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VOL. 21, NO. 51.
Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, November 21, 1941.
FIVE CENTS
CIVIC CLUB WILL
MEET TO SETTLE
ANNUAL ELECTION
Mrs. Alice Burt Hunt Sole Nom
inee for President at Last *
Friday’s Session
REPORTS ARE CONFLICTIN»G
A called meeting of the Southern
Pines Civic Club will be held Friday,
November 21, at 3 o’clock to settle
the matter of election of officers for
the coming year, despite the fact
that many members were under the
impression that the whole matter
was settled at regular annual meet
ing last Friday.
When the floor was thrown open
for nominations, Mias Florence Camp
bell, president for the past four and
a half years, declared she would de
cline re-nomjnatioii. Mrs. George
Moore thereupon nominated Mrs.
Alice Burt Hunt for president, and
this was seconded by Mrs. N. L.
Hodgkins. Nomit ated for vice-presi
dents were Mrs. Tod Baxter, Mrs.
Harry Gage and Mrs. George Moore;
for secretary, Miss Norma Shiring
and for treasurer, Mrs. Williem E.
Cox.
Still Unsettlt^d
Apparently, however, these nomi
nations did not settle the election for
everybody; for an announcement was
made this week that "election o? of
ficers will be held at a called meeting,
Friday afternoon, November 21 at 3
o’clock.” The announcement also said
this;
"There being no nominating com
mittee report, nominations were call
ed for from the floor. Miss Campbell
thanked the members but definitely
refused re-nominatlon . . . Miss Elin
or Valentine, first vice-president, re
fused noi^nination for any office and
Mrs. Henry Dom resig^ned as treas
urer. Miss Louise Haynes asked not
to be put on the directors’ board
again." No mention of other nomina
tions was made in this report.
Conflicting Impressions
However, various club members
who attended the meeting stated they
were under the impression that the
rames submitted from the floor were
elected to office for the coming year.
Others said that they understood
these were only nominations and that
the formal election of the nominees
would take place at this Friday’s
meeting. Still others were not quite
sure just what the meeting this Fri
day was for.
Reports were heard at last Friday’s
meeting from the President, who out-
lired the entertainments given each
Friday of last season; from the treas
urer, who said all bills were paid. In
cluding $78 interest for six months
in advance on a mortgage of -^2,600,
and from a board member, Miss
Louise Haynes, who said a new bulle
tin board was being erected in front
of the Library for announcements
of the Club,
Resorts Plan For Horse Events
I
MILITARY BAND
TO GIVE BENEFIT
CONCERT TUESDAY
New England Outfit to Play in
Pinehursf Tuesday for Ma
ternal Welfare Committee
VARIED PROGRAM IS PLAN
(Photo by Kinder)
This isn’t a new picture, but it’s the first time it’s been pubiihsed,
and it’s a good denwnstration of the type of horsemanship that goes on at
Sandhills horse events. Mrs. W. O. Moss followed a winner over a jump
during the annual Southern Pines horse show last spring. Note the appar
ent nonchalance with which Mrs. Moss and the jumper take the hurdle.
Dinner On Air
Thank^igivinK Dinner at Du-
Rant Home to Be Broadcast
Thursday Over Columbia
A nation-wide broadcast of a
Southern Thanksgiving dinner,
with four soldiers from all parts
of the country as guests, will ema
nate from the home of Mr. and
Mrs. R. S. DuRant Thursday after
noon, November 20, over the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System from
3:30 to 3:45 o’clock, it wa.s learned
Wednesday.
Brewster Morgan and Guy Della-
Ciot>pa will produce the program
for Columbia through their studio
at the Country Club. The broad
cast will be of the informal dining
room table conversation of the Du-
r.ants and their guests as the
Thanlwgiving turkey is being carv>
ed.
Annual Stunt Night
Draws Good Audience
Gymkhanas and Horse Shows to
Be Featured at Southern
Pines and Pinehurst
j Horsemen of the Sandhills met last
week to make plans for a series of
I horse events during the 1941-42 sea
son.
i L. M. Tate and "Junebug” Tate of
Pinehurst, Mrs. Almet Jenks, Will
Stratton, Louis Scheipers, W. O. Moss
; and Howard Burns of Soutlu rn Pines
: met in the town clerk’s office to set
j dates for a series of gymkhanas and
: horse shows for the season.
I First gymkhana of the season is
being held in Pinehurst Thanksgiving
Day, November 20, and the second
(one will be in Southern Pines on Sat
urday, November 29. It was planned
' to have at least two gymkhanas a
! month, and to alternate them be-
' tween Southern Pines and Pinehurst
j During the month of December,
I however, it was tentatively agreed
' that besides the regularly scheduled
j I events on December 13 and 27, there
would be special horse events for the
Christmas holidays.
Christmas to Manage
New Texaco Station
Local Airport Reported
“Bombed” Twice in Day;
All Else Seems Quiet
The band of the 180th Field Artil
lery, famous in New England, home
of its Yankee Divi.sions and rapidly
becoming equally famous in its tem
porary Carolina home, will present
a full evening's concert at the Car
olina Theatre in Pinehurst, Tuesday,
November 25, at 8:30 p. m., for ben
efit of the Moore County Maternal
Welfare Committee.
The band will pre.sent Tues
day a program of varied selections,
including both classical and popu
lar. There will also be solo instru
mental and voice ni^TV^ers by its
many talented members.
Formed in 1920, the band has long
been recognized as one of the out
standing musical organizations in the
Boston area, and is composed of
many “well-known concert and ra
dio artists. It has played in Boston
at celebrations for Presidents Hard
ing and Coolidge and on other fa
mous occasions.
Its leader, Warrant Officer Chester
E. Whiting, has nine large bands un
der his command, but this one is
credited with being the pick of them
all. Since coming to the Carolinas,
the band of the 180th has played In
Charlotte, Salisbury and other towns
of the Carolinas.
Proceeds from the Pinehurst con
cert will go to the Maternal Wel
fare Committee, an organization
which reaches Into every section of
the County. Tickets for admission
may be obtained from Mrs. Fred
Page at Madame et la Jeune Fille in
Pinehurst or Mrs. James Boyd m
Southern Pines.
Beating Quotas
London Calls Upon All Citi
zens to Join Red Cross
Roll Call This Week
Branch of Red Cross
to Meet December 4th
Annual Meeting of Southern
Pines Group to Elect Offi
cers fpr New Year
The annual Stunt Night was given
by the Southern Pines schools in the. George Christmas of Southern
High School Auditorium Tuesday ^ pi^es has been selected as manager
night. The entertainment, in which I the new Texaco Service Station,
about 250 students participated, was \^-hich is observing its formal open-
Cooper and Capello
Beat Smith-Dunlap
A couple of pros beat a pro and
an amateur at the Pine N'eedles golf
course Sunday, playing best ball of
the pair.
Horton Smith, professional at Pine
hurst Country Club, and George T.
Dunlap, Jr., former National Amateur
Champion took on Johnny Capello,
F*ine Needles pro, and Harry Cooper,
Golden Valley MinneapoKs, Minn.,
professional, in a best ball exhibi
tion match. The 100 per cent pro
fessional pair scored 67 with their
best ball to 69 for Smith and Dun
lap.
Cooper’s individual score was 69 to
Smith’s par 70, Cooper scoring a
birdie two on the 195-yard 14th, and
both he and Smith getting eagle
threes on the new 454-yard 15th. A
good-sized gallery followed the play.
A Thanksgiving tournament of the
best selected 12 holes, six in each
nine, will be held at the Pine Needles
this week.
attended by more than 400 specta
tors. The proceeds will go to the
Athletic Association. Each grade pre
sented a stunt.
The program presented was as fol
lows:
“You’re Welcome If You’ll Keep
Right Still," Fourth Grade; The Ad
ventures of Goldilocks, Primary
Grades; The Doctor’s BusyJ Uay,
Fourth Grade;; A Ballad, Third
Grade; Our Gang Show, Sixth Grade;
Before and After Taking, Eighth
Grade; A Stephen Foster Minstrel
Show, Fifth Grade; Beau of Bath,
Ninth Grade; The Old Man of the
Mountain, Seventh Grade; Bargain
Day at the Gallery, Tenth Grade;
Victory, Eleventh and Twelfth
Grades.
Zephyr and Chewy
Involved in Wreck
ing Friday, November 21, it was an
nounced by Banks Wilkins of San
ford, Texaco distributor. Robert Blue
is assistant.
The new station, located at the
comer of Broad street and Connec
ticut avenue, will offer all of the
most modem methods and equipment
for service to automobiles, the new
manager said.
The annual meeting of the South
ern Pines branch of the American
Red Cross will be conducted in the
reception room of the Southern Pines
High School, Thursday, December 4,
at 4 o’clock, with Philip Weaver pre
siding, it was announced this week
All chairmen will be asked to re
port at this time and Roll Call re
turns will be announced. Election of
officers for the coming year will fol
low reports and everyone who became
a memloer during the roll call is
urged to attend. Miss Florence K
Campbell is present chairman.
ABERDEEN P. T. A. BENEFIT
’The Parent-Teachers Association
of the Aberdeen schools will sponsor
a benefit bridge party Thuradiiy, No
vember 27, at the High School Audi
torium at 8:00 p. m. The proceeds
will be used to pay for equipment In
the grammar school. Those interest
ed in playing may contact Mrs. Rob
ert Farrell in Aberdeen, N. C.
NV>ne Seriously Injured in Acci
dent at Highway and Mas
sachusetts Corner
A Lincoln Zephyr did a complete
flip and tum-around at the intersec
tion of May street and Massachusetts
avenue Saturday afternoon about 5
o’clock when It was struck by a
Chevrolet sedan, being driven north
on May street by C. Council of route
1 Cameron.
RoRbert Glassford of New York
City, staying at the Highland Pines
Inn, was driver of the Zephyr and
received serious cuts and bruises. He
was treaten at Moore County Hospl
tal. His daughter, Margaret, who was
with him, and Council were not in
jured.
Police said the Lincoln was travel
ing east on Massachusetts avenue
and apparently failed to stop at the
intersection, coming out on U. S.
No. 1 in front of Council’s car, which
crashed into the Lincoln, turning it
over and into a telephone post, which
“Sea Otters”, New Type of Ship,
Got Name From Boyd’s Suggestion
The country is beginning to hear i length has now been built and is run
about the government’s new "Sea-Ot-lning her trials at Orange, Texas. She
ter" cargo boats and will hear more j Is to be the first of a large number
in the future. Of interest locally isiof such boats which are wanted In
the fact that these ships of a radi-'quantity, both by the American gov-
cally new design were named by
James Boyd, D'he Pilot’s publisher.
He was hav ’.g dinner in New York
last winter with Roland Redmond, a
New York lawyer who was backing
experiments with the new type of
freighter and with Lieutenant Com
mander Hamilton Bryan, U. S. N.,
one of the designers. A three-foot
model of the ship was being inspect
ed and discussed, and the question of
a name for the type arose. Boyd sug-
gest&d that on account of the hull
form and the smoothness with which
it would slip through the water, the
ships should be called "sea-otters.”
The name was Adopted and the mod
el was sent to the White House to
gether with a note from Mrs. Red
mond who is a cousin of the Pres
ident.
Subsequently, in association with
C. Starling Burgess, the naval archi
tect who built, among other outstand
ing jobs, the last of the cup defend
ers, Vanderbilt’s "Endeavor,” the two
original backers constructed a sbc-foot
model which was tested in the ex
perimental tank of the Stevens Insti
tute of Technology. Results were so
promising that an eighty-foot experi
mental ship was built and tested off
Great gains over last year are
indicated in early reports of the
annual Red Cross Roll Call,
George London, county chairman,
said Wednesday.
Vass, with 11 members last year,
went over its 45 quota with 67
members, and Manly, with five
members last year, has reported
22 this year, London said, praising
the efforts of Mrs. S. R. Smith of
Vass and Mrs. L. L. Woolley of
Manly and their committees.
In Southern Pines, Carl G.
Thompson, local chairman, re
ported about 750 members, with
not all returns ir\. This exceeds
last year's membership of 435 but
does not reach the quota of 870.
Thompson and London were plan
ning a ‘‘clean-up’’ over the com
ing week-end to go over the top.
London asked that any citizens
who have not been contacted
send or bring their contributions
to members of the Roll Call com
mittee. The Pilot agreed to accept
contributions to the Red Cross at
its office on West Pennsylvania
avenue.
15 MEN CALLED
FOR NOVEMBER
Ground Fiffhtinp Hasn’t Reached
Here—Yet: Broadcasts
Continue
PLAN GALA WEEK END
Moore County to Send New
Group of Selectees to Fort
Bragg for Training
broke.
No charges were preferred against | the Long Island shores all last sum'
f lther driver, and Insurance is said mer.
ernment and the British.
The Sea-Otter is a flat-bottomed
steel ship, all welded out of 40-foot
plates. She draws only 10 feet. This
means that she CR.n hardly be hit by
the ordinary torpedo which must be
set to run at a greater depth. It also
means that she can be built any place
where there is over 10 feet of water
or on the Great Lakes, coming out
through either the Chicago or Cana
diun canal systems. It also means
that she can use any small harbor in
Great Britain instead of the con
gested big ports. She has a 10-foot
freeboard, only, and is almost invis
ible from the deck of a battleship at
10 miles. In rough water, she la
nearly submerged. For deep sea
work, her ha^oh covers are welded
for the trip, and she becomes a sort
of surface submarine.
Sixteen EngtneH
In the experimental ship, the pow
er plant consisted in sixteen Chrys
ler engines in batteries of four. EJach
battery drives a vertical shaft which
goes down through her bottom. The
four shafts drive four propellors in
line across the bottom of the ship and
about amidships. Shafts and propellors
are turned out by the Evinrude <*om-
pany, makers of outboard motors and
The Moore County Draft Board this
week called upon 15 Moore County
men to report at the County Court
House Friday, November 28, for in-
tiuction into the United States Army.
The men will report at 8:15 a. m.
and be sent to an induction station at
Fort Bragg. Following are those se
lected:
Leonard Edward Maness, route 1
Hemp; William Brady Brewer, route
1 Eagle Springs; Alton Dowd Rich
ardson, Hemp; Ralph Harrison Sim
mons, route 2 Carthage; Carl James
Luther, Southern Pines; Lester Cool
idge Holyfield, route 2 Vass; Theo
dore William Klingenschmidt, Vass;
Emery L. Burns, Hemp;
Also, Ellis Edward Ritter, route 2
Hemp; Edward Monroe Seward, route
3 Carthage; Robert Richard Bowles,
Carthage; Reginald Lee Mabe, route
3 Carthage; Robert Harris Freeman,
loute 1 Aberdeen; William Bratcher
Clayton, Jackson Springs; and Wil
liam Fleming Bowman, Aberdeen.
Methodists Assign
County Ministers
Maxwell and Farrar Returned to
Posts in Aberdeen and
Pinebluff
The Army sub-air base at Knoll-
wood was subjected to two bombings
early Wednesday morning, as the
great battle between the Reds and
the Blues, of the United States
army reached into Southern Pines
area.
Although this section has seen lit
tle of the close fighting in this last
phase of the maneuver, the strategic
air base has been the scene of con
siderable air activity. Earlier this
week, four Blue planes brought into
the port for capture a coupie of the
Red planes, and Wednesday’s bomb
ings were probably in reprisal.
Several civilians from Southern
Pines were at the airport when the
bombers flew over, dropping their
sacks of flour which count in this
war as bombs and put the airport out
of commission tor a period of two
hours.
Meanwhile, Southern Pines has been
the source of nation-wide broadcasts
about the progress of the maneuvers,
from the temporary radio studios of
both National Broadcasting Company
chains and the Columbia Broadcasting
systems, as well as local stations, in
cluding WPTF in Raleigh and WBT
in Charlotte. Near Southern Pines
also is a press section of the Army
public relations division, handling
newspaper releases about the war.
The airplane spotters at the fire
tower have been abnormally busy this
week, with flights of bombers, fight
ers and other planes constantly going
over head to be reported to strategic
army bases.
Final Entertainment PlannfHl
As maneuvers draw to a close,
citizens of Southern Pines are plan
ning a free coffee and doughnut
week-end for soldiers, to be given the
last week-end in November. Present
plans are that the American Legion
Auxiliary will assist in serving the
free “eats" at the Masonic Temple
Building, with contributions for tlie
food coming from all sources. Mrs.
Almet Jenks and tne frtformation
Booth committee are assisting as well
as P. Frank Buchan, Lloyd Woolley,
Frank Wilson and Louis Scheipers.
As it is anticipated that about 3,000
soldiers will be fed, contributions are
being asked for to finance these
'•eats,” and may be made to Mr.
Schiepers.
“The more money we get, the more
eats we will be able to serve the sol
diers,” committee members said.
Assignment of ministers for Me
thodist churches in Moore County
were made at the concluding session
last Friday of the North Carolina
Methojist Conference meeting in Dur
ham.
Most of the present ministers were
returned to their posts hero.
The Rev. S. A. Maxwell will con
tinue at the Aberdeen and Vass
churches and the Rev. \y. G. Failar
was returned to the Carthage Metho
dist Church.
Other assignments for the county
and vicinity were as follows;
The Rev. J. D. Robinson, Hemp;
Hemp circuit, to be supplied; Pine-
bluff, the Rev. W. A. Parsons; West
End,’ the Rev. M. F. Hodges; Bis-
coe, the Rev. J. W. Page; and Eller-
be, the Rev. E. D, Dodds.
Smouldering Chimney
Brings Fire Fighters
The Southern Pines Fire Depart
ment answered a call last Friday
morning at 10 o’clock to the home of
Mrs. Ruth Barkmer at May street
and Pennsylvania avenue, where
to have covered the damage.
A full sized ship, over 200 feet in (Please turn to page four)
smouldering fire around the chim
the shafts enter the water through a Ley casing on the lower floor was
extinguished with slight damage.
Kiwanis Has Dinner
To Assist Orphanage
Members of the Kiwanis Club and
7 4 guests enjoyed a Thanksgiving
dinner at the home of Mrs. J. R.
Page in Aberdeen Wednesday and,
through the Woman’s Auxiliary of
the Bechesda Presbyterian Chuith,
who served the dinner, contributed
the proceeds to the support of Bar
ium Springs Orphanage.
Comn^ending the spirit of giving to
the cause. Dr. H. G. Bedinger, presi
dent of Flora Macdonald College In
Red Springs, addressed the Club and
described the institution to which they
were contributing.
Dr. Bedinger told of the growth
of the orphanage at Barium Springs
over the past 50 years from a one-
building institution caring for 12
children to its present size of about
50 buildings in which are housed and
educated about 350 children of all
denominations. Besides receiving ele
mentary school education, the child
ren are given practical education in
farming and home economics, and
take an active part in the running of
the institution. Dr. Bedinger said.
John F. Taylor of Pinehurst, report
ing for the Kiwanis underprivileged
children commitee, said that a total
of $230 had been collected for the
Baby Page, which appears in this is
sue of The Pilot. This money will go
to support of a child’s bed at Moore
County Hospital.
Guests of the club included Max H.
FoUey, Dr. William Bowman, Obie
Seymour, H. Clifton Blue, the Rev.
E. M. Harris of Aberdeen; F. L. Eu
banks of Sanatorium, N. L. Hodgkins,
Hugh Betterley, James Schwartz,
John H. Howarth, M. L. Crotts,
George McElderry of Southern Pines;
and James McNab of Pinehurst
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