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TEN CENTL
Failure to Have
Dogs Vaccinated
Is a Misdemeanor
Rabies Situation
in Moore County,
'ontinues Alarming
the rabies situation in Moore
finty continues so alarming
__ 5t Dr. Wilicox, county health
officer, is calling attention to the
law relating to the vaccination
of dogs, which sets forth that any
person violating the law is guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon con-
yiction shall be fined not less
than $10 nor more than $50 and
or given ten to 30 days in jail at
the discretion of the judge. It is
the duty of officers to kill dogs
not vaccinated, he pointed out.
At present there are at least 15
persons in the county taking the
anti rabies treatment. Dr. Will-
cox reveals, and about that many
dogs have been found to be suf
fering from rabies. Three or fdur
pupils of the school at Cameron
have been bitten and are taking
the treatment. A man at West
End has within the last few days
been bitten and the dog has died.
Its head was sent to Raleigh, but
the report i^ not at present avail
able. Two dogs have died of rabies
at Veterinary Hospital. One be
came crazy, practically paralyzed,
and apparently blind before death
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REUNION OVERSEAS
An Editorial
BY STRUTHERS BURT
THE GOOD STEWARD
From Carthage, Sanford and Southern Pines, these six GI’s met j
at a North Carolina dinner in England. Left to right; back row, Paul'
C. Green, William Thompson, both of Carthage, and James A. Over-
ton of Sanford; front row, Carl G. Thompson, Jr., John R. (Jack)
Thomas, both of Southern Pines, and James L. Henson of Carthage.
pilot’s Foreign Correspondent
Writes of Pleasant Things in ETO
In This Case li's a
Dinner for Soldiers
Fronx the Carolines
Educo Club Meets
at Aberdeen With
Good Attendance
Every white school in the coun
ty except one was represented
at the regular meeting of the
Moore County Educo Club, -Which
.was held Thursday night of last
week in the Home Economics De
partment of the Aberdeen school,
with J. F. Sinclair of West End
presiding.
Plans for holding the annual
Moore County Basketball Tourna
ment at Pinehurst from Febru
ary 26 through March 2 were ap
proved, the drawings to be made
this week.
Paul Jernigan of Southern
Pines, who lived in China for
thirty years and who is now lo
cal chairman of United China Re
lief, spoke briefly, following an
introduction by Philip Weaver of
the Southern Pines Schools, and
offered publicity material on
China for use in the schools, an
offer which the superintendents
gladly accepted.
Following the delicious dinner
served by the Home Economics
Department the group went to
the gymnasium for a basketball
doubleheader between Aberdeen
and Robbins, in which the Aber
deen teams were the successful
contestants. Several members of
the Aberdeen School Board were
present at the meeting.-
By SlSgt. Carl G. Thompson. Jr.
An Eighth Air Force Bomber
Station, England—When a call
goes out to North and South Caro
linians for a reunion—there’s • al
most invariably ready response.
And when SjSgt. Jack Thomas
of Southern Pines pushed the
North and South Carolinia State
Night dinner held at the Ameri
can Red Cross Club recently, the
result was the biggest turnout
for a State Night that the club
has witnessed.
Many pairs or coipbinations of
old friends chatted over old times.
Fellows—enlisted men and offi
cers—^who didn’t know others
present at the dinner always man
aged to find mutual acquaint
ances to exchange gossip about.'
There was no formal program to
the affair. Its sole purpose was
to bring together a few of the
soldiers serving in this general
area for a dinner, perhaps a bit
of pubbing, and a “reunion.”
True, this reunion did lack the
fried chickens, barbecued pork,
cole slaw, hot American coffee,
sliced ham, biscuits, pies, cakes
and other usual edibles and drink
ables stacked, on the picnic table
at Old North State reunions. But
the English Red Cross women
fixed up a mighty fine meal on
British rations to serve the fel
lows, and general concensus was
that the State Night was as fine
as possible this far away from
the Tar Heel and Palmetto states.
Moore and Lee counties were
represented. There, I ran into
young James Henson from Car
thage who rode the same big
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DAMAGE ACTIONS
SETTLED IN COURT
In Moore County Superior
Court last week David J. Hobbs
of Aberdeen whose automobile
was struck by a bus near Cam
eron several months ago, was
awarded damages in the amount
of $10,875 against the Queen City
Corch Company of Charlotte, it
being found that the accident was
due to negligence on the part of
the defendants, the coach com
pany and Franklin A. Broome,
driver.
The Court approved comprom
ise settlements in which the Nor
folk Southern Railway Company
is to pay Ada Myrtle Dunn and
Grady Curtis Dunn $250 each as
a result of an automobile acci
dent near Spies.
Chm. P. Jernigan
Names Committee
On China Relief
13 Men Called for
Induction Feb. 28
Thirteen Moore County white
men will report for their induc
tion into the United States Army
at Fort Bragg on 'Wednesday, Feb.
28. Those receiving the call are:
Norfleet Adkins Pleasants,
Aberdeen; John W. Cameron, Jr.,
Cameron; Carmon Carl Strider,
Winifred Luck and Jackson Clin
ton Key, Carthage Routes; Lin-
ney Ray Williams, Manly; Pozy
Mae Branson, Pinebluff; Fred
Shields McDuffie, Bennie Charles
Spinks, Paul Gwyndlyn Tart and
Daniel Carl Duplap, all of Rob
bins; Vernon Paul Elkins, San
ford Route 3, and Winford
Thomas Parker, Vass.
Rotary Club Adds
2 Members; T. T.
Overton Honored
Virgil Johnston and G. M. Al-
spaugh were received into the
Southern Pines Rotary Club at
the weekly meeting held last Fri
day at the Southern Pines Coun
try Club with the president, the
Rev. Tucker G. Humphries, pre
siding. June Phillips, in a very
fine address, welcomed the new
membars.
Each week the club has as its
luncheon guest a boy from the
local high school, who has the dis
tinction* of being designated a
Junior Rotarian for the ensuing
week. Tyler Terry Overton, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Overton, was
the young guest at last week’s
meeting.
COL. R. McBRAYER
SPEAKS TO D. A. R.'s
Leonard Tufts—1870-1344
“And so he that had received
five talents came, and brought
other five talents, saying. Lord,
thou deliverest unto me five tal
ents; behold, I have gained be
sides them five talents more.
“His Lord said unto him. Well
done, thou good and faithful ser
vant; thou hast been faithful over
a few things, I will make thee
luler over many things; enter
thou into the joy of thy lord.”
Matthew. XXV. 20.
A good man has died; a gentle
one and a useful one. A man
known to all the Sandhills with
a curious intimacy; if not always
personally in the last few years,
while he has been ill, at least,
with an intimacy of reputation,
for he was so much a part of the
Sandhills, and the Sandhills were
so much a part of him that it is
difficult to think of them with
out him. And so the countryside
is sad, and the two towns of Sou
thern Pines and Aberdeen, and
his own village of Pinehurst,
which he created.
He was a fortunate man, for it
is not given to most men to do
so well, and so quietly, and so
steadily, what they set out to do,
and to see before them the results
of their intentions. I think there
can be no greater satisfaction
than to see something you have
planted bloom, an idea, a plan,
a tree, a garden, a field, where
there was little to begin with.
But then, not enough men real
ize the satisfactions that can be
obtained in this way, and of those
knowing, too few put their
glimpse of a vision into effect.
Leonard Tufts was alnaost a
perfect example of the good stew
ard. Left 5,000 acres of what at
the time was mostly scrub-pine
and sand, he turned it 'ntq one
of the comeliest small towns in
America, and the surrounding
acreage into one of this country’s
finest dairy farms. Had he merely
built a famous winter-resort, that
would have been something cred
itable in a business way. Had he
added to this resort, as he did,
a dairy farm, in a country which,
up to his coming, had been re
garded as almost impossible for
the raising of good stock, and
where milk and cream were
largely regarded as imported lux
uries, that would have been some
thing else, and creditable, too, in
a business way. But he did so
much more, and his dream was
much wider and deeper. It had
texture and a life of its own. It
was, in effect, an actual creation.
The town ^ -made, he made beau
tiful; the Business section as well
as the residence'^ection. And that
in itself is a feqt of imagination
in America, especially in the
South, where small town after
small town is distinguished, or,
perhaps one should say, obscene,
because of the contrast between
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Speaker Stresses
Value of Religion
in Peace Program
Kiwanis Committee
Chairmen Report on
Returned Veterans
The Rev. 'W. L. 'Warfford, pas
tor of the Baptist Church in Car
thage, in,an address to the Sand
hills Kiwanis. Club 'Wednesday
at the Southern Pines Country
Club, stated much had been done
in our post war planning, but we
had overlooked the most impof-
tant factor—:Religion. “It has a
vital place in the post-war pro
gram”, he said. “It is the only
force powerful enough to bring
about the change that will as-,
sure peace,” continuing, “You
have got to get to the ^source of
the trouble. This change can be
brought about only through edu
cation.”
In 1775, the text books in use
in the United States devoted 80
per cent to moral and religious
teachings. In 1900, this had fallen
to 5 per cent and in 1944 to 1 per
cent'. As a result, the crime level
is among boys of eighteen years
of age.
The speaker was introduced by
Leo Fuller of Pinehurst.
The club went on record in
support of H. B. No. 290, placing
the financial responsibility to do
with safety on the highways on
the shoulders of the drivers of
the automobile. It is a bill to el
iminate drunken and reckless
driving and to protect innocent
drivers and pedestrians, by in
surance or by other financial re
sponsibility.
John Ruggles, general chairman
of the Veteran’s Aid Committee,
reported to the club the work his
committee plans to do for dis
charged soldiers. (He introduced
“the vairious (local chairmen of
his committee, who made reports
on the towns of the county.
C. Seymour advised there
had been eleven discharged sol-
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Leonard Tufts of Pinehurst Dies
Following Illness of Several Weeks
Resort Owner Wide
ly Known for Work
as Cattle Breeder
HONOR ROLL TO BE
DEDICATED SUNDAY
LEONARD TUFTS
Large Class Negro
Women End Course
in Home Nursing
Group Presents Gift
to Teacher in Appre
ciation of Services
VISIT RELATIVES
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McDer
mott of Long Island, N. Y., stop
ped for an overnight visit with
the former’s brother, G. M. Mc
Dermott and family of Vass last
Friday en route to Orlando, Fla.,
where they will spent the remain
der of' the winter.
SMITH BABY DIES
Mr. and Mrs. James Smith, who
are located at a defense plant in
Virginia, brought their infant
daughter to Vass the first of the
week for burial Tuesday in John
son’s Grove Cemetery. The baby
was about two months old.
Paul Jernigan, local chairman
of United China Relief, has named
on his conjmittee N. L. Hodgkins,
who spent several years in China,
and Philip J. 'Weav^, superinten
dent of the Southern Pines
Schools. Mr. Jernigan announced
today that the American people
sent more than nine and one-half
million dollars to the aid of the
people of China in 1944. Since
June, 1943, United China Relief
has been a member agency of the
National War Fund,, Inc.
The report from national U.' C.
R. headquarters reveals that ad-*
ministrative costa were the ,low
est in the organization’s history,
3.7 per cent.
These funds make possible the
operation of a wide variety of
projects, including medical aid,
orphan care, child welfare,
maintenance of hospitals and
schools, refugee relief, trans
portation of medical supplies and
workers.
The renewed Japanese offen
sive in 1944 created a repetition
of mass migration of refugees, as
well as of schools, hospitals, etc.;
and all dvailable funds were
drdwn upon to help meet this
new disaster.
My. Jernigan quoted the fol
lowing observations made by Dr.
James L. McConaughty, U. C. R.
president, who visited China last
summer and fall;
■ “I wish all friends of China
could have shared with me the
first hand view of what Arherican
help means to the civilians of
China. Oyer there it is not a mat-
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Col. R. McBrayer, who has re
cently returned from the Euro
pean theatre of operations, gave
an informal talk on the war to
The Alfred Moore Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Rev
olution. Mrs. P. P. McCain of San
atorium, Col. McBrayer’s sister,
was hostess at the meeting, which
was held at the Southern Pines
Country Club. Following the pro
gram refreshments were served-
WIN 12 OUT OF 13
This Sunday morning at the
eleven o’clock service the Forum
of the Church of Wide Fellow
ship will present a beautiful
Honor Roll to the church. This
roll contains the names of 44 men
and women who have entered
the service from the Church of
Wide Fellowship. R. W- Tate,
president of the Forum, will
make the presentation and the
Honor Roll will be dedicated with
appropriate ceremony. The Rev.
Tucker Humphries, pastor of the
church, is most anxious that the
families of the men and women
in service be present, and he
takes this opportunity of extend
ing to them a very cordial invita
tion.
Lt. Commander G. C. Atteberry,
USNR, Is Awarded the Air Medal
Cameron girls are continuing
their winning streak in basket
ball.- They have played 13 games
in Moore County and won 12 of
them. They defeated Sanford at
the Cameron gym Tuesday night
33-27, and Carthage at Carthage
Friday the 16th by a score of 29-
22. At present the team has a
total of 437 points against 349 for
the combined teams they have
played this season.
This group got off to a late start
by not having any coach at the
beginning of the season, but Mrs.
A. F. Phillips, science teacher,
consented to take over the team
although she had never had any
coaching experience.
DR. LESTER WILL SPEAK
Dr. F. C. Lester, superintendent
of Congregational and Christian
Churches in North Carolina, will
be the speaker at the second in
a series of Lenten prayer meet
ings at the Church of Wide Fel
lowship Wednesday evening, Feb.
28, at 8:00 o’clock.
Lt. Commander G. C. Atte
berry, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs.
Strutners Burt of Southern Pines,
was awarded the Air Medal in a
ceremony at a Naval Air Station
in California on January 9, with
the following citation, signed by
Jonas H. Ingram;
UNITED STATES ATLANTIC
FLEET, Flagship of the Comman
der in Chief, 9 January, 1945—
The Commander in Chief, (United
States Atlantic Fleet, in the name
of the President of the United
States awards the Air Medal to
Lieutenant George Charles Atte
berry, United States Naval Re
serve.
CITATION — For meritorious
achievement while participating
in extensive aerial flights as pilot
of United States Navy twin en
gine bombers during the winter
of 1942-1943.
“Operating from newly estab
lished bases in the North Atlantic
and continuously confronted with
unfavorable weather conditions
Lieutenant' George C. Atteberry
conducted extensive antisubma
rine search and convoy' coverage
flights in the face of constant haz
ards due to icing, low visibility,
bli2aards, and high winds. Flying
his land type airplane on over
water patrols of several hours’du-
ration and ranging hundreds of
miles from his base he afforded
valuable convoys passing through
the area maximum protection
from the attacks of enemy subma
rines which had previously, be
cause of their immunity from air
attadk, operated effectively
against Allied shipping.
“Lieutenant George C. Atte-
berry’s courageous and skillful ac
complishment of many dangerous
missions contributed to the effec
tive neutralization of enemy sub
marine activity in the North At
lantic.”
Lt. Comdr. Atteberry enlisted
in the Navy in 1937, began flight
taining at Pensacola in 1938 and
won his wings and commission in
1939. He was attached to a Carib
bean patrol squadron for two
years after that and was at Porto
Rico, Guantanamo, Cuba, Panama
and Key West. After Pearl Har
bor, he was transferred to a pa
trol squadron which operated in
the North Atlantic. In Greenland,
he received a Letter of Commen
dation froih the C. O. of the At
lantic Fleet for his part in the
rescue of a crew from a B-17
which had been forced down on
the Greenland ice cap. In Feb
ruary, 1943, he was ordered to
Lake City, Fla., where he was an
instructor until July, 1944. This
was the first time he had had
shore duty since 1939. In July he
was ordered out West as the skip
per of a patrol bombing squadron
which is now in the Pacific.
He is the only son of Mr. and
Mrs. O. B. Attebeiry of Kansas
City, Mo., and was married to Miss
Julia Burt May 14, 1941 in the
Canal Zone.
BY MRS. J. B. SWEET
Shortly after sundown on
Thursday evening, the 15th of
February, one sitting in a parked
car near the West Southern Pines
School could have seen shadowy
figures coming from all direc
tions. Many of these were boys
and girls on their way to watch
a basketball game between West
Southern Pines and Pinehurst^
but the* lights from the little
model home and laboratory of
the Home Economics building
were shining to welcome women
of all ages who were gathering
to take their final examination
in a Red Cross Home Nursing
class.
The class was organized 14
weeks ago with a full quota.
Many who wished to join had
to be turned away at that time
and those who were forfunate.
enough to enroll have been faith
ful in attendance, diligent in their
work and loyal to their teacher,
Mrs. Edith McLeod,, Public
Health nurse. Mrs. McLeod has
come from Carthage each Thurs
day night to conduct this class.
Mrs. Lessie G. Brown, Moore
County chairman of Red Cross
Home Nursing Service, and other
friends of the class members were
present for the examination.
Each woman was asked a
searching question or given the
opportunity to demonstrate some
phase of home nursing. A bed
was made, hospital style. Then
a life-sized stockinette lady be
came a stiff but willing patient.
She was prepared and treated for
everything, mustard plasters
were mixed and applied to her
chest, hot stoops were wrung out
and applied to her aching joints,
she was bathed from h&ad to toe,
and all in a professional manner.
At the close Mrs. Alice Grady
on behalf of the class, presented
a beautiful vase and crystal plate
to Mrs. McLeod in grateful a^)-
preciation.
No one having the welfare of
this community at heart and see
ing the intelligent and efficient
way these women used the ma
terials at hand could help being
deeply moved and gratified, that
such emissaries were being sent
out to spread the gospel of good
health and to minister to the
sick.
Those who will receive the Red
Cross certificates are Mesdames
Mattie Bethea, Ada Harrington,
Hattie Lewis, Sally Gray,Izetta
Leslie, Nora Brown, Rosetta
York, Alice Grady, Pauline Fun
derburk and Stephenson and
Missese Gibson, McCall, Malette,
Bessie, 'Wilma and Mary Hasty, A.
B. Clark and Simmons.
Funeral services for Leonard
Tufts of Pinehurst, who passed
away in Moore County Hospital
Monday afternoon following an
illness of several weeks, were
held at 4:00 p. m. Wednesday in
the Pinehurst Community Church
with the pastor, the Rev. Roscoe
Prince, and the Rev. Dr. T. A.
Cheatham of the Village Chapel
iofficiating. Burial wias in MSt.
Hope Cemetery, Southern Pihes.
Flags in Pinehurst were flown
at half-mast until after the fun
eral, golf events were postponed,
and business houses were closed •
during the final rites as a trib
ute of respect to this outstanding
citizen who had done so much
for Pinehurst and the Sandhills-
The following biographical
sketch was prepared by Robert
E. Harlow, editor of The Pine
hurst Outlook:
Leonard Tufts was born at
Medford, Mass., June 30th, 1870,
son of James Walker Tufts and
Mary E. (Clough) Tufts. His an
cestors were New Englanders for
Imany generations.
He attended the Medford public
schools until 1885, and after at
tending Stone’s private school
and the Albert Hale school, en
tered the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology to study mechani
cal engineering. He left M. I. T. in
his last year to join the staff of
the American Soda Fountain
Company, Boston, of which his
father was president.
In 1895, James Tuf-ts, father of
Leonard 'Tufts, bought 5,000 acres
of Sandhills land in Moore Coun
ty, North Carolina, from the Page
■family of Aberdeen, for $5,000.00.
Pinehurst was established in
1895 and reached its fiftieth an
niversary this season. During the
entire history of the village it
has been under the direction of
a succession of members of the
Tufts family, James, Leonard and
Richard, father, son, and grand
son.
Leonard Tufts inherited an en
tire village when James Tufts
died in 1902, a legacy almost un
ique in American probate records.
Pinehurst now is a luxurious
sporting winter resort, but Leon
ard Tufts made it so. From 1902
until 1930, when he retired be
cause of illness, Leonard Tufts
developed the village of Pinehurst
into the outstanding golf resort of
America, a harness and riding
horse center and a pleasant place
to live.
Moved To Pinehurst
From 1902 until 1906, Mr. Tufts
retained his position as an ex
ecutive of the American Soda
Fountain Company and as di
rector of the extensive interests
in Pinehurst. Since the manage
ment of Pinehurst was plainly no
absentee’s job, in 1906 the fam
ily moved to Pinehurst and Mr.
Tufts entered with a wholeheart
ed spirit into being a resort man
and a good* citizen of North Car
olina.
To attract guests to Pinehurst
meant roads, food from improved
local farming and livestock,
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CHURCHES UNITE IN
SERVICE ON WORLD
DAY OF PRAYER
RED CROSS SUPERVISORS
WILL MEET NEXT MONDAY
Members of the various denom
inations in town met at Brown-
son Memorial Presbyterian
Church Friday afternoon for the
observance of World Day of
Prayer, an observance which has
spread until it now reaches into
more than fifty countries.
Mrs. Dan S. Ray, president of
the auxiliary of the hostess
church, welcomed the assembly
and led in the opening unison
prayer, after which the impres
sive program adopted by the
United Council of Church Wo
men was followed, with Mrs.
Tucker G- Humphries of the
Church of Wide Fellowship, Mrs.
Sam J. Erwin of the Baptist
Church, Mrs. Craighill Brown of,
Emmanuel Episcopal and Mrs..
George Thompson of the Presby
terian Church' as leaders of the
responsive readings. Mrs. T. K.
Gunter, Jr., was soloist, accom
panied by Mrs. Dan R. McNeill
at the piano. A freewill offering
for four missionary objectives was
made.
There will be a meeting of Red
Cross Supervisors Monday morn
ing, Feb. 26, at eleven o’clock in
the new Red Cross work room
next to Red Cross Headquarters.
There is a great deal of sewing to
be done for Red Cross and plans
to get the work imderway will
be made at this meeting. Women
who can sew are urged to, offer 1 Members of the American Le-
their services. gion Auxiliary sat in body.