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THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina
Friday, December 6, 1946.
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THE PILOT
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THE PILOT, INCORPORATED
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA
JAMES BOYD
1941 _ ... . 1944
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Citizens
Anonymous
NOT INTERESTED?
Last week a branch of the
Governor’s Planning Committee
held a meeting in Southern Pines
whose subject was rural indus
tries. About 100 people attended,
from eight counties. Moore
County, where the meeting took
place, was represented by twelve
persons. Of these, two were cov
ering the meeting for the Pilot,
three were officials of CP & L,
interested, naturally, because of
the electrification angle, four
were negroes, two were
members of ^ the county ag
ricultural staff or home demon
stration department; the last
was the sole member of the town
board present, who was there to
open the meeting with an ad
dress of welcome. •
Surely this was one of the
most important meetings to be
held in our county for some time.
In choosing Southern Pines as
its locale, the committee had
paid us some honor; it would
seem also that the subject under
discussion was extremely per
tinent. Rural industries, with the
promise they hold for the devel
opment and betterment of our
county, are something many have
been thinking about. One would
have expected that not only the
big farmers and peach growers
of the county might have been
there, but also the industrialists,
and representatives from the
towns’ civic and business bodies,
Chambers of Commerce, and so
forth, who so frequently stress
their interest in the upbuilding
of the Sandhills. It was a curious
thing that . none of them were
present.
One could not help but
wonder if this was true, also, of
the other delegations, or if Moore
County was unique. It would
have been interesting to know
how many of those hundred
people present were bona fide
farmers or businessmen, and
how many were county or state
officials, whiose presence there
must have been pretty much a
waste of time.
It may be that had invitations
been sent to our county leaders
they would have made some ef
fort to attend. This is something
which the committee should in
vestigate. Only a few days be
fore the meeting those in charge
were inquiring in town as to
who would be a good person to
act as local chairman. This looks
like very poor plaiming indeed
and augfirs badly for the success
of the Governor’s Committee.
However, the meeting was given
prominent space in local papers,
and it looks as if indifference ra
ther than lack of information
was mainly responsible for the
poor attendance.
The meeting turned out to be
extremely interesting and those
who were not there missed some
thing well worth while. Though
none of the speakers were out
standingly eloquent, each one
was an expert who knew his
facts and presented them well.
And the facts themselves gave
a vivid picture of urgent need
and surprising opportunity.
The politicians, editorial writ
ers, leading citizens of Moore
County constantly affirm their
interest in the progress and wel
fare of their community. It
seems, however, for the most
part, these are empty words.
They say: “you can lead a horse
to water, but you cannot make
him drink.” It looks as if, in
Moore County, even if you bring
the water to the horse he is not
ihtereste^l^ New ideiasj, suggles-
tions for businessmen and farm
ers, opportunities for banks to
share in building up local enter
prises, concrete examples of the
brilliantly successful achieve
ments attained elsewhere in
such ventures, all these were
presented at the Rural Industries
meeting last week. But hardly
anyone from Moore County was
'■here to hear about them.
To The Pilot:
are whispers in the night, horrid
whispers, limited to those who
stay awake after my bed hour,
which is 10:30 p. m.
“Taxation without representa-
tation,” they whisper. A danger
ous slogan, at best. Remember
, what nasty years of inconven-
It is with zest and enthusiasm i ience it caused our royal bene-
that I join the Citizens Anony
mous column to answer Mr. An
onymous Irwin’s letter of No
vember 22 on the road situation.
If all the Sandhills citizens
chuckled over his letter as much
as I did or reread it as many
times with ever increasing de
light, it must have made a very
deep impression on the Town Fa
thers and Mothers. But, an up
setting thought has occurred to
me. Suppose the Town authori
ties misinterpret the letter and,
choking with remorse, decide to
give Mr. Irwin a pretty, pebbly
road all his own, when I hope all
Mr. Irwin wanted was to have
the road taxes reduced!
As a new hom4 owner^ and one
located near Mr. Irwin, I vigor
ously protest against a paved
road. I can hear the snorts of
protest from the Old Timers and
hear their expoundings on the
dust in summer and the Sloughs
of Despond in the winter, but
I wish to firmly state, I don’t
want paved roads. To me an in
tegral part of the beauty of the
Samdhillg is a clear blue jsky
factor, George III. A rumble, a
grumble among the colonies—
then that perfectly undignified
affair, the Boston Tea Party.
History repeats itself, let’s say
for the sake of argument. So one
of these dark nights, after our an
nual Christmas brown-out, you
may glimpse the flittering forms
and hear the stealthy tread of
odd conspirators in Indian war
paint an'd feathered head-dress.
You, my innocent bystander, may
catch these fanatics in the very
act of working mad, mad mis
chief. No Boston Tea Party this.
Nay, it will be the Southern
Pines Sand Party, destined to
sully the smuttiest page of future
.history.
All right. I hear you ask, “Just
what will they be doing in those
funny masquerade costumes?”
Reader, I won’t keep you in
suspense any longer. These dis
guised conspirators will be our
next door neighbors, busily
scraping the fashionable tar and
pebbles off the Country Club
drive and spreading the luscious
mixture over the rutted roads on
Sandhills Bask In Sunshine As
November Runs High emperature
by Charles Macauley
The weather gods were unus
ually gracious to dwellers in the
Mid-South during the^past month
of November. Basking in sunlit
days with more than half the
month registering high tempera
tures ranging from 70 to 88 de
grees and only nine days with
lows of 33 to 40 degrees, the
month broke all records with an
average temperature of 58.1 de
grees. Locally, within the past
26 years, the nearest approach to
this figure is the 56.6 degrees re
corded fo» November, 1931.
A bewildered flock of Juncos
appeared on the ninth follow
ing the week’s hot spell. An
equally puzzled flight of Wax-
wings lingered for a few hours
on the 23rd, the day of the par
tial eclipse of the sun which was
visible to |all obBerve!rs. Roses
(bloomed 'aind the lawns and
parkways of the city were
swards of brilliant green.
Sixteen days were all clear,
eight days partly cloudy, six days
cloudy and nine days or nights
with rain. A total of • 3.55 inches
of rainfall was recorded, the
heaviest fall, 1.50 inches, drop
ping on the night of the 17th and
morning of the 18th. Precipita
tion for the month was 1.21
inches more than normal, making
an excess for the year of 2.93
inches. Raleigh reports an excess
of 7.15 inches; Charlotte, a de
ficiency of 2;82 inches.
Sixteen days recorded temper
atures of 70 to 88 degrees, the
high registering on the 2nd; nine
days recorded low temperatures
of 33 to 40 degrees, the low on
the 14th and 23rd. Maximum
temperature registered a gain of
4.6 degrees, minimum 5.9 de
grees, average 5.3 above the long
time normal. Thanksgiving Day
was clear, highest temperature
66 degrees, lowest 39 degrees, av
erage 52.1.
Long time Max. Min.
average 64.5 41.3
1945 66 42.1
1946 69.1 47.2
1946, at 12 o’clock NOON
at the Court House door in Car
thage, Moore County, North Car
olina, sell at public outcry to the
highest bidder for cash, the fol
lowing described lands:
LOTS NOS. 1, 2, 3, 4, 17, 18,
19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 and the
alley between Lots 23 and 24,
one-half of the alleys between
lots 4 and 5 and 16 and 17, and
one-half of the center square, all
in Block M&5, as shown on the
official map of the Town of Sou
thern Pines, Moore County, North
Carolina.
Dated this 5th. day of Novem
ber 1946.
J. VANCE ROWE, Commissioner.
N15,22,29D6
PINEHURST NEWS
with the sun shining down i which they have been paying
through the pine trees onto the
soft yellow roads.
Besides, if Mr. Irwin persists in
his complaints and is rewarded
by a paved road of his own, the
inevitable result will be a fatal
collision between him charging
out of Fairway road and a golfer
charging out of the Country Club
drive. The loss of one golfer more
or less in a community such as
this would mean very little, but
to lose Mr. Irwin, especially if he
is going to contribute much to
the Pilot, that would be a loss
indeed!
A. (for Anonymous) McConnell
Sand Box
BY WALLACE IRWIN
The Anonymi are already at
daggers drawn. I am proud to see
that Patient Job has fallen upon
W. Anonymous Irwin, request
ing that sneaking insurgent to
'keep his pants on.” W. Anony
mous is still alive, however, and
vocal. This morning his rasping
voice called to me over the tele
phone, “How can I keep my
pants on when safety pins are
scarce as they are?” Let me re
mind Patient Job that the French
Revolution was started by the
pantless, who called themselves
Sans Culottes. And see what they
done to a tyrant! I don’t know
nothing about Job, except that
he said something about sparks
flying and man l^eing born to
trouble. He sho’ is.”
I wouldn’t listen any longer. I
simply hung up on him.
Relently I carelessly permit
ted a Poison Pen to soil the hith
erto spotlessness of my Sand Box
with a crude, abusive letter. I
don’t know why I do these things.
I sleep too much. It must be the
climate.
The cowardly assassin, referred
to above, wrote under the assum
ed name of “W. Anonymous Ir
win.” Oh, for words to express
my contempt for such an one as
he! A creature so low that he
would have to climb a step lad
der to salute an angle worm. I
challenge him. Come out in the
open, you rat! 'Cease to hide
your wretched little ego behind
the skirts of a nom de plume—
if you’ll excuse the slightly mix
ed metaphor.
So there!
Perhaps my manly protest
comes a week too late. The evil
seed is planted and, due to the
springlike weather we have been
enjoying, it is beginning to
sprout. Ulnrest germinates, red
Revolution is already aglow and
smoking among the residential
sand-wallows which lie around
the Country Club’s suavely peb
bled driveway; and the hillbil
lies who live in that no man’s
land back of raceless Indiana
Avenue should rejoice to see, in
a spirit of pure patriotism, that
the Country Club is getting the
road and they ate getting the
taxes.
All that would be as it should
be, had not the untimely and
tasteless letter of W. Anony
mous Irwin stirred every evil
passion in the mud-dweller’s
breast. Dirty work impends. Al
ready the Underground is hatch
ing the egg of insurrection. There
taxes for “improvements.
How can such horrid people be
allowed to remain in our .nice
community?
“Oh, well,” replies the harden
ed cynic, “they pay taxes.”
Sometimes I am weak minded
enough to agree with part of what
W.Anonymous Irwin, the cur, has
said. This morning, for instance,
I could not help remarking, that
the sierra of loose sand which
the scrapers have piled across my
driveway entrance has been so
mutilated by passing cars that it
now looks quite like a modernist
sculptor’s profile of John L.
Lewis, in one of his moods. Only
the portrait is not so hairy. May
be I can fix that up with pine
needles and present the composi
tion to the Moore County Histori
cal Society.
That’s just another idea. Today
the world is simply bursting
with ideas, but none of them
are perfect. The only perfect
idea-man I can remember was
Old Dr. Grindley. Remember
him? His ads used to appear in
the papers:
OLD DR. GRINDLEY
40 YEARS IN THE SAME
BLOCK
AND NEVER LOST A
CASE.
Oh happy Grindley Block!
Forty years from date of adver
tising when the eminent young
medical man first put up his
shingle, ailing folk of 80 or 90
flocked to his office, and before
he lost his own health (perhaps)
and retired, his ‘prize patients
had scaled the height of 130
years. On Grindley Block there
was no death, no poverty, no
feud fights, no domestic brawl
ing. Perfection reigned so long
that, for all I know, his patients
got jolly well bored with it. Pos
sibly, too, (Dr. Grindley never
sent in bills for services render
ed, so his public abandoned him
for more expensive cures.
Grindleyism should be reviv
ed. Let’s start an International
Grindley Society. All we need is
another Dr. Grindley. But where,
oh where is he now? I give that
one up.
Reading The Pilot
Girl Scouts
The Girl Scouts, assisted by their
scout leaders, Mrs. T. L. Black,
Mrs. Earl Petro and Mrs. J. W.
Harbison, were hostesses at a tea
for their mothers and a few
friends of the shouts from three
to four Saturday afternoon. Tea
was served at the scout cabin on
the Dairy road.
Announce Birth
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hensley
have announced the birth of a
granddaughter, Sharon Anita
Antonelli, on October 31 in Wash
ington. Mrs. Antonelli is the for
mer Phyllis Hensley.
Home for Thanksgiving
Among the college set home
for Thanksgiving were Nancy
Campbell, Pauline Lewis, Flora
Ellen Cameron and Dorothy
Cheney, WCUNC, Greensboro;
Walt Smith, Jr., Richard Smith
and Donald Nelson, Duke; Colin
McKenziq, Jr., of Prqjsbyterian
junior college; Jack Taylor,
State; Bill Tate, Carolina; Whit
Thomas, Appalachian, and Rich
ard Cole, Louisburg.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. Colin McKenzie
and Miss Helen Fields were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Raeford
Hutchinson in Charlotte for the
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Macon
of High Point spent the holidays
here as guests of Mrs. Charles
B. Fields.
Miss Flora Ellen Cameron en
tertained for a small group of
friends Saturday evening, honor
ing her houseguest. Miss Jane
Lion pf Short Hills, N. J., a
college-mate of Miss Cameron’s
at WCUNC, Greensboro.'
Mr. and Mrs. John Biggers and
daughter, Patricia, were holiday
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hulon
Cole.
Mr. and Mrs. Winifred Hawley
and three young daughters spent
Thanksgiving with Mrs. Blanche
Wescott at Arcadia cottage.
Bevins Cameron of State col
lege spent the weekend at home.
Jack Taylor, Jr., of Asheville
was the weekend guest of Mr.
and Mrs. John Frank Taylor and
his grandmother, Mrs. Alma Tay
lor.
Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Callaway
New subscribers to The Pilot,
along with old ones who have
renewed their subscriptions, are:
Southern Pines: Mrs. W. R.
Washburn; Edward F. Green,
Mrs. Wayland Blue, Mrs. John
Walker, Mrs. Roy Newton, Mrs.
V. T. Wiley, Paul T. Barnum,
Inc., Maj. Robert S. McClellan,
A. I. Sherman, Miss Alice Adams,
W. F. McBride, Harold Bachman,
E. E. Davis, Rev. Walter W.
Kuhn.
Mrs. Emmet French, Mrs. C. L.
Austin, Mrs. C. A. Maze, Miss
Ruth C. Presbrey, George W.
Case, Mrs. F. B. Pottle, John L.
Ponzer, Mrs. Elizabeth Sanford,
Alfred Grover, Mrs. Thomas Bar
ron, L. L. Woolley, Dr. T. E.
Davis, Dr. B. J. Durham, Paul
Thayer, Miss Margaret Fox, E.
H. Mills, Mrs. E. R. McConnell,
and I. F. Chandler.
Moore county: J. R. Chisholm,
J. A. Patterson, Jackson Springs;
Cap’n Josh Matthews, Clay Road
farms, Carthage; Howard Mat
thews, Clay Road farms, Carth
age; W. R. Dean, Niagara; Mrs.
W. E. Gladstone, Vass; Mrs. Mary
Benedict, Pinebluff; Mrs. W. C.
Hendren, Carthage; Norwood
Johnston, Pinehurst; Mrs. T. B.
Baker, Carthage; J. S. Assad,
Manly; Mrs. jlobert Stewart,
Pinebluff; Mrs. Moses Morrison,
Vass.
North Carolina: Miss Clara
York, Winton; T. W. Parks and
Sons, Hallison; Jack Ruggles,
Oak Ridge; Miss Mary Schwar-
berg, Lincolnton; Miss Flossie
Allen, Biscoe.
Outside state: Edd Gschwind,
Kansas City, Mo.; George L. Bar
ton, Tulsa, Okla.; Mrs. A. E. Mur
phy, Myrtle Beach, S. C.; Mrs.
L. B. Wheeler, Roosevelt, L. I.
N. Y.; Mrs. Howard Abbott, Wel
lesley Hills, Mass.; Mrs. J. Elmer
Boynton, Laconia, N. H.; Mrs. V.
Maude Thayer, Tilton, N. H.;
Mrs. John Tuckerman, Hamilton,
Mass.; M^ss Alice Southwohth.
Winter Park, Fla.; Mrs. Inez
Bredbeck, Port Clinton, Ohio;
Mrs. Arthur Davis, Plymouth, N.
H.; E. M. Aiken, Chevy Chase,
Md.; Mrs. Robert E. Craig, Cam
bridge, N. Y.; Mrs. Helen Pols-
ton, Mullins, S. C.; Mrs. W. E.
Swann, Alexandria, Va.; Frank
Fifield, Concord, N. H.; W. H.
Byrd, Coolidge, Ariz.
and daughter Lucinda, are guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Calla
way.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Nicolls of
Arlington, Mass., were guests for
several days this week of Mr.
and Mrs. Eric Nelson. The Nicolls
were en route to Palm Beach
where Mr. Nicolls is golf pro
fessional at the Palm Beach
Country club.
Miss Betsy Carter, student at
St. Mary’s, Raleigh, had as her
guest this -week her roommate.
Miss Noel Gibbs of Engelhard.
Mrs. Clarence Rudel’s guests
during the holidays were her
son, Thomas, and her family of
New York.
Charles B. Fownes of Pitts
burgh and Pinehurst has return
ed for the remainder of the sea
son. He has been entertaining W.
E. Motheral of Pittsburgh as his
houseguest.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Sarmik of
Lenox, Mass., who have been vis
iting Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Lewis
and Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Stevens
have returned north. ^
Miss Alice Grady of New York
is spending several weeks with
her‘sister, Mrs. Marion Sullivan.
Mrs. A. J. Clow has opened
her gift shop with Mrs. Charles
Smith and Miss Elsie Thomas on
the clerical staff.
Mr.and Mrs. Howard Quigley
of Cleveland. Ohio, are spend
ing sometime in the village as
guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. M.
Pearse.
Recent guests of Mrs. James
R. Wicker at Sycamore cottage
were Lt. and Mrs. L. E. Wohlrab
of Rock Island, Ill.
Weekend guests of Dr. and
Mrs. Frances Owens were Dr.
and Mrs. Keith Grimson of Dur
ham. Mrs. Charles Rail of Pitts
burgh arrived Monday for a visit.
Mrs. Raymond Johnson and
daughters, Jean and Peggy, of
Durham were guests of friends
here last Friday.
W. P. Morton, Sr., of Frank-
linton, called on Pinehurst
friends last week. Mr. Morton
was principal of the local schools
for many years.
Miss Maria Reynolds who has
been a patient at Duke Hospital
continues to improve and ex
pects to return home in short
time.
Miss Eloise Wicker spent the
holidays with her uncle, Bert
Wicker, in Richmond, Va.
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
BY COMMMISSIONER
Notice is hereby given that by
virtue of the Interlocutory Or
der of Foreclosure made and en
tered by the Clerk of the Su
perior Court of Moore County,
North Carolina, on the 4th. day
of November 1946 in the matter
of MRS. ELLA VIALL CHAT-
FIELD VS. F. P. VIALL, Admr.
of P. Pond Estate, F. P. Viall,
personally and wife, Clara Viall,
Wesley R. Viall and wife, Elsie
Viall, Anna Viall, widow of
Harry Viall, deceased, Alfred
King Viall and Carroll James
Viall, minors, and heirs-at-law of
Harry Viall, deceased, all heirs-
at-law of P. Pond, deceased, and
J. T. Overton, Guardian Ad
Litem for Alfred King Viall and
Carroll James Viall, minors, the
same being recorded in Land
Tax Sales Judgment Docket #10,
at page 139, being Judgment
#3013, in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Moore
County, the imdersigned Com
missioner, will, on
MONDAY, DECEMBER 9th.
For Christmas
we have a beautiful seleetion of
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I hand made wool slippers, gloves
♦♦
I and head bands by
I LILY SPORTKNIT
I PRE-CHRISTMAS
♦♦
I SALE
I WINTER COATS AND HATS
25 PER CENT REDUCTION
Mrs. Hayes Shop
Southern Pines, N. C.
HIGHLAND PINES INN
Takes Peasure In Announcing
The Opening Buffet Supper
For Sunday Evening Dec.' 1st
6:30 to 8:00 p. m.
$2.50 Per Person Reservations Phone 7511
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"Blooms That Make
You Beam"
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As the sunshine dispels the
gloom, so also do flowers
“brighten the corner where
you are.” ’
Telephone 8261
Carolina Gardens
115 W. Penn. Ave. .
M. G. Backer