FRIDAY, APRIL 2. 1954
Aerial resupply of ground
troops participating in Exercise
Flash Burn, will be furnished by
the 18th Tactical Air Force, with
headquarters at Donaldson Air
Force Base, Greenville, S. C.
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
Exercise Flash Burn, a large
scale Army atomic defense train
ing exercise, scheduled for the
Fort Bragg-Camp Mackall area
in April and May will take place
on 126,251 acres of land.
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one styled with Gay Gibson’s sure fashion
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Southern Pines
As seen in March Giumour
FHA - G. L
and
DIRECT LOANS
Now is the opportune time to
build or buy. Money is available.
Materials and labor are plentiful
and cheaper.
WE HAVE HELPED OVER
500 FAmiES TO OWN
THEIR HOMES
Take Advantage of Our Experience
NOW
Graves
Mutual Insurance Agency
GRAVES BLDG. SOUTHERN PINES
Phone 2-2201
COMING EVENTS
Sunday, April 4
Children’s gymkhana and horse show, CaroUna Hotel ring
Pmehurst, 2 p.m.
Wednesday, April 7
Southern Pines garden tour—headquarters at Shaw House.
j Thursday. April 8
Rotary basketball banquet and Ladies Night, Country Club
“T?e"£ess Country Club, Barry Bingham on
Saturday, April 10
Antique auction at Shaw House, all day, benefit Moore County
Historical Association.
Sundays, April 11, 18 and 25
Harness horse matinee race meetings, Pinehurst Race Track
2 p.m. ’
April 26 - May 1
54th Annual North and South Invitation Amateur Golf Cham
pionship, Pinehurst Country Club.
Wednesday. April 28
U. S. Trotting Association’s “record” meeting for harness
horses, Pinehurst Race Track, time to be announced
Dr. R. L. Peck
I Succumbs At 39
jin New Jersey
Dr. Robert L. Peck, 39, a na
tive of Southern Pines, died
March 18 after suffering a heart
attack at his home in Plainfield,
N. J. He was the grandson of Mrs.
George C. Abraham and a neph
ew of Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins and
Mrs. Harry Pethick, all of South
ern Pines. Funeral services ahd
burial were at Plainfield March
121.
Dr. Peck, who received his B.
S. and Ph. D. degrees at Duke
Univepity, Durham, had lived at
Plainfield for 13 years and was
employed as a research chemist
by Merck & Co., Rahway, N. J.
He had previously won a fellow
ship for research at Yale Univer
sity, New Haven, Conn. He was
a member of Phi Beta Kappa and
a number of scientific societies.
In Plainfield, he was on the board
of the First Methodist Church and
was chairman of a Boy Scout
troop committee.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Helen McLean Peck; a son, Robert
L. Jr.; two daughters, Mary Helen
and Sally Jane; his mother, Mrs.
Clarence M. Peck of Bingham
ton, N. Y., a brother, David E.
Peck of Williamstown, Mass., and
his grandmother and aunts in
Southern Pines.
Griffin Begins
New Raleigh Job;
To Move May 1
Jackson Heads
I Tin Whistles
At the annual meeting of the
Tin Whistles Club held at Pine
hurst Monday, H. Arnold Jackson
was elected president, C. L. von
Tacky vice-president, and Eric
Nelson was renamed club cap
tain, secretary and treasurer. New
members of the board of gover
nors named were F. A. Landis, for
a two-year term, and for three
years, F. W. Bellows, Octave
Blake, J. E. Dixon, B. F. Kraffert,
Jr., and C. A. ITiompson. The
Rev. Dr. T. A. Cheatham, rector
emeritus of the Village Chapel,
was made an honorary member of
the club.
Exercise Flash Bum, to be held
at Fort Bragg, will include train
ing in biological and radiological
warfare.
Ollis D. Griffin of Southern
Pines on Thursday became super
visor with the Driver Improve
ment Section of the Highway
Safety Division, to work through
out the State from an office at
Raleigh.
Mr. Griffin and his wife, the
former Myrtle Jackson of Raleigh,
have lived in Southern Pines al
most six years. As field repre
sentative of the Highway Safety
Division, Mr. Griffin has worked
in Moore, Montgomery, Richmond
and Scotland counties, supervis
ing safety training of school bus
drivers and cooperating with oth
er organizations in highway safe
ty efforts.
The new Raleigh position is a
promotion for the local man. He
and Mrs. Griffin, expressing their
regret at leaving this community
will move to Raleigh May 1. They
will retain ownership of their
home at ISO Youngs Road. Dur
ing the month of April, Mr. Grif
fin will work at Raleigh, return
ing to Southern Pines on week
ends when possible.
Mrs. Ethel M. Clark of Siler
City will temporarily take over
the field representative’s work in
Moore County until another rep
resentative is named for the four
counties formerly served by Mr
Griffin.
In his new job, Mr. Griffin will
work with school bus drivers and
with adult driver safety programs
throughout the state. The High
way Safety Division is now under
the State Highway Patrol which
IS in the State Motor Vehicle De
partment.
Mr. and Mrs. Griffin are mem
bers of the Church of Wide Fel
lowship where Mr. Griffin has
beeif assistant superintendent of
the Sunday School. Mr. Griffin
has been Red Cross First Aid
chairman and a member of the
Health and Safety Committee of
the Moore District Boy Scout or
ganization. He is a member of the
N. C. Society of Safety Engineers.
The 3 per cent reduction in
number of sheep, on United States
farms during 1953 probably means
lower output of shorn wool this
year.
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I Cub Scouts See
Puppet, Variety
Shows At Meeting
. Cub Scout Pack 73 held its
monthly meeting Friday night at
[ Brownson Church. Paul Ward,
Cubmaster, started the meeting
off by reading a list of rules for
safe bicycle riding.
John Chappell, assisted by Dick
Franklin, presented a puppet
show “The Wizard of Oz,” which
was the theme followed by Cub
Scouts for the month of March.
Many awards were presented to
the boys who had passed Cub
Scout achievements in the past
month.
Den 8 entertained fellow Cubs
by putting on a variety show.
Den Chief John McMillan an-
I nounced the show, which was in
the form of a television presenta
tion. Those boys participating
were; Lament Brown, Dan Butler,
Roger Dutton, Andy Horton, Billy
Kemp, and Ricky Langner.
A film about wildlife was shown
to the boys as the final part of the
program.
On Tuesday, March 30, despite
the rain, a baseball game was
played between Den 3 and Den 8,
Den 8 being the victorious team!
Den Chigf John McMillan pitched
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for Den 8. Den Chief Chuck Ward
and several Cubs took turns pitch
ing for Den 3.
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