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KEEP FAITH ^ \hMus—} WAR BONDS ^^*^r****★* * * Those Boys Need' VOLUME 25, NO. 29 So. Pines Holds Commencement At School Auditorium Class of Ten Win Honors & Awards Receive Diplomas With commencement exercises taking place the evenings of June 10, 11, and 12th, the Class of 1945 completes its final year at the Southern Pines High School. One of the smlallest in the recent his tory of the school, due to the change in the curriculum, from I an eleven to a twelve year course, the class is nevertheless outstand ing in the quality of its members. Sunday night at eight thirty, 1 the commencement sermon was I delivered by the Reverend R. E. Brown, of the Hay Street Mem orial Church of Fayetteville. The 1 service took place at the Church j of Wide Fellowship, local minis ters taking part. The Rev. Tucker G. Humphries gave the invoca tion, the Rev- F. Craighill Brown the scripture reading, and the Rev. S. J. Erwin the benediction. The Glee Club sang a Bach cho rale and one of the students, Jean Olive, sang “The Lord’s Prayer” by Malotte. The evening closed with the recessional: Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance”, play ed by Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins at the organ. Awards On Monday night. the Honors and Awards Exercises took place at the school auditorium. The American Legion’s yearly prizes were given, the Auxiliary’s Essay Prize going to Jane McCain and the Legion’s Citizenship Medal to Anne Field. The Junior Cham ber of Comnyerce presented a prize to AltoA Blue, Jr., as the student who had shown the great est improvement during his senior year. The Danforth Awards were then made. These<i^ awards' are yearly prizes donated by the Danforth Foundation, a national organization, to the boy and girl of the Senior class who have showh. the greatest ability in lead ership during the year. This year they were won by Lewis Hodg- (Continued on Page 5) Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday. June 15, 1945. Graduating Class of 1945 KILLED IN ITALY Above are the members of the graduating class of the Southern Pines High School. Reading from left to right they are: Back row: Mary Frances Willcox, Fred Hall, Jr., Lewis Hodgkins, John W. Neal, Jr., Margaret Ann Bush, Front row: Betty Ann McCue, Tyler Terry Overton, Jane Bradin, Robert C. Morrison, Anne Field. Community Work Is Aim of Clubs Baptist Choir To Sing Cantata Twenty voices comprising the Southern Pines First Baptist Church Choir will sing Frank L. Sealy’s “Thou, O God, Art Prais ed in Sion”, a three part chorus for women’s voices, at the regu lar Sunday evening worship ser vice, June 17. The entire service will be composed of music and scripture under the direction of Sgt. Ken Hurd of Camp Mackall, with Mrs. C. R. Mills at the organ. The Reverend Mr. Erwin, pastor, will preside. , In addition to the cantata, the choir will sing as a processional, “Holy, Holy, Holy,” and the well known hymn, “Fairest Lord Jesus”. Two anthems, “Lead Me, Lord” by Wesley, and “May Now Thy Spirit” will conclude the pro gram by the choir. The duet, “Hark, Hark, My Soul” by Ned- dlington will be sung by Jerry Masters Hurd, soprano, of Miami, i»nd Sgt. Ken Hurd, baritone. Members of the choir are: 1st Sopranos: Miss Carol Thomas, Mrs. Jerry Masters Hurd, Mrs. T. K. Gunter, Mrs. R. L. Chandler, Mrs. N. S. Kimball, Mrs. William Dale, Miss Mildred Witherspoon, Miss Margaret Gale, Mrs. Ann Morgan, Miss Gladys Cranfill, and Miss Attress Cran- fill. 2nd Sopranos: Mrs. A. Kelley, Mrs. W. E. Kivette, and Miss Mary Gale. Altos: Mrs. Bruce Lewis, Miss Jean Olive, Mrs. Robert, Bruce, Miss Louise Witherspoon, Miss Bonnie Cranfill, and Miss Dot' Hendrich. The public is cordially invited. There is no group of people with a greater multitude of duties than the rural homemakers of Moore County, yet they take time to assist with war work or with any program that will build a stronger and happier community. They have the good of the public at heart above all else. Several Home Demonstration clubs have reported, at a recent meeting, war work accomplished. The Jackson Springs club made 75 kits for the soldiers at Camp Mackall, since Christmas, and many carried kits home to finish. The Ml. "Holly Club cbiitributed $55.00 to the Red Cross; also $9.00 to the Cancer Fund. The Spring- field club decided to collect cross word puzzles for the wounded soldiers in hospitals. Plans were also started to make two quilts as a mipney making scheme, the proceeds to be used to buy war bonds for a future club house. The Stanton Hill club held a food sale at the home of Mrs. Ernest Bad gett, the club president: A total of $18.70 was cleared from the sale and will be .invested in war bonds, "the Eureka club heard an interesting talk by the president, Mrs. Z. V. Blue, on the impor tance of food to health. Mrs. Blue suggested that housewives should endeavor to make the table set ting attractive. This, she said, ^yould make home life more pleas ant and send the children away from home with a feeling of confi dence and well-being. The Red Cross drive was pre sented at every club meeting by community leaders and many mothers whose sons .were prison ers of war or reported missing urged support of this worthy cause. All the clubs, also, cooper ated with local agencies sponsor ing the used clothing drive, and approximjately 2000 pounds of (Continued on Page 5) Hodgkins Elected Lewis Hodgkins, of Southern Pines who has served as a mem ber of the Young People’s Service League of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina during the past year, has been elected secretary of the Thank Offering for the coming year. The League, on June 10, completed its annual three day convention at Camp Vade Mecum, On Sunday morning the new of ficers were installed by Bishop Penick who delivered the conven tion sermon. Major Abernethy Talks for Kiwanis The Sandhills Kiwanis Club held its regular weekly luncheon Wednesday at the Holly Inn in Pinehurst. Major T. J. Abernethy was the guest speaker. His sub ject dealt with the medical re search work being carried on by the Army. W. B. Sabiston of Carthage, County solicitor and vice presi dent of the Club, presided in the absence of A. L. Burney, presi dent. 'The speaker was introduc ed by E. C. Stevens. Major Abernethy, who was for merly a member of the staff of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti more, is at the head of the re search being conducted by the army in the field of respiratory diseases. This bureau is now lo cated in the Holly Inn, Pinehurst, where a number of Conscientious Objectors submit to the experi ments carried on by the army, as their contribution to the service of their country and humanity. Lloyd Clark Tells Rotarians About Stamp Collection Lloyd Clark gave a talk on his stamp collection which was of great interest to Rotarians and their visitors at the meeting held last Friday at the Southern Pines U. S. O- He was introduced by G. M. Alspaugh, program chair man. Bob Gray of Sanford was a visiting Rotarian, and a group of Carolina Power and Light Com pany employees from the Central Division, here for a two-day meeting, were luncheon guests. Mr. and Mrs. Joel Elin- chum of Carthagev Route 1< have received a message from the War Department stating that their son, Joel Flinchum. Jr„ was killed May 11 in an airplane crash in Italy. He was a graduate of Carthage High School and was at home on furlough shortly before going overseas. Legion Has Annual Meeting; Officers For 1945 Elected Delegates Chosen For Convention Represent Sandhills Community The Sandhills Post of the Amer ican Legion held its annual meet ing Wednesday night in the Le gion Hut in Southern Pines. The primary business of the occasion was the election of new officers and of delegates to represent the local post at the 1945 annual con vention. The newly elected post officials are as follows: Commander: Leon ard Van Fossen of Southern Pines; Vice Commanders: Tal- madge Shaw of Pinehurst, Virgil Clark of Southern Pines and Rob ert B. Donaldson of West End; Adjutant: Lloyd B. Woolley of Southern Pines; Finance Officer: Paul Dana of Pinehurst; Sergeant at Arms: W. Thomas Wilson of Manly; Chaplain: Lloyd B. Woolley of Southern Pines; His torian: R. E. W'icker of Pinehurst; Athletic Officer: J. F., Sinclair of West End; Americanism Officer: Struthers Burt of Southern Pines; Boys’ State Officer: Colin P. Os borne of Southern Pines; Boy Scout Officer: Capt. Des.Pl^nd of Southern Pines; Publicity Offi cer: Chester Williams of Pine hurst. Elected to serve as delegates to the convention were: John Hi Stephenson, (chairman of the del egation), . Leonard Van Fossen, and Chestei; Williams, (secretary of the delegation). The alternates were Paul Dana, John F. Sinclair, and Virgil Clark. The meeting was well attended, with members agreeing that it was one of the most important held in many years. Due to the present situation as regards re turning veterans the Legion is an ticipating a busy and useful year. It was held, also, that the Legion could play a large part in keep ing up civilian morale and in spurring on both servicemen and the home front to carry the, war against Japan to a speedy and successful conclusion. Full Town Board Meets for 3 Hours On Hottest Night Discusses Ridge Si. Change, Present Needs Post-War Projects At an important meeting of the Town Board of Southern Pines, held Wednesday night, some fif teen matters pertinent to the fu ture development of the town were brought up. Discussion was long and detailed with careful consideration given to the various points. The report of the plan ning committee was taken up and was accepted with thanks to the committee for their good work. Of the four or five projects sug gested, the commissioners voted to take up those of an urgent na ture having to do with necessary repairs to streets and sewage lines, with the less urgent mat ters set aside for future consid eration. The School Board submitted a report on the proposed enlarge ment of the school property. This, if carried through, would involve closing the block on Ridge Street between New York and Massach usetts' Avenues, in order to make room for the new buildings and playing fields under considera tion. The Commissioners went on record as favoring the plan, but felt that no definite action should be taken without full consulta tion with the property owners living along the block in question. It is planned to proceed with con sultations immediately. THE PILOT will carry a more complete report of the Commis sioners’ meeting next week. TEN CENTS Only 55 Percent of Moore County’s Overall War Bond Quota Is Reported Sold; “E” Bond Sales Are Lagging Southern Pines Has Exceeded Overall, But Needs E Buyers CULLOM RESIGNS The following statement has been issued by the presi dent of the Bank of Pine hurst: Richard Tufts: "At a meeting held at the Bank of Pinehurst on June 13, of the Board of Directors of the bank, the resignation, as a director, of Mr. F. Shelby Cullom, former executive head of the bank, was re ceived and accepted." Thus concludes Act 11. of the drama. Act 111. will doubtless give to an interest ed public the name of the di rector and manager who has been chosen to fill the vacan cy created by Mr. Cullom's resignation. OPA Doesn’t Get Boots Medlin, But The Law Steps In Local Man Admits Stealing Meat and Chickens To Sell Fourteen Colored Men Inducted at Fort Bragg Today Red Cross Rooms Closed For Present The Moore County Chapter of The American Red Cross has com pleted its war production quotas and the work rooms will be closed until another emergency. This was announced at the regular meeting of the executive com mittee held at Southern Pines, Tuesday night. Col. Percy Hawes, president of the Chapter, presid ed at the meeting. ADD TWO MORE Co. Board Reports A glance at a monthly report of the ’Welfare Board shows Moore County to be about the same as rural county in the state as to number and type of cases handl ed, and the amount of assistance given. Old Age Assistance grants were given to 296 regular recipients, who must be 65 years of age or over. The average grant was $11.75. Six of these cases were closed during the month, either from death, the termination of the need or transfer of the case to another county. Mloore County ranks 32nd in monthly grants (Continued on Page 5) For sale, 453 air-raid sirens. Slightly used and still in in good voice. Owner going out of the alarum and hulla baloo business offers them at your own figure. Convenient in family discussions of mil linery bills, wartime meals, red points, black-market prices, etc., when words faiL Just the thing for relieving the feelings. Every home should have one. Father Knickerbocker, City Hall, New York, N. Y. (Add two more. Father K, well tested in southern clime, guaranteed to deafen all vrith- in twenty miles. So. P. Town Bored.) Wacs Needed Army recruitment officers, Sgt. Monette and Cpl. Elsie Sutter- field, will be in Southern Pines on Monday and Tuesday to re cruit women for the W. A. C. They may be contacted at the Post Of fice. NEW EMPLOYEES Young Women Of C. P. & L. Hold Group Meetings During the past two weeks, group meetings of the women em ployees of the local division of the Carolina Power and Light Co. have been taking place in the headquarters of the division. Sou thern Pines. Young ladies from the towns of Asheboro, Troy, Siler City, Rockingham, Hamlet, San ford, Wadesboro and the local of fice have been assembling in groups of ten each, for three reg ular meetings. Discussion, covering a wide range of subjects on the routine procedures of the company, are held during the two day period. In the evening the members of the group have been entertained' by Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Chandler at their house. This is only one section of the type of group meetings carried on by the Carolina Power and Light Company with its employ ees, the company holding to the belief that full understanding of its problems by all employees is essential to that cooperation be tween employer and employee without which no company can hope for usccess in serving its public. Fourteen colored- men from Moore County have been called to report for induction at Fort Bragg Friday, June 15. They are to leave Carthage by bus at 10:00 a. m. The list includes Clarence Stan- back and Fred Boggins, of South ern Pines; Willie Guy Wall. Lev on Harrington and James Buddy Alford, of Pinehurst; Daniel Cur rie and Robert Lee Thompson, of Cameron, and Winston Walker of Route 1, Cameron; Cleve McMil lan of Addor; George Stella Man- ess of Robbins, Route 2; Jack Junior Brower of Carthage and Hubert Johnigins Dowd of Route 2, Carthage; - Henry Tyson of Aberdeen, and James Elijah Har grove of West End, Route 1. W. So. Pines Class Of 17 Graduates Reports on the results of last week’s bond selling show the E- bond sale still far behind expect ations. This type of bond, so much more effective toward the pur pose for which the Mighty Sev enth is being raised, must be sold in emergency quantities if the country is to meet the critically urgent call. Moore County overall figures show; $338,857.25 raised, which is 55 percent of the quota for the county. The E-borids show 44 per cent of the quota raised, or $133,- 658.75. Individual town reports show Southern Pines to be ahead, hav ing exceeded its quota by 32 per cent, in overall figures $226,- 372.50 Of these $89,050.00 are E- bonds. This amount being only 80 percent of the E-bond quota. Southern Pines will go on to try for the 'fuU sum in E-bonds. Pinehurst reports about $98,- 000.00 of its $140,000.00 quota raised, of which about $30,000.00 is in E-bonds. Two attractive young Moore County girls have been added to the Court House personnel within the past few days. Miss Vivian Shaw is working in the office of John Willcox. clerk of the Super ior Court, and Miss Faye Brewer is in Tax Collector W. T. Huntley’s office. On Friday night, June 8th, the Graduation exercises of the West Southern Pines High School took place. Seventeen students receiv ed diplomas at the close of a dig nified and interesting program in which the Glee Club took part. On the platform were; Dr. G. G. Herr, chairman of the School Board, Philip Weaver, princi pal of the Southern Pines School, J. T. Saunders, principal of the West Southern Pines School, P. R. Brown, the ex-principal and now head of the Morrison Train ing School, and J. W. Seabrook, head of the Fayetteville Teachers College, who was the principal speaker. The two undergraduate speakers were Naomi Barenette Brown, salutatorian, and Mary Doris McLean, valedictorian. The graduating class included, besides the above: Orilla Gay, Walter Lee Funderburk, Eva Lee Martin, Marie C. Mclver, Ber nice F. Caldwell, Thorrijasenia Lois King, Walter Harrison Gray, (Chester Floyd Goins, John Allen Jr., Wiletha Mae Marsh, Bernice J. Ross, Addie Mae Livingstone, Helen Elizabeth Medlin, Coretha A. Oats, Mabel R. Walden. James Harold “Boots” Medlin, colored, of Southern Pines, might possibly be charged with black marketing, but no one could right ly accuse him of selling at high er than ceiling prices. According to his own story to The Law, he traded a ham and a shoulder of meat for one quart of bootleg liquor, and sold three hens at half a dollar each, low cost of production being the secret of his being able to undersell his com petitors. Six hens were stolen from the chicken coop of Beatrice Broad way in West Southern Pines a re cent Saturday night. Sunday morning the owner found three of them on the, sidewalk, their necks broken. She notified the local police department and in due tinfe '“Boots” Medlin was taken into custody. “Boots” finally told the whole story. According to officers, he said that he first went to the coop about midnight and took three hens, which he went out and, sold at fifty cents each. Later the same night he returned for three more, but just as he reach ed the sidewalk an automobile approached and he dropped the chickens, whose possible squawks he had already silenced as a pre cautionary measure. There was another larceny case which had never been solved, one in which a shoulder and a ham of meat had been' stolen from Will Morrison, also of,West Southern Pines, so Medlin was questioned as to his knowledge of this- Again he told all. He was boarding with Morrison at that time, which was last January. The elderly man went to the spring to get some water and'while he was gone Med lin took the meat from a box and (Continued on Page 8) False Report On Fire At Vass Gets Many On The Run Not Gas Truck, But Gas Barrel Blazes; SP Firemen Answer False information in regard to a fire in Vass Mionday night re sulted in quite a bit of excite ment and in a hurried trip for the Southern Pines Fire Depart ment, which was called at 10:00 o’clock for aid. The excited person who turned in the alarm at Vass is said to have reported that the oil truck of A. M- Cameron, Esso distrib utor, was burning, endangering the home of J. J. Parker, driver, who lives on Union Church Road about a mile from town. In a matter of minutes a long procession of cars dashed to the Parker home, where there was no sign of fire. They sped back to town and it was soon learned that the fire was a mile farther up the same road, where a 45-gallon bar rel of gasoline was burning on the premises of Archie Parker. The Southern Pines truck went to the scene, but it was not found necessary to use any chemicals as most of the gasoline had burned and no buildings were threatened. Mr. Parker, who operates a tractor on his farm, had the barrel of gas under a tree some distance from.the buildings. One of his sons is reported to have gone out with a lantern to draw gasoline. LOCAL BOY WINS MEAT INSPECTION A Federal Meat Inspector has arranged to be in Carthage every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, beginning June 7, 194.5. Any Farm Slaughterer wishing to have his meat inspected may leave his name with the War Price and Ra tioning Board. DAWSON TAKES NEW WORK A. C. Dawson, principal of the Southern Pmes School, has ac cepted a position for the summer with the U. S. Public Health Ser vice as area engineer of Malaria Control in War Areas, Fayette ville, 'Whiteville, Laurinburg, Hamlet, Rockingham, Aberdeen and Southern Pines are in his territory, and he will continue to live here. He assumed his new duties Monday. Not long ago a citizen of Southern Pines, of tall and dignified mien, was walk ing across the street. A car driven by an army captain whizzed in under his coat- (tails, practically boosting him into the air. No whit flus tered, the citizen stood aside while the car whirled into a pearking space and hit the curb a resounding blow. The citizen looked up to meet a glaring military eye. "You'd better move faster," barked the captain. "I just about hit you." "That so?" said the local citizen. "You just about hit the curb, Joo, didi^ltl you? You know if you pull back a little and take another run at it, say get her up to about fifty this time, you might go right over it!" Hopefully the citizen wait ed, but discretion was the better part of the captain's valor. With one dreadful mut ter he flung out of his car and dove for shelter in the near- "As you whre, Capftain!" mumtured the citizeoa, and ambled happily on his way. THAYER BUYS HOME The Misses Margaret and Flora McQueen have sold, through A. S. Newcomb of the E. C. Stevens Agency, their bungalow at 26 S. May street to Paul Thayer of Carlisle, Pa. The Misses McQueen occupied this house several years until they moved to Dunn, N. C., to be with their brother. Dr. Angus Mc Queen, pastor of the Presbyterian Church there. Mr. and Mrs. Thayer will take possession in September when they will come here to live per manently. Mr. Thayer, a retired orchdkdist, is this summer engag ed in experimental work at the Pennsylvania State College Fruit Research Laboratory near Gettys burg, Pa. McQueens return home A pleasant caller at THE PI LOT office Wednesday was Moore County’s own John R. Mc Queen, who for several years has been engaged in the lumber busi ness at Fairmont. The labor sit uation became so bad that Mr. McQueen was unable to continue operations, and he knew that it would not improve until after next fall’s tobacco crop money was spent, he said, so he and Mrs. McQueen, the former Miss Annie McNeill, have returned to the McNeill home in Lakeview for the summer. Mrs. McQueen has not been well for some time.
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