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THE PILOT
PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY BY
THE PILOT, INCORPORATED
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA
THE PILOT, Soulhern Pines, North Carolina
Friday, June 14, 1946
1941
JAMES BOYD
PniJblisher
1944
, KATI^ARINE BOYtJ ... - EDITOR
DAN s. RAY .... General manager
THOMAS G. JOHNSTON, ASS'T EDITOR
BERT PREMO, . NEWS AND ADVERTISING
CHARLES MACAULEY . - - CITY EDITOR
•S|SGT. DANIEL S. RAY.
Ill
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ONE YEAR . - - $3.00
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THREE MONTHS TS
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MAIL MATTER.
came back to jobs, a few have
created new ones, too many are
still hunting.
It looks as if there was going
to be a short gap in the time be
tween this blank space of few
:iobs and the many jobs which the
expansion for which we are clear
ly destined, will bring. Our young
veterans with imagination and
courage can make it come quick
er if they will leave no stone un
turned in their search for jobs,
here.
It should be our first effort to
help them in every way possible;
because, first, we owe it to them;
second it will be to our great ad
vantage to have our boys settle
here. Our veterans should come
first in all plans for the future
of our Sandhills. They are the
last and surely the best sign of
peace and the good times ahead
If The Maritime Union Strikes
V Can The Navy Run The Ships?
GOOD SIGNS
There are two good signs of
the times in Southern Pines and
the Sandhill section, these days,
that portend better things to
come. One is the kind of people
that are coming here to live and
the other is the kind of business
es that are starting up.
Most of us have always believ
ed that the best thing lor this
section would be for it to be
come a year round place, with
the emphasis on permanent resi
dents rather than on tourists.
That is beginning to take place
and it is one of the most encour
aging things that has happened
here in a long while. While, dur
ing these last years, we have lost
some valued friends, we are gain
ing others and many more than
we lost.
To take Southern Pines, alone,
. . . and the other towns are hav
ing a similar experience. . . there
has been, lately, a big jump in the
number of families who have
come here to live.
There have been the business
people. Some have their busi
nesses here, but many have only
a branch, or even no place of
business at all here, and travel
back and forth, but their home
is here. They are entering into
our commimity life, adding im
measurably to its all round pos
sibilities by their participation.
There are the army families.
Cutured, widely travelled, of vig
orous outlook they have brought
with them the color and interest
of the varied lives they have led.
They are showing great interest
in the town and a spirit of co
operation and desire to fit in that
is very fine. Letters pointing out
needed improvements in town,
coupled with an offer to help
bring them about, from other of;
ficers, testify to the great asset
which their presence here can
be and is. Should the Ft. Bragg
road be improved, we may well
have more of the families of the
large post living here, welcome
additions to our community.
Then (there are the families
brought here by our new indus
try.
Some time ago THE PILOT
printed an editorial entitled
“Wanted: An Industry.” Now that
an industry has come, it is fascin
ating to see what its coming has
already done for our community.
The story of Resort Airlines is
familiar to all. The interesting
thing about it, in this connection,
is the many ways in which it has
already affected our community
life, and will do so increasingly.
The obvious thing is that it will
bring many tourists here. There
is no doubt that such quick ser
vice to and from home will en
able many more people to come
here and wiU open far wider the
avenues of attraction for vaca
tionists. Many tourists means
more prosperity for local business
which, in turn, will mean new
businesses coming in, and more
jobs available. That angle of the
business has just begun to show
but there is no doubt that it is
only a question of time before it
wiU be a big factor in our plans.
For, more business starting
means more people coming here
to live and better times for all. A
circle that is not, a vicious circle.
Already that circle is coniing
round in the cast of this com
pany’s persoimel. Eight families
and many single individuals have
come here to live, in order to
work at Resort Airlines. They
are the kind of people THE PI
LOT had in mind when the edi
torial was written. Young, keen,
intelligent, they have, clearly,
the imagination, courage, perse
verance and capacity for hard
work that make them good busi-
inessmen. Those same qualities
will make them good citizens and
good neighbors, as well.
The last people to come here
are not newcomers: they are the
boys who grew up here and who
are returning as veterans. A few
THREE FLIGHTS UP
The Greensboro Daily
published last week
News
an item
which should be of much interest
to Moore County people. It con
cerned the achievement of a for
mer head of our Health Depart
ment, Dr. B. M. Drake. Dr. Drake,
who is now head of the Rocking
ham- Caswell Health Department,
announced last week that Yale
had chosen his district as a train
ing center for students in health
education.
Two students at Yale, who are
doing their graduate work on
United States public health fel
lowship grants, will arrive in
Reidsville July 1st, to begin a
ten-weeks period of training.
Both have distinguished records
from Yale, one has served as
district director with the Florida
welfare board and consultant
with the Wisconsin public wel
fare department; the other has
been doing research work at N. Y.
U. She is headed for work in
China, where she lived as a
child.
This is a great honor for the
Rockingham- Caswell district. It
has been brought about largely
through Dr. Drake’s handling of
the health department, there,
with the help of cooperative,
health-minded, county officials.
To Moore County people who
regretted Dr. Drake’s resignation
from the local department, this
S,tQry brings a twinge of envy
and regret. There is not a doubt
that Moore County might have
had such an opportunity to dis
tinguish itself, had our health de
partment been given the atten
tion which it deserves. Unfor
tunately, with the press of^ the
war and the emphasis swinging
to other, more conspicuous
things, the health department has
been relegated to a back seat. Or,
we might say to a gallery seat.
It is now located up on the top
floor of the Court House. To this
high perch up steep flights of
long stairs must trudge sick peo
ple, mothers with babies or ex
pecting babies, old people with
heart trouble or rheumatism. Al
so the nurses and our doctor,
whose arduous labors are increas
ed twenty times by this long
climb to be made live, ten times
daily, often laden with heavy
scales or other clinic equipment.
The rooms suffer, -also,'from lack
of heat in winter and too much
when the sun beats down on the
roof in summer.
Here is a situation that needs
remedying, and needs it badly.
Along with Moore County’s plea
for better roads and better
schools should come a good strong
howl for a better health depart
ment, better located, more con
veniently laid out, and with a
larger staff to operate it. We
have some of the best nurses in
the county, or in any county, in
our department, but there are too
lew of them. They deserve the
most help and encouragement we
can give them. And we Moore
County people deserve and should
demand that our department be
made the equal of that in the
Rockingham - Caswell district
which is now having this fine op
portunity to contribute to the
training of these Yale students
and to profit by their presense.
Will the Mat-itime Union (CIO)
strike? There seems to be but
one answer—^yes. If they strike,
will the Navy be able to run the
ships? Again, there is but one
answer—yes.
Comparing the Navy with the
Merchant Marine would be like
comparing twin brothers, who ex
cept lor outer looks, have nothing
at all in common.
The Merchant Marine is made
up of two types. The “Oldsters”
and the “Newsters.” The old
sters, two-thirds of whom are
bums ashore, know more about
the sea, ships, and bars than the
Navy , Army, Marines, and Coast
Guard combined. The sea has
been their life since they found
shore existence too confining and
,^00 competitive — which was
probably when they were twelve
to sixteen. They present about
the poorest front of any body of
working men in the world, be
cause most of them put up at the
water front when in port. This
refers only to that “two-thirds of
whom are bums ashore.”
The remaining one-third are
the men in the Merchant Marine
who have chosen it as a career,
rather than as an escape for the
weak. This one-third is the brains
of the Merchant Marine, but the
bums are still the backbone.
The “Newsters” are the result
of World War II. They have gone
into the Merchant Marine via
halls of learning. They are as
new to the U. S. Merchant Marine
as the atomic bomb is to warfare.
The Newsters are fresh from the
cadet training centers at New
London^ and on Long Island. They
bring into the Merchant Marine
a viewpoint and a discipline
foreign to the oldsters. And com
paratively few put up at the
waterfrortt.
The Maritime Unions fear the
Newsters, knowing they threaten
the “red grip” now controlling
the Union Halls. There is no more
doubt about the power of com
munism in maritime unions than
there is doubt about “caste dis
tinction” between officers and
enlisted men in the Regular Army
or Navy.
The Navy, and especially the
Regular Navy, is a far cry from
the Merchant Marine. The Navy
is trained first to fight, their dis
cipline is strict, they have no reg
ular hours of work. What the
Navy may lack in longterm ex
perience at sea, among the Re
serves, it makes up for in num
bers. A ship that the Merchant
Marine would run with a crew of
sixty, the Navy, not counting the
guimers, would have double the
number in the crew.
Merchant seamen work eight-
hour days, with overtime for ex
tra work. They got a bonus in
the war for dangerous waters,
and practically all waters were
dangerous. They got another
bonus for every air or sub at
tack. The lowest dishwasher in
the merchant crew got two and
three times the amount of the
highest rated man in the Navy
gun crew on the same ship. But
merchant seamen belong to a
union, sailors in the Navy are
in the Service. Sailors were light
ing to maintain what the mer
chant seaman were getting—
high wages.
For the Navy to take over the
merchant ships in case of strike,
may set the Maritime Union back
several years in their aims. And
the Merchant Marine has only
enjoyed high wages in the past
ten to fifteen years. Not long ago
the merchant seamen were treat
ed and fed like dogs. If today they
are getting the top of the bottle,
for a long time they got the bot
tom. But the question in most
Americans’ minds is: Is the strike
the way to do it?
There is no doubt the Navy
can and will run the ships, if nec
essary. And it will not be a dif
ficult job. The Navy has a list of
reserve officers and enlisted men
who can be called back on
twenty-four hour notice ... it
has been (proven that it only
takes two experienced men in
each department to take a ship
across the ocean and bring it
back. Two Deck Officers and two
Engineers, a good Bos’n and a
couple of good Motormacs—^these
could take a Liberty Ship with
a green crew and go to England
and back, or to Japan and back.
During the War when it was
more important that ships sail
than it was that they sail with
experienced crews, both Naval
and Merchant ships pulled out of
harbors on trans-ocean voyages
with only three and lour exper
ienced hands aboard. They can
do it again.
on a few of these ourselves. This
is one good practical method of
cleaning out places where it is
impractical to get at with ma
chinery, or labor is not available
on the farm to do this wotk.
The cost on this is very reason
able for the amourtt of work
that a small amount of dynamite
will do We have a table to go by
so that that most anyone with
any knowledge of this type of
work and a small amount of
equipment can do this work him
self. Last week we shot out two,
each of these around 200 feet
long lor a cost of around $15.00
for the total job done.
Forty pounds of dynamite
sticks placed 15 inches apart,
should blast out a ditch 2 1-2 to
3 feet deep, about 6 feet wide at
the top and 100 feet long. This
dynamite will cost $17.50 per 100
pounds or about $9.00 in single
case lots of 50 pounds.
The pretty part about all of
this is that it enables you to get
the work done when you want it.
Also, that it throws all the dirt
back from the ditch banks and
does not have any of it piled up
along the sides of the ditch. With
this method the water is free to
run into the ditch from any point
in the field.
All this information will be
gladly given or mailed to you if
you are interested in this work.
Call, write, or come to the Coun
ty Agent’s Office and we will
see what we can do for you.
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Travel Council
Plans For Future
County Agricultural Agent Gives
Helpful Hints To Local Farmers
by E. H. Garrison. Jr.
Alfalfa Seed
The Alfalfa seeded last fall has
done exceptionally well this
spring. This seems to be the an
swer to our hay problem. Not
all of our soils are adapted to the
growing of this crop but, on most
farms, there is some place where
alfalfa will fit in. This hay comes
on at a time when it is usually
badly needed. The yields have
been good. Mr. John M. Black I
tells me that on his last cutting
from a five acre field, he cut 162
bales which averaged 70 pounds
per bale. This is a total of 5.7
tons from the field, or a little
better than a ton of hay per acre.
There are a number of others
who should do as well.
Mr. Paul Lamm has a field of
alfalfa which is a picture. The
same thing is true of Carl Gul-
ledge. Both of these plots have
been cut but I do not know the
yield on these. One of these fields
is in the Sandhills and the other
is in the clay section. If you are
interested in a good hay crop,
it will pay you to see these two
plots.
Right now we are making up
an order for seed or trying to get
this order lined up for delivery
in August. Last fall we had
trouble in locating seed. What
we would like to do this year is
to get seed here so that they
will be ready for use at seeding
BOUQUET TO PICQUET
Received by the Carolina Thea
tre, was the following billet doux
“I have attended theatres from
New York City to Nashville to At
lanta—and ill between. Yours is
the first I have been in where I
did not see a picture to the the
accompanyment of the eating of
candy, pop-corn, peanuts, and
even hamburgers.
As one who may or may not at'
tend your theatre once every
three or four months I do hope,
for the sake of your patrons, that
you will keep that sign in your
lobby I” Signed: J. Raymond Guy
tember.
For temporary plant bed sites
on previously cultivated land and
where the soil is not sterilized
into spectabilis crotalaria or vel
vet beans will be practical. Cro
talaria, velvet beans, soybeans,
or cowpeas will be pracical for
permanent plant bed sites where
soil sterilization is ued. The seed
bed for these legumes may be
prepared by discing thoroughly
and smoothing with the drag har
row.
Method of sowing: Broadcast
the seed and cover with a drag
harrow or use grain drill.
Variety, rate and time of seed
ing: Late spectabilis crotalaria—
20 to 25 lbs. per acre, April 1 to
May 15.
Early or speckle velvet beans—
1 bu. per acre. Coastal Plain,
April 25 to June 1; Piedmont,
May 31; Mountains, May 10 to
31.
Soybeans: 2 bu. per acre Pied
mont and Mountain's—^Virginia,
Biloxi, Laredo, Ogden, Arksoy,
Woods Yellow, Tokio, Arksey,
Ogden, Biloxi, seeded May 1 to
July 15.
Cowpeas—Coastal Plain and
Piedmont, Iron Brabham, Clay,
seeded May 1 to July 15, 1 bu. per
acre; Mountains, Clay and Whip
poorwill, seeded May 10 to June
15, 1 bu. per acre.
Stable Manure may be applied
just before the seeding of these
legumes or when they are disced
in.
Looking forward to the largest
travel year ahead, the Board of
Directors of the North Carolina
Travel Council, met in Pinehurst
recently to discuss the future ac
tivities of the organization.
Various plans and objectives,
by which the Council could best
serve the travel industry, were
brought before the Board for dis
cussion. ;
Emphasizing the vast impor
tance, that the travel industry
plays as a revenue producing fac
tor to the state, the Council has
urged the Chamber of Commerce
in all localities to make an all out
effort in securing housing accom
odations for the large influx of
visitors coming to North Caro
lina.
The purposes and objectives of
the Council are as follows; to pro
mote travel and tourist business
in the State of North Carolina;
to advance the welfare and busi
ness of all phases of the travel
industry in the state; to facilitate
the distribution and exchange of
information concerning the State;
to conduct educational cam
paigns, and by other means seek
to improve services offered the
traveling public within the state
and the expansion and develop
ment of such facilities as may be
needed to meet the demand of
the traveling public; to cooperate
with municipal, county,/state re
gional and national agencies and
organizations in the activities of
such agencies or organizations
relating to travel and tourist
business in the State of North
Carolina; and in general to do
by way of publicity, information,
organization and cooperation
whatever other things may be
helpful to increase the tourist
and travel business within the
State and all facilities and ser
vices relating thereto.
The Council is non-profit, non
sectional, non-sectarian, and non
partisan.
Members of the Board of Di
rectors for the organization are:
Richard S. Tufts, Pres., D. Hilden
Ramsey, Vice-Pres., Haywood
Duke, Treas., J. Melville Brough
ton, D. L. Ward, Mrs. E. L. Me
Kee, Charles E. Ray Jr., J. Lau
rens Wright, and Coleman W.
Roberts.
The office of the Travel Coun
cil is now located in Pinehurst,
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR
time, which is September. If you
are interested, kindly let us know > The legumes should be disced
your needs. This order should be;^to the soil^ in-August or early
placed as soon as possible.
Tobacco Plant Beds
It is time now to sow the 1947
tobacco plant bed site with late
spectabilis crotalaria, velevt
beans, soybeans, or cowpeas. A
heavy growth of one of the above
crops will help to shade out grass
and reduce the development of
weeds and grass on the bed site.
Less trouble should be exper
ienced from weeds and grass the
following spring. Soil fertility
and the physical condition wiU be
improved by the discing in these
legumes in August or early Sep-
September. If chemicals are to be
used to sterilize the soil, it is
especially important that these
green manure crops and stable
manures be disced into the soil
at least 4 weeks before time to
apply the chemicals (Uramon and
Cyanamid).
Note:' 4 to 5 bushels per acre
of the large beans may be used.
Ditching With Dynamite
About a month ago, Mr. H. M.
Ellis, Extension Engineer was
down here to put oii a demonstra
tion for us on ditching with dy
namite. Since then we have put
Having . qualified this day as
Administrator of the Estate of
Clara A. Wilson, deceased, this
is to notify all persons having
claims against the estate to pre
sent them to the undersigned
Administrator within twelve
months from this date, otherwise
this notice will be pleaded in bar
o^ their recovery. All persons in
debted to the said estate will
please make immediate payment.
Dated this 6th day of May,
1946.
WILLIAM H. WILSON,
Administrator of the Estate of
Clara A. Wilson, deceased.
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