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KEEP FAITH tbjfbi^gX 'WARBUOIS ********* * * Those Boys Need^^ mmeomf VOLUME 25, NO. 5 Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, Decenvber 29, 1944. TEN CENTS Sa nd B OX Being Filled Weekly BY WALLACE IRWIN Although I have about given up my project for a Half Pint clubhouse worthy of our distin guished membership, I am cheer ed to know that Southern Pines club life still goes on. We have here a chapter of a powerful in ternational organization which even the newsy Pilot had failed to publicize. Most of my readers will recognize it by name: The Can-American Garbage Club. Breathes there a dog with tail so dead who never to himself has said, “This is my own, my native snack?” Not one! Lofty great Danes and intellectual French poodles, if accompanied by a proper chaperone, may walk with feigned hauteur past inviting buckets of family refusee, but their secret minds are on the alert. They are just biding their time for^ the carefree moment when they will be off the leash. Then come on, boys, meet me at the Club for a jolly old go at the second hand fish and the won derful pork grease on a strip of perfectly good wrapping paper! My Scottie, Ida, is no differ ent from other dogs, except that she’s longer and closer to the ground than any other creature not classified as a snake. Being of noble birth and aristocratic breed ing, she is not supposed to be in terested in anything that’s low. Oh, yeah? Now and then she will cock her nose briskly, then make off, as one in quest of wild life and dangerous sport. Dangerous sport is right. She had learned all the places where good fellows get together around the teeming bucket. Courtesy of somebody’s generous kitchen. I have spied on meetings of the Sand Hill branch of the Garbage Club, and it’s a beautiful picture of unity under the blessing of a common purpose. Rich dogs, poor dogs, high dogs, low dogs, wag tailing and wolfing in the love liest spirit of co-operation. “Hey, Rover,” yelps the Chow, “I gotta bunch of chicken feathers, what you got?” “Dunno,” says Rover. “I thought it was a bacon rind, but maybe it’s an old sock.” It’s just the club spirit, the world over. The other night Ida seemed to have a date with a demon lover. She smiled, “I’ll be right back, boss,” but somehow I knew she was lying. She left at 9:30 and got back at 11:30. She ran in circles, she leaped, she congratu lated herself. The Club must have been serving holiday champagne, the way she acted on her way to bed ... When 3:30 a. m. came darkly around, we were aroused by an emergency call. Ida was a very, very sick little dog. She felt better, I hope, after she had disgorged a pint of lobster shells. At breakfast time she opened ene eye and mourned, “Don’t come near me for a week!” I know just how she felt. Oft in my youth I have done the lobster palaces of Broadway. For 24 hours she was a suffer ing saint, feeble and full of good resolutions. But when the even ing lights came on and night life cast its unwholesome lure among the long leaf pines, the old yearn ing returned. She was fit to be tied. And tied she was. Next morning I found the re gional social center. In one of the cottages in the fashionable High land Pines sector they seem to eat a great deal of lobster. Also they seem to have a cook or yard man who is too busy to cover the garbage pail when he sets it out for the Saturday collection. Can you blame a dog? Temptation is an awfiil, awful thing. Some may say that my Ida i,s half starved. She must be, the way she eats, which is all the time. The above essay is a sort of hangover Christmas sermon. A few of my readers have spok en sharply to me about last week’s Sand Box. They think that I was out of touch with the Season when I said that people shouldn’t buy $3900 sables and $65000 dia monds during a wartime crisis. I still stick by what I said. And I’m setting a noble example on the $2.50 a week the Pilot doles out to me. Whoa! It’s been so long since the Pilot doled out that $2.50 that the Irwin deficit has run up into money. $30, as I .count it. Huh? Come across. Pilot, before Walter Lippman hauls me in as America’s highest paid ghost writer. Several Sandhills Service Men Are at Home Christmas Other News of Moore Men and Women From Far and Near Christmas in the Sandhlils was made happier for home folk by the presence of a number of ser vice men who were able to get short leaves. Norris Hodgkins and Philip Woolley of the Naval R. O. T. C. at Duke University were here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norris L. Hodgkins and Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Woolley. Pvt. Raymond Hayes of Camp Croft, S. CV, spent the day with his mother, Mrs. Edna Hayes. Cpl. John R. Mulholland, who has been in a hospital in Mississ ippi, was in town for the day ■Tuesday to see his mother, Mrs. Lenora Mulholland. ' Mr. and Mrs. G. M. McDermott of Vass were happy to have their eldest son, Lt. George McDer mott, stop over for a few days as he was on his way from South (Continued on Page 4) Funeral Rites for Mrs. B. F. Hassell Are Held Friday Former Southern Pines Resident Succumbs to Sudden Heart Attack Funeral Services were held last Friday afternoon at the Southern Pines Baptist Church for Mrs. Lucy Sarles Hassell, 73, who died suddenly of a heart attack Thurs day morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. E. Taylor of Mount Olive, with whom she was making her home at the time. The Reverend J. Fred Stimson of Sou thern Pines and the Reverend John W. Lambert, pastor of the Mount Olive Baptist Church con ducted the services. Interment was in Mount Hope Cemetery. The widow of B. F. Hassell, who died here several years ago, Mrs. Hassell is survived by five sons; Paul Hassell of East Rad ford, Va., Benjamin F. Hassell and Thomas C. Hassell of the U. S. Navy, Sgt. Richard Hassell, U. S. Army in England, and J. Reward Hassell, U. S. Army in France; six daughters: Mrs. A. H. Simpson, Burlington, Mrs. L. M. Darden, Fayetteville, Mrs. Tay lor, Mt. Olive, Mrs. Clarence Rush, Asheboro, Mrs. H. A. Perry, Ra leigh, and Sgt. Alma Hassell, WAC, Boston, Mass.; fourteen grandchildren, one great grand child, and one sister. Miss Alma Sarles, of Roanoke, Va. Slate Gets Jobs For Many Veterans North Carolina ranked 17th in the nation in the numbers of re turning war veterans placed in jobs during the month of October, taking higher position than the State’s population or other nor mal criteria would place her, ac cording to a nation-wide compila tion received by Dr. J. S. Dor- ton, State manpower director. The War Manpower Commis sion’s U. S. Employment Service offices in the State placed 1720 war veterans in October, a num ber exceeded in only 16 other states in a total of 83,027 veteran placements. North Carolina rank ed still higher in the numbers of disabled veterans placed in jobs, taking 13th place in the nation, with 298, out of the nation-wide total of 12,122. V BOWMAN—BROOME Mrs. James Edward Doyle of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, announces the marriage of her daughter, Mrs. Helen Doyde Rroome, to First Lieutenant William Fleming Bow man, Signal Cor-ps, Army of the United States, son of Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Edgar Bowman of Aberdeen, North Carolina. The ceremony was solemnized at six o’clock Saturday afternoon by Dr. Charles M. Coulter of the Hyde Park Community Church in the presence of a few close friends of the bride and bridegroom. Lieutenant and Mrs. Bowman will be at home to their friends at 1351 Cryer Avenue, Hyde Park, after January first. RECEIVES SON'S AWARD Virgil C. Johnston, left, of Sou thern Pines, receives the Air j Medal awarded posthumously to i his son. Second Lt. Virgil C. Johnston, Jr., from Col. Glenn C. Salisbury, commanding officer of Pope Field. The medal was pre sented at a formal review of base personnel Saturday, December iu. me ^uuiig xiic-r a muuier and other members of his family also were present. I^t. Johnaton was killed June 10 over France while piloting a P-47 • Thunderbolt fighter. The dward was for “ex ceptionally meritorious service in aerial flight over enemy-occu- nied continental Europe.” (Pope Field Official Photo.) Six Moore County Men Are in Army’s Oldest F. A. Observation Battalion Except for Moving Pe riods, Group Has Been in Line Since Dec. '42 Sixth Army Group, France— Artillery barrage preparations that opened the French First Army’s drive along the Swiss bor der to the Rhine smashed and neutralized enemy artillery and fortifications in the Belfort Gap region. The planning that directed that barrage and the location of the German guns that were smashed before they could hinder the drive was just a part of the day’s work for the 1st Field Artillery Obser vation battalion, which is work ing with the French First Army in France. Using “sound and flash” meth ods, the soldiers of this battalion located enemy batteries accurate ly and quickly. When it was time lor the drive to start, American and FVench artillerymen, work ing side-by-side, quickly smash ed the enemy’s big guns. “One story of how effective our location was is that an enemy bat tery fired a couple of rounds to show an inspecting German gen eral staff how good they were. Major E. J. Morris, Jr., Sylacauga, Alabama, battalion commander, explained. “But no sobner did they lire than we replied. Our location had been perfect and the Yank shells landed right on the target and wiped out the battery and the visitors.” The battalion commander went on to explain that their job is to “gather information to neutral- N O T I C E “In accordance with the new food rationing program now in ef fect, the Office of Price Admin istration has cancelled red stamps A8 through Z8 and A5 through P5 in Book Four, and blue stamps A8 through Z8 and A5 through W5, commencing December 26th”, says George H. Maurice, chair man of the Moore County Bokrd. “In addition, only sugar stamps 34 and 40 are now yal’d. On Decr ember Slstred stamps '1*5 through X5 become valid end on January 1, 1945 blue stamos C2 through G2 become valid.” All merchants should note care fully these cancellations and not accept invalid stamps. Jerry Smith, 11, Is Fatally Shot y Boy Playmate Tragedy Occurs Near Vass at Beginning of Christmas Holiday ize enemy artillery activity during the critical phase of operations, and to supply survey for artil lery.” The battalion has been in the line continously, except for per iods of moving to new positions, since December, 1942, reportedly longer than any American unit since 1865. This battalion is also the oldest American field artillery observation battalion in the Army, according to officers of the organ ization. Soldiers in the battalion in clude: T|Sgt. Joseph A. Matthews, Southern Pines, Cpl. Robert F. Meeks, Jr., Pinebluff; Sgt. Alton B. Richardson and Cpl. Luke L. Marion, Jr., Carthage; Cpl. Frank G. Mclnnis, Aberdeen, and Pvt. Glenn M. Atkins, Cameron. It’s SRO at Washington’s Big Show And Even Aunt Annahelle Can’t Help BY MARTHA P. HYDE Washington, D. C., Dec. 28— Whether you are the Colonel’s Lady or Judy O’Grady, it’s stand ing room only for you at the next big show in Washington. And if you are not, perchance, a member of the Cabinet, a member of Con gress, a member of the $1,000 Club, or on the White House select list, there’s no need of writing Aunt Annabelle in Washington to ask her to get you into' Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fourth inaugura tion as President of these United States. Aunt Annabelle may be a first cousin of the third assis tant secretary of the War Labor Board, or what have you, but she is going to miss this inauguration herself. The list, we understand, has 5,000 names on it—no more, no less. The affair is to be an infor mal one, on the White House lawn — no big jamboree up at the Cap itol as in the past. No good to write your Congressman; every ticket will be issued by the White House. The chosen few will have luncheon following the cere monies. No formal dress—^the President is going to wear a busi ness suit. And a raincoat, we as sume, in the event of a downpour. ference. Some question led him to jump on newspaper columnists, and one of the reporters spoke up: “But Mr. President, you have one in your own family.” When the laughter subsided, Mr. Roosevelt said that was dif ferent, hers was more of a diary. Speaking of the President, the newsmen had a good laugh at his expense at last Friday’s press con- “Bob” Reynolds made his fare well speech and the 78th Con gress passed into higtory. The fight against the President’s ap pointees to the State Department “cabinet” under Secretary Stet- tinius petered out and Joseph C. Grew was confirmed as Under Secretary, four others as assistant, secretaries, including Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress against whom a bitter battle was waged. The fight lasted long enough, however, to prevent the Senate from acting upon the $500,000,000 Rivers and Harbors bill which included an authorization for fur ther improvements at New River, N. C. Senator Josiah W. Bailey, North Carolina Democrat and chairman of the Commerce Com mittee, says the bill will be rein troduced at the opening of the 79th Congress next month. Jerry Smith, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Smith, and popular member of the fifth grade of Vass-Lakeview School, was in stantly killed last Friday aftlr- noon when the load from a shot gun in the hands of his 14-year- old neighbor and playmate, Ralph Hendrick, entered his head from close range. The tragedy occurred shortly after the boys reached their homes cn adjoining farms two miles west of Vass following the closing of school for the Christmas holiday. Ralph had obtained a gun from the home of Jim Patterson on the Hendrick farm to go hunting, and was in the yard at Challie Stew art’s on the same farm with sev eral members of the Stewart family. As Jerry joined the group the gun fired. Coroner R. G. Frye investigat ed, but did not deem a formal inquest necessary as the informa tion given him was that the gun discharged accidentally while Ralph was holding it under his arm. Ralph is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Leroy Hendrick, whose son, Carl, lost his life following the sinking of the Warrington a few months ago. Funeral services for Jerry were conducted at Rocky Fork Church near Lemon Springs at 2:30 Sun day afternoon by the Rev. W. L. Warfford of Carthage and the Rev. Mr. Hancock of Robbins. Pall bearers were eight of his schoolmates. Mack Thomas, Wil liam John Graham, Maywood Bul lock, Albert Crissmaq, Edgar Xlingenschmidt, Wayland Thomas, Duncan Blevins and Bobby Evans. Jerry was a bright, lovable child and his sudden death came as a great shock not only to his family but to his schoolmates and friends of the family. The lad is survived by his pa rents; five sistqrs. Miss Doris Smith of Sanford, Mrs. Mack Cal- hahan of Vass, Mrs. Eugene Hardy, Nancy and Carol Smith of the home, and two young bothers, Billy and Paul. His grandparents and numerous other relatives sur vive, also. Dark Picture and Golden Hildt Lead Field in Feature Class for Pair Jumpers at Christmas Horse Show ANNUAL MEETING Tnree Fires Occur in Moore County During Holidays Three fires occurred in the county during the holidays, two in Carthage and one in Lakeview. Just after noon Monday the Old ham house in Lakeview, a 2-story frame structure recently purchas ed by Alex McKenzie, was des troyed. William Hopton and fam ily had been living there, but had moved most of their furniture away on Saturday. Monday night in Carthage a fire started from the lights on a Christmas tree in the living room of the John Baker home and burned window curtains, damag ed Venetian blinds, chairs, a rug and some of the gifts under the tree. Tuesday morning fire was dis covered* in the garage of W. D. Sabiston, Jr., in Carthage, where a colored boy who works on the place rooms. There was some dam age to the building from smoke, and the boy’s clothes were burn ed. TO THE AIR CORPS LADS North Carolina will not suffer from the ban placed on horse rac- (Continued on Page 4) Mrs. Emily Allen Elfreth’s poem, “To The Air Corps Lads,” which .was set to music by Mrs. Mary Lee Read, is again this year being played from December 16 through January 1 at the Grand Central Station, New York, by Mrs. Read, organist. The song was used daily during the holiday sea son last year and was well re ceived by the service men. BANK WILL CLOSE NEW YEAR'S DAY The Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Southern Pines, will be closed on next Monday, New Year’s Day. The annual meeting of the Southern Pines Library Asso ciation will be held at the Li brary at 5:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, January 2. for the election of officers and trus tees for 1945 and the transac tion of other business. Santa Claus Pays Visit to Hospital Patients, Workers Gifts and Music Add to Christmas Pleas ure at Annual Party A masterpiece of casting was achieved when Kenneth B. Trous- dell, of Southern Pines, consented to play Santa Claus for the an nual party at the Moore County Hospital on Christmas morning. Mr. Trousdell wore his fur-trim med suit as if he had been born to the part. eBaring gifts, he visit ed every patient and employee. You could almost hear his rein- aeer pawing snow on the roof. Pfc. Eddie Orgon, of Camp Mackall, played Christmas music on his accordian. He never got tired, and seemed to know all the special numbers that were re quested. Judge and Mrs. W. A. Way had sent their annual pres ent of orchids, and there were other flowers, candy, and toys for the children. Miss Laura Kelsey, of Southern Pines, headed the committee of the Hospital Auxiliary in charge of arrangements. Two mother- andrdaughter teams helped,—Mrs. M. G. Nichols, with Miss Pauline Nichols; and Mrs. John Trousdell, with Miss Densie Trousdell. Miss Ellen Bruton was marshal of the prbcessioon, assisted by Miss Bir- dilia Bair, dean of Nurse’s Aides. D. C. McGill, for Majiy Years a Vass Resident, Passes Mr. McGill Was Em ployed by Ihe Stale Nearly Half a Century Gymkhanaf Attracts Many Spectators to Local Country Club Mickey Walsh, Jr., riding Dark Picture, a two-year-old black gelding, and Carlyle Cameron on Golden Hildt, Sunday led a large field to capture the blue ribbon in the feature class for pair jump ers at the Christmas horse show and equestrian gymkhana at the Southern Pines Country Club, Claim Agent, owned by Lloyd Tate of Blowing Rock and Pine- hurst, with his daughter, Mary ■ Ann Tate, up, led a field of four teen jumpers to capture first place before a large crowd of spectators surrounding the course, in the class for open hunters run over the half-mile outside course. Claim Agent in ,a jump off with the bars set at five and one-half feet with Miss Tate up won first place in the class for open jump ers. Gun Cotton, owned by Mrs. W. O. Moss, and ridden by Capt. J. E. Mickling of Pope Field, was second in the class of fourteen jumpers, with Dark Picture, with young Walsh up, third. Miss Peggy Ewing riding Gold Star and Capt. Meckling riding Gun Cotton finished second in the class for pair jumpers. Mickey Walsh, Sr., riding Night Wing, and his daughter. Miss Hannah Walsh, riding Gold Star, ’ were third. Golden Wood, a chestnut mare, owned by Mrs. Allan Robson of East Orange, N. J., with Mrs. W. O. Moss up was second in the class for open hunters. Carlyle Cameron on Golden Hildt, a five- year-old gelding, finished third. Miss Ann Reynolds of Palm Beach and Blowing Rock riding Dixie Girl was winner of the blue ribbon in the class for Ladies Horsemanship. Peggy Ewing on Henry’s Dream was second and Hannah Walsh on Gold Star was third. Pvt. Clarence Buchanan, a par- itrooper from Canton, Ohio, won first place in the water race, a novelty event. Mary Ann Tate was second and Carlyle Cameron was third. Carlyle Cameron and Donald Scheipers finished first in the three legged race. Pvt. George Reed from Camp Mackall and William Carter were second. Miss Ann Reynolds and Petty Officer ^ Junebug Tate were third. Mrs. Margaret Thorne Smith of Millbrook, N. Y. judged. Mrs. V. B. Johnson of Harrisburg, Pa., presented the ribbons. Duncan C. McGill- 78, well known Vass resident, passed away at 5:30 Wednesday morning in Lee County Hospital, Sanford, where he had been receiving treatment for about four weeks. Funeral services were conduct ed at the Vass Presbyterian Church at 2:00 p. m. Thursday by the pastor, the Rev. C. M. Voyles, assisted by Raymond Spivey of Sanford, a student at Union Theo logical Seminary, Richmond. Bur ial was in Johnson’s Gcove Cem etery. Born September 15, 1866 in what is now known as the Lobelia section of Hoke Coxmty, Mr. Mc Gill was one of the nine children of Daniel and Annie Black Mc Gill, n(atives of Scotland, who were among the pioneer settlers of the community. He was married to Miss Jane Smith in 1903, and for many years they have resided in Vass. For almost half a century Mr. McGill was in the employ of the State of North Carolina, being connected with the highway de partment. He retired about three years ago. He was a charter member of the Vass Presbyterian Church, which he attended regu larly until his illness, and a mem ber 6f the Modern Woodmen. Mr. McGill is survived by his wfdow; two sons, T|Sgt. W. D. Mc Gill of Fort Jackson, S. C., and Duncan H. McGill of Vass; one daughter, Mrs. P. A. Wilson of Vass; five brothers, Daniel and Hugh McGill of Vass Route 2, John McGill of Enterprise, Ala., Angus McGill of McNeill, Miss., and Arch McGill of Maxton Route 1; three sisters. Misses Flora and Ann McGill of Vass Route 2 and Mrs. Bell Boggs of Vass, and two grandchildren, Duncan H. McGill, Jr., and Billy Bob McGill of Vass. Col. Montgomery Is Club Speaker Field Artillery Offi cer Gives Kiwanians History of Artillery BY HOWARD F. BURNS Colonel Robert O. Montgomery, a member of the Field Artillery Board, Fort Bragg, in an address to the Sandhills Kiwanis Club at its regular weekly meeting Wed- Inesday i|at the Sou|thern Pines Country Club, informed the Ki wanians that one of the most outstanding improvements made in artillery since World War I was in the mobility of our heavy guns and the big advancement that had been made in the com munication system, due to the perfection of the radio. He told the club that the 105 mm howit zer was now largely used by our Army in the place of the French 75. Under the present communi cation systen^L it is possible to put down a 500 gun barrage in a mat ter of just a few moments in the protection of ground troops. Con tinuing, he stated that artillery fire was responsible for about 70 per cent of the casualties in World War I. Colonel Montgomery, a speaker of wide experience, gave a brief history of artillery, stating it was a device used for hurling a mis sile at the enemy. It first came into use by King Phillip and his son, Alexander, in defense of ground troops. Thq powder gun came into use by the Germans in Italy in 1331. The cannon was made of wrought iron and brass and was a stationary gun. The gun was later mounted on a cart about 1776. The French later re organized the artillery and did (Continued on Page 4)
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