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VOLUME 25 NO. 43
Southern Pines, North CarolinaFriday, September 21, 1945.
TEN CENTS
Two-Year Civic Improvement Program
Approved by Town Coinmissioners
Enlargement of Town
Sewage Plant Heads
Improvement List
A two-year civic improvement
program for the Town of Southern
Pines, based on recommendations
from the Post War Planning
Board, was approved by the Town
Commissioners at their regular
meeting last Wednesday night.
The program includes the fol
lowing projects: enlargement of
the town sewage plant; an incin
erator; retreatment of paved
streets; opening of Connecticut
Avenue into West Southern Pines;
opening of two main cross streets
of West Southern Pines; building
of an ample spillway to take care
of storm drainage now emptying
on Bennett Street between Mass
achusetts and Indiana Avenues
and to take care of the drainage
on New Hampshire Avenue in
West Southern Pines-
Major L. V. O’Callaghan read
a report from Paul Van Camp,
local engineer, to W. S. McKim-
mon. District Sanitary Engineer,
recommending the enlargement of
the town sewage plant to take care
of the over-loaded conditions
brought about by the war and to
meet the growth of the Town dur
ing the past few years- The Mayor
also presented plans covering the
addition which gave the cost of
such a project as between $25,000
and $30,000.
In the discussion that followed
the report, the Board brought out
the other badly needed improve-
n^ents previously reconunended
by the Post War Planning Board,
Admitting that the program would
mean a sizable bond issue but
feeling that these improvements
are urgent, the Board decided it
would be well to take advantage
of the cheap money market. Which
means low rates of interest, and
proceed with the issuing of bonds
as soon as possible.
Paul Van Camp, engineer, was
requested to estimate the costs
of the six-point program and/ to
present it to the Board of Com
missioners.
Lloyd L. Woolley was appoint
ed a member of the Southern
Pines School Baord for three
years, beginning May 1, 1945. He
succeeds Frank Maples.
Routine business occupied the
remainder of the meeting.
ARRIVES IN USA
JOSEPH A. MATTHEWS
A telephone call from New
York Tuesday night gave the in
formation th5t Lt. Joseph A. Mat
thews, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs.
W- D. Matthews of Southern
Pines, had arrived in the states
after more than three years over
seas and that he expected to be
home within a few days.
Lt. Matthews joined the Army
in February, 1941, and went ov
erseas on August 1, 1942. With the
1st Field Artillery Observation
Battalion, Headquarters and
Headquarters Battery, he has seen
much action, serving in Africa,
Sicily, Italy, France, Germany and
Austria. Much of the time he has
worked with the First French
Army, during which he was
awarded the Croix de guerre.
Among the thrilling exper
iences which Lt. Matthews had
was one near Toulon, when a
party of thirteen men from the
observation battalion, riding in
three jeeps, encountered three
German officers armed with ma
chine pistols blocking the road,
according to an official release.
The Yanks deployed to cover, lev
eled their small arms at the Ger
mans, and demanded their sur
render. The Germans said they
had a company in the vicinity and
asked the Yanks to surrender.
Nevertheless, three of the artil
lerymen advanced and made the
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Steadman Mof f itt
Killed in Train-
Automobile Crash'
Collision Occurs at
Connecticut Avenue
Intersection Friday
Steadman C. Moffit, Jr., age
41, was killed instantly late Fri
day night when the southbound
Cotton State Special smashed in
to the side of his automobile in
Southern Pines, while his two
young children were waiting in
the storm-drenched night less
than a block away for their fa
ther to take them home to Pine-
hurst.
A man who had been talking
to the victim in a drug store a
few minutes before the accident
said Mr. Moffitt was en route in
a taxi cab, belonging to Bryan
Poe, to meet the Diesel, a fast
New York-to-Birmingham pas
senger train. It was 10:50 p. m.,
and the train wasn’t expected for
a few minutes.
The rainstorm which had been
raging all evening reached its
zenith around that time, and it
is thought that Mr. Moffitt was
unable to distinguish the train
in the blinding rain or to hear
its warning blare. There were no
danger signals at the intersec
tion.
The impact of the engine on
the automobile opened the door
on the other side, throwing Mr.
Moffitt out of the car and onto
the .tracks immediately in the path
of the moving train. .
The automobile, a 1940 Ponti-
BACK IN STATES
RETURNING SOON
Torrents of Rain Flood
Roads Here; Interrnpt
Train Service 2 Days
Five Schools Close
Because of High Wa
ter; Crops Damaged
STOLEN CAR FOUND
Annual Payment
On 1924 Bonds
Made By Town
The Town of Southern Pines has
mailed a check to the Chemical
Bank and Trust Company, New
York, in the amount of $14,575 in
payment of bonds and interest,
leaving a balance of $140,000 to be
paid off annually between now
and 1957.
Of the amount just paid,- $10,-
000 was in payment of bonds on
its six per cent Public Improve
ments bonds of 1924 which was in
the amount of $275,000. Since that
date the Town has paid off $135,-
000, including the September 1,
1945, payment, thus leaving a bal
ance of $140,000.
Of the current payment, $4,500
was in payment of semi-annual
interest on these bonds, and the
remaining $75 was in payment of
the semi-annual interest on $12,-
000, one and a quarter per cent
Recreation Facility Bonds.
The Town also paid the Citi
zen Bank and Trust Company
$380 semi-annual interest on $19,-
000, four, per cent Water and
Sewer Bonds.
Leaf Prices Hold
Close to Average
Average prices remained gen
erally steady on the Aberdeen
|and Carthage tobacco markets
yesterday when Aberdeen report
ed 296,286 pounds sold and Car
thage, 273,546 pounds. Floors have
been cleared every day, ware
housemen report.
Aberdeen’s average for better
qualities of tobacco displayed no
change, averaging $43-$44 per
hundred. The total of Wednes
day’s sales was $122,640.66.
Fluctuations in average prices
affected a number of lower qual
ity grades on the Carthage mar
ket Wednesday as the average
for some low and common heavy
leaf grades dropped to $41.56 a
hundred pounds. Piles of better
tobacco skyrocketed to $70 a hun
dred on the Carthage floors, with
the day’s sales totaling $113,-
712.44.
ac, *fwas caught on the cow
catcher” of the engine and was
carried a block to New Hampshire
Avenue before the train stopped.
It was there that the two oldest
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School Officials
Go To Raleigh To
Confer on Building
A school delegation composed
of Philip Weaver, superintendent
of Southern Pines Schools, and
Dr. G. G. Herr, Mrs. James Mil-
liken, N. E. Hodgkins and John
Howarth, Board members, went
to Raleigh Thursday to confer
with William H. Deitrick, archi
tect, who is drawing plans for
the new 10-room elementary
school building to be erected here.
Another object of the trip was
to try to make arrangements for
letting the contract as soon as
building materials become avail
able. It is hoped that construc
tion may be started this fall.
Fayeiteville Attorney
To Speak at Bethesda
DANIEL L. BOYD
After serving overseas since
June 1944, Sgt. Daniel L. Boyd,
son of Mrs. James Boyd of Sou
thern Pines and the late Mr.
Boyd, arrived on the Queen Mary
last week and on Friday joined
his mother and sister, who are
vacationing at Sorrento, Me- He
is in fine shape and happy to be
back in the States. Mrs. Boyd
has received a letter from her
other son, James, of the U. S.
Coast Guard, bearing the good
news that he will get his dis
charge at the end of his next
trip.
Sgt. Boyd is with the 60th Regi
ment of Combat Engineers attach
ed to the 35th Infantry Division.
He gave up his sophomore stud
ies at Princeton to join the Army
in July, 1943, and went overseas
in June, 1944. Sgt. Boyd served
with the 5-star Santa Fe Division,
which battled across the Elbe
River to within 42 miles of Ber
lin. An army release gives the
following graphic account of this
division’s activities:
“Hitting Omaha Beach on July
7th, the 35th forced the Germans
from St. Lo, broke the counter
offensive at Mortain, swept across
France, to crack into Germany’s
Saar Valley on December l2th,
and on into Belgium and Luxem
bourg 'to repel Von Rundstedt’s
Ardennes bulge. Following a shift
to the Vosges Mountains, the di
vision swept three hundred miles
north through Holland to cross
the Roer and Rhine rivers, crush
Siegfried Line defenses and scoop
up more than thirty thousand
prisoners by V-E Day, to mark
the end of over 1600 combat miles
in the ETO.”
Sgt. Boyd holds the following
decorations: Silver Star, Purple
Heart, five battle stars and the
Good Conduct ribbon.
The Silver Star was awarded
Boyd—a corporal at that time—
for saving the lives of five of his
comrades while crossing a river
CPL.
McAllister is
INJURED IN
WRECK
Cpl. Harold A.' McAllister suf
fered a back injury in an army
truck wreck in England seven
weeks ago, his wife, who resides
in Southern Pines, has learned.
Cpl. McAllister’s address is A. S.
N. 34673765, Hospital Plant 4174,
A. P. O. 121, New York City.
Doubtless, cards and letters from
the folks back home would be
most welcome,
89TH BIRTHDAY
Wilbur. J. Sanborn of East
Connecticut Avenue observ
ed! his 89th birthday Wednes
day. In excellent health .Mr.
Sanborn spent the day re
ceiving congratulations from
his many friends.
Major Carson Is
Kiwanis Speaker
, Major H. V. Carson, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church,
Sanford, addressed the Sandhills
Kiwanis Club Wednesday at Oak
Point Inn, near Carthage, on the
subject “The Right Relationship
Between Man and God, and Be
tween Man and His Neighbors.”
Major Carson, formerly with the
Army Air Force Technical Train
ing Command at Knollwood Field,
declared that Kiwanis under the
slogan, “We Build”, teaches the
building of character and a friend
ly relationship with our 'fellow-
man and gives first place to
Christian values.
The speaker was introduced by
Haynes Britt of Pinehurst.
Paul Butler, chairman of the
Church Committee, after making
a brief report for the committee,
advocated a Kiwanis union ser
vice this fall.
Charles G. Rose, Fayetteville at
torney, will address the afternoon
session of Bethesda Home Comers
at Bethesda Church near Aber
deen on Sunday, September 30.
As previously announced. Dr.
M. R. MacQueen of Clinton, S-
descendant of one of the early
pastors of Bethesda, will preach
at the morning service at 11 a.
m. The congregation will gather
in the grove of the 155-year old
church at noon to spread picnic
baskets for lunch as has been
the custom ever since home com
ings were instituted at Bethesda.
Around 2 p. m. the afternoon
service will begin when Mr. Rose
will speak. Carl Goerch, editor
of The State, who was expected
for the afternoon session, has no
tified J. Talbot Johnson, chair
man of the homecoming commit
tee, that he will be unable to at
tend the celebration.
JAMES BOYD, JR,
near an undisclosed place in
France, last December. When he
saw a nearby boat capsize in mid
stream after receiving a burst
of machine gun fire, he immed
iately paddled his boat to the
scene and rescued five heavily
clothed soldiers from drowning
in the swift current. One of the
five collapsed as a result of a
wound after reaching the friend
ly shore, whereupon Boyd admin
istered first aid before proceed
ing to the aid station with the
other four, then returned in the
face of withering enemy fire and
with the aid of a litter bearer
succeeded in evacuating his
wounded comrade his citation re
counts.
James Boyd, Jr., Q. M. 2|c
aboard the U. S. S. Joseph 'T.
Dickman (A. P. A. 13) and holder
of three battle stars, was a junior
at the University of North Car
olina, Chapel Hill, when he left
college in 1942 to join the Coast
Guard. He served on coastal pa
trol for several months and then
on a weather ship in the North
Atlantic until December 194$.
His ship was one of those “giving
the weather” for the D-Day in
vasion of Normandy.
Last December he joined the
Dickman, an assault transport.
The Dickman took part in the
Okinawa invasion, taking ma
rines there from Guadalcanal and
carrying them in to the beach in
her landing barges. Recently this
transport sailed from San Fran
cisco carrying troops to Tokyo for
the occupation of Japan.
Following in the steps of his
father, who was the author of
five historical novels, a collec
tion of poems and numerous ar
tides and short stories, James
Boyd, Jr., is interested in writing
and The Atlantic Monthly pub
lished a short while ago a thrill
ing tale of the sea which he
found time to write, along with
his Coast Guard duties.
The Chevrolet automobile
of J. E. Caviness, Lakeview
dairyman, which last week
was reported stolen from a
Sanford garage to which it
had been taken for repairs,
has been found near Green
ville in the eastern part of this
state—burned up, the owner
has been notified. The- car was
stolen the first night after re
pairs had been completed, the
thief having to move several
other automobiles to get to
this one.
Harold A. Collins,
Chain Store Owner,
Buys Jenks Estate
Major Jenks and
Wife Will Live
in Connecticut
YOUNG GOLFERS
Local linksmen will have
the opportunity to see their
"small fry" on the greens at
the Southern Pines Country
Club Thursday, September
27, at 2:30 p. m.
Comedy skits will precede
the matches which -will con
clude -with similar entertain
ment. Highlight of the after
noon will be the awarding of
prizes to low-scorers among
the girls and young and old
er boys.
The Junior Pros, composed
of grammar and high school
ers, are signing up now for
the Thursday meet -which
will be the first school ben
efit of the year. The Dram
atic Club sponsors these ben
efits lo help pay for stage
equipment for the schooL
Travel Outlook
Rosy for State
Large opportunities to promote
the travel industry in North Car
olina are devolving upon thd
North Carolina Travel Council,
formed in Raleigh last Wednes
day, when Richard S. Tufts of
Pinehurst was named one of the
first three council directors-
Former Governor J. Melville
Broughton of Raleigh and Cole
man W. Roberts of Charlotte were
the other two directors appoint
ed to the council who will in turn
nominate six additional directors.
Mr. Tufts when contacted this
week said it would probably be
two or three weeks before the
other members would be named,
but ehch of the present directors
will submit a group of nomina
tions to the Other two members
for consideration.
Mr. Tufts has emphasized that
the travel industry offers the op
portunity of turning the Sand
hills, the mountains, and seashore
of North Carolina into gold. The
question is whether the state will
be able to serve the great travel
business expected now that the
war is over.
The travel industry, estimated
to have exceeded five billion dol
lars a year before the war, may
be increased to seven or eight bil
lion dollars a year, it is estimated.
Soldiers Not Hurt
In Car Turn-Over
CLOSING TEMPORARILY
Tate’s Beauty Shop, at the end
of thirteen years’ service, is clos
ing temporarily and the propri
etors are taking this aimiversary
as a time to express appreciation
to the patrons who have contrib
uted to the success of the shop.
Two enlisted men, en route
from Florida to Virginia on fur
lough, were uninjured late Sat
urday night when their car skid
ded off US Highway 1, around
a mile from Southern Pines, turn
ing completely over.
Pfc- Daniel McGreathead, driv
er of the ’41 Chevrolet, said the
lights of an approaching automo
bile completely blinded him,
causing him to drive the car off
the pavement, according to Ser
geant J. A. Macko, Jiead of the
local Military Police, who arriv
ed on the scene shortly after the
accident. i
Sergeant Macko said it was
around 12:30 a. m. when he re
ceived a call from the local po-
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Transfer of the title to Pick-
ridge, former estate of Mhjor and
Mrs. Almet Jenks, to Harold A.
Collins, founder and owner of a
chain of department stores-in the
Carolinas, was recently completed
through E. C. Stevens, broker in
the transaction.
The property, fronting on
Young’s Road about two miles
east of Southern Pines, comprises
some 20 acres of land on which
is one of the most elaborate dwell
ings in the Sandhills area, with
large stables, appropriate out
buildings and well-lanscaped sur
roundings.
Mr. Collins, formerly of Lum-
berton, has already taken posses
sion of the premises, but he and
his family will not move here un
til October 25, pending repairs
and improvements.
Founder and owner of 10 de
partment stores and The Mer
chants Supply Company, purvey
ors of dry goods, shoes, and simi
lar merchandise, Mr. Collins is
also associated with other mem
bers of his family in the owner
ship of seven other stores in the
two Carolinas. Youngest son of the
late John O. Collins of Spartan
burg, S. C., he completed his ed
ucation at Wolford and Duke
University.
Mrs. Collins, the former Emma
Holliday of Gallivant’s Ferry, S.
C., is a graduate of Converse Col
lege. Mr. and Mrs. Collins and
their three children, Harold, Jr.,
12, James McLeod, 8, and Emma
Holliday, 2, are at present at their
summer home at Myrtle Beach.
The Jenks, former owners of
Pickridge, lived here some 20
years until Major Jenks entered
the armed forces early in the late
war. They will reside in Connect
icut after Major Jenks is dis
charged from the Marine Corps
but will doubtless be frequent
visitors to these parts where they
have been prominent in civic ac
tivities and have a host of friends.
Torrential rains which brought
approximately nine inches of
rainfall to this section during the
period from Friday through Mon
day resulted in flooded highways,
interruption of train service, clos
ing of some schools, and much
damage to crops. The flood was
one of the worst in the history of
the Sandhills.
The greatest precipitation reg
istered on any one day was 4.40
on Monday, and already-swollen
streams rose rapidly. On High
way 1 at Little River near Lake-
view, the water, almost level with
the shoulder of the road in mid
afternoon, was hub-cap deep by
six o’clock. State Highway trucks
remained on the scene to give aid
to motorists in case of trouble,
and although some local persons
continued to go through, main
traffic was detoured by Carthage
Tuesday. Considerable
damage to highway shoulders
was evident after the water re
ceded.
The highway from Southern
Pines to Carthage was closed
Tuesday because of high water.
Nick’s Creek at Chandler’s old
pond and Little River made it '
necessary for travelers to go by
way of Pinehurst.
Water from a small creek in
Cameron reached the Seaboard
Railway Station, and at Byrd'S
Bridge on Cranes Creek a few
miles out, a man named Lynch,
tenant on the farm of Misses Sal-
lie and Bessie Cameron, after be
ing forced to abandon his truck
in the high water went back la
ter and found that the raging tor
rent had turned the vehicle com
pletely up side down.
Luckily, this section escaped
the high winds that damaged sec-
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Fifteen SP Boys
Report For First
Football Practice
DIG DOWN
SHIELDS CAMERON HURT
IN WRECK, IS AT HOME
D. D. Shields Cameron, who
was injured about three weeks
ago in an automobile accident
which occurred beyond Fayette
ville and who had been a patient
in Highsmith Hospital, Fayette
ville since that time, was able to
return to his home here Saturday.
While he will have to remain iy.
bed for several days, Mr. Cam
eron is able to receive company
and enjoys having his friends
call.
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KINDERGARTEN TO OPEN
Notre Dame School, which op
ened its grade and high school de
partments on September 10, this
week announces the opening of
the kindergarten on October 1.
Campaigners for funds to
enlarge the school physical
education facilities have al
most realized their goal, June
Phillips, fund treasurer, an
nounced Thursday.
Response from citizens in
terested in making gymnasi
um facilities adequate for in
tramural and varsity sports
has been good, the committee
reports, but additional dona
tions are sought to give the
drive a 100- per cent support
by townspeople.
Those who have received
season tickets to all school
athletic activities for dona
tions of five dollars or more
are reminded that their atten
dance at games this fall and
wjinter will be appreciated
as much as their financial
support.
So those who haven't . . .
dig down and give out.
CRITICALLY ILL
Six-man football got oil to an
enthusiastic start on the South
ern Pines athletic field Tuesday
when fifteen high school boys
met with Supt. Phil Weaver and
Coach A. C. Dawson to begin
training for a team which the
boys hope will make the State
Class C Conference sit up and
take notice.
Although none in the group has
had any actual coaching, five or
six of the students played a few
games last year with Carthage
and Robbins, and so great was,
the interest in the game that some
of the players, eager to equip a
tea,m, this summer made an ap
peal for funds which resulted in
donations amounting to $3^0. At
the opening of the fall term the
solicitors turned this money over
to the athletic directors for the
purchase of equipment, and an _
official field is being laid off at
the athletic park.
It is planned for; the team to
enter the State Class C Confer-
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Walter C. Leslie, prominent
lifelong resident of Vass, is crit
ically ill in Lee County Hospital,
Sanford, where he has been a pa
tient for nearly seven weeks. His
condition became worse last
week.
Appoints Red Cross
Nominating Committee
Col. George Percy Hawes, Jr.,
chairman of the Moore County
Red Cross chapter, has appointed
the following nominating com
mittee to prepare a list of nomi
nees for presentation to the mem
bers at the annual meeting.
The committee: Mrs. M. G.
Nichols, Southern Pines, chair
man; Mrs. A. L. Burney, Aber
deen; Mrs. W. G. Brown, Car
thage; the Rev. Roscoe Prince,
Pinehurst, and W. P. Saunders,
Robbins.
Red Cross Chapter by-laws pro
vide for the county chairman ap
pointing a nominating committee
in October, and that the ilst of
nominees be published in the
Moore County newspapers, at
least two weeks prior to the an
nual meeting.
Chairman Hawes pointed out
that all Red Cross members are
invited to discuss with members
of the nominating committee, of
ficer material to serve during
1946.
The by-laws also provide for
nominations from the floor at the
annual meeting.