Campaign for Funds to Enlarge
Gymnasium Facilities Underway
Civic Group Meets
Tuesday; Project
Gets Full Approval
The demountable bleachers, he
said, would occupy no more space
than a single row* of seats of the
kind now used but would double
the seating capacity They could
also be used for tennis and base
ball later in the year. The elec
tric timer and scorer would help
the spectators keep up with the
game, as well as help the players
since part of the time not even
the referee knows what the score
is. The other equipment includes
backboards, baskets, and other
items which would be necessary
to convert the assembly room, in
to a basketball court.
Last Year's Record
Mr. Phillips remarked on the
record the local varsity teams had
made on basketball courts
throughout the district, even be
ing invited to the finals where
they lost by one point, which is
exceptional for a team from a
school as small as Southern Pines’
school. He then threw the floor
open for discussion.
Philip Weaver thanked the
meeting for their interest in un
dertaking the project, mention
ing what town support would
mean to the boys in a financial as
well as a personal way. He said
that last year only a handful of
people attended, most of them
being the mothers of ^the players,
“but even if they had come out,
there wouldn’t have been seats
to accomodate them under the
present arrangement.”
A. C. Dawson, high school prin
cipal and physical education in
structor, emphasized the inade
quacy of present facilities also.
“Four grades, from, 9-12, use the
gym, and children from the third
to the eighth grades also have
physical education but generally
use the playground. Even with
the four grades using the gym,
there is little time for the basket
ball team to practice.”
Mayor L. V. O’Callaghan was
certain the Town of Southern
Pines would pledge support to
such a project. Later when show
er facilities at the church were
discussed, he showed his person
al interest by offering to install
and donate a water heater if any
of the ones in stock were large
enough for the tank.
Rotary and Johnson Donate
The Rev. Tucker G. Humphries,
representative from the Rotary
Club, presented $125 which he
had been authorized to give as the
first contribution to the fund.
He was followed by Virgil John
ston who made out a check for
$100, jumping the Jackpot to $225.
On a suggestion from Eugene
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STOP AND GO
County Schools Have
Increased Enrollment
Motorists will please lake
note that the three stop lights
on May Street (U. S. High
way 1), which operated as
blinkers during the summer
I months, have this week been
changed to stop and go lights,
due to the opening of school.
These lights are located at
the Massachusetts, New York
and Connecticut Avenue
crossings.
Many school children cross
these streets on their way to
school and the public is urg
ed to cooperate wholeheart
edly in preventing accidents.
Favorable Reply
Given To Lunch
Driving Request
If certain conditions are met,
school busses may be used in the
towns of Aberdeen, Carthage and
Robbins for transporting high
school students to school cafeter
ias located on opposite sides of
these towns, according to a rul
ing by Attorney General Harry
McMullen which was received
Tuesday by County Superinten
dent H. Lee Thomas.
Those conditions are that the
county take out $5,000 insurance
on the life of each child and each
driver concerned, and pay the ex
pense of the extra transportation.
The Board of Education stands
ready to meet these requirements.
Mr. Thomas estimates that
there will be around 250 boys and
girls in the three schools who will
take advantage of the opportun
ity of getting their lunches in the
school cafeterias, where excellent
meals are served at a very low
cost, under a Federal aid plan,
A delegation from the county,
headed by Mr. Thomas, appeared
before the State Board of Educa
tion’s transportation comsmittee
about two ,/eeks ago, asking per
mission to use the busses in the
above-named towns for transport
ing pupils to the cafeterias—use
age not provided for by the school
law. They were promised that the
matter would be referred to the
attorney general for his opinion.
Fifty Go to Fort
Bragg This Week
For Examinations
25 Negro Selectees
Leave Tuesday, and
25 White go Today
TOBACCO SEASON
BRINGS OPTIMISM
A larger enrollment in all coun
ty schools this fall, with great
est increase at Farm Life, Vass,
L akeview, Robbins, Carthage and
West End, has been reported by
H. Lee Thomas, county school su
perintendent.
Mr. Thomas says that all school
buildings are in good condition,
actually better than they were
before the war, and every vacan-
' with the exception of an
hth tirade teacher has been
1. Nine new school buses, sup
P .enting last wear’s quota, have
been chartered to bring the chil
dren to school.
WINSTON-SALEM MAN
DIES WHILE ON VISIT
While on a visit in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wooten of
upper Hoke County section, Al
ton Dees of Winston-Salem died
suddenly around 7:00 a. m. last
Friday as he was dressing. He
had been with the Utility Power
Company in Winston-Salem for
eighteen years and the body was
taken back there for burial.
Mr. Dees, son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Dees, is survived
by his wife and two daughters.
BREAKS WRIST
As Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Hodg
kins, who were vacationing in
New York, were about to leave
for home Friday evening, Mrs.
Hodgkins tripped on an uneven
sidewalk on Clinton Avenue,
BtTOklyn, and suffered a broken
wrist, an accident which slightly
delayed their return.
Taking a turn around part of the
county on Tuesday, opening day
of the tobacco markets, a Pilot
representative found much activ
ity in the market towns and a
spirit of optimism prevailing.
Warehouses were buzzing with
activity, with tobacco already
sold being wheeled from the floors
in hand trucks, to be packed into
hogsheads for shipping and to
make room for the truckloads
waiting to be unloaded for the
following day’s sales.
Just as has been noticed in Sou
thern Pines for the past few days,
new items were appearing in the
store windows, and shelves held
articles which have been conspic
uous by their absence in recent
times. C. T. Henson of Jones’
Store in Carthage, who was busily
engaged in opening up more items
that he had even hoped to get,
was in a “Believe it or Not” mood
which was typical of the optimis
tic feeling which comes with to
bacco season in the Sandhills.
Fifty men from Moore County
answered the examination call at
Fort Bragg this week, including
25 white men who left this morn
ing for camp, and 25 Negroes who
left Tuesday.
The white selectees included:
Southern Pines: Lonnie Louis
Cooper, Rodrick Dew Edmisten
and Jesse Leslie Bass, Jr.
Aberdeen: Chevalier Jackson
Dowless.
Cameron: Marvin Lee Ross,
Route 1, and Odell Wall, Route
2.
Carthage: Raymond Lee Ring,
Route 3.
Lakeview: Vernon Pate.
Pinehurst: Jack Andrew Led
better.
Robbins: Roy Colon Cooke,
Homer Franklin English, Fred
Junior Cagle, Route 2, and John
nie Fletcher Hussey, Route 2.
^ Star: Doyle Junior Davis, Route
'Steeds: Edward Franklin Mc
Neill, Route 1, Herman Floyd Mc
Neill, Route ’, and Causey Emmitt
Comer, Jr., Route 1.
Vass: James Erlie Milton Holy-
field, Route 2.
West End: Sandy Junior Sim
mons.
Second Contingent
A group of 25 Negroes left in
the second contingent of men
from the local board since the end
of the war. They reported for ex
aminations Tuesday, September
11.
Southern Pines: James Eugene
Jackson, James McCoy, and Rob
ert Lee Addison..
Aberdeen: Cleveland Edward
Hines, Prenell McQueen.
Adder: Macon Mozelle McMil
lan.
Cameron: Lennon Virble Cam
eron, Route 1.
Carthage: Eddie Alphonso.Cole,
Offie Ransome Dowdy, Frank
Flint, Cary Junior Goins, Route
3, and Charles Irwin Phillips,
Route 2.
Pinehurst: Robert Lee Turner,
Carl Edward Morrison, (Silyard
Prince, and J. Hugh Brown.
Robbins: Lee Roy Baskin, Wil
liam Rufus Person, William El-
wood Caddell, and Roy Vander
Brower.
Vass: Willie Johnson and Clar
ence Junior Elliott.
West End: Hunter Willie San
ders and Saul Person, Route 1.
COMPLIMENT
J. E. Caviitess, Lakeview
dairyman, appreciates the
compliment paid his automo
bile by some unknown per
son, but he would appreciate
much more the return of said
vehicle. While the car was in
a Sanford garage last week
for repairs, someone broke
into the place, and although
it was necessary to move sev
eral cars to get to that of the
Lakeview man, this was
done. Mr. Caviness has had
no trace of it since.
Harrington Place
In West SP Badly
Damaged By Fire
Frank Campbell and
Family, Occupants,
Carried No Insurance
A telephoned alarm from West
Southern Pines a few minutes af
ter six o’clock Friday evening
promptly brought both pieces of
apparatus of the Southern Pines
Fire Department to the home of
Frank Campbell, colored, where
flames, said to have originated in
bedroom closet, had already
gained great headway in the one
story, six-room frame structure.
Despite the best efforts of the
firemen, the structure was prac
tically gutted.
The house, located on the cor
ner of New Hampshire Avenue
and Hardin Street, known as the
old Harrington place and still
owned by members of that fam
ily, was occupied by Campbell,
civilian employee of Camp Mack-
all, who, with members of the
family and neighbors, succeed
ed in saving a few pieces of fur
niture and personal effects before
the rapidly spreading fire and
dense smoke drove them from the
structure.
The owners have some insur
ance on the building, but the
Campbells carried none on cloth
ing or furnfture.
Lieut. Col. Primm
Arrives in States
Lieut. Col. C. F. Primm, 91st
Powder River” Division Adju
tant General, is visiting his wife,
Mrs. Isabelle Willcox Primm, and
scyi, C. F. Primm, Jr., in Southern
Pines, having arrived in the Uni
ted States Tuesday from overseas.
A broker in civilian life. Colo
nel Primm was commissioned
November 24, 1940, at the Ala
bama State Military Department.
After serving at various United
States posts. Colonel Primm went
overseas in /\.pril, 1944, with the
91st Division, and was with the
unit throughout its fighting in the
Italian campaign.
The Division was the first to
reach Axno and had pierced the
Gothic and Caesar lines, pushing
far into the Po Valley, when hos
tilities ceased in the theater. He
was awarded the Bronze Star
Medal for meritorious service.
Vass Boy Suffers
Broken Leg When
Hit by Car Sunday
Leon Crabtree, 16-year-old Vass
boy, sustained a broken leg when
he was struck by an automobile
driven by Kenneth Womack,
young man of upper Hoke Coun
ty, around noon Sunday. The
youth was crossing the side street
next to Fields’ garage when Wom
ack turned onto the street from
Highway I. Seeing his danger,
Crabtree tried to back away from
the path of the car, according to
an eyewitness, and by so doing
probably saved himself from more
serious injury.
The injured youth was carried
to Moore County Hospital, where
he remained until the following
day. After having his leg placed
in a cast he was allowed to re
turn to his home, and is getting
along satisfactorily.
Patrolman Kelly of Carthage
is investigating the accident.
Careful Driving
Campaign Begins
Here This Week
Local Boys Attend
Military Academy
Stuart Wood, Jr., and Walter
Wood, sons of Col. and Mrs.
Stuart Wood of North Ashe St.,
and Stephen Van Camp, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Van Camp
of South Ridge Street, left this
week for Waynesboro, Va., where
they will attend Fishburne Mili
tary- School which opened Sep
tember 12.
Five boys left Southern Pines
this week to begin fall studies at
military schools.
Richard Patch, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. S. Patch, and Leighton
Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
Hall, have enrolled at Edwards
Military Institute in Salemburg.
In view of the number of acci
dents in this section recently and
the opening of local schools, a
campaign for careful driving was
inaugurated this week by Chief
C. E. Newton to decrease these
accidents and to prevent injury
to school childreii.
Chief Newton, asking the coop
eration of the citizens of Southern
Pines in helping the police force
to make this campaign success
ful, pointed out the serious ac
cidents that have taken place near
here since the lifting of gasoline
rationing. He referred to the last
issue of the Pilot where two ac
cidents were reported, one result
ing in death for the driver and
the other resulting in two persons
being painfully injured.
“Fast driving is extremely dan
gerous in town,” Chief Newton
said, “not only to the children,
but to the public as a whole. The
unexpected should always be
looked for when you’re behind
the wheel. That is an obligation
undertaken when you receive
your driver’s license.”
Decrying the idea that many
drivers haye that because the stat
ute provides for a certain
speed limit, they have to operate
at that speed. Chief Newton said
that drivers should take into con
sideration the hazards that arise
at different times.
“The business speed limit of 20
miles per hour and the residen
tial limit of 25 miles per hour are
all right when there is little traf
fic, but the law also provides
that no person shall drive at a
speed greater than is reasonable
and prudent under the existing
conditions. In other words, use
conscience and common sense
when driving,” Chief Newton
ended.
Jewelry Valued at
$7,000 Taken From
Store in Robbins
Thief Probably Con
cealed Self in Ray's
Before Closing Time
Moore County law enforcement
officers are seeking to solve a
jewelry theft which occurred in
Robbins last week in which the
Ray Furniture Company suffered
a loss estimated by Ray as above
$7,000. Insurance in the amount
of $10,000 was carried on the
jewelry, it is said, but in view of
the circumstances there is doubt
as to the firm’s being able to col
lect it.
The theft was discovered on
Wednesday morning and Ray
promptly notified the State Bu
reau of Investigation, the coun
ty sheriff, Robbins police officers
and the insurance adjuster, who
conducted an investigation.
Before leaving his place of busi
ness at 6:00 o’clock Tuesday ev
ening, Ray, who operates a fur
niture, jewelry and ready-to-
wear business in Moore County’s
leading manufacturing center, ex
amined the windows to see that
they were closed and locked, ac
cording to the story he told of
ficers, Sheriff McDonald disclos
ed. .Around 7:00 p. m., one of his
truck drivers returned from his
route and went inside to leave
some goods. He noticed that a
rear window was open, but as
sumed that someone had forgot
ten to close it and attended to it
himself. The next morning it was
discovered that practically all of
the jewelry in two cases had
been stolen, also a sum of money.
There was ■ no evidence of
breaking and entering, so it is
thought that the robber must
have concealed himself in the
building before closing time.
The firm is said to have carried
$10,000 insurance on the jewelry,
but due to the fact that apparent
ly there had been no “breaking”,
Ray was given no encouragement
as to the probability of his be
ing able to collect. Sheriff McDon
ald said.
The Sheriff’s office is getting
out posters in an effort to trace
the guilty person.
All Roads Lead to Carthage and
Aberdeen As Tobacco Warehouses
Open With Record Sales Tuesday
Two Towns Sold Es
timated 640,000
Pounds at Opening^
SUNSHINE, PLEASE
You're going io get rid of
that stack of papers and mag ■
azines decorating your front
yard on Saturday morning ,..
that is, if it doesn't fain, says
Paul Butlet, chairmem of the
local Salvage Committee.
If the weather is rainy,
making collection impossible,
the date will be postponed un
til the following Wednesday,
he adds, ‘'... and remember to
tie them up to help the Boy
Scouts who are canvassing
the town for the scrap paper."
Local Golfers Are
Hosts to Visiting
Rockingham Team
The Southern Pines Country
Club Golf team played host to
the Rockingham team on Wednes
day afternoon. This was a return
engagement as the locals had vis
ited Rockingham two weeks ago.
The first event on the program
was a golf match in which South
ern Pines players came out vic
tors by a 24 to 0 score. They had
also won the ifrst match.
Arthur Atherton turned in the
low medal round of the day, hav
ing a 73. Phil Weaver was only
one stroke behind.
After the golf match had been
played and then cussed and dis
cussed, the participants gathered
at the picnic grounds where some
excellent fried chicken was serv
ed. The contest here was not one
sided. While it was impossible to
keep an exact score, there was
not a notideable \difference (in
the form exhibited by the various
contestants. However, it was ob
served that one of the local boys,
whose name is withheld, manag
ed to dispose of the contents of
three generously filled platters.
Local Hunt Club
To Organize; Takes
3,000-Acre Lease
Cypress Presbyterians
Observe Home Coming
Rev. H. G. Warlaw of Whitmire,
S. C., will preach at the home
coming services at 115-year old
Cypress Presbyterian Church on
Sunday, September 30. Home
Coming Day will climax a week’s
revival services at the church.
Rev. J. Hoge Smith, pastor, has
announced.
The Southern Pines Hunt Club,
at present in its embryonic stage,
has been granted a 10-year lease
on 3,000 acres of woodland near
Lakeview, Ed Starnes of South
ern Pines, one of the club organ
izers, has announced. The first
organizational meeting will be
held the latter part of this month.
Although the idea of a local
game club has been brewing for
a long time, actual organization
was begun around three months
ago by Mr. Starnes,.R. C. Johnson,
Morris Johnson, J. T. Overton,
Woodrow Davis, all of Southern
Pines, and H. A. Matthews of
Lakeview. They investigated
prospective land leases, secured
several packs of hounds, and
aroused the interest of some 25
local huntsmen.
What Mr. Starnes describes as
“some of the best hunting terri
tory in this section” has been
leased now, a large part of the
acreage from E. M. Aiken of
Washington, D. C., which has
been supplemented by smaller
grants from farmers in the sec
tion.
Mr. Starnes says the club will
be organized in time to have the
first game hunt near the opening
day of the season, October 1.
Hunts will be every Tuesday and
Saturday during the season which
extends until January 1.
BRUNSWICK STEW
Bethesda Observes
155th Homecoming
Last week’s meeting of the
Vass Lions Club was featured by
a Brunswick stew supper to which
wives of the members were in
vited. The'*,dew was made under
the expert direction of Lion Nor
ris V. Briggs and won loud praise
from both Lions and Lionesses.
THE
REV. T. G. HUMPHRIES
TO CONDUCT REVIVAL
The Rev. T. G. Humphries, pas
tor of-the Church of Wide Fellow
ship, will leave here Simday ev
ening for Fuqpay Springs where
he will condutt a revival until
Wednesday at the Wake Chapel
Church.
Bethesda Church, one of the
oldest churches in North Carolina
and shrine of Presbyterians in the
Sandhills, will hold its first post
war home coming Sunday, Sep
tember 30, when it observes its
155th anniversary.
Dr. M. R. MacQueen, of Clinton,
descendant of Martin McQueen
who was pastor at Bethesda in
1874, will preach at the morning
service, followed by the custom
ary picnic in the grove of the an
cient church.
Every year the afternoon speak
er is an authority on early set
tlers, particularly in the Cape
Fear region, and this year J. Tal
bot Johnson, committee chairman
is expecting Carl Goerch, North
Carolina’s history-know-all, to ad
dress the home-conners at that
time. Mr. Johnson had not heard
from Mr. Goerch yesterday so it
is still uncertain whether he will
be able to attend.
There will be no special gather
ing of the clans as took place at
the mammoth home coming in
1940 when Bethesda held its ses-
quicentennial celebration, but Mr.
Johnson is writing letters to a
few clan members to ask them to
issue personal invitations to their
clans.
All roads in Moore County led
to Carthage and Aberdeen over
the weekend as cars, trucks and
trailers streamed in, loaded with
tobacco in such quantities as to
give the four warehouses located
in the two towns record sales on
Tuesday, the opening day for the
Middle Belt.
Floors of all warehouses were
jammed with tobacco and it is
estimated that Carthage with its
floor spade doubled since last
year, sold around 350,000 pounds
at an average of $44.50 on the
opening day, and Aberdeen, 290,-
000 pounds. Farmers appeared
pleased with the prices paid.
Selling continues for an hour
and twenty minutes at each ware
house, four days to the week,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, with first sales alter
nating between the two houses in
each town. In this short period
it was impossible to sell all of the
tobacco offered Tuesday, and the
amount left over with the addi
tional quantities that were
brought in gave heavy sales for
the remainder of the week.
Opening sales throughout the
Middle Belt, which includes Dur
ham, Henderson, Oxford, Louis-
burg, Fuquay-Varina, Warren-
ton, and Sanford, in addition to
the IVCoore County towns, were
generally described as highly sat
isfactory.
For the Belt the price average
was estimated at around $43.50
per hundred pounds, a slight in
crease over last year’s opening
day average of $43.41, with much
heavier offerings. Warehousemen
estimated that i^ore than 4,290,-
000 pounds were* sold during the
day Tuesday, which would greatly
exceed last year’s first-day fig
ure of 3,410,652 pounds marketed.
The quality of Tuesday’s offer
ings was sofnewhat lower than
was the case last year, much of
it showing indications of a lack
of careful grading. On the whole,
however, tobacco on the Middle
Belt opening was regarded as gen
erally superior to that on the
Eastern and Border Belts, and the
crop is estimated to be the best
since the record year of 1939.
Lieutenant Shockley Is
En Route From Europe
First Lt. Thomas E. Shockley
of Southern Pines is en route to
the United States from the Medit
erranean port of Marseille, a re
lease from the 17th Airborne Di
vision said yesterday.
Lieutenant Shockley, husband
of Mrs. Iris Tate Shockley who
is now making her home with her
parents here, is commanding the
headquarters battery of the 17th.
In his months of service overseas,
he has participated in the follow
ing campaigns: Sicily, Italy, Nor
mandy, Holland, “The Bulge”,
Rhineland, arid Central Europe.
He has been awarded the
Bronze Star Medal for Heroic Ac
tion in Holland, the Presidential
Citation for Normandy, and the
Bronze Invasion Arrowhead for
Normandy and Holland.
District ODT Will
Dissolve Saturday
All persons having business to
transact with the Raleigh District
Office of Defense Transportation
after September 15 should con
tact the ODT District Office in
Charlotte, according to informa
tion received from Raleigh this
week.
After September 15 all perti
nent files in the ODT Raleigh of
fice will be moved to Charlotte,
for since the revocation of most
ODT Highway Transport orders
and regulations, there is little need
for, since the revocation of most
Auxiliary Stresses
Membership Drive
Local American Legion Auxil
iary officials are putting forth an
effort to get all members to pay
their 1946 dues as promptly as
possible in order that Mrs. Jennie
Craven of Charlotte may report
a 100 per cent memibership when
she attends the national conven
tion in Chicago, Nov. 18-20. It is
urged that the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst Unit show Mrs. Craven,
candidate for national president
of the American Legion Auxil
iary, that they are backing .her
to the limit. Mrs. L. L. Woolley
is membership chairman. Dues
may be paid to her or to the Unit
treasured, Mrs. J. S. McLauchlin.
Gen. Kennedy Leaves
Bragg for Reassignment
Brig. Gen. John T. Kennedy,
World War II commander of Fort
Bragg, has been transferred to
headquarters. Fourth Service
Command, Atlanta, Ga., for re
assignment.
Col. Landon C. Rosser, executive
officer, is serving as commanding
officer imtil a new commanding
general, who is expected Satur
day, reports for duty.