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VOL. 22. NO. 37.
Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, August 14, 1942.
They ‘‘Shot” Six Generals in This Pieture
TELEPHONE COMPANY COMPLETING
EXPANSION PROGRAM OF §40,000
Activities Increase Over
60 Percent in Year's Time;
Demands of Army Heavy
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IN OUR SERVICE
Six gener&ls and a colonel of the Air Force Technical Training Command were “shot” (by Eddy,
photographer) at Knollwood Field last week, while in conference with their commanding officer, Maj. Gen.
"Walter R. Weaver. They are, left to right, Brig. Gen. Junius W. Jones, commanding general, first district,
'Greensboro; Col. C. W. Howard, chief of staff to Gen. Weaver; General Weaver; Maj. Gen. F. K. Martin’, com
manding general, second district, St. Louis; Maj. Gen. Jacob E.- Fickel, commanding general, third district. Central Carolina Telephone Com
: In the past few months, the small
I independent telephone company op-
j erating in the Sandhills has leaped
I forward frorn an exchange to handle
I “convenience” calls for a few hun-
! dred phones to an over-worked cen-
I ter for clearing an average of over
1,100 long ' distance calls daily and
to a place of such importance that
a call emanating from Southern
Pines pan, in extreme urgency, de
mand a “break-through” 'on toll cir
cuits through New York or other ma
jor switching centers to put through
an “Army Urgency” call.
This has been done through a
rapid expansion program costing ap
proximately $40,000 and involving
hours of over-time work on the part
of the staff and cos-tly, complicated
installations. And it was all perform
ed on short notice and in short order.
Communication Important
\ Although wartime brought an in-
j crease in the use of all telephone
facilities, the local district of the
FIVE CENTS
Ration Board Warns
Against Wrong Use
of Gasoline, Tires
Crackdown Threatened
To Conserve Supplies;
Quota Cut 48 Percent
Tulsa, Okla.; Maj. Gen. Jacob F. Curry, commanding general, fourth district, Denver; and Brig. Gen, A. F.
Krogstad, comnaanding general, Chicago Technical Training Schools. Not present for the picture was Brig. Gen.
Ralph H. Wooten, commanding Miami Beach schools. Tnis was the first time all these generals met together at
one time.
Highland Pines Inn Jumps Season Time
By Opening to Rent Rooms to Soldiers
fo“A“LmoL?/r.,grG,oup JCounty is Replacing
Of Officers Ending Maneuver 37 X5Q TeacherS
The Highland Pines Inn is pushing
the season. Here in the middle of
August, the Inn, which sits atop
Southern Pines’ Weymouth Heights,
is open for the season. And a full
or nearly full house is expected for
the next few weeks, at least.
The answer is, of course, the Army,
which, incidentally, isn’t actually
taking over the place, despite rumors
that have been talked for some
time.
Dorsey G. Stutz, president of the
Highland Pines Inn, Inc., operating
concern for the Inn, said that the
hotel would open under the com
pany’s management to accommodate
a large number of officers attached
to a certain Army force which is
completing maneuvers in the Caro
lina area.
Although no official statement was
issued, it was understood that this
outfit, would be stationed for sev
eral weeks at Fort Bragg and that
the hotel would rent its rooms on a
regular basis to members of the out
fit who desired housing in this sec
tion. How long this particular out
fit will be here is not certain; but
it was anticipated that other de
mand upon' comparatively tempor
ary living nccommodations in this
section would result in the Inn’s re
maining open. _
Dining Room Closed
Mr. Stutz said no effort would be
made to open the dining room of the
hotel, and that the staff would be
only sufficient to maintain the desk
and the necessary services for the
rooms. No manager has been named
but Mr. Stutz and Garland A. Pierce,
also an officer of the operating com
pany, will be in charge of the es
tablishment.
W.^E. Flynn, for many years the
manager of the Inn during the reg
ular winter season, is expected to re
turn here from Charlevoix, Mich.,
early in September to assume
charge of the hotel.
According to Stutz,- accommoda
tions can be arranged for upwards to
about 200 people if room assignments
can be arranged satisfactorily for
those desiring to stay for a week or
more, although that number is
above the usual accommodation for
transient or resort guests.
. Although it is unusual • for the
Highland Pines Inn to open during
the summer months, in the past it
has remained open for a couple of
years during the entire summer. This
practice was not kept up.-however.
Twenty-five Percent
Turnover Caused by
Numerous Resignations
Thirty-seven of Moore County’s
Hemp’s Horse Show
Set for September
Group Plansi Races, Band
Music and Other Events;
No Cash Premiums
The Annual Hemp Horse and
livestock show is being planned
again for this year, with the (date
for the event tentatively set for Sat-
pany didn’t really feel the full effect
of this demand until the headquar
ters of the Army Air Force Technical
Training Command located at Knoll
wood. And of major importance to
the headquarters was speedy, effi
cient communication throughout the
nation.
Some idea of the rate of expansion
is shown in the number of telephone
sets in use. In July, last year, the
Southern Pines exchange lyas serv
ing 492 telephones. This yd^r, a to
tal of 767 telephones are in use—
more than 55 percent increase.
Throughout the Sandhills circuit,
there has been an increase of near
ly 40 percent. Carthage telephones
LIEUT. JAMES S. MILLIKEN, JR.
Second Lieutenant James S. Milli-
ken, Jr., who entered the Army Sig
nal Corps shortly after graduation
from State College in electrical en
gineering this past May, has recent
ly left for foreign service, according
to information received by his par
ents, Dr. and Mrs. James S. Milliken
of Southern Pines. Lieut. Milliken
was commissioned upon graduation
at State College and was assigned to
Camp Murphy, Hobe Sound, Fla.,
and later transferred to San Francis
co. He is a graduate of Southern
Pines High School.
. urday, September 5, it was decided ; increased from 203 to 232; in
150 white teachers have, resigned 1 Friday night at a meeting, in
since the schools closed last spring, j Hemp.
County Superintendent H. Lee
Thomas disclosed this week. /
This is a teacher turnover of al
most 25 per cent, whereas in normal
times the turnover in Moore County
has been less than 10 per cent.
There have been no Negroe resig
nations, Mr. Thomas said.
Despite the unusually large num
ber of resignations, all of the va
cancies except about half a dozen
have been filled and Mr. Thomas
thinks that these can be filled with
out any trouble.
Aside from the few remaining va
cancies, everything is in fine shape
for the opening of the county
schools.
Stamps for 75,000 gallons of gaso
line for school busses, approximate
ly the same amount as was used last
year, have been procurred, tires are
.on hand and the busses are said to
be in better repair than they have
been in a long time .
Smalt Papers Have
Job, Speaker Says
Kiwanians Told That Weekly
Press Is Important to
Democracy and Freedom
The small town newspaper, with
its close contact to community life,
should become increasingly impor
tant to the maintenance of free
press and other democratic institu
tions, declared Carl G. Thompson,
Jr., PILOT editor, in a talk at the
Sandhills Kiwanis' Club Wednesday, j
E. H. Garrison, Jr., county agent,
said that it was thought at one time-
it would be better to call this an
nual event of upper Moore off for
this year because of gasoline and tire
shortage. At last Friday’s meeting,
however, it was decided to go ahead
with plans, but instead of having a
cash premium list as in the past, it
was decided to offer only ribbons to
the winners.
“Just as soon as the war is over
and things get back to normal again,
we shall go back to the original
plan,” Mr. Garrison said. We feel
that people will understand and co
operate with us just as fully as ever.
For the last few years, we have rais
ed our premium list by public dona
tions. It seems hardly fair to ask
our friends to do this now when
they are being called upon to buy
War Bonds and Stamps and for other
things every day.
“There is an abundance of good
stock in the County now,” he added.
“Much of this can be brought in
without the use of trucks. This has
been the case in the past.”
An added feature of the show this
year will be horse and mule races.
It is also hoped to have a band to
furnish music and a good speaker
as in the past. The event will be held
at the same spot in Hemp and plans
are to begin at 10 o’clock in the
morning.
Committees to be in charge of the
various activities of the Show are to
be announced later.
Pinehurst, sets have jumped from
275 to 343; and the total for the
three towns, front 970 to 1342.
E. 0. Howard Dies
from Heart Attack
Had Been Builder and
Carpenter Many Years;
Funeral Sunday at 4
Elra Otis Howard, native of Penn-
This expansion demand came, also, | sylvania but for more than a quarter
of a century a Sandhills contractor,
carpenter and cabinet maker, died
unexpectedly at his home on South
Bennett street late Wednesday after
noon while at his supper. He was
69 years old May 11.
Cause was given as a heart at
tack, and death came almost immed
iately:
Funeral services will be conduct
ed Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock at
the Baptist Church, with Dr. Warren
F. Sheldon in charge. Interment will
at a time when the necessary equip
ment for providing service was most
difficult to get and when there was
demand for certain types of equip
ment that never was easily avail
able.
Taxed Ihe Whole Set-Up
Although the Southern Pines dis
trict is under the management of
Vernon Allan, district commercial
manager, and N. S. Kimball, district
plant chief, the burden of this ex
pansion program was such that it
called upon the resources and man
power of the entire company, which
operates 28 exchanges in North and j Mill, near Hallstead, Pa., in 1873, the
South Carolina. I Lewis and Jenny Cof-
Norman M. Shenk, who in Decern- j fin Howard. His parents came to
her had just returned to take over j Pinebluff a number of years ago
operation of the company’s ex- j ®nd died there. He and his wife, the
changes as vice-president' and gen- tornier Miss Carrie Wheeler of New
eral manager, fortunately had had York State, also lived in Pinebluff
experience in this section before and before coming to Southern Pines,
was prepared to call upon the other Mr. Howard was long in the con-
parts of this company’s network. Ex- struction business here, building sev-
perienced employes from other dis- ®^®i homes in Southern Pines. Dur-
A slash of 48 percent of Moore
County’s tire ration quota for Sep
tember from the August allotment
was anticipated this week by county
Ration Board officials, as they warn
ed that there would be a crackdown
upon those who misused any arti
cles, being rationed.
J. L. McGraw of Carthage said
that the rationing officials of the
State had painted' a ■ black' picture
to him when he 'ionferr'ed with them
in Raleigh Tuesday. Although the
August tire quota for Moore County
was small, a cut of nearly 50 percent
was predicted for the coming month.
“People apparently do not realize
the gravity of the situation,” Mr. Mc
Graw declared. “We still receive un
reasonable requests for tires and gas
oline from people we know are nht
essential users. Unless these people
begin to realize that the War may
bel lost because of lack of essential
materials, we are in grave danger.”
Nearly 600 Requests
The ration board began the month
of August with requests for nearly
600 tires and tubes, while the quota
was as follows: passenger cars and
motorcycles: 13 new tires, 57 re-
caped, and 42 new tubes; for truck,
bus, farm tractor, etc.; 74 new tires,
102 recapped and 89 new tubes. With
the anticipated reduction of 48 per
cent in these numbers, there will be
no way of taking care of all requests,
he said.
In order to enforce proper use of
gasoline, rubber, sugar and other
commodities rationed, Mr. McGraw
said that the ration board would
withhold all rationed articles from
people proven to have violated the
usage. State Highway Patrolmen and
local police have been cautioned to
look out for speed limit violators
and other misuses. All rationing
privileges will be withdrawn from
violators, Mr. McGraw said, asking
the public to report violations. '
Fie pointed out that tires and gas
oline rationed for specific business
purposes are not allowed to be used
for any other reason, especially
pleasure trips. At least one Moore
County person has already had ra
tion privileges withdrawn for mis-
be at Mt. Hope cemetery.
Mr. Howard was born at Howard j j^j.. McGraw said, and any oth
ers will be 'made public as they
WINDHAM IN MARINES
Sidney R. Windham, son of Mr.
and Mrs. S! L. Windha^ of Raleigh,
former residents of the^Sandhills, has
entered the Officers Training School
at Quantico, Md., Marine Base.
Young Windham is a hecent graduate
of Syracuse University in business
administration.
TUBERCULOSIS DEATH
Introduced by John Howarth as | QN SLIGHT DECREASE
“surprise speaker, the club s sec- !
retary spoke of the differences be
tween the larger metropolitan
dailies and the smaller, less-than-
daily papers. He said he believed
the smaller paper, which should at
tempt to interpret community life
and to be influenced by the com
munity, was in many respects more
important than chain dailies, often
with a one-man control.
“Newspapering is interesting to
almost everyone, because many fa
mous people got their start in news
papers. Usually, they left newspap
ering to become famous and the
others are still working on newspap
ers,” he said.
The Club passed a resolution
granting a Military membership to
George London, who recently was
called to service with the U. S. Navy.
Guest at the club was Major C. R.
Nicolazzo, assistant chief engineer at
Knollwood Field.
Frank "Webster Reports
National and State Figures
North Carolina’s death rate from
tuberculosis showed a -slight decline
during 1941 over the previous year,
it was reported this week by Frank
W. Webster, executive secretary, N.
C. Tuberculosis Association who for
merly was Southern Pines School
Superintendent.
The headquarters of the Associa
tion are in Raleigh. The national
death 'rate for the year declined to
44 persons for every 100,000 popula
tion, compared with 46 in 1940. In
North Carolina, 1769 deaths and 2,-
300 new cases were repoi'ted. The
death rate was 49 per 100,000, a de
cline of 0.9 per 100,000 for the year.
It was pointed out that in spite of
the slight decrease in the death rate
over 1940, there is a slowing up of
the downward trend.
tricts were brought here to fill the
new gaps which were opening.
■Whore a year ago, around a dozen
operators were manning an eight-
position switchboard, this, year there
are 20 operators handling a 10-posi
tion switchboard, and placing around
550 outgoing toll calls per day. In
June, 1941, the Southern Pines oper
ators cleared 10,505 toll calls origi
nating here. This June, they origi
nated 17,334 long distance calls—an
increase of 65 percent.
Increase in Circuits
The Southern Pines switchboard
handles toll calls for the Sandhills
area, including the exchange at
Aberdeen, and has about 50 long
distance circuits going from here to
different parts of the State and to
the nation. The direct circuits to
New York have been increased from
two to four and a fifth one is going
in. The circuits to Fayetteville were
increased from one to three—and
then the Army leased one of the
circuits, because it kept one busy
most of the time anyway.
Even with these increased cir
cuits, however, the AAFTTC head
quarters at Knollwood Field were j
not quite satisfied. Supposing, they
told Mr. Shenk, something of great
emergency arose and all circuits
were busy, how could they get the
call through?
Get That Linel
And that’s when the Army Ur
gency plan was set up. It’s already
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ing more recent years, he has work
ed for several contracting firms, and
has done, much work of his own. He
was for many* years active in the
Baptist Church and worked with
young peoples groups.
Survivors include his widow and
one sister, in Pennsylvania.
occur.
County Sending 38
To Report to Army
Draft Board Calls Negroes
for Final Examination
at Fort Bragg Center
WOMEN FROM COUNTY
AT P.T.A. INSTITUTE
Four Moore Representatives
Received Certificates
Four Moore County women receiv
ed certificates after attending the
15th annual Parent-Teacher Institute
of the North Carolina Congress of
Parents and Teachers held at 'Wom
an’s College, U. N. C., in Greensboro
last week with about 300 delegates
and visitors in attendance.
Mrs. Eldon S. Adams, fifth district
! P.T.A. director, and Mrs. H. Lee
Thomas of Carthage, Mrs. Thomas R.
Cole and Mrs. H. A. Campbell of
Pinehurst were among the 175 re
ceiving certificates for completing at
least 25 hours of the -week-long in
stitute program. The theme of the
Institute this year was “The Com
munity—Workshop of Democracy.”
One of the major points stressed at
the Institute was the elimination of
what was termed an “archaic, out
moded system of school administra
tion” and the establishment of one
central board of education for the
t State.
The Moore County Draft Board
announced this week that 38 Negro
men would “leave for camp soon”
to take final examination, prior to
induction into the Army or final re
jection by the Army examining
board.
Following are those to be sent by
the Board to Fort Bragg:
John Moutry Nowlin, Calvin Wor
tham, John McKayhan, Willie
Brown, Silas Gibson, Edward Wil
liamson, James Edward Lewis, Jr.,
Southern Pines; Hubert Harrington,
Walter Lee Calloway, Francis Lacy
Rose, Wilbur Arthur Blue, Martine
Sarhen Barratt, Henry Robert Goins,
Lemuel Alexander Jones, Edwin De
witt Taylor, Robert Harris, Walter
Junior Wooten, Pinehurst: William
Henry Rogers, William James Jack-
son, Aberdeen; James Franklin
Murchison, Jr., route 2 Aberdeen;
Elijah Gales,' route 1 Aberdeen;
Howard Turner Clegg, route 1 West
End;
Also, Charlie Wilson, Pinebluff,
Harry Benton Marsh, James Leonard
Cagle, Hurley DeGraffenreid, route
1 Carthage; Ernest Johnson, Albert
McLaughlin, James Smith, James
Franklin McLeod,'" Carthage; John
Howard Lane. Tommie Lewey Gar
ner, route 1 Hemp; Archie Dowdy,
Henry Colonas Brower, Junie
Dowdy, Hemp: Kenneth Cornelius
Rowland, Addor; Eugene Barrett,
route 1 Cameron; and Eldridgs Ward
Browder, Eagle Springs.