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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, Worth Cardina Friday, September 13, 1940. THE PILOT Published each Friday by the pilot, Incorporated, Sonthem Pines, N. C. " NEI^SON C, HYDE Editor DAN S. BAY General Manager CH.ARLES MACAULEY Advertising Manager Helen K. Butler, Virginia Creel, KeBsie Cameron Smith, Charles Cullingford, Associates. Subscription Rates: One Year : $2.00 Six Months 5100 Three Months 50 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter. A WELCOME TO THE TOBACCO MAN Another year has rolled around for the tobacco grower in this neck of the woods, and on this coming Tuesday he will start hauling is bright leaf to the warehouse floors in Aberdeen. Our tobacco town is ready for the influx, ready with a long record of fair and courteous treatment for the far mer, ready with two well man aged warehouses, with a full set of buyers from the big manu facturing companies and ready as always with a genuine wel come to its shops and its homes. The Pilot believes it safe to say that over the period of years Aberdeen has conducted its annual auctions, the farmer who brought all his leaf here has fared as Avell — or bet ter—on his financial return as he would have had he shopped around among the numerous markets open to him. Aberdeen has a splendid record for average price p^id. It expects to main tain this record during the 1940 season. We extend, for Aberdeen and the Sandhills section, a cordial welcome to the grower of our biggest money crop. North Carolina will have 15 addi tional State Highway patrolmen af ter September 15th. And the state is also acquiring some machine guns, tear gas guns and gas masks for its force. This because the Highway Pa trol will have to assume some of the responsibility of the National Guard when the boys in khaki are away in training camps. The Sandhills had two qualifiers in the 44th National Amateur Golf chrfmpionship tournament on Mon day, with 'Richard D. Chapman tied for second with 71 and George T. Dunlap Jr. shooting a 73. A local youngster was reading the newspaper and came across this headline: OLD GOLD MINE TO BE REOPENED "Daddy, I din't know cigarettes came from mines,' he said. Mrs. Omer Williams Dies at Home Here Resident of Southern Pines for 15 Years Had Been III Some Time Business must be picking up lo cally. The Pilot sold out its complete issue last week. And speaking of the selling power of Pilot Want ads, an advertiser came in and told us that he had dis posed of $25 worth of goods from one 25-cent want ad. That's one ad we should have taken on a commission trasis. Congratulations to the Albemarle Junior American Legion ball team, new World's Champions. A crowd from the Sandhills saw the game Sat urday when the Tarheel lads took San Diego, Cal., into camp in that thrilling fifth and deciding contest. A WARNING TO SCHOOL CHILDREN The opening of schools throughout the state drew this week from Ronald Hocutt, di rector of the Highway Safety Division a reminder that pedes trian fatalities among school- age children have taken an up ward trend in North Carolina in the past few years. “As a matter of fact,” the safety director stated, “the per centage of pedestrian deaths in the school-age group in this state is more than double the percentage of pedestrian fatal ities in all age groups.” During the 1937-3J5 school year, he pointed out, a total of 91 school-age children w'ere kill ed on North Carolina streets and highways. Of these, 58 were pe- dvtrians, that is, they were walking to and from .school, play ing in the street or roadway, and running into the street. This was approximately 64 per cent of the total fatalities in that age group. During the 1939-40 school year school-age children were killed. This was a 13 per cent reduction from the 91 killed the previous school year. But—67 of the 79 fatalities were pedestrians, this representing 84 per cent of the total number. During the 1939-40 scool year, 56 of the 71 school-age children kijled in traffic accidents were pedestrians, this being 80 per cent of the total. '» “This high ratio of pedestrian fatalities among school-age chil dren is most alarming,” Safety Director Hocutt said, “especially in view of the fact that only about 35 percent of all traffic accident victims in the state and nation are p'^destrians. “These figures speak for themselves.” he pddod. “in cha>- lenging'parents of all school-age children to train their children not to jtlay in the streets and not to .run into the street or road or attempt to cross with out first looking both wavs to be sure the way is clear.” Asurvey just completed by The American Press magazine among ed itors of country newspapers reveals that Wendell Willkie leads Roosevelt 52 percent to 48 percent n the rural .sections of the country. An illustrated booklet entitled “National Forests in the Southern Appalachians” describing the Pisgah and Nanthala National Forests in North Carolina, the Cherokee in Tennesee, the Chattahoochee in Geor gia, and tile Sumter in South Caro lina has just been released by the United States Forest Service and is now available for free distribution These five national forests embrace one of the most scenic regions in A- merica, the favored summer play ground for millons of Southerners and visitors from every state in the Union. Copies of the booklet may be ob- tained'by writing the Regional Fores ter, U. S. Forest Service, Atlanta Ga. • Mrs. Mary Etta Williams, wife of Omer Williams, died in her home on Vermont avenue, Southern Pines, on Monday night following a long ill ness. Mrs. Williams, the daughter of Thomas Welch and Rebecca Dick Welch, was bom at Sherran, Md., Ap ril 8th, 1891, and with her husband had been a resident of Southern Pines for the past 15 years. Requiem high mass conducted by the Rev. Father T. A. Williams was held In St. Anthony’s Church at 10:00 o’clock on Wednesday morning, and also by the Rev. Father Welch at Pylesville, Md., later. The body going north on the night train for Pyles ville for interment. i Mrs. Williams Is survived by her husband and two daughters,, the Misses Mary Ilona and Martha Jean. and the tension somewhat lifted Mr. DuRant had time to look about him. The plight of the forlorn darkies caught his eye. As the sea had claimed many of their huts and their fishing boats, their worldly goods snd zero were about on the same footing. With his observing glance, Mr. DuRant could see that those standing on the arbitrary puint on the scale from which measures are counted, were in an unenviable posi- ^ tion. So the hand that knows the art of helping dropped a few coppers where they would do the most good, and his habit of inquiring into things opened up an interview with a small darkey boy, one of his friends re- [ peats. I The Citizens Bank & Trust Company Of Southern Pines North Carolina Personal Checking Accounts Commercial Accounts Savings Department Safe Deposit and Storage Vaults Not wanting to see anyone hungry, the Boss began: “Have you had any thing to eat today?” "Yassali. We had g^rits fo’ break- fas.” "And how about dinnertime?” "Yassah. We had grits.” ^ “And for supper?” “We had grits.” “Did you have enough to eat?” “Yassah, but we don’t overeat.” When the connoisseur in the deli- : casies of the table looks over his com plicated menu and finds little that appeals to a pampered appetite, he might stop long enough to consider the simplicity of the black boy’s ra- tions. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation The boys at the Boyd Stables think it may be some kind of a record, but in any event, they are boasting of the ar^val there of eight kittens in one litter. The Boyds, nonetheless, plan to continue the use of hounds for fox hunting. OCTOBER CCC QUOTA OF 17 BOYS FROM COUNTY Seventeen boys will be sent from Moore county the first week in Octo ber for CCC service and those de siring to enroll should report at the 'Welfare office during the last week in September, Mrs. Brown announced. A great many weekly and month ly periodicaJs have added interest for Sandhill residents because a num ber of our author-citizens take an active part in producing articles and works of fiction that make up a pro portion of their pages. Today the screen boasts of a local tie-in. Last week Southern Pines looked over the actors of the Sea Hawk for Neville Wilson son of Mrs. Emilie Allen Wil son and sister of Miss Emilie Mae, popular teacher in the primary grades. Neville, former resident, will be remembered by many friends in the town as he grew up in Southern Pines and attended the local school. While his name hasn’t so far blaz ed out in headlines, he has been cast in many prominent parts where his identity is heralded with enthusiasm by his family and friends in Moore county. Along with the Sea Hawk and others, he has appeared in the Fire Fly, Gunga Din, Man From Da- kota, Suez, and Coming Round the Mountain. The Wilsons modestly maintain that their movie r.<jtor ’s only an extra, but as he was closely as,sociated with Alan Hale and Earl Flynn throughout the long galley scenes in the Sea Hawk. It seems to Sandhill fans that he is well along the cellulose trail. ■R. S. DuRant is a kindly soul who gets a whale of a lot of satisfaction in lightening the burdens of the un fortunate. When the hurricane struck at Beaufort, S. C and all but swept the telephone company’s business away, the men from the local office put in several days of strenuous la bor in restoration of the South Car olina branch and its connections. When lines were tied in once more Pilot Want Ads Pay- Have you seen this Chart at Gulf Stations? IT SHOWS THE TREMENDOUS IMPROVEMENT IN GULF GASOLINES! CHART, we hope, will X e ve you a Letter picture than ccul J a thousani words of the re- C'.nt amazing improvement in Gulf gasclines. It is based on a scien tific test of gasoline quality tioday —a test that is used by many of oiir competitors, as v/eli by our selves. The chart shows the fair comparative mc„-jare of step up ir l>oth GOOD GULF and GULF NC NOX ... a step up which is no intangible “engineering tri umph” but one which may be en joyed by you ... in your car! . Good Gulf is now boosted to its all-time high...will make your motor perform better than ever before. 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