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VOLUME 23. NO. 27
Commissioners Vote
to Accept County-
State Health Plan
In a District Set-Up,
Moore and Hoke Would
Share Certain Officers
At a meeting of the Board of
Moore County Commissioners held
Monday with all members present, it
was decided to adopt a cooperative
district plan whereby Moore County
would gain additional public health
services and full-time health work
would be carried on in the neigh
boring county of Hoke, the set-up to
be in effect for the duration of the
war. The proposal is contingent on
the State Board of Health's being
able to secure the services of an as
sistant health officer whose head
quarters would be in Hoke County.
The Commissioners agreed to re
lease Moore County's health officer,
Dr. B. M. Drake, to Hoke County one
day each week and in return to re
ceive one-fourth or one and one-half
days a week of the time of the as
sistant health officer to be employed
by Hoke County.
As district health officer, Dr.
Drake would take care of the ad
ministrative duties pertaining to the
public health program in Hoke and
the Hoke County assistant would
perform clinical duties in Moore to
compensate. A sanitarian would give
three-fourths of his time to Hoke
and spend the other fourth in that
portion of Moore adjacent to Hoke.
Other services in each county such as
nursing, clerical and dental would be
full-time for each county as set up
in the budget.
The plan would not effect any sav
ings in Moore since there would be
no services lost to the county, but
additional services of an assistant
health officer and of a sanitarian
would be gained by the proposed dis
trict arrangement.
Other Business
The Commissioners ordered that
all Schedule "B" taxes against fill
ing stations, garages, and automobile
dealers in Moore County as levied
and collected by the county Tax Col
lector be relieved for 1943-44.
Beer licenses were ordered issued
to the following: Mrs. A. E. Murphy,
Southern Pines; E. G. Adams, Pine
bluff; J. B. Sullivan, Joe Henderson,
Carthage; C. N. Boaz, Cameron; P.
B. Paris, Aberdeen; Marsh and
Stultz, Carthage Route 2; Floyd R.
Medlin, Pinehurst; Murphy Buie,
Lakeview; T. J. Seawell, Carthage
Route 2.
WEATHERSPOON WINS
Bert Weatherspoon won the sixth
annual Sandpipers Golf Champion
ship Sunday at the Southern Pines
Country Club in 36 hole finals by
defeating Jimmy deßerry 9 in 8.
Playing a steady game, Weather
spoon took the lead in the early part
of the match in posting an 80-80, 160,
for the 36 holes.
He won the semi-finals from Ho
ward Burns Saturday afternoon 3
and 4. Burns had him 1 down at
the end of 9 holes, but was off on
his approach shots to lose the match
on the 15th.
BOYS' GOLF TOURNEY
The 17th Annual Golf Champion
ship of the Carolinas for boys who
have not passed their 17th birthday
will be played at the Greensboro
Country Club June 21 through June
24. Monday, June 21, will be qualify
ing day.
Match play will start Tuesday,
June 22, and there will be prizes
for the winner and runner-up in
each flight. There will be no en
trance or green fees. A splendid field
is expected.
Last year 150 boys entered. Har
vie Ward, Jr., of Tarboro was
champion and Harvie • Oliver, Jr.
of Fayettevillqf, runner-up.
MERRILL GRAY AT SOUTHLAND
Merrill Gray of Bethlehem, N. H.,
has arrived in Southern Pines and
will manage the Southland Hotel
during Mr. Harrington's absence,
while J. E. Harrington is in Bethle
hem
T H U jp*
OLD Versus NEW
Some of the old-time ways and
things have never been beat. We
were in Collins Store in Aberdeen
lately. It was built in 1903 by C. G.
Farrell's father who came from
Chatham county and was an Aber
deen merchant for 30 years.
Mr. Farrell employed Teasley
(T. 8.) Creel, who was located in
Aberdeen as contractor. Creel was
also a Chatham county man and
was noted for his solid honest
buildings still to be found all
through Chatham. Moore, Alamance
and Orange. Best known is the Pitts
boro County Court House.
T. B. Creel did a good job with
Collins Store. Probably you could
not get as good a frame building to
day at any price. And those summer
days the old-style design proves its
value. There is a sky light down
stairs and an upstairs sky light
above it. At the back wide steps go
up and branch out to right and left
and above them is a row of tall sec
ond floor windows.
The arrangement is not only at
tractive and homey but it keeps a
nice draft moving. Many other
stores are just as cool but most of
them are obliged to rely on fans.
Mackall Men Plav a
Close Came of Ball
at Local Diamond
Score is 8-7 in Favor
of Glider Team; Supper
at Civic Club Follows
Those who braved the heat of Sat
urday afternoon to attend the base
ball game at the local Ball Park wore
amply repaid, for teams from the
508 th Division and the 188 th Glider
Troop played, as one fan expressed
it. '"a regular game." So close was
the score that at no time during the
game could supporters of either team
feel too comfortable, and the final
score was 8 to 7 in favor of ;he
Glider boys.
While the heat kept the attend
ance down, it also served to help the
refreshment committee with its bus
iness and a nice sum was realized
from the sale of cold drinks.
Following the game t>o of the
soldiers, including the players, were
entertained at the Country Club by
the Southern Pines Council of So
cial Agencies. A cold supper, home
cooked, was served to an apprecia
tive group.
Proceeds of the game will be used
toward financing the summer Youth
Program which the Council is spon
soring. Food for the supper was do
nated by persons interested in this
project.
SHORT SHORT
This is the brief tale of the
lady who could not get out of
the powder room of the Sea
board depot Wednesday morn
ing—so she broke a window and
called for help. Porters, porter
esses, bystanders rallied around,
and just before the police and
fire departments were called out
the door opened and the lady
went blithely on her way.
MAURICE URGES THAT
MOTORISTS SAVE GAS
'"At present we in the Carolinas
are not included in the ban on gas
oline now enforced throughout Vir
ginia and the Northern seaboard, but
this does not mean that gas is plenti
ful here," says Chairman Maurice
of the local Rationing Board.
"As a matter of fact, only the most
careful saving of gasoline by all our
motorists will prevent our inclusion
in the shortage zone. Few people
realize the enormous quantities of
gasoline consumed by our armed
forces; a Flying Fortress u~es 400
gallons of high octane gas an hour,
an Army Transport burns 33,000
gallons of fuel oil a day! We must
not only make these amounts avail
able, but ship them overseas mainly
through the Eastern seaboard. It is
a wonder there is enough left for
essential driving, so non-essential
driving must be voluntarily given
up by us all, or we shall be told to
do it as in Virginia," warns Mr.
Maurice.
Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, June 11, 1943
lii The Armv
PVT. H. I. CRANFILL, JR.
Pvt. R. I. Granfield. Jr., only son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Cranfill of
Southern Pines, is now in the Army
Air Force at Greensboro. Pvt.
Cranfill, Jr., attended Gray High
School in Winston-Salem and later
was with the Western Union Tele
graph Company there. After coming
to Southern Pines he was associated
in business with his father in Car
ter's Laundry. His address is 1175 th
Training Group, B.T.C. No. 10. Bks.
739. Greensboro, N. C.
N. (1. Army Posts Are
Aided by Red Cross
Camp, Hospital Committees
Collect Items for Army
Recreation Halls
| Twenty-two Red Cross chapters
|in the Fort Bragg area now have
I operating Camp and Hospital com
j mittees which were organized to
! secure for Army hospital recreation
| halls and day rooms of enlisted men
much needed equipment to supple
ment basic Army allotments.
In addition to serving Fort Bragg
these committees are supplying
equipment for men at Seymour-John
son Field at Goldsboro; Camp Mac
kall at Hoffman, and the Laurin
burg-Maxton Air Base.
Solicitation of funds is not a part
of the committees' activities. Their
work consists primarily of collect
ing the numerous items that are
needed to round out the comfort
and usefulness of the hospital re
creation halls and day rooms.
A partial list of the items now
being sought includes settees, long
tables, arm chairs, ping pong tables,
floor lamps, mirrors, smoking stands,
folding chairs, book racks, photo
graphs, writing tables, rugs (9x12),
card tables, end tables, pictures,
radios, benches with padded covers,
pianos, pool tables, electric fans,
musical instruments of all types,
slip covers for cushions, primers
or elementary reading books, book
carts, silverware, archery equipment,
book cases and many other items
of a similar type.
HOT!
103 degrees Saturday! Thus the
official record at 5 o'clock. At
3 o'clock, thermometers out in
the sun registered 112 degrees.
June has given us 103 degrees
several times, notably in 1933
and 1936, but never so early in
the month.
May, With Almost Normal Temperature,
Brought 26 Clear Days: Not Enough Rain
Our vaunted month of May came
back to the fold with an almost nor
mal temperature in delightful con
trast to the startling excess of 3.2
degrees in temperature of two years
ago. As the bloom of the wisteria
and dogwoods faded, fragrant roses
in the parkways and about dwel
lings, and seas of blue lupin by the
roadsides and in abandoned fields
glorifeied the springtime as did
the giant blossoms of the magnolias.
Showers were few and far bet
ween, only eight being noted for
the month. The greatest precipita
tion, .85 of an inch, falling in the
thunderstorm of the 10th. In all,
only 3.07 inches of rainfall was
COL. FISHER HONORED
Lieutenant Colonel William P.
Fisher, 31-year-old veteran pilot
irom Southern Pines, was pre
sented the Distinguished Fly
ing Cross by Major General St.
Clair Street, Commanding Gen
eral of the Third Air Force, in
a ceremony at Third Air Force
Headquarters last Saturday.
Colonel Fisher, now serving
as air inspector for the Third
Air Force, was awarded the me
dal for "extraordinary achieve
ment" while participating in a
flight of 9 Flying Fortresses of
the 14th Bombardment Squad
ron from Honolulu to tho Philip
pine Islands in September, 1941.
At that time he was a captain.
The War Department citation
read as follows:
"Capt. Fisher displayed skill
ful airmanship and accurate
knowledge of the highly techni
cal details involved in the suc
cessful execution of this flight,
which involved traversing by
air uncharted waters from Wake
Island to Port Moresby and Dar
win and thence to Fort Slolsen
burg. The speed with which
each phase of this flight was ac
complished indicated a high
quality of navigation. This out
standing achievement reflects
lary forces of the United States."
Col. Fisher is the son of Mrs.
Park W. Fisher, of Sanford and
Southern Pines and the late
| Rev. Mr. Fisher.
Pinehurst Bank To
Open Army Branch
Will Begin Business at
Mackall as Soon as
Building is Erected
The Bank of Pinehurst, one of
the leading banking institutions of
this section of the State, has received
the approval of State and Federal
authorities to open a branch Bank
on the Post at Camp Mackall. Pres.
F. Shelby Cullom announced this
week .
A building will be erected near
Post Headquarters, and as soon as
it is completed the new Bank will
open for busines. It is planned to
operate this branch for the duration. [
The Bank of Pinehurst operates j
branches in Aberdeen and Carthage.!
Its total deposits are in excess of
$2,500,000, and it has total resources j
in excess of $3,000,000, Mr. Cullom !
disclosed.
POSSIBLE CHAMPION
M. E. Tyus of Rockingham, who
travels for the Lorillard Tobacco
Company and is a frequent visitor to
Southern Pines, was a caller at THE
PILOT office Wednesday. Mr. Tyus
disclosed that he owns the only male
puppy of Rolf V. Huffmanheim, the
champion Doberman-Pinscher raised
in Raleigh for which Mrs. J. P. Stern
of New York paid the owner, Clyde
R. Huffman, $1,200 last week.
The dog owned by Mr. Tyus is nine
months old and weighs around 65
pounds, he said .
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Charles E. Hayble, who has man
aged the Bowling Alleys on East
Broad street for the past year, has
taken over the Sandwich Shop, and
Earl Spurgin, the former proprietor,
is replacing the bowling alleys with
new furniture and equipment for
a restaurant. Mr, Hayble will open
his Sandwich Shop today.
noted, 1.10 inches less than the nor-l
mal expectation. The continued lack
of rain now makes the deficiency for
the first five months of the year
4.26 inches.
Twenty-one days were all clear,
seven days partly cloudy, three days
cloudy and eight days with rain.
Twenty-four days registered tem
peratures of 80 degrees or more,
with a high of 92 degrees on the
last day of the month. The lowest
temperature was 43 degrees on the
2nd. Average temperature for the
month nearly normal.
Long time Max. Min. Aver,
average 82.8 58 70.4
J 942 89.9 57.3 73.6
1 1943 82.2 59.2 70.7
In the Navy
'' ' *
LT. J. VANCE ROWE. JR.
J. Vance Rowe, Jr., ensign in the
U. S. Navy and a pilot in Naval
Aviation, has been promoted to Lt.
(j.g.) Lt. Rowe is stationed at
Squantum, Mass. He was commis
sioned June 23, two days before his
brother Lawrence, later killed in
Australia, was commissioned a sec
ond lientenant in the Army Air
Force.
June 15 is Deadline
For Registration
linder Rent Control
If You Rent Only One
Room, It Must Be Reg
istered, Thompson Says
I Carl G. Thompson, area rent
j examiner for the Southern Pines
| Defense Rental Area, which includes
: all of Moore County, announced to
i day that June 15th was the dead
line for registering all residential
| rental property. The law requires
all property to be registered within
145 days after rent control becomes
| effective, which was May 1 in this
area.
"It makes no difference," Mr.
Thompson said, "what the accom
modations are: rooms, houses, apart
| ments, tourist cabins, trailers, or the
ground rented for trailer space; any
place of any kind that is rented to
anybody for living quarters must be
registered."
If you rent only one room in your!
home it must be registered, and this j
is true even though it is rented only |
occasionally to overnight guests, i
It is immaterial who the tenant is, |
civilian or military; regardless of j
who occupies the property, it must
be registered. It also makes no dif
ference who owns the property.
Where a person rents a house from
the owner and in turn rents a
room the owner must register the
house and the person renting the
house must register the room.
Mr. Thompson made an appeal to
people of Moore County. "This busi-!
ness of registering," he said, "is i
serious and important and should i
not be delayed. The number of reg- J
istrations received to date is far un- ;
der expectations. June 15th is the 1
last day. Register now and avoid!
penalty for late registration."
TRAINING COURSES
FOR WAR INDUSTRIES
Government sponsored training
courses for war industries will be
taught at Presbyterian Junior Col
lege, Maxton, by the Presbyterian
Junior College faculty in collabora
tion with State College, under the
supervision of Director Edward W.
Ruggles. Men and women are ad
mitted to the 12- to 14-week courses.
The government pays expenses ex-
cept for board and books. The cour-!
ses are designed to prepare special
ists to meet the needs in war in
dustries. Attractive pay rates and
excellent employment opportunities
await those finishing the courses.
Instruction will begin as soon as
twelve applicants enroll in either
of the courses. Application blanks
may be secured by writing Presby
terian Junior College, Maxton, N. C.
REDECORATING
The Carolina Hotel at Pinehurst is
having several thousand dollars
worth of redecorating done by Pris
cilla Scofield.
MAKE EVERY
PAY day
WAR
BOND I? AY
STOP SPIMDINC—SAVI COHANS
TEN CENTS
Legion Post Holds
Annual Election of
Officers at SP Hut
Stephenson is Elected
Commander; Splendid
Reports Are Given
The members of the Sandhills
Post No. 134 of the American Legion
met at the Legion Hut in Southern
Pines Monday night, June 7th, at
8:00 p. m. for one of the most im
portant meetings of the year.
Commander Donald A. Currie pre
sided at the regular business ses
sion. Adjutant Chester I Williams
reported that he had presented Past
Commander L. D. Williams with the
Past Commander's button which the
Post obtained in recognition of the
outstanding record of achievement
Williams ran up while Post Com
mander.
Leonard E. Van Fossen of the
Hospitality Committee gave a re
port on the activities of the Post in
providing sleeping accommodations
i for from 25 to 30 men of the armed
! forces each week-end. These men
1 sleep in the Legion Hut on mattres
! ses furnished through the generosity
i of Pinehurst Inc., and the kind of
! fices of Lloyd M. Ttate and Haynes
1 Britt.
At the conclusion of the regular
meeting. Adjutant Williams, in res
ponse to a resolution, cast one ballot
for the officers who were duly nom
inated at the last meeting. Paul
j Dana, a Past Commander of the
! Post, then took the chair and instal-
I led the newly elected officers, with
' geantsat-arms. The officers installed
were:
Commander, John H. Stephenson,
Southern Pines: Ist Vice-Command
er, John G. Harrington, Southern
Pines: 2nd Vice-Commander, Ches
ter I. Williams, Pinehurst; 3rd Vice-
Commander, J. F. Smith, West End;
j Sergeant-at-arms, Leonard E. Van
! Fossen, Soutehrn Pines.
Commander Stephenson took over
the chair after the installation and
appointed L. D. Williams of South
| ern Pines as Post Adjutant and re
appointed L. V. O'Callaghan as
Finance Officer. Donald Currie was
! given a rising vote of thanks for his
j many efforts during the past year.
In addition to the officers elected
j above the following were also elect
ed as Service Officers:
L. D. Williams, Southern Pines;
Paul Dana, Pinehurst; John F. Sin
clair, West End.
Retiring Commander Donald A.
Currie was elected Publicity Of
ficer and Historian of the Post.
At the conclusion of the meeting,
the members were served some deli
cious refreshments by the ladies of
the American Legion Auxiliary and
everybody voted this the high-light
of a very pleasant evening.
Young People's Rally
The United Christian Youth
of Southern Pines is sponsoring
a rally for all young people bet
ween 11 and 25 years of age on
Sun., June 13th, at The Church
of Wide Fellowship. Registra
tion will begin at 2:30 p. m.
Many features which should
prove interesting and helpful
to all are planned, among which
will be group discussions on
youth problems led by Army
Chaplins, who will bring with
them a soldier' choir. Each one
attending is requested to bring
a basket lunch.
CARTHAGE SERVICE
OPENS JUNE 11TH
The Carthage Service Club, a re
creation center for men in uniform,
will open Friday evening, June 11,
at 8:00 o'clock at the Community
House. The Service Club will be
available to men of the Armed
Forces every week-end. The hours
are: Friday evening, 8 to 11: Sat
urday, 3 to 11 p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m.
to 10 p.m. Facilities will be avail
able for dancing, reading, letter
writing, games, etc.
The club is located one and one
half blocks south of Court House
Square.