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Page TWELVE THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1960 GLEN ROUNDS SOLVES SOME PROBLEMS— Ground Hogs and Easter Bunnies So the ground hog was right, durn him. But, after all, it wasn’t he that made the sun come out in all its false glory, that day in February, and scare the wits out of him. We can’t really blame the ground hog for what’s happened, but a good many folks will be en vying him down there snug in his burrow while the rest of us flounder around in all the white stuff he prophesied. Glen Rounds, writer, artist, philosopher, and general needler- about-town, and corner-decorator, thinks a great deal of the ground hog, as anybody would know he would, Glen and critturs having close ties. In fact you might say: a good deal in common. Not mean ing only a sort of /bushiness, but wisdom and niceness and a deep- down sly capacity for knowing what’s going on and what folks— and other critturs—are thinking almost before they know it them selves. Also a taste for sitting about, alone, on the banks of ponds or on a stump, maybe, out somewhere. Maybe thinking or maybe just sitting. And not tell ing or caring. You know the way a dog’ll just sit, kind of hunched up and ears slightly raised, look ing out ahead of him for quite a spell and you don’t know what he’s doing it for but you know there’s some sense to it. To go back to the ground hog: Glen wrote a piece about him a while ago. It had to do with holi days, with Easter, too, as a mat ter of fact. But Ground Hog Day is the start of it. As G. H. snores away in his cozy home under the snowy i USED CAR BUYS USED CHEVROLETS '59 Sta. Wagon 6 $1995 '57 4-dr. Sedan V-8 $1395 '56 4-dr. Sedan V-8 $1195 '55 4-dr. Sedan 6 $ 745 '53 4-dr. Sedan $ 395 OTHER USED CARS '56 Ford Sta. Wagon $1595 '55 Ford 2-dr. 6 $ 645 '56 Pontiac 4-dr. H. T. ... $1295 '57 Buick 4-dr. $1995 '52 Nash 2-dr: $ 445 '56 Plymouth 4-dr. V-8 $ 895 Wicks Chevrolet Used Car Lot • N. Poplar St. Aberdeen. N. C. N. C. License No. 2687 blanket, the rest of us may weE consider this subject along with its author. So here it is: It seems perhaps a little late to be speaking of GROUND HOG DAY, but after reading a windy and irresponsible story on the subject in some of the newspa pers, it looks to be time to put a stop to the foolishness once and for all. This will take almost no time at all. In the first place, all. these writers, and so-called experts, identify themselves as members of various Ground Hog Lodges. Now, did you ever see a man who belonged to the Elks showing an astonishing knowledge of that animal? Do the rank and file of the Lions Club extend the knowl edge of the Extension and Cul ture clubs by lecturing to them from firsthand experience of the ways and means of LIONS? How many Woodmen do you know that can tell an ax from a grub hoe? Why then should you let the idle mouthings of a fatuous fel low, whose only qualification probably is his willingness to part with a dollar to become a member of a questionable organization, throw you into a panic? If further proof is needed for the celebration of Ground Hog Day, you only had to compare the record of Ground Hog Day with the other holidays of the year. Do you remember seeing banner heads in any newspaper the day before screaming ‘NINE HUND RED AND NINE DEATHS BY VIOLENCE PREDICTED OVER GROUND HOG HOLIDAY’? Or the black bordered boxes on the front' pages the day after saving ‘NINETEEN DIE IN CUTTING AND SHOOTING AFFRAYS ON GROUND HOG DAY. SEVEN HUNDRED AND THREE KILL ED OR MAIMED ON THE HIGHWAYS’? Of course you didn’t. Ground Hog day is the safest holiday on the calendar! ' There seems to be no need to say more. Surely the Ground Hog could not have built up such an admirable lioliday as this if there had been the least bit of trickery involved. But now that the Ground Hog business is put away, there is another matter that should be called to the attention of the worthy citizens. That is this Rabbit and Easter Egg business. So Let's Think About Easter You have all, at one time or an other. probably heard the expres sion ‘mad as a march hare’. But did'any one of you take the trou ble to find out what it was that drove the hare to madness, and more specially, to madness in Mafch? Listen closely to this question . . . “When does Easter fall?’’ The answer is “Late March or early April, as a rule.’’ Perhaps it doesn’t mean any thing to you yet—you say “What has this to do with the madness of hares (or rabbits) in March?” Here is another hint. What is the first thing every child in tbe land does as soon as he wakes on Easter morning? He (or she) runs outside to see if THE EASTER BUNNY LAID ANY EASTER EGGS!!! Now think a minute, friends. WHY should the Easter Bunny (Rabbit, Hare) be expected to lay Easter Eggs? He doesn’t lay them for himself (or herself) and he simply isn’t equipped for the job, believe me. He didn’t ask fou the job, it was foisted off on him by some unthinking soul who didn’t know about such matters (or by some unscrupulous character who had an over-supply of rabbits). And now the tradition is so firmly entrenched there is no escape for him until such time as the peo ple of good will band together to put the business in its proper place. Until then we’ll have hares bouncing around about their hap py and carefree capers, a delight to the eye of one and all, for eleven months of the year only to break into madness the twelfth. It’s the brooding over the discomfort, injustice and humilia tion of it that brings the madness on. As soon as the calendar is turned to March and Easter is seen ahead, the Hare (rabbit, bun ny) is like a man with an appoint ment with the dentist, only more so. The young rabbits who have not been through them before pay little attention to the coming of the trying days. They think, with Pantagruel, that everything is for the best in this best possible of all worlds. But once having been through the mill they know dif ferent. As a rabbit (hare, bunny) grows older he finds that each year the thought of the dreaded egg-laying becomes more unbear able, until at last the thin thread of sanity snaps, and the unthink ing laughs and point to another Mad March Hare! Now you ask about what can be done to right this mess. We all know it is not the fault of the children, and none of us would willingly rob them of the excite ment of Easter Morning and the wonder of finding brilliantly col ored jewrvl-like Easter eggs in all the highly improbable places one does find them. Luckily, friends, the answer is simple—so simple, indeed, it is a wonder some of you did not come across it your self. All that is needed is an or ganization to set up an authority to turn over Easter Egg laying to the BIRDS! It’s that simple. Every one knows that birds are well equipped for laying ,eggs. In (act they are all the time laying eggs here and there, and hatch ing them out into more birds with nothing to do but keep one awake in the morning or lay more eggs to hatch out more birds and so on. As long as they are doing this anyway, why not let’s get some good out of it, and at the same time relieve the Hare (rabbit, bunny) of a painful and humiliat ing chore? I ask you to consider this, and speak of it to your neighbor. The time is short if we are to save this year’s crop of Hares (rabbits, bunnys) from the dreadful Easter Egg nightmare. HOME COSTS DOUBLE Replacement costs of homes and furnishings have soared sinnce the end of World War II and are continuing to climb. A home that cost $9,000 in 1946 would cost $18,500 to build now, according to recent estimates. NOTED FOR BENEFACTIONS Winter Clearance Continues Upholstery Greatly Reduced Come In To See Our Special Buys THINGS ARRIVING Mill Outlet Store W. PENN. AVE. SOUTHERN PINES. N. C. Karl Robbins, for Whom Moore Co. Town Was Named, Dies in New York Karl Robbins, 67, retired tex tile manufacturer and philanthro pist, died at his home in New York City Saturday following an illness of several weeks. He was a pioneer in the devel opment of synthetic textiles and was a former chairman of the board of Robbins Mills, Inc. A native of Russia, he came to the United States as a child. He devoted his entire business career to the textile industry. He retired in 1954 to devote himself to phil- anthrophy. The town of Hemp, in Moore County where his original mill was established, was renamed Robbins in his honor. ■' Mr. Robbins also was a founder of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York City. Robbins Mills, the company he founded, expanded from the orig inal plant at Robbins, to plants at Aberdeen, Raeford, Red Springs and Clarkesville, Va. After Mr. Robbins’ retirement, the plants were involved in mer gers and sales, the two in Moore County—at Aberdeen and Rob bins—becoming properties of Amerotron, the textile division of Textron, Inc. The Aberdeen plant was later sold to its present own ers, A. & M. Karagheusian, Inc. Mr. Robbins was extremely generous in his private and pub lic benefactions at Robbins and Aberdeen and to Moore County charitable and welfare projects, including gifts to Moore Memo rial Hospital. He first entered business in Moore County in 1933 and in creased his benefactions as his mills prospered. Robbins town commissioners this week drafted a resolution of respect and sent it to Mrs. Rob bins, offering a plot for his inter ment in Pine Rest Cemetery. W. P. Saunders of Southern Pines and Raleigh, who is director of the State Department of Conser vation and Development and a former president of Robbins Mills,, attended Mr. Robbins’s funeral Tuesday afternoon in New York. Mr. Robbins is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. Alex Morgan to Get Sales Award Alex Morgan, a salesman with Jackson Motors, Inc., will be pre sented Ford Motor Company’s 300-500 Club award at a banquet honoring high-ranking Ford deal ership car and truck salesmen of 1959 in the Charlotte Ford sales district. 'The awards dinner will be held Saturday, March 19, at the Park Center in Charlotte. A. Y. Edwards, manager of the Charlotte sales district, said that the average 300-500 Club mem ber sold the equivalent of 100 new cars and 70 used cars in qualify ing for the national honors. League Bowling MIXED LEAGUE Southern Pines Recapping def. Martin and Stoots 4-0. Hill Top Restaurant won 4-0 from Gassiott and Loh by forfeit. Joe’s Grill and Priebe’s Raeford tied 2-2. High Ind. Series—John Hinson 543. High Ind. Single—Len Frahm 212. High Team Single—Priebe’s Raeford 723. High Team Lines Southern Pines Recapping 2086. Standings W L Pci. Joe’s Grill 70 34 .673 SP Recapping 59 45 .567 Priebe’s Raeford 51 Vz 4614 .552 Hill Top Rest. 51% 52V2 .49'^! Martin & Stoots 47 57 .452 Gassiott & Loh 26 78 .250 BUSINESS MEN'S NO. 1 Patch’s df. 5 O’Clock Club 3-1. VonCanon Furniture df. Sand hill Furniture 3^1. Denton Realty df. Karagheusian 4-0. Little’s Gulf df. Lions Club 3-1. Scott Insurance df. Thomasson Furniture 4-0. High Ind. Series — Fred Vest 586. High Ind. Single — Jack Matth ews 244. High Team Single — VonCanon Furniture 1059. High Team Lines—Denton Realty 2949. Standings W L Pet. Scott Insurance 25 15 .625 Thomasson Furn. 24 16 .600 Patch’s .575 Denton Realty 23 17 .575 5 O’clock Club 22 18 .550 Lions Club 21 19 .525 Little’s Gulf 20 20 .500 VonCanon Furn. 19 21 .475 Sandhill Furn. 13 27 .325 Karagheusian H 29 .275 FRIDAY NIGHT INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE Hill Top defeated Fletcher Southern 4-0. Page & Shamburger defeated Trimble Products 4-0. Mid Pines defeated National Guard 3-1. Causey Const, defeated Carth age Fabrics 3-1. High Team, Series—Hill Top 2762. High Team Single Game Causey Const. 942. High Individual Series — E. Boros 619. High Individual Game — A. Desanto 225. Standings W L Pet. Hill Top 47.5 16.5 .746 Causey Const. 44.5 19.5 .698 Mid Pines 40 24 .625 Fletcher Sou. 36.5 27.5 .571 National Guard 35 29 .547 Page & S’burger 21 43 .328 Carthage Fab. 18.5 45.5 .286 Trimble Products 13 51 .203 ■MORE TO COME STA’TE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF MOORE ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE The undersigned having duly qualified as the Administrator of the Estate of Martin Ferguson, deceased, late of the above named county and state, all persons hav ing claims of whatsoever nature against the said Martin Ferguson, deceased, are hereby notified to exhibit the said claim or claims to the undersigned at 420 Shen- nandoah Road, Hampton, Virgin ia, or to W. Lamont Brown, At torney, Southern Pines, North Carolina, on or before the 17th day of March, 1961, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their re covery. All persons indebted to the said Martin Ferguson, deceas ed, are hereby requested to pay the said indebtedness to the un dersigned immediately. This the 17th day of March, 1960. MARTIN B. FERGUSON Administrator, Estate of Mar tin Ferguson, Deceased W. Lamont Brown Attorney ml7,24,31,a7,14,21 LEAVERNE’S GRILL ^ Between Pin'ehurst and Southern Pines D^ICIOUS HOME-COOKED FOOD — SPECIALS — Sunday Dinners and Business Men's Luncheons OLBSNOBlLE&fONTIACINC. 795 BROAD STREET SOUTHERN PINES. N. C. Now that the inclement weather is almost gone, we still boast the most complete selection of . New Olds and Pontiacs ever offered in this area. The Deals we are giving are yours, make your own with these plus advantages. 1. On the spot financing with Low Bank Rates. 2. A complete selection of new cars never be fore offered to the buying public in this area. 3. Extra. Extra Trade-in allowance on your present car. 4. Courteous Service at your disposal, with four salesmen to assist you in choosing the new car you desire. COME SEE! COME SAVE! AT ' Still Olds & Pontiac Inc. ^ 795 BROAD STREET SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. TELEPHONE OX 2-3151 or OX 5-3411 WATCH OUR ADS .... YOU'LL FIND ITI Collins Goes Forward... With These Three Items For Our Customer’s Convenience •Gulistan Carpet • Trimble Baby Furniture • Pinehurst Lingerie “For The Particular Lady” WE ARE ALWAYS STRIVING TO GIVE OUR CUSTOMERS THE VERY BEST THEY CAN BUY, FOR THE MONEY. COME IN AND TAKE A PEEP AT OUR NEW MERCHAN DISE. WHILE THE SNOW HAS BEEN FALLING WE HAVE BEEN PILING IN SPRING MERCHANDISE. You Can Really Find Some Pretty Things At... COLLINS DEPT. STORE —NEVER KNOWINGLY UNPERSOLD— Aberdeen, N. cl
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