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VOL. 30—NO. 33 12 PAGES THIS WEEK Soathern Pines, N. C. Friday, July 8, 1949 12 PAGES THIS WEEK TEN CENTS fi Dairy Production Gets Good Start In Moore County Recently Established Route Attracts New Producers Moore county has, in the past few months, started from scratch to forge ahead as a dairy produc ing county. Farmers are selling some 2,000 gallons of milk a week, via a route recently established by the Montgomery County dairy, of Troy, and Homer Johnson, route driver, says this will prob ably be doubled by December. The milk is being returned to the county in pasteurized form, to be sold in many retail outlets. The first house-to-house dehv- ery route has been established in Pinehurst. The opening of a commercial milk route in the county repre sents the fulfillment of a plan of long standing, by which the county farm agents have work ed with the farmers for the de velopment of pastures, the build ing of barns and the purchase of good cows. They were held back by war and postwar problems, and it was only within the past year that real work could be begun. (Continued on page 8) Colonial Mills Earnings Decline Colonial Mills, Inc., sales and earnings for the half-year and quarter ending May 31 showed a sharp decline from those of the same periods of the previous year, according to a preliminary report made June 29. The report, following years of consistently increasing sales and profits, wiU bring home to Moore County people as would nothing else the fact that a “recession” is imder way—in the textile world, at any rate. The report showed that, for the half-year ending May 1, 1949, con solidated net earnings for the corporation declined to $1,340,460, or $1.61 each on 834,319 shares, from $4,517,759, or $5.42 a share, for the six months to May 31, 1948. Net sales were slightly more than one-third the figure for those of the same period a year ago— $14,806,435, as compared with $21,540,923. That most of the price decline took place in the quarter ending May 31 is shown by the compari son which shows profits amount ing to just about 20 per cent of the same quarter of 1948, though sales were above 60 per cent. Net earnings were $442,109, or 53 cents a share, on sales of $6,829,- 850, as compared with net profit of $2,225,530, or $2.67 a share, on sales of $10,847,623 for the May quarter a year ago. Profit for the 1948 period was figured after $70,000 special pro vision for amortization of postwar construction and machinery costs was deducted for six months, and $350,000 for the quarterly period. Work Starts On Moore County Hospital Addition, To Be Completed In January NO POLIO There's no polio in Moore county yet, said Dr. J. W. Willcox, counity health offi cer, as 1949 passed the half way mark. With a good, sound knock on wood, he said it would be unusual to gel through the year without any at all. Al most every year brings a few scattered cases, generally starting earlier than this. In his decade of service here he /remembers just one yrar, 1944, which was entirely free of polio. Since then each year, till now, has brought an in- creaing number of cases, cul minating in last year's epi demic. A rumor spread last week that there was a case in the county. A check at the Moore County hospital brought the information from E. T. Mc- Keithen, administrator,, that a Montgomery County child had been brought in for test ing, but had been found not to have polio. This was be lieved, to be the basis of the rumor. McCormac Buys Florist Business The florist business of Chand lers Greenouses, on South Broad street, was sold last week by Mrs. Bessie Chandler Clark to (Jeorge A. McCormac, local veteran of World War 2, who has been em ployed there since March, 1946. Mr. McCormac said this week there will be no change in name or policies of the business, which was established in 1922 by Mrs. I. F. Chandler as an outgrowth of her hobby of flower raising and has grown to be one of the largest of its kind in the section. With the building of a green house, which is still in use, by Mrs. Chandler in 1927, the busi ness became the first in the sec tion to raise its own plants under glass, for sale over an increasing ly wide area. Another modern greenhouse was built later. Following the death of Mrs. Chandler in 1942, the busi ness was carried on by her daugh ter, Mrs. Clark. In the spring of 1947 a new shop and showrooha were opened bn South Broad. Mr. McCormac worked at the {j eenhouses lor Mrs/. Chandler as a young boy, and during holi days when he was going to high school. On his discharge from the army he entered on a two - year course of GI training there, and (Continued, on Page 5) 39 Beds Will Be Added, General Facilities Expanded Construtcicn of the new wing to* the Moore County hospital started this week, according to E. T. McKeithen, administrator, who said that the contractors have es timated that ^ it will be completed probably some time in January. The wing will provide 39 addi tional beds, with room for con siderable expansion of the gen eral hospital facilities through a rearrangement of the building as a whole. Some departments which have outgrown their present space will be moved to the hew wing, leaving room-in the main building for the expansion of others. The wing is being built on the north side of the hospital, extend ing at a right angle to the back, and will be only slightly visible from the road. Contracts let to low bidders to tal approximately $392,000, Mr. McKeithen said, and new equip ment for the wing will bring the total cost probably above $400,000. The major portion of tljis is al ready on hand in a fund started before the war, which has been built up through contributions and bequests. It is planned to raise an additional $150,000 through public subscription, in a campaign scheduled to open in September with Maj. Gen. Ira T. Wyche, of Pinehurst, as chairman. Concerning the need for the wing, Mr. McKeithen said the hospital cared for patients to an average of 120 per cent of capa city during 1948, and that he has noticed no change in the general conditions in the first half of 1949, except for a slight decrease in maternity cases. The falling off in births, he said is a trend general ly noted by hospitals throughout the country, following the “baby boom” of the war and postwar years. Commissioners To Meet Monday, Set County Tax Rate Revaluation Still Unfinished; gain Will Be Estimated With the fiscal year ended and budgetary matters i pressing, the county commissioners meeting Tuesday at Carthage had a‘diffi cult decision to make—whether to'wait the two and a half months it seems likely it will take for the revaluation board to / finish its job; whether to set the tax rate on the basis of the old eval uation, postponing use of the new until next year; or to go ahead and set the tax rate now and get to the budget, estimating the overall evaluation on the basis of the part already done. They decided in favor of the last named move, and will hold a special meeting Monday at 2 p. m. ,to review the county’s needs for the coming year and set a rate to bring in the funds to meet them. John C. Muse, county auditor, joined the commissioners Tues day, and will meet with them for the rate-setting next Monday Also joining them Tuesday was Miss Maida Jenkins, county tax supervisor, who estimated an overall gain of $4 million on the basis of properties already re valued. She said one township alone accounted for about a mil lion and a half of this—^McNeills, “where values had been the low est in the county. It was the farth est out of, line.” Her estimate would bring the total evaluation to about $32 mil lion, as $28 million (apprp^dmate- ly) was the old evaluation. Adthce of Auditor Muse, however, was to “undei*,-estimate rather than to over-estimate” and oh his recom mendation the tax will probably be computed on the basis of a (Continued on Page 8) PGA Will Meet Here . The annual meeting of the Pro- covering fessional Golfers association def initely will be held at the Mid Pines next fall, with the week of November 6 announced this week for the meeting by President Joe Novak, of Los Angeles. Business sessions will be held during the first four days, with clinics and functions of a ULOre social nature filling the rest of the program. The meeting will bring to the Mid Pines about 15 general officers of the PGA, 64 delegates representing 32 areas the whole country. ,, a group of correspondents and a large number of golf equipment manufacturers and their represen tatives. With the North and South Open scheduled for October 31-Novem-' ber 3, the Sandhills will be the national center of golf for a two- week period. Cooperation Did It Arrangements for the PGA meeting were made through co operation of President Novak; (Continued on Page 5) Softball Series Starts A series of softball games open ed this week on the town athletic field, to be played off during the next six weeks with games sched uled each Thursday and Friday at 6 p. m., and double-headers each Wednesday at 1 p. m. The four teams forming an in formal league are sponsored by local churches, the First Baptist, Church of Wide Fellowship, Brownson Memorial Presbyterian and Manly Presbyterian. Their line-ups include boys and young men from all over town, not nec essarily members of these church es, playing for their own pleasure and that of the townsfolk, and to make some money for athletic equipment for h permanent league. Players wanting to join up with any of the teams are ask ed to contact Bobby Straka or Delamar Mann, managers, from whom came the word this week that more players are needed and will be welcomed. In conjunction with the games, Harry Chatfield is heading up a collection campaign to secure funds to light the field for evening games. Permanent lights, good for many seasons, are hoped for. Admission charges are being kept small to enable everyone, (Continued on Page 5) First Local Television Expanded Recreation Program Wins Fine Response Among Youngsters Here Sewing, Cooking, Art Get Good Start: Story Hour Monday The expanded youth recreation program got successfully under way this week, with enthusiastic groups showing up for sewing, art and cooking classes and the prom ise of considerably larger attend ance at next week’s sessions. A good crowd of the younger boys and girls is looked for at the first “story hour” to be held at the elementary school at 10 a.m. LI- ‘‘Miracle Girl” Home from Hospital WELCOME Welcome, to sanitarians of 21 counties who are meeting today at the Civic Club build ing, to learn more about ways to keep us healthy and solve everyday problems of sanita tion in town and country. They are guardians over the food we eat, the milk we drink: ever vigilant against the dangers that arise from dirt, ignorance and careless ness. Speakers at the morning session will be Mrs. Lillian Schadt, bactexioligist with the Farmers Cooperative Dairy at Chapel Hill; and Stale Board of Health representa tives Robert L. Caviness, principal saniteiry engineer, and B. L. Jessup, principal sanitarian. James A. Westbrook, slate sanitary engineer, who will be in charge of the meeting, will head an open forum discus sion of problems in the after noon. Russell Mills, of South ern Pines, sanitarian of .the iMoore-Hoke he^h d^lrict, will be host to the gathering. Monday, with Mrs. Elizabeth Shearon in charge. The sewing class is held Tues days at Emmanuel Episcopal church, the art class Wednesdays at the high school and the cooking class Thursdays at the Church of Wide Fellowship. The hour in each case is 10 a. m. Sewing and cooking were added by way of providing some special interest for girls, and art for both boys and girls. Each have recog nized experts in their lines as vol unteer instructors, and all those supervising the initial sessions, also Program Director A. C. Daw son, Jr., this week expressed themselves as well pleased at their start. Wm Make Shorts Organization and registration took up most of the first sewing class, where a dozen girls from eight years to 15 and their in structors, Mrs. R. S. Parker, Mrs. Joe Steed and Mrs. T. J. Garrett, all showed much enthusiasm. By popular • consent, shorts were se lected as the first project and will be made at next Tuesday morn ing’s session. Some sewing ma chines are to be loaned for the classes. Will Draw Model A dozen young people, includ ing two boys, attended the first art class. Some sketched a bowl of colorful petunias, while others selected diverse subjects with horses and dogs rating high in popularity. Next Wednesday, the class will draw from a live model. (Continued on page 8) Television programs have been coming in for the past ' three weeks over a set being tested by Ray McDonald, of the McDon- ald-Page Motor company, ' and Goerge Darden, of the Carolina Power and Light company. These are the first ever reported, so far as The Pilot can ascertain, to have been feceived in this vicini ty- Except for one night in June when the set was taken out to Paint Hill Farm, far removed from the interferences in town, the reception has not been too good, but McDonald and Darden are working on the problems in volved and considerable improve ment is being noted, they say. Except for a freak program or two of unknown origin, all those received so far have been the test programs of WBT'V at Charlotte, which are being sent out daily from 12 noon to 7 p. m. prelimin ary to the start of regular tele casting at 7 p. m. July 15. The tests do not make for very thrill ing programs so far, as they con sist mainly of news run on a con tinuous tape, and continuous tel ecasting of a “pattern” which va ries in clarity as the WBT'V en gineers do their work, and as in terference is felt. Success Foreseen However, the programs have been coming in sufficiently well, say McDonald and Dardei^ to promise -good televiewing for the Sandhills, despite the expressed opinion of a visitor from radio land who spoke here recently. Harold Essex, of Winston-Sa- (Continued on Page 5) Junior Legion Baseball At Climax As Three Teams Jockey For Second Place Officials Allow Moore Protest In Richmond Game The half dozen teams of the Fourth district of the American Legion Junior baseball program have reached a crucial point of play in which, as League Com missioner J. W. Dickerson puts it, “anything can happen.” They have a first-place winner —Albemarle, who, barring a mon umental upset, will keep that place. For second place, though, it’s a scramble—and second place is as valuable as first. It’s the two top teams who will be pitted against each other in the two-out- of-three playoffs for the League winner, and either team has an equal chance to go on to other payloffs, and possibly state, and national distinction. » With Concord slightly in the lead for second place and three games to go, Moore County and Richmond County are deadlocked with a protest game to be played. The protest was filed by Moore County 'Thursday night at Rock ingham, on a technical question concerning an overthrow at first base, sixth inning. Protest Allowed In a hearing Sunday at Troy, with Manager J. T. McSwain of (Continued on Page 5) Miss Joan Way, winner of the beauty title over 19 contestants in the July 4 celebration at Carth age, will represent Moore county in the state beauty contest to be held at Morehead City this week end. The winner will be announc ed Saturday night. Miss Way, who is talented at singing and dancing as well as being pretty, is being sponsored by the Jose_ph G. Henson Legion Post No. 12, .of Carthage, her sponsor in thie county contest Monday. Winnng beauty titles is getting to be a habit with Joan. In Feb ruary, 1947, she was chosen Moore County queen in a contest at the Valentine ball in Pinehurst. (For full July 4 Celebration story, see Page 5.) Not many in the history of the world have been burned like Christine Lloyd and lived, but, thanks to skilled care of doctors and nurses at the Moore County hospital, and unstinting use of modern medical aids, the 20-year-old mother is now with her family in West Southern Pines. Shirlene, aged two; is mighty glad Mother is home, but she and seven-month-old William Isaac Lloyd, Jr., don’t realize how near they came losing her that day last January, when her gown caught fire from a small cookstove. Before help came, more than two- thirds of her body had been,burned. She will return to the hospital for plastic surgery on the skin of her hands and arms, which drew up during the healing process. Despite 22 separate skin grafts she will be only slightly scarred, ac cording to Dr. W. F. Hollister, who has been in charge of her case. He says there is every reason to expect she will return to normal, useful living. To Christine’s dauntless spirit and will to live Dr. Hollister gives much credit for her recovery. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey) TO MOREHEAD Sandhill Markets Win Independent Opening August 29 Warehousemen See Recognition As Partial Victory The board of governors of the Bright Belt Warehouse associa tion, meeting last Thursday at Ra leigh, set the date of August 29 for the opening of the Carthage, Aberdeen, Sanford and Fuquay- Varina tobacco markets, thus rec ognizing the independence of these markets as the Sandhills Warehouse association. This will be the first time the local markets have opened offi cially in August. Though the opening date is a compromise with the Sandhills group’s re quest for a date as early as the Eastern belt, or midway between the Eastern and Middle Belts, it is said to have won approval of the association, as it recognizes separation of the four markets from the Middle belt and is a step toward further relief. It was also pointed out that this year’s tobacco crop in this area is a week or 10 days behind normal development, which will react to the benefit of the August 29 opening. Other Openings Dates set for opening of the flue-cured markets in other belts were: North Carolina Border and South Carolina belts, August 2; Eastern, August 18; Middle, Sep tember 1; North Carolina and Vir ginia Old belts, September 12. The four Sandhills markets formerly opened with the Middle belt. Last year they opened inde pendently with the Eastern belt (Continued on Page 5) Holiday Is Calm; Only One Accident Is Reported Here With highway accidents report ed all over the state, marring the Fourth of July weekend with an unusually high toll in lives and injuries, only one was reported in this vicinity and that, by a, mir acle, had no tragic result. Mrs. Henry L. Graves, driving from Carthage in the fine rain which fell early Sunday after noon, put on brakes as she met a car on “Dead Man’s Curve” be yond the water plant, skidded some distance off the road and lost control of the car, which overturned. The car she was meeting had already passed,' unaware of the. accident about to happen, and other passersby helped her out of the overturned vehicle. Beyond a severe fright and shaking up, her injuries consisted only of bruises. Damage estimated at about $500 was sustained by the 1948 DeSoto car. An unusually peaceful, holiday weekend was noted in general over the county, with* Chief C. E. Newton of Southern Pines and Sheriff C. J. McDonald both re porting, with surprise and pleas ure “No arrests.” Postal Gains Seen At Midway Mark Postal receipts of $47,559.22 for 1948-49 showed a gain of $5,148.83 over the preceding year, accord ing to the annual report of Post master A. Garland Pierce made following the close of the fiscal year June 30. A rise in postal rates January 1 accounted for about five per cent of this. Most of the gain was made in the fall and spring quarters. The second quarter, ending December 31, was slightly off—by $105.60. Overall percentage of gain was 12.13 per cent. The increase "was a conristent one during the' first three quar ters of the year, each one of which showed a rise over the one be fore, until the June quarter came alopg with its seasonal drop. For comparison purposes, total receipts for the fiscal year 1947-48 were $42,410.39. Quarters of the year just ended, and the same ones of the year preceding, were as follows: ending September 30, $8,645.15, $6,995.18; ending De cember 31, $13,239.02, $13,344.62; ending March 31, $13,963.96, $11,- 894.60; ending June 30, $11,'711.09, $10,175.99. An interesting phenomenon of the year, according to Mr. Pierce, was the tremendous increase in the use of postal notes, which amounted to better than 300 per cent, jumping from 1,044 notes is sued in 1947-48 to 4,347 in 1948-49. Along with this came a decrease in the number of money orders is sued, while the amount for which these money orders were issued increased, indicating that the pos tal note has come into its own as the transmitter of smedler sums of money, the larger amounts still going by money order. The number of money orders is sued during the last fiscal year was 21,196; their amount, $297,- 723.74. During the previous year 21,931 were issued, for a total amount of $293,359.79. Postal savings showed a gain during the year, the end-of-year balance rising by $5,237 from $173,738 June 30, 1948, to $178,975 June 30, 1949.
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