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Southern Pines, North Carolina. Friday, May 12, 1944.
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Camp and Hospital
Council Has Annual
Meeting at Mackall
Mrs. Lucas of Wilson
Is Elected President
of 25-Chapter Group
The Central North Carolina Camp
and Hospital Council of the Red
Cross reelected Mrs. W. A. Lucas
of Wilson as president at the annual
meeting Tuesday at the Station Hos
pital, Camp Mackall. Twenty-five
Red Cross chapters are included in
the area.
The camp and hospital council pro
vides supplementary equipment,
supplies and services to the various
army and navy installations within
the jurisdiction of the Red Cross
chapters participating. Army posts
in the area are Fort Bragg, Camp
Mackall, Seymour-Johnson Field and
Maxton Air Base.
Contributions of equipment to the
hospitals during the past year, in
clude curtains, lamps, pictures,
books, magazines, rugs and supple
mentary hospital equipment.
Col L. R. Hathaway, new com
manding officer at Camp Mackall,
welcomed the delegates.
By-laws for the organization were
approved. Mrs. Effie Vines Gordon
of Rocky Mount was elected first
vice-president, Mrs. Paul Borden of
Goldsboro, second vice-president,
Mrs. Mollie Lee Searcy of Fayette
ville, treasurer, and Richard N. Hart
of Fort Bragg, secretary.
Soldiers entertained with a musi
cal program.
More than fifty delegates attended
the meeting and brought flowers
which were distributed in the wards.
The council voted to hold meet
ings every two months, and the del
egates accepted an invitation from
Maxton Field for a meeting schedul
ed July 13th.
The Moore County Chapter was
represented by Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Dana and Robert E. Harlow. Mem
bers of the Moore County Chapter
provided refreshments after the
meeting. Mr. Dana served as chair
man of the nominating committee.
Mrs. W. J. Woodward
Succumbs to Illness
Last Rites Are Held Sun
day at Episcopal Church
With Many In Attendance
Mrs. Annie Lee Woodward, wife of
E. J. Woodward of Southern Pines,
passed to her last rest in the Moore
County Hospital on Friday morning.
May 8th, following a week’s illness.
Coming from Wilmington, N. C.,
with her husband twenty-five years
ago she gained a large circle of
friends in the community.
Funeral services were held in Em
manuel Episcopal Church at two
o’clock Sunday afternoon, the rector,
the Rev. Craighill Brown, using the
impressive ritual of tl|e church. Mrs.
N. L. Hodgkins was organist. Cover
ed with masses of beautiful flowers,
the casket, with L. T. Hall, Robert
Cameron, Malcolm Grover, Gordon
Gifford, Robert Davenport, Cliff
Johnson, Barrett Harris and Gordon
Keith as pall bearers, was followed
to Mt. Hope Cemetery by the honor
ary pall bears, including nearly all
the business and professional men of
the community, and a large con
course of friends and neighbors.
Mrs. Woodward was born in San
Francisco, Cal., January 11, 1863,
the daughter of Benjamin F. Lee and
Jane Cutler Lee. She was a member
of St. James Episcopal Church of
Wilmington. Surviving are her hus
band, E. J. Woodward; a son, Wil
liam Woodward, of Robbins; two
daughters, Mrs. Charlotte C. Herr
of Boston, Mass., Mrs. Wescott Clin
ton of Philadelphia, Pa., and four
grandchildren.
Among others attending the fun
eral ceremonies were Mrs. J. L. Ha-
zelhurst and Miss Emma Woodward
of Wilmington, Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Best of Freemont, and Mrs. Tom
Coston and Miss Ava Lee of Tarboro.
NEW COMMANDER
I Eighth Annual Golf
Tournament Begins
Winners of Opening Round
Are Given and Pairings
for Next Sunday Named
COL. L. R. HATHAWAY
Col. L. R. Hathaway, new com
mander at Camp Mackall, this week
issued the following statement:
TO THE CITIZENS OF SOUTHERN
PINES:
“In coming to Camp Mackall as
its new commander, it is a real pleas
ure to learn of the exemplary spirit
of cooperation which exists be
tween the civilian population and the
military personnel, and the friendly
attitude which you are showing to
ward our enlisted men and officers.
“While I remain here my efforts
will be directed toward maintain
ing and encouraging these pleasant
relations. Should problems arise,
you have my assurance that I shall
elicit all possible aid toward an am
icable solution.
“Information from my associates
here at Camp Mackall leads me to
a most pleasant anticipation of my
future relations with you and your
community.”
Three Soldiers Die
When Truck Upsets
Two Other Members of Con
voy Going From Camp Mac
kall to Fort Bragg Hurt
Three soldiers were instantly kill
ed at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday after
noon when they were thrown from
and crushed by an army truck which
overturned on a sandy curve on Con
necticut Avenue extension, formerly
known as the old Raeford Road. Two
other occupants were seriously hurt
and the remaining three escaped with
minor injuries. All were taken to
Camp Mackall.
The truck was one of a convoy of
sixteen enroute from Camp Mackall
to Fort Bragg, transporting para
troopers who were to take part in
maneuvers Thursday morning.
Names of the victims are not avail
able.
Lad Dies Instantly
In Fall from Truck
IN HOSPITAL
Herman L. Epps, a member of the
Pilot force, has been a patient in the
Moore County Hospital for the past
week.
A tragic accident occurred near
Candor on the morning of Friday,
May 5th, when little Jimmy Lowder-
milk, six-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Lowdermilk, was killed.
While riding in a truck with his fa
ther, the boy fell out when the door
came open. He was struck by the
wheels of the truck and was killed
instantly. The funeral service was
held Sunday afternoon at the Metho
dist Church in Norman, the home of
his parents.
Mrs. Lowdermilk was the former
Alice Adams, niece of Albert Adams
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Adams, formerly of Southern Pines.
BUY A TAG
On Mother's Day, tags will be
sold by the Girl Scouts for the
benefit of the work of the Moore
County Maternal Welfare Com
mittee.
Since Maternal Welfare work
was started in the county nine
years ago, there has been a
striking drop in the maternal
death rate, making this county's
program a model in this and oth
er states. The great increase in
population in Moore County
since the establishments of the
army camps has added to the ex
tent of this health work. A gift
to the Maternal Welfare Com
mittee is a gift to the general
health program of the country;
it is a definite contribution to
the war effort. Tags cannot be
bought for less than ten cents.
It is to be hoped that they will
bring many times that amount.
Dick Sugg of Southern Pines, al
though 4 down at the turn in the op
ening round of match play in the
8th annual Sandpipers Golf Cham
pionship held at the Southern Pines
Country Club Sunday, defeated Dan
Farrell of Aberdeen 2 up at the* end
of the 18th hole. Sugg, badly off in
his short game for the first nine,
made a strong come-back beginning
with the 10th, which he held until
the finish.
Jack Carter and his opponent, Bert
-Weatherspoon, playing from scratch
fought out a most spectacular round
for 19 holes before the tie was brok
en 1 up in favor of Carter.
Roy Grinnell, professional at the
Club, ousted Carlton Kennedy to the
tune of 2 up after overcoming Ken
nedy’s 20 stroke handicap.
Joe De Berry won over P. V.
Hatch by a score of 3 to 2.
Will Wiggs, the insurance man,
won over Pat Patterson 2 up. Arthur
Atherton, Aberdeen, defeated Col
onel Ducat Mclntee of Southern
Pines, 2 and 1. Howard Hoffman won
over Norris Hodgkins by a score of
5 and 4.
Howard Burns won over Elmer
Davis by default.
Pairings for next Sunday are as
follows: Carter vs. Grinnell; De Ber
ry vs. Burns; Wiggs vs. Atherton;
Sugg vs. Hoffman.
Pairings in the consolation
matches: Weatherspoon vs. Kennedy;
Hatch vs. Davis; Patterson vs. Mc
lntee; Farrell vs. Hodgkins.
PAPER COLLECTION
Nurses’ Finals Will
Begin Sunday Night
11 Students of State Sana-
torium-Moore County Hos
pital in Graduating Class
There will be a house to house
collection of waste paper on Friday
morning of this week. Residents are
requested to have their paper tied
in bundles and to place it either at
the curb or on the front porch.
After this week there will be no
further collections. Papers must be
taken to the Salvage Station, the
garage belonging to Mrs. McCain on
the alley back of the Sandhills Phar
macy.
The baccalaureate service for the
graduating class of the North Caro
lina Sanatorium—Moore County
Hospital School of Nursing will be
held at the Pinehurst Community
Church at eight o’clock on Sunday
evening, May 14.
The Rev. R. L. Prince, pastor of
the church, will preach the sermon,
and will be assisted in conducting
the service by the Rev. T. A. Chea
tham of the Pinehurst Village Chap
el. Everyone is cordially invited to
attend.
The graduating exercises will be
held at the North Carolina Sanator
ium on Thursday evening. May 18,
at eight o'clock. The speaker will
be the Rev. Carlos Womack, of Max-
ton.
On Wednesday the nurses were the
guests of the Moore County Hospi
tal Auxiliary for dinner at the Grey
Fox, followed by a theatre party.
This spring marks the tenth anni
versary of the affiliation agreement
whereby student nurses take their
first two years of training at the
Sanatorium, and their third year at
the Moore County Hospital. The ar-
rangemeiit has proved beneficial to
both institutions, and nurses com
pleting the course have done well
in their profession.
The graduates this year are all res
idents of North Carolina. They are:
Lou Annie Boykin, Kenly; Dorothy
Woodworth, Erwin; Evelyn Joyner,
Dover; Christine Kinsey CruCe, Ben
son; Doris Grace Morgan, Hamlet;
Myrtle Cleo Sanders, Candor; Otelia
Short Blue, Southern Pines; Cath
erine Swaringen, Lake Lure; Mary
Elizabeth Vick, High Point; Jane
Anel Wade, Thomasville, and Alma
Wall Weston, Cameron.
u. S. O. MOTHER
Mrs. Charles Aldridge has
been chosen U. S. O. mother for
Mother's Day and will spend the
entire day at the Club, where a
tea will be held from 4:30 to 6
p. m. for all army mothers. Mrs.
Aldridge has a son. Capt. Charles
Aldridge, on duty in the South
Pacific.
PRESIDENT-ELECT
VASS-LAKEVIEW COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS
The Rev. Tucker G. Humphries,
pastor of the Church of Wide Fel
lowship, Southern Pines, who will
preach the commencement sermon
at Vass-Lakeview High School at
8:30 Sunday evening.
DR. E. M. MEDLIN
Dr. E. 'M. Medlin of Aberdeen was
elected president of the North Caro
lina Dental Society for 1945-46 at
the society’s 88th annual convention
held last week at Raleigh, with 700
in attendance. Dr. Medlin had served
as secretary for three years.
The group voted to hold the next
convention in Pinehurst. ,
Dr. Medlin, a native of Zebulon,
has been practicing in Aberdeen
since 1923 and takes an active part in
community life. He formerly served
as president of the Sandhills Kiwan-
is Club and at present is a member
of the Moore County Board of
Health.
Aberdeen High Wins
Field Day Honors
West End Scores Second
and Pinehurst and Vass-
Lakeview Tie for Third
The Moore County Educo Club
sponsored a county field day at the
Polo grounds in Pinehurst, Friday,
May 5th. R. C. Fields, principal of
the Aberdeen High School, was chair
man of the committee which made
the necessary arrangements for the
day, and A. C. Dawson of the Sou
thern Pines High School was the
general supervisor of the events.
This was the first day of its type
held in the county, and the Educo
Club hopes to make it an annual
affair if conditions will permit. Be
cause of transportation difficulties
the day was limited to contestants
and school officials. After the war
the plans are to take in all the pu
pils from all the county schools.
Races of various kinds, high and
broad jumps, baseball and basket
ball throws were included in the
events, with first place counting five
points; second, three points, and
third, one.
Total scores were: Aberdeen, 50;
West End, 25; Vass-Lakeview, 21;
Southern Pines, 17; Carthage, 10;
High Falls, 9; Westmore, 8; Robbins,
1.
QUICK WORK
Army Officers Are
Guest Speakers at
Kiwanis Club Dinner
General Murphy Says
Sandhills Ideal as All
Year Training Center i
BY HOWARD F. BURNS
The Sandhills Kiwanis Club was
honored at its luncheon at the Com
munity House in Aberdeen Wednes
day with the presence of a number
of high ranking Army officers, in
cluding four generals, of whom two
addressed the Club.
The program opened with an ad
dress by Major General W. A. Bur-
ress. Commanding General of the
100th Division, known as the Cen
tury Division, who told briefly of
the intensive training a division is
put through before being sent to the
fighting fronts. He described a div
ision as being capable of sustaining
action and maintaining itself. An
Infantry Division, he said, must be
able, as a part of its training, to ad
vance 25 miles in a period of eight
hours and must be capable of going
into big league action before facing
the Germans. He stated that his di
vision was formed in the latter part
of 1942 and went to Fort Bragg last
January.
Brig. General John D. Murphy
spoke briefly of the Sandhills as an
ideal place for an all year training
center, because of its climate and
soil. He stated that he was stationed
at Fort Bragg from 1939 to 1941, and
during that time learned of the ad
vantages of the Sandhills.
Colonel L. R. Hathaway, the new
Post Commander, the final speaker,
ttold the' Kiwanians he was glad of
an opportunity to meet with them
and the civilians in the community
purrounding Camp Mackall.
The speakers were introduced by
J. Talbot Johnson' of Aberdeen.
Walter Ives was elected a director
of the club to \succeed Normam
Shenk.
Among the guests attending the
luncheon were: Maj. General E. Ger
ry Chapman, commanding officer in
charge of the 13th Airborne Divi
sion; Brig. General E. S. Molitor;
Major W. V. Rawlings; Major R. B.
Allport; Lt. George A. Both, public
relations officer. Camp Mackall; and
Col. George P. Hawes, Pinehurst.
School Glee Clubs
To Present Concert
Program in Auditorium
Friday Night, May 12, to
Be Followed by Reception
Dr. Herman M. Parker, of the fac
ulty of Wake Forest College and
Duke University, will return
to his alma mater, Vass-Lakeview,
Tuesday night to make his first com
mencement address.
Sermon by Rev. Tueker G. Humphries
Opens Commencement at Vass-Lakeview
Commencement at Vass-Lakeview
'High School will open Sunday night
^vith the baccalaureate sermon by the
Rev. Tucker G. Humphries of Sou
thern Pines, and music by the glee
clubs. 'The service will be in the
school auditorium and will begin at
8:30, as will all other programs of the
week. A special feature will be the
roll call of service men from the
school by H. Clifton Blue, presi
dent of the Vass-Lakeview Alumni
Association.
The Class Day play, Atttic Memo
ries, will be given Monday night. La-
vonne Graham, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Will Graham, and Joe Martin
Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G.
Edwards, Jr., are class mascots.
Graduation exercises will be held
Tuesday night with Herman M.
Parker, Ph. D., an alumnus of the
school, as speaker. Dr. Parker, who
was a Phi Beta Kappa student at
Chapel Hill, earned his Master’s de
gree there and his Doctor’s at Cor
nell University. He is an instructor
in the physics departments at Wake
Forest College and Duke University,
giving half time to each. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Parker of
Vass.
Diplomas and awards will be pre
sented and the glee club will sing.
A 3-act comedy, Polishing Papa,
Wednesday night will be the con
cluding program.
Two soldiers m.ade away with a
1941 Buick sedan, the property of
an Army officer, which was parked
in front of the Highland Pines Inn
at 2:00 a. m. Sunday. An alarm was
turned in to the Southern Pines Po
lice Station and Officer Irvin Mor
rison and M. P. Sgt. James Carrol
hurried to Aberdeen where they
caught sight of the stolen car going
eastward on the Aberdeen-Raeford
highway.
Giving chase and firing at the car
into which they placed three shots,
they forced it off a dirt road about
one mile east of Raeford. Two sol
diers jumped out and ran into a
swamp. The automobile was back
in Southern Pines before daylight.
NOTICE TO VOTERS
The regislralion books for the
coming Primary election will
close at 8:00 p. m. on Saturday,
May 13, 1944. This registration
is for new voters only. The
names of all voters who regis
tered in 1940 and 1942 are still
on the Southern Pines Precinct
Registration Book. The Registrar
will be at the Town Building
in Southern Pines all day on
Saturday, May 13, from 9 eu m.
to 12:30 p. m. and from 1:30 p.
m. to 8 p. m. If you are not reg
istered you cannot vote in the
Primary.
Hiram Westbrook Registrar
As a feature of the Music Week
obser\fance, the Southern Pines High
School Glee Club will give a concert
Friday night. May 12, at 8:30 p. m.,
at the school, folowed by a reception
in the school Library.
The following program has been
announced:
Let Music Wake, Elliot, Mixed
Chorus.
Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son, High;
Song of The Desert, Tschaikowsky;
All Day On The Prairie, Guion-Reig-
ger. Boys’ Chorus.
My Hero, Strauss, Jean Olive.
Aurora, Johnstone; Careless Idle
Maiden, from “Faust”, Guonod,
Girls’ Chorus.
Uncle Ned, Stephen Foster, I
Ain’t Gwine Study War No More,
Negro Spiritual, Drennen Mann,
Lewis Hodgkins, John McCain, Harry
Lee Brown, T. T. Overton.
On Wings of Song, Mendelssohn;
April, from “Faust”, Guonod; My
Dream Is of An Island Place, ar
ranged by Cain, Mixed Chorus.
Dona Nobis Pacem, arranged by
Wilson, Drennan Mann, Lewis Hod
gkins, John McCain, Harry Lee
Brown, T. T. Overton.
Kerry Dance, Molloy-Treharne;
Sea-Fever, Clark; The Road is Call
ing, Walter Clement, Mixed Chorus.
The concert will be followed by a
reception in the school Library.
MISSING
Listed as missing in the Mediter
ranean Area is Pvt- Paul S. Spinks,
husband of Mrs. Paul S. Spinks of
Robbins.
John Tilghman of Savannah, Ga.,
is at his mother’s home on Ashe
Street recovering from an illness.