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Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday. November 17. 1944.
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County Red Cross
Chapter Reelects
Chairman Garrison
By-Laws Are Revised
ai Annual Meeting
in Carthage Friday
The annual meeting of the
Moore County Chapter of the
American Red Cross was held Fri
day afternoon in the courthouse
at Carthage with M. G. Boyette
presiding in the absence of the
chairman, E. II. Garrison, Jr.
A revision of the present by
laws was suggested and the fol
lowing changes were made by ac
clamation: The time of the an
nual meeting was changed from
the first Friday in November to
the second Friday in order to giv*
the treasurer and the chairmen of
special services sufficient time in
which to prepare their reports;
' the fiscal year, at present running
from July to July, was changed
to run from November to Novem
ber to correspond with the annual
meeting, and it was voted to run
the Chapter under the rules of
the American Red Cross with a
Board of Directors as the govern
ing body instead of running it
under the present by-laws with
the Executive Committee as the
governing body.
The election of officers was an
other important part of the busi
ness. H. F. Seawell, Jr., chair
man of the Nominating Commit
tee, which was composed of Miss
Alberta Monroe of Vass, J. E.
Ratchford of Robbins, A. L. Bur
ney of Aberdeen and Col. George
P. Hawes, Jr., of Pinehurst, pre
sented the following slate: E. H.
Garrison, Carthage, for reelection
as chairman; O. Leon Seymour,
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HOME FROM FRANCE
AERIAL GUNNER | A. L. Bumej Is
Elected President
of Kiwanis Club
Telephone Meeting
Is Great Success
One hundred and f^fty members
of the North Carolina Independent
Telephone Association attending
the Annual Meeting were present
at the banquet Tuesday evening
in the main dining room of the
Pine Needles Inn. Vice President
W. E. Sparger was elected presi
dent, and Vice President Ralph
Van Trine and Secretary-Treas
urer R. E. Kepler were reelected
to their offices. An outstanding
feaure of the meeting was the
demonstration by engineers of the
Southern Bell Telephone and Tel
egraph Company of power influ
ences on Telephone lines. Our for
mer townsman R. S. DuRant was
also featured.
Manager Boone of the Inn was
warmly praised for the courtesy
and consideration shown to mem
bers of the Association, many of
whom expressed their determina
tion to hold their next meeting
at Mid Pines.
PFC. H. A. CAMERON
Pfc. H. Alex Cameron, who met
the Germans face to face in the
battlefields of France and who
for the past while has been receiv
ing treatment at the U. S. North-
ington General Hospital at Tusca
loosa, Ala., after having been
wounded in action, is now visit
ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs
Herbert N. Cameron, in Southern
Pines.
According to Alex the French
countryside had been considerably
scarred, but not as badly as the
small towns and hamlefs, many
of which had been completely
leveled. “The apple orchards
boxed in by hedgerows,” says Pfc.
Cameron, “formed an attractive
picture, but we didn’t go in for
hedgerows were mined, and She lousiness to Vass
trees had trip wires strung to
them.”
BISHOP TO OPEN
HIS QUAIL FARM
Public Program Is
Climax of School
‘‘Education Week”
"Our School, Our
Town Workshop" Is
Topic of Program
Invitations were issued to the
parents and friends of the school
to a program given in the school
auditorium Friday, November
10th. This program climaxed the
observance of American Educa
tion Week, the general theme of
which was Education for New
Tasks. The topic for Friday’s pro
gram was Our School, Our Town
Workshop.
Lewis Hodgkins read selections
of scripture appropriate to the
program. “The Prayer Perfect”
was sung by the Glee Club under
the direction of Miss Hattie Mae
Barber. Drennan Mann, president
of the student body, explained
the origin and purpose of Educa
tion Week. Miss Margaret Palmer,
school librarian, sang “This Is
My Country” by Scott.
Supt. P. J. Weaver then gave a
concise and informing explana-
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CPL. HAROLD L. TATE
Cpl. Harold L. Tate, a gunner
on a B-24 Liberator bomber, has
recently completed his final com
bat training at Gowen Field,
Idaho. Cpl. Tate, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. W. Tate of Southern Pines,
graduated from the local high
school in 1933 and completed
a course at Coyne Electrical
School in Chicago in 1934. He was
inducted into the Army at Fort
Bragg June 15, 1943. His wife,
the former Lois Hall, resides in
Southern Pines.
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Sharpe Will Move
Carthage Weaving
Transportation Fa
cilities the Reason;
To Employ Around 300
Due to lack of railway trans
portation at its present location,
the Carthage Weaving Plant will
be moved to Vass in the near fu
ture, according to information
given THE PILOT Wednesday by
B. Van Sharpe, owner of the
plant which at present is loca
ted in the old Tyson and Jones
Buggy Factory Buildings in Car-
CoL Fisher Speaks;
I Picquet Announces
I Ladies' Night Plans
By Howard F. Burns
A. L. Burney of Aberdeen was
elected president, of the Sandhills
Kiwanis Club over John F. Tay-
or of Pinehurst in the annual
election of officers held at the
Southern Pines Country Club
I Wednesday. W. D. Sabiston of
I Carthage, solicitor of the Record-
■ er’s Court of Moore County, is
the new vice president, and John
M. Howarth of Southern Pines
was elected to the office of treas
urer.
While the ballots were being
counted. Colonel William Fisher
of the Air Corps made an infor
mal talk relating some of the
problems that our forces
meeting in China.
The Colonel, a pleasing speaker,
who has seen much action in the
Papific since Pearl Harb'or, in
formed the club that one of the
chief problems in the China
theater is the supply Situation. He
spoke of the splendid cooperation
that the Chinese are giving the
American forces, despite the han
dicaps under which they are
working. He related how the cool
ies had built beautiful air fields
entirely by hand, as no machin
ery. is available as in this coun
try. He spoke briefly of the Burma
Road as a dirt road, winding
through the mountains and limit
ed as to traffic, in the movement
of supplies. , :
Charle.s W; Picqdet.jchairman of
the Ladies’ Night'Committee, an
nounced that the apnual banquet
would be held at the Mid Pines
Club on Tuesday evening, Decem
ber 5th, at 7:30 p. m. The chair-
further stated that a very
fine program is being arranged
and plans are being made for up
ward of 130 to 150 to attend the
dinner this year.
The committee chairman an
nounced that tickets may be ob
tained from the following: I. C.
thage, purchased by Mr. Sharpe
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... Julian Bishop, back home fi:om
active service in the Army as a
lieutenant but subject to recall,
was a pleasant caller at THE
PILOT office Wednesday. Mr.
Bishop, when asked about his
Horseshoe Quail Farm on Deep
River, disclosed that he had de
cided to open the farm on a lim
ited scale, taking only two guns
a day, and that he is already
booked up solid from the opening
date, November 23, to January
14. Most of the reservations were
made by men in active service
now at home on furlough from
overseas duty, Mr. Bishop said.
One was by a lady naval officer
whose husband is a lieutenant
colonel .in the Army, he disclosed.
SCOUTS TO COLLECT
PAPER WEDNESDAY
ANNIVERSARY GREE'nNGS
. The Specialty Shop operated by
H. S. Knowles is this week reach
ing the age of six years and judg
ing by its popularity it has ren
dered a fine service in supplying
its customers with the items us
ually found in a modern grocery
store. We join Mr. Knowles’ other
friends in extending best wishes
on this anniversary.
Local Boy Scouts will collect
waste paper on Wednesday, Nov
ember 22, beginning at noon, and
they have as their goal “A Bun
dle at Every Home”. Residents
are requested to place their paper
in front of their homes where it
can be picked up conveniently by
the trucks.
All kinds of paper, without ex
ception, are wanted. There’s no
such thing anymore as a useless
scrap of paper.
Newspapers should be folded flat,
the way a paper boy sells them,
and tied in bundles about 12
inches high.
Magazines should be tied in
bundles about 18 inches high.
^ Corrugated and cardboard
boxes should be flattened and tied
in bundles about 12 inches high.
Wastebasket paper (wrappers,
bags, envelopes, etc.) should be
packed down in a box or bag so
that it can be carried easily.
The cooperation of every citi
zen in making the paper drive a
success is requested.
leased the large brick building in
Vass originally erected for use as
a tobacco market and more re
cently the location of the Morri
son Manufacturing Company’s
furniture plant. He expected to
begin operating there around De
cember 1.
This building is conveniently
located hear the main line of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway. Mr.
Sharpe explained that the Moore
Central Railway, which serves
Carthage, has recently been
thrown into the hands of a receiv
er and that the roadbed is in bad
condition.
The work done by this plant is
100 per cent government work,
making camouflage 'nets, volley
ball nets and other things of like
nature. A large order for tents
has just been received. , As he
has done at Carthage Mr. Sharpe
expects to employ around t^iree
or four hundred women, white
and colored.
Rotary Inter City
Meeting Here Has
Large Attendance
Local Club Is Host
Group at SP Country
- Club Tuesday Night
Over one hundred and fifty Ro-
tarians ^d Rotary Anns from
Rockingham, Wadesboro, Carth
age and Southern Pines met at
the Country Club Tuesday night
in a Rotary Inter City meeting,
with the local club as “host group.
W. G. “Bill” Pittman of the
Rockingham Club, toastmaster, in
troduced Charles Stone of Char-
,1'otte, district governor foi the
188th Rotary District, for “five
minutes of seriousness.”
Governor Stone said his “five
minutes of seriousness” should be
matched by like seriousness on
the part of citizens in every com
munity—serious consideration on
how we can help our returning
servicemen and servicewomen fit
themselves into civilian life.
“For the past four years,” Gov
ernor Stone said, “the concerted
efforts of all Americans have
been directed toward training and
equipping vast armies, clouding
the skies with war planes, filling
the oceans with fleets of war
craft and cargo ships, to the end
that we might seek out and de
stroy the enemies to our free way
of life. To accomplish this, mil
lions of our American youth have
been trained in the mass art of ef
ficient killing.”
The District Governor pointed
out that already thousands of ser
vicemen and service women were
being returned to civilian life
monthly. He said that the read
justments that our returning
fighting men were having to
make, the difficulties they faced,
were far greater than the transi
tion from civilian to military life.
“Our efforts to help them fit
themselves back into the commun-
ityy should be no less than the
great energies we threw into
building America’s mighty war
machine,” Governor Stone said.
“As Rotarians,” he concluded,
“we should apply the Rotary Prin
ciples of service, the ideals of Ro-
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County Quota in Sixth
War Loan Drive Set At
$552,000; Begins 20th
Chairman Stevens An-
FOILED
Pate Formerly Fed Pilot Press, Now
Feeds Airmen in Southwest Paeific
Soulhern Pines Boy
Recently Took Part
in 4lh Invasion Move
RESOURCEFUL
SAFE IN RUSSIA
Cpl. John Yonkers, 23. who
was in last week's paper re
ported missing in action, is
safe in Russia with the whole
crew of the plane, according
to a telegram received by his
father. N. J. Yonkers of Wal-
lington. N. Y. Cpl. Yonkers
is a nephew of Willieim S.
Yonkers of Manly, who
brought this good news to
THE PILOT.
RUMMAGE SALE
On Friday and Saturday, Nov
ember 17 and 18, Group 3 of the
Women’s Society of the Church
of Wide Fellowship will hold a
rummage sale at Simonds Store
on West Broad Street. Those who
have goods to donate to. the sale
are requested tm deliver them to
the store Friday morning, or tele
phone 7192 and they will be call
ed for.
Sgt. James E. Pate, son of Edr
mond Pate of Southern Pines and
the late Mrs. Pate, took part in I
his fourth invasion move recent!v
when he accompanied a quartei -
master platoon in the wake of
the task force which captured
Morotai Island. Morotai is the
northernmost island in the Hal-
mahera group and less than 300
miles from the Philippines.
Pate is the acting first sergeant
of the platoon, which landed in
an LST, carrying 10 tons of food
and supplies for Air Force units.
Included w6re four mobile refrig
erators loaded with fresh meat,
eggs and butter. |
Pate was a member of the same
platoon when it was flown in by
transport planes during the in
vasions of Gusap, Nadzab and Hol-
landia, in New Guinea. The pla
toon, comprising only 27 enlisted
men and three officers, is one of
the units of the Far East Air Ser
vice Command, the organization
which provides supplies for Air
Force units throughout the South
west Pacific and does the heavy
repair and maintenance work on
combat and transport planes.
Working in temperatures above
100 degrees (Morotai is less than
three degrees ijorth of the equa
tor), the platoon cleared ari area
in the jungle for its operations
and began issuing food and sup
plies within a few days, despite
Jap bombing raids and,heavy trop
ical rains.
Sgt. Pate was graduated from
Southern Pines High School in
1939 and worked as a pressman
for The Pilot before joining the
Army in January, 1942. He has
been overseas 17 months.
Movie Mogul Charlie Pic-
quel, meeting a Southern Pines
Philatelist (grandiose for stamp
collector), proudly displayed a
"first day cover" franked with
a new 3-cenl stamp commemo
rating the 50th anniversary of
moving pictures. Philatelist:
"Huh. only one steunp",' and
displayed a block of four, but
Charlie had all the best of it
when he opened the cover and
produced a personal, congratu
latory letter from Postmaster
General Frank Walker.
N. B. The stamp collector did
not collect this item for his
collection. '
Woolen’s Division
Announces Plani^
for Bond Campaign
“BUY • CHRISTMAS PRES
ENTS NOW— BUY WAR
BONDS." This is the slogan with
which Mrs. M. G. Nichols, local
chairman of the Women’s Divi
sion for the Sixth War Loan
Drive, is launching the campaign
and she announces that every Sat
urday will be “Children’s Day”.
This term has a two-fold meaning
It is the day on which children
are to buy all the bonds they
can; also, the day upon which
grown-ups are urged to buy bonds
for all the children whom they
plan to remember at Christmas.
As in the past; workers will be
on duty at the Citizens Bank
each weekday to sell bonds. The
following schedule will go into
effect November 20 and continue
through the drive: Mondays, Mrs.
Eugene Schaeffer, Mrs. Philip
Weaver, Mrs. E. V. Perkinson;
Tuesdays, Mrs. Eugene Stevens,
Mrs. Miller Gaffney and Mrs. Tom
Wood; Wednesdays, Mrs. J. S.
Milliken, Mrs. Rossiter; Thurs
days, Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins, Mrs.
J. H. Towne, Mrs. Charles Crow
ell; Fridays, Mrs. L. T. Avery,
Mrs. Howard Burns, Mrs. Roy
Grinnell; Saturdays, Miss Densie
Trousdell, Miss Nancy Wrenn,
Mrs. John Ake.
There has been keen rivalry be
tween the men’s and women’s
committees in former drives and
in the Fifth War Loan the men
were left trailing. Those on the
sidelines will watch with interest
the progress of the two teams in
the new campaign.
nounces Local Chair
men and their Quotas
Moore County has been given
an overall quota of $552,000 for
d.e Sixth War Loan campaign, E.
C. Stevens, county chairman,
said Tuesday in announcing the
quotas for the various towns.
The drive begins on November
20 and continues to December 16,
but all “E”, “F” and ‘G” bonds
sold throughout these two months
will count oh the quota. 'The ‘E”
bond quota, is $295,000.
Quotas assigned are as follows,
the first figures being the total
quota and the second, the ‘E’
bond: Southern Pines, $154,560
$82,000; Pinehurst, $110,000; $65,-
000; Aberdeen, $77,280; $41,300
Cameron, $5520; 2950; Carthage,
$77,280; $41,300; Robbins, $93,-
840; $50,150; Vass, $5520; $2950
Pinebluff; $2760; $1475; West End,
$8280; $4425.
Local chairmen appointed are
A. B. Yeomans, Southern Pines;
Col. George P. Hawes, Jr., Pine
hurst; G. C. Seymour, Aberdeen;
W. P. Saunders, Robbins; Mrs.
W.- K. Carpenter, Pinebluff; Mrs.
H. A. Borst, Vass; Mrs. Pete
Phillips, Cameron, and Miss Lucy
Reynolds, Highfalls. Others will
be named later.
The quota is considerably less
than in the Fifth War Loan when
the county was asked to raise
$675,000, but that does not mean
that the workers or buyers should
slow down, as the need is so great
and the success of the drive so
important.
The druggists of the county are
planning to play an active part
in this campaign, as they have
in former ones, and the women’s
organization is formulating plans
designed to make sure that Moore
County exceeds its goal as it has
done in the past. Mrs. N. L. Hodg
kins is county chairman of the
V/omen’s Division, and Mrs. M.
G. Nichols and Mrs. George Moore
are co-chairmen for Southern
Pines.
Sgt. James E. Pate of Southern
Pines uses a tobacco case for a
desk and a box of rations for a
chair to perform sqme of his
duties as acting first sergeant of
an Air Force quartermaster pla
toon on Morotai Island.
JOHNSON ELECTED
CHAIRMAN SPCCA
At a meeting of the Southern
Pines Council of Social Agencies
held Tuesday evening in the
school building, Morris Johnson
was elected chairman to succeed
Mrs. J. B. Swett. Miss Birdilia
Bair was elected vice chairman;
Miss Katharine Wiley, secretary;
Mrs. Howard Butler, treasurer,
and Mrs. J. H. Towne, executive
secretary. Philip Weaver and Mrs.
J. B. Swett were named as mem
bers of the Executive Committee.
Overtons to Head
Moore Pharmacists
in Sixth War Loan
Edmund Millen III
Perishes In Hotel
Fire in Manhattan
Former Local Resident
Credited With Saving
Lives of Many Guests
North Carolina druggists have
set as their goal in the Sixth War
Loan drive the sale of “E” bonds
equal to the government purchase
price of 75 billion units of peni
cillin, the North Carolina Phar-
maaeiitical Association has an
nounced.
A pharmacist has been chosen
to direct the campaign in each
of North Carolina’s counties, as
sisted by a member of the wo
man’s auxiliary. Mr. and Mrs. J.
T. Overton of the Sandhill Drug
Company will head the work in
Moore County.
Association Sec.-Treas. W. J.
Smith said that the pharmacists
had I selected to translate their
bond sales into penicillin, popu
larly termed “the wonder drtig”,
because it “gives the War Bond
byyer a realistic idea of what
bond purchases mean to our fight-
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LAD'S HAND INJURED
WHEN RIFLE DISCHARGES
Little Richard Patch, fooling
with a .22 calibre rifle Tuesday
evening, had the misfortune to
have the gun discharge with re
sulting injury to two fingers of
his left hand. He is getting along
well.
Apparently asphyxiated by
smoke as he Avas calling for help,
Edmund Millen, third, 28, was
found seated at the telephone,
receiver in hand, when firemen
broke into his room on the sixth
floor of the Hotel St. George,
Manhattan, early in the morning
of October 23, but in losing his
life he is credited with saving the
lives of from thirty to forty hotel
guests.
• The desk clerk received his first
warning of the fire at 2:40 a. m.
when Mr. Millen called to report
(Continued on Page 5)
TURKEY DINNER
The church choir, under the
leadership of Mrs. L. D. McDon
ald, will serve a turkey dinner
at the Church of Wide Fellow
ship Wednesday evening, Novem
ber 22, from 6:00 o’clock on, and
all are urged to attend. There will
be no charge, but an offering will
be taken.
THANKSGIVING DAY
THE PILOT will be published
on Wednesday of next week to
permit the staff to enjoy Thanks
giving Day. Correspondents and
advertisers' are requested to have
copy in a day earlier than usual.
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY,
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Company will be closed all day
next Thursday, Thanksgiving
Day..