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Candor 'cond il«5p Glendon laqe Ja^ tllcrbe Cameron p\ D^'Vass ' Nior- - PinSblutf VOLUME 28. NO. 11 16 PAGES THIS WEEK Southern Pines, N. C- Friday, February 7, 1947. 16 PAGES THIS WEEK TEN CENTS County, Federals Study Quitclaim Knollwood Airport Government Seeks Restrictions On Civilian Use Water Cooling System To Be Given To Moore Co. Hospital By Auxiliary Representatives of the War As sets administration in Charlotte, and of the Civil Aeronautics ad ministration from Raleigh, met Monday atfernoon with the coun ty commissioners, the county air port committee and a representa tive of Resort Airlines, Inc., in a three-hour session attempting to reach an agreement over concel- lation of the U. S. government’s lease on county-owned Knoll wood airport. With both parties to the lease desiring to cancel, the hitch has risen over the quitclaim deed to A water cooling system, with the main cooler in the basement and pipes going to outltets on the first and second floors, is to be purchased by the Moore County Hospital auxiliary and installed at the hospital as soon as pos sible, it was decided at the Feb ruary auxiliary haeeting held at the Nurses’ home Tuesday morn ing. Such a system is available, it was reported by Mrs. Roy Grin- nell,. equipment chairman, and she was instructed to proceed at once with the purchase. Drinking water has been avail able at the hospital, but this has not been coo’Jed. Asked for her views. Mis Birdilia Bair, who has served many hours as a nurses’ aide, declared that having cold water on each floor will be a great boon to patients, especially in the hot months, and will save HEALTH PROGRAM improvements made at the air port during federal tenure, inyoiv-1 and aides many steps. Uiscussion of an expansion of tag certain restrictions and re- quirements concerning its future use. Conditions In restoring airports to their civilian owners following war time use, the government is ask ing that, in return for the im provements, the airports be given over indefinitely to unrestricted public use. Exclusive rights may not be given to any one operator, nor may the airport ever be dis continued as such. Wtih Knollwood airport now leased to Resort Airlines, Inc., on a lease provisional to that of the government the local representatives objected to the quitclaim feature of the can cellation. Several terms were ad mittedly ambiguous to both sides, and M. G- Boyette, county attor ney, was given authority to re word the deed to clarify and modify its terms, in a manner which, said G. N. Cameron, com mission chairman, it is hoped will be satisfactory to both. From 1942 until shortly after the close of the war, the govern ment operated Knollwood aSr- the auxiliary’s social service (Continued on Page 8) Aberdeen Firm Contracts To Cut Ft. Bragg Timber 1000,000,000 Feet Estimated Will Go for Army-Navy Use The Southern Pines school will hold a health program this morning, Friday, (or to morrow morning, Friday, de pending On when you get your Pilot,) at 9:15 in the school auditorium. Frank Sinatra will sing his God Health song. . . over the phonograph, E. T. McKeith- en, Moore County Hospitad Adimnistrator, will give a short address, and four head ing students will speak on the Medical Care Commis sion program for the state: Shirley Dana of Pinehurst will outline the facts, Ruth Ouin, the cost, George Hodg kins the need, and Bill War ner the benefits to be derived from the proposed bilL Beautiful and original pos ters made by the students will be on display: the who'e school will attend, and the public is cordially invited. CP&L Announces Huge 1947 Budget Saturday Games Divided After Twin Bill Lost Morehead Teams Are Weekend Guests; To Return Hospitality by June Phi'llips Morehead City has come and A. S. Newcomb Dean of Realtors, Taken by Death Beloved Citizen Suffers Attack At Home, Alone Commissioners Propose Tax Hike For Schools In Lieu Of Referendum CANDIDATE Death came suddenly and ’ quickly to Arthur S. Newcomb Schoolmen Study Two-Year Plan to Provide $600,000 gone, but Coach Telbert brought ’ early Friday morning, January twd of the best basketball teams 31- A sudden heart attack warn- to play on the Ideal'court Fri-ji^g him of his critical state, he day and Saturday nights that lived long enough to telephone to have been seen in this section j friends who. found him breathing in a Itong time. j his last as they entered the apart- In Friday night’s games the on Bethesda road where h° and Varsity teams of Morehead City took both ends of a double bill, defeating the Southern Pines B squad 18-13, and their varsity brothers duplicated against the Blue and White varsity 38-36. But it was the Saturday night’s games that kept the packed gym nasium on their feet and in an lived alone. As far as is known, this was the second heart attack the deceased had suffered. The first came some time before he collap- i sed beside his car which had got- '< ten stuck in the sandy road on his way home. Found by a neighbor, he was helped home. The next since hundreds of families in this imed- iate area, acording to Ralph L. Chandler, Central division man- T)ie cutting and dressing of an. aggi-j queried yestetiJay 'by The estimated 100,000,000 hoard feet pilot at his office in Southern of lumber from the Fort Bragg pines. ■reservation for army-navy use! Announcement of the budget of has been undertaken, on govern-1 was made to 15.000 ment contract, by the Georgia ^ stockholders in a letter Hardwood and Lumber company out Wednesday, of Aberdeen, and cutting oper-| ^he largest single item is the uproar throughout most of tlie j I’^crr'^ing, as always until his evening, as first the. B teams and i he was back at work in the then the varsities fought it out. i of Eugene C. Stevens, with Featured by the floor play of he was associated in the Willis and Balderee, center and ' estate business, guard respectively for Morehead: Simon and Mary City, and Bennett, a sharpshoot- Newcomb, Arthur Simon ing forward who demonstrated Newcomb was born July 5, 1874, the ability to be on anybody’s Nis boyhood Expansion and improvements'to first team, Morehead’s B team spent there and after grad- be effected by the Carolina Light with on'iy a one-point lead late the Worcester, (Mass) and Power company through its in the fourth quarter closed with; 1947 construction budget, the lar- a scoring rush to top the Blue, where worked in gest approved hy the company, and White B 37-29. ®°tton mills and in 1930, will directly affect j- In the nightcap varsity con (Continued on Page 5) A. C, DAWSON _ ■ w. S. Bushby of Southern ®rd Tufts and, after being out of ations, to take place over a period $2,200,000 for consrtuction ; Pines escaped serious injury by business for several years, opened of 18 months, have already been j ggg lines- a fraction Tuesday morning when offiice m Pinehurst m 1927, begun, according to W. H. Blue,^j^ immediate area, this will his car was struck by the Sea- Southern Pines ten i—J—X -X! -X XT-- years later^ where Jie became known as the “dean” of real est- superintendent of woods at the Georgia company’s plant. Mr. Blue is the former owner of the company, which operated, leted some time ago, but haye port as an AAFTTC center, and as the W. H. Blue Lumber com-!been waiting on the securing of include energizing of some 100 board’s southi-bound morning miles of lines serving around 400 | passenger train at about nine- famiiles. These lines were comp- an auxiliary to Pope field and other military bases of the sec tion. Improvements made during that time include an extension of one runway, water and sewage systems, a concrete apron and the building of administrative quarters. Towns Helped The towns of Southern Pines and Pinehurst contributed liber ally to the starting and subse quent operation of the airport, and each recently appropriated $500 toward upkeep of the grounds Resort Airlines, Inc., represents an investment of pri vate funds in the neighborhood of a ha'ff million dollars. The county airport committee is composed of D. G. Stutz and pany until he sold it January 11 transformers, to the Georgia Hardwood and i Construction of additional hun- Lumber company, continuing ^^^1 line carry- with it in a supervisory capacity, j^g forward a program nlanned The Fort Bragg contract is his several years ago but held up by first with the government and war, will proceed at once in will occupy the plant s full cap- .[j^g area, its speed limited only bv acity for a time, though later ^^g pf equipment for other timber wi 1 be bought from .^bich orders haye been placed around the section for ciyilianr a $1,000,000-plus item in the markets, Mr. Blue said. Ibudget is a 132,000-yolt intercon- The cutting will take place all ggtjgn the Aopalachian oyer the Fort Bragg reservation, i Electric Power company, to rein scientifically done to insure prop- torce power suonlv for Raleiyh er growth and deyelopment of and the surrounding area. Siib- Dawson Sponsored For High Post In Educational Body Campaign Letter Going Out To NCEA Membership Southern Pines, Pinehurst and Moore County units of the North Carolina Education ■ asociation are sponsoring Amos G. Dawson, principal and classroom teacher of the Southern Pines High school, for the post of yice pres ident of the state NCEA, it was reyealed this week. Letters and ballots are ready for mailing to all members. With Mrs. Ruth L. Swisher of the Southern Pines unit as man ager, the campaign is being based oh Dawson’s outstanding record the"force“o7the"blow he landed Steyens agency a year ago and: as a classroom teacher his high was active m that firm at the; character and ms continuing Bushby Escapes As Car Is Struck By Seaboard Train the his father’s shoe factory. In 1904, he came to Lakeyiew and settling there with his wife, ' Frances, opened an office in Southern iPines, soon becoming the agent for Weymouth Estate, owned by James Boyd, Sr., and living in the little house known then as the House of a Hundred Pines. In 1911 he conducted a real estate department for Leon- thirty. Thrown out of the car by operators- He joined the E. C. in soft dirt- A badly banged up . - - knee and deep gash on his fore-,*^"’® his death . - head were the extent of his in-1 During his^hfe time in the ! Sandhills, Arthur Newcomb ser- Connecticut''^®'^ ™ pubic capacities He' was a town commissioner from Junes. Driving east on avenue, Bushby had stopped his ■ car as he reached West Broad t® 1909 a charter member street, and then started on across., l^^® Sandhills Kiwanis club, a T could not have been = member, for several terms, of thei®on. He has been active in local mnrp than Wntv ” hp ‘‘T ^oard of trustees of the Southerndistrict NCEA work and has more than twenty, he said. I p- „ TTp served as sec-1 community out- heard ,„d saw nethlnR till I was e, sehcol to toany ways, as the young timber that is left- stations and generating p''an.ts Only trees 10 inches and up are be improved and enlarged, being cut, after first being mark-1 .j-jje Central division includes ed by resident army engineers, and surrounding counties. Mostly pine, with a small amount of hardwood, is being cut. Howard Burns, of Southern Dressing and loading are being Pines; Richard S. Tufts, Pine- done at Aberdeen, whence the hurst; Sam Miller, Carthage; L. number-is being shipped to Rich- (Continued from Page 5) Shaw House Tea Room Opening Brings -Many Guests To Enjoy Oldtime Charm A glowing open fire, soft can- ^ perhaps visited in this home, and dlelight, good company, good j lived in homes very like it; talk and gracious teatime hospi with power secured through va rious interconnections through out the state. tality made a real occasion of the opening of the Shaw House tea room Monday afternoon, and, with Mrs. J. R. Beasley as host ess for the week, each succeeding afternoon has marked its contin ued success. Guests arrived with smiling faces, to enjoy tea, toast and cake in the quaint old home, recently restored by the Moore County Historical association, and to en joy the fruition of the Associa tion’s dream;—the use of the home again as a background for pleas ant living, the blending- of pres ent-day activity with the mellow ed ebarm of the past. Among the guests were na tive-born folk, whose ancestors transplanted residents, eager to know of Moore County’s past, and to sense the spirit of those old times; and winter residents and transient hotel guests, seeking—: and finding —s omething new, different and delightful to see and to do. Friendly Ghosts Also present must have been smiling, happy ghosts, pleased to see company at the hearthside again, to hear laughing chatter and the light clink of old silver spoons against earthenware cups. They must have felt quite at home among the old tables and chairs, glossy with long use; the candlesticks and oM prints, the simple ornaments and utilitarian articles of a century ago seen in (Continued on Page 9) . fight, as evidenced in speeches to various organizations, in behalf of an increase in teachers’ sal aries. Dawson came to the Sou thern Pines High school direct ly on his graduation in 1937 from Atlantic Christian college at Wil- right on the tracks and there was pvidennpd bv the honorarv mem- fiTP witrVTt pr, vtop” i Chamber of Commerce until its, evioencea Dv tne nonorary mem the engine right on me. Lpnrvanization a vear ago when bership tendered him by the Sou- The driver’s instinct told him reorganization a year ago, '^^®" „ x , . x it was too late to stop and he :^'® fe®®sr«® treasurer He was a ^ them Pines Rotary c ub for out i member of the board of direct- the gas, hard. , ^ x , -x t I ors of the Moore County hospital , .J » T xi, i since its foundation and was un- he said, and tho, honorary *' director on his resignation from the active board two months ago. He was always interested in (Continued on Page 8) Mrs. MsTshall Mav Judge School Beauties Mrs. George C. Marshall, wife of the secretary of state, has been requested to be a judge at the high school beauty contest at the Pinehurst school Saturday even ing. Judges who have already ac cepted, who will help choose the Moore county queen, are R. P. Gibson of Carthage and Mrs. James Boyd of Southern Pines. The Valentine Dance will be held at the Pinehurst school, starting at 8:30, and according to the dance committee, will be quite an affair. Entries for the beauty contest have been receiv ed from several schools with more expected tomorrow. Sou thern Pines is entering Nellie Ward, while Pinehurst’s entries will be chosen Friday from among Mickey Dorsett, Betty Jones, Faie Morgan and Mary Louise Black. Carthage 'has- en tered Joan Way. With several more schools to be heard from, it is expected that the contest will be well-filled and a most tar teresting and delightful event. stepped on the gas, “For a second, I thought I had cleared it,” next thing I knew there was crash. The car swerved c’lear around,; the door flew open and out I went, on my hands and knees” People came running from every direction, but Bushby was able to rise unassisted and even got back into his ear. Then he realized that he could not pos sibly drive it, in its semi--wreck- ed condition, and friends per suaded him to go to the hospital in June Blue’s automobile. A check-up there revealed no bro ken bones or concussion and only minor lacerations, though he re mained in bed at home after the accident. His car, a 1941 Chevrolet, had been struck in the left rear fender and was said to be repairable. Bushby stated that he had often ridden on that train from Washington and knew it was- due about that time. He said that he- supposed- the engineer Had b’lown a ways up the track, but he did not hear it. The crossing on- Connecticut avenue is a blind one, due to the freight station obscuring the view to the north. Observers recalled that several other accidents had. taken place there and felt that lights should certainly be installed, as it is impossible to see a train until directly on the track. Kiwanians Hear Newcomb Tribute Members of the county board ' of education and other interest- .' ed citizens, meeting with the , > I county commissioners Monday at 2 p. m., returned home with a little problem in mathematics to study. The problem: Is a sure sum of around $600,000, to be made avail able in the next two years, more or less desirable than a proble matical amount of well over a mi lion, to be raised by a bond issue plus taxes, the whole of which might be defeated if plac ed before the public for a refer endum? The $600,000 will go just so far, and no farther, in modernizing and enlarging a school system which has been demonstrated to be totally inadequate to the needs of today, much less tomorrow. But it will help. To assure this amount, two- thirds of which is already on hand through accumulation dur ing the war years, the commis sioners declared themselves will ing to raise county taxes by 32 cents, making the tax rate $1.22 per $100 valuation for the next two years. This would produce some $70,000 next year, and could be expected to raise $100,000 the year after, following a sorely needed revaluation of county nroperty the commission expects to get around to by that time. The commissioners also said they could add some $30,000 to this amount through sale of coun ty bonds during the coming year. Two-Year Plan Farther ahead than two years, their present term of office, the commissioners said they could not plan. However, it seems fea sible to believe that, once a building program is actually un der way, they or whatever admin istrators happen to be in office will continue to channel funds in its direction, not letting it flag until all major needs, at any rate, have been supplied. By then, too, they said, build- ling. costs—admittedly exce^ive todgy—might be down, with more and better materials avail able. On the other hand, a calll for a bond issue, aiming for an amount more commensurate with present needs! originally estima ted at $2,000,000) would stake everything. First seeking a referendum for a bond issue of $1,125,000, with additional taxes over a five-year period for a comprehensive standing community service. 7 CSandidales Thpugh not a constitutional re- ouirement, it is traditional with the North Carolina Education as sociation that the vice president ^ building program, the schoolmen is elected at the close of his term; found at an earlier meeting with to the presidency. Claud Grigg of the commissioners and county at- Albemarle is vice president this torney, that with legal limitations year, and a candidate for presi-ion bond issues set by county land (Continued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 51 . Eloouent tribute to Arthur S. Newcomb, beloved and vialued charter member of the Sandhills Kiwanis club who died suddenly last Friday, was paid by Eugene C. Steyens at the weekly meet ing of the club, held Wednesday at the Southern Pines Country club. . Gordon. Cashwell, of lumber- ton, past president of Lumberton club, was presented by John S. Ruggles, chairman, as guest speaker of the day. His theme was Kiwanis in a Changing World”. Virgil J. Lee, formerly of Balti more, now a Southern Pines resi dent was inducted into member ship by Dr, T., A. Cheatham. Losers in an attendance con test initialled last year with the Sanford club, the Sandhills Kiwanians will pay up hand somely with a dinner at the Mid- Pines club at 7:45 next Wednes day. eyening, with the Sanford- ites as their guests. Nursery School Has Good Start; Many Things Needed-Yon Can Help! Do you haye tucked away in your attic, or that storage closet you hayen’t cleared out in years, a- small chair, desk or table your children haye outgrown? Toys, games, .picture books, a black board—^maybe a phonograph? How about an army cot or dark blanket—or a piece of linoleum, to help coyer a worn, splintery floor? If you haye, bring them out, and take them right oyer to the West- Southern Pines school, where they’ll be put to much needed use in the newly opened nursery school. Backed by a number of local agencies, the school opened Jan uary *27 with an enrollment of four, and by last' Monday, the start of the second week, the enrollment had tripled. It bids fair to' go right on up, as more and more Negro parents find out about this new community pro ject for the care, better health and better citizenship of their little ones. ■ And in order to keep on going, and growing, it needs continued community support. Which is where you come in! Day's Activity Visiting the school seyeral days after the opening, the Pilot found seyen wide-eyed youngsters, aged three to fiye, responding wonder fully under their soft-yoiced di rector’s tutelage to what was for most their first experience in group liying. After their morn ing cod liver oil and fruit juice, they went out for a long walk in the sim; a rest period was fol lowed by a session of games, songs and stories; they sat at long (Continued on Page 5)
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