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VOLUME 24. NO. 52
Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday. November 24, 1944.
TEN CENTS
Bankers of Group
Seven Convene at
SP Country Club
Commissioner Hood
and Several Prom-
inenl Bankers Speak
Sixty members of Group Seven |
of the North Carolina Bankers
Association comprising the Coun
ties of Lee, Moore, Scotland, An
son and Robeson, held their dis
trict meeting at the Southern
Pines Country Club Monday even
ing
Following the welcoming ad
dress by Edwin Pate, president
of the Commercial State Bank,
Lumberton, and chairman of the
group, an address was made by
T N. Coburn of Whiteville, pres
ident of the No^h Carolina
Bankers- Association.
LeRoy Martin of the Wachovia-,
Bank & Trust Company of Ra
leigh made a short talk in refer-
,ence ‘to government financing.
Fred Green, secretary of the North j
Carolina Bankers Association of i
Raleigh, in one of the most im
pressive talks of the evening ad
vocated the banks’ meeting the
demand for small loans. Stanle’
Black of the American Trust
Company of Charlotte asked the
bankers to call on their corres-
•pondent banks for aid in the fin-
Encing of large loans. He pointed
but several instances in which
the American Trust Company had
sided a country bank in '
joining state in financing the cost
of machinery in a manufacturing
plant. He stated the smaller bank
was given the privilege of financ
ing as much of the loan as it
desired, with the National Bank
financing the remainder of the
loan.
Gurney P. Hood, commission
er of Banks of North Carolina,
Raleigh, declared that if the small
er banks of North Carolina could
meet the demands of the small
investor, there would be little
need for the creation of govern
ment loan agencies to finance
these borrowers. Continuing, the
speaker stated there should be no
fear in the handling of gsod sound
loans in meeting the demand of
the local community.
John Steadhaan, president of the
Scottish Bank, Lumberton, and a
member of the North Carolina
Legislative Committee, spoke at
length on the legislative program
planned for the handling of loans
from fifty to one hundred dollars,
so as to rid the public from the
payment of high interest rates to
loan sharks -throughout the state.
The program was concluded
with an open forum in which sev
eral interesting questions were
raised by members of the group.
Achievement Day
of Club Women Is
Held in Carthage
Woman's Editor Pro
gressive Farmer and
District Agent Speak
THEY’RE BITIN’ IN GERMANY
Emmanuel Episcopal Church To Be
Consecrated On Thanksgiving Day
RECTOR
Funeral Services
For D. A. Currie
Are Held Friday
Popular Pinehurst
Insurance ^an Had
Been Ill Three Days
Ministers Form
Special Group for
Post War Planning
Recently O. Leon Seymour,
chairman of the Moore County
Post War Planning Committee,
gathered about him a small group
of ministers of the coimty in an
effort to form a committee of
clergymen to act as a sub-commit
tee of his greater county commit
tee. This group, which includes
Dr. T. A. Cheatham of Pinehurst,
the Rev. J. O .Long and Dr. C. H.
Storey of Aherd|een„ the IRev.
Thompson Davis and, the Rev.
Tucker G. Humphries of Southern
Pines, held a second meeting at
which Rev. Mr. Humphries was
elected chairman, and Rev. Mr.
Long, secretary.
During the evening of di$cus-
,sijon certain plaits were made
which will be presented to all
clergymen of Moore County at
a meeting to be held at the Church
of Wide Fellowship on Tuesday
evening, November 28, at 8:00
o’clock. All clergymen are asked
to be present, for there is need
of their counsel as an effort is
made to contact every boy in ser
vice and eyery home that has
sent a boy in service from Moore
County.
Funeral services for Donald
Archibald Currie, 52, of Pinehurst.
who died in the INSoore County
Hospital on Wednesday night,
November 15, after a few days’
illness, were conducted Friday
afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Com
munity Church. The Rev. Roscoe
Prince, pastor, and Rev. Dr. T. A.
Cheatham officiated and burial
was at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Sou
thern Pines. Mr. Currie was
stricken while on a business trip
to Carthage Monday.
Donald Currie was bom in
Moore County September 7, 1892,
the son of Dr. and Mrs. Donald
Alexander’Blue Currie.( He came
to Pinehurst in 1915. When Amer
ica entered World War I he join
ed the Navy. Returning after the
war, he was on the staff of the
Pinehurst Country Club until
1939, when he became a repre
sentative of the Jefferson Stand
ard Life Insurance Company.
Mr. Currie took an active inter
est in the American Legion, Boy
Scouts and other organizations.
At the time of his death he was
president of the Brotherhood Class
of the Community Church. Since
the early days of this Church he
served in many capacities, partic
ularly that of an elder for years.
His jovial, good nature won for*
him many friends wherever he
went. Don loved people and peo
ple loved and adinired Don.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Alvina Schroeder of Green
Lake, Wis., and three sons: Capt.
Donald Currie, Jr., a combat pilot
with the Eighth Army Air Force;
Wilbur, a y-12 student at Wil
liams College, Williamston, Mass.,
and Edgar, an outstanding student
of Pinehurst High School.
Its indebtedness entirely paid
off, Emmanuel Church, erected
jin 1926 by the Episcopal congre
gation, will be consecrated on
Thanksgivmg Day, November 23,
by the Rt. Rev. Edwin A. Penick,
D. D., Bishop of North Carolina.
The Service of Consecration will
be held in conjunction with the
customary Thanksgiving Service,
beginning at 10:00 a. m.
The original Emmanuel Church
edifice located on the southwest
corner of Page Street and New
Hampshire Avenue, a union
I church from 1891 to 1898, was
consecrated to the Episcopal faith
and received its name in 1898. Un
der the rectorship of the late Rev.
Alaric James Drew, the congrega
tion began the erection of the
present impressive structure and
: sold the original building. Hither
to a mission, the church during
Mr. Drew’s pastorate became a
parish.
The Rev. F. Craighill Brown
became rector in December 1930,
and under his capable leadership
the church has enjoyed a steady
growth. Since the establishment
of Camp Mackall it has rendered
an outstanding service to visiting
servicemen. Formerly of Louis
ville, Ky., the Rev. and Mrs.
Brown came to Southern Pines'
from Nanking, China, where they
had served five years. He had
been engaged in missionary work
in Episcopal Missions and she
had assisted in clinics and read
to blind students to enable them
to keep up their studies.
OUT OF MATERIALS FOR
SURGICAL DRESSINGS
Surgical dressings activities in
Southern Pines are postponed un
til further notice because of lack
of material, Mrs. O. A. Dickenson,
chairman of this work, announces.
War Loan Drive Is
Off to Good Start
The Sixth War Loan drive got
off tO' a good start in Southern
Pines, with sales active on both
Monday and Tuesday, according
to A. B. Yeomans, local chairman.
First purchasers here of bonds
of the various denominations were
the following:
From E. C.''*'Stevens’, office—
Capt. George C. Young, Gordon
Brown, Mrs. William L. Baker,
J. Hunter Wood, P. F. Buchan
and Mrs. Frank Walker.
From the Bank—Mrs. George C.
By Flora McDonald
Home Demonstration Agent
“Know how and do now,” said
Miss Sallie Hill, Woman’s Editor
if the Progressive Farmer, to the
^'ederation of Home Demonstra
tion Clubs at the annual Achieve
ment Day program held in the
;ourt room in Carthage on Tues
day of last week.
Miss Hill pointed out that North
Carolina had taken the lead in
bettei* medical and hospital care
of its people, library facilities and
other educational opportunities,
along with improved standards of
rural housing and farming.
Mrs. I. T. Avery, county libra
rian, spoke on the plan for the
distribution of books to all parts
of the county and described the
kinds of books available.
MIts. Esther G. Willis, district
agent, of State College, commend
ed the Federation members for
their fine work and patriotism in
the past, and carried them into
the opportunities that lie ahead.
Mrs. T. A. Cheatham of Pine-
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A NAMESAKE!
In the last few weeks the
sixth grade has started a paper.
THE CO-PILOT. The class
elected staff members. Dickie
Ray, whose father is general
manager of the Pilot, was
elected the editor and printer.
Gerald Thomas, Gene Poe, and
Dorothy Swisher are on the
staff. Each person hands in a
conlribution. After these are
checked the staff picks out the
best Ones to be printed. Con
tributions are coming in all
the time but the paper only
comes out every other Wednes
day. —Jerry Van Camp
Austin Is Business
Manager at Powell's
Season’s Opening
Gymkhana Sunday
DrawsLargeCrowd
Hunters From Rey
nolds and Tate Sta
bles Win Top Events
BY HOWARD F. BURNS
Sgt. John Reeder, left, and Pvt. Franc Samole of United States
Signal Unit whip stream for trout near Zwiefall, Germany. Pvt.
Samole landed in North Africa two years ago this Christmas and has
seen service in North Africa, l^icily, France, Belgium and Germany.
He has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service
in France.
He and his wife, former residents of Johnstown, Pa., came to
Southern Pines to live three years ago when Pvt. Samole was sta-
tioned,at Fort Bragg with the Ninth Division. ^Irs. Samole is now
residing at 51 North May Street. CSignal Corps Photo)
JAMES BOYD'S BOOK
OF POEMS IS OUT
J. R. Worthington, after two
years as manager of the J. N.
Powell funeral home here, has
moved to Chadbourn where he
has purchased an interest in a
business.
H. Stanley Austin of Southern
Pines has succeeded Mr. Worth
ington as business manager of J.
N. PoweU, Inc., and J. H. Wal
den of Sanford will act as li
censed assistant.
LOCAL FIRM GETS
JONESBORO CONTRACT
Bushby Electric Company of
Southern Pines has been awarded
the electrical contract for an
eight-room teacherage now under
construction at Jonesboro. The
Just off the press and now
on sale at Hayes' Sandhills
Book Shop is an atfraclively
bound volume of eighteen
poems from the pen of James
Boyd, who achieved wide rec
ognition through his historical-
novels. Drums, Marching On,
Long Hunt, Roll River and
Bitter Creek. Most of these
poems were written within
the last year or so of his Ufe.
In a foreword Paul Green,
playwright, writes feelingly of
Mr. Boyd and his work, and
predicts that among all the
things he did by which he will
be remembered his book of
poems will rank high.
The design for the jacket is
a drawing of a pine tree done
by Mr. Boyd's younger son,
Daniel, and the volume, pub
lished by Charley Scribner's
Sons, is dedicated to the
writer's three children, Jim
Dan and Nancy.
County Chairman
Names Workers for
TB Seal Campaign
Moore County's Quo
ta Is $4,500; Sale
Begins November 27
ATTENDS MEETING
building will cost around $16,000. ference.
Miss Maida Jenkins, tax super
visor for Moore County, was in
Chapel Hill three days last week
attending a Tax Supervisors’ Con-
Nrifrh.terS". 1 American Soldiers Will Get Turkey .
' and All the Trimmings Thursday
Miss EUen M. Vale.
In order to reach the quota daily
sales here will have to average
five or six thousand dollars for
thirty days.
. Citizens are urged to buy early
in the drive and help to make
Moore County the first county to
reach its goal.
ANOTHER GIFT
The town of Robbins has
received a contribution of $30.
000 from Karl Robbins, for
whom Ihe town is named, to
apply on its bonded indebted
ness. The latest gift from Rob
bins reduces the town's bond
ed indebtedness from $73,000
to $43,000. Robbins contribu
ted $26,000 about th& time
last year for the same pur
pose.
KICKER'S HANDICAP
Johnny Capello, golf pro at the
Mid Pines Club, is sponsoring a
Kicker’s Handicap Tournament
Thanksgiving Day.
Traditional Thanksgiving din
ner for the American soldier—
turkey with all the trimmin’s—
will be served at Army posts and
camps in the seven southeastern
states November 23, and there will
be no-skimpy helpings.
The master menu, which is
used as a guide in all mess halls,
specifies 100 pounds of turkey
for every 100 men. It’s going to
be a busy day for the Army cooks,
as they are not going to starve
the boys for breakfast. Just to
whet their appetites for the big
feed at noon, the soldiers will be
served this breakfast menu:
Oranges (one orange per man),
dry cereal, fresh milk, fried eggs,
pork sausage, toast, butter, mar
malade, coffee.
It’s to be a day of feasting and
the mess sergeants will feed ’em
again at night, just like they
hadn’t had a belt-bustin’ meal at
noon. For supper they’ll have: as
sorted cold cuts, sliced cheese, po
tato cakes, leftover vegetables,
bread, butter, coffee, peanut^ but-
Mrs. T. A. Cheatham of Pine
hurst, chairman of the Moore
County Tuberculosis Association,
will again serve as chairman of
the Tuberculosis Christmas Seal
sale, which opens officially on
November 27. This county’s quota
is $4,500, and Mrs. Cheatham is
confident that the goal will, as
usual, be exceeded.
Local chairmen, as aimounced
by Mrs. Cheatham, are: Aber
deen, Mrs. J. B. Edwards; Camer
on, Mrs. H. C. McPherson; Car-
Protect Your
Home from
TUBERCULOSIS
BUY and USE
Christmas Seals
Fred A. Ordway,
a Seuthern Pines
Pioneer, Passes
Mr. Ordway, of Chel
sea. Vt.. Was Active
in Early Days Here
thage, the Rev. W. L. Warfford;
Eagle Springs, Mrs. C. C. Under
wood; Eureka, Miss Mary Black
Glendon, Mrs. R. H. Dowd; High
ter. (Note to peanut growers: The Falls, Miss Lucy Reynolds; Jack-
s,upper menu calls for 6-1-4 pounds
of peanut butter for every 100
men, or 625 pounds of peanut
butter for each camp of 50,000
men.)
And here’s what they’ll have
for that Thanksgiving Dinner:
Grapefruit juice, roast turkey
with giblet gravy, sage dressing,
mashed potatoes, string beai^,
corn, cranberry sauce, lettuce
with Russian dressing, celery,
olives, pickles,-hot rolls, butter,
pumpkin pie, coffee, apples, tan
gerines, candy and nuts.
But there seems to be no cause
of civilians to worry about a pos
sible shortage of turkeys for their
Thanksgiving dinner. While the
total quantity required for the
Armed forces has not been dis
closed, the War Food Administra
tion has advised that turkeys re
maining for civilian consumption
this yfear will be more than the
per capita consumption during
the pre-war period between 1935
and 1939.
son Springs, Mrs. Lola Carter:
Mount Holly Club, Mrs. T. j. Sea-
well; Pinebluff, Mrs. Cadwalader
Bjenediot; Pinthursfe Max Von
Scbelegell; Robbins, J. A. Cul
bertson; Southern Pines, A. B,
Patterson; Springfield Club, Mrs.
C. L. Gulledge; Vass-Lakeview
Mrs. W. P. Parker; West End, Miss
Cora B. Donaldson; Westmore, T.
Roy Phillips.
During the past year the Moore
County Tuberculosis Association
tients in the Sanatorium, there-
has taken care of seventeen pa-
by protecting all the communities
from which they were taken, and
jhais held ;jthe usual clinics in
schools and checked contacts of
open cases. Milk, medicine and
supplies have been supplied
where needed. All teachers, white
and colored, throughout the coun
ty have bfeen given special tuber
culosis examinations.
This valuable work is made pos
sible by the funds received from
the sale of Christmas seals. ,
An undated clipping contain
ing the news of the death of Fred
A. Ordway in his home on Maple
Avenue, Chelsea, Vt., reaches
THE PILOT through the kind
ness of Miss Hutchinson.
Mr. Ordway was one of the real
pioneers of Southern Pines, hav
ing come to John T. Patrick’s new
venture in 1886. In the following
year he became manager of the
■lewly erected “Page Hotel”, later
the Southern Pines Hotel, and the
jreat Magnolias fronting the
POstoffice and the Library are
elics of his personality.
Going to Aberdeen he opened
1 general store and was post-
naster there for seven years. In
1895 he opened a dry goods store
n a new frame building then lo-
:^ated on the site of the present
^handlQ-r Eicek on West Broad
Street. Unt^l the sale of the busi-
loss to II. _C. Flint in 1906, the
ate J. N. Powell was his local
lanager.
Born August 5, 1863, the son of
dartin and Mary D. (Burnham)
Irdway, he returned to his home
own, Chelsea, following the sale
if his Southern' Pines business,
o found the firm of Ordway,
lolmes and Company, He is sur-
/ived by his widow; a son, Leon
of Northfield, Vt.; a daughter,
Mrs. Laura Winn, of Hanover, N.
a.; a sister, Mrs. William H. Cha-
lin, of Chelsea; a grandson and
three great-grandchildren. Mr.
Drdway’s last visit to the scene of
his early ventures was in 1928.,
Phoenix Purchases
Scheipers House
R. H. Phoenix, formerly of
Charlotte but lately a resident of
Hendersonville, has bought the
Louis Scheipers house at 43 E.
Connecticut Avenue, near Ridge
Street. Mr. Phoenix, retired from
the Clyde Steamship Company as
superintendent of transportation
at Cljarleston, S. C., will with his
wife and daughter Peggy make
his home in Southern Pines. The
sale was made through the Bar-
num Agency.
Hunters from the stables of Ann
Cannon Reynolds of Blowing
Rock and Lloyd Tate of Pinehurst
won top events Sunday in the
opening horse show and eques
trian gymkhana at the horse show
grounds at the Southern Pines
Country Club.
“Sail On”, from the Cannon
Stables, with Petty Officer June-
bug Tate up, led a field of fifteen
entries in a jump-ofi in clearing
the bars at five feet to win the
blue ribbon in the class for oppn
jumpers. “It’s Up”, a five-year-
old bay mare owned by Mr. Tate
and ridden by his son^ Petty Of
ficer Junebug Tate, was second.
“Dark Picture”, a two-year-old
brown gelding owned by Mickey
Walsh of Southern Pines and bril
liantly ridden by his young son,
Mickey Walsh, Jr., finished third.
“Golden Hill”, owned and rid
den by Carlyle Cameron of Sou
thern Pines, flashed around the
picturesque one-quarter mile
hunting course to capture first
place before a large field of spec
tators in the class for working
hunters. “Claim Agent”, a brown
gelding owned by Lloyd Tate and
ridden by his daughter, Mary Ann
Tate, finished second in the field
of ten hunters. “Blanco Roho”,
owned by Mrs. Isabel Robson of
East Orange, N. J., was third in
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