PAGE EIGHT
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
THURSDAY. JUNE 30. 1955
FRENCH
(Continued from page 1)
sky starts to fade over the Left
Bank, the pearly buildings shim
mer and glow with a soft trans
lucent light. Rome flames at sun
set, but Paris turns to moonshine.
Pearly moonshine.
My window overlooks the cor
ner of the Boulevard Raspail and
the Rue de Sevres. It’s a busy
place. Paris traffic is noisy, as is
most European traffic, principal
ly ' because of the motorcycles
and scooters. The streets are full
of them and they make a great
racket. There are the usual num
ber of roaring .trucks, too, but
horn-blowing is now banned. So
there must be some gain there.
But the traffic tangles are as
dramatic and terrifying as ever.
And just as funny.
Paris has been struck with a
bad case of one-way-street-itis. In
an attempt to try to unscramble
the traffic situation, the authori
ties are constantly trying out new
one-way routes, which is vastly
disturbing to drivers. They ap
parently do it with no warning,
so that people who are used to
taking a certain route come
cheerfully buzzing into their
usual street right up against the
sign telling them “one way.” The
rgsult is a sudden jamming on of
brakes, only too often followed
by a great crash as the car in the
rear piles into the one in front.
But the fights that would have
followed such an incident, in the
past, seldom do now. Not because
the French are losing their fight
ing spirit. By no means. Simply
because everybody is in the same
boat and can join forces in cuss
ing out the police who put up the
signs. Cibviously it’s nobody’s
fault but theirs. There is a great
shrugging of shoulders, clapping
of backs, mutual commiseration,
and then the participants in the
crash help each other straighten
out a few bumpers, get into their
respective autos and resignedly
turn around to try another street.
I am having only three days in
Paris, and it is agonizing to be
here for such h short time. You
want to see the old places you
love, and you can’t decide which
to leave out, as, obviously, you
can’t see them aU. I chose one
morning in the Place Vendome-
Place de la Concorde area; and a
day wandering in and out and
around Notre Dame and the beau
tiful old buildings of the Isle de
la Cite where it stands.
This is the cathedral, the
church that, above all others,
seems to be the personification of
the land in which it stands. Notre
Dame is France. There is a grace,
a subtle harmony of line and
sweep, a perfection of balance in
its plan and composition that
seems to make it like a living
thing. There is pity and warmth;
there is wisdom; above all there is
•courage. Its squarely upflung
towers soar bravely into the sky.
You think of what those towers
have seen; of what Notre Dame
knows of the tragedy of life and
■of its glories. You think: it has
been here so long; it will be here,
it MUST always be here. You
think: it is spirit; it cannot per
ish. It is France and it is the soar
ing spirit of Man, building beau
ty, going on; so brave, so pitiful
ly, gloriously brave.
Today I went to the Luxum-
Schilling, Bullock
Retain Titles In
Moore Net Event
Defending champions Ray
Schilling and Lillian Bullock re
tained their titles in the Moore
County Closed Tennis champion
ships this week as the rain-de
layed tournament, which opened
Monday a week ago, endeavored
to reach an end.
Ray Schilling beat Kenneth
Tew in straight sets 8-6, 6-3 in
men’s singles finals played Mon
day night, while Lillian Bullock
eked out a hard-fought win over
Marion deCosta in one of the tour
nament’s best-played matches,
6-2, 4-6, 6-1.
Slated to run only five days, the
tournament was stretched over
the weekend by weather trouble,
then encountered conflicts with
numerous other events and still
hasn’t finished.
Mixed doubles finals will be
held at 8 p.m. Friday. At this
time trophies will be awarded to
all the winners -and runners-up,
according to Audrey West Brown,
who succeeded to the chairman
ship when^her brother Harry Lee
Brown, Jr., had to leave last
weekend.
Finalists in mixed doubles are
Ray Schilling and Marion de Cos
ta vs. Frank de Costa and Audrey
West Brown. The first team de
feated Hugh Bowman and Mil
dred Gruebl 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 in semi
finals this week, the second beat
Harry Watson and Lillian Bullock
6-1, 6-1.
“Little Lil,” the 16-year-old
county champ, will not be on
hand to receive her trophy as she
left Wednesday for Greensboro to
take part in the N. C. Junior
Tournament. She reached the
semifinals in. girls’ singles in this
event last year.
Old Car Fans To Gather Here For
Convocation Of Ancient Vehicles
Head on collisions and side
swipes accounted for 96 of North
Carolina’s 880 fatal motor mis
haps last year. Other fatal colli
•sibns, like with railroad trains
1(23), bicycle (16), animal (1), fix
ed object (61) and miscellaneous
objects contributed to the state’s
991 traffic dead.
Southern Pines will be host to
one of the State’s most pictures
que events July 22, 23 and 24
when it will be the terminal point
of the Fourth Annual Tour of the
North Carolina Horseless Carri
age Club.
Membership of the tour will
consist of about 150 persons, whC'
will arrive in 71 prized automo
biles manufactured from 1902 to
1930.
Selection of Southern Pines as
the terminal point for the tour
will make it the focus of state
wide attention, and bring many
visitors interested in the exhibit,
the judging and trophy awarding
which will be features of the
weekend.
Welcome Planned
The Southern Pines Chamber
of Commerce is planning a wel
come for the hobbyists and their,
“antique” cars. The committee for
the event, appointed by Harry K.
Smyth, Chamber president, con
sists of Harold A. Collins, chair
man, E. Nolley Jackson and
George H. Leonard, Jr. They are
being assisted by J. T. Overton,
Mark King, W. B. HoUiday and
others.
Collins and Jackson are mem
bers of the Horseless Carriage
Club, and Collins, as an owner
of antique cars himself, will take
part in the tour.
The committee is planning to
get up a fund from local mer
chants, and automobile dealers of
the county to provide entertain
ment for the club members. They
are also arranging for accommo
dations in local hotels, two out
door meals to be held Friday and
Saturday nights and such details
as a police escort for the proces
sion on its arrival in town and
plans for the exhibit.
Members of the club will gath
er Wednesday, July 20, at High
Point, where they will be guests
of the Sheraton Hotel for dinner,
and spend the night. The next
day they fare northward to Dan
ville, Va., where again they will
be feted. They will hold exhibits
for the public at both places.
Public Display
Friday they will come to
Southern Pines by way of Dur
ham, Chapel Hill and Sanford,
arriving between 4 and 5 p. m.
After a parade through the
streets, they will park their cars
many prominent men.
The exhibits staged by the club
in connection, with the annual
tour include such out-of-the-way
items as a 1916 Stutz Bearcat,
1905 Knox Tourist, 1927 Locomo
bile, 1907 Buick roadster, 1926
Rolls-Royce Tourer, 1911 Case,
1913 Simplex Sports Touring,
1904 Reo Roadster.
The members, who do their own
driving, have special costumes
they don while exhibiting their
cars—clothes of the same year’s
for the weekend on the ball park, model.
Local entertainment of the
guests is expected to run to sev
eral hundred dollars, and Chair
man Collins suggests that any
merchant not contacted send a
check to the Chamber of Com
merce, to help swell the fimd.
where they ^ill be placed on dis
play under the lights during the
evening.
The tour members will be
guests of the Chamber of Com
merce and W. O. Moss, of Mile-
Away Farms, at an outdoor sup
per at Mile-Away that night. ,
Saturday morning, a business LOCAL GIRL
meeting will be held at the (Continued from page 1)
Southland Hotel, and the after- spent more than a month at
noon will be taken up with theij^ c. Memorial Hospital and was
judging and trophy awards at; gg.^gj.g]^ weeks late in entering
the ball park. [school for the fall term. How-
That night, an outdoor supper ever, through hard study she
(for which the visitors will pay) | caught up with her class and stay-
will be held at the Southern Pines' ed in the forefront of her class-
Country Club (or school cafeteria,
in case of rain). Sunday afternoon,
the procession will start forth
again, wending its way out
town to a dispersal point.
This will be the largest such
tour ever held, and the first Mme
such a long visit has been paid
to a terminal point.
Group Organized, 1952
The North Carolina Regional
Group of the national Horseless
Carriage Club was organized in
Laurinburg in^ 1952 and made its
first tour the following summer,
from Laurinburg to Windy Hill,
S. C. In 1953 and 1954, it went
from Charlotte to Laurinburg.
Starting with 17 charter mem
bers, it now has more than 150.
Members do not have to own old
cars, but about half of them do,
and for all of them the ancient
vehicles are a consuming hobby.
They enjoy keeping their antique
models in topnotch condition, rid
ing long distances in them and
comparing them with others.
work throughout the year. Except
for singing with the glee club,
her extra-curricular activities had
of^to be curtailed. She was formerly
a basketball player. She is the
daughter of Mrs. Pauline Morri
son 865 North May Street.
The girls and their mothers,
with Mrs. Valerie Nicholson,
Chamber of Commerce chairman
of publicity and promotion, will
go to Carthage in a car provided
by Jacque’s father, head of Dav
enport Motors. They wiU be
guests of the Chamber of Com
merce at lunch.
O'NEIL
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The local man said his plans for
the Hillendale Sports Center call
for a stadium type structure that
will border two sides of the sports
field, with the possibility of later
extension around the field. The
stadium structure will face south
west. its back toward the inter
section of Midland Road and Pee
Membership of the club includes Dee Road. The extreme west edge
of the field will be about 100
yards from the Little 9 course, he
said.
Installation of lighting for night
games and sports exhibitions of
various kinds is planned, O’Neil
said.
O’Neil sees the installation as a
daytime and nigh time, center for
a number of sports—baseball, soft-
ball, football, boxing, wrestling, as
well as track and field sports and
even horseshoe pitching.
Use of the field by minor league
baseball teams as a training cen
ter and for exhibition games was
mentioned by him as a possibilty
he has in mind for the set-up.
O’Neil said the field would be
opened immediately for daylight
baseball games, without fee, on
a scheduled basis, including use
by Negro teams. Teams wishing
to use the field are asked to cheqk
with him as to when it will be
available. He said early this week
that he expected clearing operar
tions to be so well advanced that
it will be possible to play baseball
on the field this weekend.
In announcing plans for the
Sports Center, O’Neil issued an
open invitation to minor league
teams to use the facilities for
training or exhibition games.
Construction of the stadium
structure is expected to begin
this summer, O’Neil said.
New Schedule Sel
By SS Field Man
A. O. McCrickard, field repre
sentative of the federal Bureau of
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance j
(Social Security) has changed the
dates of his regular visits to
Southern Pines.
The new dates are the first and
third Tuesdays cf each month
when he will be available on the
second floor of the town hall from
10 a. m. until noon.
Mr. McCrickard’s days at Car
thage remain the same—^the s'.'C-
ond and fourth Tuesdays, with
conferences beginning at I p. m.
in the commissioners’ room at the
courthouse.
Without charge, the field rep
resentative helps any one in
claiming Social Security benefits
SBI Official To
Address Officers
The law enforcement school for
Moore County officers will con
tinue Wednesday j?f next week at
7:30 p.m., in the council chEimber
at town hall, when James F.
Bradshaw, Jr., assistant director
of the State Bureau <rf Investiga
tion, will speak on “Interroga
tion.”
This will be the fourth meeting
of a course sponsored by Police
Chief C. E. Newton, in coopera
tion with the Institute of Govern
ment at Chapel HiU. Law enforce
ment officers, magistrates and
other interested persons from
over the county are attending the
weekly sessions.
WOMEN'S SOFTBALL
Practice is continuing daily, ex
cept Saturday and Sunday, by
Women’s softball players. Work
outs begin at 5:30 p. m. on the
elementary school playground.
Interested girls and women are
urged to take part. When two
squads are sufficiently trained, it
is hoped to stage a game, perhaps
in a week or two, said Irie Leon
ard, summer recreation director.
or in checking Social Security ac
counts, and gives fuU information
about the Old-Age and Survivors
Insurance program.
Farmers lose about $13 billion
a year to plant diseases.
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to an accompaniment of shouts,
cheers, jeers, screams, roars of
rage or laughter.
The boys were ingenious at get
ting hold of the boats when they
got stuck far out. Each skipper
had a weight of some sort, a
heavy key or paper-weight or
some such object, tied on the end
of a long piece of string. When
the boat stuck the skipper would
swing the weight around his head
and throw it out and over the
boat. It woul get entangled in the
mast and the boat could then be
hauled in.
Walking down through the gar
dens, in the cool black shadow of
the closely planted trees, I could
see people everywhere, enjoying
the lovely day, one of the first
pleasant summer days of the year.
Groups of college-age young peo
ple chatted, mothers and babies
herded tog^her, nodding, con
sulting, laughing. Here two an
cient dames were deep in serious
discussion, only to throw back
their heads in a burst of cackles.
Under a big tree a small crowd
j.caay i went to tne ijuxum- unaer a oig uet; a sniaij.
bourg Gardens. It was Sunday pressed close. Going near I sav/
and the place was alive with fam- jthat they were intent on a bridge
ily life. Hundreds of children of | game being played by four elder-
every age played hopscotch, jly men. I counted 26 people sit-
bounced balls, rode on solemn [ting and hovering round the
donkeys, or scrubby, bored little table. The air was tense. Not a
ponies, or sailed boats in the great
round pool with the tall fountain
in its center.
This was the most exciting spoi-
The stone edge of the pool was
lined with little boys in shorts
and jersey shirts, striped red and
white, or bright blue. Each one
had a- three or-four-foot bamboo
stick with which he poked and
pulled and .guided* his sailboat.
Behind the 'boys was a line of
fathers just about as excited as
their sons.
The boats were good sturdy
craft. Most of them looked home
made and there seemed to be a
class, sloop-rigged, with numbers
word was spoken, except for an
■occasional bid or aside from one
of the players. At the end of a
hard-fought rubber, there was
general comment and applause
frorr^ the audience. The players
paid no attention, went right on.
Across an alley came the sound
of balls hard-hit. Four men were
playing tennis, and playing it su
perbly. They were great big
husky fellows and hit with tre
mendous force and beautiful
form.
There are a good many tourists
in Paris, but, we are told, still
room for more. Prices are high
and possibly it is keeping seme
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on their sails. There were no new'away. The Louvre gallery was
boats; they all looked ancient and , crowded as usual. But I have an
well-used. They had to be sturdy Idea that people are getting out
to stand the banging and hauling j into the country perhaps more
they had to take. than they used to. A least eveiy-
The idea was to get up races, [one is most friendly and cordial
There was a fresh breeze blowing and there is no sign of the anti-
across the wide basin. Five or Americanism' of which we were
six boys would get hold of their told at home. The French couldn’t
boats and line them up, bows be nicer or appear gladder to see
pointing towards the other side, [foreigners. Waiters, porters.
Then it would be: “un, deux, [maids and the usual folks onr.
trois!” and off they’d go with a meets, are smiling and quick to
terrific push. The rudders were offer help or advice. Even the
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all stationary so that the boats
held a pretty steady course. If
there was a shift of wind, they
came about automatically togeth
er, and sailed on on the other
course. Sometimes, of course, they
sailed full tilt into another race
and then they all got in a hope
less tangle and stuck in the mid
dle, but very often they sailed
on over, keeping pretty close to
gether. Then there was a wild
race around the pool on the part
taxi men have been friendly, an
almost unheard-of state of things
for Paris. Of course, this is the
“Salute to France” year, so per
haps they are putting on a little
extra warmth. Incidentally, no
one has yet been able to tell me
why we, the Americans, 4re sal
uting France; why at this particu
lar time; what about? Probably
you folks back home know the
answer. Over here they shrug and
say: “Must be some reason” and
of the skippers, to be in at the “anyway e’est gentil. . . e’est
finish. The whole thing going on charmant!” —K.L.B.
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