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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 11. NO. 22,
LAKEVIEW
PILOT
FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, May 1, 1931.
FIVE CENTS
POT BOIUNG IN
SOUTHERN PINES
OVER NEW COURT
Objection Raised to Jurisdiction
of Magistrate Outside of
Town Limits
OTHER TOWNS AFFECTED
There is some agitation in and
about Southern Pines toward call
ing upon the local legislators at Ral
eigh to consider the advisability of
introducing a bill to rescind the meas
ure under which a municipal Record
er’s Court was established for South
ern Pines. The agitators base their
objections to the new court on the
ground that the limits of jurisdiction
of the newly established court were
-ot understood at the time of pas-
sa.ee of the bill, and that the meas
ure was more or less “railroaded
.rough’’ the legislature before the
-opulation affected knew what was
happening.
It develops that the law as it now
stands on the statute books not only
gives the presiding magistrate of iha
:ourt full jurisdiction in the corpor-
te limit of Southern Pines, but con-
r-urrent jurisdiction with other judi
cial officers within a radius of five
miles of the town, except in such
part? of another corporate village as
may lie within that radius. In other
words, Pinehurst, Manly, Niagara and
all rural sections within five miles of j
Southern Pines come under the juris- j
distion of the new court, but Aberdeen |
T-'thin its corporate limits does. not.
Outsiders Object '
Those outside Southern Pines bnt !
ithin the court’s jurisdiction are |
aid to be the objectors, maintaining |
"hat they should not be included un |
der a court established for that vil- |
age. They maintain that they had
nothing to do with the establishment
of the court, had nothing to say a^out '
't, do not approve of it, are satisfied
ith the court at Carthage, and pre
fer to take their cases to Carthage. *
''hey see no reason why a Southern'
^ines magistrate should have an"-
hing to say about their legal viola-
ons, w’hen they are not a part of ,
!uthern Pines. !
It was not. The Pilot learns, the •
.■urpose of those who furthered the i
4ablishment of the new court, to j
i' e to the court jurisdiction outside
^hc town, but under the State Inv/
hat jurisdiction over a five -mile ra- ,
,;iri= ^oes automatically with the es- |
- hlishment of a court. The Board of j
Commis.^ioners, in Southern Pines, ,
\vi h no desire to overstep the cor- i
porate limits of the town, are help
less in the matter.
Proponents of the court argue that .
. new court has only concurrent j
jurisdiction within that five-mile cir- i
•■'If* outside the town limits, and that j
-le is no reason why cases outsiae j
; be referred to the Southern
- ^ judge for adjudication. They |
. and will, still go to Carthage or to ;
nearest justice of the peace, j
v : h their troubles. It is most unlike- j
iy that an infraction of the law in j
Pinehurst would be taken to a muni-
-V, 1 court in Southern Pines when
- e is a county court at Carthage.
Pin hurst is a part of the county, but
■ f Southern Pines.
Court Considered Asset
The court to date has functioned up
all expectations of those respon-
fo-r its establishment, according
■ prominent citiziens of Southern
5 It has done away with the ob
jections previously raised to the
the court is self-sustaining
and costing the taxpayer nothing;
present magistrate, E. M. Po'ite,
"‘S given entire satisfaction, and
^nuch lost motion has been saved by
avinp. a resident magistrate, there
by saving the time of officers, as well
rioney for the town, in carrying
to Carthage.
What will be done, if anything, by
Senator M. M. Johnson and Assem
blyman U. L. Spence with if peti-
ions are forwarded to them is not
known. It may be that there will not
time left of the present session of
*:he legislature for any action to be
■^ken, even should the county’s leg
islators deem it expedient to take ac
tion.
Look Out Fer Goblins!
Mr. D. Xinquent Taxpayer is
Warned To Pay Up or
Collector’ll Get Him
Mr. D. Linquent Taxpayer, yer
better pay up, ’case the goblins of
advertising and foreclosure will git
yer if yer don't! The county tax
collector says so, an’ it won’t be
his fault ’case he has ter do what
the law says do er some other gob
lin’ll git him.
After this week the cost of ad
vertising and foreclosure will be
added to all tax accounts as the
property must be advertised the
first of May.
MAYFIELD PLEADS
FOR RAISING OF
MORE EGGS HERE
County Lacks 26,000 Cases of
I Producing One a Day
Per Inhabitant
CALL CONDITIONS IDEAL
TOBACCO CO-OP
PLAN POSTPONED
TO NEXT SEASON
J. R. Page, Aberdeen, Pleased
with Sign-up but Lacks Time
For 1931 Organization
RESUME WORK IN FALL
With approximately 15,000,000
pounds of tobacco signed up for de
committees of the eastern and old
belt tobacco co-operative marketing
associations meeting in joint session
here yesterday detided to postpone
organization of the co-operative asso
ciations until the following season.
Follow^ing the meeting, the commit
tees issued a statement voicing their
decision to continue the canvass of
tobacco growlers until a larger per
centage of growers could be reach
ed, and stating that delivery of the
1931 crop w'ould not be required. J.
R. Page, of Aberdeen, will continue
in charge of the canvassing and pre
organization work.
The statement follows:
“In view of the very late start in
beginning organization w'ork and the
very limited number of workers and
limited finances, a sign-up of approx
imately 15,000,000 pounds secured to
date seems to us all that could have
been anticipated in so short a per
iod and hence a matter of encour
agement rather than the reverse. Only
a vary small per centage of the
growlers of the State have been can
vassed so far and the sign-up so far
secured is particularly notable for its
large proportion of influential far
mers and business men.
“In spite of the fact that a very
encouraging start has been made,
however, both w’ith respect to volume
of sign-up and character of signers,
we feel that it would be a mistake
to attempt to set up an organization
for marketing this year’s crop untU
a much more thorough canvass can
be made and a much larger volume
of sign-up secured. This is also the
opinion of the Federal Farm Board.
Resume Work in Fall
“Regarding the work that has al
ready been done^ therefore, as the
beginning of a much larger and more
potent organization to function in
1932, we hereby give notice that de
liveries of the 1931 crop will not be
required but that the organization
work will be vigorously resumed thi.5
Fall and Winter with the confident
expectation that within the next
twelve months such an organization
will be set u-p and plans made in
ample time for handling next year’s
1 On the basis of an egg a day per
inhabitant, Moore county lacks 26,-
I OOO cases of being self-sustaining as
far as eggs are concerned, R. L. May
field, secretary of the Moore County
Poultry Association told members of
the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen at their
weekly meeting, held Wednesday in
the High School building at West End.
He said that the 46,000 laying hens in
this county produce 1,000 cases of
eggs per year. There are 360 eggs to
a case. We should, he believes, in
crease our poultry business to the
point of providing 27,000 cases a year,
enough eggs for one a day per inhab
itant.
And, he said, there is no better
county in the state, no better in any
■ state, for poultry production, than
I Moore. The porous soil and our cli
mate are ideal, and building is cheap
and land available at reasonable
prices. We have made considerable
progress in the last two years, but
j still have a long way to go.
North Carolina is well down in the
I list of poultry producing states, and
need not be, Mr. Mayfield stated. The
crop value was $7,000,000 in 1930;
cotton in the state w^as valued at $30,-
000,000. We should more evenly dis
tribute the two. We should have more
I of the 404 billion dollars worth of the
country’s poultry business here in
North Carolina. California ships 700,-
i 000 cases of eggs to New York an
nually. We ship less than 1,000, in
spite of the proximity.
Youthful Entertainers
Duncan Matthews w^as in charge of
[the Kiw'anis program and in addition
to the talk by Mr. Mayfield, who is
vocational teacher at the Vass-Lake-
. view school in addition to his duties
with the new’ly organized county poul
try associatin, Mr. Matthews offered
two juvenile entertainers in the per
sons of Miss Marjorie Leslie and
Preston Matthews, the attorney’s
son. Miss Leslie pleased her audience
; with a recitation on the city child’s
; visit to uncle’s farm, and young Mat
thews with a monologue about the
■ small boy’s objection to bringing in
the wood for mother. The skits were
thoroughly enjoyed.
James McNab, chairman of the Ki-
w’anis Dance committee, reported that
I the dance netted $522.50 for the
Moore County Educational Founda
tion, and was roundly applauded for
I the success of his committee in stag
ing so successful a party.
Pinehurst to Operate Ber
Hunt and Country Club ox
*
Edward G. Fitzgerald, Carolina
Manager, To Be in Charge at
Berkshire Mounta&is Resort
Pinehurst, Inc. has taken over the
management of the Berkshire Hunt
and Country Club at Lenox, Mass.
The property which is owned by
Woodson R. Oglesby of Yonkers, N.
Y,. and Lenox, ig. to be conducted as
in previous years for members and
their friends and is being prepared
for an early spring opening. The club
officers, all Pittsfield, Mass. men,
are Frederick H. Rhodes, president;
Cummings C. Chesney, vice-presi
dent. Lawrence H. Whitney, secre
tary and treasurer.
There aie 700 acres in the Berk
shire Hunt and Country Club prop
erty with assessed valuation of $372,-
775. The clubhouse itself is the for
mer Wyndhurst villa, formerly the
summer home of Mr. and Mrs. William
E, s. Griswold, of New York, Mrs.
Griswold’s father, the late John Sloan,
built it. Blantyre, which adjoins
Wyndhurst on the south, was created
by the late Robert W. Patterson. On
the north is Coldbrook, also a part
of the club holdings, formerly the
estate of the late Captain John San
ford Barnes. The club has an eighteen-
hole golf course, tennis courts, bridle
paths and polo and aviation fields are
to be laid out.
Edward G. Fitzgerald, manager of
the Carolina at Pinehurst, will^be in
charge at the club this summer, in
addition to overseeing management of
Graystone Inn at Roaring Gap. Clar
ence H. Lyman, who has been man
ager of the grill room at the Pine
hurst Country Club this season, wnll
be assistant manager of the Gray-
stone Inn and Harry R. Nash, roOm
clerk at The Carolina, will be Mr.
Fitzgerald’s assistant at Lenox. Gray-
stone Inn will open early in July
under Pinehurst, Inc., management.
Save Your Penniets*
You’ll Need Them for Camels,
Coca Colas and Cinemas
Under New Luxury Tax
Prepare to save your pennies.
You are going to need them when
you buy cigarettes and other so-
called luxuries. The House ^and
Senate at Raleigh finally came to
an agreement on the Revenue Bill
at an early hour yesterday morn
ing, and North Carolina is to have
a luxury tax. This affects ciga
rettes and tobacco, soft drinks,
moving pictures and other enjoy
ments. It is expected to raise be
tween six and nine million dollars
toward the support of a State-
maintained six months school term.
And it means reduction of property
taxes.
FRANKUN MOTOR
SALES COMPANY
CHANGES HANDS
Adam Haskell of New York
Takes Over Agency for Frank
lin for Two Carolinas
COLIN OSBORNE MANAGER
Southern Pines Caucus ,
To Be Held Tonight
No Opposition Develops To Re
naming of Mayor Stutz and
Commissioners
Livingstone Manager
Of Aberdeen Hotel
Inn Placed Under Management
Of Operators of Hotels in
Vass and Burlington
(Please turn to page ten)
GOLFERS AND ARCHERS TO
COMPETE ON SATURDAY
A novel exhibition match will take
place Saturday afternoon at 3:00
o’clock at the Southern Pines Coun
try Club when Mr. and Mrs. Emmet
French and Carl Thompson and his
daughter, Miss Helen will be seen in
a nine-hole golf versus archery
event.
An additional attraction will be the
Novice Archery tournament to be held
following the exhibition malj^h, when
persons who have never shot an ar
row in archery competition will com
pete for a trophy.
These events were given under the
auspices of the Sandhills Activities.
Everybody is cordially invited to at
tend. There will be no admission
charge.
I The Aberdeen Hotel is under new
I management, having been taken over
I last week by William & Coplan, who
I operate the Alamance Hotel in Bur-
: lington and the Hotel Charmella at
I Vass. They do not operate the Caro
lina at Sanford, as erroneously re
ported in the state press during the
! week, H. C. Livingstone, manager in
charge of the local hotel, states.
Mr. Livingstone also states that no
* definite arrangements have as yet
been made with anyone for the oper
ation of the dining room. He pro-
I poses, however, to operate the hotel
j and dining room on a high plane, W e
* are here to make friends with Aber-
I deen and help it grow,” he said yes
terday.
Nelson Courtway, who has been in
charge at the hotel for some time,
turned over the reins to Mr. Living
stone last week.
IT’S TIME TO LIST YOUR
PROPERTY FOR TAXES
Tax listing days are here again,
and A. A. McKeithen of Aberdeen an
nounces that he will be in the Tarlton
Jewelry Shop in Aberdeen for the
listing of property in Sandhills Town
ship. Residents of this township are
urged to act promptly in listing their
holdings.
The annual town caucus for the se
lection of candidates for the Board
of Commisioners and Mayorality of
Southern Pines will be held in the
School Auditorium tonight, Friday.
The meeting will be called to order
at 8 o’clock. Election day will follow,
coming this year next Tuesday, May
5th, the successful candidates to hold
office for two years. Voters will also
be asked to register their approval,
or disapproval of the recently insti
tuted Recorder’s Court.
No opposition is expected to devel
op at the caucus to the renaming of
the present Mayor and Board of Com
missioners, and the re-election next
Tuesday of D, G. Stutz as Mayor and
Messrs. O’Callaghan, Stevens, Case,
Patch and Yeomans as commissioners
is expected by acclamation.
BETHESDA CHURCH TO
HAVE FULL TIME SERVICE
The Presbyterians of Aberdeen are
launching out into a new era by en-
i tering into full time service beginning
with the first Sunday in May. From
now on, the church doors will be open
j for worship each Sunday morning and
I evening. This is a decided step forward
' after more than a hundred and thirty
years of half time work. The church is
taking on new life and there is mark
ed progress in every department of
her work. Many of Bethesda’s own
people plan to be present on next
i Sunday morning to help her get off
! to a good start on her new career.
Adam Haskell of New York, for
merly of Columbia, S. C., today be
comes owner of the Franklin Motor
Sales Company of Aberdeen, and with
his acquisition of the company, takes
over the general agency of the Frank
lin automobile for North and South
Carolina. Mr. Haskell is well known
in the Sandhills, having spent a win
ter here some time ago, occupying
one of Judge Way’s houses in
Knollwood.
The Franklin Motor Sales Company
in Aberdeen has the agency for
Franklin and Chrysler cars in the
Sandhills. The company has of late
been operated by J. V. Healy as rep
resentative of a corporation formed
recently to take over the Franklin
Sales Company, which was operated
for some time by J. W. Page, Jr.,
and before that by Nelson Courtway.
The company has an attractive show
room on Poplar street, and a large
and fully equipped repair shop in
the rear. Mr. Haskell has placed Co
lin Osborne in charge.
The headquarters for the Frank
lin agency in the two Carolinas will
be at Charlotte, where the Haskell
Motor Company has been formed with
Mr. Haskell at the head. He has not
♦
determined whether he will reside in
Charlotte or in the Sandhills, but
he will divide his time between his
new interests in both places and
travel considerably through the two
states in the interest of the Franklin
car. Mr. Haskell is w^ell known in the
business world, having been at one
time sales manager of Valentine &
Company, paint manufacturers.
S. P. LIBRARY TO BE OPEN
DAILY DURING SUMMER
TO ASK BOARD FOR
HOSPITAL AID AT
'EETING MONDAY
Kiwanis Club Unanimously Ap
proves Plan For Two Cents
per $100 in County Budget
MUCH SENTIMENT FOR TAX
The Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen
gave unanimous approval to the fav
orable report of its Public Affairs
Committee on supporting the propo
sition submitted to the club a week
ago by S. B. Chapin, president of the
Moore County Hospital, to ask the
County Board of Commissioners to
include a two-cent per $100 tax for
hospital support and maintenance in
its next budget.
Richard Tufts, Kiwanis president,
read the report of the Committee at
the meeting held yesterday at West
End, and the motion that the report
be accepted was passed without a
dissenting voice. This motion called
for the naming of the committee of
the club to join with committees of
other civic organizations fo wait upon
the county commissioners and make
formal request for the proposed small
tax. President Tufts named thefol-
lowing on the committee; Paul Dana,
chairman; P. Frank Buchan, Henry
Blue, M. C. McDonald and U. L,
Spence.
As pointed out a week ago, the two
cents per hundred dollars asked for
is not a tax which will be be felt to
any extent by any individual, but in
toto means approximately $5,000 an
nually to the hospital. It means but
two dollars each year to a man with
$10,000 worth of property. Much sen
timent for the proposal developed
throughout the county during the
past week, and little opposition is ex
pected despite the usual anathema
attending any tax proposal. The fact
that property taxes and road levies
in the county this year are likely to
be considerably cut through the state
taking over support of the roads and
schools makes residents of the coun
ty hopeful of a lower county tax rate,
and one which can easily stand the
proposed two cent support. for the
county’s new and very necessary in
stitution.
It is probable that the Kiwanis
committee, and possibly others, if
they have time tjo form, will wait up
on the county commissioners at their
next Monday meeting and enter their
request. At the same time a com
mittee from the hospital itself, com
prising Arthur Newcomb and Paul
Dana, will appear before the board
with facts and figures to sustain the
need for the demand upon county
funds.
R. N. Page Next Head
of State Banke'^s A ss’n.
Elevated to First Vice-Presiden
cy at Annual Convention
At Pinehurst
The Southern Pines Library will go
I on summer schedule beginning next
Monday, May 4th. It will be open Mon-
; day, Wednesday and Friday mornings
'from 9:00 to 12:00 and Tuesday,
I Thursday and Saturday nights from
I 7:00 to 9:00. This is the first time in
the history of the Library that it /.as
' been open every day during the sum-
I mer months. Beginning June 1st p jc-
! pie can have vacation memberships at
I half price.
D. A. R. MEETING POSTPONED
iBUYS LAND ADJOINING
ROCKEFELLER ESTATE
On account of Fayetteville Pres-
byterial being held in Pinehurst on
May 5th and 6th, the May meeting of
the Alfred Moore Chapter of the
Daughters of American Revolution
has been postponed to May 12th at
2:30 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Her
man Campbell in Pinehusrt. As this
will be the last meeting for the year
all members are especially urged to
be present.
Adam Haskell of New York, who
this week acquires the Franklin Mo
tor Sales Company of Aberdeen
through purchase, has also closed ne
gotiations for the purchase of 500
acres of land adjoining the Percy
Rockefeller holding to a point fairly
close to the Overhills clubhouse. Mr.
Haskell plans to develope a shoot
ing preserve there, and will start
work of improvement in the near fu
ture.
Robert N. Page of Aberdeen, presi
dent of the Page Trust Company, was
elevated to the first vice-presidency of
the North Carolina Bankers Associa*
tion in session this w’eek at Pine
hurst. This means that a year hence
Mr. Page will become president of
the association through the accepted
custom of promotion.
The most important move of the
convention here was the unanimous
passage of a resolution, introduced by
Mr. Page, reading as follows: “Re
solved, that the North Carolina Bank
ers Association indorses and recom
ments a reduction of the interest
7*ate on time saving's to not more than
three per cent.” The present rate of
four per cent has been maintained
for some time despite unprofitable
operation by the banks, it was stated.
Dan I. McKeithen of Aberdeen was-
made representative on the associa
tion’s executive committee from the
Seventh district.
JAMES B. FAGAN MARRIED
The many Aberdeen friends of
James B. Fagan are receiving with
interest announcements of his mar
riage to Miss Ghloe Reinoehl at El
Dorado, Kansas on April 18th. The
young couple are making their home
for the present at Ponca City, Okla
homa.