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HAD YOUR CHEST X-RAYED? VISIT MOBILE UNIT TODAY HAD YOUR CHEST X-RAYED? VISIT MOBILE UNIT TODAY 70L. 30. NO. 42 16 PAGES THIS WEEK Southern Pines. N. C. Friday. Septetnber 9. 1949. 16 PAGES THIS WEEK TEN CENTS Election Assures Game Warden Ending Long Service Opening-Day Enrollment Is Up 103 Town Water Plant Building Program $275,000 Bond Issue Approved In Light Vote Southern Pines’ lightest vote in a good many years stamped ap proval Tuesday on the $275,000 bond issue for modernizing and expanding the town water plant and facilities. Only 95 votes were cast, 77 for | the bond issue and 18 against—^a| whopping majority of 59. There were 661 qualified regis trants. In the last municipal elec tion, held in May, 306 votes were cast. Bond attorneys will get to their paper work at once, and advertis ing for bids is expected to be placed within 3(\ days. Mayor C. N. Page said it is hoped to get started well before cold- weather sets in. L. E. Wooten of Raleigh, who made the original survey and prepared the specifications, will be the engineer in charge. Expansion Plans The work will call for a doub ling of the filter plant in size, in creasing its capacity from 1,000,- 000 to 2,000,000 gallons a day, and the laying of more than three miles of new cast iron water mains. One line will parallel the present line from the filter plant into town, striking a new course southward at Knollwood to serve the West Southern Pines area. Mayor Page expressed satisfac tion at the results of the election, while, regretting that more voters had not turned out. “This is a great and decisive step for our community,” he said. “If the light vote indicated indifference, that is a shame.” He preferred to feel, he said, that it meant the people had con fidence in the board’s decision, and were satisfied the re would be no opposition. Value to Community “Personally, I held back a long •time on approving the program,” said the mayor. “I had to be con vinced. It’s a serious thing to spend that much money unless you are sure of the need, and of getting full value in return. How ever, there is nothing more im portant to a community than good water in adequate supply. With out the expansion. Southern Pines would be in sad shape within a very short time.” The fact that the bond issue will not raise local taxes he said he felt was a factor in its easy pas sage. It will be paid through wa ter revenues. Boys and girls of the Southern Pines school district trooped back to school Wednesday morning, 733 strong—an advance of 103 over th e opening-day enrollment last year. White schools enrolled 474, the West Southern Pines schoor259. Last year’s figures were 400 and 230, respectively,^ for a total of 630. The greatest increase was seen in the white elementary school, where unusually large first and second grade enrollment swelled the total to 349—76 more than the 1948 figure of 273. Forty-four children entered the first grade. The appearance of 64 second graders strained facilities for them to the utmost and set Supt. P. J. Weaver to wondering if per haps another teacher could not be secured from the state. From Private Schools The • second grade enrollment was out of all proportion to last year’s first grade figure (44), as many chidlren who could not meet the October 1 age deadline last year took their first grade work in private schools, showing up at the public school for the (Continued on Page 5) Operation MayReturnTyphoidCarrier To Normal Life After Long Isolation 60-Year-Old Man Recovering At Moore Hospital Alex Fields in the yard of his home on Morganton road. Story on Page 5 UNO ALUMNI Moore County alumni of the University of North Carolina will hold a supper meeting at the Pine Needles Golf club Thursday at 7:30 p. m., with W. D. Carmich ael, acting president, as speaker, and UNC students of the county as their guests. Reservations may be made through Voit Gilmore. Collection Of Books For Young Folks Of Europe Sponsored By Rotary Here Schoolchildren May Win Cash Prizes; Drive Opens Monday BOOKS W ANTED “Books for the children of Europe” is the goal of a book col lection drive to be sponsored by the Southern Pines Rotary club heer next week, with Dr. L. M. Daniels as chairman and 5,000 books set as the goal for this com munity. The drive is being made in cooperation with other clubs of the 281st district, who are en deavoring to secure a million books for shipment to Europe, principally the United States zone of Germany. The collection for the school- children of Germany is to be made principally by the school- children of America, and the Southern Pines school is coope rating, Dr. Daniels said. Cash Prizes Offered The Rotarians are offering a $10 9dsh prize to the elementary or high school student who brings the largest number of acceptable books to the collection center dur ing the collection time, with $5 in cash as second prize. Books, are to be brought, starting Monday, to the office building behind Harry Fullenwider’s law office, (Continued on Page 5) Here’s What Annex Adds To Hospital; Fund-Raising Drive Starts Sept. 22 What, exactly^ will the new Moore County Hospital annex contain? Wha't will mean to Moore citizens in more famli- ties, improved service? Maj. Gen. Ira T. Wyche> chairman of the $150,000 hos pital drive which will start September 22. answers your questions: Last week the report gave a general description of the project and a plan for carrying put the campaign. From the questions asked the committee, it seems ap propriate to go into more detail about the rearrangement of the hospital and about the adminis tration. The new wing will contain the following; Ground Floor: kitchen, two dining rooms, areas for drug stor age and surgical supply storage, employees’ rest room, linen rooms, autopsy room. First Floor: seven private rooms, seven semi-private rooms, staff library and conference room, living quarters for internes, floor kitchen, utility room, nurses’ station. Second Floor: The second floor wiU be allocated for obstetrical service with two delivery rooms, a labor room, locker rooms for doctors and nurses, nurseries for term and premature babies, for mula room, seven private rooms, two semi-private rooms, one four- bed ward, central sterilizing room, floor kitchen, utility room, nurses’ station. The present kitchen and dining rooms will be remodeled for out patient service. The area now used for the out-patient department will be used for extended X-ray and laboratory services. The lin en room and drug storage now ad jacent to the colored department will be converted into, bedrooms for the colored. The present de livery room and nursery will be converted into additional operat ing rooms. The total cost of this expansion will be $420,000. A fund of $270,- 000 was available and warranted the beginning of the construction, so that the $150,000 which is to be collected in this drive is slight ly over one-third of the amount necessary to complete the expan- (Continued on Page 12) The Rotary club's "Books for Europe" drive is designed to send to the young people of Germany books an^ maga zines which they can really use. and which will help them to an understanding of this country and of democracy, said Dr. L. M. Daniels, chair man. Please don't give books you wouldn't want or value in your own home—obsolete, outworn books, books of no literary or social value, books with small (type or unwhole some ideas. Modern textbooks and re ference books are badly want ed: Wholesome fiction, books on "how to make and do" and the juvenile classics. Magazines in these classifi cations will be welcomed, with especial emphasis on the pocketsize digests and Nat ional Geographic. An operation performed at the Moore County hospital last week may bring back to normal living a 60-year-old man, a typhoid car rier isolated in his rural home for the past 10 years for the protec tion of others. An article in The Pilot a month ago caught the alert eye of the hospital authorities, as it told of the self-imposed quarantine of a man no one knew—whose iden tity still remains a secret. New drugs Eire in use today ^ they knew, which might kill the bacil li which have remained in his bloodstream for almost a lifetime. In attempting a cure the hos pital met with full cooperation, it was learned, from Dr. J. W. Willcox, county health. officer, who has had the case under his supervision for a decade. The man was brought to the hospital three weeks ago. Chloromycetin was the chief new compound in which hope rested—but the hope fsided, after two vfeeks of treatment. Though the typhoid bacilli have been found to yield to it in ac tive cases, those of a carrier are apparently immune. A Chance To Take At the hospital, however, it was found that a diseased condition of the gall bladder existed, keep ing alive a constant stream of the bacilli which then poured into the intestinal tract. Removal of the gall bladder, it was be lieved, would possibly remove the condition. It’s a serious oper ation—for a man of 60, there was a chance of death. Even if suc cessful, it might not clear up the condition. Opening Of Mail Delivery Service Set For January Funds Allocated By State Board For School Units City mail delivery service will be.r established in Southern Pines on or about January 16, 1950, ac cording to word received by Post master A. Garland Pierce this week from Assistant Postmaster General V. C. Burke. Equipment will be sent to the local post office in a few weeks, he wrote. However, actual start of the service must await formal authorization, which will not be made until the first of the year. Arrangements are also to be made in the interval for a truck for de^ livery of parcel post, and mail on a suburban route. Use Street Addresses Understandably the patient wavered—almost made up his mind to go back to his prison- without bars, the farm home where for years he has seen no one but members of his family and of the county health depart ment making their regular check ups. Operation Performed However, his family. Dr. Will cox and others at the hospital en couraged him to take the chance. The operation was performed last Friday. He came through with flying colors. At the hospital it is reported that he is “growing better every day.” Cultures taken during the next two weeks will tell the story: whether he must go back to iso lation, one of a rare and tragic human category whose very touch carries illness and death to others; or whether he may return to the world a free and normal Rabitic Fox Caught At Coleman Home A fox caught by Arch Coleman, Jr., with his bare hands at his home. Skyline Drive, last week died three days later and was dis covered to have had rabies. A victim of the encounter weis the Colemans’ cocker spaniel Sarah, a family pet, who was se verely bitten by the fox and was “put to sleep” as a precautionary measure. Allocations of state funds ap proved Saturday by the state board of education assure schools in Moore county a total of $469,- 742.12 for school plant construc tion, improvement and repair. Southern Pines’ share in the $50 million to be distributed will be $55,371.33; that of the Pine- (hprst administraitivie unit $37,- 912.96, and the Moore County ad ministrative unit $376,458.83. Each county will receive a flat $250,000 from the $25 million. In addition, the $25 million author ized by the statewide bond elec tion June 4 will be divided among county and city administrative units on a per capita basis, as de termined by average daily mem bership during the 1947-48 school year. The money will be distributed as projects are approved. They are subject to certain restrictions of the state board of education: the funds cannot, for instance, be used to help pay for a project for which local bonds have al ready been voted, or for repair of a building already condemned or obsolete. Supt. P. J. Weaver said this week he would have no news as to how the $55,000-plus will be spent here until the school board studies the matter and reaches a decision.. He said, however, he CContinuea on Page 5) In the meantime, he suggested -and Postmaster Pierce backs him up—all post office patrons in town and the built-up outlying sections would do well to begin notifying their correspondents of their house numbers and street addresses, as these are necessary for distribution of incoming mail. '■‘Ninety-nine per cent of the people” in the built-up areas will be served by the carriers, it was estimated by Postmaster Pierce, as almost everyone will be direct ly on the routes, or just a short distance off. The latter may erect mailboxes along the routes, pro vided property owners of the mailbox sites agree. Anyone wanting to know if he will be on the route, or with other questions to ask about the ap proaching service, may telephone the postmaster at 5351. Three Carriers Three carriers, two white and one Negro, wiU be appointed on a temporary basis for the post office personel. Regular appointments will be made later following the holding of a civil service exami nation. The service will come to South ern Pines as the result of Cham ber of Commerce promotion, with the cooperation of Mr. Pierce. A Chamber-sponsored survey deter mined the need and desire for such service on the part of a ma jority of the patrons. A report on the survey, made by the post master, brought a postal inspector to investigate the matter and out line tentative routes. Hearing a disturbance outside the house, Mr. Coleman ran out to find Sarah engaged in a strug gle with the fox, who had his teeth sunk deep in her lip. To free his dog Mr. Coleman kicked the fox on the head, knocking him un conscious, then picked him up by a hind leg. The fox thereupon came to, and Mr. Coleman found himself hold ing the struggling, squirming brute, who was trying desperate ly to bite him. Unwilling to hold on but unable to let go, he call- el vigorously for help, declaring later “it seemed at least 15 min utes” (though probably only two or three), before members of the family inside the house heard him and came running. ' They brought a box, and the animal was placed. inside, lid tightly clamped down, and taken to Dr. NeEil’s animal hospital. There symptoms of rabies be came apparent and, without segregated pen for him. Dr. Neal and Dr. McLean turned him over to W. O. Moss, to be kept under surveillance at Mile-Away Farm There the fox soon died. Th,e head was sent to Raleigh for lab oratory examination and the ten tative diagnosis of rabies proved correct. This is the first official report of a rabitic Emimal in Moore county this year, said Dr. J. 'W. ■Willcox, health officer. He said, however, that some cases had been reported in Hoke county, and that it was possible the fox was an immigrant from Hoke or even farther away. Sandhills Tennis Tournament Starts Here Saturday A. M. PAT IS HOME Pat is home again, alive and happy—a bit thin and worn, but gaining his weight back fast. Omer Williams' brown and white pointer, famed Sand hills hunter and Grantland Rice Sportlight movie star, had been practically given up for dead since he disappeared August 16 from his home on East ■Vermont avenue. It was reported he had been seen near Manly, and Williams searched for him th ere for hours, but without much hope, and without success. Last Sunday .T. L. Butler, of Highway 1 north between Southern Pines and Manly, saw a dog running across the highway and recognized him from a picture in last week's Pilot. A passing truck driver helped him catch the dog, who was thin and weak from 16 days of .living in the woods. Butler then brought him to the Williams home. It was a happy reunion. Apparently Pat. who is 16, hard of hearing and nearly blind, had wandered too far from home and was unable to find his way back. He's con tent these days to stay right at home. Many Entries Seen; Seven Days, Nine Nights Of Tennis With 70 or more players already in prospect, the Sandhills Open Tennis tournament will run from Saturday (tomorrow) at 9 a. m. through next Sunday, September 18, for seven full days and nine evenings of matches for men, women and juniors. Saturday will see the start of the boys’ and girls’ singles play, girls’ doubles, men’s singles,wo- men’s doubles and mixed doubles. The tournament will climax with finals of men’s and women’s sin gles and mixed doubles next Sat urday evening on the lighted muncipal courts, and men’s and women’s doubles Sunday evening. Deadline for entries has been set at 8 tonight (Friday), accord ing to Harry Lee Brown, Jr., tour nament chairman. Entries may be made with any member of the tournament committee of the Sandhills Tennis association. Out of town players may write or see Mr. Brown at the Brown agency on West Pennsylvania avenue, or at his home. (Continued on Page 8) J, Hawley Poole Will Be Candidate For State Senate YDC District Rally Saturday Night At Country Club J. Hawley Poole, prominent West End peach grower and far mer, said Wednesday in answer to inquiry from The Pilot that he plans to be a candidate for state senator next year. It was well known that friends of Mr. Poole had been urging this move upon him for some time. In default of a declaration from Sen. W. H;- Currie, of Carthage, who said he had not decided whether to run again or not, Poole was persuaded this week to make an nouncement of his intention. Mr. Poole, who served Moore as legislator in 1937, 1941~ and 1943, has long been active in affairs of the county, the Sandhills and the state. He has been a member of the state board of agriculture for 12 years, and was also for several years a trustee of the University of North Carolina. He is president of the N. C. Association of Soil Conservation District Supervisors, having serv ed as chairman of the three county Upper Cape Fear soil con servation district since the setting up of the present soil conservation program about 1938. Hs is also president of the Sand hills Kiwanis club. He is an elder in the West End Presbyterian church, which he has served as Sunday School superintendent. Mr. Poole was born in Mont gomery county, graduated at Bis- coe High School and attended State college, where he was a classmate, and friend of Govern or W. Kerr Scott. He left college to join the infantry in the first World War, and was discharged as a first lieutenant in 1920. He came to Moore county on a 10-year con- (Continued on Page 5) The Eighth Congressional district, YDC, which stretches from the South Carolina line to within 15 miles of Virginia, wiU hold its an nual reunion and rally Saturday at 7 p. m. at the Southern Pines Country club, in the form of a chicken supper, served buffet style. H. Clifton Blue, of Aberdeen, state YDC president and secre tary of the N. C. Democratic Ex ecutive committee, will De the keynote speaker, said J. Hubert McCaskill, district chairman Others expected to take part on the program will be Basil White- ner, of Gastonia, Mecklenburg District solicitor, and Hoover Taft, Jr., Greenville, both past state presidents; Jeff Wilson, state highway safety director, past Eighth District chairman; Bedford Black, Kannapolis, state organizer, and other YDC state officers. Also jjresent wiU be John A. Lang, Jr., of Carthage and Wash ington, secretary to Rep. C. B. Deane, from whom he will bring greetings; Col. C. R. Tolar of the state highway patrol, Eind others of state and district interest. Delegations are expected from all clubs of the district, and re ports will be made by their pres idents, as follows; Anson county, H., P. Taylor, Jr., Wadesboro; Davidson, Ross Carver, Lexing ton; Davie, Gordon Tomlinson, Mocksville; Hoke, T. V. Laster, Raeford; Lee, Ralph Monger, Jr., Sanford; Moore, W. Lament Brown, Pinebluff; Montgomery, Ernest Wilson, Jr., Troy; Rich mond, H. Thomas Baldwin, Jr., Rockingham; Scotland, J. Nelson Gibson, Jr., (Gibson; Union, Henry Sipaith, Monroe; Wilkes, Paul Cushion, North 'Wilkesboro; Yad kin, Edwin Spease, Yadkinville. Blue & White Meets Troy Wednesday In First Game Of New Grid Season Opening with Troy High School gridders here Wednesday afternoon. Coach Dawson has had the local grid squad going at full speed this week. Scrimmage on Monday and Tuesday, brushing up on old plays and installing some varia tions Wednesday, and a game length scrimmage with Goldston High of Chatham county Thurs day afternoon have been the main bill of fare. This afternoon the weekly workouts wiU be end ed with dummy scrimmage and conditioning exercises. While coaches Dawson and Weaver are noncommittal on the possibilities of the Blue and ■White team this year a look at the squad list reveals strength at most positions.. June gradua tion cut heavily into the local squad, taking to college or prep campuses an All-State end and an All-State tailback, a letter cen ter and two letter reserves. Seen In Scrimmage But don’t sell this year’s Blue and White short just yet. In scrimmage this week, running at his old end position is All-State Bill Baker, bigger and better looking than ever. Baker is fast as a half-back and doesn’t have to be shifty to avoid tacklers. Poe was in at center, with Worsham and Stuart alternating at the left end post. All of this quartet are (Continued on Page 5)
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