Merry Christmas
and
Happy New Year
Merry Christmas
and
Happy New Year
VOL. 29 NO. 5
12 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines, N. C.,
Friday. December 2S. 1947.
12 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Ready Response Has Assured That All
Needy Families Will Receive Baskets
VFW, Elks, Others
Work With Council
But More Gifts, Cash
Will Be Welcomed
Through the generous contribu
tions and services of individuals
and organizations here no worthy
family on his list of almost 100
names will be forgotten this
Christmas, said Col. D. L. Madi-
gan early this week.
However, said Colonel Madi-
gan, who is serving as Christmas
chairman of the Council of Social
Agencies, any further gifts of
money, toys, household articles or
food will be most gratefully re
ceived, and will go where they
are most needed, to add to the
Christmas joy of the very poor.
Every case on the list, sent to
the Council from the welfare de
partment’s active files, has been
personally investigated, and
where the families were found to
be not actually in need, the names
were taken from the list.
These, however, he said, were
few.
In most of the families there are
small children, looking forward
like all others to the great day of
Christmas. For each of these there
will be something, if only one
small toy.
Good Coordination
He was especially pleased at
the cooperation accorded the
Council of Social Agencies by
other groups, enabling it to fulfill
its primary function of a clear
inghouse, coordinating the activi
ties toward Christmas aid and
avoiding duplication and omis
sions.
In undertaking the supplying
of Christmas cheer for 20 families,
Bob Thomas, chairman of the
Christmas committee of the John
Boyd post, VFW, checked with
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Samarcand Girls
Will Have Gifts
Christmas Parties
Girls at Samarcand Manor are
looking forward to a happy
Christmas, with parties, presents
and remembrances from many
outside the iwalls.
It’s to be a quiet Christmas, ac
cording to Miss Reva Mitchell,
superintendent, with many rules
relaxed which ordinarily govern
the routine of the school "and
daily living.
The season began at Samarcand
last Wednesday, which was an all
day visiting day. Families of
about 50 of the 150 girls came to
see them, many bringing presents
which were held to be placed un
der the Christmas tree. Last
Thursday, the girls gave a Christ
mas pageant, at which there were
a number of visitors and on Fri
day, school closed for the Christ
mas holidays. That night Miss
Mitchell had a party at her home
for 21 student councilors, girls
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GEN. MARSHALL
Here is a special Christmas
greeting to the Sandhills'
most distinguished visitor—
Gen. George C, MarshalL and
also Mrs. Marshall, who are
in residence at Liscombe
Lodge, Pinehurst, for an in
definite stay.
The Secretary of State ar
rived by army plane Saturday
after having reached Wash
ington, D. C., Thursday direct
from the London conference.
Mrs. Marshall preceded him
by some weeks, readying
their winter home for his ar-
I.’ival.
They attended church Sun
day at the Village Chapel at
Pinehurst, where Dr. T. A.
Cheatham conducted a Christ
mas service. Though the Sec
retary is here for a rest, he
and Mrs. Marshall have an
invitation to visit the Christ
mas Charity ball of the Sand
hills post, American Legion,
Friday night and it is hoped
they may drop in.
A very merry Christmas to
them both!
N. C. Sanatorium
Patients Will
Be Remembered
TB Association And
Local Friends Send Gifts
The Moore County Tuberculo
sis association will follow its cus
tom of long standing in furnish
ing Christmas cheer for Moore
county patients at the N. C. Sana
torium at McCain (as the Sana
torium post office will be known
after January 1).
Mrs. T. A. Cheatham, president,
of Pinehurst, and her county com
mittee are seeing to it that every
patient is remembered. The nine
white and five Negro patients
from this county will receive gifts
of attractive clothing useful to
those who have to stay in bed a
lot—sweaters, pajamas and simi
lar items—and also such wanted
articles as cosmetics and station
ery.
\The gifts are donated by mem
bers and friends, and some are
also purchased.
A group of friends in Southern
Pines are also sending pretty
scrapbooks to all the children at
the Sanatorium, numbering about
35 this year.
This is part of the annual
Christmas cheer observance at
the hospital, where ordinary rules
are suspended for the day as far
as is commensurate with the pa
tients’ well being. Christmas
trees are placed about the build
ings so that each one can enjoy
the happy sight, visitors may stay
all day and visiting rules among
patients are relaxed.
The Sunshine club, of employ
ees and their wives, sees to it that
each patient has a special gift,
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Saks Features New Decorative Medium
Developed By Southern Pines Couple
'The day after Christmas, Saks
Fifth Avenue in New York City
will blossom out with a beautiful
southern-resort window.
The flowery effect of the win
dow will be enhanced by a floor
of satiny tiles in alternating soft
mossy-green and smoky-rose, to
coin some color names. These
particular colors have no names,
as yet—^they’re too new.
The tiles are something new
and lovely; they were made, in a
pleasant basement workshop
right here in Southern Pines,
which they left no longer ago
than Saturday; and they repre
sent the beginning—one of the
beginnings, that is—of what may
weU turn out to be one of the
most flourishing little enterprises
the town has ever had, as well as
a career for bne of its nicest
young couples.
They are Mr. and Mrs. William
L. White, who live in a charming,
cottage to inatch their name out
on Grover road, a home already
beautiful which they have beau
tified still further, and which
serves not only as their center of
hospitality but , also as the seat of
their engrossing work.
Table Tops
The floor tiles are just a part of
it; the major part up to now has
been the making of table tops of
the same material, many of them
artistically enhanced with origi
nal designs on sale exclusively at
present at another top ranking
New York store, Mayhew’s, on
Madison avenue, which special
izes in fine furnishings.
In fact, supplying Mayhew’s is
their biggest project right now.
The floor tiles for Saks Fifth Ave
nue are incidental, selected for
emphasis in this story because
they happen to be news-of-the-
moment.
Floor tiles and table tops are
not by any means all they can,
and are planning to, make. In
fact, the possibilities of the ma-
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AGAIN THE LIGHT IN THE EAST GLEAMS BRIGHTLY
Deane Advises Conservation Of Oil
To Tide Over Crisis In N. Carolina
HOLIDAY
staying open until late on
the evenings before Christ
mas. practically all stores
and other businesses in town
will be closed Thursday,
Christmas day, and also Fri
day, according to announce
ment by John S. Buggies,
Chamber of Commerce pres
ident.
Most will reopen for busi
ness Saturday morning. Ex
ceptions will be the Southern
Pines Warehouses, Inc., and
Shaw Paint and Wallpaper
company, which will stay
closed until Monday,
The Citizens Bank and
Trust company will be closed
December 25 and 26, also next
Thursday, January 1. which
many businesses will observe
as a holiday.
Santa, Musicians
Visit Hospital As
Auxiliary Guests
'UDDENLY, high above, the star appears and we draw apart from the
mouthings in the market place and the mad rush of things to kneel in
w'onder and worship at the feet of the Babe of Bethlehem. This light
—this unfading star—is the symbol by which all men should chart their
course. No other compass is needed to bring peace and happiness to oneself
and the world. Man is the only thing out of tune in the whole great uni
verse. Still—for over nineteen hundre;d years the course has been clearly
charted. Even so—the world progresses and it’s Christmas A. D. 1947.
May the joys of the holidays linger with you. May this light guide you and
may the peace and happiness it represents stay in your heart through all
the days of the coming year. Remembering with grateful appreciation the
loyalty of our friends and our pleasant association, we bring for you and
yours this—a Christmas wish for peace and joy. THE PILOT
Chilly Christmas
Is In Prospect
Federal Gov't Powerless
Carols Heard At
Couimuuity Slug
Music sweetly filled the air
around the town park last Thurs
day evening, when the high
school glee club and orchestra
presented Christmas music, and
also led in the singing of a num
ber of carols by their audience.
The occasion was the annual
comniunity sing, sponsored this
year for the first time by the
Rotary club.
The crowd was small to begin
with, but as the music was heard
more and more arrived, until to
ward the end some 100 people
stood singing under the stars.
The orchestra directed by J. G.
Womble was arranged on an ill
uminated stand, whose lights
shown brightly on their glittering
new instruments, and the glee
club, directed by Miss Hope Bail
ey, stood behind them. The stand
had been erected by E. J. Austin,
who with Garland Pierce was
chairman of the event.
In the singing of “O Come All
Ye Faithful,” George Hodgkins
led with a trombone solo, his
trombone then carrying the air
for the singing of the crowd. Sim-
ilary, the “brass choir” of six
boys playing brasses led “It Came
Up.on a Midnight Clear.” Num
bers sung by the glee club in
cluded “The First Nowell,” “The
Birthday of the King,” “Break
Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly
Light,” and “O Little Town of
Bethlehem,” also a group of carols
from the Czech and medieval
French. “Silent Night,” and “Joy
to the World” were sung by the
crowd all together.
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Holly Tree On Lawn Of Library Wins
Pilot’s Title Of Biggest And Best
CHRISTMAS TREE
One of Ihe town's loveliest
sights of the holiday season is
the twin holly tree in front of
the post office, illumined at
night with three spotlights
shining upward among its
low-sweeping branches.
Thick with nature's own
ornaments, holly berries in
giant clusteite, the tree thus
lighted appears more red
than green.
Every night passersby stop
to admire. ''That's the pretti
est Christmas tree I've seen
yet," one of them said.
Travis Will Speak
At Rotary Club Event
Gus Travis, humorist famed
throughout the Carolinas, and
columnist on the Charlotte Ob
server, will be the featured
speaker at the annual , Ladies’
Night of the Southern Pines Ro
tary club, it was confirmed this
week by Rev. T. G. Humphries,
chairman for the event.
Around 150 guests are expected
for the banquet and program, to
be held Friday, January 2, at the
Highland Pines Inn, beginning at
V:39 o’clock.
The occasion is a highliglit of
the club year with emphasis on
fun and merriment. Besides the
chairman, Morris Johnson, A1
Howlett, Garland Pierce, Russell
Lorenson, Lloyd T. Clark and
Julian Tadlock are serving on the
committee.
Many Are Measured
And One Is Chosen
The Pilot has completed his
tour of the holly trees in town,
seen a goodly lot, missed a fev/,
peradventure, and come to the
firm conclusion that, tall or short,
large or small, single tree or
double one, “of all the trees that
are in the wood, the holly bears
the crown.”
He set out on this quest, with
the idea of satisfying himself,
and a few readers who were
nosey parkers, like himself, as to
which was the biggest holly in
town, which the prettiest, which
had the most berries and a few
other useless but intriguing ques
tions.
After several days of touring
about, in the course of which a
good nfany innocent strollers,
playing children, dogs, cats, and
squirrels barely missed extinc
tion beneath the bows of his
trusty craft, the Pilot was able
to make a list of holly trees. To
copy it word for word, would be
perhaps the wsiest plan. It goes
as follows:
Southern Pinels Holly Trees
Mr. Knowles’ holly trees, one
with berries, one without. Terrif
ic thorns, 33 inches in circumfer
ence (trunk, not thorns), a foot
up from ground, must be the big
gest.
Tree next to big white house,
Mrs. Thrower’s. Heck! No berries.
37 inches circumference, though.
Too bad ho berries, might have
gotten second.
Phooey! Tree on place next to
Mrs. Thrower’s, also no berries.
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Christmas cheer will be taken
to patients in the Moore County
hospital in the way made tradi
tional by the hospital auxiliary
in the past several years, with its
sponsorship of a “Christmas par
ty” held at the hospital Christ
mas morning.
Members of the Dunes dub or
chestra will again play their im
portant part, leading the way
through every corridor, on every
floor, going into each ward and
from room to room to play the
loved Christmas airs. Besides
Jingle BeUs,” carols and other
songs of the season, the musicians
will play special numbers as the
patients request them, of the se
lections they yearn most to hear.
Behind the musicians will come
Santa Claus, brimming with
Christmas cheer and giving a gift
to every patient—rtoys and pic
ture books for the children, other
attractive and useful presents for
every sick person.
There will also be presents for
all the staff.
In making their rounds, the or
chestra and Santa visit kitchens,
linen rooms, offices and every
other part of the hospital, as well
as the wgrds and sickrooms.
The gifts are provided through
many sources: members and
friends of the hospital auxiliary,
the Junior Red Cross in county
schools, and some by purchase.
Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson heads
the committee for the Christmas
party, as she has for the past two
Christmases. She will be assisted
in carrying out the party plans by
Mrs. M. G. Nichols, auxiliary
president, and Miss Pauline Nich
ols.
With fuel oil supplies running
critically short, it looked like a
chilly Christmas for m^ny fami
lies, with every indication that
the situation would continue to
grow worse.
A check of Southern Pines’
three oil dealers reveals that each
one is serving only its regular
customers, and those on only a
most stringent basis. So far, ex
cept for a few days here and
there in which no oil was avail
able, most users have received
en’ough to keep their heaters and
oil burners going.
At O’Callaghan’s, Esso dealers,
kerosene is entirely out, and fuel
oil is dwindling rapidly. “We have
enough to get bur regular cus
tomers through Christmas and
hope that January 1 will bring us
an allotment which will carry us
through that month,” said J. W.
Causey. “We are advising all oil
users to conserve.”
On Rationed Basis
Herbert N. Cameron, Sinclair
dealer, said that so far, enough oil
has come in from, time to time to
keep his regular customers going
on a rationed basis. “When we
get in some, we divide it out the
best we can,” he said. Some was
expected in Tuesday or Wednes
day from his supplier in Wilming
ton to tide over the Christmas
season. A majority of his custom
ers, he said, have large reserve
tanks, which they filled last sum
mer or in the early fall, and thus
have not felt the pinch.
Ralph Chandler, of the Sand
hill Oil company, Purol dealers,
said also that they have been able
to keep their regulars supplied,
but have cut stores and <)ther
places retailing kerosene down to
an 82 per cent quota this month,
based on December sales last
year. Starting the season with a
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TWO ISSUES
Church Group Will
Cheer Prisoners
At Highway Camp
The town board at a special
meeting Monday afternoon
decided to present two sep- „
arate ordinances for vote of
the people in connection with
proposed improvements to
the school athletic fields.
Instead of voting on one
$30,000 bond issue, the people
will be asked to vole separ
ately on two issues, one of
$15,000 for floodlighls, the
other, also of $15,000 for a
grandstand, and general im
provements to the fields at
both white and Negro
schools.
CHRISTMAS MASSES
The annual sung Christmas
midnight mass will be held at
St. Anthony’s Catholic church, be
ginning at the hour of midnight.
On Christmas morning, there
will be low masses at 7, 8 and
10:30.
Confessions will be heard
Christmas eve from 5 to 6 p.m.,
and from 7:30 to around 8:30.
EARLY PUBLICATION
Though this paper is dated De
cember 26 the actual publication
time was Tuesday afternoon, De
cember 23, to allow the staff a.
Christmas holiday.
News of this week which
missed the earlier deadline will
be found in next week’s issue.
Rev. Tucker G. Humphries and
a group of parishioners from the
Church of Wide Fellowship will
go to the highway prison camp
near Carthage Wednesday after
noon for their annual Christmas
party and service for the prison
ers.
According to Supt. M. C. Jack-
son, this is the only notice taken
by the outside world of these men
at Christmas. Very few packages
and hardly any mail comes for
them, and except in special cases
no extra visiting time is granted
for the families, who may see the
men only on the first and third
Sundays of each month.
This is the fifth year for the
holding of the Christmas party,
to which the local group will go
taking presents for each man: a
Bible, writing paper, stamped en
velopes, a pipe, tobacco, cigar
ettes shaving cream and other
wanted articles. Wrapped with
them will be the treats of fruit,
nuts and candy which mean
Christmas to adults as well as to
children everywhere.
A worship service, with pray
er, will be held by Rev. Mr.
Humphries, and the men will join
in the singing of Christmas hymns
and carols. Mrs. L. D. McDonald,
church organist, will be at the pi
ano as usual for the singing.
Although this is the only
Christmas observance made '• for
the men by any outside group, the
state takes note of the season
with a turkey dinner Christmas
day. Dinner is served with all the
trimmings, some of them fruit
and vegetables canned by the
prisoners at their own cannery
last summer. Bags of fruit and
nuts are distributed.
All work except the most es
sential chores will end for th,e
long week end, from Wednesday
afternoon till Monday morning.
Employees are given as much
time off as possible, with only a
skeleton staff kept on duty, and
no highway labor is done.