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Polio Clinic Opens Friday Afternoon; Aberdeen Is Site Orthopedic Checkup Will Receive Sandhills Children Hospital Ward Will Close Site of the Sandhills Orthopedic clinic has been changed from the Pinehurst Fire station to the old Page Trust Company building at Aberdeen, according to notices sent out by Dr. J. W. Willcox, county health officer, to those as sisting in the clinic. Time and date have not been changed. They are Friday, No vember 5, beginning at 1 p. m. Dr. Hugh A. Thompson; ortho pedic specialist from Raleigh, will be the physician in charge. The clinic is for the purpose of checking up on the condition of children of the area who have Jiad polio, and are now in home care. Progress will be noted, and recom mendations will be made concern ing needed treatment. The clinic has been established through cooperation of the state and county health offices, the Eowan Medical society, the Na tional Infantile Paralysis Founda tion and the Sandhills lodge of BPO Elks, which wiU furnish in cidental funds as needed. A regular date for the monthly or semi-monthly clinic is to be set later. Ward Will Close The Moore County hospital’s polio convalescent ward is expect ed to close about November 15, it was learned this week from E. T. McKeithen, administrator. Only nine children now remain in the ward, as the others have now all gone home. Children still there when it closes will be transfer red to another hospital. Efforts are being made by Paul C. Butler, chairman of the Moore County chapter. National Infan tile Paralysis Foundation, to se cure admission for one or two of th^m at Warm Springs,. Ga. The clinic will be of great help in securing the adjustment from hospital to home care as the ward closes, it was said, as well as as suring continued progress of those who are already at home. Several children were taken to Charlotte recently to be fitted for braces, which will be bought lor them! by the Foundation. Moore Follows Democratic Tide; Deane, County Officials Returned Armistice Day Reunion Will Brin^ Veterans of County Here Xiiursday Parade, Berbecue, Football Game Are On List Of Events Southern Pines Gives Dewey, Edge On National Ticket Record Vote Seen Medal Of Honor Winner Will Be On Program Red Cross Annual Meeting Will Stress Serviees The annual meeting of the Moore County chapter, American Red Cross, will be held at the Community building here next Friday evening, November 12, lor election of officers and consider ation of other matters important to the membership. Miss Susie Edgerton, general field representative, with head quarters jt the area office at At lanta, Ga., will be a special speak er, presenting highlights of the Red Cross program for the coming year with emphasis on volunteer services. ^ The need for volunteer aid, so generously offered and so effec tively used during the war, did not end with the war. A lull pro gram of peacetime work, much of it war-connected, is going for ward, and volunteers are needed as badly as ever, it is revealed. In the Moore County chapter, it was learned this week, "grey ladies” are being sought for help one day each week at the Fort Bragg hospital. Sewing room pro duction of many items to fill vet erans’ hospital needs is under way, with far too few workers. All who were sufficiently inter ested in Red Cross work to con tribute a dollar or more in the fund raising campaign are mem bers of the chapter and are asked to attend the November 12 meet ing, whether they can or cannot enter the volunteer service pro gram!. They will hear much of in terest concerning Red Cross work, and participate in the choice of officers. All the papers are running pic tures of victorious candidates this week, and The Pilot is no excep tion, presenting herewith a pic ture of the crowning of Southern Pines’ “Beauty Princess”. Miss Janet Menzel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Menzel and a member of the senior class at the Southern Pines High school, will go to Chaflotte November 17 as the school’s representative and “beauty princess” at the Char lotte Christmas Festival. Miss Menzel was chosen by a communitywide vote, in a cam paign which was in its way as spirited as some of the larger cam paigns then sweeping the country. One of three candidates for the hoiior of beauty princess, all of whom had active campaign organ izations with enthusiastic mana gers, she received the most votes, at a nickel a vote, with the school annual benefiting from the pro ceeds. Miss Menzel received her crown from Mayor C. N. Page, and ap plause from the whole crowd be tween halves at the big Home- (Photo by Humphrey) coming Day game played here last Wednesday against the Lex ington Orphanage team. The annual received some $225 from the campaign, and about $25 more from the sale tf a handsome program made in the form of a souvenir booklet by. Tommy Avery and Bob Cornwell, prin ters and Gary Mattocks, artist. Other candidates for beauty princess ran Janet a close race. They were Betty Jean Hurst, run ner-up, and Louise Milliken, the three of them making as pretty a trio of girls as you’d want to see. Last year the school had two beauty contests, one to choose its representative at the Christmas Festival, the other to choose ’’Miss Southern Pines.” Louise won the former, and attended the Char lotte event. Janet won the other contest. She has chosen Bobby Harring ton as her escort for the big day. Her parents will accompany them io Charlotte. Charlotte’s Christmas Festival motorcade will visit Southern Pines Tuesday. Golden Boy Wins First Five Points In Champion Class At National Show 21 Men Called For Draft Exam The second call for men from Moore county, under the peace time draft, is for 21 men, who will be sent to the army recruit ing station at Charlotte Novem^ ber 17 for their armed forces physical examination. The call was received this week and notices will probably go out this weekend, it was learned from the draft board office at Carthage. The first group, sent to Dur ham October 21, had an even higher rejection rate than the de plorable one of Wins Out Over 53 Others In Division; Mickey Walsh Up Golden Boy, five-year-old chestnut gelding of the Seven Stars stable of Southern Pines, won renown on the opening day of the 60th National Horse show at Madison Square Garden, New York City, when he scored the first points toward the working hunter championship on Tuesday. Ridden by Mickey Walsh, of Southern Pines, he defeated 53 others to score five points in the first of seven events which count toward the championship. His achievement was made The a'hnual Victory Celebration and reunion for, war veterans of Moore county, held last year on V-J day, will be held this year on Armistice day, next Thursday in Southern Pines. An eventful program has been planned by Charles J. Swoope, chairman cf the Moore County veterans committee, and fellow veterans, beginning with a United Memorial service at 10 a. m. at the Church of Wide Fellowship, and ending with a Victory square dance for members and their la dies, at the Planters Tobacco ware house at Aberdeen, on the old Raeford road. Capt. Charles P. Murray, a winner of the Congressional medal of honor, will be here to parlicipa'te in the observ ance and appear on Ihe pro gram, through the cooperation of military authorities at Fort Bragg. His decoration is the hiighest in the power of the nation to award. Worn by a. distinguished few, it recog nizes acts of the most out standing heroism in time of war. All veterans of the county are invited to be guests of the com mittee at. all events, and espec ially to participate in the parade which will form at 11 a. m. in front of the town hall, immediate ly following the memorial service. Uniforms may or may not be worn, as desired. The service and parade will be broadcast over Radio Station WSTS. Parade Order The parade order will be as fol lows: Chief Marshall; Spanish- American War veterans; World War 1 veterans and organization colors; War Id War 2 veterans and organization colors; World War 2 disabled veterans in Red Cross cars; Red Cross, auxiliary organ izations. Boy Scouts and patriotic :"loats. Barbecue lunch will be served free to veterans at the Southern Pines High School Memorial field, at 12 neon. A similar barbecue will be served Negro veterans at the West Southern Pines Metho dist church. Model Plane Show At 12:30 p. m., the Memorial park will be the scene of the first public display and contest of the Model Aviation club of the John Boyd post, VFW. Model airplanes will be flown in high - speed and stunting demonstrations, amohg them the first jet-propelled model plane to be seen in the Sandhills, (Continued on Page 5) Proclamation WHEREAS Armistice Day, November 11, is one for honorable observance in our own community as well as throughout the nation, bringing reminder of the trials of war as well as the triumphs of peace; and +u men of Moore county who have served in the U. S Armed Forces in time of war have prepared a fitting observance of this day; and WHEREAS we feel it a duty and a privilege to honor these man and to participate in the Armistice'Day cele bration to be held in our town' WE HEREBY PROCLAIM Thursday, November 11 Armistice Day, to be a holiday in the Town of Southern Pines, with the cooperation of all merchants and other cit izens requested. (Signed) C. N. PAGE, Mayor of Southern Pines. Spooks Do Peculiar Tiling.^ Everybody behaved fine Satm-- day night, according to Chief C. E. Newton of the Southern Pines po lice force. The Rotary street par ty was a big success, there were no arrests and no reports of de structive mischief. However, Sunday night—Hal loween by the calendar—the van dals camie out, to the cost of at least four individuals in town. Monday morning, tires were At Manly, a curious incident of the Halloween week end was re ported. Saturday night, the imps wrought mischief in the play ground of Mrs. R. P. Brown’s kin dergarten, moving the playground furnishings out of place, sticking benches up in trees, taking swings apart and tying knots in the ropes, and otherwise having themselves a time. Though nothing was brok iiiuiiiifig, tires were .— ° was uiuk- found to have been slashed on two which met Mrs. \jiLc ui. 40 per cent ini ^ North Carolina under the wartime known to the world via the As- selective service. However, it was pointed out, the older men are the ones now being called, with ex-servicemen exempt, and most of them were classified/ as 4-F’s before. The first group of 13 was re duced to 12 when one brought a medical certificate citing an in jury to his back. Of the l3 who went, only two were accepted, one white man and one Negro. Eight white men and five Negroes were in the group. The two men who were accept ed returned home the next day with the ethers and are awaiting their call for induction. ' sociated Press wires. Since then his owner, Mrs. Audrey K. Ken nedy, has had word that he has captured a second in the light weight working hunter class, and also that Bright Light, another Seven Star entry, placed fourth in the middleweight thorough-, bred. Mrs. Kennedy has four entries in the show. Entries from the sta bles of Cappy Smtih and Vernon Cardy are also at the Garden. The show will last through next Tues day. Mrs. Kennedy will go to New York this weekend to witness the closing events. OPEN HOUSE cars. One, owned by Dr. G. G. Herr and parked in front of his residence on Vermont avenue, had both right tires ruined with knife gashes. The other, parked farth er along on Vermont, between May and Ridge, had one tire simi larly maltreated. It was owned by a soldier (name unlearned) sta tioned at Fort Bragg, who was in town for the night. A rock was thrown through the electric sign in front of George Straka’s billiard parlor, and the large sign in front of Miss Allie McIntosh’s antique shop on South Broad was destroyed. Brown’s dismayed eyes Sunday morning resembled the aftermath of a small hurricane. Mrs. Brown and her sister, Mrs Arthur McNeill,. with whomi she lives, did nothing Sunday to straighten out the disorder. Mon day, they thought, they would get to work and put things to rights. However, Sunday night the imps returned—or maybe good spirits, this timd. Not a sound was heard as they went about their labors, but Monday morning eversdhing was back in place. Even the knots were untied again, and tidi ness prevailed. Halloween Party Is Big Success A fine big crowd turned out for the Rotary club’s Halloween festi val last Saturday night, thronging the downtown block set aside for the celebration (West Broad, be- between Connecticut and Penn sylvania) in a motley hurly-burly of good-natured frolic. Adults crowded close to the mbb of costumed youngsters, with all keen for Halloween fun. Early in the evening a crew of builders, directed by Rotarian E. J. Austin, set up a reviewing stand and several booths along the block, which was roped off from traffic early by city police. Soon after 7 o’clock lights were Open house for all the conununily lo become ac quainted with their new ele mentary school will be held at the school Wednesday eve ning from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock, with the school board and faculty as hosts. Parents and all others in terested in the school are in vited to attend, said Supt. P. J. Weaver. They will see a building rated as a model of mbdem school architeefurev with many new features for health and safety as well as fox comfort and beauty. Each' teacher will receive* the visitors in her own room. High school teachers will as sist with the serving of re freshments in the library. A number of studetns of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades have been chosen to act as guides through the schooL The event, has been planned as part of the local schools' recognition of American Edu cation Week. Belk-Hensdale Buys Lots, Will Build At Aberdeeu Plans of the Belk-Hensdale Co., Inc., of Fayetteville to build a .de partment store at Aberdeen were revealed this week with the re cording of the deed to two West Main street lots by the grantors, E. O. and Grace H. Freeman, and J. B. and Elizabeth F. Edwards. The lots, now vacant, are across from the bank and Methodist church at Aberdeen, and one of them formed part of the site of the old Sandhill hotel, which was burned several years ago. The new ^tore, part of the grow ing Belk-Hensdale chain, a sub sidiary of the farflung Belk Stores organization, is planned as a large one-story structure, of the most modern type, probably with mez zanine and basement departments. Besides its store in Fayetteville the concern has one in Red Springs which is one of the largest and most modern of the Sandhills section. The Aberdeen store will be its equal in every way, it is re ported. i turned on at the stand, the ramp was set in place and the young folks formed their parade at the Southern Pines pharmacy. As they marched down the block and across the ramp, the three judges, D. A. Blue, Jr., Mrs. Elmer Harrington and Mrs. Val erie Nicholson, really had their hands full and soon found they had an almost impossible task. Some 150 youngsters in Hallo ween array trooped past, to run ning comment and instructions by Emcee Tucker G. Humphries at the mike. With the aid of numbers pinned on the masqueraders’ backs, the judges did the best they could despite the pushing crowd, which prevented a detail ed review. Prizes Given Tiny Jackie Forbes, dressed as. a witch riding a tricycle-broom- (Continued on Page 5) Southern Pines and Moore county marched to the polls all day Tuesday, along with the rest of the nation, then sat back with everyone else to receive the news of a Republican victory for the presidency—to stay awake prac tically all night as the astonishing returns gave the Democrats the nod' in their national, state and county affairs. Primed by press, radio and street corner opinion to acclaim Dewey as their next president, even the most ardent of Demo crats expressed themselves as as tounded. No one, however, was particu larly surprised that North Caro lina lined up in the Democratic column, though the fact that the vote am'ounted to a veritable land slide was startling. The same was true of the county, where Moore county citizens returned their Democratic officials to office with a vote of approximately three to one, with the anticipated contest by the Republican factions of the “clay country” dwindling to in effective proportions. Large inroads in the Democratic vote expected from the “splinter” parties failed to materialize. Presidential Race In Southern Pines, Dewey led the presidential race with 433 votes, Truman had 334, Thurmond (States Rights) 146 and Wallace (Progressive) two. In the county, the tally was: Truman, 3,362; Dewey, 2,697, Thurmond, 631 and Wallace 24. On the state ballot, the contest most nearly concerning local cit izens was that for representative of the Eighth district in the U. S. Congress. C. B. Deane got his old job back again with a vote of 685 in Southern Pines, 4,240 in the county as against that polled by his opponent, Lafayette Williams of Thomasville; 264 in Southern Pines, 2,171 in the county. With a heavy Republican vote expected in the district, Deane actually won by a majority larger than that of 1944. Slate Ticket Others on the Democratic state ticket' went in as follows, with Kerr Scott, governor, leading the list with 704 votes polled in Southern Pines, 4,447 in the coun ty: J. M. Broughton, U. S. senator; W. Kerr Scott, governor; H. P. Taylor, lieutenant governor; Thad Eure, secretary of state; Henry L. Bridges, state auditor; Brandon P. Hodges, state treasur er; Harry McMullan, attorney general; Clyde A. Erwin, super intendent of public instruction; D. S. Coltrane, commissioner of agri culture (short term); L. Y. Ballen- tine, commissioner of agriculture (regular term); William P. Hodges, commissioner of insur ance; Forrest H. Shuford, com missioner of labor; Sami J. Ervin, Jr., associate justice of supreme court; Chester R. Morris, judge superior court, 1st district; F. Don- , (Continued on Page 5) Mr^. Boyd Recuperating In Paris Following Accident Near Chartres Mrs. James Boyd, editor of The Pilot, is progressing nicely at the American hospital in Paris, and expects to be out of the hospital by mid-November and on her way home shortly after that,' ac cording to a letter received at The Pilot this week from her son, James Boyd, Jr. The letter was the first word received since a cablegram Octo ber 30 which brought word that Mrs. Boyd had been injured in an automobile accident on the eve of her departure for home. Not only Mrs. Boyd, but her daughter Nancy, her sister Miss Elizabeth Lament, of Millbrook, N. Y., and their friend. Miss Sylvia Stallings, of Yanceyville, were involved in the crash, which occurred when they were travel ing in a rented car near Chartres, north of Paris, October 17. According to Mr. Boyd, a car appeared over the crest of a hill approaching them at high speed on the wrong side of the road. The chauffeur put on brakes and their car, a small Peugeot, skidded half way round, striking the curb and landing upside down in a deep ditch. - ^ The chauffeur and Miss Lament, who was beside him on the front seat, escaped unhurt except for bruises and shock. Miss Boyd was also unhurt, but her mother suf fered a broken collarbone and Miss Stallings a fractured verte bra. French people came to their as sistance, but the feat of securing ambulances and doctors, and get ting the injured to the hospital, was that of Miss Nancy and a re markable one said her brother, in (Continued on Page 5)
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