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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1954 THE PILOT. Sbuihern Pines. North Carolina PAGE TWENTY-ONE to: Moore Red Cross Helps Marine With Crisis In Family Typical cases of aid to needy or distressed families by the Arheri- can Red Cross were described at a recent quarterly meeting of the board of directors of the Moore County chapter. A Moore County case cited was that of a Marine in Korea who was helped to obtain a, “compas sionate transfer” to a base near home after the Red Cross was asked by his sister to inform' him of the serious illnes of their fath er. It was found that his father could never work again and that the son would have to support his parents, two brothers in school and two little sisters. At the new base near home, he could see his family often and could aid them better. Such service, it was pointed out. is one of the many functions of the Red Cross, in its aid to service men. Junior Project Junior members of the Red Cross in Moore County schools made ■ many original crayon drawings in color which were distributed to ill veterans as a Thanksgiving remembrance, the directors were told. Junior mem bers are now busy making such greetings for Christmas, it was stated. 'FORBIDDEN CITY' PUBLISHED Mrs. Jernigan, Former Local Resident, Author Of New Book “The Empress ycur brother!” That may not Dowager killed seem the most Ridge St. While here, Mr. Jemi- gan was associated with the Occi dental Ljfe Insurance Co. and promising of introductions, but] was active in civic affairs; and it is Muriel Molland Jernigan’s Mrs. Jernigan who now lives in Butter purchases in the U. S. from April through September of this year were seven per cent higher than during the same period in 1953. first recollection of the heroine of her novel, “Forbidden City,” which is the story of Tsu Hsi, the incredible woman who rose from concubine to ruler of China in the days of the Boxer uprising. In these days Mrs. Jernigan was the small daughter of an English missionary family in China, and her young brother was one of the children whose life was endangered by the Boxer at tacks. Many “foreign devil” chil dren not actually killed were sub jected to the perils of starvation or improper diet, and dangerous travel; this was the case with the baby brother whose death could in this sense be laid at the door of the despotic ruler whose poll cies encouraged the Boxers. Double Local Interest “Forbidden City,” published this week by Crown Publishing, Co., is of double local interest. Mrs. Jernigan is a former South ern Pines resident, and the book was edited for the publishers by Miss Wanda Wjiitman of South ern Pines, a regular editor for the New York firm, who does most of her work here. Mrs. Jernigan and her husband, the late Paul Jernigan who died in Florida in 1947, lived here for several years in the early 1940’s occupying the Hart house at the corner of Massachusetts Ave. and aomi s SIMPLE, SUMPTUOUS PRACTICAL or SENTIMENTAL All with a considerate eye on your budget LINGERIE - HOSIERY - BELTS STOLES - BLOUSES - SWEATERS SKIRTS - SUITS RAINCOATS GOLF JACKETS with Action Knit In OPEN ALL DAY WEDNESDAY CLEARANCE ON ALL WINTER COATS " PINEHURST WeUesley Bldg. ^ 0pp. Holly Inp 'f » '•6 ' A U.- ^ ^ ^ j •. '■w \ *'>< <. ► , 4^ V* 1 1 M STRAIGHT irl uirbon .1 • ,V' n. *0nLC0 er OLO OUAKER CHSTItUNG COMPAHT J^WREN^EBURG. (NO.. FMWO. CALIF. A ALAOOIN. PA t 9' Raleigh and has kept in touch with a number of Southern Pines friends, was writing. They at tended Emmanuel Episcopail Church. In China, Mr. and Mrs. Jerni gan had known Mr. and Mrs. Harry PetHick, who live here now. Both men were with the Standard Oil Co. in the Orient. A son of the Jernigans, Paul J. Jernigan, now lives on Long Is land. He also is with Standard Oil and has represented the com pany in Argentina and Peru. Born in China, he attended the University of’North Carolina and served in the Navy in World War II. Favorite Subject Naturally little Muriel Molland grew up with an interest in the wicked Empress, and when she married an American and lived for years in Peking, she made the fabulous life of Tzu Hsi her favor ite subject of investigation. It was hot easy, even after the death of the Empress, to learn about her. There is much that is not yet known, or is subject to widely varying interpretation. No other ruler except England’s first Queen Elizabeth—wh'ose career was in some respects similar—has had as wide a range of regard, from the most fulsome praise to the bitterest denunciation. But Mrs. Jernigan was in a pos ition to learn what could be known. She was cne of the first Americans to explore the Imperi al palaces, and came to Liow well not only the beauties of the Summer Palace but the grim in terior of the Forbidden City, which had its own treasures and its C'wn secrets. Her friend the American portrait painter, Kath arine Carl, painted the official portrait of the Empress and con tributed her own stories of the famous sitter. Could Be Charming “She charmed Miss Carl,” Mrs. Jernigan recalls, “as she did the Legation wives. They all agreed that she could be utterly charm ing when she wanted to be—she was one of those magnetic people. If I had been old enough to know her I might have liked her f oo, in MeSwain’s Variety Store At Robbins Destroyed By Fire Early Thursday MR. SCOTT Insurance Man Likes Living In Southern Pines Joseph I. Scott Associated With Stevens Asency It was a fortunate day for him, says Joseph I. Scott, when a mu tual friend of his and of Eugene C. Stevens, local insurance agency head, mentioned to Mr. Stevens that Mr. Scott might be the per son he was looking for to become associated with the agency in Southern Pines. Now established here as an as sociate in the agency, Mr. Scott recalls that he had heard of Southern Pines before the friend brought him and Mr. Stevens to gether and had felt it was the kind icf community in which he’d like to live. After a few weeks here, he feels he was right in this impression. With a long career in the in surance field behind him, broken by service in the Navy, Mr. Scott is now doing general insurance work with the Stevens agency; He and his wife, the former Margaret V. Clark of Petersburg Va., are living at 247 Crestview Road, in the Knollv^cod Apartments. A native of Nashville, Tenn., Mr. Scott was in Nashville as manager for the Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. for two years be fore coming to Southern Pines last njenth. He previously had his ^ own insurance agency in Rich- spite of what my. mother used toi^o^d, Va., for three years and say.” Readers of “Forbidden City, will suspect that the Imperial charm did work to some extent, for it is by no means a wholly unsympathetic picture of the Em press that the book presents. Al though the basic political facts are clear, and are adhered to in the story, there is wide latitude for dealing with the private life before that had been secretary of the Bulifant Insurance Center, an agency at Petersburg, Va. In all communities where he has lived, Mr. Scott has been active in civic and fraternal work. He is a past president of the Rich mond Exchange Club and headed a Crime Prevention Week Pro gram (C-f the club that received ija- tional honors. In Petersburg, he of Tzu Hsi because the legends as Junior Chamber of in the case of Queen Elizabeth, outweigh what is known. No story of her was too scandalous to be told, and believed, in Peking But no charges could be made without a risk of sudden and un pleasant death. In dealing with the Empress as a girl, before her grasp of power Mrs. Jernigan’s fictional approach is especially sympathetic but even here she is able to claim the sup port of facts. As should be the case with so dominant a charac ter, the Empress even in girlhood is presented as wilful, daring, re sourceful—a girl eager to “eat life,” as the Chinese say. In Boy's Clothes In the early chapters of Forbid den City she explores Peking in boy’s clothes, gaining a sense of freedom and some knowledge of the world she was to rule. Al though there is no record of this Mrs. Jernigan cites a precedent in the case of a young girl of high family position in Peking who did undertake similar adventures. Here the author’s sympathy is very evident for, after the char acter of the Empress and the high drama of her story, the great co-n- cem of the book is with the van ished Peking scene, the color and movement of its streets, the very dust from the Gobi that blows through them. Mrs. Jernigan mourns a little for the books and other posses sions left behind—‘"The Reds have it now I suppose,” she says of some of the source material for Forbidden City fortunately dupli cated in her memory. But one thing she has—a replica of the Empress’ gold ring, a wide band Commerce board of directors and was chosen to take a special QO-urse at the University of Vir ginia on the European Recovery Program, acquiring information that was broadcast on radio net works of the state. Also at Peters- burg he was ici^ a Jaycee commit tee on subversive activities and spoke at several public meetin'gs in Virginia cities. In 1939, Mr. Scott became member of the third oldest Ma sonic Lodge in Virginia, Blanford No. 3 at Petersburg. He is also a member of Petersburg Union Royal Arch Chapter No. 7, Com mandery No. 3 and Acca Shrine Temple, Richmond, having serv ed as president of the Petersburg Shrine Club of Acca Temple. While in Richmond in 1951 he served as commander of the Le gion of Honor of Acca Temple and he is an honorary member of the Almas Legion of Honor of Washington, D. C. Before entering Navy service in 1943, Mr. Scott was chief cf the Civil Defense Auxiliary Police at Petersburg. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have joined the First Baptist Church here. He is former superintendent of the Sunday School at the First Bap tist Church, Petersburg. Since he has entered insurance work, Mr.' Scott has taken two special aourses—one at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, and another at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., where he gave the valedictory address at the graduation exercises ^ of his class in the Life Insurance Mar keting Institute. Mr. Scott, whose friends call decorated with symbolic figures p^s sports and plays STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. SIX YEARS OLD, 86 PROOF. OLD QUAKER DISTILLING COMPANY, UWRENCEBURG. INDIANA and of course bringing good for tune to its wearer. The ring is described in the book, in which it plays a part, and its counterpart is with the author in the beautiful old house, in Raleigh, where she now lives. A small bit of old Peking in the United States, as the book Forbidden City will seem to its readers a generous slice of the life of that time and place. golf. That, he admits, is another reasio-n he is happy to be living in Southern Pines. Many new commodities such as Egyptian cotton, fine jute from Europe, plate glass, cocoa and a variety of others have been added to our imports at the Wilmington State Port. Export Tonnages have increased with the shipment of tobacco and v'oodpulp. ■ MeSwain’s Variety Store at Robbins, with all its stock, was completely destroyed in an early- morning blaze Thursday. Also destroyed was the J. N. Thomas Barber Shop which was in the same building. The Robbins volunteer fire de partment, assisted by that of Car thage, which responded quickly to their SOS, worked for three and a half hours to subdue the fire after the alarm was turned in about 2:15 a. m. The fire was well advanced when the alarm was given by the night-watch man at the nearby Robbins Mills, who saw the front windows Of the stcre blow out and the flames leap forth. By a valiant struggle firemen were able to keep the flames from damaging nearby buildings. Threatened for a time were! the Cut-Rate Furniture Store, Wil liams Grocery and Upchurch Jury List For Criminal Court Term Is Drawn Names of persons who will be called to serve on juries during the January term ,of Superior Court for trial of criminal cases were drawn Monday in the pres ence of the county commissioners at Carthage. Here are the names drawn, list ed by township of residence: McNeill—Alfred Williamson, O R. Conrad, Joan Coon, D. D. F. Kelly, Daton Hall, Odell Alford, L. B. Apple, R. C. McCraney, Mc Kinley Monroe, Mason Adams, Max Blue, Preston P. Kelly, J. D. Medlin. Sandhill—C. T. Johnson, Harris McDaniel, F. A. Cummings, Joy F. Tyner, James H. Kirk, H. L. Ford, George T. Hardister, J. L. Collins, Ross Hefner, L. B. Har rington. Mineral Springs—Vernon Hall Mary E. McDonald, Jesse L. Thomas, H. C. Staley, Percy Al ford,'K. M. Combs, James M. Wil liamson, Marie E. Williams, J. B VonCanon, Jr. Carthage—W. A. Troxler, Mar tin A,lvis Cole, Bernice Stutts Dewey Wallace, Alex McLeod Frye, J. P. Thomas, S. T. Fields, Grady Caddell, Harry Davis, F L. Smith, Walter E. Porter. Greenwood—Johnson O’Quinn C. W. Johnson, E. V. Murphy. Robert H. Short, Harvey Howard, L. A. Whitaker, Redga Thomas. Sheffield—W. Ri Duke, Miss Mary Duke, William A. McLeod, E. G. Williams, Carson Flinchum, Coy Hussey, E. W. Hunsucker, Harvey C. McNeill, Charles Han cock, Earl D. Markham. Ritter—Ollis W. Hussey, Leon ard Cockman, Louis Yow, Dewey I Horner, Thurman W. Gupton, N. B. Reynolds, John W. McAnulty John D. Maness. Bensalena—Nettie Britt Campbell Mrs. Nettie Sanders, Maurice Chrisco, E. Barney Blue, F. B Campbell. Deep River—None. Cafe. The large one-story brick build ing which housed the variety store and barber shop was owned by the E. C. MeSwain Estate. No official estimate of the damage could be secured at the time but Ralph G. Steed, Robbins fire chief, said unofficially that it would be a “minimum of $50,000, probably more.” Origin of the blaze has not been determined, he sai^. Despite the early-morning hour and cold weather the fire drew a large turnout of spectators from Robbins and nearby communities. Mrs. McCarr, 78, Succumbs; Rites Conducted Monday Mrs. Amelia Weisner McCarr 78, died early Saturday morning in St. Joseph-of the Pines Hos pital. Requiem mass was sung at 9 o’clock Monday morning from St. Anthony’s Catholic Church by Father Peter Denges. Interment followed in Mount Hope Ceme tery. Mrs. McCarr was born in Sherr- wood, Wis., the daughter of the late George and Sophia Seif Weis ner. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. James E. Monroe, Southern Pines; two sons, Ken neth McCarr, Columbus, Ohio, and Adrian McCarr, Levittown, Pa., one sister, Mrs. Clara Winkes. Neilsville, Wis.; and three grand children. With her husband, Charles Mc Carr, Mrs. McCarr came to South ern Pines in 1930. Mr. McCarr, who had been prominent in har ness racing before his retirement, died here several years ago. The Port of Morehead City has continued its operation in the im portation of oil and petroleum products, including asphalt, with increasing volume. A considerable quantity of tobacco has been ex ported from this port during the period. FOR RESULTS USE THE PI LOTS CLASSIFIED COLUMNS QUART PINTS STRAIGHT APPLE BRANDY 84 Proof LAIRD AMD COlHPfMY North Sortie n, Vo. Scobeyville N. J tet us reset your diamonds in on \HTERL0CK\H6 RING PAIR for greater safety, beauty, comfort. JEWELERS “ADVENTURES in CHRISTMASTREE I , GROVE” FOUR - THIRTY EACH WEEK DAY AFTERNOON WEEB Southern Pines 990 on your radio -AT- McLEAFS STYLE SHOP SOUTH STREET ABERDEEN. N. C. 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