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VOLUME 24. NO. 46.
Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday. October 13. 1944.
Possibilities of Camp Mackall As
Manufacturing Center Set Forth
Seawell Sees Real Op
portuniiy for Post-
War Business There
Looking forward to the time
when it is assumed that Camp
Mackall will no longer be need
ed as a military camp, Herbert F.
Seawell, Jr., at the request of a
progressive citizen whose name
he does hot divulge, has written
THE PILOT telling of the advan
tages the camp has to offer as a
manufacturing site. We quote.
“This Camp is located at the
junction points of Moore-Hoke-
Scotland and Richmond counties
and has dn^’ of the finest sites in
the whole South for a manufac
turing plant. There is an abund
ant water supply of the finest
Sandhill water to be found any
where. Millions of gallons could
be supplied every day. Running
through high sandy land creates a
natural filter. This site is located
on high, well-drained sandhill
ridges and is ideal for homes or
plant buildings.
“The Seaboafd Railroad runs
right by the place and sidetracts
have already been constructed
into the Camp area. Located close
by is Highway No. 1, north to
New York, south to Miami and
other points. Roads and streets
are already laid- out. A complete
water works system is already
complete at the site.
“Adjoining this place is fine
farming country in each county.
Farmers could find ready mar
ket for raw materials and could
grow many things to supply most
any kind of manufacturing.. Elec
tric power could be generated or
can be had close at hand. The cli-
(Contiiued on Page 8)
GUEST SPEAKER
Press Proceedings
Include Memorial
to James Boyd
Tribute to PILOT Pub
lisher Is By Editor
of Charlotte Observer
The bulletin of proceedings of
the 72nd annual session of the
North Carolina Press Association,
which was distributed this week,
carries the following beautiful
memorial tribute to James Boyd,
publisher of THE PILOT at the
time of his passing last February,
written by Julian S. Miller, editor
of the Charlotte Observer:
JAMES BOyO
1888—1944 I
“If ever a man deserved the ra
ting of a gentleman and a scholar,
he was James Boyd.
“Born in Pennsylvania of North
Carolina stock, he had been
brought here as a child and had
spent his years in the delightful
atmosphere, geographically and
culturally, of the Southern Pines
section. He considered himself pe
culiarly a North’ Carolinian and
this state was happy to include
him among her most honored and
esteemed citizens.
“He was one of America’s great
novelists. Now already and in-,
creasingly so in the years ahead
he will be numbered within a
small circle of North Carotin’s lit
erary immortals, including such
writers as O. Henry and Thomas
Wolfe.
“But he will also stand high
among the literary greats of the
nation. His Revolutionary histor
ical novel ‘Drums’ will rank along-
(Continued on Page 5)
Back From Overseas
Pfc. Alec Capieron, who
was wounded overseas, call
ed his family from New York
City Wednesday morning to
tell them he is back in the
States and expects to be sent
to a hospital near home very
soon. Alec is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Cameron of
Southern Pines.
REV. M. O. SOMMERS
With the Rev. M. O. Sommers,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Raleigh as guest speak
er, a series of special services will
be held in Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church the week of
October 15-22, beginning each ev
ening at 8:00 o’clock except Satur
day.
The following sermon topics
have been announced: “The
Christian Home,” “Nothing But
Leaves”, “Forgetting God’
“Christ alid the Lost”, “What
Happens When a Man Meets
God”, “Making a Mock - at Sin”,
“The Abundant Life”, and “The
World’s Sin Bearer.”
Mr. Sdmmers and the pastor,
the Rev. Thompson E. Davis, were
in school together, so it is a very
great pleasure to Mr. Davis to
have his friend as a co-worker in
the special services.
Mrs. Cheatham Is
On Advisory Group
Committee Will Study
Tuberculosis Program
for Benefit of Negroes
Mrs. T. A. Cheatham of Pine-
hurst, a member of the North
Carolina Tuberculosis Associa
tion’s Board of Directors and for
many years head of the tubercu
losis work in. Moore County, is
a member of a newly appointed
State Advisory Committee on the
tuberculosis program for Negroes.
The committee was announced
this week by Dr. David T. Smith
of Duke University, president of
the State association. It will study
the present program in North Car
olina for combating tuberculosis
among Negroes and will make
recommendations for further ex
pansion of this program.
Other members of the Advis
ory Committee are Dr. P. P. Mc
Cain, superintendent of North
Carolina Sanatoria, chairrhah; Dr.
M. B. Bethel, Cabarrus County
Health officer; Dr. W. K. McDow
ell, health officer for Halifax and
Edgecombe Counties; Dr. James
E. Shepherd, president of the N.
C. College for Negroes in Dur
ham; Dr. H. L. Trigg, president of
Elizabeth City Teachers College
for Negroes; Dr. W. J. Hughes,
Negro public health officer for the
State Board of Health; Dr. N. C.
Newbold, director of the Divi
sion of Negro Education of the
State Department of Public In
struction; and Prof. J. A. Carter,
principal of Atkins Negro High
School in Winston-Salem.
Mrs. Cheatham’s appointment
to the committee was brought
about by the splendid work done
by the Negroes throughout Moore
County under her leadership, in
collecting funds through the seal
sales and in cooperating with the
Moore County Tuberculosis As
sociation.
Selective Service
Is Discussed at
Kiwanis Luncheon
Large Percentage of
4-F Men Is Alarming,
Major Jonas Declares
BY HOWARD F. BURNS
Major Charles R. Jonas, Chief
of thp Co-ordination Division of
the State Division of Selective
Service, in an address to the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club at its weekly
luncheon Wednesday at the Sou
thern Pines Country Club, inform
ed the club that out of the 650,
000 men in North Carolina be
tween the ages of eighteen and
thirty-nine eligible for draft, 200,-
000 were classified in 4-F. He de
clared this is an alarming con
dition.
The speaker, after reviewing the
history of voluntary service to
the nation dating back to the
days of George Washington, point
ed out that this nation depended
on civilian services, rather than
a large standing army. He inform
ed the club that when the British
landed, on the shores of Chesa
peake Bay 5,000 men voluntered
their services over night. The na
tion at that time depended large
ly on state militia and in many
cases the state militia would not
go out of its own state to fight.
Referring to the first compul-
soSry 'miMftairy training bill, he
stated a man who was able could
hire a substitute to fight in his
place and it was not until 1918,
World War 1, that the original
draft bill was enacted by Con
gress. Under this system local
boards are set up in each commun
ity. The draftee has the right to
appeal to an appeal board if he
is not satisfied with the decision
of the draft board. The final de
cision is left to the President of
the United States. Under this sys
tem, he said, men connected with
vital war industry and agriculture
were subject to exemption, if the
case so warranted. This is espec
ially true of men that are of the
age of thirty or above. Men twen
ty-six and under were exempted
only in very rare cases where they
held key positions.
In conclusion, he declared ap
peal cases must be handled with
in ten days from the time the
draftee receives notice to report
for examination. Forty thousand
cases for appeals have been heard
in this state since the start of the
draft.
The speaker »was introduced by
A. L. Burney of Aberdeen, a mem
ber of the Moore County Draft
Board.
IN "CLICK'
Southern Pines came in for
national publicity in the Nov
ember issue of Click Magazine
just off the press. The general
scene is a two-page spread of
the start of the hunt with Moore
County hounds. In the fore
ground is W. O. Moss, master of
the hounds, and h^rs. Moss's
whip. Another scene shows
Harry Goldsmith laying the
drag. The layout shows the
hunt from start to finish, the
last scene being at the kill.
These pictures were made last
spring by the staff of Click
Magazine, who spent several
days here working with the of
ficials of the town.
The town also canie in for
statewide publicity in the week- ^
ly issue of the State Magazine
of September 9. The front page
cover shows the start of the
hunt.
Busy Sneak Thief
Covers Territory'
Registration of
Voters Will begin
Saturday, Oct. 14
Registration for the general el
ection on November 7 will begin
Saturday, October 14, and the
books will remain open two weeks
thereafter, John A. Fry, chair
man of the Moore County Board
of Elections announces. The reg
istrar will be at the voting places
on Oct. 14, 21* and 28 for regis
tering qualified voters, and they
may register on other days dur
ing this period except Sunday at
the home of their registrar or
wherever he may be found, Mr.
Fry states.
To be eligible to vote a person
must have been a resident of the
state of North Carolina for a
year and of the precinct for four
months.
The general election for Presi
dent, other national, state and
county officers will be held on
Tuesday, November 7, with the
polls opening at 6:30 a. m. and
closing at 6:30 p. m.
Mr. Fry urges that every per
son who is able to do so qualify
and vote.
A busy sneak thief, apparently
shod with the legendary seven-
league boots, searched and plun
dered several cars at widely sep
arated points in Southern Pines
Saturday .night.
From the car of Mrs. S. Roth
on Illinois Avenue he took a
camera, three bags just purchased
as Christmas gifts, and other ar
ticles; from the car of Mrs. Ever
ett Rawlins on Bennett Street,
several pieces of costume jewel
ry; articles from the car of Paul
Van Camp, Indiana Avenue and
Ridge Street, he scattered in the
roadway.
On Sunday morning, just as
the family of C. S. Patch was en
tering the church, little “Sissie”
Patch found a piece of costume
jewelry on the running board of
the family car. This was identi
fied by Mrs. Rawlins as her prop
erty. It is assumed by the police,
who have as a clue a print from
one of the boots, that the Patch
car was the last one searched and
that the thief unknowingly drop
ped this piece of loot.
Golf Season Opens
With Mixed Seotch
Foursome Sunday
Dutch Treat Supper
at S. P. Clubhouse
Will Follow Tourney
The Pihedodgers and the Sand
pipers, women’s and men’s golf
ing organizations of the Southern
Pines Country Club, will pry the
lid off the 1944-’45 tournament
season by holding a mixed Scotch
Foursome on Sunday, October 15.
Instead of announcing the pair
ings in advance as has been the
custom formerly, players will be
assigned partners at the club
house Sunday. All members are
urged to be present and to bring
guests.
Play will begin at 2:00 p. m. and
a Dutch treat buffet supper will
be served at the clubhouse follow
ing the tournament.
Fireman’s Ball to
Be Gala Event of
the Fall Season
Music Will Be Fur
nished by Woody
Hayes' Orchestra
The Annual Fireman’s Ball for
the benefit of the Southern Pines
Fhe Department, will be held
Tuesday night, October 17, at the
Southern Pines Country Club be
ginning at 9:00 o’clock, and it bids
fair to be the outstandiiig event of
the early fall season.
Owing to wartiiAe conditions
and the absence of many of the
regular members of the Company
who are now in the servic^e of
their country, the firemen for the
past several years have not held
their Annual Ball, which had long
been a feallure marking the open
ing of the season in Southern
Pines. With the services of many
younger volunteers the Company
has been remarkably efficient
both in keeping down fire losses
in town and in responding to out
side alarms and they are celebra
ting with their 12th Annual Ball.
Music for the gala occasion will
be supplied by the well known
and popular musical group. Woody
Hayes and his Orchestra. The ad
vance sale of tickets indicates
that the affair will rival the big
balls of pre-war days.
Horses From Local
Stables Compete
in Robeson Show
United War Fund Drive
Is Off To A Good Start
PASSES
JOSEPH G, DeBERRY
Joseph G. DeBerry
Succumbs at His
Home Monday
Local Civic Leader
Had Been Ill Since
Middle of September
Joseph G. DeBerry, 46, promi
nent civic and athletic leader, died
at his home here Monday morning
following an illness of nearly a
month. He was stricken September
15 while in Dillon, S. C., where he
was buying tobacco on the Dillon
More than 100 horses have been market, and after a few days in a
entered for the second annual I hospital there was brought to his
Robeson Horse Show, to be held home, where he seemed to be mak-
Are You Registered?
Registration books for the
Southern Pines precinct will
be open Saturday. Oct. 14.
21 and 28. at the Municipal
Building. Hours will be from
9: a. m. to 5:00 p. m. on the
first two days, and from
9:00 to 6:00 p. m. on Satur
day the 28th. All persons reg
istered in 1940 and 1942 are
aulomatically on the books,
says Hiram Westbrook, reg
istrar.
PASS DENTISTRY EXAM
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REPORTED DEAD
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Harden
of Pinebluff have received
news of the death of their
son. Pvt. Joe Rarden. Jr., in
France on September 9.
DAMAGE SLIGHT
At 8:40 o’clock Monday night
the Southern Pines Fire Depart
ment was called to .the home of
John Short on the old Southern
Pines-Manly road at Manly, where
sparks on the roof were quickly
extinguished with but trifling
damage.
Colin P. Osbof’ne, Jr., of Sou
thern Pines and William T. Burns
of Aberdeen ■yvere two of thirty-
one persons who successfully
stood examination for the prac
tice of dentistry in the State, it
was announced this week by Dr.
W. Jackson, of the Board of Ex
aminers. T^e jexamiination .was
held in Raleigh in September.
at Lumberton, October 13 and 14,
according to W. J. Dillon, mana
ger of the show. There will be
six divisions and the time sche
dule calls for shows at 2 o’clock
each afternoon and at 8 o’clock at
night. Cash prizes total $2,000,
with trophies and ribbons.
Entries already announced in
clude horses from Fowler’s Grand
View Farms, Winston-Salem; Car-
olane Farms, Norfolk, Va.; Idle
Time Stables, Kinston; Rainbow
Farms, Charlotte; Mile-o-Way
Stables, Southern Pines, with en
tries by Julius Johnston, Sam
Craver and Shine Ogen, of Char
lotte; Jim Rogers, of Raleigh;
Louis Bowles and A. B. Fanjoy,
of Statesville; Dorothy Hines,
Winston- Salem, and Billy Sut
ton and Robert Morrison, of Wil
mington.
The show will be held at the
Robeson County fair grounds, and
the benefit proceeds will go to
the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of
Robeson County.
Moore County Boys
Are Prize Winners
at Jr. Cattle Show
Kenny Bristow of the Pinehurst
4-H Club and Eugene Grey of the
Eureka 4-H Club are the proud
possessors of 1st prize money and
blue ribbons which they won at
the Eastern Carolina Junior Cat
tle show at Raleigh on October
4, announces W. G. Caldwell, as
sistant county agent.
“We are proud of the prizes
these boys won as this is the first
cattle show that the Moore Coun
ty 4-H Club boys have competed
in”, says Mr. Caldwell.
In order for a boy or girl to en
ter a calf at this show it is re
quired that the calf be registered
in the boy’s name.
The boys say they are looking
forward to going to the show
next year and that anyone who
plans to try to beat them will
have to go to work and keep at
it.
“We are planning to take not
leess than ten to the show next
year, and I am making arrange
ments so that any boy or girl
who wants to get a pure bred
calf can do so provided they make
proper arrangements for caring
for the calf,” Mr. Caldwell states.
ing satisfactory progress until the
end came unexpectedly at 10:30
Monday. Death was attributed to
cerebral thombosis.
Mr. DeBerry had been connected
with the American Tobacco Com
pany for the past twepty-two
years.
Born at Mt. Gilead, the son of
William G. and Martha Gaddy
DeBerry, Mr. DeBerry came to
Southern Pines nihe years ago to
make his home and from the first
took an active interest in the life
of the town. He was a charter
member of the Rotary Club and
had served as a member of the
Board of Directors, vice presi
dent, and president 1943-44. He
served also as cliairman of the en
tertainment committee for the
188th Rotary District. His inter
est extended to numerdus boys’
activities.
For about .three years beginning
in 1923 Mr. DeBerry pitched for
the St. Louis Browns and was
with the Louisville (Ky.) Club
in the American Association from
1925 to 1934. He pitched one of
the World Series games in the
Little American League.
Since coming to Southern Pines
he had become an ardent golfer
and was runner-up in the Sand
pipers Club championship at the'
local country club in 1942 and
again in the spring of 1944.
Funeral services were held at
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, of
whkh he was a member, at 2:00
p. m. Wednesday with the rector,
the Rev. F. Craighill Brown, of
ficiating, and with a large gath
ering of friends in attendance.
Burial was in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Members of the Rotary Club
were honorary pall bearers and
the following served as active
bearers: The Rev. Tucker G.
Humphries, Roy Grinnell, Richard
Sugg, Morris Johnson, Philip
Weaver, A. C. Dawson, J. A. Phil
lips and Tyler Overton.
Mr. DeBerry is survived by his
widow; one son. Aviation Cadet
(Continued on Page 8)
Local Chairman Hobbs
Urges Every Citizen
to Make Contribution
The United War Fund drive got
under way on schedule time Mon
day and if the response in South
ern Pines is a true indication of
what is taking place throughout
the county, the outlook is decid
edly encouraging.
Local Chairman Jimmy Hobbs
reported Wednesday that approx
imately twenty per cent of the
town’s quota of $3,000 had been
raised, which is a fine beginning,
but he wants it clearly under
stood that, to use the chairman’s
own words, “we definitely need
your contribution.”
A new method is being used in
this drive. Instead of assigning
each worker a section
of town to canvass, each
one has been given a certain
quota to raise during the first
period of the drive. Later, the
list of contributors will be check
ed and the huose to house can
vass will include only those who
have been missed. If anyone who
contributed should' happen to be
approached by another worker,
he is asked to take it good natur-
edly. ■\yearing the lapel emblem
will help the workers to avoid
this.
Members of the Women’s Com
mittee are at their desk in the
Citizens Bank during all banking
hours to receive donations.
By next week it is hoped that
reports from all sections of the
county will be available.
Ernie Pyle says:
“A lot of our soldiers overseas
are functioning as one-man relief
agencies. The sight of hungry Ital
ian children; always gets them.
“At any army chow line near a
village or close to farms you see
a few solemn and patient children
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RED CROSS ELECTION
The annual meeting for the el
ection of officers for the Southern
Pines Branch Moore County Red
Cross will be held in the High
School Library on Wednesday,
October 25, at 3:00 p. m. and all
are requested to attend.
Mrs. Heizmann Mudgett
Chairman
Alfred Moore
Chapter D. A. R.
Holds Meeting
Interesting reports and a lively
discussion of plans for the coming
year marked the meeting of the
Alfred Moore Chapter of the D.
A. R., which was held Saturday
afternoon in the parlor of the
Church of Wide Fellowship with
Mrs. Joel Layton of Lillington,
Chapter Regent, in charge and
with thirty members in atten
dance.
Mrs. Talbot Johnson of Aber
deen presented the work of Cross-
nore School; Mrs. P. P. McCain
of Sanatorium made an appeal
for money for libraries, and Mrs.
Wade Stevick of Southern Pines
gave the firiancial report.
Campaigning for funds for li
braries for soldiers in government
hospitals is to be one of the main
projects of Chapters all over the
country.
An interesting feature of the
meeting was a musical program
given by a girls’ choir from Car
thage under the direction of Mrs.
Womack.
A refreshment hour was enjoyed
following the business meeting.
The next meeting will be held
in Carthage in December.
QUICK EYES
Lewis Haynes, who was re
cently inducted into the Army,
was passing through Southern
Pines, his old home, on a troop
train Friday night, September
29, about 8:30 o'clock. He cran
ed his neck out of the train
window hoping to catch a
glimse of a familiar face when
a voice hailed him, "Hello Lew
is". It was Francis Shea, whose
quick eyes had picked Le'wis
out of the train load of "G. I.'s"
Lewis made the most of the op
portunity to send messages to
his friends here that he passed
through on his way south. Since
then his aunt. Miss Louise
Haynes, has been informed of
his arrival al Camp Blanding,
Florida.