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VOLUME 28, NO 12
TWELVE PAGES
Southern Pines, N. C- Friday, February 14, 1947.
TWELVE PAGES
TEN CENTS
Aberdeen Hotel
Fire Damage Suits
Reach Settlement
Superior Court's
Civil Term Opens
Monday At Carthage
Echoes of the disastrous Aber
deen Hotel fire of February, 1942,
were heard on the opening day
of the civil term of superior court
at Carthage Monday, when it .was
announced that several suits aris
ing' from the fire had been settl
ed out of court.
Full and final settlement by
Faulk Carter, of Reidsville and
Aberdeen, defendant, and owner
of the destroyed hotel was an
nounced as follows in four dam
age suits, without, however, the
defendant’s admitting liability:
$100 to the Employers’ Fire In
surance company of Boston, Mass,,
$300 to William H. Moore, Negro
employee of the hotel who was
severely - burned as he ran
through the hotel to warn guests
of their danger; $3,300 to Ben
Eby, who was injured by burns;
and $3,300 to the estate of Mae
Gallatin Eby, wife of Ben Eby,
who died of burns.
McNeill vs Futreli'i
A suit for undetermined dam
ages brought by Pearl McNeill,
of Lakeview, against B. S. Fut-
reil, trading and doing business
as Futrell Brothers’ Lumber com
pany, was turned over to O. U.
Alexander, Sam Riddle and D. G-
Cooper, appointed by Judge
William G. Pittman to act as
arbitrators, to determine the
damage, if any, the report of the
majority to be conclusive and
binding, without right of appeal
by either plaintiff or defendant.
The suit involved some lumber
allegedly cut on Miss McNeill’s
(Continued from Page 5)
Queen Joan, Her King and Court at Valentine Dance
Southern Pines
Makes Sweep Of
Morehead Games
■
Here is Moore county’s queen of beauty, Joan Way, holding sway at the Valentine dance at
Pinehurst whqre she was awarded her crown Saturday night. Left to right. Prince Charles Swar-
ingen. Princess Barbara Black, King Dan Sheffield, Queen Joan, Princess Peggy Butner, Prince
Jimmy Maxwell. (Photo by John G. Hemmer)
A VALENTINE
School Program
Endorses State
Good Health Plan
To Claude Hayes, who do
nated both his store windows
for the exhibit of the school's
Good Heei lth posters: hearts
and roses, cupids and arrows!
To be willing to cover up
his slock of lovely valentines
just a week before the great
day shows public spirit of a
high order. A.nd so. . .
A Valentine To
Claude L. Hayes,
Who gave his windows
For Displays!
Miss Joan Way of Carthage Crowned
Queen of Beauty at Valentine Ball
Seven “beauty queens” from seven Moore County schools para
ded before the three judges at the Valentine dance at the Pinehurst
school Saturday night, creating such an embarrassment of riches
that those worthies pondered many minutes before making their
choice. Joan Way of Carthage was finally awarded the crown as
Moore County queen, putting an end to the judges’ dilemma and the
suspepse of contestants and audience. To judge by the applause,
the award wns a very popular one.
Sandhills Golfers
Hold Meeting Here,
Plan Tournaments
The Southern Pines schools
joined with those of the state
Friday to present a program cen
tered around the Good Health
plan for North Carolina. With
speeches, songs, posters, the lo
cal students signified their hearty
agreement with the Medical Care
commission’s plan, and, at the
same time, used the opportunity
to point out the needs of their
school, from a health standpoint.
Meeting at 9 a. m. in the au
ditorium, the student body heard
speeches by leaders on various
aspects of the plan. Shirley Dana
outlined the facts of the case; the
low standing in number of doc
tors, nurses, and hospital beds,
the state’s poor showing in the
field of maternal health, the fact
that it stands 4th on the list for
draft rejections. George Hodg
kins followed with a statement
of the nedds to remedy the situ
ation, Ruth Guin detailed the
costs to .be anticipated, and Billy
Warner closed the series of talks
with a description of the benefits
to be derived from the program.
Following the students’ re
marks, E. T. McKeithen, Moore
Coimty Hospital administrator
addressed the school, taking
“health” as hip topic and pointing
out that ignorance is the main
factor in poor health conditions
with poverty in second place. He
said that unhealthy conditions in
one group affected the entire
population and urged the stu
dents to sprea4 the knowledge
and practice of good health
through their personal example.
Mrs. James Boyd, vice-chairman
of the Good Healt||j^(ommittee in
Moore County, suggested that the
students could further help the
cause by writing to their repre
sentative in the legislature, and
pointed out that they themselves
are the ones who will profitably
the contemplated program.
With the Fayetteville Country
club voted in as a sixth member,
representatives of clubs compris
ing the Sandhills Golf league,
holding a dinner meeting Tues
day night at the Southern Pines
Country club, enthusiastically
laid plans for a series of tourna
ments scheduled to begin April
2.
The tournaments, which will
continue weekly for 12 weeks,
will open with the Southern Pines
team meeting that of the Rich
mond County Country club on
the Richmond group’s home
course.
The series is expected to carry
the League forward into even
greater success through its second
season, following the five-club
opener series last year in which
there was much interest through
out the section. Southern Pines
was last year’s winner, on points
scored by thp Nassau system.
A minimum of 20 men will
play on each team, comprising
high and low handicap men of
each club.
Leslie Huntley, of Lumberton,
League president, presided over
the meeting. Clubs represented
were Southern Pines, Richmond
County, Lumberton, Laurinburg,
Wadesboro and Fayetteville.
hamber Seeks
Railroad Signals
At All Grossings
Action To Lessen
Train and Traffic
Hazards Requested
Johnsons To Open
Robbins Supermarket
Tuesday will mark the opening
of the Johnson supermarket at
Robbins, a new and modern groc
ery story operated by R. C. and
W. M. Johnson, who have oper
ated Johnson’s—“Finest in Foods”
—at Southern Pines for the past
two years.
Modern fixtures and fittings,
in a new building leased by the
Johnsons, will make of the new
stoj’e, a self-service type, one of
the most pleasing of the section
Refrigeration and display cases
are being installed by W. A.
Brown and Sons, of Salisbury,
tops in this field in the state.
The Johnsons will operate both
st6|res as independents. W. M,
Johnson said this week they plan
no development as a “chain.”
Concerned over a number of
recent accidents and near acci
dents at railroad intersections in
town, members of the Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce in
semi-monthly session Tuesday
evening voted unanimously to re
quest the Town Board to require
the Seaboard Airline railway to
establish adequate light signals
at every railroad erasing in the
town limits.
While several intersections
have light and bell signals, some
have not, and every one of these
was deemed a point of danger to
both motorists and pedestrians.
Included in the request will be
another that the Town Board
seek regulation and moderation
of the speed of trains en
tering and leaving Southern
Pines.
(Continued on Page 5)
Special Program For
historians' Meeting
The February meeting of the
Moore County Historical associa
tion, to be held at the Southern
Pines library at 8 p.m. Tuesday,
will be followed by a social hour
at the Shaw House tea room, in
the nature of a “house warming”
of this'recently inaugurated pro
ject of the association.
Guest speaker at the meeting
and a special guest at the house
warming later will be Mrs. Joye
E. Jordan, of Raleigh, of the
division of public displays of the
state department of archives and
history.
Mrs. Jordan, an expert in her
field, will give suggestions on the
development of the Shaw House
into a real museum of local his
tory. A good start has been made
toward such a museum, and a
museum committee has been
appointed, with Mrs. Katherine
McColl as chairman.
Leland McKeithen, association
president, will present the speak
er. Mrs. Jordan will remain over
night as the guest of Mrs. Ernest
Ives.
The dance opened at 9 p. m.,
with many couples on the dance
floor under a canopy of stars
made by the students, stretching
from one end of the long hall to
the other. At one end stood the
red and white thfories "destined
for the queen and her escort.
Along both sides of the room a
white picket fence, coVered with
trailing vines and paper flowers,
separated the dancers from the
• pectators.
At 10 o’clock the grand march
of the queens and their escorts
took place before the judges.
Representative H. Clifton Blue
of Aberdeen, editor of The Sand
hill Citizen; Mrs. James Boyd of
Southern Pines, editor of TKe
Pilot, and R. B. Gibson of Car
thage, editor of The Moore Coun
ty News. First in line was Mary
Louise Black, Pinehurst queen,
with her escort, Eldon Currie;
next came Southern Pines queen
Nellie Ward, escorted by Don
ald Scheipers; third couple was
Joan Way, Carthage queen and
Danny Sheffield; fourtli, West
End school’s queen, Mary Fran
ces Thomas, with Joe Rudder;
fifth, the Vass-Lakeview queen,
Ruth Blue, with Buster Jessup;
sixth, the Farm Life school
queen, Rachel McCaskill and her
escort; seventh, queen Jo Ann
Morgan of Aberdeen, with Ar
nold Garner.
As each pair walked by the
(Continued on Page 5)
Divides Twin Bill
With West End At
Pinehurst Wednesday
Fire Destroys4Homes Of
County In Bitter Cold
Minor Alarms Keep
Firemen On Run
In Southern Pines
Southern Pines B and Varsity
boys’ teams visited Morehead
City last weekend, to win back
in a four-game total victory the
glory lost to the coast lads the
weekend before in a three-to-one
division.
Southern Pines B won Friday
night 23-22 and the varsij;y du
plicated 47-26 in the nightcap. In
Saturday night’s games, George
Hodgkins for the Bees went on
a scoring spree to rack up 14
points, leading his team and the
field to a 33-27 victory. In the
nightcap varsity win of 38-31,
Junior Maples with 12 and Har
rington with 11 points were scor
ing leaders.
The teams left for Morehead
City Friday morning, and w^re
weekend guests of the coast re
sort B and varsity teams, whom
they had entertained in their
homes here the previous week
end. The boys traveled in the
two school station wagons, and
also in Coach Amos Dawson’s
car, with Mr. Dawson remaining
lor the weekend with them. Also
chaperoning was Miss Williams
of the school faculty, who accom
panied some of the Southern
Pines girls in a car driven by
John S. Ruggles. The visitors
were recipients of some fine
coastal hospitality, which includ
ed a visit to Fort Macon, a tour
of the Duke University Marine
laboratories at Beaufort, and a
dpnee at the Surf club alter the
games Saturday night. They re-
(Continued on Page 5)
Two Injured,
Three Escape
Hurt In Crash
Clyde Smith and Donald
Scheipers received injuries, two
companions, also young men of
Southern Pines, narrowly es
caped hurt, and the Scheipers
car, a ’41 Cadillac, which Donald
was driving, was completely de
molished in a collision which
took place on Highway 1, near
Vass, about 8:45 p. m. Friday.
Traveling north at a moderate
rate of speed—a fact which prob
ably saved all their lives—the
Scheipers car struck a ’28 Chrys
ler driven by Robert Street, Ne
gro, which emerged without
warning from a side road.
Street’s car, which had neither
lights nor brakes, was severely
damaged, but Street was unhurt.
Taken to the Moore County
hospital. Smith was found to
have facial lacerations which re
(Continued on Page 5)
Quick s-ction on the part of the
Southern Pines fire department
in response to an alarm promptly
turned in, saved one of the
dwellings and the stable on the
Pinecrest Manor estate from des
truction, Thursday morning.
At 11:15 a. m. a fire which
evidently originated in the trash
burner at the rear of one of the
houses, spread, threatening the
cottage and stable nearby. The
stable itself caught fire, but was
extinguished before serious dam
age was done, while the cottage
was badly scorched.
The fire spread to the long dry
grass and needles lining the golf
course and about 25 volunteers
and firemen worked to stifle the
spreading flames. Though beyond
the town limits, this valuable
property obtained the help of the
town department, an action
which received wide commenda
tion.
Restaurant patrons shuddered
when the news went’ forth that
Holliday’s Coffee shop was on
fire last Friday night but the
prompt arrival of the firemen
soon extinguished the flames in
the basement ceiling caused by an
over-heated furnace. Two belated
diners refused to desert their
viands despite the somewhat
smoky atmosphere.
Just before the noon whistle
Monday, a call came into the fire
house. “Fire! Come over to the
Baptist church in West Southern
Pines, we will show you where to
go,’- As there are two Baptist
Churches in that section the fire
men divided their forces, and As
sistant Chief R. S. Rowell found
the woodwork smouldering be
hind the stove in the home of
Gustus Saunders. Extinguished
with trifling damage.
At 10:45 p. m. Monday, Frank
Kaylor of the fire company an
swered a still alarm from the
home of Mary Buchanon, located
within a block of the Saunders
house, in the extreme southwest
section of West Southern Pines,
where another blaze had started
around the kitchen chimney.
Damage was slight.
Both pieces of apparatus an
swered an alarm at 10:20 a. m.
Tuesday, from the residence of
F. E. Safford, the former Ogden
house, in Knollwood, where an
electric wire at the house connec
tion had short circuited and fir
ed the adjoining woodwork. The
blaze was extinguished with
slight damage to the house.
Campbell Honors Scouting
In Talk To Raleigh Club
The Boy Scout as a trainee for
fine citizenship in his commun
ity, his nation and the world,
with a survey of scouting activi
ties in the Occoneechee council,
and a plea for more leaders to
help conduct the scouting pro
gram, were highlights of an ad
dress given by William D. Camp
bell, district commissioner of Boy
Scouts in Moore county, before
the Rotary club of Raleigh last
Monday.
The program, at which Camp
bell was the principal! speaker,
recognized Boy Scout Week, with
its celebration, of the 37th anni
versary of the founding of the
Boy Scout program-
The five-year plan prepared
for the development of scouting
in the council, under direction of
its president, Hugh G. Isley, was
cited as an example of the far
sighted mnaner in which the pro
gram is being conducted in all the
11 counties of the council,
with definite goals for expansion
and achievement, not only in the
council but in each county.
“Our responsibility, as charter
ed by Congress, is not only to
give each boy an opportunity to
become a scout, but to be able to
give each boy a satisfying exper
ience in scouting,” declared
Campbell. The Boy Scout, he
s<a'id,; is undergoing experience
to fit him to make the most of
himself, and to be a real leader
in his chosen walk of life, in
peace time or in war. He quoted
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nim-
itz as saying that the 40 percent
of the men in his command who
had been Boy Scouts won 60 per
cent of the medals awarded for
valor—“and that was no mere
coincidence”; and Sheriff McDon-
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Carlhage, Pinehurst
Eureka Sections See
Destructive Blazes
In the midst of the winter’s
severest cold snap, news of four
homes totally destroyed by fire
came to The Pilot this week from
county correspondents-
The home of Mrs. Kitty Hil
liard, known as “the old Frye
place,” about two miles out of
Carthage, was reported burned
about 6 a. m. Monday, with only
the dining and kitchen ell of the
two-story frame house left stand
ing. The Carthage fire department
battled the flames in bitter cold,
but they had gained too great
headway before the truck could
arrive. Some furniture was sav
ed.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wiseman, of
near Pinehurst, lost their home
Sunday afternoon. The home, on
which many improvements had
recently been made, burned with
all its contents While the Wise
mans were at church services at
Beulah Hill. The loss was report
ed partially covered by insur
ance.
In the Eureka section, the Mc
Coy home was destroyed, and
“the family saved nothing be
sides themselves,” it was graphi
cally reported. Hog killing had
recently been held on the farm,
which is owned by Roosevelt
Ransdale, -and all the meat was
lost. A house owned by Sheriff
McDonald was also burned, with
all the occupants’ belongings.
Forest Fires Ravage
West End Property
Plans For Annual
Spring Horse Show
Being Considered
At a meeting of the Sandhills
Horse Show and Racing asocia-
tion Tuesday night in Pinehurst
dates were selected for the an
nual Pinehurst horse show, April
4 and 5, 1947, with two perfor
mances scheduled for Saturday
and an afternojon show on Easter
Sunday. John L. Bowers, horse
show promoter, was named as
maniagiel^. The Pinehurst horse
show committee includes Colonel
George P. Hawes, Jr., chairman,
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Winkelman,
James Tufts, Vernon Cardy, Wil
liam J. Brewster, who attended
the meeting, and other promi
nent horse-minded persons in the
Pinehurst' and Southern Pines
.area.
I
Tentative plans call for the
erection of stabling facilities, and
a standard show ring, to accom
modate 150 entries. Classes will
be offered for walking horses,
(Continued on Page 5)
Two disastrous forest fires
near West End in the past few
days took severe toll of some
2,000 acres of woodland - - and
these are just two of many ravag
ing the wods of Moore County at
this time of year.
County fire wardens and their
fire fighting equipment were
called out Tuesday to battle a
fire about a mile and half north
of West End. Though aided by
many volunteer fire fighters, the
fire was still spreading Wednes
day night and had covered ap
proximately 1,000 acres of land,
mostly belonging to the Currie
estate and to R. B. Donaldson.
Fire wardens and volunteers
also fought side by side Friday,
when another 1,000 acres (estimat
ed) was burned over. About half
of this was owned by Allen and
Moses C. McDonald of West End,
with many acres belonging to
Mr. Caveness, of Greensboro and
other owners also suffering loss.
DEBT REPAID
BANK HOLIDAY
The Citizens’ Bank and Trust
company will be closed Satxir-
day, February 22, George Wash
ington’s birthday.
This week an Aberdeen
man received a return for
kindness long forgollen:—as
wel’l as proof that heroism
stems from the heart.
He had admired greatly the
courage of Will Moore. Ne
gro youth employed at the
old Aberdeen hotel, whose
courage in slaying on the job
when the hotel burned five
years ago. going from room
to room with warnings, is
credited with saving many
lives. It also resulted in se
vere buns to Moore.
iUter bis recovery he went
north. Owner of a small tract
near Aberdeen, he paid thie
taxes a couple of years, then
the taxes for 1943 became
overd|ue|. His white friend,
finding that foreclosure was
to be sought, quietly paid the
few defiars required.
This week Moore appeared
at his friend's office. He re
paid the money, with thanks.
He Still has the land—and the
friend has a reinforced re
spect for human nature.