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VOL. 26. NO. 13.
Southern Pines. North Carolina, Friday. February 22. 1946.
TEN CENTS
Plans Announced
For Reopening Of
Community Center
'Weaver Heads New
Committee To Back
Teen - Age Program
WHOM
Plans are now underway for
reopening of the Southern Pines
Community Center, it was an
nounced on Wednesday by Rubin
C. DuBose, president of the lo
cal Chamber of Commerce, which
organization has sponsored the
operation of the center.
Occupying the Civic Club build
ing, the community center pro
ject has been temporarily dis
continued since January 16th, due
to the furnace’s having been out
of order. For the time being the
furnace has been repaired, but it
is now planned to install an oil
heating system in the building.
Since closing of the building, Mrs.
A number of citizens, in
cluding Broad Street mer
chants, have suggested that
horsemen about town be
asked not to bring their
mounts onto the sidewalks,
where a bolting or kicking
steed may endanger elderly
pedestrians and children.
And so, to young riders. . .
we pass the request hopefully
along.
Varsities Win Two
Here On Tuesday
fromAlumniTeams
Local Baskefeers Will
Meet Jonesboro-Aberdeen
Winner In Title Play
Valentine’s Ball
Proves Gala Event
For Younger Set
Teen-Agers From
Three Schools Join
In Pinehurst Affair
'Where Credit's
Upwards of a score of alumni
once more donned basketball jer
seys for a return engagement
with the local varsity squads on
the school court here on Tuesday
night, February 19th.
Eugene Shaefer, director of the ! Substituting freely to give the re-
center, has resigned. DuBose ex- i serves game experience. Coach
pects shortly, however, to an-! Aline Todd saw her squad of
nounce Mrs. Shaefer’s successor. | girls best the alumni 26-23 for
The community center was got- ® third straight win. The recent
ten off to an apparently satisfac
tory start early this fall after
closing of the U.S.O. Among its
purposes were to continue hospi
tality to soldiers remaining in this
area, and to provide a long need
ed meeting place and recreation
room for the ‘teen-aged set. To
serve as a public reading room,
accommodate bridge games and
other activities of older citizens
and tourists, and to provide a
bureau of local and travel infor
mation for tourists.
Future operation of the center
will be on a somewhat different
basis than in the past, DuBose
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Scotch Foursomes
SandpiperTourney
In Week’s Golfing
Shooting to best advantage
from alternatate drives, Russ
Birch and Mrs. Lorraine Johnson
paired off to card low net score
of 70 on the country club course
last Sunday, taking first honors
in the annual St. Valentine’s
Scotch foursome play. A second
low ball of 72 was turned in by
P. V. Hatch and Mrs. Elmer Har
rington, who teamed in the sea
sonal competition arranged for
men and women golfers of the
Sandpiper and Pinedodger golf
ing associations.
With both partners driving on
the approach to a green, each
team, in the novel selected drives
plan, was given an option of play
ing through from either drive.
Enjoyment, rather than low
shooting, characterized the play.
Prizes of golf merchandise were
presented the winners.
The fourth of eight Sandpiper
tournarrtents scheduled for the
season was played through last
week, in match play against par.
Winners announced on Monday
by Manager Billy Wilson of the
Southern Pines Country Club was
P. V. Hatch, with two up on par
for a net 69. Russ Birch of the
club posted a second low card
with 71.
Medal play with handicaps will
be the order for Sandpiper com
petition next week, beginning
Monday, February 25, it was alao
announced.
Following the Pinedodgers’
luncheon at the country club on
Wednesday. Miss Birdilia Bair
turned in a low card from among
fifteen contestants to win the
Pinedodger Flag Tournament.
list of uninterrupted wins for the
girls includes, also Pinehurst and
Aberdeen. Beginning the third
period for the school team was
the reserve combination of .MilU-
ken and Murphy, first year for
wards, and guards Chester and
WillcoX, Asking no odds from
the old grads, the reserves held
a definite edge in speed, and
showed their guarding and ball
handling much, improved.
Leading the attack for the al
umnae in scoring 23 points were
forwards Joyce Bailey and Emily
Fowler Gunter, and center Jackie
Worsham, while Eleanor Eddy
Smith and Ruth McFarland Mc
Rae turned in good performances
at guard.
Outstanding for the school in
a 38-30 win over the returnees
were Gene Maples, forward, and
Tommy Grey, guard, whose ac
curate shooting was a decisive
factor. Figuring in the line up
for the old grads were Ed New
ton, Hermann Grover, and Bobby
Dunn, forwards; Spring at center.
Highlighting social events for
the ’teen-aged sets of three high
schools was the first annual Val
entine ball, sponsored by the jun
ior and senior classes of Pine
hurst High School, and held in
the school gymnasium in the ev
ening of Saturday, February 16th.
Nearly a hundred couples of young
people from the Pinehurst, Sou
thern Pines, and Aberdeen
schools danced to sweet music
from eight-thirty until twelve,
with long dresses in order and a
silver-blue canopy of stars over
head.
A Queen of Hearts beauty con
test preceded the figure. After a
long deliberation by the judges.
Miss Pauline Lewis was crowned
as ‘ queen and enthroned. Win
some contestants representating
Southern Pines and Aberdeen
were respectively. Miss Becky
McHugh, escorted by Alton
Blue, and Miss Geneva
Wooten, escorted by D. I. Ald
ridge. J. Talbot Johnson, repre
senting the judges, presented the
Queen with an armful of red
roses as she ascended her throne.
Other judges were Mrs. Harold
H. Cartwright of Pinehurst, and
H. P. Bilyeu, Jr. of Southern
Pines.
Completing the decorations,
with the Valentine motif appar
ent throughout, were hearts and
streamers, greens, and white lat
ticed gardens enclosing the tables
each side of the floor. Decora
tions for the gymnasium were
planned and carried oiit by a
committee of students from the
Pinehurst school. Faculty adviser
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with Jimmy Pate and Aqstin at
guards. Throughout the rough
shod affair. Coach A. C. Daw
son substituted his second and
third stringers frequently.
On Friday night the Blue and
White teams journey south for
a non-conference encounter with
Rockingham, while a clash on
Wednesday with the victor of
Aberdeen - Jonesboro fray will
determine the 4th District title.
SHORT LIVED FURORE
For a few moments just before
six o’clock Monday evening East
Broad street and Connecticut ave
nue was a conglomeration of fire
trucks, cars, firemen, policemen,
last minute shoppers, homeward
bound folks and what else have
you. Cause, a temperamental oil
stove located in the work shop of
Howlett’s establishment.
The '46 edition of the Vic
tory Clothing Drive in Sou
thern Pines has collected
more than a ton of shoes and
clothing, of all sizes and for
all ages, it was antiounced
on Thursday by Tucker G.
Humphries, local chairman
for the drive. In giving credit
where credit is due. Chair
man Humphries expresses
his thanks and appreciation
to Dick Sugg and A. C. Daw
son for the use of the Sports
Shop as a collecting station;
to Dwight Hoskins, Dick
Sugg and other Rotarians for
assistance in packing and
shipping the collection last
Tuesday night; and to the
whole of the community for
a most generous response.
CongressmenReply
To AVCs Telegram
UrgingMoreHomes
Hoey and Burgin Tell
Vets They Will Back
Emergency Housing Bill
StoneybrookEntry
Sunday Stand-Out
In Pinehurst Show
Jumping Events
Are Feature Of
Spring Gymkhana
Youthful Katherine Walsh,
daughter of Mickey Walsh of the
Stoneybrook Stables, Southern
Pines, rode off with top honors
in the second of the spring series
of gymkhanas held at the' Caro
lina Hotel riding ring in Pine
hurst last Sunday when she rode
to victory atop Pot Luck in the
Open. Jumpers class, and teamed
with her sister Joanna, on
Chance, to win the Pair Jumping
event. Sister Joanna also came in
second in the open event when
she won a jump-off for second
place with Roberta Frye on Clif
ton’s Ferry.
In the Junior Horsemanship
Class, limited to riders of sixteen
and under who had not won a
blue this year, places were taken
by Roberta Frye, Jean Overton,
Fay Caddell, H. Hobson, Jr., and
James Beattie, in that order. Win
ner of the musical stalls was
Mary Ann Tate.
First place in the Class for
Paired, Working Hunters was
taken by Mrs. W. O. Moss, of
Raging Flames Impossible To Quell
As Late Bion H. Butler Home jSurns
In Most Destructive Blaze of Year
First Pilot Editor
Senator Hoey and Representa
tive Burgin, Nortli Carolina con
gressmen, were prompt in assur
ing AVC’s Moore County chapter
that they intend to support the „ t -iii -o-
, . „ . Mile-Away Farm, on Little River,
emergency housing program. This , ^
program calls for the building of
2,700,000 new homes in ’46 and
’47.
On February 14th the Moore
County AVC’s wired the North
Carolina congressmen urging sup
port of the program. Hoey’s and
Burgin’s answers were in the
mails the day after the wires
were sent.
Said Senator Hoey: “I thank
you for advising me of the views
of the Moore County members of
the American Veterans Commit
tee and I assure you I shall do
everything possible to help in the
bill ...”
' ' ~ I Representative Burgin wrote:
AriHV Famities Buv 1 much in favor of any
, •' legislation looking toward addi-
In Southern Pines [tlonal housing facilities, first for
veterans, and for the others who
are in need of the facilities, and
More army families bought
homes in Southern Pines last
week, carrying out the hope, and
the prophesy, that many pros
pective good citizens for our
town would materialize through
our invasion by the army.
The last to buy were the Rig-
glemans and Knauerhases. Cap
tain E. H. Riggleman has bought
the R. C. Johnson home on New
York Avenue, while the Henry
Silver house has been sold to
Captain Carl O. Knauerhase, who
has also bought the Van Camp
lot on Illinois Avenue.
The Anne H. Muhson house on
Orchard Road has been bought,
by Frank A. Stith of Winston-
Salem, for the use of his daugh
ter.
These sales were made through
the Barnum Agency.
and Mrs. James Elliott Mech-
ling on Henry’s Dream. Jean Ov
erton up on Star Dust and Ro
berta Frye on Clifton’s Ferry
took the red, with H. Hobson on
Black Jack and L. M. Tate on
Sail On in third.
Winning the potato racing
event was the team of four men
and herself captained by Mary
Ann Tate, opposed by Miss Col
ores Stanton’s similar team. Up
on Smoky, Miss Tate came back
for first in the Class for Bridle
Path Hacks, followed by Jean
Safford on Chance and Renee Ra-
zook on Bourbon. Honors in the
ribbon race also went to Miss
Tate.
Placing second in the spectacu-
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Bion H. Butler, pictured above,
first editor of The Pilot, built
“Valhalla” in the winter of
1904-05. Destruction of the home
by flames marked the passing of
a venerable landmark of the
Sandhills.
Spring Gymkhana
To Benefit Polio
Fund Here Sunday
Taxi Driver ‘Taken For Bide’
Escapes and Points Out Bandits
shall give my support to such leg
islation.”
The Moore County chapter of
the AVC’s, Councilor James
Boyd stated in an interview this
week, is made up of World War
II veterans who believe that the
fight for their country only start
ed when they laid aside their un
iforms and guns. It is their inten
tion, he further asserted, to keep
in close touch with local and na
tional affairs so that they can
back the good and fight the bad.
Such an organization, it is be
lieved, should do Moore County
a great deal of good.
An AVC meeting has been an
nounced for each Friday for the
purpose of discussing such local
problems as employment, health,
and education. Details as to the
time and place for the meeting
may be had upon telephoning
Southern Pines 6521, Boyd Said.
College Chaplain Will
Conduct Service Here
FIRST AID
A. M. Goodwin of Ihe North
Carolina Department of Rev
enue announces that he will
be in Southern Pines on Mon
day, February 25, for the pur
pose of assisting lax payers
of the town in filing their
State lax returns. Goodwin's
assistance will be available to
citizens at the Broad Street
Pharmacy from 9:00 a. m. un
til 5:00 p. m. on the 25th.
Query: Is there a jinx on the
corner of West Broad street and
New Hampshire avenue?
At that corner, from which, just
over two years ago taxi driver
Oscar Michael was taken for a
ride, never to return alive, two
Negroes at about 9:30 Thursday
night, hired the Ward taxi, driven
by Clyde Seawell, for a trip “just
past Niagara.” Fate, however,
was far kinder to Seawell than
to Michael.
Seawell, new to Southern Pines
taxi driving, suspected no foul
play when, past Niagara, he was
ordered to turn down a side road
where no Negroes lived, in spite
of the “friend” the two Negroes
were on their way to see. They
were later identified as William
Robert McKeithen, 22,' and Lu
ther McKeithen, 19, from Vass.
Here is the story in Seawell’s
own words: “They weren’t drunk,
but you could smell liquor on
their breath. When I stopped off
up the side road,” said Seawell,
“where they told me to, they got
to arguing about how they’d get
back to Aberdeen. I told ’em I’d
come back for them. ‘No you
won’t they told me.
“William Robert was fitting
in front with me. ‘We got to have
pay for gin bottle,’ he said and
lifted up an empty bottle. The
boy in back got up to give him
money, but grabbed me around
the neck instead, pulling me back
against the seat, and told William
Robert to hit me in the head
with the bottle. He struck at me
twice and hit me on my arm but
not my head. Things were hap
pening fast.
“I got loose by twisting under
the wheel and reaching around
behind me for the door handle.
I got the door open and was
half way out. They were trying
to hold me in but I gave a swing
at William Robert and tore loose.
I went across a field and a piece
of woods to Snipe’s dairy farm
where I called the police.
“Night policemen Morrison
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Arey Confirms Sale
Of Homesites Here
Several more sales of real es
tate have been reported in South
ern Pines, though only two trans
actions have been confirmed at
this writing. Robert F. Arey has
purchased from Dr. A. D. Perry of
Durham “Comfort Corner,” lo
cated at May street and Rhode Is
land avenue. He has modernized
and redecorated the dwelling
which was erected before 1900 by
E. M. Fulton, who, a little later,
built the present Struthers Burt
home, then and fdr several seas
ons, the show place of Southern
Pines. “Comfort Corner” became
the home of the Bloxham family
for a number of years. Recently
it has been leased as a tourist
home, also housing the McIntosh
antique shop.
Mr. Arey also reports the sale
of bungalow number 91 S. Ashe
street to H. S. Wilson who is as
sociated with the Paul Van Camp
office.
The Rev. Robert Emmet Grib-
bin, Jr., Episcopal Student Chap
lain at Chapel Hill, will conduct
the services and preach at Em
manuel Church this Sunday, Feb
ruary 24th. Mr. Gribbon, eldest
son of the Bishop of Western
North Carolina, is one of the most
widely known and successful
college chaplains in the Episco
pal Church. Hd will speak on
“The Church’s Work in Colleges.”
While Mr. Gribbin is here the
rector of Emmanuel Church, the
Rev. F. Craighill Brown, will be
engaged in assisting in college
I work as he is frequently called
upon to do. Mr. Brown goes on
Friday to Greensboro, where he
will serve as chaplain to a three
day Vocational Conference for
Women at Woman’s College. The
conference is sponsored by the
Commission on College Work of
the Province of Sewanee which
comprises the fourteen dioceses
of the Episcopal Church in the
southeastern states. Meeting
place of the conference is St.
Mary’s House, Episcopal Stu
dents’ Center at N. C. C. W.
The initial gymkhana of the
spring season has been scheduled
for 2:30 p. m. on Sunday, Febru
ary 24, with a card of six sport
ing and novel events arranged
for the show ring and outside
hunting course at the Southern
Pines Country Club. Events of
never-flagging interest in the
realm of serious horsemanship
will be the class for working
hunters, to be held over the out
side course, and the spectacular
knock down and out class for
jumpers slated for the inside
ring.
A Maiden Jumping Class will
be open to jumpers one and all
who have never taken a blue. A
large field is anticipated for the
ClVldren’s Horsemanship Class,
and ribbon and potato racing
events will lend novelty to the
Sunday showing. Many partici
pants andspectators from among
leading horse enthusiasts of this
section are expected to be on
hand, as well/ a? visitors from
other communities.
James Conway, equestrian en
thusiast of Pinehurst and New
York, has been named as judge.
Ribbons will be presented to the
winners by Mrs. J. T. Wells. The
spring gymkhana will be held as
a benefit for the polio drive. Louis
Scheipers, chairman of the Sou
thern Pines equestrian commit
tee, has announced.
Former .Pilot Editor's
Collection of Books
And Manuscripts Lost
Another landmark of the early
days of Southern Pines perished
(in flame and smoke as “Val
halla”, long the home of the late
Bion H. Butler, burned with most
of its contents last Friday morn
ing.
The fire, originating either in
an unoccupied corner room on
the second floor, or from spark-
ignited shingles above the room,
had made some headway before
the pungent odor of smoke alarm
ed the household gathered in the
dining room. Unable at first to
get through the local telephone
for a few moments Miss Helen
left it to her mother to call Mrs.
Howard Butler in town, who, in
turn called the firemen, whose
truck was actually rolling be
fore the echoing call of the siren
died away.
In the meanwhile. Miss Helen
gathered a few personal effects
from a room on the second floor,
her mother doing the same down
stairs, and with two cats and the
dog made their way to their
neighbor’s, the Goldsmiths, but
finding no one at home met Mrs.
Howard Butler on their return
trip. Miss Helen then left her
mother and returned to the burn
ing home.
Arriving with the firemen were
a number of spectators who rap
idly cleared the lower floor of
furniture and personal effects,
the f^emen, in the meanwhile,
exhausting the water in the light
truck, stretched a thousand feet
of hose up the hill from James
Creek in a valiant though futile
effort to save the house, which
despite the powerful stream of
water thrown by the pumper was
doomed from the outset.
Built in the winter of 1904-05,
on a knoll, once an emplacement
for a battery of Kilpatrick’s ad
vancing troops, the house was a
sturdy structure with a poured
concrete lower story over a base
ment, the walls surmounted by a
story and attic of seasoned pine,
which once well started made an
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Second Pro-Amateur
Al^ Mid Pines Monday
A fifth in the series of Sand
hills amateur-professional golf
tournaments will be held at the
Mid Pines Club on Monday, Feb
ruary 25, it was revealed as we
go to press. Manager Frank Cos
grove of the Mid Pines states that
Monday’s competition over the
club cour.se will be on the metro
politan plan as in the past. No
green fee will be charged, but
amateurs will pay an entry fee
of $5.00, all of which will go into
prizes.
' The pro-amateur competition
slated for the Mid Pines will be
the secpnd of the recent series
of similar tournaments to be held
at the club.
"Though I Speak ..
Rep. Hall introduces a bill:
to prohibit the export of grain
from ihe U. S. to assure
American consumers the pres
ent amount of white bread."
Sen. Butler asserts: "the
'nation's health and diet must
be protected." But Sen. Hatch
exclaims: "I was shocked
when I heard it said that this
(sending food overseas)
would be a political blunder.
Have we come to such a pass
that the Presidient cannot
make an appeal for the hun
gry and Ihe starving without
being besmirched with the
taint of party politics? I wish
to say that I do not want to
give merely out of our sur
plus ... to send only the
wheat which we do not need
to feed our livestock and our
poultry and to keep our bread
white. I am willing to share
with the starving nations of
the world out of ihe abund
ance which Providence has
given us as a nation."
BURGIN
Moore County should feel proud
of its man Burgin, who filed a bill
last week to bar the manufacture
of atomic bombs until the UNO
completes effective control ma
chinery.
Capital of Besort
Airline Set At
Million Saturday
capitalization of Resort Air
lines, Inc., was raised to a total
of $1,000,000 at the first annual
meeting of corporation stockhold
ers held at the Knollwood field
headquarters here on Saturday,
February 16, Major Lewis C. Bur-
well, president of the line, stated
early this week.
Approximately twenty stock
holders present at the meeting
authorized the board of directors
to issue an additional $100,000
as immediate working capital for
the line, which heretofore has
been a $100,000 corporation. Fol
lowing a highly successful busi
ness session, stockholders and of
ficers of the organization ad
journed to the Dunes Club for
an evening’s entertainment.
Major Burwell also announces
this week that the first of the
line’s twenty - one passenger
Douglas planes has been com
pletely converted for service as
a civilian transport. The big
Douglas ship Will be available
immediately to pre - arranged
parties for flights to any point in
the Northern ' Hemisphere.
ATTENDS SEMINAR
Graham Culbreth, of the Sou
thern Pines Pharmacy, has re-
urned from the professional sem
inar for druggists held at the Un
iversity of North Carolina Febru
ary 17th through the 20th. The
session featured lectures on mod
ern pharmaceutical practices, and
was the first such seminar ever
to have been held in North Car
olina.