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Home From Korea For Christmas
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talking down the station platform after that long-looked for train
in, Sgt. Francis Shea and his mother, Mrs. Frank Shea of the
riew hotel, have eyes only for each other. His niece Anne
ces Wilson, aged three, is more interested in the photographer.
• all, who is this man who has just arrived? A girl can’t remem-
|ill the fellows, when they stay gone so long.
(Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
iis Christmas Will Be Lots Better
an Last, Says Veteran of Korea
|t. Shea Fought
ly Out of Yalu
lap A Year Ago
Iristmas this year will be a
different from last year for
•’rancis Shea, late of the Sec-
IChemical Mortar battalion,
led to various units in Ko-
|st December 25 he was some-
lool Holiday
111 Start With
fhite Christmas”
|e schoolchildren’s annual
|te Christmas,” to be held at
i^er auditorium at 11 a. m
aesday, will be the final
111 event before holidays be
at noon.
grades will take part and
its are also invited. A big
^tmas tree will be the center
terest. The glee club will sing,
jlead in the singing of carols.
A. C. Dawson, Jr., will read
Night Before Christmas,”
Idition of the event,
le climax will come when all
])upils go forward by grades to
Iheir ‘“white gifts” at the foot
pe Christmas tree,
lit, canned goods nad other
lopriate gifts, including cash,
hired, are brought by others.
I contributions are distributed
by members of the Hi-Y to
lies in the community for
they will make a more joy-
!:hristmas.
he students will return to
(:es Wednesday morning, Jan-
2, 1952.
where behind the lines, his best
Christmas present the realization
that his unit had made it safely
out of communist encirclement
near the,yalu.riyer. Home seemed
very far away—as indeed, it whs.
This year he is in the midst of
his family, eating meals better
than most kings get these days,
roaming the streets of the home
town with shining eyes and noting
that “a good many things have
changed since I went away!”
Sergeant Shea may have chang
ed some too—he has been through
enough so this wouldn’t be sur
prising. His mother says he’s thin
ner but that will soon be reme
died, and otherwise he seems very
much the same smiling lad who
sailed for Korea in September
1950.
Waiting For Dawn
Yet in the meantime he has
known real war, artillery fire, the
death of companions, the look on
the faces of communists wishing
to kill. He has known what it is
like to sleep outdoors in subzero
weather for days and weeks at a
time, waiting in foxholes until
a grey dawn made it safe—a little
safer, anyway—to build a tiny
fire.
He sums it all up with “It was
pretty rough.”
As to how you feel when you
first hear bullets zing past you,
and know someone is trying to
kill you, he can hardly find words.
“You just sweat it out,” he says
with a grin. The first instinct is
to look for cover. But the others
go on—and somehow you do, too.
Within 20 miles of the Yalu,
they had their first inkling of the
communist offensive when Chin
ese prisoners began turning up
among the North Koreans. Things
hadn’t been too bad up till then,
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I Town, Civic Club
May Cooperate In
Teen-Age Center
Board Discusses
Various Matters
In Regular Session
’The regular meeting of the
^ town board took place Wednesday
I night at the town hall, with the!
major item on the agenda a pro
posal made by the board to the
Civic Club that the latter work'
out with them some means by
which the club building be made
available for the use of the young
people.
A committee from the club, con
sisting of Mrs. Leon Seymour,!
chairman. Miss Grace Thwing,]
[Mrs. Virgil Clark, Miss Norma
I Shiring, and Miss Florence Camp- j
bell, presented the club’s views
while Mr. and Mrs. John Buggies
and Mayor Page spoke for the|
recreation committee and the
town. Commissioners C. S. Patch,
Jr., W. E. Blue, H. L. Brown, and
Lloyd Clark, and town clerk How
ard Burns, were present.
Mayor Page said that the Moth
er’s cilub, a newly formed organ
ization, had approached him on
the subject, while School Superin
tendent A. C. Dawson, chairman
of the recreation committee, was
known to favor the idea. Mr.
Dawson had planned to attend
Wednesday's meeting but was
obliged to be in Cameron.
John Buggies said he expressed
the views of the entire recreation
committee in urging that some
thing be dene to set up a suitable
arrangement for the Teen-agers.
He described the way things had
worked when, during his presi
dency of the Chamber of Com
merce, the latter had had the use
of the Civic Club, after it had been
vacated by the USD. He described
it as very succesful.
“Many people feel,” he said,
“that this is one of the most im-
portant of town needs: a gather
ing place for our young people.
We want to give them somewhere
besides the streets and more un
desirable places to go to. I believe
it would be possible to arrange a
system by which mothers and
others would volunteer to act as
chaperones, as the USO hostesses
did, to give the neded supervi-
Deane Sees Air-Ground Show
14 Moore Civic Clubs
Unite In Action To
Enforce Traffic Laws
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Eighth District Congressman C. B. Deane is keeping his eye on
higher things—in this case, B-51 fighter planes putting on a demon
stration for the staff and student body of the U. S. Air Force Air-
Ground Operations school. At left. Brig. Gen. William M. Gross,
commandant of the school; center, Col. Lamar Welch, deputy com
mandant. Bep. Deane was a student for a day. Story on Page 12
Christmas Is Sad Time For Many;
Here Is Your Opportunity To Help
sion.
Members of the Civic Club del
egation spoke favorably of the
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High School Group
Gives Melodrama
Saturday Night
Ten More Days To Go!
|n days to get ready for
jstmas. Ten days to go flying
ad out of the gayly decorated
|ss full of merchandise for the
lay shopper.
le Christmas windows in town
more alliu-ing than ever this
Full of useful and attractive
,they cry out to the seeker
just the right thing. 'There’s
shawl you were looking for
IjAunt May, there’s \a big pipe
the one tlincle Joe lost and
BY CANDLELIGHT
The Church of Wide Fel
lowship. which is without a
sanctuary this year, will hold
its annual candlelight service
with choral singing at Weaver
auditorium at 4:30 p. mu Sun
day.
Instead of the traditional
cantata, directed by Mrs. L.
D. McDonald, a program^ of
Christmas carols and ’hymns
will be presented by the choir,
which will also lead in group
singing. Tom Cordon and
Wesley Stoltz will be soloists.
The church is in the midst
of a building program. "We
are handicapped in having no
church auditorium this year."
said Mrs. McDonald, "but we
hope that, despite this, the
community will join with us
in our Christmas song serv
ice,"
Norway, Denmark
Air Force Officers
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ten days to go. Santa Claus is get
ting ready and that’s the slogan
everywhere. We can’t keep on
with “Do Your Christmas Shop
ping Early;” it’s too late for that:
the accent is on “Do It Now.”
That all this gayety and glitter
is having the necessary accelera
ting effect is evident by the
crowds in every store. Merchants
report more sales than for several
years at this date. The cars, nosing
here and there as they look vain-
been honing for another everjly for a place to park, give an in-
A wagon for Jimmy, a! dication of the crowds that are
|ly dog for Anne, picture books
lllittle Ben: fruit cakes and nuts
candy for Christmas dinner:
l e they all are behind the shin-
I plate-glass.
l|Ut this is no time for win
shopping. . . not with only
coming into town, crowds of
mothers and fathers and children
uncles and aunts and just friends,
intent on finding just the right
thing for the right one.
And, up above, the Christmas
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The Southern Pines High School
Players will present their “meller-
drammer,” the famous old play
“Bertha the Beautiful Typewriter
Girl,” at 8 p. m., Saturday at
Weaver auditorium.
The play is in four acts and two
scenes. Two acts take place in the
business office where the innocent
country gal, played .by Sylvia Mc
Leod, takes her first job; the oth
er two are in her humble home.
The villain is her rich old boss,
who pursues her wickedly and at
one time even throws her trussed-
up body into an adjoining building
to burn to death. The part is
played to the hilt by Dick Mat
tocks, who is so wicked the audi
ence is expected to cheer when he
finally drops dead.
To the rescue, of course, comes
the brave, gallant hero, portray^
by George Morrison. But there is
a society girl after him and she
won’t take no for an answer. The
lorgnetted belle is played by Bar
bara Peterson.
Tommy Buggies plays a sort of
sub-vUain; Betty Jane Worsham
is the heroine’s mother and Edgar
Smith her dad, just back, as you
might know, from the diamond
mines. Alec McLeod, a detective,
starts off in disguise, dressed as a
woman. The rather unbusiness
like office staff, includes, in addi
tion to “Bertha,” Joe Marley and
Frances Pearson. M. M. Snyder
of the faculty is directing.
The play will be given for the
students at 11:45 a. m. today with
the public performance following
tomorrow night. The Sandhills
Tennis association is assisting
with sets. Proceeds will be used
for the school’s dramatic program.
Norway and Denmark ■ are the
latest NATO nations to be repre
sented in the student body at the
U. S. Air Force Air-Ground Oper
ations school at Highland Pines
Inn.
Taking the U. S. Army and Air
Force indoctrination course at US
AFAGOS this week are four of-
cires of the Boyal Norwegian Air
Force and five of the Danish, here
on NATO assignment by invita
tion of Thomas A. Finletter, sec
retary of the Air Force.
Senior officer of the Norwegian
group is Col. J. A. Waage, Inspec
tor General. He is accompanied
by Col. Odd Bull, deputy in charge
of operations; Lieut. Col. Erik
Lynneborg, deputy for materiel,
(Continued on Page 8)
Local Chairmen Will
Speed Toys, Gifts,
Cash Where Needed
Ctizens of Moore county and
Southern Pines are asked by the
county welfare department to re
member at this Christmastime
their less fortunate neighbors.
Many families with young chil
dren, lonely and forgotten old
people, sick and crippled persons
will know no Christmas this year
unless the Christ-spirit moves
those who can help, to do so.
In many homes where there is
no money except for barest neces
sities, small-boys and girls will
wake to bitter disappointment on
Christmas morning unless you
lend a hand. Some of those homes
have reached their state of misery
through unavoidable personal
tragedy—others, perhaps, through
the unworthiness'of adults; but a
big-eyed tot stirred with Christ
mas dreams can’t draw these fine
distinctions.
Public-spirited citizens in each
community of Moore county are
cooperating with the welfare de
partment to receive the contribu
tions which can mean all the dif
ference, for young and old peo
ple, between happiness and heart
break.
Community Chairmen
Cash, toys, fruit, candies, cloth
ing, and other gifts may be given
to these chairmen, for distribution
by Mrs. Walter B. Cole, county
welfare superintendent, and her
case workers:
Graham Culbreth, for Southern
Pines, Manly and Niagara; Mrs.
Foster Kelly, Pinehurst; M. B.
Pleasants, Aberdeen; Eutice Mills,
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SPECIAL ISSUE
Once again The Pilot brings
out its special issue dedicated
to the Coming Season.
This used to be the Rsort Is
sue. but that is so no longer.
For a change has crept up on
us. the way this issue has
crept up on the Pilot: the Re
sort Season has grown and
mellowed until it has merged
with the Home Season into
the Year-round Season.
And that's what it ought to
be and what everbody has
been prophesying it would be
come: a year-round pleasant
place to visit or to live in.
either one and both.
The stories and pictures of
this special issue will, we be
lieve. show why this is so:
why people love to come here,
why they love to live here,
and why. so often, the visitors
turn into the home-sters, why
they come and stay.
School Glee Clubs
Will Give Program
Tuesday Evening
A choral program and Christ
mas pantomime at Weaver audi-
toriiun Tuesday night will be the
contribution of the Southern Pines
school glee club to this Christmas
season.
The program, starting at 8
o’clock, will be open to the public
without charge. The senior high
school, junior high school and ele
mentary glee clubs will take part
■125 boys’ and girls’ voices in all.
The groups will sing together and
also separately, directed by Miss
Members Sign
Pledge Cards,
Will Aid Police
A cooperative movement of the
past year among all civic clubs
of Moore county reached its cli
max this week in action which,
the clubs hope, will reduce acci
dents, death and damage on Moore
highways and streets during the
Christmas season and thereafter.
A letter was sent to all indivi
duals directly involved with law
enforcement in the county ex
pressing the unanimous wish of
the clubs for rigid enforcemept of
all traffic laws. They also outlined
v/hat has already been done, and
what they are ready to do, to co
operate in such enforcement. The
letter was signed by the presi
dents of the 14 clubs.
The record of action is an im
pressive one.
The clubs have practically 100
per cent of the signatures of their
members on pledge cards endors-'
ing law enforcement, and pledg
ing themselves ■ individually to
keep the laws.
Through their safety commit
tees, it is learned, they are sign
ing up other groups. For instance,
100 per cent of drivers of Rob
bins Mills, Inc., trucks have sign
ed the cards. For each pledge that
is signed, a small windshield
sticker is given, telling the world
of the pledge and serving as re
minder to the driver.
Signs Are Placed
Through the safety committee
of the Sandhills Kiwanis club
which spearheaded the campaign
last February, the State Highway
and Public Works Commission
has recently placed speed limit
Winifred Bodie.
Accompanying the songs will be'j.pTriinder signs at every highway
NEARING QUOTA
The Christinas Seal shale
in Southern Pines, with a quo
ta of $1,500. had , reached
$1,109.50 early this week, ac
cording to the report of the lo
cal chairman. oJhn F. Pottle,
who expressed himself as
deeply gratified with the re
sult so far.
Contributions Numbered
406 as . compared wiUi 340.
totaling $1,009. for the same
time last year. "We will be
able to reach the goal this
week if all those who received
seals in the mail, but have not
returned their contributions,
will do so now." said Chai-r
man Pottle.
He reniiinded that "this
worthy cause shows direct re
sults in aid to tuberculosis pa
tients of our own commun
ity."
Public Asked To
Sunday Cantata At
West Side Sebool
several illustrative tableaux and
pantomimes, some in costume, ar
ranged and directed by Don Moore
and Miss Flossie McIntyre.
The program will be in three
parts—“Christmas of Today,” in
which the singers will wear mod
ern dress; “The First Christmas”
and group carol singing, in which
robes and vestments will be worn.
The musical program will in
clude favorites old and new, with
traditional songs and anthems.
Piano accompaniment will be by
Miss Bodie, assisted by Mrs. Mary
D. McDonEild. There will also be
some a capella singing.
Soloists will be Alec McLeod,
singing “There’s a Song In the
Air,” and Sandy Harris, singing
Schubert’s “Ave Maria.” Solo
parts in the anthems will be sung
by Jackie Haynes (“O Holy
Night”), Suzann Burns (“Gesu
Bambino”) and Alec McLeod
(“Birthday, of the King”).
All Kids Invited
To Elks’ Santa
Party Wednesday
The faculty of West Southern
Pines school, augmented by sing,
ers from the general community,
will present a Christmas cantata,
‘"The King Cometh,” by Stults, at
the school Sunday afternoon at 5
o’clock.
The choral group wiU consist
of about 30 men and women, from
whom this week came a cordial
invitation to all friends, both
white and colored, to attend.
There is no admission charge.
Mrs. B. M. Pitts is the director
and Mrs. I. H. Moore will play
the accompaniment.
Some voices of unusual beauty
will be heard among the soloists.
Singing solo parts will be Miss
Core Steele and Miss Alma York,
sopranos; Mrs. A. E. Lutz, alto; R.
F. Simmons, tenor; Allen Blue,
tenor, and F. M. Lutz, bass.
The program will last about an
hour.
The Elks Club’s annual Christ
mas party, for all children of the
community, will be held Wednes
day from 2 to 5 p. m. at the South
ern Pines Country club.
Santa Claus will, as usual, be
an honor guest at this traditional
holiday celebration. He will greet
his young friends in the big ball
room, which will be decorated in
the spirit of the season. There will
be gifts for all children up to 10
years old.
The party this year will be in
doors. ’This is the first time the
Elks have had a home large
enough to accommodate the hun
dreds of boys and girls who an
nually flock to this Christmas
event. This will be Santa’s first
visit to the Country club, as the
Elks have moved since he was
here last.
Plenty of parking space will be
nrovided, is the word from Louis
Scheipers, chairman. Members of
his committee include A. B. Pat
terson, John Cline, George
Thompson, Joe Garzik, D. L. Mad-
igan, Farrell H. Brown and Mr.
Mahoney.
entrance to Moore county. There
are 12 such entrances.
Twelve of the 14 clubs have also
received signs urging law enforce
ment, and are putting them up at
the highway entrance to the coun
ty nearest to them. These were
paid for by the county, on ap
proval of the commissioners.
Some of the clubs, it was learn
ed, are using their club emblems
on the signs, emphasizing group
support of law enforcement.
Will Be Witnesses
Approximately 50 per cent of
the civic club members signing
pledge cards have also indicated
their willingness to ride with a
patrolman or other law enforce
ment officer in his car to assist
him in enforcing highway safety
laws, and to act as witness in the
event of arrest.
The Kiwanis club acted as
spearhead of the campaign in pre
senting the matter to the other
clubs for action by their safety
committees.
Each one picked up the ball and
carried it forward with unanimous
approval, as a matter for t^ir
full responsibility and participa
tion and in consonance with civic
club purposes and ideals.
All Presidents Sign
The letter sent out this week
bears the signatures of the fol
lowing club presidents:
W. S. Taylor, Aberdeen Lions;
Paul S. Thomas, Cameron Lions;
R. O. Howard, Carthage Lions;
J. C. Mashburn, Highfalls Lions;
N. L. VanBoskerck, P inebluff
Lions; J. Frank McCaskill, Pine
hurst Lions; James F. Steed, Rob
bins Lions; Graham Culubreth
Southern Pines Lions; C, A. Mc-
Lauchlin, Vass Lions; F. Earl Au-
man. West End Lions.
Also Herbert Cameron, South
ern Pines Rotary; R. G. Fry, Jr.,
Carthage Rotary; J. C. Comer,
Eagle Springs Ruritan, and L. L.
Hallman, Sandhills Kiwanis.
The letter follows:
December 10, 1951
To: The Mayors and Police Offi
cers of Southern Pines, Aberd ' ^ - .
Carthage, Robbins, Pinebluff,
Camei'in and Vass, the sheriff and
all De uties in Moore County, the
N. C. Highway Patrol Command
er, and Highway Patrolmen in
Moore County the Judge of Re
corders Court and all Magistrates
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