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\ MAKE EVERT _ PAY DAT IB WAR ir srop SNNDm—SAVi DGUAKS OVER THE TOP FOR VICTORY Nitk UNITED STATES WAR BONDS-STAMFS VOL. 22, NO. 41. Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, September 11, 1942 FIVE CENTS Two Sons of Pilot's Foiiiider in Service ir % PRIVATE STACY BREWER, JR. SERG. ANGUS (MACK) BREWER Mack Brewer in England; Stacy, Jr., at Air Base Both Natives of Moore Two sons of Stacy Brewer, founder of THE PILOT, and Mrs. Brewer of Carthage ,are in the armed services of the nation, one of them, a news paperman also, serving in England. The Brewers heard only recently from Mrs. Sylvia Haylett, in Buck inghamshire, England ,telling of Tech. Serg. Angus McQueen (Mack) Brewer’s safe arrival in England. Mack closed down the Hemp Plain Dealer in September, 1940, to enlist in the U. S. Army, in Battery E, 113th Field Artillery, the National Guard division at Sanford. Stacy Brewer, Jr., went into the Army in January, 1942, and is now with Detachment 12, 902 Q.M. Avn. (Service), U. S. Army Air Base, Rap id City, South Dakota. “June,” as he is called, trained at Fort Francis E. Warren. Wyoming, anti then at Salt Lake City air base and has been in Rapid City since July. He attended school at Vass-Lakeview and Pitts- boro. He is now 22 years old •Sergeant Mack Brewer, 26, is a graduate of Vass-Lakeview school. His address is now Transportation Service, S. C. S., APO 1200, care Postmaster, New York City. Both boys were born at Carthage, where their parents now live, having re cently moved there from Hemp. Their father started THE PILOT at Vass in 1920. DANCING AGAIN With three successful dances for soldiers already on record, the Southern Pines Entertain ment Committee was preparing this week to welcome back another contingent of dancing soldiers of the Second Armored Division, encamped on Fort Bragg reservation. The soldiers furnish the men and the dance band, and the local folks furn ish refreshments and the girls. Double Defense Job Explained to Club Civilian Defense Divided into Two Main Jobs, Offiicals Tell Kiwanians Blue Golfers Defeat Reels in Final Match Victors Hold Only Two Point Lead After Four Weeks of Play In the final summer golf team tournament at the Southern Pines Country Club, the Blue team held a two point lead after the final play last Sunday to win, 31 to 29, and to become guests for a supper served at the Club following the final match play. Next Sunday, September 13, a 36- hole medal play tournament for the Summer Championship of the Coun try Club will begin, with prizes of fered for the first and second low net score. Either summer or year- round members of the Club are eli- gi jle, and 18 h^'Vs may be played this Sunday and 18 the following Sunday. .^n a Labor Day sweepstakes play ed Monday at the local course. Bill Moore took first place with a 42-39- 81, net 64, and Clarence Edson plac ed second with a 41-37-78, net 69. Final results in the Sunday match with a greatly thinnted out crowd were: P. V. Hatch and Dr. L. M. Daniels 3 vs. Bill Moore and Charlie Morri son 0. Arthur Atherton and Clarence Ed son 1-2 vs. Bert Weatherspon and Gordon Keith 2 1-2. Elmer Davis and A. B. Patterson 0 vs. Bob Davis and N. L. Hodgkins 3. ■ H. L. Hoffman and J. D. Hobbs 2 vs. Morris Johnson and Will Wiggs 1. Civilians have two channels of work through which they can take part in home defense and “every cit izen must play a part” declared Ci vilian Defense officials at the Ki- wanis Club meeting Wednesday. J. Walker Martin ,assistant State director, and Lonnie R. Sides, for mer teacher at Ellerbe now with the Atlanta office of civilian defense, presented the two-sided picture of citizens activities. Mr. Martin ex plained the Citizens Defense Corps, which is concerned primarily with air raid defense, from airplane spot ting to air raid warning and black out activities. Mr. Martin said the airplane obser vation posts would probably be call ed into full time duty in the near future. • The Citizens Service Corps, anoth er arm of civilian defense, was ex plained by Mr. Sides as dealing with salvage drives. War Bond and Stamp efforts, and all services in the way of health, family and child welfare, nutrition, consumer activities, and recreation. A number of guests attended the meeting to hear the speakers. They were M. F. Grantham, Norman Shenk, Hugh Betterley, Morris John son, Frank Kaylor, George C. Moore, N. L. Hodgkins, George Thompson, Philip Weaver, John C. Barron, all of Southern Pines; Clifton Blue of Aberdeen; James S. Tufts and L. L. Biddle II of Pinehurst. SINGERS TO MEET 'Charlie Picquet, who’s planning a musical entertainment for the Car- olinas Kiwanis Convention this fall, had a good turnout at the Civic Club last Sunday for his chorus of voices, but says he needs about 25 more good singers to fill out. Anoth er rehearsal is scheduled for 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Southern Pines Civic Club and Char lie asks ‘‘anyone to come who can carry a tune, not just fill a chair.” Commissioners Set \inds for Various County Functions Board Adopts Resolu- iion Allocaling Money to Specific Dufies Where the taxpayer’s money goes is shown in detail by an appropria tions resolution adopted by the Moore county commissioners when they met in regular session Monday. The money, which will be derived from a 58-cent tax levy, a poll tax nd dog taxes, was apportioned as ollows: County General Fund: County Commissioners. $1,070; Listing Prop erty, $8,000; Collections of Taxes: current, $5,500; foreclosure, $2,500; Sheriff’s Office, $7,600; General Klections, $2,000; County Account ant’s Office, $3,600; Court House and Grounds, $5,000; Register of Deed.s Office, $1,250; Coroner, $500; Fire Control, $2,200; Jail, $6,500; Agricul ture Agent, $2,230; Superior Court, $2,000; Clerk of Superior Court’s Of fice, $2,000; Recorder’s Court, $4,500; Juvenile Court, $300; County Attor ney, $400; Auditing, $630; Care of Insane, $500; Juror Expense, $3,000; Home Demonstrator, $1,020; Com>- pensation Insurance, $300; Capturing Stills, $500; Ration Board, $1,000; j Defense Council, $100; Contingent, | $5,000. TOTAL. $69,200. I ::c.uUh Fimd; Health Department. | $19,849; Hospital, So.GGT; Vital Sta-j tistics, $450: Moore County Tubercii- [ losis Association, $1,800, TOTAL,, $28,766. Poor Fun.l: County Home, $6,000; | Outside Poor, S6,0u0; Sewing Room, $100; Comn.odity Rooms, $600; W. P. A.: gardens. $1,000; office, $100. Tf) TAL, $13,8)0. Constitutionul School Maintenance Fund: Supplementary Current Ex pense, $64,706; Capital Outlay, $75,- 083; Debt Service, $58,419, TOTAL, $198,208. County Bond Interest, Dedemp- tion and Sinking Fund, including road debt service, county court house bonds and county funding bonds: Roads, Bonds and Interest, $26,107; Court House Bonds and Interest, $7,- 317; County Funding Bonds, $8,527. TOTAL, $41,951. Welfare Funds: Administration, $9,065; Aid to Dependent Children, $4,500; Old Age Benefits, $10,800; Aid to Blind, $2,400; Medicine, $600; Medical Fees, $600. TOTAL, $27,965. Tax levies in special school dis tricts are as follows: Pinehurst. 15 cents; Southern Pines, 30 cents; Aberdeen, 20 cents. LOCAL salva<;e committee plans DIUVK K)K NEXT FRIDAY. SATliROAY A round-up of salvage from Southern Pines district was set for next Friday and Saturday, September 18 and 19, at a meet ing Tuesday night of a group of local citizens. Determined to get into use every possible bit of scrap rub ber in this section, the commit tee completed a plan aimed at covering every household and establishment in town. The plan, in which every per son is asked to cooperate, will operate as follows: 1. Next Friday, a group of school boys, under the direction of the Salvage committee mem bers, will canvass the town. They will request each person to put out any salvage material, to allow them to get it out for them, or to give them informa tion conceoning items (such as furnaces) loo big to be handled by the boys. 2. During Friday and Satur day, Government trucks will follow the routes canvassed to pick up all the salvage placed by the curbings. 3. For those who desire io sell their junk and retain the (Covliuin’d 0)1 Pagi- Kight) Horse and Biijj^jiies at Hemp Stock Show As Well as Fine Display of Animals JUNIOR MEETS DAD A one-year-old son and name sake greeted his father for the first time here this week when Lieut. Col. V. L. James arrived in Southern Pines for his first furlough in over 18 months of foreign service with the Army. Col. James is spending a few days with Mrs. James and chil dren and, on this trip, he saw for the first time Vinton Lee James, Jr., born here Septem ber 2, 1941, so Junior and his Dad had quite a time. Col. James will leave here soon for duty at Fort Hancock, N. J„ but Mrs. James and the children will remain here. Christmas is Named ABC Store Manager Resignation of Wooiiward Accepted by County Board in Regular Meeting Quality of Farm Stock Shown Declared Best Yet; Brockwell Says to Prepare The Moore County Alcoholic Bev erage Control Board, in regular meeting Wednesday night, accepted the resignation of E. J. Woodward as manager of Store No. 1, in South ern Pinea, and appointed George Christmas, who has been with the store about four years, to the place. James Tufts of Pinehurst, chair man, D, 0. Stutz of Southern Pines and E. R. Brown of Hemp, ABC board members, were all present for Hemp did it again—only better. True, the crowds weren't as big— that was to be expected—but the livestock was better than ever, and more of it. And Charlie Hussey and all his co-workers had reason to be proud that Moore County farmers cooperat ed wholeheartedly in putting on as fine a livestock show as any of those held during the four previous years. In the same grove where the stock show was first held five years ago as an experiment to show off the kind of farm livestock Moore County farmers can breed and raise, there were hitched last Saturd iy some of the finest specimens e.'er shown there. And a good many bug-gies, . . ' back in fashion. J jf r liu '.ey’s mule again won thc' gi i'nd jh .mpion plac(, but there \iab st.if Lom,..etit;jn from the va rious classes. Brockwell Addresses Group Highlights of the morning opening were the band music from the Can dor High School, the talks by ani mal experts from State College, and an address by Sherwood Brockwell, State Fire Marshall, who brought the plies ■or Fort Bra^ ^^en Camp and Hospital Com mittee to Collect Equip ment for Army Once again, the Moore County chapter of the American Red Cross has been called upon by the nation al organization to assist in a project for soldiers—this time in connection with the Camp and Hospital Service of the Red Cross at Fort Bragg, A drive for certain equipment and supplies for furnishing recreation rooms and facilities at Fort Bragg will be conducted in the county un der direction of Mrs. Francis M. Dwight of Southern Pines, vice- chairman of the Camp and Hospital Committee, it was announced this week by Paul Dana, chairman. The equipment will be used by the Camp and Hospital Service at Fort Bragg for welfare service among able-bodied men and for social ser vice and recreation for patients and convalescents at the hospitals. The following list of items has been assigned for this county to se cure; 15 radios, two dozen bed boards, two dozen glasses, two doz en each of forks and spoons, 10 pans of all kinds, six serving trays, one victrola, eight card tables, two pianos, and an unlimited quantity of musical mstruments, records and needles, sheet music, magazine sub scriptions and ash trays. Chairmen in the various towns to a.ssist in this w'ork are as follows: Aberdeen, Mrs, J, B. Edwards; Car tilage, Miss Mary Currie; Hemp, Mrs. Paul M. Burns; Pinebluff, Mrs. Mal colm D. Kemp; Pinehurst. Mrs. J. W. Harbison; Southern Pines, Mrs. Edith Mudgett; West End and Jack son Springs, Miss Blanche Monroe. Contributions of the equipment or money may,be turned over to these chairman or to Mrs. Dwight. Red Cross rooms in each town will be the assembling places for the sup- Mr. Dana urged that various realities of War close to home. | service and civic organizations and Mr. Brockwell pulled no punches clubs assist in this drive, in urging an all-out effoit among farmers to help win the war and to warn that every preparation should be made along the line of civilian ^ protection. He demonstrated minia- the meeting. The resignation, ad-1 ture incendiary and demolition dressed to the ABC Board, said: j bombs and warned that it was not | "Gentlemen: I herewith tender my ■ beyond the realm of likelihood that resignation as manager of ABC Store I they would fall in this vicinity, | ^ No, 1. With kindest personal regards,! should the enemy raid North Caro-i ;g;“„st7h7 Seaboard Tir Une RaU- sincerely, E. J. Woodward. , Una. While he was not extremely Labor Standards Christmas has been an employe in alarmist, Mr, Brockwell was decis-, charge that they the store since about four years ago, ive in insisting that lack of prepara-1 wages and overtime tion was, in his opinion, extreme' LOCAL FOLKS CALLED AS COURT WITNESSES A good portion of the population I of Southern Pines was called in to i appear in Federal Court at Rocking ham in a case, beginning Thursday, i being brought by the Red Caps SCHOOL ENROLLMENT AT 460 AFTER WEEK The first week of the Southern Pines Schools has brought an en rollment of 430 pupils, 270 in the elementary grades and 160 in high school, about the normal number, re ported Philip J. Weaver, superin tendent. The first assembly of the year is being held Friday morning at the school, with the Student Council in charge. Norris L. Hodgkins. Jr., president of the council, will pre side. Other members are Harry Lee B;own, Davis Erhardt, John McCain, Lewis Hodgkins, John Neal, Drennen Mann, Audry West Brown and Rob ert McLeod. Til., full faculty has now report ed, although Miss Sophie Howie, second grade teacher, was not here for the opening because of an oper ation at a Charlotte Hospital, and David Gamble, high school instruc tor, who has been ill this summer, had to lay out a couple of days this week. except for a few months last year. The County Board pays the local manager $175 per month. Lynn Blue and Curtis Morrison make up the rest of the store’s personnel. The Board also appointed C. A. McCallum of Carthage as chief A.B. C. enforcement officer for the coun ty. Under him will be J. A. Law rence and David Knight of Aber deen. Ruth Sanborn’s Last Stories Now Appear Late Writer Got Her Ideas from Local Situa tions, Stories Show was, in his opinion folly. Crowd Spiritful Charlie Hussey, who’s been presi dent of the Moore County Breeder’s Association, was probably a little dis appointed in the crowd, which was reduced from last year unquestion ably by the gasoline and tire short age. But the lack of size was made up by a fullness of spirit and an (Continued on Pagt Five) since tKe Act was passed up to the time of their most recent employment. Local Seaboard employes as well as a large number of townspeople were supoenaed to appear as witnesses. Among those called were D. G. Stutz, Leon Fields, Ed Davis, D. E. Bailey, Frank Viall, R. C. DuBose, Lucile Grover, Ed Newton, Charlie Block, Max Backer and Bert Weatherspoon. REPORTS TO ARMY J. C. Robbins of Aberdeen, who has been connected with Bumey Hardware Company, chiefly in charge of r’.ectrical appliances, has been callcu to service and is leaving Saturday to report to Fort Bragg for final examination, prior to induc tion into the United SUtes Army. August, 1942, Much Cooler than Usual; Rains Heavier; Moon in Total Blackout While the past month of August not only registered a new low for a daily reading, 48 degrees on the 26th, it had a noticeable decrease in temperature from the normal expec tation. Lower by 3 degrees maxi mum, 2.6 degrees minimum and a comforting drop of 2.8 degrees from the long time normal average of 78.S degrees. The month’s average temperature of 75.7 degrees is 1..4 degrees less than last August, and is only exceeded by the record breaking August of 1927, with its average temperature of 74.8 degrees. Frequent showers and a succession of easterly winds were responsible for many comfortable days in the Sandhills. Only eleven days were all clear, while thirteen days were part ly cloudy, five days cloudy and twelve days with more or less rain, totaling 7.26 inches for the month. On the 17th and on the 21st, the pre- (Continuid on Page Eight) The last stories written by the late Ruth Burr Sanborn of Southern Pines appear in current issues of the American magazine and the Satur day Evening Post, and both of them show obviously that the ideas came from the Sandhills. “A Kiss for Luck,” in the Amer ican, is a story built around a stee plechase at “Pinedome,” and in the story is described a green ambulance which, detail by detail, is that be longing to A. B, Patterson of the Sandhills Funeral Home. In the spring of 1941, when Miss Sanborn was ill, she persuaded "Pat” to tak« her to the Steeplechase here in his ambulance, and from the idea, she built this story. "Hero Come Home,” appearing in the Post, has been related by friends to the return of Lt. Col. William P. (Bill) Fisher from the Pacific War Zone recently. Neither of the stories, of course, follows local incidents, but merely are based on some local hap pening which can be built into a story. PRESTON MATTHEWS APPOINTED CADET Atlanta, Ga. — (Special)—Forty- five North Carolina boys have been appointed aviation cadets and re ported this week to the Army Force Classification Center, Nashville, Tenn., for assignment to pilot, navi- ; j gator or bombardier training, acord- •( Special) Guest of | j^g to Headquarters, here, of the Fourth Service Command. Among the 45 was Preston F. Mat thews of Southern Pines, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Matthews. (]ol. Fisher Speaks at Air Graduation Pacific War Veteran Lauds Work of Grbund Crews In Time of War Miami, Fla. honor at special exerciscs at the Em- bry-Riddle School of Aviation here last Saturday w’as Lt. Col. William B. Fisher of Southern Pines, combat pilot recently returned from the Pacific war theater. Significance of ground crew me chanics in modern warfare was stressed by Fisher in his talk to army technical trainees, civilian students and instructor personnel at the school. Fisher, who was a flight com mander with Colin Kelly in the first squadron of B-17D’s to be sent to the Philippines, pointed out that the ground crew often sees action in bat tle. "There's not a plane that can fly or a mission completed without the aid of the mechanics,” he said. “We’re all waiting for you and we need you.” Col. Fisher wears the Distinguish ed Flying Cross for his exploits in the Philippines, Australia, and the Dutch East Indies. THE PILOT'S LOG Something you want? Some thing to buy? Something to mU? THE PILOTS clasiified advet- tisements bring excellent resuUs for lUtle cost. D. H. Williami of May BtrMt recently spent 25 cents to advertise some odds and ends he had around the house. the pilot had scarcely been distributed before Mr. Williams had sold every piece advertiaed for $22.50. Next week he tried another ad on some childrea's furniture. Same results. TIf£ PILOT'S want adverliaemeitts bring results. 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