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HELP PREVENT TUBERCULOSIS BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS TH LOT HELP PREVENT TUBERCULOSIS BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS VOL. 29 NO. 2 16 PAGES THIS WEEK Southern Pines, N. C., Friday,'December 5, 1947. 16 PAGES THIS WEEK TEN CENTS County Board At Odds With State licensing Body Construclion Of Vass-Lakeview School Subject Of Dispute Farrell Explains Board's Position Contention of the North Car olina Licensing Board for Con tractors that the Vass-Lakeview school is proceeding contrary to state law, through not having the supervision of a licensed contrac tor, is being met by a decision of the county board of ed ucation to carry on “as is” and let the state board take what steps it may. The Pilot learned this week. The school, largest in the county, is being built by a county construction crew under super vision of the foreman, N. N. Mc Donald, and is about 30 per cent completed. When the protest of the state licensing board was first register ed, before construction begt^n. the county board sought and secured opinions from both At torney General H. W. McMullan and County Attorney M. G, Boy ette that it was all right to go ahead, according to F. D. Farrell, board chairman. While it was far preferable to have a licensed contractor, the county board had met require ments in trying to get one, with out success; and replacement without further delay of the 550- pupil school, burned down last March, was to be considered of first importance, the opinions stated. State Law The Istate law requires that any construction or repair work necessitating expepditure of $10,000 of public funds must be done through a regular procedure of advertising for sealed bids, public opening of the bids and awarding of the contract to the lowest qualified bidder, ‘‘except in case of special emergency in volving the health and safety of the people and their property.” According to Farrell, this was considered such an emergency. The state licensing board • says not. Protests have been made by mail and through a recent visit of a representative of the state licensing body to H. Lee Thomas, county school superiritendeiit. The representative named some local contractors, suggesting that one be employed to satisfy condi tions of the law. One of them, A. B. Sally, of Pinehurst, was thqn approached, Thomas said, and replied that he would “con sider” undertaking the supervi sion, but the matter has not been followed up. Farrell reported that bids were twice advertised for. The first time, all on the general contract were rejected as being too high. The second time, the general contract was about to be let to the lowest bidder, a Sanford con tractor, and it wa^ found he was not licensed. No other bids were considered “within reason.” It was then that the decision was made to put McDonald in charge. No Moore County contractors submitted bids, Farrell said. No Answer No answer has been made to the state board’s protests, and none is likely to be, both Farrell and Thomas declared, implying that “the ndxt move is up to them.” According to laws and regula tions governing general contract ing in North Carolina, the next move may be the reporting of the case to the county prosecuting at- toriiey and assistance by the state body in prosecution of the case. Violation of the law constitutes a misdemeanor. An injunction to stop construc tion of the work may be issued pending a court decision. In following the present pro cedure, Farrell said, the county is adhering to a practice of long standing, here and in other places. Before coming to Moore county, for which he has built four schools, McDonald built two for Hoke county. The practice saved Moore coun- (Continued on Page 5) BANQUET Henry House, former All- iSjouthern fuillback of the UNC team, now a member of Ihe physical education de partment of the University, will be the speaker at the banquet to be given at the Southern Pines Country club this evening (Friday) for the undefeated high school foot ball squad, with the Elks as hosts. House will also show movies of the university team in action. Other events of the evening will include presentation of the VFW trophy to the most valuable team member; awarding of letters and emblems, and other honors for both the teams and their coaches. Ladies' Night will be ob served by the Elks' lodge in ocntjunction w<ith the ban quet, which will be held at 7 o'clock. Cabaret Will Be Feature Of Dinner Dance At Club Butler Receives 1947 Builder’s Cup Mrs. McCain Is Elected President Hospital Auxiliary $1,000 Gift For ' Equipment Is Made By Unnamed Donor Wagram Youth Is Gravely Injured In Second Accident at Sanatorium Curve John Thomas Walters, Of Raeford, Dies Of Injuries Sustained Two Weeks Ago Christmas Party Planned Sandhills Kiwanis Club Observes Its * Silver Anniversary With Fine Party Historical Association Sponsors Gay Affair Here During Holidays First entertainment being an nounced for the Christmas holi days, this year is the Cabaret Dinner Dance to be given under the auspices of the Moore County Historical Association. , The date of December 27th has been set aside for this event, with the Southern Pines Country Club as the place. Tickets are to ..be | sold for the Dinner Dance by | members of the association, with Mrs. Julian Bishop, of Knollwood and Horse Shoe Quail Farm, Car-1 thage, heading the ticket selling committee. Reports show that an evening of unusual .entertainment and holiday spirit is in store. The Scottish cabaret which will be the feature of the evening is be ing kept a dark secret till plans are fully materialized, but it is rumored that search for talent which has carried those in charge, Mrs. James Boyd and Mrs. Ernest Ives, as far afield as Chapel Hill and Red. Springs has not gone un rewarded. Local talent, of which the Sandhills can boast a great deal, will play an important part The officials of the Southern Pines club ^re cooper^fting to make this an outstanding social event, with Hunter Johnson, res taurateur, pronaising that the dinner, served in the big candle lit room, will be GOOD. “That’s what we want,” stress ed the committee in charge, “This is, after all, to raise money for the (Continued on Page 5) International President Speaks; Honors Are Given Peach Growers Plan Organization For Marketing Representatives of the North Carolina and the South Carolina peach growing industry' met in Charlotte Monday and approved in principle a marketing agree ment for the industry. The organizations sending rep resentatives to the meeting were the peach growers associations of the two states, and tte Farm Bureau committees of the two states assigned to the peach in dustry. R. E. Heffernan of the depart ment of agriculture, presented the views of the department on marketing of the peach crop in this area. The purpose of the agreement as previously announced is to im prove the type of product market ed from the Carolinas peach country, and to insure support of prices by controlling handling of the crop from year to year. Conuniilee It was decided at the meeting that''the marketing agreement shall be administered by a com mittee made up of representa tives from every one of the peach growing areas in the two states. On the committee will be four men fitom the North Carolina Sandhills, four from the South Carolina , Piedmont, two each (Continued on Page 5) DR. C. W. ARMSTRONG Basketball Games Seheduled For Coming Season The schedule of boys’ games for the coming basketball season was announced by Coach A. C. Dawson of the Southern Pines High school, following a meeting at Raeford Tuesday night attend ed by representatives of schools in District 4 of the North Carolina Athletic association. The first game will be held next Friday. Also arranged were four con ference games for next fall’s foot ball team, as follows—September 29, West End, there; October 6, Pinehurst, here; October 13, Red Springs, there; October 20, Rob bins, here. Four non-conference games are also to be arranged. The 18 games of the ,1947-48 basketball season will be played mostly 'away from home, as the Southern Pines school has no gymnasium this year. Several “home games” will be played on the Aberdeen court through courtesy of the Aberdeen High school. The schedule; December—Friday 12, Laurin- burg in Aberdeen, Monday 15, Pinehurst, there. January—Friday 9, Laurinburg in Laurinburg; Tuesday 13, West End in Aberdeen; Friday 16^ Aberdeen in Aberdeen; Tuesday 20, Robbins, place to be arranged; Friday 23, Carthage in Carthage; Monday 26, West End in Aber deen; Friday 30 and Saturday 31, Morehead City at Morehead City. February—Monday 2, Aber deen in Pinehurst; Friday 6, and Saturday 7, Morehead City in Aberdeen; Tuesday 10, Cameron in Cameron; Friday 13, Pinehurst in Pinehurst; Monday 16, Rob bins in Aberdeen; Friday 20, Car thage in Aberdeen. The Moore County tournament will be held during the week from Tuesday, February 24, through Tuesday, March 2. PLAY AT ABERDEEN The senior class of Aberdeen High school is presenting “The Groom Said No,” a comedy in three acts by Ruth and Nathan Hale this evening, (Friday), at 8 in the Aberdeen High School au ditorium. In the same room at the Mid Pines club where it was organ ized in 1922, the Sandhills Ki wanis club celebrated its silver anniversary Monday night with a birthday party worthy of the high achievements which have gone before, and of the construc tive future which lies ahead. Highlights were the awarding ^uilda^a^.gi!P. tO; Butler, of Southern Pines; the pungent and purposeful address of the distinguished speaker. Dr. Charles W. Armstrong of Salis bury, president of Kiwanis Inter national; honors paid to charter members who were present; pre sentation of funds- for hospital use, in keeping with a custom of long standing; the singing of songs, in the leading of which Charlie Picquet, master of cere monies, kept the spirit of good nature high; the gifts of silver ash trays to the ladies; the sump tuous dinner; and the fine fresh harmonies of the Pinehurst High School Glee club, in a half doz en numbers directed by Paul 'V. Peck. Founders Honored Paul C. Butler, president, pre siding, gave the President-Elect Leland McKeithen the honor of recounting highlights of the club’s history and honoring its founding members, seven of whom are still active in the club. G. C. Seymour was unable to be present. Presenting silver initial ed watch chains to R. L. Chand ler, Sr., Dr. T. A. Cheatham, J. Talbot Johnson, Sam B. Richard son, I. C. Sledge and Charles W. Picquet, McKeithen expressed the hope that “we will all be to gether 25 years from now, when the gifts will be of gold.” ' Recognition was also given A. S. Ruggles and E. T. McKeithen, charter members no longer active in membership, but present as special guests in the comany of their Kiwanian sons. Garland McPherson,, chairman of the underprivileged child com mittee through which the club’s major work over the years has been effected, paid tribute to a man who, he said, “does more for underprivileged children thdri anyone I know of”—Judge 'Wil liam A. Way, prevented by ill ness from being present. To E. T. McKeithen, Moore County Hospital administrator, McPher son presented a check for $365, representing admissions paid in 1947 by visitors to Judge Way’s Carolina Orchid Gardens, ■turned over in full toward the sppport of the Kiwanis bed for underprivi leged children; and a second check for $375, to buy a resusci- tator. Gracious response was made by McKeithen, who said that through this piece of equipment lives can now be saved, at the hospital which Would haVe been lost without it. Builders Cup To Dr. Cheatham fell the priv ilege of awarding the club’s high est honor to one of its own mem bers—the Builder’s cup. Its re cipient may have been surprised (Continued on Page 5) Mrs. P. P. McCain of Southern Pines was elected president of the Moore County Hospital auxiliary for the year 1948, at the annual ■election held Tuesday morning at the Nurses’ home. Other officers elected were Mrs. M. G. Nichols, Southern Pines, retiring president,, to the office of first vice president; Mrs. W. D. Hyatt, Pinehurst, second vice president; Mrs. William F. Hollister, Southern Pines, secre tary, and Mrs. J. B. Edwards, Aberdeen, treasurer. The names were unanimously accepted as presented by Mrs. ’T. A. Cheatham for the nominating committee. Twenty-five members were present at the meeting, which was one of the year’s most mo mentous. A gift of $1,000 was reported, to be used for hospital equip ment according to the unnamed donor’s request. Mrs. Nichols, presiding, announced that all such gifts, large and small, would be most gratefully received and that the donor’s wishes as to their uses would be carefully respected. Another gift, long sought by the auxiliary, was announced— a Santa Claus suit, donated by Leo Eriiardt of Pinehurst for use at the annual Christmas party for children at the hospital. Plans for this year’s party were discussed, and Mrs. J. Tal bot Johnson, of Aberdeen was ap pointed general chairman. ‘ Children Set Fire, 32 Acres Are Burned Tiny children playing with matches outdoors while their mother lay ill inside the house caused the county’s first forest fire of the winter season Wednes day, near West End. The fire covered some 32 acres of timberland, acording to Fire Warden E. W. Davis, whose crew extinguished it after a stiff fight and with much help from neigh bors. The entire crew of a nearby sawmill joined the fight. ‘‘Co operation was excellent arid we are very grateful,” Davis said. Only the fact that the wind veered toward the forest saved the home of the tenant farmer on the Bob 'Von Canon place, where the sick mother was in bed.' A little son and daughter, aged two and three, had set the fire outside. With the worst season for for est fires now beginning Warden Davis issued a strong reminder for the most careful vigilance on the part of all those living near woods, or passing through them on foot, ahorse or in a car. Stephen A. McLean, 30, of Wa gram, was ’critically injured ear ly Wednesday when his car went out of control on the curve near the Negro unit of N. C. Sanator ium, close to the 'spot where, on November 22, two young RaeSord men were hurt in a similar acci- Postoffice At Sanatorium To Be Renamed McCain The name of the post office at Sanatorium will be changed to McCain, effective January 1, 1948, according to word received from Congressman C. B. Deane at Washington. The post office, heretofore known simply as Sanatorium in designation of the great state hos pital for the tuberculous located there, will thus honor in its naming the late Dr. Paul P. Mc Cain, who served as superinten dent of the state tubercular hos pitals for many years. Dr. McCain, who was in his young manhood a tuberculosis patient himself, recovered to de vote his life and training to the service of the tuberculous, and to the prevention and treatment of the disease. His service was statewide and he was nationally recognized for his achievements in this difficult field of medicine. The name honors also his wife, who now lives in' Southern Pines, and whose devotion and service to the Sanatorium and its work over many years is continuirig today. She is the former Sadie Lou McBrayer, whose father. Dr. L. B. McBrayer, was Dr. McCain’s predecessor as superintendent of the Sanatorium. Dr. McCain was killed in an automobile accident November 25, 1946, near Raleigh, where he was to have attended a meeting of the North Carolina Medical Care association’s executive com mittee. Native of S. C. A native of Due West, S. C., he received his A. B. degree from Erskine college and his M. D. from the University of Maryland. He came to the N. C. Sanator ium March 1, 1914, as assistant superintendent and chief of medi cal service, became superinten dent in 1924 and was made su perintendent of other state insti tutions of this nature as they were opened during the ensuing years. In 1935 he became president of the North Carolina Medical so ciety, and in 1940 of the Na- tiolnal Tuberculosis j^ssociatiorj He was accorded many other pro fessional distinctions. In Community Life Besides his professional duties, Dr. McCain gave generously of his time and service to the reli gious, educational and commun- tContinued on Page 5) dent, one of them fatally. The victims were taken into the Sanatorium and given emer gency treatment in both in stances, then brought to the Moore County Hospital, where late on Wednesday of this week McLean had not recovered con sciousness, and William Lentz, of Raeford, was still a patient. John Thomas Walters, 30, of Raeford, died at the hospital last Friday, the victim of immerous skull fractures, a broke*leg and other injuries. McLean, the son of Mrs. Allen McLean of Wagram, was found unconscious in the wreck of his demolished car on the Sanatorium curve about 3:30 a. m .Wednesday by the driver of an oil tanker. It was apparent that, traveling south from Aberdeen, he had lost control of'the car, which skidded for some 400 feet, left the road and returned to it, only to over turn within a short distance. His condition is said to be grave. He was driving a 1947 Chrysler sedan. In the earlier accident, Lentz and Walters were returning to Raeford after seeing the Duke- Carolina game when they lost control of their car and hit a pole at the Sanatorium curve. The car burst into flames, which were extinguished through the he roic action of .Sanatorium staff members in saving the injured men. An ironic highlight is that, af ter the victims were removed from the wreck and taken into the Sanatorium on stretchers, someone came along who was just the opposite of a Good Samari tan. Two wheels with their tires, (Continuea on Page 5) Madigan Car In Wednesday Collision 6beying a photographer’s first instinct—to save his camera if it kills him—Col. Donald L. Mad igan narrowly missed serious in jury in a collision at the intersec tion of West 'Vermont avenue and May street Wednesday about 5:15 p. m. Driving down the Vermont Avenue hill from his home on the Ridge Street corner. Colonel Madigan put on brakes for the intersection, then grabbed for his very excellent camera as it started to fall from the seat be side him. As a result his foot slip ped from the brake to the gas pedal, and the car leaped for ward into the crossing, hitting the back end of a pickup truck driven by John Seward, of near Manly. The bumper was knocked from the back of the truck and the Madigan car spun across the street and jumped the opposite curb. Its radiator, bumper and headlights were badly smashed. Colonel Madigan suffered some bruises and was badly shaken up. P. S. He saved the camera. “Next Time May The Gifts Be Of Gold” Six of the seven charter members of the Sandhills Kiwanis club still active in the club after 25 years, received silver initialed watch chains at “the Silver Anniversary banquet. Leland McKeithen, president-elect, told them, “May we be together 25 years from now, when the gifts will be of gold.” Reading from left, they are S. B. Richardson, R. L. Chandler, Sr., I. C. Sledge, J. Talbot Johnson, Rev. T. A. Cheatham, Charles W. Picquet, with McKeithen at right. G. C. Seymour, a member of the group, was absent. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
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