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VOLUME 25 NO. 42

Campaign for Funds to EnlargeGymnasium Facilities Underway

Civic Group MeetsTuesday; ProjectGets Full Approval

The demountable bleachers, hesaid, would occupy no more spacethan a single row of seats of thekind now used but would doublethe stating capacity. They couldalso be used for tennis and base-ball later in the year. The elec-tric timer and scorer would helpthe spectators keep up with thegame, as well as help the playerssince part of the time not eventhe referee knows what the scoreis. The other equipment includesbackboards, baskets, and otheritems which would be necessaryto convert the assembly room in-to a basketball court.

Last Year's RecordMr. Phillips remarked on the

record the local varsity teams hadmade on basketball courtsthroughout the district, even be-ing invited to the finals wherethey lost by one point, which isexceptional for a team from aschool as small as Southern Pines'school. He then threw the flooropen for discussion.

PhiLp Weaver thanked themeeting for their interest in un-dertaking the project, mention-ing what town support wouldmean to the boys in a financial aswell as a personal way. He saidthat last year only a handful ofpeople attended, most of thembeing the mothers of the players,"but even if they had come out,there wouldn't have been seatsto accomodate them under thepresent arrangement."

A. C Dawson, high school prin-cipal and physical education in-structor, emphasized the inade-quacy of present facilities also."Fou: grades, from, 9-12, use thegym, and children from the thirdto the eighth grades also havephysical education but generallyuse the playground. Even withthe four grades using the gym,there is little time for the basket-ball team to practice."

Mayor L. V. O'Callaghan was

certain the Town of SouthernPines would pledge support tosuch a project. Later when show-er facilities at the church werediscussed, he showed his person-al interest by offering to installand donate a water heater if anyof the ones in stock were largeenough for the tank.

Rclary and Johnson DonateThe- Rev. Tucker G. Humphries,

representative from the RotaryClub, presented $125 which hehad been authorized to give as thefirst contribution to the fund.

He was followed by VirgilJohn-ston who made out a check forSIOO, jumping the jackpot to $225.

On a suggestion from Eugene(Continued on Page 4)

STOP AND GO

Motorists will please takenote that the three stop lightson May Street (U. S. High-way 1), which operated asblinkers during the summermonths, have this week beenchanged to stop and go lights,due to the opening of school.These lights are located atthe Massachusetts, New Yorkand Connecticut Avenuecrossings.

Many school children cross

these streets on their way toschool and the public is urg-ed to cooperate wholeheart-edly in preventing accidents.

Favorable ReplyGiven To LnneliDriving Request

If certain conditions are met,school busses may be used in thetowns of Aberdeen, Carthage andRobbins for transporting highschool students to school cafeter-ias located on opposite sides ofthese towns, according to a rul-ing by Attorney General HarryMcMullen which was receivedTuesday by County Superinten-dent H. Lee Thomas.

Those conditions are that thecounty take out $5,000 insuranceon the life of each child and eachdriver concerned, and pay the ex-pense of the extra transportation.The Board of Education standsready to meet these requirements.

Mr. Thomas estimates thatthere will be around 250 boys andgirls in the three schools who willtake advantage of the opportun-ity of getting their lunches in theschool cafeterias, where excellentmeals are served at a very lowcost, under a Federal aid plan.

A delegation from the county,headed by Mr. Thomas, appearedbefore the State Board of Educa-tion's transportation comsmitteeabout two weeks ago, asking per-mission to use the busses in theabove-named towns for transport-ing pupils to the cafeterias?use-age not provided for by the schoollaw. They were promised that thematter would be referred to theattorney .general for his opinion.

TOBACCO SEASONBRINGS OPTIMISM

Taking a turn around part of thecounty on Tuesday, opening dayof the tobacco markets, a Pilotrepresentative found much activ-ity in the market towns and aspirit of optimism prevailing.Warehouses were buzzing withactivity, with tobacco alreadysold being wheeled from the floorsin hand trucks, to be packed intohogsheads for shipping and tomake room for the truckloadswaiting to be unloaded for thefollowing day's sales.

Just as has been noticed in Sou-thern Pines for the past few days,new items were appearing in thestore windows, and shelves heldarticles which have been conspic-uous by their absence in recenttimes. C. T. Henson of Jones'Store in Carthage, who was busilyengaged in opening up more itemsthat he had even hoped to get,was in a "Believe it or Not" moodwhich was typical of the optimis-tic feeling which comes with to-bacco season in the Sandhills.

County Schools HaveIncreased Enrollment

A larger enrollment in all coun-ty schools this fall, with great-est increase at Farm Life, Vass,Lakeview, Robbins, Carthage andWest End, has been reported byH. Lee Thomas, county school su-perintendent.

Mr. Thomas says that all schoolbuildings are in good condition,actually better than they werebefore the war, and every vacan-

cy with the exception of aneighth grade teacher has beenfilled. Nine new school buses, sup-plementing last wear's quota, havebeen chartered to bring the chil-dren to school.

WINSTON-SALEM MANDIES WHILE ON VISIT

Lieut. Col. PrimmArrives in States

While on a visit in the homeof Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wooten ofupper Hoke County section, Al-ton Dees of Winston-Salem diedsuddenly around 7:00 a. m. lastFriday as he was dressing. Hehad been with the UtilityPowerCompany in Winston-Salem foreighteen years and the body wastaken back there for burial.

Mr. Dees, son of the late Mr.and Mrs. J. A. Dees, is survivedby his wife and two daughters.

Lieut. Col. C. F. Primm, 91st"Powder River" Division Adju-tant General, is visiting his wife,Mrs. Isabelle Willcox Primm, andson, C. F. Primm, Jr., in SouthernPines, having arrived in the Uni-ted States Tuesday from overseas.

A broker in civilian life. Colo-nel Pri-nm was commissionedNovember 24, 1940, at the Ala-bama State Military Department.After serving at various UnitedStates posts, Colonel Primm wentoverseas in April, 1944, with the91st Division, and was with theunit throughout its fighting in theItalian campaign.

The Division was the first toreach Arno and had pierced theGothic and Caesar lines, pushingfar into the Po Valley, when hos-tilities ceased in the theater. Hewas awarded the Brorue StarMedal for meritorious service.

BREAKS WRIST

As Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Hodg-kins, who were vacationing inNew York, were about to leavefor home Friday evening, Mrs.Hodgkins tripped on an unevensidewalk on Clinton Avenue,Brooklyn, and suffered a brokenwrist, an accident which slightlydelayed their return.

th^|l|l|upilotSouthern Pines, North Carolina Friday, September 14, 1945.

Fifty Go to FortBragg This WeekFor Examinations

25 Negro SelecteesLeave Tuesday, and25 White go Today

Fifty men from Moore Countyanswered the examination call atFort Bragg this week, including25 white men who left this morn-ing for camp, and 25 Negroes wholeft Tuesday.

The white selectees included:Southern Pines: Lonnie Louis

Cooper, Rodrick Dew Edmisten,,and Jesse Leslie Bass, Jr.

Aberdeen: Chevalier JacksonDowless.

Cameron: Marvin Lee Ross,Route 1, and Odell Wall, Route2.

Carthage: Raymond Lee Ring,Route 3.

Lakeview: Vernon Pate.Pinehurst: Jack Andrew Led-

better.Robbins: Roy Colon Cooke,

Homer Franklin English, FredJunior Cagle, Route 2, and John-nie Fletcher Hussey, Route 2.

Star: Doyle Junior Davis, RouteI.

\u25a0Steeds: Edward Franklin Mc-Neill, Route 1, Herman Floyd Mc-Neill, Route ', and Causey EmmittComer, Jr., Route 1.

Vass: James Erlie Milton Holy-field, Route 2.

West End: Sandy Junior Sim-mons.

Second ContingentA group of 25 Negroes left in

the second contingent of menfrom the local board since the endof the war. They reported for ex-aminations Tuesday, September11.

Southern Pines: James EugeneJackson, James McCoy, and Rob-ert Lee Addison.

Aberdeen: Cleveland EdwardHines, Prenell McQueen.

Addor: Macon Mozelle McMil-lan.

Cameron: Lennon Virble Cam-eron, Route 1.

Carthage: Eddie Alphonso Cole,Offie Ransome Dowdy, FrankFlint, Cary Junior Coins, Route3, and Charles Irwin Phillips,Route 2.

PinehursU Robert Lee Turner,Carl Edward Morrison, GilyardPrince, and J. Hugh Brown.

Robbins: Lee Roy Baskin, Wil-liam Rufus Person, William El-wood Caddell, and Roy VanderBrower.

Vass: Willie Johnson and Clar-ence Junior Elliott.

West End: Hunter Willie San-ders and Saul Person, Route 1.

Vass Boy SuffersBroken Leg WhenHilby Car Sunday

Leon Crabtree, 16-year-old Vassboy, sustained a broken leg whenhe was struck by an automobiledriven by Kenneth Womack,young man of upper Hoke Coun-ty, around noon Sunday. Theyouth was crossing the side streetnext to Fields' garage when Wom-ack turned onto the street fromHighway I. Seeing his danger,Crabtree tried to back away fromthe path of the car, according toan eyewitness, and by so /ioingprobably saved himself from moreserious injury.

The injured youth was carriedto Moore County Hospital, wherehe remained until the* followingday. After having his leg placedin a cast he was allowed to re-turn to his home, and is gettingalong satisfactorily.

Patrolman Kelly of Carthageis investigating the accident.

Local Boys AttendMilitaryAcademy

Stuart Wood, Jr., and WalterWood, sons of Col. and Mrs.Stuart Wood of North Ashe St.,and Stephen Van Camp, son ofMr. and Mrs. Paul M. Van Campof South Ridge Street, left thisweek for Waynesboro, Va., wherethey will attend Fishburne Mili-tary School which opened Sep-tember 12.

Five boys left Southern Pinesthis week to begin fall studies atmilitary schools.

Richard Patch, son of Mr. andMrs. C. S. Patch, and LeightonHall, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C.Hall, have enrolled at EdwardsMilitary Institute in Salemburg.

COMPLIMENTJ. E. Caviness. Lakeview

dairyman, appreciates thecompliment paid his automo-

bile by some unknown per-son, but he would appreciatemuch more the return of saidvehicle. While the car was ina Sanford garage last weekfor repairs, someone brokeinto the place, and althoughit was necessary to move sev-eral cars to get to that of theLakeview man, this was

done. Mr. Caviness has hadno trace of it since.

Harrington PlaceIn West SP BadlyDamaged By Fire

Frank Campbell andFamily, Occupants,Carried No Insurance

A telephoned alarm from WestSouthern Pines a few minutes af-ter six o'clock Friday eveningpromptly brought both pieces ofapparatus of the Southern PinesFire Department to the home ofFrank Campbell, colored, whereflames, said to have originated ina bedroom closet, had ' alreadygained great headway in the onestory, six-room frame structure.Despite the best efforts of thefiremen, the structure was prac-tically gutted.

The house, located on the cor-ner of New Hampshire Avenueand Hardin Street, known as theold Harrington place and stillowned by members of that fam-ily, was occupied by Campbell, acivilian employee of Camp Mack-all, who, with members of thefamily and neighbors, succeed-ed in saving a few pieces of fur-niture and personal effects beforethe rapidly spreading fire anddense smoke drove them from thestructure.

The owners have some insur-ance on the building, but theCampbells carried none on cloth-ing or furniture.

Careful DrivingCampaign BeginsHere This Week

In view of the number of acci-dents in this section recently andthe opening of local schools, a

campaign for careful driving wasinaugurated this week by ChiefC. E. Newton to decrease theseaccidents and to prevent injuryto school children.

Chief Newton, asking the coop-eration of the citizens of SouthernPines in helping the police forceto make this campaign success-

ful, pointed out the serious ac-cidents that have taken place nearhere since the lifting of gasolinerationing. He referred to the lastissue of the Pilot where two ac-cidents were reported, one result-ing in death for the driver andthe other resulting in two personsbeing painfully injured.

"Fast driving is extremely dan-gerous in town," Chief Newtonsaid, "not only to the children,but to the public as a whole. Theunexpected should always belooked for when you're behindthe wheel. That is an obligationundertaken when you receiveyour driver's license."

Decrying the idea that manydrivers have that because the stat-ute provides for a certainspeed limit, they have to operate

at that speed, Chief Newton saidthat drivers should take into con-sideration the hazards that ariseat different times.

"The business speed limit of 20miles per hour and the residen-tial limit of 25 miles per hour areall right when there is little traf-fic, but the law also providesthat no person shall drive at a

speed greater than is reasonableand prudent under the existingconditions. In other words, useconscience and common sensewhen driving," Chief Newtonended.

Cypress PresbyteriansObserve Home Coming

Rev. H. G. Warlaw of Whitmire,S. C., will preach at the homecoming services at 115-year oldCypress Presbyterian Church onSunday, September 30- HomeComing Day will climax a week'srevival services at the church,Rev. J. Hoge Smith, pastor, hasannounced.

Jewelry Valued at

$7,000 Taken FromStore in Bobbins

Thief Probably Con-cealed Self in Ray'sBefore Closing Time

SUNSHINE, PLEASEYou're going to get rid of

that stack of papers and magazines decorating your frontyard on Saturday morning .. .

that is. if it doesn't rain, saysPaul Butler, chairman of thelocal Salvage Committee.

If the weather is rainy,making collection impossible,the date will be postponed un-til the following Wednesday,he adds, .. and remember totie them up to help the BoyScouts who are canvassingthe town for the scrap paper."

Moore County law enforcementofficers are seeking to solve ajewelry theft which occurred inRobbins last week in which theRay Furniture Company suffereda loss estimated by Ray as above$7,000. Insurance in the amountof SIO,OOO was carried on thejewelry, it is said, but in view ofthe circumstances there is doubtas to the firm's being able to col-lect it.

The theft was discovered onWednesday morning and Raypromptly notified the State Bu-reau of Investigation, the coun-ty sheriff Robbins police officersand the insurance adjuster, whoconducted an investigation.

Before leaving his place of busi-ness at 6:00 o'clock Tuesday ev-ening, Ray, who operates a fur-niture, jewelry and ready-to-wear business in Moore County'sleading manufacturing center, ex-amined the windows to see thatthey were closed and locked, ac-cording to the story he told of-ficers, Sheriff McDonald disclos-ed. Around 7:00 p. m., one of bistruck drivers returned from hfsroute and went inside to leavesome goods. He noticed that arear window was open, but as-sumed that someone had forgot-ten to close it and attended to ithimself. The next morning it wasdiscovered that practically all ofthe jewelry in two cases hadbeen stolen, also a sum of money.

There was no evidence ofbreaking and entering, so it isthought that the robber musthave concealed himself in thebuilding before closing time.

The firm is said to have carriedSIO,OOO insurance on the jewelry,but due to the fact that apparent-ly there had been no "breaking",Ray was given no encouragementas to the probability of his be-ing able to collect, Sheriff McDon-ald said.

The Sheriff's office is gettingout posters in an effort to tracethe guilty person.

Local Golfers AreHosts to VisitingRockingham Team

The Southern Pines CountryClub Golf team played host tothe Rockingham team on Wednes-day afternoon. This was a returnengagement as the locals had vis-ited Rockingham two weeks ago.The first event on the programwas a golf match in which South-ern Pines players came out vic-tors by a 24 to 0 score. They hadalso won the ifrst match.

Arthur Atherton turned in thelow medal round of the day, hav-ing a 73. Phil Weaver was onlyone stroke behind.

After the golf match had been |played and then cussed and dis-cussed, the participants gatheredat the picnic grounds where someexcellent fried chicken was serv-ed. The contest here was not one-sided. While it was impossible tokeep an exact score, there wasnot a not idea ble fin

the form exhibited by the variouscontestants. However, it was ob-served that one of the local boys,whose name is withheld, manag-ed to dispose of the contents ofthree generously filled platters, i

Bethesda Observes155th Homecoming;

Local Hunt ClubTo Organize; Takes3,000-Acre Lease

I The Southern Pines Hunt Club,at present in its embryonic stage,

' has been granted a 10-year leaseon 3,000 acres of woodland nearLakeview, Ed Starnes of South-ern Pines, one of the club organ-izers, has announced. The firstorganizational meeting will beheld the latter part of this month.

Although the idea of a localgame club has been brewing fora long time, actual organizationwas begun around three monthsago by Mr. Starnes, R. C. Johnson,Morris Johnson, J. T. Overton,Woodrow Davis, all of SouthernPines, and H. A. Matthews ofLakeview. They investigatedprospective land leases, securedseveral packs of hounds, andaroused the interest of some 25local huntsmen.

What Mr. Starnes describes as"some of the best hunting terri-tory in this section" has beenleased now, a large part of theacreage from E. M. Aiken ofWashington, D. C-, which hasbeen supplemented by smallergrants from farmers in the sec-tion.

Mr. Starnes says the club willbe organized in time to have thefirst game hunt near the openingday of the season, October 1.Hunts will be every Tuesday andSaturday during the season whichextends until January 1.

Bethesda Church, one of theoldest churches in North Carolinaand shrine of Presbyterians in theSandhills, will hold its first post-war home coming Sunday, Sep-

[ tember 30, when it observes its155th anniversary.

Dr. M. R. MacQueen, of Clinton,descendant of Martin McQueenwho was pastor at Bethesda in1874, will preach at the morningservice, followed by the custom-ary picnic in the grove of the an-

cient church.Every year the afternoon speak-

er is an authority on early set-tlers, particularly in the CapeFear region, and this year J. Tal-bot Johnson, committee chairmanis expecting Carl Goerch, NorthCarolina's history-know-all, to ad-dress the home-comers at thattime. Mr. Johnson had not heardfrom Mr. Goerch yesterday so itis still uncertain whether he willbe able to attend.

There will be no special gather-ing of the clans as took place atthe mammoth home coming in1940 when Bethesda held its ses-quicentennial celebration, but Mr.Johnson is writing letters to afew clan members to ask them toissue personal invitations to theirclans.

Lieutenant Shockley IsEn Route From Europe

BRUNSWICK STEW

Last week's meeting of theVass Lions Club was featured by

a Brunswick stew supper to whichwives of the members were in-vited. The stew was made underthe expert direction of Lion Nor-ris V. Briggs and won loud praisefrom both Lions and Lionesses.

THE REV. T. G. HUMPHRIESTO CONDUCT REVIVAL

The Rev. T. G. Humphries, pas-tor of the Church of Wide Fellow-ship, will leave here Sunday ev-ening for Fuquay Springs wherehe will conduct a revival untilWednesday at the Wake ChapelChurch.

First Lt. Thomas E. Shockleyof Southern Pines is en route tothe United States from the Medit-erranean port of Marseille, a re-lease from the 17th Airborne Di-vision said yesterday.

Lieutenant Shockley, husbandof Mrs. Iris Tate Shockley whois now making her home with herparents here, is commanding theheadquarters battery of the 17th.In his months of service overseas,he has participated in the follow-ing campaigns: Sicily, Italy, Nor-mandy, Holland, "The Bulge",Rhineland, and Central Europe.

He has been awarded theBronze Star Medal for Heroic Ac-tion in Holland, the PresidentialCitation for Normandy, and theBronze Invasion Arrowhead forNormandy and Holland.

AllRoads Lead to Carthage andAberdeen As Tobacco Warehouses

Open With Record Sales TuesdayTwo Towns Sold Es-timated 640,000Pounds at Opening

All roads in Moore County ledto Carthage and Aberdeen overthe weekend as cars, trucks andtrailers streamed in, loaded withtobacco in such quantities as togive the four warehouses locatedin the two towns record sales onTuesday, the opening day for theMiddle Belt.

Floors of all warehouses werejammed with tobacco and it isestimated that Carthage with itsfloor space doubled since lastyear, sold around 350,000 poundsat an average of $44.50 on theopening day, and Aberdeen, 290,-000 pounds. Farmers appeared

pleased with the prices paid.Selling continues for an hour

and twenty minutes at each ware-house, four days to the week,Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdayand Friday, with first sales alter-nating between the two houses ineach town. In this short periodit was impossible to sell all of thetobacco offered Tuesday, and theamount left over with the addi-tional quantities that werebrought in gave heavy sales forthe remainder of the week.

Opening sales throughout theMiddle Belt, which includes Dur-ham, Henderson, Oxford, Louis-burg, Fuquay-Varina, Warren-ton, and Sanford, in addition tothe Moore County towns, were

generally described as highly sat-isfactory.

For the Belt the price averagewas estimated at around $43.50per hundred pounds, a slight in-crease over last year's openingday average of $43.41, with muchheavier offerings. Warehousemenestimated that more than 4,290.-000 pounds were sold during theday Tuesday, which would greatlyexceed last year's first-day fig-ure of 3,410,652 pounds marketed.

The quality of Tuesday's offer-ings was somewhat lower thanwas the case last year, much ofit showing indications of a lackof careful grading. On the whole,however, tobacco on the MiddleBelt opening was regarded as gen-erally superior to that on theEastern and Border Belts, and thecrop is estimated to be the bestsince the record year of 1939.

District ODT WillDissolve Saturday

All persons having business totransact with the Raleigh DistrictOffice of Defense Transportationafter September 15 should con-tact the ODT District Office inCharlotte, according to informa-tion received from Raleigh thisweek.

After September 15 all perti-nent files in the ODT Raleigh of-fice will be moved to Charlotte,for since the revocation of mostODT Highway Transport ordersand regulations, there is little needfor, since the revocation of most

Auxiliary StressesMembership Drive

Local American Legion Auxil-iary officials are putting forth aneffort to get all members to paytheir 1946 dues as promptly aspossible in order that Mrs. JennieCraven of Charlotte may reporta 100 per cent membership whenshe attends the national conven-tion in Chicago, Nov. 1" 20. It isurged that the Southern Pines-Pinehurst Unit show Mrs. Craven,candidate for national presidentof the American Legion Auxil-iary, that they are backing herto the limit. Mrs. L. L. Woolleyis membership chairman. Duesmay be paid to her or to the Unittreasured, Mrs. J. S. McLauchlin.

Gen. Kennedy LeavesBragg for Reassignment

Brig. Gen. John T. Kennedy,World War II commander of FortBragg, has been transferred toheadquarters, Fourth ServiceCommand, Atlanta, Ga., for re-assignment.

Col. Landon C. Rosser, executiveofficer, is serving as commandingofficer until a new commandinggeneral, who is expected Satur-day, reports for duty.

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