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VOLUME 24, NO. 20
Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday, March 10, 1344.
TEN CENTS
Registration Books for Special Bond
Election Will Be Open Until March 18
Bond Issues to Determine
Future of Southern Pines
Country Club, Golf Course
JUNIOR ROTARIAN
Attention of the citizens of South
ern Pines is called to the new regis
tration ordered in connection with
the special bond election to be held
March 28 when voters will be asked
to cast their ballots to decide wheth
er the Town shall issue bonds in the
amount of $33,000 for the acquisition
and reconstruction of the Southern
Pines Country Club for a Commun
ity Building and in the amount of
$12,000 for the acquisition and im
provement of the golf course.
In explaining the proposed plan
when the bond election was an
nounced last month, W. Duncan Mat
thews, Mayor, gave out the follow
ing information and urged the citi
zens to support this worthwhile pro
ject:
“The Town had planned to go
ahead with the necessary repairs to
the building which would include re
placing the two walls in the main
ball room and recovering the entire
building which is in very bad shape
resulting in leaks that have damag
ed the interior of the building. Soon
after going into this matter, the
bond attorneys ruled that they could
not approve the bonds of the Town
as long as there was a deed of trust
and notes totaling $20,000.00 bear
ing 2 1-2 per cent interest outstand
ing against the property. They there
fore, suggested that we increase the
issue to the amount of $33,000.00
shown above, in order to retire these
notes which had been obligated and
are callable, first for the reason that
we have a guaranteed bid of 2 per
cent for the entire issue, therefore
saving .h-.2,o£ 1 per cent to. the tax--
payer on an obligation made in 1941.
There is also a strong possibility of
being able to sell the bonds at less
thaii 2 per cent on the present bond
market.”
The registration books will be
open until March 18, and it is impor
tant that citizens register as they
cannot vote unless they do. The
Country Club and golf course have
contributed much to Southern Pinps
in the way of bringing people here
who have become valuable perma
nent residents, and they have at
tracted many seasonal visitors whose
coming has meant much to the town.
This is the time for those who are
interested to get ready to voice their
opinions.
‘‘Your Red Cross Is At His Side!”
HARRY LEE BROWN
Special Horse Show
Planned for Sunday
Large Entry of Hunters
Expected; Miss Judy Hen
son Will Present Ribbons
An equestrian gymkhana will be
held at the horse show grounds at
the Southern Pines Country Club at
2:30 Sunday afternoon, March 12th.
Louis Scheipers, chairman of the
equestrian committee, has announc
ed that he is planning a special show
and is expecting a large entry of
hunters.
The feature events will be a class
for middle and heavyweight hunters,
a class for lightweight hunters to be
run over the outside hunting course
of panel fences and rail jumps, and
a class for pair jumpers. There will
also be a class for men in uniform as
well as several novelty events.
Miss Judy Henson, daughter of
Col. George G. Henson of Fort Bragg,
will present the ribbons.
There are no charges for parking
but a collection will be taken for
the benefit of the American Red
Crosy. Plans are being made for a
large number of spectators to wit
ness this show.
TWO EXTRA DAYS
Due to the large number of
taxpayers in Southern Pines re
questing assistance in filing their
1943 Income Tax Returns, the
Department has authorized two
additional days on the deputy
collector's assignment. He will
be on duty in the basement of
the Southern Pines post office
on March 10, 11, 13, 14, and un
til midnight March 15, 1944.
“Some Questions On
China” Is Subject
of Rotary Address
Rev. Craighill Brown
Is Speaker; Junior
Roiarian Is Welcomed
BY JUNE PHILLIPS
Rev. Craighill Brown was the
guest speaker at Friday’s Rotary
luncheon at the Highland Pines Inn
Mr. Brown talked informally on
“Some Questions on China.” He
thought that the question of China’s
going communistic after the war
could be answered with a qualified
“No.” Mr. Brown’s view was that
the Chinese did not have an ideolog
ical conception of communism or
conform to the Marxian Doctrine.
The communist movement in China
is aimed at agrarian reform to obtain
a fairer redistribution of land. That
this is so is not strange if it is real
ized how closely the Chinese farmer
is identified to his land, Mr. Brown
said. “Floods, and drought, looting
and pillaging by rival armies, may
destroy his crops, but neither na
ture’s caprices nor man’s ravages de
ter the Chinese farmer, for with the
slightest let up of either, back to his
plot of land he goes.”
The union of the various revolu
tionary armies in China probably
would last, Mr; Brown thought. Al
though they might for purposes of
political prestige, in dealing with the
Central Chinese Government, main
tain their identity. The union of
these armies was accomplished
through the famous kidnapping of
Gen. Chiang Kai-shek by the revolu
tionary armies, following which a
united front was forged against Ja
pan. That Japan recognized these po
litical movements as making toward
a United China and a distinct threat
to Ja^)anese power resulted in what
the Japanese always refer to in the
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Listening to the troubles of soldiers and findir g a way to help them is the daily work of Mrs. Lee
Clark, home service representative, Moore County Chapter, American Red Cross, at Headquarters,
Southern Pines. Photo by Pierson
Kiwanis Club Hears
of Military Courts
Major Robert L. Sonfield,
Staff Judge Advocate Air
borne Command, Is Speaker
MILITARY STUDENT
By HOWARD F. BURNS
Major Robert L. Sonfield, Staff
Judge Advocate Airborne Command,
Camp Mackall, in an address to the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club Wednesday
at its luncheon at the Pinehurst
Country Club, explained the military
code governing punishment of offi
cers and enlisted men under the
military laws.
He pointed out the code dates back
to the common law of England and
was adopted by Congress in 1920. He
informed his hearers there are
three courts. First, Summary Court
with a maximum penalty of one
month and partial forfeiture of pay,
which is similar to the Court of a
Justice of Peace in civilian life; sec
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Red Cross Reports
All-Out Service
Ministrations of This Hu
manitarian Organization
Reach Around the World
JIMMY HILL
Jimmy Hill, 16, who will be pleas
antly remembered by faculty and
students of Southern Piines High
School, where he was enrolled last
year while his father. Col. J. W. Hill,
^ was stationed at Knollwood Field, is
in Telephone Set-up ^ student at Texas Military In-
Additional Changes
LOCAL POST OFFICE
HAS LARGE SALES
A recent news release from
Greensboro under the heading “Post
Office Business Undergoes Large
Gains” gives figures which offer an
interesting comparison with those of
the local office for the corresponding
month, February.
Greensboro, a city many times the
size of Southern Pines, sold 10,271
domestic money orders totaling
$166,752.35, while Southern Pines
sold 6,519, amounting to $223,015.84.
Local stamp sales were $10,833.89,
or approximately one fourth of
Greensboro’s $44,267.15.
The year since the establishment
of a branch office at Camp Mackall
is expected to show a two and one-
half million dollar money order bus
iness for the Southern Pines post of
fice.
BRUSH FIRE
The Southern Pines Fire Depart
ment was called out at 2:30 o’clock
Friday afternoon to fight a brush
end woods fire west of the school-
house in West Southern Pines.
Miner Resigns as Auditor
to Take Work Elsewhere;
Will Be Succeeded by Grover
Additional changes in the local
personnel of the Central Carolina
Telephone Company will take place
soon, it is learned. L. W. Miner, au
ditor for the Company, has resigned
effective March 15 to accept a pub
lic accounting position elsewhere.
His place will be filled by Malcolm
Grover, who comes from the head^
quarters office, Newton, Iowa. Mr.
Grover, son of Mr. and Mrs. Law
rence Grover, is a graduate of the
Southern Pines High School and has
been with the telephone company
since 1935.
George M. Thompson, who assum
ed the general management follow
ing the resignation of Norman M.
Shenk, which was announced last
week, will continue to serve as plant
superintendent.' Mr. Thompson has
been in the telephone business
twenty-four years, ten years with
the Central Carolina and with the
office here for the past three years,
coming from Warrensburg, Mo.
. PLANNING CONTEST
Entries in the Postwar Planning
Contest are now in the hands of the
judges and the winners will be an
nounced soon.
stitute, San Antonio, Texas. Jimmy is
an acting sergeant. His mother is
living in San Antonio and Col. Hill
is in the South Pacific in General
Krueger’s Command.
27 CARS DERAILED
IN LAKEVIEW WRECK
Twenty-seven cars of northbound
Seaboard freight No. 88 either jump
ed the track or piled in a tangled
mass at Lakeview around noon
Thursday, with no injury to any
member of the train crew. Appar
ently a broken truss derailed the
first car, causing the others to leave
the track. Fourteen were piled in
one mass, and nearly 1,000 feet
of track was torn up by the cars
which were piled from south of Dun
can Blue’s residence beside the lake
to beyond the crossing.
Wrecking crews from Hamlet were
on the scene early, repairing the
track and clearing the right of way
for the resumption of traffic, which
was accomplished by midnight.
ARMY-NAVY TEST
By. MRS. L. V. HUGHES
Every type of trouble known to
man walks in the office door of
Moore County Chapter, American
Red Cross, in a week. The Executive
Secretary studies the nature of the
difficulty and dispatches it to the de
partment or departments best equip
ped to work out an adequate solu
tion, as the problem may require the
services of the County Chairman
and the Executive Board, the Home
Service Bureau, and all the Special
Volunteer Services. But have no
fear! If it requires the attention of
every volunteer, it will get it. Red
Cross does not shirk responsibilities.
If the problem is of distressing
proportions, it is safe to presume that
it will become a first consideration
of the Home Service Bureau,' with
one or more of the service corps as-
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Funeral Rites for
James Boyd Are Held
at Princeton, N. J.
Memorial Service Is
Conducted Thursday at
His Weymouth Home
Funeral services for James Boyd,
Southern Pines novelist and poet
whose writings brought fame not on
ly to himself but to North Carolina,
were held Monday afternoon at
Princeton, N. J., where he had pass
ed away two hours after being strick
en while attending • a conference
dinner with British officers on the
evening of February 24. He was at
Princeton University to deliver an
address on “The South.”
Just as the life of James Boyd,
who found his fullest pleasure in his
writing and in his association with
people, was different from the aver
age life, so his funeral was differ
ent. Somehow, it seemed to radiate
the warmth and friendliness that
was characteristic of the man, and,
shorn of the marks of death, to be
come something that can be cherish
ed as a sweet and sacred memory.
A few minutes prior to the ser
vice at 4:30 Monday afternoon,
friends, at the request of the family,
gathered qn historic Nassau Hall
where, with Mrs. Boydi her, two
sons and daughter standing near
him. President Dodds of Princeton
University spoke the following mes
sage:
“Katherine asks me to give you
this message. She and the children
are happy that you could be here
with them today. They asked you
to meet them here because Jim lov
ed this building of Nassau Hall and
the tigers, and the senior singing oil,
the steps ... And because here in
this room the first Continental Con
gress met. Those fine men must have
planned and tried to do the kind
of things Jim was always working
for.
“In a moment a dear friend will
read one of Jim’s poems and then
we will go together to the Chapel.
Jim s body is resting there beneath
five beautiful windows. The center
one is of the life of Christ and the
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Henry W. Goodman
Dies at Home Here
Mr. Goodman, 89, Had Been
a Winter Resident for 36
Years; Funeral in North
March 15 at 9:00 a. m. is the time
when' the Army-Navy Qualifying
Test will be given to eligible young
men in high schools, preparatory
schools and colleges throughout the
nation.
Henry W. Goodman, 89, a winter
resident of Southern Pines for the
past 36 years, died in his home at
May Street and Pennsylvania Ave
nue just before midnight Tuesday
following a short illness. His daught
er, Mrs. Hazel Cox, arrived in time
to be with her father before his
death. In her charge the body went
northward Wednesday night to
Athol, Mass., where funeral services
will be held this Friday afternoon.
Mr. Goodman, a prominent hat
manufacturer of North Dana, Mass.,
was an early visitor to Pinehurst, be
coming a member of the Tin Whis
tles there. Of late years his summer
home has been Orange, Mass. In
1908 he came to Southern Pines and
in 1915 built the attractive bunga
low which has been his winter home
for the past 29 years.
Long a member of the Southern
Pines Country Club, he was the last
survivor of the one time famous
golfing foursome whose other mem
bers, Albert Vittum, H. S. Slay-
maker and E. B. Goodwin, have long
[passed to rest.
FINAL REPORT
March 6, 1944
Editor I
Pilot ,
Southern Pines, N. C.
You will be interested to know
that our final report of the 4th
War Loan Drive shows that '
Moore County has raised $931,-
240.50 on its quota of $532,000.
This is 75 per cent over its quota.
Moore County sold $517,837.50
in “E” bonds alone as compar
ed whh its quota of $360,900.00.
This is a little more than 43 per
cent beyond the quota for “E”
bonds.
Needless to say the authorities
are delighted at the accomplish
ment of Moore County. I would
like to express my thanks to you
and your paper for all the good
work you have done. Without
such splendid cooperation such
drives as this could not be suc
cessful. I want to thank each
and every person who had any
part in this drive for their untir
ing efforts and successful conclu
sion. It has been a great pleasure
for me personally to have had a
part in this work and my person
al thanks go out to all concerned.
Very truly yours,
—EUGENE C. STEVENS.
hemmer appointed
TO pictorial post
John G. Hemmer, widely-known
press photographer, has been named
assistant manager of the State Ad
vertising Division in charge of pic
torial'work and will assume his
duties in a few days, it was announc
ed Wednesday by R. Bruce Eth
eridge, director of the Department
of Conservation and Development.
Hemmer will come to the State
from the New York Daily News. His
photographic experience includes
much work in North Carolina. For
17 years he did seasonal work at
Pinehurst, where he has a home.