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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-
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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
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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-
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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)