CELEBRATE V-J
DAY HERE
AUGUST 14TH
CELEBRATE V-J
DAY HERE
AUGUST 14TH
VOL. 28 NO. 37
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Southern Pines, N. C-Friday, August 8 1947.
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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
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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. ■
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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