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THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
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THE PILOT. INCORPORATED
Southern Pines. North Carolina
1941—JAMES BOYD. Publisher—1944
KATHARINE BOYD ........ Editor'
VALERIE NICHOLSON ..... Asst. Editor
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—James Boyd, May 23, 1941.
On An Even Keel
The victory of William B. Umstead will bring
to the head of our state government a man in
whom, we feel confident, all may rely to sup
ply the steady, progressive, intelligent leader
ship this state wants. He wiU supply it because
he is that sort of man; public-spirited, with a
keen understanding of the needs of North Car
olina.
A factor of significance in the Umstead vic
tory is the small majority by '.vhich he was
elected. It should guarantee that the new gover
nor wiU feel deeply his responsibility to make
sure that all interests and all sections of the
state are fairly tepresented and have eq,ual treat
ment in the four years tO' come. If anything
were needed to indicate it, it could be found
in the u ay Umstead conducted his campaign.
During the campaign, an effort was made by
the opposition to bring about an alignment of
factions similar to that which split the state in
the senatorial election two years ago. Only in
a minor degree was it successful. There were
those, of course, who voted against Judge Olive
because he was “Scott’s man”; they were de
termined to throw out the present governor and
all his works. Similarly some of the Olive sup- .
porters tried to pin the label of Big Business
and reaction to the Umstead coattails, saying
that a victory for Umstead would mean the end
of the impressive work of the Scott administra
tion in the fields of health, education, agricul
ture, prison reform, rural electrification and so
on. Each side inveighed against the other side’s
“machine,” but, this column has noted, all the
actual smear talk came from the Olive corner.
To our credit let it be said that the effort to
split the state and revive the bitterness of the
past was unsuccessful. Doubtless memories of
that other campaign may have played a part
in keeping this one on an even keel, there were
many, then, who swore: “never again!”. And
this time there were, actually, few sharply
Hivisive issues: both candidates were fine men,
pledged to support the progressive program
that the people, obviously, want. But there
seems little doubt that the character of Mk. Um
stead had a good deal to do with keeping , the
campaign clean and straightforward. He based
his claim to the state’s highest office on his
qualifications for it, not ■pn the disqualifications,
as he saw them, of his opponent, and when any
dirt was thrown, he let it lie. And it did lie, with
little effect. The Umstead campaign was con
structive from start to finish and we are con
vinced that had a lot to do wtih its success.
This is a good sign. We concede that in the
heat of political battle, there is a strong tempta
tion to use dubious methods. They may run all
the way from deliberate lies to anonymous
broadsides and the improper use of influence
by those in a position to exert it. We have late
ly seen such methods deprive the nation of the
services of at least two outstanding public ser
vants; we see our foreign policy in grave dan
ger from the activities of foreign agents in col
lusion with the smear artists within our ranks.
It is deeply reassuring that North Carolina
seems to have decided to call a halt to this sort
of thing and that we have elected a man who
has shown he will not stand for it.
For that is one important point the Umstead
victory emphasizes: that our people have come
to repudiate deceit and demagoguery in state
politics and to recognize the danger and fool
ishness of disunity.
The General Comes Home
This week General Eisenhower said goodbye
to the troops in Europe and the many friends he
has made there and came back home.
The general had his day of triumph after the
war’s end; the drive through New York, the
showers of fluttering paper, the hurrahs, and
all the rest of the fanfare with which we greet
our returning heroes. The reception is a quieter
one this time, yet it is possible that the grati
tude it expresses is as deep as it was then, just
as the achievement it signalizes may be as great.
General Eisenhower comes back home having
added to his reputation as a soldier the renown
of a statesman. He leaves behind him a Europe
nearer unity than ever before, far nearer than
any European ever thought possible. It is de
fended by an international army that includes
German units with forces from the Atlantic
Pact nations, and, of United States troops, 17
divisions, ten more than when the general ar
rived a year ago.
Europe is better off than it was a year ago.
Things are running better, industries, agricul
ture, transportation; the whole business of liv
ing has attained a quicker and a steadier tempo.
Much of this, of course, is due to the spiritual
rehabilitation that has come about as the war
has receded and conditions have improved, but
some of it Comes from the gradual build-up of
self-confidence that has been fostered under
the command of General Eisenhower. The gen
eral put this restoration of morale as his first
aim when he assumed command, and he may
well consider it his greatest achievement. He
was able to show the people of Europe his faith
in them and their ability to make a comeback
and the people responded.
So General Eisenhower comes home, leaving
definite gains behind and a continent whose
Atlantic nations are more firmly welded to
gether and more strongly armed. He faces a
country confused, divided, restless and uncer
tain of its course: his own country that he may
be called upon to lead. As we hail General
Eisenhower’s great achievements of the past
year, we wish the Fates may treat him kindly
in the difficult times that may lie ahead.
Splendid Activity
No. 7 — Do You Know Your Old Southern Pines?
Friday, June 6, 1952
BIRTHS
At St. Joseph’s Hospital during
the past two we^ks:
Mr. and Mrs.’ Tom Shepard,
Pinehurst, a girl; Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence RSyrick, Carthage, a boy;
Mr. and Mrs. June Harrington,
Cameron, a girl; Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Wallace, Pinebluff, a girl;
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Ballard, Jr.,
Pinehurst, a girl; Mr. . and Mrs.
Thomas Russell, West End Rt. 1,
a Jirl.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mbser, Pine
hurst, a girl; Mr. and Mrs. Clay
ton McKinnon, Carthage, a girl;
Mr. and Mrs. Will Hainesworth,
Southern Pines, a girl; Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Brown, Pinehurst, a
girl; Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mbrtin,
Cameron, a girl.
INITIATED
Reggie Hamel, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. A. Hamel, was initiated
recently into the Phi Kappa Psi
fraternity at Duke university,
where he will be a junior next
year.
With its fancy window and tower, this house
must have been the talk of the town when it
was built in little old Southern Pines of long
ago. Where was it, whose was it and is it still
standing? Maybe someone will recognize the la
dies having an outdoor gossip-session on the
front steps. We’re counting on some of our “Old
Timers” to let us know.
All we can say definitely about this building
is, that isn’t a television tower up on top.
The Public Speaking
The junior tennis program now so greatly In
evidence here is something in which the whole
community can take pride.
While many in the town have been talking
about “doing something for the young people,”
members of the Sandhills Tennis association
have quietly gone ahead and done- it, fostering
interest in the game, sponsoring tournaments
for the boys and girls and this spring assisting
them to organize their own tennis association,
and run their own tournament.
In the Moore County Schools tournament
which recently ended there were 60 entries,
and as personable an array of winners and run
ners-up as we have seen. Another, bigger tour
nament—the Junior Sandhills Invitational— is
coming along in July. In the meantime a junior
team of local boys has entered the Eastern Car
olina series, and has gone already to another
town for an invitation match and ipet their
challengers in a return match here.
The municipal courts are in daily use
and many of the players are boys and girls,
some hardly bigger than their own rackets;
Word from their adult ddvisors of the Sand
hills Tennis association is that some excellent
players are being developed, that interest is
high and that the quality of the game and of
sportmanship which they show is of toe best.
This appears to us a truly constructive activi
ty, with nothing but good in prospect for our
community and youth as a result.
As the Dust Settles
Election Day has come and gone, bringing
some good new men into the field of state gov
ernment, keeping on some who have proved
their worth, and dropping some good men, too.
The best man to be dropped goes out, of
course, automatically. That is: Governor Scott.
In our estimation, he has done a fine job. It is to
be hoped that he will continue to work in some
capacity for the state whose interests he has
shown he understands and has so deeply at
heart.
In voting to return C. B. Deane to Washing
ton and Clifton Blue to Raleigh, Moore County
people have shown their appreciation of the
good work these two men have performed;
they have, also, followed in the pattern of
steady conservatism for which our people are
known Seme sections, this year,' kicked over
the old traces, preferring new untried men, to
those already holding office. But Moore Coun
ty Scots stuck to the ones they knew.
As to the vote in Southern Pines, a few facts
may be of interest. A total of 896 votes was cast,
less than half the number registered On the
books, which show 1980. Saturday’s vote was
100 less than at the last town election, and, we
submit, a great many less than the number of
people eligible to vote here.
The comment was made by several of those
about the polls, that there was too much of a
hullaballoo going on outside. It seems to be
the usual thing in many places, but there did
seem, this year, to be an unconscionable num
ber of candidates and candidates’ helpers and
candidates’ helpers’ helpers, in other words:
polititions, of one sort or another, accosting the
folks with cards and propaganda. Most every
body joked or paid no attention, but some peo
ple didn’t like it, and a few timid souls climb
ed into their cars again or took off down the
street without voting. It was the opinion of one
of the watchers that quite a few were kept from
voting because they didn’t want to run the
gauntlet of the sidewalk crowd. It seems silly,
but if it’s a fact we ought to tone things down
come next election.
Another thing that really ought to be done
is to have the registration books checked. Wte
are told that when the new book was set up in
1940, the names were simply copied from the
old books without any check being made as to
whether the folks in question were alive or
dead, still living here or moved away. Many
have been crossed off when it was known they
were gone, but no effective detailed check has
been made since nobody knows how long. Here
is something, surely, that calls for official ac
tion. In Aberdeen, we believe, they had a
new registration and got things straight: inci-
dentially it showed that a group of people
whose residence had been changed to Sandhills
township are on the books of both towns: Aber
deen, where they’re now supposed to vote and
seldom do, and Southern Pines, where they
used to vote and still try to, at least a few of
them. Perhaps we should follow Aberdeen’s
lead and have a new registration. But at least
before next election day comes round the regis
tration book ought to be brought up' to date.
USES OF CIVIC CLUB
To the Pilot.
Just a bit of history:
In 1942 the members of the
Civic club turned over the cub
building to the Red Cross canteen
committee. They gave it up in
1943 and the members ran it as
a recreation center for the sol
diers. In June of that year, the
Army took the building over for
the USO. When they gave it up,
the Chamber of Commerce want
ed to use it, and the members
agreed to have them try it out
for three years. After two years,
it had proved to be such a head
ache and expense to them that
they gave it back. It was then we
found the floor was not in a con
dition for dancing or extra physi
cal activity.
We are now having the build
ing put into safe condition for
renting. CIVIC CLUB MEMBER.
Bank. It was known from time to
time as the St. James and Pine
Tree Tavern. Bought by the Per
kins in 1919, it was destroyed by
the fire of April 1921.
Your most apt and pertinent
“Magnolia” editorial calls to mind
GRAINS
of SAND
“ARDENT ADVOCATES”
To the Pilot:
For many years Mrs. Clark and
I have been winter residents of
Southern Pines, either as renters,
or home owners, and later this
summer we will become year-
round residents. We have always
been readers of ‘The Pilot,’ fO'l-
lowing the news particularly
closely during the months when
of necessity we have been ‘exil
ed’ from Southern Pines.
We are particularly indebted to
you for your editorial of May
23rd, in connection with the zon
ing action taken at a special meet
ing of the Board of Commission
ers held on May 5th, to open May
Street to busines?.
As ardent advocates of the ad
vantages of living in Southern
Pines I certainly dislike seeing ac
tion taken which may in the long
run destroy the beauty of Route
1 as }i passes through the village.
Its marked contrast to the adver
tising signs, billboards, and con
centrations of gas stations which
exist between Aberdeen and
Southern Pines Is commented on
by large numbers of the visitors
who stop overnight, or for longer
periods when passing through our
village.
We wish to thank you for hav
ing noted this action of the Com
missioners, and feeling that com
ment should be made.
Yours sincerely,
GORDON CLARK
' (Editor’s Note:
The action of the town board
was reversed by the zoning board
thus preserving May street as a
residential area.)
The big Southern Pines vote,
which could decide the outcome
in a couple of races, was toe last
to be reported Saturday night. .
The final tally was not reached
until close to midnight, and at
Aberdeen, where all-county tabu
lation was being made for the Cit
izen scoreboard, impatience wax
ed high among some onlookers.
Talk ran to the new voting ma
chines which wete tried out this
time in several precincts of the
state. . . Votes are totaled within
a few minutes on these machines,
it was reported, doing away with
all the waiting.
“Don’t you think we ought to
have them?” a bystander quieried
of one old-time politico.
The person queried tipped
back his chair a little farther (he
was one of the few who had ob
tained a seat). . . He glanced
around at the crowded office—
everybody had been in, at one
time or another: candidates, har
ried managers and workers,
curious voters. . . Desk and floor
were covered with paper on
which hasty tabulations and par
tial totals had been figured up. .
Coca-cola bottles were all over
the place and ash trays were full
and running over.
The old-timer inhaled the
murky air with an expression of
pleasure. . . “Heck, no!” he snort
ed. . . “I wouldn’t miss all this for
anything.”
some of the early plantings of
these handsome trees, particular
ly those gracing the postoffice
and library grounds—once the
site of the Southern Pines hoteL
They were planted by the late F.
A. Ordway in 1887-8, he the n be
ing the manager of toe newly
erected “Page Hotel,” later the
Southern Pines. Opposite, on the
East side of Broad street, fronting
the City Clerk’s office, this splen
did row of trees was planted by
the late Dr. W. P. Swett. His first
planting, made in 1892 was des
troyed by vandals, and replaced
a year or so later. 'There is a mag
nificent soecimen located on the
site of William P. Saunders’ once
famed garden, flourishing on the
corner of Wjest Broad street and
Connecticut avenue during the
early years of our town, also sev
eral fine ones about his former
[residence.
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A survey of the older houses in
town reveals that they are all
graced with magnolias planted
about the time that they were
built. ■
Probably B. von Herf and J. T.
Patrick were instrumental for
other plantings.
CHARLES MACAULEY
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VETERINARIANS
Southern Pines. N. C.
ABOUT JEFFERSON INN
To the Pilot
With all due respect to your
correspondents whose memories
have led them astray in their
identifications of buildings pic-
It was Bill Umstead’s day, or
rather night, in North Carolina. .
As late in the evening the neck-
and-neck race between the guber
natorial candidates gradually
turned his way. . . Till finally his
lead was a commanding One.
Full county reports were in
most cases not published in full
until Monday, when one after an
other turned up in the Umstead
column.. . One headline writer on
the Charlotte Observer apparent
ly got to editing and headlining
automatically . . . One head ap
peared, “Umstead Gets Firm Sup
port in Richmond”. . . The story
beneath, from Rockingham, gave
Umstead 2,700, Olive 4,045.
How firm is that?
The two men who (according to
the News and Observer) are be
ing most strongly considered for
the top job at N. C. State college
laemillUiiWUlia uj. — * . . « j.-u
tured in recent issues of the Pilot, both have strong ties in Southern
CROP Again
Summer is here, bringing to our country toe
promise of a bountiful harvest; bringing, too, the
renewal of the CROP campaign.
CROP is the organization that collects farm
produce from fanners and sends it to the needy
peoples of toe world. Governor Scott called
CROP an “indirect approach to liberty.” A good
phme and a true one.
I am amazed that any doubt could
be cast on Mrs. J. S. Reynolds’
recognition of Jefferson Inn, her
home for 45 years.
The picture in question—
though I cannot see why there
should be any question—your No.
4, was used in the September 6,
1906, edition of The Tourist under
the caption “Jefferson Inn.” I
have an earlier post card showing
the original building with the so-
called “banjo-work” on its front.
Your current picture. No. 6, is
a view of New Hampshire ave
nue which includes a portion of
Jefferson Inn showing the “banjo
work,” and a row of sycamore
trees standing in the middle of the
avenue. ’They were removed by
the late John N. Powell in 1917,
following his purchase of the for
mer Ozone—Oak Hall, which Be
renamed the Southland
The Stringer building was
erected in 1897 for Sam S. String
er. It was of cottage type, three
stories and attic, and was located
Pines. Or rather, both did until
last week—one stiU does.
Mbs. John Graves Vann, who
moved to town a couple of months
ago, is the daughter of Dean J. H.
Lampe of State’s school of engi
neering, while Mrsjl Richardi James
Bryant, who left just last week
to join her husband in Gastonia,
is the daughter of Dean J. H. Hil
ton of the school of agriculture.
Both men are nationally known
as tops in their respective fields.
Both are considered top possibiliT
ties to fill the shoes of Chancellor
John Harrelson, who is resigning.
His resignation won’t be effective
for 13 months, though, so there
isn’t any rush.
Mr, Vann is production mana
ger for the Bishop Co. hypoder
mic needle plant. The Vanns have
bought a home oh Orchard road.
Mrs. Bryant, the former Miss
Helen Hilton, who was married
in March, has been makjnS her
home with the J. T. Overtons
while finishing out the year as a
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on the site of the present Citizens teacher at Vass-Lakeview school.
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