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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1962
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March, which we think of as the
windy month,” Wicker said—^has
served to dry out woods and
fields to a dangerous condition.
Largest fire of the past few
days in Moore weis one which
swept into Little River township
from Fort Bragg, burning over
about 200 acres in the Lobelia
section and keeping the fire
fighters busy from about noon to
10:30 p.m. A cabin belonging to
Hoyt Caddell was destroyed and
numerous dwellings were threat
ened, but, thanks to the help of
the Vass volunteer fire depart
ment and the Cameron depart
ment with its county-owned
truck, the fire was kept away
from them.
“The people of the community
were just fine, too,” the ranger
said. “They worked with us side
by side in large numbers and I
don’t know what we would have
done without them.” The Bragg
firefighters couldn’t help, he add
ed, “as they had enough fires of
their own.”
A suspicious circumstance has
been four fires in a row, Thurs
day, Friday, Saturday and Sun
day, all on land belonging to John
L. “Dink” Frye near Robbins.
“It looks as though these were
set on purpose, with malice, and
we are investigating,” Wicker
stated. Prompt action kept the
fires from spreading far and they
burned over altogether some 25
acres.
While the Lobelia fire was go
ing on the Forest Service crews
were summoned to several others,
including one on the Laveme
Barber place on Carthage Star
Route, where about four acres
were burned over. Other fires of
the weekend included one Satur
day morning on the Lacy Patter
son place behind Paint Hill Farm,
between Southern Pines and
Aberdeen; Easter Sunday, one on
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the edge of Pinebluff, and Easter
Monday, another at Pinebluff
which. Wicker said, “was one of
the toughest we had to deal with.
It started near the lake and we
kept it confined to the swamp,
jumping on it every time it pop
ed out of the edges. The trouble
was we couldn’t get any equip
ment into the swamp to fight it
at the source. We worked on that
fire all afternoon and until late
at night.” It burned over a total
of some 75 acres.
While no buildings, except for
the Caddell cabin on Little River,
have been destroyed so far, and
few even threatened, the fires
have destroyed thousands of dol
lars of good timber both in the
pine country and the hardwood
areas of upper Moore.
“Most of the fires seem to start
along the edges of paths and
country roads, where people pass
by, and are due to someone’s
thoughtlessness^ and carelessness,”
Ranger Wicker said. “The big
outbreak of them this week may
be because of the holidays and
spring weather, which has
brought out the schoolkids, cam
pers and fishermen. A lot of
people don’t seem to realige just
how dry things are and what a
danger state our woods are in.
“We are urging everyone to be
extra careful with cigarettes and
matches—and keeping our fingers
crossed for rain.”
Filter Unit Helps
Vass Water Crisis
A filter unit from Fort Bragg,
processing water from Little
River, has temporarily relieved
the acute water shortage that
forced drastic restrictions on
water use in Vass for several
days, starting Saturday.
The town, with water troubles
for years, has voted for a bond
issue to construct a plant that
would treat water from Little
River, but, said Mayor Hugh Mc
Lean this week, it may be a year
before the plant is in operation.
Students were dismissed from
Vass-Lakevjew School at noon
Tuesday, because of lack of water.
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