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«} ■< & I !SAVE I I , ! I FOOD I I i ! SAVE j FOOD! a* VOL. 26. NO. 23. Southern Pines, N. C.. Friday. May 3, 1946. TEN CENTS 0 Hodgkins Presides As Bankers Meet In Southern Pines Veteran Loans And Consumer Credit Discussion Topics Presiding at a meeting of Group Seven of the North Caro lina Bankers Association at the Country Club on Thursday night, April 25, was Norris L. Hodgkins, president of the local Citizens Bank and Trust Company, as eminent banking authorities of Carolina addressed the session. More than 40 delegates from Group Seven, which includes the counties of Mbore, Hoke, Scot land, Lee, Richmond and Anson, heard J. Grey Wolf of the Wa chovia Bank and Trust Company, Raleigh, as be discussed “con sumers Credit” as a phase of banking, stressing the urgent need for special departments for the handling of installment loans in North Carolina banks. Wolfs recommendations were made following his prediction of an unprecidented volume of in stallment business for banks dur ing the next few years. The in crease is anticipated through the financing of automobiles, air- (Continued on Page 5) Brush Fire Threat Averted; Offender To Pay Costs HERE'S WHAT "Slairvialion!'' "It's certainly a sbamie, but what can we do?" Here's what: Buy an extra can every time you go to market. At the end of the week, leave them all with Miss Flora MacDon ald at the Curb Me^het in Southern Pines. She will see that they are sent on their way overseas to the starving people of the world. High School Nine Bests Pinehurst For Seventh Win Chalking up the fourth of an unbroken series of conference victories, following a single de feat at the hands of the hard Smoke and flames again filled the woods near Young’s Road last week, this time on the south side of it, when a fire, started on the Olive place, got away and burnt about eight acres on the Notre Dame Academy property. The fire was started by Mack Stubbs, working for James Ray burn, share cropper on the Olive farm. Rayburn did not secure a permit to burn. Sweeping up from the Olive land, the blaze spread quickly and was finally stopped just short of the cultivated stretch near the buildings of the school. Fire Warden Eastwood and his help ers from the tower were sum moned by the local fire-fighters and arrived speedily to take charge. No attempt being made to deny setting the fire, it is believed a court case is unneccessary and that the suppressed charges will be paid by the guilty party with no extra fine imposed. In reporting the fire. Warden Eastwood said that he would once more like to call the atten hitting Rowland outfit earlier in the season, the diamond aggre gation of Southern Pines High shut out Pinehurst on Tuesday, tallying seven times in the eighth for a final score of 13 to 0. The game was the locals’ seventh con ference win. On the mound for the local school nine was right-hander Chan Page, who went the full nine innings and allowed four scattered hits, as the near-airtight backing of his team mates held the visitors without a tally. With the score at 6-0 as the home club came to bat in the eighth inning, singles by Tommy Grey, first baseman Blue, and Drennan Mann, backstop, furn ished the power, with the Pine hurst hurler, Whit Thomas, walk ing three within the inning. Best with the stick for South ern Pines was Mann with a double and single for three times at bat, as local sluggers collect ed a total of 13 hits. tion of the citizens to the law, requiring a permit before any brush fire may be started. He be lieved that compliance with this rule would be small inconven ience. It would enable the fire force to be alerted to any possi ble danger and to prevent fires from being started at dangerous iimes in dangerous places. A great deal of expense, trouble, and damage would, he said, be saved, by this obedience to the law. Medical Leaders In Sandhills For Annual Meeting Dr. Stevick Returns Here As Speaker At Thursday Session Southern Pines Ab H H Po A E Grey, 2b 4 2 12 11 McClellan, cf 5 2 2 3 0 0 Worsham, ss 5 0 114 0 Page, p 4 10 14 1 Maples 3b 4 112 0 1 Blue lb 5 2 2 9 0 0 Harrington, If 2 3 0 2 0 0 Mann, c 3 0 2 1 0 0 Cameron, rf 2 2 0 0 0 0 Pinehurst Corbett, 2b Calcutt, 3b Veno, cf Hunt, lb Thomas, p Morgan, c B. Currie If E. Currie rf Frye, ss Ab R H Po A E 5 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 111 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 6 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 As the annual meeting of the Medical Society of North Caro lina got underway at the Caro lina Hotel in Pinehurst on Wed nesday, a principal speaker at the morning session yesterday was Dr. Charles P. Stevick of Saleigh, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Wade Stevick of Southern Pines. The speaker, epidemiologist with the North Carolina State Board of Health, an authority on contag ious diseases and their control, presented to the society a report on infantile paralysis in North Carolina, inclusive of statistics and data on the epidemic of 1944. Dr. Stevick was valedictorian of his class at Southern Pines High School, and a Phi Beta Kappa at Duke University. Grad uating from the Duke School of Medicine in 1937, he served in ternship at Duke Hospital, Balti more’s John Hopkins, and in sev eral Cleveland, Ohio, hospitals. Present at the medical gather ing which lasts through today, is Dr. Morris Fishbein of Chicago, editor of the Journal of the Amer ican Medical Association, who on Thursday evening delivered an address on “Medicine in the Post War World.” Dr. Fishbein will also address the House of Dele gates on “Medical Care.” Another distinguished guest speaker at this year’s meeting of the society is Dr. Clifford B. Lull, eminent obstetrician of Phila delphia, who addressed the first genetal session on “The Use of Fractional Spinal Anesthesia in Caesarian Section.” The report of the Past President Dr. Paul F. Whitaker, of Kinston, on “Status of Proposals for Medical Care in Noth Carolina” was also a fea ture of the opening session. General James Stevens Sim mons, of the office of the sur geon general of the Army, Wash ington, will be heard this morn ing on the subject: “Future Im plications of the Army’s Exper ience with Tropical Dieases.” At the annual banquet 'Thurs day, the president’s jewels were presented to Dr. Oren Moore of Charlotte, president for 1946, and to Dr. Whitaker, his immediate predecessor in office. Dr. Moore, a leading gynecolo gist of the State, has close ties with Moore County. His advice in (Continued on Page 5) MRS. LULA GUTHRIE, if the weather vane of local public op inion is any judge, is getting close to sitting in that “House Seat” she’s seeking. If she does, Moore County will have good reason to be proud of its “first lady legis lator.” Orchid Display Delights Garden Club Members,Here In Convention CANDIDATE Historical Group Elects Officers, Gets Mystery Gift Identity Unknown Of "Little Lady From Upper N, Y." Flora Macdonald To Live Again In May Seventh Fete Scottish Pageant To Feature Program At Red Springs College A note of mystery was intro duced into the proceedings of the Moore County Historical Associ ation meeting last Tuesday night at the Library when the chair man of the finance committee, J. Talbot Johnson, read a letter from a New York banket an nouncing an annonymous gift, Johnson read the letter and then recounted his telephone con versation with the bank official who described his client as “a little lady from upper New York state who has many happy mem ories of Southern Pines and the Moore County Hounds.” He said she planned to give the associa tion a very generous check. Much interest was evinced in the" “little lady,” but as no clues were forth coming, solution of the mystery must await receipt of the dona tion. Meantime, the finance commit tee chairman announced, the cam paign is getting under way, with general enthusiasm expressed. He felt it had every prospect of be ing a success. Directors of the association were then proposed and elected, as follows: from Carthage: Clyde Shaw; from Pinehurst Leland (Continued on Page 5) The semi-centennial celebra tions at Flora Macdonald College will open on the afternoon of May 7th, at 3:15, with a spirited musical program on the campus presented by the famous “Kiltie Band of York”, Pa.—^nineteen strong! President Henry G. Bedinger will preside at the -program in the auditorium. Greetings will be read, distinguished vistors rec ognized, and a program of music presented by the colege choir, under the direction of Dean Ru- ter, at the afternoon program. Angus Macdonald, Premier of Nova Scotia, and war-time Min ister of the Canadian Navy, who will make the principal address of the afternoon, introduced by Josephus Daniels, former Secre tary of the Navy. At 7:30 in the evening, the symphonic drama, “Flora Mac donald in Scotland”, will be pre sented in the out-door theatre of the college. Interpretive dances, folk dances, the Highland Fling, all in colorful and authentic cos tumes, will feature the evening program. Outstanding will be the Sword Dance and other solo Scot tish dances, in costume, by the guest dancer, Martha Jean Craw ford of College Park, Maryland. Dances will b under the direc tion of Miss Ethel Bateman. At 6:00 o’clock, barbecue, chicken salad, and fried chicken plates will be sold, cafeteria style, in the college dining room. All wishing to bring their own sup per will have the freedom of the campus, for their picnics. Erratic Second Inning Costs Local Club 4-2 Defeat At Hands of Robbins SPEAKER “Welcome!” is ihe greeting which the gentleman pictured above will deliver to his insur ance colleagues when they gath er for their convention in Pine hurst on Saturday. Ruggles is a member of the firm of Paul T. Barnum, Inc., of Southern Pines- Ruggles To Give Welcoming Speech At Convention School Glee Club Wins Pic<|uet Cup The Southern Pines Glee Club, imder the direction of Miss Hat tie Barber, Wednesday, was awarded the Charles Picquet Cup in the contest over the Aberdeen High School Glee Club at the Southern Pines Country Club in its Kiwanis program. The numbers rendered by tfie Southern Pines Glee Club weiS as follows: “Sea Fever”, by Clark; “All the Things You Are”, Kern; “O Danny Boy,” an Irish melody “The Road is Calling”, by Water. Numbers sung by the Aberdeer Glee Club were; “The Lord’s Prayer,” Albert Hay Mallotte; “Greetings,” Johannes Brahms; “I Had a Little Talk with the Lord”, Vic Missy; “Dark Eyes,” adapted and arranged by Wal lingford Riegger. Charmed with the beauties of the orchids in Judge W. A. Way’s greenhouses, and fascinated by the interesting talk that accom panied their inspection tour, the members of the State Garden Clubs termed their visit there the high-spot of the pleasant two-day stay in the Sandhills. “Oooos and aaaahs were heard on every side” one member said, “we were just overcome with the sight!” While another, lady was inspired to invent a new verb and exclaimed, “Thfose orchids just oooed us!” The visit to the Carolina Or chid Growers took place the last afternoon of the. convention which terminated with a banquet at the Pine Needles Inn, Tuesday night, at which Struthers Burt was the speaker, introduced by William Polk, editor of the Greensboro Daily News. The noted author delighted his audience by dividing his subject, “Roadside Development,” into two parts of which one was head ed “Money” and the other “Mur der.” Implying that money was needed to prevent murder from being done, both in accidents and through the wishful murder of those who deface the roadsides by hideous advertising, the speaker said that only through raising sufficient funds could an effective campaign be carried on for the development and beauti fying of the roads. The Horticultural Society’s sil ver medal was presented to Mrs. J. R. Teabeaut of Fayetteville, for her special study of camellias and roses. Mrs. Teabeaut has kept a day-by-day journals of her ex periments. Best work in the study of birds had been carried on by the Garden Makers of Lexington; Aberdeen and Siler City receiv ing honorable mention. During their stay in the Sand hills the members of the Garden Clubs were taken on tours con ducted by Ernest Morell, owner of Holly Tree Nurseries. They visited the gardens of Mrs. Mil lard Tompkins in Pinehurst and the Beckwith’s Holly Hedge place, the homes of D. W. Winkel- man, C. C. Kennedy, K. B. Trous- dell in Southern Pines and of G. C- Seymour, W. A. Blue, and Henry Page, Jr., in Aberdeen, partEiking of tea at the latter. Of particular interest to the visitors, beside the orchid houss was the planting along the railroad tracks in Southern Pines. The ladies ex pressed themselves as charmed with the latter, though one con fessed that it was a pity the shrubbery could not plant out the noise as well as the sight of the trains. Morris Johnson Is New President Of SP’s Rotary Club Morris Johnson was elected president of the Rotary Club here for the coming year at the week ly luncheon held last Friday at the Southern Pines Country Club. Virgil P. Clark, the outgoing president, was elected vice-pres ident, and Harry Lee Brown was made secretary-treasurer. Mr. Johnson, worked at Dorn’s here in Southern Pines until one year ago when he bought the business, renaming it Johnson’s. He is president of the Council of Social Agencies, and Director of the Chamber of Commerce. His elevation to the office of Ro tary president coincides with the anniversary of his purchase of the new store, one of the largest and most prosperous concerns in Southern Pines- Newly elected members of the board of directors are June Phil lips, Father Herbert Harkins, Rev. Tucker G- Humphries, and Lloyd T. Clark. Maternal Welfare Group To Meet Here Saturday A meeting of the Moore County Welfare Committee is scheduled for Saturday morning at ten o’clock at Weymouth, the home of Mrs. James Boyd. The active com mittee, which is headed by Mrs. Malcolm Kemp, and includes Mrs. Walter MacNeille of Pine Bluff, Mrs. James Swett, Mrs. J. H. Towne, and Mrs. James Boyd of Southern 'Pines, Mrs- Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen, and Mrs. F. H. Underwood of Carthage, has called the meeting to re-organize the work after the change-over from the time when so many were engrossed in war activities. Speaking of plans being made, the chairman, Mrs. Kemp, said: “Many who helped before the war have been asking if we plan to start up again, and our county nurse-midwife, Mrs. Mcleod, is kind enough to encourage our committee to get going. There are many ways in which, we feel, we can be of help to her and the work of the Health Depart ment along the lines of maternal and baby care.” Mrs. Kemp said that cards had (Continued on Page 10) A 3-day session of the Noth Carolina Associatipn of Insur ance Agents, Inc. will convene Friday, May 3, at the Carolina Hotel, Pinehurst in their 49th an nual convention. The address of welcome will be given Friday night by John S. Ruggles, President of the Moore County Insurance Exchange, Southern Pines, after a meeting of Directors presided over by As sociation president Ernest F. Young of Charlotte. The Executive Session will start at 10:00 a. m. Saturday with a report of the year’s activities by President Young and other Association officers. An open forum will be followed by the election of officers and the selec tion of a meeting place for the 1947 annual convention. W O Wm. E. Flaherty Dies At Casa Blanca BANK WILL CLOSE The Citizens Bank of Southern Pines will be closed on Friday, May 10, for Southern Decoration Day. Mrs. William E. Flaherty, the former Katherine Ferguson of Southern Pines, received on Thursday, April 25, the War De partment’s letter confirming the death of her husband. Chief War rant Officer William E. Flaherty. Warrant Officer Flaherty’s death resulted from gunshot wounds which he received in line of duty at Casa Blanca, French Morocco, on April 19. As yet, no further details are available. Mrs. Flaherty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs- John D. Ferguson of Southern Pines, is living here with her young son, Danny. War rant Officer Flaherty was station ed at Khollwood Field with the A. A. F. T. C. three years ago. Large Turnout For Sanclay Opener At Ball Park Here Costly errors in the second inn ing on Wednesday saw the Sou thern Pines-West End club de feated in the official opener here of the Sanclay League, as Rob bins romped to a 4-2 triumph at the local park in what could have anybody’s game. A better than fair crowd was on hand for the curtain-raiser, as mayor L. V. O’Callaghan threw in the ball. Leading off for Robbins as the up-country boys came to bat in the second, Williams, second baseman, stretched a long one to center field for three bases worth, scoring from third as Katsos lift ed a high one too close in for the right fielder’s glove. Brown fanned the breezes for first out, and Marley walked, to fill first and third as Batch Haines mo- Imentarily fumbled a grounder at short. Stutts, pitcher, sacrific ed, and the ball was played home for the out. Marley and Stutts crossed the plate on singletons by Hartsoe and McDaniels to set the score at 3-0, before Les McNeill, local backstop, whipped one down to catch a runner at sec ond and retire the side. With the locals coming in to (Continued on Page 5) Dante Montesanti Starts New Firm In Southern Pines An Open Session Saturday af ternoon includes addresses by Geogre G. Traver, Public Rela tions Representative, The Na tional Board of Fire Under writers, New York City; John Diemand, President, Insurance Company of North America, Phil adelphia, Pa.; and a Panel discus sion coordinated by James J. Harris, President, James J. Har ris & Company, Charlotte. The Convention Ball and En tertainment will, begin 10:30 Sat urday evening, after, the instal- -ation of officers by Hunter (Continued on Page 5) Announcement is made by S. Montesanti, of the organiza tion of the MONTESANTI SALES COMPANY, of Southern Pines, to deal in paper products, waxes, soap's, chemicals, disin fectants and sanitary supplies. Property has been purchased on S. Broad Street, and a build ing is being erected to house the company. The firm has also pur chased land between Southern Pines and Aberdeen, for future use as the sight for the manu facturing plant, to be built in the near future. Mrs. R. A. Smith Dies In Motor Accident Tragedy followed the Friday visit of Mrs. William Smith, and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Roger A. smith, with friends in Southern Pines. Mrs. Smith, Sr., died in the Harnett Hospital, Dunn, last Sat urday morning at 11:41, as result of the fatal highway accident in which the Smiths were involved on Friday night, near Dunn, while on their return to their home in Goldsboro. ' Mrs. Smith, Jr., wife of Col. William Smith, now serving in Italy, is under the care of Dr. D. B. Black in the Goldsboro Hosp ital. At the time of her removal to the hospital, her condition was described as serious. Col. and Mrs. William Smith, are well known in Southern Pines, having once made their home here for most of three years, during which time Col. Smith was in command of the Camp Mackall Hospital. A daughter, Betty Smith, is at present on Okinawa, while Wil liam, Jr., their son, is a student (Continued on Page 5) Two products have been re leased to the trade, through some of the county’s retail establish ments. Montesanti is a life long resi dent of Southern Pines, where he has been in the dry cleaning business. In 1940 he leased the firm of Montesanti Cleaners, which he has since operated. He states that he will give up man agement of this business on June 1st of this year. Thomas Atkinson of Southern Pines will be associated in the company in an advisory capac ity. Mr. Atkinson was formerly associated with the Taylor Chem ical Works, of Aberdeen, and the Monsanto Chemical Company of Charlotte. He is now associated with his father in the operation of Atkinson & Co. of Southern Pines. The Montesanti Sales Com pany will be a wholesale outlet only. A cordial invitation is ex tended to call on them after their opening on June 15th. Social Agency Drive For Recreation Fund Is On The finance committee of the Council of Social Agencies is starting its drive for funds this week. Anticipating a large and speedy response, the business men who have this drive in charge are making a store-to-store and man-to-man canvass, in the be lief that all will want to contrib ute. Judging from the enthusiasm, the chairman reports, the drive should go through in record time. The Committee asks that checks be made out and sent to June Phillips, treasurer. Funds will be used for the recreation program for young people of aU ages to be carried on this summer under the guidance of A. C. Dawson.