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Southern Pines. N. C.. Friday. May 31. 1946.
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Success of Historical Association.
Drive Assures Shaw House Purchase
J ohnson. Buggies, Burtt
Finance Chairmen, {
Report $4500 Raised
The Moore County Historical
Association met at the Southern
Pines Library Tuesday nijjht in
their regular bi-monthly meeting.
The report of the finance com
mittee was read by the chairman
J. Talbot Johnson, who told the
assembly that nearly the full
amount needed for the purchase
of the Shaw House had been se
cured. The figure of about
$4,500.00 brings the sum raised
within $500.00 of the price, and
it was voted to borrow this last
amount from the bank in antici
pation of the receipt of the entire
amount. It is confidently expect
ed that the rest of the money will
come in with no dificulty in re
sponse to the letters from
Struthers Burt’s special commit
tee, written by him and recently
sent out by John Ruggles, finance
chairman for Southern Pines.
With the purchase price assur
ed, the association voted that the
board of directors be urged to
title to the property. The chair-
title to the proptrty. The chair
man, Leland McKeithen, said
that he was working on the ques
tion of a clear title, and expected
to meet with no difficulty.
Following some discussion on
the exact location of property
lines, P. Frank Buchan, at the
suggestion of the board, went
with John White to see Mrs. New
ton an arranged with her that the
line of the property should corres
pond to that ori the map, drawn
by J. B. Swett, which would as-
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A LESSON
When the Teen-Agers in
Southern Pines set out to do
something, that something
gels done. Take the way
they've organized their own
"Teen-Age Club." their
dances, their fund raising by
selling cokes at. the ball
games, and how they grab
bed hold of the situation in
the present Food Drive. The
canned food they collected
filled the be of an oversized
pick-up truck. "Close to 900
cans, most bountiful cash
donations.
So take a lesson, grown-
up|s|. The next time some
thing has to get done, try
their way. . . get together,
cooperate, and then simply
do it. No wrangling, no over-
ornate planning — they just
agree on what to do and do it.
Can Collections
Jump As Veterans
Push Local Drive
On Memorial Day™
We Pay Tribute To These Southern Pines Boys
This Tuesday Will Climax
Graduation Activities
POSITIVELY ATOMIC
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CPL. T. C. MCFARLAND, JR.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Mcfar-
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SEAMAN. FIRST CLASS
JOHN BOYD, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jackson H. Boyd, lost his life in land, attended Southern Pines
the Battle of Tulagi, November School. Killed in Germany March
1942. He was manning a gun on j 9, 1945. Awarded Silver Star post-
his Destroyer, USS Barton when J thumously; for gallantry in act-
the ship received a direct hit. j ion.
2ND LT. VIRGIL T. JOHNS
TON, JR., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Virgil Johnston attended South
ern Pines School. The pilot of a
Thunderbolt, he was killed when
his plane was hit by flak over
Rennts, Frances, June 10th, 1944.
He held the Air Medal.
Moore Co. AVC
To Hold Big Dance
At Country Club
Airborne Orchestra
Of Famous 82nd Div.
To Play June 7 Night
The American Veterans Com
mittee, Moore County Chapter is
holding a dance on June 7th from
9:30 to 2:00 a. m. at the Southern
Pines Country Club. The famous
82nd Airborne Division Orches
tra, including men once playing
in prominent name bands, will
play for the occasion.
The American Veterans Com
mittee in Moore County have
sponsored a Teen-Age Club which
has met with great success in Sou
thern Pines. This veterans com
mittee at present is pushing hard
on a Food Drive in conjunction
with the National Drive to help
starving Europe. Through the
help of the Boy Scouts, Teen-Age
Club, and Ladies Auxiliary of
the Presbyterian Church over fif-
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The second weekend of the
American Veterans’ Committee’s
Emergency Food Campaign col
lection went over better than the
first, according to reports from
three town food driye chairmen,
Hermann Grover, Southern Pines,
Bill Nugent, Pinehurst and Jer-
rie McKeithen, Aberdeen. Assist
ed in the house to house collec
tion by the boy scouts, girl scouts
and teen age groups, the collec
tion netted, in Aberdeen 136 cans,
in Pinehurst 419 cans and $35.00
and in Southern Pines, over 600
cans and $25.00, bringing the total
collected so far to well over 1500
cans. The canned food was turn
ed over to Miss Flora McDonald,
the Home Demonstration Agent,
of Carthage, who will have them
packed ahd sent as soon as pos
sible to the nearest collection cen
ter for shipping overseas.
Miss McDonald expressed her
delight in the results of the Vet
erans’ drive to date in no uncer
tain terms. “I knew if those
young men undertook this
work,’’ she said, “that it would be
done. I think it is wonderful and
a real example to all of us of
public-spirited work well done.’’
Aberdeen Chairman Jerrie Mc
Keithen was slightly apologetic
for Aberdeen’s. poorer showing
this week than last, but explain
ed that the Veterans’ staunch
helpers, the Boy Scouts, were off
on a camping trip. All three
chairmen expressed much grati
tude to the ladies who drove the
collectors from house to house
in their cars.
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LT. PAUL R. McCAIN,Son of
Dr. and Mrs. P. P. McCain of
Sanatorium, attended the South
ern Pines School. He served as
navigator of a B-17 with the 8th
Air Force which was hit by flack
and fell into the sea when re
turning to its base. Lt. McCain
ENSIGN RICHARD PETHICK,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Peth-
ick, nephew of Mrs. Norris Hod
gkins, husband of Rebecca Neal
Pethick, graduate of the Southern
Pines School. The pilot of a car
rier-based dive bomber, he was
held the Air Medal with two oak, lost in action in the Pacific, June
leaf clusters. 119th, 1944.
PFC. JOHN ARCHIE GILLIS*
the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gil-
lis. Attended West Southern Pines
School. While on infantry patrol
in Italy he contracted pneumon
ia and died within a few days, in
December, 1944.
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The Pilot happily an
nounces that it now operates
by remote control.
Last week a well-known
realtor placed an ad for the
sale of a house with the Pi
lot's ad man. Meeting him a
few days later with the
query: "Have you sold that
house yet?" the ad man re
ceived the triumphant reply:
"Yeti Why it was sold be
fore the ad even came out!"
How's that for the power
of the press?
Phooey to your radio
beams, FM. loran, plutonium
rays. . . they can't hold a
candle to the power of the
activity emanating from the
vicinity of this fyer news
room!
Mail To New York
Flown By Resort
Airlines Saturday
For one day last week a three
cent stamp, in Southern Pines,
was the same as an eight cent air
mail one, if a letter was going to
New York. All New York and
vicinity mail travelled by air di
rect from Knollwood Field last
Saturday.
The Burwell Brothers’ Resort
Airlines was one of the carriers
designated by the government as
emergency transport for passen
gers and mail in the late railroad
strike crisis. While carrying on
the usual flight schedule between
Miami, Knollwood Field, and
New York, the line was also pre
pared to take on flights to Colum
bus, Atlanta, Indianapolis, and
other points on a wide perimeter,
at the order of the government.
First flight carrying mail was
made on Saturday, May 25th
when the plane left Knollwood
at three o’clock, bound for New
York, with two sacks containing
Southern Pines mail, including
many copies of THE PILOT for
New York readers. Postmaster P.
Frank Buchan was on hand and
himself put the two heavy sacks
aboard the big silver plane. The
former C47, with the Green
Goose painted on its side, has
been reupholstered and redeco
rated, with soft grey cushioned
seats and neat white chairbacks,
the work being done by Carth
age’s W. A. Way.
Expressing much gratitude to
the Airlines head. Major Burwell,
for his cooperation in carrying
the mails. Postmaster Buchan
said the Sandhills was indeed
lucky in having such a fine outfit
flying here and able to step in in
this emergency.
Broughton, Blakely
To Be Speakers
Hodgkins To PreseiU
Students Diplomas
This Tuesday, fourth of June,
will see another graduating class
leave the halls of Southern Pines
High School. Many dreams and
hopes will course through the
hearts and heads of those grad
uating, many memories will rush
back to those who went before
them. All will wish that the brave
youngsters pictured here this
Memorial Day, most of whom
many times passed through the
|same halls and' school roomsj|
might be back with us again in
stead of buried -out on the far.
outposts of World War II.
At this Commencement of the
Class of ‘46 two prominent north
Carolinians will speak. Hunter
B. Blakely, President of Queens
College in Charlotte will give the
Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday
evening and on Tuesday Ex-Gov
ernor J. Melville Broughton will
give the Commencement Address
at the High School.
The Commencement program
will get under way 8:15 P. M.
Sunday at the Church of Wide
Fellowship with the. Commence
ment Sermon. The Invocation
will be given by Reverend Tucker
G. Humphries and the Scripture
Reading will be by Reverend F.
Craighill Brown. Following the
Glee Club, Dr. Thomas E. Davis
will give the Benediction.
Monday will be a day for all
the graduating hopefuls to shake
out that last wrinkle from their
gowns, put the finishing touches
to the already spotlessly white
shoes and trousers.
Then will come Tuesday, the
long awaited day. In the morn
ing at 11:15, there will be the
Honoir^ and Awards exercize^
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Almost All God’s Chillun Got Ballots
And Voted All Over The County
If it is a moot question in some
disappointed voters’ minds
whether the best men won last
Saturday, there is no doubt that
some very good men and women
won. That was one thing about
this year’s election: though there
was plenty of enthusiasm for cer
tain candidates who lost out, there
is no feeling that because of their
defeat the county or state is about
to go into a decline. The fact of
the matter is, win or lose, the old
state is going to rock along in its
good old way without so very
much change one way or the
other.
But that is not to say that there
was not plenty of feeling to the
contrary last Saturday, at least
around the Commimity Center in
Southern Pines where the voting
was going on.
From early dawn to dusk it
was the scene of feverish excite
ment. To approach it the voter
had to run a gauntlet of earnest
supporters, dashing out from the
shade of the trees, popping out
of side-doors, rearing up before
him as he ascended the brick
steps, all thrusting cards under
his innocent nose. Deane cards,
Johnson cards. Blue cards, Ken
nedy cards. Everybody cards. It
looked as if all God’s chillun were
voting and all his grand-
chillun were rooting for
them. Above all this to-do in the
placid sky floated a red plane
carolling out the virtues of Can
didate Horner. The voter who
kept his wits and voted the way
he’d planned to was a staunch
and sturdy man.
Inside on the left. Judges C.
W. Case and J. E. Newton were
ensconced beside the ballot box
and boothe where votes for Miss
Jane Pratt or the other feller
were to be cast, while across the
room p^ames Boyd, Jr., Tony Mon-
tesanti and James Spring, Jr.,
presided over the books and bal
lots of the democratic primary
elections. Hovering benevolently
over the whole was that old town
character. Registrar Hiram West
brook.
The results of the activities of
all these folks not to mention the
citizens who flocked in to vote
New VFW Post
Honors John Boyd
Taking His Name
Stephenson Chosen
Commander Of Post
Fowler, Vice-Cmdr.
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Pfc. LONNIE S. BLOUNT,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Blount of
Parkton, husband of Naomi Mel
vin Blount. Killed in action in
France on August 16th, 1944.
CAPTAIN DONALD MCNEILL
STEWART, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alex Stewart of Fayetteville,
nephew of W. H. McNeill and
Mrs. J. C. Sledge, graduate of
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SGT. ROBERT ARTHUR
HAWK, son of Mr. and Mrs. Z. G.
Hawk and husband of Mrs. Grace
Klabbatz Hav^ was wounded
in Belgium Nov. 4, 1944 and died
last Saturday in Aberdeen, buried
yesterday here at the Mt. Hope
Cemetery.
1ST. LT. ROBERT LOUIS
HOWE, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Howe,of Oak Point, Ill., husband
of Juliet Vale Howe. He was kill
ed in action on Iwo Jima. Febru
ary 27th, 1945, when serving with
the 5th Marine Division.
Southern Pines School. Killed in
was that one lady got sent to j action in Germany February 21st,
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PFC. ROBERT A. SMITH, JR.
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Smith
of Niagara, attended Southern
Pines School. A member of the
101st Airborne Division, he was
wounded in the action of Bas-
togne on Christmas Day, 1945,
and died on December 27th.
PFC. LEON WHITTINGTON,
son of Mrs. J. B. Whittington, at-
ter^ed Southern Pines School.
He went ashore in Normandy on
D-Day, and |vas killed in the ac
tion of Cherbourg a few days la
ter.
Boy Scouts Attend
Sanford Camporee
by Dickie Ray
On Friday, May 24, Boy Scouts
of the Panther patrol of troop 73
of Southern Pines went to San
ford to the Occoneechee Camp
oree. After registering, they went
to their campsites and pitched
their tents.
At six thirty that afternoon the
scouts who numbered about two
hundred and seventy five, lined
up in double file and marched to
the middle of town, where they
were met by the Sanford High
School Band. From there the
scouts marched out to the San
ford Ball Park where they saw
Sanford play Dunn-Erwin.
The next morning after colors
and breakfast the morning was
spent in preparing the camp sites
for inspection. /Vt 12:00 the scouts
had dinner and then went to see
the many different kinds of troop
projects. This was the first year
that they have had this kind of
scouting events, . Following sup
per that night a large campfire
was held. An Indian pageant was
acted out by members of The
Order of the Arrow. Songs were
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A new tribute was paid to John
Boyd, the brilliant young Sou
thern Pines man who today lies
buried on Tulagi, a small and
beautiful Pacific island just off
Guadalcanal, when the Veterans
of Foreign Wars voted unani
mously to name their recently
formed Southern Pines post the
“John Boyd Post”. Mr. and Mrs.
Jackson Boyd, parents of John
Boyd, now in Harrisburg, Penn
sylvania, were contacted and
their permission obtained.
The VFW post here was or
ganized on May 17, 1946, at which
time “Commander” Behrman,
from Troy, came down and was
the “Installing Offiaer,” repire-
senting VFW’s state department.
The officers elected were: John
Stephenson, Commander; Harold
Fov^ler,, Vice-Commanj^er;> Mel
vin Wicker of Pinehurst, Junior
Commander; Lt. Col. George
Bums, Quartermaster; Lennox
Forsythe, Post Adjutant; Paul
Finch, Post Advocate; Harry
Klabbatz, Officer of the Day.
CPhM Lyle McDonald, USN, was
elected Surgeon.
The Trustees elected were:
William Moore, Walter Blue, and
E. L. McBride.
The officers,were installed by
Commander Behrman, and the
duties of each explained in de
tail.
In taking the name of John
Boyd, the VFW post named itself
after one of the most promising
young men in the Sandhills. A
brilliant scholar at Princeton Un
iversity, he called a halt to stud
ies and joined the Navy in early
’42.
It was on the Destroyer “Bar
ton” in the Battle of Tulagi that
John Boyd, S l|c gave his life in
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