U. N. C # CAROUNA ROOM Glwifllon MAKE EVERT PAY DAY (I , WAR BOND DAY src."' S?lHBIKG — SAVi DOllAJtS OVER THE TOP FOR VICTORY with UNITED STATES WAR Cameron VOL. 22, NO. 26. Southern Pines. North Carolina, Friday, May 29, 1942. FIVE CENTS Saturday's Primary \S ill End Unexeitiii" P()lili(*al Campaign Small Vote Expected; Sheriff's and House Race Lead in Interest ICELANDER. NOW Politics, which has boon at a low ebb all season, despite the effort of some to inject the issue of prohibi tion vs. A. !5. C. stores, took a slight .^•purt this week, as the primary cam- l^aign. such as it is, entered its final week and headed for The Day of Sat urday. May 30, when the polls will be open from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. in Voting in Southern Pines precinc* will be at the Municipal Building at i the corner of East Broad street and New York avenue. The line-up for Democrats to si>- lect from in casting their votes -n tiiis year’s primary is not compKcatcd. Only one county office is ci'^n.eited by more than two candidates, t.nd many of the candidates havv* no op position at all. Grim Race for Sheriff In the race for Sheriff of Moore County are the incumbint. Sheriff C J. McDonald of Carthage, who | Pierce have made their has held the office for 14 tr because the nights are now only two hours long, according to last reports from Col. Pierce. To Resume Defense Classes this Week Air Raid Wardens, Fire Watchers and Messengers Meeting Wednesday Following a week’s suspension of training courses for civilian defense personnel, regular classes will be re sumed next Wednesday evening at 8 p. m. for air raid wardens, fire watchers and messengers at the high school. Philip J. Weaver, education direc tor for the local defense council, said training for only these groups of de fense workers was scheduled for the coming week. However, he pointed out that all those in the Emergency Food and Housing committee should be taking Hi'ginning Sunday morning, a group of 29 students at Southern Pines High Scho<)l will begin com mencement exeicises which complete their year of public school training and .set them forth on various new paths in the world. Four programs are planned for the week, beginning Sunday evening. May 31. at 8:15 p. m. with the com mencement sermon to be delivered in the Church of Wide Fellowship by Dr. Olin T Binkley, head of the de partment of religion at Wake Forest College. Class night will be held at the High School Auditorium Tuc.s- day evening at !i:15 and Honors D.iy is to be observed Wednesday morn ing at 11:1.5. CJraduation excMcises Thursday, June 4, at 8:15 p. in. in the High .School bring to a close the public school career for the 1942 graduat ing class. Dr. B. G. Childs of the de partment of education, Duke Uni versity, will deliver the commenie- ment address. Members of Class of '42 Members of the 1941-42 graduat ing class are as follows: Arnette Avery, James Steed de Berry, Walter Emmette Blue, jr,, Marjorie Fllizabeth Hurdett, Leo O’Callaghan, jr., Barbara Ann Cor bett, Claude Jerrell Dutton. Helen Grey. Louise Hall. Bi-tt.v Lee Holt, Doris Ik'len Hussell, Janice Kimball. C’leoige Aai'on McCormac. Ni'il Tliom.'is McDonald. Mary Irion Mc- Klderry. Hannah Lewis Moger. Jane Morrison. Irene Mc.Millan Olive, Mai'gueriti' Osborne. Palmer. Dons .‘\delyn Phillips. Katy Li'e Sessoms. Calvin N. Stephenson. .Sara Carol Thomas. (Jeorganne Thompson, Day Dennis Turner, Dana Utley, Vivian Kathiei'n Williams, Joyce P'velyn Wilson, Robert Dunn. Catherine Ann Pri/ei and Lloyd L. Woolley, jr. | Mi’mbers of the 12th grade who will receive certificates are Ruby | Pearl Crissman. Mary Giey, and Ma- ' l ie Louise Poi ter. | Dorothy Phillips is first honor sti • dent and Doris Hussell is second hon or student. Marshals for the com- < mencement. selected on the basis ot - .scholarship, are Norris Hodgkins, chief: Mona Beall Shepard, Sna Katherine Hayes, Lewis Haynes, ai'd Huth .Mice Cunningham. Two Main Programs The progiam for the commence ment sermon .Sunday evening will begin with an organ prelude by Mr.; C'harles M. tirey. The Rev. Voigt O. Taylor will give the invocation, fol lowing which the CJlee Club will s ng the anthem, “Tenebrae Factae Sunt.'’ The Rev. E. L. Barber will give the scripture reading and the Rev. J. Fred Stimson will offer the prayer. (Continued on Page 8) lo Decidr on Propo.snl lo Sliipnieiits of I’oor (Jrades LT. JOHN D. SITTERSON, JR. Among cadets graduating from the U. S. Military Academy at exercises at West Point. N. Y., Friday, May 29. is Cadet John D. .Sitterson. Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs, J. D. Sitterson of Southern Pines, who are in West Point attending the ceremony. Cadet Sitterson expects to be commission ed in the Field Artniery. He was ap pointed to West Point by Walter Lambeth, former eighth district rep resentative. after graduating from Southern Pines High School and at tending State College at Raleigh for a ,vear. (lounc il of Social Airencies is Formed I BEES' BLACKOUT A swarm of honey bees were responsible for an unanticipated preliminary blackout in Aber deen, Pinebluff and the West side of Southern Pines Wednes day night. Three men near Aber deen, who had been watching a bees' nest in a tree, were finally rewarded with seeing the bees enter their nest late Wednesday afternoon. Out came axes and down went the tree. But in fall ing, it struck another tree which in turn hit the main feed line of the Carolina Power and Light Company, servicing the three towns. Lights went out about 6:53 and were back on at 7:43. * I chum, both well-known Carthage : the nutrition courses now being giv- men, are seeking to replace Curne, en at the Civic Club Tuesday and and It is expected that this contest Friday mornings from 10 a. m. un- may produce one of the closest votes, i til noon. Three for this Township Special police and auxiliary police For some time after Frank Camcr- who have not completed the train- on of Cameron said he wouldn’t seek ing required by the Office of Civil- to represent Greenwood and Me-; lan Defense should see Chief Ed Neill townships on the county com-1 f^ewton. Weaver said. missioners board, no one else came out. Then, just before the filing of candidacies closed, three men jump ed into the race. This is the only three-sided race in the local ticket. F L. Taylor of Vass, Thaddeus L. Blue of Eureka section and J. O. (Oc) Blue of Lakeview have been stumping the townships for votes. As for the other offices, well, it’s all cut and dried. John Willcox for A repeat course of the basic train ing classes, which were conducted Monday through Thursday since the middle of April, will be announced next week. This course will be giv en for those who have not had any of the training and also that tho.so who missed hours during the first classes may make them up. Weaver said a list of the individuals who I had taken the defense training Clerk of Superior Court. Miss Be.ss i classes and the number of hours of McCaskill for register of deeds. J. I study with which they were credit- Vance Rowe for county recorder, and ed would be placed on the bulletin W. A. Leland McKeithen for county | board at the post office, so that eac'i prosecutor are all without opposition in the primaries. There you are. You takes your pick and you casts your vote—Sat urday, any time between 6:30 a. m. and 6:30 p. m. may check on whether further train ing is required. John Arniv al Fori Hraijij State NYA Administrator, Native of Carthage, to Enter Officers' Training School Raleigh, State N. Y. A. Adminis trator John A. Lang of Carthage and Raleigh will report to Fort Bragg Saturday, Ma.v 30, for induction into the United States Army as a buck private to undergo the period of bas ic training leading to officers' train ing school. Lang will take military leave of absence from his duties as State Ad ministrator of the National Youth Administrator for North Carolina for the duration of the war and expects to return to the agency at the con clusion of the war. Warren 'L Davis. Jr.. of Nashville, present deputy State NYA Admin istrator. will become Acting Admin istrator in the absence of Mr. Lang. A native of Moore County, Lang is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lang of Carthage. He attended Car thage High School and the Univer sity of North Carolina. MOORE COUNTY DEMOCRATS GET DISTRICT PARTY POSTS At the State Democratic Party con vention in Raleigh last week, several Moore County Democrats were elect ed to posts in the Eighth Congres sional District. S. R. Hoyle of Car thage is on the State Executive com mittee from this district. On the dis trict executive committee is H. C. Blue of Aberdeen; on the Resoultions and Platform committee, S. R. Hoyle of Carthage; who is also on the committee on permanent organ ization. FIRE DESTROYS HOME Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed the home, a two-story log structure, of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ring two miles from Vass on the Lo belia Road last Mcmday afternoon. Part of the furnishings were saved. (^aptaiii^H Life is Filled with ‘"13V"; l.ittle Wonder He Thinks It's Lueky Captain Leon J. Harton, of Day tona Beach, Florida, stationed at Knollwood Field, is one person who harbors no fears about the number 13, in fact, he likes 13 and considers it lucky, "I realized 13 was my lucky num ber the day I was married,” Captain Harton said when questioned. He was referring to his wedding day, Friday 13, 1922. Captain Harton first recalls the importance of 13 as the day he en listed in World War I. It was on the 13th of December, 1918, to be exact, and there were 13 men in the group that “joined up.’’ Further the group arrived in France on July 13, 1918 and stayed overseas for 13 months. Incidentally all 13 men returned home safely. The importance of the number 13 continued after the World War; Cap tain Harton maintains, for it was in 1922 that he was married and sim ultaneously realized his lucky num ber. Too, there were 13 guests at that Friday 13th wedding. Captain Harton. who is assistant judge advocate of the Technical Training Command, declares he has no superstitions. He is not afraid of black cats, and has, through the years, developed a real fondness for 13. Whenever games of chance are played and 13 is available the cap tain snaps it up as his own. His rights to the number are hardly ever chal lenged by others in the game. He feels comfortable in hotel rooms numbered 13 and says the practice of omitting the 13th floor from build ing floor numbers is foolish. The last‘time 13 “popped up" in Captain Harton’s life was on May 13, 1942. On that day he was ordered to active duty at Knollwoda Field. Voting Closes Saturday for North and South Carolina Referendum North and South Carolina poach growers are voting this week on a proposed Federal marketing agree ment program, and Moore County Growers were voting at County Agent E. H Garrison, Jr., office, lo cated in the Court House at Carth age. Peach farmers may seciiie and cast ballots and sign peach market- ■ ing agreements at this office through ' .Saturday, May 30, between 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. Ballots cast after Sat urday cannot be counted. Most growers also receive ballots and marketing agreements by mail from the referendum agent in Char lotte and may return their complet ed ballots and agreements directly to him by mail. Saturday. May 3(). is the last day for growers to mail bal lots. ‘ All Moore County peach growers, i whether or not they receive ballots and agreements by mail, are urged to visit the office of their County Agent to obtain help in filling out their papers. Urges All to Vole It is highly important, Mr. Garri son said, that each peach grower in the Carolinas. whether ho ap proves or disapproves the peach pro gram. take advantage of his right to cast a ballot so that the Secre tary of Agriculture will ha\-e an adequate basis upon which to deter mine whether or not to place the pro gram into effect. If the program is placed into effect, it will apply to all Carolina peach growers and hand lers. even to those who do not vote. The Secretary of Agriculture’s or der effecting the program can be issued if the agreement is favored by two-thirds of the voting growers, by number of growers or volume of peaches produced, and if the agree ment is signed by growers and hand lers of at least 50 percent of the volume shipped last season. To Prevent Immature Shipments The program, which was propos ed by committees of North and South Carolina peach growers to the .Agricultural Marketing Administra- I tion, would prevent the shipment of | immature peaches in commerce from ^ the Carolinas. It al.so provides the I machinery for restricting shipments of inferior grades and small size i peaches when such action is justi- j fied by harvesting and marketing; condition.s, Georgia peach growers recently voted for a similar peach marketing program that is now in operation. Local Groups Organize Co- ordinative Body, Adopt Con stitution, and Elect Officers Representatives of various church, civic, and welfare organizations in Southern Pines this w(>ek approvel the permanent organization of the Southern Pines Council of Social Agencies to act as a coordinative and clearing body for all such work. Meeting at the Civic Club Friday evening, the Council elected Carl G. Thompson, jr. to serve as chairman of the Council until the first annual meeting to be held the first Tuesday in October. Other officers electod wc'ie Mi.ss Birdilia Bair, vice-i-hair- man: Eugene C. Stevens, secrctary- treasurer: Mrs. J. H Towne a.ntl M F. Grantham, members of the exe cutive committee. The purpose of the Council is to “advance the general welfare of the community by special attention to individuals or families requiring as sistance for economics, health or oth er such conditions ... to promote and coordinate welfare activities of other such agencies ... to avoid duplica tion of efforts . . . and to maintain a clearing house of all social and welfare activities being conducted by various organizations and of those individuals or families receiving as sistance.” The Council is to consist of or ganizations operating wholly or in part in the field of social better ment and welfare within the South ern Pines School District. Each or ganization is entitled to one voting representative in the Council. The Council aims to avoid duplica tion of welfare work, to see that needy cases arc referred to prooer organizations for their care and to provide quick relief to urgent cases. Its expre.s.sed intention is to cooper ate fully with governmental agencies providing needed relief and to coor dinate the activities of independent groups doing welfare work. At Friday's meeting were repre- ■sentatives of the Church of Wide Fellowship, the local Tuberculosis Association, the Rotary Club, the Ki- wanis Club, the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Red Cro.ss, the Civic Club, the Episcopal Church, the Christian Science Church, and the Town of Southern Pines, dal led SiKTessful Planes Fly Overhead as Town Puls Out Lights; Excellent Cooperation In a drizzling rain, with what were probably Army airplane checkers flying overhead, the Sandhills sec tion Wednesday night experienced another practice blackout, under di rection of the Army. In Southern Pines, the “red” signal flashed to key centers at 9:15 p. m. shortly after the late war-time dusk had turned into night, and a nearly complete blackout was achieved al most instantly. Local Civilian Defense Officials reported spotting only three lights remaining on after the alarm had sounded. Two of these were extin guished in less than two minutes and the other one in about five ir.iti ! utes. In each case, t'le occup; nts of ' houses where lights were burning I said they failed to hear the sig- I nal. j Also taking ()art in the blackout i were Knollwood Field, headquarters j of the .Mr P'orce Technical Training 1 Command, and the town ol Aber- ; deen, and in both places I'ffeciive I blackouts wi'ie reported. Minimum of Notice Wednesda.v's test was calk'd on a I minimum of notice—two days—and ! apparently caught many unprcpareil I for thi' test. Th('i(' was little cues- ' tion that some people were not cure ' that the blackout was merely prac tice, especially with the sound of planes over head. Although the special civilian de- j fense police were invested with au- thorit.v to "use reasonabli' force” in extinguishing all lights, by virture of a recently passed town ordinance, there was no report of t!,ii '‘re;;.ion- able force” being necessary or used. From the control center at tne Emmanuel Episcopal Church .the lo cal blackout was directed, and af ter the sirens had .sounded. John Howarth. defense coordinator. A. B. Patterson, chief air raid warden, and Police Chief Ed Newton made a rap id tour of the town, checking on the performance of the section workers and the blackout. They declared, al ter the extinguishing of the three lights, that the blackout was 100 per cent. At 9:45 p. m., the all-clear signal was given. The town's lights blinked on again through the rain. Above head, airplane motors faded, as the planes apparently headed back to home ba.se. KIWANIS CLUB VIEWS FILM ON SYPHILLIS First Showing in Moore of Hollywood-Made Health Film BENEDICT ASSIGNED TO AIR FORCE TECHNICAL SCHOOL Cadwallader Benedict of^ Pine- bluff, one of the town commission ers. who was recently inducted in the U. S. Army at Fort Bragg has been assigned to the Air Corps Tech nical School at Keeslcr Field, Miss issippi. with the 58th Technical School Squadron, Flight 325, Bar racks 13, FATHER OF CARL THOMPSON, sr. DIES AT CANANDAIGUA, N. Y. George T. Thompson, father of Carl G. Thompson, sr., local insur ance man. died last Thursday night at the age of 88 at his home in Can andaigua, New York, after a brief illness resulting from a heart at tack. Mr. Thompson left here last Wedne.sday and was with his father at the time of his death. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon for the 88-year-old man in (he St. John’s Episcopal Church, where he had been a warden for over 50 years. Among si rvivors in South ern Pines are his son and daughter- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson; and three grandchildren, Carl G. Thomp son, jr.; Mrs. Joseph Lee Brown, and Mrs. Helen T. Fuller. 'rhe Sandhills Kiwanis Club Wed nesday saw the Moore County pre miere of a one-reel film, issued by the U. S. Public Health Service as a part of its educational campaign for the control of syphillis. The film was presented by Dr. B. M. Drake, coun'y health officer, as a demonstration of *he straightfor ward manner in which public health officials are trying to reduce the toll of death and incapacity caused by this venereal di.sea.se. As a prelude to the film. Dr. Drake said the count.v health department was conducting five regular clinics in the county and treating about 200 patients afflicted with syphil lis. 'The film emphasized the point that this disease can be cured if treated by reliable medical practices and reported to physicians or health officers in time. Several of Hollywood’s frequently seen supporting characters took part in the film and one of them, now known as John Shepherd, was origi nally Shepherd Strudwick of North Carolina, a former Carolina Play- maker. The film. Dr. Drake said, was primarily for presentation to men. The Kiwanis Club next week will meet jointly with the Southern Pines Rotary Club on Thursday at noon for a special program. LEGION POST WILL HAVE MEMORIAL SERVICE SUNDAY A special memorial Day service for the Sandhills Post of the American Legion will be conducted at the Church of Wide Fellowship Sunday morning at II o’clock. The Rev. Voigt O. Taylor, minister, will deliv er the sermon and Charles W. Pic- quet is arranging the music for the service. All veterans are invited to attend.