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VOL. 22, NO. 27.
Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, June 5, 1942.
OVER THE TOP
FOR VICTORY
with
UNITED STATES WAR
PflNOS-STAMPS
H)»s Mary ThornloM ■
r*r* Univiir»lty of N. tl.
FIVE CENTS
(llasis <»f "12, SoiitluTii Sc*li(M)l.29(ira<liiiil«‘s
Announcement Made McDonald and Poole Winners
of Army 0«Tupan( \ \s 3,220 Voters Go to Polls;
ol Mid-l’ines ( Ini) Shaw,andThad Blueon Board
Graduation Exercises Thurs
day Features Talk by Dr.
Childs; Dr. Herr Presides
In coremonit's at the patriotically
decorated High School auditorium
Thursday night, members of the
graduating class of Ii*42 (see pic
ture) received from Dr. George G.
Herr, school board chairman, their
high school diplomas and from Dr.
B G. Childs of Duke University
w ords of advice concerjiing the road
which lies ahe^ad of them.
The Commencement Thursday
ended a week of activities for the
class of '42. which began with the
cinnmencement sermon delivered
Sunday at the Church of Wide Fel
lowship by Dr. Olin T Binkley of
Wake Forest.
Dr. Binkley told the class that they
could base their religious creed on
the Lord’s Prayer, and that if they
followed the advice and religion con
tained in that prayer .they would
like Christian lives.
Dr. Childs, introduced by Mayor
\V D Matthews, warned the grad
uating seniors that theirs was not an
fiosy life ahead, in a war-torn world,
and that their job would be one of
building in the future, after the win
ning of this war.
The Rev. Herbert A Harkins op
ened the exercises with the invoca
tion and the Rev. F. Craighill
Brown asked the benediction. The
High School Glee Club rendered se
lections for the program.
County Lifts Taxes
for Auto Concerns
Car Dealers, Filling Station
and Garage Operators Af
fected by Decision of Board
All filling station and garage oper
ators and automobile dealers in
Moore County will be relieved of the
payment of Schedule B taxes for the
year 1942-43. according to action tak
en by the County Commissioners at
their regular meeting Monday.
This action was taken following
the filing of a petition signed by a
number of men engaged in the auto
mobile business.
The report of the Moore County
Tuberculosis Association as present
ed by Mrs. T. A. Cheatham, chair
man, was accepted and the associa
tion was commended for its work.
.■\n order of Oct. authorizing :i
d*‘ed to John Campbell for the W.
T Scott lot was rescinded, and
Chairman W. H Currie was author
ized to deed the lot to J. Talbot
Johnson for a consideration of $30
An order of Aug. 4, 1941 empower
ing Mr. Currie to deed 19 acres Char
les Mayo property to Clark Allred
was rescinded, and an order passed
that this land be deeded to W. \
McKeithen for $75.
Charlie Caviness, route one. Eagle
Springs, was allowed $2 pi'.' month
for medicine until further notice; J.
B, Rhyne Estate was relieved of
taxes for the year 1936 in the amount
of $29.71 on account of double list
ing.
Beer licenses were authorized for
the following: Mrs. A. E. Murphy,
Southern Pines; P. B. Parris, Aber
deen; E. H. Mills, Pinebluff; Theo.
Barrow, Lakeview; H. W. Dorn (2)
Southern Pines; J. A. Ferguson,
Southern Pines, and beer and wine
licenses for the following; R. B.
Jarrett, route 2, Cameron, and Her
bert C. Stutts, Hemp.
STUTTS ON SCHOOL BOARD
R. A. Stutts of Lakeview was last
week appointed as a member of the
Vass-Lakeview school board to fill
the vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of A. B. Parker of Vass. Mr
Stutts is well qualified for the place
and is expected to prove a valuable
member. '
At graduation exercises Thursday night, the :ihovo 29 members of
the Class of 42 were awarded high .school diplomas. Thi'V are. left to right,
front row: Peggy Palmer, Hannah Moge»'r, Katy Lee Sessoms, Marjorie
Burdett. Dorothy Phillips. Georgunne Thompson, Danu Utley. Carol
Thomas, Jane Morrison; .second low: Catherine Prizer, Irene Olive, Doris
Hussell, Betty Lee Holt, Arnette Avery, Louise Hall, Irion MeElderry,
Janice Kimball, Helen Grey. Joyce WiLson; third row: Jimmy de Berry,
Calvin Stephenson, Jerrell Dutton, Bobby Dunn, Walter Blue. Lloyd L.
Woolley, jr., George McCormac, Ray Turner, Leo O'Callaghan. and Neil
McDonald Not in the picture are Vivian Williams and Barbara Corbett,
also members of the class. (Photo by Eddy)
Many Sliideiits Keceive Honor Awanls
for Acliievoinent Dnriiiij Sc*lio<»l \ car
Jerrell Dutton Gets Service
Award Presented by
Superintendent Weaver
The past week has been a high
spot in the short lives of many
Southern Pines’ High School stu
dents as they completed their re
quired pul)lic school education and,
as the Class i.f '42. received their
graduation diplomas.
Class Night and Himors Day were
two programs of the week which
were pretty much the class’ own. In
stead of the usual formal Class
Night program, the graduating sen
iors Tue.sday evening performed
their own play, “South of the Bor
der,” with full costumes and with
the usual predictions, histori(>s,
poems, woven into the scheme of
the play.
Dutton Gets Service Award
Honors Day program conducted
Wednesday morning featured the
Englishman Speaks
of Britain’s Policy
Local Clubs Hear Discussion
of England's War Effort and
Attitude Toward Colonies
I (^ver half a hundred Kiwanians,
I Rotarians and Lions, from various
I Moore County towns met at the
j Southern Pines Country Club Thurs-
! day at noon to hear a talk by K,
I Campbell Russell, an Engiishman eii-
i gaged in developing better Anglo-
American relations.
Jacques Busbee of Jugtown, friend
, of Mr, hussell, was a guest of tho
I club and introduced the speaker.
The Englishman, who has been
^ connected with the British con.-:ulate
I and has traveled extensively in the
Britts'h commonwealth, devoted hi^
Troops Being Quartered
In Resort Hotel, Which
Is Military Reservation
Although the former Mid Pines
Club, exclusive resoi t hotel and golf
cfiurse of Southern Pines, on Mid
land Hoad, has been occupied for
several wet'ks hy troops of the Army
Air Force Technical Training Com
mand, the official announcement of
this addition to the Command Head-
quarter.< at Knollwood Field was
made just this week
The buildings of the Club are oc
cupied by troops and are therefore
a restricted U. S. Army Reserva
tion according to the Headquarters
Provost Marshal Civilians are urged
to confine visits to those of a bus
iness nature.
This announceiiK'nt confirms the
j rumors which have been rife since
1 the occupation of The Pine Needles
Inn by the AFTTC that other re-
' .sort places would he added to facili-
I lies of the Command headquarters.
( Number Attend Buffet Supper
The buffet supper. h<'ld at the of-
I ficej s' mess on Friday evening was
j pronounced a success hy Mess ("jffi- |
I cials The large buffet was in the •
I club room and tables and chairs were i
: placed on the lawn for the guests.
Those attending were Brigadier Gen- |
1 eral and Mrs. Junius Jones, Colonel i
i L. J Carr. Colonel George Van Stud-
. diford, Colonel and Mrs. Vr\ P.
' Sloun. Colonel and Mrs. C. T. Ar-
; nett. Lieut. Colonel and Mrs, L O.
' Ryan, Lieut. Colonel and Mrs. P. T.
Hanley. Major and Mrs. G. J. Lueb-
I ben. Major and Mrs. L. J. Alexander.
I Major and Mis. S. ,S. Brownton. Ma
jor and Mrs. D J. Duval, Major and
Mrs J H. HrewsttM', Major and Mr.^.
R. A Billups, Major and Mrs. C. A
Watt, Major and Mrs, W. H. Andri-,
Continued on Page ,‘i
U.S.O. OVER THE TOP
High praise for Julian T. Bish
op, Southern Pines chairman for
the current U. S. O. drive, was
given this week by J. Talbot
Johnson oi Aberdcn. county
chairman. Mr. Bishop completed '
the local drive this week and |
turned over SS6L19, more than
SlOO above the quota which was
set at S450. Mr. Bishop gave
thanks to all those who assisted
him. and espe<^ally to Charles
W. Picquet of the Carolina Thea
tre who obtained a special U.
S. O. film and interrupted his
theatre program on Monday and
Tuesday to collect $50.19 for the
U. S, O. fund, Mr. Johnson said
that only a few communities had
reported so far on the U. S. O.
collections. Southern Pines is
the only one so far which has
exceeded the quota.
Second Nurses’ Aide
Class Is Graduated
Number of Southern Pines
Women Included in Group of
Volunteer Nurses
preientation of athletic and club, , „n i i
J tu ^ talk to discussion of British Imper
awards, and the first presentation ] .
of the School Service Award for
all-around usefulness. This honor
was presented by Superintendent
Philip J Weaver to graduating sen
ior Claude Jerrell Dutton.
Dorothy Phillips, retiring presi
dent of the Student Body presided
and the meeting was opened by ^
Norris Hodgkins, in-coming presi- j
dent of the Student Body. j
Honor Students I
Individual awards were made as'
follows:
To Carol Thomas, for outstanding
citizen in the senior class, the Amer
ican Legion Citizenship Medal, pre
sented by L. D. Williams; to Dan S.
Ray, ji., the Junior Chamber of
Commerce Cup, presented by Paul
Butler, for most imprt rinent in
citizenship and scholarship; to Car
ialism: Facts versus Fiction”
“Great Britain does not ’possess'
any colonies or an empire,” Mr. Rus
sell declared. "Britain docs not exact
tribute from any of the colonies, pro-
tcctoiates or dominions, and often is
called upon to help support insti
tutions in parts of the common
wealth.”
He specified the present r.rutral
ity of Eire as an example of the In
dependence of British dominions. He
.said that throughout the British Em
pire. there was local autonomy of
government, by the natives.
Speaking of Britain's part in the
war, he enumerated her taking on
the Italian and German fleets, hold
ing of North Africa, Iran and Iraq,
and the driving of the “luftwaffe”
out of the skies over Britain.
Among guests of the regular club
ol Thomas and George McCormac, j ^ p,,i,ip ciague of Knollwood
the Danfoi'th F'oundation .'Vwards. by
Miss Pauline Miller; to Doris Fer
guson. the 8th grade citizenship
Awards, by Mi.ss Pauline Miller; to
Doris Ferguson .the 8th grade cit
izenship award by the Sons of Amer
ican Revolution, presented by Miss
Winston Cobb; to Dorothy Phillips
the Reader's Digest Award by Miss
Martha Davis.
Club Letters
Recognition for athletic and club
activities were as follows:
Girls' basketball: Helen Grey,
most valuable player; Jean Council,
most improvement; Ruby Crissman,
Mary Grey, Irion MeElderry. and
Joyce Bailey: girls’ Tennis. Helen
Field, CJeorge C. Moore, the Rev. W.
S. Golden of Carthage, C. J. Daw
kins and C. J. Johnson of Aberdeen.
Kxplosion of Stov<‘
(laiisos Hoiist* Fire
Explosion of an oil stove water
heater in the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Ike Woodall at 23 East Indiana
avenue Monday evening at 7:30 p.
m. brought out the Southern Pines
Volunteer Fire Department to com
bat flames.
Mrs, Woodall sustained an injur
ed foot, caused by a flying fragment
Grey, captain; Audrey West Brown, ’ of the stove. The building, owned by
Juliana Webster, Dorothy Phillips,' C. W. Kellam, seasonal resident, was
and Mary James; awards presented ; damaged to the extent of about $400,
by Miss Aline Todd
Boys’ basketball: Walter Blue, cap
tain and most valuable: Jimmy do
Berry, Bobby Dunn, Ray Turner,
Norris Hodgkins. Furman Green,
Thomas Campbell, manager: and Bill
Raymond, most improvement; boys’
tennis. Blue. Hodgkins, deBerry,
Harry Lee Brow'p, Turner, Orlo Pac-
uilli and Dunn; presentation by
David Gamble. Boys’ baseball, Jer-
rcll Dutton, Bill Raymond, Captain;
Jasper Swearingen, Frank Smith,
Lewis Pate, Davis Erhardt, manager:
Junior Culler, Curtis Williams and
Buddy Perkit»s.
(Continued on Page 8)
it was estimated. The flames did not
break through the roof, but the heat
from the fire blistered much of the
interior paint and charred consider
able sections of wood.
Arinv Still Signinj;
Moore Land Ownersi
Lt. Gosciewski Seeks Further
Cooperation for Rights Dur
ing Coming Maneuvers
A second group of Moore County
women last Friday took the Florence
Nightingali’ pledge and joined the
lanks of thousands of pati'iotic wom
en who are volunteering services as
nurses through the Red Cross Nurses’
Aide Corps,
Twelve women completed the sec
ond course, making 22 aides trained
at the Moore County Hospital since
the program was launched here early
this spring.
Mrs, Malcolm D Keijip of Pine-
bluff. repre.senting the Nurses' Aide
■omniittee of the county Red Cross,
read some of the duties and respon
sibilities of these volunteers from a
letter by Mrs. Walter Lippman. na
tional Nurses’ Aide chairman. Short
speeches viere made hy Dr. R. M.
Drake, county health officer: E, T.
McKeithi'n, busine.ss manager of tho
hospital; and Mrs, Helen Jacobs, who
has been in charge of training both
classes.
New Nurses' Aides
Receiving certificate.s and being
The Army has already signed up
118,619 acres of Moore County land
to be used for the maneuvers which
begin in this area the first of Julv, ■ ,i j . .u ^
according to Lieut. A. K. Gosciewski, ! into the Nurses Aide Corps
Army maneuver representative in 1 o
this area - ' deen; Miss Birdilia Bair, Mrs. Violet
' Friedingcr, Mrs, Edith Hassell, Mrs,
Lieut, Gosciewski is located in tho I
Marian Hershey, Mrs, Mary Hodg-
ccunty court house at Carthage, try- | ^ins. Mrs. A'vryl Patch. Mrs. Eleanor
ing to meet a rapidly approaching
deadline for signing of land rights
for use by the Armv.
A total of 234,544 acres is being
sought in the county for the maneu
vers, so that about 50.1 percent of
the job is done. There have been 959
of the 2,315 land owners already
signed as of Ma.v 30, a report from
the Fourth Corps Area rents hoard
said.
Lt. Gosciewski made a special re
quest that landowners who receiv
ed cards frr)ni the Rents Board in
Fort Jackson sign these cards and
send them in He pointed out that it
was the .Army's policy to do as lit
tle damage to land as possible, imd | Aides have
to repay growers for any damage j ed States.
Tompkins, all of Southern Pines;
Mrs. Evelyn A. Anthony, Mrs. Hel
ena H, Culleton, Mrs. Lonnie Fire
stone and Mrs. Louise Hogg, all of
Pinehurst.
Highest Number Ballots
Cast in Sheriff's Race;
Burgin High in County
(A complete tabulation of
votes cast in last Saturday's
primary elections, by precinct,
for each candidate, will be
found on Page 6 of this issue of
THE PILOT).
A surprising number of voters,
considering this i.s an ' i>ff-.year" in
some respects politically and the ex
pected war-time lack of interest in
politics, wimt to the polls f)f Moore
County last Saturday, the greatest
number interested, apparently, in
determining the man to be sheriff
for tho next four years. And they
picked Sheriff C. J. McDonald.
By polling 1,992 of the total 3,220
votes cast for sheriff. Sheriff McDon
ald of Carthage was re-nomin;;ted,
and therefore, virtually re-elected to
that office Herman H. Grimm, also
of Carthage, drew 1 228 in this race
which attracted most voters.
I In the contest between J. Hawley
Poole of West Knd and Haywood
H F’ry of Carthage for nomination
to the Slate House of Representa
tives. the incumbent again won,
Poole polling 1.733 votes against
Fry’s to win re-nomination.
Thad Blue and Shaw
Of the two races for members of
the Board of County Commission
ers. Thaddeus L. Blue of Eureka sec
tion, route 3 Carthage, defeated over
whelmingly his two opponents, J. O.
Blue of I,akeview and Frederick L.
Taylor of Vass. to represent McNeill
and Greenwood townships. He pull
ed down over double the total num
ber of votes of his two opponents.
Thad Blue's 2.048 votes was the
highest polled by a county candi
date. Cl.vde Shaw of Cartb 'gc vein
over Reid Flinchum of Carthage fur
commi.s.sioner from Carthage town
ship. Flinchum won both Carthage
precincts by close margins, but Sh.iw
carried well m Hemp, Pinehurst and
Southern Pines.
In both the Sheriff's race and the
House race, large majorities for the
incumbents at Southern Pines. Pine-
hurst and Hemp turned the tide.
Poole and .McDonald both lost the
heavy-voting East and West Carth
age precincts, but by comparative
ly clo.se margins, while in the South
ern Pines, Pinehurst and Hemp pre
cincts they won b\- large majorities.
McDonald’s majority in these latter
three precincts was 488 of his total
704 majority. Poole’s majority in
these was 411. more than his total
majority of 387.
Burgin Gels Highest Vote
W. O. Burgin, re-nominated in the
Kighth Congressional District for U.
S, Congressman, polled the largest
number of votes in Moore County in
These women have gone through I ^ ^ .
a period of 80 hours of intensive r4- w r u; ^ ^
b4( for Giles Y. Newton, his onlv
training at the hospital to prepare
themselves to render volunteer as
sistance to regular nurses, freeing
these from rountine tasks. Each
Aide is required to give 180 hours of
free service a year to a hospital or
clinic in the area in which she lives.
She is also subject to call at any time
to assist in emergency areas. Since
Pearl Harbor over 25.000 Nurses’
been trained in the Unit-
opponent. Last time he ran, Burgin
had four opponents.
Following the lead of the entire
State, Moore County gave a whop
ping majority to Senator Josiah W.
Bailey for re-nomination to the U.
S. Senate over his opponent Richard
T. Fountain Bailey polled 2,245. sec
ond highest vot(' m the countv.
against Fountain's 847.
Two Republicans, seeking nomina
tion from their Part.v to run .igainst
Bailey for the United State.-! Senate
next fall polled only 35 votes in all.
Of these 12 went to W. Kluf’’ Stoney
^ hich is done, so long as the claim ' Record of Service
IS filed within 30 days after the dam- The first class of Moore County
age is noted. At a nu'eting of Arm.v i Nurses’ Aides has already made a
maneuver repiesentatives in Wades- record of contribution. Through the;., ^ oo < c ? r r. . •
boro recently, a new way of com-1 third week in May, volunteer dutv I m,,
pensation was adopted, to make had been performed as follows: Miss i °
surer and quicker damage payments. Eleanor Barron of Southern Pines, ' , T u u "
All fruit orchards will be declared I 122 hours in hospital, including night I two years ago when the ^,m-
oft-limits he s:iiri 1 c i Paign had more .state-wide and Con-
Continued on Page 5
An alarm at 10:30 Sunday morn
ing sent the Fire Department to a
brush fire near the Travis house on
Fairway Drive, where flames were
quickly bi'ought under control with
out damage to houses. The Fire com
pany also extinguished a brush fire
near Swan Pond, on the north side
of Midland Road Tuesday, tho call
being placed abf>ut 12:30 p. m. No
alarm was sounded for this call.
Two l^o(*al (ioll IVaiiis SiiiKlay
ill Malfh l*lay for Month's Toiirnev
Summer golf matches at the Bert Weatherspoon and
Southern Pines Country Club are .Mba de-Costa vs. Clarence
starting this Sunday, June 7. with and R. F Tarlton
the “Reds.” headed by Joe de Berry,
teeing off against the '“Blues,” cap
tained by J. C Barron, at 1:45 for
the first match of the month.
Teams and pairings were select
ed this week foi' an 18-hole match
play, best ball, with the first four-1
some to start at 1:45. followed every
five minutes by the other teams. At
the end of four matches, one each , N. L. Hodgkins and Dan Farrell vs.
Sunday, the losing team, according A. B. Patterson and Ralph Mills,
to the Nassau system, sets up for | T. C. Laurance and Bob Maurer vs.
dinner for the winning team. The Jesse Wimberley and Neil McKeith-
following month, new captains and : en.
new teams will be organized. ' Cl.vde Morrison and Boone Dutton
Pairings for this Sunday arc as ^ vs. Will Wiggs and Paul Woodard,
follows, with the Blue Team part- ; Carl Thompson jr and Jimmy
nors listed first The teams are in 1 Hobbs vs Jack Taylor and T. J.
order of their starting, the f’rst at Tarlton.
1;45 and the others in five min- 1 H. L .Hoffman and J. C. Robbins
ute intervals: ivs. L. T. Hall and Jack Thomas.
Frank
Edson
Gordon Keith and J C. Barron
vs. A. C. Dawson and Jot' de Berry.
P V. Hatch and Charlie Morri-
s«m vs. Dr. L. M. Daniels and Bill
Moore.
Jimmy de Berry and Morris John
son vs. Howard Burns and James
Igressional district intere.st. Voting
I for the sheriff this year polled 3,-
220 votes and two years ago the
three-way race for the State House
of representatives drew out a total
of 3.812 voters, while the five-way
Congressional race, featuring the
Deane-Burgin fight, polled 3.617.
Schwartz.
Mother of Mrs. Shreckhise
Dies While Visiting Here
Funeral Services Being Con
ducted at Norfolk
Mrs. Callie Vestal Rand, mother of
Mrs. Mildred Shreckhise of Southern
Pines, died early Wednesday morn
ing at the home of her daughter
with whom she had been visiting for
the past month.
Mrs. Rand was born in Harnett
County April 1, 1868, was a gradu
ate of Peace College in Raleigh and
had been a resident of Norfolk, Va.,
for many years. Funeral services are
to be conducted at noon Friday in
Norfolk, Burial will be in Forest
Lawn cemetery. Surviving are eight
children and four grandchildren.