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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
VOL. 20, NO. 33.
Aberdeen
Southern I’ines. North Carolina, Friday, .Inly 18. 1911,
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'•'ehurst
FIVE ( ENTS
STRUGGLE LOOMS
FOR CONTROL OF
HIGHLAND PINES
Hyde Resigns as Pilot Editor;
Boyd Names Thompson to Post
Retiring Head Ends Lonj? Serv
ice Here; New Skipper Re
turns to Sandhills
Office Seeks Man
Special Stockholders Meetini?
Called for July 30, Clainiins
June Election Not Valid
SECOND IN TWO ]MONTHS
Struggles over control of the High
land Park Hotel Company, owners of
Hig^hlancl Pines Inn, Southern Pines’
largest resoit hotf!, appeared in the
making this week as a rail tor a
special stockhoUlors meeting, the sec
ond in two months, went out to the
approximately 35 owners of stock.
Notices for a meeting Wednesday,
July 30, at 2:30 o’clock went out over
the signatures of Garland A. Pierco,
“president and stockholder," D. G.
Stutz, “secretary and stockholder,"
and K'. W. Van Camp, "stockholder.’’
The issue immediately involved is
whether the stockholders’ meeting of
June 11, when a board of seven di
rectors was electcd, was a legal meet
ing or whether, as suggested by the
caWt-r.s of the July 30 meeting, it was
not in accordance with the by-laws
of the corporation.
At their June meeting, stockhold
ers re-elected Norris L. Hodgkins and
put in six new directors. Dr. William
C. Mudgett, Paul Dana of Pinehuist,
Paul T. Barnum, Dr. Ernest W. Bush,
Mrs. Fannie Tiu'ner, and Eugene C.
Stevens. This board was elected to
replace the panel elected in 1940 con-
si.sting of Mr. Hodgkins, Garland
1‘ierce, K. W. Van Camp, William E
Flynn, Dr. M. G. Stutz, and D. G
Stutz.
Members of the most recently
elected board of directors claim that
the June meeting was in order, ex
cept for failure to elect officers, while
the officers elected in 1940 claim that
only five directors should have been
elected in addition to officers at this
meeting.
While neither group issued offi
cial statement, it was apparent that
the meeting July 30 is slated to de
cide whether the old directors and
officers are to remain in control of
the Hotel company or whether a nev,-
slate of officials will take over.
Involved in the controversy is the
management of the hotel during the
past few years.
The notice tor July 30 meeting: stat
ed the purposes of calling the session
as follows:
"1. (a. I To adopt by-laws for
the governing and managing of the
affairs of the corporation. The orig
inal by-laws of the company have
been lost, destroyed or misplaced, and
if the same are found before the
time of the meeting herein called,
then,
"(b) For the purpose of adopting
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•"* service with The
Pilot, Nelson C. Hyde, with this issue
of the paper resigned as editor to ac
cept another position.
To succeed Hyde, James Boyd, pub-
H«!ber of The Pilot, aiuiounced the se
lection of Carl G. Thompson, Jr.. a
Southern Pines product, who returns
to the Sandhills after wide news
paper and executive experience in this
State,
The new editor is the son of Mr.
and Ml.';. Carl G Thompson of
Broad Rlieet, and grandson of Mr.‘<.
Royal .t.'^HioU and the late Mr. Scott.
'.who v.i'j* early settlers here. He
graduated froi-^ Southern Pines High
School in.J9,'’,l aiHl received an A. H.
Degrrec in jc.irnalism from the I'ni-
versity of Nurth Carolina in 1935.
Beginning this week, Thompson
takes over his new responsibilities
which include the management of the
[weekly newspaper and of the job
printing business which is an adjunct
of The Pilot.
! Associated with him in handling
some of the advertising and business
matters will be Mrs. Thompson, the
former Miss M.'iry Convay of Raleigh.
Except for Mr. Hyde's leaving, Th'
Pilot's force remains unchanged, con
sisting of Charles McCauley, Mrs.
' Virginia Creel, Dan S. Ray, Charles
CulIi>gford and Mrs, Bessie Cameron
Smith of Vass-
“It is with regret that I see Mr.
Hyde leave the paper he has so long
edited,’ Mr. Boyd said in announcing
the change. “I hope, however, that
my selection of Mr. Thompson to fill
his place will have the approval of
the Sandhills people and will warrant
their continued support of The Pilot
ias one of this section’s institutions."
Still “Tar on Heels”
i The retiring editor and publisher of
The Pilot, Mr. Hyde, first came to
the Sandhills on pleasure bent dur-
i ing the early twenties. Like many
another Yankee his feet stuck in the
tar, and looking about for something
to keep him here, he found The Pilot,
i He had behind him years of newspap
er experience: was City Editor of the
'Syracuse (N. Y.) Herald, Managing
! Editor of the Watertown (N. Y. i
[standard, later Washington corres
pondent of twelve upstate New York
I papers which he served while he was
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DIIXKll.W
H.XItOLI)
STUART CAMERON
JOINS CANADIAN
ROYAL AIR FORCE
I Local Man In Training at Toronto
for Service in British Hattie
Against Hitler
MANY AMERICANS THERE
Cap’t. >1^;Saves
Woman I'J'«\ Drowning in
Choppy Waters of Pamlico
Sets New Record
HAROLD DILLEHAY
PUSHED FOR POST
AS CITY MANAGER
Charlotte Council Apparently
Wants Sandhills Native .More
Than He Wants the Job
i T'p in Canada, a Soutlifin I’ine.s
j vnjing man has traded the heat of the
' 'outh foi' the heat of the War. Stuart
! 'anieron, widely known Sandhills
I youth has just been accepted for
I raining as Pilot-Observer in the j
i Royal Canadian Air Force for the i
I fight against Hitler. |
Young Cameron left here about six i
I weeks ago, bent on getting mixed up |
j n Kritains forces; but he didn’t let i
I ';is intentions become known imtil!
' ‘hey had materialized into actual fact
I Now he is stationed in Toronto fo:'
ihout nine months’ or a year's train-1
iig in the air foicf. ^
‘■'ameron s signing up with the Brit-1
Lsh forces makes the second war ras-,
lalty suffered b\ Charles Picquet, !
manager of the Carolina Theatres. Tt'
looks like he’s contributing to the War
by turning out potential soldiers. Last
ar, James (Jimmyi Williamson Jr.'
left his job as projectionist at the
Theatres to get into the U. S. Army :
ind Cameron took his place. Not
many months later. Cameron was off :
■fi the wars
Incidentally. Williamson has just ,
heen transferred from his original ^
post at Fort Striven. Georgia, to the
Dfficers’ training school at Fortress
Although he may not take the job,
Harold J. Dillehay. formerly associat
ed with Reinec ke and Co. of South
ern r.nes, can be City Manager of Virginia, where he appa---
Valedictory
Four Still Confined
After Truck Wreck
Load of WPA Workers Over
turns On YounR’s Road. Bring
ing 32 from Work at Hragg
A truckload of white and Negro
WPA workers, ret\irning from work
at Fort Bragg, received injuries of
varying degrees of severity when the
1938 Chevrolet truck in which they
were riding overturned on Young's
Road, just past the curve near Ridgs
street last Friday about 6 p. m.
Of the 31 who received treatment
at Moore County Hospital, only four
Negroes were still confined a week
after the accident. One of them, Clar
ence King, 'Vass Negro, is in serious
condition with a concussion, while
others are being treated for fractures,
not considered dangerous. Lacy Mc
Neill, white, of Lakeview was dis
charged Thursday morning.
The truck was driven by Kerl Good
man of Cameron, who had been hav
ing repairs made to the truck in Ral
eigh on the day that he picked up the
workers and was bringing them back
to this area.
Others confined to the hospital
were Thomas Cassidy, Southern
■Pines Negrro, released Thursday;
Jesse Gillespie and Cleveland King of
Southern Pines, and Tom MorHson
of Lakeview, all Negroes.
BY NELSON V. HVDE
He was just eight years old when
we met him. Still in short pants. He
I lived in Vass. Stacy Brewer and Bion
H. Butler were looking after him
and they’d done a right good job of
shaping his career.
It was in the Fall of ’28 that we
met him. Came dow-n from the North
looking for just such a fellow, and
adopted him on sight. Been caring
for him since, for a while at Vass,
then in Aberdeen, then here In South
ern Pines. It’s been a lot of fun and
a lot of woe. All in all he’s been a
good boy, though, and the folks tell
us he’s done his part for the neigh
borhood. He's tried to lend a helping
hand for things that seemed best and
tried to sort of stamp his foot on the
other things.
W'e’re going to miss him. It’s hard
to part with any old friend, but when
you’re saying goodbye to a little fellow
you’ve sort of brought up to man
hood, it's really tough.
Understand these fellows that are
taking our boy over are all right.
They ought to be able to do a pretty
good job. There’s two of them at it
where there was only just us alone.
And they both tell us they can write.
Seems one has had some books pub
lished—books that sold, too. And the
other’s a real honest-to-goodness
newspaper man with a lot of exper
ience. We’re going to watch ’em
mighty close, though, ’cause we’ll al
ways look on the young fellow as our
own. The boy’s made thousands of
friends. To those friends we commend
his new g^odparents.
So-long, Little Fellow.
Charlotte, the only city in North
Carolina with over 100,000 population,
if he wants to.
At least, that’s how political gos
sip was going this week in the Queen
City, where Dillehay is executive di-
ta^tor of the Charlotte Housing Au-
V'ity.
^"hose souices best identified as be
ing “close to authority" in Charlotte
say that Dillehay has the support of
a majority of the new city councl
which took over the gov«^iment of
the city with the first of July.
Young Dillehay is a native of
Southern Pines, son of the late J. T.
Dillehay, village blacksmith and for
many years >ole policeman, and Mrs
Dillehay. For several years he was
associated with 'Reinecke and Co.,
contractors, later being taken into
the company which became Reinecke
and Dillehay. He was in charge of
work in Fayetteville when he accept
ed the $6,600 a year job of directing
the construction, occupation and man
agement of the large low-cost housing
projects in Charlotte.
Apparently, the only thing whicn
keeps the rumor from becoming ac
tual fact is the question in Dillehay’.s
mind w'hether he wants to give up
his present job to take a fling at a
higher position, but a more precar
ious one, because it depends upon po
litical vagaries of the city fathers.
James W, Armstrong, who's due
to leave the job of city manager, has
been getting $7,200 a year for his
work, but $7,500 has been mention
ed as the price that might be paid
Dillehay on the job.
According to Charlotte sources,
Dillehay, “if he will leave his pres
ent post, in which he has served with
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ently is in line for promotion.
In a letter to Walter Harper of |
Southern Pmes. Cameron this week
add of sime of his trials and tribula
tions as a volunteer in the RCAF.
“To try and tell you much about it
w^'uld befor I really have beeii
btisy—that is, not much time to call
my own, but doing an awful lot of
.sitting around listening and draw
ing equipment, etc., and in general,
acting like the rest of the raw' re
cruits around here,” Cameron wrote.
“There are around 4,000 men hers
Southern I'ines IMan, Antarctic
Kxplorer, l.eaps to Ke.scue As
She (;<»es Down od Time
FKKL FUO.M I HKHiHTKK
Leaping full.v clothid into the
choppy waters of Pamlico Sound,
Captain Alan Innes-Taylor of South
ern Pines on Wednesday saved the
life of Mrs. Charles Ludwig, wife of
a Cincinnati. Ohio, newspaperman, as
-she was going down for the third
lime. Native Englishman who has
.‘tailed the seven seas during the past
20 years, who flew with the Royal
Canadian Air Force duiing World
War 1, served for some tlnje with the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and
aceompaniecl Admir
first two Antarc
was Innes-Taylo;
saving a person
The Captain,
Pines Tuesday
Moore at Kinstoi
Sound finm the'
DOKOTIIV FliVK (iK \N.\H\N
Mrs. Dorothy Frye Granahan, dau
ghter of Mr- and Mrs. Andrew J.
Frye of Pinehurst, who last week in
Washington, D. C., set a new record
for speed with a stenotype machine.
After five months and a week of
study, Mrs, Granahan "took’’ 150
words a minute and set a record
which brought her wide attention be
cause no student has ever learned so
d ■ on his
«s, this
,eji(*; jn
ns-
DUth'ei’n
Branch ■
,ifto the
t^r Hadeo
which plies a daily trip betwe Hi En-
glehard and Hatteras when Mrs. Lud
wig fell overboard. They were among
other passengers preparing to trans
fer from the Hadecn to a small boat
in mid-Pamlico. The Hadeco was
turning northword for a run to Nor
folk with Captain Frazier Peele pilot
ing. A small boat_,jiad put out from
Matteias to
sengers an|
to be madi
T ’>f
The passenger^
lee rail of the*^!®
Wbe Hadeco’s pas-
. The transfer w'as
a^'htyof land,
erboard’’
i;ere moving to the
CO for the trans
fer when Mrs. Liidwig fell-ovorboard.
At the first ciy of “man overboard"
Captain Innes-Taylor shot overboard,
fullly clad, shoes and all.
ALSO fully clad, she was rapidly fall
ing iTstern the Hadeco. The captain
iea<^cd her as she was going down
abgtiit 100 feet away from the Hideco.
He kept her afloat while the Hadeco
J'was moving around to hoist the two
unlisted for the Royal Canadian Air, fast. Sandhills friends will remember
' Mrs. Granahan used her fingers ex
pertly as an accomplished pianist
who appeared as accompanist at va
rious civic gatherings here.
Major Yost Ordered
To Duty in Alabama
Former Knollwood Airport Man
ager Assigned as Plight In
structor; Stops in Pinehurst
Major Lloyd O. Yost, former mana
ger of the Knollwood Airport, stop
ped in Pinehurst Tuesday, on his way
to Army duty at Maxw'ell Field, Ala
bama, in the capacity of flight in
structor.
For the past several years, Yost
has been in charge of the private
planes of Mr. and Mrs. Richard D.
Clemson of Middletown, N. Y.
Recently, the Army ordered all re
serve officers who were engaged in
private flying to report for duty, and
Major Yost was assigned to the Ala
bama post.
Foi’ce in air crews and ground crews.
Vou will remember that it takes some
men on the ground to put a man in
the air.
"Around 700 of the men here are
Americans,’’he continued. “Of course, ' ou i- i IT* + 1
•ill of them are in for air crew, and CiUH OilOt IS r BtBl
the South is represented very heav-1 To Pinebluff Man
ily. You should hear the Civil War
fought five 01' six time a day around
here. It’s wonderful. '
Cameron is the son of Mrs. Lucy
Cameron, and formerly lived on May
street. Mrs. Cameron is now with her
sister in Boston, Mass-
If any of his friends want to find
out how Stuart’s doing, his address is
given here, and, he cautioned in his
letter, "all the numbers are impor
tant so use them all and in that order
please.”
AC2 Stuart Cameron R112906, No.
1 Manning Depot, Royal Canadian Air
Force, Toronto, Canada.
Moore Cooperates
Coroner Says Death of Marvin A.
Smith “Might Have Been
Accidental”
Marvin A. Smith. 23-year-old Pine-
bluff man, was found dead of shot
gun wounds in his bedroom about noon
Tuesday, July 15, with the 15-guage. '
double-baiTelied gun still clutched in
his hands. j
A verdict of Coroner R. D. Frye, Jr., . » .
of Carthage, indicated that the death Army AnnOUnCemCntS
“looked like suicide but might have, Qispleaslng to Sandhills
been accidental." There were no wit- ,
back aboard.
' Although Mrs. Ludwig swallowed a
'^leat deal of water she appearcij none
the worse for hsr experience.
“I didn’t know how to swim,’’ she
I ’
said, “but I paddled the best I coulJ
: to keep afloat. I had resigned to
[ drowning because I couldn’t see the
boat. I think I was going down for
1 the last time when I saw' Captain
Innes-Taylor swimming towards me.
He spoke to me and told me to be
as calm as pos.slble. I did my best
] and when he finally reached me I felt
I was all right."
Captain Innes-Taylor said It was
the first time in his experience he had
seen anybody fall overboard. "I train
ed for just this sort of thing for
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nesses. The shotgun load entered his Get Camp; Gen.
j heart, bringifig^ instant death. , Transferred To
I A native of Statesville, Smith had Penning
in Maneuver Plans ! been residing in Pinebluff about seven
Army Men Grateful for Coop
eration in Allowing Use of
Land for Fall Activities
Captain John R Gallagher and B. E.
Beasley of Carthage, in charge of the
slgn-up of farm lands for the Army
maneuvers In the county this Fall,
wound up their campaign last wfeek
and repoii close to 100 percent co
operation on the part of property
ow-ners in Moore.
Both Mr. Beasley and the Army of
ficer this week requested The Pilot to
express their thanks and appreciation
both to the large number of citizens
v'ho aided them in various ways in
effecting the sign-up.
Captain Gallagher said that every
thing was FQunding into shape for
the big war games in the two Caro-
Unas during October and November.
According to latest reports, the Knoll
wood Airport will be one of the most
active centers during the maneuvers,
with possibly as many as 100 planes
and close to 1,000 men based here.
years. He was a mechanic by trade j Department announcements on
and had recently been working at an: Wednesday brought two dlsappoint-
Aberdeen cafe. | ments to tbe Sandhills.
Surviving are his widow, the former ' No. 1 was that a 50,000-acre site
Miss Melba Clayton of near Aberdeen, had been selected in Durham, Gran-
and his mother, Mrs. May Smith. [ vllle and Person counties for a possi-
Puneral services were conducted ble new Army camp. This section had
Wednesday afternoon at 5.00 o’clock been making an effort to have the
from the Pinebluff Baptist Church ^ Sandhills Recreation Area near Hoff-
by the Rev. B. M. Harris and Dr. W. man selected for this camp, basing its
Parsons. Burial w'as In Bethesda Cem- main argument on the fact that the
eterj-. ; government already owns the land,
i has spent more than a million dollars
MOORE’S LIQUOR STORES j on Its development, and is making no
GROSS $21,171 IN JUNE practical use of it beyond forestry
{growth and recreational purposes.
Moore County’s two State-controlled; No. 2 was that Major General Ja-
liquor stores in Southern Pines and cob L. Devers, popuular commander
Pinehurst retailed $21,17105 worth of of Fort Bragg’s Ninth Division, is to
spirits during June, according to the j become Chief of the Armored Forces
State ABC Board reports. Total sales [ of the Army, with headquarters at
in the 26 counties which had legal 11- Fort Benning, Ga. Though pleased at
quor stores during June totalled $614,- his promotion to an Important post,
915.93 compared with $572,479.39 dur- his many friends throughout the see
ing the same month last year. The | tlon were disappointed at hia trans-
stores in Johnston County were dis-|fer from Port Bragg, effective Au-
continued during June, after they had gust 1st. His successor as Command*
sold $16,280.25. j ep of the Ninth has not been named.
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