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Southern Pines, N. C-Friday. January 10, 1947
12 PAGES THIS WEEK
Second Broadcasting Company Files
Application with FCC to Establish
Radio Station at Sonthern Pines
Competing Groups
Want Coverage
Of Sandhills Area
HENS VS PEOPLE
It looks as though a battle may
be in the making for the Sand
hills as a radio station area, with
two newly formed broadcasting
companies filing application with
the FCC to establish stations in
Southern Pines to serve this and
adjoining counties.
Notice has been received by
Mayor L. V. O’Callaghan of the
filing of an application for a
250-watt station, on a frequency
of 110 kilocycles, by the Sand
hill Qommunity Broadcasters,
Inc., with Jack S. Younts of
Greensboro^ Mrs. Younts, John
Mare, David R. Grace and Oliver
R. Grace as incorporators.
Endorsement of the town
commissioners was given Jack S.
Younts some months ago, Mayar
O’Callaghan said, when he ap
proached them with plans con
cerning the new station.
However,since then the Mayor
has been apprised that work
had been going on for some time
by the Sandhills Broadcasting
company by a partnership
composed of Frank Ba
ber, of Sanford and
John Green, toward establish
ment of a station here. This is
also to be a 250-watt station
planned as an affiliate
of the Mutual Broadcasting sys
tem. Plans had reached such a
stage of maturity that, even tho
ugh the town could not give a
second endorsement, the partners
went ahead with their applicat
ion, which was filed in late Nov
ember or early December.
Second lo file
First to secure the ear of the
town commission, the Sandhills
Community Broadcasters, Inc.,
were second! on the ground with
the FCC, and which priority car
ries the most weight is anybody’s
guess. According to the express
ed view of Mayor O’Callaghan,
both outfits seem good and either
station should be a community
asset.
Sentiment seems ,to be that
one radio station is about all the
Sandhills needs and can support.
Howevar;, the FCC h,as lately
been granting applications right
and left, and Southern Pines may
find itself with two, in which
case the battle would be on in
earnest. There is generally con
siderable delay between the fiL
ing of an application and any
FCC action taken in regard ti
it,so it may be well into the spr-
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II appears folks around
Kingston have complained
that the Atlantic and East
Carolina Railroad's Diesel
horns have slowed up egg
production scaring their hens
out of what little wits these
creatures normally possess.
It further appears that the
railroad is making plans to
moderate th^; tone of its
horns in deference to Kings
ton hens.
Not long ago the Pilot sug
gested that similar action be
taken by the SAL, only this
time it was for the benefit of
townspeople and visitors, not
hens.
So now, the $64.00 ques
tion is: do hens rate higher
than people, and does the At
lantic and East Coast rale
higher than the SAL in con
sideration of those it serves?
Looks like it.
Sandhills Kiwanis
Officers Installed
Victory In First
Basketball Came
4ugurs Top Season
Two Local Teams
Play'Fast Games
With Vass-Lakeview
LIST TAXES EARLY!
Installation of 1947 officers
was the feature of this week’s
luncheon meeting of the Sand
hills Kiwanis club, held ’Wedlnes-
day at the Southern Pines Coun
try club-
Informally expressing his
thanks for the club’s friendship
and cooperation during the year
just ended, W. D. Sabiston, Jr.
retiring president, passed on his
badge of office, with best wishes
to the new president, Paul C
Butler.
Inducted at the same time were
Leland McKeithen, of Pinehurst.
vice president; John M. Howarth
Southern Pines, secretary-treas
urer (a reelection); and the fol
lowing directors; John S. Rug
gles, A. L, Burney, J. T. Over-
ton, of Southern Pines; T. O
Moses, J. B. EcKwards, Aberdeen
I. C. Sledge, Pinehurst, and M
C. McDonald, West End.
The nfew president appointed
a program committee, consisting
ofg John S. Ruggles, Southern
Pines, chairman; Lewis C. Bur
well, Jr., W. D. Campbell, and
Roy Grinnell, Southern Pines;
B. U. Richardson and Paul Dana,
Pinehurst. Other committees are
to be named later.
Dr. T. A. Cheatham, of Pine
hurst, offered the devotion, and
minutes were read by W. D-
Campbell. Four guests were' in
troduced.
Opening the 1947 cage season
Tuesday night at the high school
auditorium the Boys’ and Girls’
teams of Southern Pines bested
the Vass-Lakeview teams, the
girls carrying off their game at
31-22 and the boys winning 57-19.
The local girls got off to a
shaky start, taking frequent shots
at the basket but unable to find
the range, trailing at the end of
the first quarter 3 to 6. Begin
ning the second quarter Cameron
sent in a looper and, following
Hall’s free throw, dropped in two
more to make the score 10 to 6
for the Blue and! White. From
this point on, the Southern Pines
girls were in command of the
game leaving the court at half
time with a 16 to 10 advantage,
to increase this advantage in the
second half and win, 31-22. Cam
eron was high scorer for South
ern Pines, making a total of 17
points with Overby leading for
Vass-Lakeview with 14 points.
In the boys’ game the Vass-
Lakeview team was completely
outclassed and although they
played courageously and fought
back with everything they had,
the Blue and White’s passing and
shooting accuracy scored almost
at will. Southern Pines led at the
first quarter, 14-0, and at the
half, 31-9. Substituting freely.
Coach Dawson used) every player
on his squad. 'Ted York peced the
scoring for the Blue and White
with 13 points followed by Ma
ples with 10. Bailey led his Vass-
Lakeview teammates with 5
points.
The Line-Ups
The Southern Pines Girls:
Ward, CF, Cameron, F, Hall, F,
Caddell, G, Guin, G, Schaeffer,
G. Substitutions: Dana, Milliken,
Willcox, Sugg.
Vass-Lakeview Girls: Ransdell,
CF, Baker, F, Overby, F, Lynch,
G, Womack, G, Haynes, G. Sub
stitutions: Johnson, Hennings.
Jessup.
Score, Southern Pines, 31 Vass-
Lakeview, 22.
Southern Pines Boys: Maples,
F, McCall, F, Harrington, C, Mat
tocks, G, Grey, G. Substitutions:
Sledge, Scheipers, Arnette, Hodg
kins, Van Camp, Calloway, But
ler, Culler, Kennedy, Avery,
Page, Spring, York.
Vass-Lakeview Boys: H. Bar
ley, F, Blevins, F, R. Bailey, C,
Hardly, G, Stutts, G. Substitu
tions: Autrey, Graham, Hendrick
Score Southern Pines, 57, Vass-
Lakeview, 19.
There are only iwo sure
things—death and taxes.
We never know when death
will strike, but we know
about taxes—and that tax
listing time is now at hand.
List your taxes early. Put
ting it off wiF; only add to
your problems by involving
you in a traffic jam.
Mrs^ D. J. Blue, McNeill
township tax lister, will be
at the Southern Pines city
office January 13 through 17,
and again January 20
through 24: at Vass January
11, 18 and 24; at Manly Jan
uary 28, and at Eureka on
the afternoon of January 29.
Tax payers in the south
ern part of Southern Pines
are reminded that they are
in Sandhills township, whose
tax lister is R. F. Stewart.
For their convenience Mr.
Stewart will be at the (Jack-
son Nash Motor company.
Southern Pines, January 24.
He goes to Pinebluff January
14, JacksOn-Hamlet January
and RoseTjand January 28.
and will be at Aberdeen, at
the old bank building beside
the A & R shop, the other
days during the rest of the
month.
Council Restricts
Parking On SAL
Railway Property
March of Dimes
Chairmen Plan To
Get Going Jan. 15
Polio Chapter Heads
To Be Chosen At
Aberdeen Meeting
Citizens Seek Vote On A
$2,000,000 Countywide
School Building Plan
“Health Bonds” Double TB Seal Take
In Successful Vass-Lakeview Drive
How the annual Tuberculosis, individual prize, decided to add
Christmas Seal sale in Vass and
the Vass^LakevieW school dis
trict was upped from 1945’s $97
to an even $200 in the drive re
cently closed! brings to light an
interesting new plan which paid
big returns.
Mrs. S. R. Smith, local chair
man, and Mrs. N. N. McLean, of
the welfare department of the
Woman’s Club, canvassed the
business district and for the first
time offered health bonds for
sale. So generous was the re
sponse of the business men and
women that they were able to
place bonds in nine of the busi
ness houses.
Encouraged by the success of
the bond idea, Mrs. Smith asked
the chairman’s permission to use
bonds in the Vass-Lakeview
School, giving a bond to each
room when sales in said room
reached five dollars, these to be
exchanged for bonds of higher
denomination when the higher
figure was reached. As an added
incentive, the Vass Woman’s
club, /hich heretofore had been
offering one room prize and an
a second room prize.
All of this information was pre
sented! to the entire student body
in a pep letter from the local
chairman, which was read by
Miss Alberta Monroe, who
agreed to serve as chairman in
the school, thus making seals
available there as needed. The
students went into action and
when the first check-up was
made a few days later, several
rooms had earned bonds. En
thusiasm ran high until the close
of the sale.
On Wednesday before school
closed for the holidays, Mrs. H.
A. Borst, Vass Woman’s club
president, and! Mrs. Smith were
present at chapel to present the
prizes.
Mrs. Smith thanked the stu
dents and faculty for their fine
cooperation and'delivered the ad
ditional bonds due the various
rooms. The child making the
highest sales was given the honor
of receiving the bond for his or
her room.
The rooms earning bonds, to-
Richard Kaylor Hurt
In Bicycle Accident
Richard Kaylor, 17, had a dtose
call Friday evening about 6 when
he and his bicycle became involv
ed in a mixup with Bud Ritter’s
lumber truck.
Bicycling toward Pinehurst,
near the Southern Pines city
limits, Richard swerved to the
right to avoid an approaching
car, and collidted with the truck,
which was coming up behind him.
He was knocked from the bicycle
and the truck wheels ran over
his upper chest. Unconscious, he
was taken to the Moore County
Hospital by a passerby, where it
was found that, besides bruises
and lacerations, he had suffered
only a broken colDarbone.
He returned home Tuesday, and
is getting along nicely. Richard
is the son of chief Fireman and
Mrs. Frank H. Kaylor.
Folks who have been parking
more than 30 minutes on the SAL
railway properfy, between the
passenger ahd freight., stations,
on West Broad street will have to
find another parking place or
suffer due penalties of the law,
according to an ordinance passed
by the town council, in monthly
session at the city clerk’s office
Wednesday night.
It was agreed also to request
that employees of Broad Street
business houses not clog up the
trade district by parking their
cars there all day.
Unless current regulations,
along with common sense rules,
are more carefully observed, the
growing traffic problem may nec
essitate more drastic controls, the
councilmen agreed. In the mean
time—it’s up to you!
All councilmen were present,
with Mayor L. V. O’Callaghan in
the chair, and City Clerk Burns
present to supply facts and fig
ures. On estimates secured by
him, decision was reached to buy
a new chlorinator for the water
plant, and to have the old one re
built lor use at the sewage dis
posal plant. Other improvements
are planned, to give Southern
Pines within the next live years
as modern a plant as any in the
South.
Mr. Burns read a letter from
Dr. J. S. Milliken asking an offer
on a lot he owns, adjoining the
Towh Park, and after some dis
cussion it was decided that no
offer can be made at this time,
as no funds have been set up for
land purchase. The matter was
deferred until the start of the
next fiscal year. This is the lot on
which a public vote, taken at a
mass meeting last September, up
held zoning restrictions so that
it cannot be used as the site of
business or office-apartment
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Next Wednesday, January 15,
Moore County will join in the
nation-wide annual fund raising
drive of the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis which
sparkplugs the never-ceasing
battle against polio, it was an
nounced this week by H. Clifton
Blue, Moore County ‘Chairman
of the fund raising drive. The
drive will run for 15 days, from
January 15-30.
There will be a supper meet
ing at the Lloyd Hall Inn in
Aberdeen this Friday night
which will be attended by the
community chairmen and chap
ter directors from Moore Coun
ty at which time community quo
tas will be set and! the campaign
outlined for the 1947 drive. The
annual meeting and election of
officers of the local Chapter will
be held in conjunction with the
fund raising mleqting|. Paul C.
Butler is the present chapter
chairman.
Community chairmen who will
head the 1947 fund raising drive
in the various communities in
this county are. Raymond Wick
er, Aberdeen; Mrs. Benn Cooper,
Lakeview; Mrs. W. R. Griffin,
Pinebluff; Prof. J. Caesar Phil
lips, Westmore; Miss Sallie
Green Allison, Robbins; W. C.
Stephenson, Cameron; M. M.
Chappell, Vass; J. F. Sinclair,
West End; Rev. R. R. Ramsey,
Jackson Springs; Frank McCas-
kill, Pinehurst; D. D. Cameron,
Niagara; Mrs. Paul Troutman,
Addor; Prof. T. H. Lingerfeldt,
Farm Life; Prof. Fry, Highfalls;
Mrs. C. C. Underwood, Eagle
Springs; Paul C. Butler, South
ern Pines.
CURRIE
As we go lo press comes
Ihe report, hoi from an ex
clusive source, lhal Moore
County's Wilbur Currie has
been appointed chairman of
the Public Roads committee
of the Slate Senate. This is
a position carrying great re
sponsibility, also great bar
gaining power. With the lev
erage of "roads for your sec
tion " behind him, it is
hoped that our senator will
be a powerful force in for
warding those two projects:
health and teachers' salaries,
in which his constituents are
so interested.
To him go the congratula
tions of all.
Library Trustees
Elect Officers
DR MONROE AT DUKE
His host of friends in Moore
County will welcome the news
that Dr. Clement Monroe, of
Moore County Hospital, is recov
ering well from the back operu
tion performed at Duke Hospital
on Tuesday. Attending physi-
gether with the amount of sales, j cians were optimistic, predicting
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a rapid convalescence.
Mrs. Nicholson
Joins Pilot Staff
Events For Youngest
In Sunday Gymkhana
Novelties in the next gymk
ana, to be held in'the riding rink
of the Carolina Hotel! Sunday,
will include a class for the very
yoimgest riders, whose mounts
will be on lead, and a bareback
^air riding class,
j The gymkhana, which will be-
fein at 2:30 P. M. will comprise
the following events; 1. Child
ren’s Lead Line class; 2. Hunters-
over the outside course; 3. Wheel
barrow race; 4. Pair riding - bare
back; 5. Ribbon race; 6. Open
jumpers —knock- doyra aiuii out
Mrs. Valerie Nicholson has
joined the editorial staff of The
Pilot as assistant to Mrs. James
Boyd, publisher and editor, and
is to be seen around town get
ting acquainted with local folk,
andl gathering up the news.
Mrs. Nicholson, a, native of
Richmond, Va,i, -did" newspaper
work for dailies there, and later
was state news editor on the
Winston-Salem Journal. During
the war she was first reporter,
then city editor of the Salisbury
(N. C.) Post and for the past
year has been head of the contin
uity and publicity departments
of Radio Station WSTP, in Salis
bury.
In Salisbury she was on the ex
ecutive board of the Red Cross,
and worked with the publicity
andl disaster committees; was on
the district committee
of Boy Scouts, and served with
the publicity and cubbing pro
grams; and took part in various’
other phases of civic work and
numerous campaigns. She was
on the board of the Salisbury
Youth Center and served as as
sistant Youth Center director.
She is a member of the North
(^djijolina Presswomen’s associa
tion, and has placed first in two
state contests for feature and
newswriting. She has also writ
ten a number of short stories for
pulp magazines and syndicates.
She is married to Silas Nichol
son of- Salisbury, and their plans
are eventually to have a home in
Southern Pines. They have two
children, Winifred, 14, and Ed
ward, a United States marine.
The Southern Pines Library
Association held its annual meet
ing Tuesday afternoon, with
President A. B. Yeomans in the
chair. With a record attendance,
the gathering heard the secre
tary, Mrs. James Swett, read the
annual report, including librari
an’s report of circulation of
books, new memberships, and
new books purchased. 54 new
members were listed, with an ap-
proxiinate annual attendance of
14,654. The circulation figure
was 16,853.
The treasurer. Miss Laura Kel
sey, reported a balance on hand
of $1674.94, and it was voted! to
invest $500.00 of this in the Mem
orial Fund. She called the atten
tion of the members to the in
crease by the town of their ap
propriation for the Library, from
$350 to the present $500.00, at
which there was a general ex
pression of appreciation.
The nomination of officers for
the new year resulted in the re-
election to the presidency of A.
B. Yeomans, with the Rev. F.
Craighill Brown as vice-presi
dent. Mrs. Swett and Miss Kel
sey were re-elected to office.
With four trustees to be chosen,
the board elected Clyde Council,
Miss Birdilia Bair, J. A. Phillips,
and Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins, with
Mrs. James Boyd, filling the un
expired place of Vice-President
Brown.
In the (Jiscussion that followed
the feeling was expressed that
though the Library was being
used extensively there might be
many among the general public
who did not realize the condi
tions under which it was opera
ted. The fact that while the coun
ty library is located in the Sou
therh Pines building, the local
association continues to support
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Commissioners Delay
Decision Pending
Compromise Study
A strong delegation represent
ing a majority of the school dis
tricts of Moore county presented
themselves before the county
commissioners In monlthly ses
sion Monday afternoon, to plead
the cause of better school facil
ities in Moore county, and to
prove sentiment sufficiently fav
orable to warrant a special elec
tion, for approval or disapproval
by the voters of a $2,000,000
oo(urttywide program of jtchool
building and expansion.
The t\fro conditions required by
state law for the calling of such
an election were declared to
have been fulfilled—approval by
the county school board, and the
presentation of the names of a
minimum of 25 petitioners. Dr.
G. G. Herr, chairman for the
project of the united Moore coun
ty school boards, and! Southern
Pines school board chairman, of
fered petitions bearing more
than 300 jnames, and declared
hundreds more could have been
secured, had it been necssary.
The proposal as presented to
the commissioners embodies is
suance of bonds in the amount
of $1,250,000, with $750,000 to ac
crue to the school building pro
gram from taxes over the next
five years.
Compromise Sought
With legal requirements ful
filled, the matter would have
called' for no decision on the part
of the commissioners, had not
discussion come up as to whether
a sufficient amount could not be
raised by taxes alone, increasing
the present tax rate to a level
high enough to take care of the
school building needs. It is in
the power of the commissioners
to do this, according to G. M.
Cameron, chairman), apd John
C. Muse, auditor, was consulted
as to what increase would be nec
essary. His estimate was that
increase of 60 cents, raising the
tax rate to $1.50 from its present
low level of 90 cents, would give
approximately half the amount
sought over a five year period.
With the expressed feeling by
several members of the delega
tion that a workable compromise
would be agreeable, the meeting
concludld with the commissioners
promising to consider the matter
earnestly and to agree to the el
ection, or presenti a compromise
within a day or two.
Other members of the group,
htowiever, expressed themselves
as feeling that nothing less than
the whole amount asked would
do any good in the present emer
gency of overcrowded classrooms
and outmoded or makeshift
buildings, and that to do justice
to Moore county schoolchildren
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LANK ANNUAL MEETING
The annual stockholders’ meet
ing of the Citizens Bank and
Trust company will be held at
the bank Tuesday at 3 p. m.
Hospital Auxiliary Annual Reports
Show Sei^ice to Patients, Hospital
The Moore County Hospital
auxiliary provided equipment
for the hospital, from double boil
ers to frying pans, also replace
ment supplies of linens andl other
items in the amount of $2,891.86,
it was revealed by annual reports
at the auxiliary’s first meeting
of the year, held Wednesday
morning at the nurses’ home.
Many other services were render
ed, forming an impressive pict
ure of physical and spiritual aid
to Moore County’s sick by this
women’s organization, which
grew last year from 59 to 105
active members.
Mrs. M. G. Nichols, president,
conducting the ineetingl called
on Mrs. F. Craighill Brown, sec
retary, for the minutes, and then
for the year’s reports. Mrs. Roy
Grinnell, equipment chairman,
accounted for the expenditure of
$904. 78 on magazine subscriptions
for the nurses’ home and out
patient department, andl the pur
chase of frying pans, three-way
lamps, double boilers, three-way-
screens, lampshades, rubber pla
tes, Wagonsteen set-ups, bedpans,
pus basins, washbasins, a breast
pump, a nurses’ workdesk, ther
mos jugs and fillers, hot water
plates and bedside lights.
It was reported also that under
directions of Mrs. C. E. Crowell,
supplies chairman, $1,976.70 had
been disbursed for linens, oper
ating room gowns, orderlies’ coats
and similar items.
Social Service
Mrs. Worth McLeod!, social ser
vice committee chairman, report
ed aid to 23 obstetrical patients
and 35 medical and surgical cases,
58 in all. This included follow-
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