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VOL. 26, NO. 35.
Southern Pines. N. C., Friday, July 26, 1946.
TEN CENTS
Camp Mackall To Be Reactivated
12,000 Paratroopers Are Due Soon
No Official Statement Yet Issued
They Went... They Saw... And Had A Fine Ti me!
Demodition Engineers
On Hand to Finish Job
Stopped Just In Time
Paratroopers Said Not To
Be Of 82nd Bragg Division
MYSTERY
What’s going on when at Camp
Mackall? That is the question
now heard on every side in the
Sandhills. What division is going
in? Will it he just as a training
area for the 82 Division?
Fast and furious fly the quest
ions and rumors. After four mon
ths of tearing down it is now
about to be built back up. From
a peak of around forty thousand
soldiers Camp Mackall is dotvn to
three, or maybe two. And now
it is authoritatively reported that
twelve thousand paratroopers,
not the 82nd., will start moving
in “in the very near future.”
This has hapened before with
out finally materializing but this
time it is believed that the orders
will not be caled off. On July 20th
the Engineers were to take over
and start the complete tearing
down. But the day before a wire
is said to have arived stating:
“Do not tear down any more
buddings. Leter following. Camp
i^ackall to be used for a Maneuv
er Staging Center.”
The civilian employees still at
Mackall were to have been thro
ugh on July 24, but on July 23
an order came through saying to
hold onto them “indefinitely”.
Camp Mackall has one of the
finest water suply systems in the
state, plus an'excellent air strip.
Although the buildings have for
the most part been gutted of
furniture and fixtures, they are
still standing and from the out
side apear to be in good condition.
Material is still moving out of
Mackall by the truckload, but
that is only because the red tape
required to call a halt can not be
cut in time to-be effective.
In fact, after about a fifteen
minute telephone conversation
with Fort Bragg concerning the
reactivation of Camp Mackall, we
ended up with the same officer
we’d started with. It had been a
continual shunting from one to
another, and finally back to the
starting point - with nothing ac
complished.
Said the public Relations Off
ice: “CaU General Irwin’s aide
Captain Riddick”. But Riddick
was out, so we were shunted from
the office of the Adjutant Gener
al. to the office of a Colonel
Roach, back again to General
Irwin’s staff, and after consider
able delay the report came
through: “Sorry I can’t give you
the dope. Suggest you get the
Publications Officer.” Asked if
that was the same as Public Re
lations, we were told it was . . .
and that’s where we came in, so
we called it a day and sought our
information from sources free
firom thiat fearsome “chain of
command.”
Camp Mackall will again
come to life. For how long no one
now knows. Or if they know,
they wont tell.
The phone rang.
No newsy response greeted
our throbbing, low-throated,
duU-Monday voice as we
lifted the receiver and snarl
ed: "Pilot."
But hist! The phone was
not dead. We could hear the
emptiiness of an open cir
cuit. Then a faint sigh was
heard, repeated and repeat-
elL
Was someone trying to
^ speak, but too weak? Was it
murder. . . or worse? Faster
and faster, louder and louder
grew the sighing.
Then a raucous voice shat
tered the silence: "Putat
down! I've told ya before.
Quit playing widat phone!"
Clang went the receiver.
Then through the open
PILOT window came the
fearful sighing... a Seaboard
steam eiigine was laboring up
the grade and coming around
the curve from Aberdeen.
Monday Jinx Rides
Overhead Bridge
2 Wrecks In 2 Hrs.
Car Forces Funilure
Van Over Road Bank
4 Negroes Miss Curve
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Old Tom of ^^Lost Colony^^ Is Favorite
of Southern Pines, Aberdeen Youngsters;
Teen-Agers Wish Whole Club Could Go
MEETING TONIGHT
Take note all you baseball
fans! There is to be a meeting
tonight, Friay, July 26, at
eight o'clock in the Com
munity Center.
This meeting has been call
ed for the purpose of discuss
ing and deciding and getting
something one about the
fence that has been proposed
for so long around the South
ern Pines Ball Park.
This fence will not only
keep out those who don't pay
and fhereby add greatly to
the local coffers by making
t|iem pay, it will also hem in
any umps who persist in
handing out raw decinons—
so that the abused players
can have at him within the
enclosure.
A jinx must have been hover
ing over the overhead railroad
bridge at Southern Pines last
Monday.
Coming out from the Old Road
to Pinehurst, onto Highway 1, at
11:45 am a ‘37 Chevrolet sedan
belonging to Eugene Foushee
drove in front of a large May-
floower furniture van. The van
pulled over to the right, hit the
soft sholder just before the over
pass and plunged over the em
bankment, the driver leaping un
injured from the van just as it
rolled over the brink.
The driver of the van, Louis
Pullium, of Andrews. N. C
that he was doing between 20 and
25 mph when Foushee drove in
front of him and that he puled
over to keep from hitting him,
losing control when the wheels
hit the soft shoulders. Foshee, it
is reported, said he was only go
ing about 12 mph at the time.
The van was loaded with house
hold furniture, china, stove and
refirgerator and heading for Balt
imore from Columbia, S. C. It was
uprighted that afternon, and the
next morning was seen heading
back to Columbia.
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Pictured above are the thirty-
five youngsters, ranging from
nine to eighteen, plus four grown
ups, who trekked in a Pinehurst
bus from the Sandhills to Roan
oke Island to see ‘‘Lost Colony”
And there’s no doubt in any of
their minds about the fine time
they had. Said Teen-Age Club
President Ted York: “I wish there
were some way to get up another
trip to take the whole Teen-age
Club.” Sue Hail, seconded by
Peggy Cameron said: ‘T’d love
to go about six more times.”
John Ruggles pinch hit at the
last minute for Sabiston who was
“an expectant father and couldn’t
go”. Miss Lucile Eifort donated
her chaperone services, and ac
cording to the youngsters, there
Rifle Team Being
Sponsored By AVC
A “small, informal shoot is ex-
said pected to be held by the AVC
members and others who are in
terested in organizing a Rifle
Team here in Southern Pines, on
Wednesday July 31.
At the last AVC meeting it was
proposed that a Rifle Team be
formed. Kenneth Epps made the
proposal and was elected chair
man of the committee to get
things rolling.
Chairman Epps has contacted
Mayor O’Callaghan and Chief
Newton on the subject and a
range has been tentatively lined
up. It will offer approximately
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couldn’t have been two better
grown-ups on such a trip. Mr. and
Mrs. A. M. Currie drove the bus
and Mrs. Currie helped John Rug
gles and Miss Eifort and was
equally popular with the group.
Flying-Dawn Start
The trip got off to a flying-
dawn start at five - thirty am
from Southern Pines. Sixteen
were picked up in Aberdeen add-
Resort Air Park Project
Needs Community Weight
Behind Airline Proposals
EIGHT TO GO
V-J Day Celebration Here Plans Big Show
By 82nd Airborne Units, Pope Field Pilots
All veterans, whether Amer
ican Legion or otherwise, are ex
pected to take part in the Victory
Celebration which the Sandhills
Post American Legion plans to
put across with a bang here in
Southern Pines on August 14. The
Legion, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and the American Veter
ans Committee plus civic and
Fraternal organizations will take
part, stated D. D. S. Cameron, of
the Legion’s General Committee.
Although there has been no
official acceptance, it is planned
by the American Legion to have
General Gavin, of 82nd Airborne
fame, put on a show with various
imits of his crack division.
Pope Field has also been ap
proached in the hope that an
air show will be part of the
planned parade.
Major Burwell at Knollwood’s
Resort Airlines is chairman of
the Airshow Committee, and
whatever Pope Field will agree
to put on in way of a show will
be azmounced through the Ma
jor.
The celebration is being spon-
ing to the eighteen from South'
ern Pines, jplus the one from
West End, and off they went. . .
one busload and John Ruggles’
carfulL
“We had wonderful lunches go
ing and coming back at a “Kitty
Corner Restaurant’ just outside
of Edenton” said Sue Hall.
Biggest Hit
They saw the pageant Wednes
day night and the agreed biggest
hit of the show was ‘Old Tom’.
Everybody , loved Old Tom. He
kept them in stitches with his
excellent performance. In the bus
up and back it was young thir
teen - year - old Carlton Kennedy
with his Spanish accent who kept
hitting the amusement jackpot
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Clay Road Farms
Barns Burn
WILD AND WOOLY was the
dancing of the pageant’s Witch
Doctor, second only in popularity
to Old Tom.
One Trouncing &
One Victory For
Home Sandclayers
Troy Trims Team 14-7 ''
But Ramseur Taken 3-2
sored by the Sandhills Post Amer
ican Legion with the cooperation
of the Legion Posts at Aberdeen,
Carthage, West End, and Robbins.
Plans are far from! complete
as yet, but it is definite that one
item of interest on the Legion
Program will be the selection of
a local beauty who will be crown
ed “Queen of the Peaches” tie-
ing in with the close of the Sand
hills peach season.
This will be Moore County’s
first major celebration in honor
of its returned ■victorious vete
rans. Response so far porten one
of the greatest gatherings Moore
County has seen since the great
Blue and the Grey Reunion that
was held here back in the early
1900s, and to which trains
brought Civil War veterans from
all over the State to hear Gover
nor Glenn, and other great ora
tors speak.
An all-day-program of parades,
band concerts, air show, supper
for veterans, followed by speech
es, will end with a grea Victory
Dance in the evening.
Monday of this week was not
a lucky day for the tobacco grow
ers of the Clay Road Farms sec
tion of Moore County.
'Two tobacco barns burned be-
twfeen nine and noon. One was
the barn of Captain Josh Mat
thews, and the other was the
Key’s barn.
Each barn at the time of the
fire contained eight hundred to
a thousand sticks of tobacco. It
is not believed that there was any
insurance coverage for the loss.
The fires were caused by
sparks from the curing fires and
were beyond control, when dis-
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The cat reported dead as a
result of a direct hit by sC
bolt of lightning in the great
lightning storm; of Abercteen
last week is now reported
alive. It was a near miss, not
a direct hit.
When first viewed, lying
prostrate beneathi the clothes
line, the cat looked dead.
When the time came for
burying, the cat was gone.
Later the cat showed up, and
except for a definite halt in
its gait, whiskers that had
been kinked in the shape of
lightning bolts, plus spasihod-
ic explosions that made every
hair stand on end, the cat is
all ::ight.
It is further reported that
when the cat's last mention
ed "explosions" took place
in the dark, an aurora of
sparks could be seen leaping
from three to five feet. -
One life gone, eight to go.
Golf Tournament
Starts This Week
At County Club
Top 18 Will Qualify
For Championship
From Wednesday, July 31st
until Sunday, August 4th the 18
hole qjualifying rounds of the
annual Moore County Golf
championship will be held at the
Southern Pines Country Club. Be
fore playing qualifying roun(ds
amateurs must make arrange
ments with the officials at the
Club. The entry fee is $2.00.
There will be as many divisions
as the players entered justify and
sixteen Will qualify for the
championship round. The match
plays rounds will be held on the
basis of one round per week, with
the contestants making their own
arrangements. It is thus import
ant that aU players leave their
telephone numbers when turn
ing in qualifying scores.
The defending champion is
William Woodward of Robbins.
The County Tournament Cham-
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Five To Six Thousand
Air Tourists Could
Result from Expansion
Airlines Asks Active
Community Cooperation
PUBLIC INVITED
The tennis courts at the SP
High School are newly resurfaced
and ready for playing. They are
in “excellent shape” states A. C.
Dawson, and the public is invited
to play tennis on them to their
hearts content. But wear proper
shoes.
During the past week Southern
Pines split even in the two league
games played. Last Saturday at
Troy the local team lost 14 to 7
over a hard hitting 'Troy team.
Up to the eighth inning with the
score against us 9 to 7 it was still
anybody’s victory, but in the
eighth Troy blasted in 5 more to
take the game.
On Wednesday at Ramseur it
was the locals time to hit the win
ning column. In a very close
game with only eleven hits al
lowed for both teams Southern
Pines won 3 to 2. From the sec
ond inning until the sixth the
score was 1-1. In the sixth New
ton doubled to left center, McRae
tripled to same spot scoring New
ton and the locals were ahead 2-1
In the seventh Page was safe
on error by third baseman, How
ell walked and Buchan hit a
single scoring Page for the third
run. Ramseur made a desperate
attempt in their part of the sev
enth to win the game. With hits,
walks and stolen bases they had
the bases loaded with one out and
the score 3 to 2, but expert field-
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Struihers Burt Blasts "Highway Directories"
By Any Name, Billboards Simell Bad To Him
I was a trifle puzzled a couple
of weeks ago, reading in The
Pilot of that date, which reached
me out here about the discussion
at a meeting of The Chamber of
Commerce concerning “directory
signs.”
I didn’t know what that term
m'eant, although, judging from
your report of the meeting, some
candid member arose and called
them by their right names, “bill
boards.” Then, to follow further
your report, another member
arose and said “don’t call them
that, or you’ll arouse the ghost
of Struthers Burt,” or something
of the kind.
He might have gone further
and added, “and you’ll also
arouse the ghost of the former
Chamber of Commerce of Sou
thern Pines, which for years led
the fight in North Carolina to
keep the state’s highways clean,
and which, by doing so, added
greatly to the town’s reputation
not only in North Carolina, but
throughout the entire country.”
There is even more to be said.
This former Chamber of Com
merce was about the wisest
Chamber of Commerce I have
ever comfe across, and for years
I have been an Honorary Mem
ber of the United States Chamber
of Commerce, Its main object
was to make Southern Pines a
beautiful town, and keep it so.
No one questions the fact that
this has brought to Southern
Pines millions of dollars in cold,
hard cash and scores of the best
kinds of permanent settlers. And
if anyone gets around the coun
try as much as I do, he, or she,
knows that Southern Pines be
cause of its lack of the ugly sores
of commercialism, is one of the
famous tpwns in the United
States.
Every new tree planted in Sou
thern Pines is an investment;
every flowering shrub; every
business building repainted, made
neat and handsome, or put up
under the direction of some build
er or architect wise enough to
know that it is not good business
to design a store or office re
sembling a band-box, a jail, or a
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Resort Airlines is putting on an
expansion program that can mean
more to the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst resort area than any
thing that has taken place in
this section in the past twenty
peace years.
This program to date has been
carried exclusively by Resort Air
lines. Since it is definitely a com
munity project, it is also up to the
community to give what help it
can, to appoint a committee with
authority to find out what help
can be given, and then see to it
that that help is given.
This help is not primarily fin
ancial. It is primarily commun
ity weight. The weight which
when put behind a community
project, gives it the needed impe
tus to push the program through.
Geographical location jrecrea-
tional facilities, hotel facilities,
size and lay out of the field make
possible the Pinehurst-Sputhern
Pines Airport be developed into
the outstanding air park in the
South - East. As such, it would
attract thousands of tourist fly
ers and become the ideal mid
point for all non scheduled coast
wise air traffic.
By -virtue of its ownership of
six Douglas airplanes and its
employment of skilled Douglas
mechanics, it is believed that this
company will be accredited in the
near future as an official Douglas
Aircraft Service Center. If so,
most Douglas Aircraft in this part
of the United States will come to
Resort Airlines for maintenance
and repair. In addition, the com
pany has been appointed agent
of the War Assets Administration
for the warehousing and sale of
aircraft parts and components.
Nearly a million dollars worth of
this Government property has .
been requisitioned, and will be
dispensed to aircraft operators
under the agency agreement.
Resort Airlines is prepared to
erect the hanger at a cost of be
tween sixty and one hundred
thousand dollars, to remodel the
buildings it will use, and to pay
one-half of the annual mainte
nance cost on the field. It pro
poses to the County: (1) That it
undertake the landscaping of the
grounds, (2) the building of a
swimming pool, (3) the construc
tion of an addition to the front
of the administration building for
a passenger lounge. (4)close coor
dination in advertising and pro-
motion(5) the re-designation of
field as Resort Air Park, (6) regu
lar monthly meeting of the air
port committee with the manage
ment of Resort Airlines.
Resort Airlines is spending $3,-
000.0(j a month in national adver
tising, principally in the New
York area. It has a half million
dollars in assets, $175,000.00 in
cash, $90000.00 capital surplus, is
doing approximately $300,000.00
annual business and was of Jan-
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PEACE PAINT
It may seem paradoxical
that while while paint is
numbered among many other
scarce items gallons are be
ing consumed by busines
places on Broad Street where
store fronts are having facials
-with interiors not far behind.
Gleaming brightly between
showers are Patch's, the Tog
Shop. Stevens, Jack's, andl
Royalton Pines Lunch. The
two latter picked out with
restful shades of green. Little
Tots' have kept us waiting
at least two weeks to see
their ch<dce while Mhrgaret
Bogle getting the fever, did
some personal brush eroding
in the book shop.