CELEBRATE V-J DAY HERE AUGUST 14TH CELEBRATE V-J DAY HERE AUGUST 14TH VOL. 28 NO. 37 FOURTEEN PAGES Southern Pines, N. C-Friday, August 8 1947. FOURTEEN PAGES TEN CENTS # One Life Lost, Three Cars Wrecked In Week’s Accidents On Highway 1 Sailor Exonerated In Soldier's Death; Two Collisions Send Six To Hospital Investigations Continue As Accident Toll Mounts Moore county’s third highway fatality of the year occurred last Saturday at 1:55 a. m,, when William L. Partin, a paratroop artil leryman from Fort Bragg, was struck by a car as he walked along Highway 1 near Pope’s restaurant, between Southern Pines and (Aberdeen. Taken at once to the' Moore fcounty hospital, Partin died a few hours later without recovering consciousness. Acting Coroner Dr. J. W. Willcox, of West End, exonerated from blame the driver of the car, M. G. Wilson, a sailor, of Norfolk, Va. Wilson stopped his car immediately after the accident, had an am bulance and the police authorities summoned and waited at the road side until all formalities were attended to. Partin was .a native of Antlers, Okla., where a wife and daughter survive. ' The accident was similar in some respects to the county’s first 1947 highway casualty, when Pvt. William R. Koonce, of Southern Pines, was struck bya car as he walked along HighWay 1 near Vass. This was a hit-run accident and l the driver of the death car has never been apprehended. The «ptner highway death was that o| Carrie Criscoe, Negro peach orchid worker of Eagle Springs, in stantly killed Tuesday of last week as she alighted from a, truck near her home after her day’s work. Two Aoie accidents on Highway 1, one within the,Southern Pines city limits, were reported last week to ,add to the mounting total of this year’s highway tragedies: An accident which took placed here early Saturday morning had' speedy results when both driv ers were arrested on charges of careless and reckless driving, hail ed into recorder’s court Monday, found equally guilty by Judge Alien Rotve and given 30-day sentences, suspended on payment of $25 'and costs. Each driver. Pvt. W. J'. Roths child of Shaw field, Sumtep, S. C.( home town Richmond, Va.)and J. C. Moore, of Hagerstown, Md., blame^ the other for the High way 1 collision which took place in the exact Center of the roa*d at 5:10 a. m., injuring five people and completely demolishing both cars. Police Chief C. E. Newton, dia gramming the accident in court, showed How the left bumpers and front wheels/'of the twq> cars came violently together, ripping the side off the Moore car and hurling it to the side of the road, where it overturned, and sending the Rothschild car into a giddy spin. To Hospital Neither driver was hurt, but passengers in both cars were • taken to the Moor.e County hos pital where they remained a short time as emergency patients. These were Pvt. Thomas E. Woon, of Shaw field, riding with Roths child, who was cut about the face; Mrs. J. C. 'Moore, her daughter. Miss' Jean Koogel, and Mr. and Mrs. Max Hetzel, also of Hagerstown. The'' accident took place just inside the city limits at the north of town. Moore, who with his family and friends was driving to Florida for a vacation, admitted to a speed of 45 miles per hour, illegal within the city limits. The other car was heading north. Both had been on the road most or all of the night. ' Car Hits Truck Another accident on Highway (Continued on Page 8) Rabies Kills Cow On Moore Farm; Warning Issued District Fire Fighters Meeting Here Will Study New Equipment, Methods A district meeting of the N. C.i Forest Service will bring repre sentatives of eight counties to Southern Pines September 26-27 for field trips, fire fighting deni- onStrations, instruction by state stratidns, instruction by state officials and a look at the 1947 Dodge fire wagon, latest contri bution' of scientists and tech nicians to the art of fighting for est fires. The fire wagon, bought with $2,800 of state and county funds, is expected here within the next two weeks. County Forest 'War den Ernest E. Davis said this Week. It is absolutely the newest thing out, and represents a great improvement over old methods of fire fighting—^the first real im provement .in equipment in the past 25 years, he said. It has an attached plow and other essential apparatus, all oper ated by hydraulic lifts; is high- built, with four-wheql drive, and can go through forests and over creeks in true bulldozer style. . A number of North Carolina counties which are heavily tim bered and need the best bf fire protection are purchasing the lire wagons, since their budgets were extended by additional state ap propriations for the forest ser vice. The additional funds wilB also allow employment of two men to operate the fire wagon. The county staff is to be completely reorganized for greater efficiency, Davis said. The.district meeting, for which dates are to be announced later, will be a two-day gathering of forest service personnel from Moore, Scotland, Richmond, Montgomery, Lee, Chatham, An son, and Randolph counties. It will be led by J. A. Pippin, dis trict forester, with Jack Spratt, assistant state forester, in charge of some of the sessions. Head quarters for the 30 to 35 men ex pected will be the Belvedere hotel. ■ i PROCLAMATION Whereas, V-J Day is one for honorable observance in our own community as well as throughout the nation, remembering the joys of that August 14 of 1945 v^ien it ' was made knpwn that the worldV greatest war had ended; and Whereas, men of Moore County who fought in that war have devotedly prepar ed a -fitting observance of the occasion for the participation of all loyal citizens of our town and county; and Whereas, it is our desire that everyphe join in with wholeheijirted cooperation, in a proper spirif of honor to our veterans and their fam ilies: Thursday, August 14, V-J Day!, from the hpui; of 12 n'oon is .declared a half holi- ■ day in the town of Southern Pines wilh the cooperation of all merchants, businessmen and other citizens requested. G. N. PAGE Mayor of Southern Pin^s County Is Adked To Build New High School Here County Will Turn Out To Honor Veterans^ V-J Observance Here Varied Events Are On Schedule From Noon To Mi4night Its going to be a big day here ■next Thursday, when thousands of Moore County residents are ex pected to come to Southern Pines to assist Moore veterans in their second annual V-J Day obser vance. Charles W. Swoope, of Pine- hurst, chairman, has announced that the program will get under way at 12 noon, with registration and reunion of veterans |at the ’..own 'park. , , Gold Star mothers will also be registered there, info'rmation service rendered, luncheon booths will be open and picnic facilities offered to all. ■The main program will begin at 4:30 p. m. with a parade of World War veterans And'-other units, led 'by the' famous 82nd Airborne Division band and honor guard from Fort Bragg. Reviewing' Stan^ The parade will pass the re- SEN. 'W'lLLIAM B. UMSTEAD of North Carolina will be the principal .speaker at V-J Day ex ercises to be held at the town park Thursday at 5 p. m. viewing stand before Rear Ad-' All - Star Players miral C. L. Dundas of the BWtish •' A positive report of rafcies re turned Monday by Raleigh health authorities on a cow owned by Marvin Hartsell, of the Roseland community, brought a warning this week from Dr. J. A. Willcox, health officer, for all residents of the vicinity to watch their ani mals carefully for signs of mad ness, and a suggestion that dogs in the section be re-vaccinated. A close watch is being main tained by the county health au thorities, and if other* cases de velop in the neighborhood a quarantine area may be defined. Following symptoms observed Friday in the cow. Dr. C. C. Mc Lean, assistant to Dr. J. I. Neal, veterinarian, was called in Satur day, and a tentative diagnosis of rabies was made. ‘‘She showed all the major signs,” said’Dr. Mc Lean. ‘‘She was in a furious con dition, lowing and bellowing, trying to ' chase and gore those who tried to help her, and be coming'more excited at the least noise.” There is no cure for- ra bies once it has developed, and the only known procedure was followed: the cow was locked up where she could harm, no one, and left to die. Death occurred Sunday, and the head was taken to Raleigh at once, where the' diagnosis was confirmed. Members of the Hartsell family who handled the cow are taking the Pasteur treatment at the county health office. The cow was one of a herd of seven or eight, and the remaining cows are being guarded and watched. Rabies is transmissible only by a bite, or by infected saliva in (Continued on Page 8) If there is any chance of get ting a whole new high school building included in next year’s budget, the building of the school auditorium can wait until then rather ^han have it incorporated in the present plant, local school representatives told the county commissioners at ther regular meeting Monday. With reports from a state plan ning expert and two biiilding en gineers in his hand, Supt. Philip J. 'Weaver firmly declared that his findings correspond with theirs: that the present high school dDuilding is outmoded, obsolete and handicapped by poor planning and construction. Constant repairs, large and small, to keep it in usable con dition wil only run up big bills while merely postponiiig the day of reckoning, he said. * N. L. Hodgkins, of the school board, and Amos C. Dawson, of (Continued on Page 8) navy; U. S. Senator William B. Umatead; Ray Gallowayj, com mander of the North Carolina department of the American Legion; E- C. Snead, North Car olina department commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Mayor C. N. Page of Southern Pines, W. D. Sabiston of Carthage, W. P. Saunders of Robbins, For rest Lockey of Aberdeen, J. K. Mason of Pinebluff, Henry Borst of Vass and W. A. Muse, repre senting the mayor of Cameron; also county commissioners, coun ty officials and other distinguish ed guests. • Memorial Program Picked For V-J Game With Bragg The Peach Belt All-Star team which •/'dll play Fort Bragg' here next Thursday, V-J day, will be composed of outstanding players of the six-club Peach Belt league, selcted |this wek by their club managers as follows; Southern Pines—Pate, McNeill, Newton, Dunn, Harper, Wilson, McCrae; Aberdeen — * McLeod, Wicker. Russell, Haynes; Laurin- . . . . burg—Ramsey, Hodge, Granby, A patriotK and rnemorial pro-, Bullard, Lee, Barber; Chamber Sponsors Area Meeting On National Affairs An area conference on national affairs, to be sponsored by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in conjunction 'w^ith that of South ern Pines, will be held here in the form of a dinner meeting, open to the public, September 12. flans were corhpleted at the semi-monthly Chamber of Com merce directors’ meeting Tuesday night, and announced by John S. Ruggles, president. Speakers at the conference, which was arranged at the re. quest of national CofC leaders, wiR be E. L. Dickey, manager of the isoutheaistern division, who will outline its purposes, and Paul Conant, national affairs ad visor, who will speak on ■ ‘‘Better Government.” Both are from the division of fice at Atlanta, Ga. Invitations will be sent to Chambers of Commerce in Pine- hur^t, Aberdeen, Sanford^ Laur- inburg, Rockingham and other Sandhills towns 'of the area hav ing organized Chambers of Com merce. The meeting is one, of a num ber being held in key areas throughout the country to bring local Chambers of Commerce and other interested citizens up to date on national affairs. Time and place, with price of the din ner, are to be announced later. Other business of the Tuesday meeting included discussion of the August 14 V-J Day celebra tion, and decision to leave the matter of opening or closing their stores that afternoon up to the mayor and merchants; the election of A. C. ReeR to a va cancy on the board of directors; contribution of $50 to. the South ern Pines quota for the Highway No. 1 association; and granting of a vacation to Executive Secretary Herrfnanh Grover, , who wUl leave this week , on a 10-day trip to the north. gram- will fee held at the town park at 5 p. m;, with welcome by Mayor Page and an address by U. SJ Senator William B. Um- stead of Durham.- Response will be made by Rear Admiral Dun das, Commander Galloway of the American Legion and Commander Snead of the VFW. Gold Star mothers or their representatives (widow, child or father in that order) will receive awards, and a retreat ceremony will be held at the flagpole, conducted by the 82nd Airborne unit with all vet erans assisting. Reception, Dance Honorary guests and officials of the celebration will meet at the Civic cluja for an informal re ception at 7:30 p. m., and from 9 until 1 the Victory ball, for vet erans and their lady guests only, will be under way. at Scottie’s on Highway 1. Frank Hoqker’s orchestra has been tentatively, engaged' for the dance, according to June Blue, chairman, and there will be no admission charge. Negro Veterans Negro Gold Star mothers will be guests at a luncheon at the West, Southern Pines Methodist church, with a program and ad dresses following. Negro veterans will march in the parade, be (Continued on Page 8) Raeford—Bedas, Bill Upchurch, Joe Upchurch, McLeod; Rock ingham—Parnell, Hindson; Ham let—Harrell, Bankhead, Miller, Holt, Sullivan. Linqup will be as foRows: pitdlvrs—Ramsey, Harrell, Mc Leod (Aberdeen), Bedas, Pate; catchers, Hodge, McNeill, Bank- head; first base, Granby, Wicker, Newton; second base. Miller, Parnell, Ci-ibbs; third base, Up church, Harper, Haynes; short stop, Bill Upchurch, Dunn, Bul lard; left field. Holt, Wilson, Mc- J.,eod (Raeford); right field, Rus sell, Sullivan, Barber. C. S. Patch, Jr., of Southern Pines, is the local Committee chairman for the game, which will be called at 2 o’clock follow ing registration and picnic lunch on the town park. , Moore County veterans will be admitted without charge—all others will pay $1, the proceeds to go to the present indebted ness and future reserves of the Moore County Junior Legifc*i baseball program. Gold Star Mothers Will Be Guests Of Legion Auxiliary. Invitations have been sent to all of the almost 100 Gold Star mothers of Moore county by the American Legion auxiliary of the Sandhills Legion post, asking that they attend the county wide V-J Day celebration here next Thurs day and be guests of the auxil iary at events planned especially in their honor. Fron 12 noon to 4:30 p.m. their happiness will be the especial re gard of the auxiliary ladies. “We want to make this a day, not of sadness, but of real pleasure, as a token of our appreciation,” said Mrs. Haynes Britt, auxiliary president, this week, “and we hope very much that all will come”. Following registration at the town Rail at noon, the guests wil be escorted by a guard of honor to the Civic club where they will be given a luncheon. Mrs. Thomas W. Byrd of Char lotte, state auxiliary president, will be the luncheon speaker. I'here will be a program of music, songs and readings. The guests will then be taken on a sightseeing tour, in and around Southern Pines, to be brought back to the town park at 4:30 p. m.- They will receive especial honor at the V-J meet ing at 5 o’clock, with awards of ceretificates and flowers. A Gold Star widow or child may be the family representative, instead of the mother, if it is so desired. ' - Mrs. Britt is general chairman of the auxiliary participation, with assistants as follows; registration, Mrs. J. S. McLaughlin; luncheon, Mrs. L. D. McDonald, Mrs Martha Hoskins, Mrs. J. T. Overton; luncheon program, Mrs. Haynes Britt; music, Mrs. L. D. McDon ald; sightseeing tour, Mrs. L. L. Woolley, Mrs. D. D. Shields Catn- eron; publicity, Mrs. Dan R. Mc Neill; pages, Mrs. C. S. Patch, Jr., Mrs. Joe Garzik, Miss Ethel Blue Britt. The auxiliary will also be in charge of booths at the town park where sandwiches, soft drinks and coffee will be sold, with Mrs. J. A. Ferguson and Mrs. Charles Patch, Sr., in charge. The Aberdeen and Carthage units, the later formed only two month? ago, have also been asked to participate with luncheon booths. Town Tax Rate Maintained At $2.60 per $100 i , Increased Values Expected To Balance Bigger Budget The town tax will remain at its former level of $2.60 per $100 valuation through the coming year, it was announced by C. N. Page, rqayor, in presenting the town budget in full in this week’s isiue> of The Pilot. Preparing the budget during meetings held in the past few weeks, with the assistance of Howard Burns, . town clerk, the town board adopted it as ah ord inance July 30 . The budget shows thait this year the city’s business has become K3ne of better than $100,000 a year, with the iperease over last year expected to be met by addit ional ad valorem taxes arising from enhanced property val uations. Total revenue is estimated at $100,434.54, as compared . with last year’s . $93,263.10. Ad valorem taxes are expected to bring in $84,104.54 on property evaluated at $3,234,790. Last year’s ad valorem taxes were estimated at $78,169.49, on a property valuation of $3,006,519. Additional sources of income are expected to yield revenue as follows (with last year’s figure in parenthesis for comparison purposes): poll tax, $387 ($298); dog tax, $218 ($207); license tax, $925 ($900); tax penalties, $300 ($1,000); sewer rents and con nections, $1,000 ($1,000); road maintenance tax (for out-of-town dwellers buying this city service), $1,000 ($800); funds for law en forcement from ABC stbres, $4,800 ($3,000); intangible tax from state board of assessments, (Continued on Page 8) LIFE SAVING AN INVITATION If you are a Mbore Coun ty veteran of any war, you are invited to the ^'V-J Day celebration at Southern Pines next Thursday whether you have received an in'vi- tation or not, is the good word this week from Charles J. Swoope, chairman. Checking all known vet erans' lists in the county, members of the committee have sent out invitations to all on the lists but are well awpre of the fabt that they may have missed > many names. Ifeterans of the county will be admitted without charge to the day's events. They may pick up their tick,- ets to the baseball game (Peachy Relt AU-Stars vs. Fort Bragg) and to the Grand 'Victory ball at Scot- tie's at tKe entrance booth in the city park after 12 noon on V-J dlay. The ball. Inci dentally. will be for veterans only, and their lady ghests. If hot in uniform, veterans should wear their discharge buttons. WSTS Ready For Broadcast After Technical Delay Radio Station 'WSTS, prevented by transmitter troubles from making its proihised debut Mon day morning, has now about got its ducks in a row and hopes to get on the air this weekend, according to John C. Greene, manager. In fact, there is a big possibil ity it will ease onto the airwaves sometime Friday. Disappointment over its fail ure to broadcast as announced was reported general in the Sand hills towns, where many resi dents were said to have set their alarm clocks for the unwonted hour qf 6 a. m. in order to hear the infant station’s first spokep words. However, Greene asks that they keep their dials tuned to ,990 .—^they’ll hear something pretty coon. Early - morning tests conduct ed during the past 10 days have brought messages from radio lis teners in Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts re porting clear reception and inter est in thel new station, which is carrying the name of Southern Pines all up and down the east ern seaboard. A test radio con versation with Columbia, S. C. was also widely heard apd re ported successful. GAMES AND DANCE Events on schedule in the city’s youth recreation program for the coming week will include two baseball games by thd older boys’ team, and a dhnee for* the 15- years-apd-up age group at the Civic club Saturday night. A game with Raeford will be held here FriRay at 2:30 p. m., and one with Lumberton there, Monday. Registration should be made in advance at the Red Cross chapter ofice here, or at Aberdeen lake, for the in structors' course in life sav ing which will begin at the lake Monday morning, ac cording to word from spon soring Red Cross officials. James Davis, special field representative from the area office in Atlanta,' will teach the course, which will consist of' three-hour sessions held daily, Monday through Fri day, August 11-22. Good swimmers 19 years old or older may take the course, which is given without charge and which leads to certification as a Red Cross life saving instructor. Registrants will decide the lime classes will be held, and if a majority prefer to have instruction at night at the well-lighted lake, this can probably be arranged, offi cials said. Prisoners Busy At New Gamp Cannery Putting Up Peaches In Vast Amounts A brand new, modern cannery, quite possibly the state’s finest, went ineo operation Monday a week ago at the highway prison camp near Carthage, and in the first eight days of operation more than 10,000 gallons of peaches were put up. The prisoners are doing all the work, under supervision of Supt. C. M. Jackson, and the canned goods produced there will be used at the camp and also distributed where needed among the 84 other prison camps of the state. The Carthage camp cannery is one of three recently established by the state. One is at the wo men’s .prison at Raleigh, another at the Creswell highway camp. The result will be some mighty :0aod eating Jnex)f wiliterj and lower grocery bills for the tax payers to pay. Vegetables Next ■When the peach crop is over— and Superintendent Jackson said he anticipates the canning of some 30,000 gallons—other produce wiill be put up; tomatoes, beans, corn and other things grown at the prison farm. Some tomatoes have already sentences. been canned, but it’s the peaches, purchased by the hundred bush els from local orchards, that are the main thing now: Georgia Belles all last week, and this* week the fine Elbertas, They are peeled by a lye and boiling water process, and put up in gallon cans which are then steam-pressured in a vat of 1,200- gallon capacity. Sealing is auto matically done. Some 25 or 30 prisoners ^re at work every day, doing the job neatly and expert ly and taking a real pride in it, Jackson said. Biliilt Cannery The prisoners also built the cannery itself, a 30 - by - 60 foot structure on a solid concrete foun dation, with concrete extending up 36 inches and then finished with wood to the top. It is a good looking building, and with its huge vats and shining machinery, an addition of real value to the camp plant. Besides the knowledge that they are performing a real ser vice, .the cannery workers, get spmething else by which they set much store; gained time off their

Page Text

This is the computer-generated OCR text representation of this newspaper page. It may be empty, if no text could be automatically recognized. This data is also available in Plain Text and XML formats.

Return to page view