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ROBS f) 9) # # m 'IS 4^ Governor Cuts Cake at ‘E” Pemiant Celebration Founder of Company Believes Diesel-Powered Trains Were Given Start at Sanford A little shop started by a Laurin- burg native to manufacture gasoline- motored railroad cars to run from Sanford to Lillington last week re ceived an Army-Navy “E” pennant for excellent production of vital war materials for airplanes and guns. H. P. Edwards, now president of the Atlantic and East Carolina rail way company at . New Bern, was the founder of the Edwards Company back in 1917. He said the other night at the celebration of the .“E” pen nant award at the Dunes Club that out of these early efforts of his grew not only the Edwards Com pany but the wide use of Diesel en gines dn the railroads in the coun try. He tells his story this way. When he was running the Atlan tic and Western railroad in Sanford years ago, he, and the company ex perimented with a highway truck as a passenger coach on the railroad, by putting flange wheels on the truck, and driving it with the gaso line motor. He wanted a small, inex pensive coach, easy to operate, to carry passengers over the short run, Burlington Zephyr To develop this idea, the Edwards Company was started to manufac ture the coaches. The Burlington Railroad, operators of the now fa mous Burlington Zephyr, became in terested in the experiment, and or dered a car. Then another. Then larger and larger ones. Finally, their demands became so great that the small Edwards Company couldn’t meet the reauest for nowerful 'en gines with four or five cars. But there, Mr. Edwards said, was the be ginning of the use of diesel-engine trains. Curiously enough, the real mar ket for these motor rail cars devel oped in South America. About 1925, the Edwards Companv took a chance, and competed with firms from all over the world in huiioling a motor rail car for a South Ameri can country. The Edwards car won out in the final test, and orders be gan to flock in from places like Co lumbia, Panama and Argentine. Mr. Edwards hasn’t been connect ed with the Edwards Company since 1927, although for a number of years it continued to manufacture the rail road cars. In 1940, the company was taken (Continued on Page Five) Governor J. Melville Broughton cuts a birthday bake lor Ralph E. Rogers (extreme right), president of the Rogers Diesel and Aircraft Co., operators of the Edwards Company in Sanford which last week rp- ceived the Army-Navy “E” Pennant for excellence in production. The cake cutting took place at the Dunes Club here. Others in the foreground are, left to right, Robert M. Hanes of Winston-Salem, Mrs. Broughton, and Mrs. Rogers. (Photo by Humphreys) Howard Burns Gets Kiwanis Presidency In Close Election McDonald Vice-Pres.; Tarltori Treas.; Howarth Leads Directors' Ticket COLD FOR SWIMMING Pugi Qil Rationing Periods Explained This time of year is a lillle loo cold for swimmnig in. Wat son's Lake. Chief of Police Ed Newton and Deputy Sheriff Charlie Dunlap found that out the other day. They went to Dan Short, caretaker at Wat son's, seeking a boat in which they could check the lake for signs of Dan Luther McLeod, Negro who has been missing since November 22. The two of ficers were a little skeptical of the boat, but Short scoffed at their fears. "It rides better low in the water," he told them. But when the Chief and the Deputy both peered over the same side of the boat, the water got higher than the boat, and into the drink they both went, clothes and all. They swam to safety and the nearest warm spot without in cident, all had a good laugh: but on second thought. Chief Newton remarked: "The Lord takes care of drunkards and fools. I know we weren't drunk—so what do you reckon that makes us?" Period One Coupon Extended Through December; Sugar Books to be Stopped on 15th Heart Attack Fatal to Mrs. Meinhardt Pinebluff Resident Dies in Richmond While Enroute to Silver Springs Home Christmas Baskets Still Needing Help Clothes Particularly Requested by Committee Preparing to Distribute Gifts to Needy Mrs. Mary Caroline Meinhardt, 67, widow of the late Theodore F. Mein hardt, who for the past 23 years made her home in Silver Springs, near Pinebluff, died Monday morn ing in Richmond, Va., on her way back to her home. Mrs. Meinhardt left her home in April to go to the bedside of her 86-year-old mother in Charlottesville, Va. After her mother’s death in Oc tober, she herself underwent an op eration from which she made full re covery. She was on her way back to her home near Pinebluff and broke the trip by -^iting a friend in Rich mond. Several hours before she plan ned to leave, she was stricken with a heart attack. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at Powell Funer al Home in Southern Pities and bur ial took place at Pinebluff Cemetery. The Rev. W. A. Parsons officiated. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Theo. Berg of Pinebluff, and Mrs. L. E. Nelson of Hampton, Va., The Christmas Basket Committee of the Southern Pines Council of So cial Agencies this week appealed for clothing and any additional contribu tions in order to fill out the baskets which will be distributed by the Council at Christmas time to needy families in this section. Although yie response to an ap peal for funds to support this Christ mas project has been satisfactory, there is still need for clothing con-- tributions and other assistance ac cording to Miss Laura Kelsey, chair man of the committee. Useable children’s clothing is need ed as follows: for girls, at least one article in sizes 3, 4, 5, 7, 12 and 15; at least two in sizes 9, 11, 13 and 14; and three in size 16. Such things as underwear, socks, sweaters and the like. For boys, at least one set in sizes 2 and 16, two sets in 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, and 15, three in size 7, four in sizes 9 and 10. Suits, trousers, coat and sweater, 'overcoats, caps, and the like are desired. In various grocery stores in town this week, barrels have been placed in which canned fpod contributions may be made for the Christmas bas kets, and any other donations may be made to Miss Kelsey or to Mrs. J. B. Swett, executive secretary of the Council. Local organizations affiliated with the Council have agreed to help in the packing of the baskets for dis tribution and the Town will under take to help in the distribution. CAMP LIBRARIAN An extension through December of the validity of fuel oil coupons for period one was announced this week by the Moore County Rationing Board, which also warned that sugar ration books, for both sugar and coffee, cannot be obtained after De cember 15. The heating season is divided into five periods, and the coupons are marked for the respective periods in which they are to be used. These periods, are as follows: Period 1, from Oct. 1, 1942 to December 5, 1942; Period 2, from Dec. 6, 1942 to Jan. 2, 1943; Period 3, from Janu ary 3 to Feb. 5; Period 4, from Feb. 6 to March 6; Period 5, from March 7 to Sept. 30, 1943. All coupons for Period 1 became valid October 1 and most of these will be required to pay dealers for oil secured by consumers before the coupons were issued. However, +he coupons for this period are still val id and will continue to be so through December. Coupons for Period 2 are also now valid. Others will become valid, according to above dates. George H. Maurice, ration board chairman, cautioned consumers and dealers to remember these dates. Those who have not secured their sugar ration books, also being used for coffee rationing, should secure these at once, the board said, because they cannot be obtained after De cember 15. These books are known as War Ration Book One. Those who did not get their sugar book are urg ed to get them now. FIREMEN SAVE HOME In a close election at the regular meeting Wednesday in the South ern Pines Country Club, the Sand hills Kiwanis Club elected Howard F. Burns, Southern Pines clerk and treasurer, for its president to serve during 1943. Burns defeated Paul C. Butler of Southern Pines by a vote of 19 to 17, in a total of 36 ballots cast. John M. Howarth led the ticket in the election, receiving 26 votes for director. There were 14 on the bal- ot, and seven of the 14 were to be elected. Sheriff Charles J. McDon ald of Carthage was elected vice- president and R. F. Tarlton of Sou thern Pines, treasurer, without op position. Other directors elected were Dr. E. M. Medlin of Aberdeen, Dr. J. I. Neal of Southern Pines, Reuben C. DuBose of Southern Pines, W. D. Sabiston, Jr., of Carthage, Jack Tay lor of Aberdeen and John F. Taylor of Pinehurst. Three Tie for 2 Places The two Taylors, along with G. C. Seymour of Aberdeen, were tied for sixth, seventh and eighth places, with a total of 19 votes each. When the run-off for the sixth and seventh directorship places was announced, Mr. Seymour, who has served as di rector _ several terms, arose, said he had just celebrated a birthday and that he just didn’t feel like he could serve, and suggested the two . Tay lors be named. Upon this urgency, Paul Dana moved, and the club voted to accept this proposal. Burns will succeed as president O Leon Seymour of Aberdeen and he, 'vilh the new boara of directors, will take office the first of the year. Final plans for the Twentieth An niversary celebration of the found ing of the Sandhilis Club were an nounced. This observance will be in (Continued on Page Eight) Over 4,000 Register for Liquor Rations Coupon Books Still Obtainable at Store or County Office; Ration Now Started Library is Plannnig New Concert Series Tentative Schedule of Three Performances Set if Response is Great Enough FOR EARLY MAILING The Southern Pines post office windows will remain open on Saturday afternoons between now and Christmas until six o'clock, in order to make early mailing easier for the patrons, it was announced this week by P. Frank Buchan, postmaster. The windows usually close at noon Saturday. The postmasfer also announc ed the tollowing new schedule of mail closing for outgoing mail. 9:30 a. m., for northbound on No. 4 train, 10:15. 5:30 p. m., for northbound fin No. 192 at 6:25. 6:00 p. m. for southbound on No. 3 at §:35. 9:30 p. m. for southbound on No. 9 at 10. 10:30 p. m. for northbound on No. 6 at 11:59. Gordon M. Cameron Succeeding Currie As Board Chairman Reynolds Vice-Chairman Other County Officers Are Sworn In Southern Pines volunteer firemen, answering an alarm at 5:45 Monday evening, with both fire trucks, sav ed the home of Robert Williams, lo cated on the southern outskirts of West Southern Pines. A series of three concerts of cham ber music, such as were presented last season and the year before by the Southern Pines Library Asso ciation, is being planned by the Li hr ary again to begin January 18, 1943, with . John Toms, formerly member of the Philadelphia Opera Co., as featured tenor vocalist. Other tentatively scheduled con certs are that of Edgar and Doro thy Alden of the Meredith College music faculty on Feb. 22, and Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Bacon of the department of music of Converse College at Spar tanburg, S. C., on March 29. A letter from Mrs. James Boyd, chairman of the Library Concert committee, went out this week to a number of folks in the Sandhills, saying that the concerts would be 'given if sufficient interest is shown for the series planned. A. M. Yeo mans, president of the Library Asso ciation, is in charge of ticket reser vations, for those who would like to subscribe to the series. He Couldn’t Go Out and Get Business So He Brought It to His Cabin Door Miss Katherine Martin, who for merly was librarian for the Southern Pines Library and fpr the past two years has been with the Pratt Li brary in Baltimore, Md., has recent ly i accepted a position as camp li brarian at Camp Eustis, Va., and be gan work there December 5. If you drive out the road from West End to Jackson Springs, and then go on a few miles you cross Drowning Creek. Up the hill a ways, a road leads off toward Derby and just before you get to it there is a house on the left with some pretty bushes growing out in the yard. If it’s a sunny day, or even moder ately fair,' you will see a young man sitting out on the porch—this porch, which has pretty much been his home since illness made it impossi ble for him to get out and around like the rest of the fellows. His eyes are blue and his hair a warm brown and the smile on his fine young face is something to write home about. Life has dealt out some hard knocks in his direction, and the minute you see him you know he has just caught them and dealt them right back in a straight hard-hitting fight which he has won hands down. Nobody could look like that and smile like that who hadn’t gotten the best of life and given his best to it. Marvin Harris used to sit out in the sun, or inside when it was too cold, and fret some. He wasn’t con tent just to put up a fight against his own particular devil, pain, just to spend his time that way. That was too negative a thing: he wanted'to do something, earn something, be in ^something. He tried making things, whittling or carving, but that wasn’t so good. Then the idea came. Other young men made a pretty good thing, he’d heard, selling magazine subscriptions—and incidentally made a nuisance of themselves, too, more often than not, going to people’s houses, bothering them with long sales talks. Well, he wouldn’t do that, even if he could; but why not solicit subscriptions through the mail? That way, he’d be performing a real ser vice and saving people a lot of trou ble and money too, often, by telling them of combined rates and reduc tions they might not "know about. He would send out cards to all the peo ple he knew: first his name, Marvin Harris, Jackson Springs, N. C., and then a list of magazines and their rates, and then just a sentence or two (Continued on Page Eight) Over 4,000 individuals had obtain ed their whisky ration coupon books Tom the Moore County A. B, C, Board through Thursday of this week, in a rush that crowded the stores’ doors, here and in Pinehurst, on Monday, Tuesday and 'Wednesday. “Are our names to be published in the paper?” was a question asked by many as they signed up for this lat est commodity to be rationed. Coupon books for whisky will con tinue to be issued at the stores for the next week or so, it was announc ed by H. A. Matthews, secretary of the county board. They made also be signed for in the county offices of the board, over Patch’s store. Liquor sales in the stores were halted completely during the first three days of the week, and the en tire time was given over to issuing the ration books. These books will al low the holder to purchase one quart a week until the first of February, when the ration will be cut to one pint a week. ' According to present regulations, each purchaser must present his own book, and will not be allowed to buy whisky with another’s ration book. Store hours are from 10 a. m. to 7 p. m., during which time coupon books will be issued, and the books may be obtained from the county offices from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Norse’s Aide Class to Graduate Friday Fourth Group of County Women to Join 'Volunteer Ranks for War Emergency The fourth class of volunteer Nurse’s Aides to be trained at Moore County Hospital will graduate in ex ercises at the Nurse’s home Friday evening, December 11, at 8 p. m. Members of this class are Miss Ab- bie Catherine Sutherland, Miss Ruby Evangeline Trollinger, Miss Eliza beth A. Grover, Miss Erma May Fisher, Mrs. Kenneth Knight, Jr., Mrs. Dante S. Montesanti, Mrs. Fred B. Norris, all of Southern Pines; Mrs. Malcolm D. Kemp of Pinebluff, Mrs. Clay E. Kirk of Aberdeen, Mrs. Char les Ware Youngman, Miss Caroline Margaret Battley, Mrs. Ammie Fos ter, Mrs. Edna B. Taylor, Miss Eth el Lee McDowell, all of Pinehurst. Those invited to take part in the exercises are Ernest L. Ives, county Red Cross chairman. Dr. Clement Monroe of the hospital; Dr. Ben M. Drake, county health officer, E. T. McKeithen, hospital manager; and Miss Ellen Bruton, superintendent of nurses. The Moore County Nurse’s Aides Corps committee, friends and fam ily of the graduating class, and the public are invited to attend. In commenting on the graduating class, Miss Bruton said: “In every way this class compares favorably with previous ones. Their work up to the standard set by their prede cessors, and I consider that high praise.” The chairman, Mrs. James Boyd, said this class was to be es pecially commended in that a large proportion of them were women who were taking this exacting training, while at the same time carrying on their regular jobs of civilian life. “Unfortunately,” she said, “manv women consider the Nurses’s Aide course itself too hard an undertak ing. When you have girls willing to take it, on top of their own regular jobs, then you have real patriotism. These girls have worked five even ings a week and most of their week ends. We are certainly proud of them.” Gordon M. Cameron of Pinehurst was elected chairman of the new County Board of Commissioners, in its first session Monday to succeed Wilbur H. Currie, who leaves that post to become State Senator from this district in the General Assem bly. L. R. Reynolds of High Falls was elected vice-chairman of the Board,, after the members had taken their oath of office. The Board re-appoint ed Miss Maida Jenkins as tax super visor and C. F. Leavitt, assistant, or dered the sheriff’s bond accepted and then settled down to routine busi ness. John Willcox, clerk of court, ad ministered the oath of office to the five commissioners in a body, but the rest of the county officers were s-worn in individually, without cer emony. Willcox himself was sworn into his office by Justice of the Peace Hugh Kelly, and then administered' the oath to his deputy. Miss Ethel Dav is. The various other county offi cers dropped in during the day to. be sworn in—Sheriff C. J. McDon ald, Register of Deeds Bess McCas- kill. Judge J. Vance Rowe, Solicitor W. A. Leland McKeithen, and A. H. Trotter, justice of the peace in Shef fields township. Clyde B. Shaw of Carthage and T. L. Blue of Eureka, new commission ers, appeared with Mr. Cameron, Mr. Reynolds and W. J. Dunlap, re elected, to take the oath. Business of Board Following the election of Camer on and Reynolds, the Board conduct ed the following business: , Chairman Cameron was authoriz ed to execute a deed to D. K. Mc Kenzie for 91 acres J. C. and J. R. McKenzie Estate, Mineral Springs, for a consideration of $208.71. Mrs. Kate Scott Mclver, McNeill township, was relieved of taxes on 100 acres for 1931-1942 on account of double listing, property belonging to Altheo Robinson; also, J. E. Wilson was relieved of taxes on a lot in McNeill township from 1932 through 1942 on account of its being owned by World War Veterans Loan Fund. The J. B. Rhyne Estate listing for 1936 as 209 acres was ordered reduc ed to 100 acres and the 1941 listing as 265 to 100 acres and the taxes adjusted accordingly. A donation of $5 was ordered sent to Caswell Training School at Kin ston. ^aycees Sponsoring Christmas Lighting Organization to Use Existing Facilities to Brighten Broad Street for Holiday Season Christmas lighting along the park way of Broad street, an annual pro ject of the Junior Chamber of Com merce, was approved for this year, on a modified basis, by the Cham ber meeting last Monday night at the Country Club. It was planned to use only avail able facilities and materials to brighten up the street for the holi day season, rather than doing the extensive job which has been done in the. past. The Jaycees also made tentative plans for a ladies night dinner, in conjunction with the observance of the 23rd anniversary of the founding of the national Junior Chamber of Commerce. A committee headed by J. D. Hobbs, Jr., with Carl G. Thompson, Jr., and Paul C. Butler, was appointed by President Morris Johnson to make arrangements for the affair. PATCH'S COLLECTING STOCKINGS FOR WAR Patch’s Department store has be come a depository for old silk and nylon hosiery, which the Govern ment is asking for to be used in- making materials for the war effort. The silk and nylon are critically needed for production of powder bags, especially, becai^se only these materials burn completely. The pub lic is being asked to donate all worn and discarded silk and nylon hosiery, either all silk and nylon, a mixture of silk and nylon, mixture of silk and rayon or nylon and rayon, or mix tures of silk and cotton or nylon and cotton. All contributed articles must be cleaned. Patch’s will collect the stockings and then forward them to the government depositories.
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