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a y I SAVE I I ® ifoodI Hcn^ ^ndo' / . r;^a qicond ^^oqlcOpqs Glendon haqa ^ Cameron pjl . . Wii^gnd iaknviw'Vass picrbe f. Aij»^iu(L«n LOT SAVE FOOD VOL. 26. NO. 36. Southern Pines, N. C., Friday, August 2. 1946. TEN CENTS Celebration Plans Near Completion Color Guard of 82nd Division To Be Part Of Spectacular Aug. 14 Parade Summer Sports Program Is Like a Good Juggler Air Show Hangs Fire Announcement Soon State, Legion Officials Scheduled To Speak Here Final plans for the County wide celebration of the first anniver sary of V-J Day were completed cn Monday night during a meet ing of the Committee in charge in the American Legion Hut in Southern Pines, according to Cheter I. Williams, Publicity Di rector. This meeting was attend ed by representatives from the four Legion Posts in Moore Coun ty. members of the American Le gion Auxiliary of Southern Pines, as well as representatives from other Veterans organizations in the county. The various events and features of the Program were discussed in detail and approved as fol lows: Parade, 11 am; Barbecue Din ner. 1 pm; Baseball Game, 3 pm; Retreat Service, 5 pm; Street Dance. 8 pm. The parade will be led by the 82nd. Airborne Band from Fort Bragg and will consist of about 400 soldiers of the 505th. and 325th Parachute Infantry Regi ments as well as units of the Anti-Aircraft and Engineers and the Guard of Honor that led the parade of the 82nd. Airborne Di- (Continuea on Page 5) ANSWER Rotary Takes Over Awards To Student Last week a letter signed "Thirsty" bemoaned the fact that Water is billed in geil- lons but the meters all read cubic feet. In Prying to con^ vert same. "Thirsty's" horse was figured to have drunk some eighty gallons of wa iter a day. What "Thirsty* wanted to know was whether there couldn't be some easy way to check mathematically whether the horse or some pipe had busted a main. In answer to our query City Clerk Howard Bums said with a deep sigh: "There's nothing to it. 667 cubic feet equal five thousand gallons. Rates for the first five thous and gallons are $4.50, except for swimming pools at twen ty cents per thousand. Take your past and present water bills, get the difference and multiply it by 7.5. . . presto, you have the number of gal lons." We quietly hung up the receiver and slunk back to our typewriter. Hospital To Share Pathologist With Sanitorium In ’47 The Summer Sports Program instituted by the Council of So cial Agencies and other local civ ic groups, under the popular guidance of A. C. Dawson, is somewhat like a very good jug gler. It keeps several tourna- nients in the air at the same time. Billy Cox is the newly crown ed champ of the Small Boys (un der twelve) Badminton Tourna ment. Checker and Chess Tourna ments are scheduled to get un der way any day. The Kids Baseball Team has again been foiled from having their game with some neighbor ing and similar team from Rob bins. Pinehurst, Aberdeen, or Carthage. This time the call of the tobacco farms was louder and more important than the call to the diamond, for the parents, any way. However, a game soon will be played and the starting bat tery for Southern Pines will un doubtedly be Richard Newton, pitching. With Dillon Short or SP Loses One Of Early Pioneers As Scott Newton Dies D. P. Black catching. The nucle us for the rest of the team being: Billy Baker, Jimmy Dickerson. Robert McClellan. . and Andy Page. Carlton Kennedy cut his arm,| but is out there just the same coaching at third and fir ing at one and all his sharp-wit ted comments. Tomorrow,. Saturday, August 3rd. there will be a Recreation Dance at the Community Center. Peggy Cameron. Janet Menzel, and Peggy Phillips made several posters and have distributed them around the area. Free re freshments will be served and everyone is invited. Some anonymous gentleman has crashed through with a golf membership for one of A. C. Daw son’s promising young golfers, and if others feel like doing like wise. Dawson states that they would indeed be welcomed as they would greatly encourage some deserving young golfers who cannot otherwise afford the (Continued on Page 5) Disabled Vets Get On-Job Training At Robbins Mills Real Estate Deals Still Boom Here In Southern Pines Present Trend Points to Full Community Support Behind Resort Airlines In the past the Southern Pines Junior Chamber of Commerce gave various awards and scholar ships to deserving students in the Southern Pines Schools. The Junior Chamber of Com merce no longer exists, but at the regular luncheon meeting of the Southern Pines Rotary Club last Friday at the Lakeview Hotel, Paul Butler, speaking for the ex- Jr. Chamber told the Rotarians of the awards this organization had given in the past. Butler suggested that the Ro tary Club take up and continue the work still needed in the SP schools. It was pointed out that the close contacts kept with stu dents through such awards could not be overstressed in importance these present times. The Rotary Club members voted unanimously to carry on this work, and expressed their pleasure at being afforded a chance to build a closer relation ship with Southern Pines’ stu dents. Lloyd T. Clark, program chair man, called on several members of the Club to recount some un usual experience of theirs. Tuck er G. Humphries, Graham Cul- breth. Dr. L. M. Daniels, and Herbert Cameron rose to the oc casion and gave short talks. The Moore County Hospital and the North Carolina Sanator ium will share the services of a full-time pathologist and director of laboratories beginning Janu ary 1, 1947. It has been announced that the two institutions have appointed Dr. Thomas N. Lide to this impor tant work. Dr. Lide. now Resi dent Pathologist at Duke Hospi tal. has a wide background of scientific and medical experience With the death of Scott Rock- wood Newton in his home on West Broad Street, early Satur day evening, July 27th, one more of the very few remaining sur vivors of the pioneering days of Southern Pines passed to rest, a man whose life’s span, lacking but a few short years, covered the history of Southern Pines. He was born in Lisbon, N. H., March 14th. 1877. the son of Ed win Newton and Emma M. Mc Kean Newton. As a lad he came with his widowed father to the new town in 1888. returning in 1890 to become permanent resi dents. United in marriage with Mary Kathern Shaw, a descendant of one of the first settlers on the site of the present Southern in both civilian and military life. A native of South Carolina, he served five years in the Army, Pines, on December 12th 1897, being discharged with the rank _ Mr. Newton became a partner In of major, and having had a num- ber of responsible posts in the laboratory service of hospitals in this country and overseas. At both the Moore County Hos. the grain and feed business of Sugg & Newton two years later. In partnership with the late N. W. Crain as Crain & Newton, Building Contractors, the erected pital and the Sanatorium the'^^^ny substantial residences, presence of a qualified patholog ist will add greatly to the satis faction of all staff physicians, and will strengthen the programs of medical education and patient care. Dr, P. P. McCain, Superintend ent of the Sanatorium, has been working toward this development for a long while, and the plan has likewise been formally recom mended by the Active Staff of the Moore County Hospital. among these the C. P. Heyward home on Massachusetts Avenue which became one of the show places of the town. Funeral services were held in his late home at four o’clock on Monday afternoon, the Rev. Thompson E. Davis of the Pres byterian Church of Southern Pines, and the Rev. Troy Mullis of the Presbyterian Church of Manly, of which Mr. Newton had (Continued on Page 5) Nation's First "Sky Cruise" Proven Success Welcomed Everywhere, Nimitz and Arnold Met Building & Loan Holds Meeting, Votes GI Loans The Adjourned Annual Meet ing of the stockholders of the Southern Pines Building & Loan Association was held at the Civic Center. Southern Pines, N. G. on Wednesday night July 24th at 8:00 P. M. By authority of the Stockhold ers the number of Directors was reduced to five in number and the following were chosen as Di rectors: A. S. Ruggles. Frank H. Wilson, J. D. Arey. L. V. O’Cal laghan, L. L. Woolley, At a Directors meeting follow ing the Stockholders meeting the following officers were elected: A. S. Ruggles, president; Frank H. Wilson, vice-president; J. Vance Rowe, attorney. The Directors passed a resolu tion, authorizing the Associa tion’s participation in G. I. Loans, effective August 1. 1946. The “Sky Cruise” inaugurated by Resort Airlines, and the first cruise of its kind in America, ended Tuesday amidst praise and glory. On July 15th this first sixteen- day Sky Cruise soared out of Newark Airport with twenty-two people aboard, including Ted Bur- well of Resort Airlines and the crew of the Douglas Luxury Liner. One rather astonishing fact about the cruise passengers was that nine of them had never be fore been in an airplane. Most of America was seen dur ing the 6,500—7,000 mile cruise, yet the passengers were in no way fatigued by the trip as had at first been anticipated. The western people were espec ially enthusiastic over the idea of Sky Cruises and wanted to know how soon similar cruises could be set up that would origi nate in the western states. Rapid City turned out to wel come the cruise, which their Chamber of Commerce’s presi dent did in fine fashion. Oklaho ma City had photographers on hand to photograph the event, and Los Angeles had them on the radio show “Meet The Missus.” Holliday Magazine’s photogra pher and writer, pert and pretty Rosa Harvan Kline, took hun dreds of pictures during the cruise and is expected to write the trip up in the September num ber. At Yellowstone the Sky Cruise party is reported to have prac tically amalgamated with the party of Admiral Nimitz and a couple of other admirals thrown in for good gold braid measure. Before that, at Santa Monica, General Hap Arnold was encoun tered at the swank Club Del Mar. The first Sky Cruise left little to be desired from, the standpoint of those on the cruise. . . "except more of them.” The Robbins Cloth Mills have entered into an agreement with the Veterans Administration to train disabled veterans Among the many jobs that will now be open to disabled veterans are: loom fixer, machinist, and foreman of the Throwing Room. In. all there will be some twen ty one different jobs that the dis abled vets will be able to per form under the new program. This does not mean that there are twenty-one jobs now open at the Robbins Cloth Mills, but that as the program progresses twen ty-one disabled vets can be train ed and take over the jobs as the opening occur. The officials of the Robbins Cloth Mills are reported to be among the most enthusiastic bus inessmen in the County in favor of pushing the training of dis abled vets. The facilities fof training are exceptionally excel lent. and it is felt that a great deal of good will result for both the vets and the mills. Disabled vets are not the only veterans who are now able to avail themselves of the Robbins Cloth Mills training program, as the Mills are also set up to train regular on-the-job veterans. It is estimated that some one hundred veterans will take part in the on- the-job training program when in full swing. There are other places of bus iness in the Sandhills that have veterans in their employ who would benefit greatly if the com panies would set up the on-the- job training program with the Veterans Administration. It is hoped that the example set by the Robbins Cloth Mills will en courage others to the advantages of the veterans and the employ- ers. While, Barbour Head Leading Transactions Real Estate transactions are booming merrily along here in Southern Pines. Major William White has obtained final papers on the Hunt place opposite the Ark School, and he and Mrs. White are busy adding charming touches to an already charming home. W. I. Barbour has purchased from Lederer the Helen Wicker house, better known as the “Hut- tenhauer home.” Barbour plans to redecorate, repair where needed, and offer for resale. This property is at the head of New Hampshire Avenue and Ridge Street. 'The Stevens Agency announces the sale of the following proper ties: The brick house of the Gra ham Development to John Cline; the Herbert Beck house on May Street to Ann Mente; the A. M. Brown residence at Indiana Aven ue and Country Club Drive to Helen Brown; four and one half acres on the south of Midland Road, west of Peedee Road to W. H. Trentman, of the Occidental Life Insurance Co., of Raleigh. Other sales reported are: the residence of F. M. Leighton to C. B. Gale. This is known also as the former Eaton house at Page Street and Vermont Avenue; Lot 19 in the Sunnyside Development near the Country Club was sold by Roy Grinnell to R. L. Chand ler; a residence on West Broad Street and Indiana Avenue to S. R. Newton, from Charles Block. And finally. J. Fred Stimson has sold his farm of 156 acres to Ernest Aiken. While there are still other sales and transactions known to have taken place, they have not been officially recorded. OFFICIAL Local Boys Sent On Elks Vacation Ten boys of the Sandhills be tween the ages of eight and fif teen will soon be on their way to the Elks Camp at Hendersonville for two weeks of swimming, games and sports. Each of the boys are allowed to have $3.00 pocket money and only three. Any more can not be spent. The boys are grouped together into parties of eight, with a counselor for each eight. Doting parents are discouraged from sending packages of sweets and stuff. In fact, such packages are returned. At 8 a. m. this Sunday, August 4, the ten boys picked for the Elks Camp will leave from the new Elks Home here and will re- (Continued on Page 5) The War Department has officially announced that Camp Mackall -will continue as a sub-post of Fort Bragg, commaner by Major General S. LeRoy Irwin. While the camp will not operate as a permanent troop home, it will be kept in re pair for use as a maneuver or summer training station at the discreation of the Train ing Section of the War De partment. The planned training cap acity is 12.000. Mess, adminis tration, recreation, and toi let facilities -will be kept up. Troops undergoing future training at Camp Mackall will be housed in tents. The camp will be main tained by a small group of civilians working imder the Post Engineer at Fort Bragg; and all service and supply will be handled by the Ser vices and Supply Officer at Fort Bragg. Administration of Camp Mackall will be under the Commanding General^ Fort Bragg, with local command by the senior tactical com mander of troops in training. Fast Improving AVC Softballers Win 2, Drop 1 The local AVC Softball team played .667 per cent ball last week by splitting a doubleheader with the league leading Aberdeen team. The locals copped the op ening game last Wednesday af ternoon by the score of 10 to 6 as Chatfield hurled 5 hit ball. In the second game th AVC’s lost to Aberdeen in an extra inning game by the score of 4 to 1. The locals held a 1 to 0 lead until the last inning after Boots Matthews had held Aberdeen to 2 hits. In the Aberdeen half of the last inn ing they pushed over the tying score with 3 base hits. In the ex tra inning 2 errors and 2 hits net ted the Aberdeen team the win ning margin. On Friday the 2nd place Pine hurst team played the AVC team at Southern Pines and went down in defeat by the score of 10 to 7 in a game where the lead changed hands 5 times. Chatfield again hurled 7 hit ball for the locals while his teammates accounted for 10 hits and 10 runs. Sedres: Aberdeen—6 runs. 5 hits, 2 errors. AVC—-10 runs, 9 (Continued on Page 8) Those Contacted Say: Give Us A Definite Plan. We'll Back It I Meeting Being Set Up Resort Airlines, if they didn’t know it before, will soon know that the Sandhills, and especially Southern Pines-Pinehurst. are be hind them one hundred per cent. There has been no question in the minds of the many approach ed last week concerning just how much support the community should give to the Resort Air lines. The only question, it seems, has been: what can we do that will help? When it is known just what the community" can definite ly do to throw its weight behind Resort Airlines, then the weight will be thrown. A meeting is now being set up between the various interested parties of the community and Re sort Airlines, where the cards will be laid on the table, the program formulated and action started im mediately. Any committee that may be voted to work with Resort Air lines for the community should be picked from men who have the ability and the interest to keep pace with the fast progress ing Resort Airlines group. This is no slam at any group or any person of the community, but a recognition of the fact that Re sort Airlines can be held back in the community by a group that takes too long to act. Resort Airlines now have for their Washington Council L. Welch Pogue, former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics'Board in Washington, He was chairman until June 19, 1946. He decided to throw in with Resort Airlines because, according to Lewis C. Burwell. president of Resort Air lines, “he felt we are well justi fied in the type of application we now have before the Civil Aero nautics Board, and that we’ll go to' town when the application is granted.” This application is the same as any other airlines, such as Eastern, except that it has the new and interesting twist of “flying with the seasons”. That is, instead of regular year-round schedules between definite ter minals, they are applying for a schedule approval to fly to sea sonal resorts. If the former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board thinks highly enough of their idea to join them, instead of the many other airlines seeking his services, it should convince us here in the Sandhills that Resort Airlines is on the right track, and head ing fast for a bright future. Hats Off to L. E. Grover Steel Fence Project For Baseball Park Gets Full Backing Of Three Veteran Groups Into The Pilot Wednesday came an old friend. Marie CJoins of West Southern Pines. She want ed to place an ad, so never loath to take same we became all bus iness. She handed us the following announcement: ‘Hats off to Mr. L. E. Grover for his honesty. Coming from West Southern Pines, a citizen of West Southern Pines hurried ly rushed out of the Post Office, leaving on the window a purse containing $200 at 12 o’clock Sat urday. As luck, Mr. Grover came out by the window and picked it up and put it in the PO for safe keeping. Don’t any one else try this. Mr. Grover might not find the next one.” When we finished reading Ma rie asked: “How much! to put that (Continued on Page 5) There will be a steel fence around the Southern Pines ball park in nothing flat, if the fence goes up as fast as the plans for getting one have gotten under way. The possibility has been dis cussed for a long while, but only this last week have the plans been formed and pushed. They are now in full swing. The plan is this: The three veteran groups of Southern Pines, American Legion, VFW. and AVC have agreed to handle the program for selling tickets to a Labor Day baseball game where a much desired and brand new ’46 Plymouth will be given away to the lucky ticket holder. With the need for new automo biles as acute as it now is. it is expected there wiU be many in deed who will buy a ticket and hope for the best. Chairman of the inter-vets com mittee is Lennox Forsyth. Two members from each of the three veterans organizations are: Her- New Molorcycle Throws CPhM "Red" McDonald man Grover and Frank Neely of AVC. Lennox Fors3d;h and Frank Buchan of VFW. A. D. Herst and H. J. Dietenhofer of the American Legion. Bob Hen derson of VFW was appointed Treasurer of the fund drive. An advisory committee of Gene Stephens, June Phillips, A. C. Dawson, Frank Buchan, and J. W. Dickerson. At the latest meet ing, on Wednesday night. Jack Carter. Morris Johnson, and An tonio Montesanti were present in an advisory capacity and pledg ed their support to the popular program. Tickets for the Labor Day game where the new Plymouth will be given away are expect ed to be on sale this coming week. The various committees ask that the community back the fence-building program. It will mean a great deal to the High School and other local sports teams in helping raise funds for necessary equipment. A couple of weeks ago Chief Pharmacists Mate “Red” Mc Donald (L. D. Jr.- came by The Pilot office and showed us a very fine Speed Graflex he had just gotten through the Na-vy Surplus Pool. It -was a thing of beauty and made us highly en vious. Then he told about a new mo torcycle he WEIS about to get. He described it in great detail, and there was no doubt at all that it would also be a thing of beau ty. However, we were not highly envious as we have had two nar row escapes on the back seat of one such. It is with sorrow, but not great surprise that we learn “Red” Mc Donald took a spill from his new motorcycle last Thursday night in Norfolk and suffered a fractur ed shoulder. Red is now mending in the Naval Base Hospital there. For those who would like to drop him a line, his address is CPhM L. D. McDonald, Jr., Ward A2. Naval Base Hospital. N. O. B., Norfolk, Va.