Friday, April 25,1947.
THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina
Seniors Choose
“Superlatives”
Happy Gathering Was Recent Climax Of Hunt Season Here
Opal Baker, Roy Stutts and
Josephine Ransdell came out on
top in the voting of Vass-Lake
view seniors last week for their
“superlatives.”
Other “superlatives” in fields
not covered, by the textbooks
were chosen by their classmates
; s follows;
Opal and Roy were chosen best
all-round, most popular and most
athletic girl and boy, while Roy
was also named best looking boy.
Josephine was voted the pret
tiest, the most artistic and the
, :nost musical.
Most intelligent, Peggie Hay
nes, Henry Bryan; quietest, Ern
est McCrimmon, Marian Bailey;
most original, Thelma Autrey;
most talented, Peggie Haynes;
cutest, Mary Bridges; biggest
flirt, Doris Lynch; neatest, Della
Mae Oakley; wittiest, Lucille
Overby; most talkative, Mary
Bridgers; biggest “hookey” play
er, Odelle Autrey; most cooper-
f ative, Beatrice Simpson; most
studious, Vera Prevatte; most
likely to succeed, Agnes Boggs;
most likable, Lucille Overby;
most industrious, Ruth Blue;
sweetest, Thelma Autrey; most
happy-go-lucky, Odelle Autrey;
most optimistic, Doris Lynch;
most inquisitive, Lucille Overby;
most dependable, Edith Kimball:
most courteous, Marian Bailey.
^ Fellowship Group
Meets at Robbins
The Moore County subdistrict
of the Methodist Youth Fellow
ship, organized in March by a
Fellowship team from Mt. Gilead,
met at Robbins Monday night.
. with some 90 young people at
tending from Aberdeen' Eagle
Springs, West End, Hoffman.
/ Cameron, Vass, Carthage and
Robbins.
Elections were held, and the
following officers chosen for
1947-48: president. Iris Williams,
Robbins; vice president, Mary
Tom Davis, West End; secretary,
Sadie Marie Frye, Carthage;
treasurer, Ivan McDonald, Hoff
man; publicity chairman, La-
verne Brady, Robbins; adult ad
visor, T. Roy Phillips, Carthage.
’ The Aberdeen group was in
charge of the worship service,,
and following the business a rec
reation period was held. Refresh
ments were served and the meet
ing closed with the Friendship
circle.
The next meeting will be at
: Aberdeen, the Monday after the
second Sunday, with the Hoffman
group in charge of the worship
service.
Poppy Day Nets
$559 For Veterans
The smiles above seem to say—“It was a fine season, and we’r
Valley Farm house entrance, on the recent occasion of the hunt br
the season. Included are (front row, left to right! Miss Helen Fergu
Miss Edith Ferguson, William J. Brewster of Pinehurst. Standing i
ROTARIANS
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for the dinner session Thursday
night, at which Edmund Hard
ing, of Washington (N. C.) was
the featured speaker.
Joseph D. Ross, Jr., of Ashe
boro, district governor, is presid
ing officer for the convention.
His gubernatorial report was
scheduled to open the Fridaj
business session.
Also on today’s agenda are a
talk by Montgomery Hill, Greens
boro, on “Our Obligation to the
Community,” and nomination
and election of the disti;ict gover
nor and district treasurer for
1947-4.
Luther Hodges, a Tar Heel now-
president of the New York City
Rotary Club, is today’s luncheon
speaker, on the topic “The Chall
enge of Citizenship.” Alex Gall
oway, Jr., Winston-Salem, will
preside at the luncheon.
The conference will conclude
v/ith a banquet this evening.
Meeting simultaneously with
their husbands will be the Rotary-
anns, with Mrs. Alvah Boyles, of
Thomasville, in charge of a fern
mine version of the program. The
ladies will lunch today at the
Southern Pines Country club.
TOWN ELECTION
The regular bi-annual election
of the Town of Southern Pines
will be held at. the Municipal
Building, Southern Pines, on
Tuesday, May 6, 1947.
HOWARD F. BURNS
Town Cerk
DR. RONDTHALER
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lina lore.
He is a well known feature
writer on historic subjects, and
author of “The History of Ala
mance County.”
Though Harden’s acceptance
has not been received. President
McKeithen said he has high
hopes of presenting this distin
guished speaker in addition to the
other events already scheduled
for this unusual program.
A major event will be the
presentation of cash prizes to
four students from county high
and elementary schools, winners
in the contest on Moore County
history held. recently under As
sociation auspices, through coop
eration of the schools. The win
ners are Lewis Pate, Southern
Pines; Viola Fore, Cameron; Ann
Davis, Pinehurst, and Mary Lou
Cameron, Aberdeen.
Tour
Places to be visited following
the meeting at the courthouse
will be the grave of Governor
Williams, the House in the Horse
shoe and Quail farm-, home of
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Bishop, who
have invited the group to be
their guests at a social hour.
Also invited as a special guest
for the occasion is Mrs. W. J
Adams, of Raleigh, formerly of
Carthage, widow of the state su
preme court justice.
The Public
Speaking
Home From Germany,
Joins Hospilal Staff
Back home and in civilian
nurse’s uniform after serving in
Germany with the Army Nurse
corps. Miss Margaret McKenzie,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Colin
McKenzie of Pinehurst, has join
ed the staff of the' Moore Coun-
.y hospital.
She has taken the position on
the understanding that it is tem
porary, for a few weeks or
months, according to the hospital
announcement, as she plans to re
turn to Duke, of whose nurse
training school she is a graduate,
and continue work toward her
degree in nursing education.
TOWN CAUCUS
Notice is hereby given that the
Town Caucus of the Town of
Southern Pines will be held on
Friday night. May 2, 1947, at 8:00
o’clock in the Southern Pines
High School Auditorium for the
office of Mayor and five commis
sioners to be elected at the Town
election on Tuesday, May 6, 1947
HOWARD F. BURNS
Town Clerk
REGISTRATION NOTICE
The Registration Books for the
town election to be held on Tues
day, May 6, 1947, are now open
at the office of the Registrar in
the Municipal Building, Southern
Pines. All persons who are qual
ified to vote are requested to see
that they are properly registered.
MRS. J. H. TILGHMAN
Registrar
SANDPIPERS
Qualifying rounds for the Sand
piper Club championship will be
gin tomorrow (Saturday) at the
Southern Pines Country club, and
continue through Thursday, ac
cording to announcement by Dick
Sugg, president.
AA BANQUET
The Southern Pines chap
ter of Alcoholics Anonymous
■will be host to other chap
ters of the vicinity, and also
to any other guests who wish
to attend, at a banquet to be
held Tuesday evening. May
6, at the Mid Pines club.
A speaker prominent in
the AA organization is to be
secured, and all who are in
terested in the AA movement
for any reaison are invited^
according to leaders of the
local chapter.
Tickets are on sale at Sou
thern Pines drugstores.
Editor, The Pilot
Dear Sir:
I wish to make clear that I am
advancing the following ideas as
an individual and not as presi
dent of Resort Airlines nor as a
director of the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce. The mat
ter has been discussed informal
ly at a recent director’s meeting
but, of course, without any action
cn the part of this board.
Pinehurst and Southern Pines
have really only one industry.
This is tourism. Practically all
other enterprise in these two com.<
munities is dedicated to the
housekeeping needs of the com
munities themselves. The only
new dollars are generated by
tourism and if it is desired to
raise the general business activity
and prosperity level, this is the
field that should be exploited.
Any industry that is not com
patible will depreciate the actual
end potential value of tourism
and should not be sought unless
it promises to become bigger and
more profitable than the tourist
industry.
If the thinking people of the
communities agree and decide
they will cast their lot with, and
bank their future prosperity on,
this one activity, then it would
seem important to seek new mar
kets for our product and to make
every effort to keep the tourist
plant profitably busy. A logical
source of patronage is the con
vention business, which can also
be profitably employed to begin
the season earlier in the fall and
extend it in the spring. Another
market is an air park, or avia
tion country club. It is conceiv
able that these communities can
become the country club of the
southeast. It takes no longer to
come from Charlotte by plane
for 18 holes of golf here than it
does to go from a Wall Street f-
fice to the nearest suburban New
York golf course.
Both the convention business
and the aviation tourist business
will bring many people here who
would not otherwise come and
who may return as vacationists
.r as residents.
In my considered opinion two
things are necessary to imple
ment a campaign to reach these
new tourist markets. The first is
a suitable convention hall situa
ted so that it is equally conven
ient to the larger hotels. The sec
ond is a committee or an agency
representing all the varied in
terests, both private and munici
pal, which is a dynamic, produc
tive organization operating on a
substantial budget according to
a definite plan and headed by a
well-paid qualified executive.
Prerequisite to this convention
hall and to this operating agency
is the acceptance on the part of
the communities of such a plan
as this and unanimous agreement
on the obiects to be attained^ If
the return is predictable ;.:there
„ , ■ . , . (Photo by Humphrey)
e ooking forward to the next!” The group is pictured at the Vernon
eakfast climaxing the Moore County Hounds’ last official hunt of
son, Mrs. Ozelle Moss, Vernon G. Cardy, the host; Ozelle Moss, MFH-
n back are Jerry Webb of Middleburg, Va., and Ralph K. Trix.
Recorder’s Court
Clears Old Cases
With a short docket at record
er s court Monday, the court took
action in .regard to a number of
old cases in whith defendants
had remained among the missing,
or had been found to be dead or
in a state institution.
Capias was issued for Rodger
Baldwin, Clarence P. Dunn,
Joseph Garland Johnson, R. w!
Hendricks (a prosecuting witness),
Jennings Caldwell, Handy Mat
thews, Charlie Stewart, Thomas
A. Gibson, Thomas Moore, Tom:
■Jackson; Adams Robinson, Rob
bins (?); James English, Robbins;
Addison Burns, Negro, Pinehurst.
The cases of Floyd Dock Cock-
man, Jessie David Jenkins, Neill
Johnson and Lafayette Noll were
dismissed, and nol pros was taken
in the cases of Macie Thompson,
Charlie Fry, John Hoover, Will
Kelly, John Arnold, Paul Avery
Rich, Hugh Bryant Morgan, Paul
ine Hollifield Bloom and G. A.
West.
Sci fa on bondsmen was taken
in the cases of Thomas A. Gib
son, G. A. West and Howard Wil
liams.
Judgments were handed down
as follows:
Alexander H. Thomas, Camer
on, careless and reckless driving,
colliding with another car, prayer
for judgment continued on pay
ment of fine of $50 and costs;
$25 going toward repairs on Jes
sup car; Albert Hicks, Lakeview,
attempting to forcibly enter a
dwelling house, trespass, cursing,
breaking and entry, case contin
ued to next Monday, under bond
of $300; Alex Willcox, Negro,
Wadesboro, driving while drunk’
driving after license was revok
ed, 90 days suspended, $75 and
costs, license revocation ordered
extended to April 21, 1948; Mal
colm McNeill, Raeford, careless
and reckless driving, driving
while drunk, 90 dqys suspended,
$75 and costs, license revoked for
12 months.
The gratifying amount of
$559.85 was realized through
Poppy Day sales throughout the
county Saturday, just $6, short
of last year’s total which was the
largest in history, according to
announcement this week by Mrs.
L. A. Des Pland, chairman for
ihe event.
The sale was sponsored in Sou
thern Pines, Pinehurst and West
End by the Americafn Legion
auxiliary, with Mrs. Thomas
Black chairman at Pinehurst
and Mrs. Sinclair at West End.
The gay little poppies, made by
patients at the Veterans’ hospital
in Fayetteville, brought $’09.52,
in Southern Pines, $230.33 in
Pinehurst and $20 in West End
Proceeds will be • used for the
benefit of veterans and their
families.
High school girls who sold the
poppies here were Peggy Phillips,
Carolyn Chester, Dolores Merrill’
Jeanne Overton, Louise Milliken’
Helen Eleanore Patch, Edna Lou
Bailey, Clara Ann Blue and Sue
Hall.
Some 35 Southern Pines ele
mentary and high school stud
ents and a good number at Pine
hurst, entered the poster contest
sponsored in connection with
Poppy Day, and their bright
posters in window displays down
town made a real appeal. Some
were also sent from here to be
shown in Pinehurst windows.
A revision of prizewinners pre
viously announced reveals a tie
for second place between Danila
Frassinetti and Lewis Pate. Dor
othy Swisher won first prize and
B/ill Ennis third. Honorable
mention went to Ka.y Dunlap,
Tommy Avery and Harold Coll
ins, Jr.
In normal times, the world’s
supply of pork, excluding lard,
annually averages 27,328,000,000
pounds.
TUESDAY GAME
I The Tobacco State-league will
open its season Tuesday as the
Sanford Spinners meet the Red
Springs team, supported this sea
son by the Philadelphia Ath
letics, beginning at 7:45 p. m. at
the improved and enlarged base
ball park at Sanford.
The park seats 2,500 on cush- i
ioned bleachers, and an assort- :
ment of concession stands will
provide refreshments.
The Spinners have just com
pleted a series of exhibition
games in various leagues of the
state.
MOTHER’S PAY
Sale
20% Reduction
ON ALL
Costume Jewelry
’A New Shipment of
Watches
feoH^nlnew
^ft Am Aia
■LadyEl^.
Longines — Elgin
America's Foremost
Watches
Compacts . . . Lighters
Cigarette Cases
MAY’S
of
SOUTHERN PINES
FOR MOTHERS
Tag day far the Moore
County Maternal Welfare
committee will be held
throughout the counfy Sat
urday. May 10. the day be
fore Mother's dhy. according
fo announcement made this
week by Mrs. James Boyd,
chairman.
Mrs. L. T. Avery, secretary,
is this week lining up chair
men of the various county
communities in preparation
for the event by which
funds ate annually raised
for this important branch of
the county health depart
ment's wo*k.
Golfers Slip From
Top League Place
A second loss, at the Fayette
ville Country club Wednesday
afternoon, pulled the Southern
Pines club down slightly from its
'previous position, in which it
had tied with Fayetteville and
Wadesboro for top spot in the cur
rent Sandhills Golf league
matches. With two wins and one
loss each, the three clubs had a
standing of .666.
Seventeen matches played at
Fayetteville resulted in a score of
Southern Pines 24, Fayetteville
30.
Net week’s destination of the
local players is the Wadesboro
club, for the fifth match in a
series of 10. The rest will be held
on the home course.
should be no reason why a bond
issue could not be floated to con
struct a convention hall and why
the various hotels and the trans
portation companies, such as the
Seaboard Railway and Resort
Airlines, should not substantially
subsidize the effort with funds
they are already allocating to ad
vertising and promotion.
As the first step to determine
whether or not such a plan as
this has any merit I advocate:
L An amalgamation of the
Southern Pines and the Pinehurst
Chambers of Commerce to be
known as the Pinehurst-Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce.
2. An executive committee
from this new body charged with
the responsibility of soliciting
the hotels, the transportation in
terests and the State of North
Carolina in a co-operative adver
tising and publicity campaign to
sell the Pinehurst-Southern Pine.<;
area to the tourist and conven
tion markets.
3. A complete study by a plan
ning committee on which each in
terest would be represented with
o view to approaching the elec
torate on a bond issue for a con
vention hall and to establish a
pernament promotional organi
sation.
I repeat that these are my own
views. Please publish them: if
you see fit and edit them to any
degree you wish. I am sending
copies to the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce and the
Pinehurst Chamber of Commerce
as well as to the Pilot and the
Outlook.
Vety truly yours,
Lewis C. BurweU, Jr.
.ay. s
PINEHURST, N. C.
SALE
■MEN’S
ONE RACK OF SPORT COATS
anci
SELECTION OF DUNNER SHIRTS
20% Reduction
i “
Women’s Spoatswear
Dresses — Coats — Skirts
Blouses — Raincoats
From
20 to 50%
REDUCTION
THEATRE BUILDING PINEHURST
iFISH FRY POSTPONED
Due to other community hap
penings, a benefit fish fry spon
sored by the Cameron post of the
American Legion, scheduled for
today (Friday) has been postpon
ed indefinitely. The event will
be held in the next few weeks,
however, the date and place to be
announced, according to Mack P.
Trent, post commander.
In a regular session at the
Cameron school Friday night the
post adopted and forwarded to
Representative C. B. Deane a res
olution “strongly urging” the
congressman to appoint “any eli
gible veteran,” in preference to
any non-veteran, to fill the va
cancy of rural mail carrier on
Cameron Rt. 2. A civil service ex
amination for the position was
held in Carthage April 19, with
14 candidates.
Remember
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