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THE PILOT Published Each Friday by THE PILOT., INCORPORATED Soulhern Pines, North Carolina 1941—JAMES BOYD. Publisher—1944 KATHARINE BOYD • Editor VALERIE NICHOLSON ..... Asst. Editor DANS RAY General Manager C G. rhnNCTT. Advertismg area, and made plans for their development into a real outdoor recreation center. This will take time, work and money but it should give us a lovely place one day not too fhr off. Grains of Sand I Subscription Rates; One Year $4.00 6 Months $2.00 3 Months $1.00 Entered at the Postoffice at Southern Pines. N. C., as second class mail matter Member National Editorial Association and N. C. Press Association “In taking over The Pilot no changes are con templated. We will try to keep this a good paper. We will try to make a little money for all con cerned. Where there seems to be an occasion to use our influence for the public good we will try to do it. And we will treat everybody alike.” —James Boyd, May 23, 1941. It heard a progress report on the fluori dating of the city water, a dental health measure with especial benefits for chil dren. Specifications for equipinent are be- ing worked out, and bids will soon be let. It heard a request for an additional fire truck—a long-felt need', waiting only on available funds. The purchase is being seriously studied now. Calls out of town are one big reason a new truck is needed. We just knew it—we were going i pages, and Joe DiMaggio s big to get a great big horse laugh for comeback kept them there. The Railroad Has A Heart We are thankful that the Seaboard has seen fit to spare our trees, and feel we can express the unbounded joy of the com munity in the averting of this tragedy. The quick reaction of the citizens when thev heard last week that the magnolias and longleaf pines on two Broad Street blocks must go, showed beyond -doubt how the whole community felt. According to C. I. Morton, Seaboard superintendent, plans to avoid the tree-cutting were al ready under way by the time the phone calls and telegrams started arriving. How ever, if there had been no citizen reaction, it might have been a different story. There is no town along the Seaboard which has planted for beauty for a half century or more, as has Southern Pines. Everyone here is proud of the Broad street trees. To remove them would deface a town which has become known far and wide for its charm. This is well known to the Seaboard, and some other way will be found, Mr. .Morton has assured us, to instal the automatic signals and high-voltage wires. Why then, some citizens want to know, was no other plan devised from the first? The answer is that the railroad must go to much trouble and expense to follow an 'alternate plan. Their long-range improve ment program did not call for. handling one town differently from others. They own the right of way, and by law may use it for railroad purposes any time. Progress, while bringing many benefits, can some times be cruel, but a railroad can seldom stop to worry about that. If, to their original announcement, there had been no citizen reaction—if no one here had cared, and showed they cared the Seaboard would have been perfectly justified in going ahead. And if we ever cease to care for the civic beauties, and to let the world know we care, we deserve just exactly what v/ell In changing its plan to cooperate with the residents of Southern Pines, the Sea board has shown that even a railroad has a heart, combined with a brain—a brain which can appreciate such values as good' will and loyal friends. A Lake and Park Of Our Own It promised cooperation in the renewal of the long effort to get a streamliner train to stop here. It heard a report on the threatened cut ting of the Broad Street trees, which call ed for action and some time spent later to preserve the town’s, beauty for all who call Southern Pines home. These are typical of the things, little and big, a town administration must look after all the time. They are typical also of the fact that almost everything the town board does is for the whole community. The acceptance of the gift of Knollwood lake and the surrounding area, to be de veloped as a municipal recreation park, marks a milestone in Southern Pines’ prog ress and foreshadows the fulfilment of an age-old civic dream. Many citizens, we know, voted for the municipal recreation program in the hopes that it would some day produce a swim ming pool or lake for the town, and an outdoor recreation spot for young and old within our own city limits. The recent city- planning survey made here showed we had far from enough park space, in proportion to the size of the town. The use of Aberdeen lake and other fine recreation places of the area has been a privilege we have appreciated, and no doubt will continue to make use of. However, there is nothing like having such a place of our very own. If properly developed, it should be a civic asset beyond measure. The town should be extremely grateful to E. H. Mills for his gift, and everyone should consider how best to make use of it. Town funds are limited; they will pro vide the minimum essentials, but they cannot be expected to carry the whole load. Such a park should have the benefit of the civic pride and work of all the local organizations, each contributing what it can for the benefit and pleasure of all. The planting of the park, the building of outdoor grills and picnic places and per haps the installing of playground equip ment, night lighting and other things as the need is felt, should be the responsibility of various groups of4;he town. It is apt to take quite a time, and the job may never be entirely done. However, there is pleas ure to be reaped in the giving, as well as of the enjoying, of all manner of improve ments as the years go along. For The Whole Community In checking the benefits received from living in Southern Pines, though not ac tually within the city limits, those protest ing against inclusion in fact as well as in name may well overlook such items. Run ning a town costs money. It costs more to day than ever before. The community is definitely growing. Also, demands for serv ices are "constantly greater—and there’s no question about it, people here not only want service but they are used to the best and that’s the kind they want. There’s a question about how long any of us can get it, as the non-taxpaying areas grow beyond the power of those within the narrow city limits to pay. The New Season Is Here Things have taken on a decidedly live lier air in the past week or two. ^ Tbe sea son” has begun, there’s ,no doubt about it, and Southern Pines and Pinehurst are as suming once again their unique positions as North Carolina winter resorts. our “bull” of last week, in the story on the city limits meeting; and we really did. We must admit it—we had to laugh, too, till the tears ran out of our eyes. How it happened we don’t know, but our fine phrasing which reported the meeting to have been held in a “calm investigative spirit” came out “calf investiga tive spirit—a wonderful, imagin ative change. We could never have thought of it by ourself, in a million years, and it’s given folks so much pleasure we wouldn’t change it now, if we could. An editor we knew once always said he let things like that get by on purpose, once in a while, just to see if folks really read the paper. Well, we’re not pulling any such alibi—but if we needed to I know, we found out all right. Most folks asked, “Did that mean they were shooting the bull at that meeting—or only just a little bull?” And a good friend who wrote a note poking fun then wrote an other, taking it back, and adding, bless his heart, “The Pilot is a darn good little paper and I wouldn’t miss it for anything. I frequently mail copies to my friends' up north.” (Wonder what they thought about the calf in vestigative spirit”!) And he sent a clever poem out of Frank Colby’s column, which we’ll brazenly snitch so you may share our enjoyment; The title is, “When The Slip Gets By”: The typographical error is a slip pery thing, and sly; You can hunt until you are dizzy, but it will somehow get by. Till the forms get off the press it is strange how still it keeps, and it Television, too, played a big part for the first time. Far from quelling interest in the game, the fact that so, many practically had bleacher seats kept it in the fore front of interest and conversation. ' Everywhere it was the same thing. We went into Hayes and there was Dr. G. G. Herr, talking about Joe DiMaggio. We heard Bannie F*obes ask, “But how do you bat into a double play?” We don’t know either—we don’t know much about baseball any way; but we knew more by the time he finished explaining. A television set was moved into the Coffee Shop just in time to catch the last few gamek We don’t know how Chick Holliday made any money those days, as people sat long after they had finished lunch, their eyes glued to the set. THE COST OF LIVING . . . may be high. But the cc of leaving your family unpr tected is even higher. Knd during your lifetime, that yo: family will have the protej tion, the security that life j surance affords when son; thing happens to you. W. S. TOPPING Box 1298 — Telephone 2-7163 — Southern Pines, N. C. Pilot Life Insurance Company, Greensboro, ^North Carol We’re proud of Tom Wicker, now a published novelist—you ought to be able by now to get his book off the 25-cent rack at vour favorite bookshop or drug store. Make no mistake about it, those 25-cent books contain some of the best stories being publish- id today, both in reprints and the work of new writers, “Get Out of Town” is the name of his book, and the author’s name is not Tom Wicker but Paul Con nolly. Tom’s reserving his own name for publication of more seri ous work later, at $3.75 per copy. The new novel, -published by Gold Medal Books, is the sarne one Tom was working on in his spare time when he was manager of the Chamber of Commerce here during 1948. He was then a preco cious lad of 21, already a Navy veteran and Carolina graduate. The managership here was his first job after graduation. The book was then tentatively titled “Copper Hard”—not the Mflkft -Hie sensible dqaretfe mildness (nofjusf-a puff ora sniff) Msike your own SO-day We’re becoming more and more a year- round community and we brag about it— yet the fact remains there are many who know us only as a winter resort, and it is for this our town has won a nationwide fame. Year-round business and pursuits are normal and wholesome. We couldn’t do without them, and we want more of them. But if they were all we had, we’d be just an other town—another listing in the Postal Guide, anbther dot on a road map and an other statistic on a business chart. It shrinks into a corner never stirs or peeps. metal copper, but a rookie police- The typographical error, too smalLgj^ a gjnall Southern town, for human eyes, I who was the hero. He still is, we Till the ink is on the paper, when understand, though the book has been changed a lot in other ways it grows to mountain size. The boss he stares with horror, then he grabs his hair and groans; The proofreader drops his head upon his hands and moans. The remainder of the issue may be clean as clean may be. But that typographical error is the only thing you see. We’re growing—and this, too, is good, and bad. Growth brings benefits, also head aches. We can grow and still remain a re sort, if we value that phase of our civic life—and we do. Camden and Aiken, for example, are both considerably larger than Southern Pines. Change is inevitable—it has come to all resorts, as to other towns, in the war and postwar years, and it is in the way we adapt to change that our fate lies for good or.ill. We read part of it, and found it fine, brisk, hard-hitting stuff, fill ed with suspense. In fact, we’ve been in a breathless state ever since, as the part we read was a real cliff-hanger. There was the hero by a deserted road, with a murdered woman—^killed by someone else—in his car. He tried to start the car, it wouldn’t start, and here came two patrolmen asking if they could help- If he’s taken out that part, we’ll kill him. We can’t hold our breath forever. Fields Plumbing & Heating Co PHONE 5952 PINEHURST. N. C. MENUS FOR WEEK School Cafeteria It is in our resort features that we are unique, and we hope the autumn will never come that does not bring this quickening, this return of activity, the reopening of the resort hotels and businesses and the greetings from the friends whom we last saw in spring. Still A Volunteer A young serviceman of our ac quaintance writes, “Please be sure and see that my Pilot gets in the mail. I like to read the Armed Forces column and see what I’m doing.” Actually, the important thing about our Armed Forces column, we’re finding out, is that the boys in service like to knbw what’s happening to their friends. Thus, Elmer Renegar in Korea will read about Scotty Burns going to Eu rope; Tommy Grey in Puerto Rico can read about Shag Mattocks in Japan; and vice versa. That’s the big reason we count on each family to let us know what their young ’uns in uniform are doing so we can spread the news around the world. That’s a privilege the small town paper ’^^®today which the journalistic giants don t---imagine; All Types of plumbing. Healing. (G. E. Oil Burners) and Sheet Metal Work Graves Mutual Insurance Agen< Aiken Building—-Phone 2-2201 Southern Pines, N. C. October 22-26 (Subject to minor changes)) MONDAY INSURANCE AT A SAVING General Agent—PILOT LIFE INSURANCE CO Fire. Automobile and All Types of Insurance Coverage REAL ESTATE LOANS HENRY L. GRAVES GLADYS D. GRJ The town board had a busy meeting last week, and we’d' like to call attention to some of the matters which came up. It accepted the gift of a lake and park General George Marshall has retired as Defense Secretaiy of the United States, but he makes it plain in his letter to Pres ident Truman that he considers himself, although over seventy, still to be ready to serve his country. It is not necessary to review his career in detail here. But that career from beginning to end exemplifies the highest ideals of the professional sol dier in a non-militaristic State. Sliced Corned Beef Sandwich Mustard or Catsup Buttered Potatoes Tossed Green Salad news Milk TUESDAY Scalloped Ham and Potatoes HAVE YOUR CLOTHES CLEANED at— Milk journalistic giants aon wmagine; Cherry Jello the New York Times or Philadel-^ Biscuit, Margarine phia Bulletin trying to keep, up ^ with all the servicemen in their areal But we bet they wish they could. Some of our news, of course, comes through the arrned services' public relations offices. Many units have well-organized PRO’S and their job of keeping the home-town folks informed is an imp'ortant one. We’ve handled armed-service It was fortunate for all people around the globe who have faith in democratic ideals that General Marshall’s devotion to their service was matched by a wide range of native abilities which made him an out standing world figure in a strange variety of roles. His plans for postwar reconstruc tion were as soundly conceived as his plans for winning the global war. As Defense Sec retary, he became a political administra tor, ranking with the best in the history of the Wsetern World. If the political at mosphere irked him he gave no sign, and within the short space of a year he got the whole nation backing a Pentagon set--up that had been in a furore of dissension before he returned from retirement to a limited term as Secretary. WEDNESDAY Ham-Seasoned Lima Beans Buttered Cabbage, Carrot Sticks Peaches and Whipped Cream Brown Bread, Margarine Milk D. C. JENSEN Where Cleaning and Prices Are Betiei DRIVE CAREFULLY — SAVE A LIf THURSDAY Melted Cheese Sandwich Pickle Chips-Half Deviled Egg news for years, ’way back to the Harvard Beets The succession of his deputy, Robert A. Lovett, insures the same kind of adminis tration in all the fields, domestic and inter national, in which Defense Department ac tivities have become so deeply involved. While Canadians will share the free world’s regret that the passage of years removes General Marshall from the active list,” we also share its pleasure in know ing that his wisdom and ability will bo available to help us meet any new crises of the immediate future. beginning of World War 2, and have never had but one kick, as far as we can remember. A wife called up the other day and laid us out for publishing the news of her officer husband’s promotion. We should have called her first, she thought, to get her permission .—which, she indicated plainly, she would not have given. She just didn’t like having his name in the paper. News that comes to us direct from the armed services, how ever, we regard as ours; and it s sent to us because they want us to use it. Also, a man serving overseas is not just somebody’s husband, or somebody’s son, he belongs in a sense to all of us—we’re directly interested in him, and he is in us too; that’s why he’s there. Hot Buttered Raisin-Apple Sauce Milk FRIDAY Tuna Fisli Salad Buttered English Peas Raw Celery Sticks Chocolate Pudding Brown Bread, Butter Milk Gibson -Toronto Globe and Mail Diamond SUBSCRIBE TO THE PILOT MOORE COUNTY'S LEADING NEWS WEEKLY. Baseball was the big topic of conversation here, as probably everywhere in the country, until the World Series ended in New York last week. 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