'U •s S: SAVE iFOODi I SAVE i FOOD VOL. 26. NO. 34. Southern Pines, N. C., Friday, July 19. 1946. TEN CENTS Home Team Drops Two Tough Games In This Last Week Seals Thrills Stands With Fouls And Hit Pate On Paris-Munich Hop Finds A Lifesaver Southern Pines Baseball Team has lost the last two games, when with a little luck both would have been won. Last Saturday the game with Siler City, leaders in the League, was dropped at Siler City 5-3. Southern Pines had 12 men left on bases to Siler City’s 5, and rapped out eleven hits to Siler City’s seven. More of everything —^except runs. * The game Wednesday with Robbins was another heart- breaker. Southern Pines came from behind with the score 4-0 in the fifth, getting three runs in the last of the sixth when New ton and Pate each hit clean singles, and Worsham after two wild swings connected to drive in both runners and scored him self on Seals’ single through the same hole between second and short. Then in the last of the eighth Newton popped out to short. Vest hit a single through 1st and 2nd, Worsham' was walk ed, putting men on first and sec ond. Dunn sacrificed, advancing the runners to second and third and Seals steps up to the plate. Seals put on as exciting an ex hibition as the Southern Pines park has seen in many a moon. He fouled a close one down the first base line, fouled the next even closer down the third base line, and then another hair-split ting foul down the first base line. With the winning runs on sec ond and third the stands were having a field day. Seals fouled a cou^)le more, let three balls go by, and the count was three and two. With that he up and smacks out a clean single that scored Vest and brought galloping Wor sham in with what should have been the winning run, putting Southern Pines ahead 5-4. In the first of the ninth Red Howell tried too hard for a fly that should have been the center fielders and missed it. Joe Stutts of Robbins hit a clean single to left field, driving in the tieing run, making the score 5-5. Red Howell, in the last of the ninth, hit what looked like a sure single, but the second base- man leaped high in the air, caught it, and robbed him. New ton got to first on a wild pitch by short, but there the threat ended. The first of the tenth started fine for Southern Pines with En- loe getting called out and not liking the ump one bit for it. The ump caught it from both sides all through the gam'e, and al though many of the decisions looked mighty raw, they were raw against both sides. Following Enloe, Lowdermilk reached down and blasted one from the grass- tops for a single to right field. McSwain singled, advanced Low dermilk to second and Hartsoe, leading batter for Robbins, drove a double to deep center, scoring two runs and putting Robbins ahead 7-5. The last of the tenth was over in a hurry. Worsham was called out for his second strike out, Dunn beat out a drive to short stop, and stole second with a flying slide. But on the next play the game was over. Seals hit to third who tagged Dunn and threw Seals out at first for a double play. Another tough one lost by the home team, but noth ing was lost in excitement for the stands. 1st Lt. Arthur Pate dropped by the PILOT last Saturday to see his ex-G. I. brother Jim, but as all printers will tell you if you ask, or even if you don’t, they were busy back on the presses and Jim couldn’^ give younger brother Arthur much time. “Go on up in the front where they never work’’ said Jim with noble scorn. So Lt. Pate came up front where we were having tea and crumpets and saccarine. Lt. Pate had a juicy steak in tow, but never loosened his firm grip on it. One thing led to another, a few Pacific memories swapped for ones of London, Paris, and Mun ich. Then Lt. Pate got to talking about a mission when he had had to fly a C-47 through thick stratus clouds and ice from Paris to Munich, landing by the new GCA (ground control ap proach) that promises to revolu tionize blind flying. It has already saved lots of lives, and Lt. Pate had five passengers with him who never saw the ground until after they’d felt the plan land. Said Pilot Pate: “At Paris the weather wasn’t too good. But they told me I’d top it at 7500 and be in the clear. . . but at 9500 I was still in the soup. After I got out from Paris maybe 75 miles I went in be tween layers, still plenty of weather but you could see the cloud layers. “When I got over the Rhine— 'AINT HOT!' you can always tell that even if you can’t see the gornud because of the hills that rise about 4500 feet giving you build up cumulus over the area—well, it was soupy but smooth on to Munich. When I got down near Munich some body was on the Munich fre quency sending code. I got wor ried because about 80 miles past Munich the Alps rise 6 to 8,000 feet. The code coming in caused my radio compass to swing, but I was only using it for a check. The closer I got the clearer thd signal got and I knew exactly when I came over the cone. “They told me to fly over the North Leg, and right then I had about three minutes of clear vision, saw it snowing on the ground. The soup closed in tight again. “The tower switched me over to GCA. GCA picked me up on their radar scope and gave me direct headings to fly and the procedure on letting down to traffic .altitude. “They kept telling me. ‘Have you in sight now, have you in sight now’ and then ‘Pick up head ing seven zero degrees’. I knew I was flying parallel with the runway then. The next heading was 160 and,after that 350 and then they told me ‘‘You’re on your base leg now.’ “You head into the runway about seven miles out, holding your altitude and coming in at (Continued from Page 5) Wednesday's baseball game had the ump of umps. Not - only did Southern Pines call him every name on the books, under and over their breaths, but so did Robbins. Said ump is no doubt holed up in some dark cave plot ting dire and dirty decisions. Height of that sad ump's un popularity with Robbins came when he called foul a close and important drive over third base. The whole Robbins bench look to the field. The batter even went to where the fleet-footed Har per was calling for one and all to come see where the ball had hit. The batter look ed at the mark, touched the mark, then disclaimed its veracity. "It ain't hot", said he. Resort Airlines’ First ‘‘Sky Cruise” Now in Hollywood Youngsters Sports Offer Many And Varied Activities Several Tournaments Ready For Play Off NO DOUBT Tobacco growers left no doubt in anybody's mind about how they feel concern ing the question of whether or not acerage allotments shouldi continue. They went to the polls last Friday, cast their votes in the referendum for flue cured to bacco and when the final count was taken, 98 percent of the Moore County grow ers were in favor of continu ing the referendum for the next three years. Too bad our Congress in Washington can't get togeth er when the need arises and leave no doubt as to what is best for our Nation. OLDEST AND NEWEST Shaw House Plans Ready, Materials A Different Story Worst Lii^htnin^ Storm In Years Crackles and Booms Abont Sandhills SAD STATE The old Prilliman garage, the first structure of its kind in Sou thern Pines, erected in 1914 by W. Prilliman is undergoing the process of having its face lifted ton, the guest speaker, rose to the preparatory to becoming the The Moore County Historical Society discovered at its meeting in' the library last Tuesday night that biulding materials are as hard to get as they were when the Shaw House was built over a hundred years ago. Plans, however, have so far worked out perfectly. The old house has been bought and paid for and Mr, A. B. Yoemans, of the Building Committee, passed around his attractive sketch showing how house and grounds could look when restored. But all realized that it will be a strug gle to get the hand-hewn cypress shingles for the roof, also the comnfon nails to put them on. Mr. Wilton Fowler of Lilling- show room for McDonald-Page Motor Company, agency for De- Soto and Plymouth cars. In its 32 years of existence it has housed many budding firms firms in the automotive field in cluding, beside Prilliman: C. V. Andrews, J. D. Davis. W. J. Brown, Brown & Clark, Virgil Clark, Colin Osborne, and the late Oscar Michaels whose sad fate shocked his many friends. SQUAJtE DANCE TONIGHT Floyd McArthur and his all- electric Lucky Strike Band will be on hand to provide music for a square dance at the new Lake- view pavilion tonight, Friday, July 19, according to an announc- ment by the Jimmy Allen’s, own- ers-operators. The music witl start around nine o’clock. occasion and in a spirited talk led them through the long fight which the early settlers waged, not against the Indians but against the Cape Fear River and its disastrous floods. They had conquered the river, he said, and he felt sure that their descen dants in the Historical Society would ilck the shortage of build ing materials. His speech was such an inspira (Continued On Page 8) America’s first “Sky Cruise’’ took to the air last Saturday at 3 pm. The Resort Airlines 21- passenger Douglas Luxury Liner rolled down the runway at the Newark Airport, took off and the trip was on. Aboard the Resort Airline plane, in addition to its regular quota of vacation passengers, was a writer and photographer from Holliday Magazine to record with film and ink the /Sixteen-day cruise that will cover more miles with less actual travelling time than any cruise has ever done before. Only forty-four hours are actually spent in the air, cover ing six thousand five hundred miiles. This luxury cruise will touch many of the leading vacation spots in America. Chattanooga is the first stop after the New York takeoff. The cruise passengers put up at the famous Spanish- Moorish Lookout Mountain Ho tel, and from there, go on the next day across the heart of America to the swank La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, where the charm of the sixteenth century still lingers. The day following, time is rolled even further back into the past with a trip through native villages and the Rio Grand Canyon to Taos. Day after day, the United States rapidly unfurls with long stops that let the Sky Cruise passengers spend many hours do ing as they please in Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Francisco, Fres no, Reno, Salt Lake City, Yellow stone, Rapid City, and then over Niagara back to New York. Less than two days have been spent in the air, while fourteen days have been spent seeing and enjoying the finest America has to offer in resorts. Resort Airlines, with its home field at Knollwood, has started in these “Sky Crises” what may be come one of the favorite vacation cruises in the U. S. Q: "What Does The Word 'SNAFU' Mean, Pop?' A: "Son, You Call Fort Bragg And Find Out At last Saturday’s Community Center dance for the young people, two Southern Pines you ngsters stepped up to the ping pong table before a crowd of about sixty teen-agers and stepp ed down as champs of the young er set. Pauline Nichols captured the girls’ title, defeating Rebecca McCue, while Ted York snatched the laurels from Jack Spring for the boy’s crown. The winners re ceived five theatre tickets, and the runner-ups three. Plans are now under way for a mixed doubles ping pong tour nament for the boys and girls of the community. Badminton Starting Monday, July 22, a badminton tournament will get under way. Any who are interes ted in batting the “bird” and have not yet signed up at the Com munity Center should do so be fore Monday. Still Time The Tennis Tournament for any and all comers of all ages is not yet a closed proposition. If you want to see what you can do in a tournament, go sign up and find out. They’re still taking en tries, so there’s still time. Kids Baseball If things work out the way A. C. Dawson thinks they will, the Sandhills will see a kids baseball team of Southern Pines fight it out on the diamond with other kids ball teams from Pinehurst and Aberdeen. J. W. Harbison of Pinehurst says he believes he can get a team to face the local tots. Boxing The tennis lights may soon look down on a scene of carnage galore if the present trend materializes. The youngsters are going out for boxing in a big way. Much of this enthusiasm is due to the excellent (Continued on Page 8) AIR-MINDED HAYBLE Gene Hayble of the Sandwich Shop has been under instruction by Harold Backman for the past two years and has now received his pilot licen-fee from the C. A. C. He has on order one of the new single engine Ercoupes. Why not an autogyro. Gene, and make hot breakfast deliveries to bed room windows? This modern age, tsk. tsk. NEW SCOUT MASTER On July ninth Fort Bragg’s Field Artillery Replacement Training Center was to close, so it was announced. The Center had been shipping out the last trainees for oversieas. sending of ficer and cadre to Fort Knox. Ky. . . . to Fort Sill, Okla to Fort Bliss, Texas . . to Fort Ban ning, Georgia They were closing shop, through. Then, lo and behold, troop trains start unloading thousands of troops at Aberdeen. Instead of going out, here are troops com ing in. What gives? A call to the Public Relations Office solves all, clear as mud: “The deactivating process will now go into reverse, and units that have been shipped out of Fort Bragg will now be shipped back”. The good old ‘'Army way.” In fairness to the Army, we must say that it was the same in the Navy. SNAFU. The latest dope has it that Fort Bragg is now to be one of the four Ground Forces Training Centers. At peak troop produc tion there were 21. There will be a total capacity now of about 33,- 000 as against the peak figure— 400,000. The numiber to be as signed Fort Bragg has not yet been disclosed “but it will prob ably exceed the recent strength of FARTC.” The other three centers to re main in operation are. Fort Mc- CleUan in Alabama for Infantry, Fort Bliss in Texas for anti-air, and Fort Knox in Kentucky for armored field artillery, anti-tank and cannon units, and infantry mechanized cavalry. Up to the present in-and-out shuffle the FARTC at Bragg had trained 250,000. What wUl the thousands just shipped out-back- in do to statistics? YDC Books Cherry For Rally Aug 27 1st Lt. Tom Shockley is the new Scoutmaster of the Southern Pines Troop 73 of the Boy Scouts of America. Shockley wUl com mand the respect and intereset of the Boy Scouts for his paratroop er war record, as well as for his excellent way with boys. Lt. Shockley fought in every major paratroop campaign from North Africa to Normandy. Peaches is dynamite! That's the general opinion of what a peach story right now is in the Sandhills, because peaches are in a very sorry way for the majority of grow'- ers. and peach growers are famous for having very soft skins like peaches at such times. One peach moguL sorrow fully lobking at a dismal world, J said in a voice drip^ ping tears: "If you printed what's happening to the peaches in the Sandhills you'd not have a subscriber!" Two words tell the sad fate of what the relentless raiill have done lo many orchards this last week: Brown Rot. AVC Softballers Win One, Lose One Improvement Seen Homes, Airport Hit Plus One Cat Killed Vets: M C Hospital Is 'Way Overcrowded, Read This Carefully Before Going There Governor Gregg Cherry has tentatively accepted the invita tion accorded him by the Moore County Young Democratic Club to speak at the 8th District rally. President Clifton Blue stated that he has also received confir- nfations from Lt. Gov. L. Y. Bal- lentine and Bill Umstead, State Democratic Chairman. The rally, to be held at the Club Chalfonte on the Pinehurst Aberdeen highway on August 27th, is being given by the Moore club for all young democrats in the 8th district. From advance ticket sales President Blue warns all thiat wish to attend to secure their tickets early. Resbrvations limited to 200. are BEST PAID American Seamen are by far the best paid sailors in the world. The A. V. C. Softball Team of Southern Pines split two games last week. Playing over at West End last Wednesday in a twilight game they defeated West End by a score of 16 to 0 as Harry Chat- field pitched one hit ball and the AVC team knocked out 15 hits for 16 runs. However, at Aber deen on Friday the A. V. C. team lost a loosely played game to Aberdeen by the score of 13 to 6. Due to a slow beginning at the start of the season the A. V. C. team has won two games while dropping six games. It is expect ed that they will improve this record and make a better show ing for the remaining 11 games to be played, and in the cham pionship playoffs at the end of the season. The following gamtes are scheduled for this week and next week: Wednesday, July 17th, Pine hurst at Pinehurst at 6 p. m. Friday, July 19th, West End at Southern Pines at 6 p. m. Wednesday, July 24th, Aber deen at Southern Pines at 6 p. m. Friday. July 26th, Pinehurst at Southern Pines at 6 p. m. Any interested in playing on the Softball Team are invited to come out and have a try at it. Those now playing on the team are: Frank Smith, who has ably filled in at three positions—^LF, Catch, Pitch; Chan Page, Jr. at 3rd; Frank Neely—1st; Sgt. Cuff —Catch; C. S. Patch, Jr.—SS; Harry Chatfield—who has pitch ed the two wins of the team; Chas. Everest—2nd; “Red” Smith —also 2nd; Joe Garzik— CF & Pitcln; Buddy Blu||2—^RF; Chas. Hackney — Outfielder; Tommy Grey—2nd; Davis Worsham— 3rd; and last but not least, Ken neth “Parson” Epps—Outfielder, The Moore County Hospital is by far one of the busiest places in the Sandhills. There are not enough nurses, barely enough doctors to take care of the too many patients that pour in there constantly, knowing that at MC Hospital they can ijely on getting as good medical care as they can get anywhere in the State. Now, veterans can also get ex cellent care free at the Moore County Hospital. But the veteran can not just walk in, say “Here I am” and get that care. To be admitted to the Moore County Hospital for free vet care the veteran must haye a service connected disability of such em ergency nature that he can not be transported to a regular Vet erans Hospital. He must also ask for authorization from the VA in Winston Salem within 24 hours of the time the emergency arises. So vets take note: don’t go to the Moore County Hospital expect ing free vet treatment if. you break your leg on the farm, or if you’re in an automobile acci dent, because you wont get it. You’ll get the best care you can get anywhere, but you’ll have tc pay for it just like anyone else. Auto accidents and legs busted on the farm! are not “service con nected”. The Veterans Hospital in Fay etteville now has plenty of beds available for veterans who need care. 200 beds have been assign ed to Fayetteville by Fort Bragg and another 100 beds by the Navy at Camp Lejune in New River, while the Moore County Hospital is over-crowded and understaffed, If you’re a vet and can get to Fayetteville, go there instead of carowding still more the over- (Continued on Page 5) Saturday midnight and Monday noon the Sandhills were given examples of lightning and thun der that even the old timers main tain were worse than any they can remember for many years. Aberdeen and vicinity seem to have been the center of these fireworks that split wide the heavens and made many earthly mortals jump, run, and take to cover, or take out from under cover. Drivers behind the wheels of cars between midnight Saturday and two Sunday morning said they had to pull up and stop be cause the blinding flashes of sheet lightning were followed by such absolute blackness that eyes could not adjust, and headlights were momentarily useless. At least eight places are known to have been hit during the two storms, five Saturday night and three Monday noon. However, by some freak of nature, little prop erty damage was suffered and no one was injured. Except one cat. Just off Highway No. 1 at the foot of the hill from the Aber deen High School, “Big Boy” Paul Kellis, and his wife Edna Yow Kellis, had just turned in for the night when a bolt of lightning and a clap of thunder turned them! out in no uncertain order. Luther Yow was in the other bedroom when the bolt struck. The chimney was hit in between the two bedrooms, the lightning ran down the bathroom wall, scorched the tub, and on Lu ther’s side plaster was blasted all over his bed. Then the bolt ran along the ceiling, blew light bulbs and fuses. According to Big Boy. “‘The way I figure it, it went three ways, even went all the way down in the basement and knocked ashes out of the hot water heater.” Said Mrs. KeUis: “It sounded just like a pistol shot.” Added Big Boy: “Smell! Tell you the truth, I have never been in a house where lightning struck before, but this smelt just like sulfa burning.” Not far from the Kellis, Jack Smith woke up the next morning to find a wall torn away from his house. The homes of Leonard Russell and Elbert Garner, both in Aberdeen, are reported to have been hit by lightning that same night. Mrs. Belle Pleasants’ homie was also struck Saturday night. The lightning evidently came in on the telephone wires, and knock ed the phone out. “A great ball of fire went right down the hall. Don’t know where it went.” Then on the following Monday, light ning hit the clothes line out back of Mrs. Pleasants’. That was where the only casualty reported was suffered. When the knocked down clothes line was inspected a dead cat was found that had been lurking too near. Also on Monday noon lightning paid a visit to a tree beside the charnling Proctor, home on the old road between Aberdeen and Southern Pines. Mrs. Proctor was playing bridge with Miss King, Mrs. Prizer, and Mrs. Hoyt Shaw. Said Mrs. Proctor: “It didn’t stop our bridge game, but I can’t stand elqctric storms. The Doctor, however, used to sit out there on the porch and love it.” Gordon Keith was gotten out of bed by his aunt Monday night to see about a fire that lightning had started at the Aberdeen Air port. “I took a look”, said Gor don, “ and saw a blaze six to eight feet high. There happened to be an old blanket handy that (Continued on Page 5) CORRECTION The new dining room of the Lloyd Hall Inn. Aberdeen was opened on Friday July 12th and not as stated in last week’s paper.

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