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VOLUME 27. NO. 52
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines. N. C.. Friday. November 22. 1946
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Kiwanians Elect
Butler President
Of Sandhill Club
Howarth, Secretary;
Burney, Overton and
Buggies, Directors
Paul C. Butler, of Southern
Pines, was elected president of
the Sandhills Kiwanis Club to
succeed W. D. Sabiston, Carthage
attorney; W. A. LeLand McKeith-
en, Pinehurst, Solicitor of Moore
County Recorder’s Court, is vice-
president and John Howarth,
Southern Pines, was re-elected
afecr etary-treia surer.
The directors are: J. B. Edwards
and T. O. Moses of Aberdeen; M.
C. McDonald, West End; 1. C.
Sledge, Pinehurst; and A. L. Bur
ney, J. T. Overton, John S.
Ruggles of Southern Pines. The
new board goes into office Jan
uary 1.
J. Talbot Johnson, of Aber
deen, announced that Federal
Judge Johnson J. Hayes of the
Middle District of North Carolina
vtould be the dinner speaker at
the Annual Ladies’ Night Banquet
to be held at the Mid Pines Club
Wednesday, Deceber 11.
The Sandhills club went on
record as backing the N. C. Educ
ational Association in its move
ment to request the next General
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HIT - OR - MISS
The iPllot's going to press
and the press is going to the
Rose Maiden. Quite a press
' there, they say. all pressed
into the school auditorium,
and so impressed by that im
pressive cantata presented by
Impressario Picquet.
This hit-or-miss (generally
miss) editor takes a shot at
prophecy and says there
won't be a single hiss at that
hit, the Rose Miss, or we miss
our guess. And you all better
don mitts and save blisters.
Hurry! If you miss hit
you'll be sorry.
Well-Drilled And
Well-Fed Chorus
Is Ready To Go
Local Teachers
And Educo Club
Back 40-Raise
Riding Herd on Sandhills Ranches
From Gobbles To Cranberry Sauce
Judging by the advance ticket
sales, not less than by the perfor
mance, the Rose Maiden Canthta.
sung Thursday night, was a great
success. Not in many years have
so many sung together for so
many. Bringing reassurance of
the good old days come back again
was the sight and sound of the
youthful and attractive gather
ing grouped on the stage of the
Schoolhouse.
Pre-concert days featured the
ticket sale, in the capable hands
of A. C. Dawson and Mrs. Ruth
Swisher, directing the high school
and grammar school students who
received ducats Friday morning
and began selling last Saturday.
At the last rehearsal a surprise
was in store for the singers when
they came into the school recep
tion room to find little tables set
out, each crowned with a bowl of
yellow chrysanthemums, and
covered with good thangs to eat,
the whole presided over by our
best-of-all presider-overs. Miss
Birdilia Bail. Hospitable and en
thusiastic, Miss Bair showed nary
a sign of her recent strain when,
having mistaken the date she was
obliged to plan and provide the
fixings in a matter of hours. The
fixings showed no sign of the
strain either.
Ii^act, signs of strain were
abouras absent as you can imag
ine from the whole affair. The
singers warbled high and low, the
director’s baton whirled and tap
ped, his coattails flew and the
audience wore its hands to blist
ers with applause.
“Big success!” was the verdict
and some said; “What’s this we
hear about a Gilbert and SuUivan
in the Spring?”
Whereat Director Picquet was
-heard to emit a long long sigh.
At a meeting marked by one
hundred percent agreement, held
in the Southern Pines High
School reception room, Wednes
day, the teachers voted unanim
ously to back the program of 40
per cent salary raise recently
advanced by the Charlotte Obser
ver.
The group heard the report of
the three Southern Pines dele
gates, Mrs. Burney McCotter,
president of the local unit. Miss
Abbie Sutherland, and Miss Mary
Buckner, who had attended the
meeting of the North Central
District in Goldsboro pecently.
The delegates expressed the dis
satisfaction felt by most of those
attending the meeting over the
undemocratic procedure by which
no delegates were allowed to
speak from the floor and the 20
per cent program raise program
was put. over without a vote be
ing taken. The local delegates
joined with many other support
ers of the 40 per cent raise pro
gram to protest against the action
of the NCEA in adopting the
former plan.
At the Southern Pines meeting,
it was voted ■ unanimously to at
tempt to organize Southern Pines
an dthe schools of the county in
support of the Charlotte Obser
ver program.
In support of the stand taken
by thq teachers of Southern
Pines, the Educo Club
meeting Wednesday night, went
on record as also backing the
plan proposed by the Charlotte
Observer, asking for a 40 percent
instead of a 20 percent raise in
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Pinehurst Flyer
Saves Eight Lives
By Quick Action
Captain Wicker Of
Army Air Corps Has
Another Close Call
Rural Industries Theme
Of State-Sponsored Meet
At Highland Pines Inn
FOOTBALL
Out on the cage of Eagle
Springs they know that Thanks
giving Day is coming. That is
where the largest turkey ranch in
the Sandhills is located and the
only pfocessing plant for this sec
tion. The place echoes to forlorn
gobbles, out there, and to the
rumble of the trucks carrying
the gobble-less ones, now wel
barrelled, to be shipped at Aber
deen under the neat label: North
Carolina Sandhills Turkeys.
Howard R. Harrison, who owns
the ranch and runs the plant, had
the idea' that this soil would
make line turkey-raising ground
at about the same time thkt Pine-
hurst’s Dr. Cheatham began
mulling turkeys over in his mind
as another answer to the money
crop, generally tobacco or cot
ton, that throws so much South
ern farming out of balance. They
got together, and Harrison went
in to the tune of some 7000 birds.
Dr. Cheatham following suit with
about 4000. They were soon join
ed by Dr. Marr and D. Wade Ste-
vick, each with abbut 4000, Joe
Steed of Candor with 5000, and
Jenkins, of the Cheatham farm
with about 2000 turkeys of his
own. Martine Allen, Roy Martin
and Floyd Seals, of Eagle Springs
came in making up the group
who sell, through the Harrison
processing plant, an average crop
of a half million to 600,000
pounds of turkey a year. Most
raise Broad
SCOUTS RECEIVE 100-ACRE TRACT
of the growers
Breasted Bronzes.
It was in 1941 that the pro
cessing plant was erected an^ by
the next year turkey-growing
here attained surprising. propor
tions. The plant is not a large
building but the amount of busi
ness it carries on is pretty re
markable. During these pre-
Thanksgiving weeks, it is run
ning at the rate of a car-load of
turkeys shipped out a day.
The turkeys go through the
process in record time and a
ghoulish sight it is and not a little
disturbing to the equilibrium to
note the lightning speed with
(which they alre (reduced from
'gobbling feathered belligerence
to the naked blanknes of the
roasting pan. The proces involves
swift and painless extinction,
swishing down a slide to be
dunked in a scalding cauldron,
(at 124 degrees). From there the
bird goes to the roller which,
with its hundred of rapidly re
volving rubber fingers, literally
sucks the feathers off. Joining its
fellows hung on hooks, it is then
plucked clean by some thirty col
ored women standing side by
side,capped and gowned in gunny
sacks, plucking away for dear
life.
All of this takes place in a
small room with walls of glass
tile. Every night live steam is
turned into it and the entire
place, with all utensils, is com-
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A story as full of drama and
suspense as any film adventure
was briefly told in the Tuesday
edition of the Raleigh News and
Observer in the United Press ac
count of a plane, piloted by Capt.
James E. 'Wicker of Pinehurst,
which crashed in the Suez Canal
zone recently.
The story from Cairo, Egypt,
read: "‘‘Capt. James E. Wicker of
Pinehurst, pilot of a B-17 which
crashed in the Suez Canal Zone
50 miles from Kantara, reported
today that his eight pasengers es
caped, all bailing out before the
plane hit the ground.”
How Captain Wicker discov
ered the engine trouble in time
to have his passengers bail out
to safety before the plane crashed
is an untold story which his wife
now living in Pinehurst, must
wait to hear.
Captain Wicker, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Wicker of Pine
hurst, left the United States in
August, 1946, to return to Paris
for a time, later being transferred
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Civic And County
Leaders To Attend
Welfare Meeting
The Southern Pines six-man
football team, atfer a straight
season of victories, will bat
tle for the state title in a
game here at 2:30 p. m.
Thanksgiving Day.
Today Currie High'
(Greensboro) and Lexington
Orphange, who defeated us
last year for the state title,
will meet on the Winston-
Salem gridiron to determine
who will play the local team
in the finals.
Awards Presented
To County Scouts
At Court of Honor
Nine Moore County
Boys Receive Merit
Badges Monday Night
Agricultural Leaders
To Speak; Stevens
Is Local Chairman
Seal Drive To Get
Underway Soon
The 40th annual Christmas seal
I drive gets underway here Mon-
Ernest M. Aiken, second from
right, winter resident of South
ern Pines, is shown above as he
presented the deed for a 100-
by John Hemmer, Pinehurst
Roy Liles, Scout Executive of Oc-
coneechee council; Paul C. But
ler, Southern Pines, thrice-elect
ed chairman of Moore County
Drag Hunt To Open
Season At Mile-Away
O'
Invitations to subscribers and
friends to attend the opening
meet of the Moore County
hounds to be held at 10:30 a. m.
on Thanksgiving Day, have been
isued by the Master of Hounds,
W. O. Moss, and secretary, Mrs.
Moss.
It will be a drag hunt, begin
ning at Mile-Away farms and
will be run over the adjacent
fcoimtry which provides a variety
of going and jumping.
acre tract of land to be used for | Scouts; Mr. Isley, general sales
a campsite to the Moore County manager of Carolina Power and
members of the Boy Scout Oc- Light company; Mr. and Mrs. Ai
coneechee council at a meeting ken of Washington, D. C.; George
in Carthage November 12. H. G.
Isley of Raleigh, president of the
Occoneechee council, is receiv
ing the deed.
Left to right in the picture are: Boy Scouts.
T. Dunlap, Jr., of KnoUwood, for
mer amateur gold champion of
the United States and camping
(chairman of the Moore Coimty
HARVEST BALL
The Harvest ball, scheduled for
Thanksgiving night at Scottie’s
tavern, will be sponsored by the
John Boyd Post 'VFW and Sand
hills Post, American Legion. Bill
Lowder and his 10-piece orches
tra will furnish music for danc
ing from nine until one. Proceeds
wiU be used to establish a vete
rans club.
HOLLYWOOD OPENS
The Hollywood hotel, located
on New York avenue, opened of
ficially for the season on Wed
nesday, November 20.
George and John Pottle, mana
gers, have announced that the
dining room, which had to turn
many away last year, has an ex
cellent staff this season and is
ready to accomodate its patrons.
day when letters with 100 seals
inclosed are sent to most local
residents.
A. B. Patterson is chairman of
the Southern Pines campaign, as
sisted by Miss Birdilia Bair and
P. T. Kelsey, treasurer. The drive
will be conducted largely through
the mail with the principals of
white and negro schools taking
the responsibility of distributing
the stamps among school children.
The Moore County Red Cross
headquarters located on West
Broad street will serve as center
for the county-wide sale headed
by Mrs T. A. Cheatham of Pine
hurst. Mrs. Elinor Fisher who is in
charge of the district drive is at
the headquarters office during the
day to sell seals to those not re
ceiving them through the mail.
Seals have been distributed by
letters for many years, but this
time those having failed to return
either stamps or money in the last
two or three campaigns have been
dropped from the solicitations Rst.
They are asked to purchase any
stamps they want at the West
Broad street office.
Emphasis is being placed this
year on the follow-up treatment
and clinical work for tuberculosis
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A number of Moore County cit
izens will attend the Central Dis
trict Welfare meeting at Smith-
field December 3, Mrs. Walter B.
Cole, superintendent of the
Moore County Welfare depart
ment, announced this week.
County welfare board mem
bers county officials, and inter
ested citizens have been invited
to the one-day session. Earl Mc
Donald, Carthage, chairman of
the board, Gordon Cameron,
Pinehurst, and E. Carl Brady,
Robbins, will represent the wel
fare board.
Among lay citizens attending
will be John Willcox, and Wilbur
Currie of Carthage, and Mrs.
Walter McNeille of Pinebluff.
Martha McLeod, Aberdeen, Sara
Catherine McGinnis, West End,
and Claire Willcox, Carthage
are members of the cgsework
staff, planning to go to the
Smithfield meeting.
This district meeting is one of
six being held over the state to
acquaint the public with the aims
and projects of North Carolina’s
social welfare program. Other
counties in the distript are Cas
well, Chatham, Durham, Frank
lin, Granville, Halifax, Harnett,
Johnston, Lee, Nash, Orange,
Person, Vance, Wake, Warren
and Wayne.
An invitation to attend has
been extended by the welfare de
partment to all interested citi
zens.
Nine Moore county boys re
ceived merit badges at the Court
of Honor held Monday at 7:30 p.
m. in the Southern iPnes high
school auditorium.
Around 125 scouts and parents
attended the ceremony. I. C.
Sledge of Pinehurst, chairman of
the advisory committee, presided,
introducing A. L. Burney, chair
man of the organization and ex
tension committee.
Mr. Burney pointed out the
necessity of recruiting more boys
for scouting in conjunction with
the nation-wide drive currently
underway. Prizes to be given the
troop that produces the most re
cruits by March 1 were exhib
ited.
Bruce Boyers, scout field exec
utive, presented the awards.
Robert Von Cannon, Troop 98,
West End, and ickie Kelly, Troop
seven, Pinehurst, received first
class scout badges.
Earning merit badges were:
Fred Martin and Fred Monroe,
both of Troop 98, West End,
badges for home repair; John Cal
loway, Troop 86, Manly, automo-
biling and carpentry; Eugene
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Representatives from eight
counties will meet at the High
land Pines inn here next Monday
November 25, for the fourth of
a series of 11 meetings launching
Governor Cherry’s statewide rii-
ral industries program.
Business leaders, officials and
educators from Moore, Hoke,
Scotland, Richmond, Anson, Stan
ley, Montgomery, and Robeson
are being invited to the one-day
session. Sponsors have empha
sized that any interested citizen
is welcome to attend.
Eugene C. Stevens of Southern
Pines, member of the town board,
will act as local chairman. Felix
Grissette, managing director of
the North Carolina State Plan
ning board, will serve as chair
man for the meeting which be
gins at 10 a. m.
Keynote speaker will be Dean
L. D. Baver of the NC State Col
lege Sfchool of Agriculture and
Forestry. Dean Baver will speak
on “Rural Industries and Bal
anced Agriculture iii the Sand
hills.”
George Ross, senior marketing
specialist of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, will discuss
opportunities for processing and
marketing facilities for agricul
tural products.
Following lunchi, the group will
hear an address on opportunities
for rural industries in the field
of livestock, dairying and poultry
by Dr. J. H. Hilton, head of the
department of Animal Industry
at State college.
R. W. Graeber, Forestry Exten
sion specialist at State College,
will discuss “Industries from
Trees” in the final talk of the
program.
In the words of Governor
Cherry, the purpose of the meet
ing and others like it in the state
is “to avail ourselves of the de
liberate judgment of some of the
best minds in the state toward
working out plans for the better
utilization of our resources for
a more prosperous agriculture,
industry and business.”
Claude Hayes: Sandhills Philosopher,
Wit, Sage, And First Class Citizen
by Struthers Burt will be published in the spring
This is an important week injby Scribner’s. That’s three
CHURCH SERVICE
The Thanksgiving Eve ser
vice. sponsored annually by
all the churches in the com
munity, will be held at the
Baptist church this year on
Wednesday, November 27. at
8 p.m .
The Rev. Tucker G. Hum
phries will deliver the ser
mon at the Thanksgiving ser
vice to which all are invited
to unite in worship.
BUSINESS BLACK - OUT
All will be quiet along the
Broad 1 Street front on Thanks
giving Day as the bank, post
office and mercantile establish
ments close down for the day.
The Pilot even plans to go to
press a day early so all should be
silenced along Pennsylvania ave
nue too.
the life of Claude Hayes, and
therefore in the life of Southern
Pines.
By happy coincidence, or
rather, happy planning and fore
sight on his part, Claude is cel
ebrating in the same week two
major events;' his Golden Wed
ding, fifty years as proprietor of
one of the best book shops in the
United States. That’s half a cen
tury in both instances. Lot’s of
men can’t keep a wife that long;
still fewer—a mere handful—
can run a succesful book shop for
five decades. A first class book
shop is a risky venture. People
have to get used to it, and at
first are shy. You have to lead
them to it until it becomes a
habit.
Claude, thank goodness, is a
modest man. When you praise
him he looks away, shifts from
one foot to another, laughs, and
makes some witticism, or tells an
appropriate anecdote. He’s as
filled with appropriate anecdotes
as Abraham Lincoln. He is a
witty man, also a philosopher.
But now I have him at an ad
vantage He doesn’t even know
I’m writing this. I’m going to
shoot the works. And it’s a labor
of love.
I should know about book
shops. I’m a writer, my wife is a
writer, and now my only son,
also a musician, and just back
from the navy and the Pacific,
is a writer, too. His first book
writers in one family, and writers
know about book shops. Book
shops are what sell the work of
writers after the writer and his
publisher are through with it.
Only book shops can sell books.
And most book shops are pretty
bad. In the majority of small
towns they are just half a coun
ter in a drug store. For a town
the size of Southern Pines to
have a really first class book
shop—^I repeat, one of the best
in the country—is exceptional.
It’s almost a miracle.
So you just accept that, Claude
Hayes, God bless you, and don’t
come back with a wise-crack.
But then, you see, the proprie
tor of this book shop is an ex
ceptional man. It takes one to
run a first class book shop. I’ve
said he was a philosopher. So he
is. I’ve said he was a wit. So he
is. I’ve said he tells pointed and
amusing anecdotes. So he does.
But he’s also a first class critic.
He reads the books he seUs—
most booksellers don’t—and if
one’s good, he sends out those
little mimeographed criticisms of
his. If he tells you to buy a book,
you’d better buy it. It’s good.
Finally, he is that most neces
sary thing, a first class citizen;
ever generous, but always hiding
his generosity, behind every good
movement and opposed to every
silly one, a participant in, or, in
the past, often one of the foun-
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