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VOLUME 24, NO. 8
Southern Pines, North Carolina. Friday, January 21, 1944.
TEN CENTS
R. P. Muse Is Found
Dead in Automobile
Officers Are Investigat
ing Mysterious Death
of Carthage Merchant
Royal P. Muse, 45, prominent mer
chant of Carthage, was found dead
in his automobile near the Carolina
Hotel in Sanford early Sunday morn
ing and while officers expressed be
lief that' there was foul play, the
mystery has not yet been solved.
Mr. Muse was last seen alive by
friends in Carthage around 11 p.
m. Saturday night when he was at
, Baker’s Cafe, it is . said. A Negro
man reported that about midnight
a soldier stopped and pushed his
car which would not start, and that
he recognized the car driven by the
soldier as that of Mr. Muse. A girl
was with the soldier, the Negro re
ported, but he did not see Mr. Muse.
An autopsy was performed on the
body by Dr. Lennon of Greensboro,
but a report of this is not yet avail
able here. There was no money on
Mr. Muse’s body and a watch which
he is known to have been carrying
was missing.,
Mr. Muse, a son of Mrs. Ann J.
Muse and the late N. J. Muse, of
Carthage, had been in the feed,
seed, produce and fertilizer busi
ness for many years and was favor
ably known throughout this section.
He was a member of the Carthage
Presbyterian Church, the Rotary
Club and the Masons.
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at 4:00 o’clock from
the Carthage Presbyterian Church
by the pastor, the Rev. W. S. Golden,
and burial was in the Cross Hill
Cemetery.
Surviving are his mother; three
"sisters,' Mrs. C. C. Carter of Winston-
Salem, Mrs. J. D. Griffin of Greens
boro and Mrs. John C. McCaskill of
Carthage; two brothers, Glenn Muse
of Camp Davis and Leon F. Muse
of New York City.
Nurse’s Aides Render Valuable Service
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Fourth War Loan Is
Oif to a Good Start;
Town Quotas Are Set
SCHOOL CHILDREN
WILL COLLECT PAPER
Nurse’s Aide Training Opefts Doors to
Enlarged Field of Service to Humanity
County Home Residents
Made Happy by Gifts
Inmates of the Moore County
Home were made happy at Christ
mas by gifts purchased with funds
solicited by Edward F. Green and
D. H. Turner, who have carried on
this work for the past seven years.
Each person received two. pairs
of half-wool hose, a handkerchief,
a new silver dollar and fruits. These
gifts were presented following a
short service conducted by Mr.
Green and Mr. Turner.
This committee appreciates very
much the cooperation of those who
contributed in any way to the suc
cess of the undertaking.
Oranges and apples were donated
by Pender’s, A. & P. and the Mod
ern Market, and Mrs. William Blake
ly furnished a car for the trip to
the Home.
Cash donations to the fund were
made, as follows; Harry Vale, $5;
Major William Blakely and W. J.
Sailborn, $2 each; E. C. Stevens,
Nick Rapatus, C. W. Kellam, Mrs.
Ernest Poate, D. H. Turner, Frank
Buchan, D. S. Packard, Edward F.
Green, J. T. Overton, all of Southern
Pines, and J. C. Robbins, G. C. Sey
mour and A. L. Burney of Aberdeen,
$1 each; Mrs. H. S. Knowles and Mrs.
Margaret White, 50 cents each.
BIG FINDINGS
If finders were keepers, lit-
fie Dick Patch, who is normally
now here and now there, would
be the proud owner of two Ar
my vehicles which he found
abandoned in the woods be
tween the town line and the
swamp of McDeed's Creek. A
week ago it was a truck, and
about Christmas time an over
turned jeep. Reporting his finds
to Chief Newton both cars were
later claimed by the authorities
at Camp Mackall.
OUT OF HOSPITAL
Southern Pines friends of Mrs. R.
S. Durant will be glad to receive
the news of her removal from thr
hospital to her home at Tryon witl
every prospect of an early recov
ery from the painful injuries receiv
ed when her car was wrecked at a
railroad crossing last montli.
By Katherine L. Boyd
We are at war. Though we hope,
with Churchill, that we are at the
beginning of the end, the Country
must be organized to meet any em
ergency. In the press, on the radio,
wherever volunteers are called to
help prepare the country for any
emergency, women are being urged
to join up as Volunteer Nurse’s
Aides.
Should we have an epidemic of
flu as in the last war or any large-
scale disaster, the situation might be
really desperate. Our civilian health
would be endangered, and that
would affect our boys on the fight
ing lines. We women have a defin
ite part to play, now. The women of
England showed that they could
back their men to the limit. And so
can we!
Any American woman, between
the ages of 18 and 50, in good health
and with the equivalent of a high
school education, may apply for en
rollment as a Volunteer Nurse’s
Aide. The American Red Cross has
worked out an intensive 80 hour
training course in Moore County,
the 35 hoiu^s bf classroom work
taught by a qualified trained nurse,
and the 45 hours of supervised prac
tice are given at Moore County Hos
pital. At the end of the course, the
Nurse’s Aide receives her cap and
pin. Her official uniform is a blue
jumper apron and white blouse, with
a combined, Red Cross, OCD insig
nia on the left sleeve. The first 150
flours of service must be given in
the hospital wards. After that, the
Moore County Nurse’s Aide is plac
ed wherever she is most needed; in
hospital wards, in the various county
clinics, at the Station Hospital, Camp
Mackall.
Many types of women have joined
the Volunteer Nurse’s Aide Corps.
One business woman works two
evenings a week, another gives up
her weekends and is also on call for
night emergencies. One army wife
works four full days weekly, an
other five days; several aides, who
were among the first to take train
ing, have worked two and three af
ternoons a week with scarcely a
break, for the last two years.
Probably the busiest woman of
our community, Miss Birdilia Bair,
who was awarded the Kiwanis
Builder’s Cup for 1943, is an aide.
She has given over a thousand hours
of service. The life of the wife of
the commander of one of the great
camps must be a full one, yet Mrs.
Vernon G. Olsmith of Camp Mack
all gives time and energy to work
as an aide in the surgery at the sta
tion hospital for five full days a
week. Of the aides trained at Moore
County Hospital 18 are army wives,
and are on active service, including
transfers from other chapters. These
girls are devotedly serving our Moore
County Hospital. They say that their
work there helps them aS does noth
ing else, through the days of trial.
Among other busy women who have
ncluded this splendid service in their
lives are; Mrs. Frazer Knight, Mrs.
Roy Grinnell, Mrs. Stuart Wood,
Mrs. A. P. Hayden, Miss Erma Fish-
;r, Mrs. MacGruder Dent, Mrs. Don-
ild Sherrerd, Mrs. Carleton Ken-
ledy. Miss Caroline Battley, Mrs. Da-
'id Schorr, Mrs. Charles S. Patch,
7ho has given more hours than any
ther locally trained aide.
To the average woman with
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OVER THE TOP
Carthage, with a quota of
$100.00 in the Moore County
Fight Infantile Paralysis Cam
paign. is the first community in
the county to go "over the top".
Edward J. Burns, Carthage
chairman, reported that the
town was over within five hours
after the drive started. How
ever, Carthage is expected to
continue its campaign through
January 31st.
P. R. Brown, principal of Ihe
West Southern Pines colored
school, has been named chair
man of the Moore County Col-_
ored Division in the Fight In
fantile ParMysis Campaign.
NEW INDUSTRY
Local Church Holds
Important Meeting
Wide Fellowship Church
Burns Paid Mortgages on
Building and Garden
Van B. Sharp of Carthage told a
Pilot representative Tuesday that
he had succeeded in getting another
war contract for manufacturing nets
of a kind made in only one other
place in the United States. Three or
four hundred women and girls will
be employed. Already, workers are
being trained and materials for the
nets is said to be on the way. Mr.
Sharp expects to have the plant in
operation within about ten days, he
disclosed.
Thursday evening January 13, the
Church of Wide Fellowship of Sou
thern Pines held their annual
business meeting in the parlors of
the church.
The meeting proceeded with the
business of the year with George
Case acting as moderator. After the
congregation had been presented
with reports from every society of
the church and their treasurers, and
after these had been adopted the
climax of the meeting was present
ed.
Reverand Tucker G. Humphries,
pastor of the church, assisted by
Dr. Warren Sheldon, a member of
the board of trustees, Mrs. Margaret
White, representing the ladies of
the church, and June Phillips, rep
resenting the congregation, burned
the paid and cancelled mortgage on
the church proper and one on the
garden of the church.
The gathering stood and joined in
the singing of the Doxology.
The report of the Pastor of the
church was one of gratitude as he
mentioned the various organizations
and individuals who were so largely
responsible for the growth of the
church during the year past and per
haps one of the most prosperous in
its history.
New Year’s Horse Show at Country Club
Attracts Several Hundred Spectators
Pioneer, Owned by Mrs.
Kennedy, Wins Blue Rib
bon in Feature Event
By Howard F. Burns
Several hundred spectators brav
ed a cold north wind last Sunday
to see Pioneer, an aged bay gelding
owned by Mrs. William J. Kennedy
of Dedham, Mass., with his trainer,
Mickey Walsh up, capture the blue
ribbon in the class for middle and
heavyweight hunters over a string
of fourteen jumpers in the feature
event on the afternoon card in the
New Year’s horse Show and Gym
khana at the Southern Pines Coun
try Club.
Dark Victory, a trim eight-year-
old brown gelding entered by Mile-
Away Stables and ridden by Mrs.
W. O. Moss of Southern Pines, ran
a close second. Golden Hild, a four
year old bay gelding, owned and
ridden by Carlyle Cameron of Sou
thern Pines, was third.
The Show given in benefit of the
American Red Cross netted $38.54
for the organization. A military
band from Camp Mackall furnished
the music for the occasion.
Claim Agent, a seven-year-old bay
gelding owned by Pinehurst Stables,
Pinehurst, and brilliantly ridden by
Seaman Lloyd Tate, Jr., U. S. N.,
captured first place over a field of
twelve in the class for open jumpers,
one of the most spectacular events
on the card. It’s Up, an eight-year-
old bay mare owned by Pinehurst
Stables and ridden by Seaman Lloyd
jumping for men in uniform. Mari
gold, an aged chestnut mare owned
by A. Corbett Alexander of Pine
hurst, with Major Ace Parker of the
U. S. Air Corps up, won second place.
Pioneer, with Corp. Tom Kenwood
of Camp Mackall up, finished third.
Miss Kathleen Walsh of Southern
Pines was awarded the blue ribbon
in the class in horsemanship for
children. Her sister. Miss Hannah
Walsh, also of Southern Pines, came
in for second place. Miss Mary Ann
Tate, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
W. Tate of Pinehurst, was third in
the class of ten riders.
The team captained by Miss Mary
Ann Tate won the potato race, a
novelty event, by a score of five to
thirteen, over the team captained
by Miss Betty Parker of Greenwich,
Conn.
Major C. G. Anthony of Camp
Mackall judged. The ribbons were
presented by Mrs. Marion Frase of
Newark, N. J., wife of Lt. Frase of
Camp Mackall.
MRS. ANITA BRITT
The village of Niagara was shock
ed Wednesday, Jan. 12, when the
news came that Mrs. Anita Wilkin
son Britt was dead. Anita spent a
great part of her childhood in Ni
agara at the home of her grandpa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Frank,
and endeared herself to those about
her.
Funeral services were conducted
Friday, at 3;00 P. M. at Culdee
Tate, Jr., was second. Gray Mist, an!Church by Rev. T. D. Mullis.
aged gray mare entered by the Mile-
Away Stables of Southern Pines,
with Donald Scheipers of Lawrence,
Mass., up, finished third.
Gray Mist, with Corp. Job Kirk
of Camp Mackall in the saddle, won
first place beforg the large crowd of
'spectators lin the class for open
Surviving are her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John B. Frank of Lum-
berton; the grandparents with
whom she was making her home,
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Reidthaler, of
Pine Bluff, and Mr. and Mrs. John
W. Frank of Niagara, besides other
relatives and a host of friends.
In compliance with defense
needs, the Southern Pines High
School Athletic Association is
sponsoring a scrap paper drive.
Everyone is asked to save all of
the paper possible, and on Jan
uary 31 to place it on their front
porch or in any convenient place.
School children, on that day,
will canvas the entire town and
will pick up the paper. The na
tion is in great need of scrap
paper. This is something every
one can do.
Pinehurst Publisher
Is Kiwanis Speaker
Robert E. Harlow, publisher of the
Pinehurst Outlook and veteran
spdrtswriter, addressed the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club Wednesday at
the Pinehurst Country Club on the
subject, “The Recent Monopoly Suit
Brought by the Federal Govern
ment against the Associated Press”.
Mr. Harlow explained that the As
sociated Press, a news syndicate,
was organized for the purpose of col
lecting news and distributing it to
its member newspapers on an econ
omical basis. He pointed out that
at the time the A. P. was organized,
it was never intended to be a money
mjaking enterprise. The syndicate
sold the franchise to its member
papers in each city throughout the
country. A newspaper, he explained,
is supposed to extend its news cov
erage in the particular city for which
it serves to the A. P. service for the
benefit of their members throughout
the country.
Mr. Harlow, a pleasing speaker,
declared that the Associated Press
had a monopoly on the news in de
clining the coverage to non-member
papers. He told the club that in
some cities some papers not only
had the A. P. membership, but also
had the coverage of the United Press
and the International News Service.
This, he explained, would eliminate
new papers coming into the field
as it would be impossible for the
papers to obtain the news elsewhere
because of the Associated Press re
fusing a franchise.
He pointed out that the action
was brought against the A. P. as a
result of Marshall Fields’, publisher
of the Chicago Sun, being denied
membership as the franchise of Chi
cago is with the Chicago Tribune.
As a result of this refusal, the Feder
al Courts have handed down a de
cision that the Associated Press has
created a trust in denying non-mem
ber papers coverage. On the other
hand, the copy is reedited and dis
tributed to any radio station buying
this service.
In conclusion^ Mr. Harlow said the
case has now been appealed to the
United States Supreme Court for
final decision.
Preceding the address, W. D. Sab-
iston, Jr., read the revised by-laws
of.^ the dub which were adopted.
■William I. (Shorty) Barber, a mem
ber of the Pine Needles staff, was
inducted into membership by Dr.
Thaddeus I. Cheatham.
Eugene C. Stevens urged the Ki-
wanians to lend their support in
the Fourth War Loan Drive.
The speaker was introduced by
Leo Fuller.
NEW DIRECTORS ELECTED
The Board of Directors of the Car
olina Power and Light Company
which met in Raleigh last week el
ected Robert M. Hanes of Winston-
Salem, and James L. Coker of Harts-
ville, S. C., to membership on the
Board to fill two vacancies created
by the recent amendment of the
company’s charter increasing the
number of members of the Board
from seven to eleven, according to
a statement by L. V. Sutton, Pres
ident and General Manager of the
company.
Women's Division Is
Active and Theatres
Are Cooperating
With the coming of January 18
tj^ie “Go” signal was given and
Moore County was off on its race
to reach its $532,000 goal in the
Fourth War Loan campaign. Pre
liminary reports of enthusiastic in
terest indicate that the county will
run true to form and add another to
its series of successful drives.
Chairman E. C. Stevens announc
es the following quotas which have
been assigned towns of the county:
Southern Pines, $159,600; Pinehurst,
$101,080; Aberdeen, $79,800; Camer
on, $5,320; Carthage, $90,440; Rob
bins, $79,800; Vass, $2,660; Pinebluff,
$2,660; West End, $10,640.
Mr. Stevens has not heard what
is being done by theatres in towns
other than Southern Pines, but he
states that Mr. Benner of the Sun
rise has made arrangements where
by every person who purchases a
bond through the Southern Pines
Post Office, Building and Loan As
sociation, Bank or Mr. Stevens’ of
fice will receive a slip entitling him
to a free ticket to any show given
at the Sunrise during the campaign.
Mr. Picquet of the Carolina is co
operating by running streamers ad
vertising the drive.
The Women’s Division, under the
leadership of Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins,
will give the men’s branch some
keen competition unless present
signs fail.. On the opening day a
booth was set up. at the Bank and
the women . sold $14,887.50. They
are going about their job in a sys
tematic way and are lined up to
“man” the booth every day of the
week except Sunday to the close of
the campaign.
Their schedule is as follows: Mon
day, Mrs. Fraser Knight and Mrs.
Roy Grinnell; “Tuesday, Mrs. George
Moore and Mrs. Norris Hodgkins;
Wednesday, Mrs. Harlow Pearson
and Mrs. Whittal; Thursday, Mrs.
James Milliken and Mrs. Moore; Fri
day, Mrs. Perkinson and Mrs.
Spring; Saturday, Mrs. E. O., Hedge.
Women’s Division chairmen in the
towns are: Pinehurst, Mrs. James
Tufts; Southern Pines, Mrs. J. J.
Spring; Robbins, Mrs. W. H. Saun
ders; Carthage, Mrs. Myrton Stew
art; West. End, Mrs. M. C. McDon
ald; Aberdeen, Mrs. O. Leon Sey
mour; Pinebluff, Mrs. W. K. Carpen
ter; Vass, Mrs. H. A. Borst; Camer
on, Mrs. Pete Phillips; Eagle Springs,
Mrs. H. Bost; High Falls, Miss Lucy
Reynolds.
All citizens are urged to buy bonds
without delay and to buy to the
limit of their ability.
A FINE REPORT
Of outstanding interest in the
Christmas Seal Sale Drive was the
final meeting in Carthage last Tues
day of the colored chairmen of
Moore County.
The work under the leadership of
Professor R. P. Brown of West South
ern Pines and his committee, assisted
by all the colored teachers in the
County as local chairmen, is worthy
of special mention. The amount real
ized, $975.00, is $275.00 above their
quota and $420.00 more than last
year’s fine record.
The Ministers’ Alliance headed by
Rev. J. R. Funderburk turned in
$128.60 of this amount which com
pares with $26.50 last year. Thirty
churches cooperated in this effort.
Moore County can feel proud of
the record made by these splendid
colored citizens.
—ANNA F. CHEATHAM,
Moore County Seal Sale Chairman.
NEW HEAD FOR
OLD BUSINESS
The Hayes' Dress Shop, start
ed some 41 years ago and oper
ated continuously under the
management of its founder. Mrs.
C. L. Hayes, has been bought
by JMrs. D. J. Welch, an associ
ate of Mrs. Hayes for the past
15 years.
Known all over the Sandhill
territory for the excellence of
its wares, the shop will be car
ried in its old traditions by its
new owner.