FRIDAY. JUNE 4. 1954
TI^ PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
PAGE THREE
By LOCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Books
ZAPOTEC by Helen Augur
(Doubleday $4.50). This book was
inspired by a trip through south
ern Mexico, but it- is a good deal
more than a travel book. From the
first Miss Augur was charmed by
'“the three great valleys that flow
together below the pyramids of
Monte Alban” and by the serenity
and dignity of the native people,
the Zapotecs, “perhaps the oldest
people of gentle breeding on this
continent.”
Most of us have known vaguely
that archaeologists have been
making remarkable discoveries of
old civilizations in the remoter
parts of Mexico and Central
America in recent decades, but it
is amazing to learn how definitely
they can now date these by nucle
ar physics. The oldest, which cen
tered around Monte Alban, goes
back to 1500 B. C. Here, in the
millennium that followed, a proud
people built a great city with
noble temples and tombs, they
studied astronomy and perfected
a calendar. It is doubtful that the
earliest people here were Zapo
tecs, but the predominance of
their racial type in early carvings
would indicate that these Indians
have been here more than 3000
years.
Miss Augur has given us de
lightful descriptions cl the Zapo
tecs of today, their festivals and
markets, their domestic and po
litical life. Primitive though they
seem in some respects, they are
conscious of their part in Mexican
life and have produced several po
litical leaders, the greatest of
whom was Juarez.
There is much in this book for
those who like to extend their
horizons,, either by knowledge of
the remoter lands of today or ver
tically into the past. A judicious
selection of photographs adds to
our acquaintance with the mod
ern Zapotecs and illustrates the
findings of the archaeologists.
THE ROYAL BOX by Frances
Parkinson Keyos (Messner $3.50).
Those who are familiar with Mrs.
Keyes’ novels know that her latest
will be good narrative and well
documented. In the introduction,
she graciously thanks all of the
people who have helped her in,
getting background material for
this novel.
It is a mystery 'story as was her
“Dinner At Antoine’s”. The scene
of the murder is England, but the
flashbacks take us to lands as va
ried as the people who take part
in the investigation. The author
makes her people very real and
one reads with absorbed interest
of their present and past lives.
This is a genuine gift, and Mrs.
Keyes has it to a greater degree
than most authors. Recommended
reading for all who like stories of
suspence and also for those who
like well written fiction.
—JANE H. TOWNE
MR. HOBBS' VACATION by
Edward Streeter (Harper $3.00).
It is a pleasure to find a gay
bock like this that poses no prob
lems—at least, not serious ones.
Mr. Streeter’s hero does have
problems, but of the homely and
somewhat comic kind that are
common to family life. They in
clude difficulties with the hot
water heater and garbage disposal
when they rent an old house near
a fashionable resort in Maine. It
is not hcird to recognize this re
sort, if you happen to know it,
but this is not important. The
story might have been laid in any
of our national playgrounds from
Maine to Florida.
As in Mr. Streeter’s earlier
bock, “The Father of the Bride,”
the father is a lovable character,
fussing about his three daughters,
two sons-in-law and three grand
children, but really devoted to
them all.
Mr. Hobbs, like Walter Mitty, is
a dreamer and had hoped to va
cation on a faraway tropical isle.
Instead, he finds himself in the
midst of a large family, and even
involved in the community social
life. However, in site of this, he
managed to get away from the
crowds, whjen he was doing the
chores or fishing or taking an
early morning swim. Then he
could “commune with nature,”
and his vacation was a success.
—JANE H. TOWNE
DEAD AND NOT BURIED by
H. M. F. Prescott (Macmillan
$2.50). Connoisseurs of mystery
fiction will find this a rare bit.
Distinguished as an historian an^
novelist, Miss Prescott brought
rare talents to the concoction of
this tale. It has irony and a sort
of grim playfulness like the note
sounded by the title; but it is pri
marily a study of human beings
undqr stress, and the suspense
lies in waiting for their reactions
to the changing situation as much
as in wondering whether the real
murderer will be discovered des
pite his cleverness and some luck.
In a startling first chapter we
almost witness the murder. We
are present a moment after when
the shock of the event is still re
sounding as the two guilty parties
face each other. “Lock that door-”
shouts one, as the other leans
weakly against it. Panic, revul
sion, fear are shown clearly, but
the murderer is never named.
Later we meet several men from
the little English village of Ben-
marsh and are given the chance
to match their characters against
that of the murderer as revealed
in Chapter One. It is a nice puzzle,
and the developmeht is logical—
no tricks.
This book was published in
England in 1938 and is one of a
group that are being revived for
an American audience. The name
of the series is “Murder Revisit
ed.” An earlier sample, “A Shill
ing for Candles,” by Josephine
Tey was reviewed in this column.
ENGRAVED Informals.
reasonable. The Pilot.
Prices
HOLIDAY’S AAA RESTAURANT
"All You Can Eat"
Smorgasbord . . . Sun., Wed., Fri., 5-9 P. M.
Southern Pines, N. C.
Navigational Aids
Will Be Highlight
Of Skydrop II
Navigational aids to be utilized
by the Army’s aviation section
will be one of the highlights for
the forthcoming maneuver, Sky-
drcp II. Full scale tests of aids
was scheduled to begin Tuesday,
June 1.
Included in the list of electronic
machines which could have come
straight from the pages of the
latest science fiction thriller will
be a talking radio beacon and an
automatic position “fixer,” which
can be dropped by parachute
wherever desired.
Although the devices which the
Army plans to use during the air
plane vs ’copter tests are not new
to the aviations industry, Skydrop
II is the first opportunity the
Army has had to make extensive
tests of navigational aids adapted
to wartime strains.
At the Camp Mackall sdr strip,
the 9460 TSU Signal Corps Army
Aviation Center is now making
preliminary tests on a Swedish-
made talking radio beacon. The
only one of its kind in the United
States, the device features a crisp
feminine voice giving compass
readings at twenty-degree inter
vals as its antenna swings through
the compass. The machine pro
vides a beam along which a plane
is able to fly to its destination.
Also at the Mackall air strip is
a new portable control tower
which can be ferried by helicopter
if necessary. The Army is evalua
ting the tower as a means of gain
ing better aircraft traffic control
in remote field operations. Al
though weighing far less than a
ton, the control tower utilizes in
compact form the equipment of
a permanent installation.
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Scriptnre: II Kings 14:23-29;
7—8.
Amos,
Devotional Reading: Isaiah 38:1-8.
Social Justice
Lesson tar June 6, 1954
Funeral Rites For
Mrs. Doek Hudson
Are Held At Vass
FHA - G. L
and
DIRECT LOANS
Now is the opportune time to
build or buy. Money is available.
Materials and labor *are plentiful
and cheaper.
WE HAVE HELPED OVER
500 FAMIUES TO OWN
THEIR HOMES
Take Advantage of Our Experience
NOW
Graves
Mutual Insurance Agency
GRAVES BLDG. SOUTHERN PINES
Phone 2-2201
Mrs. Bertie Cameron Hudson,
52, wife cf Dock E. Hudson of
Vass, died in Lee County Hospital,
Sanford, Wednesday night of last
week after an illness of several
months.
Funeral services were held at
3 p. m.* Friday at the Vass Pres
byterian Church, conducted by
the pastor, the Rev. C. K. Taffe,
and the Rev. William Hudson,
with a large crowd in attendance.
There were selections by a choir,
and Mrs. Bobby Hudson sang a
solo. Burial was in Johnson’s
Grove Cemetery.
Pall bearers were Mack Cam
eron of Greensboro and Edwin
Cameron, Joe Caviness, Lacy
Frye, Johnny Boggs and Buster
Cameron, aU of Vass.
Mrs. Hudson was bom in Har
nett County daughter of the late
R. M. and Kate Cameron. For
many years she had resided in
Vass, where she was held in high
esteem.
Surviving are her husband; five
sons, J. A., C. L., J. E., and B. C.,
all of Vass, and Clifford of the
home; three daughters, Mrs. Roy
Dinkins of Sanford, Mrs. Douglas
Blackman of Vass and Miss Annie
Ruth Hudson of the home; three
sisters, Mrs. H. G. Jessup of Vass,
and Mrs. D. L. Gaddy and Mrs.
Arch Johnson, both of Cameron;
three brothers, Joe Cameron and
Arch .Cameron, both of Greens
boro, and Charlie Cameron of
I Vass; and nine grandchildren.
Wheat acreage for harvest in
North Carolina this year, 316,000
acres, is the lowest since 1930,
when Tar Heel farmers harvested
265,000 acres.
TS THE country prospering? Ask
A the Chamber of Commerce and
they will give you a commercial
answer, as you would expect. They
will give you figures on the na
tional income and the national
debt; they will furnish you with
statistics on farm prices and
freight-car loadings and employ
ment figures. If all 'these look
good, then the C. of C. will tell
you the country is sound and pros
perous. Away back in the times
of the Bible, in the
administration of
Jeroboam II, if
there had been an
Israelite Chamber
of Commerce,
they must have
been optimistic,
even enthusiastic,
about the prosper
ity of their coun
try. Wealth had Dr. Foreman
risen to unprecedented levels,
trade was active, the territory
of Israel was growing. There
never had been so many mil-
lionnaires in Israel.
• • *
*Sour Note
There was just one man, so far
as we know, who did not see eye
to eye with the optimists in Israel.
His name was Amos and he lived
in the back districts as a hired
man, perhaps as a migrant work
er. He had had a good look at
Israel from the seamy side, for
his layer in the social cake was
somewhere below the bottom.
He is known to history as a pro
phet, but he did not claim that
title for himself. “The Lord spoke
to me,” he said, and that was
enough. Perhaps the reason he
did not care for the label of
prophet is that he did not want
to be mixed in people’s minds
with such Yes-men as King Ahab
had gathered around him. But
he believed and we believe that
he had the mind of God, and
that is what a prophet has. He
went up to Bethel, one of the main
cities of Israel, and there made
some speeches that nobody liked.
He even got himself attacked as
subversive. At all events, he
brought what the leaders of Israel
thought was a very sour note into
the sweet chorus of prosperity.
♦ « *
What Is Happening to People?
Amos looked at “prosperity” in
another light, or we may say he
measured prosperity with a dif
ferent yardstick. Whether a coun
try is on the up-and-up or on the
down-and-down is not to be dis
covered by looking at dollar signs
or counting freight cars. The real
question is: What is happening to
people? The first of all questions
is: Which seems to you more imj
portant, people or property? If
they both seem equally important,
or if property seems even more
important, then Amos would say
you are certainly using the wrong
yardstick. He looked over the na
tion of Israel and he saw two
classes of people, the poor and
the rich. The poor went to jail
for robbing the rich, but no one
ever jailed the rich for robbing
the poor. The rich were growing
richer and the poor were growing
poorer. This was not the worst
of it, for in the process of be
coming wealthy, the luxury-
classes of Israel were growing
both softer and harder than they
should be—softer by indulging in
luxuries, harder by indifference
to the troubles of the people at
the bottom of the pile.
Health Department
Schedules Clinics
For Immunization
Free immunization clinics for
schoolchildren and others will be
held under auspices of the county
health department at the Southern
Pines elementary school on three
successive Fridays, starting today.
Public health nurses will be at
the school from 9:30 to 11:30 a. m.
today, June 11 and June 18, to
give shots for typhoid fever,
diphtheria, whooping cough, tet
anus and also to vaccinate against
smallpox.
Since three shots must be given
for typhoid and also for diph
theria, the former one week apart
and the latter one month apart,
the public health staff urges that
persons wishing these shots start
them as early as possible, prefer
ably at the first of the three clin
ics.
Dante’s Italian RESTAURANT
OPEN SUNDAY AT 12:00
Open Daily except Monday at 5:00 pjn.
Phone 2-8203
PILOT ADVERTISING PAYS
L. V. O’CALLAGHAN
PLUMBING & HEATING SHEET METAL WORK
Telephone 2-4341
only REGISTERED PHARMACISTS fill
your prescriptions at
SOUTHERN PINES PHARMACY
Al. Cole, R.Ph. i Graham Culbreth, R.Ph.
tf Night Phone 2-7094—Night Phone 2-4181
Attend the Church of Your Choice Next Sunday
Two little girls left alone! It sounds like the
beginning of a sad story.
Eut look again. There are certainly no tears.
There is a comfortable home; and pretty clothes.
But these children have been given a great deal
more than the ordinary comforts of life. There in
the older child’s hand is a book, “The Story of
Jesus.
How reassuring to see that they have been given
11* .f® Christian training. Somehow
all doubt has been ^removed from our minds. IVe
feel that these little girls will be safe—not only
during this one evening, but through their entire
lives.
“S want our children to be shielded from
life s hardships and temptations, but we can guar
antee no such protection. Our surest course is that
■we rear them in a Christian atmosphere, sending
them to Daily Vacation Church School and taking
to the services of the Church regularly. Then
and then only, will we know that we have done
everything in our power for their future success,
. happiness and salvation. ■
‘ir
the church for AU . . .
AU FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the greatest fac
character and good citizenship. It
Wiftn,°r^°f ® values.
Without a strong Church, neither
survrve'“'Th'’°'' c™
survive. There are four sound
attend services regularly and sup
port the Church. They are; m
For hfs own sake. (2) Feu* k*
children's sake. (3) For the sake
Fnr it and nation. ■ (4)
which I'itsilf ■
terial support. Plan to go to
church regularly anH rA/i/j
Bible daily. ^
Sunday ''‘7.^9
Monday Isaiah 4? g.'®
Matthew 6 19.
Wednesd’y Luke t ,
Corinth’ns 4 le'.
Friday Titus 3 ,
Saturday Psalms 23 J.'
Copyrigh'
\
x
GREETINGS & GIFTS
va brought to you from
Friendly Neighbors
^ fli'vip & Social Welfare
Leaders
through
TOLGOME ffiAGON
Om tht occasion oft
The Birth of a Baby
EngagementAnnounoementi
Change of residence
Arrivals of Newcomers to
SOUTHERN PINES
Phone 2-6531
A Few Questions
“Social Justice” or its opposite,
social injustice, is a big all-in
clusive phrase. If you think it
has nothing to do with religion,
you have the Bible against you.
Let us bring it down to cases, as
Amos did. Is there social justice
in your community, your state?
Before you can answer that cov
erall question, you will have to
break it down into particular ques
tions. For example: Are there
any second-class citizens in your
community? Are the same jobs
open to all, at the same wages
or salary? If a man has to bor
row money can he get it at a rea
sonable rate of interest or do the
loan sharks run wild where you
live? Are the responsible citi
zens of your community and state
willing to be taxed for the benefit
of better schools? Compare sal
aries paid in your state to horse
trainers, with salaries paid to
school teachers. Do horses seem
to be rated higher than children?
Does every child in your state
have an adequate opportunity for
in education, or are children pen
alized for being born in the coun
try?
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ i
In the U. S. A. Released by Community |
Press Service.) j
BROWNBON MEMORIAL
CHURCH
(Presbylexian)
Cheves K. Ligon, Miiuster
Sunday school 9.‘46 a. m. Wor
ship service, 11 a. m. Women of
the Church meeting, ,8 p. «i. Mon
day following third Sunday.
■Ihe Youth Fellowships meet at
7 o’clock each Sundky evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday,
7:15 p. m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New HampsHiie Ave., So. Pixiet
Sunday Service, 11 a. m.
Sunday School, 11 a. m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p. m.
Reading Room in Church Build
ing open Wednesday 3-5 p. m.
THE CHURCH OF WIDE
FELLOWSHIP
(Congregational)
Cor. Bennett and N. Hampshire
Wofford C. Timmons, Minisler
Sunday Worship, 11 a.m.
a. m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel
lowship (Young people).
Sunday, 8:00 p. m., The Forum.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York avenue at South Ashe
Dairid Hoke Coon, Minisler
Bible school, 9:45 a. in. Worship
11 a. m. Training Union 7 p. in.
Evening worship, 8 p. m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30
p. m.; midweek worship, Wetoes-
day 7:30 p. m.; choir practice
Wednesday 8:15 p. m.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p. m. Ghurcfi
and family suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 p. m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie, Minister
Sunday School 10 a. m.
Worship Service, 2nd and 3rd
Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourth
Sunday morning, 11 a. m.
Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m. second Tuesday.
Mid-week service Thursday at 8
p.m.
Sunday School, 9:30
—This Space Donated in the Interest of the Churches by—
I. Keister Adv. Service, Strssbur?, Va
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Charles V. Covell, Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a. m. (ex
cept first Sunday).
Church School, 9:45 a. m., with
Adult Class at 10 a. m.
Morning Prayer, 11 a. m. (Holy
Communion, first Sunday).
Wednesdays: Holy Communion
10 a. m.
ST. ANTHONY'S
(Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 a.
m.; Holy Day masses and 9 a.
m.; weekday mass at 8 a. m. Con
fessions heard on Saturday be
tween 5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p. m.
OUR LADY OF VICTORY
West Pennsylvania at Hardin
Fr. Donald Fearon. C. SS. R..
Sunday Mass, 10 a. m.; Holy
Day Mass, 9 a. m. Confessions are
heard before Mass.
GRAVES MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.
SANDHILL AWNING CO
CLARK & BRADSHAW
SANDHILL DRUG CO.
SHAW PAINT & WALLPAPER CO.
CHARLES W. PICQUET
MODERN MARKET
W. E. Blue
HOLLIDAY'S RESTAURANT &
COFFEE SHOP
JACK'S GRILL & RESTAURANT
CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT CO.
CITIZENS BANK & TRUST Ca
UNITED TELEPHONE CO.
JACKSON MOTORS. Inc.
Your Ford Dealer
McNEILL'S SERVICE STATION
Gulf Service
PERKINSON'S. Inc.
Jeweler
SOUTHERN PINES MOTOR CO.
THE PILOT