&
m
Glendon
Uamp/
[ando' /.
Srictfcond Uaiwaqa ».
Cameron pji
, Wi^^lpkwiMj’Vass f
ck&on*'n / Ilficycj ^
. Jack!
oX
llerbe
LOT
VOLUME 28. NO. 9
TWELVE PAGES
Southern Pines. N. C-Friday. January 24. 1947.
TWELVE PAGES
TEN CENTS
Social Agencies
To Back Colored
Nursery School
To Care For Children
While Mothers Work;
Edna Bethea Teacher
Meeting at the Southern Pines
School Tuesday night, the Coun
cil of Social Agencies decided to
back a project which has long
been in the minds of many inter
ested in the welfare of the neigh
bor community, the establish
ment of a nursery school in West
Southern Pines.
Present a(t the meeting was
Miss Edna Bethea who present
ed an outline of the project con
templated, whose main object
is to take care of small children
whose mothers are away during
the day. The general aim of the
plan, as stated, is to be a supple
ment to the home as weOl as an
attempt to recondition habits
that might lead to personal dif
ficulties and handicap a child
later in life. Parents would re
ceive, at the end of each month,
a child development report, as
regards physical, mental, social
and emotional development.
It is hoped to take children, at
a fee of $1.50 a week, during the
hours from 8:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.,
weekends excluded. A physical
examination wouM be required
* (Continued on Page 5)
OUR CITIZEN
H. Clifton Blue is listed as
a representative who first
voted ag'ainst jtihe teachers'
pay raise eunended bill, then
changed his mind and voted
for it. Clif started to follow
orders: stopped: 'though it
over for himself; and came
out strong on the right sidle.
There's a Sandhill Citizen
that all other Sandhill citi
zens. not to mention a Pilot
can be proud of.
Good boy. Clif. More
power to you!
Moore Central
Creditors to Go
to Supreme Court
Receivership Asked
for Rehabilitation
Of Railroad
Plans Proceeding
For Radio Station
With Studios Here
Board Announces
Two Additions To
Staff at Hospital
Added to the permanent staff
at the Moore County Hospital is
Dr. Thomas N. Lide, who comes
to the Sandhills from Duke to
fill the position of Pathologist.
Dr. Lide, who started work last
week, will divide his services be
tween the local institution and
the State Sanatorium.
A member of the class of 1938.
Duke School of Medicine, Dr.
Lide interned at the German
town Hospital, Philadelphia, and
from there became a fellow in
Pathology at the University 6f
Pennsylv^a Hospi'tdJ, /Joining
the army at the outbreak of the
war, he spent 32 months in sta
tion and general hospitals in
Northern Ireland and England,
to return to Duke, upon his re
lease, where he has served as res
ident pathologist for the past
fourteen months.
Dr. Lide was raised in Ander
son, S. C., and is a graduate of
Clemson College. He and Mrs.
Lide are living on Highland Road
in Southern • Pines.
The hospitail also announces the
appointment of William F. Hen
derson as assistant administra
tor. The new member of the hos
pital staff took office last week
and is to be found already hard
at work in the middle office of
the three on,the first floor.
A native of Jacksonville, N. C.,
Henderson received an A. B. de
gree at the University of North
Carolina in 1935. His interest in
public welfare led him into this
field, and he acted as superinten
dent of welfare in Asheboro for
several years, prior to entering
the army. Assigned then to a neu
ro-psychiatric hospital, he con
ducted intelligence and personal
ity tests in this branch of the
service.
Upon release from the army,
Hendersoii. returned to his home
town, where he took the posi
tion of Administrator in the On
slow County Hospital. From there
he came to Moore County.
The new assistant administra
tor has been a friend of Moore
County for some time. His wife,
who is the former Mary Ruth
Bruton, has many relations in
Moore County, being a niece of
Miss Ellen Bruton, and the late
M. C. McDonald of Eagle Springs.
Sie taught school for several
years in Carthage.
With its temporary receiver
ship set aside as of December 30,
notice given of appeal to the
state supreme court by creditors
seeking a permanent receiver
ship, and its owners facing two
suits for payment, alleged long
overdue, for professional services,
the Moore Central Railroad com
pany now “knoweth not where
it standeth,” according to papers
filed with the clerk of court Jan
uary 10 by its owners. Van B.
and Louise R. Sharpe.
These reply to a suit filed Dec.
5 by L. R. Powell and H. W. An
derson, as receivers for the Sea
board Air Line railway, seeking
sums totaling $4,489.37 for ser
vice, supplies and per diem due
for cars between September, 1945,
and July', “1946.
The one bright spot just now
in the 10-mile railroad’s troubled
course is the extension of time
(till February 1) for operation of
the Moore Central’s one locomo
tive, previously condemned by
ICC inspectors for use after Jan
uary 1.
Want Good Operation
As has been recorded earlier,
creditors in Cdrthage followed
fast after the SAL receivers in filW
ing claims against the railroad,
though instead of asking mone
tary satisfaction, they asked an
operating receivership for the
Moore Central, claiming it as an
essential to the business and
manufacturing life of the town.
(Continued on Page 51
Night Operation
To Be Applied For
When Under Way
Granting by the FCC of the
Sandhill Broadcasting corpora
tion’s application to establish a
radio station here is expected
with a very few days, and plans
are proceeding apace for “a sta
tion Southern Pines and the
whole section will be proud of,”
said John C. Greene, of Sanford,
manager, visiting Southern Pines
Wednesday.
A site has been selected, and
the lease papers are awaiting
only the word from the FCC. He
is pretty certain this will be
forthcoming, and, at its present
rate of granting applications, the
FCC should be just about down
to this one, filed last October.
Application has been made for
daytime operation only, but as
soon as the 250-watt station is
under way it is planned to apply
for night operation as well, with
“directional antennae,” costing
about $20,000 extra, to shield
hearers from interference on the
airlane they seek. This is that
of 990 kilocycles, whose only
other occupant within hundreds
of miles is Station WNOX, at
Knoxville, Term.
This is just a small part of the
total investment which, said Mr.
Greene, will give this community
“one of the finest, most modern
small stations anywhere.” A
building is to be erected, but the
builders are just waiting on the
- I (Continued on Page 5)
Masonic Lodge Will
Celebrate 50th Birthday
Representatives of all) Masonic
bodies of the Sandhills are ex
pected to attend the barbecue
supper and special program to be
held Wednesday evening by Sou
thern Pines Lodge 484, in obser
vance of its 50th anniversary.
William J. Bundy, of Green
ville, Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge of North Carolina, will be
the principal speaker, and other
Masonic leaders will be heard.
Past Master Ralph L. Chandler
will give a history of Lodge 484
during a half century of activity.
Present Master is James W.
Causey.
The “birthday party,” to be
held at the Masonic hall, will be
gin at 7 p. m.
WHO?
Who started the Teen Age Club?
The Council of Social Agencie*
Who started the Recreation
Program?
The Council of Social Agencies.
Who started and carried on the
Christmets Cheer program?
The Council of Social Agencies.
And now they are helping to
stcurt another good thing; a nur
sery school j for our colored neigh
bors across the creek.
Blue To Introduce
School Help Bill
Court of Honor
Held at Vass;
Awards Are Made
SUCCESS STORY
Word has come that the can
tata, “Rose Maiden,” which de
lighted the ears of Southern
Pines folks, as sung by Director
Charlie Picquet’s attractive choir,
last month, netted the Council of
Social Agencies the sum of
$180.00.
ARMY TO RESCUE
The U. S. army rallied
nobly to the aid of the Vass
school this week, giving boil
er parts needed for the re
pair of the heating system
and enabling the schooRI .to
open Wednesday after being
closed two days.
Pinehurst Troop 7 starred at
the Moore County Boy Scout
court of honor for January, held
Monday night at the Vass school
auditorium, with an expert signal
ing demonstration from a tower
constructed on the spot; by lead
ing the “better Scouting” compe
tition for the county with a point
score of 212; by winning the
sought-after attendance award;
arid by seeing Earl J. Petro, Jr.,
asistant scoutmaster, receive the
highest award made at the court
—the Silver Palm on the Eagle
badge, for work done as a Boy
Scout before he went to the army
several years ago.
I. C. Sledge, of Pinehurst, ad
vancement chairman, was in
charge. Bobby Klingenschmidt, of
the Vass troop, led the ritual
opening, and Rev- Troy MuUis,
of Manly, offered a devotion. Fol
lowing the attendance count,
which showed 75 scouts and lead
ers, and around 50 friends and
parents present, Richard Kelly
Allen Watson, Frank White,
Larry Hartsell, Fred McKenzie
and James Harbison of the Pine
hurst troop set up a 12-foot tree-
trunk tower and wigwagged mes
sages in Morse code as demonstra
tion.
W. D. Campbell, district com
missioner, congratulated the boys
and their leaders on their fine
showing, and suggested greatest
emphasis in future on advance
ment. He also saluted the leaders
in the Better Scouting balanced
program competition, giving the
present scores in the three-weeks
old contest as follows: Pinehurst,
212; West End, 172; Southern
Pines, 157; Pinebluff, 91; High
Falls, 85; Manly, 75; Robbins, 57;
Carthage, 35; Vass, 5; Aberdeen,
0; Cameron, 0.
Awards
Advancement awards were
made as follows: Star, John Mc-
Calloway, Troop 86; and W. B.
Davis, scoutmaster. Troop 36;
first class, Fred Martin, Troop
98, and Johnny Wilson, Troop 86;
second class, Frank J. White, Jr,
(Continued on Page 5)
From Moore County represent
ative H. Clifton Blue comes
word of a bill which he plans
to introduce in the legislature,
either as a local or state-wide
measure, to enable high schools
falling below the- required sixty
pupil average, to keep their
franchise. If passed, the bill
would directly affect the Sand-
Jiill Farm Life School, whjose
,attendance ra(te is perilously
near the average rtiinimum, caus
ing school officials to fear that
a sudden epidemic or impassable
roads, by reducing attendance,
might cause them to lose the
school.
Blue writes: “I have been ask
ed by the Sandhill Farm Life
School board and our County Su
perintendent of Public Schools
to present a bill to the General
Assembly to help them keep, their
high school. The present law re
quires an average attendance of
sixty, before the State Board of
Education shall allot teachers. The
Farm Life High School’s average
attendance has fallen a little be
low sixty and they are very
anxious that, the high school be
maintained. The bill would con
tain the following provision:
‘The State Board of Education
sha'il allot state teachers on the
regular basis tq all high schools
now in existence which main
tain an average daily attendance
of forty-five (45) for the best
continuous six months of the
first seven months of each school
year, provided the County Board
of Education shall furnish at
least one full time high school
teacher whose ^salary sl^all be
paid from county or local schooj
district funds-’ ”
Pointing out that there are
some 63 counties in the state
with one or more schools whose
average attendance is around
sixty, Representative Blue ex
plained that if they were sudden
ly reduced below this average
the localities would lose their
school, whereas, if kept intact,
the attendance might rise above
the sixty mark in a year or so.
He said the bill would not per-
jmit the restablilshment of new
high schools with Kess than the
required sixty average, but
would simply prevent the hasty
abandonment of established
schols whose attendance might
drop.
Few Cases Heard
On Opening Days
Of Superior Court
Divorces Granted;
Morrison GWen
42 Years in Pen
Superior court got under way
with disposal of a spate of 10 div
orce cases Monday, the opening
day, then slowed to a walk, and
by late Wednesday had been bog
ged down for a day and a half on
one trial, the Mabe-Hawks man
slaughter case, with only three
sentences previously passed.
There were, however, two
points of interesit - -the new
judge, William G. Pittman, ap
pointed by Governor Cherry to
replace (Judge Donald Phillips,
now engaged in war crimes trials
in Germany; and Moore county’s
first woman juror, Mrs. M. J. Mc-
Phail, of Carthage.
In The State vs. Alex Mabe
and Harding Hawks, charged
with careless drivinig,, driving
while drunk and manslaughter,
each defendant laid the actuat
driving to the other at the time of
the fatal wreck between West
End and Pinehurst November 6,
and the testimony of a smalil
army of witnesses failed to shed
much light.
Gaddy Morrison, Negro, facing
nine counts of breaking and en
tering, one of larceny and two of
larceny of an auto, was sentenc
ed to 42 years at hard labor in the
Raleigh penitentiary. True bills
had been found in all cases, but
a nol prosse was taken in seven
on which he plead not guilty, and
(Continued on Page 8)
Dr. W. F. Hollister
Of Duke Takes Up
Practice Here
Cameron Church Call
To Be Accepted
Rev. C. K. Taffe, recently call
ed to the permanent pastorate of
the Cameron group of Presbyter
ian churches, has indicated his
intention of accepting the call.
The Pilot learned this week.
He has been serving since Sep
tember as supply pastor for this
group, which includes- churches
at Cameron, Union and Vass.
He is a native of Louisville,
Ky., a graduate of Union 'Theolo
gical seminary at Richmond and
of Southwestern university at
Memphis, and has held pastor
ates at Carthage and Henderson
in North Carolina, albo in
Georgia, Florida and West Vir
ginia. He is living at Wayside
Inn in Southern Pines.
BINGO PARTY
A bingo party was scheduled
for Thursday night beginning at
8, in observance of “Family
NigHt” jat the Soi^theim Pines
Elks’ club. Prizes, refreshments
and entertainment for the whole
family were planned.
Southprn Pines welcomes a
new doctor this week in Dr. Wil
liam F. Hollister who has come
here to practice general surgery.
Raised in California, Dr. Hol
lister has spent the last fourteen
years in North Carolina and says
that he considers it his home.
Dr. Hollister was educated at
the University of California and
took his medical degree at Duke
University School of Medicine.
Continuing there for his post
graduate training in surgery, he
joined the Duke Unit in 1942. Dr.
and Mrs. Hollister lived in Sou
thern Pines for the year the
unit was stationed at Ft. Bragg,
occupying the David Packard
house on Ridge Street.
Overseas, the unit formed the
65th General Hospital attached
to the Eighth Airforce, stationed
in England. There Dr. Hollister,
as chief of section in general sur
gery, worked under the same
men under whom he had studied
at Duke, and had as wide an ex
perience of surgery as any young
doctor would be liable to get. The
65th was a 2,000 bed hospital and
handled every sort of case. Bat
tle casualties, as many as a hun
dred a day, came in, as the bat
tered, flak-scarred bombers
limped back with their wounded
crews. All the ground accidents
incidental to the service were
cared for there, as well; the truck
accidents, jeep crashes, burn
cases from high octane explosions
also all the general run of medi
cal cases to be expected. Intense
ly interesting, the work was ar
duous and varied.
In Moore County, Dr. Hollister
will practice at the h^oore Coun
ty hospital and also at the State
Sanatoriurii, virhere He will take
care of thoracic cases, a branch
of surgery in which he is espec
ially interested.
br. and Mrs. Hollister, who,
incidentally, is a native of Win
ston-Salem, are living in the
.Cook house on, the Pmehurst-
Southern Pines double road. Dr.
Hollister’s office is in the Mud-
gett Building.
NEW WARDEN
Earnest Wodrow (Da
vis, of Southern Pines, has
been appointed Moore Coun
ty forest warden, according
to announcement this week
by J. A. Pippin, distruct for
ester.
Davis, succeeding Atlas
Eastwood, recently resigned,
has had mnay years of for
estry experience, and is at
present directing operations
of the tractor and fire plow
equipment in this county.
Mr. Pippin requested contin
ued cooperation of all coun
ty residents in helping War
den Davis in the prevention
of forest fires, and in his
other duties.
His headquarters remain
at the Southern Pines fire
lower, telephone 7043. His
residence telephone is 8562.
School to Have
Field House By
Baseball Time
Southern Pines High school is
to have its long awaited “field
house”—a Quonset hut, to be
erected on the athletic field prob
ably by the middle of March, in
time for spring baseball, it was
reported by Philip J. Weaver,
district principal, at a meeting of
the board of education at the
school Wednesday night.
Plans for the field house-which
will have showers and dressing
rooms for both visiting anl home
teams, and toilet facilities for the
public, were completed at a
meeting of the city planning
board last week, and approved
by Chairman L. V. O’Callaghan.
E. J. Austin will be the contract
or. It will be useful not only for
baseball and football practice
and games, but also for the sum
mer recreational program, it was
pointed out. .
A letter was read from Dan
Farrell, county school board
chairman, and one from the
county commissioners, setting
January 28 as the date district
boards ‘are to present their final
estimates on school building
needs, looking toward the bond
issue for which petition has been
made. Dr. G. G. Herr, chairman,
requested that all board mem
bers who can, attend this meet
ing.
It was decided that Southern
Pines’ estimated needs can qn rio
way be revised downward. Sec
retary Weaver was directed to
write William H. Dietrich, archi
tect of Southern Pines’ proposed
new school building, to make ap
plication for priority on materials
so they will be available when
funds become available.
Weaver reported on various
school matters, arid also on a
meeting at Raleigh supporting
the teachers’ pay raise issue.
Present were Chairman Herr,
Philip J. Weaver, Mrs. J. S. Mill-
iken, John Howarth, L. C. Wool-
ley. N. L. Hodgkins was absent.
Pvt. W. R. Koonce
Is Victim Of
Hit-Run Driver
Vass Youths Cleared
Of Connection With
Death of Soldier
Pvt. William Robert Koonce,
28, on his way home from Pope
field. Fort Bragg, to make plans
for his wedding January 29, met
sudden death on Highway No. 1,
about three miles north of South
ern Pines, in the dusk and rain
around 7 p. m. Friday.
Reported to the police by a mo
torist who ran over the legs of
the inert body before he saw what
it was, the death was investigated
fir.^t by local police, then by
the sheriff’s office on the theory
that the soldier was the victim of
a hit-run driver. This was also
the conclusion of Coroner High
Kelly, who reported that a deep
gash on the side of the head was
alone sufficient to have caused
death, probably instantaneous.
Three young men from Vass,
known to have been with Private
Koonce shortly before his death,
were questioned but have been
exonerated from blame, it was
reported yesterday. The search
for the hit-run driver is proceed
ing, in charge of the military au
thorities, assisted by the highway
patrol.
A military funeral was held at
Galatia Presbyterian church, in
Cumberland county, at 2 p. m.
Monday, with the Rev- Troy Mul-
lis of Niagara as officiating minis
ter. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Private Koonce was born in
Hoke county, son of W. D.
Koonce and the late Mrs. Mary
Jane Koonce, and was educated
in the Hope Mills schools of Cum
berland county; where the family
moved. He worked on the home
farm until he entered the army
(Continued on Page 5)
McPherson Speaks
On Tax Problems
' RECONVERSION
The Dunes Club is planning to
reopen on February fir,st, with
the accent placed on CLUB.
Before the war, meiribership
was by card only, and now James
Warman and Karl Andrews, man
agers, are reconverting like every
one else; and the membership
cards are back again, in line with
the Club’s charter to operate as
a private institution.
LOCAL CRUISE
Resort Airlines announces
a local Sandhillers cruise for
Ihe date of February 1st.
Transportation is being fur
nished free, to and from
Miami, where the reguTar
cruise for the Southlands
starts. With no expenses for
the first and last legs of the
journey, the whole cruise
will cost local folks $360.00,
everything included.
Fly all the way front the
Sandhifis to the Tropidands
and back!
The perils of the taxpayer, lost
in the mazes of an antiquated,
amended and reamended tax
structure, were graphically des
cribed by Garland McPherson,
local CPA, before the Rotary club
Friday, along with ways in which
he . might be rescued—not
through evasion of taxes, but
through their legitimate avoid
ance.
And there is a vast difference,
said McPherson, between evasion
and avoidance—‘‘about 20 years
in Atlanta.” Each citizen must
and should pay his just taxes, but
he should not pay more, nor does
his country wish him to.
Partnerships, corporation^,
trusts and splitting of income all
provide legitimate channels for
lessening of taxes, but each of
these has its own ramifications,
many of which cannot be clari
fied without resort to law—and
even tax courts differ on their
interpretation. Advantages and
disadvantages of various methods
of business set-ups for tax dec
laration were explained.
Legion Post Sponsors
Saturday Night Dance
A large crowd is expected at a
dance to be held Saturday at the
Pinehurst High school gymn,
sponsored by the A. B. Sally, Jr.,
post of the American legion, of
Pinehurst.
Bob Miller’s band will provide
music, and tickets at $1.50 per
couple are on sale at drugstores,
Jerry’s Grill, the City Newsstand
and the City Market at Pinehvirst.
Profits will go toward providing
a meeting place for the post, and
to buy recreational equipment.
Tom Black, post coirimander,
heads the committee in charge of
the dance, with Roderick Innes,
Bob Barrett, True Cheney, Jerry
Ashton and James Monroe as
other members-