BBHBSSSS . £ LOT MARCH OP DIMCS JANVAIT 14*91 ^ j , 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- (Continued on Page 5) 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 (Continued on Page 8) 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 (Continued on Page 8) 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