Friday, August 29, 1952
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, Nortl|^ (Carolina
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
By order of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Vass and
by virtue of authority conferred by the Laws of North Carolina, the
following described real estate will be offered for sale to satisfy the
unpaid taxes due the Town of Vass for the year 195L Time-of sale:
12:00 noon, Monday, September 8, 1952. Place of Sale: Front of Town
Clerk’s Office, McKeithan Building.
A. R. LAUBSCHER, Tax Collector.
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’ TOWN OF VASS /
(White)
Briggs, W. M., 1 lot Phillips 6.27
Bullock, Mrs. O. M., 20 A. Vass 6.00
Burns, Mrs. Ruth McN., 10 A. Raeford road 24.03
Caddell, E. Hoyt, 10 Lots Vass 4.15
Causey, Felton, 2 Lots, No. 10-11, Vass 34.41
Chappell, J. P. & M. M. Est., House and Lands on Ext. Alma St. 35.05
Ferguson, Christine A., House and Lot Ext. Alma St 3.82
Ferguson, Earl, Lands Ext. Alma St. 28.20
Frye, L. B., 2 Lots Rollermill 6.40
Frye, Lewis, House and Land 31.66
Hardy, Oscar, ! Lpt Vass 14.66:
Keith, N. Y-. I'Lot Hy. No. 1, 4 Lots Sunrise Hts,
3 Lots Washington Hts 54.41
Kimball, James and Margaret, House and Lands 7.19
Lambert, W. B., 1 A. Tyson Land 19.31
Lassiter, Harold, 1 Lot Vass 10.35
McMillan, J. M., 1 Lot Vass-Lobelia Rd 9.02
McNair, T. L., House and Lands on Vass-Carthage Rd 49.14
Phillips, E. E., House and Lands and 3 Lots Vass, Nos. 17, 18, 19 36.30
Rosser, T. H., House and Lands 35.70
Smith, T. L., House and Lands 47.51
Stuart, Dan P., House and Lands and 3 Lots Hy. No. 1 84.68
Colored
Barrett, Mary, 2 Lots Nos. 45, 46, Washington Hts 1.49
Charle's, Leola, 15 Lots Goldston 10.86
Drayton, John, 3 Lots Washington Hts., Nos. 36-39 -1.85
Elliott, Jannie, House and Lands Union Rd 20.96
Harrington, Hattie, 1 Lot No. 10 Washington Hts 1.21
Johnson, Anna, 2.32 A. South St 4.89
McAllister, Est. David, House and Lands, Vass-Lobelia Rd 10.67
McCrimmon, Est., W. 'D., 9 A. Vass-Union Rd 5.16
McKeithan, Hurley, 3.25 A. Vass 24.95
McKeithan, Sam, 2.4 A. Alexander Ld 14.72
McLeod, Est., Edith, 2 Lots, Nos. 19, 20, Washington Hts 5.16
McLeod, Raymond, 3 A. Goldston Ld 4.37
Pratt, Martin, 1% A. Cameron Ld 7.41
Sellars, Alfred, 1-4 A. Union Rd. 21.10
Sellars, Walter C., 6 A. Vass and 1 Lot Goldston 16.19
Sellars, Willie Clyde, 2 A. Vass and 4 Lots Goldston 12.60
Whitefi^st., Walter, 3-4 A. Tyson Land and 9 Lots,
Nos. 70, 71, 80, 81, 86, 90, Washington Hts 11.41
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George and Jessica Shear-
wood of the Shearwood Trav
el Service at Pinehurst are on
an extended trip to Africa.
Seven weeks ago The Pilot
published a letter from Mr.
Shearwood, telling of their
flight, and the account ended
with their arrival , in Johan
nesburg in the middle of the
night, after covering some
thing over 10,000 miles at
around 300 miles an h(^ur.
Nothing further was heard
from the couple until this
week, when an interesting ar
ticle arrived, which will be
prosenled to Pilot readers in
installments.
AFRICA CALLING
By GEORGE SHEARWOOD
This dispatch has been very
considerably delayed due to cir
cumstances over which unfor
tunately, we had no control what
soever. We were so busy inter
viewing rhinos, giraffes, gardens,
people and one thing and another
m South Africa that we literally
had no time to write and decided
to take a day or two out at the
half way point and do our duty
by the Sandhills.
So^—^we arrived on the equator
in Central Africa and what did I
do but go down with pneumonia.
This resulted in three weeks in
hospitals, the messing up of our
plans and our inability to do our
duty. However, we are now con
valescing and hope to be in form
for the opening of the season in
Pinehurst.
After our pleasantly bibulous
trip by Pan-American Airways
from New York to Johannesburg,
we sorted ourselves out in that
city. Johannesburg, nearly 6,000
feet above sea level, is Africa’s
biggest city after Cairo. It has
something over a million people,
at least half of them native Afri
cans, and can only be described as
a miniature Manhattan, complete
with Harlem. We were very com
fortable in the Carlton hotel, with
the aid of electric heaters in our
room to combat the night cold, it
being winter in South Africa. This
days were bright and clear and
ordinary wool or tweed clothing
was comfortable enough, but it
was on the raw side al nighfk
About the only excursions we
made at Johannesburg were one
to Pretoria, the administrative
capital of South Africa, and to a
Sunday morning exhibition of na
tive dances at one of the bigger
gold mines. This lasted several
hours and comprised dances by
many tribes. It was fascinating
to watch, mainly because the
show was not put on for the
spectators but for the amusement
of the natives themselves. This
meant it had that extra little
“oomph” about it that makes such
things more interesting to watch.
About 12 or 14 different tribal
dances were given and some were
fantastic shows. It all ended with
a very elaborate presentation by
one tribe. The dancers did a war
dance to music provided by a
large kind of marimba band made
up of authentic native instru
ments and musicians, vho, be
tween dances, entertained with
their own version of “I WSint To
Be Happy” with a rhythm noth
ing on Broadway could equal.
We tried every means of ortho
dox transportation in South Afri
ca. Fr-c-m Johannesburg we went
by the ordinary night train to
Kimljerley and spent the day there
examining the famous diamond
mines, both gem and industrial
stones. We- saw quite a lot of dia
monds as they* were recovered
from the water t]jrough which
the cAished quartz finally went.
We saw one day’s sorted collec
tion, worth, as I recall, something
like $100,000, but nobody was hos
pitable enough to -ask our wife if
she’d like to take her pick. (Note:
She would have liked!)
We traveled from Kimberley to
Capetown by the “Blue Train,”
an all-first-class, all air-condi
tioned luxury train which in
everything but speed equals any
train anywhere. South African
trains run on a narrow gauge but
the coaches are standard width.
This means that high speeds would
probably throw the train off the
tracks and therefore 50 miles an
hour seems to be the limit. *
The through journey frond
Johannesburg to Capetown is
roughly 1,000 miles and the Blue
Train takes 26 hours to- do it. Be
side the fact of the gauge there
is the abrupt descent from the
high veldt, the tableland any
where from 4,000 to 6,000 feet
above sea level down to the sea
at Capetown, a tortuous wriggling
through mountain passes and some
majestic scenery.
Capetown is the legislative cap
ital of the Union of South Africa,
and parliament was still in ses
sion there when we arrived. Parl
iament was about 400 yards away
from the Mount Nelson, our hotel j of Cape Colony, in order that our
on the lower slopes of Table. wife might see ostrich farming,
'mountain, and the day after we Oudtshoorn is the center of a
arrived was the day upon which big pstrich raising area, and we
the natives staged the beginning' spent a morning learning all about
of their resistance to the govern- the family life of these odd birds,
ment’s “apartheid” or segregation, and ate ostrich egg omelet for
law. So far as we were concerned lunch. Then over the magnificent
Montagu Pass, built by Italian
prisoners of war, back to the coast
again for the night.
Next we traveled by one of the
luxury sightseeing busses which
maintain regular schedules over
the more scenic roads of the
Union, and those roads are plenty.
This brought us to Port Elizabeth.
absolutely no disturbance marked
this resistance. It is continuing,
but in a very orderly manner.
Capetown is the oldest settle
ment in southern Africa and the
discovery of the spot dates from
around 1498. In a general way
European settlement in the Cape
area dates from the early 1600’s.
about the same time it does in the the fourth largest city in South
United States. The Cape Colony is Africa and the place where Gen-
an extremely picturesque and ex- era 1 Motors, Ford, etc., assemble
ceedingly fertile land. Its vine- cars for sale. Due to the unfavor-
yards and orchards and in partic-|able rate -ef exchange and the fact
ular its flowers make it a garden That South Africa is in the sterling
wonder spot. Cape wines and monetary area, there isn’t much
brandies are very good, the wines'doing nowadays in American car
fully equalling the very best of sales there, for the government
California’s products. As practi-1 has clamped down on imports
cally all Scotch whiskey now from the dollar areas to try to
seems to land in America, we protect its economy,
found it in scant supply, and. From Pert Elizabeth we flew
readily took to.the good and much about 400 miles by South African
cheaper Cape brandies. We were'Airways plane to Durban, the
in Capetown in mid-winter, of . “ Atlantic City” of South Africa,
course, but even so, though the and found ourselves in the height
nights were cold, most of the days Uf the Durban “season” with race
were pleasant enough. We made meetings and all kind of social
the must trip for every visitor, -whirls. Durban, being on the coast
the spectacular Cape Point ma- and some 1,400 miles northeast
rine drive of 100 miles, the cul- of the Cape, was much balmier as
minating point of which is the to atmosphere. One\,day we went
Cape of Good Hope, where the I out to the Valley of a Thousand
South Atlantic and the Indian Hills, on the edge of Zuzuland
oceans meet. While at the Cape
we got tangled up with some ba
boons. One came and sat on the
hood of our car and peered
through the windshield at us, and
then proceeded to do a circus act
by jumping from our car to an
other parked a few yards away.
We went by auto from Cape
town to Oudtshoorn, some 300
miles through the “Garden Route”
and played round with some Zulus
in their kraal. These w^re living
in the age-old way of the tribe
and so were much more pictur
esque than most of the native
peoples of the country. One fhing
I noticed particularly after an ab
sence of 13 years from South
Africa is that detribalization has
been very rapid. Going fast is the
old tribal life and custom and
dress — or undress, if you like.
Nowadays the natives are flock
ing to the cities and are wearing
European clothes—of sorts. For
the most part it seems that patch- j
©s are preferred. In fact, even if,
an African happens to possess a|
brand-new pair of pants or a coat,
he is. likely to immediately get|
some patchefs of any old kind, of
contrasting material stitched on
here, there and everywhere.
The next stage of our African
safari took us by car intO' Zuzu
land, a craggy country of mighty
vistas and then brought us to the
Hluhluwe (pronounced Slew-
slewy) Game Reserve, one of the
big areas where the animals of
the country are protected by law
from the slaughtering which in
years gone by threatened to deci
mate Africa’s greatest attraction,
tis wild animals.
,Hluhluwe is a new reserve and
has been set aside particularly to
“reserve the almost extinct white
rhino. We got to the camp in the
afternoon, had tea and our dinner
from provisions we brought with
us and prepared by native “boys”
at the camp. Incidentally, any
African servant is a “boy” even'
if, .as many are, he happens to be
a grandfather. Next morning we!
arose about 5 a. m:., an entirely!
new and hitherto unknown hour
in the life experience of our wife, I
who, however, made it with such!
remarkable celerity that we prom
ised to see about securing a medal
for valor to mark the occasion.
As soon as it was light enough
to see anything we set out, with
a native game guide in our car,
to look for rhino, anjj wq got them
—and how! We found four white
rhino, each weighing two to two
and a half tons, peacefully grazr
ing on a big , .grassy patch or
ground devoid of trees. We left
cur car and walked a hundred
yards until we were within about
20 yards of the beasts. This was
really quite dramatic, not to say
slightly hair-raising when the
brutes saw us and started to hop,
skip and jump about.
Rhinos have very poor sight but
a strong sense of smell. Maybe we
smelled like eggs and bacon or
nice fresh ham to them, but they
all seemed agitated and started
making passes at us while we
aimed our camera at them. Our
wife wondered where she should
run to if the prehistoric-looking
monsters really decided to charge.
A rhino can easily make 25
miles hour and has been clock
ed at 35 miles an hour in full
charge for a short distance. We
had been assured that white
rhinos were really very placid
animals and so stood our ground
and presently the quartet toddled
pff about a hundred yards and
went on with their breakfast. We
walked back to- our car and went
back to camp to ou;: own very
well-earned breakfast.
During our stay at Hluhluwe we
saw some black rhino, fellows one
doesn’t get out of the car and play
with as they are notoriously mean
and dangerous. We learned that
when the Hluhluwe area was set
aside the few remaining white
rhinos were lured into the reserve
with a trail of molasses!
By the way, the white rhino
isn’t white and the black rhino
isn’t black. They are both a kind
of dirty grey, any variation in
shade being caused by the color
of the particular kind of muck the
rhino in question has happened tq
pick to wallow in. The two specie®
differ very little, though th^
white rhino is somewhat larger
and his tusks are a little heavierk
and he has a square jaw. The chiqi
difference seems to he in temper!.
In Hluhluwe we also saw somft
large herds of buffalo, many wart
hog, zebra, nyala, impala, and va
rious other types of antelope and,
the rather silly looking wilde-
beeste. The latter is better known
to cross-word puzzle addicts, as
the GNU—G as in Jerusalem', N
as in pneumonia, and E as in eu
nuch!
(Continued next week.)
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