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J “KEEP FAITH \hybuyi^g\ WAR BONDS VOLUME 25. NO. 40 ********* *„_* * * Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday. August 31. 1945. TEN CENTS Three Proposals for Operation Of Knollwood Received by Committee Hearing Held This Morning to Choose Best Proposition Tiiree proposals for ' the oper ation of Knollwood Airport had been filed with Howard Burns at the office of City Clerk in Sou thern Pines, yesterday, all indi cating the possibility of estab lishing regular service between Knollwood and principal eastern cities in time for the opening of the fall season. Other proposals may be filed up until 10 o’clock this morning when thfe airport committee hearing will be held at the courthouse in Car thage. The committee, anticipating that tf' army will release Knoll wood shortly, announced last week that they would accept proposals for the operation of the field. One offer came from Lt. Thomas Mather Roberts,, super visor of Knollwood under army jurisdiction, and Sgt. Benjamin Albert Gilliland, who has been chief clerk for the administration of Knollwood Field since the army assumed control. Another proposal was made by three Sandhill residents, Gordon Brown and Harold Bachman of Southern Pines and Carl Brad shaw of Pinehurst. who propose to establish an excellent repair service at the field as well as a transport field. The name of the final applicant was not revealed although it is known that he is a veteran army flyer and an officer in the army air force. His offer is reported the largest, momentarily speak ing, but the committee will con sider which proposal will reap the greatest benefits for Southern Pines and Pinehurst. All applicants propose to oper ate the- field to the best advan tage, and in full cooperation with Southern .Pines and Pinehurst. They all have adequate planes at hand or can obtain them, along with mechanics and experienced flyers, most of them army vet- Mfs. Clara Scott Dies at Home Here Mrs. Clara A. Scott, 78,, widow of Royal R. Scott, died Monday at 9:20 p. m. at her home on West Broad Street, following an ill ness which had kept her confin- ,ed for eight months. Mrs. Scott fell at her home the first of January of this year, breaking a hip, an injury from which she was recovering when she suffered minor strokes. Death was immediately attribut ed to pneumonia. Brief funeral services were held at 11 a. m., Tuesday at the Scott home, where she had lived for the past 20 years. The Rev. Sarh J, Erwin, pas tor of the First Baptist Church, officiated. Services will also be held this afternoon in Canandaigua, N. Y., where burial will take place. Born in Canandaigua on Au- ril 17, 1867, the daughter of Hi- (Continued on Page 8) TOBACCO Deliveries have slackened some what on Eastern North Carolina flue-cured tobacco markets Wed nesday, but sales continued ex tremely heavy under a very steady market, the federalstate crop reporting service said. Market officials said however, that a continued slowing up of both grading and deliveries might solve the congested situation in redrying plants without the nec essity of a market holiday. Ap peals have been made by offi cials of the Tobacco Association of the United States and the Bright Leaf Warehouse associa tion for a general slow-down of leaf offerings. Markets in the Middle Belt are scheduled to open Sept. 11, and a fine season is expected. ATTENTION! The long-a-waited paper collection day -will be next Wednesday. Paul Butler, local chairman of the Salvage Com mittee. announced yesterday, advising citizens to begin right no-w to tie up scrap pa per bundles for the Boy Scout collectors. The Scouts begin at 9 a. m.. so give them a good day's ■work ■with stacks of paper on the curb in front of your house. 13th Air Division Will Co To Bragg Will Not Be Garri soned at Mackall as Previously Announced The 13th Division will be gar risoned at Fort Bragg instead of Camp Mackall as previously an nounced. Fort Bragg authorities revealed this week. The advance detachment of the 13th is expected to arrive around September 20,,with the main body of troops arriving October 1. The entire division is at present in the United States on leave. The following troops will come to Camp Mackall, however, offi cials there announced yesterday: 464th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion; Anti-tank Company of the 194th Glider Infantry; Com pany C of the 139th Airborne Engineers aBttalion; and the first platoon of the 224th Airborne Medics. Roseland Lad, 11, Victim of Tragedy James Clifton Stancill, 11, of the Roseland Community near Aber deen was found hanging by a rope under a shed to the barn on the Stancil farm last Friday after noon, with an overturned barrel nearby. The lad’s mother discov ered the body, which was hanging with the feet only a few inches from the ground. hTe' child was still warm and was rushed to the Moore County Hospital, but was ponounced dead upon arrival. A coroner’s inquest was not deem ed necessary as it was evident that the child was alone at the time of the tragic happening. Funeral services were held from the home Monday morning and the body was taken to Wilson for burial. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton S. Stancil of Aberdeen; a brother, Joel; a sis ter, Mary; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Woodard of Bai ley, Route 1, and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stancil of Aberdeen. Local Rotarians Haye Distinguished Guest Right Rev. Monsignor' James Gilsenan, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Nazareth, Roanoke, Va., was a distinguished visitor at the Rotary Club luncheon Friday at the USO Club. In the absence of the president, Virgil Clark, Vice President Mor ris Johnson presided over the meeting. Monsignor Gilsenan, whose title was conferred by the Pope for an extraordinary service, is a member of the Roanoke Rotary Club. Other guests attending the luncheon were; Walter Kelly, di rector of the local USO; Lyle D. McDonald, PM l|c; and Pvt. Wil liam Scott Gray of Raleigh, re cently liberated from a German POW camp, who related a few of his experiences at the luncheon. Seaman Campbell in Gotham's Celebration EPISCOPAL CHURCH RESUMES SERVICES Fit and enthusiastic after a va cation on Cape Cod, the Rev. F. Craighill Brown stopped in at The Pilot office Wednesday to an nounce that services’’ would be resumed at Emmanuel Episco|>al Church, of which he is Rector, Sunday, Sept. 2. The schedule appears elsewhere in this issue. Word of another local person who participated in Gotham’s Victory celebration two Tuesdays ago has reached the Pilot Office in the report that Seaman T. K. Campbell, United States Navy, was on Times Square that even ing. T. K., son of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Campbell of Southern Pines, who is stationed on an LST, was dock ed in the New York harbor that memorable week and spent seven days celebrating the war’s end with New Yorkers. Chance of Modern Railroad Station Under Discussion Mayor and Super intendent Stone Exchange Letters The unexpected end to the war in the Pacific has increased opti mistic speculation that has been going on here for some time con cerning the probability of the Seaboard Air Line Railway erect ing a modern station in Southern Pines. ^ When the post-war world was dinner-table conversation along with American naval strategy in the Pacific, local townspeople also discussed the new passenger sta tion that Southern Pines hoped would come with that post-war world. The realization that the first years after the war would bring vacation-starved business men in droves to the Sandhills served to increase the local de sire for an attractive station. The present depot was built in 1899, some 46 years ago, and, except for infrequent repairs, it has had no improvements since that time. Mayor L. V. O’Cal laghan, acting in behalf of the town, recently wrote R. M. Stone, superintendent of the Seaboard (Continued on Page 5) Plans for County Freezer Projeet Progressing Well Promoters Set Our To Rent 300 Lockers Immediately at $15 Finances, management and a suitable location for the propos ed Moore County freezer-locker plant to be located in Carthage have been arranged, but before beginning the actual construction, an effort is being made to secure 300 locker renters at an annual fee of $15 each. If this goal is reached, it is planned to build a 500-locker .plant to take care of the demand that the promoters feel is sure to follow. The project is meeting with en thusiastic response because of the many advantages offered. In ad dition to making out-of-season fruits, vegetables and meats avail able with their freshness sealed in, freezer-locker service will make it possible to buy foods in large quantities when they are cheapest and preserve them for future use, the promoters point out. Otis and John Baker will be managers of the plant, which is a county-wide project sponsored by the Carthage Rotary Club and the Moore County Home and Farm Agencies. Seaboard Freight Rips Six Cars, Derails Five in Saturday Wreck ^liJffMiOML.ill -lantfShf ,4.' ^ Lloyd L. Woolley Gets Promotion Is Made Superinten dent of C. P. & L.'s Central Division Another Alligator? Another big alligator story seemed about to break in Aberdeen Monday when Jim Thomas, colored, reported see ■ ing what would have been the second alligator of the sea son at Aberdeen Lake. Those called to the scene failed to see the reptile, but some say they did see wherd "some thing" had dragged across the spillway. Could it have been a turtle? Notre Dame Academy Opens September 10 The grade school and high school department of Notre Dame Academy will open for the fall term on Monday, September 10, and the kindergarten on Monday, October 1, according to an an nouncement from the school this week. The Academy, conducted by the Sisters of Notre Dame, is accred ited by the State Department of Public Instruction. College pre paratory and general high school subjects are included in the acad emic course, with private lessons in piano, violin, and the cello of fered by the music department. Graded courses in the theory of music supplement instruction all pupils taking instrumental music receive. Parents and prospective pupils are invited to visit the school, which is now open for registra tion for the fall term. The school bus will make the usual route to Southern Pines, Pinehurst, and Aberdeen, beginning September 10. The promotion of Lloyd L. Woolley to the position of division superintendent of the Carolina Power and Light Company’s Cen tral Division, offices in Southern Pines, was announced here today by R. L. Chandler, division man ager. Woolley, formerly district fore man of the Southern Pines Dis trict, succeeds George T. McEl- derry, Jr., who died recently. The new division superinten dent, a native of Alabama, came with the Carolina Power and Light Company in 1924 when the company bought . the Sandhill Power Company. He had been connected with the latter com pany since August of 1923. • Woolley has been associated with the Carolina Power and Light Company continuously since 1924 and has been serving in the Central Division for the entire time, except for a year’s service in inspection work in other company divisions. Since coming to Southern Pines Woolley has taken an activte in terest in every phase of commun ity life. A leader in church work, he is also a member of the school board, secretary and past master of Southern Pines Lodge 484 A. F. & A. M., adjutant and service Officer of the American Legion, and Home Service chairman of the Moore County Chapter Amer ican Red Cross. He formerly serv ed as First Aid chairman, and con ducted Red Cross courses. Mrs. Woolley also is a native of Alabama. Their two sons, Lloyd, Jr., and Philip, are serving in the Navy, Lloyd with the Third Fleet in the Pacific and Philip as a NROTC student at Duke Univer sity. Local Linksmen Bring Home Bafcon In Bichmond Bout The golfers of Rockingham- and Hamlet were hosts to the South ern Pines Country Club linksmen at the Richmond .County Golf Course on Wednesday, August 29. The Southern Pines players came away with the feeling that though they had won the golf match by a decisive score, 17 1-2 to 6 1-2, they were going to be hard pressed to match the Richmond County boys at the entertaining game. The gold was incidental to the fish fry that was provided at the end of the athletic meet. While the locals had difficulty parting the golf course, there were sever al sub-par rounds turned in at the banquet table. Rockingham-Hamlet leads 100- 0 in the entertaining score; how ever, Southern Pines will have an opportunity to improve its score (Continued on Page 5) TESH RETURNS TO J. N. POWELL. INC. J. E. Tesh, formerly of the J. N. Powell Funeral Home here, has sold his interest in Couch Funer al ,Honie in Charlotte and has re turned to Southern Pines to man age the Powell business, it is an nounced this week. 1 1 Pictured here are scenes of the Seaboard Air Line Railway wreck near Aberdeen early Saturday morning. In the upper picture railroad repair men are seen in center, repairing the track where the cars were derailed. In the picture below is a close-up of where the freight ripped the side of one of the passenger cars. Mile-a-Way Stables Enter North Carolina Horse Show at Baleigh DRUMSTICKS TOO The government set .aside of broiler-fryer chickens in Moore County came to an end Monday with large supplies resulting almost immediately for Sandhilllans. Moore is one of Ihe nine North Carolina {counties in which the freeze was lifted, the others being Montgomery. Richmond. Lee. Randolph. Stanley. Anson, Union, and Chathami. The Department of Agri culture, who made the an- nouncemient. explained that the War Shipping Administra tion, which had previously re ceived all the set-aside is now able to obtain its require ments from other soures. Four Attend 25 th Auxiliary Meeting Three members and one Legion naire represented Southern Pines at the 25th annual convention of the American Legion Auxiliary, held Monday at the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh. Mr. and Mrs. Dan R. McNeill, Mrs. L. L. Wool ley, and Mrs. T. K. Gunter com posed the local delegation. The convention this year was especially significant in view of thousands of new members Who have been made eligible for mem bership in the Auxiliary. It was announced at the convention that under the new ruling, as soon as servicemen become Legionnaires, their wives, sisters, and mothers may join the Auxiliary. It was suggested by the Na tional Commander, Edward N. Scheiberling, that parents send paid-up membership cards to sons and daughters in service, and that firms also might present compli mentary paid-up membership cards to former employees. Those in Southern Pines inter- (Continued on Page 8) One of the leading stables which has entered the 3-day North Car olina Horse Show being held on the State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, Thursday night, Friday night and Saturday afternoon and night of this week is the Mile-a-Way of Southern Pines. More than 130 horses are expected to compete, it was announced by W. J. Dil lon, manager of the event, with 48 classes being shown in the three days. Night shows start at 8 o’clock and the afternoon show begins at 2 o’clock. The Raleigh chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the event, which the civic group hopes to make an an nual affair. Some of the other stables enter ing are the Wade Stepp Farm of Macon, Ga.; the Fowler Grand View Farm of Winston-Salem; Carolanne Farms of Norfolk, Va.; Rainbow Farm of Charlotte, and Idle Times Stables of Kinston. Sunday School Picnic To Be At Country Club The Sunday School picnic of the Church of Wide Fellowship, scheduled to be held Friday af ternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Kennedy, will be at the Country Club instead, the Rev. Tucker G. Humphries, pas tor, announced yesterday. Unforseen circumstances inter fered with the original plans, so members and friends are invited to meet at the church at 3i:30 this afternoon to go to the club. Those who cannot meet at this time, are invited to come to the picnic sup per at 6:45 p. m., and participate in the games and song fest that have been planned for entertain ment. GIFT SHOP REOPENS SOON Mrs. Frank Welch has returned from a summer vacation in New York and will reopen her gift shop Sept. 1. 25 Injured, 16 Requiring Hospi tal Attention by Gertrude Walton No official statement has been issued by the Seaboard Railway, explaining the cause of the wreck which electrified Southern Pines early Saturday morning when north-bound freight No. 5 derail ed five cars, clipping a sixth, of the Robert E. Lee, New York-to- Birmingham, passenger train. The Robert E. Lee, due in Southern Pines at 6:35 a. m.,^was travelling over half an hour late and had been marked up at 7:15. It was shortly after seven when the north-bound freight, which had pulled off on a side-track to permit the passenger train to pass, started rolling again, clip ping one of the full coaches. Bolts in the first-hit coach were knocked inches out of place, but the car continued for some 300 feet down the track, its coupling breaking loose and detaching it from the other cars which were derailed by the impact of the col lision. A soldier, Cpl. James A. Bailey of'Atlahta, Ga., who had been in that first coach and was still at the scene around three hours la ter, said the dining-car porter had just called breakfast. “A sailor had gotten up and started walking toward the diner. He had just reached the end of the aisle when he glanced through the window and shouted, ‘Everybody grab something quick!’ A moment later the train ga-ve a giant lurch.” Corporal Bailey was impressed with the calm that was apparent in the car, but in the adjoining coach, panic was running wild (Continued on Page 5) Herring, Medlin To Be on Sandhill Kiwanis Program Miss Harriet L. Herring, au thor of economic treatises and re search assistant in Social Science at the University of North Caro lina, will address the Sandhill Ki- wanis Club on Wednesday, Sep tember 5, at a luncheon at the USO in Aberdeen. ‘‘North Carolina’s Industrial Op portunities” will he the timely topic of Miss Herring’s address. She will distribute copies of the 32-page report on this subject which she recently wrote at the request of the State Planning Board, of which she is ecortomic consultant. The booklet will come off the press on September 1. Miss Herring, a graduate of Wellesley College, was for 20’ years connected with Marshall- Field in New York. Since coming southi she has published a num ber of books and articles, best known of which are ‘‘Industry in the South” and ‘‘Cotton Mills and Their Villages.” Another interesting feature of the Wednesday’s program will be several dramatic interpretations by Miss Gray Medlin, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Medlin of Aberdeen. Miss Medlin who at tended St. Mary’s Junior College, Raleigh, and Margaret Webster’s Junior College, Washington, D. C., will be a senior at Emerson C9I- lege in Boston this year where she is majoring in radio and dram atics. She returned Wednesday from Whispering Willows Camp on Cape Cod where she was in charge of dramatics this summer. CLOSE LABOR DAY In keeping with their custom, the Citizens Bank and Trust Company and the following Southern Pines markets will ob serve next Monday, Labor Day, as a holiday, remaining closed all day: A. & P., Baker’s, Johnson’s, Knowles’, Modern Market, and Pender’s. LOCAL LEGIONNAIRES WILL MEET TUESDAY The monthly meeting of the Sandhill Post No. 134, American Legion, will be held at the Legion Hut at 8:15 p. m. on 'Tuesday, September 4, L. Van Fossen, Post Commander, has announced. It will be a victory meeting in thankfulness for the peace and in honor of those who died to make it possible. World War II veterans are especially welcome.
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