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Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday. January 19. 1945.
TEN CENTS
Final Rites For
Mrs. O’Callaghan
Are Held Monday
Beloved Southern
Pines Woman Was Ac
tive in Life of Town
POLIO VICTIM
After an illness of eighteen
months, Mrs. L. V. O’Callaghan,
52, highly estee’-’ed Southern
Pines woman, p led away in
Moore County Hospital last Fri
day morning. Funeral services
were held in St. Anthony s
Church at 10:00 o’clock Monday
morning with the Rev. F. J. Tait
officiating.
Mrs. O’Callaghan was a loyal
member of the American Legion
Auxiliary, Sandhills Post No. 134,
and the organization attended the
fpneral in a body and gave her
military honors at the graveside
according to the American Legion
Auxiliary committal service. Bur
ial was in Mount Hope Cemetery.
A native of the Jackson Springs
community, Mrs. O’Callaghan was
before marriage Miss Callie Ad-
ville Black, daughter of the late
William S. and Mary Ann Brown
Black. During her twenty-one
years’ residence in Southern Pines
she had been active in the work of
her church and civic organiza
tions, and the American Legion
Auxiliary. Especially did she en
joy her association with young
people, and friends of her sons
and daughter who visited the
home felt the radiance and
warmth of her friendship and soon
came to have a deep regard for
her.
Six young friends of the family
served as pall bearers; Bobby
Dunn, Clyde Dunn, Jr., Harold
Dutton, Gerald Dutton, Harold
. Morrisory Alex, Busick, Stanley
‘ Tobin, anid Charles Austin.
Mrs. O’Callaghan is survived
by her husband; Tour children,
all of whom were at home during
her last illness, Sgt. Joseph P.
O’Callaghan of Camp Wheeler,
Ga., Cpl. Leo. V. O’Callaghan, Jr.,
gunner on a bomber, now station
ed at Topeka, Kansas, John M.
O’Callaghan of the home, and
Mary O’Callaghan Hurst, now re
siding in Southern Pines while
her husband, Sgt. A. D. Hurst
of the Air Corps, is away; two
sisters, Mrs. Ethel Black of Pine-
hurst and Mrs. R. B. Hoddinott
of Springfield, Va., and one bro
ther, Otto Black of Carthage.
Young Wife Loses
Husband and Baby
Son in Brief Time
TINY BUT CUTE
Paul Flynn Dies of
Skull Fracture in
Fayetteville Friday
Pictured aPove are Martha Jean
Pigg, 5, and her father, T. B. Pigg,
of Aberdeen. Martha Jean was a
victim of the polio epidemic dur
ing the past summer. She was
stricken on September 9 and was
carried to the special emergency
hospital fpr infantile patients at
Hickory on September 13, where
. this picture was taken recently.
Martha Jean is making rapid pro
gress toward recovery and is ex
pected home soon.
Two Moore County
Towns Top Quotas
In Polio Campaign
Jackson Springs and
Pinebluff Lose No
Time in Raising Fund
U. N. C. Celebrates
150th Anniversary
of Its Opening
Distinguished Speak
ers Are On Program
Held in State Capitol
Two Moore County towns. Jack-
son Springs and Pinebluff, on
Monday went over their quotas in
the Polio Fund Drive, according
to an announcement by H. Clifton
Blue, Moore Polio Fund Chair
man. The campaign opened Sun
day.
The Rev. R. R. Ramsey is Jack-
son Springs chairman. He handed
to Mr. Blue Tuesday morning a
check for $100.00 to cover the
Jackson Springs quota, the
amount raised through Monday.
Mrs. E. F. Pickier, Pinebluff chair
man, reported $110.71 raised
through Monday to pass the Pine-
bluff’s quota of $100.00. Rev. Ram
sey and Mrs. Pickier both stated
that the people of their communi
ties responded splendidly to the
cause.
Chairmen in other communities
report satisfactory progress with
the campaign to raise funds to
Fight Infantile Paralysis. The
Moore County quota is $3890.
Paul Butler, Southern Pines
chairman, is this week getting
out letters to people in his terri
tory and> personal calls will be
made at the business houses. Vol
untary contributions will be
greatly appreciated.
Efforts to locate Paul Flynn, an
employee of the Grey Fox restau
rant in Pinehurst who had carried
his wife,.an expectant mother, to
the Moore County Hospital about
11:30 Thursday night and failed
to return the following morning,
ended with the identification of
a man who died in Fayetteville
Friday from a head injury sup
posedly sustained when he fell
or jumped from the railroad at
an underpass there.
Mrs. Flynn’s baby was born Fri
day morning at 10:00 o’clock and
an effort was made to contapt
the father, but with no success.
Knowing that Flynn had car
ried his wife to the hospital, fel
low workers at the Grey Fox
thought nothing of it when he
failed to report for duty Friday
so it was not until Friday night
when a nurse called that his dis
appearance was reported to the
police.
In a State paper Saturday ap
peared an account of the death
in Fayetteville Friday of an uni
dentified man, whose description
was given. Pinehurst Police Chief
Dees called the attention of the
Grey Fox management to the ar
ticle Saturday evening, and Miss
Rose of the staff went to Fayette
ville and identified the body as
that of Paul Flynn. Friends were
at a loss to explain the man’s
visit to Fayetteville at that time.
News of the death of her hus
band was broken to Mrs. Flynn,
about 9:30 Sunday morning by
her doctor, and a short time later
it was necessary to tell her that
her baby boy, too, had died, at
11:20 Sunday.
Mr. Flynn, a veteran of the
present war, and his wife came
to Pinehurst last October from
Pennsylvania, it is reported. He
is said to have had a heart ail
ment.
Bonnie June Appleton, whose
father is Sgt. Johnny C. Ap
pleton, paratrooper, is no or
dinary baby, as her record
proves, says the Charlotte Ob
server.
She was born at the Camp
Mackall base hospital, which
isn't a usual landing field for
storks. She weighs only four
pounds, but has a perfectly
formed body. Beautiful, the
doctor called it. And she has
one tooth.
It is a lower front tooth and
quite ornamental, but Bonnie
June doesn't show it off with
a smile yet. It shows only when
she yawns. She doesn't cry,-be
ing a baby of noticeable indivi
duality.
Mrs. Emma Nicholson of
Charlotte is the baby's grand
mother.
Court Confirms
Sale of Railroad
to Van B. Sharpe
New Owner Plans to
Rebuild Road; Grimm
Is General Manager
The sale of the Moore Central
Railroad to Van B. Sharpe, of the
Carthage Weaving Company, was
confirmed last Saturday by Judge
F. Donald Phillips at his cham
bers in Rockingham, and Mr.
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Hunters From Stonybrook Stables
Capture Top Events in Gymkhana at
Southern Pines Horse Show Grounds
AVIATION CADET
A. L. Burney Sells
Hardware Store
andAberdeenHome
J. C. Robbins and
Leroy. Harrington
Are the New Owners
' University of North Carolina
alumni of this section were inter
ested this week in the celebration
held in the State Capitol in Ra
leigh, of the 150th ariff^zersary of
the opening of the institution in
1795.
The ceremonies were held in
the Hall of the House of Repre
sentatives Monday night, Janu-
^ary-t5, aUfi^o’clock, with Lieut.-
Gov. L. Y. BaHentine, President
Pro-Tern of the Senate, and Rep
resentative Oscar Ribhardson,
Speaker of the House, pi^iding
jointly. Members of the G^eral
Assembly and as many guests
as could be accomodated were
' present.
The principal speakers were
Governor R. Gregg Cherry, Pres
ident Clarence K. Dykstra of the
University of Wisconsin, and
President Frank P. Graham of
the University of North Carolina.
Victor S. Bryant of Durham,
Chah-man of the Legislative Com
mission on the Sesquicentennial,
gave a brief address on the sig
nificance of 'the occasion, and
Dean of Administration Robert
B. House of the University at
Chapel Hill introduced President
Dykstra.
Pointing out that the University
of North Carolina was the first
state university in the nation to
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Cpl. Lawton Hatch
Missing in Action
A business transaction of wide
interest is the sale by A. L. Bur
ney of the Burney Hardware
Company’s store in Aberdeen to J.
C. Robbins and Leroy Harrington,
who also purchased the building
in which the store is located.
Mr. Harrington has been con
nected with the frrm as salesman
since 1928 and Mr. Robbins has
been devoting his full time to the
business since 1937. He went to
Aberdeen in 1933 as a member of
the school faculty and taught for
four years, working with Mr. Bur
ney in the summers. Both are
popular with the public and have
been able assistants to Mr. Bur
ney in developing the business
into one of the leading stores
of its kind in this section of the
State, drawing a large patronage
from a wide territory. The busi
ness will continue under the same
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Sharpe is going ahead with ajl
possible speed to get the road in
better condition. General satisfac
tion over the sale is evident in
Carthage as the people feel that
the road will again be a real as
set to the town.
“It is about as, bad as it could
be” was the new owner’s reply
to a question regarding the con
dition of the road.
Mr. Sharpe plans to ditch and
drain the roadbed completely and
to employ at once about 30 men
in taking up the 40-pound rails
and replacing them with 75-pound
ones. Already a sawmill is cut
ting ties.
He is rushing the work of re
pairing the very worst places
first so that he can institute a
one-round-trip-per-day schedule
to replace the present “about one
a week with the train on the
ground most of the time.” All of
the present personnel will be re-
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Many Spectators En
joy 1st Equestrian
Event of New Year
Red Cross audits
Work, Simply and
Clearly Explained
Red Cross Holds Special Meetings
to Discuss Disaster and War Funds
Representatives of
16 Chapters Meet at
Loc^l Country Club
NEWS FLASH!
• Cpl. LawlPn L. Hatch, son of
Mrs. J. M. Hatch of Sou
thern Pines, has ^een missing in
action in Germany §1*^9® Decem
ber 16, according to iifformation
received late last week by rt’
atives.
. Cpl. Hatch entered the Army at
Fort Bragg December 10, 1942. He
received his basic training at
Camp Croft, S. C., and was sta
tioned there until August 25,
1944, when he was transferred to
Camp McCoy, Wis., and from
there to Camp Atterbury, Ind.
He had been overseas since last
October 19. He was with the 106th
Infantry Division when they went
into Germany from Belgium.
His wife, the former Lucille
Frye of’ Carthage, is here with
Mrs. Hatch at present. Cpl. Hatch
has five brothers. Pvt. Elwood
Hatch, who is in the South Pacific
area, P. V., J. R. and J. M. Hatch,
of Southern Pines and J. J. Hatch
of Sanford. A sister, Mrs. Kimrey,
lives in Philadelphia, Pa.
Important Red Cross meetings
to discuss disaster and war fund
work were held at the Southern
Pines Country Club Monday and
Tuesday. Speakers included Stone
Crane, who is assistant director
of Disaster Service for the south
eastern area; Benjamin Stanton,
assistant regional director; A. B.
Murphy, assistant area manager,
and Charles Scaron, Jr., a senior
field representative.
Mr. Scaron, who landed with
troops in Normandy on D plus 6,
reviewed the work of the Red
Cross on the battle front, and in
teresting films were shown. Rep
resentatives of sixteen chapters
attended the Tuesday meeting at
Scaron spoke.
The Boaf^ Directors of Moore
ill meet the
News Flash! Cupid goes on
strike.
Through Tuesday noon, Jan
uary 15, no marriage license
had been issued in Moore Coun
ty since the New Year dawned.
Organization Is
Controlled by the
Members Themselves
A-C JAMES S. de BERRY
Aviation Cadet James S. de
Berry has completed his pre
flight training at Athens, Ga., and
is now spending three weeks’
leave in Southern Pines with his
mother, Mrs. Joseph G. deBerry,
before going to another naval air
station to continue his training.
“Jimmy”, as he is known to his
local friends, graduated from Sou
thern Pines High School with
the class of 1942.
State FBI Chief
Is Kiwanis Club’s
Luncheon Speaker
By Col. George P. Hawe$, Jr.
Temp. Chm. Moote Co. Chapter
American Red Cross
How many of the people who
compose the American Red Cross
really understand its organization
and what it really does or how it
is done? From observation over
a period of twelve months it is
found that a very small propor
tion of the citizens of this com
munity know much about it ex
cept in a vague sort of way. They
feel that the Red Cross somehow
helps people who are unfortunate
in times of trouble or disaster.
Therefore, they contribute be
cause they all have a latent de-
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Gives Brief Histo
ry of State Bureau
of Investigation
AT CAMP BLANDING
Pvt. Burton Brown, who was
inducted into the Army at Fort
Bragg a few days ago, has been
sent to Fort Blanding, Fla., for
his basic training.
County ChaK^'^?8(il^m<
first Monday in February?
Negro Seal Sale
Goes Well Beyond
Self-Set Quotd
Schools, Churches
and Clubs Unite in
Raising $1,114.19
Maurice Issues
Warning About
Tire, Gas Shortage
Thomas Creekmore, chief of the
North Carolina State Bureau of
Investigation, Raleigh, address
ing the Sandhill Kiwanis Club at
its regular weekly luncheon at
the Southern Pines Country Club
Wednesday, gave a brief history
of his organization and the work
it is doing in North Carolina.
Mr. Creekmore, a former at
torney, stated the first bureau of
this kind was created in the year
1871 for the purpose of protect
ing railroad property. In 1937 the
General Assembly of North Car
olina created the State Bureau
of Investigation. The funds to op
erate the bureau were obtained
from adding one dollar to the
cost of all criminal Oases in' the
state. Fifty cents of this amount
went for operating the bureau,
and the remaining fifty cents was
earmarked for the officer’s re-
,tirem(ent fund.
Fourteen persons make up the
Hunters from Stonybrook Sta
bles, owned by Mickey Walsh of
Southern Pines, Sunday captured
top events in the New Year’s
horse show at the Southern Pines
Country Club, before many spec
tators that crowded the ring.
“Gold Star”, a trim chestnut
gelding owned by Mr. Walsh and
brilliantly ridden by his daugji-
ter. Miss Kathleen Walsh, cap
tured first place in the feature
class for open jumpers, over
‘Sail Oh”, a five-year-old chest
nut gelding owned by Ann Can
non Reynolds of Palm Beach, Fla.,
with Junebug Tate up. “Little
Gold”, owned and ridden by Mr.
Walsh, was third in the field of
fourteen jumpers.
“Golden Wood”, a chestnut
mare owned by Mrs. Isabel Rob
son of East Orange, N. J., with
Mrs. W. O. Moss up, was winner
of the class for open hunters run
over a picturesque half-mile
hunting course of panel fences
and rail jumps. “Blanco Roho”
owned and ridden by Mrs. Robson,
finished second in the field of
thirteen entries. “Claim ^gent”,
owned by Lloyd Tate of Pii^hurst
and ridden by his daughter. Miss
Mary Ann Tate, was third.
“Sail On”, with 3|c Petty Offi
cer Junebug Tate in the saddle,
and “Claim Agent”, a bay geld
ing owned by Lloyd Tate and rid
den by Mary Ann Tate, led the
field to capture first place in the
class for pair jumpers. “Charles
ton”, a bay gelding entered by
Stoneybrook Stables, with Miss
Hannah Walsh up, and “Black
Giant”, another entry from
Stoneybrook Stables, with Miss
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FINE BAND CONCERT \
HAS SMALL ATTENDANCE ,
The 541st Parachute Infantry’
Regimental Band, an outstanding
ly fine musical organization from
Camp Mackall, gave a concert at
the local school auditorium Sun
day afternoon. The music was of
a high class, but the attendance
was disappointingly small, due
in part, perhaps, to the fact that
a gymkhana was in progress at
the Country Club.
At the regular January Negro
teachers’ meeting for Moore
County held in Carthage last
week, R. O. Taylor, principal of
Pinckney High School in Carth
age and Negro county chairman of
the Tuberculosis Christmas Seal
Sale, made his sale report. Keen
interest was displayed, as the Ne
gro Division had set its own quota
at $1,000. The amount actually
raised was $1,114.19.
“These figures speak for them
selves and make us feel that
Moore Coimty should be very
proud of the wonderful effort put
brth,” said Mrs. T. A. Cheatham
f Pinehurst, general county
airman.
[former years the Negro
eachers of the county act-
fcal chairmen. Two years
were joined by the Min-
,|liance, and this year the
•’omen’s Federation of
|hed to assume their part
Two Groups Called
to Fort Bragg for
Induction in Jan.
In spite of all the warnings S^ta^te Bureau /of Investigation.
Men of the department are sel
ected for their ability and their
■experienoe in the handling of
crime. The bureau does not take
the initiative in the handling of
cases in the State; the request
must CO mefrom the local or
county law enforcement agencies
or from the governor or the at
torney general of North Caro
lina.
In conclusion he cited one of
the State’s outstanding cases
solved by his bureau. This par
ticular case, he said, involved the
shipment of a truck load of tex
tile goods from Gastonia to a
Northern market. The truck was
en route to the North at night,
when two automobiles appeared
and halted it. The driver was re-
TWIN LIEUTENANTS
Lts. Catharine and Evelyn Ev
erett of Camp Butner, twin dau
ghters of Mrs. Clem Everett, are
spending a few days at their home
in Southern Pines.
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(Conti:
Taylor reported for
$835.24; Mrs. Edna
irted for the Federated
.00, and the Rev. J. R
te reported for the
tiued on Page 8)
that have been issued from Wash
ington in regard to the scarcity of
tires and gasoline, the general
public seems to be very little im
pressed with the real danger of
an acute shortage”, says Chair
man Maurice of the Moore Coun
ty Rationing Board. “The' great
majority of drivers and especially
taxicab drivers continue to drive
too fast, turn corners yecklessly,
and otherwise use gasoline and
tires wastefully, not to mention
wear and tear on cars. This week,
our Board was unable to grant
certificates for a truck hauling
lumber, as there are no heavy
tires to be rationed in this coun
ty. Other sizes may soon be as
scarce.
“The Board has had to ground
one taxicab in Southern Pines
for irregular use of gasoline by
the owner, and it is clear that fur
ther steps toward regulation wiU
have to be undertaken, unless
everyone wakes up to the serious
ness of the situation and volun
tarily conserves cars, gasoline and
tires. It is extremely' difficult for
any Rationing Board to accom
plish much without the loyal sup
port of everyone, and unless the
drivers themselves do something
.about it,, we may all be walking
before this war is over,” the
[chairman warns.
Nineteen young white men
from Moore County, one of whom,.,
Delamar Wells Mann, \ives in'
Southern Pines, were called to
Fort Bragg on January 15 for in
duction. The complete list follows:
Aberdeen— Edward Martin
Kenney.
Carthage and Routes—^Edgar
Woodrow Kiser, Raymond Guy,
William Marvin Crabtree, Arthur
Junior Reynolds, Joseph Floyd
Kiser, Thornton Dixon Adams,
William Make Nunnery, Paul
Wallace.
Eagle Springs Route 1—Foy Ed
ward Williams, John Earl Wil
liams.
Pinehurst—^William Glenn Mc-
Caskill.
Robbins and Routes—James
Charles Phillips, Herman Russell
Martindale.
Southern Pines—Delamar Wells
Mann.
Steeds Route 1—Jesse Lewis
Page, Jr., James Garland Hussey.
Vass—^Floyd Glover Patterson,
Garland Cameron Boggs.
Six colored men from the coun
ty were called to Fort Bragg on.
January 8 for induction;
Southern Pines—Harry Wood-
row Goins and Luther Jake Mc-
Kayhan.
Archie Hollingsworth, Aber
deen Route 1; Monroe Henry Ter- ,
ry. West End; Charles Lack Speas
Pinehurst; Eleo Edward Coving-
ton„ Adder.
moved from his truck and taken
to Greensboro. Later he managed
to get away and get back, only
to find that the tires had been
shot through and the truck burn
ed along with a valuable ship
ment of goods. Because of the
county authorities being limited
to crime committed in their par
ticular county, the State Bureau
of Investigation was called upon
to solve the mystery.
Mr. Creekmore then assigned
two of his men to this case and
it was only a matter of a short
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Honorary Members
Major General E. G. Chap
man, Leonard Tufls and Judge
W. A. Way were made honor
ary members of the Sandhills
Kiwanis Club at a recent meet
ing of the directors. Mr, Tufts
and Judge Way were charter
members when the club was or
ganized in December 1922 and
were very active during the
years that they were associat
ed with the organization.