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VOLUME 28. NO. 14
16 PAGES THIS WEEK Soulhern Pines. N. C- Friday. February 28. 1947.
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
f.
Directors Study
Hospital Problems
In Nurse Shortage
Mrs. P. P. McCain
Named To Board;
8-Hour Duty Begins
The Board of Directors of the
Moore County Hospital met at
the Nurses’ Home last Friday
night under the chairmanship
of Vice-president Richard S
Tufts, serving in the place of the
president, Wilbur Currie, absent
at the legislature in Raleigh.
Members of the board heard the
administrator describe the cur
rent shortage of nurses, holding
over since the war days, and the
various ways in which it might be
met.
Prominent among these was
the suggestion that the nursing
schedule be changed to an eight
hour from the present twelve
hour schedule. This suggestion,
in line with that of many hos
pitals nowadays, was favorably
acted upon by the board, with the
decision made to put it into effect
as of March 1st.
Commenting on the change.
Administrator E. T. McKeithen
stated that whereas the present
shift ran from seven to seven,
with three hours of rest, the new
• schedule was planned in three
shifts of .from seven to three,
three to eleven, eleven to seven
with no re.st periods.
Looking towards further allevia
tion of the nursing shortage, the
board approved a suggestion that
nurse’s aides be welcomed when
ever available, and went on
record as endorsing proposed leg
islation of training of practical
imrses.. The administrator des
cribed a bill to be introduced be
fore the legislature this week
to legalize the liceiisure of prac
tical nurses, with the proposal
that a training program of from
eleven to twelve months be in
augurated for these women, of
routine nursing training similar,
in part, to that given nurse’s
aides. The bill was prepared, he
said, by a committee of repre-
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WATCH OUT!
Watch those trash fires!
Don't just think they're
out—be sure! Carelessness in
this regard took city firemen
out on two successive runs
Thursday morning, to find
that trash fires thought to
have been put out started
brush fires which might have
had serious consequences.
The first was behind the
John Barron house on New
York avenue, between May
and Ridge streets, about 11
a. m. The second, occurring
immediately after, was be
hind the Harry Gage house
on* the Country club road.
Firemen extinguished both
before serious damage was
done.
Chamber Will Ask
All Members’ Vote
On City Car Tags
Free Postcards
To Be Good-Will Ads
In Local Hotels
Humphrey Opens
Downtown Studio
Emerson Humphrey, photogra
pher, is moving his studio this
week from his home on Ridge
street to his new location in the
business district—the building on
West Broad street, near Pennsyl
vania, formerly occupied by
Pope’s restaurant. He plans to
keep regular business hours, he
reported, but.will still work most
ly by appointment.
Humphrey came to Southern
Pines early in 1945 following 15
seasons at Pinehurst, during the
first 10 of which he worked with
John G. Hemmer, and in the last
five was the official Pinehurst
photographer. For his work then
and since he has become known
all over the State as a top rank-
.ing all-round photographer, with
social, sports and news events as
specialties. He has for some time
been official photographer for
The Pilot.
During the summers he has
done professional work at White
Sulphur Springs, W. Va., and at
resorts in western North Caro
lina, and spent three summers in
work and study with Wootton and
Moulton, official photographers
for the University of North Car
olina.
. A nMive of Georgia, he has liv
ed in North Carolina since he was
15, graduated from the Fayette
ville High school and attended
State college. He began his career
as a photographer while still a
high school student.
He is a registered photograph
er, member of the North Carolina
Photographers’ association, and a
member and past vice-president
of the North Carolina Press
Photographers’ association.
Red Cross Campaigners
On Mark And Ready To Go
With his Red Cross campaign
organization set up and ready to
go. Southern Pines Drive Chair
man William D. Campbell this
week sent out an urgent request
for advance gift donors to delay
no longer, but to send their con
tributions now to Mrs. E. C.
Stevens, chairman.
Advance gifts are counted on
to provide a substantial start for
the campaign proper, in which
canvassing of business and resi
dential districts will begin Mon
day morning. The advance gift
donation is also the simplest way
for the generous donor to make
sure that he’s done his part, and
will not be solicited further for
a gift he meant to make all along.
It also gives chairmen a gauge
to measure by, in seeing how near
(or how far) that quota is.
With a national quota set this
year at $60,000,000, Moore
county’s quota at $15,000 and
Southern Pines’ $4,200, the Amer
ican Red Cross is asking this
year about half the amount rais
ed during the war years. Though
the war is ended, the Red Cross
goes right on—and every bit- of
the money asked is needed, and
will be used, in the carrying for
ward of this great mercy pro
gram.
Mrs. William D. Campbell, as
sisted by Mrs. William White, is
in charge of the canvass of the
business district.
Mrs. C. T- Overton, residential
canvass chairman, has named the
following committee to assist her;
Mrs. L. H. Cherry, Jr., Mrs. Char
les Patch, Sr., Mrs. Marshall Bar
ney, Mrs. Cecil Robinson, Mrs. J.
S. Milliken, Mrs. A. B. Patterson.
Mrs. V. B. Johnson, Garland Pierce
is chairman of hotels and room
ing houses, and Mrs. Paul C. But
ler of the Midland Road section.
The campaign is under direction
of Miss Gladys Snipes at Niagara,
and Mrs. R. P. Brown at M^nly.
Low Bids On Aberdeen Road Project
Made By Charlotte, Chester Firms
County School
Lunchrooms Face
Fund Exhaustion
Schoolfolk Will Ask
Commissioners' Aid
In Their Operation
City tags or no city tags? Cham
ber of Commerce directors, con
sidering local traffic problems,
think they may be a solution.—^but
the Town Board, loath to impose
what might be regarded as an
other “nuisance tax”, doesn’t see
it that way.
However, there’s a city ordi
nance requiring them for cars of
Southern Pines residents; and
the Chamber of Commerce direc
tors in semi-monthly session
Tuesday night voted to query
their membership of 150 by post
card on the matter, with prevail
ing sentiment dictating whether
they shall again ask enforcement
of the ordinance—or its repeal.
They requested enforcement
following discussion at the direc
tors’ meeting of February 11, with
the view that uniform identifi
cation of residents’ cars would
assist police in keeping the work
ing populace from parking on the
main shopping blocks. With local
cars shunted off to the municipal
parking lot, space would be clear
ed for visitors and the free in
flux of business.
Reply
At this week’s meeting Herr
mann Grover, Chamber of Com
merce secretary, read the reply
from Howard Burns, city clerk.
In it he voiced the Board’s wish
for an expression of more repre
sentative opinion (the previous
directors’ meeting had been a
small one, saying also that they
feared the $1 charge for city tags
might be looked on as, a nuisance
tax imposed only for additional
revenue; and suggesting that dis
play tags, such as have been used
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Hard Surface Roads
Branching Three Ways,
Bridge. Fills Planned
Blythe Brothers, construction en
gineers of Charlotte, were low
bidders on a triple road improve
ment project out of Aberdeen,
and F. A. Triplett, Inc., turned
in the low bid for structures, it
was found on the opening of bids
in Raleigh Monday.
The Blythe bid of $170,034.90
and that of Triplett, $80,789.29,
total $250,824.10 for the project,
considered one of the most im
portant of the district, and mark
ing completion of a road building
program in and around Aberdeen
started some seven years ago.
The contracts call for grading,
reinforcement, sand asphalt base,
surfacing and structures of 2.88
miles on three sections of hard
surfaced road leading out of
Aberdeen at South street, and
branching out a mile south of
town, one branch going to U. S.
Highway No. 1, another to the
Laurinburg highway Nos. 15-501,
and the third to the Raeford high
way, No. 211.
L. E. Whitfield, of Asheboro,
sixth division engineer for the
state highway and public works
commission, will be in charge of
construction.
Present plans call for an exten
sion of No. 1 across South street
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Duke Glee Club
Concert Planned
As Notable Event
Representatives of schools in
the county receiving federal aid
for luncheons—and this includes
practically all of them—will ap
pear before the county commis
sioners at their regular meeting
Monday, March 3, to see if coun
ty funds may replace the federal
aid to lunchrooms which, they
have been advised, will cease in
about three weeks.
Unless a new appropriation is
made by congress—and they are
not banking on this—^federal
funds for this purpose will be
exhausted by the middle of
March. These have supplemented
the cost of hot lunches to each
paying pupil by about 10 cents
per plate, and have taken care
of lunches provided children who
were unable to pay.
Members of the Educo club, dis
cussing the situation at their
monthly meeting at Carthage last
week, roughly estimated that
some $2,000 per month has been
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Spectacular Blaze Severely Damages
Buggies Homestead Saturday Evening
A SORRY CRIME
Vandals put in a sorry
night's work at Eagle
Springs last week, smashing
all the windows and light fix
tures of the Negro Methodist
church and overturning
every tombstone and monu
ment in the cemetery.
Bricks and sticks had been
used to make destruction
thorough. Damages amount
to quite a bit, financially
speaking, and are beyond
measure in the sentiments of
the little congregation.
Reported this weekend to
the sheriff's department by
indignant white friends of
the church, the case is now
under investigation by Sher
iff McDonald and his depu
ties.
Miss Bair Elected
Chairman of Council
Miss Birdilia Bair was elected
chairman of the Southern Pines
Council of Social Agencies, at its
quarterly meeting, held Tuesday
evening after several forced post
ponements, at the Southern Pines
school.
Elected with Miss Bair, who
succeeds Morris Johnson, were
the following officers for 1947:
June Phillips, treasurer; Mrs.
Jane Towne, executive secretary.
Mrs. R. P. Brown, Mrs. James
Boyd and Col. D. L. Madigan
were ftamed to jthe executive
committee. ,
Ednah Bethea, director of the
West Southern Pines nursery
school, was present at the meet
ing, to report on progress of the
school, whose assistance is a pro
ject of the Council. Among pre
sent needs of the month-old nur
sery school which she outlined
are chairs, tables, blocks and
wheel toys. The cooperation of
the Council is securing these was
promised, with special reference
to the chairs and tables, consider
ed the greater needs as the nur
sery school grows.
Teen Agers Plan
“Vietory Dance”
Date Changed to
Friday, March 21
Hounds Show Best
Sport of Season
Confidently anticipating a rosy
ending to the county basketball
tournament now under way, the
Teen Age club, meeting Wednes
day evening, planned a ‘‘Victory
dance” for next Friday night.
Except for dances following
home games, this will be the
club’s first social function in some
months, as basketball has claim
ed the members’ time and atten
tion. New dance records are to
be bought for the occasion, and
Bobby Harrington, president, ap
pointed a committee to lay in a
supply of popular new disks.
Harrington was elected the
club’s representative on the Coun
cil of Social Agencies.
With 18 members enrolling
Wednesday night, in addition to
22 at last week’s meeting, indica
ting a healthy revival of interest
as the new season gets under
way, a membership drive seemed
not so urgent and no definite
plans were made. However, it
was decided that each member
should try to bring at least one
other to the next club meeting.
With all 1946 memberships now
lapsed, former members as well
as new ones must start out afresh
with the payment of 1947 dues.
Philip J. Weaver, principal,
was present at the meeting.
The 40 members of the Duke
University Glee Club, which will
sing here in concert Friday
evening, March 21, are to be giv
en a real sample of Southern
Pines hospitality while they are
here, judging from reports made
by Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins, Civic
club general chairman in charge
of arrangements.
The concert date has been chang
ed to March 21 from March 22,
previously announced.
The Civic club, which is spon
soring the famous glee club’s ap
pearance here, will be hostess at
a banquet at the Civic center be
fore the concert, which will be
held at the high school auditor
ium; and after the concert, the
Teen Age club will be hosts at a
dance at their clubroom in the
Community building.
Mrs. J. Elmer Harrington, Mrs.
D. Wade Stevick and Mrs. James
S. Milliken compose a social com
mittee supervising arrangements
for both these events.
The students will spend the
night here, as guests in Southern
Pines homes. Mrs. E. Levis Prizer
has been named housing chair
man, to see that all have a place
to stay.
Mrs. Todd Baxter is publicity
chairman, Mrs. Tucker G. Hum
phries is in charge of ticket sales,
and Mrs. L. D. McDonald, Civic
Club president, is an ex officio
member of all committees.
The event promises to be one
of the most interesting of the
year for this locality, both musi
cally and socially speaking.
The Duke University double
octet, a small but weU known
unit within the Glee club, will be
on hand with the group, to give
several numbers on their own.
Light selections as well as classi
cal have been promised, to make
the program one of- well balanced
entertainment for all music lov
ers.
Southern Pines
Gymkhana Sunday
Six classes of events will be
offered at the Southern Pines
gymkhana, to be held Sunday at
2 p. m. in the riding ring at the
Country club. They are: (1) green
hunters, (2) working hunters, (3^
open jumpers, (4) pair jumpers,
(5) children’s horsemanship, and
(6) a potato race, a novelty event,
Louis Scheipers is in charge of
the event. With visitors crowding
into town all week, a record turn
out is anticipated.
The Moore County Hounds met
in the big pasture field at Wey-
moiuth on Saturday at 10:30 and
ran one of the good drag lines over
typical Sandhills country to fin
ish in the field back of the old
Scott house site, near Young’s
corner. The eight couples of
hounds, hunted by the master,
OzeUe Moss, ran with a good cry,
carrying the line with few checks
despite a high cold wind and dry
ground. Whipping in were Mrs.
Moss and the professional whip,
Louis Rittendale. Dwight Winkel-
man led the field of 36.
Drawing the eastern edge of
the pasture; hounds found along
the top of the Round Timber' and
ran a fast line across the Wey
mouth orchard hill and the inter
vening woodland to the Dew
berry Crossing. They crossed the
Collins and Healy land, swung
through Mrs. Kennedy’s and the
Olive Farm and over some of the
old hunter trials course to finish
on the hillside below the old
Scott farm.
The meet was attended by
many on foot and in cars who
gathered with the horsemen to
hear the gracious tribute paid by
the master to the late James
Boyd, founder of the hunt and
joint-master -^yith his brother,
Jackson H. Boyd fqr many years.
At the meet were two former
whips, Mrs. Boyd and Mrs. Leon
ard, the former Judy Butterfield.
On Tuesday a grey fox gave
the hounds one of the best runs
of the year and “got away to run
again another day.” Throwing in
near the Jonker farm, hounds hit
off a line on the Adkins place and
ran southeast to the Notre Dame
Academy Page wire fence.
Hounds were held up when the
fox went through, but he oblig
ingly came out again and they
picked up the line near the Healy
jheadl. Turning north over the
ridge, they crossed the Mail Road
and swung back through Car-
roll’s Branch to put him to earth,
finally, under some hay racks on
the edge of the Moss pasture.
With the fifty minute run to
their credit. Hounds were blown
off and taken back to keniiels.
The master reports more fox
sign than ever this year, with
deer on the whole, keeping out
of sight. Only two have been
viewed since the season opened.
Expected down for some hunt
ing this weekend are Mrs. Nor
man Toerge and Mrs. Howard
Lynn of Middleburg and the Bob
by Youngs, visiting Mr; and Mrs,
W. A. Phillips.
Local Firemen Battle
Third Floor Flames
At The Woodworth
Ballots Indicate
Dawson Candidacy
Finding Favor
Unit Elections
Now Under Way For
State NCEA Posts
With favorable reactions being
tabulated from widely separated
points all over the state, members
of the local NCEA unit boostiflg
Amos C. Dawson for vice presi
dent of the state organization ad
mitted this week they are feeling
"definitely encouraged” concern
ing their candidate’s chances of
election.
Of some 1,000 unofficial ballots
mailed out, with promotional
material, two weeks ago to school
principals and other key mem
bers throughout the state, some
20 per cent have been returned,
according to Mrs. Ruth L. Swish
er, campaign manager. These
have been predominantly favor
able to Dawson.
The ballots have come in from
local units in some 50 per cent
of North Carolina counties, with
enough from a few of the coun
ties to make the local proponents
feel the whole county is theirs.
Yet—“We’ve got our fingers
crossed,” said Mrs. Swisher. “It’s
a crucial time in NCEA, and any
thing can happen. There are sev
eral strong candidates, and the
campaigns are lively for all of
them.”
With more vital issues at stake
this year than ever before in the
organization’s history, and with
the state body divided against it
self on the South Piedmont teach
er raise plan, interest is strong
and a number of upsets are antic
ipated.
Local units have already start
ed holding elections for state of
ficers, and votes are to be turned
in by March 21, or taken to the
annual convention at Asheville
at the end of the month. The of
ficial count will be made at the
cbnvention, which will be held
March 27-28-291
The Southern Pines unit will
hold its election at an early meet
ing, according to Mrs. Burney
McCotter, president, and—sssh—
don’t be surprised if it goes unan
imously fgr Dawson for vice
president.
by Charles Macauley
The volunteers of the Southern
Pines Fire Department well
maintained their prestige in the
long hard struggle to save the
historic A. S. Ruggles home from
destruction by fire Saturday ev
ening, a struggle seemingly lost
many times during their two hour
battle with the flames.
Mr. and Mrs. Ruggles and son,
John, were at supper shortly af
ter six o’clock when a guest. Miss
Cassard, a singer at the Dunes
Club, called down from the sec
ond floor'to their grandson that
there was smoke pouring from
the ceiling. Grasping extinguishers
the men dashed to the upper floor
where John, taking one look at
the extent of the fire, dropped his
extinguisher and ran j)ack to the
telephone. Frank Kaylor answer
ed and the siren sounded before
John had hung up. Going back
upstairs he found smoke and
flames coming out from the eaves
at both ends of the house, later
investigation indicating that the
fire may have started in the space
between the ceiling and floor of
the two upper floors. Another
version to which Chief O’Callag
han inclines, is that an overload
of electrical cooking equipment
on one circuit, caused the trouble.
The siren’s tones were hardly
silent, as the apparatus came
down the street toward the house
from whose attic windows flames
and smoke were pouring. Fire
men on ladder tops, handling
lines of hose through the win
dows, were soaked with water
and suffocated by the dense
smoke blown downward by a
stiff wind to envelop them time
and tim'e again. Hampered by the
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Horse Show Site
Shaping Up Fast
For Spring Events
■Work is proceeding apace at the
horse show grounds of the newly
formed Sandhills Racing and
Horse Show association, and, with
the first event scheduled for less
than two weeks off, the bare
meadows and fields o:f the 50-acre
tract are undergoing swift trans
ition.
■With the ground cleared and
burned off by town crews, who
are also helping to build the
jumps, the hunter trial course i.s
being laid out over a winding
couple of miles by Daniel Corn-
well, of Westchester, Pa.
A stable of 40 stalls, in two
sets of 20 back to back, is under
construction, and is expected to
be completed by March 12, date
of the hunter trials. A second
stable section is to be completed
later, for the eventual quarter
ing of 80 horses.
Bulldozers were out this week
grading the land for the show
ring, which will be 160 by 250
feet. A hundred spectator boxes
—^for which many orders are re
ported already coming in—and
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Referendum Proponents Organize, ^
Question Currie On Liquor Stand
Dry forces of the county began j
their march toward a hoped-for
referendum Monday, with a meet
ing held at 10 a.m. with Senator
Wilbur H. Currie in the commis
sioners’ room at the Carthage
courthouse.
Invited to discuss his stand on
the liquor question with a small
group, Currie, as well as leaders
of the movement, showed sur
prise as a crowd variously esti
mated at from 40 to 75 attempted
to wedge itself into the moderate-
' sized room. Men and women com
posed the crowd, which included
a number of ministers, Sunday
lachool superintendents and
church and 'community leaders
from various parts of the county.
They had come in response to
church announcements, personal
invitation and “the grapevine”
stemming apparently from the
Eureka section, home community
of John McLeod, who was in
charge of the meeting and led the
discussion.
And the object of that discus-
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