lease
that is to expire June 30, but can
be terminated at any time on 60
days’ notice.
Local participants in the con
ference were optimistic that the
proposal could become a reality—
if community support in funds to
supplement government money in
purchase of the Inn property is
forthcoming.
Mayor Clark and Harry K.
Smyth, Chamber of Commerce
president, conferred on the pro
posal this week and are in pro
cess of appointing a committee to
present a definite proposition to.
the community.
Pending formation of this com
mittee and further conferences
with government officials and the
hotel executive, exact amounts of
money involved are not known,
but the local men who took part
in the conference appear confi
dent that a proposition within the
capabilities of the community
would be accepted by the De
partment of Defense.
Since it was made known sev
eral months ago that the Air-
Ground School was slated to
leave Southern Pines, for econ
omy reasons in line with the pol
icy of locating military installa
tions on government property,
various efforts have been made to
forestall the departure or look to
a plan that might keep the instal
lation here. The school has a
monthly payroll of about $90,000.
It has consistently participated in
civic affairs and is tied to the
town by many links of personal
friendships and common interest.
Raymond Cameron
Returns To Home
Raymond Cameron, who was
burned in a gasoline explosion
here last November 3, was brought
home by ambulance Monday from
Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill,
to which he was tremsferred from
Moore County Hospital shortly
after the accident which claimed
the life of his cousin, Alec Cam
eron.
After undergoing a series of 15
skin grafting operations, Mr.
Cameron is now able to be up
some each day and to walk around
in the house.
His wife, also his aunt. Miss
Pearl McMillan of Aberdeen, were
with him during his stay in the
hospital, while relatives cared for
the Cameron children. The fam
ily is now reunited at their home,
Pineywoods Cottage, in Pinedene.
Mr. Cameron is the son of Mrs.
Estelle Cameron of Mayflower
Apartments, Southern Pines.