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VOL. 26. NO. 17.
Southern Pines, North Caroline. Friday. March 22, 1946.
TEN CENTS
Mile-Away Team , GI Provision
Captures First
In Hunter Trials
Annual Horse and
Hound Event Draw
Many Enthusiasts
by Howard Burns
A large crowd ot enthusiastic
spectators assembled on the hill
top of the picturesqjue hunter
trial course at the Scott Farm
here Saturday afternoon to see
Southern Piiies’ Mile-Away Hunt
captained by Mrs. W. O.
Moss, capture first place in the
feature event of the afternoon.
Leading the team was “Rebel”,
an eight - year - old chestnut
gelding, owned by John Dot-
ridge of Charlotte, with Mrs.
Moss up, with “Rock Trude”,
Miss Jane Pohl, Ft. Belvoir, Va.,
up, second, and “Rock Haste”,
with Dehnar Twyman up, third,
both the other Mile-Away horses.
The second team was lead by
Mrs. P. P. Cornwell of Philadel
phia, riding “Regard”, owned by
Ralph K. Trix, and Mrs. Moss
riding “Dark Victory,” a seasoned
hunter, and “Renown” owned and
ridden by Dwight W. Winkleman.
The third team was captained
by Mrs. Mary Stanforth of Mon
treal, on “Cherro”, owned* by
Mrs. Ralph K. Trix. In the team
was “Rustler”, owned by W. O.
Moss and ridden b> James Mech-
ling, and “Smokey”, owned by
Lloyd Tate of Pinehurst with
Billy Tate up.
“Hallow Gold”, a chestnut
gelding, owned by Henry Yozell
of Boston with Mickey Walsh up,
led a string of fourteen hunters
to win the blue ribbon in the
class for middle and heavy
weight hunters. “Renown,” with
Dwight W. Winkleman up, was
judged a close second. “Dark
Victory” with Mrs. Moss up, fin
ished third.
The Hunter Trials were gwen
for the benefit of the Local Chap
ter of the American Red Cross
and the Moore County Hounds.
“Henry’s Dream,” owned and
ridden by Mrs. James Mechling
of Southern Pines, led the field
to. capture 4he blue ribbon over
eight-in the class for light weight
hunters. The Mile-Aw.y Stables
“Little River”, with Mrs. W. O.
Moss up, was second with third
place going to “Goldenwood,” a
chestnut mare owned and ridden
by Edith Ferguson of Qiiebec.
“Rock Haste”, owned and rid
den by Mrs. W. O. Moss, won
first oyer sixteen jumpers in the
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Picquet Shaken In Near
Crash; Rush Carries On
Charlie Picquet was more than
considerably shaken up in a near
automobile accident last week,
missing -serious injury only by
great good fortune.
Returning from a Charlotte
business trip, he was caught in
the bad hail-storm which struck
these parts. At the same corner
of the Albemarle highway where
Mrs. Loys Smith of Pinehurst lost
her life in January, the car start
ed to skid. It ran off onto the
shoulder and only a clay-bank
-.kwt it from actually overturning.
Theatre-manager Picquet suf
fered many bruises and the liga
ments in one knee were badly
torn. He went back to work for
a day or two, but was finally per
suaded to take things easy till his
leg healed, and allow his “as
sistant” to carry on for a few
days.
The assistant in question is
Maxwell Rush, discharged veter
an and nephew of Mrs. Picquet,
who has come to the Sandhills
with his wife to live, and who
will be working in the Carolina
Theatres organization.
Ruggles Heads Moore
County Election Board
The State Board of Elections
has recently appointed the coun
ty boards for the coming year.
John S. Ruggles of Southern
Pines has been appointed chair
man of the Moore County board.
Serving with him are S. C. Rid
dle of Carthage and S. W. Shields
also of Carthage. The first two
members of the board are dem
ocrats and the last a republican.
For Montgomery, adjoining
Moore County, the board is also
made up of the same numbaf*
with Otis Ptoolje serving as a
member from Jackson Springs.
EX-GOVERNOR BROUGHTON
Ex-Gov.Broughton
Coming To Speak
At Rotary Banquet
Inler-city Gathering
Ot Clubs Is Planned
For Friday Night
Former Govenor J. Melville
Broughton will be the speaker
at the banquet to be given by
the Rotary Club of Southern
Pines next Friday evening at the
Southern Pines Country Club.
This announcement, made by the
chairman. The Rev. Tucker G.
Humphries, promises a record at
tendance at the coming inter
city banquet for which Southern
Pines is the host club.
Some 225 Rotarians with their
Rotariannes from the clubs of
Carthage, Rockingham, and
Wadesboro will gather for the
banquet at 7 o’clock, preceded by
a golf tournament and bridge
party.
The chairman of this inter-city
banquet also announced that
Gov. J. Burton Weaver of Rotary
District 191, of which these
clubs are members, and former
governor Osmer Henry will be
among the honor guests present.
“An evening of good fellowship,
fun and music is planned,” said
Chairman Humphries.
The chief spe9ker,held many
positions of prominence in state
legal circles before becoming
governor in 1941. Wrfile in office
he was a member of the execu
tive committee of the National
G*pvemor’s • Conference, and
chairman of the Postwar Plan
ning Committee of state govern
ment in the Southern Region.
Following the expiration of. his
term in January, 1945, he re
turned to the practice of law in
Raleigh, his native town. In con
nection with this he continues
certain public activities, includ
ing the following: President
North Carolina Engineering
Foundation, President Roanoke
Island Historical Association,
Member Board of Directors Wa
chovia Bank and Trust Co., Mem
ber Board of Trustees of Wake
Forest College.
A CLOSE ONE!
Closest call of the week
occurred on the rail crossing
at Pennsylvania. Avenue at
8:45 p. m. Tuesday as the
prow of Seaboard engine
4016, easing South with a
slow freight in tow, grazed
the '46 Mercury driven by
Harry M. Veile, crumpling the
right fender as the car was
shoved several feet along
side, off the macadam. Vale,
alone, wjho was driving
downhill on Pennsylvania,
was uninjured.
"Looked just like he was
sitting there waiting for me",
the engineer of the diesel re
marked to a bystander.
To Vale, with his car stall
ed just at the rails, power
less to move, it was a differ
ent story.
VACANCIES
Citizens of Southern Pines who
have rooms and small apartments
for rent to military personnel,
and whose rentals are not hand
led through the real estate agen
cies, are asked to register their
vacancies with the Chamber of
Commerce. Please contact Len
nox Forsyth, executive secretary,
by calling 8932, between one and
five p. m. '
Gives Farmer Vets
Subsistence Pay
$65 - $90 Per Month
For On-Job Training
Farmer vets can now join ranks
with all the other civilianized
GI’s who are taking advantage of
Uncle Sam’s generous offer to
earn while you learn.
This training program for far
mer vets has been announced as
ready to start “on or about
March 15th.”
Any vet is eligible who has
served 90 days of active duty in
World War II after Sept. 15, 1940
. . . and was not dishonorably dis
charged.
The single farmer while train
ing can draw from the Veterans
Administration $60 subsistence
pay, in addition to regular hired
farmer pay. Married farmers will
get $90.
The training program is to last
for one year. At the end of that
year if the farmer vet in training
has “done satisfactory work and
conducted himself in accordance
with the rules and regulations, an
additional training period not to
exceed his length of service be
tween Sept. 16, ’40 and the termi
nation of the war” will be grant
ed. This sounds like it might even
exceed the four year maximum
allowed in any other training
program. However, this is high
ly doubtful.
The subsistence pay will start
the date the veteran enters far
mer on-the-job training, provid
ed VA has received his applica
tion and approved it.
The first step to make yourself
eligible is this: Fill out the appli
cation blaqk (Form 1950). These
you can get from your local
Teachers of Agriculture: Aber-
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Dr. Geo. Heinitsh
Assumes Practice
Of Dr. P. J. Chester
After fifteen years of practice
as an Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat
specialist in Southern Pines, Dr.
P. J. Chester announced here
this week, in a statement to the
local press, that he intends to
retire in the very near future.
Dr. Chester and his family will
continue to make their home
here.
The practice and present of
fice of Dr. Chester are being ta
ken over by Dr. George Heinitsh,
who was on the staff of Duke
Hospital for five years. He was
associated with Doctors Lilly and
McKay, of Fayetteville, when he
was called to active duty with
the armed forces in April, 1940.
Dr. Heinitsh was chief of the
Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Ser
vice, Station Hospital, Fort Mon
roe, Va., until he was placed in
command of a General Hospital
which was ordered to the South
west Pacific. He attained the
rank of full colonel, and recently
has returned from Luzon in the
Philippines. Dr. Heinitsh is a na
tive of South Carolina, a Presby
terian, and is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina and
of Duke University. Mrs. Hein
itsh is the former Nellie Graves,
of Carthage.
John McConnell Opens
Law Office Here
KNOW YOUR ABC! Home of Early Moore County Settlers *Kernersvilie. Wins
Over Locals For
State Cage Title
■ It looks as if the Sandhills was
to be favored with more good
legal talent. Lawyer John D. Mc
Connell, who holds the position
of assistant to the U. S. Attorney
in the middle district of North
Carolina, has come here to stay
and has rented the office of the
late Duncan Matthews. He plans
to start practice shortly but will
live in Pinehurst until able to
secure a house nearer his office.
The young attorney came into
the Pilot office with Leland Mc-
Keithen, prosecuting attorney of
the county court, who introduced
him as an old friend. “We were
classmates at Davidson and
Duke,” he said, “and even went
to summer camp together.”
McConnell is the son of the
late Dean McConnell of David
son. He was an honor student at
both Davidson and Duke, where
he got his law degree. Serving in
the Navy during the war, he was
discharged last November. He is
married and has two boys.
It used lo be easy to gel
yourself a bottle of the best
in Pinehurst—just by know
ing your ABC. But word has
it now that the picture has
changed. The practice was
recently aired in Court
where favorites got uniler-
the-counler sales of the good
stuff, while those not in tl^e
know got what was left in
over -the -counter sales. One
J. E. Lee, alias "Dinah", let
the cat out of the bag on the
witness stand. Bespectacled,
nervous Mr, Lee told all.
"Some of the boys talked to
the boss" was the way he put
it. And although Singing
Sam or Corndale was all you
or I could get ha'd we tried,
a case of Old Quaker mirac
ulously turned up under the
counter. And less miraculous
ly, ten of these Old Quaker
bottles later graced a drab
Court house table.
So if it has stopped in
Pinehurst, why not here?
Thursday Banquet
Will Honor School
Cage Teams Here
Successful Seasons Of
Basketeers Reviewed,
Girls' Squad Was Tops
The annual banquet given by
the Rotary Club for the boys’
and girls’ High School basketball
squads will be held Thursday
night, March 28th, at the Southern
Pines Country Club.
Dan Hill, famous All-American
of' Duke’s Rose Bowl grid team,
and assistant on the present
Duke coaching staff, will be the
guest speaker for the occassion.
Hill has recently returned from
a year’s service with the Navy.
Playing a rugged schedule,
rolling up 20 wins against 4
losses, winners of the Moore
County Tournament, who car
ried the Blue and White school
pennant as Eastern representa
tive in the State finals, this gear’s
quintet surpassed even the envia
ble record of last year’s great
team.
“They’re a fine bunch of kids
to work with,” says Coach Daw
son. “Plenty of hustle, and they
' were always in there fighting,
even when they were losing. I
never coached a finer squad of
boys.”
Though somewhat overshadow
ed by the brilliant play of the
boys, the girls’ team this year, in
the opinion of many, was the best
ever to represent the Blue and
white. With two letter forwards,
and a guard converted to for
ward, one guard, and no exper
ienced reserves, the girls were
off to a slow start, with only
three wins out of the first eight
games.
The .patience and skill of Miss
Aline Todd, coach, paid off, how
ever, as the team began to roll.
In lining up seven straight vie--
tories, the girls defeated, among
others, Pinehurst, Aberdeen,
Jonesboro, and Rockingham, the
latter a Class B team. Meeting
Cameron in the County semi
finals, the Blue and White lost
out in the last 50 seconds of play,
34-32, after having battled up hill
to a tie of 32 all, with 2 minutes
to go.
I “They learned, as the season
went on,” says Miss Todd,'who
likes her team, too. “Play of the
team as a unit was the outstand
ing improvement, but the way
our guards came through at about
mid-schedule was the highlight
of the season. And,” she adds,
“they’ll be back next year.”
In response to many requests,
it was stated, this year’s banquet
will be open to the public. Those
wishing to attend may do so, but
should call Mrs. Murphy at the
Country Club for reservations.
BEN PALMER SELLS
MARKET IN PINEHURST
^Westerners Total,
40 Points To 24
In Fast Contest
THE OLD SHAW HOUSE which is under consideratiton for
purchase and restoration as an example of an early North Carolina
Scottish home.
The Story of the Shaw House
As Gleaned From Old Records
by Charles Macauley
Surviving • climatic changes
and the ever present menace of
fire in the dense pine forests of
its earlier years, the Shaw house,
now, and for many years, a land
mark of Southern Pines has pass
ed it centenary. It is not only the
oldest home, but with the excep
tion of three almost contempor
ary log cabins, it is the only
house known to have been so lo
cated until after the close of the
Civil War.
The house is typical of the
homes of the post revolutionary
era erected by the more prosper
ous landowners in this section to
supplant their earlier log cabins,
These horhes of the Highland and
Western Isles Scots of the Sand
hills, are basically different from
the English type houses of our
seaboard counties. Two other ex
amples, of this type of one story,
low house, are nearby, the Blue
house on the old Bethesda road
and the McKinnon house (now
Watson) on the old Southern
Pines—Pinehurst road, said to
have been erected about 1800.
Penetrating the then McNeill
grant, .the new road, now known
as the “Old Morganton,” crossed
the much older Peedee road just
to the west of the present Shaw
house in 1818-1819, and the ad
vantages of this site induced
Charles C. Shaw, in 1820, to pur
chase from John McNeill, in a
most unusual procedure, as 18
years later he himself received a
grant of 245 acres south of the
Morganton, and in 1845, 200 acres
adjoining McKinnon.
For a time, following his mar
riage to Mary Ray, daughter of
Col. John Ray, on March 20, 182r,
they lived in a McNeill cabin
somewhere in the location of
Iowa Avenue and Leak Street;
then they moved to a new cabin
located in the rear of the present
house, which, traditionally was
begun about the time lof the
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by Jack Biiyeu
Contending for the State. Class
C basketball title on Friday, the
Squthern Pines cagers—Moore
County title-holders, and Eastern
Conference champs—went down
finally before the fast and de
ceptive basketeers of Kerners-
ville High School, on a 40-24
count. Meeting the home team
on the neutral court at Aberdeen,
the westerners displayed a brand
of play eclipsing any team seen
here previously this season.
Through the hotly contested
initial quarter, the locals played
above themselves to keep the op
posing aggregation more than
worried, and twice in three min
utes held a precarious lead. Fast
action was the order from the
word go, as within the first five
seconds of the period Parrish,
Kernersville forward, took the
tip-off from Stockton, center, for
two points from the floor. Sou
thern Pines retaliated a few sec
onds later on center Harrington’s
flashy backboard play for a bas
ket, bringing the score to 2 all.
• A free shot for the westerners,
followed by Maples’ 2 points as
he shook loose beneath the bas
ket, gave Southern Pines the
lead 4-3. Kernersville controlled
the ball for two serious scoring
threats that followed; the Blue
and White defense tightened to
halt the attack in .aggressive and
heads up play beneath the net.
two foul shots made good by
Musten, guard, upped the score
5 to 4 for Kernersville.
Maples’ foul shot and Grey’s
two points from the floor gave
the Blue team a 7-6 margin a few
seconds later, held through the
final minutes of the quarter, un
til a free shot and forward Ho-
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Further Discussion
Of Plans For Shaw
Project Thursday
Further discussion of the re
cently proposed plans for restor
ation of the old Shaw house, as
an historically representative ex
ample of the early Scots home
steads of this section, will be
carried forward at a meeting at
the Southern Pines Library at
8:00 p. m. on Thursday, March
21st.
Mrs. Ernest Ives, one of the
citizens most interested in pre
serving the history of the old
Scots families of the Sandhills,
feels that the plan has aroused
wide interest throughout the
various communities of this sec
tion, and has expressed the hope
that all residents of Moore Coun
ty who are interested in the res
toration project will attend
Thursday’s meeting. It is not
merely a town project, it has
been pointed out, but one de
serving of and requiring support
throughout the county.
At an initial meeting - last
Thursday, Leland McKeithen was
elected permanent chairman for
the undertaking, with Mrs.
Ernest Ives as secretary. Commit
tees were appointed to investi
gate every phase of the question,
preparatory to the present meet
ing.
Ben Palmer has sold his mar
ket in Pinehurst to James Black
and E. P. Hinson. The market is
now The City Market. Mr. Palm
er has returned to Stockton, New
York to enter business.
VETERANS STUDY SAFETY
Availing themselves of the
provisions of the GI B^l of Rightsf
a group of veterans have regis
tered for safety training courses
at the Center for Safety Education
of New York University.
A YANK DONE IT!
Yas Sub! A hole in one!
Down the fairway last Sun
day at Mid Pines came this
terrible threesome. Yanks
all. You couldn't help butt
hear they were Beantowners.
'count of how they talked.
Well, suh, they squared off
on the eighth tee. all of them
with No. 4 irons. Whack and
zeeee! There went the little
white ball, straight for the
green. It lit, it rolled, and
clunk ... it sank in the cup
for a hole in one. Daniel J.
Daley had done it, the former
president of Dedhami's Nor
folk Country Club. Stanley
Ward up and shot himself a
birdie, while T. Gregory Sul
livan of Boston's Common
wealth Country Club, holed
out in par. Nice shootin,'
Yanks.
Duke Chor alGroup
To Offer Varied
Program Of Music
With the Duke University Glee
Club’s scheduled presentation of
a choral program at the Southern
Pines school on Saturday even
ing, March 23rd.,; a deligjiftful
musical experience is being an
ticipated by music lovers
throughout the various Sandhill
communities.
Under the direction of J. Fo.s-
ter Barnes, the Men’s Glee Club
will present the same program
which several Southern Pines
people heard with great pleasure
at Duke a fortnight ago. The
presentation here, made possible
through arrangements of the
Civic Club, is one of the many
engagements scheduled for the
Glee Club’s Spring tour.
Some thirty voices will be
heard in the presentation, chosen
from a group of a hundred and
thirty-five. The well-rounded
program of classic, spiritual, and
Old English music will include
solo and quartet numbers, as well
as piano solos.
A Southern Pines member of
the Glee Club is Lewis Hodgkins,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Norris L.
Hodgkins.
Tickets for the concert, (admis
sion $1.00, reserved sea'ts, $1.50)
are being sold in advance by
Mrs. Hodgkins, (tel. 5042) and
Mrs. Tucker Humphries, (tel.
8094) and can be secured hy tel
ephone.
sneAd, demarest in
GOLF BENEFIT MONDAY
Golfing greats Sammy Snead
and Jimmy Demarest, Houston,
T.ex., pro and holder of the Tus-
con Open Championship, will ap
pear in a profei^sional-amateur
match to be staged in benefit of
the Red Cross fund at the Pine
hurst club on Monday, March
25tl^ Top flight amateur partners
for the two famous pros will be
Richard Chapman and George T.
Dunlap, Jr., both ^former National
Amiateur champions. Admission
for the event, slated to get un
derway at 2:00 p. m. on Monday,
will be $1.00. Proceeds will go
to the Red Cross.
Rotary Club Hears
Boyd, AVC Chair.
The Rotary Club of Southern
Pines met at the Country Club
on Friday to hear reports of their
active comntittees and partake
of the bountiful lunch furnished
by the club management. Speak
ing at the meeting was James
Boyd, Jr., chairman of the local
American Veterans Committee.
Boyd, introducing himself as
“a stranger in his home towp.”
referred briefly to the fact that
although always deeply interest
ed in whatever concerned Sou
thern Pines he had, because of
his long absence, been unable
to take an active part in civic
affairs until now. It was because
he found so many of his veteran
friends sharing his desire to be
of real service that he was in
fluenced to organize a branch of
the American Veterans Commit
tee here.
He described the organization
then went on to outline the
three main points which have,
thus far, constituted its program,
locally. They are, he said. Hous
ing, Employment, and Civic Ser
vice. A committee has been ap-
pdnied to study the Wyatt Hous
ing bill, to press for its passage
by Congress, and to prepare, lo
cally, to take full advantage of
its adoption. The committee has
a list of the number of veterans
needing houses, and their res
pective requirements. Emphasis
is also being placed on veterans’
employment and a committee is
studying the question and the
various aids being set up by the
■governmenjt for “On the Job”
training, placement of veterans,
etc. Thirdly, the local AVC an
nounces itself ready to cooper
ate with the Council of Social
Agencies and the Chamber of
Commerce in their program for
young people’s recreation during
the coming summer.
Boyd closed his talk with a
statement, stirring in its sincere-
ty, of the veteran’s view of the
future, of his faith in the power
for good of his organization of
the young men of World War II.
He said the great aim of AVC
was to become an international
body, made up of veterans from
all the United Nations who,
knowing what'war was, would
work together toward peace and
justice in the world.
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