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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15A, NO. 10.
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of the Sandhill Terr
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, February 1, 1935.
REYNOLDS NOT TO
ACCEH POSITION
OF TAX COLLECTOR
County Commissioner Declines
Offer of Post, and Hunt
ley May Be Retained
DECISION ON MONDAY
County Teachers Organize, Ask
Changes in Pubic School Plans
L. R. Reynolds, member of the
Board of County Commissioners who
was elected by the Board to the of
fice of tax collector for Moore coun
ty at the meeting held on the first
Monday in January, has declined to
accept the position. The announce
ment was made in a letter addressed
to the Chairman and Members of the
Board of Commissioners of Moore
county and dated January 25. The
letter is as follows:
“Gentlemen: On account of my
health and many business interests 1
find that it will be impossible for me
to accept the appointment as Tax
Collector of Moore County. I will re
tain my place as a member of the
Board of Commissioners.
“I appreciate very much the confi
dence you have manifested in me and
your high appraisal of me by tender
ing to me the appointment to the im
portant post as Tax Collector of
Moore County.”
A tax collector will be named at the
next regular meeting of the board, I legitimate school expenses; (b)
which will be held on Monday of the Granting to county commissioners the
coming week. No intimation as to j authority to levy a .supplementary
Resolutions Call For Salary In
creases, Retirement Fund
and More localization
The Moore County Association of
Classroom Teachers was formed at a
county-wide meeting of teachers held
in the Carthage High School audi
torium last Friday evening and pre
sided over by County Superintendent
H. Lee Thomas. Officers were elected
as follows; President, J. P. Kiser of
Farm Life school; Vice-president, E.
A. West of Hemp; Secretary, F. Y.
Blanton of Carthage High School.
The initial act of the newly form
ed organization was the unanimous
adoption of resolutions drawn up and
read by O. B. Welch of Carthage,
and addressed to the patrons of Moore
County Schools, the members of the
Legislature and Governor Ehringhaus.
After setting up the premise that
the future prosperity of state and na
tion depend largely upon education
and endorsing State support of schools
the resolutions register opposition to
further centralization of authority in
school affairs, recommended that the
school law be administered by the
State Board of Education, but allow
ing local initiative by (a) Granting
to each district in the state the priv
ilege of voting school supplements
for salaries, current expenses and
Gymkhana Today
Events at Southern Pines and
Racing Resumes at Pine-
hurst Next Week.
Another equestrian gymkhana is
scheduled ;for this afternoon, Fri
day, at 2:30 o’clock at the South
ern Pines Horse Show ring. Num
erous entries have been received
for the event, and the committee
reports a number of special attrac
tions and amusing stunts on the
program.
Horse racing at Plnehurst is to
be resumed next Saturday, with
regular meets on Tuesdays and
Saturdays thereafter until April.
RALLY MONDAY
NIGHT TO PLAN
FIVE CENTS
Old Slave Dies ^>EAWELL,NEW
AYTY. GENERAL, IS
BANQUETSPEAKER
‘Mammy” Henderson, Said to
Re 103 Years Old, Blind
for 12 Years
To Discuss Ways and Means of
Caring For Needy in
Community
AT CIVIC CLUB AT 8 P. M.
HEAD OF SALEM
COLLEGE SPEAKS
HERE ON TUESDAY
who the Board favors for the place
has been given The Pilot by any ot
its members, but others have ex
pressed the opinion that the present
collector, W. T. Huntley, who has
held the office for the past three
years and who seems to have firm
ly established himself in the favor
of the public, will be retained.
It has been known for two weeks
that there was a question in the
mind of Mr. Reynolds as to the advis
ability of his accepting the place, and
his decision has been aw’aited with
much interest. Mr. Reynolds is a man
of strong character who has convic
tions of his owTi and the moral stam
ina to stand back of them, and these
qualities make him a valuable mem
ber of the Board of Commissioners.
There arr those of his constituency
who fee’ that he can best serve his
county by retaining his grip on the
steering wheel, and to these hia de
cision will be quite satisfactory.
tax on local districts, not to exceed
the tax voted at some previous date
for this purpose; (c) Granting to
county commissioners the authority
to “spread” the ‘debt sei-vice” tax
throughout the school districts as
constituted at present, in case the
"debt service” is not assumed by the
county; (d) Granting to county com
missioners the authority to levy a
county wide tax for the purpose of
furnishing school books to school
children; (e) Making it obligatory for
every county to have an attendance
officer.
Aberdeen B. & L. Ass’n.
Reports Fine Year
Organization Holds Annual
Stockholders’ Meeting and
Elects Directors
Dr. Howard E. Rondthaler To
Tell of W’ashington’s Trip
Through M)rth Carolina
D. A. R.-CIVIC CLUB GUEST
To the tourist or wiuter resiae it in
the Sandhills, the neighboring city of
Winston-Salem is interesting for one
of two reasons: one, because of its
wealth and prominence as a tobacco
city, and the other because it is un
ique both historically and at present
as one of the principal sites of' the
Moravian Church in America. The
Easter Sunrise services, held in the
A meeting and rally has been call
ed by the Community Relief Commlt-
I tee of Southern Pines for next Mon-
I day night at 8 o’clockk at the Civ-
! ic Club in Southern Pines, at which
‘timj relief conditions in this section
; will be discussed and plans made tor
I caring for the needy.
I During the past four weeks no
I funds have been available for indigent
.families except in cases where sick-
; ness was involved, due to the curtail
ment by the government of relief ex
penditures. The result has been an
increase in canvassing of funds indis
criminately in Southern Pines and
vicinity. Many needy families are re
ported In the section, and with no
funds available from organized
sources they have been forced to ask
aid from door to door.
The meeting Monday night is tor
the purpose of effecting some organ
ization, either temporary or perma
nent, to take care of the situation
pending federal or State action with
regard to It. At present the federal
agencies have discontinued aid for
families having no working member,
and are endeavoring to find work tor
workers of other needy families. The
care of the so-called “unemployables’
Another of Moore county’s gentle
old souls has pa.ssed on, the call com.
ing this time to Mary Henderson, said
to be 103 years of age. “Mammy”
Henderson, as she was lovingly called
by many friends of her own and the
white race, breathed her last on Sat-
Successor to Late Dennis Brum-
mitt to Addre.ss Chamber
of Commerce
AT MID-PINES FEB. 12
North Carolina’s new Attorney Gen-
urday at the Moore County Hospital. | gral, A. A. F. Seawell of Sanford,
The circumstances leading up to j jg ^ be the speaker at the annual
Mammy’s death were sad, but it is I meeting and banquet of the Southern
comforting to know that her suffei-j pines Chamber of Commerce, to be
Ing was of short duration. Mammy | held on Tuesday evening, February
had been blind for the past twelve ; 12th, at the Mid-Pines Club,
years, and when she knelt in prayer j word was received from Mr. Sea-
near the open fire before retiring | on Wednesday that he would be
Friday night she probably misjudg- ! able to accept the organization’s In-
ed her distance, and her outing night
gown became Ignited. She protested
when her son Dolphus, with whom
she lived, spoke of taking her to the
hospital and said that she had a bet
ter place to which she was going, but
he carried her to the institution
where everything possible was done
I for her.
Mammy was born in Fairfield, S.
C.. and belonged to a man named
Pickett. She had been married a lit
tle more than a year when she was
freed. After the death of her hus
band, she came to North Carolina in
1906 and for a time lived at Lake-
view alone, supported by her sons, it
is said that she would take her walk
ing stick and walk to Vass at night,
unaccompanied, to attend prayer
meeting.
vitation to speak here on that date.
P. Frank Buchan on behalf of the
Chamber had extended the invitation
by telephone on Monday. Expected
here with Mr. Seawell that evening
are Senator J. Sprunt Hill of Dur
ham, Senator U. L. Spence of Carth
age and George Watts Hill of Dur
ham.
Mr. Seaw’ell, a native of that sec
tion of Moore county taken Into Lee
county some years ago, was recently
named Attorney General of the state
to succeed the late Dennis A. Brum-
mltt. Mr. Seawell was Mr. Brummltt’s
assistant at the time of his death. He
Is an able speaker as well as a dis
tinguished member of the bar, and
a capacity crow’d is expected to at
tend the banquet, always one of the
events of the year in the Sandhills.
Banquet tickets will go on sale
old burying ground, attract crowdi.
cf visitors every year. But very few | ® 'nuniclpal’woodpile be started here,
know that Its college for women, now
In later year.s she made her home
has been made the responsibility of I Dolphus Henderson on Route 1 next week at one dollar, and the gath-
local communities. How to best meet I she was tenderly ' erlng will be one for all residents and
the urgent demands will be the topic 1 P°>iteness was an out- ! guests of the section, whether or not
on Monday night. E. W. Relnecke will ! characteristic of this faith- | they are members of the Chamber
preside at the meeting woman, and it Is reproduced In a of Commerce. Dr. George G. Herr,
u ^ 1 marked degree In her children, eight , In charge of the Banquet committee,
Municipal Woodpile . t. „ ^ ^ J ^ ^ ^
„ in number, all of whom were present ; reports that in addition to Mr. Sea-
One gcrestion has been made that r 1 t-
i as has been done In other localities.
Salem College, wa.s among the very I being spent now
for the purpose of wood to keep
Mrs. William F. Junge,
111 Some Time, Dies
In Failing Health Since the
Death of Her Husband Last
October
first schools In the country for the
higher education of women.
On Tuesday, February 5, the pres
ident of Salem College, Dr. Howard
E. Rondthaler, will give an address
at the Civic Club here on the sub
ject, "George Washington’s Trip
Through North Carolina,” under the
joint auspices of the D. A. R. and-
the Civic Club. The Sandhills public,
loth men and women, are cordially in-
The annual stockholders’ meeting I vited to hear this lecture, which is
Funeral services were held at 3
o’clock last Sunday afternoon for Mrs.
Emma Catherine Junge at her late
home on East Vermont avenue. Mrs.
Junge was the widow of the late Wil
liam F. Junge, and has been in
falling health since his death last
October. She passed away at 1:45
o’clock Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Junge were married
in New York on December 3, 1871,
and came to Southern Pines in 1895.
In Mrs. Junge’s forty years of re-
•sidence here she has endeared her
self to a large circle of friends who
will mourn her death.
Two sons and two daughters sur
vive, Htnry Junge of Everett, Wash
ington; Herman Junge of Youngs
town, Ohio; Mrs. W. F. Kurz of New
York, and Mrs. Charles Dammeyer
of Baldwins, L. I. Seven grandchil
dren and four great-grandchildren al
so survive. Two of her granddaught
ers are the Misses Lenora Rlggan
of Southern Pines and Catherine Rlg
gan of Winston-Salem.
The Rev. J. Fred Stlmson officiat
ed at the services, and Interment
was made In Mount Hope Ceme
tery. The pallbearers were C. T.
Patch, A. S. Ruggles, Dorsey G.
Stutz, C. L. Hayes. R. L. Chandler,
and Lawrence Grover.
S.4NOHILL LEGION POST
VOTES FOB BONUS PAYMENT
At a meeting of Sandhill Post No.
134, American Legion, held In the
Plnehurst Community Church on
Tuesday night, the members adopted
resolutions favoring Immediate pay
ment of the adjusted service compen
sation certificates by the government.
at the Aberdeen Building & Loan As
sociation was held on Thursday even
ing, January 24 th. The main features
of the meeting were the annual re
port given by the secretary, Mrs.
Evelyn Pleasants, and the election of
directors to serve for the coming
year.
The secretary reported an Increase
in the number of shares of stock sold
above the number maturing during
the year, and a committee was ap
pointed to formulate plans to push the
sale of stock in the February series.
Announcement of the plan will be
made In the next Issue of The Pilot.
Announcement was also made of a
Christmas Savings Club series begin
ning February 4th, in which consider
able interest has been manifested.
After the secretary’s report and
a brief talk by President Seymour,
said to be very much worth while.
The alumnae of Salem College in the
county are especially Invited, with
their friends. The hour will be 3:00
p. m. and following the lecture will
be a reception to Dr. and Mrs. Rond
thaler to which all are invited. It is
hoped that this invitation will find a
generous response. The meeting is
free to all, but a sliver offering will
be taken to cover expenses.
Dr. Rondthaler has held many prom
inent positions in the state, among
them that of president of the N. C.
State Literary and Historical Society,
and the N. C. Conference for Social
Service. He Is a delightful speaker.
The hostess committee for this af
fair composes Mrs. J. S. Mllllken,
Mrs. C. P. Everest and Mrs. W. C.
Mudgett. The Civic Club president is
Mrs. W. N. Hutt, and the D. A. R.
the stockholders expressed themselves president is Mrs. P. P. McCain of San-
homes of the needy heated. If unem
ployed could be put to work on a
woodpile which might be available to
these families this month would be
saved, and from wood sold from the
pile the workers could derive some in
come.
All local churches are expected to
send representatives or delegations
to the meeting and join in the dis
cussion of a problem which is com- Fourteen Year Old Son of Mr.
mon to all in the community. : Alexander
There wil be a meeting of the, Victim of Brights Disease
Townsend Old Age Revolving Pen- |
slon Club at Straka’s Hall this even
for the funeral which was held at Al- j well there will be a fine progmm that
len’s Chapel in Vass Tuesday after- ; evening, with musical numbers,
noon. They are Dan :i,nd Dolphus of ' stunts and the usual general singing
Vass route, Charlie of Southern that always makes for enjoyable In-
Pines, John and Maggie Nelsoi: ot formality on these yearly occasions.
Winston-Salem, Bell Griffin of Lake- More about the program will be glv-
as being pleased at the progress made
during the year, and the fact that
Aberdeen is fortunate in having In Its
midst an Institution that has with
stood the depression and saved for
its stockholders approximately $350,-
000.00, not including earnings of more
than $50,000.00, which goes far In
bearing out the remarkable fact that
building and loan associations have
been a tower of financial and moral
strength to the communities
Itorium. The two organizations are
co-operating in bringing this oppor
tunity to Southern Pines.
UNIVERSITY OF NO. C.AROLINA
GLEE CLUB HERE SUNDAY
The Glee Club of the University of
North Carolina will present a pro
gram of religious music, spirituals
and folk songs at the Church of Wide
they Fellowship, at the Community Hour,
serve, and have more nearly pursued 17:30 p. ni., this Sunday, February 3.
the normal course of progress than, There will be twenty-eight in the
any other type of institution during a
period of unparalleled adverse condi
tions.
The following were reelected to
serve as directors for the coming
year: G. C. Seymour, H. McC. Blue,
F. D. Shamburger, Mrs. Evelyn H.
Pleasants, H. M. Kirk, E. B. Satter-
whlte, John Flddner, Dr. E. M. Med-
lln, J. T. Johnson and A. L. Burney.
The condition of Dr. Ernest M.
Poate of Southern Pines, who has been
suffering from pneumonia for several
days, Is reported critical.
club ensemble. The great reputation
of the niverslty Glee Club will in
sure a large audience and it is urg
ed that people assemble early as the
program will begin promptly at 7:30.
The club will be entertained at
supper in the church parish house at
supper In the church parish house at
6:30. There will be no admission
charged at the door. An offering will
be taken to defray travel expense.
Every one Is Invited. Delegations are
expected from Plnehurst. Aberdeen,
Plnebluff and other sections of the
Sandhills.
view, Mary J. Stroud ot Charlotte and
Edie Vanderham of Ridgeway, S. C.
The body was laid to rest in the
Henderson cemetery.
Vass Mourns Death
of Quentin Alexander
en in next week’s Pilot.
Kiwanis Club to Study
Question of Schools
Hear Arguments at Meeting at
Which New Members Are
Introduced
Two new members were introduc
ed and a third sworn in at the week
ly meeting of the Kiwanis Club of
The Vass community was saddened | Aberdeen on Wednesday noon in the
ing, Friday, at 8 o'clock. Everybody ',®*^ Sunday when it became known Aberdeen Community H:| use. Leon
that Quentin Alexander, 14-year-old i Seymour presented Charles B. Davis,
Is Invited.
BIRD CLUB MEMBERS SPOT
13 SPECIES ON FIRST HUNT
The current wintry weather seem
ingly has not lessened the interest of
the bird lovers in Southern Pines in
the renewal of their club activities,
as many of them attended the first
gathering of the club this year on
Tuesday morning at the New England
House.
Some of the g»'oup went on a hunt
for birds through the nearby Piney
Woods, reporting on their return to
those who had chosen to remain at
the hotel that thirteen species of
birds had been seen.
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Aiexan- ! manager of the Chevrolet agency m
der, had passed away in the Duke | Aberdeen, to the club, and the Rev.
Hospital in Durham, where he had' J- Fred Stimson presented Dr. C.
been carried on January 15 for treat-; Re*ford Raymond, pastor of the
ment for acute Brights disease. Quen- j Church of Wide Fellowship, Southern
tin had seemed better on Saturday, Pines, both new members. Dr. E. M.
but the strain was too much for his
heart and he succumbed at 1:30
o’clock Sunday afternoon.
The Vass Presbyterian Church
could not accommodate the crowd
that gathered there at 2 o’clock Mon
day afternoon for the finaJ rites.
Medlin pinned a membership button
on R. C. DuRaiit of the Central Car
olina Telephone Company, who be
came a member several weeks ago.
The schools situation was the main
topic of discussion at the meeting,
with figures presented to substantiate
conducted by the pastor, the Rev. C. I the claim that teachers of North
A. Lawrence. Prom this seirvice,
which was one of unusual Impressive
ness, the procession moved to John
son’s Grove cemetery where the body
was laid to rest beneath a covering
Thc _pre3ident of the club, who has j^f beautiful flowers. Pall bearers were
recently visited Florida, gave a brief
but Interesting sketch of her success
ful search for unusual species of her
feathered friends at the Southern re
sort.
’rhe hour of the meeting of the
club was changed from 9 to 9:30, and
it was decided that If any Tuesday
should prove too inclement for a
hunt in the woods the meeting would
be held the morning following, and
if that also was an unpropetlous day,
to hold no meeting until the next
week.
ABF:RDEEN COLORED BOY
RUNS INTO .\UTO, KILLED
Alonzo Briggs, 15 year-old colored
boy of Aberdeen, was injured fatally
last Friday afternoon when. In dodg
ing one car, he ran Into the side of
another while riding his scooter on
the Laurinburg road. He was carried
to the Moore County Hospital un-
conscipus with a fractured skull,
from which he died on Tuesday.
Henry Parker, Glenn Parker, W. D.
McGill, Delmas Kimball, Eugene
Hicks and Bill Goodman.
Quentin was a lad of pleasing per
sonality and happy disposition and
made friends pasiiy. He was fond ot
music, and shortly before Christmas
won a prize for his guitar playing
at a convention held in Lee county.
He was a member of the eighth grade
of the Vass Lakeview school, and as
a token of respect for him the school
suspended for the afternoon of the
funeral.
Surviving are the parents; three
sisters, Mrs. Chalmers Carr of Dur
ham, Mrs. Homer Pendergraf ot
Durham, and little Patsy Louise of
the home; five brothers. Jack, ot
Durham, and John, Louie Glenn, Rob
ert Lynn and O. Max Alexander, all
of whom are at home with their
parents.
Carolina are greatly underpaid ^n
comparison with other states; with
repc r s of inadequate school bus ser
vice, showing how many children are
losing valuable time in school by the
irregular and tary operation of the
busses, drivers of which are paid but
$7.50 per month, and with other facts
presented for the guidance of the
club’s Public Affairs committee which
is to investigate and report a set of
resolutions at the club’s next meet
ing- \
LEGION AUXILIARY MEMBERS
TO ATTEND CONFERENCE
An evening of games, dancing and
bridge is scheduled for tonight at
the Civic Club.
Mrs. L. C. Buckingham, president
of Sandhills No. 134 Unit, announc
ed that several members of the lo
cal American Legion Auxiliary are
planning to attend the Third Area
conference In Durham, at the Legion
Hut on Queen’s Street, next Monday,
February 4th at 11:00 o’clock. Mrs.
A. C. Carlson, National President of
the organization who will be intro
duced by Mrs. M. H. Shumway, the
Department President, will be the
principal speaker for the occasion.
The meeting is to be followed by a
luncheon In the Washington Duke Ho
tel.