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FIGHT POLIO! GIVE TO THE MARCH OF DIMES FIGHT POLIO! GIVE TO THE MARCH OF DIMES VOL. 29 NO. 9 14 PAGES THIS WEEK Southern Pines, N. C.. Friday, January 23, 1948. 14 PAGES THIS WEEK TEN CENTS Maternal Welfare Meeting To Honor Founder’s Memory Dr. Moore, Miss Corbin Will Speak At Carthage Feb. 25 At a meeting held at the hoitie of Mrs. F. H. Underwood of Car thage, treasurer of the Moore County Maternal Welfare Associ ation, members of the executive committee of the association drew up plans for the annual meeting to be held in Carthage on Febru ary 25th. With Mrs. Underwood as chair man of the meeting committee, consisting of Mrs. P; P. McCain, Mrs. W. D. Sabiston, Mrs. M. G. Boyette, Mrs. Talbot Johnson, Mrs. Roy Williamson, Mrs. L. T. Avery and Mrs. James Boyd, the group discussed the program and arrangements to be made. It is planned, reports the chair man, to hold this first big meet ing since the war, in memory of the founder of the association, Elizabeth Woltz Currie. There will be two principal speakers. Dr. Oren Moore, close friend and physician of the Currie family, and a leader among those work ing for the cause of maternal wel fare in the state, and Miss Hazel Corbin of the Maternity Center Association of New York City. Miss Corbin, executive head of this nationally famous organiza tion, the pioneer in this field, in writing her acceptance of the committee’s invitation, said she had always wanted to come to Moore County and see at first hand the work whose fame is widespread. Miss Corbin is a friend of Moore County’s nurse- (Continued on Page 8) Tuesday Freeze Slows Traffie, Causes Accidents The worst weather of the sea son, producing a cold slick freeze bn streets and roads Tuesday, made traps for the unwary in cars and on foot. Worth R. Parsons, of Jackson Springs, lost his life when his car skidded and crashed near Mt. Gilead late that night. Though many near-accidents were reported in the county, none were serious, and a slightly ris ing temperature Wednesday turn ed the ice to less dangerous pud dles. Thursday dawned as a beau tiful springlike day. However, on Tuesday cars were skidding perilously, and only the fact that traffic was proceeding at a isnail’s pace saved many from disaster. Wreckers were kept busy answering distress calls of motorists who had slid into ditches, but in most cases these were able to go along under their own power, once they were haul ed back to the road. A bad crash occurred on High way 1, just south of Southern ■ Pines, when two cars driven by Raleigh motorists collided head- on, with grave damage to the cars. The drivers, W. L. Powell and a Mr. Griffin, were unhurt. The Powell car was the most bad ly damaged and is still undergo ing repairs at a local garage. Cars Overturn Three people miraculously es caped hurt as their cars skidded and overturned early Tuesday. One was Miss Peggy Ewing, who had an upset on the Midland road, near the Mid Pines club, with slight damage to her car. The others were A. G. Edwards of Vass and Miss Gladys Causey of Lakeview, whom he was giving a lift to her job in Southern Pines. Just north of Manly the Ed wards car hit a tricky stretch of ice, spun and turned over. Pas- sersby helped right it, and they got back in and drove on to woj-k, with only a few bruises to show for their near-catastrophe. Mrs. M. M. Creel, of Aberdeen, driving to Pinehurst, sustained some damage to her car when it was struck by a truck as both skidded on the Aberdeen-Pine- hurst road. Her car had to be (Continued on Page 8) Womble To Be Heard J. G. Womble, director of the band at the Southern Pines High school, will be presented in a 30- minutp OBgan recital Sunday at 8 p. m,. at the First Baptist church preceding the evening meditation Sunday. The recital will consist of sacred music, the “grand old tunes” of the Christian church. This is one of several Sunday evening musical presentations be ing given at the church, to which, according to Rev. J. Lamar Jack- son, pastor, the public is cordially invited. Womble studied organ at Davidson college and at the Uni versity of North Carolina. He was organist and choir director at the First Baptist church of Thomp son, Ga., before coming to Sou thern Pines last September. Fire which destroyed a Ne gro home on Rt. 2, Vass, Mon day afternoon took the life of Charlie McDonald, 56 years old, whose body was burned to a crisp before aid could ar rive. McDonald lived with his son 'and daughter-in-law who were away at work in Vass when the tragedy occurred. ' Origin of the fire has not been determined. The home was just over the line in Hoke county, and it is understood that an investigation is being made by the sheriff's depart ment of that county. A coro ner's inquest was held Tues day. Scenes about town Saturday morning, a cold rainy day, as signatures were being gathered in Sou thern Pines on petitions to be sent to Congress urging swift passage of the Marshall Plan. Above—Pat Caddell, Carolyn Chester, and Peggy Phillips sign up a few oh Broad street. Mrs. Frank Neely with little Karen in’foreground. Upper left—All those at the curb market were glad to sign, as Mrs. James Boyd, chairman of the local workers, presented the petition. Left center: Mrs. Rene deMilhau signs at her door as Miss Martha Langston, Gary Mattocks and Jordan Frassinetti make tl^e rounds. Left, at bot tom.—^With Valerie Nicholson looking on, the Rev. F. Craighill Brown adds his name to the grow ing list. (Photo by Hemmer) PETITIONS {REVEAL PEOPLE BELIEVE MARSHALL PLAN IS ONLY PEACE HOPE Almost Everyone Eager To Place Name On Growing Lists Many Helped Get Signatures By Katharine L. Boyd We had ntever circulated, as . . [hey call it; a petition'beiore and running full blast. In almost ev All over the Sandhills, on Fri day and Saturday, the campaign to petition Congress to hurry up and pass the Marshall Plan was we wondered WhSt it would be like. We had little idea and what we did have turned out to be en tirely wrong. Tht matter of circulation, for instance. There was none. And not only none in our feet, which turned into cold lumps of ice dur ing the hour or so sitting in front of the pot office, but there was no circulating of the petition it self. No need to. Everybody else did the circulating. Ambushed at that strategic point On the path, it was possible to dart out at anybody who starts ed to stroll by, with little effort. But hardly anyone strolled. Most ly they marched up to the table and: “Where’s the petition?” they demanded. “I want to sign it.” That was the rule all day long. The school seniors, who did do a lot of circulating, reported that people ran after them doy/n the block halloing for the petition. At the post office and bank, lines formed, fountain pens were ex tracted, crewed up, poised ready for the attack as soon as the one ahead got out of the way. When we returned to lunch there was a scrawl on the telephone pad: “Two ladies call and they say they sick and please bring it to their house,” and the numbers carefully given, luckily. A few people wanted to talk it over. Was the Marshall Plan the best plan? Oughtn’t We to say just “a plan,” or maybe the Her- ter plan? ery county town local committees were scouring the streets with the petition sheets, and folks were standing in line to sign at desig nated epots. In Southern Pines the drive got under way Saturday morning with two stands, the post office where Mrs. James Boyd, chair man for Southern Pines, Mrs. Valerie Nicholson and Mrs. Er nest Ives took turns signing peo ple up, and inside the bank where Mrs. L. T. Avery, Mrs. Riggs Mc Connell and Mrs. Katherine Mc- Coll alternated. Most active of all was the school team. With Mrs. Ruth W. Swisher and Miss Martha Langs ton in Charge, five juniors and seniors, who had been making a special study of the Marshall Plan, hung placards round their necks and started off. The girls, F^t Caddell, Carolyn Chester, add Peggy Phillips, took the shops and the pedestrians, while the boys, Gary Mattocks and Jordan Frassineti went to the garages and filling stations. Later they joined up in one of the boys’ cars to cover the hotels. Others who assisted the local team to circulate the petition were: Miss Ann Huntington, Lou ise Milliken, Bill Warner, Mrs. Louise Clark, Dorothy Swisher, Ann Carter, Gay McClellan, Mrs. James Swett, Mrs. W. G. Landon. The chairman, Mrs. Boyd, was loud in praise of her assistants. “We never could have done it without the young people’s help,” she said, “and I am especially (Continued on Page 5) Winky Chatfield, McKenzie Injured In Monday Crash One of the first bad accidents of the new year occurred Monday when the car of W. F. Chatfield of Southern Pines struck a Helms truck which had stalled on a hiU on the Carthage-Sanford road. Chatfield, 28, at the wheel of his ’40 Chevrolet coach* had stop ped about two miles outside Car thage to pick up Standish Mc Kenzie, 23, early Monday morn ing to take him to Durham, where the two worked for the We had to shrug our shoulders. Reid Hayden Co. out of Charlotte BURNED TO DEATH Those alternatives had been con sidered, and who were we to say which was best. The point was simply, it had seemed to us, that the Marshall Pl^n was ready; it had been given long and exhaus tive study by a great many ex perts. The chances were, it seem ed to us, that it was as good as any other plan and tlie advantage of its being ready to start out- v/eighed, we felt, any possible disadvantages. Because, in our minds, the time element was fear fully important. Ijssides, there were bound to be mistakes and miscalculations in any plan. The fact that nothing of this sort had ever been tried before in the his tory of the world made that al most a certainty. Therefore, any plan would have to be amended and changed as the bugs in it showed up. As for its administra tion, it was up to Congress to de cide on that. What we wanted to do now was to tell them to go ahead and get it started. That seemed to satisfy the few people who questioned endorse- (Continued on Page 5) Thomas G. Wicker Starts Work As C Of C Secretary Money Question Snags Plans For Air Stops Here Financing Needed For Local Service By Piedmont Planes It appears there is a “but” in the report that Piedmont Air lines, Inc., is to include stops at Moore County’s Knollwood Field in its east-west route. The hitch is the same that has come into the local airport picture too often for its own good or that of these resort ■ communities it should be serving: the question of funds. At an evening session held Monday in the office of Richard Tufts, president of Pinehurst, Inc., and member of the county airport committee, of which D. G. Stutts of Southern Pines is chair man, the whole matter was thrashed out. The meeting was attended by officials of Resort Airlines and by R. D. Hager, of Winston-Salem, assistant to the president of Piedmont, and S. P. Gilley, operations manager. With the county owning the airfield, with the local airlines, (Resort) entirely occupied run ning their own show and trying to make headway in their at tempt to obtain certification, and with the two towns of Pinehurst and Southern Pines definitely in need of this service but owning no part of either field or planes, with all^ these a part of the Com plicated picture, there appears to be danger, according to members of the committee, that the good of the community will suffer and the airfield will fall between too many stones. Piedmont Offers » As things stand now, Piedmont has offered to stop at Knollwood Field with their four big: Doug las planes. They offer two east- (Continued on Page 8) Hodgkins Wins Silver Beaver Scouting Award Splendid Progress Reported At Annual Council Meeting In the dim early light, around 6:30 o’clock, Chatfield, said to have been driving at about 45, re portedly failed to ee the truck, which had stalled in the center of the road, on a hill, and which was said to have had no tail lights. Fred Honeycutt, driver of the truck, said later that he had not had time to put out flares. As Chatfield swerved to avoid the truck he was faced by another coming towards him. This was a truck from the state highway prison camp, near Carthage, driv en by James Thomas. Attempting to pass between the two, the Chatfield car struck the Helms truck and scraped t)ie other. Chatfield was thrown out and landed on his suitcase, which he said later he believed saved him from sferious injury. McKen zie struck the windshield dnd rearview mirror with his head. A passing motorist drove to Carthage and called the ambu lance which failed to com.e, due, it was later explained, to a cold rnotor. Another motprist, driving (Continued on Page 5) Employment of Thomas Grey Wicker, of Hamlet, by the Sou thern Pines Chamber of Com merce board of directors as the Chamber’s first full-time execu tive secretary was announced this week by John S. Ruggles, chair man of the board. Wicker, a veteran of the U. S. navy’s V-12 program and a de- cember graduate of the Univer sity of North Carolina, started work Monday morning, thus end ing the Chamber of Commerce’s two-month quest for a qualified executive. During this time 36 applica tions were received, and most of them personally investigated. Wicker, who was highly recom mended by university officials for his outstanding record, per- soriality and (achievements, re ceived their unanimous approval. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Wicker, of Hamlet. His mother is the former Esta Cam eron of Southern Pines and he has visited here a number of times, and is related here. Record He graduated from the Hamlet High school in June, 1944 and en tered the University of North Car olina as a student under the V-12 program. After 18 months he was transferred to Great Lakes, Ill., and thence to Tacoma, Wash. On his discharge in September 1946, he returned to the university. Majoring in journalism at UNC, where he was literary editor of the Carolina magazine. Wicker also had opportunity to further his (Continued on Page 8> Norris L. Hodgkins, of South ern Pines, at the annual banquet of the Occoneechee Council held at Raleigh last Thursday night was presented with the highest award and most distinguished honor of volunteer Boy Scout ing, the Silver Beaver, in recog nition of Continuous and out standing service over the past 12 years. He thus became the second holder of the. Silver Beaver award in the history of Moore County. Paul C. Butler, also of Southern Pines, was given the first at the annual banquet a year ago. Appropriately, it was Butler who made the presentation to his colleague of the award, given by the National Council. Hodgkins, a native of Ells worth, Me., moved here from Al bany, N. Y., in 1933, and was elected finance chairman of the Moore County distiict the follow ing year. Serving thus in 1936 and 1937, he was elected district chairman for 1938, 1939 and 1940. During 1941 and 1942 he was president of the 11-county Oc coneechee council of which Moore County is a part. Reelected Each Year Since 1943 he has been suc- sively reelected each year to the post of district finance chairman, to which he has given the bene- (Continued on Page 8) GOOD! A. B. Yeomans lets no grass grow under his feet. Neither, it appears do our state repre sentatives in Washington. Yeomans wrote to Senators Hoey and Umstead and to Representative Deane and has already received replies from all three. Each one stated that he was complete ly behind the Marshall Plan and would do all in his power to bring it into effect.
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