[andor /. c cood > UNITF.P STATES savings <»NDA PinaWu Southern Pines, North Carolina« f nday, February 20, 1942. »• I V Ti 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 bice 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 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 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. ane 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.