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OVER THE TOP \"U&2J7 FOR VICTORY " lth HA Wi UNITED STATES WAR V* BONDS-STAMPS VOLUME 23. NO. 29 War Department to Vacate Many Hotels Now in Use by AAF No Official Notice That Knollwood Field Will Be Given Up A War Department announcement under date of June 19th gave to the public the news of the return of 206 out of the 434 hotels now being used by the Army Air Forces. The Army, it was said, will start vacating the hotels around the mid dle of July and complete the mov ing later in the summer. It is esti mated that the return of the hotels to civilian control will result in a reduction of the Army's annual rent al bill by $4,600,000. To be returned to civilian use will be 109 hotels out of 325 at Miami, 35 out of 47 at Atlantic City, and others at Chicago, 111., Grand Ra pids, Mich., St. Petersburg and Boca Raton. Fla. The famous Stevens Ho tel in Chicago, a recent purchase, will be vacated August 15th, the War Department said. The War Department explained that large numbers of air units are now being moved overseas from the stations where they received air training. It was said: "The instal lations at which these troops have been quartered can now be gradu ally occupied by the units that have been taken care of in the hotels. In the course of the next two weeks it will be possible, without the con strucion of any new facilities for the purpose, to house large addition al members of air forces personnel in conventiontal barracks." It was explained: "In order to re duce as far- as possible disruption of the training schedules, the move ment of administrative and instruc tion staffs, and of the men in train ing will be carried out by groups as each class completes its work at a particular station." The following paragraph, which appeared in a metropolitan paper, was read with keen interest local ly: '"Headquarters of the Technical Training Command, which runs the training program for the Army air forces, will soon be moved from Southern Pines, N. C., to one of the regular air forces stations." THE PILOT contacted Lt. Colonel Richard E. Daley of the Public Re lations Department and was told that no official notice had been re ceived that Knollwood Field would be discontinued. June 30 Final Date For Cashing Stamps Merchants Are Warned That 1941 Cotton Stamp* Become Invalid Then Merchants of Moore County who still have stamps redeemed for cot ton fabrics under the 1941 supple mentary cotton program must cash them on or before June 30, accord ing to Joe A. Caddell, chairman of the County AAA Committee. These stamps, the chairman said, were issued to farmers in 1941 in return for reducing their cotton acreage allotments and were used to purchase cotton materials from local merchants. "Reports received by AAA of ficials at Raleigh indicate that some of these stamps issued in this State never have been cashed by the mer chants who accepted them," Mr. Caddell said. "The federal appro priation under which these stamps were issued will expire on June 30, and all stamps not cashed by that date will become invalid as no funds will be available for this purpose." The cotton stamp plan, he said, was discontinued after 1941, but many farmers held their stamps for several months before using them. Any cotton stamps still in the hands of farmers can be used until June 30. Merchants desiring to cash stamps still on hand tnust mail them on or before June 30 to W. Ellis Jones, Chief of Fiscal Section, Food Dis tribution Administration, Western Union Building, Atlanta, Georgia T H KJJrurlamatum _ By The Governor WWH CAROLINA DAI 0? DEDICATION. JULY 5, 19A3 \ *ork no longer merely • privilege or opportunity; It Is a high patriot la duty. No aan or woman, shite or colored. In North Carolina or Indeed In Anerlca today has any moral right to loaf or be Idle even for a part ef the tine. We are oonfronted with the most urgent need for productive . aanpower In the history of our nation Farm labor and industrial labor 1 are abeolutely indispensable for the protection of tne national welfare and ' for the sucoesa of our nan In arms. Under these circumstances all citizens of all olassos, groups and races have a public duty to engage In productive w>rk t even though the individual financial necessity for euch work may not exist. Trustworthy reports have coraa to me from virtually every section of North Carolina Indicating that hundreds, Indeed thousands, of ran, white and colored, are either not working at all or wsrking only part of the time. Likewise, many *>men, boys, and girls above the age of sixteen who could be productively employed are doing virtually nothing in the way of productive work. The tias haa come when every able-bodied person should either be fight ing or working. I herewith call upon the citizens of our state to respond to this most urgent need. I have every confidence that our people will rise to this need and I hope In a manner worthy of our state and its traditions. I urge the tere of North Carolina and our teachers and school people generally, our civic clubs, representatives of the press and radio, and other public spirited leaders of the state to Join in the high endeavor to get every citizen of our state •" productively employed on a fulltlira basis. I further urge the Judges, mayors, arid law enforcement officers to do everything within their power and within the law to end any Idleness or vagrancy that may exist anywhere in North Carolina. Furthermore, I call upon the local selective'service boards to study carefully the cases of those who have been deferred on physical grounds but who are able to work and are not working. I an also calling upon police officers and sheriffs to visit places In their cities and counties where loafers and Idlers customarily congregate and Inquire into the reasons why they are not at work. If these efforts fail to get the necessary response, I should feel it my duty to use tne emergency powers granted ma by the recent legislature for dealing with these problems so vital to our naticr.al welfare. NOW THERZPORE, I, J. UELVILL7 rDUGHTON, GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA, to the end that we may act in a statewide manner on this important subject, do hare'oy set apart MONDAY, JULY 5, 19l»3, ths day on which Independence Day will be moat generally observed throughout tr.s state, as NORTH CAROLINA DAY OF DEDICATION, and I urge that in the cou. -y seat of every county in North Carolina there will be held a meeting to be attended by mayors, county conmissioners, sheriffs, police officers, ministers, farm leaders, health and welfare workers ana other public spirited citizens, for the purpose of studying conditions in each of such counties and taking such organized steps as will effectually end any idleness or loafing that may exist in such counties. i & WI ' nIESS 'W2RSOF, I, J. Melville Broughton, Jy fovernor of North Carolina, have signed and caused JpV/ J1 T * Great Seal of the State to be affixed nereto, // , a VcA in the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, this jL , J&L \o\i the 23rd day of June, 1943, in the one hundred f/ // * nl B^JCty " # * V * nth 0f our Amerlclul Independence. - Allston Stubbs. . Secretary to the DovefW#' Governor Calls Upon AH Idle Men and Women to Go to Work as Patriotic Duty No One in America Has Any Moral Right to Loaf Even Part Time. He Says Designating Monday, July 5, as "North Carolina Day of Dedication," Governor J. M. Broughton on Wed nesday issued a prc»lamation, call ing upon the citizens of the State to observe Independence Day by seeing that every able-bodied per son is employed productively upon a full-time basis. The Governor ex pressed confidence that the people will respond to the need for a full utilization of manpower and woman power but declared: "If other ef forts fail, I shall feel it my duty to use the emergency powers granted to me by the recent Legislature for dealing with these problems so vital to our national welfare." Commenting on the Governor's proclamation. Mayor W. D. Mat thews, said he did not believe con dition are as bad in Southern Pines as in some other section but pledged full cooperation of all local agencies with the Governor and the Manl power Commission to round up idlers and put them to work. "Work is no longer a privilege or an opportunity; it is a high patriot ic duty," said the Governor. "The time has come when every able bodied person, of whatever finan cial, social or racial status, should be either fighting or working." He said he had received reports of thou sands of men, both white and color ed, either not working at all or working only part of the time. He called upon ministers, teachers and (Continued on Page 8) Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, June 25. 1943 REUNION Former Pinehurst High School boys, representing three branch es of the service, held a home town reunion somewhere in the Aleutian Islands one Sunday not long ago. The two soldiers and sailor present were Lt. W. P. Morton, Jr., a bomber pilot in the Army Air Force; Pvt. Archie A. McDonald. Jr., U. S. Army, and Petty Officer Fred Fields. USN. W. Southern Pines to Have USO Center Director is Here to Arrange for Facilities for Negro Soldiers Arrangements have been made for a part of the Catholic school build ing in West Southern Pines to be used as a USO center for Negro soldiers with a Negro director in charge. Jefferson Eason, who arriv ed in town Monday to take active charge, has been calling on officers at Camp Mackall and contacting leaders preparatory to oponing the Center as soon as possible. The USO will put in new equipment. The office, library, a class room and one hall which are to be used will provide space for a snack bar, a dance hall and plact-s for reading and writing. Shower baths a»t to be installed on the outside. The building is well located and is said to be in nice clean condition. JUMPING EDITOR Most all editors know what it is to be on the jump, but not to the extent at does First Lt. George B. Fldridge. editor of "GERONIMO." weekly paper published by the 501 st Para chute Infantry at Camp Mac* kali. Jumping Editor Eldridgc dash ed into the PILOT office to give his o.k. to the "GERONIMO" run on the press, rushed back to Camp Mackall and made his 40th jump Wednesday, and was back just as Herman L. Epps pulled the switch on The Pilot's high speed Meihle Verticle press. Local Negro Man Meets Tragic Death Train Crew Reports Strik ing Something; Mangled Body of G. E- Brown is Found The train crew of the Seaboard's Silver Meteor, passing Southern Pines at 2:30 o'clock Sunday morn ing, informed the depot operators that the train had struck something just north of Manly. Investigation disclosed the mang led remains of George Edward Brown, colored, in the ditch along side the tracks. The victim was a resident of West Southern Pines, aged 59 years, and an employee at Camp Mackall. He leaves a family of ten. REALLY OPENING Postponed for a week, owing to unforseen delays, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Spurgin now announce the opening of the Carolina Cafe for Saturday, June 26th. The new restaurant is located in the former bowling alley on East Broad street. Southern Pines. USO Takes Over SP Cm b Building and Opens it as Center Service Men NEW SCHOOL HEAD B. G. SHORT B. G. Short, who for the past sev en years has been principal of the Rich Square Schools, has accepted the principalship of the Cameron Schools for the coming year. Mr. Short is a graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College and Appalachian State Teachers College at Boone. He has had twelve years experience as a teacher, being connected with the Biscoe and Star schools before go ing to Rich Square. He plans to ruove to Cameron the first of Au gust. Mr. Short is married and has a five-year-old daughter, Betty Joan. He succeeds W. A. Beal as princi pal. Important Meeting of Taxi Owners and Drivers June 29th Meeting Will Be Held at 10:30 Tuesday at S. P. Country Club There will be a meeting of all Southern Pines taxicab operators and their drivers on Tuesday, June 29, at 11:30 a. m., at the Southern Pines Country Club, it was announc ed today by L. F. Manneschmidt, dis trict manager of the Charlotte office of the Office of Defense Transporta tion. The purpose of the meeting is to acquaint all taxicab operators and their drivers with the rules and re gulations governing the operation of taxicabs and the curtailment of all unnecessary and waste mileage. Special attention will be given to the discussion of problems connected with the operation of taxis in this section. It is urgently requested by the Office of Defense Transportation that all taxi owners and drivers at tend the meeting. W. Duncan Mat thews, Mayor of Southern Pines, and other city officials will be present. 'Make and Mend for Victory" is Slogan 4-H Club Girls Patch and Remodel So That New Cloth May Be Saved for Soldiers "Fix it up . . . Wear it out . . . Make it over ... Do without." That's what hundreds of thousands of 4-H Clothing Club girls through out the nation are doing to help win the war. In short, the girls are remodeling or patching up not only their own clothes, but those of their fathers, mothers, sisters and bro thers, so that new cloth will be sav (Continued on Page 8) GOING TO FLY Patch's, acting as a collect ing agency for the War Products Board, has shipped to Green Is land. N. Y., 165 pounds of silk stockings. These 3,000 pairs of hose Wttl go into the manufacture of para chutes for the Army, having been contributed for that pur pose by patriotic women of the Sandhills. MAKE EVERT pay day i /i i> 01' 0 i>/«^ - \\ ' - -»•» srrwm—sAM ooiu*i TEN CENTS Mrs. Flehme is Here to Arrange Program and Organize Hostesses Mrs. Ernest Flehme, personnel director of the Women's Division of National Catholic Community Service, has arrived in Southern Pines to supervise the USO activi ties in the Civic Club building, re cently acquired from the Board of Trustees of the Club for USO pur poses. Mrs. Flehme will have charge of the arrangement of the program for the entertainment of soldiers. She will organize groups of volunteer senior and junior hostesses to assist in carrying out the program. The Civic Club opened its doors to service men during the Carolina Maneuvers of 1941, with weekly dances and cafeteria dinners, every thing donated by club members and other local citizens. In October, 1942, the building was taken over by the American Red Cross Canteen Corps, making it available at all times to service men. Since February the same work has been carried on by club mem bers, the building known as the "Soldiers Lounge" arid supported by voluntary contributions of ser vices and funds. The Southern Pines Town Coun cil, church and civic organizations have for months realized that with the constantly growing influx of soldiers there was a great need for a regular center, and for months a committee has been urging the USO to establish more adequate soldier facilities here. A month ago the Civic Club building was leased at SI.OO per year for this purpose. Mrs. Flehme explained that in order for a young woman to qualify as a junior hostess she must be at least 18 years of age and out of high school. A course of five lectures on the work will be given, and hostesses will receive credit for the number of hours worked in the Center. Sen ior hostesses will serve at the in formation desk, snack bar, and as la hospitality committee, with Jun iors assisting under their supervi sion. The USO will make the necessary improvements in "the arrangemen; of the building without closing the doors to the soldiers. FOR SERVICE MEN The following is a list of places where accomodations for service men are available: BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH, Presbyterian 40 cots, showers. No bedding; some furniture. Kitchen facilities; including stove, refrigerator. Do not fur nish food at present. Open Saturday nights. Some one in charge. CHURCH OF WIDE FELLOW SHIP. Congregational A few cots, one day-bed in liv ing room. Showers. Game room, ping-pong table. Reading room, magazines, pia no, 2 writing desks. Open every day. No one in charge. CIVIC CLUB No cots, no showers. Lounge, pianot magazines, writing tables. Doughnuts and coffee served Open every day. Someono in charge in the evenings. (Being taken over this week by USO.) EPISCOPAL CHURCH 50 cots, bedding, showers. Large, comfortable reading room. Writing facilities. Kitchen facilities. Simple re freshments supplied. Open all the time. Someone in charge Saturday nights. (On Saturdays better reserve bed early.) AMERICAN LEGION HUT Sleeping accomodations for 30 men. Mattresses and bed-cloth es. No cols. Writing desks, magazines. Coffee and doughnuts suppli ed. Open Saturday nights only. Someone in charge.
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