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Friday, April 10, 1942. THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina Page Five Meet General Weaver 'PUPILS DEBATE BEFORE KIWANIS (JKNEKAL WALTKK It. WKWKIt GENERAL WEAVER HAS LIHLE TIME FOR HOBBIES NOW Pinehur.st School Students Dis- CU.S.S I'nion of Western Hemisphere Nations ('onimanding Officer of AFTTC Really Follows Father’s Foot- step.s—Even to Rank The commanding officer of the Air Force Technical Training Com. mand .stationed at Knollwod didn’t just follow his father's footsteps, he r.iarched right along in them to at tain the same Army ranking as his father. For Major General Walter R. Wea. ver was born the son of Major Gen eral E. M. Weaver, United States Army. A man of kindly countenance cap ped by soft white hair, General Weaver doesn’t now have much time for his favorite hobbies, which are definite ly hobbies but are helpful in his pres- rnt duty as commajiding officer of the AFTTC. In this wartime, his duties are to ndminister the operation of the Army's technical schools which are training some 300,000 men for ser. vice in the Air Force, Besides the legiilar Army schools, there are a number of civilian schools which an> jiow operating under supervision of the Technical Training Command. Gtneral Weaver became connected with the air service of the .\rmy wnile the unit of activity was still in its infancy, back during America's participation in the frst World War. Snce then, his Army duties h'ave con stantly been in connection with the iiir force. But while General Weaver's work is with one of the most advanced of Viian's inventions and many of his hobbies are delving into such things as radio, photography and chess, his j.ft (''Version is that ancient and hon. «'ranle profession of farming. But Farming Is Favorite If and when he gets a little time, he and Mrs. Weaver spend it on their farm at Fort Boykin, Va., on the James River, where he g-oes in for— yes, chickeji farming. In establfshing headquarters in the Sandhills. (General Weaver comes nearer to being “back home" than at any other time since his service in ♦ he Army, He was born' in ISS.'i at Charleston. S. C.. where his father was j member of the Citadel’s facul- t.v. Was in Philippines After three years at Virginia Mil itary Institute, he received an ap- j ointment to West Point and, follow ing graduation, was appointed second lieutenant of Infantry in 190R. Dur. ing his early years in the .\rmy ho .served in the Infantry, part of the time with the 21th Infantry in the Philippines and with the 15th in China. This was in 1912-11. ITpon his return to the States, he was assigned to recruiting service until March, 1917. when he becamo commandant of flying cadets at Wil. bur Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, and tht re advanced to the rank of ma.jor, which was made permanent in 1920. Since then he has been in the air service. He commanded an air ser vice mechanics school, and then he himself entered the Air Corps flying school and in 1921 finished his ad vanced flying and bombardment training. Four years from 1927 to 1931 were spent as commanding officer of Max well Field. Alabama, to which he re turned in 1939 as commander of the Air Corps Tactical school, later be. ing assigned as commanding general of the southeast air corps training center in Montgomery. During the expansion and reor ganization program of the Army Air Forces, General Weaver was select ed as Acting Chief of the Air Corps in Washington and on February 18, 1942, was appointed commanding Two Pinchur.st High School stii- iii-nts set going among Kiwanians a discus.sion of western hemispheric relations Wednesilay, after they had |,r(‘.sented the affirmative and nega tive sides of ;i debate question, Ue- .solved: That a Union of Wo.stern Hemisphere nations should be es- tabli.shed. .Speaking In favor of the question, Miss Margaret L('e urged such a union for the common defense and (Conomir. welfare of all the nations, fiointing out that the Monroe doc trine is dated and no longer effec. tive and that the Pan-.Anieriean un ion is insufficient to guarantee mu tual defense efforts. Her debate hing ed chiefly on the need for defending United States’' investments in loans and on developing new sources of ' raw materials for this major coun- I try of the western hemisphere. On the opposite side, Billy McKen. zie held such a union among western hemisphere nations alone would en courage regional antagonisms and that such a time when a universality of nations in cooperation could be achieved, thp nations of this hemis phere would be better off without a binding military and economic al liance. He also pointed out that in Latin American countries there was, among the people, already consider able resentment against "Yankee im perialism’ ’and that the capitalists of this nation had in the past too 1 greatly controlled the economy and commerce of the Latin American coiuitries. A union of the nations, he asserted, would Bring about greater dominance by United States’ intere.it. and would not encourage the coun. tries to the South of us to develop their own way of life. The club applauded the young speakers, who wei’e introduced by Pinehurst School Superintendent, J. W. Harbi-son, and did not attempt to select the better of the two argu ments. Among visitors at Kiwanis, meeting &t the Southern Country Club, were Miss Nancy TT.ssery, of the Pinehurst school ff.oulty; Robert Gray of San- lord. Harry Sergeant of W. Orange. J.. and Clarence F. Chamberlain of Irvington. N. J., a visiting Ki- wanian. Civilian Marchers Pass Army Day Review ing Stand PRIVATE-ARTIST Bctore the gaily decorated reviewing stand on Ashe street passes a group of civilian defense workers who took part ;:i the Army Day parade which brought the 134th Medical Regiment to Southern Tuies. L<'ad- ing this Section of the paiade is N. L. Hodgkins, air i aid warden, and behind him are other of the wardens, The next group is composed of local Boy Scouts and behind them are special police and Girl Scciuts. On the reviewing stand aie Mayor W. Duncan Matthews, Col. Francis Moore, commanding officer, and other civilian officials and Army officers. Education Board Approves Statens Twelfth Grade Plan General of the .^ir Corps Technical Training Command, the branch of the j Army Air Forces which directs and '.administers the training in various I sections of the United States of of- I ficers and enlisted men lequire,) for ] ground duties in connection with the I maintenance and servicing of air- I craft and aircraft ba.ses. j To the average chess player, noth ing could complicate the" game much; but General Weaver has managed to Hdd a complication to that oldest of games. WTiile many novices scratch their he,ads trying to determine moves on the two.dimensional chess board. General Weaver has developed (and patented! a pame which he calls ‘Chess-.\ir"—it involves three di mensions! "Chess-Air” utilizes an extra set of men known as "airplanes” which move about on a glass top. above the chess board. So, after you worry .■ibout moving pawns, and knights, i'nd queens, and bishops, and kings and rocks, all you have to do then is figure out how to swoop down with the airplanes. For further details, please see General Weaver! liailio .\nother llolihy During the earlier days of radio, General Weaver advanced his tech nical knowledge by taking up the ra dio as a hobby, and his wife tells on him, he sometimes ended up with the oddest looking contraptions of tubes and wires and metal panels that al- ■vays worked excellentl.y. Latest hobby interest is photogra- ph,v, which he goes in for the whole uay. Not satisfied with just taking pictures, he likes also to develop and print them himself. Mrs. Weaver, the former Eliza, both Carr John.son of St. Paul. Minn., i.s in the Sandhills, staying with the General at their new home, "Sweet Gum House,’’ near The Pine Needles. Here for the duration, at present plans, Mrs. Weaver thinks the Sandhills are wonderful, about the be.st place ever (next to their farm in Virgin, ia). And that’s something about the ' ■.an who is in charge of the AFTTC. headquartered at ‘‘Knollwood Field,” Southern Pines, North Carolina. General Weaver wa.s at one time vice-president of the Montgomery. Ala., Kiwanis Club, but no longer is able to retain his active membership. Nesv Agricultural Education Fa cilities Recommended for Vass-Lakeview J*lant The County Board of Kducation, at its regular meeting last week, approved the sitting up of 12th grades in all of the schools in the county, according to the plan of the State Department of Education. The Board also recommended that .s< hool boards of the various districts elect principals and teachers and re organize the schools for next year at the earliest possible date in order to retain as many of the best qual ified teachers ps possible, j The Board adopted the following resolution: "UTiereas, it has been de- I termined by the Moore County Board ot Education after careful study and investigation that there now exists grave need of a new vocational agri culture classroom, a new vocational agriculture shop and a new cafeteria at the Vass-Lakeview .school, now. therefore, be it resolved that the county superintendent is instructed to present to the county commission, ers in writing our request for the f!ind.s necessary to construct by con tract the aforesaid new building in 1942-43; That the wish hereby is expressed that they will consider the ■natter promptly and instruct the ehairman to reply by letter at the earliest pns.sible date." The Board also pa.ssed a resolution r..'>questing the commissioiicrs to provide a book and supply room in tne basement of the court house as they consider such a room on the third floor tinpractical unless a freight elevator could be provided. H. Lee Thomas, countv superin tendent, said that three or four big i carloads of books and supplies come into this rooni each year, ■which would make the task of carrying them by hand to the third floor a stupendous one. The present book- room is in the basement, but it has been propo.sed that a third.floor room be used for this purpose after the agriculture department is located in the basement. Raymond .Johnson, chairmain of the West End -school board, and Hobson Tucker, a member, requested that the West End cafeteria be completed for next year and it was decided to do this. The cafeteria is to he located in the basement and the local peo- pli’ iiave seen to digging this out. Present at the meeting were all memlv'rs of the Board. .Tohn W. Gra ham of Aberdeen chairm.an; D. D. McCrimmon of Hemp, W. E. Kelly of Carthage, J. F. Taylor of Pinehurst and L. B McKeithen of Cameron. NEW SET OF MEN BEGIN TRAINING Draft lioard Announces •Moore County White Men Inducted into I’. S. .\rmv 17 The Moore County Draft Board an nounced this week that 47 Moore County while men recently were in ducted into the United States Army under the Selective Sei'vice Act ur.d have left for training camps. Following are the narr o of those most lecently inducted: ■Tohn W. Ratkowski, route 1 Cam. eron; lElias H. Hi<jssey. route 1. Hemp; Neltcm _VVrig'^t, West End; Cl.vde Luther .Miller, Southem Pines; N'eill van Morris, route 1 Cameron; Carson B. Brown, Hemp, Calvin V. Rowman, route 1 Aberdeen, Harry \V Veasy. route 1 Aberdeen, Dwight H. Ives. Jr., Pinebluff; Luther G. Paschal. Glendon. James Baxter Sheffield, route 1 Hemp. Frankie Garner, Hemp. Ernest Melvin Mane.ss, route 2 Hemp, John Medlln. Pine- hurst; Maste Gray Bran.son. route 1 Aberdeen; Sewell H. Callicut. route 1 Star: John Fiddner, Jr.. Pinebluff; Si\e1cher \\ hose lectures .\rc on I'lunt I'ane Did Portrait cl (ieneral (’rani.* ( Kditor’s Nrite: Heii’'.-; a (u lef oiographu'al sketch of Kobiit (’. Kranktnbei'p. the young soUlicr wh".s(' pen I uncejitioi) of Southern I’mes' Army I'ay parade and ai t ivil ii'.*- ap- jMiir on the front p.ijie of TMK PI- l.( IT this wt > k I. VVhi'ii a priv.itr can tell a aiMi-r Cn'neral to .«tand erect .and r<'. niain <|uiet. that's news' .•\nd that's just what I’livati' Rob- ei't C. Frankenberg of the 134th Medical liepiment of Fort Bragg told General John (,'rane when the latter posed for his portrait which . 'vas being painted in oils by Artist Frankenberg. Private Frankenberg. whose mur als at U’*’ World's Fair attracted wide attention la.«t year, is now d medical soldier in Uncle Sam’s Army. I He's been in training for over ft ' year in the 134th Medic.al Regiment at Fort Bragg and is rated as a Med- Audience Likes ical Technician which means that (Ccntivtird from V'S'’ one) . expert in fir.st aid and doii. of such selections as Beethoven's ^ ble for a trained nurse whenever .Sonata D-minor, op. 31, no. 2. and | >',pces.sary. .^t Fort Brags' r'hopin’s Ballade, there seemed to be , 1'iigth portrait of General Crane was a quiet strength that kept the tones , hung in the main hall of the ArtiL pure hut gave full play to the piano’s i l>-’ry Area Sei-vice Club. Franken- range of volume. berg's ne.xt commission will be a To many. Joyous Party by Doh-, portrait of Colonel Francis W. nanyi was an enjoyable number, al. | Moore, physician and vetor.in medi- though some patrons seemed not to | officer of the last ■\\-ar who com- care for this more modern musical j n'ands the 134th Meilical Regiment, classic. The artist, nonethele.ss, ! Frankenberg is a native of Mount seemed to convey the composer's feel- i Vernon, N. V . and a graduate of ing that, beneath the gaiety of the j Mount Vernon High School where joyous occasion, there ran a note ot j be starred on the track and baseball inelancholy. De Falla’s Spanish dance j teams. He studied .at the Art Stu_ vvas a happy thing; Bebussy's Jardins , dent's League of New York and also .sous les Pluies was Debussy as he j '’-ith many prominent art te.achers. The soldier.artist's murals decorate(| .should be played, with the impres- j nonistic tones carefully rendered' without exaggeration, as many pian- | ists are inclined to do. The concUid- , ing number on the program, Brahms' ! Rhapsodie G-minor, seemed to wrap | up all Mrs. Berke's musical skill | which she had clemimstrated during the rest of the program and present i it to the appreciate audience in one \ grand finale. Atount Vernon. His Brought hack for two encores, she , home there, played the fluidly flowing Juba dance I niid Mozart's stirring Turkish March, Among those who have attended the concert series this year, there .‘cems to be unanimous agrement that each prognim was outstanding. Since the series Started with the ap. '.he North Carolina and Pennsylvania buiulings as well as fifteen other ex hibits at the World's Fair of 1941 While working for the .lenter Ex hibits Inc. he executed dioramas for the Chase Brass and Copper ('om- pany. Pi’ivafe Frankenberg is married to the former Burtis M. Ranges of •.vif,. makes her .M.so, James Crabtree, route 1. ] pe.'U'ance of William Klenz, cellist, in Carthage; Preston Thomas, Carth- January, the Library A.s.sociation has -i,ge; Daniel A. Morgan, Jr., Hemp; pre.sented Mr. and Mrs. Alan .Sly, '''harlie G, Myrick, route 1 Eagle j piano and violin; Sherman Smith. Springs, Elbert W. Dowd, route Pinehurst Scouts Review Activities A report made this week of the year's activities of Pinehurst Girl Scouts .showed considerable activity by this organization during the past 12 months. Scout leader this year was Mrs, J. VV, Harbison, a.s.sisted by Mrs. Bert Nicolls, Mrs. C. D. Griffin and Mrs. Henson Maples. The month by month report reveal ed that in April the Girl Scouts col lected tea and comic strips to be .sent to the London Girl Guide Asso ciation. During the next month they m.i.sed $110 to dig a well at the Pinehurst scout cabin, and during July, many of the scouts spent the month at the camp, while others went to the National Girl Scout camp. 1 Carthage; Hen*-y .\lton Borst, Vass; Lacy Williams, route 1, Carthage; Jne I. Morgan, route 1 Eagle .Springs; Hubert McM. Cameron. .Southern Pines; John R. Short, Pinehurst; (icorge H. Parri.xh, Jr., (,'arthage; Fletcher C. William.son, route 2 Hemp; William Joseph Wood, route 2 Carthage; Albert T. Hicks, Va.ss; Carl J. Luther, Southern Pines; John Douglas Blue, route 3 Carthage; John Daniel Wallace, route 1 Wi>st End; Also. Claud N. B'aker, route 3 Carthage; Euliss C. Cockman, route 1 Carthage; Donald McDonald, Jr., Cameron; Joseph C. Hutchinson, Jr., Pinebluff; Huey M. Barber, ro\ite 3 Carthage; Edward G. Adams. Jr.. Pinebluff; Henry P. McDonald, Southern Pines; Curtis B. Dowd, route 1, Carthage: Albert J. Veno, Pinehurst; Julian Frye, route 1. West End: Henry L. .Stutts, Carthage; Julian B. Carter, route 2. Cameron, and Joseph J. West, Manl.v, bass-baritone; Frederic Balazs. thi' siildier-violinlst, and Mrs. Berke, jnanist. During the summer. archery, swimming and woodcraft were activ ities of the Scouts and in the fall, the Scouts began collecting toys, re-1 j pairing and paintin.g them to give these will be made at the .sc.s. Vocational (Guidance Proijrani Set April 17 Seniors of high schools in Mome County will take pait next Friday, •\pril 17. in a Vocational Guidance r a.v, sponsored by the Sandhills Ki. wanis Club, to be conducted in the auditorium at Southern Pines High ."School. .'Vt this time, winners of the Ki- •.vanis essay contest on "My Best Way of Serving, Toda.y and Tomor row’' will bo announced, and repre- .sentatives from various vocations .and occupations will address the gathered seniors, James W. Harbison. sujierintendent of Pinehurst Schools and chairman of the Kiwanis Vocational Education and Boys and Girls Work ctmimit- tee, is in I’harge of plans for the pro gram. A number of selected essays from .senior classes throughout the county are already being considered by thi judges and the ca.sh awards for the Mixed chorus: To Thee, O Coun try: Eichberg, God So Loved the World. Stainer: C^'heiubim Pong, Bortniansky: j Roys' G’ce CIu’k Soldiers of tho- j Captain. Spohr: Down the Open f'.oad. Haney; Girls' Trio: Lift Thine Eves. Mendelssohn: Mixed ('horus; I ;-'ong of Ameriea, Smithe.v; K/.ekiel Saw de Whe.'l, .spiritual: (lonn.i .loin I de Heavenly Choir, spiritual. Prayer of the Norwegian (Thild. Kountz. po:o by Don Kirkpatrick; llir's' Glee Club: When the Ho.ses 1 Bloom, Reichardt: I’relude. Ronald, i Jfixed Chonis, assisted bv seventh ' i;rade: In Heaven .Above, Christian- •sen: Ho.sanna. Christian Gregor. 01 sion next Friday. tiem to needv children at Christmas. Just before Christmas, they enter, tained their mothers at a Christmas^ School Glee Chib party, and in January, fhey raised .•iSOO by sale of candy and ci-okios. which was given to church work. Dur ing February and March, the Scouts have turned their attenti<m to de fense work, taking first aid courses, knitting and performing similar work. They helped witR" the Ameri can Legion Poppy sale last month and are now planning a hobby fair for the iOth and 11th of April. Pilot Advrrtisinu PoyH‘ Will Give Concert The .Southern Pines High School Glee Club will give its annual con cert at the Church of Wide Fellow, ship Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. The mixed chorus of 42 voices and the seventh grade chorus will be fea tured. Program will be as follows: | iiirrEB BRAND k>Str&rf!lj| V('hink(*y Fniin ibr b< art ol t)i«r Hlut' t»f Ketiliivki. for III* liTueMoiic* v*al#*r*, < olit t»f U»r K«*iiiu( ky bonriiuuk'—OUl lliaiiicr. jfps *n. 'riii«'»luakry i* i Yeu* W Piwl lamasM S C*.. lac., N. T. FOR BARGAINS FURNITURE See Alton D. McLean Opposite Hotel Aberdeen FOR BARGAINS FURNITURE See Alton D. McLean Opposite Hotel Aberdeen I LECTURE I I Thinking: for Women in Wartime p I At the Civic Club I g Friday, April 17—3:00 P. M. | I By Mrs. Ernest Victor Hughes I Admission—50c h
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