VOL. 29 NO. 41
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines. N. C.,
Parents Will Aid
Chamber Directors
In Youth Program
I ^
Joint Committee
Seeks Operation Plan
For Teen Age Club
The Chamber of Commerce will
continue its sponsorship of Teen
Age Club activities, provided a
satisfactory plan can be worked
out for their supervision under a
joint committee of parents, Cham
ber directors and teen-agers, it
was learned this week from John
S. Ruggles, Chamber of Commerce
president.
Dr. Vida McLeod, Mrs. Harry
Menzel and June Phillips were
named to represent parents on the
committee, at a meeting of par
ents with the directors called by
Mr. Ruggles at the Community
building last week.
Philip Weaver, L. D. McDon
ald and Herbert N; Cameron were
selected to represent the direc
tors, at a meeting of the board
held Tuesday night of this week
•at the Belvedere hotel.
Teen Agers will elect their rep
resentatives as soon as their club
sctivities can be resumed follow
ing the lifting of the polio quar-
^tine.
Chairman Ruggles also recom
mended that Mrs. L. D. McDon
ald, president of the Civic Club,
be requested to work with the
committee in an advisory capac
ity-.
About 25 parents responded last
week to the invitation sent out to
all parents of last year’s ninth,
10th and 11th grades, to attend
the meeting to consider the best
means of carrying forward the
Teen Age program. A number of
problems experienced by the di
rectors were set forth to them,
with the information that ths
Chamber considers the Teen Age
program its most important con
tinuing activity; that the direc
tors are willing and anxious tc
continue with the sponsorship,
but feel the need of more active
participation and - help from the
parents of the young people.
The plan of the joint commit
tee was presented and won ap
proval.
It was decided to reopen the
Community building to the teen
agers as soon as practicable after
the lifting of the quarantine ,if
the committee can reach a work
ing agreement on supervision of
activities there and at the High
School Club building, afternoon
and evening schedules, financial
responsibility of the elements in
volved and other pertinent fac
tors.
Friday, September 3. 1948.
At Last; Our School—Built For The Future
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Registration For
Peacetime Draft
Gets Under Way
Board Members And
Volunteer Helpers
Staff Two Offices
The camera 9ould not take m tr,e .ull length of the new elementary schooT^HSS^^ai.
w shows three of the four outside entrances toprimary classrooms. (Photos by Preston Matthews)
New Southern Fines Elementary School
Combines Beauty With Practical Ideas
$175,000 Building
Designed For Health
Learning, Safety
f,
Bond Injunction
Hearing Delayed
To September 11
This is the front entrance of the school, set deep amid longleaf
pines and magnolias.
Aberdeen Plant Is At Work
6
The showcause hearing of an
injunction brought by Pinebluff
citizens against the county bond
issue for Aberdeen schools has
been postponed from Septembei
4 to September 11, it has been
learned.
Postponement was made by
Judge Don Phillips of Rocking
ham, before whom, the hearing is
to be held, as be will have to be
out of town on the scheduled
date.
In the meantime certification
of the bond election issue is be
ing withheld. Pinebluff citizens
are contending that money for
schools of the Aberdeen district,
for which the bond issue was
voted in the amount of $375,000,
should rightfully include an ele
mentary schoorfor the Pinebluff
area.
The official count of votes, held
last Thursday, whittled the nar
row lead cf the affirmative vote
to 74, as 12 out of 17 precincts
showed majorities against it. In
Pinebluff the vote was three to
one against the issue and in three
precincts. Spies, Ritters and High-
falls, not a single vote was cast
for it.
A decisive vote in the Southern
Pines, Pinehurst and Aberdeen
precincts, aided by majorities in
Robbins land Vass, turned the
tide.
The revised count showed a
total of 3,042 voting—1,558 for
and 1,484 against.
Goods began rolling off the
machines a week ago at the new
Aberdeen plant of the Colonial
Mills, Inc., and has been in con
sistent, though small, production
since, it was learned from W. B.
Croxton, of Southern Pines, vice
president in charge.
The first goods to be produced
was a herringbone material for
lightweight men’s suits, and suits
for women and children. Like all
the goods to be manufactured
there, it was of all-synthetic
fibre, a sturdy rayon weave.
No material to be produced for
some time will go directly to "‘the
trade,” said Mr. Croxton, as it is
being sent to cutters to be made
up into garments, for use by the
New York sales offices in secur
ing orders. Numerous firms have
made inquiries and some have
tried to place orders during the
past few months, but no orders
were definitely accepted as it
was not known just when the
plant could get into quantity pro
duction.
With only a portion of the ma
chinery installed, production can
not get up even to present capac
ity until power is stepped up.
This must await receipt of trans
formers and other equipment by
the Carolina Power and Light
company. Power being delivered
at present is sufficient only for
minimum operation.
About 100 persons are being
employed at present in all capa
cities, said Mr. Croxton.
A tour of the plant will be the
feature of the Voice of the Sand
hills program next Wednesday,
from 4:30 to 5 p. m. The plant
and its manufacturing processes
will be described on the spot via
traveling microphone, and Mr.
Croxton and other plant officials
will be interviewed.
Defies Death, Caught Anyway
A dramatic chase, in which the
pursued narrowly escaped death
in a deliberate automobile crash,
resulted in the capture near Cam
eron early last Thursday morn
ing of James Artis Gilchrist, 29-
year-cld Negro long sought as a
bigtime liquor operator.
His 1947 Mercury club coupe,
with high compression motor,
high speed rear end and super
charger, which Gilchrist* hurled
at 70 niiles an hour into a gov
ernment-owned Ford blocking a
bridge in his path, was tewed to
the government contract garage
at Rockingham, needing an esti
mated $700 worth of repairs.
The Ford, which managed to
leave the scene under its own
power, required repairs estimated
at $300.
Regular Traveler
The two-car party of officers
set out early in search of Gil
christ, who had been spotted sev
eral times before but had man
aged to make his escape in his
speedy car. He was said to be a
regular traveler from Harnett
county to sales outlets at Cam
eron, Vass, Fort Bragg, Sanford
and Greensboro. The officers
posted watch at the Harnett line.
On the Fayetteville-Sanford
highway east of Cameron, near
the Spout Springs bridge, "he was
observed crossing the couinty
line. County ABC Officer C. A.
McCallum, with ATU officer
Brown of Cumberland county in
his car, gave chase.
ABC Officer C. C. McGee, ATU
officer Siegers of Fayetteville
(Continued on Page 51
Completion of the new South
ern Pines elementary school, on
which the finishing touches were
put last week, gives this special-
charter school district what must
be one of the most modern and
beautiful schools in the country.
It combines the best features
of traditional school building
with many new ones designed for
better health, safety and happi
ness of the first-through-eighth
graders, and also for better in-
itruction.
Among the features unknown
to schools of .former days are:
iiFlufi^^scent lighting throughout,
to give the nearest possible ap
proximation to pure daylight. In
all classrooms three rows of tv,'o-
tube fluorescent fixtures run the
full length of the room.
Sound System
An educational sound system
centering in the office of Supt.
P. J. Weaver. By means of this
sound system, connected with
speakers to each room, messages
can be- broadcast to any or all
rooms; the radio can be turned
on, records played; also any room
can be listened to at 4he office
when desired.
An IBM electric clock and Bell
system in halls and classrooms,
also centering in the superinten
dent’s office, by which bells can
be rung simultaneously all over
the school, or in any one class
room. The easy - to - read clocks
are hung from the center in the
halls, with faces on both sides.
Outlets in each room for Rad-
-i-Air conditioning with fixtures
already installed in three class
rooms for ultra-violet lighting, to
kill all airborne bacteria by radi
ation.
Outdoor entrances in all pri
mary classrooms giving directly
onto the large playground.
Private toilets in each primary
classroom, in addition to the reg
ulation boys’ and girls’ restrooms
opening from the halls. These
also have separate lock-toilets
for the teachers.
Wide low basins in each pri
mary clas^proom, for the washing
of hands, paintbrushes, etc., with
pegs in rows above for each
child’s equipment.
Coa't Closets
Large coat closets, with plenty
of pegs, in each primary class
room, and in the rooms for the
upper grades the new built-in
“Ross wardrobes,” with push-up
doors. These make a wall into
a full-length storage compart
ment, for caps, coats and other
belongings of the pupils. Each
room also has a large closet for
the teacher’s belongings and
equipment.
Asphalt tile (black marbleized)
flooring throughout, acoustic ceil
ing tiles, Venetian blinds at the
tall ventilator windows, rows of
wall transoms, plenty of shelf-
room in all rooms, with separate
box-shelves for each pupil in the
primary grades; plenty of black
boards, colored a soft green for
better vision, edged by pin-up
space for pupils’ work, of orange-
tan cork material.
Furnishings
Furnishings are of bleached
(Continued on Page 14)
119 On First Day
Registration for the peacetime
draft proceeded apace this week
at Moore county’s two registra
tion centers, at Carthage and
Southern Pines.
Plans for the centers at West
End and Robbins were abandon
ed after it was found impossible
to sqcure the necessary volunteer
help in the short time allotted.
No permanent clerk has been
found, either, and two of the draft
board members—W. E. Stewart at
Carthage and Maxwell Rush here
are putting in full-time days at
the work, aided by business girls
and women recruited from offices
in the two towns.
Thirty-three men were regis
tered here on Monday, the first
day, and 86 at Carthage, for a to
tal of 119 born in 1922 after Au
gust 30.
First Registrant
To Luther Parks, of West Sou
thern Pines, belongs the distinc
tion of being the county’s first to
register. When Mr. Rush arrived
at the Community building at
7:55 to open up at 8 o’clock, he
found Parks already waiting.
At Carthage, Joseph Hardin Mo-
field, of Carthage, white, a vet
eran of service with the army air
force, arrived promptly on the dot
of 8 a. m.
Business was fair at both of
fices the first day, and brisked up
considerably the second, when
men born in 1923 came to regis
ter. They poured in and out in
a continuous stream.
Estimate of the state selective
service headquarters is that 2,-
,240 will register in Moore before
the closing date, September 13,
said Mr. Rush.
Assistants
Mrs. Hiajrry CheJtfield helped
him the first day. Miss Joyce
Warren the. second, with Tom
Wicker, of the adjoining Cham
ber of Commerce office, pinch-
hitting when needed. At Carthage
Mrs. Blue, of the county clerk’s
office, was a busy assistant. Both
board members said they 'had
.several others lined up to help
this week, but more volunteer as
sistants will undoubtedly be need-
(Continued on Page 8)
Audrey West Brown, Mary Ruth Davis
Win State Doubles Title, Greensboro
LABOR DAY
General holiday will be
observed here on Monday,
Labor day, with the Citizens
Bank and Trust company,
m,ost businesses and offices
closed.
General delivery and stamp
window at the post office wiU
be open till 10 a. m„ then
closed for the rest of the day.
Incoming and outgoing mail
will be worked as usual.
Food merchants this week
issued a reminder of the long
weekend, so that household
ers will remember to stock
up. Clos^ will be Johnson's.
Modern Market, Baker's, A &
P and Colonial stores.
With the polio quarantine
still cm, it is expected to be a
quiet holiday. Many will take
their last summer fling at the
beach—and here's a warning
from the N. C. Motor Vehicle
comimission. The Pilot and all
your family and friends:
Drive Carefully.
Aiken Starts New
Office Building;
Houses^Are Built
Miss Teeter Goes
To Presbyterian
Hospital Monday
Miss Betty Teeter, of Jackson
Springs, a June graduate of the
West End High school, will re
port Monday to the Presbyterian
hospital in Charlotte to enter a
three-year nurse training courSe.
Miss Teeter is the 1948 winner
of the annual Sandhills Veterans
Association scholarship^ by which
each year a fortunate young lady
is selected for an all-expense-paid
nurse training course at the hos
pital of her choice. She has been
working at the Moore County
hospital this summer.
Entering her second year this
month will be the 1947 winner,
Miss Beatrice Simpson, of Lake-
view, who is in training at the
High Point Memorial hospital.
The association’s first protegee,
she began her course last Sep
tember.
Financing their project each
year through a unique subscrip
tion campaign, the group of
World War 2 veterans from
Moore County towns plan to
choose a Moore girl each year for
nurse training, exacting from
their winners only one promise,
that they return to Moore to
work after graduation.
Beginning in 1950, when Miss
Simpson will graduate, they will
have a graduate nurse returning
to the county each year, for hos
pital or public health work.
Dave Greer, of Aberdeen, is
president of the Sandhills Vete
rans association this year. The
group meets regularly at the
home of William L. White, in
Southern Pines.
Construction started last Sat
urday morning on the Aiken
building, a two-story office build
ing being built by Ernest M. Ai
ken, of Southern Pines and Wash
ington, D. C., on a lot he pur
chased several weeks ago front
ing on East Pennsylvania avenue.
The lot was purchased frmo' Dr.
G. G. Herr and Dr. W|. E. Bush,
and the new building will be be
hind their Broad Street offices.
It will be of strictly modern
construction, with space for of
fices singly or in suites, Mr. I
Aiken said this week. He already
has two tenants for the first floor
suites, .John D. Mc(ionnell, local
attorney and assistant U. S. dis-
I trict solicitor, and Claude E.
Reams, southeastern division rep
resentative of the Southern Ad
vance Bag and Paper company.
The building, which is to be
ready by about November 1, will
be of red brick in handcrafted
texture, with slanted roof (slate)
in the Williamsburg style, and
colonial-type many - paned win
dows. R. C. Archer, Jr., of Wash
ington, D. C., is the architect, and
Donald M. Blue, local contractor,
is in charge of construction.
.Air Conditioned
Heating and plumbing will be
by L. V. O’Callaghan, who will
also instal airconditioning
throughout.
All lighting will be fluorescent,
installed by the McLeod Electri
cal company of Carthage.
Estimated cost of the building
is about $15,000, though Mr. Ai
ken said it will probably exceed
this amount.
This is a new development in
a building program, hitherto resi-'
dential, Mr. Aiken has been car
rying forward in this section for
a number of months.
Kenwood Subdivision
The Kenwood subdivision,
fronting on the Carthage road
about two miles out of town, ad
joins Mr. Aiken’s own homesite.
There he has built seven modern
small homes, has another under
construction and is just about to
(Continued on Page 8)
"Cinderella Girls"
From Moore Upsel
Experts' Predictions
Brilliant Tennis Played
Rejoicing spread abroad in the
land as the news spread that a
tearti of Moore County girls, mak
ing their debut in tournament
tennis, Wednesday afternoon
copped the state doubles title at
the 14th annual North Carolina
Closed Championship at the
Greensboro Country club.
The new champions, Audrey
West Brown, 18, of Southern
Pines, and Mary Ruth Davis, 22,
of Robbins will go to Greens
boro Monday to receive their tro
phy and all the honor and glory
due their spectacular victory.
The unseedd “masters of fem
inine tennis” (so called by the
Greensboro Daily News) scored
major upsets when they won in
the semi-finals Wednesday morn
ings against Mrs. Leone Ball and
Miss Gertrude Archer 6-3, 6-1,
then in the afternoon displayed
an even finer brand of play in
dropping topseeded Anne Martin-
dale and Mrs. Virginia Betty of
Greensboro 75, 6-2.
Men Players
The girls returned to Greens
boro Thursday to cheer on more
Moore County representatives as
the men’s singles begail, with Au
drey West’s brother, Harry Lee
Brown, Jr., playing against
Stokes Rawlings, Greensboro’s
top-ranking netter; Page Choate
vs. Roland Martindale, and P. A.
Wilson, of Vass, vs. Bill Shearin
of Rocky Mount. No results were
available at presstime on these
(Continued on Page 5)
Horton Child,
Aberdeen Youth
Are Polio Victims
The polio outbreak clung on
stubbornly this week, with two
new cases reported to bring the
county’s total so far to 62.
Little Andy Horton, four-year
-old son of Mr. and Mrs. I. F.
Horton of West End, was taken
to Rex hospital, Raleigh, Sunday
after tests at the Moore County
hospital indicated the presence of
polio.
Monday, Luther Folger Hodges,
18, an employee of the Martin
Motor company at Aberdeen, was
taken also to Rex. Hodges is mar
ried to the former Miss Porter,
of Aberdeen. His parents live in
the Roseland section.
Word from both these cases,
and in fact from all Moore Coun
ty victims in hospitals on whom
recent reports have been receiv
ed, is that they are progressing
satisfactorily, said Dr. J. W. Will-
cox, county health officer. None
appears now to be in a critical
stage.
Time of the lifting of the quar
antine remains the same—mid
night, September 14, he said,
with all schools of the county
opening September 15.
However, this coming week
should tell the tale, as any con
siderable polio during the next
few days will probably bring re
consideration by the county
board of health, with extension
of the quarantine.
Pinehurst Gridders May Give
Blue and White A Real Fight
Over at the village of Pine
hurst, the nation’s winter sports
capital, all is quiet arid on the
sleepy side downtown, but out
at the High School athletic field
it is everything but quiet and
sleepy as some score or more
youngsters are buckling down to
serious business just ahead—the
coming football season.
Under ’the watchful eye of
Coach “Hoot” Gibson, the Pine
hurst squad is drilling twice
daily, in the early morning, and
at night under the lights. These
drills largely are conditioning
exercises, but much of the time
is being spent on signal drills
and perfecting plays.,
Last year Pinehurst used the T
formation, but Coach Gibson
has them now running their
plays from the single wing back
formation, and unbalanced line
to the right or left. Th change
over apparently hasn’t bothered
the players. Jn Wednesday
night’s driUs their ball handling
was good and they had plenty of
zip in their plays.
Team of Veterans
Coach Gibson wiU be able to
send a team of veterans on the
field this year, all but one letter-
men. No starting team has been
picked yet, but running plays
was a team madq» up of Currie
and Ransdell at ends. White at
center, McKenzie at wing back,
Yarborough, blocking back, and
Kelly in the tail back position.
CGontinuea on Page 5)