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VOL. 26. NO. 36.
Southern Pines, N. C., Friday, August 2. 1946.
TEN CENTS
Celebration Plans Near Completion
Color Guard of 82nd Division To Be
Part Of Spectacular Aug. 14 Parade
Summer Sports Program
Is Like a Good Juggler
Air Show Hangs Fire
Announcement Soon
State, Legion Officials
Scheduled To Speak Here
Final plans for the County wide
celebration of the first anniver
sary of V-J Day were completed
cn Monday night during a meet
ing of the Committee in charge
in the American Legion Hut in
Southern Pines, according to
Cheter I. Williams, Publicity Di
rector. This meeting was attend
ed by representatives from the
four Legion Posts in Moore Coun
ty. members of the American Le
gion Auxiliary of Southern Pines,
as well as representatives from
other Veterans organizations in
the county.
The various events and features
of the Program were discussed
in detail and approved as fol
lows:
Parade, 11 am; Barbecue Din
ner. 1 pm; Baseball Game, 3 pm;
Retreat Service, 5 pm; Street
Dance. 8 pm.
The parade will be led by the
82nd. Airborne Band from Fort
Bragg and will consist of about
400 soldiers of the 505th. and
325th Parachute Infantry Regi
ments as well as units of the
Anti-Aircraft and Engineers and
the Guard of Honor that led the
parade of the 82nd. Airborne Di-
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ANSWER
Rotary Takes Over
Awards To Student
Last week a letter signed
"Thirsty" bemoaned the fact
that Water is billed in geil-
lons but the meters all read
cubic feet. In Prying to con^
vert same. "Thirsty's" horse
was figured to have drunk
some eighty gallons of wa
iter a day. What "Thirsty*
wanted to know was whether
there couldn't be some easy
way to check mathematically
whether the horse or some
pipe had busted a main.
In answer to our query
City Clerk Howard Bums said
with a deep sigh: "There's
nothing to it. 667 cubic feet
equal five thousand gallons.
Rates for the first five thous
and gallons are $4.50, except
for swimming pools at twen
ty cents per thousand. Take
your past and present water
bills, get the difference and
multiply it by 7.5. . . presto,
you have the number of gal
lons." We quietly hung up
the receiver and slunk back
to our typewriter.
Hospital To Share
Pathologist With
Sanitorium In ’47
The Summer Sports Program
instituted by the Council of So
cial Agencies and other local civ
ic groups, under the popular
guidance of A. C. Dawson, is
somewhat like a very good jug
gler. It keeps several tourna-
nients in the air at the same time.
Billy Cox is the newly crown
ed champ of the Small Boys (un
der twelve) Badminton Tourna
ment.
Checker and Chess Tourna
ments are scheduled to get un
der way any day.
The Kids Baseball Team has
again been foiled from having
their game with some neighbor
ing and similar team from Rob
bins. Pinehurst, Aberdeen, or
Carthage. This time the call of
the tobacco farms was louder and
more important than the call to
the diamond, for the parents, any
way. However, a game soon will
be played and the starting bat
tery for Southern Pines will un
doubtedly be Richard Newton,
pitching. With Dillon Short or
SP Loses One Of
Early Pioneers As
Scott Newton Dies
D. P. Black catching. The nucle
us for the rest of the team being:
Billy Baker, Jimmy Dickerson.
Robert McClellan. . and Andy
Page. Carlton Kennedy cut his
arm,| but is out there just the
same coaching at third and fir
ing at one and all his sharp-wit
ted comments.
Tomorrow,. Saturday, August
3rd. there will be a Recreation
Dance at the Community Center.
Peggy Cameron. Janet Menzel,
and Peggy Phillips made several
posters and have distributed
them around the area. Free re
freshments will be served and
everyone is invited.
Some anonymous gentleman
has crashed through with a golf
membership for one of A. C. Daw
son’s promising young golfers,
and if others feel like doing like
wise. Dawson states that they
would indeed be welcomed as
they would greatly encourage
some deserving young golfers
who cannot otherwise afford the
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Disabled Vets Get
On-Job Training
At Robbins Mills
Real Estate Deals
Still Boom Here
In Southern Pines
Present Trend Points to
Full Community Support
Behind Resort Airlines
In the past the Southern Pines
Junior Chamber of Commerce
gave various awards and scholar
ships to deserving students in the
Southern Pines Schools.
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce no longer exists, but at the
regular luncheon meeting of the
Southern Pines Rotary Club last
Friday at the Lakeview Hotel,
Paul Butler, speaking for the ex-
Jr. Chamber told the Rotarians of
the awards this organization had
given in the past.
Butler suggested that the Ro
tary Club take up and continue
the work still needed in the SP
schools. It was pointed out that
the close contacts kept with stu
dents through such awards could
not be overstressed in importance
these present times.
The Rotary Club members
voted unanimously to carry on
this work, and expressed their
pleasure at being afforded a
chance to build a closer relation
ship with Southern Pines’ stu
dents.
Lloyd T. Clark, program chair
man, called on several members
of the Club to recount some un
usual experience of theirs. Tuck
er G. Humphries, Graham Cul-
breth. Dr. L. M. Daniels, and
Herbert Cameron rose to the oc
casion and gave short talks.
The Moore County Hospital
and the North Carolina Sanator
ium will share the services of a
full-time pathologist and director
of laboratories beginning Janu
ary 1, 1947.
It has been announced that the
two institutions have appointed
Dr. Thomas N. Lide to this impor
tant work. Dr. Lide. now Resi
dent Pathologist at Duke Hospi
tal. has a wide background of
scientific and medical experience
With the death of Scott Rock-
wood Newton in his home on
West Broad Street, early Satur
day evening, July 27th, one more
of the very few remaining sur
vivors of the pioneering days of
Southern Pines passed to rest, a
man whose life’s span, lacking
but a few short years, covered
the history of Southern Pines.
He was born in Lisbon, N. H.,
March 14th. 1877. the son of Ed
win Newton and Emma M. Mc
Kean Newton. As a lad he came
with his widowed father to the
new town in 1888. returning in
1890 to become permanent resi
dents.
United in marriage with Mary
Kathern Shaw, a descendant of
one of the first settlers on the
site of the present Southern
in both civilian and military life.
A native of South Carolina, he
served five years in the Army, Pines, on December 12th 1897,
being discharged with the rank _ Mr. Newton became a partner In
of major, and having had a num-
ber of responsible posts in the
laboratory service of hospitals in
this country and overseas.
At both the Moore County Hos.
the grain and feed business of
Sugg & Newton two years later.
In partnership with the late N.
W. Crain as Crain & Newton,
Building Contractors, the erected
pital and the Sanatorium the'^^^ny substantial residences,
presence of a qualified patholog
ist will add greatly to the satis
faction of all staff physicians,
and will strengthen the programs
of medical education and patient
care.
Dr, P. P. McCain, Superintend
ent of the Sanatorium, has been
working toward this development
for a long while, and the plan
has likewise been formally recom
mended by the Active Staff of
the Moore County Hospital.
among these the C. P. Heyward
home on Massachusetts Avenue
which became one of the show
places of the town.
Funeral services were held in
his late home at four o’clock on
Monday afternoon, the Rev.
Thompson E. Davis of the Pres
byterian Church of Southern
Pines, and the Rev. Troy Mullis
of the Presbyterian Church of
Manly, of which Mr. Newton had
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Nation's First "Sky Cruise" Proven Success
Welcomed Everywhere, Nimitz and Arnold Met
Building & Loan Holds
Meeting, Votes GI Loans
The Adjourned Annual Meet
ing of the stockholders of the
Southern Pines Building & Loan
Association was held at the Civic
Center. Southern Pines, N. G. on
Wednesday night July 24th at
8:00 P. M.
By authority of the Stockhold
ers the number of Directors was
reduced to five in number and
the following were chosen as Di
rectors: A. S. Ruggles. Frank H.
Wilson, J. D. Arey. L. V. O’Cal
laghan, L. L. Woolley,
At a Directors meeting follow
ing the Stockholders meeting the
following officers were elected:
A. S. Ruggles, president; Frank
H. Wilson, vice-president; J.
Vance Rowe, attorney.
The Directors passed a resolu
tion, authorizing the Associa
tion’s participation in G. I. Loans,
effective August 1. 1946.
The “Sky Cruise” inaugurated
by Resort Airlines, and the first
cruise of its kind in America,
ended Tuesday amidst praise and
glory.
On July 15th this first sixteen-
day Sky Cruise soared out of
Newark Airport with twenty-two
people aboard, including Ted Bur-
well of Resort Airlines and the
crew of the Douglas Luxury
Liner.
One rather astonishing fact
about the cruise passengers was
that nine of them had never be
fore been in an airplane.
Most of America was seen dur
ing the 6,500—7,000 mile cruise,
yet the passengers were in no
way fatigued by the trip as had at
first been anticipated.
The western people were espec
ially enthusiastic over the idea
of Sky Cruises and wanted to
know how soon similar cruises
could be set up that would origi
nate in the western states.
Rapid City turned out to wel
come the cruise, which their
Chamber of Commerce’s presi
dent did in fine fashion. Oklaho
ma City had photographers on
hand to photograph the event,
and Los Angeles had them on the
radio show “Meet The Missus.”
Holliday Magazine’s photogra
pher and writer, pert and pretty
Rosa Harvan Kline, took hun
dreds of pictures during the
cruise and is expected to write
the trip up in the September num
ber.
At Yellowstone the Sky Cruise
party is reported to have prac
tically amalgamated with the
party of Admiral Nimitz and a
couple of other admirals thrown
in for good gold braid measure.
Before that, at Santa Monica,
General Hap Arnold was encoun
tered at the swank Club Del Mar.
The first Sky Cruise left little
to be desired from, the standpoint
of those on the cruise. . . "except
more of them.”
The Robbins Cloth Mills have
entered into an agreement with
the Veterans Administration to
train disabled veterans
Among the many jobs that will
now be open to disabled veterans
are: loom fixer, machinist, and
foreman of the Throwing Room.
In. all there will be some twen
ty one different jobs that the dis
abled vets will be able to per
form under the new program.
This does not mean that there
are twenty-one jobs now open at
the Robbins Cloth Mills, but that
as the program progresses twen
ty-one disabled vets can be train
ed and take over the jobs as the
opening occur.
The officials of the Robbins
Cloth Mills are reported to be
among the most enthusiastic bus
inessmen in the County in favor
of pushing the training of dis
abled vets. The facilities fof
training are exceptionally excel
lent. and it is felt that a great
deal of good will result for both
the vets and the mills.
Disabled vets are not the only
veterans who are now able to
avail themselves of the Robbins
Cloth Mills training program, as
the Mills are also set up to train
regular on-the-job veterans. It is
estimated that some one hundred
veterans will take part in the on-
the-job training program when in
full swing.
There are other places of bus
iness in the Sandhills that have
veterans in their employ who
would benefit greatly if the com
panies would set up the on-the-
job training program with the
Veterans Administration. It is
hoped that the example set by
the Robbins Cloth Mills will en
courage others to the advantages
of the veterans and the employ-
ers.
While, Barbour Head
Leading Transactions
Real Estate transactions are
booming merrily along here in
Southern Pines. Major William
White has obtained final papers
on the Hunt place opposite the
Ark School, and he and Mrs.
White are busy adding charming
touches to an already charming
home.
W. I. Barbour has purchased
from Lederer the Helen Wicker
house, better known as the “Hut-
tenhauer home.” Barbour plans to
redecorate, repair where needed,
and offer for resale. This property
is at the head of New Hampshire
Avenue and Ridge Street.
'The Stevens Agency announces
the sale of the following proper
ties: The brick house of the Gra
ham Development to John Cline;
the Herbert Beck house on May
Street to Ann Mente; the A. M.
Brown residence at Indiana Aven
ue and Country Club Drive to
Helen Brown; four and one half
acres on the south of Midland
Road, west of Peedee Road to W.
H. Trentman, of the Occidental
Life Insurance Co., of Raleigh.
Other sales reported are: the
residence of F. M. Leighton to C.
B. Gale. This is known also as
the former Eaton house at Page
Street and Vermont Avenue; Lot
19 in the Sunnyside Development
near the Country Club was sold
by Roy Grinnell to R. L. Chand
ler; a residence on West Broad
Street and Indiana Avenue to S.
R. Newton, from Charles Block.
And finally. J. Fred Stimson has
sold his farm of 156 acres to
Ernest Aiken.
While there are still other sales
and transactions known to have
taken place, they have not been
officially recorded.
OFFICIAL
Local Boys Sent
On Elks Vacation
Ten boys of the Sandhills be
tween the ages of eight and fif
teen will soon be on their way to
the Elks Camp at Hendersonville
for two weeks of swimming,
games and sports.
Each of the boys are allowed
to have $3.00 pocket money and
only three. Any more can not
be spent. The boys are grouped
together into parties of eight,
with a counselor for each eight.
Doting parents are discouraged
from sending packages of sweets
and stuff. In fact, such packages
are returned.
At 8 a. m. this Sunday, August
4, the ten boys picked for the
Elks Camp will leave from the
new Elks Home here and will re-
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The War Department has
officially announced that
Camp Mackall -will continue
as a sub-post of Fort Bragg,
commaner by Major General
S. LeRoy Irwin.
While the camp will not
operate as a permanent troop
home, it will be kept in re
pair for use as a maneuver
or summer training station at
the discreation of the Train
ing Section of the War De
partment.
The planned training cap
acity is 12.000. Mess, adminis
tration, recreation, and toi
let facilities -will be kept up.
Troops undergoing future
training at Camp Mackall
will be housed in tents.
The camp will be main
tained by a small group of
civilians working imder the
Post Engineer at Fort Bragg;
and all service and supply
will be handled by the Ser
vices and Supply Officer at
Fort Bragg.
Administration of Camp
Mackall will be under the
Commanding General^ Fort
Bragg, with local command
by the senior tactical com
mander of troops in training.
Fast Improving
AVC Softballers
Win 2, Drop 1
The local AVC Softball team
played .667 per cent ball last
week by splitting a doubleheader
with the league leading Aberdeen
team. The locals copped the op
ening game last Wednesday af
ternoon by the score of 10 to 6
as Chatfield hurled 5 hit ball. In
the second game th AVC’s lost to
Aberdeen in an extra inning
game by the score of 4 to 1. The
locals held a 1 to 0 lead until the
last inning after Boots Matthews
had held Aberdeen to 2 hits. In
the Aberdeen half of the last inn
ing they pushed over the tying
score with 3 base hits. In the ex
tra inning 2 errors and 2 hits net
ted the Aberdeen team the win
ning margin.
On Friday the 2nd place Pine
hurst team played the AVC team
at Southern Pines and went down
in defeat by the score of 10 to 7 in
a game where the lead changed
hands 5 times. Chatfield again
hurled 7 hit ball for the locals
while his teammates accounted
for 10 hits and 10 runs.
Sedres: Aberdeen—6 runs. 5
hits, 2 errors. AVC—-10 runs, 9
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Those Contacted Say:
Give Us A Definite
Plan. We'll Back It
I Meeting Being Set Up
Resort Airlines, if they didn’t
know it before, will soon know
that the Sandhills, and especially
Southern Pines-Pinehurst. are be
hind them one hundred per cent.
There has been no question in
the minds of the many approach
ed last week concerning just how
much support the community
should give to the Resort Air
lines. The only question, it seems,
has been: what can we do that
will help? When it is known just
what the community" can definite
ly do to throw its weight behind
Resort Airlines, then the weight
will be thrown.
A meeting is now being set up
between the various interested
parties of the community and Re
sort Airlines, where the cards will
be laid on the table, the program
formulated and action started im
mediately.
Any committee that may be
voted to work with Resort Air
lines for the community should
be picked from men who have
the ability and the interest to
keep pace with the fast progress
ing Resort Airlines group. This
is no slam at any group or any
person of the community, but a
recognition of the fact that Re
sort Airlines can be held back
in the community by a group that
takes too long to act.
Resort Airlines now have for
their Washington Council L.
Welch Pogue, former chairman
of the Civil Aeronautics'Board in
Washington, He was chairman
until June 19, 1946. He decided
to throw in with Resort Airlines
because, according to Lewis C.
Burwell. president of Resort Air
lines, “he felt we are well justi
fied in the type of application we
now have before the Civil Aero
nautics Board, and that we’ll go
to' town when the application is
granted.”
This application is the same
as any other airlines, such as
Eastern, except that it has the
new and interesting twist of
“flying with the seasons”. That
is, instead of regular year-round
schedules between definite ter
minals, they are applying for a
schedule approval to fly to sea
sonal resorts.
If the former chairman of the
Civil Aeronautics Board thinks
highly enough of their idea to
join them, instead of the many
other airlines seeking his services,
it should convince us here in the
Sandhills that Resort Airlines
is on the right track, and head
ing fast for a bright future.
Hats Off to L. E. Grover
Steel Fence Project For Baseball Park
Gets Full Backing Of Three Veteran Groups
Into The Pilot Wednesday came
an old friend. Marie CJoins of
West Southern Pines. She want
ed to place an ad, so never loath
to take same we became all bus
iness.
She handed us the following
announcement:
‘Hats off to Mr. L. E. Grover
for his honesty. Coming from
West Southern Pines, a citizen
of West Southern Pines hurried
ly rushed out of the Post Office,
leaving on the window a purse
containing $200 at 12 o’clock Sat
urday. As luck, Mr. Grover came
out by the window and picked it
up and put it in the PO for safe
keeping. Don’t any one else try
this. Mr. Grover might not find
the next one.”
When we finished reading Ma
rie asked: “How much! to put that
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There will be a steel fence
around the Southern Pines ball
park in nothing flat, if the fence
goes up as fast as the plans for
getting one have gotten under
way. The possibility has been dis
cussed for a long while, but only
this last week have the plans
been formed and pushed. They
are now in full swing.
The plan is this: The three
veteran groups of Southern
Pines, American Legion, VFW.
and AVC have agreed to handle
the program for selling tickets
to a Labor Day baseball game
where a much desired and brand
new ’46 Plymouth will be given
away to the lucky ticket holder.
With the need for new automo
biles as acute as it now is. it is
expected there wiU be many in
deed who will buy a ticket and
hope for the best.
Chairman of the inter-vets com
mittee is Lennox Forsyth. Two
members from each of the three
veterans organizations are: Her-
New Molorcycle Throws
CPhM "Red" McDonald
man Grover and Frank Neely of
AVC. Lennox Fors3d;h and
Frank Buchan of VFW. A. D.
Herst and H. J. Dietenhofer of
the American Legion. Bob Hen
derson of VFW was appointed
Treasurer of the fund drive.
An advisory committee of
Gene Stephens, June Phillips, A.
C. Dawson, Frank Buchan, and J.
W. Dickerson. At the latest meet
ing, on Wednesday night. Jack
Carter. Morris Johnson, and An
tonio Montesanti were present in
an advisory capacity and pledg
ed their support to the popular
program.
Tickets for the Labor Day
game where the new Plymouth
will be given away are expect
ed to be on sale this coming
week. The various committees
ask that the community back the
fence-building program. It will
mean a great deal to the High
School and other local sports
teams in helping raise funds for
necessary equipment.
A couple of weeks ago Chief
Pharmacists Mate “Red” Mc
Donald (L. D. Jr.- came by The
Pilot office and showed us a
very fine Speed Graflex he had
just gotten through the Na-vy
Surplus Pool. It -was a thing of
beauty and made us highly en
vious.
Then he told about a new mo
torcycle he WEIS about to get. He
described it in great detail, and
there was no doubt at all that
it would also be a thing of beau
ty. However, we were not highly
envious as we have had two nar
row escapes on the back seat of
one such.
It is with sorrow, but not great
surprise that we learn “Red” Mc
Donald took a spill from his new
motorcycle last Thursday night
in Norfolk and suffered a fractur
ed shoulder. Red is now mending
in the Naval Base Hospital there.
For those who would like to drop
him a line, his address is CPhM
L. D. McDonald, Jr., Ward A2.
Naval Base Hospital. N. O. B.,
Norfolk, Va.