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9 DRIVE CAREFULLY FOR A HAPPY HOLIDAY DRIVE CAREFULLY FOR A HAPPY HOLIDAY Vast Mackall Area Transferred For State Preserve JULY FOURTH The official transfer of the 48,000-acre Camp Mackall area by the Army xo the Interior Depart ment, which took place last week in the office of the Chief of Army Engineers, at Washington, D. C., is shown above. Congressnxan C. B. Deane is shown shaking hands with Col. W. H. Hastings, assis tant chief of Army Engineers, who delivers the transfer document to Frank V. Kent, Fish and Wild life Service, Interior Department. From left to right above are John A. Lang, secretary to Congressman Deane, Hastings, Deane and Kent- The Interior Department will lease the entire Mackall area to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission within the next month for further development as a recreational and wildlife preserve. (Story on Page 10) (Photo by Seth Muse) Building Rise Seen In First Half Year; Construction Projects Total $100,000 Work Starts On Remodeling Of Seaboard Station Work started in earnest, on the remodeling of the Sea board station this week, with the removal of the old wooden foundations under the former baggage room at the north end of the building, and their re placement with foundations of cement and brick. The effect at the start has been one of tearing the building down from the bottom instead of the top. The clapboards which have been removed to give ac cess to the underpinning will be put back, according to W. L. Da vis, of Salisbury, superintendent of construction. A wide doorway has been cut at<(the side, overlooking the park ing space, for loading and un loading from the Railway Ex press Agency. The agency and baggage room will change places in the remodeled station. Numerous other changes ar(? in store, said Mr. Davis. A he.rt- 11-Home Development In Edgewood Planned Business and residential build ing in Southern Pines so far thi year is far ahead of that of 1947, according to information from Elmer Davis, city building in spector, who said that construc tion permits between January 1 and June 31 totaled $99,200. Though last year’s construction amounted to $249,900 as shown by Mr. Davis’ figures at the year’s end, $120,000 of this was for the new elementary school, leaving slightly less than $130,000 as the 1947 total for general business and residential construction. The present figure stands at close to $100,000 for the half year, for 20 different building projects ranging from $400 to $15,000. Three business building projects are included, the L. H. Cherry of fice and Oldsmobile showroom on South Broad street, the Frank Welch store building at Broad and New York avenue and an ad dition to the Southern Pines Mo tor company. Other permits, for new homes, additions to homes, or garages and apartments, were issued to O. H. Rawlinson, Vera Chase, J. S. Reynolds, Dr. T. M. Lide, Ed Starnes, Howard Mc Neill, George Leonard, Mrs. Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Dale, J. H. and A. G. Ed St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital Opens This Week Without any particular cel ebration, July 4—which oc curs on Sunday—will be gen erally observed Monday, with the bank, city and coun ty offices and practically all stores and other business places closed. Some stores may remain open Wednesday afternoon in view of the all-day closing Monday, but no accurate check of this could be made. The Broad Street and Sand hill pharmacies will remain open until noon, while the Sandhills drugstore will be closed. Windows will be open at the post office from 8 to 10 a. m. for mail delivery and 'the sale of stamps. Incoming and outgoing mail will be worked as usual. County commissioners will postpone their meeting to Tuesday, and recorders court will also be postponed. And heree's a reminder that the Cai'thage Jaycees' Fourth of July celebration is being cancelled for this time only, on account of condi tions they could not control. It was fun last year, and it will be fun next year—some thing to look forward to. Carthage Meeting .Fails To Resolve School Bond Issue POLIO CONTINUES TO MOUNT IN COUNTY; 8 NEW VICTIMS Many Activities Curtailed ing plant is to be placed in the ^^nds (three 5-room residences). The Edmonds brothers will build the homes in the subur ban development of Edgewood. center of the building, with pipes going to the other rooms. Ceilings of the waiting rooms will be lowered, and all rest rooms will be tiled and otherwise modern ized. Flooring of the new wait ing rooms will remain but they will have a handsome new floor covering. Probably the best news, how ever, is that of the shed, which win be built between station and track aloiig the entire distance from New Hampshire to Con necticut avenues. In front of the station, the roof will be contin uous with that of the station. The steel columns at the train- i^de edge of the sloping roof will be hollow, providing drain age which will go to an eight- inoh main beneath the shed. This means that rainwater or melting snow will not run down to make puddles beneath the shed. The wide cement walk at the south end of the station is to be removed, Mr. Davis said, and shrubbery planted there will be re-landscaped. The roof of the station, with its heavy eaves, will remain the same, for weather protection of the building. The V. P. Loftis company of Charlotte has the construction contract. (Story on Page 10). Building in West Southern Pines, all residential, is indicated by permits totaling $10,500, is sued to Carey Saunders, Mack Kendrick, Tormels Miner, Jeanne H. Turner, David Campbell. Storey Co. Will Move To Mudgett Building The Storey Lumber company has leased the second floor of the Mudgett building, on South West Broad street, from Dr. Roy M. McMillan, and will move in the late summer from its present of fices in the Stevens building. The move is caused by a press ing need for larger quarters, for which the company has been looking for some time, according to Voit Gilmore, local manager. The business has grown, and so has the office staff. Miss Arnette Avery was added just this week as a bookkeeping asistant. The .rooms to which the com pany will move are those occupied at present as an apartment by Dr. McMillan and his family. They have leased the Travis house on Hill road, recently va-, cated by the Tom, Cordons, and will move soon after August 1. St. Joseph’s of tlie Pines, South ern Pines’ new Catholic hospital on the Midland road, opened yes terday (Thursday) with the moving of a half-dozen patients from the Carolina Medical Center at Pinehurst. Dr. Francis J. Owens, appoint ed by Bishop Vincent S. Waters to the post of chief of staff, at the regular meeting Monday night of the Moore County Medi cal society extended an invita tion to all doctors of the county on behalf of the directors and nursing staff, to use the hospital facilities. An open staff policy will be followed, he said, accord ing to standards of the American College of Surgeons and Physi cians. Invitations have also been sent to doctors of the vicinity, it is understood, from the nursing staff, consisting at present of eight sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, all registered nurses and some of the special ists in various fields. Hospital 'privileges were ex;- tended to all the doctors. Patients of all denominations are admit ted, as is general in Catholic hos pitals throughout the country. Visits from all people interested are wlcomed. Sister Anastasia is superinten dent of nurses,, and Sister Imelda is the X-ray technician. Opera ting, delivery and X-ray rooms are fully equipped and ready for use. Dr. Owens said. Only the first two floors of the five story building, the former Pine Needles hotel, have been opened for hospital use at pres ent, with anticipation of expan sion to the other floors as need develops. Furnishings used in the rooms, offices, kitchen, etc., are those which were already in the build ing, purchased ' along with the hotel, which was one of the larg est and most beautiful resort ho tels of the south. Charter of incorporation was granted June 22 by the Secre tary of State to St. Joseph’s of the Pines, Inc., a non-profit hold ing corporation with no capital s(ock. Initial membership of the corporation includes Bishop Waters, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh; Francis K. O’Brien, of Nazareth; Herbert A. Harkins, Southern Pines; Francis L. Owens, Pinehurst; Francis H. Heazel, Asheville. According to the incorporation papers, no vested personal inter est is held in any of the property, earnings or profits by any of the (Continued on Page 5) Total Requested By Three Boards Exceeds Legal Limit The meeting of minds for a de cision regarding the county-wide bond issue for school improve ment^ drew another i blank Tues day afternoon, when the county board of education and the ad ministrative units of Southern Pines and Pinehurst presented resolutions embodying their school needs to the county com missioners at Carthage. The sum total of the funds asked for was $1,283,000, or $83, 000 beyond the legal limit for a school bond issue (five per cent of school property valuation) at the present time. Alternatives proposed by the Southern Pines delegation met with scant favor apparent, and Gordon M. Cameron, chairman of the commissioners, said later that the resolutions were being re 'ferred to County Attorney U. L. Spence. The commissioners will be guided by his decision, he indi cated, in considering the bond is sue further at their July meeting, to be postponed from Monday to Tuesday of next week on account of the Fourth of July holiday. Amounts Sought Amounts asked for by the three administrative boards were: county board of education, $725,- 000, the same as before for dis tricts of the county system; Pine hurst, $208,000; Southern Pines, $350,000. Amounts previously assigned Southern Pines and Pinehurst in the bond issue, as allocated by the county board of education, were $200,000 and $50,000 respec tively. However, the bond issue attorneys refused to certify the issue on this basis, saying the boards of separate administrative units must present their own needs in resolution form, as the county board of education has no jurisdiction over them. From the start of negotiations the Southern Pines board has in dicated its wish, not only for the $200,000 allocated in the first bond issue proposals, but for $150,000 additional promised by the commissioners earlier, to be paid out of current revenue. According to the commission ers’ expressed views, the $200,000 supersedes the earlier pledged amount. According to views of the Southern Pines representa tives, the $150,000 is promised anyway, win or lose, for gymna sium and auditorium, and it is felt that local voters will not support the bond issue unless the big prize, a new high school, is included. Alternatives In asking for $350,000, the (Continued on page 4) i Starting last Sunday, local Sunday schools responded to the health authorities’ request for a polio quarantine. The Church of Wide Fellowship suspended all classes, including those for adults as many parents bring their chil dren to these, leaving then in the nursery. The Baptist church sus pended classes for children up to 12, the Presbyterian for children up to 16, with the expectation that all classes would end if the outbreak grew worse. The closing of Aberdeen lake and park is awaiting further word from the authorities, though it is understood that Dr. J. W. Willcox this week recom mended their closing. The county Red Cross chapter had previously announced sus pension of swimming classes in augurated at the lake just last week. Their hopes are to resume the classes later, under tutelage of T. K. Campbell and Davis Worsham, who returned last week from the Red Cross camp at Brevard where they took a swimming instructors’ course. The camping period for county 4-H club boys and girls at Camp Millstone, near Rockingham, this month has been cancelled, said W. G. Caldwell, assistant farm agent. Summer recreation activities here, under the leadership of A. C. Dawson, Jr., have been great ly curtailed. Organized group sports have been suspended. Ac tivities remaining are those of the park. Community building and High School building where only a few meet at a time to use the recreation facilities under the leader’s supervision. Negro Child Dies On Way To Hospital One Case Unconfirmed DDT Crew Here Next Week Spraying with DDT in the fight against insects and unsani tation, believed to be prime fac tors in the spread of polio, began this week at Aberdeen and Car thage and will start in Southern Pines next week, it was announc ed by Paul C. Butler, chairman of the Moore County chapter of the Infantile Paralysis Founda tion. Specially trained crews will go from house to house and yard to ■yard all over (the community. The spray used is a light one, harmful to nothing except dan gerous insect pests. All house holders ard Urged to cooperate to the fullest extent, as commun itywide cooperation is needed for the campaign to be a success. Two crews have been at work at Robbins for the past two weeks, treating the homes within a 10-mile radius as well as in the actual community. A meeting of the county board of health with directors of the county Foundation chapter, post- iponed from last Friday night, will be held tonight (Friday) at the courthouse in Carthage, with Philip Randolph, state Founda tion chairman, in charge. Mr. Randolph will come from Chapel Hill especially to confer with county officials on polio problems here, and the best means of combating them. He will also discuss the work of a new state board set up by the National Foundation for al location of funds to stricken counties of North Carolina. County Chairman Paul C. Butler has been appointed one of the three board members. Gordon M. Cameron, chairman of county commissioners and Mayor C. N. Page of Southern Pines were to go Thursday to Greensboro to a conference of town and county officials regard ing the setting-up of a semi-per- manent polio center in an un used barracks building at the for mer AAF camp there. Moore county now has about 25 children in hospitals. Couple Injured; Cars Demolished In Aberdeen Crash Mr. and Mrs. George Bellamy Caison, of Mebane, are in the Moore County hospital with serious and painful injuries, fol lowing an accident about 9:30 a. m. Wednesday at the intersection of the, old Aberdeen-Laurinburg highway with Highway 211 in Aberdeen. The 1939 Chevrolet driven by Caison, and headed south toward Laurinburg, struck a 1942 Ponti ac driven by Calvin L. Deaton, of Mt. Gilead, who was given first aid treatment at the Moore County hospital later for bruises and lacerations. The impact threw the Chevro let over on its side, and both cars are said to have been totally de molished. The accident was investigated by Patrolmen Apple and Harris, and Apple reported that evidence indicated that Caison attempted to beat the other car across the intersection, either not seeing or paying no heed to the stop sign. A charge of careless and reck less driving will be made against him as soon as he has recovered sufficiently to stand trial, the of ficer said. Signals got crossed in some way so that both ambulances and highway patrolmpn were late in arriving on the scene. One ambulance was called from Southern Pines and, when it was not immediately available, another was called, but directions were confused and it went on gjj- other road hunting for the wrck. It finally reached the scene of the accident at the same time a third arrived, notified by some one passing by, rather than by a phone call. Altogether the injur ed people had a wait of about 45 minutes in the hot sun. The patrolmen were in the of fice at Carthage until about 9:30 (Continued on Page 5) | County Golf Meet Opens Next Week At Pine Needles The annual Moore Coimty Golf tournament will be held during July at the Pine Needles course, with qualifying rounds etarting tomorrow (Saturday) and contin uing through Tuesday, according to Russ Birch, Pine Needles club manager. First match will be July 7-10; second match, July 11-14; third July 15-17 and the finals will be held Sunday through Wednesday, July 18-21. Each flight will consist of 16 players. Prizes will be given for each flight, and for low scote in the qualifying round. Any amateur who has been a resident of the county for as long as six months or is a member of any Moore County golf club is CContinuea on Page 5) Moore, Guilford, Burke and Cumberland counties were declared "epidemic areas" by the state board of health in-a dispatch Thurs day. Some 300 cases of polio were said to have been re ported in the state since May 1, with almost one-half of them originating in these four counties. Polio continued to deal dis tressing blows to Moore county during the past week, when eight young children from five months to eight years old were taken out «f the county as victims of the disease. Joyce Ann Shamburger, aged four, the child of a Negro family living in the Bethlehem Church section just outside Carthage, died Sunday afternoon- in the ambulance on the way to Kate Bitting Reynolds hospital at Winstoin-Salem. This was the first Negro case this year, and the third child to die. One of the other- cases had not been definitely confirmed by late Wednesday evening. This was Shields Tarlton, aged eight, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Tarlton, of Aberdeen, who was carried Monday night to Rex hospital at Raleigh. Taken last Friday to James Walker Memorial hospital at Wilmington was five months old Robert Monroe, Jr., whose pa rents live below Aberdeen, near Pinebluff. Sunday, five year old Jean Scott of Carthage, Rt. 2, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry N. Scott, was carried to Rex hos pital, and four year old Betty Sue Britt, of Hallison, to Duke hospital at Durham. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Britt. Little Johnny Wayne Spivey, three years old, of Cameron was taken to I^ee County hospital, at Sanford, last Wednesday, then transferred Saturday to Rex, where his illness xyas confirmed as polio. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Spivey. Two Wednesday Wednesday, two more children were stricken, both by sad coin cidence cousins of children who were polio victims of the past two weeks, and are now hospital patients. One of these was Johnny, 22 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. MeCallum of Carthage, the other Daniel Patrick Priest, Jr., of Carthage, Rt. 1, who will be five years old this month. The MeCallum baby was takein at once to James Waljker Memor ial at Wilmington, while the Priest child was to go to the Guilford Medical Center at Greensboro Thursday, the, earliest he could be accepted. Mk>re Beds Available Space for the new polio cases was at a premium last week, as hospitals grew more and more crowded, and one of the strenu ous duties of the health depart ment and Infantile Paralysis Foundation chapter has been the (Continued on Page 4) Scott Walks Off With Southern Pines And County In Heavy Voting June 26 Southern Pines voters went to the polls last Saturday to give Charles M. Johnson 215 votes, exactly the number he received in the first primary May 29, and to increase the vote ckst for W. Kerr Scott from 209 as of May 29, to a whopping 336. Unless a few gains and losses coincidentally canceled each other, Johnson kept his original supporters and gained no more. Scott, on the other hand, evident ly took over all the scattered fol lowing of the other candidates, which included the considerable Albright vote. The total of 551 votes cast, 86 less than the 637 polled here May 29, said to be the largest second primary vote ever recorded here. In this, as in their choice for Democratic nominee for gover nor, the local voters followed the trend set all over the state, when Scott won by a decisive majority, and the number of votes indica ted a far more than perfunctory interest. The marked victory was a sur prise everywhere, even among Scott’s staunchest supporters, who, while declaring themselves confident of winning, quite evi dently believed it would be a very close thing. No one predict ed a conceded victory, as it be came at 9:07 p. m. of (he second primary day. ' Many, among them The Pilot, felt that the consistent power showed by Johnson, whose mar gin of victory was small but steady all over the state, would give proportionately the same re sult in the run-off. This was the first time a candi date who trailed in a first pri- “ mary has come out on top in the Continued on Page 4)
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