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T \ _ ; MAKE EVERT PAV DAY i EOND day J:0? Sft..Dii,6 — SAVl C01t4Ti Jackson OVER THE TOP V7 FOR VICTORY with UNiHD STATES WAR 80NOS-STAMPS VOL. 22, NO. 30. Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, June 26, 1942. Permanent Gas Ration Plan Now Due to Begin on July 22; Registration Dates 9, 10, 11 I Ration Administrators Meet Fri. in Court House to Discuss Card System Gasoline users who have been pui'chasiiifi fuel with their tempor ary ration cards will have to make these cards last them until July 22, when thi- permanent coupon gaso line rationing program goes into ef fect, following registration on July 9, 10, and 11. The Moore County Rationing Board this week received final in structions concerning the registra tion of motorists for more gasoline and was notified that the permanent system would bocome effective at 12:01 a. m. Monday, July 22. Beginning Tuesday. July 9. throughout the county, gasoline us- j ers may register in various com- i nmnities for gasoline cards to be | used in the permanent program As | with previous ralionmg registra- | tions, this one will also be conduct- \ ed in the public schools i Ration Heads Named I A coinplvte list of the .schools i W'here registration will be conduct- I cd and the rationing administrators I and their assistants is as follows: Carthagi' High School, the Rev. W. L. Wafford. Mattie K. Shaw, a.s.sist- ant: Hemp graded school. E. A. West, W. S Evans, assistant; Cam eron, r^. B McKeithen. J. E. Snow, assistant; Vass-Lakeview, W. SUGAR STAMPS. NO 5-6 Sugar stamps numbers five and six have ben officially giv en a double sugar value; but the sugar will have to last the same length of time. The Moore County Rationing Board this week said that Stamp No. 5, which becomes effective June 28, would be good for the pur chase ot two pounds of sugar, instead of on*, but that this amount would have to last un til July 26. Stamps No. 6 becomes effective July 26 for the pur chase of two pounds of sugar to last until August 22. In other words, there has been no in crease in amount ot sugar allow- lowed: but a change in the me thod of using the stamps, which becomes good for a four-week period now instead of the two- week period as before. Mistake in Sijijiials, People on Streets, Dim Blackout Trial Southern Pines 14 Min- ■ utes Late in District Test Because of Cross Signals A confusion of signals and a con- i fusing crowd of people on the streets 1 j were declared the darkest spots in Southern F’ines' blackout last F’riday night, in cooperatit>n with the whole i I of the Charlotte district. Bi-cause ol crossed signals from I Charlotte to the loeal control cen- 1 I ter. Southern Pines did not black out j I until about 14 nnnutes after Char- i I lotte's alarms .sounded. Reports from I other parts of the district, however, ] indicati'd that this town wasn’t the j j only place in wliich the blackout did I not occur on schedule. j After the siren sounded Iutp at | 10:14 p. m., lights throughout the i I town were quickly e.xtinguished. ; Bov Scouts Plan House-to-House (lamas As (Jiniax to Scrap Rubber Drive Here FIVE CENTS To assist in the scrap rubber collection campaign, the local Boy Scouts next Wednesday, July 1, will make a systematic house-to-house canvas of South ern Pines, to collect any scrap, no matter how small the amount, which has not yet been turned in during the current campaign. Th* Scouts are acting at the request of oil companies whose filling stations are serving as major collection points during the nation-wide rubber collec tion drive. It was felt that many household items of scrap rub ber are not being turned in; yet these items often make the most valuable, reclaimable scrap. Meanwhile, filling stations throughout the county were pil ing up scrap rubber in amounts of two, three and four tons, some even having as many as six tons. An unofficial estimate was that at least SO tons of scrap rubber would be collected in the county during the current drive. Filling stations are authorii- ed to pay one cent per pound for all reclaimable scrap rubber brought into them during this campaign, which will end a week from this Saturday, Local Baseball Season Opening Friday wilfi Air Techs Playing; Aircraft Team ADVISORY BOARD Jack (lonrscy Dies of Ileal Proslratio n Funeral for Former Local Man Held at Fayetteville, Was 32 Jack B, Coursey, treasurer of the Cape Fear railroad in Fayetteville. Gladstone. Katherine Graham, as- I’een 32 years old July 24. sistant; Farm Lite School, W. L. Ki- »ei. Mrs. Don Blue, aesistnnt; Alnir- deen, L, J. Dawkins, W. L. McGill, assistant: West End, J. F. Sinclair. Mrs Lucy L. Cochran, assistant; Ea gle .Springs. G. Titus Rogers, C. C, Underwood, assistant; .^Iso. Highfalls, W. G. Coltrane, Howard W Jones, a.ssistant; West- nioore, D, A. Dunlap: Pinckney with ft'w involuntary j which were quickly handled. Big- j gest complaint of Defense Coordina tor John Howarth and Chief Air Raid Warden A. B, Patterson cen- 1 tered about the liirge number of pe- idestrians ami liicycle rid(>rs who rc- maiticd on the streets after the warn- 1 ing signal. Not a few unlighted au- former Southern Pines man, died • toniobiles continued to move in the unexpectedly Sunday at his cottage. 1 blackout, also, it was pointed out. j Crabhaven in Brunswick county, ap- . On Broad Street there were crowds parently from heat prostration or , which would put to shame a good acute mdisestion. He would have ; Saturday afternoon shoppmg crowd, Howarth p<'inted out that according Team from Edwards Company i in Sanford to Meet Enlisted Men from Knollwood Here Air plane technical forces will l clash with the an craft makers in a season opener at the Southern' e.vceptmns | ();,n park Friday afternon at .“i o'clock. Knollwod Field's Air Techs, base ball team made up of enlisted men in the headquarters squadron of the ^ Army .Mr Forces Technical Train-1 ing Command, will meet their first toe of the season. I The opposition is the team repre- j senting the Edwaids Aircraft Acces-, sory Dlant at Sanford, which has 1 met with little difficulty in subdu-1 ing its- rivals so far this year. t The'Air Techs, however, boasted ' a gootl record last season in and A graduate of .Southern Pines ^ to blackout regulations every person High. School, young Coursey lived . without a definite assignment by the 1'‘''‘’‘[P'’ AdKji here for many years and married tTie j former Miss Margaret Silver, dau ghter of Mrs. Elizabeth Silver of Southern Pines. His widow, as well i as one son, Jack, jr., seven, survives. Also surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W, S. Coursey and a broth er, W, S. Coursey jr. Funeral services were conducted Defense Council was supposed to seek shelter and remain there until the all-clear signal. Howarth said he thought many of the violations weri' due to lack of familiarity with the regulations which require clearing of streets and The Southern Pines Regis trants' Advisory Board, estab lished to assist recent registrants to fill out the occupational questionnaires which they are receiving, will meet from now on at the Municipal Building from 3 lo 6 o'clock in the after noons. The Board has been available at the Police Station in both morning and afternoon per iods. Members of the board will be available during the afternoon period to help complete the blanks received by those who registered at the fourth regis tration day under the Selective Service Act. Active members of the Board include the Rev. F. Craighill Brown, John C. Bar- ere the i Technical .stationed before moving to Knoll-! wood Field, and. with several ex perienced college and sar.ulot play ers in the lineup, should put a good nine on the field. Manager of the .■\ir Techs is Mas- School, Carthage; R. O. Taylor, Naz- zie Jackson, assistant; Cameron Ne-1 afternoon at the^Hay Street gro school, James M, Jenkins, Allie Harrington. assistant; Berkley School, Aberdeen, J. H. Floyd; Sou- James Schwartz, Harry Vale, Carl Thompson, sr.. Paul .’erni- gan, the Rev. J. Fred Stimson, and the Rev. Voight O. Taylor. jSteiios and Tvpisls sidewalks^.'^Anyone wlVls caught'onl^;*' J Leonard, who , j ' | ] | ,1,.. J... ihas been working out his team for Methodist Church in Fayetteville and burial was in Cross Creek cem etery. them Pines High School. Philip J., ^r, Coursey had been entertaining Weaver; West Southern Pines | ^2 members of the Cape Fear rail- School, Paul A. Brown; Pinehurst ''“ad office force on a fishing trip; the streets during a practice black out may get shelter in basement of I the post office, which has been des- | ignated as an air raid shelter and is open during each trial blackout. Entrance is made at the north side of the post office. It was also pointed out that cy- rking more than two weeks. In those prac- ' tice sessions he has been able to .se-1 lect a probable starting lineup, sub-, ject, of cour.se, to change without j notice. The lineup: i Civil Service Examinations Will Be Given at Local High School Next Saturday Registration for Youths 18 to 20 Is Set f()r Tuesday Uncle Sam's Manpower Enrollment Soon to Have All Males from 18 to 65 I Young men of Moore County be- I tween the ages of 18 and 20 will be ; required to register next Tuesday in j the fifth nationwide registration un- I der the Selective Training and Ser- ; vice Act. This registration will com- j plete Uncle Sam’s list of men from ; the age of 18 to 65, available for ! call in the war time program. This registration will include all , men born on or after January 1, 1922. I and on or before June 30. 1924—in ' other words, all those who reached : the age of 20 on or after January 1 of this year and are now or will be 18 by June 30, this year. Registration will be conducted in . the regular places in the county, and j will be held from 7 a. m. until 9 p. m. ne.xt Tuesday, June 30. In Charge of Registration Those in charge of the registra tion are as follows: L. J. Dawkins, Aberdeen; J. Vance Adams, Pine- bluff: Hiram Westbrook, Southern Pinos: Donald Currie, Pinehurst; Ben H Wood, Vass; R F. Lowt>’, Cameron; Mrs. Pauline Baxley, Car- ■ thage; W. A. Johnson, West End; C, C. Underwood, Bcnsalem; D A. Dun lap, Spencerville: Edwin A. West, Hemp: and C. Arter Martindale, Highfalls. In most of these localities, the place of registration will be the school buildings. In the last registration, covering men from 45 to 65, 2,437 men .signed thro^jc^jj^^e county, Rej^isU'ations under IheAct tJe^an on October 1^, 1940, when all male persons between the age of 21 and 35 were registered. On July 1, 1941, young men who had become 21 since October, 1940, c were called upon to register, and the third rbgistration took men who I had become 20 years old before De cember 31, 1941 and had not reached their 45th birthday by February 16, the date of registration. On April 27, all men between 45 and 65 register ed. board has called a meeting in Car thage for Friday night, June 26, at 8 o'clock in the couitlKmse for the purpose of discussing the gasoline rationing program. J, T, Fincher, Civil Service examinations for rat- Iings as stenographers and typists will p,, , ■ First base. Corp. Paul S. McCrea;lbe held at the Southern Pines High P |f|al CjllOrtS l^afie I second base, PFC. Aaron V. Barnes; School. Saturday morning. July 11, of being injured by official or emer- hhortstop, Corp. Lester O. Graening; | beginning at 8:30 o'clock, it was an- gency vehicles * j third base. Sgt. Eugene R. Dugan;' nouncod this week by L, E. Grover, The all-clcar sounded here He had been connected with the ! P '"■ ' nan; left field, Sgt. Fulton E. Smith; Applications to take these exami- Cape Fear railroad, which .served , At approximately 10 p, m, a call 1 catcher. Pvt. Jo.seph C. Pointek, and nations may be obtained at the lo- high school, J, W, Harbison; Acad- had complained of feeling over- pedestrians are in danger emv Heights .School., Pinehurst. Ce- heated and had drunk a glass of ice- cil Flagg water immediately before the at- . J - • * „ ! tack. He died before a doctor ar- Meetmg of Admimstrators Meanwhile, in <»rder to explain the new registration, the rationing rived. I right field, PFC. Thomas A. Weems;; local secretary of the Civil Service ( center field. PFC. Lawrence G. Bren- Board. to Get Land Rights Lt. Gosciewski Asking Help in Locating Landowners Who Have Not Been Found Fort Bragg, for about 10 years, and had the reputation of being an in defatigable worker. Active pallbearers included R, M. Jordon, jr., Fred C, Page of Aber- State gasoline rationing field repre-1 i« In navo rhrirffe of thf» i ^ i Southern Pines, J. T. Daniels. Char- sentative, is to have charge of the meeting. Originally, the effedive date of | the permanent rationing program was set for July 1, and when this was .set ahead to July 15. from three to six gallons. Although that an ad ditional week of waiting for the new card has been added, there was no announcement as to further exten sion of the old and temporary cou pon cardii. Until this week, it was throught that the registration would take place in the schools on July 1, 2, and 3: but the order changing this to July 9, 10, and 11, came through this week. les Cuthbert. and W, D. Howard, Among horwrary pallbearers were H A, Page, jr., W. F, Page. W. A. Blue, Reid A. Page and Forrest Lockey, all of Aberdeen. RUSSELL SUGG GIVEN PRAISE BY WORKERS DECEMBER 8 RECRUIT LIKES NAVY TRAINING Young Ed Newton Was First to Enlist Here After Attack from Charlotte cleared through the pitcher, Pvt. James W, Stewart, local control center; but the signal did not conform with that which had been agreed upon. Consequently, the defense officials double-checked the call before invoking the blackout. When it was learned that Charlotte had .sounded its warnings, the sig- „,.i„ J J c ; Southern Pines, recently appeared I nals here were sounded. Spotters' c. i ^ , in the Stanly News and Press, after I young Sugg had been transferred ' from the Badin plant of the Alumi- _ I num Company of Americanto to an K«-<ls New Liiie-Up Cuts Lead lo One I’oiiii 'Trnr;;.!''’'' cal post office, he said, and should j be returned according to instruction. Notification that the examination I would be conducted loe.illy was re- Iceived this week from Joseph Kin caid. civil service representative at Spotter throughout town reported that as fai' as the light situation was con cerned, this test was the best ever. a.‘< (rolf Teams Face Final Matches Siiii<lav Joe de Berry shook up the line-up of his Red team last Sunday, in the third set of matches of the June golf tournament, and the Reds gained seven points on John Barron’s Blues, cutting down the latter team’s lead to one point, as the month's tourna ment heads for the final Sunday of play. Captain Joe de Berry himself Joe de Berry the runner-up winner. A fine letter of praise for Russell R. Sugg, son of Mrs, M, N, Sugg of ^ “lagg. There has been a great demand in governmental agencies for qualified typists and stenographers with Civ il Service rating. Grover said, and these examinations are being con ducted to give local people an op portunity to earn a civil service rat ing. "We wish to thank R. R. Sugg foi his hospitality shown among our col- vniTMr Pnwr rPTC ored race. He did something that no | I'-'UlNVa’ txiJvytt VjrXjiSS Clarence Edson was awarded the other man did. We sure thank him medalist prize; and in the second for coming through bidding us all flight. Gordon Keith won first with goodbye. Dan Farrell as runner-up. A spccial “He is leaving for California and award was made to Morris Johnson, “chef," for his excellent preparation of fish and chicken fries. Match Results COMMISSION IN NAVY Earns Rank of Ensign at Avia tion School in Jacksonville we are sure to miss him. He is a man of God and always met us col ored people with a smile. It seems that one of the family has gone but Results of last Sunday s mutches we hope that he will return to us dropped back almost into the dub i were as follows, with the Blue team some day. class in the match play Sunday, as I members given first. Next Sunday he switched his playing form from 1 will be the final play for this partic- a southpaw to a righthander, sending j ular line-up; his scores temporarily sky-riding. In ! Bert Weatherspoon and Jimmy de place, went Arthur Berry 1-2 vs, Arthur Atherton and J. Ed Newton, son of Police Chief ■Newton, who was practically stand- j number one ing in line on Monday morning, De-! Atherton and Clarence Ed.son for | Clarence Edson. 2 1-2 cember 8, 1941, to enlist in the 'U. the Reds to capture 2 1-2 points S. Navy right after Pearl Harbor, i from Bert Weatherspoon and Jimmy has been spending a nine-day fur- i de Berry with all four players turn- lough with his parents and leaves ing in top scores. Atherton shot 36- Monday to resume duties with the ! 40—76; Edson, 36-28—74; Weather- Navy, ! spon 38-36—74; and de Berry 37-36 Young Newton has, for the past —"3, six months, been in training at the The score, based on Nassau match Naval Air Station at Norfolk and play, now stands: Bluts 33 1-2, Reds is now ranked as a third class petty i 32 1-2. officer, aviation machinist's mate. Following the play last Sunday, Upon his return to Norfolk, he may ; the Sandpipers club entertained the be assigned to an aircraft carrier or . field of 28 at a fish fry, and awards to a detail at the Norfolk station.' were made by John Barron for Sand- Petty Officer Newton says he’s Ilk-1 piper championships of the winter the Navy so far and retJkons he’ll | .season. Arthur Atherton won the Gordon Keith and John Barron. 1, vs. A, J, Daw.son and R. F. Tarl- ton. 2 , P. V. Hatch and Charlie Morrison, 1-2, vs. Bill Moore and Ralph Mills. 2 1-2, ■ Harry Pethick and N. L. Hodgkins, 0, vs, Howard Burns and Elmer Dav is, 3. Dan Farrell and O, Leon Seymour, 0, vs, Pat Patterson and Joe de Berry, 3. Jimmy Hobbs and Carl Thompson, jr., 2 1-2. vs, H, L. Hoffman and J. C. Robbin.s, l>-2. L. T. Hall and Jack Thomas, 2 1-2. “He is a man to forgive and does not believe in punishing oiir colored race for <‘verything they did. He would talk to his men and tell them J. Vance Rowe. jr.. 23-year-old son of the County Recorder, is home on a 10-day leave, after earning his commission as an ensign at the Na val Aviation School in Jacksonville, Fla. In a final effort to secure permis sion for the Army to use land in Moore County during the summer ! maneuvers which commence in July, Lieut. A. K. Go.sciewski, area rep- I resentative. this week sought to lo- ' cate listed landowners, who appar ently did not receive mail requests. In this county were mailed 2,315 maneuver rights cards with letters, of which 65,25 percent have been re turned, with a sign-up of 68 percent in acreage, Lt, Gosciewski said that Cabarrus, Hoke and Lee counties have signed 100 percent, as well as Marlboro county in South Caro lina. The maneuvers are to start during the first half of July, said the man euver area represeiitative. who is making headquarters at Carthage in ! the courthouse, and the consent of all landowners is needed immediate ly. Seek These Landownert A list of landowners and their ad dresses whom the Army has failed Young Rowe enlisted in the Navy 'to locate was issued by Lt, Gosciew- i«st September, after attending the , ski. with the request that he be not- University of North Carolina, and ified by anyone knowing how their not to do that any more.-Colored Jacksonville as an ' land right may be obtained. Follow- aviation cadet, to study for his com-i ing is the list as issued by Lt. Gos- Kmployees of the Carolina Alumi num Company," mission. Upon completion of his|ciewski: leave here, h«' will return to Jack-, Carthage township: Lucy Dritt. MOORE MAN KILLED IN WRECK sonville as an instructor in the avia tion school there. keep rich! on likinf it. championship War Bond book, with vs. Will Wif(s and E, C. Evans, 1-2. William Charles Matthewson, 21. —— of Eagle Springs, was fatally injur- FRIDAY'S NUTRITION ed when the automobile in which he «|- « «C TC DnCTDriMtT* was riding went out of control and rwoir'WlMCiLI overturned on a curve on Highway The Red Cross Nutrition Class, No, 1, three and a half mile.*! south .scheduled for Friday morning, June of Sanford last Friday afternoon. 26, will not b<' held at that time but John Willett of Tramway, driver of w'H he held next Tuesday morning, the car. was injured, Matthewson ' Ju”** 30 at 10 o’clock at the Civic was the son of Mr, and Mrs, William . Club. This will be the last class in Matthewson of Eagle Sprinc.s and' the regular Nutrition Course and was employed at the Sanford Cotton i the schedule of classes in Canteen Mills. 1 Feeding will be announced soon. I Hemp; Frances L. Muse, Norfolk, I Va,; Curtis Freeman, Carthage; Mrs. I Alma Phillip.s. Greensboro; Noah Richardson, Carthage; 'Vassie Ken- nell. Carthage; J. C. McNeill, Car- i thage; Will Black (est) col. Carthage; John McKinnon col. Apex; J. P, Rob inson, col, (est), cio Mattie Robinson, Carthage; and John E, Taylor, col., Cameron, McNeill Township: S, G, Martin, Carthage; Carlton J. Wicker, South ern Pines; Lillie Lowe, Jackson; Mrs. G. W. Miller, Middletown. N. (Continued on Page •)