Uiqh Call ** ^nda' GIcndon Tiq^COTol L •ttoi llc5pq^ Cameron p\ ’Vass ^Ilerbe Pm&luYf: 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