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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1960
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page THREE
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
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ON A LONESOME POHCH by
Ovid Williams (Doubleday $3.95).
This is the second novel from this
distinguished Tar Heel author,
now teaching at East Carolina
College. His first, written seven
years ago, was “The Plantation.”
The present one tells of the
remnants of a family going back
to their plantation near Warren
after the Civil War. “Miss Ellen”
had once been the great lady of
the plantation, looking after
every one—her family, the slaves,
even the poor whites—but lean
ing herself on the strength and
decisiveness of her husband, her
son, and the mulatto overseer,
Ked. Now the men are all gone
and it devolves on Lucy, her
daughter-in-law, to pick up the
pieces and carry on under vastly
changed conditions. Full of pro
tectiveness for Miss Ellen and
wanting to save something for
her small son, Lucy does carry on
with courage and intelligence as
did many a gently bred woman,
untrained for the part, in tnose
days of Reconstruction.
Side by side with their story,
the author gives a moving picture
of the bewilderment of many of
the freed Negroes. Nearly all have
left the plantation, some drift
back, some are never heard of
again. Outstanding as a charac
ter is the dwarfish Enoch who
had been of no consequence in
the old days but who rises to un
expected heights when he finds
people depending on him.
This is a gentle story, written
with much understanding for peo
ple and with a deep love of the
countryside itself. One is not sur
prised to learn that the. author
has a farm himself in Halifax
County.
THE WALK DOWN MAIN
STREET by Ruth Moore (Morrow
$4.50:). This is a family story, a
school story and a small-town
story. Ruth Moore has made an
enviable reputation for her
stories of small towns in Maine,
but this- one might be laid in any
town in the United States, any
town that has a good basketball
team.
The book is dedicated “To
Schoolteachers with Admiration,”
for the story shows how teachers
with integrity and convictions
had to put up quite a struggle in
that town to get a due share of
the time and attention of their
students for academic subjects
despite the excitement of a bas
ketball team that had just won
tlic state championship and was
getting ready to compete in a re
gional tournament. The author
also makes clear that this situa
tion was not due entirely to the
ebullience of youthful enthusiasm
but to a community attitude in
which nearly the whole town was
involved, including the School
Board, who paid the athletic
coach more than the science
teacher, and including leading
business men who enjoyed
watching the games, swelled with
pride in “Our Team” and some
times bet on the games.
But this novel goes deeper than
that. Concentrating on qne fam
ily, a mother with two boys of
high school age and a daughter
who is a majorette, the author
shows what such a situation does
to the youngsters themselves. The
elder 'ooy, Carlisle, is on the first
team. In the game for the state
championship he makes several
successful long shots that set the
fans wild and get him into the
newspapers and on TV. Wliat that
does to a teenager’s ,day dreams
and attitudes toward school and
family is plenty. His younger
brother is on the second team but
awkward and not too interested.
Of a different temperament he
suddenly decides one afternoon
in the midst of practice that he
wants no more of it at any price.
This precipitates a real crisis.
Miss Moore has made these
people and their problems real
and convincing, and has a back
ground of entertaining minor
characters. It i? a good story and
one whose implications are worth
some thought.
Tuesday, May 31, Eureka Route:
Homer Blue, 9:35-9:50; Mrs. Ben
Blue, 9:55-10:05; Paul Green, 10:-
10-10:25; H. A.'Blue, 10:30-10:45;
Miss Flora Blue, 10:50-11; R. E.
Lea, 11:05-11:20.
Wednesday, June 1, Roseland,
Colonial Hts. Route: W. R. Viall,
9:35-10; Morris Caddell, 10:20-10:-
35; R. E. Morton, 10:40-10:50; Mrs.
Viola Kirk, 10:55-11:05; W. E.
Brown, 11:15-11:25; Calvin La+on,
11(30-11:40; Marvin Hartsell, 11:-
45-11:55; W. R. Robeson, 12-12:15;
Clifton Stancil, 12:20-12:25; J. W.
Greer, 1:15-1:25; W. M. Smith, 1:-
30-1:45; W. R. Dickson, 1:50-2; J.
J. Greer, 2:05-2:30.
Thursday, June 2, Niagara,
Lakeview Route: C. F. Wicker, 9:-
30-9:45; J. D. Lewis, 9:50-10; Phil
ip Nardo, 10:05-10:15; Ray Hens
ley, 10:25-11:10; E. W. Marble,
11:25-11:45; C. G. Priest, 12:30-
2:45; Bud Crockett, 12:50-1:05; O.
L. Darnell, 1:15-1:25.
Friday, June 3, White Hill
Route: W. E. Horne, 9:30-9:40; J.
L. Danley, 9:45-10; R. E. Matth
ews, 10:10-10:20; W. F. Smith, 10:-
25-10:35; Mrs. M. D. Mclver, 10:-
55-11:15; Arthur Gaines, 11:25-
11:40; Wesley Thomas, 11:45-11:-
55; C. F. Martin, 2:40-12:50; Dan
Clark, 1-1:15; Miss Irene Nichol
son, 1:20-1:30.
The Moore County Library will
(be dosed Memorial Day, Monday,
May 30.
SOIL CONSERVATION NEWS
54 Ponds Stocked with Bass
Harry E. Willis,
Retired Printer,
THE CASE OF THE CARE
LESS THIEF by Shristoph'T
Bush (McMillan $2.95). This is
one of those neat English who-
dun-its that successfully avoids
the more brutal aspects of crime
yet gives us a skillful plot and a ; o L 4- *71
brain-teasing puzzle. The occasion i oUCCUmiJS HI 11
is a jewel robbery in the most ele- |
gant hotel of a seaside resort after : Harry E. Willis, 71, of Southern
a big ball—jewels taken right out Pmes, a retired newspaper pub-
of the safe and the fingerprints lisher and printer, died Friday at
N. C. Memorial Hospital in Chap-
By W. P. KELLER
Moore Co. Soil Conservationist
There are 54 ponds in Moore
County being stocked with large-
mouth black bass. About half of
the ponds were stocked on May
18 and the others were to be
stocked today (Thursday).
The fish are furnished free from
the,U. S. Fish Hatchery near Hoff
man. Only those pond owners
whose ponds were stocked with
bluegill bream from the fish hat
chery last fall are eligible to get
the bass fingerlings.
BluegiUs are furnished each fall
to pond owners at the rate of 1000
per acre of fertilized water. The
following spring the bass are
furnished for the same people at
the rate of 100 per acre of fertiliz
ed water. These rates are cut in
half when the pond is not fertiliz
ed.
Comer Recovering
Russell Comer is now home
from the hospital. It is anticipated
that he will be able to resume his
duties as Conservation Aid with
the Soil Conservation Service
early in June. Mr. Comer went to
the hospital in mid-March with a
serious infection. Bpbby E. Mon
roe has been assisting, on a part
time basis.
Pond Requests
The Soil Conservation Service
has received 55 requests for as
sistance with the construction of
farm ponds under the 1960 ACP
program, in Moore County. All
but two have been serviced, and
37 have b^n built. Three ponds
are currently under construction
by Obert Phillips, E. V. Stanley,
and J. E. Homer.
of a notorious criminal all over
a flashlight he left behind.
Ludovic Travers, whom many
will remember, is sent down by
the insurance company to inves
tigate. He is welcomed by the lo
cal police who consider the case
practically solved except for
catching their man. Ludovic,
however, has a suspicious nose.'
He goes for an almost aimless
walk, turns up some odd facts and
is soon deep in local dramas of
love, lust and greed. We suspect
nearly everyone but the right
man who had showed remarkable
ingenuity in his plans.
NATALIA by Anne Miller
Downes (Lippincotl $3.95). Alaska
in the year 1867 is the setting of
this novel. It opens on the night
when the last ball danced to Rus
sian music and under the flag of
the Czar took place in a town the
Indians called Sitka and the Rus
sians had named Novo Arkhan-
gelelsk. The ball was given by
Prince Dmitri Maksoutov, whose
tenure as Governor of all Russian
America was drawing to a close.
It was with Natalia Karsokof,
daughter of a once-wealthy Rus
sian and already promised to an
other man, that Kirk Butterfield,
Civil War veteran, from New
England, fell in love. Their love
story was complicated by great
differences of background and
origin. There was, too, the mutual
hostility of two social groups as
the tide of events ran strongly
against the lovers.
Mrs. Downes is well known for
her historical novels, and here
she has a congenial subject in the
bizarre life of Alaska in the 1860’s
with the encounter of Russian
aristocrats and American fron
tiersmen.
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el Hill. Funeral services were
held Sunday at 4 p.- m. at Em
manuel Episcopal Church, con
ducted by the rector, the Rev.
Martin (Taldwell. Burial was in
Mt. Hope cemetery.
Mr. Willis was born in Cozad,
Neb., and at one time published
his own newspaper in San Diego,
Calif., following which he was
employed for many years by the
San Diego Union. He and his wife
moved here three years ago liv
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Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Jane Heberling; twq daugh
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and Mrs. B. F. Collins of Key
West, Fla.; one son, Tom E. Willis,
of Fullerton, Calif., and six grand
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BY DR. KENNETH J, FOREMAN
Bibl. Matoriia: Xstthev S;l»-34; Luke
13:13-34.
l>...ti»Bal BMidlmr: 1 Timothr <:8-19.
Money, Yon and God
Lmmob for May 28, 1960
M ost p«cqrie find m<»«y a fas-
dnattng subject; and Chris
tiana are no exception. Yet it is
strange that so many Christians
never think about money from a
Christian point of view. You may
set this down for
a fact: If a Chris
tian takes pre
cisely the same
attitude to money
as is taken by
most persons who
make no claim
to religion, then
his Christianity is
sorely missing at
that point. Dr. Foreman
SlavM of Monty
In a few sentences from the
Sermon on the Mount we can get,
not all of what Jesus taught about
money in relation to the Christian’s
life, but some of the main points.
"You cannot be slaves of God and
money,” he said. (That is a literal
translation of the Greek sentence
at the end of Matt. 6:24.) Very
few people worship or serve carved
idols. God’s chief rival for man’s
allegiance is not some gold-plated
idol from the primitive world, it is
money. What you think most of,
what you think most about, what
you work for, what you depend on,
what you treasure about anything
else,—that is your God, that is your
master, that is your reason for liv
ing, in that you put your hoi>e.
Jesus says it can’t be God AND
money, it is God OR money. Jesus
does not say you cannot serve God
with money, or that if you serve
God you must not have any money.
He says you cannot belong to God
and belong to money at the same
time. (Let the reader think: What
are the sigpis of becoming a Slave
of money?)
You Can’t Take It With Ton
ESverybody knows you can’t take
money with you out of this world.
Japanese coins are no good in
America except as souvenirs. But
the coih of no realm is any good
in heaven, not even for souvenirs.
Jesus told a parable of a rich farm
er whose croi>3 were so fine that
his bams would not hold them. So
he planned to build bigger bams.
He gave no thought to what he
might do with his wealth to help
other people, only to help himself.
And one night God sent for his soul
... so then he discovered that his
soul was poor. It did not even have
credit. He was not “rich toward
God"—^that is, from God's view
point 1m had nothing to his name.
That’s a thing Christians ought
always to remember about money.
Its value to a man is only tempo
rary. It isn’t true that “you’ll be a
long time dead." It’s more true
that you’ll live enormously longer,
in a world where money is po g;ood,
than you can ever live in this
moneyed planet.
Tow Fatkw Knows
Another thing Jesus said;
(Speaking ot property ot different
kinds) “Your heavenly Father
knows that you need them all.” He
was not speaking of luxuries, but:
of necessi'ties. ’There are religions
in which “holy” men go about with !
begging-bowls, depending all ^eir ,
lives long on hand-outs from the
(presumably) unholy wage-earn
ers. Christianity is not that kind of
religion. Refusal to earn a living
in ordinary ways is not a mark of
holiness in the Bible, and it is not
with us. But there is a difference
between earning the things that
are needed to sustain our lives, and
living for these things alone.
Saek tli6 Kinedom
When a man is writing, his mind
is not on his pen, it’s on what he
is saying. When a man is walking,
he is not conscious of his shoes, or
ought not to be. Pen and dhoes are
necessary, but they are means,
tools, servants not masters. So it ;
should be with money and the
Christian. It is a means to an end ;
... But to what end ? Some readers
wish Jesus had gone into more de
tail. What should be my central
aim in life? “Serving God” to be
sure, but how? Can he be served
by everybody or only by preachers,
while the rest of us have to strug
gle for “Mammon” the best we
can?
Jesus hinted at the answer to
this question. Seek first the King
dom of God, he said. "Set your
heart” on it, as J. B. Phillips trans
lates it. ’That is, whatever we do,
whatever our occupation, trade or
profession, our first aim should be
to do it in line with the will of God.
(Based on eatUnes eapvTishted hr
the Division of Christiw Education, .
National Conneil of the CSmrehes of
Christ in the U. S. A. Beleased bjr
Communitr Press Serviee.)
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Next Sunday
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Are. at South Ashe St*
Maynard Mansamo Minister
Bible School. 9:45 a.m. Worship 11 a.m.
Training Union, 6:30 p.m.' Evening Wor
ship, 7 :30 p.ra.
Youth Fellowship, 8:30 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30 p.m.;
mid-week worship, Wednesday 7:30 p.m.;
choir practice Wednesday ,8:15 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and third Tues
days, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers,
second Thursday, 7 p.m.
ST. ANTHONY'S CATHOLIC
Vermont Ave. at Asha
Sunday Masses: 8 and 10:30 a.m.; Daily
Mass 8:1D a.m. Holy Day Masses, 7 & 9
a.m.: Confessions, Saturday, 5:00 to 6:80
p.m.; 7 :30 to 8 p.m. ,
Men's Club Meetings: Ist ft 3rd Fridaya
8 p.m.
Women's Club meetings: 1st Monday,
8 p.m.
Boy Scout Troop No. 873, Tuesday eve
ning 7:30 p.m.
Girl Scout Troop No. 118, Monday, 8
p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Avenue
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School. 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
Reading Room in Church Building open
Wednesday, 2-4 p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. Malcolm Andcrton* Pastor
Sunday School 9 :45 a.m. Worship Serv
ice 11 a.m. Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m., second Tues. Mid-week service on
Wednesday, 7:30 Choir Rehearsal,
Wednesday. 8:15 p.m. Men of the Church
meeting, 8 p.m. fourth Wednesday.
THE CHURCH OF WIDE FELLOWSHO’
(Congregational)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Carl £. Wallace, Minister
Sunday School, .9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6j;30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fellowship
(Young People),
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH (Episcopal)
East Massachusetts Ave.
Martin Caldwell, Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (First Sunday*
and Holy Days; 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.)
Family Service, 9:30 a.m.
Church School. 10 a.m.
Morning Service, 11 a.m.
Young Peoples* Service League, 6 p.m.
Holy Coihmunion, Wednesdays and Holy
Days, 10 a.m. and FViday, 9:30.
Saturday—6 p.m. Penance.
BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
(Presbyterian)
Cheves K. Ligon, Minister
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship serv
ice, 11 a.m. Women of the Church meet*
ing, 8 p.m. Monday following third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at 7 o'clock
each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wi-dnesday, 7:16 pjn.
LUTHERAN SERVICE
Civic Club
Pastor Lester Roof of Sanford
First and Third Sundays of each month
at 7:30 p.m.
METHODIST CHURCH
Midland Road
, Robert C. Mooney, Jr., Minister
, Church School 9:45 A. id.
Worship Service 11:00 A. M.
Youth Fellowship 6:30 P. M.
Junior Fellowship 6:80 P. M.
WSCS meets each third Monday at 8
P. M.
Methodist Men meet each third Thurs
day at 6:30 P. M.
Choir Rehearsal each Wednesday at
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