5 ■» SAVE Ifood ! SAVE e I FOOD| ! 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 |*»s - w 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. (Continued on Page 5) 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 (Continued on Page 5) 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 (Continuea on Page 5) 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- (Continued from Page 5) 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- (Continued on Page 5) 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- (Continued on Page &) 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 (Continued on Page 12) 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- (Continued on Page 8} 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