Staff l^ergeant James Pate Home After Four Years of Service Saw A Bases clion at Fighter in Pacific; Now On Te cminal Leave New Year feelings to boy, this s Day brought mixed one Southern Pines 3|'ear. Staff Sergeant James E. F ate arrived home on that day, :erminating a period which lacke d just twenty-six days of being fo home to j though infi charged anc return rene sad news w during thos ar years since he left oin the army. But nitely glad to be dis- l back home again, his wed the sorrow of the hich had come to him four years away. For his parents,\vir. and Mrs. Edwin Pate, had both passed away while he w as overseas, a hard blow, indeed to this young sol dier. And sa d, too, to all friends in the realiz ?tion of what would have been tl^ir pride in him and their joy in Irelcoming him home again. y Three yeai's ago Pate was bn his way to Bris bane, Australia.^ A i member of i small air force ser vice group, he acted as company personnel c: erk in the quarter master corps Joining the rest_ of the outfit t here, his crowd of thirty-some i nen was flown into Southern Ne w Guinea, where they acted i is supply troops for their fighter plane unit, which • (Contir ued on Page 5)- Jumping Events In Show Ring Prove GymkhanaFeature Walsh Entries Take Blues For Classes On Hunting Course E. PATE Wilbur H. Currie Wed T<) Daughter of Job] 1 Willcox u nc< of great in terest to ^ ore County people is larriage of Mrs. Mar garet Willco ^ Wicker and Wilbur Hoke CuiTif > of Carthage, which at the home of the took place Friday even six o’clock. Murphy Ci. groom, offj Rev. Will pastor of Only meir iate fam^~ lowing fg' left for will rcr- return. Mrs. Moore per ea < Hoi5 Currie,' of Cartl izens, i County years, brother, now sen first wi: Woltz, has five bride’s fath er, John Willcox on ing, December 28th, at The Rev. William rrie, brother of the ^ated, assisted by the im Sidney Golden, e bride and groom. Ts of the two immed- s were present. FoL wedding, the couple p to New York. They |in Carthage on their Forme Recei\ Cyrus forhaerly dent of has beer lina stal America) quarters, made by cago, pr Charlotte law of Aberdee] lurrie is the daughter of bunty’s Clerk of the Su- lurt. The family once liv- famous old place, “IThe the Horseshoe.” Wilbur ho has long been one ’s most prominent cit- s headed the Board of ^nmissioners for many part owner, with his he Currie Mills and is ihg as State Senator. His ;e, the former Elizabeth led in August, 1943. He children. r Aberdeen Man es Appointment B. Campbell of Charlotte, of Aberdeen, vice-presi- the American Trust Co., appointed North Caro- e vice-president of the Bankers’ Association, aC'Mrdinj 1 to a recent report from th^sso( iation’s New York head- The appointment was Frank C. Rathje of Chi- esident. A resident of Aberdeei i before having gone to Campbell is a son-in- John T. Harrington of BAD LUCK Willie < begin his dicapped mule got and wan Janie El old wel’ which 1 slabs, k heard n well th( tigated. the mu ground, lately. lott. :iyde Sellars of Vass will farming this spring han- by the loss of a mule. His out one night last week ered to the premises of :, where it fell into an hich had caved in and d been covered with imbers of the family proceeding from the ext morning and inves- wrecker was calld and was hoisted to the ; it died almost immed- Properties Change Hands In Recent Sales In Xown During the Coming Year Presaging Upswing In Sandhills Development by Jack Bilyeu Riders and spectators found gray skies but a reasonably firm turf for the holiday equestrian gymkhana last Sunday afternoon at the horseshow grounds of the Southern Pines Country Club. Swelling the throng of onlookers surrounding the show ring were many veterans recently returned and members of the college set home for the holidays, as the gathering saw a string of hunters and jumpers from Mickey Walsh’s Stoneybrook stSbles dominate top events in the show. Performing smoothly the black middleweight Stallstown, by Mickey Walsh, owner up, stood out from a large field of seven teen to take the blue in the Class for Working Hui^ers. Offering stiff competition to the Walsh en try was the brown gelding Little River owned by Mrs. W. O. Moss of the Mile-Away Stables, who brought the lightweight in to place second. Third place in this event, judged upon performance The twenty-ninth annual run ning of the Pinehurst Field Trials will be held over the trial grounds at Pinehurst beginning on Mon- rather than conformation, went i^ay, of next week, January 7th, ^ ... . according to an announcement by To date Southern Pines has subscribed 261 percent of its overall quota of bondb in the Victory Loan Drive, with sales amounting to the big figure of $326,017.25. The quo ta was $124,880.00. In the E- bond sales, with a quota of $66,640, final figures show $98,917.25 raised or 148 per cent of the quota. County figures, which are by no means final, as returns are subject to several days' delay, show 147 percent of the overall total raised and 96 percent- of the E-bond quota completed. Chairman Stevens is confident that the full amount has been actually subscribed, and will have the final report next week. Mid Season Show At Pinehurst Has Varied Entries Many Riders Take Part But Cold Wind Cuts Attendance OPA Removes Rental Ceilings For Hotels, Rooming Honses Here WITH STATION WHIG Pinehurst Field Trials Slated To CommeneeMonday Amateur, Open Derbys Are Feature Stakes In Annual Dog Events Properties are changing hands these days in what may be the beginning of an upswing in the resort business in these parts. Par ticularly encouraging in these transactions, however, is the fact that, while attracted here by the resort features of the place: the pleasant atmosphere, fine winter climate, sport facilities, most of the newcomers are people who plan to make their permanent homes here. One of these is John Under wood who has just bought the former Nichols house from L. E. Cherry. This house was built by M. S. Nichols, along with the one next to it, the first houses to be built in the Country Club devel opment. Mr. Underwood now owns both these properties and expects to rent the Nichols house to Mrs. Underwood’s brother. The Underwoods come from Charlotte and have a daughter who loves to ride. John Under wood is district manager of the Pilot Life Insurance Co. The house owned by the late Hugh J. Betterley is another to be recently sold. The new owner is Mrs. Edith C. Buffum of Prov idence. Mrs. Buffum has been staying at The Paddock with her young granddaughter, a pupil at the Ark School. They expect to move into their new home some time this month. Both these sales were made through the Bamum Agency which also reports some interest ing rentals. The Britt house, back of the Highland Pines Inn, for merly owned by the Phillips fam ily, has been rented to Vincent A. Giles of Hamburg, N. Y., while Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Farrell of Ot- towa have leased an apartment in the Mills Building on Weymouth Heights. to Clifton Ferry, ridden, by Miss Roberta Frye. Proving an event of particular interest was the Class for Pair James W. Tufts, secretary-treas urer of the Pinehurst Field Trial Taylor-Bobbitt Given New Automobile Agency Major W. Sidney Taylor, recent ly discharged from the Army Air Corps, and Claude Bobbitt, both of Aberdeen, announce having re ceived a franchise for the Chrys- ler-Plymouth dealership in Sou thern Pines, Pinehurst, and Aber deen. The firm of Taylor-Bobbitt, Ltd., temporarily located in the Aberdeen Tobacco Warehouse, state that they expect to have new Chrysler and Plymouth au tomobiles on display in the near future. At present the new partnership, with full garage facilities and complete tools and equipment, of fers expert service on all makes of automobiles. Plans now are be ing carried forward for the build ing of a new garage and dealer’s establishment to be located on the main highway in Aberdeen. Jumpers, in which again besting strong competition, the Walsh en tries eclipsed a field of sixteen jumpers, as the family team of Mickey Walsh, Jr., on Chance, and a three year old gelding ridden by Miss Hannah Walsh, were judged i first. In the Class for Hunt Teams five etntries of three hunters each faced the test of jumps on the outside hunting course, as the team captained by Mickey Walsh was awarded first place over re maining competition. The red in this event went to the hunt team representing the Tate’s Sables in Pinehurst, led by Howard Hobson. The Mile-Away team of Mrs. W. O. Moss finished third. Breath-taking event for the day was the knock down and out class for jumpers. Riding in three final jump-offs against Mickey Walsh on Little Gold, Boylston A. Tomp kins, Jr., of New York cleared the jumps at more than five feet on the brown gelding Prince, enter ed by Mile-Away StaWes, bril liantly capturing first palace. From among an unusually large and well-performing field of twenty riders in the Class for (Continued on Page 5) Club. Polio Fund Drive Starting; Butler Is Local Chairman Paul C. Butler, prominent Sou thern Pines civil leader, will again serve as Southern Pines Chairman of the polio fund rais ing campaign, according to an an nouncement by H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, general county chair man of the drive which will be conducted from January 14 through January 30. Moore County’s quota in the 1946 fund for which the appeal is made is $3,680.00 as compared with $3890.00 for 1945 when a to tal of $6,263.53 was contributed. Chairman Blue said that a meeting of the community chair men will be held at the time of the regular chapter meeting, prob ably on the night of Tuesday, Jan uary 8, at the nurses’ home of the Moore County Hospital, at which time the quotas for the various communities will be announced. In the 1945 fund raising appeal. Southern Pines contributed $1,- 528.54. A complete list of the 1946 com munity chairmen in the campaign to raise funds to fight infantile paralysis follows: Aberdeen, R. C. Fields, Carth age, Luke Marion, Jr., Robbins, Miss Sallie Green Allison, Pine- (Continued on Page 5) Headquarters for the meeting will be at the Holly Inn, wheie the first drawing, for the Ama teur Stakes, will be held at J:.t» p. m. on Sunday, January 6th. Drawing for the Open Puppy Stakes and the Open Stakes will take place on January 7th and 8th respectively. Judges for the trials will be Dr. Sherman Ame;, of Easton, Pa., and John E. Mil- horn, of Johnson City, Tenn. The first class will be held over the No. 1 course starting back of the Carolina Hotel at 8:30 Monday. Order of running for the an nual sporting event is as follows: No. 1, Amateur All-Age—$5.00 to enter, $5.00 to start, open to all bird dogs handled by amateurs. The directors offer the “Shore Me morial Trophy” to the winner of the Amateur All Age to become the property of any owner whose dogs are three times winners. The names of winning dogs and their owners will be engraved upon the trophy annually until it is per manently won. Prizes are offer ed for the first three places. No. 2, Amateur Derby (ten or more dogs to start)—$5.00 to en ter, $5.00 to start. The Amateur Derby is open to all bird dogs whelped on or after January 1st; tContinueu on Page 5) by E. O. Hippus The annual mid-winter horse show took place at Pinehurst on New Year’s Day, under real mid winter conditions. No snow on the ground, but plenty of icicles in toes and fingers, to judge by the pinched expressions on faces and the humped backs of gay souls among the four-legged partici pants. The judges, gentlemen from the frozen regions of Detroit . . . which weall call Deetroit, down- yer . . . were apparently not phased by the icy wind that swept the grounds and shook the magno lias back of the Carolina, for they did a fine job, but us tarheels were not so happy. The afternoon show was well- planned, with a variety of events to please all tastes, and most classes showed the same happy mixture, being full of horses and riders of every size and descrip tion. That is one of the delights of Moore County shows, and must be a puzzling phenomenon to horsemen from without: to see our classes, with finished horse-wo men like Ginny Moss and Peggy Mechling riding side-by-side with those beguiling little Pierson girls, and big bay hunter Re nown Winkelman trotting sedate ly ahead of that brown and white butterball, Tony Dana. But it is great fun for everybody, except, perhaps, the judges. In this case, the latter, Messrs. Dowling and Bridge, of Detroit, who hunt with the Metamora and Bloomfield packs, did a good job and also succeeded in pleasing most everybody; no mean feat for a horse show judge. Outstanding events of the after noon were the knockdown-and- out class, the ladies’ hacks, open jumping and working hunter classes. In the first, L. M. Tate won a clean performance on Sail or Boy. Second went to Miss Anne Reynolds’ Sail On, an entry from Blowing Rock, ridden by Mr. Hoppe, while Mickie Walsh had a lucky win of third with a good performance on Golden Boy. The next class for ladies’ hacks brought out twenty-one as varied entries as ever entered a show-ring together. Two horses were clearly outstanding. Little River of Mile Away Stables and CARL G. THOMPSON, JR. Carl Thompson, Jr. Heard Weekly In Facts Commentary Former Pilot Editor Now Conducting Broadcasts With Greensboro Station Former Pilot editor, Carl G. Thompson, Jr., who was recently discharged from the Army and is now affiliated with radio station WBIG in Greensboro, was heard on the air as commentator at 6:15i p. m. on Tuesday of last week with the debut of the pro gram “Here You Are.” Thomp son’s new series of weekly broad casts has been announced as a presentation and analysis of facts which affect or are of particular interest to listeners in the Pied mont area. Thompson, who will speak at the same time each Tuesday eve ning, states that his aim is not to impose opinions but to en courage the formation of indivi dual judgments and expressions of opinion. Thompson joined the announc ing station in Greensboro upon his recent return from overseas, where he served as a staff ser geant with the Army Air Forces. Stationed in England, attached to a photographic unit of the 490th Bomber Group of the 8th Air Sandhill Resort One of Eight Localities Affected In Nation by T^/T^r, T ^ Tv/r 1..T , -TT , . 'Force, his principal occupation Mrs. James Mechling s Henry s'^,. • + j ^ j. u.- ^ Z. consisted of the interpretation of films taken over the battle and GOD BLESS 'EM The Pilot feels that hearty congratulations are in order for our Moore County Vic tory Loan chairman, E. C. Stevens, under whom we have marked up such a stirring rec ord of quotas passed in the drive just over. As testimony to both the patriotism and good sound sense of our peo ple the results of the recent drive are deeply gratifying. But as testimony, also, to the same qualities and the public spirit of our chairmian, as well as to all those who worked under him, the record speaks just as clearly. ' Locally the drive was in the hands of Paul Jemigan, who joins with Stevens, in true southern spirit, in attributing much of their success to the hard work of the lady chair men, Mrs. Norris Hodgkins, fm the county, and Mrs. Phil lip Weaver, locally. The lat- fer's committee, in their work at the bank and from house to house, brought in a great portion of the sales. "We never could have done it without the women," say these two gentlemen in charge, with gallantry only surpassed by their evident sincerity. Dream. They ended up at top and bottom in the ribbons, as Henry slid from grace with a few happy (Continued on Page 5) Red Cross Seeks Volunteers For Urgent Work Here bombing areas, a highly techni cal and delicate task, calling for the utmost in precision and judg ment. The distinguished group to which he was attached acquired six battle stars and a presidential citation. Before his induction into the army, Thompson, a graduate of the Chapel Hill School of Journ alism, acted as editor and mana ger of The Pilot and of the Sand- With the conclusion of the war a few short months ago, citizens tend now to forget the continued (iuring its brief need of those in this country and revival. Prior to his con- abroad who are still suffering section with this paper, Thomp- from the conflict, stressed Mrs Sanford William J. Kennedy, director of herald, assistant city editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, and the Moore County Chapter of the American Red Cross, in an inter view Wednesday. The director emphasized that the hospitals throughout the country are filled with veterans of World War II for whom, through the Red Cross and other agencies, volunteer workers may do much. The Moore County Chapter is seeking from among local women sufficient volunteers to enter a class in instruction as Gray La dies at Fort Bragg, where the group would serve in the station hospital. In the past the Gray Ladies, a specially trained corps within the Red Cross, have ren dered effective service in teach ing rehabilitative therapy, and arts and skills; in providing rec reation and amusements, and in performing special services for those hospitalized. The need for this hospital recreation corps re- (Continued on Page 5) assistant state administrator of the National Youth Administra tion. RENT CONTROLS Following the removal of rental controls from Sandhills hotels and rooming houses it has been announced that a representative of the OPA rent control office will be available in the police sta tion at Southern Pines each Mon day from 9:00 until 12:00 a. m. in charge of those controls which still remain in force. FOR INFORMATION N. C. Veterans who want to take the eight weeks stock rais ing course being given at the State College should write for in formation to: Chief Supervisor, Vocational Rehabilitation, U. S. Veterans’ Bureau, Fayetteville. a Pilot Correspondent in Washington All O. P. A. rent controls have been removed from hotels and rooming houses ^in the Southern Pines area of Moore County, the Office of Price Administration announced in Washington on Wednesday. Officials of the agency explain the renioval of rent ceilings in this area on the basis of an ex pected reduction in the demand for accomodation. Dqe to the ces sation of military activities in this vicinity and the closing of Camp Mackall, it is confidently anticipated that the many army families now occupying quarters in and about Southern Pines will soon be returning to their hemes or to new stations. While welcoming this sign of a return t® normal times, local business men confess to consider able surprise in view of the pres ent unprecidented demand for houses and apartments, prospec tive visitors being turned away with their wants unsatisfied every day. That this factor was due to change shortly was fully expected, but the opinion is free ly expressed that this is the first time the government; is actually ahead of the game. The lifting of rent controls on this type of housing -.vUl go into effect immediately in this area of the Sandhills. It will apply only, however, to the units spec ified: hotels and rooming houses. All other rent ceilings will con tinue as heretofore. This is the only locality in North Carolina to be affected by the measure, and is one of eight in the whole country in which these rent con trols have been removed. Pope’s Restaurant Building Sold To O. Leon Seymour One of the last real estate transactions of the closing days of the year, and the first for some time involving a Broad street business building, is the purchase of the Pope restaurant property located on East Broad street, by O. Leon Seymour of Aberdeen. Mr. Seymour informs The Pilot that he has not yet fully matured his plans for the building. Grover Pope, now retiring from business, acquired the building in 1942, immediately rebuilding the entire structure for the operation of a restaurant which soon became popular with the public. Long known as “the old bowl ing alley” the structure in its thirty-two years of existence has had a varied history. Erected in 1913, on the site of once popular croquet courts, by A. Schmidt, its bowling alleys and casino soon became a well patronized place of entertainment for the croquet, rogue and pool players of Southern Pines. Following Schmidt’s retirement the build ing housed Joe Montesanti’s bar ber shop, with the bowling alley’s continuing until 1917, C. S. Bos ton’s candy shop, 1919-20; Atkin son’s furniture store, 1921-31; The Pilot, 1933-41, the Curb Market for a short period, and then Pope’s Restaurant. Service of Lights To Be At Emmanuel Church The traditional Epiphany Service of Lights will be held in Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Sunday afternoon at half past five. The service is a symbolic representation of the coming of Christ as the Light of the World, and the spread of the gospel as light. Everyone—and especially all children—are cordially invit ed to participate in this service. 1 I 4

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