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Rejuvenated Southern Pines Nine
Slugs Way Out Of Cellar Spot
Ramseur, Troy, Bragg'*
Fall To Strong Team
“5” And “21” Now . Two “50V’ On Way
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Newton Leads Slugging
Vest Wings Out Of Hole
Southern Pines’ Sanclay team
is on the comeback trail. Holders
of the cellar position in the Lea
gue, they lashed out during the
past week and administered
sound drubbings to Ramseur and
Troy, holders of second and third
spots on the Sanclay ladder, as
well as to a purportedly stronger
Ft. Bragg nine, not in the League.
This gave Southern Pines its
third win in as many starts.
Troy was downed 9 to 3 and Ft.
Bragg 14 to 10. Ramseur ended
3-0 in the sixth inning when a
downpour of rain called a halt
to the game.
In the Troy game, at Troy
Woodrow Davis gave up only two
infield hits .until the last of the
ninth. It was only in the ninth
that Davis allowed three hits,
which coupled with a couple of
wild pitches, let in three runs for
Troy. But it was too late to over
come the 9 run lead of Southern
Pines and the game ended 9-3 for
Southern Pines.
Stars for Southern Pines at the
bat were Newton and Harper,
each batting 1000. Newton rapped
out two doubles and two singles
in four trips to the plate, and
Harper smacked out two hits in
two times up.
Waite pitched for Southern
Pines in the Ft. Bragg game and
was shelled from the mound in
the third by the Braggmen, Vest
taking over with Southern Pines
trailing 10-4, Bragg having scor-
edfive runs on four hits in the
first of the second, and four runs
on two hits in the third.
Southern Pines began its march
in the end of the third, scoring
three runs on three hits. Vest
struck out three men in the
fourth. In Southern Pines’ turn
up in the fourth, George tripled
to deep left center with the bases
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WHATTA CHIEFI
We'll back our Chief of
Police against anybody's. In
case you feel like arguing
about it. see the ball team.
And if they don't convince
you, it will be because they
are out of bats.
The Chief is improving our
Sanclay team from the
ground up. literally. Anyone
passing by the ball park on
that hot, sweltering, blazing,
schorcher of a Tuesday last
could have seen stcU'k proof
of that ground-upwards im
provement.
Chief Newton was there
supervising the complete re
juvenation of the field. Tons
of clay were put where need
ed. Sprinklers sprinkled
where parched, and are still
sprinkling.
Our Sanclay team may be
near the bottom of the heap
as fafr as league standings
are concerned, but it's right
up there on the top of the
Chief's ladder. If he has any
thing to say about it, and he
has, it will also be at the top
of the league ladder. . . soon.
Maybe it's because the
Chief's '.son Ed is one of the
mainstays of the team, or
maybe it's because Chief
Newton knows that a good
ball team is one of the
healthiest things a commun
ity can have. Whatever the
reason, the Chief is doing a
fine double-barreled job. He's
holding the team up and he's
holing crime down. Whalta
Chief!
LEAGUE STANDINGS
New Resort Airlines Stock Issue
Plans Million Dollar Expansion
Two Douglas ‘‘Skymasters” Bought
Geographically Ideal
COLONEL, JR!
RESORT AIRLINES NOW OFFERS passenger service in the five-passenger Cessna and twenty-one
passenger Douglas planes shown above. But soon to be added are two Douglas “Skymasters ” giant
u that cruise along at the space-eating speed of two-hundred twenty miles per
hour. The “Skymasters” have been bought and delivery is now being awaited, stated Lewis C Bur-
well, president of the airlines.
Won Lost %
Siler City 11 1 917
Ramseur 7 5 583
Troy 6 5 555
Star 4 7 364
Southern Pines 3 8 273
Robbins 3 8 273
Champion Canned-Food Collectors
THE Tl'EN-.\GEi!S who did such an excellont job collecting canned
food to send starving nations, are shown here putting the cans into
cartons for shipment. They are (1 to right) Jackie Spring, Ted
York, Andy Page, Jimrnie Dickerson, Jean Murphy, Robert McLeod,
Herrmann Grover (AVC member), Janet Menzel, Peggy Phillips,
Catherine Sitterson.
Polio Epidemics Now In
Only One Case
June to September are con
sidered the “likely months” when
the dread polio strikes most fre-
, quently. Florida and Texas re
port it in eqidemic stages, Cali
fornia is at near-epidemic stage.
It has struck but once in the
Sandhills, in Pinehurst. Young
James Thomas Ritter, son of
James C. Ritter, was admitted to
the Charlotte Memorial Hospital
on the 24th of May and was diag
nosed as having infantile paraly
sis (poliomelitis).
Fortunately for young Ritter,
he had enough resistance to beat
off a serious attact of the little-
understood polio germ. He has
been returned to his home where
he win remain under confinement
and surveillance.
It is urged that all possible pre
cautions be taken by the parents
of young children. Report inuned
lately any case that may possibly
develope into polio. The symp-
Texas, Florida
In Moore County To Date
toms are: headache, unexplained
leaver or cold, even an upset
stomach may be the first spmp-
tom of infantile paralysis. Take
no chances, call a physician at
first indication of sickness.
Avoid removal of tonsils or ad-
noids during polio epidemic sea
son. Don’t let your children swim
in pointed waters. Keep your
children and your community
clean.
Although there is as yet no
known cure of the disease, good
medical care can prevent or cor
rect some deformaties. However,
in every fourth or fifth case some
permanent paralysis wiU remain
that cannot be overcome. And
don’t worry about expense. That
will be taken care of by the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile.
Pad C. Butler, of Southern Pines
is chairman of the Moore County
Chapter.
Maj Campbell Says
Rotary Club Doing
A Fine Scout Job
Boys Of Scout Age
Invited To Attend
Luncheon Today
The Rotary Club is letting no
grass grow under its own feet or
under the feet of its newly spon
sored Scout Troop 73 of South
ern Pines.
A't the last Rotary .Meeting,
Friday at Lakeview, Major W. D.
Campbell of Southern Pines and
new District Commissioner for
Moore County, talked on the re
sponsibility of the Rotary’s Troop
Committee toward the Southern
Pines Boy Scout Troop which
they are now sponsoring.
Said Campbell, it is up to the
Rotary to secure the services of
a good Scout Master as well' as
an Asst. Scout Master. It must
also help in providing an ade
quate meeting place, see to it
the Boy Scouts have adequate op
portunities for earning money for
scout uniforms and equipment,
provide necessary transportation,
give any necessary help the Scout
Master may need.
It is also up to the Rotary Scout
Committee to be responsible for
the training of the scout leaders,
supervise the Troop Budget Plan,
and one member of the Scout
Committee should attend troop
meetings regularly. Those are
but a few of the things the Ro
tary is shouldering in its Boy
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ORCHIDS
Although it's like "carry
ing coals to Newcastle," or
chids are in order for Judge
William A, Way. Charles
Picquet has announced that
the Kiwanis Club received a
check from Judge Way for
the amount of $850, repre
senting the $1 charges each
visitor to his famous orchid
greenhouses paid during the
'45-'46 winter season. Also
received, and also deserving
orchids is eui additional dona
tion of $25 from Donald J.
Ross. These donations are
for the Underpriveledged
Children's Bed Fund of the
Moore County Hospital. It
takes $385 to establish a bed,
so the better part of three
additional beds will soon be
available for our children
who need help.
FBI Agent Tells
About Crime In
Youth Of Nation
Scheldt Of Charlotte
Kiwanis Speaker
Atkinson Elected
New AVC Ch’m.
Optometrist Opens
New Office Here
Dr. Philip M. Whitehead, op
tometrist, and recently returned
from service overseas, has open
ed his new offices in the Hart
Building over the Broad St. Phar
macy in Southern Pines.
Dr. Whitehead, after leaving
the army as a Captain in Decem
ber, has been associated with his
brother, William B. Whitehead in
Fayetteville, also an optometrist.
According to Dr. Whitehead:
“I was driving through Southern
Pines a couple of months ago. I
liked what I saw, so I asked a
few questions, liked the answers.
. . . and decided Southern Pines
is where I want to carry on my
practice.”
Dr. Whitehead’s new office
gives the Sandhills excellent op
tometry equipment and service.
Hp is a graduate of the Northern
Illinois College of Optometry and
says, with access to the Fayette
ville laboratory of his brother,
he can offer day service for new
glasses or repairs in many cases,
and not over a week where there
are complications. His Bausch &
Lomb Greens Refractor is one of
the latest and most modern pieces
of equipment available for fitting
faulty eyesight with proper
glasses.
Thomas K. Atkinson was elect
ed the new AVC Chairman of the
Moore County Chapter at last
Monday’s meeting of the Amer
ican Veterans Committee in the
Southern iPnes Community Cen
ter.
Leland McKeithen, acting
chairman in the absence of James
Boyd, Jr., who was attending the
Constitutional Convention in Des
Moines, turned the chair over to
Atkinson following the election.
Other officers elected were:
Jere McKeithen, Vice-Chairman;
Leo O’Callaghan, Jr., Treasurer;
Buster Patch, Secretary; Burney
McCotter, Asst. Treasurer.
Practically eclipsing the inter
est in the election of new officers
was the heated discussion that
took place over the June 7 PILOT
article on “General Upsets AVC
Dance Plans”. It was felt by the
distinct majority at the AVC
meeting that this article was
thought by many townspeople
and servicemen from Ft. Bragg
to be the voice of AVC instead
of the PILOT. It was voted that
such impreskon be corrected, if
possible, as it had not been
brought up or voted on at any
AVC meeting.
The AVC dance, in spite of last
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abbreviated longevity
The Kiwanis Club’s guest
speaker last Wednesday gave one
of the most interesting talks the
Kiwanians have heard this year.
At the Aberdeen Community
House, Ed Scheidt, FBI agent
from Charlotte launched into one
of the most interesting and im
portant topics facing America
today—juvenile delinquency, its
ills and its cures.
In his address,, Scheidt declar
ed that for the past five or six
years crime has been on the
steady increase. He further point
ed out that 15 percent of the
murders are committed by
youths. 35 percent of robberies
and one fifth of all crime is ac
credited to youths of 18 or under.
National crime figures have been
compiled since 1930, Scheidt sta
ted.
The speaker, a man of wide ex
perience in juvenile delinquency
problems, informed the Club
there are many causes: First, the
j child himself. In several instances
psychiatrists making studies of
j'causes found them to be due to
.the child’s physical condition,
I which could be readily corrected.
^He pointed out one case in which
I the child was timid and backward.
The child’s eyes were bad and
after correction had bee'n made
this child became one of the out
standing students in his school.
The second reason for delinquen
cy, he said, existed in the home
and environment, with the pa
rents often leading a life of crime.
Scheidt informed the Club that
in California schools have been
set up for training the parents in
the health and care of and inter
est in their children. Another fac
tor, a bad neighborhood, can be
corrected and this has been done
in many cases. A third cause has
been found in some states to be
the public schools, where chil
dren had been permitted to skip
school without the knowledge of
their parents.
The speaker was introduced by
John Ruggles.
Guard your laurelg. Col
onel Wood! Word has been
received by The PILOT that
young Stuart Wood. Jr. has.
passed his exams and enters
West Point on July first.
Colonel Wood -was prisoner
of the Japs from Bataan to
the end of the war. All dur
ing that time Miary Wood,
and Stuart, Jr., lived in Sou
thern Pines, adding much to
the Sanhills by their warm
and charming personalities.
Young Stuart carries the
best wishes of all His friends,
plus their firm conviction
that he will follow rapidly
in the able footsteps of his
honorable and distinguished
pop.
RuggI es Reports
Fund Raised To
Shaw House
For Siop-Over Field
Of North-South Hops
Search Now On In Army
For Man Who Has "Papers'
Buy
The Moore County Historical
Society, meeting at the Southern
Pines Library Tuesday night,
heard with great satisfaction the
report of the treasurer, John
Ruggles, notifying the group that
the sum of $6,078.00, was now the
balance on the association’s
books.
This amount includes a pledge,
Ruggles said, from W. P. Saun
ders of Robbins for $400.00, to
ward the Shaw House fund,
bringing the necessary sum of
$5,078.00 required for the pur
chase of the house. The balance of
$1,000.00 is the anonymous dona
tion to be used for repairing the
house itself.
With the money in hand it is
expected that plans may be form
ed immediately for the com
mencement of the work, to be
supervised by a committee, con
sisting of John White, Scott New
ton, James Swett, Rassie, and A.
B. Yeomans, chairman.
E. T. McKeithen, student of
early Moore County history, des
cribed some of the school^ of
those times. He told of one in
which the postmaster doubled
the part of post and school
master, which was described in
the old record as being very ad
vantageous, as it enabled him to
keep track of the correspondence
of his pupils and their penman
ship.
The next meeting of the assoc
iation was set for one month
from Tuesday hight, or July 9th,
at 8 p. m. at the Library.
Stimmer Sports Get
Flying Start In
Council Program
According to a health maga
zine “Hygia,” a recognized au
thority in its field, “overweight
after middle age is one of the im
portant causes of abbreviated
longevity.” And overweight is
mostly caused by overeating. So
those past middle age who are
overweight can do the world a
good turn and eat less . . .. espec
ially wheats and fats. Try one-
piece sandwiches,, buckwheat
cakes, fruits instead of pastries.
With a large part of the world
starving, a large part of Ameri
ca’s populace, being overweight,
can slim themselves to fatten the
hungry.
Dr. McCain To Report
Announcement is made by the
, N. C. Tuberculosis Association
I that North Carolina will be rep
resented among the leading
speakers at the National T. B. As
sociation’s annual meeting in
Buffalo, June 10th to 13th. Dr.
Paul P. McCain, superintendent
at Sanatorium, will deliver the
report of the Trudeau Society’s
Committee on Postgraduate Med
ical Education.
Dr. McCain shares the speaking
honors with Maj. Gen. Paul R.
Hawlet, Surgeon General, Vete
rans Administration, and leaders
in the field of pneumotherapy.
The summer sports program
for any and all who care to take
part, organized by the Council
of Social Agencies, under the su
pervision of A. C. Dawson, has
been given a rousing reception.
Dawson reports that some forty
byos turned out for the first day’s
activities and that teams have
already been formed. The girls
did not turn out in equal enthus
iasm, only 17 showing up, but it
is felt that they will take greater
interest when they know more
about the program ahead.
The teams were chosen by the
elected captains of each picking
sides. Each team is to be a single
unit for whatever sports that fill
the program. The same team will
be the baseball team, the basket
ball team, or tennis team, or
horseshoe pitchers, or whatever.
They will split up and form new
teams after five weeks if things
become too lopsided.
There will be prizes given win
ning players on the various
teams.
Swimming parties go' to the
Aberdeen Lake each Thursday
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The hangers, offices, and fields
at The Resort Airlines in Knoll-
wood is a busy place of work and
planning. A million dollar expan
sion program is underway.
Recently, at a special stock
holders meeting, the assembled
stockholders took a vote and au
thorized the issuance of rights, to
themselves for 100,000 shares of
$1 par stock at $2.25 per share.
At the same time it was voted
to call in $100,000 worth of $100
par stock, split it 100 for 1, and
reissue in $1 shares. This $1 par
stock will first be offered to tlie
original stockholders, who have
the preemptive right to buy first,
at $2.25. If they buy $225,000
worth of $1 shares, then the re
mainder of the stock will go on
sale to the public at $2.50, as part
of a $10 unit which a New York
underwriting firm will offer.
The unit is to consist of one
share of common stock at $2.50
and one share of preferred stock
at $7.50.
At the conclusion of this fin
ancing plan. Resort Airlines will
have a paid-in capital of $1,400-
000.
With this increased capital, Re
sort Airlines plans the expansion
of equipment, buildings, fields,
plus the acquision of a long-term
space on a field in the New York
area.
Two 50-passenger Douglas
“Skymasters” , have already been
bought. At present the largest
planes owned by Resort Airlines
are the 21-passenger Douglas
DC3’s. The smallest passenger
planes are the 5-passenger t'win-
engined Cessna. With the de
livery of the Douglas DC4 50-
passenger planes. Resort Airlines
will offer a passenger coverage
equalled by few except the larg
est lines.
Something that only Resort
Airlines now offers is their new
“Sky Cruise.” Resort Airlines
takes the cruise off the water and
puts it in the air, where instead
of the majqrlty of the cruise
time being spent in actual travel,
the “Sky Cruise” will spend only '
forty-hours in the air out of six
teen days, covering sixty-five
hundfred mile^. . from New
York to Los Angeles by the sou
thern route, and from San Fran-
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'MISS FLAME"
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Miss Catharine Prizer, pictur
ed above, is Corporal Prizer,
these days, and a corporal of
some renown. Word comes to The
PILOT fibm Ft. Lewis, WasMng-
ton, where she is now serving her
country, that the popular South
ern Pines girl, daughter of Mrs.
E. Levis I^izer and the late Dr.
Prizer, was selected by the sol
diers winner over the 400 WACs
on the post to represent the camp
newspaper, the, Flame. Here
“Miss Flame” is shown relaxing
over a bottle of milk, and looking
very happy over her new award.