Polio Fund Campaign Must Replenish
Treasuries Drained By Epidemic Aid
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Chairman Blue
Announces Dates
January 14-30
Quotas Largest Ever
The 1949 fund raising campaign
of the National Infantile Paral
ysis Foundation will begin Janu
ary 14 and continue through Jan
uary 31, it was announced this
week by H. Clifton Blue, of Aber
deen, campaign chairman.
■ Though local quotas have not
yet been set, it is expected that
they will be the largest in history.
The quota of the state as a whole
will be $1,000,000.
No difficulty is anticipated in
meeting the goal, said Chairman
Blue, as the, Foundation dramati
cally demonstrated its value dur
ing the past year by magnificently
meeting its greatest test — last
summer’s polio epidemic, which
struck hard at this state and also
Moore county.
Pouring out its resources to
meet all needs both large and
small, the Moore County chapter
pon scraped the bottom of the
barrel. Funds were poured in
from other chapters through the
state epidemic fund committee,
until a total of almost $75,000 has
been spent in the county in 1948.
The money has gone to aid in
dividual victims and their fam
ilies in their time of crisis, to pay
medical and hospital expenses, to
buy special equipment, to pay for
DDT-spray in a countywide pre
vention program and to fill many
other needs. It is still being spent.
Though the epidemic'is over, the
expenses go on, and, in many in-
■ dividual cases, will continue for
months and years.
With epidemics in North Caro
lina, Texas and California during
the year, the National Foundation
/ now faces a state of emergency
and is relying on the 1949 cam
paign to replenish its treasury.
Moore county has always passed ^
its quotas, but, as one of the hard
est hit counties in the epidemic
has had to draw on national funds
for far niore than it has ever con
tributed.
N. L. Hodgkins, of Southern
Pines, treasurer of the Moore
County chapter, said this week
that funds paid out by the chap
ter early this month had totaled
$69,789.30 in 1948, and would
reach almost $75,000 by the end
of the year.
Around 65 children were strick
en with polio in Moore county
during the past year. All of their
expenses were paid. While many
have recovered, there are others
which still require expensive at-
; tention.
Three Moore County children
are at Warm Springs, where their
expenses are being borne by the
National Foundation. Six chil
dren still remain at the conval
escent center at Camp Suton, ac
cording to Paul C. Butler, chap
ter treasurer. All but two of the
Moore County children at Camp
Sutton were allowed to be
j brought home at Christmas. Some'
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MARSHALL ARRIVES
Secretary of State George
C. Marshall and Mrs. Marshall
arrived Tuesday at 4:10 ». m.
at Resort field, by special
plane, from Washington, D.
C., and were driven at once to
their Pinehurst home, Lis-
combe lodge.
Secretary Marshall will rest
there for an indefinite time, it
is understood. He is recuper
ating from a kidney operation
performed three weeks ago at
Walter Reed hospital, Wash
ington. Mrs. Marshall spent
Christmas week with him in
the hospital, and also under
went physical checkup her
self while there.
Sugar Bowl Trip
Is L. E. Grover’s
Retirement Gift
Lawrence E. Grover, retiring
today after 26 years’ service in
the Southern Pnes post office,
was given a super-duper farewell
gift by his fellow employees—
an all-expense-paid trip to the
Sugar Bowl game at New Or
leans.
He left Thursday morning in
company with Graham Culbreth
Will Wiggs and J. H. Childs, in
Mr. Culbreth’s car, with that im
portant pasteboard safely packed
away which will insure his admis
sion to the game to which all Tar
heels’ hearts will be turning Sat
urday afternoon.
The post office staff had plan
ned a testimonial dinner for their
retiring colleague, but on Wednes
day of this week had a bright
idea, checked with Mr. Grover
and found that, sure enough, he
would rather see the Sugar Bowl
game than eat. How they secured
ticket at such a late date is
their own secret, but they did, and
in a very short time Mr. Grover
was ready to go.
Mixed with their joy at seeing
him off on the trip, said Acting
Podtmastet- A. Garland Piierce,
was the employees’ sadness at
realizing that when he returns, he
will be no longer among them.
‘‘There is gloom all over the
place,” said Mr. Pierce. “We are
going to miss him a great deal.”
So will post office patrons who
have become accustomed through
the years to his pleasant service
and quiet efficiency at the stamp
‘window.
He received his first regular ap
pointment to the local staff Jan
uary 1, 1923. Before coming south
from New England some years be
fore that, he had been employed
for a short time with the railway
mail service in 1909 and 1910.
Happy New Year
from The Pilot.
And that isn’t just an impersjnal wish. A newspaper is not an
impersonal thing. It is your friend, as the people who put it together
each week are your friends.
Your hometown newspaper is the work of people whom many
0 you know. More than that—they are people who want to know
you, for m a sense you make the paper, and they only put it together.
Not only on this New Year’s E /e on 1949, but each week of the
year as^The Pilot goes out to you, so do the personal good wishes of
the Pilot staff, here alphabetically listed;
NAtHAN ADAMS, KATHARINE L. BOYD, CLYDE G.
COUNCIL, CHARLES MACAULEY, LOCHAMY McLEAN
VALERIE NICHOLSON, JAMES PATE, DAN S RAY
DIXIE RAY, BESSIE C. SMITH, GLADYS WHIPPLE.
Town Billboards Seen In Violation Of
Stale Ordinance Soon To Be Enforced
Winkelman And
Austin Displays
Awarded Prizes
Tax Listing Time
Is Here Again-
The tax listers will be back at
their annual work next week, and
all owners of any property what
soever can be planning now to
visit them at the stated times and
places, once the New Year begins.
Mrs. Don J. Blue, McNeills
township list taker, this week an
nounced her schedule for cover
ing her territory between January
6 and January 29.
Mrs. Blue will be at the South
em Pines town hall January 10,
11, 12, 13 and 14, and also Janu-
ary 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21.
' She will be at Niagara January
6; Lakeview, January 7; Clay
Road Farms on the afternoon of
January 8.
January 25, she will be at
Manly; the afternoon of January
26, at Eureka and January 15, 22
and 29 at Vass.
A good many taxpayers in the
south end of Southern Pines,
, which lies in Sandhills township,
pwill go to Aberdeen to list taxes.
The Pilot does not haye the sched
ule o^ H. M. Kirk, Sandhills town
ship list taker.
The giant Christmas tree on the
lawn of the D. W. Winkelman
home on East Massachusetts ave
nue was awarded the first prize in
the Christmas display contest (res
idential division) sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce.
Sparkling with lights to the
very top, the huge tree is one of
the town’s loveliest sights of the
season and has attracted numer
ous spectators during the week.
■The E. J. Austins won second
prize. At the Austin home, shiny
green bells with silver-ball clap
pers give a Yuletide welcome at
the front door, while Santa Claus
stands beside the big picture win
dow with its white-lettered in
scription, ‘‘Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year.”
Honorable mention went to the
“angel’s orchestra” and Nativity
scene at the Apgelo Montesantis’
and. the sparkling displays of
lights, artistically arranged, at Dr.
McLeod’s home and the Sydney
Everts’.
The judges toured the town
Christmas Eve night as the lights
were coming on. Their task was a
hard one. Of the many beautiful
decorations, a dozen or more mer
ited serious attention, they said,
showing taste, care and true
Christmas spirit in their arrange
ment.
Prizes of $10 (first) and $5 (sec
ond) were awarded in the business
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Peace On Earth”“Quiet Christmas
Makes News By Producing No News
Disaster, Death, Even
Stork All Take Holiday
With business at a standstill for
practically all of three days, peace
on earth was in evidence here
through the Christmas week end.
An unusual feature was that, in
the immediate Southern Pines
area, there were no births, no
deaths, no-arrests,, no wrecks, no
iires reported for Christmas day.
In the county as a whole, from
the sheriff’s office came word that
“it was the quietest weekend we
ever did see.”
Most stores and offices were
closed all day Saturday, Sunday
and Monday. Schools were closed
from last Wednesday at noon un
til Wednesday morning of this
week. County schools will reopen
Monday.
Policemen, firemen and wreck
ers, on vigil without holiday, nev
ertheless had a restful time of it
and Santa brought little to dis
turb the general calm.
Arrests did not total those of an
average mild week end, said
Chief C. E. Newton.
Two men, one white and one
Negro, were picked up Sunday
night for partaking too freely of
Christmas spirits. These were the
only arrests for drunkenness. Also,
one warrant was issued following
a shooting (no damage done) in
West Southern Pines.
A soldier from Camp Chaffee,
Ark., visiting relatives at Niagara
for Christmas, was arrested for
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NEW YEAR'S DAY
Except for the bank, which
will observe a full holiday,
and a part-time holiday at the
post office, there will be no
special observance of New
Year's day in the business dis-
trict. Though some offices
may have a weekend closing,
it is expected that it will be
"business as usual" in the
stores.
All post office windows will
be open from 8 to 10 a. m.
Thereafter the only activity
of the day will be the work
ing of incoming and outgoing
:nail.
The big feature of the day
will be the Sugar Bowl game,
from all present indications,
and most citizens, whether
they are having holiday or not
are apt to be found some-'
where near a radio during the
afternoon, tuning in on the
North Carolina - Oklahoma
contest at New Orleans.
Commission Orders
Removal Of Signs
On Right Of Way
Crews Will Act
After January 1
J. Benton Thomas
Wins Appointment
To State Senate
J. Bentcn Thomas of Raeford,
farmer and cotton ginner, received
the Democratic nomination Mon
day for the 12th District Senato
rial seat vacated by the resigna
tion last week of Ryan McBryde,
veteran Raeford legislator.
Thomas’ election is assured,
since he will have no opposition
in the special election set for Jan
uary 3. Sim A. DeLapp of Lex
ington. State Republican chair
man, announced that GOP leaders
of the district had informed him
thqy do not plan to enter a candi
date.
McBryde, now a patient in High-
smith hospital at Fayetteville,
submitted his resignation to Gov
ernor Cherry last week, explain
ing that his health would not per
mit him to serve in the coming ses-
T-3 William P. Short was re
cently awarded the Bronze Star at
a formal parade at his depot head
quarters at Ober-Ramstadt, Ger
mahy, according to information re
ceived by his mother, Mrs. DeWitt
Short, of West Broad street.
Technician Short, 23, a graduate
of Southern Pines High school, en
tered the army in 1943 and was
transferred overseas shortly there
after. After being stationed first
in England, then seeing combat
service on the continent, he en
tered Germany and has been there
since before the end of the war.
He is with the 7844th Tire Re
build detachment.
sion. He had represented the dis
trict in the Senate in the sessions ot other signs along
of 1933, 1937, 1941 and 1945 Highway 1 were observed which
will be in violation of the ordi-
of 1933, 1937, 1941 and 1945.
A rotation' system carries the
Senate seat to Hoke county this
year, and the nomination of a can
didate to succeed McBryde was
left up to the Hoke Democratic
executive committee. The commit
tee met at Raeford Monday and
announcement of Thomas’ nomina
tion was made by Walter Baker,
county Democratic chairman.
Hal Walker of Randolph has
been elected to the district’s other
Senate seat. The Twelfth is com
posed of Hoke, Harnett, Randolph
and Moore counties, and Baker
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It looked this week as though
the town board would be spared
the trouble of deciding whether
or not to retain the large bill
boards advertising Southern
Pines, located at the town’s north
ern and southern entrances on
Highway 1.
An ordinance adopted in Nov
ember, 1941, by the state high
way and pujilic works commis
sion is to be put into effect Jan
uary 1, prohibiting the mainte
nance of advertising signs closer
than 50 feet to the center of the
paved section of a state highway.
The information was received
by The Pilot this week from L. E.
Whitfield, division engineer of the
commission at Asheboro. A check
by telephone with Mr. Whitfield
confirmed the fact that U. S. high
ways are a part of the state high
way system and come under the
ordinance exactly as do the North
Carolina highways.
Restraining Order
As a matter of fact, the ordi
nance applies more to U. S. high
ways than to some state highways.
Mr. Whitfield revealed that a tem
porary restraining order taken
out this week by outdoor advertis
ing agencies against the ordi
nance, and signed by Judge W. C.
Harris of Raleigh, would prevent
—for the time at least—the re
moval of billboards from any land
other than the state’s right of
way. On some state highways this
is only 60 feet, or 30 feet on each
side from the center of the paved
section. On U. S. Highway 1, it is
100 fe4t—the full 50 feet on each
side.
Unofficial measurements taken
at the sites of the two town bill
boards reyeal that the comer of
the one at the south end of town
is approximately 42 feet from the
center of U. S. Highway 1, and
the one at the north end, approx
imately 38 feet.
A number of other signs along
nance‘after January 1 .
The signs will not be summar
ily removed, despite the warn
ings given by newspaper public
ity, Mr. Whitfield said. If they are
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From The Pilot Files: Headline Review of 1948
Through the year 1948, ending
today, many headlines made news
for Pilot readers. Here are some
of the major events as revealed
week by week in the Pilot files:
January 1—H. Clifton Blue,
March of Dimes chairman,
lists community leaders for 1948
drive. Dog shot by would-be thief,
saves life of master James War-
man at cost of own. Bus station
move sought by Queen City
Coach company. State Utilities
Commission. Wqmble home dam
aged by fire.
January 9—Town deprived of
bus station as McFarland, Taylor
give up agency; Gus Travis speak
er at Chamber of Commerce din
ner meeting. Thirty-six applica
tions received for post of Cham
ber of Commerce executive secre
tary. Vass child taken to'Gastonia
hospital, first 1948 polio victim.
January 16—Drive starts in
Sandhills towns to urge speedy
Congressional action on Marshall
plan. State Utilities Commission
calls on Central Carolina Tele
phone company to answer com
plaints. Radio Station WSTS takes
non-suit in $40,000 slander case
against management of Station
WEEB.
January 23—Freezing weather
slows traffic, causes accidents.
Marshall Plan petition locally cir-.
culated, collects many signatures.
VFW Post Helps
Make Christmas
A Happier Time
Wicker employed as first execu
tive secretary. Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce. ,
January 30—County aid sought
to subsidize Piedmont. Poor serv
ice blamed by management on
shortages, high costs, in first stage
of Central Carolina Telephone
Company hearings at Raleigh. Bill
Sharpe is speaker at Chamber of
Commerce meeting at Shaw
House. Pilot editorials by Kath
arine Boyd, Valerie Nicholson re
ceive honors at N. C. Press Insti
tute.
February 6—Congress notes
Sandhills support of Marshall
plan. John Cline, executive vice
president, presents figures show
ing income, disbursements of Cen
tral Carolina Telephone company.
Work of M. B. L. Chatfield, local
artist, on exhibit in New York.
Februanry 13—Sandhills cover
ed by eight-inch snow, heaviest
in many years. Negro woman is
found dead in snow, SOS sent out
by Radio Station WEEB is instru
mental in getting husband to
wife’s bedside at N. C. Sanato
rium.
February 20—Chamber of Com
merce Secretary Tom Wicker se
cures N. C. Softball Tournament,
to be played here in August. Hoke
Pollock speaks to Rotary club on
advantages to be seen in exten
sion of city limits. D. H. Turner
Subsidy sought to assure service. has narrow escape in car-train
by Piedmont Airlines, Inc. Tom'crash. A. L. Burney heads local
Red Cross drive.
February 27—Art exhibit by
Betty Warren Jones, of Chapel
Hill, held for public at Highland
Pines Inn. Alton Clark purchases
Carolina Gardens florist business
from M. G. Backer. Don Jensen
is elected Rotary president. Pied
mont Airlines (unsubsidized)
holds inaugural flight.
March 5—Town board is told
water consumption (800,000 gal
lons at peak season) is dangerous
ly near water plant’s capacity of
1,000,000 gallons a day. County
commissioners authorize starting
plans for needed school buildings
here (gymnasium, auditorium,
cafeteria)., Fire starts from base
plug in school reception room,
soon put out.
March 12—First Chamber of
Commerce horse sliow is success,
nets $2,084 for Red Cross. Secre
tary of State and Mrs. George C.
Marshall are guests'at horse show,
buffet super and hunt ball at
Highland Pines Irm. Eugene
Maples, high school athlete,
breaks jaw in fall from horse.
March 19—$45,000 local bond is
sue as supplement to county funds
for school buildings approved by
county commissioners on receipt
of petition with 300 names. Sea
son’s two worst forest
fires sweep more than
500 acres, near town. Plane burns
during air show at Resort field.
Edward (Flat Top) Kimball skips
town after collecting from many
local citizens in advance for milk
delivery.
March 26—Imminent remodel
ing of Seaboard station is report
ed. Spivey murder trial under
way at Carthage. Successful
hunter trials held, enlivened by
timber races.
April 2—Easter frost nips blos
soming peach orchards. Crowds
expected for Easter Horse show of
Sandhills Horse Show and Rac
ing association. Chamber of Com
merce “straw vote” on extension
of city limits is'' under way.
April 9—Handicraft show at
Shaw House has many visitors.
Two Negro women seriously
wounded in shotgun affray at
Manly. A. Garland Pierce appoint
ed acting postmaster, following
resignation of L. T. Hall. Sand
hills Horse show presents many
fine horses, riders in outstanding
show.
April 16—Amos C. Dawson, Jr.,
elected president of the state
NCEA. Mrs. Edith Lowe killed by
train at Massachusetts Avenue
crossing. Southern Pines school
delegation suggests holding of
special countywide bond issue for
Aberdeen schools, as needs of aU
districts runs amount up too high
and Aberdeen is considered most
congested.
April 23—^Moore County’s new
bookmobile is n use. VFW post
will give dugouts io athletic field.
All county commissioners file for
reelection, two face contests.
April 30—ABC raiders sweep
through 13 resort establishments,
hale 31 persons to court. W. Kerr
Scott, Democratic candidate for
governor, is dinner guest at High
land Pines Inn. Joseph Frederick
Cole, Harty A. Lewis awarded
honor buttons for more than 50
years in Masonry.
May 7—Joint committee estab-
tablished to serve Pinehurst and
Southern Pines resort interests,
under Chamber of Commerce aus
pices. Death of John McLeod,
Scottish patriarch, at age of 94 is
followed by death of wife two
days later. National Editorial As
sociation meeting and tour brings
400 editors, publishers to Sand
hills—many attend tea given by
Mrs. James Boyd at Weymouth.
May 14—Mrs. Moffitt proposes
to town board that they set price
oh jail, for her to buy and convert
to bus station. L. V. O’Callaghan
elected chairman of new Demo
cratic precinct committee. Five
children are sent to out-of-county
hospitals as possible victims of
polio, first of year. Town board
decides to allow Millen park, now
in disuse and disrepair, to revert
to Mrs. Edmund Millen, its former
owner.
May 21—Injunction denied
State Board for Licensing Con-
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The John Boyd post, VFW, dur
ing the Christmas season remem
bered with gifts some of the needy
of this area, and also sent a bit of
Christmas cheer to patients in the
Veterans’ hospitals at Fayetteville
andOteen.
Members , of the post on Christ
mas Eve, distributed 21 baskets,
abundantly filled with food, to
needy families in Southern Pines,
Carthage, Aberdeen and Manly.
Four of these were families of vet
erans, fallen on misfortune
through illness or other cause.
Names of the families assisted
were secured through the Red
Cross, the welfare department and
personal information received by
‘.he post.
A Christnias gift of 600,000
Camel cigarettes was sent to the
Veterans’ hospital at Fayetteville,
secured tax-free through a gov
ernment agency set up for the
purpose, for free distribution
among the patients.
Selecting a Christmas gift for
tubercular patients at Oteen was
not so easy. John H. Stephenson,
trustee, sought a suggestion from
a service officer at the hospital.
She let him know that there were
some patients there who had not
even a^ dime of spending money.
Though their physical needs are
all looked after, the government
does not provide pocket money,
and for many of them, their fami
lies are unable to give any finan
cial help.
So, to give a Christmas smile to
60 moneyless men, the local post
sent the service officer 60 crisp,
new dollar bills.