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Pace Four THE PILOT, Soathern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, October 18, IMO. Sinclair President of Moore County Teachers Unit of State Associaton Elects Officers. Hears Anson County Superintendent J. F. Sinclair of West End was elected president of the Moore County Unit, North Carolina Educa. tlonal Association, at th° first meet. Inp of the school year held In the auditorium of the Carthage Elemen tary School last Thursday evening. At this meeting. J. O. Bowman, sup. erintendent of schools in Anson county, spoke on "The Development of Spiritual Life,’ preceded by a mdsical program and prayer. Other officers elected for 1940.41 were: Vice-Pre.sident, L. J. Dawkins of Aberdeen: Secretary, Miss Mary L. Currie of Carthage: fligh School Group. E. A. West, Hemp, president; J. Clyde Kelly. Carthage, vice.presi. d''nt; Miss Alberta Monroe, West End, secretary; Grammar Grades Group, Mrs. L. P. Tyson.*Carthage, president; D. Carl Brady, High Falls, vice-president; Mrs. John Hunter, secretary: Primary Group. Miss El. len Royal, president; Miss Mary J. Prillam.Tn, vice.presidont. and Mrs. Taft Williams, secret,iry. R. F. Lowry was endorsed by the unit as a candidate for president of the North Central District of the North Carolina Eklucational Associa tion. Broken Bones The Smith Children of Aber deen Have a Bad Week, with Arms and Leffs 369 Enroll Here in First Peace- Time Draft in History of Country Last week was an unfortunate one for Aberdeen children by the name of Smith. Little Barbara Jean Smith, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Smith, fell and broke her arm. It was not a new experience for Barbara. She had done the same thing before. Young Joe Smith, son of Mr, and Mrs. Jack Smith, fell and broke his leg. He was carried to the Moore County Hospital '.vhere he is recovering rapidly. Dlt. ,\NIT.\ MclJKK DIKS. LONG .\ KF.SIUKXT IIK.UE GENERAL MOTOK.S PROTECTS nUAFTEE CAK 1‘I UCHASER.S In an advertisement in this issue of The Pilot, o%’er the name of the Pinihurst Garage Co., Ire., General Motors Corporation announces that any young man registered for the draft who is called to the colors need have nothing to worry about with re. g.ird to continuing installment pay. ’.nents on a newly purch.ascd General .Motors car. “If anyone who is subject to regis. tration on October 16. 1940, purcliases any car from us on the General Mo. tors Installment Flan, and is called ..... General Motors Acceptance Corporation will repurchase his en. tire investment in the car, less a charge for u.sage at the rate of three percent per month on th> original delivered price. “This repurchase will be in the form of a credit certificate issued by the G*;neral Motors Acceptance Corporation and applicable upon the purchase of another car from us at a later convenient time," the adver. tisement says. The protective features of the plan are applicable to all such purchases made on and after O<?tpbor 1st, this year. The Pinehurst Garage is an agent for Chevrolet cars of the General Motors line. 1941 Models in RCA Victor Radios at Hayes.’ Jo Relieve gpf Misery c5^66 ^i^^UQUlD,lABlfcl6,SAlVE.N0StDR0P3 f('nntinind frnm mtffe nnr) Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. McGee practiced in Washington ^!om 1S92 to 1S96. In 1898 as a fore. 1’inner to he: appointment as head nf the newly formed Army Nurse Crrps =he dircctccl the Daughters of the American Revolution Hospital Corps, which selected trained nurses for the Ainiy and Navy service. .She heM her post as assistnnt Army purgoon in charsre of the nurse corps ':ntil 1900. when .she leaigned. By that time Congress had made the ’-.urse coi'ps a permanent part of the \iniy. In 1904 as President of the Society cf Spanih War Nurses and as repre- upntative of the Philadelphia Red Ctoss Socie:y she took a group of trained nurses formerly serving under her to Japan. The nui.ses gave tree .service during the Russn.Japanese War for six months. Dr. McGee was (V'corated b.v both the United States nnii Japanese governments. ?he became a lecturer for the Un. iversity of California in 1911 and la. ter lectured throughout the United State.<< and wrote for various maga zines. She was a department surgeon and past commander if the United Span, ish War Nurses and had been at va. rious times national surgeon general, national historian general and na tional vice-president general of the D. A. R. Dr. McGee was active in 'he i^panish War Veterans organiza. tion in Southern Pines when residing here. Her husband. W, J. McGee, r. geol. ogist and anthropologist associated with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, died in 1912. Her two son?. Eric Newcomb McGee and Don. aid McGee, ar? both dead. She is ptu'vived by a daughter, Mrs. Klothe McGee Willis, and two sisters, Mrs. To.sepha Whitnew and Mrs. Emily yewcomb Wilson, of New York City. Dr. McGee's father. Simon New. comb, was posthumously honored a few years ago by election to the Hall of Fame in New York Unii’ersitj’ for his work as an astrologist. Martyr for Willkie Hobby Cornwall, 9, Puts Up a Good Fight Against Odds, But Breaks Arm Boys, don't take this coming election too seriously. It’s impor. tant enough, but It i.sn't worth breaking bones over. Not when vou're not ever old enough to vote. Bobby Cornwall, nine.year old son of Mrs. Beverly Walter of Southern Pines, is for Willkie. Most of the boys in his class at Southern Pines School are for Roosevelt. Bobby did his best ngainst heavy odds in defending the Republican candidate in a fight at recess the other day, but finally fell during his last brave stand--and broke his arm. He's still for W’illkie. EV ELYN p]DSON Notary Public rdi'ph.ne Ol'fice N. H. Ave B;a>rg’s Bijj Cannon Boom As' Young Men Register For l\>ssible Military Service (Continued from page one) all, the toughest professional athlete,; the blind man, those obviously too poor in health to be admitted to the aimy, and the man who will be ex. cuaed from services because lie has dependents. As each registered, he answered 11 ouestlons, giving his name, address, telephone number, the name and ad. dress of one who would always know where to reach him, his place of em. ployment. and other information. Then he signed an index card on which the information had been jot. ted down by the registrar. The card will be given a number. In a week or ten days, the numbers will be piled in a gold fish bowl in Washington, and drawn one at a time. That will de. termine the order in which the men rre liable for service. After that, the proces of weeding ' ~ out the phyically unfit, the married men whose families depend upon their The RAF Conies to Town earnings for support, the worker es. Next FridaV & Saturduv ' sential to defense industries, will be. "■ gin with local draft boards, familiar . , ,, , 1 1*1 1 .u J March of TinipTo Present Film with local situations, making the de. r a t • • • • , ... . s e \ena ^^arfare termination. i j A few of the colored brethern ap. ■ >cr .,n^ an peared to be of the opinion that they ^he most thrilling example of in ' would try to win their exemption domitable courage displaved in the fiom service right then and there on «-ar has been that of the R Wednesday, and the regi.strars listen. F., Great Britain's Rovnl Air ed to several pleas: said they had Po^ce. Agnin.st tremendous odds the ailments: they had dependents; they British flin-s have fought of the had this and they had that. Many to the point that Hitler's pre -lid not know their ag«, many could conceivod plan for the invasion of i.ot write. A Bulletin of Tnformat'ion England h.-,s gone astray permanent was available for those desiring them. demorratlc The only colored man who asked for oountries i one was a fe.low who couldn't read Friday and Saturday at tne Carolina Theatie in Southern Pinos One colored man came in and sat the M,,-h r,f Time i.« showing the down before a registrar. He gave his thrillinp sto;y of the R. A F with name, address, etc. He was asked his actual battle' scene.s in the cl '.Ms— an exclusive film just arrived ir. ihe United States from Mr.rch of Time's canieramcn in Engl'jnd. Plav Film To presented to their cus- rassion nay rum lU Itomers which, with ten cents in cash Be Shown in Aberdeen Methodist Sunday School To Sponsor Showings Sunday of “Golgotha” at the door, will be accepted for ad mission. The only all.talking motion picture ever made of the Passion Play, "Gul. trctha," is to be presented in the .luditorium of the Page Memorial Methodist Church in Aberdeen this Sunday, October 20th, at 2:00 p. ni., 7:00 p. m. and 9:00 p, m. The picture starts with the Christ child's entry into Juru.salem and comes down to the betrayal of Ju. idas, the Last Supper, the trial before ' Pilate and Herod, the Crucifixion and I the Resurrection, and Christ s Last I Words to His Di.sciplea. There are hun. jdreds of unforgetnble Bible scenes. 1 The Sunday School of the church i is sponsoring the shmv.n^r of this film in the Sandhills, and is charging j 35 cents for admission. However, i merchants of Aberdeen and South. I ern Pines have been supplied with 100 FINEHl'K-ST SCHOOL I'l'PILS AT STATE FAIB On Friday, October 11th, approxi. mately 100 Pinehurst School students attended the State Fair in Raleigh. A half holiday was given to those who remained in Pinehurst Remington, and Underwood Port able Typewriters at Hayes.' Pi/of JVant Ads Pay- DeLuxe’s Superior Cleaning Cali ‘'.-VI,'' Aberdeen 9281 for prompt sei-vice. Our prices are lower. Free Pick. Up and Delivery. One Day.Sei-vice. We guarantee that every garment sent u.s will receive our careful attention. age. It was well over .36. He was informed he couldn't regi.ctor. “But I want to go. Can’t I enlist?” He was informed that he'd have •o ,«ee a recruiting officer in Raleig'n .ibout that, and left dejected. Regarding cla.ssification and selec tion the laws and rules of the se lective service system provide for de- KII.I.El). 3 INJT'UEI) IV N KKiHT OVER TOBACCO fCnnfiviird from nnof’ ortr) - , e • * ^ Minton ran over toward a waefon ferment of a registrant s traming and u ^ , where Upchurch had been packing down tobacco and fired at him. The first shooting was followed by ^ “ succession of shots from sources .""pace for the information needed by ^ . ... ^ ^ not .yet determine,] by the officers service so long as this deferment <;er'.es the nation's best interest. The fjuestionnaire had questions and the county board. Answer.s as to dc. pendents, income and physical condi. tion are strictly confidential. The board, after securing all information, Minton will place a registrant in one of four classes: Class I—Those persom availabi*- for training and service in the land or naval forces. Class II—Those persons deferred V-ocause the public interest is best and it is said that after Upchurch .Tnd his injured son had left for the hospital, three shots were fired at car as it drove awa.y. the car indicate that it was stnick by a pistol ba'l and by shots from p. gun. Guy Minton of Coalwnod, \V. Va.. and Arthur Minton, .sons of Nathan, served by their staying at their us. ual work. jail while the case is being investi gated. Arthur gave blood for the ■■ ■ , i J transfusion for his father Tuesdav Class III—Those persons deferred . , ^ , , . ana was returned to lail. 'oecause others are dependent upon them for support. Class IV—Thc-se fiom service either by the law it ^elf or for physical disability or oth. r reasons. The Minton family, which came persons deferred from Virginia, to re. **Milestone Car^* Presented to Contest Winners side consists of 12 members, the fa. ther and eight of his children by a former marriage: his second wife and their two children. There are one or more married children living el.se- where. Mr. Upchurch was a native of Wake county and formerly lived in Lee county. Funeral services were conducted in the Vass Methodist Church Wednes. day afternoon by the Rev. Ronald E. Wall, Baptist minister of Sanford, in the presence of a large number, and burial was in Jonesboro, Survivors are his wife, the former Miss Catharine Thomas; four chil dren, Auda Catherine Upchurch of New York, who came to Greensboro by plane to attend the funeral, Carl Norris Upchurch. Mrs. J. W. Holt and Tafker M. Upchurch, all of Vaas; and four brothers, K. U., W'. A., R. C., and R. D. Upchurch, all of Lee county. BOY SCOUTS SEE FAIR AND FOOTBALL GAME Presentation of Chevrolet’s “Milestone Car"—the 1,000,000th 1940 model produced by the industry’s leader — was made at the New York World’s Fair last week to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Weinert (shown here), of Iron Mountain, Mich., owners of the Biillionth Chevrolet slx- rylinder model, built in 1929. The Welnerts were winners of a nation-wide contest conducted by Chevrolet to locate No. 1,000,000. As fuests of C'hevroiet, the Michigan couple drove to New York, arriving at the Fair with more than 110,000 miles on their ’29 car, which Weinert had purchased as a used car, at a price of $25. M. E. Coyle (left), general manager of Chevrolet, presented the new 1940 Special De Luxe model to the Weinerts. Chevrolet’s production of a million units this year maintains a seven- year record of a million a year average, with the 1,000,000th 1940 car following No. 900,000 by exactly one month. The well-traveled 1929 model has b^n returned to Detroit, where it will be placed on display j Bov Scouts made a real excursion of their trip to the State Fair at . Ualeigii. They “shot the works,' as tlie saying goes. j Eleven Scouts of Troop 73 and twelve of Troop 6.3 made the trip to ■Raleigh Friday and “did” the Fair. I Then they journeyed over to Chapel Hill and camped out for the night. On Saturday they were presented with complimentary tickets to the football game in Kenan Stadium that afternoon, ivid took that in. T. L. Campbell anc. Frither Elon chaperoned the group. Adveriite i\ The Pilot for RetulU. Double Fresh Golden Blend Coffee, 2 lbs 25c Triple Fresh Colimial Bread 8c 1 <)-OZ. loaves New Stock—Dried Navy Beans 3 !bs 13c Whole Grain Kice, 2 lbs. Fresh, Pack Green Feas 2»15c CdUuiial Tomato 4 15c Catsup 2 '.i-17c ii Vim I’ep I Dog Food ('olonial I Tomato Juice ii I’illsbury’s Best Flour PPtnder Select Sliced Bacon ■i t oz. Cans 20c 12.1h. Bag 41c 1-2 lb. I’kK. 10c 5c 19c 9c 25c 5c 15c 5c 3c 15c 5c ..20c 9c 1 Ivory Toilet Soap, medium cake Larjre Size Oxydol, packag-e Oysterettes, N. B. C., 2 pkff Libby's Vienna Sausagre, 3 cans ?»RODUCE DEPT. Grapes, lb. • Large Heads Cauliflower, each Nice Grapefruit, each Pumpkins, lb. Hubbard Squash, lb. .. 5c I Celery, 2 stalks Golden Ripe Bananas, lb. Calif. Re<f Ball Oranges, doz. MEAT DEPT. Turkeys, young. Hens, lb. 29c Swift Premium Leg-O-Lamb, lb. 29c ‘ Pure Pork Sausage, lb. 19c Spare Ribs, lb. 15c Roast, Prime Rib, lb 29c Va. Medium Oysters, qt. 49c Tender and Lean Picnic Hams, lb I8c „ .miiiiiiiiiintinniimiiTtrrTtmnnnnirnTTmniiiiiiiMittmmniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin
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