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VOL. 22, NO. 12.
GOVERNOR TEI.LS
TEACHERS CLUB
OF WAR DUTIES
Educo Club iMembers from Cen
tral District Meet at Local
Country Club
SAYS TEACHING IS HRST
Battle of Publicity Agents
Jolts Serenity of Sandhills
Acquisition of Dateline for Knoli-
wood Held as Chief Prize in
liocal Dispute
War and civilian defense places
r.ew and Important responaibiliUea
upon the schools, declared Governor
,T. Melville Broughton in addressing
about 165 members of the district
Educo club, meeting in Southern
Pines Country Club Wednesday even,
ing.
The governor told the men teachers
that the schools had a job to do in
teaching proper understanding of
American ideals, in preparing techni.
cians for war and civilian defense,
in assisting in maintaining morale in
communities and in helping in ration-
!g and other similar programs.
“But above all,' 'he concluded, “let
us not forget that our job is to
teach. Continued improvement of our
♦'ducational efforts is our primary
job.”
Governor Broughton wa.s introduc.
ed by State Superintendent of Public
Instruction Clyde A. Knvin. Other
quests of the Club were Nathan Yel-
ton, executive secretary. State School
Conimissinn; Fred Green, secretary,
N. C. Kthication Association; and Jiile
Vv’arren, editor of the N. C. R. A.
r.uigazine. Joseph Bowman of An.
son county, retiring president of the
disti’ict chib.s, was in charge of the
meeting.
Incluiled in the entertainment were
rejiditions by the Southern Pines High
fchool glee club and mu.sical num
bers by the Hoke County High School
band. Lloyd Woolley of Manly enter
tained with accordion solos. Among
Itcal guest.s were Dr. (5. G. Herr,
John Howarth, and N. L. Hodgkins
of Southern Pines School Board;
John W. Graham of Aberdeen, chair
man, county board of education, and
about 40 other teachers and board
members from ifoore County.
New officers of thp club were elect,
ed and are Harold Kraus of Cumber,
land county, president: G. W. Wheel-
ei of Sanford, vice-president; and K.
A. McDonald, of Hoke County, re.
elected secretary, treasurer.
The Mid.South serenity of the
Sandhills was jolted this week when
a Battle of Three Publicity Agents
was thrown open to the public.
The lid of the cauldron which had
been boiling for some little while, af.
ter having cooled for about a de-j
cade, was knocked off by Pinehurst, ‘
Inc., Publicity Director Robert E.
Harlow in his column, "Pinehurst
Scoreboard,” which appears in "The
Pinehurst Outlook
Holiday Closings
IVaHhington'H Birthday falling
on Sunday this year meann that
Monday b<y«nieN tdie cItU'lal Fed.
eral holiday, to be obs<rr\’ed chief,
ly by hankH and the post office,
llie local banks will be closed all
<?ay Monday: but frhe Southern
Pines post office hIII be open for
regular window ser>ice until
noon Monday, when the windowH
will close. Mail dispatches and
distribution of Incoming ) nails
will be carried on as usual.
SANDHILLS STYLES
TO BE ON PARADE
IN FASHION SHOW
Junior Civic Club to Use Local
Models to Display Fashions
from Shops
TO FOLLOW BRIDGE-TEA
The latest thing In Spring fashions
for the Sandhills will be on parade at
Southern Pines Country Club March
i, following a bridge.tea, under spon.
Eorship of the Junior Civic Club of
Southern Pine.s.
Local models will appear in fash
ions for all age groups, wearing
The whole matter, which has now .of a dateline. Southern Pines Public-,
got Southern Pines’ officials, Pine.lity Agent Howard Burns, who has ^ ^
hurst, Inc.. managers, and Knollwood been handling Knollwood news along j Southern Pines and Pin<-
SaniUry District Commissioners in a with Southern Pines items for the accompan-
■■dither.” involves no great issue oth-| outer world is the third party in charge of a master of
the battle and said he thou^^^^^^^ the models will display
matter had long ago been settled. I ^ lounging, evening
The full story goes back som«,and other wear,
years ago whon Knollwood bcj?an to
flourish as a haven for many winter 1 Parties of one or several tables
residents who wanted to get awayi^^” be made up for the bridge party
dither,” involves no great issue
er than the moral one of who gets
credit for what publicity.
FactM in Nutshell
In a nutshell, the facts are thus:
News items concerning Knollwood,
part of which is in the corporate lim
Enfrit*'^V" Worse Show
fndicai>N
For Crou/v
Steeplechase Date
Sandhills Racing Event to Be
Run March 21, but Still
Leads Hunt Meetings
^al Jumping
/Next Friday
V
'Over 116 (Entries in 15 Classes
■ Already In; Pony Rides
and Drawing Added
TO BENEFIT RED CROSS
Over 116 entries otf around 70
"O’"®*"® 15 classes had been made
o ju 11 at Har 1^"'' Third Annual Southern Pines
The Sandhills race meeting at Bar-
ber Estate Course will be run Sat.jHo”^ Show when the committee met
urday, March 21, a week later than Thursday afternoon in the town
originally scheduled, but the Steeple,
chase here will still lead off the sea
son’s events, it was announced this
week.
Plans fur the Carolina meeting are
going ahead with the later dates ex
pected to be helpful in that horses in
training at southern centers will be
nearer to top form. Richard Wal-
clerk’s office to make final plans for
the affair.
"Oats and Defense Bonds for Tro
phies” will be the informal theme of
the horse show this year, profits from
which will go to the American Red
Cross. The events will start next
Friday morning, February 27 ,at 10
in thoii'W commercialism which has nowl^''‘| individuals not coming in a party
' will be made into playing groups.
its of Southern Pines, have
past been appearing throughout the'raised its ugly head. Setting up a .san-
c.wntrv under a Southern Pines date-; i^^^y district, the residents sought, ^
line. This season. The Pine Needles utilities .such as water, s<'''erage,,^ pad.s
suKstitute publicity man. John J. j school.s, and fire protection. The Town
Vv'al.sh of Pinehurst, was inspired to, of Southern Pines agreed to furnish «< “»at wnich Umr
«er,l out the.se items from "Knollwood t'lfse item.s. The town also agreed to
will be
served at ,'i
the fashion
iiiiwiiuii - .'!how will begin. Those not playing
Village." Some newspapers refused i''clude Knollwood in its publicity and! men, arc invited for
them from the beginning: others I'dverti.sing program, on which many
dropped them later, some continued dollar.s—a good sum - are spent each
using them. Mr. Harlow, who this y<ar.
“ItniillHood \illagp ” Scheme
Where the scheme was concocted.
T'he Pilot was unable to learn; but
;his year there has been some talk
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week expounded the issue, settin.ij
h'nisi'lf up as ‘a neutral," is Pinehurst,
Inc., Publicity Man and suggests that
"Pinehurst would indeed be due .some;
consideration" in regard to setting 1
the tea and show
Tickets for the dual event are b<
iiig handled by nienil)ers of the jiin.
lor club and at local hotels.
Club Speaker Says
Plan Now For Peace
lach, Jr., racing secretary, said that at the Southern Pines Coun
while not as many jumpers will be'f> Club and run through the day.
seen this season, indications point to^ The Moore County Hounds this
fairly large fields of excellent horses, year is giving as its Championship
and a widespread interest in the af. award in the hunter class a Defense
fairs. Sandhills meeting will have a Bond instead of plate, and trophies
hurdle race, two over brush, a timber in the other classes will be oats or
event iuid one on the flat, with the;something useful for the horse (No
Yadkin Steeplechase Handicap at two'automobile tires). The knockdown and
miles over brush again the feature',out jumper sweepstake will offer a
event. The Aiken, S. C.. meeting has $100 sweepstake prize.
been advanced to April 1 and the
furolina Cup races at Camden remain
at March 2S,
AUDIENCE LIKES
SMITH’S SONGS
Library Concert Artist Delights
Listeners with Dramatic
Interpretations
McKEITHEN KILLED
AT RAIL CROSSING
Stitcamliner Hits Farrell Coal
Truck. Killing Fred Mc-
Keithen, Driver
The crash of Seaboard Streamlin
er No. 9 into the light pickup truck
of Farrell Coal Company at Douh’.«!
crossing in Aberdeen last week took
the life of Fred McKeithen, 36-year, j
eld Aberdeen man. almost immediate. i
ly. i
Driver and sole occupant of the|
truck, McKeithen was rushed to|
Moore County Hospital shortly after
the accident abcjut 11:15 last Thurs
day night and died shortly after reach
ing the place.
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon at 3 o’clock from
Aberdeen Presbyterian Church, with
the Rev. E. L. Barber, pastor, and ‘
the Rev. A. J. McKeiway of Pinehurst. j Ah.solved, Carthage Attorney
1, 719 Rej>:ister
,\n additional 1,'i!) .young and
older men were added to the Se.
lective Service list of the .Moore
County Draft Boanl >Ionday, In
the third nation-wide registration,
this time Including men from the
age of 20 through 44,
8outli»m Fines headed the list
with 260 registering and Pine,
hurit was second with 340, while
West t'arthalte listed 193. Other
registrations by pre<‘inets were as
follows: .•\lKTdeen 16,'i, C'ameron
116, East Carthage 76, I>e«‘p Riv
er H8. Kureka 27, FInebluff 28,
\ as.s 89, W esI Knd 92, High Falls
46, Hitters .S6. Spencervillc 60.
Spies 9. and Bensaleni 67.
A delighted audience at the Library
last Monday night brought Sherman
Smith, bass-baritone of Chapel Hill,
back to the stage several tinies after
his program was finished to hear
more of his entertaining renditions of
German, French and American folk
songs.
Best with songs which gave full
play to his bass range and afforded
him an opportunity to display his
dramatic and well as singing ability,
Mr. Smith presented four groups of
solectiong, each group seeming to be
better than the last.
Introducing foreign language songs
with his own notes, the artist amus.
ed, delighted and thrilled his audience
with Wolf’s German folk songs of
soldiers and of nostalgia, with a
group of French selections of love,
soldiers and festivity, and with his fin
al group by Russian composers.
Being by profession a chemist but
by nature an excellent dramatic sin
ger, Mr. Smitli did particularly well
with two songs by Borodin, Russian
chemist - composer. Unfortunately,
Ivlr. Smith did not include any Amer
ican folk songs in his formal pro.
gram: for in his first encore he sang
and whistled a western folk song that
brought such response he had to make
two more returns to the stage.
The piano accompaniment of WiL
liam Gant, also of the University, is
n!.so worthy of mention, as the work
on the keytxaard blended well with
the featured artist’s voice and added
iiiuch to his more stirring songs.
SEAWELL BLASTS
AT ‘WITCH HUNT’
officiating. Active pallbearers were
I/eon Blue, Dan McCrimmon, Eston
Blue. Charles Pleasants, Dan Allred
and Alton McLean. Interment was in
the family plot of Old Bethcsda cem
etery.
HurI.s Charges at “Phi
Betta Jvappa ‘Experts’'
The present is not too early to be
gin planning what kind of a world
there will be following the war, de
clared the iiev. A. J. McKeiway, pa.s-
tor of Pinehurs<t Community Church.
si)eaking at the Kiwanis ciub lunch-
, (“on at the Berkshire Wednesday.
I In this war. the Church shoulil not
'' serve again as a recruiting center or
; a bond salesman, the minister said,
but it can bring a message that will
harten the peace and preserve it. He
pointed out that the enemy has a
certain “fanaticism" which must be
matched in this country by a "cause.”
"The Church can furnish the only
rational ogic of utter self.sacrifice
for a ‘cause’ which will match the
’fanaticism' of the enemy,’’ he con.
tinned. “The Church also can furn.
i.sh the logic of democracy—that there
i.s a value for every human life, in
the world. The Church can also furn.
ish the only hope for a permanent
I uasis of peace.
"The world is not going to be any
thing it has been in the past. We arc
witnessing a passing of a civilization
which has proved itself unworthy to
endure. Those things which are wor
thy cannot be destroyed by war or
greed or force," he concluded.
Visitors with the club Wednesday
included M. J. McLean of Carthage,
Dr. Roy Hefferman of Boston, Mass.,
and the Rev. S. A. Maxwell of Aber
deen.
GEORGE PROCTOR
DIES OF STROKE
Illness of Week Proves Fatal
Peach Farmer; Services to
Be Held Sunday at 2 :.'{(>
to
Completely absolved by the Federal
Court of charges of embezzlement and
. .u . -.r 1J- -4U ' false reports during his term as
Officers report that McKeithen was , banKriiptcy referee, H. F. (Chub!
Sg we^an^dlpp^^rt?^ dX^onToi^^^^^^^^^
rserwfthout^JeTiLIt^^" >5cpcrts’” and “centralization of^a^rX-OUnty U.N.C. Alumili
“ ^r"th‘L-n Clear of '-P-
the truck, which was almost com.
pletely demolished.
Mr. McKeithen was the son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. James A. McKeith.
en and was unmarried. Surviving are
two brothers, James and William Me
Kcithen of Aberdeen ,and two sis.
ters, Mrs. Margaret Jones and Mrs.
Pavid Coffee, now of Lakeview.
Sportsman Pilots
Meet at Mid-Pines
A swarm of about 45 private airplane
pilots with their own machines, com
prising the national Sportsman Pi.
lots As.sociation will fly into Knoll
wood this week-end for their annual
convention to be held at the Mid
Pines club.
J. L. (Jimmy) Hamilton of Char-
.‘ible for his trial.
Previous to his trial in Rockingham
which ended last week, Mr. Seawell
had issued two statements to the
press, claiming that the charges were
brought because of "personal ambi
tion" on the part of somebody in the
attorney general’s office and to cause
him “embarrassment."
Statement of .Attorney
With the matter now settled in his
favor, following a rather unusual
statement by Presiding Judge Webb
i'i his favor. Mr. Seawell is.sued the
following statement:
“Now that the ’witch’ hunt is
over, please let me express to my
friends my appreciation of their loy-
nUy and faith in me during the un.
varranted attack on me by the Attor. i
ney General’s office. Some say it was i
politics. Mavbe ’big time’ politics, but!
I
Will Meet March 3
Monre County alumni of the Uni
versity of North Carolina will hold
their lanniial get.together at The
Pine Needles Inn clubhouse Tuesday,
March 3, in the form of a buffet
supper, it was announced this week
by the Rev. T. A. Cheatham, presi.
dent.
This will be an informal gathering,
with wives of the alumni invited, and
J. Marion Saunders, secretary of the
Alumni .Association, will present a
program for the local group. There
are about 160 Carolina alumni in the
county. Election of officers also will
take place.
Dr. George S. Proctor, a familiar
and much liked figure in the Sandhills
for the past 16 years, died at his
llomehill Orchard farm on Bethesda
toad Thursday afternoon at 12:45. He
would have been 75 years old Febru.
ary 26.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the homo Sunday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock, with the Rev. T. A.
Cheatham of Pi..< hurst officiating.
Interment will Ik* in a family ceme.
tery on the farm.
A retired dentist of Pittsburgh Dr.
Proctor with Mrs. Proctor came here
over a decade and a half ago to en
gage in peach and general farming.
They built their home on the farm and
have taken an active, though quiet,
part in community life. Dr. Proctor
suffered a stroke last Friday and
had been confined to his bed since.
The deceased was born at Fort
Atkinson, Wisconsin, but lived most
of his life before coming here in
Pittsburgh. Surviving are Mrs. Proc
tor and one son, Voigt Proctor of
Cincinnati, Ohio, who was with his
father at the time of his death. Young
Mr. Proctor will remain here for
some time and will be joined by Mrs.
Proctor.
Entries from Camden, S. C., Elkin,
and other places were coming in late.
an<l officials said indications were
that a larger field than ever l)efore
w(,uld compete in the 15 classes.
Thesi' include two children’s classes,
h'inters, green hunters, open jump,
thoroughbred hunters, hunt teams and
ing, ladies hunters, hunter h.acks,
a special bareback novelty jumping
event.
During the day of the Horse Show,
luncheon will be served to everyone
de.°iring it at the Southern Pines
Country Club, and L(>e Kuhn and his
Dunes Club orchestra will furnish the
mu.«ic. A pony ride for children and
the award of "Miss Red Cross" pony
in a drawing will also be featured.
Judges for the show will be Homer
B. Cray, M. F. H., Rombout Hounds,
1'jiighkeepsie, N'. Y.. and Richard
W'allach, Jr., of Warrenton, Va.
Other officials are Mrs. Margaret
Thorne Smith, general chairman;
Howard F. Burns, secretary-treasur.
er; William J. Stratton, Mrs. E, C.
Stevens, Mrs. Ralph K. Trix, J. Fred
Stimson, Louis Scheipers, Mrs. Al.
met Jenks, Herbert Cameron, Dennis
Crotty, Lloyd Tate, Miss Ellen Vale
and Mrs. W. O. Moss.
Nurses Aide Course
Is Startingr Monday
Fir.st classes for Volunteer Nurses
Aide training at Mooie County Hos
pital will begin Monday with two
classes of five members each, it was
decided at a meeting of the Nurses
Aide committee this week.
The courses are of 80 hours length
and as soon as the first set is com.
plted, it is planned to begin anoth
er series. Mrs. Helen Jacobs will be
in charge of the group. Added to the
planning committee this week were
E. T. McKeithen, hospital manager,
and L. L. Biddle II of the county de
fense council.
Red Cross Starting
New Training: Classes
A new aeries of First Aid classes
will begin next Tuesday, February 24.
The afternoon class will be held at
o o’clock at the home of Mrs. Ray.
mond Tompkins on Orchard Road.
The evening class will be held at 8
o’clock Tuesday at the Civic Club.
All those wishing to take this course
are urged to register at the Red Cross
Room in the Straka Building before
Tiiesday.
The Red Cross is also planning a
home nursing course, teaching the
rudiments of nursing, and those wish
ing to take this may register at Red
Cross headquarters in the Straka
building from 10 to noon and two to
five during week days.
. . . , . .certainly not local. The matter was
mtte is in charge of the arrangem^^^^^^ ^ ■
for the occasion and wjth h.m^^^ p,,. ’F^cperts.’ over-i
^ T ” I, - tvi<^ aviafnr and ' learning and noti
ist of "Happy Jack.’ the aviator and, eorou.^cle of enmmon «en«e Tf j.s,
a' (Editor’s Note: This is the second|cessfully without doing
al<’!'ticle on Civilian Defense in Moore together'.’ Is there a w^y
Our County Resources
A nd Civilian Defense
liis friends.
This is the first time the Associa
tion has met in this section of the
country, previous meetings having i
been held in Miami, Fla. For the en.|
t.-'rtainment of the Sportsman Pi.
lots, John J. Fitzgerald, Mid-Pines
manager, has arranged a program in
cluding the display of an old Mooiv
County “schooner" wagon, which will
come down from above Hemp with
Edgar and Howard Hussey in charge.
Native pottery "hurricane’’ lamps
will be given as novelty prizes to the
ladies.
The ineeting will begin Saturday
and la.st through Monday, with bus.
iness .session, dinner-dance and out.
ings.
The first appeared last
I corpuscle of common .sense. It
amazing that in a free country
man can be as.saulted by .such
group and thousands of dollars spenti Coimty.
over nothing, I am not the only victim v.eek).
of such procedure; there have been' How can the efforts of Civilian
othf-r instances. It is the natural re-iPefense be coordinated so as to avoid
suit of the centralization of admini.s-’n surpri.se attack on the home front
all
trative power; the destruction of lo
cal .self-government and the establish,
ment of government by prescription,
rules and orders and regulations. Such
processes will eventually cau.se na
tional paralysis if something isn’t
done to curb it.
of them
that all
directed
comparable to the I’earl Harbor at
tack?
The Pilot continued its search for
■•in answer to this question this week,
r.tembers of Civilian Defense commit
tees were interviewed; local officials
vere talked with; Individuals with or
"Again thanking all my friends for,v,.jthout official capacity of any kind
their many kindnes.ses and loyalty, j -.vere questioned.
(Signed) H. F. Seawell. Jr." Most people see the job of Civilian
Defense as these: P'irst, the prepara
BOOKS NEEDKD FOR SOLDfERS
MISS MAllV Kinni.E .\DDEI>
TO DRAFT OF'FICE STAF1*'
Miss Mary Ruth Riddle last week
Books are needed for the soldiers at assumed her duties as assistant clerk
Fort Bragg. Anyone having books to in the draft board office in the court
contribute for this purpose can lerfve'house. Miss Riddle is a Carthage girl
them at the Red Cross Room in the | and she has recently retumeij from
.Straka Building or cal! 6974 to have, Greenstwro, where she attended
the books picked up. 1 school.
tion of our population for the even
tuality of actual warfare being
brought to us; secondly, the full par
ticipation of all people in efforts re
lated to the nations' all.out war pro.
gram: thirdly, the bettering of all
services which can prepare for a long
w-ar and a longer peace.
Can any of these jobs be done suc-
Town Board Adopts
“Streamlined” Code
Indexed and Collected Set of Of
ficial Ordinance.s Prepared
by WPA
The Town of Southern Pines has
adopted a “streamlined” set of basic
ordinances, including the town char,
ter, which was prepared by the WPA
Research and Records project, spon
sored by the N. C. League of Munici
palities.
Collected under one cover and in.
dexed are all General Assembly laws
pertaining to the town and all basic
ordinances of the town. The ordi
nances are indexed under two general
headings of legislative and adminis
trative, including subheadings of
elections, finance, courts, police, traf
fic regulations, disorderly conduct,
fire protection and prevention, pub
lic nuisances, health protection and
disea.se prevention, weights and meas
ures, business and trades, building
code, city planning, franchise and
contracts, municipally owned utili
ties, public works and education.
The bound volume i.s available to
the public at the town hall.
our civilian efforts can bo
toward these goals?
The Scntp Drive
One example of lack of full coor.
dination was cited: During January,
under direction of the Federal ajiJ
State farm extension services, the
county farm committees, in voluntary
(c.Kjperation with .schools and home
demonstration clubs, carried on a
highly succes.sful campaign to collect
scrap metal, rags and other similar
scrap. This was done by direct sell,
ing to junk dealers.
Succe.ssful as this drive was, it was
pointed out that it might have been
many time more so if other agencies
of the county could have directly par
ticipated. If the Red Cross, the Boy
Scouts, thp civic clubs, the various
welfare and \vomen’s committees, the
churches and town governments had
thrown together their resources,
thousands of pounds more of scrap
(Pleasa turn to Paye <))
Mrs. Thomas Heads
Moore PTA Council
Officers fllec(ed al Spring Meet-
inff in Pinehurst; Represen
tative Speaker
Mrs H. Lee Thomas of Carthagfl
was elected president of the Moore
County Council of Parent-Teacher as.
pociations at tis spring meeting Mon
day afternoon in the Pinehurst 11.
brary. She succeeds Mrs. Victor Ty
ler of Aberdeen, re.signed.
Other officers elected are Mrs. H.
•N. Campbell of Pinehurst, vice-pre.s.
ident; Mrs. Myron Stewart of Car
thage. secretary; and Miss Bell Mac
Leod of Hemp, treasurer.
Mrs. E. M. Howell of Swananoa.
field representative, spoke on the
organization and purposes of the
council, followed by a discussion.
Present for the session were Mrs. E.
S. Adams of Carthage, district dl.
rector; County School Superintendent
H. Lee Thomas, James W. Harbi.
r-'B, superintendent of Pinehurst
schools, Mrs. B. H. McDonald, Mrs.
S. R. Rajisdell, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs.
Karl Johnson, Mrs. W. R. Johnson
lind Mrs. Gordon M. Cameron.