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VOLUME 24, NO. 19.
Southern Pines. North Carolina, Friday, March 3. 1944.
TEN CENTS
Frank Welch Sells
the Belvedere Hotel
to New Corporation
Transaction Is Said
to Involve $75,000;
Hockett Is Manager
A business transaction of outstand
ing importance is the sale of the Bel
vedere Hotel in Southern Pines by
Frank Welch, long-time owner, to
Sidney B. Allen, J. Addison Smith
and W. E. (Bill) Hockett, who have
formed a new corporation entitled
The Belvedere Hotel, Inc. The trans
action is understood to have involv
ed around $75,000.
Mr. Hockett, who has had wide
experience since entering the hotel
business in 1909, will be resident
manager, and will continue the pol
icies instituted by Mr. Welch which
have made the Belvedere an out
standing commercial and family ho
tel of the resort section. He will be
joined soon by Mrs. Hockett.
Mr. Hockett constructed and oper
ated the John Marshall and William
Byrd hotels in Richmond and others
in Fredricksburg, Va,, Hickory and
Charlotte, and is now owner and op
erator of the Virginian Hotel, St.
Petersburg, Fla.
Mr. Allen is president of the Guil
ford Mortgage , Corporation of
Greensboro and Mr. Smith is a prom
inent building contractor there.
The property acquired by the new
corporation runs 62 feet on West
Broad Street and 254 on Pennsyl
vania Avenue. The building con
tains seven stores, the most promi
nent of which is Mrs. Welch’s Gift
Shop, which she will continue to
operate in the same quarters. The
purchase also includes a small frame
building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The original building on the Bel
vedere site was erected by D. F.
McAdams in 1904 and the compara
tively small structure was bought by
Mr. Welch in 1917 and has been
gradually enlarged to meet the needs
of his expanding business.
The building housed the post of
fice for 33 years: from 1905 to 1923
on Broad Street in the rooms now oc
cupied by the Red Cross and part
of the Gift Shop, then on the Pen
nsylvania side until 1938. The corner
occupied by the Gift Shop since 1926
was for years the home of Broad
Street Pharmacy.
Mr. and Mrs. Welch will continue
to occupy their 6-room apartment
facing the garden.
THE TOWN BEAUTIFUL
The Civic Club, which through
the years has done much to beautify
Southern Pines and to promote civic
pride, and the Town are making .an
effort to keep the streets as attrac
tive as possible, and the hearty co
operation of all permanent and tem
porary residents will be greatly ap
preciated.
Garbage is collected every Tues
day and Saturday, and householders
can aid in keeping the streets clean
by not leaving their garbage cans
out where dogs can turn them over
and spill the contents, to be scatter
ed by the wind. The business streets
are swept every morning. Care in the
disposal of waste paper should make
it easy for them to stay tidy all day.
Cooperation along this line will keep
Southern Pines the town beautiful.
Grinnell and Kelsey
Are Golf Winners
Roy Grinnell and Luara Kelsey
led a field of thirty-odd golfers in
the Leap Year Scotch foursome at
the Southern Pines Country Club
Sunday afternoon in posting a 44-
40-84-14-70 to win first place. Lt.
Col. Ducat McEntee and Mrs. Stuart
Wood posted a 41-42-83-12-71 for
second place. Dan Farrell of Aber
deen and his partner. Miss Katherine
Wiley turned in a 47-45-92-20-72 for
third place.
Following the tournament the la
dies entertained at a buffet supper
on the club grounds.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Mrs. O. A. Dickinson, surgical
dressings chairman replacing
Mrs. J. T. Overton who served
one and one half years, and Miss
Helen Butler, vice chairman,
need many more volunteers
than are now working if the
present quota of dressings is to
get out on time—and on time
means when they are needed in
army hospitals caring for the
wounded in battle. The surgi
cal dressings department has ar
ranged with the Motor Corps to
pick up volunteers living at the
hotels whenever six or seven,
no less, workers can come in for
a three hour work period.
If there are trained surgical
dressing supervisors here who
formerly served in other chap
ters they are asked to report.
They are needed.
The Surgical Dressings Rooms
are located in the Straka build
ing next to the Carolina Power
and Light Company on north
Easi Broad Street.
Shenk Resigns Post
As Telephone Head
George M. Thompson Is
Promoted from Plant Sup
erintendent to Manager
Carter Is Owner of
The Jefferson Inn
Norman M. Shenk, vice president
and general manager of the Central
Carolina Telephone Company, has
resigned his position effective im
mediately, it was disclosed Wednes
day, and George M. Thompson, who
had served as plant superintendent
for the past several years, has been
promoted to general manager.
Mr. Shenk came to Southern Pines
in 1937 and has resided here contin-
pously since that time with the ex
ception of one and one-half years
when he was with an associated com
pany in Iowa. He returned here in
1941. While Mr. Shenk has not re
vealed his plans for the future, it is
hoped that he and his family will
continue to live here, where they
own a home on North May Street:
A Statement
ARMY AND NAVY WOOL
Mrs. Kaylor has plenty of Army
and Navy Wool available for Red
Cross knitting. It can be had by go
ing to the Fire Station.
By E. H. Garrison, Jr.
Chairman
Moore County Chapter
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross, con
scious of its great accomplishments
during the past year, awaits with
.complete confidence the response of
the Americah people to its 1944 War
.Fund.
Oversubscription of last year’s goal
enabled the Red Cross to meet the
greatest challenge in history. In re
sponse to the unprecedented demand
for Red Cross services, we expanded
our facilities, increased our activ
ities- These services, which now gir
dle the globe, were undertaken at
the specific request of the Army and
Navy. What our work has meant to
the armed forces in terms of mo
rale, is exemplified in the spirit of
our troops. It would warm your
hearts to see how our soldiers, sail
ors and airmen abroad really ap
preciate what the American people
are doing for them through the Red
Cross. From commanding officers to
privates enthusiasm for the Red
Cross is universal.
While the Red Cross already has
undergone the greatest expansion
in its. entire history, our world-wide
program continues to grow and keep
pace with the armed forces. In re
cent months few days passed that
we did not open a new service club,
or extend our facilities and person
nel • in military hospitals and at
camps, airfields and naval stations.
The American people have entrust
ed the Red Cross with the gravest
responsibility since its inception. To
discharge that responsibility it is
essental that the 1944 Red Cross War
Fund be fully subscribed.
Fateful days are ahead for our
nation and our people. To keep faith
with our men in uniform we on the
home front must carry the Red Cross
appeal through to a successful con
clusion. No sacrifice is too great.
J. F. Carter Buys Inter
est of E. H. Mills: The Gif
fords Are New Manager’s
The Jefferson Inn, purchased last
July from its long-time owners, Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Reynolds, by J. F.
Carter and E. H. Mills, is now own
ed solely by Mr. Carter, who this
week bought Mr. Mills’ interest.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gifford will
manage the hotel, continuing the
standard of excellence which the
hotel has long maintained. Mr. Gif
ford has had experience in hotel
work in Southern Pines, Thousand
Island Park and Potsdam, N. Y.
The Jefferson Inn, a name familiar
to generations of residents and visit
ors to Southern Pines and a winter
home to a host of patrons from all
over the United States, has recently
been modernized in many whys. New
furniture has been installed and the
building has been redecorated. The
dining room service, an attractive
feature this season, will be contin
ued.
James Boyd, Novelist and Publisher :
of The Pilot, Is Suddenly Stricken
at Princeton, New Jersey, Thursday
They may be fighting men to a
world at large, but every mother and
father in Moore County with a boy
in khaki knows that those men out
there on a battle field crouching in
a foxhole, or standing watch on a
pitching destroyer in mid-ocean are
the same warm-hearted, happy kids
v/ho only yesterday were playing
marbles in the back yard or scoot-
itlg around town in a paint-dobbedi
old flivver.
You saw them here just the other
day—delivering papers, working af
ter school at the filling station, mow
ing the front lawn under protest, or
building a sh^ck in the vacant lot.
How many times recently we’ve
heard some dad say, “I wish I could
be right with that boy of mine to
cheer him up and keep him from
getting somesick”, and, if there’s
been a tight feeling in your throat,
dad, its only natural.
But, even though you cjm't go out
with that lad yourself, rest assured
there’s a fellow along with your boy’s
putfit to buck him up when he’s
down-hearted, to take any message
he wants sent along home, or to just
talk. That fellbW- is the Red Cross
field director, sent along with your
boy by the American people.
That’s why its important now for
all of us to do our part in the Amer
ican Red Cross War Fund. Let’s keep
the Red Cross on his side!
Drive officials today pointed out
that President Roosevelt has issued
an official proclamation proclaiming
March as “Red Cross Month” and ur
ging all Americans to observe it by
answering the Red Cross appeal for
funds.
In the proclamation, the president
cites the Red Cross as an auxiliary
to the United States armed forces
which is providing indispensable ser
vice to troops throughout the world
as well as to the families at home,
and states that the organization is
wholly dependent upon individual
support and personal participation.
The President urges all his fellow
Americans to observe Red Cross
Month “By opening their hearts to
this humanitarian appeal in order
that we may keep the Red Cross at
the side of our fighting men and
their dependents in their hour of
greatest need.”
JAMES BOYD IN CHARACTERISTIC POSE
Harry Lee Brown, Jr.
Receives High Honor
Oustanding High School
Senior Is Selected As .
FirsI Junior Rotarian
FUNERAL PLANS
HOME FOR WEEKEND
Lloyd Woolley, musician 3|c of
Bainbridge, Md., spent last weekend
SOMETHING NEW IN FIRES
Southern Pines Fire Department
was again called out ^t 11:45 o’clock
Wednesday morning to extinguish a
fire in a gas pump at McNeill’s Fill
ing Station located at the southwest
corner of West Broad Street and Ver
mont Avenue.
(
REGISTRATION DATES
Effective March 1 the Moore Coun
ty ABC Board will be permitted to
^register applicants for permit books
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L- L. only on the second Tuesday in each
Woolley. month.
liarr> Lee Brown, Jr., was pre
sented to the Rotary Club at Friday’s
luncheon at the Highland Pines Inn
as the first Junior Rotarian sel
ected from the Southern Pines High
School. The selection of a Junior Ro
tarian is made by the high school
principal on the basis of merit alone.
Harry Lee is in the 12th grade and
,is an all “E” student. He is a mem
ber of the Student Council, Glee
Club, Dramatic Club, and the bas
ketball team, and is very popular in
his group. For four consecutive
meetings he will- attend the Rotary
luncheons as a full member, and
then will be followed by another
junior Rotarian ^elected from the
high school.
The Club president, Joe DeBerry,
had as his guest his son. Naval Avi-|
ation Cadet “Jimmy” DeBerry. Jim-'
my has been studying mechanical
engineering in a V-12 class at Steph
ens Institute of Technology, Hobo
ken, N. J. His work there drew a
letter of commendation from the
dean of Engineering, as well as
praise for the Southern Pines High
Schoql. For Jimmy’s accomplish
ment was outstanding, since the
course is designed for men in col
lege, and he sailed through it fresh
from high school. ,
Jimmy has been transferred to the!
Aviation Cadet School at Bunker i
Hill, Indiana. He will spend three j
months there, and then will return
to Chapel Hill for six months of
Navy pre-flight training.
The Rev. Tucker G. Humphries
presented as his guest Clifford Rod
of Long Island.
N. M. Wells of Fillmore, N. Y.
was a visiting Rotarian.
In a telephone message from
Princeton, N. J.. Thursday after
noon, Mrs. James Boyd ScUd that
her husband's funeral would be
held there Sunday or Monday,
and that Thursday at 5 p. m. was
set tentatively as the time for a
memorial service to be held in
the Boyd home in Southern
Pines. If it is necessary to make
any change in the date for the
service here, the announcement
will be posted in the Post Office.
Mrs. Boyd begs that no flowers
be sent. She suggests that money
which friends would otherwise
give for flowers be donated to
the hospital.
J. Durwood Creech
Is Kiwanis Speaker
W. A. JOHNSON HEADS
WEST END CAMPAIGN
In last week’s announcement of
local chairmen and quotas in the Red
pross War Fund Drive, West End
was inadvertantly omitted. This
town’s quota is $900, and the drive
there is under the able leadership
of W. A. (Arch) Johnson-
VICE CHAIRMAN
Mrs. H. E. Bowman of Aberdeen
was elected 2nd Vice-Chairman of
the Moore County Hospital Auxiliary
at the regular meeting of the organ
ization on Wednesday.
ARRIVED SAFELY
Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Dorn have
just received a cablegram from their
son, Lt. Robert F. Dorn, telling of
his safe arrival on foreign shores.
J. Durwood Creech, lieutenant
governor. Fourth Division, Carolinas
District, speaking before the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club at its weekly
luncheon Wednesday at the Pine-
hurst Country Club, stressed the im
portant part that Kiwanis must play
in the post war planning program
set up by Kiwanis International. He
informed the club that 800,000 men
had been released from the armed
forces, with the number being in
creased monthly. “Many,” he said,
“are returning injured in body and
spirit.” Our duty, he contended, is
to plan now to take care of these
men. Our government has set up
plans for their rehabilitation and we
must see that they and their famil
ies are given every opportunity to
adjust themselves to civilian life.
Those that wish it, must be given
the opportunity of continuing their
education and must be given the
chances of employment.
In conclusion, Mr. Creech said
there is a definite program for Ki
wanis. It was born in 1918 during
the last war with the motto, “To
Build.” We must not be satisfied to
live in the past, but must keep a
keen vision not only to build with
materials, but to build in character.
The speaker was introduced by
John Ruggles.
SUPERVISORS MEETING
Mrs. O. A. Dickinson, Chairman of
Surgical Dressings, has called a
meeting of all surgical dressing sup
ervisors Monday, March 6, at 12:15
at the Red Cross Surgical Dressing
Workrooms on north East Broad St.
R. GREGG CHERRY TO SPEAK
R. Gregg Cherry of Gastonia will
give an educational address to teach
ers of Moore County at 8:00 o’clock
March 7th (Tuesday) at the Carth
age school auditorium. The public
js invited-
Mr. Boyd Faints at Din
ner for British Officers
and Dies 2 Hours Later
By CHARLES MACAULEY
James Boyd, long a resident of
Southern Pines and one of its lead
ing citizens, died at Princeton, N. J.,
shortly after midnight of Thursday,
February 24th. The announcement
of his death, which reached here
early Friday morning, shocked the
entire community in which he had so
long been a familiar and greatly es
teemed personality.
Mr. Boyd spent a part of January
at his home here and was happy to
have the three children, James, Jr.,
of the Coast Guard, Dan, of the
Army, and Nancy, a student at St.
Timothy’s School, Catonsville, Md.,
here to make the family circle com
plete. He attended the North Caro
lina Press Association meeting at
Chapel Hill January 21, returning
to New York that night. He had pre
pared a lecture on the South to be
given at Princeton University as a
part of an “Americanization Course”
for British officers, and had just fin
ished dinner with the group of offi
cers, apparently in his usual health,
when he fainted, and died painless
ly two hours later.
Born in Dauphin County, Pennsyl
vania, July 2, 1838, the son of John
Yeomans Boyd and Eleanor Gilmore
Herr Boyd, he came with the family
to Southern Pines in 1904.
Graduating from Princeton in 1910,
he studied at T inity College, Cam-
bridge, Engl; nd. As a first lieutenant
serving'v ith the AEF during World
War I lie saw action at St- Mihiel
and in the battles, of the Meuse-Ar-
gonne.
He was married in October 1917
to Katherine Lament, daughter of
the late Daniel S. Lament. In addi
tion to his wife and three children, a
brother, Capt. Jackson Herr Boyd of
the U. S. Marine Corps, and twp sis
ters survive, r
A contributor to many of our lead
ing magazines, his great gift as a
man of letters fully flowered with
the production of “Drums” in 1925.
The accurate historical perspective
and fidelity to location not only
brought him fame, but gave his
adopted State of North Carolina na
tional publicity which was further
enhanced by the publication of
“Marching On” two years later. He
was the author of “Long Hunt,”
“Roll River,” and “Bitter Creek’”
also.
Modest and unassuming but with
a mind fully attuned to the needs
of the growing community now his
home, Mr. Boyd was an active, pub
lic spirited and useful figure in the
growth of not only the town, but the
entire Sandhill area. With his broth
er, Jackson Herr Boyd, he was
largely instrumental in the founding
of the Moore County Hospital, in
which institution he served in many
capacities, as a member of the origi
nal Building Committee in 1928, then
as a director, then on the Executive
Committee, and later as president
of the Board of Directors 1937-1938.
He was noted as one of the ablest
and most interested directors, as a
splendid president, as an active mem
ber of several committees as well as
the present Executive Committee.
Among his State-wide activities
was a membership in the North Car
olina Literary and Historical Society
in which he was honored with the
presidency. Locally as MFH of the
Moore County Fox Hounds he fol
lowed a hobby which he enjoyed to
the fullest extent and in so doing
gained the admiraton of every horse
man. He won further admiration by
his interest in the Steeplechase As
sociation of which he was president.
Three years ago Mr. feoyd enter
ed the publishing field with the pur
chase of THE PILOT.
To give a complete story of all of
Mr. Boyd’s activities, products of his
brilliant mind, is impossible. Sorrow
in his passing will long abide with
those who knew him. His family, his
friends and associates, his town and
his state have suffered an irrepara-
I ble loss.