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Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday. November 16. 1945.
Lloyd Woolley, Jr., Tells About Life
Aboard An Aircraft Carrier
Describes Task Force
Action Under Famous
Capt. "Dixie" Kiefer
“Just think . . . you were in
Japan just a little while ago! it’s
hard to realize.’’
“It was hard to realize then,”
Lloyd Woolley said. “The people
would bow when you came along,
and all stand aside. Some of them
looked scared, but they all grin
ned and bowed and scraped. It
gave you a strange feeling.”
Lloyd Jr., has been home about
ten days of the precious leave
which came to him after his ship,
the Ticonderoga, came into San
rVancisco last month, b 'inging
back home a great crowd of dis
charged soldiers and sailors. The
big carrier, which had seen some
of the toughest fighting of the
Pacific campaign, was loaded to
her gun’alls with happy passen
gers. Including many of her own
Crew who were seeing their last
bit of ocean for what they hoped
would be a long time.
Lloyd joined the Navy back in
July, 1943, when he was still sev
enteen. It is said the best of the
boot-campers were sent to the air
craft carriers. Be that as it ipay,
Lloyd was assigned to the Ticon
deroga, destined for duty in the
Pacific. His rank was musician
2|c, and rank was all the musican
there was to it; the instruments,
packed away when they boarded
ship, never saw the light of day
till they were back again on dry
land.
On the first cruise, he was one
of six musicians who were given
radar instruction. They spent a
great part of their time, on the
bridge at the instruments work
ing closely with the navigation
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PLEASE!
Due to the damage which
results, citizens are request
ed by the Town not to burn
trash on the paved streets.
This causes il|? gutters to
crack and the asphalt to be
come brittle.
Fire In Fitanides
Home At 5 A. M.
Company Acts With
Speed To Save House;
Thrift Shop Is Loss
Christmas Seals
Sale Starting
Trouble is: when you do a
thing once you have to go on do
ing it again and better and bet
ter!
Mrs. T. A. Cheatham, chairman
of Moore County’s Tuberculosis
Association, is finding that out
this year, for the eighteenth time.
For it was eighteen long years ago
that she started her seal-selling
career in the county (and a few
oth^ things besides selling
seals!)
The first year, only $700.00 was
raised through seal sales; last
year $5260.00, and this year the
quota' has been put at $5300.00.
So, bigger and bigger efforts must
be made for those better and bet
ter results. And, just, to show
that the re'sults do follow the ef
forts: since the start of this work,
the number of deaths from T. B.
in the county have dropped from
18 to 7, a remarkable record.
Mrs. Cheatham, the county
chairman, and the colored county
chairman, R. O. Taylor, are quick
to pass the credit on to their
workers, particularly the chair
men of the different branches.
Following is the list of those who
are heading the seal-selling in
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Miss Rhpda King Joins
County Welfare Staff
Miss Rhoda King of New York,
a graduate of Hunter College
who is doing a year’s graduate
study in the Social Work School
of the University of North Caro- I
lina, has been assigned to the'
Moore County Welfare Depart
ment for three days of field work
each week for the college year.
Miss King will spend three days
at the college, and three days as
case v/orker in the Pinehurst and
Carthage territory. One of 30 in
,ihe graduate School of Sbcial
Work who are engaged in field
work in sixteen of the oiie hun
dred counties in North Carolina,
she began her duties last week.
Holliday Opens New
Restaurant In Town
W. B. Holliday has opened his
new restaurant on West Broad
Street adjoining the Carolina
Theatre building. Formerly Ed’s
Cafe, the new enterprise brings
to Southern Pines citizens and
visitors another place to eat good
meals.
The hours are from seven A. M.
to eleven P. M. and the restau
rant will be closed on Tuesdays.
Paul Fitanides and his family
narrowly escaped from a fire or
iginating in the kitchen of their
apartment over the Boston Shoe
Shop and thp Thrift Shop on
Pennsylvania Avenue, at five
o’clock, Thursday morning.
Awakened by the crackling of
I flames, Fitanides caught up his
'child, while his wife dashed to
the telephone to turn in the
alarm. The room was full of
smoke as they hurried down to
the shelter of the car, not waiting
to do more than wrap the baby
in a blanket. Fearing that they
would not be safe there, he then
I drove them to the home of a
neighbor and rushed back him-
i self, hoping to save some of his
j leather and equipment. To his
immense surprise the fire de-
Ipartment was already there, and
well on the way to getting the
flames under control.
“Those boys certainly deserve
the greatest credit,” Fitanides
said, “for the way they worked.
I just couldn’t believe it when
I got back and found them al
ready there and the fire nearly
under control. How they did it
I don’t know! They were right on
the job from start to finish.”
The prompt arrival of the^ de
partment was responsible for sav
ing the old wooden building and
the living and business quarters
of the Fitanides property, but
nearly all the interior and mer
chandise of the Thrift Shop was
destroyed. There was no insur
ance on this and only a smajl
amount is carried by the owner on
his shop and machinery. Mrs.
Fitanides lost all her clothes and
furniture, saving only some of
the baby’s things.
Jack’s Grill invited the Fire
Company over, after all was safe,
and gave them coffee and sand
wiches.
The building, recently acquired
by Fithnides, is one of the oldest
marcantile establishments in
throughout its history of over a
Southern Pines, having been oc
cupied by miany concerns
half century.
Achievement Day
In County Clubs
“Family life can strengthen
world peace by teaching child
ren from little tots on up to show
consideration”, said Mrs. Virgin
ia S. Swain, Family Life Spec
ialist of the Extension Service
of State College at the annual
Achievement Day Program held
in the court house last Wednes
day afternoon.
In an interesting address on
child psychology, Mrs. Swain list
ed many valuable points to keep
in mind. “Parents,” she said,
“should impress upon children the
value of courtesy and encourage
them tp practice it at home; then
it will be natural to them when
they are with outsiders.”
Speaking of religious training,
Mrs. Swain said, “Children should
be taken to church and not sent
alone. When you are considering
doing something that will affect
the whole family your children
should be consulted and made to
feel that you want their judge
ment on such matters. Encour
age thjem also to share their
troubles, sorrows, and happiness
with you. Never be too busy to
listen”.
The Tuberculosis Seal Sale was
presented by Mrs. T. A. Cheat
ham, County chairman. The Vic
tory Loan Drive was presented
by Flora McDbnald', extension
Service head.
Club reports were given by the
club officers and the devotional
was lead by Mrs. Arthur Gaines.
Mrs. Redga Thomas, County
Council President presided.
Hawes and Avery
Reelected at Red
Cross Meeting
Chair Lauds Members
In Fine County Report
Urging Work Continue
The Moore County Chapter of
the American Red (ZIross held its
annual meeting Friday at the
Southern Pines School House and
elected the officers for the com
ing year. George P. Hawes, Jr.,
was elected chairman, and L. T.
Avery vice-chairman. Miss Nancy
Proctor, secretary, and David
Packard, treasurer.
In an impressive report, the
chairman. Col. George P. Hawes,
Jr., outlined the work accomplish
ed during the year by the ten
branches of the Chapter: Aber
deen, Southern Pines, Pinehurst,
Cameron, Carthage, Eagle
Springs, Jackson Springs, Rob
bins, Pinebluff and West End. He
told of the resignation of E. H.
Garrison, Jr., as chairman on
Dec. 5th, and of Mr. Leon Sey
mour as vice-chairman in July
and of the two plapes being filled
by himself and L. T. Avery,
while Mrs. Margaret Dyer took
over the duties of Home Service
secretary from Mrs. Louise Clark,
Mrs. Paul Dana being elected sec
retary of the chapter.
Col. Hawes concluded his re
port by calling upon all the mem
bers of the chapter to continue
their loyal service. “Above all”,
he said, “it must be remembered
that the Red Cross is a humani
tarian organization, and to be
useful to the community and suc
cessful, there is no place in its
orgai^ization for petty policies,
selfishness and jealousies. W^
can not succeed without making
some personal sacrifice, and the
fortunate should be willing to
give of their time and do some
thing to aid those to whom life
has not been so generous.”
Report for 1945
PRODUCTION: During tl^e
year 41,033 surgical dressings
were made for Camp Mackall,
the gauze furnished by the sta
tion hospital. Knitting for the
Army consisted of 125 articles;
for the Navy, 144 articles; for
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Ballentine Speaks
To Kiwanians
On Farm Problems
By Howard F. Bums
L. Y. Ballentine, Lt. Governor
of North Carolina addressed the
Sandhill Kiwanis Club and tobac
co buyers from the Aberdeen
market, assembled at luncheon
Wednesday.
Preceding the address. Gene
Maynard, Auctioneer on the
Aberdeen Tobacco Market, au-
tioned a couple of cigarette light
ers for which the funds will go to
the Children’s Bed Fund, sponsor
ed by the Kiwanis Club at the
Moore County Hospital.
J. Talbot Johnson announced
that the annual Ladies’ Night Ban
quet will be held at the Pinehurst
Country Club on the evening of
Wednesday, November 28th. Ham
ilton Holt, President of the Ki
wanis International, is the ban
quet speaker. Charles Picquet, a
member of the Committee, is ar
Smith Brothers In the Navy
FRANCIS E. SMITH
CLYDE WATSON SMITH
Two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Har- nothing short of sensational,
vey Smith of Southern Pines are “To every officer and man in
serving in the Navy. Francis E., your ships is due resounding ap
seaman l|c, enlisted in June, 1943 plause for shoving your noses in-
and volunteered for sea duty. Fol- to Kirumn before the occupation
lowing his training he served on without thought of self in a most
the Atlantic until the surrender worthy cause,
of Gerrnany, then transferred to <.The handling of passengers
the Pacific. their; care like everything
Clyde Watson Smith, seaman else in the operation was done
2jc, enlisted last January. When in the American way, and there
last heard from on September is no better.
22 he was in San Francisco await- | “I pass to you Commander Sev-
ing reassignment. enth Fleet’s message, ‘Prompt
Seaman Francis Smith is serv- and determined action in the For-
ing aboard the USS Kretchmer, I moso evacuation under difficult
which was one of the ships which circumstances was a magnificent
evacuated prisoners of war from performance and a Godsend to
Formoso, and made such a fine . our prisoners. WELL DONE,
record that Rear Admiral D. Signed, Kincaid.’ ”
Ketchum sent them the follow- The entrance into the harbor
ing message, a copy of which was at Formosa by the Kretchmer and
given Smith with a certificate the Gary, destroyer escorts, was
the first to be attempted by any
of the allies since Perry opened
the gates of Japan in the year
FOURTEEN PAGES
VOTE DEC. 18 TO .
enlarge and improve the
town's 'sewer systems im
prove and repair the town's
streets; improve and purify
the town's air* by building
an incineraitor to take the
place of the dump.
The first will cost $70,000,
the second $50,000, and the
third $30,000. The town pro
poses to pay for these nec
essary improvements by the
issuance of three sets of
bonds, to be paid for by an
annual tax.
The polls, at the Municipal
Building, will be open from
6:30 A. M- to 6:30 P. M. and
those familiar characters, Hi
ram Westbrook, Frank Wil
son, and A. S. Ruggles will
be on hand to see that all
goes smoothly.
Victory Drive Is
Lagging in County
Southern Pines Has
20 Percent of Quota;
School Rally a Success
TEN CENTS
School Team Vies
For State Honors
Thanksgiving Day
Southern Pines Plays
Lexington School For
East-West Grid Title
showing that he was serving dur
ing that action:
“For evacuating prisoners of
war from Formoso you were
1853, it is recorded.
Telephone Men In
Convention Here
The Central Carolina Company
was host, this past week to the
members of the North Carolina
Independent Telephone Compan
ies Association, which entertain
ed at the close of the convention
with a banquet and dance at the
Pine Needles Hotel.
About a hundred and twenty-
five members of the association
attended the convention, filling
the hotel to capacity and over
flowing into the near-by Mid-
Pines Club. Two hundred and
fifty covers were laid at. the
banquet for the members, local
guests and visiting dignitaries of
the Bell Company and represen
tatives of telephone equipment
firms. Carl Goerch, of The State
Magazine, acted as toast-master;
Edmund Harding, of Washington,
D. C. being one of the speakers,
as well as the ri^ewly elected
president, of the association,
Ralph Van Prime, vice-president
of the Durham Telephone Co.
Norman L. Shenk, form'er resi
dent of Southern Pines, was a
convention speaker.
Hounds Meet For
With sixteen of the 41 days of
the Victory Loan Drive ended,
Moore County had on Tuesday
reported only $59,679.75 of its
overall quota of $446,000, with
$40,368.75 of this amount being
in E bonds, according to figures
released by County Chairman Eu
gene C. Stevens.
Southern Pines had a total of
$25,450 through Wednesday,
which is approximately 20 per
cent of the overall quota. The
E bond showing is some better,
$22,950, or one-third of the E
quota, Paul Jernigan, local chair
man reports.
Servicemen, active and retired,
are setting a fine example for
civilians, one which leaders in
the drive would like to see them
follow. 'The first Roosevelt two-
hundred dollar E bond purchas
ed in Southern Pines during the
^ • 1-1 TT Victory Drive was bought by Cor-
Upenmg rox Hunt 'P°^^l Calvin N. Stephenson, U.
^ ” S. Marine Corps, who is in Nag-
by J. A. Phillips
Southern Pines, eastern title
winner, will meet Lexington
Junior Orphanage, western title
holdera, here on Thanksgiving
Day at 2:30 p. m. to play for the
state class C football champion
ship.
Saturdaw afternoon in a con
ference with M. McIntosh of
Chapel Hill, secretary of the N.
C. Association of high schools,
Mr. Weaver and Mr. Dawson of
fered the local gridiron facilities
for the game. Mr. McIntosh, af
ter long distance consultation
with the two western contenders,
Curry High and the Junior Or
phanage, accepted the offer and
set Thanksgiving as the day of
the game. The N. C. High School
Association officially sponsors
the game, and after paying the
expenses of the visiting team and
officials will divide the receipts
one third between the Associa
tion and the two high schools-
Around the high school there is
an air of tense expectancy as the
'students, prej)aring new; cheers
and songs, rally around their
team as never before. One thing
is definitely known, it will be a
head long crash of two high scor
ing teams, both undefeated, each
seeking new honors here this
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SCIENCE WORKSHOP
Moore County teachers in large
numbers attended a Science
Workshop conducted by A. B.
Combs and Miss Julia Weather-
ington of the State Department
tanging an interesting musical; of Education, Raleigh, at the West
program. I End School Monday night.
The Moore County Hounds op
ened the season Tuesday with a
fox-hunt. Meeting at nine at the
Kennels on the Mile-away Farm
of the master, Ozelle Moss, hounds
drew the Carrolls Branch cover
back of the farm.
The lateness of the hour and
the warm weather combined to
make it a poor scenting day, and
hounds drew without success for
the next hour or so when the
master decided to blow off and
go home.
Beside the hunt staff, only five
were out: Mr. and Mrs. Brodres-
seur and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, of
Washington, D- C., and Mrs. Cald
well, w-i,;^ is occupying the Trix
house.
The tentat,^.'' schedule of hunts
for the seashu- comprises fox
hunting on Tuesday's and Thurs
days and drags on Saturdays. The
first drag will take nlace this
Saturday, November ' 17th, at
three o’clock.
MISS JOYCE ISGETT IN
COUNTY HEALTH OFFli:
asaki, Japan, with The Fighting
Sixth Division. Col. O. A. Dick
inson, retired, purchased the first
E bond other than the Roose
velt bond.
Aberdeen is the only other
town from which late figures are
available. About 25 percent of
the quota had been raised through
Wednesday.
The School Bond Rally held
here last Friday was a great suc
cess, with bond and stamp sales
bringing the school’s total to $5,
444.95., Grade 3, Miss Abbie Suth
erland, teacher, led in sales, with
$1,702.60. The school started out
with the purchase of one bed at
Fort Bragg ($3,000) as its goal,
but now it is confident that it
can double that number.
The auditorium was packed for
the program. Capt. A. H. Achter-
mann led the devotions and
stressed the importance of buying
and holding war bonds. Capt.
Itaska Simmons spoke and the
664th Army Air Force Band from
Laurinburg-Maxton Army Air
Base delighted the crowd with
novelty and popular numbers.
“The Army Nurse,” a film was
shown.
Miss Joyce Isgett of Cameron
is the new clerk in the Moore
County Health Department, tak-
jing the place of Miss Evelyn
Stutts, who has entered the Un
iversity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
The Story of a Prisoner of War
By James Boyd< Jr.
QM 2lc U. S. C- G.
The grey transport rose heav-leyes showed it, and the way they part of the original British gar-
ily on the first swells of the Pa-1 talked in low, quiet voices. They rison from Hong Kong; Ameri-
moved about the ship with a tiny cans from Corregidor and long
unconscious stoop. Automatically, lost US civilians taken on Wake
they stepped aside when a sailor Island where they had been
apT;)roa'’h’dj.iirhiij-‘V; 'S ’’^litenesp building an airstrip. This was
never experienced '‘aboard’ •' k'the p. e-ioUs cargo which my ship,
crowded transport. The sailor the Dickman, was bringing home,
felt a keen sense of guilt when I talked to many of these men.
these men drew to one side, so For the most part, they were
completely, to let him pass. Very eager to talk, eager to exchange
seldom did they shout or yell or ideas about what had happened,
carry on. Even when the ship’s about thd future, about their
thin men in khaki looking like band played for them their faces homes and even about politics,
battle worn GI’s. Their clasped remained expressionless. They; Th^ were not eager tto talk
hands were scarred and wrinkled, jhad seen too much to allow their i about their experiences, though
Their faces were blank and ex- emotions to show themselves, inevitably the conversation work-
pressionless, watching the waves | This hardened group of men, ed around to it. I found that, ex-
curve off the bow and hiss by. that crow'ded the decks, were Al- cept for minor details, their
Looking at them more closely, lied prisoners of war liberated stories were all about the same,
one realized these werd not GI’s. | three weeks before from tinder j This particular story is by no
They had seen things no soldier the Jap heel; British and Cana-1 means complete. It is really only
even, had seen. Their faces andidians taken at Singapore and a' (Con'd, on Pago 1. Sodion 2)
cific. Over her white wake,
astern, the green hills and moun
tains of the Philippines were
dropping into the horizon. The
ship was on its way to San Fran
cisco. On board was the most wel
come and precious cargo she had
ever carried during her many ad
ventures of the war.
Along her rails* leaned brown.
I ew Owners Take Over
Lakeview Hotel, Lake
Mr.iand Mrs. Jimmy Allen, re
cent pu”chasers of the Lakeview
Hotel aiid 200-acre Crystal Lake
at Lake.'iew, have already tak
en posset ion and have the place
in operation. The new owners
plan to completely renovate the
hotel building, erect a new bath
house and glance pavilion at the
water, and put twenty-five good
fishing boats on the lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen came tc
Lakeview from Durham. She was
originally from Akron, Ohio,
and Mr. Allen, formerly a pro
fessional ball player, is a North
Carolinian, a liative of Anson
County. They have one young son
Jimmy, Jr., almost four, who in-
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UNION SERVICE
The annual XJtdon Thanks-
givinjg Siervic^ of all
churches in Soufbern Pines
will be held at ^:00 p. m.
Wednesday, November 21, in
the Church of W^e FeUow-
ship, with the Rev. Thomp
son E. Davis, pastor of
Brownson Memorial Pres
byterian Church, brii^png the
message. The entire eom-
miinity Is invited.
First Horse Show
Of Season Will Be
Thanksgiving Day
Palominos, Cowboys,
Hunters Feature
Afternoon Program
The opening horse show and
equestrian Gymkhana of the sea
son will be held at the horseshow
grounds at Southern Pines Coun
try Club on Thanksgiving Day,
Thursday, November 22nd, at 2
P. Ms according to an announce
ment made by Louis Scheipers,
Chairman of the Equestrian
Committee. Plans are being made
to make this one of the outstand
ing shows of the autumn months.
Workmen have been busily en
gaged in getting the Hunter Trial
Course and show ring in readi
ness for the show.
The feature part of the pro
gram will be the presentation by
The Paddock Farm of several
palomino horses. This is a very
beautiful animal that performs
many tricks, and will be in addi
tion to the usual'classes on the
afternoon program.
Mrs. Daryll Parshall, the for
mer Margaret Thorne Smith of
Millbrook and Southern Pines,
will judge and Lloyd Tate, of
Blowing Rock and Pinehurst, will
announce the events.
The afternoon card lists six
classes,’ opening with the show
ing of the palominos and the spec
tacular riding of western cow
boys; second, a class for children’s
horsemanship and amateur riders;
third, a class for lightweight and
middleweight hunters on the out
side course; fourth, a class for
open jumpers in the ring; fifth
a class for servicemen, which is
expected to be the most spec
tacular event on the program, and
Sixth a Potato Race.
The show is being given for the
benefit of the United War Loan
Drive.
Democratic Banquet and
Rally Honor Servicemen
A Moore Couijty Democratic
Banquet and Rally honoring re-
'turned service men will be held
at the Southern Pines Country
Club next Tuesday night, Nov
ember 20, beginning at 7:00 p.
m. The meeting is sponsored by
the Young Democratic Club of
Moore County.
An interesting program has
been arranged, highlight of
which will be an adress by M. G.
Boyette. The public is invited.
CLOSING
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Company will be closed on
Thanksgiving Day, November
22nd.