BOY SCOUT WEEK
FEBRUARY 6-12
BOY SCOUT WEEK
FEBRUARY 6-12
Qiiie Presents
Central Carolina
Income, Payments
Difficulties Laid
To War Shortages
And Fast Growth
School Auditorium, Gym, Cafeteria
Nearer Reality As Plans Find Favor
WSTS OPENING
Complaints Are Noted
If telephone users could appre
ciate the problems of a company
which in the past eight years has
more than doubled the extent of
its service, while unable to get
more equipment, or even replace
ments for old, the Central Caro
lina would not now be up before
the state Utilities Commission in
a hearing based on inadequate
service complaints, John E. Cline,
the company’s executive vice
president, told a Pilot reporter
yesterday.
He was glad, he said, of the op
portunity to set the record
straight, and had figures at hand
to present the company’s position
to its subscribers.
He said that reports of over
sized dividends paid to investors,
while exchanges languished and
service suffered, were far from
what they seemed on the surface.
The Central Carolina, he point
ed out, is owned by the Investors’
Telephone company of Chicago,
a holding company formed when
the previous holding company.
Standard Telephone company of
New York City, went through
bankruptcy proceedings in 1936.
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Radio Station WSTS will
have its official opening Sun
day afternoon, postponed
from last Sunday on account
of the weather, with the en
tire staff on hand to welcome
visitors to the studios on East
Broad street.
Special programs will be
broadcast during the after
noon^ beginning at 2 p. m..
when a transcribed message
sent by Governor Cherry will
be broadcast, and good will
will be expressed by Mayor
C. N. Page, Kiwaniis Presi
dent Leland McKeithen, Ro
tary president L, T. Clark
and others.
There will be special musi
cal broadcasts by . local ar
tists.
N. C. Hotel Men
Are Convening At
Pinehurst Today
Commissioners Approve
Proposals, Will Give
Definite Answer Soon
‘Old Legends And
Lore Sought In
County Contest
Another essay contest will be
conducted this year in the county
high schools, under auspices of
the Moore County Historical as
sociation, with “Tales from Moore
County’s Past” assigned as the
subject.
All the high schools will be ask
ed to cooperate, with the teachers
selecting the two best out of each
grade for entry, in the contest
and a chance at the cash prizes,
it was decided at the monthly
meeting of the association’s di
rectors, held last Thursday night
at the Shaw House. Deadline in
the contest was set at March 31.
W. A. Leland McKeithen, pres
ident, conducted the meeting, at
which hope was expressed that
the contest will bring out not
only some recountings of the well
known tales already a part of
Moore County lore, but stories
and legends hitherto unpubliciz
ed, from original sources.
In many county families, it is
believed, tales of the old days
have been handed down from one
generation to the next without
ever having been written down.
Some of these exist now only in
the memories of the very old, and
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The semiannual convention ^ of
the North Carolina Hotel associ
ation is being held at Pinehurst
today (Friday) and Saturday,
with President A. N. Greene, of
the ,Chiarlot|te hotel* Chiarlotte,
presiding. About 100 members
and guests were expected to at
tend.
At the business session Satur
day, in the ballroom of the Holly
Inn, Richard S. Tufts, president
of Pinehurst, Inc., will welcome
the members, who will then hear
addresses by a number of leading
hotel men. On the program will be
Sidney Banks of the Cavalier ho
tel, Virginia Beach- Va., who will
speak on “The Difference between
Resort and Commercial Opera
tions,” Ralph Hewlitt, Ocean For
est hotel. Myrtle Beach, on “Busi-
tions;” Harold P. Bock, of The
Homestead, Hot Springs, Va.,
chairman of the American Hotel
association’s resort committee, on
“The Function of the American
Hotel Association Resort Com
mittee,” and M. O- Ryan, AHA
Washington manager on “The
Washington Situation at This
Date
County commissioners meeting
at Carthage Monday gave all-but- j
definite approval to a plan ' for |
provision of a gymnasium, audi- j
torium and cafeteria for the Sou
thern Pinss school, holding back
their final word only for a check
with the county board of educa
tion on probable county school
building needs next year.
The plan, as presented by Supt.
P. J. Weaver, A. C. Dawson and
N. L. Hodgkins, calls fqr an esti
mated $125,000 to be added by
the county to $25,000 set aside i
last summer for an auditorium.
Two, proposals for use of the
money were outlined: the first,
construction of a combined gym
nasium-cafeteria which could be
used also for auditorium pur
poses until .an auditorium can be
built; the other the supplement
ing of the funds with $45,000 to
be secured by local district bond
issue, permitting building of an
auditorium-cafeteria and sepa-
rategymnasiiUm.
The second plan, fuffilling
what were presented as the
school’s three great present
needs, appeared to have the
strong favor of all, and the com-
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WEATHER HELPS
While bad weather has
handicapped many of the
community chairmen in the
March of Dimes, causing ex
tension of the campmgn
through this week, one
chairman, L. F. Ojarvin of
Manly, has turned the un
favorable elemeints to good
use.
"Bad weather is the best
time for me to work." said
Garvin, who keeps a store
and garage at Manly. So,
with plenty of it on hand,
he has turned in $103.78, or
more than four times his $25
. quota, it was announced this
week by Drive Chairman H.
Clifton Blue.
"This is M)r. Garvin's first
year as a community chair
man, and he has certainly set
a fine mark for us all to shoot
at," said Blue.
He also reported with pride
on the accomplishment of
Mack Callahan, Vass chair
man, who had turned in
double his quota of $i50, and
of Mrs- Ben H. Cooper, of
Lakeview, who has more
than made her $25 quota and
is still going strong.
Snow And Sleet
Slow Traffic On
Wintry Weekend
Congress Notes
Sandhills Support
Of Marshall Plan
Letter, Petition
Presented By Hoey,
Included In Record
Commissioners Hand Over Air Service
Question To Airport Group For Study
Southern Pines
Aims For Doubled
Polio Drive Quota
Snowball "Fight"
Lands One In Hospital
The program of entertainment,
arranged bV a committee headed
by Edwin S. Blodgett, proprietor
of the Berkshire hotel, includes
cocktails at the Berkshire Friday
night, with a buffet supper and
dancing afterwards at the Pine
hurst Country club.
Saturday afternoon there will
be a golf tournament on the fa
mous Pinehurst courses—for the
men, and a visit to the Carolina
Orchid Gardens for the ladies,
followed by a bridge party at the
Berkshire hotel, when the speak
er will be the Hon. J. C. B. Ehr
inghaus, who will discuss “North
Carolina Tourist Attractions.”
Southern Pines’ response to the
March of Dimes appeal resulted
in the passing of the quota of
$800 this week—“but that’s just f
step on the way up,” said Paul C.
Butler, community chairman, as
he announced hopes of doubling
the assigned amount.
Butler, who is also county
chapter chairman of the Nation
al Infantile Paralysis Foundation,
knows perhaps more than anyone
else of the great need for polio
funds in the county, to pay ex
penses of the care and treatment
of polio victims, including immed
iate hospital care for new cases
and continued treatment and re
habilitation work for old.
One reason Moore County has
never had to call on the National
Foundation for assistance, as
have so , many North Carolina
counties, is the well established
habit of the county and of many
communities within it of doub
ling, or more than doubling, the
annual quotas.
Handicapped this year by ter
rific weather conditions, the drive
throughout the state is said to be
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The town was filled on Tues
day and Wednesday with the
springlike sound of gurgling
waters, as fire hydrants and hose
were turned on to flush away
from the streets and gutters the
hardest, stickier, stubbornest
snow seen in the Sandhills in
years.
City crews, working at the snow
on sidewalks with shovels, had
slow going of it, for beneath the
tough surface was clear hard ice,
laid there by a fine sleetfall
which began Friday night and
went on all day Saturday before
turning to a rain-mixed snow.
The snow fell until mid-mom-
ing Sunday, when housebound
Sandhillers estimated that they
had had a record-breaking 40
hours of “falling weather” in sub
freezing temperatures.
Highways) were impassable
lovef the weekend, with state
highway patrol warnings, reitera
ted by radio, aimed at keeping
all possible traffic off the roads.
In many places the icy stuff fell
oh the remains of snow and sleet
left from the weekend before.
The snow and ice, however,
were so fine that despite the
length of the storm, the depth
was inconsiderable here, amount
ing to no more than two or three
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The Pinehurst - Southern Pines
petition to Congress seeking fa
vorable and speedy action on the
Marshall plan, was introduced on
the floor of the U. S. Senate last
Friday by Senator Clyde R. Hoey.
Senator Hoey had undertaken
to convey the petition and the ac
companying resolution and a let
ter addressed to Senator Vanden-
berg, chairman of the senate com
mittee on foreign relations.
According to the Congressional
Record of that date. Senator Hoey
addressed the acting president
pro tern of the Senate and stated
that he had received a letter re
ferring to the petition containing
the signatures of 2,013 citizens
from 23 states endorsing the plan.
“Pinehurst is a well-known win
ter .resort in North Carolina and
the people signing this petition
are in Pinehurst from all over our
country,” he said. He then asked
for unanimous consent that the
letter te printed in the Congres
sional Record and that the letter
and the petition be referred to the
committee on foreign relations.
The president replied, “With
out objection, the letter and peti
tion will be referred to the com
mittee on foreign relations, and
the letter will be printed in the
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BASKETBALL
Morehead City's basketball
team will pay a return call to
play the Southern Pines Var
sity and B team at Aberdeen
this week, Friday and Satur
day nights. The game be
tween the Southern Pines
and Morehead City B teams
will begin at 7:30 p. m. and
the varsity games at 8:45.
First Flight
Covers Received
At Local P. O.
Sandhills Groups
Urge Support In
Securing Subsidy
Fast Action Wanted
Two Women Injured
In Wednesday Crash
A bad smashup occurred Wed
nesday afternoon three miles
south of Aberdeen on the Laurin-
burg road when a 1935 Chevro
let driven by Andy V. Ayers, of
Aberdeen, Rt. 2, was in head-on
collision with a 1946 Packard
driven by Howell Reiff Geib, Jr.,
of Elizabeth City, N. J.
Misses Dorothy Bentner and
Sallie Mesta, passengers in the
Geib car, were taken by ambu
lance to the Moore Qtounty hospi
tal where it was found they had
suffered some broken bones be
sides numerous bruises and lacer
ations. Their condition, however,
is said not to be critical.
The drivers were given first aid
treatment at the hospital and dis
charged. Ayers was found to
have fractured a small bone in
his ankle. Both cars were badly
damaged.
Charges of careless and reckless
driving and of driving while
drunk were placed against Ayers,
for trial in recorders court Mon
day. The accident was investigat
ed by Patrolman Swain.
Bill Sharpe Shares Waffle At Shaw House Meeting
Pilot Newsboy, As Student Reporter,
Gets A ‘‘Scoop’-Forrestal Interview
Washington, Feb 5,—At least one
member of President Truman’s
Cabinet has not forgotten he was
a boy himself Once.
The telephone rang in the Pen
tagon headquarters of Secretary
of Defense James Forrestal. An
immature voice asked for the
Secretary. Captain James Barry,
USN, the secretary’s public rela
tions aid, was put on the phone.
■*I would like to interview Mr.
Forrestal,” the voice said. Barry
elicited the information that his
caller had just turned 16, was
a student at Phillips Ex;eter
Academy at Exeter, N. H., had
recently “made” the school paper.
His editor had asked him to get
an interview with some promi
nent man in Washington during
the Christmas vacation.
“The Secretary returned only
yesterday from the first vacation
he’s had in a year. His desk is
piled high. He has one appoint
ment after another. I really don’t
see how we can fit you in,” Barry
told him.
T.ike the good reporter he had
read about in stories, the young
ster did not give up.
“Would you ask Mr. Forrestal
if he could give me five minutes?
You know he’s interested in
Exeter. His son went there.”
Barry was “a newspaperman
himself once.” He was on sort
of a professional spot.
“I’ll see what I can do, Son
and call you up.”
Secretary Forrestal “fitted him
in.” Told Barry he would see the
reporter for The Exonian at 9:30
Sunday morning, for five min
utes.
“Mr. Secjretary, we students
have read a lot about the need
for compulsory military training
from the standpoint of its effect
upon the country. We want to
know how it is going to affect
us,” the interview began.
“The chief advantage of the
program will be the mixing of
Americans to give them a new
look at our country. This can
bridge the gap between classes.
A fundamental advantage, one
which will benefit everyone, is,
of course, the safety of the coun-
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News of the projected opening
of Piedmont Airlines’ new airmail
route- with Southern Pines listed
s a stop, has reached the stamp
collectors of the land, and more
than 250 “first flight” envelopes
had been receive.d early this week
at the Southern Pines post office,
to be dispatched to their owners
on the inaugural flight.
That is—on the inaugural
flights, in the plural, for instruc
tions received by Acting Postmas
ter L. T. Hall from Ben H. Lock
ett, regional superintendent of the
post office department at Atlan
ta, advise him to separate the en
velopes into three divisions, one
for the first flight, no matter
which direction; one for the first
westbound, and one for the first
eastbound flight.
Some of the collectors have sent
two “covers,” one for each of the
first east and west flights.
Special Attention Paid
These “first flight covers,” as
they are called, have a peculiar
value for collectors, marking as
they do (with postmark as proof)
the time, date and place of an in
augural airmail flight. Since
stamp collecting in all its phases
represents “big business” for the
post office department, special at
tention is paid to collectors’
wants, and pains are taken to see
that, once they have done their
part, the department follows
through.
The collectors’ part consists in
mailing by regular first class
mail, airmail-stamped, addressed
envelopes, with instructions as to
what flight they are to take.
Most of the collectors address
the covers to themselves, and on
hand this week at the post office
were envelopes received from
(and destined for) New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, New York and a
scattering of other states.
“First flight cover” enthusiasts
in Sandhills towns, or those inter
ested in a cover from this partic
ular inaugural, will have their
covers honored with a double
flight—out to the terminal, then
right back home. ^
Proof of the “first flight cover”'
lies not only in the cachet and
postmark, but also in the hand-
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Referral to the airport commit
tee for study and prompt recom
mendation to the board was the
action taken by the board of
county commissioners in the mat
ter of possible subsidy to Knoll-
wood Field taken up by them at
their meeting at the Carthage
court house on Monday.
The commissioners’ meeting
was attended by representative
delegations from both Pinehurst
and Southern Pines, as well as by
L. C. Burwell of Resort Airlines
and Richard Hager, executive as
sistant to the vice president of
Piedmont Airlines, Inc., the east-
west line with headquarters in
Winston-Salem which is hoping
to include regular stops at Knoll-
wood on its schedule.
Attending from Pinehurst were
Robert Harlow and Tom Black,
representing the Chamber of
Commerce of Pinehurst; Chester
Williams, also a member and
community recreation committee
chairman, John F. Taylor, of Pine
hurst, representing the Sandhills
Kiwanis clubs. Southern Pines’
delegates were John Ruggles,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce; and Hoke Pollock, vice
president; Mayor Chan Page and
City Clerk Howard F. Burns. Of
the board. Commissioners Blue,
Reynolds, Currie, and Chairman
Gordon (lameron were present.
Case Staled
Harlow outlined briefly the
present situation as regards Pied
mont Airlines and Knollwood
Field: he said the line offers east-
west passenger and airmail ser
vice and also connections with
main north and south flights,
through Charlotte. The line would
tap a section of the midwest now
untouched and would connect
with flights to the Pacific coast.
He said he believed the chance
for such service should not be
lost.
Hager, asked by the chairman
to describe the present status of
the line, said that Piedmont now
has leases with 19 towns on this
route, all these fields being mu
nicipally owned and operated;
that though Piedmont paid some
share of the cost of landings, they
could not assume much, due to
the restrictions under which their
CAB certification was issued; and
that it cost from $25 to $30 to
land and take off a DC3, the type
of plane to be flown over the
proposed route. Added to that ex
pense was the office installation,
teletype system, and personnel.
He did not think at first the rev
enue from stops at Knollwood
would exceed $1,000 a year.
Speaking for Resort Airlines,
Burwell stated that his company
was neutral. While Piedmont
would not give them direct com-
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Moore District Progress In Scouting
Will Be Studied By Regional Leaders
Though he came on serious purpose bent. Bill Sharpe, director of the state advertising bureau,
also made a delightful guest, as he was honored at a dinner meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
directors, the town board and special guests at theShaw House tea room January 27. Here seated at
the beautiful old “lazy Susan” table, he obligingly shares one of Rosetta’s deUcious waffles with
Mrs. James Boyd, Pilot editor. Enjoying the incident are, at Bill’s left, Hoke Pollock and E. C.
Stevens, while Philip Weaver, Howard Burns, Mayor Chan Page and John Ruggles, standing behind
them, appear to approve. At the meeting which followed Sharpe presented the program of the state
advertising bureau, and ways in which Southern Pines may cooperate in suitable publicity and use
of news channels over the nation. (Photo by Humphrey)
Statistics on the growth of Boy
Scouting in Moore county show
amazing progress during 1947—
but the figures don’t mean a thing
unless you can translate them, in
your imagination, into boys- and
groups of boys, working together
in a splendid program of good
citizenship, woods lore, a pano
rama of varied skills and achieve
ments, under the leadership of
men who are devoting their time
and efforts to the building of the
right kind of men.
When you look at it like that,
it means so much that it becomes
a matter of personal pride for ev
ery citizen, to note that Moore
county’s progress last year placed
it first in the 11-county Occonee-
•chee council; that the Occonee-
chee council is first in the south
eastern region; which puts this
little county right square at the
top of all the southeastern states.
The figures are—^Boy Scout
population, more than doubled,
from around 240 January 1, 1947,
to more than 500 January 1, 1948;
four regular troops and a senior
troop, the coimty’s first, added to
11 troops already in existence;
five Cub Scout packs, four of
them formed in 1947.
Boy Seoul Week
Today, celebrating the opening
of National Boy Scout Week,
which marks the program’s 38th
anniversary in this country,
Moore coimty district leaders have
a right to feel extremely proud of
a good job well done.
Chances are, however, they’re
not taking time out to gaze back
ward—and besides, they don’t
consider the job done. They are
going full speed ahead into their
1948 program, which includes or
ganization of several more troops
and packs, and also what the mil
itary men call “consolidation of
their gains.”
The work done here during the
past year, however, has attracted
such attention from council and
regional leaders that just this
week has come the announcement
that the Moore county district is
to be studied as a model, for the
benefit of others throughout the
southeast.
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