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VOL 26 NO 33.
Southern Pines, N. C., Friday. July 12, 1946
TEN CENTS
Veterans Now Get Free
Medical Care at The
Moore County H ospital
Disabilities Must Be
"Service Connected"
SHAW HOUSE
Bradley and Hawley
Most Responsible For
Revolutionary Program
Moore County Hospital in Pine-
hurst is one of the forty-seven
North Carolina hospitals approv
ed by the U. S. Veterans Admin
istration for treatment of vet
erans’ service-connected disabil
ities.
These hospitals are the first to
qualify for participation in the
veterans “Home Treatment’’ pro
gram, v/hich is being administer
ed on a non-profit basis for the
Veterans Administration by the
Chapel Hill Blue Cross Plan. _
This is the result of a revolut
ionary plan tried out by General
Omar Bradley. The purpose of
the plan was to eliminate the
miles of red tape, and make vet
erans’ medical care as efficient as
that given civilians.
Those against the plan cry
“socialized medicine” and point
out the extra burden on the tax
payer. But the answer is obvious.
Never could veterans otherwise
hope for rapid, expert care which
this system makes possible.
Take the example of veterans
here in Moore County. If they
had to pack up and go to an est
ablished Veterans Hospital in
Raleigh, it would mean complica
tions, expense, and loss of time
that might easily nullify the good
done by the trip to the distant
Veterans Hospital.
This new system is primarily
responsible for its present exist
ence to the Acting Chief Medical
Director of the VA, Maj. Gen.
Paul Hawley. In the words of
Hawley: “I am going to give the
veteran the best medical care in
the world - or else I The medical
profession must support this pro
gram - or else! And in the case
of the medical profession the ‘or
else’ is state medicine.”
That Moore County Hospital
is one of the hospitals that will
now care for veterans is a great
boon to the veterans of this com
munity. E. B. Crawford, execu
tive vice president of the Hosp-
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The Shaw House is bought.
The Historical Association
has completed the purchase
and a full report will be
made at the meeting that will
be held on Tuesday, July 16.
Also of interest, the guest
speaker at the meeting will
be the Past Secretary of the
North Carolina Society of
County Historians, Malcolm
Fowler, who, says W. A. Le-
land McKeithen: "is a fine
historian and will speak on
matters of local interest."
The date when restoration
on the Shaw House will be
finished and it will opeti as
a museum of the early Moore
County days when the
doughty Scots settled here
has not yet been announc
ed.
All those 'interested are
invited to attend the meeting
this Tuesday.
AVC To Sponsor
Softball Team
Houses, Lots,
One Auto Agency
Change Hands
Veterans Give Support
On The Field And Off
Ruth Sanborn Memorial
To Be Dedicated Sunday
In special exercises Sunday.
July 14th at the 11: o’clock ser
vices, the electronic chimes given
to the Church of Wide Fellow
ship in memory of Ruth Burr
Sanborn by her ^father, Wilbur
J. Sanborn, will be dedicated.
Miss Sanborn,! Inoted author,
novelist and short story writer,
had been for many years prior to
her death in June 1942 a devoted
member of the Church of Wide
Fellowship. Active in all church
affairs, she was particularly in
terested in various chlurch so
cieties serving as officer in many
of them. At the time of her death
she was. church clerk.
Hymns and religious music es
pecially loved by Miss Sanborn
will be played on the chimes dur
ing the services with Mrs. L. D.
McDonald at the organ.
OLD GOLF CLUBS
An urgent apeal is being made
for anyone who has golf clubs
and balls they no longer need or
use to give these clubs to the
Summer Sports Program so that
the youngsters who cannot afford
clubs of their own can take part
in the free golf lessons and 25
cents golf fees now being offered
at the Country Club as part of
the Summer Sports Program for
the young people of Southern
Pines.
Anyone who has clubs or balls
they are willing to give, contact
A. C. Dawson at the Country
Club, Civic Center, or at his
home.
Members of the Moore County
Chapter of the American Vet
erans Committee at their regular
bi-monthly meeting at the, Com
munity Center last Monday voted
to sponsdr the Southern Pines
Softball Team. The name agreed
on for the newly sponsored soft-
ballers to be the “AVC Team”.
However, there is to be no
change in relation to those who
play on the team-. It is open to
anyone in Southern Pines inter
ested in playing, veterans or
otherwise.
AVC is to give whatever or
ganizational aid that may be
needed, and put on the drives to
get the team necessary equip
ment, provide necessary trans
portation.
A. C. Dawson, in charge of the
summeir sports program initia
ted by the Council of Social
Agencies, informed the AVC
Chapter that the newly formed
Softball Team, if sponsored by
AVC, would probably improve
the team, draw more interest to
the games, as well as provide pub
licity for the progressive group
of young World War H veterans
who have as their slogan: “Com
munity First, Veterans Second”.
The teams at present in the
Softball League are: Pinehurst,
Aberdeen, West End, and South
ern Pines.
Games are to be played twice
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UNDERGOES OPERATION
Duncan H. McGiU, proprietor
of McGill’s Esso Service in Vass,
underwent an operation for the
removal of a growth from one of
his eyes in Raleigh last week. He
will have to return to Raleigh
for treatment every day for a
while.
Considerable real estate activ
ity has taken place in Southern
Pines over the past few weeks.
Largest of these is the purchase
of the Country Club by W. W.
Sherman of Connecticut. This,
with many more reported by the
Stevens and other local real es
tate agencies, plus those record
ed at Carthage, constitute a real
estate boom of gentle but defin
ite proportions.
Mrs. George White sold to Jas
per Swearingen the residence on
the corner of Leak Street and
Wisconsin Ave. This house was
built in 1902 by Mrs. Swearin
gen’s father, Paul Clarke.
Also sold by Mrs. White to Or-
vel Cult, County Health Inspec
tor, is the house on Leak Street
near Wisconsin Ave.
Of considerable interest to
many in Southern Pines is the
purchase by Mr. and Mrs. John
Beasley of the former Kelly
house on the corner of Indiana
Avenue and Weymouth Road. Mr.
and Mrs. Beasley are well known
for their newspaper. The Moore
County News, as well as for the
very excellent restaurant they
ran outside Carthage. Many
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Many Real Estate tahhed -n pebbled
1^ I O, * F* f-l Many streets of Southern
UCcllS olciri VrCmiC Pmes are newly bedecked
^ ww • O Tfe tar and pebbles. Some
Doom H.0rC in IS 1 wonder if another coat of tar
is to be poured atop the
gravel. The answer is: "No".
The gravel will sink into the
tar, assures City Clerk How
ard Burns. For those who
doubt this disappearing act
by the pebbles the street run
ning alongside the Post Of
fice is held up as an example
of the proven fact that the
pebbles will sink.
Streets still to be tarred
and pebbled are: Ri^ge
Street (NY Ave. to MaSne
Ave.), Maine Ave. (Ridge to
U. S. 1- Vermont Ave. (Ridge •
to U. S. 1), Rhode Island Ave.
(Ashe to U. S. 1), Ashe St.
(Maine to Rhode Island), In
diana Ave. U. S. 1 to Ashe).
Said Howard Burns: "We'd
like to fix a lot more. . . all
of them. But money, that's
the trouble—money."
Tobacco Voters
Decide Today If
Allotments Go On
Three Million Dollar
A partment Program
Underway At Bragg
Moore Co. Kids
Off To Roanoke Is.
And “Lost Colony”
Kiwanis To Sponsor
Trip For Youngsters
Golf Champs Tied
In Final Contest
Southern Pines undefeated
golf team ended their present
tournament season Wednesday
with the closest contest they had
to face. Travelling to Lumberton
they met a strong Lumberton
team that was out to trip the
champs. They came close ... but
the champs are still undefeated.
Wednesday’s match was close
indeed|.i After /the first eleven
matches were completed the
score was tied. The fate of the
local clubs record rested on Dante
and Tony Montesanti playing in
the last foursome. The Montes-
anti’s were one up on the first
nine, but were two down going
into the eighteenth. The match
to be decided on tbe last hole and
the last stroke. Players and visit
ors crowded the last green to
watch Tony Montesanti par and
the Lumberton player'three putt
to tie up the match at 16 and one
half all. It was a grand climax
to a very succesful season
brought about by the combined
efforts of all players on the team.
The Sandhills Golf League
trophy now rests with the Sou
thern Pines team. Memebers of
the league are teams from the
following Country Clubs: Lum
berton, Laurinburg, Richmond,
Wadesboro and Southern Pines.
Plans call for additional teams
to qualify for the league before
the next season starts.
tD the Moore County Tournament
All players are now pointing
to be played here in August and
the Individual Match Play to be
held Labor Day weekend.
This Wednesday, July 17, a
busload of Moore County chil
dren, including many from Sou
thern Pines, Aberdeen, and Pine
hurst will be off to see Paul
(Ireen’s famous outdoor spec
tacle, the .‘Lost Colony”, now in
its sixth season on Roanoke, the
island that lies ^ between two
sounds.
The trip is beirig sponsored by
the Sandhills Kiwanis Club and
the announcement was made at
the regular -weekly luncheon at
the Community House in Aber
deen last Wednesday.
Talbot Johnson, Chairman of
the Committee, and B. U. Richard
son of Pinehurst, stated that
twenty-seven children would be
aboard the bus, which will leave
from the Pinehurst Garage, the
Southern Pines Community
House, and the Aberdeen bus sta
tion.
The children will probably be
put up overnight in the barracks
or other facilities of the former
Navy Airport at Manteo which
has been converted for this pur
pose and will have their meals
at the ex-Navy cafeteria.
For $3 each, -'‘Lost Colony”
provides cots, supper and break
fast, plus a ticket to the play.
Lunch is not included as groups
will generally arrive after lunch
and leave the base before noon
the following day.
The Moore County group will
be accompanied by W. D. Sabis-
ton, Moore County attorney and
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Polls Open At 7:00 am
Continuing Until 9 pm
The fate of Moore County’s
tobacco acreage allotments hangs
on the outcome of the votes cast
today by the tobacco growers. All
tobacco growers are eligible to
vote.
The votes now being cast in
the referendum of flue-cured to
bacco marketing quotas decide
-w'hethek- or not acerage allot
ments are to continue in 1947.
The referendum is being con
ducted in each county by the
chairman of the County A.gri-
cultural Conservation.
Growers can adjust supply to
demand by the means of the mar
keting quotas provided. This will
also help establish fair prices for
the growers on the tobacco they
produce.
The first post-war crop is re
ported as far above world con
sumption levels in order to build
up the depleted stocks in foreign
countries. The marketing quotas
can step in here and readjust the
important supply - demand bal
ance.
Thfe Act of Congress under
which the referendum is being
held today also sets up loans and
other price supports on flue-cured
tobacco that will be produced
during ‘47, ‘48, and ‘49.
The polls opened today (Fri
day) at 7:00 am and will continue
through the day until 9:00 pm.
Voting places in Moore County
are: The AAA Office in Carthage;
Greenwood Township - regular
voting place and at the Tracy
Sewell Service Station Highway
27-501; McNeil Township - Town
Hall of Vass and the Eureka High
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BUYERS' STRIKE
The people of America are
beginning lo stand on their
own hind! feet and act for
themselves, instead of wait
ing listlessly foa? an impot-
tent Congress lo turn off the
gas and turn on the action.
One distinct sign of this
people's awakening is the
"Buyer's Strike" that is roar
ing into being throughout the
United Stales.
The five busiest shopping
centers in the largest city in
the world. New York, have
voted a Buyer's Strike to be
gin July 23, whether or not
Congress reinstates some
price controls in the mean
time.
Let us in Moore County
have our own Buyer's Strike.
BUY NOTHING THAT HAS
BEEN MARKED UP.
784 New Apartments
In Six-Nine Months
Will House Officer
And Ehlisted Families
8th District YDC
To Rally Aug. 27
Prominent Speakers
Invited To Attend
West Southern Pines Sports Program
Offers Colored Youths Summer Of Fun
The Summer Sports program
that has been such a success for
the youngsters of Southern Pines
draws no' color line. The young-
ters of ’West Southern Pines
come in for their share of the fun
with a program now set up by
J. T. Saunders of West Southern
Pines, working under the direct
ion of A. C. Dawson, director of
the summer sports program.
Director Dawson saw to it that
the program for colored children
got off to a fine start by deliver
ing considerable sports and game
equipment to West Southern
Pines. There is now on hand
enough equipment for games in
soft and hard baseball for volley
ball, tennis - both table and out
door, as well as horseshoes and
all kinds of games like checkers,
puzzles, and darts.
The smaller, children find slides,
see saws, swings and marbles
ready arid waiting to change a
boring day into one of fun.
The children of both Southern
Pines and West Southern Pines
are not forgotten. Their very
great importance is recognized...
and a program set up which
makes possible the enjoyment in
sports and games that they need
and deserve. By keeping them
off the streets^ loafing on the cor
ners, Southern Pines is building
finer citizens for a: finer future.
Mighty Monte Home
Mighty Monte was honlte last
week. Constantino Montes
anti, fresh out of the Navy and
glowing with the praises of his
new home Miami, was a familiar
sight on the Streets of Southern
Pines. He was back for the third
time in eleven years. With him
was his wife, Phyrne, who can
take all the good natured guff
Mighty Monte can hand out and
then make him take to cover...
maybe. Phyrne, to boot, is assist
ant supervisor in the mimeograph
department at Miami’s Pan Amer
ican Airlines.
Monte was a pilot of a Douglas
C-47 out of Jacksonvill during
most of the war. He was an en
listed man, but said Monte with a
gleam in his eye: “I had me a
lieut for a co-pilot.” Good luck,
Monte.
Legion Plans Big
Bang-Up V-J Day
August fourteenth...V-J Day’s
first anniversary will be celeb
rated in the Sandhills when the
American Legion’s Sandhills
Post, with the cooperation of
othei; veteran outfits, civic, frat
ernal, and religious organizations,
sponsor a County-wide Victory
and Home Coming Celebration to
honor Moore Codnty’s home
coming heroes.
Southern Pines has been cho
sen as the town where the cleb-
ration will take place.
The Legion is now putting on
a drive to raise the necessary
funds to put across a bang-up
show.
Fort Bragg has promised to
cooperate with a parade and an
air show. Governor Cherry, NC
Congressmen, Legion and State
Officials have promised to be on
hand to honor the veterans.
Many and varied will be the
memories of veterans on that
year-ago August 14. A great in
vasion push was forming up in
the Philippines. Hospital cots
there were' overcrowded from
Okinawa. This year the world is
at peace. Most veterans are home.
This 14th Southern Pines will
celebrate.
RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL
Last night at a luncheon meet
ing in Aberdeen the Moore Coun
ty YDC committee members
made final arrangements for the
eighth district Democratic rally
to be held at the Club Chalfonte
on August 27th.
Mr. Rufus Sanford, eighth dis
trict chairman, was present and
accepted the invitation from the
Moore County club.
Congresswoman Jane Pratt and
Congressman-elect C. B. Deane
have accepted invitations and
will be present at the rally. In
vitations are being extended to
Governor Gregg Cherry, Lt. Gov
ernor L. Y, Ballentine, Bill Urn-
stead, State Democratic Chair
man .and other notables.
Plans for the rally call for reg
istration at four-thirty o’clock,
an informal business session at
five, followed by the banquet at
seven-thirty. The rally will end
with a few hours of dancing.
The banquet will be limited to
200, as that is all the Club can
accomodate, so those wishing to
attend are urged to secure their
tickets immediately. The cost will
be two dollars per plate.
Advance indications show that
all the counties in the Eighth
District will be represented. It
appears that the Young Demo
cratic clubs are on the move.
YOUNG FOLKS DANCE
Contracts totalling slightly over
three million dollars have been
awarded at Fort Bragg to four
North Carolina building con
tractors, announced Brigadier
General Pearson Menoher, Ft,
Bragg Deputy Commander.
The three million dollar fund
is to be spent on reconverting
present buildings into 784 apart
ments for Army enlisted and of
ficer personnel.
This apartment program will
greatly ease the housing shortage
now existing in Southern Pines
and other towns where lack of
sufficient housing facilities at
Bragg cause definite over-crowd
ing.
The apartments are expected to
be ready for occupancy within
the next six to nine months.
The remodeling operations al
ready getting under way will be
on 226 Arniy barracks, hospital
wards, clinics, administration and
day-room buildings.
On completion of these quar
ters, however, many families of
military personnel now in over
crowded areas in nearby towns
will move onto the Army Post.
The present scarce building
materials will feel far less drain
from the proposed remodeling
and reconversion program than
would be the case if new dwelling
units were to be put up.
Areas to be converted at Fort
Bragg are the Number 3 Hospital,
the Yadkin Area, as well as a por
tion of the Spring and Armistead
Areas. These will house the white
enlisted and officer personnel,
with the Spring Area near the
Fort Bragg colored units housing
the colored families.
The contracts |vere awarded
by the District Engineer at Sav
annah, Georgia to the following
contractors: L. B. Gallimorc,
Greensboro; R. F. Kirkpatrick &
Sons, Burlington; W. A. Foster,
Burlington; and Builders &
House Specialty Campany, 'Wil
mington. The awards were Lump
Sum contracts.
Plans and specifications for the
contracts were prepared by the
District Engineer at Savannah,
and direct supervision will be by
the Resident Engineer at Fort
Bragg. All planning was complet
ed and the bids were received
and awarded in the thirty day
period between the first and last
of June.
Tomorrow, Saturday, July 13,
there will be a dance at the Sou
thern Pines Community Center
for the young people of the
Sandhills.
Free refreshments will be
served to all comers.
One of the high lights of the
evening will be the finals of the
Table Tennis Tournament which
will be played dur^g intermis
sion.
Maxton's Presbyterian Jr. College Sets Up
New Program Of Flying And Trade Courses
Half Price Now For
N. C. License Plates
After a stay of six weeks in
Watts Hospital, Durham, Henry
A. Borst, Jr., returned on Monday
afternoon to the home of his pa
rents, Mayor and Mrs. H. A.
Borst, in Vass and is making ra
pid progress toward recovery.
Announcement of an expanded
vocational training program at
Presbyterian Junior College was
made today by Dr. Louis C. La-
Motte, President of the college.
With the guidance of the Vete
rans Administration, a program
of instruction which will aid
young men to operate their own
small businesses is being set up
to begin September 9th. The ba
sis of each course will be a trade,
In addition to this, students will
be given sufficient business edu
cation to enable them to estab
lish and operate their own small
businesses. Courses will be offer
ed according to demand.
Proposed courses are: Air Con
ditioning . and Heating, Bakery
Operation, Brick Laying and Ma
sonry, Carpentry and Cabinet
Making, Commercial Art, Dairy
Husbandry Diesel
Macbanics, Drafting, Elec
trical Service and Sales, Flori
culture and Floral Shop Opera
tion, Freezing Locker Operation;
Ice Cream Manufacturing, Land
scape Design and Horticulture,
Laundry and Drycleaning Opera
tion, Machine Shop Practice,
Maintenance Engineering, Paint
ing and Decorating, Photography,
Plumbing, Printing, Radio Broad
casting, Radio Service and Sales,
Refrigeration, Road Construc
tion and Maintenance, Sheet
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Effective July 1 license plates
were cut tf) half price of the an
nual fee for car owners.
This reduction, however, does
not effect licenses for “farmer”
trucks, special half-price tags is
sued to trucks used for farm pur
poses. The price of “A” trailer
plates will also remain at the
same level. The fifty percent
slash, however, will apply to all
other types of motor vehicle li
cense plates.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
Boys and girls, men and women
everyone is invited to take part
in the tennis tournament that
will soon get under way here in
Southern Pines.
There is a bulletin board in the
Civic Club where any and all in
terested can register.
Dates for the tournament will
be announced as soon as enough
entries are in.
If interested, visit the Civic
Club and toss your name in the
pot. Adults are especially invited
to take part.