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KEEP ON WAR BONDS WITH VOLUME 24. NO. 19. Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday. April 7. 1944. TEN CENTS Moore Tops Quota in Red Cross Drive By Almost $7,000.00 Chairman Seymour and Leaders Throughout the County Do Good Work Assigned a quota of'S39,000 in the i American Red Cross War Fund Drive, by far the largest quota the county ever attempted to raise, Moore County has topped its askings by nearly $7,000. As we go to press Mrs. William J. Kennedy, publicity chairman, reports a total of $45,- 874.41, and small amounts are ex pected to be added. The amounts credited to the var ious towns and communities are as follows: Pinehurst, $15,283.98; Sou thern Pines, $10,851.70; Aberdeen, $4,400; Robbins, $3,387.05; Carthage, $3,300; Vass-Lakeview, $2,359.88; Knollwood, $1,837.63; West End, $1,- 027.26; Pinebluff, $950; Cameron, $666.84; Eagle Springs, $482.85; Highfalls, $327.62; Eureka,* $300; Samarcand, $300; Jackson Springs, $287; Glendon, $112.60. Headed by O. Leon Seymour as county chairman, leaders in every community put their best effqrts into this great work and the successful culmination of the drive represents loyalty on the part of the workers and generosity on the part of the rank and file. SUNRISE SERVICE It was at break of dawn in a garden fair on that first Easter Morn that the women went seek ing to anoint the body of Jesus. Behold! To their utter amaze ment they found an empty tomb. . And the Angel said. "He is not here. He is not here. He is risen as he said!" So we in this com munity shall worship in the ear ly hours of the morning. There will be an Easier Sunrise Ser vice at the Church of Wide Fel lowship at 7:00 a. m. with glor ious Easter music and the Eas ter message brought by the Rev erend Robert A. Harrison. This is an invitation to this commun ity to worship with us at this lime. Army Officer Talks on War in Pacific Crippled Plane Is Landed Successfully JUNIOR ROTARIAN JOHN McCAIN To John McCain, son of Dr. and Mrs. P. P. McCain of Sanatorium, goes the honor of being the second student of Southern Pines High School to be selected as Junior Ro- tarian for a month. John, who will attend all Rotary meetings during April, is a member of the senior class, president of the student council, member of the glee club, has a better than average schol astic record and is popular with both faculty and students. Six Nurse’s Aides Earu Certificates Soldier's Wife Teaches Class; All Members Except One Are Army Wives Taught by Mrs. Mildred Spadoni, graduate nurse whose husband is a Camp Mackall enlisted soldier, six Nurse’s Aides were graduated at Moore County Hospital Monday ev ening. All but one are wives of sol diers. They are: Mrs. Betty Boyer Yaple, wife of Lt. Richard Q. Yaple; Mrs. Gladys Lust Krause, wife of Lt. Shirley J. Krause; Mrs. Kathryn Foulks Moliter, wife of Brig. Gen. Eric S. Moliter; Mrs. Bettina Looram, wife of Lt. Matthew W. Looram and daughter of Baroness de Rothchild; Mrs. Pattie Phelps Woodbury, dau ghter of Gen. Phelps, and wife of an officer, and Robena M. Hartsell. Presentation of caps and certifi cates was made by Miss Birdilia Bair, vice chairman of Nurse’s Aide Corps, Moore County Red Cross. Talks on the value of Nurse’s Aide work were made by Miss Ellen Bruton, Moore County Hospital superintendent of nurses, and Dr. Clement Monroe, chief surgeon. Another Nurse’s Aide class to be held in the evenings was started Monday night. BY JUNE PHILLIPS Lt. Colonel Percy Stoddard, West Point ’40, talked inform.illy to the Rotary Club on the war in the Pa cific, at Friday’s luncheon at the Highland Pines Inn. A member of the 7th Bombard ment Group "at the outbreak of the war. Colonel Stoddard, who wears a Purple Heart for “meritorius ser vice,” flew into Pearl Harbor the morning of Dec. 7th with 18 Flying Fortresses, three of which were lost in the Pearl Harbor i action. The air officer’s only comment on this was, ‘We were a bit surprised at what we saw coming in.” The 7th Group sxayeu at Pearl Harbor about five weeks, the speak er said, and from there went to Java and were based south of Batavia. In describing some of the bombing mis sions the 7th carried out, he said they were handicapped and operated at a great disadvantage for lack of fighter plane protection. More often (Continued on Page 5) EASTER BROADCAST Special Easier Services from Camp Mackall. to be held in the amphitheatre in the 13th Airborne Division area, will be broadcast over Station WBT at Charlotte from 10:30 to 11 a. m. Sunday. The services, with military bands and several chap lains participating, will be the most elaborate outdoor service ever held at Camp Mackall. JOINT BOARD MEETING At a meeting of the Board of Coun ty Commissioners, Board of Health and Board of Welfare held Monday, Mrs. J. R. Page was reappointed a member of the Welfare Board, and L. L. Marion was elected a member of the ABC Board for three years beginning April 8 to succeed E. R. Brown. The group expressed appre- ation of the work of the ABC Board. army truck hits car An Army truck, one of a convoy en route from Ft. Dix, N. J., to Camp Stewart, Ga., struck and prac tically demolished the automobile of p. B. McClung as he was attempt ing to cross (having the green light) May Street at Massachusetts Avenue at 11:30 o’clock Thursday morning of last week, but he escaped with painful but, it is thought, not serious bruises. Mr. McClung, a civilian photog rapher at Camp Mackall, was able to pave Wednesday for his home at Lexington, Va. burns is golf winner The rolling fairways of the South ern Pines Country Club were invad ed by the customary army of Sarid- pipers, men golfers of the club, on Sunday April 2, for their regular week-end contest. It was a medal event and the contestants came in showing evidence of having been in hand-to-hand combat with the en emy. After a little quick work with a pencil, it was found that Howard . Burns was the most successful combatant of the day. W. L. Wiggs the habitual second place winner’, was in his customary position once more. This was the seventh Sand piper tournament of the season. The eighth, and last, will be played this coming week-end. * it ' * m S. Donald Sherrerd Is Elected Head of Hospital Board at Meeting Held Tuesday Splendid Reports Fea ture Annual Meeting; (TOP) This is what happened when 1st Lt. Donald A. Currie of Pinehurst had to,land his plane without any landing gear. Currie set ’er down on her belly at his home base in England. No one was hurt, although sparks flew like a road show rendition of the ‘‘Anvil Chorus” when the giant stebl structure hit the concrete runway at 105 miles an hour. Flak over the Ruhr had damaged his landing gear, making it impossible for Currie to get the wheels down. ^ (MIDDLE) Jumping from hatches and running to safety are crew members of the Flying Fortress. The pilot and copilot are shown still at the controls. (BOTTOM) 1st Lt. Currie emerges from his plane, smiling and un hurt, after making what his buddies termed a “dream landing.” Superb Skill of Tt. Donald A. Currie, Flying Fortress Pilot, Saves Crew A Flying Fortress, “Bonnie Donnie’ piloted by 1st Lt. Donald A. Currie, of Pinehurst landed on its belly in a crash landing at a Fortress base here recently and, thanks to Currie’s superb piloting, none of the crew was hurt, says a news release fron; an Eighth Air Force Bomber Sta tion. The crash landing was made on the concrete runway of the field, and was occasioned when flak over the Ruhr damaged Currie’s landing gear so severely he was unable to get his wheels down. Spectators who lined the fields and roads surrounding the station as the Fortress circled and recircled overhead, saw the big plane come in at a speed of over 100 miles an hour, level out at about 5 feet above the concrete, and then hit, tail first. The second the tail hit the runway, Currie brought the nose of the plane down and cut his switches. The sparks that flew from the crashing plane, as steel met concrete, practically enveloped the Fortress and onlookers thought it had burst into flame. The illusion of an explosion cou pled with the ear-rending noise made by the giant fuselage grinding into the runway, led spectators to aban don any hope of a rescue. Fears for the crew and plane last ed only a second. The Fortress came to rest on its belly and, as crash trucks and ambulances sped to the scene, Lt. Currie and his crew emerg ed from the hatches, shaken but un hurt. Currie had landed the plane flaw lessly. Fellow pilots were referring to it today as a “dream landing”. 1ST LT. DONALD A. CURRIE Damage to the aircraft was moder ate. Ordinarily, he would have set the plane down on the soft turf that fringes the runway, but recent rains and snows had so mired the ground that a glide landing would have been impossible. As a safety measure, Currie had jettisoned his ball turret prior to landing. This piece of caution un doubtedly saved the day. The tur ret, which protrudes from under neath the fuselage, would probably have broken the plane in half at the point of impact. Col. Harold W. Bowman, C. O. of Currie’s Fortress Group, congrat ulated him on his achievement. HIGH AVERAGE John Ruggles. of the P. T. Bar- num Company, is receiving the felicitations of friends following the receipt of a diploma mark ing the successful conclusion of an eight months course of Edu cational Insurance, he having passed the final examination with the exceptionally high av erage of 94 per cent. Griffin Is Speaker at Kiwanis Meeting By HOWARD F. BURNS Lloyd Griffin, executive vice president of the North Carolina Cit izens Association, Raleigh, and pub lisher of the magazine, ‘WeVhe Peo ple,” gave the Sandhills Kiwanians some interesting facts to think about in regard to the financial condition of the Federal Government in an ad dress to the club Wednesday at the Community House in Aberdeen. Reminiscing a bit, the speaker de clared the federal debt in 1865 was $17,000,000 and was almost nothing at the end of the Civil War. In the first World War, we had a debt of $26,000,000,000 and in 1936 the fed eral debt had been reduced to $16,- 000,000,000. At the time of the bomb ing of Pearl Harbor, the debt stood at $41,000,000,000 and has now reached the enormous figure of $200,- 000,000,000 and is expected to be in creased another $10,000,000,000 if the war lasts another year and a half. Mr. Griffin, a pleasing speaker, stated that the debt figured out about $2,000 per citizen while the national income is rated at $142,000,- 000,000 annually. He .estimated that it would require $25,000,000,000 an nually to meet the requirements of the Federal Government after the war. To this figure must be added at least $16,000,000,000 for State and local Governments. Continuing, the speaker asked, “What shall we do? Shall we repu diate the debt or shall we pay it? To follow the latter course,” he de clared, “we must have a high income of at least $120,000,000,000 annually. This means, of course, higher wages and higher prices in order to pay off this debt.” Mr. Griffin urged the Kiwanians to take a greater interest in national affairs, to insist on the stoppage of unnecessary expendi tures on the part of the State and Federal Governments and to convey their thoughts and wishes to their Senators and Congressmen. He explained a lot of this debt is made up in the form of short term obligations held largely by the com mercial banks of this country. He pointed out it will cost a great deal to^win this war, but the price is not too much. As a further example of legisla tion now before Congress which will tend to increase the national debt is the Murray-Wagner Social Security bill which will approximately dou ble the social security tax raised by the i’ederal Government. Referring to the State of North Carolina, Mr. Griffin informed the Kiwanians that the State has a sur plus now of $39,390,000 and is ex pected to reach $55,000,000 as of June 30th of this year after over coming a deficit of $14,000,000 ten years ago. In conclusion, he declared one of the problems to face the legislature will be whether to use this surplus for post war projects or to cancel as much of the State debt as possible. The speaker was introduced by Is- ham Sledge, chairman of the pro gram committee. Babies Break All Records In-patients numbering 3,051 were cared for at the Moore County Hos pital during 1943, Business Manager E., T. McKeithen reported to the di rectors at the annual meeting of the Board on Tuesday evening. This was a gain of 18 per cent over the figure for 1942, and was made possible by additional space secured through a re-arrangement of facilities. Babies broke all records in 1943. There was one for every day in the year—almost. New arrivals totalled 364, an increase of more than a hun dred over 1942. The directors, m a resolution drawn by Struthers Burt, expressed the great loss suffered by the Hospi tal through the death of James Boyd. Mr. Boyd was one of the founders; he had served ably as president; and his judgement, tact, and generosity were invaluable in the growth of the institution. George H. Maurice, of Eagle Springs, who has headed the Board' with wisdom and patience through several terms as president, felt that he should not again assume the bur den. The directors, by a rising vote, expressed their sincere appreciation of Mr. Maurice’s labors. Officers for 1944 are as follows: President, S. Donald Sherrerd; hon orary president, S. B. Chapin; 1st vice-president, G. C. Seymour; 2nd vice-president, Mrs. James H. An drews; secretary-treasurer, Paul Da- (Continued on Page 5) Easter Services at Brownson Memorial Presbyierian Church Will Have Special Music; Build ing Program Is Resumed The E^ter season will be obser ved at Brownson Memorial Presby terian Church with a program of special Easter music and a sermon on Victorious Life. Features of the musical program will include Bach’s “In Deepest Grief”, from the “Pas sion According to St. Matthew”; the offertory, “He Shall Feed His Flock,” by Handel and the anthem, “They That Sow in Tears Shall Reap in Joy”, by Harker-Deis. At a recent meeting of the Build ing Committee, $5,500.00 cash on hand was set aside to cover past obligations, including a set of pews and chancel furniture. It was voted to use the remainder of the funds to start an expanded building program, and to pay for this as the work is done. Work is'now going on in the auditorium. It is hoped that the monthly Building Program offerings will enable this work to be contin ued until it is completed. The entire offering taken from Church and Sun day School on Easter Sunday will go to this purpose. The whole con gregation is rallied to the aid of this much needed work. The public is most cordially invit ed to worship at Brownson Memor ial Presbyterian Church on Easter and at all other time|. GOLF TOURNEY BENEFITS AMERICAN RED CROSS EASTER HOLIDAY The Citizens Bank, Carolina Power and Light Company of fice, all the markets and nearly all of the mercantile establish ments of Southern Pines will be closed on Easter Monday, April lOlh. With the exception of the Citizens Bank they will be open for business all day Wednesday. April 12 th. Col. Ducat McEntee, popular Southern Pines resident, turned in the low net score in a Blind Bogey tournament at the Southern Pines Country Club on Sunday April 2. This tournament was conducted by Roy Grinnell, club professional, for the benefit of the local chapter of The American Red Cross. Mr. Grin nell donated three prizes which were won by Col. McEntee, John Martin of New York and John Sphwartz also of New York. The en try fees collected amounted to a tidy sum to swell the Red Cross coffers. HORSE SHOW The annual Pinehurst Spring Horse Show will be held on Sat urday April Sth, according to an announcement made by James W. Tufts. There will be nine classes, four hunters, one open jumping, two for children rid ers and a hack and pair classes.
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