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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK, PINEHURST, N. C.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940
Youth Wants to Know
The “Exact Location of Hell,” One of Many
Forthright Questions Asked
Rev. Dr. H. J. Chidley
KIWANIS CLUB HEARS PASTOR
Youth is no worse and no better than it always has' been. The
youth of today is more sophisticated than 30 years ago because of
the radio and the movies. Its geographic radius is larger on account
of the automobile, said Rev. Howard J. Chidley, addressing Kiwan
ians of the Sandhills at their weekly meeting, held at the Presbyter
ian Church in Aberdeen yesterday.
Dr. Chidley, a guest'at the Holly Inn, has been pastor of the
First Congregational Church of Winchester, Mass., for the past 25
years.
Temptations of today’s youth are greater than they used to be
and therefore they deserve more credit if they go straight, he said.
The youth of today is just as generous, just as responsive to
the good as ever. It hates cant and pose on the part of its elders and
detects it sooner. The community has a responsibility for the moral
welfare of its youth as well as the physical and mental welfare.
But strange as it seems, he'
continued, we insure practically
everything today but the moral
welfare of our most valuable as
set, youth. One difficulty with
the church today in relation to
youth is that it has only one
string; to its bow, namely, preach
ing, including the Sunday school
as well as the pulpit.
“If any one church in a com
munity cannot afford a place for
youth to gather, for athletics,
dancing, dramatics and social
meetings, churches should com
bine with the community in pro
viding such a place,” telling of
his experience in his own church.
Adolescent youth is bewildered,
somewhat unhappy, ill-adjusted,
and lonesome, as it faces its ex
panding world, he told his audi
ence.
Youth is also full of questions
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TERRELL, WHO BOXED
JOE LOUIS, TO MIX
WITH BRABOY HERE
The night of February 24 will
he Pinehurst Fight Night at Ray
•Johnson’s Amusement Center.
The feature bout will be a
grudge-gorilla meeting ( of Ralph
Terrell, Rome, Georgia, heavy
wei£ht and Ham Braboy of
Hartsville, S. C.
Terrell, a 27-year-old bruiser
uho packs a wallop that stood
liP against Joe Louis in New
^ (,1'h just before his climb to
fame and the heavyweight cham
pionship, also won a decision in
01 oyer Bearcat Obbie in New
^01'k and Ko’d the Atlantic Kid
°f Macon, Ga., two years ago.
Braboy has won his last ten,
fights, and is now battling on the
southern circuits at 215 pounds,
^hile Terrell will check into the
Amusement Center ring at 200
°r so.
The highlight bout between
these two hard-pounding tough
les ivill be ten rounds, preceded
ky four preliminary engage
ments.
WEATHER
hair, slowly rising temperature
m West portion Thursday; Fri
daY increasing , cloudiness and
mariner.
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CAMDEN SENDING FAST
POLO TEAM TO PLAY
SANDHILLS ON SUNDAY
Carl Lightfoot, Full Blooded In
dian Will be in the Visiting
Four’s Lineup; Stars of Last
Game Also to Play
CAMDEN, N. C., Feb. 14 —
Camden will have a hard riding
polo team in the game Sunday
against the Sandhills Polo Club,
at Pinehurst.
Kirby Tupper will play number
1 for Camden, Charles Little
number 2, Carl Lightfoot, a full
blooded Indian and expert rider,
at number 3, and Joe Bates at
number 4. Camden will have at
least five reserves.
C. P. DuBose^who scored four
goals for Camden against Pine
hurst and who rode Little Lance,
the pony who kicked the winning
goal in that contest, will be un
able to play Sunday.
“Little Lance kicked one win
ning goal, and he can do it
again,” according to Ed Fitzger
ald, Camden hotel man and polo
fan. \
WHAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Silver Foils tournament today,
selected score, best 9 out of 18.
Buffet supper at Pinehurst
Country Club, followed by Forum
event tonight.
Keno and dance at The Caro
lina.
AT THE THEATRES
- Southern Pines -
Tonight at 8:15, matinee at
3:00, “I Take This Woman,”
with Spencer Tracy and Hedy
Lamarr.
- Aberdeen Theatre -
Today and tomorrow at 7:15
and 9:00, “He Married His Wife,”
with Joel McCrea and Nancy
Kelly.
MOORE COUNTY CHECKERS
Tfie Moore County Checker
tournament will start tonight at
the Amusement Center. Post
entries will be accepted. The fee
is fifty cents.
Here is Happy, who, with his perpetual smile, has been driving
the Carolina Hotel bus around Pinehurst for many years. Last week,
Happy was presented with a new uniform, the personal gift of Mr.
Leonard Tufts. Last year, the management of Pinehurst, Inc. gave
Happy a new bus, shown in the background.
PINEHURST SCOREBOARD
* by ROBERT E. HARLOW
Gunnar Hockert, the world’s greatest middle distance runner,
who set new world’s records for the 3,000 and 5,000 meter runs at
the 1936 Olympics in Berlin has been reported killed in action on the
Karelian Isthmus. Hockert is the second internationally known Fin
nish athlete to die in this war. Birger Wasenius, ace speed-skater,
was killed in action in December while leading a ski patrol across
frozen Lake Ladoga.
It was only a few days ago that newspapers published a photo
graph of Hockert, on skis, with a rifle swung over his shoulder, on
Ihe snows near the Mannerheim line.
You can think of two dramatic views of Hockert.
In 1936 in the Sport Arena in Berlin, breezing home in front of
che world’s foremost middle distance runners to the roar of the crowd
and the hoisting of the Finnish flag on the victory pole.
In 1940 somewhere on the Karelian Isthmus, his broken body
lying in red blotches on the snow, the world’s fastest middle distance
runner, stopped in his tracks, dead.
Lists of' the dead and wounded brings war close. When lads
“killed in action,” have rated headlines on Olympic game stories, it
takes the horrible business into your home in a more personal man
ner.
There is something thrilling about a battle at sea between Brit
ish cruisers and a German pocket battleship. The identity of the
men in action is seldom disclosed. We read of 12 inch guns, broad
sides, hits, the dash for the harbor, and in the terrific excitement of
the incident forget that men were being killed in action.
It is different when we think of a great athlete lying dead on
the Karelian Isthmus. Perhaps we had anticipated watching him
win the 3,000 meter final at Helsingfors this summer m the 1940
Olympic games. *
Bathing Beach, Boating, Fishing Planned
At Pond, Which Will be
Beautified i.
SAND COMPANY LAYOUT
Within 60 days a beautiful body of water to be known as Lake
Chapin, will be added to the attractions of the Sandhills country,
according to officials of the Aberdeen Sand company and W. M.
Herndon, Pinehurst, manager of the S. B. Chapin Orchards.
The lake will be east of Pine Bluff road, one half mile south of
the main Pinehurst and Aberdeen highway. It will be about one
half mile in length, running south to northeast, and will be 27 feet
at its greatest depth.
While the purpose of Lake Chapin will be1 to furnish waiter to
wash sand for the Aberdeen Sand company, which is , spending
$10,000 in construction of a dam, the lake is being built according to
specifications of S. Bt Chapin and Mr. Herndon, who plan to beautify
it and establish picnic grounds, a sand beach, boating facilities and
stock it with fish.
It is likely that later a beach house will be built.
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STORM
Worst Blizzard of Year
Pounds the Atlantic
Seaboard
dozenItates HIT
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 14 — The
worst blizzard of the year pound
ed the Atlantic seaboard all day
and tonight with a blinding mix
ture of snow, rain, sleet, ? wind
and fog.
The storm, screaming up from
the south and funneling as it
spread, reached a 100 mile an
hour crescendo on top of the Em
pire State building and dropped
the burden of deepening snow
and ice over a dozen states.
The freezing gale winds,
strongest since the 1938 hurri
cane, ripped a 500 million dollar
path of destruction across Long
Island and New England, left a
trail of traffic deaths and wreck
ed power lines and harried ship
ping. The storm blocked high
ways with snow drifts up to 20
feet deep, and grounded commer
cial air traffic from Ohio to Bos
ton.
HEADLINES IN TODAY’S
METROPOLITAN PRESS
President Kallio of Finland an
nounced last night that his coun
try would fight on, although out
numbered "fifty to one” as more
men were called to the colors and
the Mannerheim line held against
the greatest assa(ult since the
world war.
The president stated that Fin
land “must have material help
from foreign nations or face ex
tinction.”
Viipuri, Finland’s, Karelian city
was bombed repeatedly yester
day.
Finland conceded the loss of
a few important positions, and. in
Moscow, Russia claimed sub
stantial advances had been made
and additional fortifications ta
ken.
* * *
Tie British Admiralty claimed
two German U boats sunk in the
- The dam will be 90 feet through
at the base and 30 feet in height.
! A driveway will be built across
the top of the dam and the sides
seeded. It will be several hun
dred feet across.
Mr. Herndon stated that two
large steam shovels were at work
on the property and that there
were numerous springs in it
which would furnish an adequate
water supply.
Black bass, both large and
small mouth, and wdiite perch
will be stocked.
A first class sand beach for
swimmers will be one of the prin
ciple objectives of Mr. Chapin,
who has done many fine deeds
for the Sandhills in past years
and now is going to make it pos
sible for the summer colony to
cool off in a pleasant way, for
the spring water lakes of the
Sandhills are always cool—even
in August.
H. Churchill ftragaw
At Forum Tonight
At tonight’s Forum, at which
H. Churchill Braga w will present
in colored pictures the scenes of
Orton Plantation, it is hoped
that the present owners of the
plantation may also be in the
audience. They have been invit- ,
ed by Stanley D. Fobes, through
whose courtesy tonight’s audi
ence will enjoy these films, but as
yet Mr. Fobes has not heard
whether or not they will be able
to attend. \
Anyone interested in a pre
view of what will be shown to
night need only go to Sam Lacks,*
the first man seen on entering
the Carolina, and ask him to
show some of his photographs of
the place. Mr. Lacks is most
obliging in showing brochures of
the plantation, or giving route
directions. Apparently the frig
id weather did not harm this
year’s flowers, for the camellias
are already in bloom.
past 24 hours. British now claim
they have sunk 40 subs since the
war started.
• * #
Germany yesterday informed
the Americas today that the Bri
tish and French viewpoints “must
be revised” before she could con
sider the American safety zone.
/ * * *
Great Britain yesterday gave
her citizens formal permission
to fight for Finland.
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