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Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, January 18, 1946.
TEN CENTS
Sale Of Jackson H. Boyd Estate
Heads List of Property Transfers
Several Agencies In
Southern Pines Report
Sales In Town and Out
It is sad news to the Sandhills
to hear that the Jackson Boyds
are moving away, though with
the hope of returning, in a few
years’ time. The sale of their
house on Connecticut Avenue has
just been announced by the
Stevens Real Estate and Insur
ance Agency.
The place, > which has been
bought by Major and Mrs. Wil
liam D. Campbell, formerly of
New York, has been occupied by
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Herr Boyd
ever since it was built some
twenty years ago. Constructed of
part of the original Broadnax, la
ter James Boyd, house, moved
there from across the road, part
of the house was burned and re
built under the supervision of
Alfred B. Yeomans. The new
owners plan to make further al
terations before they move in
next fall.
Major and Mrs. Campbell and
their three-year-old daughter are
at present occupying the Struth-
ers Burt place and will stay there
ilntil April. Major Campbell spent
seven years in Kenya Colony, Af
rica, on the staff of the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History.
Later, while a major in the 112th
Field Artillery from which he
was recently discharged, he leas
ed and occupied “Inchalene,” for
mer winter home of Mrs. John Y.
Boyd, now the property of L. H.
Cherry. During their stay here
the Campbells were so impressed
by Southern Pines and the con
tiguous area that they determined
to make this their winter home if
and when circumstances would
permit-
Continuing activity in the lo
cal real estate market during the
past two w^eks was marked by
several important sales to long
time residents of Southern Pines
acquiring properties for homes.
The former residence of Fred
and Lilihn Roberts, located on
Pennsylvania Avenue opposite
the city tennis courts, has been
bought by Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Rey
nolds, former proprietors of the
Jefferson Inn, as a horhe. They in
turn have sold to J. D. Arey the
small cottage and lots on the
northeast corner of Connecticut
avenue and Ashe street. It is un
derstood that Mr. Arey will de
velop this property.
The D. H. Turner agency re
ports four sales, these including
the two family dwelling located
on the southwest corner of Con
necticut Avenue and Ashe street,
by the owner, H. G. Robinson of
Newtonville, Mass-, to Thomas K.
Atkinson who will locate in the
Ashe street apartment now occu
pied by June A- Phillips. Former
Staff Sergeant Atkinson has join-
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FORE!
Well! Merry Christmas,
folks! How's skiiing down
Broad Street?
Some right good snow-ball
fights going on by the post
office, this morning.
We noticed Roy Grinnell
taking a shot at a bunch of,
pretty girls. AddressedI the *
ball, he did'n everything . .
addressed it good and loud,
too. "For . . . Pete's sake!"
he yelled, and shook his froz
en fingers as he let fly.
We admired his stance. . .
but he didn't keep his head
down right. Hate to see such
a lapse in form- Not that we
blame him, ! After all he
wasn't aiming at a flag.
Great hollering on the re
ceiving end, but no come
back. What's tha matter,
girls? Too cold to handle,
was it? We'U ask Roy to
warm up a bit next time.
Bank Has Annual
Meeting, Directors
All Reelected
The annual meeting of stock
holders of The Citizens Bank and
Trust Company of Southern Pines
was held on January 8, 1946. The
report of the president, N. L.
Hodgkins, to the stockholders
showed the bank to be in excel
lent condition, with deposits at
the highest point in the history
of the bank. The entire Board of
Directors which served in 1944
and ’45 was reelected: John C.
Barron, Howard F. Burns, Nor
ris L. Hodgkips, John M. How-
arth, Kenneth B- Trousdell.
At a Directors meeting held
January 9, 1946, the following of
ficers of the bank were elected
by the Directors: N. L. Hodgkins,
President; C. C. Kennedy, Cash
ier; Ethel S. Jones, Secretary and
Assistant Cashier.
Humphries Serves
Again as Chairman
In Clothing Drive
National Goal Is
100 Million Used
Garments To Needy
The Victory Clothing Drive,
getting underway nationally on
the 7th of this month and lasting
through the 31st, is again being
sponsored by the Rotary Club of
Southern Pines, it was announc
ed here Tuesday night. Chairman
for the 1946 drive will be Tuck
er Humphries who, as co-chair-
ma with Will Wiggs last year,
was active in the collection of
over 8,000 pounds of shoes and
clothing for our allies in devasta
ted areas of the world-
Pate Returns To Pilot
James Pate, whose picture in
military garb appeared in The
Pilot of January 4th, is back in
civilian clothes. What’s more, he
is back in his old job- As Pilot
inside-and-outside man, he will
work in the shop part of the time
and, the rest, solicit job printing
in this section.
In answer to many recent
phone calls, for information con
cerning the drive- the present-
chairman states that bundles of
garments contributed should be
taken to the collecting point es-
ta,blished in the Sandhills Sport
ing Goods Store, on .East Broad
Street, operated by Dick Sugg.
Citizens having clothing to con
tribute and no means of trans
portation are asked to call Tuck
er Humphries, either at home or
at his office.
Under the national chairman
ship of itenry J. Kaiser again this
year, the Victory Clothing Drive
has as its present goal the collec
tion of 100,000,000 garments for
the suffering people in war-dev-
estated countries- It is urged that
contributors write letters to go
with the clothing sent; in this way
a hundred million messages of in
ternational good will, will accom
pany this practical help to a suf
fering world. (Maybe THAT will
help!)
By Christmas approximately
25,000,000 children, men and wo
men overseas will have received
clothing donated in the drive of
last spring, but this, it is pointed
out, is only a small percentage of
the homeless and destitute peo
ple ef Europe and the Far East.
People in many countries abroad
are now facing a winter as hard
as any of the war, and those in
this country once more have an
opportunity to give direct and
personal assistance to our former
allies, and to the suffering in
every country abroad.
Contributions/of shoes and bed
ding are being welcomed, as well
as serviceable clothing of all
sizes. Chairman Humphries states.
He asks particularly that people
wrap up their garments and tie
pairs of shoes securely together.
STRIKE
Too many of them.
A strike in Congress which
has caused unpardonable de
lays in the human aspects of
reconversion; it is led by the
Republicans and the South
ern Senators.
A strike among elements of
business who are holding
goods off the market, wait
ing for higher prices and low
er taxes.
A strike on the part of
many citizens of this coun
try, so intent, so injsistent!,
on a quick return to normalcy
that they have forgotten the
peril so recently passed
through and the heavy obli
gation it laid upon them to
forget themselves, for once,
and work for a better world.
As all prepare to join in the na
tional March of Dimes, the fight
against infantile paralysis, Paul
Butler, local chairman, announces
plans for the campaign in South
ern Pines-
Letters stressing urgency of the
drive are being mailed through
out the town, the chairman stat
ed, and all business places will be
solicited for contributions.
Resort Line Offers
New Flight Series
Aides’ Fine Record Brings Honors
To Town And To Red Cross Chapter
GAME TONIGHT!
Having won three consecutive
games without tie or loss, the
boys’ basketball team of South
ern Pines meets its first genuine
test of ability in the game with
West End High School here to
night.
In winning the county basket
ball championship last year, the
West End team defeated South
ern Pines by a score of 26 to 15.
The girls’ team from the high
school here, which played ex
ceptionally well in winning from
Carthage last Tuesday, will also
be playing against skillful oppo
nents. Since West End’s winning
of the championship last year, a
spirit of friendly rivalry has pre
vailed between the two schools,
and it is hoped that a large num
ber of spectators will be present
for tonight’s game-
TOURNAMENT POSTPONED
The first amateur-professional
golf tournament of the winter
season, scheduled for the Mid-
Rnes Club on Monday, January
21, has been postponed. The new
date set for the tournament is
January 28.
The Pilot carried some time ago
the notice that two Moore County
Nurse’s Aides, Southern Pines’
Mrs. Charles Patch and Mis Bir-
dilia Bair, had passed the two
thousand mark in number of
hours of service given. Now
comes the official yeport from Red
Cross headquarters in Washing
ton-
Both members of the first class
to graduate from the Moore
founty Chapter, Miss Bair has
now completed 2668 hours, and
Mrs- Patch 2969. The Honor Roll
on which their names appear
is hanging at National Headquar
ters in Washington, and a book
let honoring these outstanding
aides has been sent to all chap
ters. Besides their names, it con
tains congratulatory letters from
the surgeon general and others
distinguished in the service and
nursing world.
Another aide Whose name will
soon be added to the honor-roll
is Mrs- Lee Page, whose record
to date stands at 1756 hours.
It is a noteworthy fact, and one
conferring great merit on the
Moore County chapter that in this
list of names of 686 volunteer
aides, having served 2000 hours,
which covers the entire United
States two, soon to . three,
come from Moore County. Com
paring this with the record of our
greatest city. New York, whi :h
with many thousand times our
population lists just 60 aides in
this category, we may well feel
proud.
Due to the increased need for
nurse’s aides at the Moore Coun
ty Hospital, said to be as great
now as at any time during the
war, many are answering the call
to.return to their duties there.
Miss Bair, who is also the chair
man. of Moore County’s Nurse’s
Aide Corps, has sent the Pilot a
list 6f names of those, graduated
here, who have completed the
the required number of 150 hours.
Impressive in length and amount
of service implied, the list only
adds further to the high stand of
this corps in our chapter and in
the chapters of the nation.
Miss Bair explains that slight
inaccuracy in figures is possible.
“The cards are so small,’’ she
says, “the figures have, to be
crammed into a tiny space; some
times they are very hard to
read. And sometimes, it is only
too clear, aides fail to record their
hours-’’ The matter of “getting
hours’’ will always remain, to the
aide who loves her work. . . and
which one doesn’t! ... a boring
affair. Getting proper credit is to
most aides a matter of indiffer
ence, for the work itself is the
thing, that counts. This is the
spirit which has madefhis group
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With Knollwood Field as a ter
minus, Resort Airlines, Inc-, has
initiated tentatively this week a
special series of flights to Chicago
and New York, with bookings tak
en for parties up to four. Flights
to New York will leave Knoll
wood on the 18th, 24th, and 26th
of this month with Westchester
and LaGuardia Field as optional
destinations, stated Major Lewis
C. Burwell, president of the line,
on Tuesday. Return flights will
leave New York for Knollwood on
the 24th and 26th, while flights
to Chicago are slated for the 27th
and 28th.
Service to the hub cities is be
ing offered via the line’s fleet of
Green Geese, twin-engine Cessna
planes carrying a pilot and four
passengers with ah allowance of
forty pounds of baggage each. The
Cessna planes are widely used
for transport and by the larger
air lines for their executives. Res
ervations out of New York are
being handled for Resort Airlines
by the Male Travel Bureau, lo
cated at 274 Madison Avenue.
Major BurweU also stated that the
first of two twenty-one passenger
Douglas planes on order has been
received, and is now being con
verted for passenger service at the
field. In the future the line plans
to use twin-engine Douglases in
offering a sky-tour service-
Following film shorts publiciz
ing the fight against dreaded po
lio, theatres in Southern Pines
will tike contributions from
among the audiences at each fea
ture showing. Coin boxes are be
ing placed conspicuously in res
taurants and stores over town-
VOTERS!
Bailey is lining up with
Texas' Pappy O'DanieL hCss-
issippi's Eastland, and all the
other reactionaries, not to
mention the republicans, to
put over measures to outlaw
the closed! shop, do away with
N. L. R. B., change the labor
relations act.
Is that what we want him
to do? Is he representing us,
the people, or just a few big
interests, backing up the
other big boys?
Do we like the way -G. M,
has acted: rejecting the pres
ident's fact-finding commit
tee's recommendations prac
tically sight unseen; do we
approve the Meat Packers' re
fusal to try arbitration? They
can afford to close shop with
out feeling it. The strikers
can't. The Union pays them
ten dollars a week; they're
living on. that and their sav
ings. Yet the strike is their
only weapon. Th odds are not
even.
The Pilot urges its readers
to wire Senator Bailey their
wishes, whatever they are.
At a critical time like this
our representatives must act
as ALL, not just a few, of the
citizens want them to.
Plans Announced
For Total War
ainst Polio
Schools, Theatres
Business Work For
Effective Campaign
In the schools, the young people
of Southern Pines and West Sou
thern Pines will conduct a drive
of their own among the respec
tive student bodies. The drives
will be under the direction of
Philip Weaver and P. W. Moore,
school principals.
Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, coun
ty chairman for the March of
Dimes, has announced the quota
for Moore County as $3,680.
Southern Pines is being counted
on for $850-00 of this. Checks
should be drawn to Paul Biitler,
chairman for the March of Dimes,
Southern Pines.
Funds collected in each of the
individual counties over the na
tion will go half to the National
Infantile Paralysis Foundation, to
make possible further research in
prevention and treatment of the
disease, and to provide a strong
reserve fund to be drawn upon
by localities heavily afflicated-
The remaining half of the funds
raised in each county will go to
the county chapter of the National
Foundation, for use in the event
of a local outbreak.
The total iunds sent to the Na
tional Foundation from the State
of North Carolina last year were
$202,000, while $205,000 was re
turned to the state and used in
combatting the epidemic last year.
On a percentage basis of earned
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Hospital Directors Discuss Plan
To Enlarge And Improve Plant
In F ace of Increasing Needs
FEED THE BIRDS
Our Southern birds are not
any more used to the snow
than we are. If it lasts long,
many -of them will die of
starvation. The Pilot joins
all bird-lovers to say to all
who read:
FEED THE BIRDS!
Winner of Essay
Contest Josephine
Ransdell Of Vass
Pinehurst P. T. A.
Advanees Plan For
Teen-Aged Group
BRUSH FIRE
The sound of the alarm and the
rumble of the fire truck at 12:35
o’clock Sunday, brought many
spectators to the DeCosta prop
erty on the Southern Pines-Aber-
deen highway where a brisk fire
in the almost waist high under
growth menaced the cottages in
its sweep. The soldiers, living
there, did weU to save the cot
tages and thirty minutes work by
the firemen extinguished the rac
ing flames.
“Community Recreation’’ was
the subject for discussion at the
rheeting of the Pinehurst Parent-
Teacher Association Tuesday ev
ening, January 8. The long felt
need for supervised recreation for
the teen-aged group in Pinehurst
was stressed as Mrs- W- R. Viall,
program chairman,- introduced
the topic before the association.
Present were Sally Cheney,
president of the junior class, and
Flora Ellen Cameron, editor of
the school paper “Sandspur”, who
spoke for the students. The stu
dents emphasized the importance
of having available a central
building which might house a
skating rink, dance floor, swim
ming pool, or similar recreational
facilities.
In answer to the appeal. True
Cheney suggested that more use
be made of the school gymnasium
and play grounds, and pointed
out that the energies and enthus
iasm of all must be enlisted in
fulfilling the ideals of the com
munity. The question was then
put before the groug for open dis
cussion, and afterwards a com
mittee was partially selected to
arrange further meetings in the
near future, and to begin formu
lation of plans. Appointed as
committee head was Mrs. Viall,
who will add other names from
time to time.
It is reported that a great deal
of enthusiasm bas been aroused
and that, with the backing of the
community and its civic and re
ligious organizations, the move
ment should result in much that
is worthwhile.
The Vass-Lakeview School
came to the fore in a big way to
win all three places in the essay
contest sponsored by the county’s
four weekly newspapers. Other
schools competing were Aber
deen and Carthage. Pinehurst and
Southern Pines, the homes of The
Pilot and The Pinehurst Outlook,
failed to enter the contest.
* Josephine Ransdell of Vass,
Lakeview High school won first
place in the Moore county news
paper essay cqntest, judges have
announced. To Mary Catherine
Johnson, went second place, and
to Ann Fields, went third place.
Mary Catherine Johnson and Ann
Fields are also students in the
Vass-Lakeview High school.
The contest was sponsored by
The Sandhill Citizen, The Pilot,
The Moore County News and The
Pinehurst Outlook, in conjunc
tion with the North Carolina
Pr^ss Association.
Josephine Ransdell is the dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. John S.
Ransdell of near Vass, and is a
student in the 11th grade in the
Vass-Lakeview High school. She
will be presented $10. in cash for
first prize. Her essay was for
warded to Dr. Sylvester Green of
Durham, chairman of the North
Carolina association’s essay con
test and it automatically enters
the state contest, along with first
prize winners from other counties
in the state.
Mary Catherine Johnson, dau
ghter of Cameron Johnson and
the late Mrs. Johnson of upper
Hoke, is a student in the Vass-
Lakeview High School. She will
receive $5. in cash- Ann Fields,
daughter of IVir. and Mrs. Robah
H. Fields of Vass, and a student
in the 9th grade of Vass-Lake
view High school will receive
$2.50 in cash for third prize.
Judges in the contest were,
Mrs. James Boyd, publisher of
The Pilot, Southern Pines; Rob
ert E. Harlow, publisher of The
Pinehurst Outlook, Pinehurst;
and Mrs- Donald McCoy of Aber
deen, a graduate of the U. N. C.
school of journalism'. Chapel Hill.
“The three who won prizes in
this contest are to be congratu
lated”, Mrs. Boyd, editor of The
Pilot said, “Their work was very
good. The three schools are to be
congratulated, tocf, for realizing
the value of the opportunity of
fered their pupils in such a coun
ty-wide and state-wide contest,
and for encouraging the children
to enter it. It is a disappointment
that the two other large schools
of the couny, Pinehurst and Sou
thern Pines, did not care to take
part. /
Laboralory and X-ray
Facilities Considered
First In Importance
At the annual meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Moore
County Hospital, plans were dis
cussed for the future extension
program under consideration.
For some time it has been felt
that the capacity of the institu
tion should be increased from
the present figure of 85. Reasons
for this are the growth in popu
lation for the area served, and
increased use of the hospital due
to appreciation of the service it
is performing. There was the fur
ther consideration that if the fig
ure were raised to over a hun
dred beds, it would place the hos
pital in another category and en
able it to secure the services of
the best possible internes, who
now tend to go to larger institu
tions. The plan is to raise the
number of beds to 135, with pos
sibilities of further additions.
BY CANDLE-LIGHT
Would you drive down
May Street's Route 1 by can
dlelight? '
Believe it or not, that's
what a truck <Bd.
It happened to be at eleven
in the morning, Wednesday,
and the candles were being
used not for lighting the way,
but for warming and clearing
the frozen windshield.
Quite religious it looked,
and solem;^, tooling slowly
along at a funereal pace, three
candles glimmering behind
the windidiieldl, lighting up
three anxious peering faces
above them.
A recognized authority on
small hospital management, Ol
iver G. Pratt, head of the Salem
Hospital, Salem, Massachusetts,
was invited to come to Moore
County and, after a careful sur
vey of the situation, to make rec
ommendations to the Board. Pratt
came and spent more than a week
here, investigating the question
from every angle. His conclu
sions were that the plant should
be incref 3ed and emphasis should
be laid bn'developing, particular
ly, the X-ray and laboratory de
partments, with the idea of offer
ing service in these two branches
to neighboring hospitals- Dr.
Pratt envisaged the possibility of
Moore County acting as a small
medical center for surrounding
districts. He also suggested that
closer relations should be built
up between the hospital and the
county public health service.
As soon as the green light is of
ficially given, it is anticipated
that a campaign to raise the nec
essary funds will be started. Ac
tual building will not be under
taken until industrial conditions
and costs make construction fea
sible and wise. No figure has as
yet been arrived at as to the
amount of money that will be re
quired to carry out the proposed
project.
The work of the Hosriital has
increased steadily since I the in
stitution was opened in 1929. In
planning for the future the Di-
frebtors are endeavoring to be
guided only by the facts of the
case, so that everything underta
ken can be based on aqtual need.
A special phase of the planning
will be the effort to estajDlish
the closest possible relations /with
the neighboring hospitals, and
with large medical centers i the
State. I
Latest actual development has
been the engagement of WaRer JV.
Hook, architect of the Charlotte
Memorial Hospital, to prepare
preliminary sketches with the ob
ject of ascertaining approximate
costs. Until this has been- done
and a thorough study made of
every side of the-question no de
cision to go ahead will- be made.
The directors are weU aware of
the size of the project under dis
cussion and do not intend to move
until fully satisfied of its feasi
bility.
Duncan Matthews Ill
In Moore Hospital
Friends of W. Duncan Mat
thews, former mayor of Southern
Pines, are grieved to hear of his
continuing illness at the Moore
County Hospital. Returning there
last week, after a recurrence of
a former malady, Mr. Matthews
was unable to return home as
soon as all had hoped and is still
a patient there. Many wishes for
a speedy recovery are being de
livered at his door.
It-