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Make It A
Happy Christmas
Buy TB Seals
Help Fight Tl
Chairmen Listed
Heading Welfare
Dept. Program
The Moore County welfare de
partment, in cooperation with vol-,
unteer chairmen in various coun-l
ty communities, is again remind
ing citizens of their less fortunate
neighbors—at a time when Christ
mas makes their plight even sad
der,
The Jcdin Boyd post, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, has again this
year undertaken chairmanship in
Southern Pines to help channel
some Christmas cheer into lives
otherwise pretty bleak and bar-
rem
Lions clubs have undertaken
chairmanship cf the Christmas
Cheer collection in the communi
ties of West End, Vass (and Lake-
view), Cameron and Pinehurst
(Mrs. Foster Kelly, co-chairman).
M. B. Pleasants is chairman for
the Aberdeen community; Carl
Scoggin, Robbins; E. H. Mills,
Pinebluff and Addor; Newland
Upchurch, ffighfalls and Putnam;
Mrs. M. K Street, Glendon and
Hallistm.
In Carthage (as elsewhere), di
rect contact may be made with the
welfare department. Cooperating
are the American Legion auxiliary
and also the Jaycees.
Christmas Cheer chairmen in
each community accept donations
of food, clothing, toys, fruit and
cash, and distribute these where
they are most needed, aided by
Mrs. Walter B. Cole and her staff
of the welfare department.
The files of this department
contain many cases of need, both
BUS SCHEDULE
As a help in getting the new
bus station at Little Motor
Co. started. The Pilot presents
the following schedule of cur
rent departure times:
Leaving Southern Pines:
For Pinehurst, Biscce,
Asheboro, High Point, Win
ston-Salem and points west
—•'?:23 a mt, 2:11, 5:31 and
8:26 p. m.
For Aberdeen, Raeford,
Fayetteville — 10:52 a. m.,
3:26 and 8:43 p. m.
For Aberdeen, Hamlet,
Rodcinghiam, Wadesboro,
Charlotte^: 17 p. m.
For Sanford, Chapel Hill,
Durham (through bus to
Durham, change at Sanford
for Raleigh)—8:58 a. m.
George B. Little, Sr., agent,
will not have information
available as to when buses
get there, only when they ar
rive at and leave Southern
Pinos. He will, however, work
out routes for persons buying
tickets here.
At Long Last —
Southern Pines
Has Bus Station
O'
Southern Pines has a bus sta
tion again, after five years in
which a bus station has been one
of the community’s most conspicu
ous lacks.
Buses started stopping Tuesday
white and Negro—^families bare- at the Little Motor Co., on West
!y holding together, but manag- Broad at New Hampshire avenue,
mg to make out pretty well ex-j George B. Little, Sr., has taken on
cept when Christmas reaches out the ticket sales agency, and is also
to wring their hearts. Many of handling and despatching bus ex-
these families have children who, press, giving schedule information
1 . I . A .
. for unselfish personal service, without thought or
hope of personal gain . . .» (Pilot Staff Photo)
Mrs. Way Is Awarded Builders Cup
By Sandhills Kiwanis Club At Banquet
A gentle, smiling, gracious lady"^
with silver-white hair, was'
awarded the Sandhills Kiwanis
Builders Cup at the club’s
annual banquet and ladies’ night,
held last Friday evening at the
Pinehurst Country club.
Mrs. William A. Way, who with
her husband, the late Judge Way,
founded the Carolina Orchid
Growers, Inc., and attained na
like all children everywhere at j and performing other duties
Christmas, are looking forward to
something special on that magic
day.
Vast New Projects
Reported In Works
-4t Fort Braajg
I Oi OUULll-
A multi-million dollar utility Pines will always find us
and grading system for Fort Bragg cooperative, and we hope to
was announced this week, with.®®^ back the regular bus patron-
prospects of another vast project which may have been dissipa-
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in
conjunction with the new station.
James York, of Ashebofo, divi
sion manager of the Queen City
Coach company, and V. H. Batts,
with the company’s traffic depart
ment at Fayetteville, were in town
Monday helping the new station
get off to a good start. They ex
pressed themselves at being high
ly gratified at having a regular
station again in Southern Pines,
and added, “The people of South-
Ju
L-pcoming in the not-too-distant
future.
Low bids .totaling $2,690,412.50
were received from two Fayette
ville contracting firms, Grannis-
Sloan and Loving-Cline, for clear
ing and grading 176 acres of for
est land, mostly rough terrain,
on which a troop housing area
ted in the past few years.
Mr. Little has taken the agency
on a trial basis, it was revealed,
in addition to working with his
son, George B. Little, Jr., in the
operation of the service station
and body works.
The station offers plenty of
space for passengers to- wait out
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will be .constructed later. Roads inside if the weather is
will be built and water andi^®*^- There are, however, no reg-
sewer lines installed. ular waiting rooms just for bus
This project is expected to pavelP^®®®”®®^®- “We are doing this
the way for the other, which is l®ss just for the accom-
expected to exceed $20 million in modetion,” said Mr. Little. 'Tf it
coct. Bids are expected to be out okay—I’m glad. If it
ceived January 13 to provide 45|'i°®sn’t, they’ll have to find some
new barracks buildings and other other solution.”
Army utilities. | The bus station was established
The barracks buildings will be tor some years during and after
three stories high, each having war in an annex to the back
Town’s Entry For
Carolina Contest
Goes To Judg es
An elaborate booklet, describ
ing Southern Pines’ entry in the
Finer Carolina contest, sponsored
by the Carolina Power and Light
Co., has been sent to the judges,
in time to meet Monday’s contest
deadline.
Included in the booklet are
large photographs of the five
items which constitute this town’s
bid for the coveted prize. Full de
descriptions of each accompany
the cuts, giving a Before and After
picture of the project. The whole
is gaily bound in a green cover,
with appropriately symbolic de
sign.
First on the list is the acquisi
tion and development of the Com
munity Center. The accompany- ^
ing prints show the former Elks Waldie,
capacity of 225 men. Other units
will include a regimental head
quarters, pump house, oil and gas
station and concrete walks.
The project for which bids
were received Tuesday is reported
from the Wilmington office of the
U. S. Army Engineers to be the
largest of its kind on the military
reservation since World War 2.
Col. C. R. Brown, who opened the
bids, expressed gratification in
that they were nearly a half mil
lion dollars below the government
estimate.
Whether or not the projects are
tied in with recent activity in
Hoke county which has stirred in
terest around here was not re
vealed.
Army Engineers have been sur
veying large tracts cf Hoke land
outside the reservation, and have
sought legal information as to
title searches, condemnation pro
ceedings, etc. A Raeford attorney
revealed that he had been ap
proached to serve for the Army
in respect to land transactions.
Solely on the evidence, a huge
expansion of the reservation, or
the setting up of some other kind
of authority requiring much land
is being planned. Army chiefs,
however, are keeping mum.
of the present Little Motor Co.
building, then occupied by Mc
Neill’s Service station. It had to
vacate this space in 1947 and later
that year was established for a
short time at another service sta
tion south of town. This was too
far from the downtown district
and proved unsatisfactory.
Since that time the situation
has been rated as “a disgrace.”
Various methods of handling it
were found, none of them good.
No one was found who was will
ing to give the station a home, and
the coach company could not be
persuaded to build one. “The re
turns do not justify it,” the bus
company said then, and they still
say it.
For the past few years buses
have stopped beside the post of
fice, where passengers have had
to wait outdoors in all kinds of
weather. The Chamber of Com
merce police department and some
of the hotels have accommodated
by keeping schedules on hand and
giving out information on tinr.es
of arrival and departure.
The Chamber of Commerce and
also the town board have confer
red with bus company officials
from time to time, with no satis
factory arrangement resulting.
Club buildings and a close-up of
an Elks club picnic there.
Second are two impressive pho
tographs of the school auditorium
and gym, showing the graceful
planting, the work of the local
Garden club, carried out by Er
nest Morell.
A page of five photos make up
the presentation of Project 3, en
titled Park and Recreation Facili
ties. These include the swimming
lake north of town, the town ten
nis courts and a view of the school
band on the football field. Be
sides the Knollwood lake, the lake
for West Southern Pines residents
is included.
Project 4 is the Bishop plant,
entered to show the community’s
interest in encouraging industrial
development in the area. Last on
the list come the two school buses,
as additions to the schools’ ath
letic facilities and also of use in
the summer recreational program.
The booklet, which is the work
of Mark King, promotion expert,
is the conception of John Ruggles,
chairman of the Fiber Carolina
Committee, with E. A. Tucker as
co-chairman. It was felt that such
a presentation of the town’s bid
for the CP&L contest prize would
carry great weight with the
judges, as showing the progressive
spirit of the town. ’Two hundred
and fifty copies of the booklet are
being printed in the belief that
they wiU be bought locally as pro
motional material.
Members of the Finer Carolina
Committee include representa
tives from most local civic organ
izations.
tional eminence in the field of or
chid growing, was presented the
handsome silver cup for which
the standards were set 26 years
ago. It is given “from time to
time to the man or woman of
Moore county who, by unselfish
personal service, without thought
or hope of personal gain, has con
tributed the nrcst to the upbuild
ing of Moore county.”
The Builders Cup is Moore’s
highest public service award.
Only twice before has it been
given to a woman. Some years, if
no one is deemed worthy, it is
not given at all.
Secret WeU Kept
Identity of the person to be
honored was kept a close secret
until the time of presentation
The selection was made by a com
mittee headed by Paul Dana of
Pinehurst. Garland McPherson of
Southern Pines, made the presen
tation speech.
He kept the secret well, almost
until the moment he placed the
cup in the hands of Mrs. Way, by
referring to her throughout as a
“medical doctor.”
Since Mrs. Way retired from
practice at the time her husband
retired from the bench, when
they moved to Southern Pines
from Philadelphia more than 30
years ago, few here know that she
is a physician. She was Dr. Edith
a graduate (1905) of the
Woman’s Medical College of Penn
sylvania.
This doctor, said Kiwanian Mc
Pherson in his speech, had “long
been interested in the health and
welfare of Moore County citizens,
the betterment of its hospitals and
(Continued on Page 4)
“Conditional Stop”
Now On Schedule
For Silver Comet
Streamliiiier Debarks
Those Arriving From
Washington, N. Y.
The Silver Comet, fast Seaboard
Air Line New York-to-Florida
streamliner, was due to make its
first scheduled stop in Southern
Pines Thursday at 11:36 p.m. —
provided someone was aboard
, who wanted to get off.
The stop, a concession made by
Seaboard officials last week to lo
cal interest and demand, is rated
as a “conditional” one. That is, if
no one wants to get off, it flashes
past as before.
Local citizens this 'week were
expressing themselves as delight
ed even over this h'=llway mers-
ure, and hoping business would
eventually justify the stop so it
would becbme a regular one.
Tickets for Southern Pines via
Silver Comet will be sold only in
Washington and points north, ac
cording to information reaching
the passenger station staff here
this week. None will be sold at
Raleigh, only other stop in North
Carolina (except Hamlet, the junc
tion and shops). Nor may passen
gers boaird the train at Southern
Pines to go south.
For persons coming to Southern
Pines or Pinehurst from more
northerly points, however, word
of the conditional stop is good
news. The Silver Comet leaves
New York City at 12:30 p.m.,
Washington at 5.
The trip will offer time and
comfort advantages even over fly
ing, for which Raleigh must be
the southbound terminal point of
the main lines for the Sandhills
area.
Seaboard officials announced
a further improvement of interest
to Sandhills-bound travelers. The
Palmland is being augmented by I
the addition of two new and mod
em Pullman cars, with “room- j
ettes.” I
The changes went into effect ■
with the adoption of the winter
schedule Thursday.
The Silver Comet stop was an
nounced by Seabbard officials fol
lowing several conferences held
with Jack S. Younts, president of
the Sandhills Community Broad
casters, Inc. (WEEB) of Southern
Pines. The radio station has cam
paigned vigorously in editorial
broadcasts during the past two
years for a streamliner stop here.
Scripts and also tape recordings
have been sent to the Seaboard.
Last week a conference was ar
ranged here at which Mr. Younts
voiced strongly the sentiments of
the resort towns that they were
due such a consideration, in view
of the large number of visitors
from the north. That these num
bers are increasing, and that they
were enduring discomforts in at
tempting train trips, were among
the facts cited by Mr. Younts,
who had accumulated an impres
sive number of figures.
He reported meeting with a
highly cooperative spirit, and ap
preciation of the local position on
the part of the Seaboard chiefs—
clouded, hov^ever, by the pressure
(Continued on page 8)
Christmas Lights Are
Turned On Downtown
After Fast Fund Drive
^Window Displays
Shine Brightly In
Seasonal Harmony
DIRECTOR
ROBERT SHAW
Shaw Chorale
Here In Coneert
Saturday Night
The program of the Robert
Shaw Chorale, appearing in con
cert at 8:30 p. m. Saturday at
Weaver auditorium, will range
from the solemn and sacred to
the gay and exuberant..
' Tender melodies cf Brahms and
'the lilting charm of a Viennese
operetta will be offered by this
famous and unusual group com
bining the best features of both
chorus and orchestra.
I In one way only are the five
parts of the program (in five dif-
iferent languages) alike—all are
far off the beaten track. The Cho
rale, renowned through NBC net
work appearances and Red Seal
Victor records, makes a specialty
of avoiding the trite in its con
cert repertoire.
I This is true even of the encores.
, On the first visit here in 1951 the
Chorale made so delightfully free
with popular songs that the audi-
'ence simply would not let them
quit. Local concert goers will re
member how, after the sixth en
core, young Director Shaw faced
them to demand, “Haven’t you got
homes?”
Woodruff ‘‘Most Valuable Player”
In tomorrow night’s program,
first offering of the season for the
I Sandhill Music association, the
first group will consist of three
parts of a five-part work, Sacred
Service, by Ernest Bloch, today’s
foremost composer of Jewish mu
sic. Ranging from melancholy to
exultant, the Service offers sever
al very fine male solos.
The second part will consist cf
three of Brahms’ loveliest, though
lesser-known, lieder, played by
Pianist John Wustman.
Three old French songs set to
orchestral music by Debussy make
up the third porti»n, sung by a so
lo quartet of two male and two
female voices.
Spanish carols compose the
fourth part of the program, sel
ected from a group new to the
(Continued on Page 4)
The Christmas lights went on
Tuesday night in Southern Pines
—after several days in which it
looked as though there would be
none .
The twinkling many-colored
lights, strung along both sides of
Broad street from Pennsylvania
to Connecticut avenue, bore wit
ness to a community spirit just as
glowing.
When the news came out last
week that the Chamber of Com
merce had no funds to put up the
traditional lights, a few dismay
ed merchants put their heads to
gether. The upshot was, Mrs. W.
B. Holliday and J. T. Overton un
dertook the job of soliciting the
needed funds.
The Bushby Electrical company
said they would do the job for
$200—$100 to put them up, an
other $100 to take them down.
Mr. Holliday and Mr Overton
each underwrote half of this cost.
That left the electricity to be paid
for, and Mayer Page said the
Town would attend to this.
Monday morning, Mrs. HoUi-
day took one side of Broad street,
and Mr. Overton the other, nab- '
bing every merchant they could
find. As word got around other
merchants and businessmen, some
of them far out of the lighted
area, sought them out to add theiv
contributions. Though there were
two $10 donations (from Leroy
Lee, who gave to each canvasser)
j most were from $1 to $5. Within a
'few hours the entire amount had
been made up.
The Chamber of Commerce
made its long wires and hun
dreds cf bulbs available, and the
Bushby crew started stringing
them up. Some of them were turn
ed on Monday night. Tuesday eve
ning, the full panoply of color
shone forth, making it truly
a bright Christmas.
In accompaniment, store win
dows blossomed out over the
weekend with gay seasonal dis
plays. The colored lights went on
under the eaves of the Welch Gift
shop, brightening that block for
which wiring has not yet been
provided.
Though the customary method
has been followed of stringing the
lights on the street side of Broad,
I rather than on the parkway trees
as the Chamber had planned
earlier, 'window-shoppers on
these December evenings declare
“Southern Pines has never loqked
prettier for Christmas.”
The Charnber of Commerce had
previously offered merchants the
(Continued on page 4)
David Woodruff, right, receives the MiUiken Memorial trophy
at the Elks banquet for the football squad Friday night. Lennox
Forsyth makes the presentation, in behalf of the John Boyd post,
VFW. David also won honorary captaincy. Story crowded out,’
will appear next week. (Pilot Staff Photo)
SELL-OUT?
They may have io hang out
the Standing Room Only sign
at the Robert Shaw Chorale
concert Saturday night.
Tickets are selling so fast,
reports Mrs. Paul Bamum,
who heads the sales commit
tee, that there will be
precious few to sell at the
door if the rush continues.
Those desiring to insure
attendance at the perform
ance of . this world-famous
musical attraction may still*
buy seats (from the Bamumi
agency on Broad street, cx
through local ticket sales
or through local ticket
sales chairmen in each
coimty town: Pinehusst, Mrs.
Stuart Cutler: Aberdeen, Mrs,
Lawrence Johnson: Robbins,
J. A, Culbertson: Centhage,
Miss Roselle Williamson:
West End, Mrs. M. C. McDon
ald, McCain, Dr. William
Peck.
Service Teams
In Double-Header
Monday Night
A double-header, featuring four
strong, fast teams, will be open
to the public at the Southern
Pines school gym Monday, start
ing at 7 p.m.
The Southern Pines Guardsmen,
sponsored by the local National
Guard battery, will meet other
Guardsmen from the battalion
headquarters at Red Springs.
Sanford Guardsmen will play
the USAFAGOS Airmen, from
Highland Pines Inn.
The Airmen and local Guards
men showed their skill for the
first time last Monday, before a
fairly large, enthusiastic crowd
at the gymnasium. The Guards
stayed ahead all the way, xmtil
the final quarter, when the Air
men spurted ahead to win 30-24.
High scorers for the Airmen
were Airman l|c Unwin, with
eight points, and S|Sgt. Layel,
with seven; for the Guardsmen,
Sgt. l|c Buck McDonald and Ray
Schilling, four each.
The games, being held this
month, on Monday nights, consti
tute a warmup period for a league
which will go into operation early
next year, composed of the Air
men, Carolina Hotel employees
and National Oiard teams from
feur or five towns.