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VOLUME 24, NO. 28.
Southern Pines, North Carolina. Friday, June 9, 1944.
TEN CENTS
27 Seniors Receive
9
Diplomas at Local
High School Finals
W. McLeod Frampion
Delivers Address;
Many Honor Awards
Commencement season at South
ern Pines High School closed with
the graduation exercises Wednesday
evening, at which diplomas were pre
sented to the 27’ graduates following
an address by W. McLeod Frampton,
Jr., of Chraw, S. C., Gordon M. Cam
eron introduced the speaker and Dr.
G. G. Herr awarded the diplomas.
Honors Day Program Wednesday
morning featured the presentation of-
athletic and club awards and other
honors. Individual awards were as
follows: To John McCain, American
Citizenship Medal, presented by L.
L. Woolley; to John Prizer,' Junior
Chamber of Commerce Award for
improvement in scholarship and citi
zenship, presented by Paul Butler;
to Mona Beall Shepard, Lewis Hodg
kins and Grace Klabbatz Hawk. (4
years) and Harry Lee Brown, Jr.,
(5 years), $25 War Bonds given an
onymously for, scholastic averages of
90 and above, presented by Miss
Pauline Miller; to Mona Beall Shep
ard, valedictorian, the Readers’ Di
gest Award, presented by Miss Thel
ma Daniels; to John McCain the
Danforth Foundation Award for
leadership, presented by Mrs.
Ruth Swisher.
Club Awards
Miss Aline Todd presented awards
as follows:
Girls’ Basketball—Jackie Wor
sham, captain, Jean Council, Pauline
Nichols, Blanche Dupree, Sarah Cox,
Nellie Ward, Peggy Jean Cameron.
Most valuable, Jackie Worsham;
most improved, Pauline Nichols.
Girls’ Tennis—Audrey West
Brown, Pauline Nichols, Mary Jane
French, Suzanne Kelley, Peggy Jean
Cameron.
A- D. Dawson presented awards
for Boys’ athletics as follows:
Basketball—Letters to Davis Wor
sham, Chan Page, John Neal, Bill
Raymond, Harry Lee Brown, Jr.,
captain, Curtis Williams, Fogle
Clark, Jimmie Harrington, manager.
■ Most valuable player, Davis Wor
sham; most improved player, John
Neal.
Baseball—Letters to Harry Lee
Brown, Jr., Chan Page, Fred Hall,
Tommy Grey, Davis Worsham, Clyde
Smith, Drennen Mann, T. K. Camp
bell, John Neal, Lewis Hodgkins,
manager; stars to Curtis Williams,
(Continued on Page 5)
The 1944 Graduating Class, Southern Pines High School not surprised
Book of War Poems
By Local Woman Out
*
“War Echoes” is the title of a book
of war poems by Emily Allen Elfreth
which is just off the press and at
tractively displayed in the windows
of Hayes Sandhill Book Shop.
Each poem in the collection was
inspired by the war or incidents con
nected with it- One of these, “To the
Air Corps Lads,” has been set to mu
sic by Mrs. Mary Lee Read, organist
at the Grand Central Terminal Sta
tion in New York, where it was sung
during the entire Christmas week
and on other special occasions by
thousands of service men. It bias
been printed in sheet form.
Mrs. Elfreth, a native of Philadel
phia, spent eight years in Bermuda
and with her family is living in Sou
thern Pines during the war.
Front row, left to right: Louise Brooks, Frances Calloway, Ethel Blue Britt, Jane Bradin, Mona Beall
Shepard, Grace Hawk, Betty Johnston, Dorothy Kaylor. Middle row: Nancy Ruth Osborne, Jean Council, Helen
Short, Mabel Norton, Burlein Garner, Betty Lou Palmer, Frances Campbell, Jacqueline Worsham, Blanche Du
pree, Irene Alexander. Back row: Joe Thomas, Burton Brown, Lewis Hodgkins, John McCain, Curtis Williams,
James Harrington, Bill Hall, William McDonald. Class mascots are Elizabeth Harriss and Curt Sutliffe.
Lt. Francis McGill
Is Killed in Action
Pilot of Vass Community
Loses Life After Only
Two Months in England
INVASION DAY
Invasion Day was a day of
quiet in Moore County, the only
demonstrations being those of
prayer for the boys'in the con
flict. among whom -Southern
Pines and Moore County are
well represented. Special church
services were held and many
churches were kept open the en
tire day for any who wished to
drop in for prayer and medita-
tion.Fewer people were seen on
streets as ail who could stayed
close by their radios, listening
to every bi^ of information that
came in add being deeply im
pressed as the Liberty Bell pro
claimed its piessage of Liberty.
Overseas only around two months,
2nd Lt. Francis McGill, 27, of the
U. S. Army Air Forces, formerly of
Vass, Route 2, was killed in action
on May 20th, it was learned last Fri
day.
Lt- McGill, youngest of the three
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Arch McGill,
volunteerd for service in March,
1943. After training at several dif
ferent camps he was commissioned
and awarded his wings at George
Field, Ill., last December. Prior to
leaving the States for England April
4th, he was at Drew Field, Fla.
The telegram concerning the
young man’s death was sent to his
brother, Alex McGill, with whom
the parents have been residing near
Maxton for the past several months
since the father suffered a stroke
which made him unable to look af
ter his farm out from Vass. The let
ter which the message said would
follow has not been received, so no
details are known.
Lt. McGill was held in high esteem
in his community. He was a graduate
of Vass-Lakeview High School, a
member of Cypress Presbyterian
Church and at the time of his induc
tion was superintendent of the Sun
day School there-
His parents came back to the home
community Saturday to spend a few
days with Mrs. McGill’s brother, J.
'W. Smith, and family and were join
ed there Sunday by the third son,
Sgt. Archibald McGill, of Drew
Figld, Fla.
ANOTHER "FIRST"
"Mrs. Myrton Stewart of Car
thage was in Washington this
week visiting her 13-year-old
son. Tommy, who is one of the
pages at the House of Represent
atives," wrote Betty Bell, in the
News and Observer's "Under the
Dome" column Sunday.
"Tommy, one of the most pop
ular pages in Congress, bears
the distinction of being the only
page who ever kicke(4 a Con
gressman in the seat of the
pants.
"It happened when Rep. Will
Rogers, Jr., who looked a great
deal like one of the doorkeepers
and who had on a suit very sim
ilar, was bending over looking
at a map in the Speaker's lobby.
Tommy unfortunately mlisfook
the Congressman for the door
keeper and kicked him soundly.
"When Tommy discovered his
mistake, he turned and ran as
fast as he could. But Rogers just
grinned."
With Mrs. Stewart in Wash
ington was her younger son,
Bobby.
Largest Class of Nurse’s Aides Ever
Trained in County Graduates June 5tli
'WE NEED YOU'
"A new shipment of /IS.OOO
surgical bandages is at the work
room in the Straka Building,"
says Mrs. James M. Murphy,
"and we 'peed YOU to helpi.
Please give a few hours Of your
lime NOW". Last week there
were-37 workers and they made
1445 bandages in 120 hours. "We
must do more," says Mrs- Mur
phy, "come and help".
Capt. Johnson Is
Guest of Kiwanians
Back from the Pacific,
Visiting Officer Tells
of Advance of Our Forces
Captain Felix Leslie Johnson,
guest speaker at the Sandhills Ki-
w'anis Club luncheon Wednesday,
made an interesting address and
pointed out'from a map the advances
of the Armed Forces in the South
and Southwest Pacific, where he has
been stationed for many months.
He informed the Club that he had
be^ acting as a liaison officer un
der Admiral Halsey, and had been
in close contact with the recent ad
vancement in the Pacific. Capt.
Johnson stated it had taken some
time, but that General MacArthur
had built up a very fine fighting or
ganization, and the two branches of
the services had been completely
amalgamated by Admiral Halsey.
He referred briefly to several en
gagements we had with the Jap
Fleet in the early part of the war, at
Guadalcanal, in which our fleet was
badly out-numbered and we suffer
ed the loss of several cruisers and
destroyers. Continuing, he pointed
out we have advanced very rapidly,
and in many cases Admiral Halsey
and General MacArthur have by
passed islands after obtaining the
air fields. The Japs were left there
to starve.
The speaker was introduced by his
brother, J. Talbot Johnson.
Among the guests attending the
meeting were Major General Jerry
Chapman, commanding officer, 13th
Airborne Division, Camp Mackall;
Colonel Stoddard, Captain Ray, and
Lt. Governor Creech.
COUNTY BOARD COMMENDS
TUBERCULOSIS WORKERS
At their regular monthly meeting
Monday, members of the Moore
County Board of Commissioners ac
cepted the Tuberculosis Association
report of Mrs. T. A. Cheatham and
commended Mrs- Cheatham and the
various groups over the county for
their splendid work.
The growth of the program is indi
cated by the amount of the seal sales
for the past two years: $1,204.15 in
1942 and $4,432.97 in 1943.
The largest class of Red Cross Vol
unteer Nurse’s Aides ever to gradu
ate in Moore County received their
caps and pins at the Moore County
Hospital Monday night, June 5th.
The ceremony was held in the re
ception room of the Nurses’ Home
at eight thirty, before a gathering
from the neighboring towns. The
fourteen members of the class were
seated in semi-circle before the
speakers, their light blue uniforms
blending softly with the paler blue
of the walls.
At the speakers’ table were Miss
Birdilia Bair, vice-chairman of the
Nurse’s Aide Committee, and Miss
Ellen Bruton, superintendent of
nurses, while beside them sat Mrs.
Spadoni, instructor of the class, and
Miss Cook, assistant to Miss Bruton.
On either side were the two princi
pal speakers. Dr. Myron M. Marr of
Pinehurst and Dr. Clement Monroe,
chief surgeon of Moore County Hos-^
pital.
Both speakers emphasized the high
degree of efficiency shown by the
gr^uating clas^, and )tl;ie unusual en
thusiasm which each one larought
to her work. Dr. Monroe spoke par
ticularly of the help that aides have
given the hospital, pointing out that
it has been due to them that the hos
pital has been able to carry on so
successfully during war-time con
ditions. Dr. Marr pointed out the
fact that each aide benefits herself
and her community as well as the
hospital where she works. He also
congratulated the hospital on the
fact that almost all of the gradua
ting class were Moore County girls
who will presumably, remain in the
community and whose interest in
and loyalty to the hospital will there
fore be a lasting asset.
Before presenting the caps. Miss
Bruton welcomed the aides into the
nursing profession, promising them
hard work but increasingly great re
wards in spiritual satisfaction.
The exercises closed with the
“Florence Nightingale ceremony,”
in which each individual carries
from the room a lighted candle, sym
bolic of the light of mercy and heal
ing which-the “first nurse” carried
out into a war-torn world.
Members of the graduating class
were: Mrs. Howard Burns, Mrs. Jos
eph L. Brown, Mrs. Clarence Edson,
Mrs. George Nevins^ Mrs- A. B. Pat-^
terson, Mrs. Richard Pethick, Mrs.
Richard Sugg, Mrs. W. J. Weatherly,
Miss Margaret Stanford, Miss Kath
erine Wiley, and Miss Nancy Wrenn,
all of Southern Pines; Mrs. D. G. Fry
and Miss Minnie Bell Fry of Car
thage; Miss Barbara Key of Pine-
hurst-
Novel calls for assistance no
longer surprise members of the
Southern Pines Fire Department
so" when a message from Cam
eron, asking for firemen and ap
paratus to meet the south bound
express, was relayed from the
Seaboard depot late Sunday
night, it was noted as a matter
of routine. Frank Kaylor quiet
ly mustered several members of
the company and was ready for
any emergency as the train pull
ed in.
Flames discovered in one of
the coaches had led to the shift
ing of the occupants and use of
fire equipment by the train
crew and the fire was virtually
extinguished by the time the
train was „ boarded by the local
firemen. Following a thorough
inspection of the damagedcar by
Chief L, V. O'Callaghan, ^the
train proceeded.
Library Service Is
Planned for County
State and County Will
Finance Project; Plan
To Get Underway Soon
Quotas and Leaders
in Fifth War Loan
Drive Announced
County's Quota Is
Set at $675,000;
F! Bonds, $338 000
At a meeting of the County Com
missioners held last week in Car
thage, it was voted to start a free
library service in Moore County,
thus ^ following the plan already in
effect in most of the counties of the (
state. The Board of Commissioners
appropriated $2,000.00 as of July 1st,
to be supplemented by the State al
lowance of $1,125.00.
There will be a central depository
for books in Carth|ige- From there
books will be taken once or twice a
month to fifteen different centers in
the county. Until the county book
stock is built up, existing libraries
in the towns of Pinehurst, Aberdeen,
Southern Pines and Pinebluff have
agreed to loan books in order that
the arrangement may get under way
imrhediately. Purchase of a bookmo
bile must be postponed until after
the war; in the meantime transpor
tation of books will be by truck or
private automobile. It is hoped that
Moore County can work out a plan
for sharing the services of a librarian
frorn one of the neighboring counties
until this service is fully expanded,
when a full-time librarian will prob
ably be employed.
Operation of the fr£e library ser
vice will be Under the supervision
of a committee which has been ap
pointed by the Board of Commission
ers. Chairman of the committee is
Mrs. J. M. Guthrie of Cameron. De
tails of operation were worked out
at a meeting with the Commissioners
on Monday, June 5th.
Other members of the Board, in
addition to Mrs. Guthrie, who was
appointed for a 4-year term, are A.
B. Yeomans of Southern Pines and
Mrs. J. L. McGraw of Carthage, 2-
year terms; Roy Phillips of Rob
bins Route 2, 4-year term; Arfchie
Kelly of Eagle Springs and Mrs- R.
A. Dowd of Glendon, 6-year terms.
Plans for launching the Fifth War
Loan drive to raise $675,000 in Moore
County are 'being completed and
those at the head of the campaign—
the largest that has ever been under
taken—are confidently expecting the
people to unite in a greater effort
than ever before to make the drive
a success. The “E” quota is $338,000.
Quotas for the various towns have
been set as follows. Chairman Eu
gene C. Stevens has annuonced: Sou
thern Pines, $199,500; Pinehurst,
$126,300; Carthage, $113,050; Aber
deen, $99,750; Robbins, $99,750; West
End, $13,300; Cameron, $6,650; Pine-
bluff, $3,325; Vass, $3,325.
Paul Jernigan will again serve as
chairman for Southern Pines, G, C.
Seymour for Aberdeen, Col- George
P. Hawes for Pinehurst, and H. Lee
Thomas will handle the Carthage
forces.
In other towns throughout the
county the Woman’s Division, of
which Mrs. Norris L. Hodgkins is
chairman, will head the drive. Mrs.
Hodgkins expressed pleasure that
Miss Flora McDonald, home dem
onstration agent, of Carthage, wiU
again serve as county vice-chairman.
In her contacts with the women
throughout the county Miss McDon-
,ald did a splendid work in the
Fourth War Loan drive.
Other chairmen announced by
Mrs. Hodgkins are: Mrs. George
Moore, Southern Pines; Mrs- W. H.
Saunders, Robbins; Mrs. Myrton
Stewart, Carthage; Mrs. M. C. Mc
Donald, West End; Mrs. O. Leon Sey
mour, Aberdeen; Mrs. W. K. Carpen
ter, Pinebluff; Mrs. Leroy Gates,
Pinehurst; Mrs. H. A. Borst, Vass;
Mrs. Pete Phillips, Cameron.
Headed by Mrs. Moore, the South
ern Pines women organized immed
iately and are ready and waiting to
throw their best efforts into the
drive, efforts which it is predicted
will make it necessary for the men
to step lively if they expect to keep
pace. Beginning Monday, June 12,
workers will be at the Bank from
9:30 a. m. to 1:30 p. m. each weekday
through July 8, working on this
schedule:
Mondays: Mrs. Moore, Mrs. M. G.
Nichols, Mrs. E. V. Perkinson.
Tuesdays: Mrs. Norris Hodgkins,
Mrs. James Wray, Mrs. Philip Weav
er. '
Wednesdays: Mrs. Eugene Stevens,
Mrs. Heizmann Mudgett, Mrs. Har
low Pierson, Mrs. G. H. Whittall.
Thursdays: Mrs. James S. Milli-
ken, Mrs. Alba DeCosta, Mrs. D. Ros-
siter, Mrs- Carl Thompson.
Fridays: Mrs. Stuart Wood, Mrs. J.
J. Spring, Mrs. M. S. Gaffney.
Saturdays: Mrs. Fraser' Knight,
(Continued on Page 4)
Notre Dame School
Has Graduation Day
ARK SCHOOL NEWS
NEW BUILDING
John Ormsby has started the er
ection of a one-story brick building
16 by 50 feet located between the
Billiard Room and Pope’s Res
taurant on East Broad Street.
Graduation took place at Notre
Dame Academy, Southern Pines on
Friday, June 2nd. His Excellency,
Most Reverend Eugene J. McGuin-
ness, D. D., Bishop of Raleigh, pre
sided at the Commencement Exer
cises which were held in the Con
vent Chapel.
The program opened with the sing
ing of the Veni Creator by the chor
al group of the Academy. The grad-
dates were presented to the Bishop
by the Reverend Ambrose F. Mc
Adams, C. SS. R., of Southern- Pines.
Those receviing diplomas were Ger
aldine Maloney, Richmond, Va.; Pa
tricia Powers, Charlotte; Barbara
Poole, Carthage, and Constance
Soule, Charlotte.
His Excellency addressed the grad
uates, their parents, and friends, and
the ceremony was brought to a close
by Pontifical Benediction, at which
the Reverend Ambrose McAdams as
sisted the Bishop as deacon, the Rev
erend Francis J. Tait, Southern
Pines, as sub-deacon, and the Rever
end John A. Brown, Pinehurst, as
master of ceremonies.
The Ark School closed May 19th
after an unusually busy season, dur
ing which, in addition to the regular
program, many pupils were entered
for shorter periods to continue their
studies from other schools, including
The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
The Chapin School, New York, and
Greenwich Academy, Conn. Very
gratifying reports have been receiv
ed of these pupils, having obtained
excellent marks upon returning to
their respective schools for their
final examinations.
Mrs. Hayes was also delighted to
hear that Julian Plowden, a pupil at
the Ark last season, and recently re
turned to England, in the words of
his Guardian “Romped through the
winter with honors” in his class at
Milton Academy, Massachusetts.
* The members of the Junior Red
Cross Group completed another con
signment of work consisting of toy
animals, sweaters, socks, and babies’
bibs, to be sent abroad by the English
Speaking Union, New York. During
the winter months, a small group of
adults also met at the Ark two even
ings a week to fold surgical dress
ings under the supervision of Mrs.
Ralph Bower, for the hospital at
Camp Mackall.
The school will re-open Tuesday
October third.