THE PILOT. Southern Pines. North Carolina

j NEWS AND PERSONALS FROM VASS |( Bessie Cameron Smith, Representative Telephone Vass 8-F-31 j| I

Lit. Lin wood Keith, in North Africa,Thinks More of "The Good Old U. S. A."

Vass Transport PilotWrites Interestinglyjf African Customs

Lt. Linwood Keith, son of Mrs. W.

H Keith, finds many things of in-

terest to write from North Africa,

where he has been for the past sev-eral months as a transport pilot. Fol-lowing are extracts from a letterwritten last month to his sister, MissGlcmnie Keith, of Raleigh:

?'I have been getting on ok late-ly so far as my health and generalwelfare are concerned. We get a bittirod sometimes doing the same oldthing but after all this is just anoth-er job that has to be done. The cli-mate is so dry lately that some ofthe fellows have been having sum-mer colds. You would not believethat it could change so fast as itdoes. The sun is hot and the windblows all of the time. You go out intho morning and wear a jacket andby nine o'clock you are in yourshirt. The same goes for night andwhen the sun goes down you go foryour jacket and sleep under somefour blankets We are used to thechange so it does not bother us toomuch.

'I wish you could 3ee the peopleover here. They are the poorest form

,of humans I suppose that exist ex-cept in the far east. They go aroundwearing mattress covers and bar-racks bags with two holes cut forthe legs. They have two-wheel cartswith a donkey about as big as a dogpulling them along with sacks andbigs piled up so high you wouldthink he would fall On top of it allone or two will be riding.

" They have an art in their begging, jAny time you go any place you will!find them and they will worry youuntil you give them either somefrancs, gum, candy, coffee, cigarettes'or anything you can think of. <

They have a different kind of re- 1ligion than we do. It is Mohamme-danism and they all wear a differentcolored cap called a fez. It looks likeone of our skull caps with a roundhigh top with a small fuzzy tassel onthe top. They have a small roundbuilding that they go to worship in.We see lots of them. I think each

family has one in some of the places.'t forgot to mention the women.

They go about covered with a whitesheet or something similar You canonly see one eye and their bare feet.I have seen some of them and one ofthe reasons that they are coveredis i.hat it is against their religionand when one of them gets marriedshe has her face marked with differ-ent symbols to make her ashamed toshow her face. Some of them arenice looking and some of them do,not have any noses and are marred jup in lots of different ways. I will jsay that it makes you appreciate,ynur people back home and morethan that it makes you think more ofthe good old U S A

If you have ev&r heard of any-thing over here that you want I willg"f. it for you. The prices of the stuffyou can get in town is more thanthe stuff is worth even for souvenirs.Some of the boys have paid $25.00

for a pair of shoes that no one wouldwar and they are not comfortableeither."

EIGHT MOORE YOUTHSARE PLACED BY NYA

War production training projects ofthe Rational Youth Administration,

W >r Commission, in North Carolinapi iced eight youths from MooreCounty in employment in industriesholding essential war contracts, prin-cipally shipbuilding and aircraft in-dustries, during the first six monthsof the current fiscal year. DeputyRegional Administrator Warren T.

Jr., has announced.They are Stella Cox, Aberdeen;

Stella Cox, Abe Marion, Virginia A.Marion, Maude Lee Myrick, C. Fer-nuin Phillips and Thomas R. Spear,

of Carthage, and Dorothy Hodges, ofNiagara

High School AlumniGive Service Banner

Vass-Lakeview Group WillHonor Graduates Now inService Sunday, April 4

is spending a few days with his par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. McDermott,while awaiting orders to report toanother camp.

PersonalsMrs. Riley B. Reece and daughter,

Sarah Ann, of Durham were week-end guests of the former's parents,Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Oldham.

E. B. Keith and children, E. 8., Jr.,and Katharine, of Sanford were Sun-day supper guests of Mr. and Mrs.A. L. Keith.

Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Griffin andchildren visited Mr. and Mrs. CharlesTrebuchon of Jonesboro Sunday.

Miss Anna Edgerton of Moores-ville was the week-end guest of hersister, Mrs. T. Frank Cameron.

James Ray McLean, who for thepast several months had been en-gaged in defense work at NewportNews, Va., came Saturday to spend afew days with his parents, Mr. andMrs. N. N. McLean, before reportingat Fort Bragg for induction March25.

Miss Marie Tyson arrived fromLouisburg College last week tospend Spring holidays with her par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Tyson. Shevisited friends in Aberdeen Monday.

John Alex Smith, State Collegesenior, came last week to spend hisSpring holidays with his parents, Mr.and Mrs. J. W. Smith, on route 2.Corp. Julian Smith of Camp Butnerjoined the family for a week-end vis-it.

Robert Laubscher of Wilmingtonspent last Sunday night in the homeof Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jeffreys.

Mrs. J. R. Thomas ofRaleigh arriv-ed Thursday of last week for a visitwith her sister, Mrs. W. J. Camer-on.

Mrs. H. A. Borst, Mrs. W. B. Gra-ham, Mrs. C. L. Tyson and Miss Ma-rie Tyson were Sanford visitors Fri-day.

John Rosser, student at the Uni-versity of North Carolina at ChapelHill, visited his parents, Dr. and Mrs.R. G. Rosser, last week-end.

Miss Valeria Womack, first gradeteacher in the local school visited herparents at their home near Broad-way last week-end.

Miss Alberta Monroe visited rela-

tives at West End Saturday and Sun-day.

Sgt. Russell Thompson of FortBragg visited his parents, Mr. andMrs. A. K. Thompson, during lastweek-end.

Mrs. Ben H. Wood has been sickfor several days at her home here.

PINEBLUFFA service banner bearing a star

for each graduate of the Vass-Lake-view School who has answered thecall to service will be presented tothe school by the alumni associationat a dedication service to be held inthe school auditorium at 8 p. m.Sunday, April 4, Miss Louise Leslie,president of the association, has an-nounced.

A special committee composed ofMrs. P. A. Wilson, Miss Myrtle Mc-Millan and Miss Louise Leslie ismaking plans for the dedicatory ser-vice, to which the public is invit-ed. Special invitations are being is-sued to parents and families of theservice men.

Plans for procuring the bannerwere made at a meeting of localalumni held at the home of MissMyrtle McMillan for the purpose ofdeciding whether to hold the annu.,l

spring banquet. The group voted un-animously against the banquet, de-ciding to discontinue holding ban-quets until times are again normal,and decided upon getting the servicebanner instead.

Present at the meeting were MissesLouise and Marjorie Leslie, Katha-rine Graham and Myrtle McMillan,Mrs. P. A. Wilson, Mrs. C. P. Mc-Millan, Mrs. W. P. Parker, Mrs. S.R. Smith, Mrs. N. N. McLean andMiss Agnes Smith.

FELLOWSHIP FORUM"God, the Only Hope of a War-

torn World" was the subject of in-teresting discussions at the Sundayevening meetings of the Vass Fel-lowship Forum, which was held atthe Methodist church.

R. C. Fields presided over thebusiness session and Miss LouiseLeslie was program leader. Talicswere made by Mrs. P. A. Wilson, MissMarjorie Leslie, Miss Louise Leslieand C. L. Tyson. Piano solos by MissDaniel and Mrs W. E. Gladstonewere a pleasing feature of the pro- jgram.

It was announced that an Easter'pageant under the direction of MissRosalie Daniel, public school music Iteacher, would take the place of theregular monthly program on the jthird Sunday in April, the pageant!to be given in the Methodist church, iIt is hoped that the Southern Pines jhigh school glee club will be guests Iof the Forum in May, it was an-nounced.

Out Following AccidentMrs. B. C. Mcßae, who sustained a

crushed knee in a fall just beforeChristmas, was able to be walkingaround up town Saturday night forthe first time since her accident.

At Home from CampCadet George McDerntott, who

has been training at Martin, Tenn.,

Mrs. Clenard Hudson, Mrs. How-ard and Mrs. Charles Casassa spentWednesday in Durham.

Howard Hocutt of Clayton, N. C.,was a week-end guest in the homeof Mrs. J. V. Adams.

Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Wells of Hume,N. Y., arrived in town Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Claud Smith anddaughter Sherly left Wednesday forTroup, Texas, where they will maketheir home.

Pvt. and Mrs. Cadwallader Bene-dict of Atlantic City, N. J., arrivedin town Sunday to spend a weekwith Mrs. Benedict's mother.

Mrs. M. F. Butner, Mrs. Alex Wal-lace, Mrs. Rudy Alcroft and Mrs.Emily Lawrence spent Saturday inRockingham.

Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McLauren spentthe week-end in Lilesville visitingtheir daughter, Mrs. William Burr.Billy McLauren returned home withthem after a month's stay.

Pvts. Dick Kurhn and BobbyHorstman of Ft. Bragg were week-end guests in the home of Mrs.George Moger.

Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Hester andson Henry were Sunday visitors inWhiteville.

Mrs. Geo. Moger returned to herhome here Tuesday after spendingthe past week in Montreat visitingher daughter.

Billy Buchan of the Berry Schoolin Georgia spent sevevral days athis home here.

Lee Buchan will leave Friday forRaleigh where he will be inductedinto the Navy.

Ralph Buchan who is stationed inNew York had a week-end furloughat his home here.

Joe Rearden will leave for Ft.Bragg Friday where he will join thearmed forces.

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Although paratroopers, like theman on the flying trapeze, "floatthrough the air with the greatest ofease," they do occasionally come toearth and at such times are just as

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