MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15, NO. 33.
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SPRIHOS
Pines
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KiEBUlFP
FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory o’r^orth Carolina
Southern I’ines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, July 13, 1934.
FIVE CENTS
Central Carolina Telephone
Co. Moves Headquarters Here
—To Install Full Dial System
R. S. DuRant, General Manager,
To Maintain Offices and Res
idence in Southern Pines
PLAN SERVICE FOR HEMP
Several months ago a committee
from Southern Pines Chamber ot
Commerce traveled to Siler City and
invited R. S. Durant, vice president
and general manager of the Central
Carolina Telephone Company to move
his office and residence to Southern
Pines. At that time the members of
the committee were told the matter
would be taken under advisement.
During tho past week Mr. DuRant
has moved here. Extenr tve rearrange
ments have been made to provide ad
ditional office space in the quarters
occupied by the tel^hone company
on East New Hampshire avenue and
the Stroud residence, situated at 54
East Massachusetts avenue, has been
leased by Mr. DuRant.
To InNtall Dial Syst^^m
Southern Pines will be the virtual
headquarters for this company and
for the Coastal Telephone Company,
of which Mr. DuRant is also general
manager. This latter company oper
ates exchanges in Beaufort, Ridge-
land, Estill, Hampton, Branchville
and Holly Hill, S. C.
Coincident with this news came the
annoimcement that the Central Car
olina Telephone Company has com
pleted plans for converting the South
ern Pines and Pinehurst exchanges
io full dial. Work will be started im
mediately. The first step to make the
conversion to dial operated service
will require the mounting of dials
on each telephone connected with the
Central Office equipment installed at
Southern Pines and Pinehurrft, It is
estimated that it will require tw’o
month.s to complete the work for both
towns. The present plans contemplate
cutting the Pinehurst office to dial
operation on September 1st, It is an
ticipated, that Southern Pines will be
cut over to dial operation around Oc
tober 1st,
The change to dial operation will
not i-cquire changing of the present
telephone nunibeis.
When the telephone company’s in-
(P!cune turn to pnge 8)
Baby Page Today
Kiwanis Club’s Efforts Net
$146 Toward Support of
Hospital Hed
The Pilot this week presents a
Baby Page which calls for de
serving congratulations. These con
gratulations go to the Kiwanis
Club of Aberdeen, which sponsors
the page, and to the well over 100
persons and business interests
which contributed to it. Each name
on the page represents one dollar.
The proceeds of this page of 146
names go toward the support of a
bed in the Children's Ward of the
Moore County Hospital, maintam-
ed by the Kiwanis Club. The club
raises $365 each year for the pur
pose. One dollar a day supports a
child in the hospital. The fund
therefor cares for the equivalent of
365 poor children in need of hos
pital care each year.
It is gratifying to find so many
hands outstretched to aid the hos
pital through the Kiw'anis Fund
and The Pilot is proud to play its
small part in the donation of space
in this issue for the Baby Page.
YOUTH KILLED AS
LIGHTNING BOLT
HITS HOUSE HERE
Walter Wilson Dead, Roy Dees
Hurt, Others Shocked After
Monday’s Electrical Storm
WORST STORM IN YEARS
Sandhills Sixteen Sings “The Great Divide”
Reunion Dinner of Former Organization Follows Dkscovery of
$146 in Old Bank Account and Dividend
Follows the Dinner
Money talks.
It also sometimes sings.
After a lapse so long that the pop
ulace was beginning to wonder what
had become of it the Sandhills Six
teen, famed musical organization of
this section, sang again the other
night. Money did it. '
When the Sandhills Sixteen more
or less busted up and retired a few
years ago Dr. Robert P. Shepard was
treasurer. “Doc” went away and
studied dentistry and kinda forgot
about the Sixteen and the treasury
in his quest for the latest dope on
molars and bicuspids. Then all of a
sudden the other day he made a dis
covery. There was a credit of $146 in
Walter Wilson, 20 years old, an em
ploye of W. H. McNeill of South
ern Pines, was killed by lightning in
the severe electrical storm which
struck this section on Monday after
noon of this week. Roy Dees, friend
of Wilson and also employed by Mr.
McNeill, was knocked down and in
jured by the same bolt. Both young
men were rushed to the Moore
County Hospital but Wilson was dead ' the Citizens Bank & Trust Com
when they arrived there. i pany of Southern Pines in the name
The youths were standing in the i of the Sandhills Sixteen,
doorway of the home of Mrs. Tracy ! “Bob" tore around town, breaking
Lew’is, located near the Seaboard ] the news to all the Sixteeners still
I tracks between Niagara and Lake- I living in these parts. Heads went to-
j view. The bolt hit the chimney of the ! gether. A com.mittee was appointed.
I house, ran down the chimney and out i A blow-out was planned. The banquet
the door in which the boys were i room of Jack’s Grill was reserved for
I standing. Both dropped, and Wilson ! last Friday night. The basses, bari-
! was probably killed instantly. Mrs.' tones, first and second tenors were
j Lewis, who is a sister of young Wil- | all invited to bring what was left
j son and a sister in law, Mrs. Wood, | of their lilting larynxes and partake
' row Wilson and her two small chil- j of a chicken dinner, interspersed with
I dren were also knocked down by the | seme of the songs which thrilled the
I lightning, but suffered only from the j hearts of Moore and adjoining coun-
j shock. j ties for many years.
I Wilson was the son of Mr. and Mrs. ,
An even dozen put in an appear
ance. Dr. L. B. McBrayer, who was
president when last the clan function
ed, was there. Treasurer Shepard was
there, and Louis McBrayer. Levi
Packard, A1 Adams, Sam Richardson,
Tom Kelley, Frank Buchan, Bill Dun-
lop. Shields t’ameron and E. B, Gar
rett of Fayetteville. It was a big
evening.
And when it was all over, the
check paid and the waitre.sses dul.v
tipped, the balance of the $146 was
counted. There was still plenty for a
dividend. Thirteen were voted in on
“The Great Divide,” the dozen W'ho
were present and Thad S. Page of
Aberdeen, secretary to U. S. Sena
tor J. W. Bailey, who couldn’t get
here from Washington. Each man re
ceived $10.60. And the bank a-'count
was closed.
Something for the benefit of ine
Sandhills may come out of the dis
covery of the bink roll. Fo»^ at the
dinner it was oted to met again
in a month and discuss the advisabil
ity of re'^rganizine the Sixtee.T for fu
ture concerts. The boys foun'.) they
could still sing, ond it is to be hop
ed thev won't conf'ne it to their own
little gathering?'. They woie s. bi;j
Sandhills adverti.soment in their day,
and shc'i’ld let us hear them again
County CaHs
Election On
Federal Loan
Voters. To Determine Aug. 18
Whether I'd Go Through With
New School Progrim
.$232,000 INVOLVED
COUNTY RECEIVED
$185,658 RELIEF
MONEY IN YEAR
More Than .$19,000,000 in Feder
al Funds Expended in 100
Counties of State
9,0.36 ON I'AYROLL HP:RE
j county. He had been making his home End at Top
I with his sister near Lakeview' while of Sandhill League
I working for W. H. McNeill on his I
Southern Pines Clinches Claim
to Cellar by Losing to
Vass Wednesday
' Vass
So. Pin^s
1
Ed Newton’s Assailant
Gets Six Month Term
.778 ,
.667 I
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.143 ;
Sewer Plant Project
To I^roeeed at Once
Start of Work in Southern Pines
Authorized k>' Federal
Administration
Word was received here this week
from the Federal Emergency Admin
istration of Public Works, office of
the State Engineer at Chapel Hill,
that work on the project for enlarge
ment of the sewage disposal plant in
Southern Pines may proceed at once.
Copies of the approved contracts
were returned to the City Clerk and
one forwarded to the successful bid
ders on the job, the Elliott Building
Company of Hickory. Paul M. Van
Camp of Southern Pines is tbe con
sulting engineer.
This is one of the projects for
which the town recently borrowed
over $40,000 from the federal gov
ernment. Contracts have also been let
for the others, the new water tank
and the extension of water mains and
hydrants through the Weymouth
Heights and Morganton Road sec
tion.
City Clerk Howard Burns stated
yesterday that he looked for the
starting of the sewage plant project
A^Hhin the next three weeks. Much
local labor is ftxpected to be employ
ed on this job.
Slightly more than $19,000,000 in
federal funds for relief were expend-
' ed in the 100 counties of North Car-
jolina during the fiscal year just end
ed. July 1, 1933 to June 30. 1934,
Mis. Thomas O’Bcrry, Slate relict
I administrator, repoi'ts. Of the $19,-
098,998.15 expended, $9,832,352,98
I was in CW.\ payrolls and $2,329,-
j 752.50 was in CWA costs of niater-
I ials. while the balance of $6,936,892.67
was in the FERA expenditures,
Moore county during the past fis-
' cal year received a total of $185,-
668,60 from all of these funds, includ-
; ing $84,570.22 in CWA payrolls, $13,-
713,32 in cost of materials used in
I CWA projects, and $87,385,06 in ex-
pendituies made since April 1 by the
I CWA successor, the FERA, Mrs.
O'Berry states.
Another report shows that during
the life of the CWA, which started
! November 16 and ended April 1,
I 1934. the total number of men on
I ’
the payrolls, with some duplication,
was 967,545, the average of men at
work each week was 43,979, arid the
average payroll for each person dur
ing the life of the CWA $1,049,34.
In these strictly CWA projects
November 16, 1933, and April i, 1934,
Moore county is shown to have had
9.036 men on the payroll, some of
them duplications, an average of 411
men each week during the life of the
{.Please turn to pnge 8>
farm located between Lakeview and
! Southern Pines. The body was .sent to
i Woodville where the unfortunate
, young man was laid to rest on Wed-
! nesday. Standing of Clubn in Sandhills League
Heavy Danuige Done | Through tlanies of Wednesday,
' I Club V/on Lost Pet.
j The storm which struck the com- I ^^'est Tnd 7
' munity on Monday was the worst in i
' thi.s section in some time. The Vass-
, Lakeview section w'as almost inun
dated by the cloudburst, crops being
badly damaged, traffic held up on the w' i i . . /• t ■ .t il
® ’ * i Schedule r( (.antes for ( Dining Week
I roads, cellars flooded with water. I ^3. southern |
I Many roads were impassable for .some ^ve.st end
: time after the rain ceased. , ^vednesdav,' July 18, Abe,- 1
The casualties from lightning were Southern Pines. ‘ I
; preceded a week ago by a bolt which I |
struck near the home of Mr. and Mr.<!. \
C. N. Bi>az near Cameron. Roboi t :
Boaz was sitting on tlie front n
of the house when the lightning
struck a large oak tree near the
vicious a.ssault on George Mar.
tin in the third frame gave We-st End
seven runs and a 7-3 victory over the
.-Vberdecn team on Wednesday after
noon. The -ontest was plaved at
porch. The tree was literally torn to ^ ., . , „ , ‘ .
. „ .. . . i Aberdeen before a large crowd.
Coy Thomas again demonstrated
his right to the title of the best
pieces. Young Boaz suffered a long
gash across the stomach and hi.n foet
were badly lacerated. He was knock-.
, . , . . , pitcher in the Sandhills League as he
ed unconscious and his skin is •‘'aid j
to have turned a dark color. Hi.s watch
and chair were partially melted by
the heat. His wife W'as al.so render
ed unconscious but appeared ‘o have
suffered no ill effects upon recovering
consciousness, and at last report Boaz
was improving.
B. C. WEBSTER WEDS
-MISS >I.\RY LOIS DORSETT
BUILDING INDUSTRY' AND
EMPLOYEES ORG.\NIZING
S.\NDHILL POST TO MEET
AT .ABERDEEN NEXT FRID.\Y
Sandhill Post 134, American Le
gion will hold its regular meeting at
the Aberdeen Methodist club room
next Friday, July 20.
At this meeting the report of the
nominating committee for officers
for the ensuing year will probably
be made. The officers will be elected
at the August meeting in time for
them to attend the convention in
Greensboro.
A.’ong with the pick up in the
building industry in this section there
has developed some considerable ac
tivity among the men working in the
various trades in connection with it.
It Is reported that the Moore Coun
ty Journeymen Painters have alraady
organized and that a chapter of the
International Society of Master Pain
ters and Decorators has been char
tered by the parent organization which
has headquarters in Peoria, 111.
^The journeymen carpenters have
been invited to attend an organiza
tion meeting at the courthouse in
Carthage Saturday, July 21, 3 p. m.
A collective bargainiu:? agieement
between the employer and employee
organizations is being drawn and it
is hoped that it may become opera
tive la a short time.
A wedding of much interest to
their many friends in this section of
the state was solemnized Saturday,
July 7, at 2 o’clock when Miss Mary
I Lois Dorsett, of Raleigh, became the
I bride of B. C. Webster, of Southern
! Pines.
I
The ceremony was performed at
the Baptist parsonage, Siler City, by
the bride's pastor. Rev. J. C. Canipe.
Immediately after the Jceremony
the young couple left for a bridal trip
through western North Carolina.
The bride is the daughter of the
late John P. Dorsett and Mrs. Etta
M. Dorsett, of Siler City, route two,
but has made her home in Raleigh
for the past few years, w'here she
held a position with the Southern
Bell Telephone Company.
The bridegroom, who is the son of
Mrs. B. B. Webster, of Bonlee. holds
a position with the Standard Oil
Company of Southern Pines and plays
shortstop on the local baseball team.
rON(JKESS.M.\N L.VMBE'lirS
F.\THER DIES IN WINSTON
John W. Lambeth, prominent busi
ness man and citizen of Thomasville
and father of Congressman Walter
Lambeth of this district, died at the
Baptist Hospital at Winston-Salem on
Tuesday, July 3d, at the age of 66.
! limited the heavy-hitting Aberdeen
i team to eight hits, three of these
coming in Aberdeen's half of the big
third to net the home team two tal
lies.
The relief pitching of Brad Pleas
ants was the feature of the game.
Entering the contest in the fourth in
ning, he held the West Enders to two :
hits for the remainder of the game
and only two balls w'ere hit out of
the infield. j
At the beginning of the game both
teams were tied for the league lead-1
ership, each having won six games
and dropped two. j
Vass won its second straight vie- j
tory on the same day by downing j
Southern Pines by 8 to 4 before the '
smallest •rawd of the season on the ;
Southern Pines field. !
Callahan pitched another nice game
for the winners, limiting the home |
team to three hits, two of them of !
the scratch variety, while Vass was
touching Myrick for thirteen safe
blows.
Joe Matthews’ double and Hiram 1
!
Mclnnis’ single, his first of the four
hits he secured, gave Vass a tally in |
the opening inning. Three more in the j
third and two in the fourth put the :
game on ice. Southern Pines threat
ened only in the fourth, w’hen they tal- [
lied twice, although Vass errors gave
them several other chances ro .score. \
The defeat gave Southern Pines un- j
disputed possession of last place in I
the league standings. |
The first victory of the season for.
the Vass team was a 3-0 shutout |
hurled by Callahan last Saturday af- j
ternoon. West End being the vie- ,
tims. I
Charlie Ritter pitched a beautifnl
I iPl^’ane turn to page 4) ^
Colored Man Ran Afoul of Of
ficer and His Dos and Was
“Most Et Up”
Walter Morrison, colored of Sana
torium, was given six months on the
roads for assaulting Officer Ed New
ton of Southern Pines with a fruit
jar and for resisting arresl, Newton,
a night officer, attempted to arrest a
carload of Negroes and Morrison rais
ed the jar to strike him. They grap
pled for some time, the Negro at
tempting to gain possession of the
officer’s pistol and in the scuffle the
Nerrro was shot in the leg, Newton's
German policc dog went into action
against the Negro, and, as one person
expre.'^'sed it, “et up his leg.®." The
court gave Morrison six months,
which, along with tne badly torn legs
ami the wound from the pistol, will
help him to lemeniber the folly of
his way for some time.
Claude BaUhvin, the driver of the
car of which Morrison was an occu
pant, was given 60 days for trans
porting liquor and driving while in-
to.xicated. and deprived of his right to
drive for 90 days.
A county-wide election has been
called by the Moore County Board of
Commissioners for Saturday, August
18. to vote on the proposal to bor
row $232,000 from the Federal Gov
ernment for the new school building
program. The program involves the
erection of seven new buildings and
additions to seven old ones.
The calling of the election comes as
a result of objections rai.sed in var
ious parts of the county. There are
.said to be many taxpayers who ob
ject to the county borrowing such a
large sum at this time. And there
are objections to the plan, which ia
tied up with the proposed federal
loan, of equalizing the school debt
throughout the county. Objections to
the latter were filed with the Pub
lic Works Administration in Wash
ington some time ago by the Board
of Commissioners and the School
Board of Southern Pines and con
curred in by Pinehurst authorities.
These officials maintain that taxes
in Southern Pines and Pinehurst will
be unproportionately increased by
the redistribution of the school debt,
and regard the proposal as unfair
and in all probability illegal.
The election, for which there will
be a special registration prior to Au
gust 18, will aetermine whether or
not the county will proceed with the
borrowing of the money, already au-
thorircd by the Federal authorities.
That -.here will be plenty of fireworks
in the campaign between now and the
election goes without saying. The
County School Board will command
the forces lined up for the loan, while
Pinehurst. Southern Pines and other
districts are organizing again.-^t it.
THESE THIEVES SPECIALIZE
IN ELE( TiUC KEKRIOEKATOUS
Thieves, evidently bent on keep
ing cool, have been breaking into
homes in the Pinehurst section that
are closed for the summer and at
tempting to make away with electric
refrigerators. Entrance was gained
by “jimmying” the locks, prying the
doors open w’ith crowbars.
The Cunningham house in Pine
hurst was entered and the Frigidaire
removed to the yard, but the thieves
were frightened away. Finger-print
Expert Lawrence Kelly was able to
get seme good prints from the re
frigerator.
A few nights later the Morrell house
in Knollw'ood was entered and ail
that has been missed in this case is
the refrigerator.
JUDGE HI .>IBER .\ND CLERK
OF COURT UILLC’OX ILL
Tobacco Markets Here
To Open on Sept. 13
1ate.« Set Subject to Apjrroval
of Fedfral Officials.—(i.)od
j Prices Predicted
The Abei'deen and Carthage tobac
co markets and others of the Middle
' Belt will open Thuisday, September
, 13. under a decision of the sales com-
; mittee of the Tobacco Association of
i the L’'nited State.s. However, the date
j must be finally approved or set by
I federal officials.
I Had the recommendation of the
; National Association of Auction To-
I bacco and Loose-leaf Tobacco Asso-
I elation been accepted, the market
I would have opened two days earlier
on September 11. These organizations
made their suggestion at a recent
conclave held in Asheville.
The Eastern Carolina Belt mark
ets are scheduled to commence oper
ation on August 23, two weeks prior
to those here, and the Old Belt is to
start up on September 25. Local to
bacconists and warehousemen have
stated their approval o^ the arrange
ment.
Tobacco sellers estimate that this
year’s season, in spite of the reduced
crop will, continue as long as past
years.' Also, they i*stlmate that to
bacco generally will be of good qual
ity and prices will be high.
All Aberdeen and Carthage ware
houses are expected to operate again
this season.
Friends of Judge Qeorge H. Hum
ber w’ill learn with regret that he is
still confined to his room in the Car
thage Hotel by illness.
John Willcox, clerk of the court of
Moore county has been ill for the
past several days, but is now show
ing some improvement. He under
went treatment at the Moore County
Hospital during a part of last w'eek,
returning to his home on Saturday,
but on Tuesday of tl* week wa^ still
unable to resume his duties at the
court house. His illness was attribut
ed to malaria.
P.ARALYTIC STROKE PROV'ES ,
FAT.VL TO R. O. BOBBITT
R. O. Bobbitt, 56 years old, died at
his home near Aberdeen last Monday
afternoon following a paralytic stroke
he sustained in the office of Dr. Cad-
dell of Hoffman, a few hours earlier,
where he had gone for treatment. Ho
leaves a wife and 5 children surviving
him.
The runeral services were conduct
ed at Old Bethesda Cemetery Tues
day afternoon, by the Moore County
Burial Association of Hemp, with the
Rev. E. L. Barber officiating.