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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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.