THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
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West End Likes Its Community Chest;
Would Plan Work For Southern Pine^?
One Drive Takes
Care Of All In
Course Of Year
By KATHARINE BOYD
The town of West End has a
Ccmmunity Chest. Everybody
says it is a great success. These
two factors combined to make
West End the object of a pilgrim
age, a week or so ago.
For some time, we have won
dered if the present system of giv
ing,. under which this town and
many others operate, with drives
following one , another in quick
succession, was the best way to
handle such things. The drives
seemed to be crowding in at
shorter and shorter intervals; the
same hard-worked people seemed
to be carrying them and the
“sucker lists” always had the
same names.
Store people complained a good
deal of the interruption to their
business, what they called “the
hold-ups” that sometimes seemed
to be almost daily occurrences;
the people who were favored with
letters groaned at the rising pile
and wondered, sometimes, if the
coverage of the town’s population
was in any way complete. Opinion
was divided among those who said
this was the wrong way to do it
and those who maintained that the
drives, coinciding as many of
them did with national cam
paigns, were the only practical
method of raising money for the
causes in which so many are in
terested.
Objections Heard
There have always been some
who wondered how the Commun
ity Chest system would work.
People who had lived in towns
where they had it seemed to feel
it was a good scheme, but' local
leaders have been inclined to shy
away. These objections have been
heard: (1) you don’t get complete
coverage; (2) it hits the rich peo
pie hard, but the people with only
a dollar or so to spend get let off;
(3) the organizations included in
the Chest do not get nearly as
much money as they do if they
conduct independent drives; (4)
some of the main ones won’t come
in(the Red Cross is cited as an ex
ample of this exclusive attitud^;
(51 enthusiastic leaders, real cru-
raHers for a certain cause, are re-
piafant tc vive un their own show
pnH in witVi everv one else in
pno ipfonqitrp drive.
Most of these objections sound
ed valid, but there were always
a few who questioned them and
pointed out how well the Chest
seemed to be working in various
places. West End, for instance,
right up the road. It seemed the
sensible thing to do to find out
how things were really working
out up there, so last week we
went up and had a long talk with
Paul Von Canon, the chairman of
the Community Chest committee,
Mr, Von Canon, in his busy of
fice at the Sandhills Furniture
Corporation, confessed that he
was completely sold on the Com
munity Chest plan.
“W’e think it’s one of the best
things that ever happened to West
End,” he said. “We’ve had the
Chest now for three years and
we’ve raised more money with
less effort than was ever raised
here before. All the organizations
that join get more money and we
have a lot left over for local
needs.”
The Drive Goes This Way
West End’s six-member com
mittee is composed, this year, of
Chairman Von Canon, W. A.
Johnson, Jr., treasurer, Mrs. A. A.
McDonald, secretary, and three
members from local service clubs:
Mrs. D. D. Richardson of the
Woman’s club, Mrs. Fteeman B.
Newton of the Sandspurs, young
er women’s group, and the dele
gate of the Lion’s Club, Leslie
Gordon.
The campaign is set up in" this
way: A member heads each bf the
four districts into which the terri
tory is divided for the drive which
occurs early in November. The
committee reviews the organiza
tions listed, preparing a quota for
each one, with a generous sum al
located to local needs. Mr. Von
Candn stressed the importance of
this last point in enlisting wide
local support; he said that in 1950,
for instance, $485 was given to
welfare and relief in the West End
section.
Tickets Are Sold
The quotas of all the organiza
tions, with the addition of the lo
cal sum, totals the goal of the
drive. The next step is to print the
tickets. These are priced from 50
cents to $35 apiece, which is the
most anyone is allowed to give.
(Two years ago it was $50, and
when someone sent in $50 last
year, by mistake, $15 was care
fully returned.)
Each district leader chooses his
own committee and they work out
pretty well in advance what they
need to get from their prospects.
Then, the first day of the drive
they take off. The drive contin
ues exactly one week and the pace
is fast and furious. Mr. Von Canon
had last year’s records in his desk
drawer. They showed a total of
333 tickets sold, netting $1600
which was $200 over the quota.
The quota has been passed, also,
by several hundred dollars the
two preceding years. (The popula
tion of West End is 608, including
children.)
And now for the gimmicks;
What is ^rong?
“There doesn’t seem to be any
thing wrong that we can discov
er,” said the chairman, “As far as
West End is concerned the Chest
a complete success. Everybody
Dreams Of Two Girls On Okinawa
Realized In Peaceful Mountain Camp
where also; as far as can be judg
ed, Chests are successfully carried
on; not to mention many other
towns that have taken up this
form of giving. Of course, on the
other hand we are told that some
towns have given it up and gone
back to the old way. That is what
we are told, but there is always
the possibility that it might turn
out to be like some of the objec
tions; not quite accurate, at least
according to West End’s experi
ence.
Something To Think About
Should Southern Pines try out
this scheme for raising money for
the causes in which we are all so
interested? That’s a big question
and a lot of study would enter in
to the answer. Taking the quota
figures for last year’s drives as a
basis, (allowing, on the generous
side for the fact that some figures
were not available,) it appears
that from $15 to J20,000 was rais
ed here for charity last year with,
as we figure it, 10 organizations
included. Could we raise that sum
in one week of intensive effort?
Nobody knows the answer, but
at least it’s an interesting point;
when the stream of drives starts
it may have a strong appeal. With
the experience of West End be
fore us, it seems as if a serious
study of the Community Chest
plan, as it might be applied here,
would be worthwhile.
Nancy Wrenn, Ruth
White Have Unique
Place In Awa-Niko
IS,
likes it. We feel that through pool
ing all community resources into
one intensive campaign we get a
much wider coverage than the in
dividual drives ever got. In fact.
I’m sure that nobody is left out.
“Under the old system,” Mr. Von
Canon said, the same community
leaders would often have to take
charge of several drives and they
INS and OUTS
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Turner and
children, Beth and Henry, went
to Morehead City last week to re
main through this week.
Miss Allie McIntosh has reop
ened her antique shop at More-
head City for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Honeycutt
and children returned Monday
from a visit to relatives in Mem
phis, ^Tenn.
Misses Kate and Eva Graham
attended the funeral of Mrs. An
nie L. Cameron of Sanford at Cy
press Presbyterian church Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Lewis F. Kirk, who is
spending the summer at Lake Ge
neva, Wis., came down to attend
the “capping” of her daughter.
Miss Pa,tricia Kirk, at Watts hos-
just couldn’t get'around to every- Pital in Durham Sunday. Her sis-
body; it ended by the same ones ter from New York attended the
carrying most of the load every ejfercises, also, and they and Pa-
year! Under the Chest, the load is tricia came to Sodthern Pines for
widely spread and, as every work-1 a few hours Monday. ...
er in the drive is especiaUy inter- Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Everette at-
ested in his own pet project, he tended a double wedding in Dob-
works hard for the whole thing.” son Saturday in which he was best
Some Objections Answered
It seemed that Objections 1
and 2, did not hold good, at least
in West End. The coverage was
greater instead of less and the dol
lar man came in just as surely
as the ten and twenty dollar one.
“And what about the result: do
the individual charities get as
much*?”
“Well,” said Mr. Von Canon,
I can cite you one case that I
happen to remember. The year be
fore we had the Chest the Girl
Scouts raised $50 in West End.
But the next year, when they
came in with all the others, the
Chest allotted them $200.” Mr.
Von Canon said the story was the
same with all the organizations.
As for the charities with
tional campaigns.
man for Patrolman James P.
Rhyne of Mt. Airy (formerly sta
tioned here), who married Miss
Melrose Amburn of Dobson.
E. N. Marshall entered the hos
pital at Oteen last week. Mrs.
Marshall and their three children
are visiting his parents in Lexing-
iton, Ky., while Mr. Marshall is
away.
Mrs. Greer Stutz and children,
Ann and Mary Jo, are spending
some time with Mr. and Mrs. D.
G. Stutz at their home on South
Ashe street. Commander Stutz
came down with them from Quan
tico, Va., for a short visit to his
parents before going to his new
assignment at the U. S. Naval
Amphibious base at Little Creek,
Va., a few days ago. His family
na- will join him there around July
there were;]^5
some objections to start withi ]yjj.g Joseph S. Hiatt, Jr., and
from the March of Dirnes and the Bobby, spent last
TB sales group, but when after a in Elkin visiting the boys’
trial, they found they got mor® grandparents. Dr. and Mrs. J. S.
this way, as both of them <iio> Hiatt. Dr. Hiatt is superintendent
they agreed gladly to go on with ^.jje Hugh Chatham Memorial
the Chest. Though the Red Cross' hospital there,
was not included, in line with the j, Claude, Jr., George and Tommy
invariable rule of that organize-Yearns returned Monday night
tion, a check, commensurate with from Richmond, Va., where they
the amount formerly raised, was opent nearly two weeks visiting
mailed them as West End’s con- fheir grandmother. They went
tribution. up with their parents who were
West Enders are convinced that'at Virginia Beach four days at-
the organizations included in the tending a convention.
Chest get more money through] Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Spickard,
this method than they used to be-: Jr., of, Bedford ,Va., were guests
fore it was inaugurated. The fol-jof Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brown and
lowing is the list.of organizations'Harry Lee Brown, Jr., Sunday and
which took part last year; Boy I Monday.
Scouts,, Girl Scouts, TB, N. C. Jack Ruggles of Baltimore, Md.,
League’ For Crippled Children, is expected to arrive today * to
March of Dimes, United Defense' spend the weekend with Mr. and
Fund, American Cancer Society.]Mrs. John S. Ruggles.
Local
Moore
agencies included the Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Everett left
County Maternal Welfare Monday to visit their brothers and
County'.Mr. Everette’s sister in New Jer
Committee and Moore
Hospital,, through the Kiwanis'sey. After visiting Mrs. Everette’s
Baby Bed fund.
Fun To Work Together
As to the enthusiasts who like to
run their own shows and believe
they can do a better job, Mir. Von William Sanders. They
Canon said that after the first be away about 10 days.
bi’other,they will go to Maplewood
to see the D. J. Everettes and from
there to Irvington, where they
will be guests of Mr. and Mrs.
plan to
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trial run there weren’t any, or
rather, everyone was an enthus
iast. The pleasure of working to
gether, of getting the whole thing
over in one week and of dealing
with an eager public instead of
having people run away from you,
as you struggled to put across the
fifth or tenth drive of the year,
was arnple recompense for the
loss of any personal satisfaction or
prestige.
And so that’s the West End pic
ture. There isn’t a doubt that in
this smaller town the Community
Chest is a success. At the other
end of the scale we have Char
lotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem
Mrs. Elinor S. Fisher returned
Tuesday from a three weeks’ va
cation spent at Richmond and
Danville, Va., and at her former
home in Tarboro.
John Chappell is at home after
spending several days at
County hospital.
Mrs. Charles F. Loup returned
home Wednesday from Moore
County hospital, where she had
By ANNE CANTRELL WHITE
(In Greensboro News)
Did you ever hear of Awa-Niko?
An American Indian word, you
think? Try writing it backward
and see what you have. Yes, Oki
nawa,
Awa-Niko i^ a girls camp 10
miles from Asheville which is the
realization of a dream born six
wartime years ago on the far
away Japanese island of Okinawa.
The dreamers were two Red Cross
service club directors from North
Carolina, Ruth White of Greens
boro and Nancy Wrenn of South
ern Pines.
Nancy, daughter of Mrs. V. P.
Clark, and Ruth worked together
in the Philippines and on Okina
wa. Together they took a trip to
China. In fact, for their 23
months of Red Cross duty only
three months were spent apart.
Their longest stretch was 18
months at Camp Doolittle on Oki
nawa.
Planned Their Camp
And wherever they were they
talked of a summer camp back
home that would be a return to
the rustic way of campcraft and
pioneering that their knocks
about the world had proved to be
essential to development of self
reliance and initiative.
They started in a very small
way last year and this season,
which opened Monday for a
month, have added to their staff,
to their equipment, and to the
number of campers.
Both Teach School
Awa-Niko, about 10 miles east
of Asheville, is five miles from
Swannanoa where Ruth and Nan
cy teach in the high school. Their
quarters the year round, whether
they are filling the role of school
teacher or camp director, is a
small house of natiiral board with
rustic porch and Dutch door set
on the 150 acres of land in a shel
tered mountain cove which the
girls bought for their camp site.
Inside, their little place is pine
paneled and has a huge stone fire
place as well as the modern com
forts of electricity, plumbing and
refrigeration. Ruth and Nancy
have taught at Swannanoa four
years.
Careers Parallel
Altho Nancy and Ruth didn’t
meet until they were together in
Washington for overseas orienta
tion, their careers ran an astonish
ingly parallel course. Both gradu
ated from college in 1943, Ruth
from Woman’s college, (Jreens-
boro, where she was president of
the recreation association, Nancy
from Duke university, where she
was president of the Woman’s
Athletic association. Both taugh
for two years between degree and
Red Cross. Both had extensive
camping experience as camper
counselor; put together the time
each has spent at camp and you
come up with 18 years-
Ruth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul White of Greensboro, was a i
Girl Scout from Brownie age on.
She served as waterfrorit director i
at Old Mill Camp, had two years
at Camp Christmas Seal, Paterson,
N. J., and one year at Camp Blaz
ing 'Trail in Denmark, Me. The
Greensboro native while at Wom
an’s college was chosen for the na
tional collegiate Who’s Who. She
was on the faculty of Sophie New
comb college of 'Tulane university
in New Orleans.
Was May Queen
Nancy, who at Duke was
May Queen, Junior Class presi
dent and a member of Kappa Del
ta sorority, spent three years as
a Yonahlossee camper near Blow
ing Rock, and was riding counsel
or at Camp Dixie, a camp for boys
at Wiley, Ga. Incidentally, Nancy
hunted with the Moore County
Hounds in her Southern Pines
days and has in her time won
many horse show trophies. Taking
her back to high school, she was
Senior Class president, and the
school’s No. 1 tennis star. For
two years before going to the Red
Cross as a senior staff assistant
she was a nurse’s aid.
Greensboro’s Ruth and Southern
Pines’ Nancy didn’t know each
other until Washington, but their
paths had already crossed at least
twice, they found on comparing
notes. They had played opposite
each other in interschool games
and had attended the same recrea
tion conference at Vassar.
Part of the 150-acre tract which
the ambitious schoolteachers own
is cleared. Awa-Niko’s cove nes
tles around a small spring-fed
Moore'lake, and 10 minutes away by car
is the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Craitshop, Cabins
The lodge, which serves as din
ing hall and social center, has a
ing cabins dot the laurel and white
pine of the hillside about the
lake, handy to the shower house
which has full plumbing facili
ties.
Awa-Niko’s water flows from
its own well, drilled 151 feet
through solid rock, The camp has
a modern septic disposal system
and comes under the sanction of
the state board of health.
Only thing around the place not
strictly sanitary is the dog. He’s
an unique pooch, a big mongrel of
who-knows-what ingredients that
White and Wrenn adopted from
the pound. He has improved vast
ly since he became watch dog for
Awa-Niko but when Ruth and
Nancy first took him over he
smelled so bad they named him
Hallie.
Many Activities
Besides the manifold camp ac
tivities — swimming, canoeing,
hiking, badminton, nature study,
music, dramatics, art crafts, arch
ery, riflery, dancing, photography,
overnight camping, outdoor cook'
ing, field games, and indoor
games—the curriculum Ruth and
Nancy hav0 set forth includes
field trips. Last year the girl
campers were taken into the
Cherokee Indian Reservation
where they saw “Unto These
Hills,” to Joyce Kilmer Memorial
Forest, and to the top of Mt.
Mitchell.
The objectives of Camp Awa-
Niko, say its founders, are “wo
ven through the daily pattern of
democratic living.” Theirs is the
hope that each girl in their Sum
mer care will leave camp possess
ing these things:
Camp Ideals
“Love for the great out of
doors; deeper spiritual values;
skills in physical activity which
will add enjoyment to life; ideals
which give inspiration to life; en
thusiasm for learning and living;
development in tolerance and pa
tience.”
Ruth and Nancy themselves
learned during wartime on the
other side' of the globe how val
uable are the ideals and skills
which spell democracy and make
for successful group fellowship.
WITH THE
Armed Forces
First Lieut. Westcott Clinton,
assistant professor of military
science, and tactics at Oak Ridge
Military Institute, has reported
for duty with the 1952 ROTC sum
mer camp at Fort Banning, Ga.,
where he is serving as a member
of the training staff.
Lieutenant Clinton is the hus
band of the former Mary Eliza
beth Wioodward of Southern
Pines, and they formerly lived
here.
Cadet Thomas L. Avery, son of
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Avery, a ris
ing senior at State college, Ra
leigh, is one of 1,181 cadets as
signed to the Corps of Engineers
at the 1952 ROTC summer camp
at Fort Belvoir, Va. His six-week
training course will continue until
August 1. This is a part of the
Army’s officer training and on
essary to provide an adequate
parking space.
A test of the water was also to
be made by Russell Mills, county
sanitarian. Though a report on
this did not reach The Pilot by
presstime, it is expected to be all
that could be desired. An analy
sis made several months ago
showeM the water to be as pure
as, in several cases purer than,
that of other lakes in constant use
in the county. E. H. Mills, owner
of the lake for years beJEore he
gave it to the town, reports the
water “so pure it could almost
be used for drinking water.” It
comes from many springs, filter
ed through hundreds of feet of
sand. Storm drainage affects it
only slightly at the far end after
a rain, and this brings no actual
impurities to the lake.
Many young people and family
groups have not waited for tlje
formal opening, and it was one
of the most ' popular “cool-off”
spots in town during the heat
wave just endedj with as many
as 40 and 50 in swimming at
time.
.Page Five
graduation next June Tom will be
eligible for a commission in the
ORC engineer branch.
Pf. Frank Harrington. USMC,
son ,of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Heller,
surprised his parents and his sis
ter, Miss Barbara Harrington, by
running in for a visit one day
last week. He had just one day
at home, the first time they had
seen him since he left seven
months ago on a Mediterranean
cruise. He returned to Norfolk,
where his ship had landed, and
expects to get a new assignment
soon, and a regular leave at home.
David Shields Cameron, Jr., of
CINCLANT Fleet Headquarters,
Norfolk, Va., was home last week
end for a visit with his parents.
Dave’s collar ornaments now
disclose that the ensign’s gold bar
has been changed to silver, and
that another narrow stripe has
been added to his* shoulder
boards, denoting his promotion to
lieutenant junior grade at Fleet
Headquarters.
KNOLLWOOD-LAKE
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facilities are being put up under
supervision of H. A. Lewis for the
“Finer Carolina” project commit
tee.
Other work has been done by
interested citizens, and much re
mains to be done, said Mayor
Page this week, emphasizing that
“this is only a beginning—it will
take several years to achieve
what we want.”
At the meeting of the town
board Wednesday night, he asked
for and was given authority to
construct a road to the lake from
the Midland road, widening it to
60 feet for as far as seemed nec-
Secretary of Agriculture Bran-
nan has announced that there
will be no acreage allotments and
no marketing quotas on 1953-
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been receiving treatment for raised hearth of natural stone.
about a week. She is feeling much
better.
Bob Dunn and Herrmann Grov
er left Monday for a two weeks
There is a main cabin with first
aid room and camp office. There
is a craft shop, with nature shop,
in the loft, located in a century
motor trip to places of interest ’ in old mountain cabin in a shaded
Florida. spot at the edge of the lake. Sleep-
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Sunday, 5-9 p. m.
All you can eat $1.50
(Special children's prices)
or Regular Dinners
Holliday’s Restaurant and Coffee Shop
Op en Daily 6 a.m. - 10 p.m.