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VOLUME 28 NO. 13
TWELVE PAGES
Southern Pines, N. C- Friday, February 21, 1947.
TWELVE PAGES '
Resort Airlines
Stockholders Meet
Elect Directors
Burwell Reports Cook
Travel Agency To
Handle Skyernises
Hounds To Meet At Weymouth For
Drag Hunt On Washington’s Birthday
Twenty directors of Eesort
Airlines, Inc. met at the Airport
Saturday morning to hear reports
from the President, Lt. Col. L- C.
-Burwell, Jr., and elect the govern
ing body for the coming year.
The report, read by the presi
dent, showed a year of expansion,
of enterprise,- of new ideas tried
out. Of the latter, the Skyline
Cruises rated as most interest
ing and most succesful. The ori
ginator of this type of air travel.
Resort Airlines is planning to con
tinue the cruises and is making
reservations, already, for trips dur
ing the next months and into the
summer. While air travel has suf
fered a serious setback, due to
the recent accidents, reservations^
continue to come in for the
cruises, auguring a general! return
of public confidence.
An announcement, promising
future expansion was the fact
Thomas Cook and Son has agreed
to handle all Resort Airlines
Skycruises, exclusively. The fam
ous travel agency will make all
ground reservations for the trips
and market the service through
their world-wide outlets. Capt.
George A. Shearwood, Pinehurst
publicity agent, w,ho was elected
a director at the meeting, was
formerly a member of Thomas
Cook and described to the gather
ing the opportunities which affili
ation with the travel agency
would open.
Robert Lassiter, of Charlotte,
attorney for the airlines, reported
on his recent trip to Washington
where he contacted officials of
the Civil Aviation bureau and
obtained assurances that the cert
ification of the local! company was
proceeding well, the application
being near the top of the pend
ing list.
The entire body of directors
were re-elected for the coming
year, with the same officers. The
executive committee was empow-
fered to add four new directors to
the list, if deemed advisable.
The Moore County Hounds will
meet on Washington’s Birthday
at the usual! hour of 10:30 a. m.,
according to the master, Ozells
Moss, and the place of meeting
will be the Big Pasture back of
the James Boyd house, Wey
mouth, (between the Cherry and^
Boyd places). The meet will be
held there, it is further stated, in
memory of the founder of the
hui^t, who was huntsman and
joint-master with his brother,
Jackson Boyd, for some 25 years.
Things are very busy around
the Moore County hunt kennels
these days, what with new pup
pies arriving, the teen-age puppie
group getting their spring train
ing, and the oM hounds aquitting
themselves mighty w^ell on the
trail of Sandhills foxes. With
more hunting people in the sec
tion than has been the case in
many moons, the hunting season
is booming, hounds going out
three times weekly, and informal
groups gathering afterwards for
breakfast and that rehash of the
day’s run which is - part of the
fun.
Best run of the year was on
Thursday, the 13th. Hounds drew
the lower end of the Moss big
pasture, and found near the
Manly Bridge, coming out over
one of the big post-and-rail
stock fences, to cross the road
and continue through Judge
Rowe’s pecan orchard, to the
wonderment of the white-faced
caittle pastured (there. Entering
the McDeed’s creek section, the
fox ran in big loops and circles,
through the old Powell’s orchard,
in and about, with hounds scarce
ly checking to pull him down
finally on the edge of the Pine
Needles golf course after a run
of an hour and 45 minutes. This
was the fifth fox killed this year.
Enjoying the sport was a field
of about 30, inciluding the Win-
klemans, the Cardys, W. A. Phil
lips and guests, Corbett Alexan
der and guests, W. F. McBiido,
the Trixes, Mickey Walsh and
guests from the Stonoybrook
stables-
Tuesday’s run was a disappoint
ment to the huntsman and, pre
sumably, the hounds. “Sometimes
the late time of meeting suits the
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Men’s Club Makes
Gift of Clubhouse
To Local School
Teen Agers To Use
Happy Meetingplace
Of Former Days
With a sigh of regret for the
good old days, and a cheerful
salute to the natural heirs of
their fine times—^the youth of
today—the few remaining
members of the formerly flour
ishing Southern Pines Men’s
club disbanded the organization
at a meeting last week, and turn
ed over their clubhouse to the
Southern Pines school.
The clubhouse, a brick and
%tucco building off East Pennsyl
vania, between Broad and Ashe
streets, is to be given outright
to the school for use as the au-
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Strange Goings-on At School House
Presage Stranger Events To Come
Fires Consume
Niagara Dwelling,
Much Timberland
FEED THE BIRDS
Duke Glee Club
Will Sing Here
The famed Duke University
Glee club will give a concert at
the Southern Pines High school
auditorium Saturday evening,
March 22, under sponsorship of
the Cicic club, it was announced
this week by Mrs. N. L. Hodg
kins, chairman.
Tickets will be placed on sale
at $1.50 for reserved seats, $1 re
gular admission with Mrs. Tucker
Humphries in charge of the sale.
The Duke Gltee club is known
as one of the top ranking pollege
and university choral groups of
the south, with a reputation not
only for the fine singing of ser
ious concert numbers but alsoi of
Jitter selections, spicing their
•programs with entertainment of
a popular nature.
Two students from Southern
Pines, Lewis Hodgkins and Philip
WooUey, are members of the
group.
Two years ago, in the midst
of an icy spell of weather.
The Pilot carried a box ask
ing people to feed the birds-
It caught the eye of Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Marsh, never es
pecially interested in birds
before, and they started put
ting out seed, a putting-out
that has grown into almost
an industry, and an absorb
ing one. More than 100 birds
may often be seen these days
at the M!arsh feeding stands,
squabbling and twittering
and carrying on like little
gluttons over the delectaHe
table of wild-bird seed, pea
nut butter, suet and other
delicacies which Mrs. Marsh
fixes up.
If this present sleet slicks,
as it looks like doing. The
Pilot, the Marshes, and cer
tainly the birds, hope that
some others Will lake the
hint, and
FEED THE BIRDS
Basketbelles To Battle At
Basketball Saturday Night
Basketball Meet
Schedule Set Up;
Games Start Wed.
Actress To Play Return
Engagemi^nt At Foriun
Perhaps the best-remmebered
night of all the Pinehurst Forum
presentations during the 1945-46
season was the night the lights
went out in the middle of the
performance. The star that shone
. that night Was Mary Hutchinson,
the non-stop character actress,
who came through the ordeal in
the best traditions of the theater,
Miss Hutchison is coming back.
Her return engagement is set for
the next Forum evening, next
Thursday, Feb. 27th., when she
■will) once again delight her audi
ence with her unique type of en
tertainment.
Schedule of the Moore County
High School Basketball tour
nament, to be held during the
next two weeks as climax to a
lively season, was set up at a
meeting of the athletic commit
tee of the Educo club at the Car
thage school Wednesday after
noon, and affirmed by- the club
at a dinner meeting which en
sued.
Aberdeen, Southern Pines,
Cameron and Pinehurst girli
teams were seeded in that order,
and West End, Southern Pines,
Robbins and Aberdeen boys’
teams.
The tournament will be held at
the Carthage school gymnasium,
beginning next Wednesday, when
West End and Farm Life girls’
teams will- play at 4 p.m., Pine
hurst and Cameron boys at 5 p.M.,
Farm Life and Carthage boys at
7 p. m. Robbins and Vass-Lake-
view girls at 8 p.m., and Robbins
and Westmore boys at 9 p. m.
In the Thursday games. West
End boys will take on the Pine-
hurst-Cameron winner at 4 p.m.;
Pinehurst and Westmore boys’
teams will play at 5 p.m.; Sou
thern Pines girls will play the
West End-Farm Life winner at
7 p.m.; Southern Pines boys, the
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If you have seen night lights on
at the high school all this week,,
and if curiosity overwhelmed
you and you decided to find out
what was going on and were bar
red admission, don’t get excited
—just be on hand Saturday night
at the school house. All this week,
the Faculty Blue Jeans and the
Town Biioomer Girls (see Web
ster) have been holding secret
practice getting ready for their
benefit basketball game of the
year.
This game, complete with all
the trappings, including a special
faculty cheering section organ
ized and led by Cheer Leader
Philip J. Weaver, and the town
cheering section, egged on by
Cheer Leader Dick Sugg, prom
ises a hilarious evening of enter
tainment, if not of scientific
basketball!. Bunny Harrington
and Roy Grinnell will officiate
the game.
As to the scientific part. Coach
Anne Huntington of the faculty,
and Coach B. (Bear Cat) Bair of
the town vociferously dispute
the issue. Huntington points to her
imposing array of faculty talent,
sixteen strong. “I’ll start McCot-
ter, Todd, Bailey, Buckner, Moss,
Mill'er, and I’m going to run in
fresh substitutes and wear ’em
out,” she said. ■ “Then we’ll pile
up a score with Swisher, Suthef-
land, Williams, McIntyre, and
Langston. I’ll show Dawson a
thing or two on basketball he
hasn’t learned.”
Coach Bair also oozes confi
dence. “I don’t believe in coaches
singing the ‘blues’, ” says Bair.
I’m using the Meanwell system
Through the efforts of the Sou
thern Pines firemen, and mem
bers, of the local Unit of the State
Forestry Service, several homes
in Niagara were saved when en
dangered by flames from the
home of J. M. Patterson which
was totally destroyed by fire at
o’clock Monday afternoon.
Originating in the shingled
roof of the five room frame
dwelling, the fire was not observ
ed until it had nrade such head
way- as to prevent the removal of
all! but a few articles of furniture
and personal effects. Southern
Pines firemen, braving the in
tense heat of the flaming house,
kept their hose upon the home of
Miss Nettie Williams, closely ad
joining, while the Fire Service
men turned their efforts to the
home and outbuildings of Dun
can Cameron. Flying sparks lodg
ing in the home of Mrs. Sadie
Marabeles, located more than 100
feet from the fire, were extin
guished by local efforts.
Mr. Patterson had no insur-
.ance.
Wood Fires
Shortly before 6 o’clock Satur
day night, fire in the woods north
of Dr. J. I. Neal’s swept down to
the Midland Road before it was
stopped by the Pinehurst firemen
and a Forestry Service crew. Four
hours later the Southern Pines
firement were called out to
brush fire back of McFarland’s
on South Leak* Street. At 1:55 p
m. Sunday another brush fire
blazed at Ashe Street and New
Jersey Avenue, and at 3:30 the
weed-grown lot east of the Os
borne residence, on Massachu
setts Avenue, burst into flames
spreading from the trash pile.
“Not the famous Meanjyell sys
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Hotels Report
Bookings Piling In
For Spring Season
Influx of Visitors
Gets Under Way;
Many Events Planned
Though spring is still delayed,
“the season” appears, to have be
gun in Southern Pines, for ho
tels and tourist homes report
bookings at capacity, or near
capacity, for this weekend and
on, with many requests for reser
vations being turned down every
day.
While there are scattered res
ervations available, and man
agers remind that ' reservations
are not aiiways filled, it looks
like a full season from here right
on until the first week in May.
Golfers and riding enthusiasts
predominate as usual among the
guests and hotels report the in
flux of many “regulars”—^people
who visit here season after sea
son, with Southern Pines as their
regular address every spring.
Highland Pines Inn, with 100
registered early this week, will
be filled practically to capacity
over the weekend and also be
ginning March 1, according to
Manager Garland Pierce. Groups
golfers have also booked up
the hotel’s two private cottages
and requests are being turned
down daily. Private rooms are
being sought in town to take care
of some of them. Numerous enter
tainments have been planned for
the guests, including bridge and
bingo, a musicale and a magic
show. The 191st District Rotary
convention will be held there
April 24-25, bringing some 150
Rotarians and their Rotary Anns.
Also, April 19-20, the Virginia-
Carolina Purchasing Agents’ as
sociation will convene there as
usual.
"Fine Season"
“It looks like a fine season,”
was also reported by Frank B.
Pottle, Hollywood Hotel mana-
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YOU CAN HELP!
Harrington Elected
Teen-Age President
President and vice president of
of the Teen Age club changed
places in elections held at the
Community center Wednesday
night, as Bobby Harrington, vice
president, ,was voted into the
presidency and Fred Arnette, be
came his successor.
Pat CaddeU was elected secre
tary and Billy Warner was re
elected treasurer.
This was the first official meet
ing of the year and 22 members
paying I'947 dues formed the el
ectorate. An immediate inember-
ship drive, to re-enroll all! 1946
dues-paying membeirs aiid to
bring in new ones, is to be insti
tuted.
Furniture, clothing, house
hold supplies—everything in
fact, a family ordinaril'ly uses
are sorely needed by the
Patterson-Hart family, whose
home at Niagara with all pos
sessions was destroyed by
fire last Monday.
Following a survey yester
day, the county Red Cross
chapter issued an SOS to the
general public for aid for the
two elderly people, Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Patterson, their
daughter, Mrs. Hart, and four
grandchS'^idren—a boy and
gi^l of 11. a girl of seven
and a little boy of three-
Students of the Southern
Pines school, which the three
older children attend, are
sponsoring a clothing collec
tion, and the Red Cross is
cooperating, besides trying to
gather together some other
essential needs. Articles may
be left either at the school
or Red Cross headquarters,
and wfl be speeded on their
way to the stricken family.
New Tract Of Land Selected For
Horse Show and Hunter Trial Course
ROBBERY
One of the most serious
robberies to happen here in
some time took place in West
Southern Pines Sunday night
between 7 and 10 p. m. when
the house and store of C. N.
Brogan was entered and ap
proximately $400 in silver
was removed.
Brogan. who was at
church, reported' the theft
imniediately. but to date no
clues to the perpetrator have
been uncovered.
Town Board Will
Meet With Stone
To Ask Signals
Local Hazards To
Be Discussed With
SAL Superintendent
riday Service
To Mark World
Day Of Prayer
Members of all local churches
are asked' to unite in an annual
prayer service, the World Day
of Prayer, to be held this year
at the Church of Wide Fellow-
shi at 3 p. m. today (Friday.)
The service will be held in con
junction with others held at the
same hout in churches all over
the United States and many
foreign lands under auspices of
the United Council of Church
Women, forming a united band
of prayer fot achievement of
world peace objectives and the
Increasing spiritual good of hu-
manfiind.
Having as its theme this year
“Make Level in the Desert
Highway for Our God,” the ser
vice will be divided into four
parts, led by women represent
ing various churches of the com
munity, as follows: Part 1, ‘Medi
tation: Desert,” Mrs. R. P. Brown,
president woman’s auxiliary,
Brownson Memorial Presbyter
ian church; Part 2, “Confession:
Mirages,” Mrs. R. S. Parker, of
the First Baptist church; Part 3
“Thanksgiving: Oasis and Cara
van,” Mrs. F. Craighill Brown,
Emmanuel Episcopal church
Part 4, “Intercession to Jesus,
Head' ' of the caravan,” Mrs
Tucker G. Humphries, Church of
Wide Fellowship.
Music will be by Mrs. Page
Choate, who will sing three solos,
one of them “The Lord’s Prayer”
and by Mrs. Lyle McDonald,
church organist.
The offering will be used for
social work among migrant work
ers and Indian students of the
United States and students and
women of the Par Eastern coun
tries.
A meeting of R. M. Stone, su
perintendent of the Seaboard Air
Line railway, with the Southern
Pines town board, relative to the
placing of light signals at all rail
way crossings in town, is being
arranged and is expected to be
held at an early date, it was an
nounced this week following a
meeting of the board held last
Friday evening.
A date will be arranged to suit
the mutual convenience of Super
intendent Stone, who lives in
Raleigh, and the town commis
sioners, and the meeting will be
held here.
This will be a follow-up of re
cent discussion by the board and
the Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce concerning the haz
ards of a number of inadequately
marked jrailway crossings. The
Chamber of Commerce last week
transmitted to the board a request
that some action be taken.
Also discussed at the Friday
meeting was another request
from the Chamber of Commerce,
that an ordinance be enforced re
quiring residents to buy and dis
play city identification tags on
their cars. No decision was reach
ed in this matter.
It was decided to change the
stop signs at the intersections of
Indiana street and Morganton
road with the Country club road,
giving the Country Club, road,
now paved, the right of way.
Henry Letterlow, Negro, was
given a permit to operate a taxi
in West Southern Pines.
Pinehurst-Southern
Pines Group Planning
Two-Day April Show
The newly organized Sandhills
Horse Show and Racing Associ
ation has announced that they
have accepted from the town of
Southern Pines a tract of land to
be used as a horse show ring and
hunter trial course. Plans are un
der way to prepare the ground
for the projected show to be held
April 5th and 6th.
This property was bought by
the town three years ago from
Mrs. J. H. Tilghman and compris
es about 50 acres of rolling land,
west of the ballfield, though not
adjoining it, and across the old
Morganton Road, from the fire
tower property. There is ample
room for all horse show facilities,
including the stabling, office,
judges’ stands and hunter courses
which are planned.
This is a joint project of South
ern Pines and Pinehurst with the
committee composed of members
from both towns. Col. George P.
Hawes, Jr., and James Tufls of
Pinehurst, "V'ernon Cardy, Har
old Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight
Winkelman and others of South
ern Pines are active in promoting
the show, while management is
in the hands of John L. Bowers,
of Black Mountain, - show pro
moter, who states that prize lists
for the two-day event will be in
the mail this week and entry
blanks and further information
may be secured by writing him.
Box 448, Care Sandhills Horse
Show, Southern Pines.
Gang Thefts Lead
To Arrest, Trial
Of Negro Boys
Climaxing a series of gang
thefts, Edward and 'Willie Mickel,
Leroy Simon, WillSe and Leslie
Wright, young negro boys of West
Southern Pines, were brought
before the juvenile court at Car
thage Tuesday and charged with
several robberies. John Willcox
presiding officer, heard the cases
and put all boys on probation in
the custody of their parents, ad
vising that ^dmission be sought
at once for Edward Mickel and
Leroy Simon, leaders of the gang,
to Morrison Training School. All
the boys are around twelve years
old. »
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Mrs. Jordan Addresses Historians;
“Housewarming” Held At Shaw House
With more than ^0 present, the
February meeting of the Moore
Counjty Historical association,
held at the library Tuesday even
ing with a “house warming” 'at
the Shaw House later, was the
largest yet heM.
Members and their guests came
from many points in the county
for the meeting, which was fea
tured by a talk by Mrs. Joye E.
Jordan, head of the department
of public displays of the North
Carolina department of archives
and history.
Mrs. Jordan, who is. in| charge of
the Hall of History at Raleigh,
spoke on procedures and aims in
the development of a museum,
with especial reference to the
Shaw House, 100-year-old home
stead here which the Moore Coun
ty association has restored.
Limitation of scope by clear def
inition of aims, territory to be cov
ered and subject matter, and re
maining within the boundaries
thus set, is essential if a museum
is to be of true value; otherwise it
runs the danger of becoming a
storage place for miscellany, said
Mrs. Jordan. She emphasized the
necessity of definite policies con
cerning gifts and loans, and urged
the building of a fireproof storage
room for the museum treasuites.
Mrs. Jordan was presented by
Leland McKeithen, president of
the association, who also wel
comed a number of guests and
made announcements of interest-
Yale Glee Club
One of these concerned the
presentation of the Yale Univer
sity Glee Club in concert in the
Pinehi^rst theatre March 27th,
as a project of the association. He
appointed John S. Ruggles chair
man of ticket sales for Southern.
Pines and Mrs. Albert Tufts for
Pinehurst.
Mrs. Ernest Ives, secretary, an
nounced the holding of a contest
for historical essays or articles
in the schools, with Struthers
Burt, E. T. McKeithen and P. J.
Weaver serving as judges. She al
so reported on the successful oper
ation of the tea room since its
opening. J. W. Causey reported
on the#prbgress of the restora
tion.
With adjournment to the Shaw
House following the meeting, the
pleasure of the evening contin
ued against the charming back
ground of long ago. Candles bum-
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