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Commissioners Give “Go Ahead” Sign Town Board Faces GOV.! (9 I*;' On Needed Buildings For Local School Auditorium, Gym, Cafeteria Plans To Be Completed "At Long Last" The Southern Pines school will have an auditorium, cafeteria and gymnasium next year, by authori zation of the county commission ers given at their Monday meet ing. climaxing discussions which have gone on over a period of eight months. Whether a one-unit or a two- unit plan will be followed will depend on estimates to be made on completion of the architect s plans, which is to go forward im mediately. The commissioners said they had not yet begiun to finance the building of separate gymnasiums in any schools, and if they did for one, they would have to for many others. How ever, it was anticipated that a satisfactory combination of the three needs can be worked out. Facts and figures were not gone into, pending a more accurate estimate of costs than is now available. School Delegation Plans are to be submitted to the commissioners for approval v'hen they are completed. Representing the Southern Pines school at the Monday meet ing were Supt. Philip J. Weaver, N. L. Hodgkins of the school board. Mayor C. N. Page. L. V O’Callaghan and John S. Ruggles Two other school delegations faced the commissioners with re quests Monday. The first was that of the Farm Life school seeking a gymnasium, without success The second represented the Aber deen school, with Leon Seymour presenting a plea for a whole nsw school building, or, failing that; an addition to the present build ing to contain sufficient class rooms to take care of anticipated needs. Current crowded conditions in the Aberdeen school were graph ically presented, also the crucial condition anticipated next year when the growth of the town is expected to bring an influx of several hundred more pupils to the school. Next On List With authorization of the long- delayed Southern Pines construc tion, Chairman Gordon Cameron of the county commissioners said practically all immediate needs of the county schools except those of Aberdeen are. now taken care of, and Aberdeen is next on the list. However, he said that more money would have to be avail able before any promises could be ' made. The commissioners asked that an estimate on the construction of an eight-classroom annex be presented for consideration. DUKE GLEE CLUB The program of the con cert of the Duke Glee club, to be given under auspicek of the Civic club at the Pine- hurst theater at 8 p.m. Thurs day. will include many old favorites, both classical and semi-classical, also several of the humorous numbers for which this glee club is noted. There will be a number of solos, and selections by the famous triple quartet. The entire group includes 40 voices, directed by J. Foster Barnes. Tickets are still available, unreserved or in box seats, and may be secured at the Sandhill Drugstore here, the Carolina Drugstore in Pine- hurst or through Mrs. Tucker G. Humphries—phone 8064. This will be the third annual visit of the Glee club to the Sandhills, where they have always received a splendid welcome and won great favor with their outstanding work. The concert will begin at 8:30 o'clock. Base Plug Starts Fire In School; Damage Is Slight Watery Problems At March Meeting Billboards And Sidewalks Are * Also Discussed Smoke pouring from the recep tion room at the Southern Pines school Wednesday afternoon led to the discovery that the school was on fire—news which brought a quick turnout of citizens yoifng and old, right alter the lire truck Quick work on the part of the fit e department kept, the damage confined to the one room, where later investigation showed the fire to have originated apparently in a short circuit in a base plug. Window draperies touching the plug caught fire, fell on a hand some chrome-and-leather chair which was soon blazing merrily did considerable damage to walls, woodwork and ceiling and also caused the falling in of a win dow. The alarm was given at 5:15 by M. L. Palmer, father of Miss Joyce Palmer, school secretary. Going by the school to get his daughter—who, it happened, had already left—Palmer spotted the smoke, which was curling out through various crevices. Superintendent Weaver and Coach A. C. Dawson had left town some two hours- earlier, to referee the Robeson County bas ketball tournament at Lumber- ton, and did not learn of the fire until they came home that iQlght. Practically the entire school was rewired some time ago, Weaver said Thursday, but the base plugs were left as they were. He estimated the damage at less than $500. It was water, water everywhere for the town board Wednesday night—from problems of the water plant, troublesome water mains, and rainwater washing into a citizen’s- cellar, on up to the more agreeable consideration of fishing at the towii pond. An ordinance amendment was passed authorizing fishing six days a week (every day but Sun day) instead of the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday previously permitted. A number of requests for the change had been made, said Mayor Page, and data was pre sented to show that conservation ists have in recent years chang ed their minds: frequent fishing is now thought more beneficial to a fishpond than infrequent fishing, provided limitations of size are maintained. “It helps to get the big fish out so the little fish can grow,” the theory of scientific thinning was explain ed in a nutshell. Six more boats for the pond have been ordered, to add to the five already there, so that, with two fishermen' to a boat, 22 will be able to fish .at a time. Water Plant Southern Pines’ water plant, once -thought large enough to take care of all possible future needs, wiU reach its peak capa city in about five years if the present increase in consumption is maintained, it was indicated in a letter from John Howarth of the Carolina Power and Light company. Asked to give an esti mate on the cost increase in the use of the 100-horsepower pump, instead of the 75-horsepower, Howarth had made a general sur vey. Since the 75-horsepower pump has had to work practically continuously to supply the pres ent need, use of the 100-horse- power with its faster pumping rate will cost only a shade more, he said. From 1936 to 1947, he noted, water pumped at the plant has increased from 10,870,000 gal lons per year to 18,120,000 gallons. At present the 1,000,000-gallon a day capacity plant is pumping 800,000 gallons a day. Faced with the fact that within five years a larger filter plant, larger water mains or both may be crucially needed, the commis sioners decided to employ a water engineering specialist to check over the plant for recommenda tions, and, while here, also to survey other problem spots of the (Continued on Page 8) The Pilot is inclined to pass out a word of praise to Gov ernor Cherry. It looks to us as if' the Governor was taking a good stand. It's true, he's only stand ing stilL holding his breath and. we suspect, not daring to budge one way or tother. But just take a look at what the other Southern governors are doing and say that stand ing still isn't just about the best move Governor Cherry can make! Anyway, if North Carolina is the state to keep its head and stick to its democratic knitting, and incidentally, its democratic way of acting, that's OK by this tarheel. Marshall’s Talk For Red Cross On Hookup Via WEEB MARSHALLS TO BE GUESTS AT a OF a HORSE SHOW, SUPPER Pick The Winners: A Survey Of Some Of The Horses Due To Show Saturday Meeting At Carthage Marks Progress In County’s Maternal Welfare Work Moore County people turned out in force last week Wednesday to attend the Maternal Welfare Committee’s annual meeting, dedicated, this year, to the mem ory of the founder, Elizabeth Woltz Currie. Estimated at over 170, the gathering met in the Carthage Community Building to hear the committee’s report of the year’s achievements and the an nouncement, made at the close of the afternoon, of the creation of the Elizabeth Woltz Currie mem orial fund, for maternity work at the Moore County Hospital. The m>:eting opened with a short word of welcome from the chairman, Mrs. James Boyd, fol lowed by the introduction of guests by the vice-chairman, Mrs. Paul P. McCain. Among these were Mrs. Woltz from Atlanta, mother of the founder, her son. Dr. John Woltz, obstetrician, of Charlotte, Miss Margaret Mc Queen, formerly of the Moore County Health Department, Dr. Pishko of Moore County Hospi tal, Dr. Rosser, of Vass, Dr. Grier of West End, Dr. Bowman of Aberdeen, Dr. G. W. Cooper, as sistant chief of the State Health Department, Dr. Willcox, Moore County Health officer; also Sher iff McDonald, Gordon Cameron, chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, W. D. Sabiston, mayor of Carthage, former state Senator Wilbur Currie, Dr. Oren Moore of Charlotte and Miss Hazel Corbin of New York, the two speakers. jMaiernal. Welfare Report Mrs. Worth McLeod, nurse- midwife in charge of maternal health for Moore County, report ed on the year’s work, as follows: Number of new patients attend ing clinics:, 169- 'Total number of patients 422, (50 white, 372 Negro.) Total number of deliveries in thp county: 763; of these 719 were delivered by doctors and 44 by midwives. /17 clinic patients were hospital ized. i Maternal mortality: 2, (1 post- plartum hemorrhage, 1 toxemia; tjae latter, from Rockingham, had njot attended clinics.) J Number of stillbirths in the county: 17, (11 white, 6 Negro). Number of infant deaths due tb prematurity: 9. i Number of infant deaths (Continued on Page B) at Southern Pines’ radio station WEEB has been given a signal honor. Jack Younts, owner and manager of the local station, re ported to The Pilot this week. They are to be the only station outside of the American Broad casting network, to broadcast the coming speech on the Red Cross drive by Secretary of State Mar shall. The secretary, who will be spending the week end at his Pinehurst home, will speak over the air at between 2 and 2:30 next] Saturday. WEEB, Younts said, will carry their oVn lines in and broadcast directly from the cot tage. “Both the State Department and the American Broadcasting Company ga've us. the inyitation to take part,” Younts said. “They realized, I suppose,” he went on, “that this would be the only way that the general’s friends and neighbors in the Sandhills could hear his speech.” Younts stated that the address will last from five to ten minutes and will be a plea for support pf the current Red Cross drive all over the nation. Those attending the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce Horse show Saturday will be ena"bled ot hear the speech, as the show will be stopped at that time and the speech broadcast through a loudspeaker, John S. Ruggles, Chamber president, said yester day. The horse show is ' being given for^he benefit of the Red Cross. It will start at 2 p. m. By E. O. Hippus With horse show time almost on us, it seems like a good mo ment to take a look at the critters behind some of the fancy names in the program. But if you start to make a sur vey of the show horses, you are apt to end up in a pretty b?dizzi- fied state. We tried it the other day and came back fairly gibbering. Any one who reads this article may make the unkind cut that we probably started out that way. too, but, honestly, we were com paratively sane to begin with. It wasn’t till we saw one lavishly beautiful thoroughbred after an other that we got this, way. It is without doubt a fact that there are as many top show hunt ers and jumpers within a radius of a few Sandhills miles as you’re likely ever to see together. An^ of the highest quality. Stood end to end, as the statisticians love to put it, their combined gorgeous ness would cause the Queen of Sheba herself to throw in the sponge . . . not to mention the Taj Mahal and the Seaboard’s lat est silver dream train. .M Mile-A'way We started our attempted sur vey out at Mile-away Farms, hav ing heard a mild rumor that there were a few horses worth looking at out on the Moss place; Possibil ities, for instance, someone said, had grown up to'himself .this year and was quite a horse. We remembered him well from last year. His name suited his prospects, we’d thought, and so it would be fun to see how he’d come on. We saw. He’s come on so fast and so far that he looks like an other horse. A great powerful fellow, he made us think of that phrase the artists use: dynamic symmetry. We never knew just what it meant, but as we watched Possibilities step out, noted his rhythmic gait and perfect propor tions we deci'ded he was it. And what a way of moving! When Ozelle trotted him out he played him like a trout, leaping and flashing, but always with his ears up, light as a kitten and as grace ful, for all his 16.3 size. We pick ed, for points of special note: long sweeping quarters, a marvelous middle-piece. A remarkably beau (Continued on Page B) Saturday, Sunday Show Events Will Benefit Red Cross Fine Horses. Noted Riders To Be Seen Aberdeen Teams Are Winners In County Tourney FIRST FLIGHT COVERS A total of 1,785 “first flight cov ers” went out from Southern Pines on the inaugural flight of Piedmont Airlines’ daily service Friday, February 20. Aberdeen boys’ and girls’ teams romped away with the honors at the Moore County High School Basketball tournament, held last week and this at the Carthage high school gym, in an 18-game, 11-school series which drew large crowds 'ihroughout. Spectators jammed the gym for the finals held Tuesday night with more than 800 present to see Aberdeen girls win over Pine hurst 32-22, Aberdeen boys over Robbins 27-20, and honors of the tournament awarded. J. F. Sinclair, athletic chairman of the sponsoring Educo cliib, pre sented the championship trophies, with smaller ones to the runners- up. Aberdeen boys and girls were awarded gold basketballs and members of the runner-up teams won silver basketballs. Banners went to the Farm Life boys’ and girls’ teams, which won the majority vote of all compet ing players for best sports manship thrdughout the season, and awards also went to the fol lowing boys and girls, chosen by the coaches from all teams to make up “all-tournament teams” (Continued on Page 8) HELICOPTER A helicopter, from Fort Bragg will add to the inter est of the Chamber of Com- ' merce Horse show, b-y arriv ing just before the show starts both Saturday and Sunday afternoon, and de positing a passenger who will then ride iido the ring. The show will start at 2 p. m. on both days, and the heL icopter is expected to arrive between 1:30 and the open ing hour. Officer And Wife Are Injured When Car Overturns Southern Pines will wel come Secretary of State George C. Marshall and Mrs. Marshall at the Chamber of Commerce Horse show Sat urday afternoon, for the ben efit of the Red Cross. The'" will also attend the buffet supper at 7 o’clock at the Highland Pines Inn. A telegram from Senator Umstead at Washington Thursday notified John S. Ruggles, Chamber of Com merce president, that the Sec retary would accept the invi tation. A telephone call to Mrs. Marshall confirmed she will accompany him. They will come to the show- grounds immediately after General Marshall’s broadcast for the Red Cross, to be made from his Pinehurst home over a WEEB remote for the ABC system. The sppech will be broadcast over a loudspeaker at the horse show. County Scoutmasters Camp Out For Training Course Scoutmasters, their assistants and troop leaders of Moore county camped out last weekend at the Aberdeen Scout hut, receiving instruction from field executives in what is believed to be the first Scoutmaster Training program ever held in the coimty. This was part of the district program under the direction of the Rev. J. Lamar Jackson, training chairman. In the picture are, kneeling, left to light, Gaither Edwards, assistant scoutmaster Carthage Troop 36; Bobby Farmer, senior patrol lea er. West End Troop 98; Harold Garner, scribe, Aberdeen Troop 68; Fred Monroe, patrol leader. West End Troop 98; Thomas Queen, junior assistant scoutmaster and Eagle scout, Pinebluff Troop 206. Standing are L. W. Hewett, field executive; Harold Parker, assistant scoutmaster, Carthage Troop 36; George Turner, field executive; R. G. McCaskill, scoutmaster, Pinebluff Troop 206; Bill C. Nolan, scoutmaster. Southern Pines Troop 224; W. D. Campbell, Southern Pines, member of district and re gional executive committees; Archie Ferguson, assistant scoutmaster. Southern Pines Troop 224; Gor don Keith, scoutmaster, Aberdeen Troop 68. (Photo by Humphrey) Lieut, and Mrs. Walter H. Lane, Jr., of 224 South East Broad street, are at the Fort Bragg Gen eral hospital suffering from mul tiple injuries sustained when their car overturned twice be tween Cameron and Vass at 10:30 p. m. Sunday. Their year-old son, Ronnie, who was with them in the car, mirac ulously escaped injury, and is in the care of his grandmother, Mrs. C. E. Mack, of Washington, D. C., who with her son, T. E. Mack, came to Southern Pines at once on learning of the accident. Lieutenant Lane and his fam ily were returning, at the time of the accident, from spending the week end in Washington with the Macke, as a farewell to his wife’s father who sailed for England Wednesday. According to a report of the accident, their car, a 1942 Buick sedan, failed to take a curve, went up an embankment and upset as it oamd back down. It was completely demolished. The car was^ loaded with lug gage and also contained a pet cat, who remained unhurt in the rear seat, came to town with the wrecker and spent the night at Hewlett’s garage before being dis covered. The, baby land cat were taken to Washington by the Macks, who drove back Tuesday. The injured couple were taken first to Moore County .hospital, then to Fort Bragg, where Lieu tenant Lane is stationed with the medical corps. He is also from Washington, D. C. The Lanes came to Southern Pines in Sep tember from an army post in Texas, and have an apartment at Mrs. Burgess’s. Both Lieutenant and Mrs. Lane sustained badly broken jawbones in the accident. Lieutenant Lane’s jawbone was broken in four places, and Mrs. Lane lost a num ber of teeth when her face struck the windshield. 70 Horses Entered With 70 entries by the deadline early this week—most of them horses wintering in the Sand hills—the Southern Pines Cham ber of Commerce Hotrse show looked like a sure thing for top entertainment for Saturday and Sunday afternoons. To be held at the Southern Pines showgrounds on the old Pinehurst road beginning at 2 p. m. on the two days, the event will initiate the horse show sea son for the Sandhills as well as for the state—an appropriate in augural for the town known as America’s winter and .spring “horse capital.” A million dollars worth of fine horseflesh is said to be winter ing in this resort section, and the names of many -of the best of them are reported to appear on the entry list. For Red Cross Benefit The show is being held for the benefit of the 1948 Red Cross Fund drive, to which gross pro ceeds of the two afternoons will go. A third major event of the weekend will be the Horse Show ball at the Highland Pines Inn Saturday night, preceded by a buf fet supper at 7 p. m. Dancing to trie music of Hal Strain’s orchestra from the Palmetto stage will be gin at 9, and there will also be tables arranged for bridge. Full dress is optional—wear what you please, is the word of those in charge, and have a good time! Distinguished guests at the Sat urday show and ball will be Lieu tenant Gov. and Mrs- L. Y. Bal- lentine, from Raleigh |A number Continued on Page 5) Carthage To Hold Red Cross Benefit Carthage is going all out on the Red Cross drive this year. One of the biggest social events of the season will be held for the benefit of the drive when, on Fri day evening, March 12th, the Car thage Hotel opens its doors for benefit bridge. In charge of the event is a com mittee including Mrs. Charles T. Grier, Mrs. Joe Allen, Miss Mary Currie, Mrs. W. D. Sabiston, Jr., Miss Johnsie Redding, Mrs. Roy Williamson, Mrs. Wilton H. Brown, and Mrs. M. G. Boyette, of Carthage, and Ml-s. John Beas ley of Southern Pines. They are taking reservations for tables and report many engaged, with sev eral reserved by ladies from Sou- The accident was investigated I thern Pines, by Highway Patrolman Swain,' Prizes have been donated for for whose work Mrs. Mack had the event, to be auctioned off by much praise, after she had learned the details while here. “Your highway patrol here is splendid,” she said. “They looked after ev- erjrthing in the most efficient manner. They were a very real help in time of trouble.” Bill Carter, who cries at the to bacco auctions hereabouts. Rang ing all the way from a. 50-yard bolt of sheeting to a pressure cooker, more than forty are ready to be passed out to the winners of the afternoon bridge.
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