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VOLUME 28, NO. 24.
Welfare Head Gives
Report of Civilian
Defense Conference
Importance of Registra
tion in Civilian Defense
Corporation is Stressed
Miss Pauline Covington. Superin
tendent of Public Welfare, was
Moore County's representative at a
meeting held in Fayetteville on
May 4th to discuss the function of
of Civilian Defense in different
counties of the state. Mr. Martin, di
rector of Civilian Defense from the
state office in Raleigh, presided.
Miss Brown, a representative from
the North Carolina Public Health
Department discussed the function
of the U. S. Public Health Services
in relation to Civilian Defense, and
Miss Ada Mcßacken, from the state
board of Charities and Public Wel
fare, Raleigh, spoke on the part lo
cal Welfare Departments would take
in giving assistance in case of acci
dent or injury to needy persons in
time of an air raid.
Allen Boager, of the Social Se
curity Board, gave the Federal regu
lations and the help that could be
given to civilian defense workers in
case of any form of injury.
Miss Covington passes on the fol
lowing information brought out at
the meeting.
"In every county of the state
there is at least one Personnel Offi
cer. This Personnel Officer is ap
pointed by the local Defense Coun
cil. He is responsible for enrolling
all members of defense work, such
as air wardens, observation, air
craft warnings, etc. Every commun
ity must be covered. If a person who
is giving his services is not register
ed, and is hurt during a blackout, or
some other service, he would not be
entitled to any form of compensa
tion. Therefore, it is of great impor
tance that each Personnel Officer
see that all of the people employed
are enrolled in the Civilian Defense
Corporation. The Personnel Officers
of Moore County are as follows: L.
J. Dawkins, Aberdeen; George
Moore, Southern Pines; H. G. Phil
lips, Pinehurst; Rev. D. J. Robbins,
Hemp.
"The U. S. Public Health Service
renders aid only to persons employ
ed and registered in the Civilian De
fense Corporation. If injury is made
it should be reported within 24
hours to the Pr sonnel Officer of
that district. The injured person may
be sent to any hospital and treated
by any doctor of his choice. Medical
care may also be given to depen
dents of the injured, if they are re
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G. A. Woods Passes;
Was JII One Week
> Born in Pennsylvania,
He Had Lived in Pine
hurst for 40 Years
Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon at Doubs Chapel for
George A. Woods, who died in the
Moore County Hospital on Sunday
following an illness of one wc;k.
Mr. Woods, 68, a native of Phila
delphia. had been a resident of Pine
hurst since 1902. He leaves a wid
ow, the former Miss Lelia Chestnut
of Pinehurst, a daughter, Miss Laura
Woods of Belmont; five sons, Daniel
E. of Pinehurst, Howard C. of Phil
adelphia, Corpor.il George E. of
Camp Pendleton, Va., Tech. Sgt.
Herman W. Woods of Ft. Leonard
Wood, Sgt. Albert D. of Boiling
Field, Washington, D. C. Also, a sis
ter, Mrs. Edward A. Watson of Tren
ton, N. J.
Mr. Woods had ben engaged in
the laundry business both in Pine
hurst and Southern Pines for a num
ber of years and was well known in
both communities.
FIRE DOES MINOR DAMAGE
Shortly before 7 o'clock Saturday
evening the Southern Pines Fire
Company was called to the home of
Henrietta Smith, located on South
Gaines street, West Southern Pines,
where flames from a blazing oil
stove were quickly extinguished
with but little damage to the dwell
ing.
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SUMMER SCHEDULE
The Red Cross Sewing rooms,
over Broad Street Pharmacy,
will be open Tuesday, Wednes
day and Friday mornings from
9:00 to 12:00 o'clock during the
summer months, Mrs. Edith
Mudgell, has announced.
Colorful ( Ceremony
Will Mark Nurses
Graduation Tonight
Exercises Will Be Held
at State Sanatorium
With Public Invited
Colorful ceremonies will mark the
commencement exercises tonight at
the North Carolina Sanatorium for
the 16 graduates of the nurses' train
ing school jointly maintained by the
Sanatorium and the Moore County
Hospital.
A national authority on education
in the welfare field. Mrs. Albertine
P. McKellar, of the United States
Public Health Service, will make the .
address. Dr. P. P. McCain, superin
tendent of the Sanatorium, will pre
side, assisted by Dr. Clement R. Mon
roe, resident surgeon of the Moore
County Hospital.
Each graduate will receive a light
ed candle, symbolic of devotion to '
her new profession, in the tradition
dating from the great work of Flor
ence Nightingale nearly a hundred
years ago.
The baccalaureate sermon for the
class was preached last Sunday at
the Pinehurst Village Chapel by Rev.
T. A. Cheatham. On Wednesday eve
ning the girls were the guests of
the Hospital Auxiliary at a movie
party in Aberdeen, followed by sup
per at the Gray Fox.
The Sanatorium extends an invita
tion to all friends of the two insti
titions to attend the commencement
tonight.
Scout Troop No. 58
Gets Certificates
First Negro Troop in
Moore County; Churches
Purchase War Bonds
History was in the making when
14 members of Boy Scout Troop No.
58, of West Southern Pines, the
first colored troop in Moore Coun
ty, natty in their new Scout uni
forms, met at the First Baptist
Church Sunday, May 2, for a spec
ial meeting at which merit awards
and certificates were presented. The
total troop membership is 24.
Paul Butler, chairman of the
Moore County Scout Committee, was
speaker. Mr. Butler emphasized the
importance of growing good citizen
ship, honor and loyalty to one's com
munity, county and state.
The pastor, Rev. J. F. Wertz, de
livered a sermon on "True Citizen
ship."'
The Scouts, guided by their
Scoutmaster and with some assist
ance from their parents, earned the
money with which to buy their uni
forms. 1
T. U. Connor, scoutmaster, is as
sisted by P. R. Brown, J. T. Saun
ders, Rev. J. F. Flowers, James Be
thea and Chairman T. R. Goins.
West Southern Pines citizens are
showing their patriotism in a very
splendid way. The First Baptist
Church led by the pastor, purchas
ed a War Bond, and hopes to con
tinue this work.
Through the leadership of the
Rev. E. B. Lipsey, pastor, the mem
bers of Trinity A. M. E. Zion Church
have bought over SSOO worth of
War Bonds and have pledged their
support for the duration.
SURGICAL DRESSINGS
Surgical dressings consisting of
45,000 4x4 sponges, 30,000 2x2 spon
ges and 1,800 combination pads,
made by Red Cross workers through
out the county, were packed Tuesday
morning by Mrs. E. V. Hughes of
Southern Pines and Mrs. Henry A.
Page, Jr., of Aberdeen.
These bandages are sent to a spec
ial sterilization plant, after which
they leave the Red Cross and become
the property of the Army.
Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, May 14, 1943.
liilert\si ami Hunior To Ist* Found in Army
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Life, Pvt. (lar! (i. Thompson. Jr., Says
FINALS SPEAKER
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DR. I. G. GREER
High School Finals
Will Begin May 30
Drs. Greer ?nd Crittenden
Will Bring Messages to
Southern Pines Graduates
The commencement program of
the Southern Pines High School will
open on Sunday, May 30 at 8:30
p. m. with the sermon to the grad
uates by Dr. I. G. Greer of Thomas
ville. Dr. Greer is general superin
tendent of the Baptist Orphanages
of North Carolina, and President of
the North Carolina Baptist Conven
tion. He is much in demand for
lectures on Southern Folk Lore and
for after dinner speeches.
The address to the graduates will
be made by Dr. C. C. Crittenden
in the school auditorium on June
3 at 8:30 p. m. Dr. Crittenden re
ceived his A. B. and M. A. degrees
from Wake Forest College and his
Ph. D. from Yale. He was instructor
of history at both the University of
North Carolina and Yale University.
Dr. Crittenden has since 1935 been
associated with the North Carolina
Historical Commission. At presen:
he is Secretary of the State Histor
ical Commission at Raleigh.
PINEHURST GIRL HAS
ART DISPLAY AT WC
Art students, Misses Katherinc
Sledge, of Pinehurst, and Anna Tom
linson, of High Point, are holding a
joint show' in the foyer of Mclver
building, The Woman's College in
Greensboro this week. Both are sen
iors in the college.
Miss Sledge has the larger amount
on display, her particular interest
being in the designing of clothing.
She has several original creations,
three adaptations from Moroccan
and Florentine costumes making use
of the national influence in original
design, a study of color styling, fab
ric designs, and clothing which is
the product of work in the art labo
ratory. Miss Sledge, however, is ex
pert with more than the fashion
plate because she exhibits an oil
portrait, several photographs, adver
tising lay-outs, a color panel and
two lithographs.
Miss Sledge is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs I. C. Sledge, and a
niece of W. H. McNeill of Southern
Pines.
SUGAR FOR HOME CANNING
After May 15, North Carolina
housewives may apply for their al
lotment on sugar for canning and
preserving. A top limit of 25 pounds
of sugar per person is set in the
new regulation. However, the 25-
pound figure is a maximum to be
granted only in the relatively few
cases where this large amount of.
fruit will be canned and preserved.
Within the 25-pound per person lim
it, any family can apply for sugar
to put up jams, jellies, and preserves
at the rate of five pounds per in
dividual. This is a more generous
allowance than last year, when su
gar for preserves was limited to one
pound per person.
PILOT Staff Shares With
Readers a Letter From
Editor, Who Is in Camp
In a letter to members of THE i
PILOT staff, Pvt. Carl G. Thompson.'
Jr.. for almost two years editor of j
the paper, gave such interesting
sidelights on life in the new camp j
at Greensboro, to which he was'
transferred a few days after his in- j
duction at Fort Bragg on April l.j
that it was decided to share excerpts |
from the letter with Pvt. Thonip- j
son's many friends throghout THE
PILOT'S territory.
"Army routine can be both boring,
and interesting, all at a time," saysj
Pvt. Thompson. "To me, everything
carries some kind of interest, and |
usually something humorous. At
this stage of training, the permanent l
party men are attempting to take i
a bunch of civilians, ranging from
'teen-age boys to married men with j
children, and make soldiers out of
them in a twinkling of the ey«.
"Frankly, I don't know whether»
it's harder on the trainees or on 1
the trainers. Both take an awful lot
of punishment.
"A typical schedule gets you up
at. about 5:15 a. m„ to fall out for!
roll call at 5:30. From this time un-S
til about 7:15, you can occupy your-j
self by going down to chow, sweep- (
ing, scrubbing and mopping barracks '
floors, straightening out clothes for j
a possible surprise inspection, put-1
ting on leggings, gas masks, and hel-1
mets for the drill field, shaving,'
washing and other morning duties, i
and anything else that might be
urgent oti that particular hour of'
the day. Incidentally, going to chow|
doesn't just going down snatch -1
ing something to eat, and then re
turning. We're eating out of our]
mess kits and, when we've finished |
a meal, we approach large G. I.
barrels (just plain large garbage j
cans), filled with hot soapy water,
and with G. I. brushes, scrub our
mess kits, tools and cups. (Inciden
tally, there's also the little item of j
dumping the garbage in cans on the j
way to the wash cans). Then comes a |
waiting in line for the final proce-j
dure—a dip into running, hot soapy j
water, followed by sterilization and
rinse in boiling, running clear water.!
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FELLOWSHIPS FOR
WOMEN AVAILABLE
Twenty fellowships valued at ap
proximately $ 1,200 each are avail
able at N. C. State College for se
lected young women who have grad
uated from college recently or will
gra'duate in the Class of 1943, Prof.
L. L. Vaugh, dean of the school of
Engineering, announced .
The fellowships were provided by
Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, of Hart
ford, Conn., to give the young wo
men a special course preparing them
to become engineering aides in the
company's Hartford plant, where
the famous Wasp and Hornet en
gines are built. The course will last
48 weeks.
Under the plan, each fellow .will
receive tuition, books, fees, room,
board, laundry and an allowance to
cover incidental expenses.
Women completing the course sat
isfactorily will start work at a sal
ary of $l4O monthly on a 40-hour
week, with time and a half {pr ov
ertime. At the end of six KSonths
they will be eligible for a raise.
Dean Vaugh said the course will
commence with State College's reg
ular summer session June 16 and
will end June 1, 1944.
MINOR INJURIES
L. C. Lorenson of Southern Pines
was painfully but not seriously in
jured in a minor automobile colli
sion on Ashe street in which his
car and that of Ernest Wilson of
Manly, said to have been driven by
Wilson's daughter, were involved.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY
FEATURES POEM BY BOYD
In the May issue of the "Atlantic
Monthly" appears a feature poem,
"Songs for the Silent," by James
Boyd,, to which an entire page is de
voted.
A SHORT STORY
THE PARK VIEW
1:30 a. m.
Thursday Morning
A Cigaret
A Bedspread
A Little Fire
A Lot of Smoke
Girls, Firemen. Citizens
All Out.
Early Registration
of Housing is Urged
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by Rent Attorney
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Small Per Cent of Rent
ed Units in County
Registered During Week
Landlords in Moore County who
failed to register their housing ac
commodations this week are urged
to do so without delay, it was said
today by Franklin S. Clark, Area
Rent Attorney and Diretcor. During
the past week employees of the Rent
Control office were on duty in the
Post Office at Southern Pines, Pine
hurst, Aberdeen and Carthage, and
an office was opened in the Hart
Building in Southern Pines. This
office will remain open for an indef
inite period in order to serve the
landlords and tenants of Moore
' county.
Any landlord who failed to se
cure a registration blank may get
one by calling or writing to the Rent
Control Office in Southern Pines or
the same office in Fayetteville. Ap
proximately 1000 registrations were
filed during the past week, w r hich is
less than one-fourth of the total num
ber of rented units in this county,
Director Clark said.
Geronimo Makes Its
Appearance at Camp
Weekly Paper Published
by 501 st Parachute
Infantry at Mackall
' GERONIMO, a new weekly news-
I paper published by the 501 st Para
vhute Infantry at Camp Mackall and
■ printed by THE PILOT, was placed
j in the hands of an enthusiastic para
| chute regiment this week. The motto
jof the 501 st is "Strike, GERONIMO,
I Destroy," hence the name of the pa
jper.
I Colonel Howard R. Johnson, com
i manding officer, is honorary editor:
1 1st Lt. George B. Eldridge, chief ed
i itor; Sgt. Philip Kirschner, associate
j editor; Pfc. Don Phillips, sports edi-
Jtor; Reporters' Special Units—Cpl.
; I Walter Iseman and Cpl. Carl Weiss:
! Second Battalion, Pvt. Bruce M.
j Beyer; Cartoonists: Pfc. John Aguil
j ar, Pvt. Eugene W. Simpelkamp and
j Pvt. Norman J. Dyer; Third Battal
ion, S'Sgt. Bernard S. Fischer,
j The paper carries general news of
i interest to the soldiers, a "Chaplain's
J Corner," a schedule of religious ser
: vices, a "Sense and Nonsense" col
umn, cartoons, sports, "Officer's Cor
iner" and numerous other features.
The 501 st Parachute Infantry Band
has the distinction of being the only
; jumping Band in the world. Every
; man in the organization is a para-
I trooper. Sgt. Philip Kirschner or
j ganized the Band in January of this
| year and he has nov, an able band
i master, S Sgt. Ferr.ando Perez. In
j eluded in the military band of 45
I pieces and the dance orchestra of
1 15 pieces are several musicians who
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MCNEILL WINS PRIZE
I McNeill and Company, of which
'W. H. McNeill of Southern Pines is
; proprietor, has just been named a
winner in a nation-wide Food for
Freedom contest, sponsered by Pu
; rina Mills of St. Louis, Mo., it has
r been announced. His prize is a $25
■ | United States War Bond.
Approximately 3,000 Purina mer
chants participated in the four
i month contest, the object of which
»' was to impress feed dealers with
their present opportunity and re
: sponsibility of serving their country
, by helping farm customers streatch
s[their feeds to produce the greatest
- possible amount of meat, milk and
eggs.
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TEN CENTS
Kiwanis Club Hears
Rent Control Talk
bv Director ( lark
Ceiling Price Is Set
Forth as War Measure
to Avoid Inflation
BY HOWARD F. BURNS
Franklin S. Clark, attorney for the
Federal Housing Authority in charge
of the Rent Control Office for the
Southern Pines area, told the Sand
hill Kiwanis Club Wednesday that
the ceiling price on rents was
brought about as a war measure to
avoid inflation.
He explained that rents of houses
and the control of hotel rooms would
be based on the rentals as of March
1, 1942. He pointed out that com
mercial property did not come un
der the rent control board.
He urged all property owners hav
ing houses or rooms for rent to reg
ister their places with the Rent
Control Board upstairs in the Hart
Building. He told the Club that the
penalty for failure to register houses
for rent carried a $5,000.00 fine or
one year in prison. He further ex
plained that the Rent Control Office
for the Southern Pines area covered
the entire county.
The speaker informed the Club
that the office would later be placed
in charge of a rent control adminis
trator who would have full control
of all rental property. At present the
office will be administered under
the Fayetteville office until a per
manent set-up has been arranged.
When asked what the set-up would
be in the event of eviction of any
tenant he said that approval would
have to be made by the Control
Board.
In explaining the rent ieveis he
stated that March 1, 1942 was set
becausue at that time rents were
beginning to rise and were at a fair
level, both to the landlord and the
tenant, in the majority of cases. All
rents became frozen as of May 1,
1943.
When questioned on the matter of
improvements and the boost of rents
to cover them, he explained that this
would be under the jurisdiction of
the Rent Control Board. Some boosts
in rents are granted where there is
sufficient cause to justify them. He
further pointed out that houses rent
ing for a said sum on March 1, 1942
and that had been boosted from that
date would have to be brought back
to the March 1, 1942 level. He told
the Club that there are some cases
of this kind that were unfair to the
landlord but an unfortunate condi
tion that could not be helped.
He informed his hearers that the
Rent Control Office would have
nothing to do with food control prices
and rates at hotels operating Amer
ican Plan except for the part involv
ing rental of rooms.
In conclusion he urged the Kiwan
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A. R. Minis, 82. Dies
After Brief Illness
Funeral Riles for Retired
Railroad Employee Held at
West End Sunday Afternoon
A. R. Mims, 82, of West End died
at 2:00 p. m. on Thursday of last
week in the Moore County Hospital
after f> short illness of pneumonia.
Funeral services were held from
the home at 3:00 p. m. Sunday, fol
lowed by burial in the cemetary at
West End.
Mr. Mims, a retired railroad em
ployee, is survived by three daugh
ters, Mrs. Guthrie Smith of Pine
hurst, Mrs. C. H. Benton of Rich
mond, Va., and Mrs. W. G. Rose
borough of Hamlet; four sons, W.
A. Mims of Wadesboro, C. D. Mims
of Knight, Fla., O. B. Mims and R.
G. Mims of West End; 13 grandchild
ren and two greatgrandchildren.
INSURANCE FOR SOLDIERS
All North Carolina soldiers can
get financial protection through the
National Service Life Insurance pro
gram, if they act before midnight
of August 10, the War Department
has announced. Maximum policy is
SIO,OOO. The payments will be made
to beneficiaries only in monthly in
stallments.