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Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, May 18, 1945.
TEN PAGES TODAY
TEN CENTS
Chairman of Drive
Says: Fight Fires
of War With Bonds
E. C. Stevens Quotes
Lines Against War
In Seventh Loan Sale
E. C. Stevens, chairman of the
War Loan Drive Committee, re
ports that things look promising
for another record sale of bonds.
Workers are full of enthusiasm
and the bond-selling teams are or
ganized to get under way without
delay.
Asked by the Pilot for a state
ment, Mr. Stevens said he could
do no better than to quote some
lines against war that he had
read the other day. “The follow
ing domments anent war,” he
said, “are so well put that I quote
them without comment. The au
thor is Mr. Wilfred A. Peterson
and The Jacqua Company is the
copyright owner.”
The Pilot prints, below, the ar
ticle referred to, with thanks to
Chairman Stevens for bringing it
to our attention.
DIES OF WOUNDS
Buy, Baby Bunting
I HATE WAR
No one has been able to im
prove on the name that Sherman
gave to war. He called it hell.
Sherman was right, and that’s
why I hate war. I hate the blood
shed, the sorrow, the tears, the
pain, the hardship. I hate to see
young men march away, never to
return. I hate to see mothers
weep. I hate to see little children
without parents to love them. I
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Town Sends Check
Clears Bond Issue
The Town of Southern Pines
mailed a chack Monday to the
Chase National Bank, New York,
in the amount of $22,406.25 in
payment of semi-annual interest
and bonds due June 1, 1945.
Tw,fenty-thousand dollars was
in full payment of 6 percent P. I.
Bonds dated June 1, 1915. One
Thousand dollars was a payment
on 5 3-4 percent Water bonds 1929.
The interest payment was di
vided into three parts. Six hun
dred dollars was the final inter
est payment on the P. I. 6 percent
1915 bonds. Six Hundred and five
dollars was semiannual interest
payment on $22,000 5 1-2 Water
and Street Bonds, and two hun
dred and one dollars and twenty-
five cents was the semi-annual
interest payment on $7,000. 53 4
percent Water Bonds.
In paying in full the cost of
the public improvement bonds,
which had been issued in June
of 1915, the town clears ^ts books
of. the last issue of this type of
bond. This indebtedness, assum
ed at a' time when resort towns,
as contrasted with industrial
areas, were not looked upon as
a good investment, has cost the
town a steady drain of interest
payment at the rate of $1200.00
a year, for thirty years. The street
and sewage work for which the
bond issue was made was, at that
time, vital to the town’s welfare
and credit had to be obtained
even on such unfavorable terms.
Since that time.no further bonds
of this sort have been issued.
The town has now built up a good
credit and all bonds issued now
are serial bonds. These are paid
off every few years so that the
interest on the whole issue con
stantly decreases, effecting a ma
terial saving to the town finances.
High School Glee
Entertains Rotary
The High School Glee Club en
tertained at Friday’s regular
luncheon at the U. S- O. Club,
under the direction of Miss Bar
ber. The first song was “A
Prayer,” from the opera. Hansel
and Gretel sung by the girls’ cho
rus. This was followed by the
boys’ singing of “Down the Open
Road.” The final song “Rain in
the River,” by the entire glee
club, was the most popular num
ber. The program was in charge
of Harry Lee Brown who, at the
conclusion of the. singing, served
chocolate cake and ice cream to
the girls and boys of the Glee
Club.
Billie Warner was presented as
the club’s Junior Rotarian by
President Hjumphries , who also
had as his guests, Wilbur J. San
born, Rev. Thompson Davis and
Seaman T. K. Campbell, USN.
Pfc. Daniel D. Cameron,
' Jr., 21, who several days ago
was reported seriously
wounded while serving in the
Pacific area, died April 12,
according to a message from
the War Department receiv
ed Saturday by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Cameron
of Niagara, formerly of Sou
thern Pines. He was on the
island of Luzon.
Young Cameron enlisted
four years ago at Fort Bragg
and trained at Fort Jackson
before going overseas. He was
a member of the 71st Field-
Artilery, and was due to re
ceive his first furlough. He
attended Southern Pines and
Aberdeen schools.
Saturday, May 19th
To Be Children’s
Bond Drive Day
Every Child Urged
To Buy a Bond and
Help End the War
“Who’s afraid of the bad old
Japs?” is the song Walt Disney’s
Little Pigs are singing these dkys.
The famous cartoonist has. turn
ed his talent to selling bonds and
has designed a charming prize for
children who buy them. It is in
the form of a bond, complete with
official printing and blanks left
for, name and date. Around the
edge is a garland of Disney char
acters. The Sev.|n Dwarfs smile
and grump and sneeze and
chuckle their way across the top;
Mickey adorns one corn'er, Pluto,
Bambi and Pinocchio the others,
while along the sides the Little
Pigs dance and sing and Donald
squawks angrily. The “bond” is
well printed, the colors gay and
the whole effect delightful. It
should make a lovely decoration
in every child’s room.
And that is what these bonds
are meant for; for every child.
Last year for the first time a
Children’s Bond Day was held. It
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Swiss Visitor
Writes for Pilot
Anita Forrer, a contributor to
this week’s Pilot, has been the
guest of Mrs. J. H. Andrews of
Southern Pines for several weeks.
Coming to this country three
“years ago from her native Switz
erland, she has lived since then
in New Haven, near the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl A .Lohmann,
son-in-law and daughter of her
present hostess, in whose com
pany she came to Southern Pines-
Last fall Mrs. Forrer returned
to Switzerland and spent the win
ter months there, followed by sev
eral weeks in Paris, when her
passage back was delayed. Des
cribing conditions in Paris, Mrs.
Forrer said: “The cold was ter-'
rific. The only warm place was
the subway and we used to take
rides every day to get warm.
There was no heat in the houses,
most of the time, and we could
get only a small amount of fuel
for cooking. I slept, as did every
one else, in all the clothes I could
get on, including gloves.”
Mrs. Forrer’s brother-in-law is
Arnold Wolfers, professor of in
ternational relations at Yale and
one of the heads of the U. S.
School of Military Government at
Charlottesville, Va.
TYPHOID VACCINATION
In order to conserve gasoline
and time, no special typhoid clin
ic for Southern Pines is planned
for this summer, Mrs. Josephine
Boing of the Health Department
announced this week. However,
this service will be available at
the West Southern Pines clinic
house any Wednesday morning
between 10:00 and 11:00 o’clock,
the regular clinic hours, and any
resident of Southern Pines who
desires to do so may receive the
typhoid vaccine there. Any of
the vaccines for children are also
available at the regular clinic,
Mrs. Boing stated-
SUPERIOR COURT
A. term of Superior Court for
the trial of criminal cases will be
held in Carthage beginning next
Monday, May 21, with Judge H.
Hoyle Sink presiding. Civil court
will be held the following week.
“First in the Mighty Seventh!” George C. Young, Jr., has the
honour of adding that impressive title to his name. That is, if he
were in the adding mood. At present, at the age of fifteen months,
it is likely that though a patriot, clearly, of the highest degree,
George will leave adding to others.
George is the son of Captain and Mrs. Young, who live in the
Innes-Taylor house, and his father is a captain of Field Artillery at
Ft. Bragg. George has bought a war bond in every drive since he
was born, January 31, 1944.
Bessie Cameron Smith Retires
Temporarily as Pilot Editor
STORK. TAKE NOTICE y. Henry Allison Page, III, Killed
in Action While Serving in Pacific
Cow Slips Leon
A Hook
Chancing to meet Leon Cavi-
ness of Lakeview in town with
his hand bound up the Pilot Re
porter asked: How Come?
“Hit it,” said Leon. “On a cow’s
horn.”
“Huh?” huhhed the Pilot Re
porter. ‘You mean the cow’s horn
hit it, don’t you?”
“Migh^ be it did,” said Leon.
“She sure was one hornery cow.
Wouldn’t go the way I told her
to; wouldn’t listen to reason at
all; bossy as they come. So fin
ally I pushed.”
“What happened?”
“She stood there and I pushed
some more. The floor was slip
pery, I guess- Anyv/ay, next thing
I knew we were sitting down to
gether, she and I, looking at each
other.”
“But how did your HAND get
hurt?”
Search me,” said Mr. Caviness,
dourly. “I know it’s the last time
I’ll push .a cow around.”
Will Continue to
Devote Some Time
To the Paper
Fine Record Earns
Leave For Pottle
Lt. (jg) John F. Pottle, son of
Mrs. Frank B. Pottle and the late
Mr. Pottle of Southern Pines and
Jefferson, N- H., returned from
duty in the Pacific, several weeks
ago and has been spending his
leave with his mother.
Lt. Pottle has been a member
of the famous crew of the aircraft
carrier whose exploits in battle
have been dramatized by the
Navy in the film:“FightingLady”.
Attached to Air Group Three he
served as intelligence officer for
the planes in their raids against
Japanese bases in the Philippines,
Fofmosa, China, Okinawa, and
pther points of strategic impor
tance. The dangerous service cli
maxed in attacks upon the heart
of Japan itself.
Lt. Pottle, who is now twenty-
nine years old, attended the' Sou
thern. Pines High School, where
he captained the baseball team
his senior year. He was. chairman
of the Athletic Council and a
member of the student govern
ment while at Brown University,
from which he graduated in 1936.
He worked as an accountant from
that time until he was commis
sioned in May, 1943. He has two
brothers in the service: Lt. Rob
ert Pottle, now in the Philippines,
and George, who has recently re
turned from overseas.
Bessie Gameron Smith, who
succeeded Carl G. Thompson, Jr.
as editor of THE PILOT following
his entrance into the armed
forces on April 1, 1943, has resign
ed her pos’tion due to home re
sponsibilities, and Katharine
Boyd has assumed the editorship.
During Mrs. Smith’s two years
of service in this capacity, she
twice had the honor of receiving
in behalf of THE PILOT prizes
for general excellence awarded
by the North Carolina Press As
sociation at its annual mid-winter
institute and presented by the
Governor.
In the 1943 contest THE PILOT
won second place among papers
in its circulation classification in
the State, for which a certificate
was presented at Chapel Hll, and
in the 1944 competition it placed
first receiving a $25 war bond
and a certificate at the annual
dinner held at Duke University,
Durham.
Mrs. Boyd’s active interest in
the paper is not new. While it
was still under the management
of Nelson Hyde, she wrote occa
sional articles for THE PILOT and
contributed three editorials a
week to the Sandhills Daily News.
From the time her husband,
James Boyd, the novelist, pur
chased THE PILOT from Mr.
Hyde, she has taken much inter
est in the publication and has
contributed editorials and feature
articles from time to time, writ
ing practically all of the editor
ials for the past year. In addition
to her work with TH^ PILOT
one of her articles: “Heard About
Jackson Hole”, appeared in the
April issue of the Atlantic Month-
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Early in 1944, the E. C.
Stevens Agency established a
prize of a war bond to be giv
en to the first baby born to
any of their tenants after the
start of the War Bond Drive.
George Young Jr. was the
first winner in the 4th Drive..
In the 5th Drive several girls
just missed winning the bond,
arriving on the scene just too
late to make the grade. The '
winner of the 6th Drive was
Charles Q. Rodriquez, Jr., son
of Major and Mrs.. Rodriquez,
who live in the Swann house
on East Vermont Avenue.
Major Rodriguez, who has
' served as Provost Marshall of
Camp Mackall since the open
ing of the post, has recently
retired to civilian life.
The plan is still in effect
and a bond will again be the
' prize in the mighty 7th.
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New Town Board
Starts Serving
Southern Pines
Regular Meetings
Second Wednesday
Open to Public
The first meeting of the Board
of Town Commissioners was held
at the Town office on Wednesday
night. May 9th. The retiring
mayor, W. D. Matthews, swore
into office the newly elected
mayor, L. V. O’Callaghan, and
the commissioners, J. N. Steed,
Charles S. Patch, C. N. Page, and
Eugene C. Stevens. This is Mr.
Page’s first term as commissioner.
A. B. Patterson who was out of
town, will be sworn into office
shortly.
The mayor and board reap
pointed H. F. Burns, clerk-treas
urer; Mrs. J. H. Tilghman, tax
collector; C. E. Newton, chief of
police and R. T. Mills, water su
perintendent. The Citizens Bank
and Trust Company was re-des
ignated as depository for Town
funds, and W- D. Matthews was
appointed town attorney.
"rhe second Wednesday in each
month was designated as “regu
lar meeting night”, at 8 p. m. in
the office of the town clerk. These
town meetings are open to the cit
izens of Southern Pines and any
one who has any town matter
to discuss will be welcome to
attend.
The mayor appointed the fol
lowing committees:
Appropriations, E. C. Stevens,
chairman, J. N. Steed, Charles S.
Patch.
Auditing: Charles S. Patch,
chairman, E. C. Stevens, C. N.
Page.
Fire Department: A. B. Patter
son chairman, E C. Stevens, C.
N. Page.
Streets and Public Works: J. N.
Steed, chairman, A. B. Patterson,
C. N. Page.
Law and Order: C. N. Page,
chairman, E. C. Stevens.
Certain matters pertaining to
the Fire and Police Departments
were discussed and each matter
was referred to the proper com
mittee for inquiry and report.
A preliminary discussion on
Post War Plans was held, but re
ports from the Post War Planning
Committee were awaited be
fore further discussion.
KILLED IN ACTION
LT. HENRY A. PAGE, III
A Tribute
Circus at Southern Pines High School
Makes Hit with Big Audience Tuesday
GOOD "E" SALES
The Seventh War Loan
drive officially started in
Moogre Couitty on April 9L
Up to last week, total receipts
for the county were: $57,-
793.50. Of this amount $53,-
857.50 was in "E" Bonds.
by June Phillips
The circus has come and gone—
but it is the talk of the town. It
came back to Southern Pines
High School Tuesday Night, and
if advance publicity had made
claims of being the “Greatest
Show On Earth”, an overflow and
continuously applauding audience
would have unanimously called
such claims a gross understate
ment-
Artfully propped, and cleverly
staged the circus was complete
from the canvas strips overhead,
the toots and beeps of the steam
calliope coming from the loud
speaker, the wild west show,
clowns, tumbling and gymnastics,
cycling acts, the hurdy gurdy
man and his monkey, the raucous
barker, to the circus roustabouts
who with military precision re
moved stagings and settings as
act followed act with the precise
timing of the Big Top. Only miss
ing things were tan bark, hot
dogs, and pink lemonade. Ration
ing no doubt was the reason for
the omission.
Traditionally the performance
started with the Grand March,
in this case the Coronation Pro
cession led by Queens Carolyn
Chester, and Ann Stutz; Kings
Jerry Thompson, and Garland
Franklin Pierce followed by their
pages Judy Henry and George
Patterson, Jr. Judy Henry crown
ed their majesties, and then with
a nod from them, the lights dim
med, and when the Wild West act
came out, the “show was on!”
Booted and spurred, in cos
tumes typical of the Old West,
cowgirls and cowboys gathered
around the red campfire and ac
companied by the inevitable gui
tar and accordian sang songs of
the Western trail. Lovely voiced
Jean Olive, with Miss Barber at
the piano sang By the Waters of
Minnetonka. Lenora Smith, cute
and pretty, followed this swaying
and singing in the light of the
synthetic camp fire. Twilight on
the Trail, with background ac
companiment by the mixed cho
rus. Big Chief Rain-in-the-Face
rudely interrupted the singing of
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by Katharine Boyd
I remember sitting in my hus
band’s study when he was work
ing, and Loula came knocking at
the door: “Mr. Jim, young Mr.
Henry Page downstairs. He say:
if you’re busy, never mind.” But
my husband was already at the
head of the stairs: “Henry? Come
on up.”
And Heriry came up that time
and many other times. He would
come in very quietly always, not
because of shyness or self-con
sciousness but because he was
thinking; thinking and feeling, in
tensely. He would greet us with
that charming old-world formal
ity he had and sit down quietly.
And the grave little smile would
deepen, the sunny warmth of his
affectionate nature reaching out
to the friends who loved him.
And then would follow long
hours of talk about the things
they both loved: about books,
poetry, the political history he
was studying, about Prinoeton or
Oxford and Cambridge. And,
sooner or later, the talk swung
home to North Carolina. Henry
would tell' about camping and
canoeing on the Lumbee or tramp
ing the mountains around Ashe
ville. He had a whimsical sense of
humor, delighting in the quaint
or the absurd, old-time stories of
the country-side. Uncle Remus.
Simple in his tastes, disliking
show and cheapness, he was in
tensely democratic, winning
friends everywhere, of every sort.
Young Henry was a star. It is no
exaggeration to say- that. Even
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Young Aberdeen Man's
Career Was One of
Unusual Brilliance
Aberdeen Club
Sings for Kiwanis
The Aberdeen High School Glee
Club, under the direction of Miss
Rosalie Daniel, entertained the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club at its
regular weekly luncheon Wednes
day at the Aberdeen U. S. O. Club.
A feature of the program was
a solo by Peggy Pennington who
sang the leading part in “My
Heart At Thy Dear Voice” by
Sain-Saens. The program was as
follows: “God So Loved The
World”—by John Stainer,. “Lieb-
estraum”—by Franz Listz, “My
Lovely Annina”—by Rosario
Bourdon, “Greeting” — by
Johannes Brahmes, “Star Spang
led Banner”—Francis Scott Key.
Preceeding the musical pro
gram, President, A. L. Burney
and Paul Dana read telegrams
from President Ben Dean of Ki
wanis International dedicating
2,200 Kiwanis Clubs in this coun
try to the winning of the war.
BANK HOLIDAY
In celebration of the North Car
olina holiday of Mecklenburg In
dependence Day, the Citizens
Bank and Trust Company will be
closed on Monday, May 21st.
MUSIC RECITAL
Word has been received by his
family of the death in action of
Henry Allison Page, III, Lieuten
ant, U. S. N. R. ■
The telegram of notification
from the Navy Department, on
Monday, gave no details, recount
ing only the fact and adding that
when military safety would allow,
further details would be forward
ed.
Henry Allison Page, III, only
son of Henry Page, Jr., of Aber
deen and Mitchell Waddell Page
of New York, was born in Aber
deen October 19, 1913. He at
tended the Asheville School for
Boys, graduating in 1931. He en
tered Princeton that fall. In 1934
h6 was elected to Phi Beta Kappa
and in February of 1935 was
awarded the Pyne Prize as the
undergraduate who had accom
plished the most during his col
lege career. He graduated from
Princeton in 1935 with an A. B.
degree. Chosen to go to Oxford
as a Rhodes Scholar, he spent
the next two years there at Christ
Church College, attaining* the
highest honors in scholarship. Up
on his graduation, he returned to
America, was awarded a fellow
ship? at Harvard and studied there
for the next two years, special
izing in political science.
In February, 1941, he entered
the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
taking the short V-7 course. In
a class of .six hundred, he gradu
ated twentieth.
The first year of the war he
served on the mother-ship of a
destroyer squadron based in the
coastal waters of the western At
lantic. Later he became staff of
ficer on a destroyer and saw ac
tion at Casa Blanca and Oran;
his ship was one of those guard
ing President Roosevelt on the
historic journey to the Cairo Con
ference. Joining the British Home
Fleet, subsequently,, at Scapa
Flow, his destroyer took part in
many attempts to entice the Ger
man naval force to leave the
fjords of Norway and give battle.
In April, 1944, Lt. Page was
transferred to the staff of an ad
miral whose flagship, the heavy
cruiser Tuscaloosa, led one of
the naval task forces in the in
vasion of Normandy and took part
in further actions off the coast of
France.
Transferred to the Pacific area
in November, Lt. Page continued
his service as staff officer under
the same admiral, his ship being
part of the force including the
airplane carriers which have
played so vital a part in the ac
tions in the China Sea.
Lt. Page was recently trans
ferred, with the same duties, to
a battleship, on which he was
serving when lie met his death.
It is thought this may have oc
curred during an attack by Jap
anese suicide planes.
Lt. Page was the grandson of
the late Henry Page of Aberdeen
and the great-nephew of Robert
N. Page, former member of the
legislature, and of Walter Hines
Page, ambassador to Great Brit
ain during World War I. Besides
his parents, he is survived by a
sister, Mrs. Kitty Page Black-
more.
First Peaches from
West End Orchards
Mrs. R. W. Pleasants will pre
sent her music pupils in a recital
at Vass-Lakeview School Friday
evening. May 25, at 8:30. Every
one is invited.
Two growers in West End are
shipping their first peaches this
week. Mr. M. C. McDonald, Jr.,
shipped his first Mayflowers on
Monday, sending between twenty-
five and fifty baskets to the mar
ket. Mr. David H. Wilson was
close behind with peaches shipped
the following days. It was expect
ed that the week-end would see
several truckloads of the fruit
moving but of the county.
According to reports, damage
to the crop was light in this sec
tion, though recent heavy rains
caused a heavier “drop” than us
ual. Unless picked up ahd the or
chards kept clean, the drop will
encourage the .growth of worms
damaging to the fruit. Due to the
labor shortage it may be difficult
to keep the orchards cleaned up,
a fact which is causing some con
cern among the growers.
Dr. P. J. Chester, who owns ex
tensive orchards in the Aberdeen
section, reports good prospects for
a fine crop of Redbirds which
should be ready for shipment in
itwo or three weeks.