VOL. 26 NO 26.
Southern Pines. N. 0.. Friday, May 24, 1946.
TEN CENTS
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Social Agencies’
Summer Plans For
Youth Get Started
Dawson Organizes
Variety Of Sports
For All Young People
DR. T. E. DAVIS
The Southern Pines Council of
Social Agencies, sponsoring the
summer physical education and
recreational program here, will
have a broad program covering
all ages according to A. C. Daw
son, director.
The Civic Club building and
the park will be the center and
control point of the activities.
Tennis, volleyball, and shuffle
board will be played in the park,
and ping pong and other games
iA the club building. A softball
league will be organized, and
games played on regular sche
dule, tennis also. Basketball will
be played in the school auditor
ium and the Church of Wide Fel
lowship Sunday School Assem
bly room.
For those that prefer swim
ming that sport will be under
the direction of Mr. Dawson and
under the supervision of persons
qualified to teach and instruct in
swimming, diving, and all water
sports.
Two dances for the teen-agers
will be held weekly, these, of
course, being under strict chap-
eronage.
Morris Johnson, president of
the Council of Social Agencies
states that he believes the pro
gram should prove a real suc
cess in meeting the problem of
the idle summer vacation days.
“In securing Dawson as direc
tor of the activity,” Johnson said,
“we are very fortunate. He pos
sesses the qualities that inspire
confidence among the kids. He is
a leader, and combines with this
the ability to teach well all kinds
of outdoors and indoor games.
From the angle of leadership, we_
are certain that our program will
be more than successful.”
June Phillips, treasurer of the
social agencies, said that two
thirds of the money budgeted for
the summer activities had been
raised. The Citizens Committee,
local group of busines men spon
soring the summer’s plans report
their pledged amount of $750.00
already raised.
Phillips said that Pinehurst
which is undertaking a similar
program has gone over the top
with $3200.00.
“I feel sure,” he said, in voicing
a plea for additional funds, “that
what Pinehurst can do we can
do. Their budgett is twice as
large as ours. I am confident Sou
thern Pines will do as well.”
The treasurer asked that all
those interested in the success of
this important program contrib
ute now by mailing their checks
to him, June Phillips, treasurer,
or to the Council of Social Agen
cies.
Rev. Thompson E. Davis,
Pastor of the Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church, Southern
Pines, received the degree of Doc
tor of Theology at the Union
Theological Seminary, Richmond
Va.. on Tuesday May 21.
While in Richmond Mrs. Davis
attended the commencement and
faculty tea at General Assembly
Training School. Mrs. Davis is an
alumna of the school.
Dr. and Mrs. Davis were accom
panied on the trip by their three
children, Margaret, Tom and
John.
Troy Wins 7-5
Over Local Team
UP TO US
Southern Pines playing spirit
less ball throughout the game lost
to Troy 7 to 5 Wednesday after
noon at the home field. Only in
the fifth inning did Southern
Pines show any fight when they
scored four runs and tied the
score at 5 all. Brown, the win
ning pitcher, was in trouble twice
during the game but alert fielding
pulled him out of the hole. Coop
er, pitching for Southern Pines,
had things pretty well under con
trol all the way, but the faulty
ball handling of his mates and
sleeping on the bases caused the
locals to drop the game.
Sandclay League Standings
(Through May 19th)
W L Pet.
Siler City 4 1 800
Robbins 3 2 600
Troy , 3 2 600
Ramseur * 3 2 600
So. Pines 1 , 4 200
Star 1 4 200
5 Leading Hitters
AB H Pet.
Lassiter-Star 11 7 636
Turbyfill-Robbins 10 6 600
Glossom-S City 22 9 409
Buchan-S Pines 13 5 385
'Dur*|lop-Star 15 ® 400
Leading Pitchers
Clinard-Troy 3-0
Hicks-Siler City 3-0
Turbyfill-Robbins 2-0
“Teen- Agers” Vote Unanimously
To Collect Food For Starving
Some twenty-five members of
the Southern Pines “Teen-Agers
Club” attended their last busin
ess meeting Wednesday night at
the Community Center. At this
meeting Herman Grover, member
of AVC, spoke to the teenagers
on the drive to collect canned
food that AVC is conducting in
Moore County. He explained that
UNRRA has a nation-wide drive
now underway to collect food for
the starving peoples of fqreign
nations and that AVC has organ
ized a Sandhill drive to tie in with
UNRRA. “I want to ask for volun
teers from among you”, said
Grover, “but I want you to know
that if you volunteer, you’ll be
expected to go out and work on
this food drive.” Ted Yorke, presi
dent of the Teen Agers, was in
favor of the project, Fred Arnette
made the motion that the Teen-
Agers join AVC in the drive, and
Bobby Harrington seconded the
motion. All members present vot
ed unanimously, and volunteered
to help in any way they could.
The Women’s Auxiliary of the
Presbyterian Church will furnish
the transportation and the drive
will begin today, Friday May 24th,
as soon as the teen-agers get out
of school - about 2:30 P. M.
The drive will, continue on Sat
urday morning until noon. Any
housewives who do not expect to
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TEST 'EM, PROF!
A professor of Yale's Uni
versity Law School, Harold
D. Lasswell. urged before 500
members of the Association
for the Advancement of Psy
choanalysis that psychoanal-
itical tests be given labor
leaders, business executives,
and public officials "to test
their temperamental fitness
for making important deci
sions." How nice. . . if only
it would work. . . what a
heap of changes would soon
take place!
Women's Groups Out
To Save More Food
The Eastern Star group of wo
men have pased a resolution, it
was recently announced, to dis
pense with refreshments at their
meetings, as long as the need ex
isted.
Similar action was taken last
week by the Business Women’s
Circle of the Auxiliary of the
Presbyterian Church.
Such heartening occurrences
show that the country is alive to
the need, as women are respond
ing everywhere to President Tru
man’s special plea to them, as
home-makers, • to help in this
great emergency.
Mrs. Van Camp
Dies Saturday
In gradually declining health
for a number of years Mrs. Geor-
giana Johnson Van Camp died in
her home. No. 7 South May Street,
at an early hour Saturday morn
ing, May 18th.
Born in Portland, Me., in Aug
ust 1882, she had been a winter
resident of Southern Pines for a
number of years prior to her mar
riage to F. W. Van Camp in Sept
ember, 1923.
Funeral services conducted by
her pastor, the Rev. Tucker G.
Humphries, were held in the
Chuyeh of Wide Fellowship at two
o’clock Sunday afternoon.' Inter
ment was in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Pallbearers were John Ruggles,
Maxwell Grey, E. J. Austin, Rob
ert Cameron, Ralph Chandler, Jr.
and Thomas Atkinson.
Mrs. Van Camp is survived by
her husband, a long time resident
of Southern Pines, who served as
Mayor in 1920-21, and as an early
principal of the local school in
1901-2.
Under The Syeamores Old Timers
Ponder Who’s Going To Win Saturday
If you stood out under the sy
camores any afternoon this week
when it wasn’t raining. . . some
thing that’s quite a trick these
days. . . you soon found yourself
in a little group of earnest voters.
Round and round went the politi
cal talk, about this candidate and
that one. Don’t think you could
ever really .find out how anybody
was going to vote. . . not to save
your neck you- couldn’t! But if
you listened to the statements
that floated out into the casual
air, after a while you began to
get some idea of what folks were
thinking. Here, for what it may
be worth, is what was simmering
in the dusty shade of the syca
mores early this week.
' Here They Are!
The Two Would-Be Senators:
Wilbur Currie and
J. Talbot Johnson
Except that both have much
personal charm, no two men
could be more different. Folks
sum them up in this way: Currie
has had much political experi
ence, not only in state politics
but in the county, where he head
ed the board of county commis
sioners for many years. His rep
utation as an administrator is
excellent; people speak especi
ally of his conservatism, his grasp
of financial matters, his thorough
knowledge of the voters of the
county. He, is a businessman as
well as a politician.
Johnson, who opposes Currie
for the nomination to the state
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The following message is
from President Truman:
.'Millions of people face fcim-
ine in the warlorn world. I
call upon every American lo
help save lives.
Eat less wheal products,
fats and oils, balance your
diet with foods which are
plentiful, keep up your vic
tory garden, preserve food at
home and waste no food.
Famine and peace cannot
go together. It is up to all of
us to see that food saves lives
and strengthens peace every
where in the world."
Ed: Why not have "wheat
less Wednesdays" during
May and June?.
Aberdeen Seouts
Do Excellent Job
Collecting Food
Miss McDonald Turns
Food Over To UNRRA
For Foreign Shipment
The Boy Scouts of Aberdeen
have done a fine job under scout
leader W. McNeill, Jr., and Jere
McKeithen, member of AVC, the
veterans organization that voted
to get behind the nation’s Emer
gency Food Drive and push it in
the Sandhills.
The food collected last Satur
day has been turned over to Miss
Flora McDonald who in turn has
turned it over to the UNRRA and
it is now on its way to help ease
the situation in some nation
where starvation is now rampart.
Over two hundred and sixty
cans of food were collected by
the Boy Scouts last Saturday, in
Aberdeen, an estimated 250
pounds of canned soups, evapo^
rated milk, fish and other badly
needed items.
The Boy Scouts who gave, of
their time and effort that others
in far off starving nations
might eat and live were: Ray
mond Wicker, Jr. Buddy Blue,
Farrell Brown, Louis Harrington,
and Donald Jackson.
Cars were furnished by Harlton
Storey, Jr. and by Mrs. A. Jack-
son Smith and Mrs. Donald
McCoy of the Presbyterian Lad
ies Aid Society.
Cans of food will again be coll
ected this coming Saturday in
Aberdeen as well as in other sect
ions of Moore County. It is asked
of all housewives that if they do
not expect to be home between
nine and twelve in the morning,
then leave a can of food on the
doorstep so that it can be collect
ed and sent on its way to nations
less fortunate than our own.
Rotary To Sponsor
Boy Scout Troop
Friday’s regular luncheon of the
Rotary Club was held at the
Lakeview ,Hotel, Lakeview. At
this meeting the Club unanimous
ly voted to take over the spon
sorship of local troop No. 73, Boy
Scouts of , America. Troop No. 73
was about to lose its charter be
cause its original sponsor, the
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
now combined with the new sen
ior Chamber of Commerce, had
to relineuish its sponsorship.
A Scout Troop Committee was
named consisting of Dan Ray.
Will Wiggs, Morris Johnson,
Tucker Humphries, and June
Phillips, the latter, chairman.
Visiting Rotarians were Wil
bur Currie, Carthage, and Frank
Thomas of Hastings on-the-
Hudson, New York.
Guests were Stanley Austin
and Clifton Blue of Aberdeen.
jShaw House Fund
Drive Results To
Be Given Tuesday
The meeting of the Moore
County Historical Association, to
be held Tuesday night. May 28th,
at "the Library in Southern Pines,
at 8, P. M., will be the last meet
ing before the expiration of the
option on the purchase of the
Shaw House, and a large atten
dance is expected. Reports from
the various committees in charge
of the drive for funds are slated
to be presented.
At the last meeting, on May
14th, the fund lacked some
$1,500..00 of completion but it
has been stated that contributions
have been coming in since then,
and it is fully expected that the
response of the recent letter, sent
out by Struthers Burt, as head of
a special fund-raising committee,
will bring the desired amount.
At that May 14th meeting, be
sides a discussion of finances, the
twenty members present were
entertained and delighted with
two short addresses made by Ras-
sie Wicker and John McQueen.
The former described the three
main roads of early Moore Coun
ty, the Yadkin, the Peedee, or
Seals, and the Morganton Road,
while Mr. McQueen went back
into the dayS of his early boy
hood, in memory, and told what
Moore County was like then. He
described in detail the little
school house where he ^ first
taught school for the noble salary
of $25.00 a month. He closed his
talk with the suggestion that just
as the heritage of Moore Coun
ty’s stirring past inspires her sons
today, so what today’s citizens
do will inspire those to come, and
said “a great responsibility is laid
upon us so to live that we also
will hand on something of worth
to our descendants.”
The Association announces the
resceipt of its first gift: an ab
stract of a depd for six lots in the
town of Southern Pines, made by
C. W. Shaw, Justice of the Peace,
owner of the Shaw House, on
Jan. 24, 1902. Presented to the So
ciety by J. Talbot Johnson, a
charter member, the abstract will
be placed in the archives of the
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Country Club Sale Stirs Up
Hornets’ Nest Of Discussion
PEPPER
"I have fought the reac- ,
tionists—-the witting or lui-
witting champions of the un
common people—all my lijie,
I shall continue to fight them
because I am a Southerner
an because what they stand
for harms the South I love. I
charge that they would ra
tber turn the efforts of the
government to the aid of the
organUedI money power of
the Nation than to make it
possible for the people of my
state and the South to get an
education, to be healthy, and
to make a living like honor
able men."
Senator Claude Pepper.
A West Southern
Pines Post Office
Being Considef'ed
MEMORIAL SERVICE
Memorial Day Services, spon
sored by the Sandhills American
Legion Post and Auxiliary, will
be held at the High School at 8:00
in the evening on Thursday, May
30.
All of the local clergy will part
icipate and the Pastor of the
Church of Wide Fellowship, the
Rev. Tucker G. Humphries, will
give the main address.
HATS OFF!
Southern Pines is getting into
the quota-topping habit. Given
the sum of $350.00 to raise for the
“Hght Qancei^' campaign, this
year, the town roared right ahead
and made it an even $500.00.
That was done under the chair
manship of Postmaster P. Frank
Buchan.
The Pilot tips his hat to him
and his hard-working cohorts.
“But you’re not leaving! Not
for good ... you can't do that!”
That was the general cry that
greeted the announcement by Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Eddy that they
had sold the shop and rented the
house, and were packing up. Re
assuring replies: that plans were
uncertain, that they couldn’t say
for sure, that they would surely
come back, or stop off, or at least
be thinking often of the Sand
hills did little to lessen the feel
ing of loss.
The Eddys’ acquaintance with
Moore county dates back quite a
ways, to the fall of 1906, to be
exact, when they came to Pine
hurst.
On May 21st, 1913, they bought
the Goodale Studio, then located
in what was called the ‘-Locey
Block,” on the site of the present
Eddy Building. In the big fire of
April 13th, 1921, the shop was
burned out, and Mr. Eddy lost
most of his stock of photographic
equipment. Nothing daunted by
this catastrophe, he built the fol
lowing year, three small stores
on Broad street, where the pres
ent Stevens and Hart buildings
stand, and, in 1926, he built the
structure on Pennsylvania ave
nue which has just been sold to
E. C. Stevens.
Here E. C. Eddy has carried on
his photographic business, keep
ing the window of his shop, filled
with the smiling faces of emi
nent town worthys or coy maid
ens or, these last years, the fine
determined faces of our boys in
uniform. He has also had hunt
pictures, there, and golf pictures,
parades, train wrecks. One of the
finest photographs ever taken of
a Diesel was the one he took
Some Feel One Way
Some Feel Another
All Await Results
The post office department is
considering the establishment of
a substation in West Southern
Pines, according to latest reports.
This post office would be a con
tract station, with the owner and
operator under bond to the Sou
thern Pines post office.
The contractor for the West
Southern Pines post office con
cession would be required to fur
nish general delivery in addition
to selling stamps, accepting par
cels, registering mail and writing
money orders. Postmaster P.
Frank Buchan is issuing a call
for bids from any who are inter
ested in securing this contract.
Asked how this change hap
pened to come up for considera
tion the postmaster stated that
it was in response to a generally
felt need. Many residents of West
Southern Pines have to travel as
much as a mile and a half to come
to Southern Pines for their mail.
This works a real hardship, he
said, on many who are without
cars. Besides, the contemplated
change will do much to relieve
the congestion in the present
where the demand for boxes far
exceeds the supply.
When the smoke of too hot
thinking clears and the echoes
of angry words die away, it will
be interesting to see who was
right and who was wrong about
the Country Club sale.
The hot thinking and hotter
words began immediately the ru
mor of the sale of the Country
Club turned into fact last Wed
nesday week. *
The conflict arose because it
was feared tha^ the sale had not
been carried out in accordance
with conditions agreed on at the
joint meeting of the Directors of
the Chamber of Commerce and
the Town Commissioners.
At this meeting it is reported
the following was decided: the
Club should be sold at the proper
price, to the proper person, under
the proper conditions.'
The “proper prise” agreed was
$50,000. . . yet it is common
knowledge that the Club was
sold for $31,000 cash. At least, a
deposit has been accepjed on that
figure. The other $19,000 is said
to be mainly covered in the
sprinkler system that the new
purchaser has agreed to install.
But the Club was to do this any
way.
There has been little, if any,
argument as to the fact that W.
W. Sherman is the “proper per
son”. He has successfully run a
top-notch golf club long enough
to prove that.
The greatest rub comes from
the “proper conditions.” Here,
several moot points are brought
up. First, has Southern Pines
been fully protected by a guaran
tee that the Country Club will
continue as a golf club open to
the citizens of Southern Pines?
Or will it be turned into a club
too-'high priced and too-swank
for the majority of those now
enjoying the privileges of the
present set-up? This question is
asked, but those backing the sale
feel it is somewhat foolish, as the
success of the Club will depend
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E. C. Eddy Sells Shop To E. C. Stevens
Family Going North, Return Uncertain
twelve years or so ago. The pic
tures ^in Mr. Eddy’s window
would have constituted a very
fair history of the life of our
town. ,
The Eddys are leaving this
week for York Beach, where they
own two apartment houses and
a bungalow which they have fix
ed to rent. After looking over the
lay of the land there, they will
go on to their home in Bethlehem,
N. H. and Photographer Eddy will
turn into Farmer Eddy, and poss
ibly into something even more
unexpected. A few years before
the war. Friend Eddy had a uni
que idea. “It came to me”, he said,
“in the dark room, where I was
working on some pictures”. Per
haps the pictures were some of
those snow scenes ih. which he
excelled. Anyway, he suddenly
thought of skiing, and what a hold
it had taken on the public, and
what a pity it was you couldn’t
do it in the summer, and, if you
could, wh'at a wonderful hill he
had for skiing right on his place
at Bethlehem...and then, he really
did start thinking.
The outcome of it was that he
built a summer ski-run, using, as
a base the hay which he cut him
self on the meadows along the
Ammonoosuc River. The swale
hay grew four to five feet high,
and he thatched the run with it
just the way a thatched roof is
thatched. One of the first to see
it and try it out was Clarence
Oleson, famed skl-tnaster who
laid out the big jump at Berlin,
N. H. Others tried it and said it
was fine. The run itself is about
550 feet long, and jumpers have
soared 79 feet on it, or off it.
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Tag Day Nets $418
For Maternity Aid
With More to Come
Results of the Tag Day sale for
the work of the Maternal Welfare
Committee were most satisfac
tory, according to word received
from the treasurer, Mrs. F. H.
Underwood of Carthage. With
Carthage not yet reporting the
sum raised this year was $418.00.
It is confidently expected that the
Carthage drive, spread over two
or more Saturdays, will bring the
final figure well over $450.00. The
figure for last year’s sale was
$308.00.
The five towns taking part in
the sale this year were: Southern
Pines, which turned in a flat
$250.00, Pinehurst, $33.00, Aber
deen, $76.00, and Pinebluff,
$59.00, with Carthage still to be
heard from.
Because of the saving of funds
during the war years, when the
burden of maternal care in the
county was shared with the fed
eral government, there will be,
according to the chairman, Mrs.
James Boyd, enough in the treas
ury with this added Tag Day
amount, to finance the coming
year’s work. The committee has
standing expenses to be met, such
as the addition we make to Mrs.
McLeod’s salary, as well as many
incidentals.” Mrs. Boyd said.
“These include clinic equipment
and supplies, extra milk or medi
cine,' occasional supplements to
doctors’ fees. Because of this wel
come sum raised through the gen
erosity of Moore County people
on Tag Day, we will be able to
fulfill all these obligations and,
we hope, go on to the enlarged
program that is so necessary.”