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Southern Pines. N. C.. Friday. June 21. 1946
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$100,000 Advanced To Vets Here
Since Red Tape Cut On Cl Loans
For Homes, Farms, And Business
Citizens Bank Trust
Pilot Life Are Now
Two Biggest Lenders
Took Months Before But
Now Put Through In Week
SAFETY
Gunfight Monday Costs One Life Puts Two In Hospital
Confusing Testimony Clouds Issue In Robbins Tragedy
Bascomb Brown Dead
Police Chief Moxley
In Critical Condition
Sixteen loans to veterans to
taling over sixty-six thousand
dollars are pending in the final
stages, or have been made, states
Norris L. Hodgkins, president of
the Citizens Bank and Trust Com
pany in Southern Pines.
Another seven loans totalling
approximately $30,000 have been
made by ,the Pilot Life Insur
ance Company through Henry L.
Graves, Southern Pines agent.
Three or four loans are pending
for about $15,000. This brings to
a total of over $100,000 being
negotiated to Mein veterans in
the Sandhills.
These loans have all been grant
ed within the past ten weeks.
They represent a progressive at
titude of both the Citizens Bank
and Trust Company and the Pilot
Life Insurance Co. that has cut
the red tape previously bottle
necking loans to veterans.
Purpose
All loans are for the pu^ose,
when interpreted in the broad
spirit of the GI Bill of Eights, of
helping the veterans make up for
the time given their country at
war.
Veterans throughout Moore
County will welcome the speed
up and face-lifting given loans to
those who need to borrow to buy
or build a home, a farm, or a
business.
There was formerly so much
red tape that had to be cut be
fore a veteran could get a loan,
many vets gave up hope before
they had finished filling out all
the necessary blanks said Hodg
kins and Graves. It took three to
six months to get the papers ap-
ppovecf.
Changed
Now, the procedure has been
changed. Instead of having to get
a certification of eligibility from
the Veterans Administration. . .
the bank, firm, or individual
making the loan to the veteran
generally goes ahead and makes
the loan according to regular loan
procedure. If the loan falls with
in the eligibility provisions of the
GI Act, then Government backing
of the loan is automatic. Loans
can now go through in a week.
In short, it’s up to the banks
or the lenders to know what the
provisions of the Act are and
then to see to it that the loans
are made in accordance with the
Act. If they do, they get the 50
percent Government backing on
the loan—$4,000 on real estate,
$2,000 on non real estate loans.
If they don’t, the Government
takes no part of it.
Provisions
The provisions of the Act are:
1.—A veteran to be eligible must
have been in the Service after
Sept. 15, 1940 and have served
90 days, or have incurred a ser
vice disability within that ninety
days. 2—^If the vet wants a farm
or home loan, he must show that
his present and anticipated in
come will be able to bear up
under the load added by the
monthly installments over the
years. 3.—For a “Business Loan”
the vet must have ability and
experience of such nature that it
shows a reasonable liklihood of
the vet being successful in his
business venture. In anwer to the
often-made statement that most
vets wents straight from school
into the service, the lender’s
viewpoint is: Even without the
War, a boy without training
would rarely have ended up pro
prietor of his business in that
length of time. So-no experience,
no business loan. Although some
“character loans” are made, they
are few and far between. 4—
Loans for the purpose of refinan
cing “delinquent indebtedness”
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The National Scifely Coun
cil is offering $200.00 for the
best editorial aimed at a re
duction of the 4th of July
accident tolL
The Pilot rolls up his
sleeves, spits on his bands,
and prepazles to attack the
typewriter. Then he stops . .
. a sudden thought . . . How
about inviting his readers
into the contest?
No sooner thought than
done.
Anybody want to take a
shot at the Council's $200.00?
O. K. Send in your editorial
by Mpnday, June 24th, and
if our judges say so we'll
print it and enter it in the
contest. If you don't win the
$200.00, you might win the
$5.00 put up by The Pilot
for the local winner.
Rotary And Scouts
At Lakeview Lunch
The Southern Pines Rotary Club
which recently assumed the spon
sorship of local Scout Troop No.
73, had the scouts as their guests
at the regular luncheon meeting
at Lakeview Hotel last Friday.
Bruce Boyer, Scout executive
of Sanford, Major W. L. White,
Neighborhood Scout Commission
er, and Tom Shockley, an exper
ienced Scout leader made short
talks. The speakers told the Rot-
arians that they should feel it a
great privilege to be able to work
with the IScouts and that the
sponsorship of this troop is a res"
ponsibility that shouldn’t be
taken lightly. Scouts were encou
raged to feel free to call on their
sponsors at all times regarding
scouting or perso|ial matters and
that by working together Troop
73 would soon be up to its full
quota and one of the best in this
section.
June Phillips welcomed E. J.
and Stanley Austin as new mem*
bers to the club.
The following Scouts were pre
sent: Milton Kay lor, Richard
Kaylor, Billy Baker, Malcolm
Clark, David Atherton, George
Starka, Steve Van Camp, Ed
Fields, Richard Patch, Judson
Ball, Billy .Dickinson and Dickie
Ray.
The town of Robbins was the
scene of tragedy Monday night
when a gunfight took place in
which one man Bascom Brown,
25, was killed, and his uncle,
Walter Brown and Robbins Chief
of Police, S. W. Moxley, severe
ly wounded. Both the latter are
now in the Moore County Hospi
tal. Brown is reported to be
greatly improved, but Chief
Moxley is still under careful ob
servation.
As in affairs of this sort, there
are two sides to the story. Sheriff
C. J. McDonald states that from
the best information he could
gather. Chief Moxley had ap
proached the Browns on the
street to arrest them for public
drunkenness. The two men re
sisted arrest and ran into the
grocery store of E. E. Moss. The
chief “went in behind them and
guns started blasjting.” Moxley
Officer Says Browns
Ran Into Store And
Fired First Shots
Walter states that the chief then
said: Well I think I’ll take you
was shot twice in the stomach anyway and that he. Brown,
and once in the shoulder; the asked: What are the charges?
dead man was shot through th^ [“Instead of answering,” contin-
head. The sheriff said that it was Brown, “Moxley grabbed
not known who fired the shot nie, then, and jerked me around
that wounded the policeman; I—commenced beating me over
several shots were heard from jfhe head with that stick.” Mox-
outside and a pistol was found on lay then, according to Brown,
followed up his attack with
shooting, and wounded Wal
ter Brown once through the cheek
and once through the left shoul-
the floor of the store. There were
no witnesses.
Walter Brown tells a different
version: he says that he and Bas
com were standing by the coun der.
ter in Moss’ store when Moxley | Bascomb meantime went be
came in. The chief said to Wal-.ind the counter where he knew
ter: “You’re pretty drunk, aren’t there was a gun. Moxley follow-
you?” and Walter said: "No.”! (Continuea on Page 51
Kiwanis To Send
Kids To See Play
“The Lost Colony”
By Howard Burns
Sandhills Kiwanis Club at its
regular weekly luncheon Wednes
day at the Community House in
Aberdeen made plans to charter
a special bus to carry a group of
Moore County children to Roa
noke Island to see “The Lost
Colony.”
Talbot Johnson, Chairman of
the Committee, expects the trip
will be made about the middle of
July. The age limit will be from
twelve to eighteen. Chaperones
will conduct the party.
W. D. Sabiston, Moore County
Attorney, President of the Ki
wanis Club, addressed the group
on the subject, “Father’s Day.”
In discussing the problem of the
adolescent age, he pointed out
four main factors. First, Physical
care; second, security; third,
love and affection for the child;
Fourth ,the need for independ
ence. Continuing, Mr. Sabiston
pointed out we picture our chil
dren much younger than they
are.
In conclusion, he stressed the
importance of parents giving
their time and attention to the
training of their children, and
the most important need, family
unity.
The speaker was introduced by
Ralph Chandler.
"The Law" Of All Tarheeldom Meets
In Chapel Hill Wednesday, June 26
Chief John Gold, Winston- Sal- the Institute of Government
em chief and President of the Building in Chapel Hill at 2 o’cl-
North Carolina Association of Wednesday, June 26, plans
, i! 1- ■ call for a full program of instruc-
Chiefs of Police, m conference 4.. • - . ,
’ j tion covering problems of immed-
with Albert Coates, Director of jate practical importance to the
the Institute of Government, ann
ounced plans for the Police Ex
ecutives Conference to be held
June 26 and 27. The Conference
will bring together North Car
olina’s city police chiefs and their
chief assistants, the county sher
iffs, the State Highway Patrol
majors, captains, lieutenants and
sergeants, the SBI Director and
his assistants, and the Agent in
Charge of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in North Carolina
and his assistants.
Opening with registrationt a
OUR BUSY MAYOR
Our Fire Chief Mayor is a busy
man. Only returned last week
from the country-wide conven
tion of the National Association
of Master Plumbers in Atlantic
City, Mayor O’Callaghan this
week attended. the state-wide
convention at the Ocean Terrace
Hotel in Wrightsville of the
North Carolina Association of
Plumbing and Heating Contract
ors. Our Mayor, by the way, is
the president of the last organi
zation. Looks like we in Southern
Pines, are not the only ones who
.appreciate Fire Chief Mayor
I President O’CaUaghan.
police executives, including pol
ice organization, police personnel,
police operations and methods of
maintaining law and order. Spea
kers and instruction staff will in
clude: Albert Coates and Terry
Sanford of the Institute of Gover
nment, L. A. Hince and Edward
Scheidt of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, John Gold and oth
er officers of the Police Chiefs
association. Colonel H. J. Hatcher
of the State Highway Patrol, and
Walter Anderson of the State
Bureau of Investigation.
STORY HOUR AT LIBRARY
A Story Hour will be conduct
ed at the Moore Co. Library in
Southern, Pines every Saturday
morning during the vacation
months at 10 o’clock for children
who enjoy fairy and folk tales
and readings from the simpler
animal and childlife books. This
period will be in charge of Miss
Barbara Harrington, a , recent
graduate of S. P. High School
where she did some storytelling
under the guidance of Miss Palm
er, the school librarian.
The library annoimces that it
also has many new and very at
tractive books for children and
older boys and girls.
Bolte, Right Wing
Win All Seats At
A VC Convention
Delegates Boyd. Spring
To Report At Meeting
Of Local Group Monday
James Boyd, Jr., delegate to the
Convention of the American Vet
erans Committee in Des Moines
and former chairman of the
Moore County chapter, returned
from the convention Wednesday.
His companion delegate, James
Spring, came east with him but
remained to spend several days
in the north.
Boyd reported that the Con
vention had, on the whole, been a
great success. Nine hundred and
seventy delegates attended the
three day meeting in Des Moines.
“It looked like a college town,”
Boyd said, “all decked out for
us with banners and decorations,
everybody seemed glad to see
us; the leading hotel had a free
dance for us. It was a most au
spicious setting for a good show.
And it leally was a good show.”
Boyd explained that with the
membership growing by leaps
and bomds not all chapters had
been able to send delegates, be
cause the list had been made up
as of May 1st., “On January 1st”,
he said, “there were only two
thousand members. There are
now sixtj thousand rnembers and
more coming in all the time.”
It had been anticipated that a,
certain left-wing group of chap
ters, stemming from New York,
Los Angeles and a few other big
cities migit try to obtain control
of key pjsts, Boyd said. Great
satisfactioi was therefore felt in
the fact that the important offices
of chairmin, vice-chairman, and
the regionil chairmen went with
out excepion to Charles Bolte,
Gilbert Hirrison, Walter Spear
man, of Chapel Hill (Southern
Regional (hairman) and others,
who were all strong believers in
the origina tenets of AVC, while
the left-wngers, notably Fred
erick Bordjn, (N. C. P. A. C.),
suffered defeat. In the drawing
up of the jlatform, however, the
latter gained some ground, forc
ing the inchsion of a labor plank
by a very dose vote. Boyd said
that the entire Southern delega
tion had bien unanimously op
posed to tlis plank, and it is
believed thit if this group peti
tions the nrtional planning com
mittee for modification of this
plank, there is every liklihood of
success.
Boyd spole with feeling of the
remarkable cooperation achieved
by the international committee,
of which he was a member. Num
bering in ik ranks veterans of
Greece, Yigoslavia, Britain,
France, the committee received
written tesimony of interest
from many other countries as
well. The shcerety of the dele
gates and tieir determined ef
fort to achieve unity resulted in
the unusual fact that the com
mittee did nt register a single
dissenting vite to the final re
port presents. This pledged AVC
to unite evey effort behind the
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Carthaginians Of
1926 Hold Class
Reunion Banquet
The Senior Class of 1926 of the
Carthage High School held its
second reunion on Saturday ev
ening, June 15th, at 7:30 o’clock
at a banquet at the Carthage
Hotel. Nine of the eighteen origi
nal members of the class together
with their wives and husbands,
two members of the High School
Faculty at that time, Miss Eula
Mae Blue and Mr. O. B. Welch,
with Mrs. Welch; one member of
the School Board, Mr. Colin G.
Spencer, Sr., with Mrs. Spencer,
and the class mascot, Mr. Colin
G. Spencer, Jr., with Mrs. Spen
cer were present.
After all guests had assembled
in the hotel lobby they repaired
to the dining room and found
their places at a table decorated
with the class colors: blue and
gold, and the motto: “We can,
we will” in gold letters on a blue
background.
Rev.- Gilbert W. Crutchfield, a
member of the Class of ’26, offer
ed the invocation, Mrs. Robert
Clayton Williams (Dorothy Ty
son), Class President of 1926,
gave the address of welcome. A
delicious four course menu was
then served.
The program consisted of im
promptu talks by class members
and guests telling what they had
been doing in the past twenty
years. Miss Mary Gilbert Cole
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Sherman and Sandpipers
Plan Better Things For
Southern Pines & Golfers
VASS
The town of Vass is the
‘ bixthpllace of THE piLOT.
This nautical character, who
shifted his moorings later in
life, first set saU on the shady
street of the little town "up
the tracks". It is perhaps fit
ting, then, that Vass should
be the first town in Moore
County to rate a special sec
tion in the paper.
Another reason it does so
is because it is also the home
town of the Pilot's former
editor and now Vass corre-
spondant, Bessie Cameron
Smith, a lady of unbounded
energy and local patriotism;,
and the sole creator and au
thor of said special section.
And the last reason Vass
gets a special section is be
cause it deserves one. A
Glance at the advertisements
of new businesses and flour
ishing old ones is proof
enough of that. Each one
says, in essense: "We're
proud of Vass: Our Town."
And the Pilot echoes: "Me,
too!"
Three Delegates
Attend Legion’s
N. C. Convention
Three delegates from the Sand
hill Post 134 attended the state
convention of the American Le
gion at Winston Salem last Sat
urday to Tuesday. Two of the
delegates, John H. Stephenson
and Elmer Van Fossen were
from Southern Pines, with
the third delegate, Leland Mc-
Keithen, from Pinehurst.
John Stephenson was elected
State Vice Commander as well
as delegate to the national con
vention to be held this fall in
San Francisco.
Main speakers at the conven
tion were Col. Leonard Nasen of
Boston and North Carolina’s
Governor Cherry. Writer Colonel
Nasen spoke of his experience in
both World War I and 11., mostly
on the humorous side, as well as
of the pressing need for more
housing units for today’s return-
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New Club Owner Asks
Golfers To Set Up
Tournament Program
Complete Accord On All
Points Of The Club Sale
Branch Of League Of Women Voters
Being Formed Here In Sandhills
(A branch of %he League of [James Boyd, with other parts of
Women Voters, it was announced
last week, is in process of for
mation in the Sandhills. Under
the leadership of Miss Alice
Holmes of Southern Pines, the
organization, which has chap
ters all over the country, is ex
pected to appeal to all women of
the section who are interested
in the questions of the day.
Numbering among its members
many of the distinguished wo
men, in every .walk of life, the
league is fairly new to the South.
It is thought, in fact, that the
Sandhills branch may well be the
first chapter established in
North Carolina.
An Organization Committee
has been formed consisting of
Mrs. P. P. McCain, Mrs. Lula
McPherson Guthrie, Mrs. James
Swett, Miss Alice Holmes, Mrs.
the County to be represented as
they join.
Miss Holmes said that the idea
was being well received, many
expressing eagerness to take
part. “There is no doubt,” she
said, “that the women of the
South are showing great inter
est in politics,! in the critica
questions of the day. They want
to play their part and share the
burden lof political responsibil
ity.” Miss Holmes described the
work of the leage as being
principally educational. She said
that it endeavored to awaken
the women of America to their
duty as citizens and to educate
them as to the issues and candi
dates in the political scene. It
has been credited with being in
fluential in bringing about much
good legislation.
CLOSINGS
For the purpose of a general
renovation of the restaurant,Mrs.
W. W. Olive announces the clos
ing of the Royalton Pines Lunch,
from June 21st, until July 1st.
Following their annual custom,
the proprietors of Tots’ Toggery
are closing for the month of July,
They announce their re-opening
for August 1st, in time for an
early showing of clothing for
school children.
FORREST LOCKEY, JR. CLERK
Represenative Jane Pratt of the
Eighth Nojjth Carolina Disitrict
announced today the appointment
of Forrest Lockey, Jr., of Aber
deen as a clerk in her office.
The son of Mayor and Mrs.
Forrest Lockey of Aberdeen, the
new appointee was graduated
from Aberdeen High School and
attended the University of North
Carolina as a pre-med student for
two years before entering the
Army. He was discharged from
the service a week ago at Fort
Bragg.
At the Southern Pines Country
Club Tuesday night some thirty
golfing Sandpipers and new club
owner W. W.. Sherman got toget
her and cleared the atmosphere of
any possible misunderstandings
concerning the recent sale of the
club.
Sandpiper President Dick Sugg
turned the meeting over to Eug
ene Stevens, pinch-hitting for
absent Mayor O’Callahan. Stev
ens warmly welcomed Sherman
to the Sandhills and pledged him:
“The Mayor, the Clerk, the 'Trea
surer, the five Commissioners are
solidly behind you, 100 per cent.
We think we’ve got the right man
for the Club, for the town, and
for the community.”
In answer to such glowing
praise, W. W. Sherman rose and
won a round of laughter with his
opening remark: “That can’t be
one person!”
There followed a short talk by
Sherman covering the following
points: The Club is to continue
its present membership with
their present rights and privi
leges. It is hoped that 36 holes
will soon be opened as soon as
possible, but probably not this
coming season. Sherman wished
Roy Grinnell had been kept on
as pro, but by the time he un
derstood the situation, Grinnell
had signed elsewhere. As for next
year’s pro, there is at present
nothing definite. Sherman wound
up his remarks by say that he
intends to make Southern Pines
“Not just the stopping off place
for Pinehurst, but THE STOP
PING PLACE in the golfing
worl^.” This bra(ugh,ti forth a
blast of applause.
Sherman gave a very amusing
account of how it came about that
he got interested and finally
bought the Club.
“I got kicked out of the Car
olina—I overstayed my reserva
tion. Luckily I knew the pro at
Mid Pines, so I went there. Then
I heard the Club over here was
for sale, that it wasn’t for sale,
then again that it was for sale,
—(laughter). I came over, and
frankly, when I walked in just
as a sightseer, J didn’t like the
atmosphere of the Club. But I
think that can be corrected with
out too much trouble.”
New owner Shernian held forth
informally a little longer on how
he wants to give “that Pinehurst
crowd a little bit of business.”
And how he wants to be some
what more selective in the visit
ing Southern Pines golfers than
some of the tourists he saw last
season. ^
When the meeting turned into
a question and answer session,
Sherman assured the Sandpipers
that he wants and would greatly
appreciate their electing a com
mittee on their own and lining
up some top-notch tournaments
for next season. This was voted
on and action begun.
Two tournaments in particu
lar were felt to be the ones that
would give the Southern Pines
Club a great deal of publicity and
be the easiest to line up right
away. They are the Women’s'
Mid-South and a tournament for
the golfers of high school age
throughout the State. There are a
couple of high school golfers in
Southern Pines who now shoot in
the seventies, and, as Sherman
pointed out; it is the golfing
youngsters of today who are the
backbone of tomorrow’s golfers.
A tournament for ranking high
schoolers in North Carolina
would be a good way to improve
the golfing prestige of Southern
Pines for the years ahead.
Another proposed tournament
was one that would carry over
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