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VOLUME 25. NO. 6
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Southern Pinesi. North Carolina Friday, January 5, 1945.
TEN CENTS
Cherry Outlines
State Program
New Governor Takes
Oath and Delivers
Inaugural Address
RALEIGH, Jan. 4.—R. Gregg
Cherry, of Gastonia, lawyer, leg
islator and former soldier, today
took his oath of office as Gover
nor of North Carolina and de
livered an inaugural address that
to the general assembly. The leg
islative body, in joint session,
heard the address.
Speaking for an hour. Governor
Cherry presented a program of
outlined growth and development
for the State during the four
years when he will be N^^PCar-
olina’s chief executive. Enipha-
sis was given to matters of fin
ance, health, education, highways,
agriculture, welfare, labor and
the handling of veterans and their
affairs at the close of the pres
ent war.
Governor Cherry is the second
governor of the State to be in
augurated during wartime. Zeb
(Continued on Page 5)
AERIAL K VIGATOR
PROMOTED
Louise Morgan Is
Victim of Higl|vay
Accident Monday
13-Year-Old Pupil
of Carthage School
Runs In Path of Car
Louise Morgan, 13-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. T.
Morgan and a pupil of the Car
thage school, was killed instantly
Monday aft.ei^noon about eight
miles norf:h of Carthage when,
according to reports, she ran di-
rert.l;/
dri\ en
of the
The child was knocked ihtb the
ditch, her body badly brokeia.
Sheriff C. J. McDonald, w:ho
investigated the accident, said
(Continued on PagejB)
F-0 LOU I SCHEIPERS
Flight Offi^t Louis E. Schei-
pers, Jr., rect ed his wings as
an aerial na jator at Selman
Field, Monrcr^ La., Saturday,
December 2$^ Flight Officer
Scheipers, ao npaiiied by his
wife and littl ^udhter, Betsy,
arrived Christ. mJMy to spend
a 15-day leave ^^Bieir parents,
Mr. and Mrs. L^H;. Scheipers,
and Mr. and M^H E. Grover.
MAJOR LINWOOD KEITH
Linwood Keith, youngest son
of Mrs. W. H. Keith of Vass and
the late Mr. Keith, has been pro
moted to the rank of major in
the U. S. Army Air Corps. Major
Keith, who was commissioned
in May, 1942, has been in the Eu
ropean Theatre of oi|)erations for
more than two year^ serving as
pilot of a transport plane. He has
been awarded the Air Medal and
Distinguished Flying Cross. Major
Keith is a nephew of Mrs. J. _W.
Atkinson of Southern Pines and
Mrs. R. E. Patterson of Manly.
Moore
Cami
ty’s Quota in 1945 Polio
Has Been Set at $3890.00
Communifl
Sei at Meg
Pinehurst ^
las Are
I GOT HIM!!'
Say
TON BLUE
’s quota in the
.d Campaign has
by the State or-
neh^trst
90
Mrs. Dyer Begins
Duties as Home
Service Secretary
Red Cross Executive
Committee to Meet 2nd
Tuesday of Each Month
BY H. C
Moore Cou
1945 Polio F
been set at $3
ganizatipn.
ibil^ ■ 'At a'meetin,
on Tuesday
c£ifimunity
'throughout th
ity quotas
set as follows
Southern Pi
chaimr a,n$10
Aberdeen,
man, $500.
Carthage,
$500.
Robbins, Mi
son, chairma
Pinehurst,
(Continued on Page 8)
ded by
from
Immun-
were
Sutler,
Mrs. Margaret Dyer of Brook
lyn, N. Y., has entered upon her
duties as Home Service Secretary
of the Moore County Chapter of
the American Red Cross, filling
the vacancy caused by the resig-
nantion of Mrs. Lee Clark. She
is making her headquarters at the
Red Cross room in Southern Pines
and is residing at the Jefferson
Inn. Mrs. Dyer’s work will be for
the most part with service men
and their families.
Mrs. W. J. Kennedy, executive
secretary of the Moore County
Chapter, stated that Miss Leonora
Riggan was loaned by the Win
ston-Salem Red Cross Chapter,
and did the work of Home Ser
vice secretary for a week while
a permanent worker was being
located.
The Executive Committee of the
Moore County Chapter will meet
in the Southern Pines headquar
ters the second Tuesday in each
month at 7:30 p. m., and the Board
of Directors will meet quarterly
in February, May, August and No
vember, Mrs. Kennedy states.
REPAIRING STREET
The Town of Southern Pines
is resurfacing South Broad Street
from Massachusetts Avenue to U.
S. Highway 1 in the southern lim
its, this stretch having started to
crack badly. Broad Street, in ad
dition to being the main business
street of Southern Pines, is an
important connecting link be
tween Highways 1 and 2.
OUT OF HOSPITAL
James Sessoms, a member of
the Southern Pines police force,
returned to his home at Manly
last Friday after spending several
weeks in the Moore County Hos
pital, where he underwent a ser
ious operation. He is now getting
along well.
Toys From Ark
School Bring Joy
to Blind Babies
The following touching letter
was received * Monday by Mrs.
Millicent A. Hayes of The Ark
school from Helena, Countess of
Sefton, Br^ge House, Sefton
il, 17:
generous Friends
ichool who have
[y charming toys
'rite to say how
new interest your
Ing on Christmas
|e very sad little
in a Blind Babies’
lor mites sit or lie
Ithe floo|‘, where
Si safe, and when
pal is put gently
s, they feel it
|11 over, and cud-
especial y pleas-
[ittle tink ling bell
er here it is al
most impossiUe to g et such
toys, so you vho ha\ e made
these so beail.ifully (;an im
agine how 1 r4 Diced w hen the
English Spealkig. _TLnRon re
sponded to ihy appeal, and I
have been able to send off a
large box oil “safe” toys for
the helpless little ones.
Yours gratefully,
(Signed) Helena Sefton.
Park, Live
To all
in the
sent si|
over
much
gifts
morn
darken
Home
on mat
alone th
a dolly o
into their
wonderingl
die it to thi
ed if it has
or squeak!
First Lt. William Pye and his
tiger were the center of interest
when the above picture yvas snap
ped in India, with a group of na
tives gathered around. Lt. Pye is
a graduate of Southern Pines
High School, State College, and
Columbia University. He was in
ducted into the Army two years
ago and a year later was commis
sioned at Fort Benning, Ga. He
spent six months in Washington
lefore going overseas. His bro
ther James is a flight officer at
Big Springs, Texas.
Dr. M. G. Simpson
Passes Following
A Short Illness
Pennsylvanian Had
3een Annual Visitor
lere for 3 Winters
fr. Maxwell G. Simpson, 85,
'^h® suffered a stroke on Christ
ie* night at his home on Ver-
^t Avenue, Southern Pines,
^ed away in the Moore County
)ital Saturday. A brief ser-
was held at the home Tues-
,afternoon at 3:00 o’clock and
)ody was taken north, where
'al services were to be held
Ithe Second Presbyterian
Ich of Elizabeth, N. J., of
Dr. Simpson had been an
elda
SPECIAL ^RVICE
AT BAPTigr CHURCH
Honoring the spvice n.en who
have gone out frofn the First Bap
tist Church, So>^theci P’’''“=
special service
and a short messj
at 8:00 o’clock
January 7. Iti
soldier who i|
resented by
ily.
for forty years, and for
somj time the senior of fifteen
elde;
Boln October 21, 1859 in Parkes-
burg| Pa., Di^ Simpson’s career
one. At the
s he.
Kiwanis Officers
Are Installed At
Wednesday’s Meet
A. L. Burney Suc
ceeds C. J. McDon
ald As President
was 1 brilli;
of ni'let&
:rom LaFl
A. L: Burney of Aberdeen, new
ly elected president of the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club, was installed
into office following an introduc,-
tion by Lt. Governor Hector Mc-
Keithen of Fayetteville at Wed
nesday’s meeting. He succeeds
Sheriff Charles J. McDonald of
Carthage. W. B. Sabiston, Jr., of
Carthage is the new vice presi
dent and John M. Howarth of
Southern Pines was re-installed
as secretary-treasurer.
The new directors are: Dr. T.
A. Cheatham, John Taylor and
Paul Dana, of Pinehurst, J. Tal
bot Johnson of Aberdeen, N. L.
Hodgkins, John Ruggles and R. L.
Chandler, of Southern Pines.
J. Talbot Johnson, chairman,
Paul Dana, Leo Fuller of Pine-
hurst. and Judge L. T. Avery of
Southern Pines were named as
the program committee for the
first quarter. President Burney
announced a joint meeting of the
old and new boards of directors
for Thursday evening, January
4th, at the Southern Pines Coun
try Club. An announcement of
committee chairmen will be made
at the regular weekly meeting
next Wednesday.
Three New School
Buildings Included
in Post War Plans
Couniy Board Adopts
Tenialive Plans for
Negro School Houses
A discussion of plans for the
erection of three new buildings
for Negro schools featured the
regular meeting of the Moore
County School Board, which was
held last Friday afternoon in the
court house with County Superin
tendent H. Lee Thomas, F. D.
Farrell of Aberdeen, J. F. Taylor
of Pinehurst, L. B. McKeithen
of Cameron and W. S. Evans of
Robbins present.
Tentative plans were adopted
for buildings at Carthage, Aber
deen and Zion Grove, in the or
der named, as soon after the war
as finances will allow. The build
ings are to be of permanent ma
terial, perhaps brick backed up
with concrete or cinder blocks,
and are to have sixteen class
rooms, each, with auditorium, li
brary, office and such other rooms
as are necessary for a modern
school building.
Moore Co. Hospital
Is Again Placed
on Approved List
The American College of Sur
geons, in an announcement is
sued this week, again lists tljie
Moore County Hospital as ^a
fully approved institution.
The 27th annual survey c
ducted by the College shows
152 hospitals in the United Sta
and Canada which have met
standards required. To win
coveted approval a hospital m;
have a modern plant, a co:
tent governing board and ad
istrator, a well organized m
cal and surgical staff, effic
personnel, adequate facili;
comprehensive records,
spirit of humanitarian s
The North Caroliina
ium at. Sanatorium, ^
Hospita^Suiftrd
Ho
Post Theatre
,000 Fire
Firemen are shown as they battle a fire of undetermined origin,
which on Wednesday of last week damaged the Laurinburg-Maxton
Army Air Base theatre to the extent of some $10,000, depriving the
air base personnel of their regular motion picture entertainment
for the next few weeks. A formal investigation is under way to
determine the origin of the fire.
The blaze was discovered in a rest room, by a janitor, at 9:30
in the morning, and was reported at once by a civilian carpenter.
So quick was its spread that in the three minutes it took for the first
of the base fire department trucks to arrive the flames were coming
from the roof and threatening the projection room and its valuable
equipment.
Quick work by the civilian firemen, and by volunteers among
the onlooking military personnel, saved all of the office and projec
tion equipment, and the fire was under control before it reached
the stage and screen. Seats suffered some damage from water, and
reconstruction of the entire lobby end of the theatre will require
approximately three weeks.
In the meantime, free 16 mm military films are being shown in
the recreation hall and in the Enlisted Men’s Service Club. It is
hoped that 16 mm editions of Hollywood’s latest releases will soon be
made available for the entertainment of the base, while the repair
work is being rushed to completion.
Carthage Railroad
Sold at Auction
Van B. Sharp High
Bidder for Railroad;
Ross, for Motor Car
Many people gathered at the
court house door in Carthage
Tuesday noon for the sale at pub
lic auction/of the Moore Central
Railway property by W. B. Davis,
receiver, but apparently few of
the number aspired to be rail
road owners. Van B. Sharpe of the
Carthage Weaving Company was
high bidder for the property ex
clusive of a gasoline motor used in
pulling the cars, which was bid in
by Arthur Ross. The entire hold
ings sold for $7750, but the sale is
to remain open for at least ten
days and is subject to the approv
al of the Court. The railroad ex
tends from Carthcfge to Cameron.
Although this railroad has been
going from bad to worse for a
number of years, there was a time
when it played an important part
in meeting the transportation
needs not only of Carthage but
of the territory as far as Hallison,
ten miles away. In the early days
much lumber v/as hauled over this
(Continued on Page 5)
Boy Scout Court
of Honor Will Be
Held Here Jau. 8
The January Court of Honor
the Moore County Boy Scouts
bl be held at the Scout Hut in
tthern Pines next Monday
January 8, at 7:30 o’clock,
j^ns of Aberdeen, Carthage,
Pinehurst, Robbins, Sou
ses and Vass have active
3S which participate in
K Courts of Honor.
.is invited to attend
|ies and parents of
gd to attend regu-
ie their, sons in
mg activity. ’
WINS "V" AWARD
However many women
there may be who have not
realized "that there is a war
on," Mrs. Charles S. Patch of
Southern Pines is not includ
ed in the number. Mother of
two children in the service
and two still at home, Mrs.
Patch has found time since
graduating as a Nurse's Aide
in May, 1942, to put in two
thousand (2,000) hours nurs
ing in addition to running her
household. She is now wear
ing the "V" emblem given in
recognition of 2,000 hours'
service.
Each week she works at the
Camp Mackall Hospital one
day, and al the Moore County
Hospital two afternoons from
12.30 to 8:00 o'clock. She had
earned four stripes before get
ting her "V".
"I hope to be able to keep
it up as long as I am needed,"
says Mrs. Patch.
Charlie Picquet
Gets Recognition
C. W. Picquet of the Carolina
Theatres has received the fol
lowing citation, beautifully done
in black and gold, and signed by
Col. Charles F. H. Johnson and
Major General Irving J. PhilLip-
son:
“For wholehearted, patriotic de
votion to the cause of Army Em
ergency Relief, this Citation is
■awarded to Mr. C. W. Picquet of
(Continued on Page 8)
REFRIGERATION SCHOOL
Beginning on January 8 at 7:30
the War Manpower Commission
will conduct in Pinehurst, a. Re
frigeration Service ■ School for
persons interested i^^his tvpa
of work.
The school is uni
tion of Ed Veno am
in the school buili
day. Wediaesdav a:
It’s Time to List
Your Property for
Taxes; Don’t Delay
Failure to List in
January Carries a
Penalty; Local Dates
Tax listing for 1945 got under
way in Moore County on Tuesday
of this week, and all citizens are
urged to attend to this duty with
out delay. Property owners and
taxpayers are required to list dur
ing the month of January or pay
a penalty. Holdings are to be
listed as of January 1, and male
persons between the ages of 21
and 50 years must list for poll
tax. '
List takers for the various town
ships with their home addresses, ,
are as follows:
Carthage—S. C. Riddle, Car
thage, Route 3. , y—
Bensalem—Mrs. Nina C. Moore,
Biscoe, Route 1.
Sheffield—Mrs. Bessie Brooks,
Robbins.
Ritter—A. L. Poe, Hallison.
Deep River—James Campbell,
Carthage, Star Routq.
McNeill—Mrs. Dpn J. Blue,
Carthage, Route 3.
Sandhill—H. A. Gunter, Aber
deen.
Mineral Springs—C. F. Leavitt,
Carthage, Route 3.
Mrs. Blue will be in the City
Clerk’s office in Southern • Pines
from the 15th through the 19th
and from the 22nd through the
26th. Her complete schedule of
dates and listing places appears
in an advertisement in this is
sue.
Tqu^n’^2ndBmk--
BuildingP asses
to New Ownership
Grout Building, Er
ected in 1901, Sold
Gougers of Pinehurst
BY CHARLES MACAULEY
New Year’s Day of 1902 was
spent by the pioneers of the com
paratively new town of Southern
Pines inspecting their second
brick building, just completed.
For the second time in its long
history the structure passes to a
new owner, B. J. Simonds having
sold to Mr. and Mrs. Gouger of
Pinehurst.
Built by Charles B. Grout and
William Saunders in the Fall of
).901, the former opened therein
a feed and grain business which
he carried (on for tw!einty-five
years, in the meanwhile serving
as Mayor, Commissioner and
Bank President.
Aside from its legitimate busi
ness the store and its proprietor
became famous for its numerous
visitors who wanted to test their
weight on the scales to find out
if the Sandhill climate agreed
with them, and no matter how
many times they repeated, were
alwa^rs courteously told to “help
yourselves” and to step up to the
red hojt stove and get warm.
In 1926 the building was pur
chased by Mr. Simonds, who be
came noted for his iiAportatioii
of carload lots of New England
and Florida produce. In 1940 Miss
Allie McIntosh leased the shop
for the sale of antiques, and with
in the past few months the
Market, formerly occupying!
basement, has been using
street floor.
REPORTED KILLED
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