MOORB COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
Vol. 17, NO. 14.
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FIRST IN) N1!;WS»
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory o^ North Carolina
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Bouthern Pines and Ab«rd««i, North Carolina, March 5, 1937. FIVE CENTS
MAIDA JENKINS
APPOINTED 1937
TAX SUPERVISOR
County Board Names List Tak<
ers; Hears Appeal For
Vocational Teachers
U. L. SPENCE ENDORSED
To Lecture Here
Miss Maida Jenkins was appointed
Tax Supervisor for 1937 by the Coun.
ty Commissioners at their meeting
on Monday, and the list takers for
the various townships are as fol.
lows: Carthage, D. N. Carter; Ben-
saiem, B. Deaton; Sheffield, W. J.
Baldwin; Ritters, J. W. Poe; Deep
River, George W. Wilicox; Green
wood, J. A, Shaw; McNeill, Mrs. Dl.
J. Blue; Sandhills, J. T. Harrington;
Mineral Springs, C. F. Leavitt.
The date when listing will be be
gun will be announced within a few
days.
W. T. Huntley, Tax Collector, was
Instructed to settle with the county
accountant for the 1935 tax levy on
or before the first Monday in April,
1937.
Headed by Mrs. J. M. Guthrie, a
number of women from various sec
tions of the county went before the
commissioners on Monday in the in
terest of securing two vocational
teachers in every high school in the
county, an agriculture teacher, and
either a home economics or a com
mercial instructor.
One weighty point advanced by the
women was that so many of the
boys after leaving high school were
not interested in continuing their ed.
ucation, and drifted around without
special training for any certain work.
A course in agriculture, they argued,
would be the practical thing for the
farm boys and would enable them to
find profitable eir^lojrment on the
farms, where the majority of them
now reside.
Ask State Aid
After hearing the case as it was
so ably presented by these well-in
formed women, the Board agreed to
include in its budget aii amount suf
ficient for meeting sev sn-sixteenths
of the cost of two vocational teach
ers in each high school provided the
State will put up the other nine-
sixteenths.
The Board unanimously endorsed
U. L. Spence of Carthage for ap
pointment as a member of the
Highway Commission for the district
embracing Moore county.
It also endorsed T. R. Wolfe for
appointment as a member of the
Highway Commission from his dis
trict under the present set up of
counties.
It was ordered that the matter of
J. R. McQueen land known as the
Power site in the town of Pinebluff
be referred to the county attorney
with authority to settle with the
Pinebluff town authorities in con
nection with tax foreclosures.
Beer licenses were ordered issued
to The Dunes Club, Southern Pines,
and Mrs. J. A. Howlett, Aberdeen.
The Board voted to recommend
to the State Highway Commission
that it take over and maintain the
following road: Beginning at the
Lamb Groves road at the John Kelly,
place direct to the Red Hill road by
the homes of W. H. McNeill, John
White, Fred Smith and others.
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STEPHEN A. HABOUSH
TUFTS CHAIRMAN
OFA.B.C.BOARD
IN MOORE COUNTY
NATIVE GAULEAN
SHEPHERD SPEAKS
HERE NEXT WEEK
Stephen A. Haboush Will Pre
sent Musical Travelogfue on
Thursday Night
TO PREACH ON SUNDAY
DOROTHY CAMPBEIX HURD
WEDS PRINCETON BANKER
Dorothy Campbell Hurd, top-flight
golfer and a former Pinehurst resi
dent and Edward L. Howe of Prince
ton, N. J., a banker and “just a be
ginner” at goK, were married in
Elkton, Md., last Monday.
Mrs. Hurd is the only American
woman golfer ever to win both the
American and British chcmapionships.
In applying for the license, the
bride described herself as Dorothy
Iona Hurd, 53 years old, a virtdow,
living in Haverford and bom in Scot
land. Howe said he was 66 and a
widower. He is chairman of the board
of directors of the Princeton Bank
& Trust Company.
D. G. Stutz, Southern Pines,
And Edgar Brown, Hemp,
Also Named Members
At a joint meeting of the board
of Moore County Commissioners, the
Board of Health and County Board
of Education Monday at the Court
House in Carthage, a Moore County
Alcoholic Beverage Board was nam
ed to supervise the A. B. C. stores
'n Southern Pines and Pineshurst, re
cently divorced from the Wilson
County board, under which they have
operated since the inception of the
Southern Pines store on August 30,
1935.
Jame^ Tufts of Pinehurst, was
named chairman or the board to serve
for three years and Mayor D. G.
Stutz, of Southern Pines, serving for
two years and Edgar Brown of Hemp
for one year, complete the board.
According to provisions of the
new liquor bill all of the profits frm
both the Southern Pines and the
Pinehurst stores are to go to the
county and contrary to the original
terms of the bill, the town of South
ern Pines is not to recieve the 25 per
cent of its store’s profits. That clause
of the bill was striken outof the bill in
committee..
Further, no vote on the question of
A. B. C. stores will be permitted un
der three years from the date of the
ratification of the bill—February 22,
and no other stores can be establish-
within that time. And then only by a
majority vote of the entire c5unty.
Prohibitory Sections of Bill
The new bill also contains the fol
lowing prohibitory sections.
Transportation of A. B. C. liquor
from "wet” into “dry" territory is
to be limited to one gallon quanti
ties in unbroken packages.
The purchase of A. B. C. liquor for
resale is strictly forbidden.
The sale of A. B. C. liquor to per
sons convicted of public drunkeness
or drunken driving of an automobile,
within twelve months of such a con
viction is Illegal.
The employment of a full time offi
cer to enforce the provisions of the
suit is mandatory, the A. B. C. con*.-
mission being required to devcts
from five to ten per cent of the prof
its of the stores for this purpose.
The rate of compensation for the
new A. B. C. board members will be
at the rate of J5.00 per day and
transportation for all time expended
on board matters.
Famous Rider To Bring- Horses Here
It is a far cry from the ancient
hills of Galilee, and the pastoral life
of the people there, to the dynamic
days of the modem present in civi
lized America, but those two ex
tremes are covered in the span of life
of Stephen A. Haboush, a shepherd
from Galilee, who has brought to
North America the story of Galilee
and Palestine, told as only one who
was born there can tell It
Mr. Haboush will preach Sunday
at the 11:00 o’clock service at the
Church of Wide Fel’owship Southern
Pines.
The musical travelogue, a “Bibli
cal program,” with the wonders of
Jerusalem and Galilee, will be pre
sented on Thursday, March 11th, in
jQuthern Pines High ^School at 8:00
). m. under the auspices of the
ichool. Madam Haboush and two
young men will assist in this prog
ram.
Mr. Haboush is a native Galilean.
He was bom on the hills about the
Sea of Galilee and in his youth tend
ed his father’s flock of sheep, just
as every Galilean boy has done since
the days when the Master walked
among men. He came to North
America and worked his way through
a North American university. Re
cently he returned to the land of his
birth, and there personally took a
marvelous motion picture of the
scenes and people of Galilee. He re
turned to North America with his
message. He has written for maga
zines and newispaperts and spoken
before great audiences In many of
the famous churches and schools in
Canada and the United States.
There is an inspiration in the life
and teachings of Stephen A. Ha
boush for everyone. His messagete
and travelogues bring to the mater
ial present the story of life in Gali
lee and Palestine as it was and as it
is. the story of the Scripture inter
preted by one to whom the scenes
of the story of the four Gospels are
his native land.
He is the author of “My Shepard
Life in Galilee” and in the book re
view of the Boston Transcript ap
peared this statement, “He enters
into the feeling of the most famous
bit of the world’s devotional litera
ture with Insight and charm.”
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FOir^.'JPLECASE
RACES MARCH 13
Many of Leading Brush and
limber Horses of Country
To Face Starter Here
C.\RROLI. K. B.ASSETT
Much Sentiment For New Public
School Building in Southern Pines
To Aid Crippled
Mrs. Brown Names Branch
Chairmen For Easter Seal
Sale in County
Mrs. Lessie Brown, head of the
Moore county welfare department,
who is in charge of the Easter
seal sale for the benefit of crip
pled children, has announced th'..
following branch chairmen who
wtj! sponsor the sales in their re
spective communities: Miss Louise
Blue. Aberdeen; Miss Ida Robin
son, Southern Pines; Mrs. Holt
McNeill, Carthage: Mrs. A. JP.
Thompson, Pinehurst; Rev. J. C.
Cummings, Hemp; Mrs. M. C.
McDonald, West End; Vass-Lake-
view school, A. M. Calhoun, Prin
cipal, Vass and Lakevlew; The
Farm Life School, Worth Kiser,
Principal, Eureka;< Cameron
school, Mr. Lowry, Principal,
Cameron; Mrs. George Maurice,
Eagle Springs: Mrs. Walter Mc-
Neille, Pinebluff; West Southern
Pines School.
Pre-Easter Sale To
Be Held Wednesday
Heart Attack Fatal
To “Charlie” Wiliams
Superintendent of John Warren
Watson Properties Here Passes
at Age of 61 Years
Variety of Articles Vl^ill Be Of
fered by Women of Church
of Wide Fellowship
DR. FRANOIS P. TOWNSEND
COMINO TO PINEHURST
According to information received
yesterday. Dr. Francis P. Townsend,
old age pension head, at present un
der a United States Dlstrcit Court
indictment for his sensational walk
out last May on a House committee
hearing, will spend a week at the
Carolina hotel In Pinehurst, com
mencing this Saturday.
While he Is here, it expected that
Dr. Townsend will address Townsend
Club groups throughout the Sand
hills.
The Pre-E3aster Sale, given by the
Woman’s Society of the Church of
Wide Fellowship, will he held on
Wednesday, March 10, in the Assem
bly Room of the church. A luncheon
will be served at 12:30 Tickets are
procurable at the door.
The fair will continue all day, and
the various tables will offer a wide
variety of articles. There will be
home-made f<iod, of course; and, of
course, home-made candy; not to men
tion a special sale of flavoring ex
tracts. ’The handkerchief table will
be prepared to match E^ter hsmd-
kerchiefs to Easter costumes. The
apron table will present smocks and
hand-hemstitched maids’ aprons, as 1 o’clock yesterday
well as prints in gay and sober pat
terns. The ten and twenty-iive
cent novelty table will present a lit
tle bit of everything. And the fancy
work table will have a choice of
goods adapted to many tastes: for
Easter gifts, for personal or house
hold use; all the way from Italian
hemstitched luncheon sets and hand
crocheted rugs, bags and cushions
and lingerie, right down to plain
kitchen towels.
Afternoon tea will he served. Plan
to meet your friends here. Every
one will be most cordially welcome.
Charles L. Williams, Sr., aged 61
years, died in his son’s car enroute
to the Moore County Hospital Tues
day afternoon, following a sudden
heart attack.
Born near Ingram’s Bnanch
Church, Moore county, on July 19,
1876, the son of Richard and Rebecca
Williams, Mr. Williams came to
Pinehurst about 1900 and was em
ployed there until 1928. Following
the purchase of the old Wicker home
stead and lands by John Warren
Watson that year, he became Mr.
Watson’s superintendent, a position
he held at the lime of his death.
Marrying Mary, the daughter of
John Wicker he located on the old
Pinehurst - Southern f‘ines road
building a home there about 1914,
and farming an extensive holding in
addition to his other duties.
Funeral services conducted by the
Rev. A. J. McKclway of Pinehurst
were held in Culdee Church at 2:30
afternoon with
burial in the cemetery there.
Mr. Wicker Is survived by his wi
dow; five daughters, Mrs. Annie May
Roberts, of Wilmington, Mrs. Ethel
Culler, of Thomasville, Mrs. Lee Gra
ham, Mrs. Gertrude Armett and
Mrs. Rebecca Tyson, all of Pinehurst,
and two sons, Edward and Russell
living at home; also a sister, Mrs.
Frank Maples.
During his long years of residence
in the community, Mr. Williams num
bered a host of friends to whom his
sudden death came as a distinct
shock.
Essential to Future Progress,
Says Dr. Herr; Mayor Thinks
Plan “Premature.”
Two weeks ago there appeared in
he Pilot an article pointing out the
iressing need of additional physical
chool facilities In Southern Pines,
pecifically, attention was called to
he over-crowded conditions that ex-
st in the present building and the
nmediate need of a new 10-room
^j<>ne school building »n order tnat
-*e present school building may be
vacated of all but high school stu-
ents and that the Home EJconomics
3uilding, now In use solely for class
)om purposes, may be devoted to
e use for which it was intended
hen It was built.
It was also pointed out that, at
he present time, the High School
uditorium is the only place avail-
>le for indoor athletic events at
iouthern Pines and that a new and
nodern athletic plant would be a
.lighly desirable addition to the
chool’s facilities.
Reliable estimates of the cost of
such additions run to about $25,000
or the new grade school building
nd another $10,000 to $15,000 for
che proposed new gymnasium. It has
'urther been estimated that, over a
wenty-year period, the increase in
'.e school tax rate, now one of the
owest in North Carolina, would
•mount to approximately 10 cents on
ach $100.00 of property valuation.
Since the article appeared two
eeks ago, there has been consider-
bie discussion, pro and con, of the
latter and The Pilot has kept a rec-
>rd of the opinions delivered on the
matter.
Here is how some of the represen
tative townsmen of Southern Pines
think on the matter;
Dr. E)rnest W. Bush—“I think it
is an excellent idea and the small in
crease in the School tax rate lhat
such a program will necessitate
makes It one that, It seems to me,
should be put through without de
lay.”
Dr. G. G. Herr, Chairman of the
School Board—‘Tf the town of South
ern Pines desires to supply the nec
essary erulpment to keep abreast of
the teaciiing iacilities we are now
supplying, we must have a high
school for high school purposes only;
a new 10 room school for the grades
and a new gymnasium for the physi
cal development of our children.
“If we hope to increase our cot
tage colony and encourage our visi
tors who have children of school
age to build winter homes here, we
must have these new buildings.”
Mayor D. G. Stutz — “Admitting
that a new gymnasium would be a
fine addition to the school facilities
here and that there may be a need
for another building, I nevertheless
think that. In view of the present
conomlc situation, any contemplated
increase in the tax rate on Southern
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TICKETS IN BIG DEMAND
There is every evidence that the
third annual race meeting of the
Sandhills Steeplechas & Racing As
sociation, to be held a week from
tomorrow, Saturday, March 13th, on
the Barber Estate course on the
Midland Road, will top its predeces
sors in number of entries, in excite
ment, and in the size of the crowd
gathered around the whitewashed
rails.
“It looks like at least fifty horses
for the five events,” Richard Wallach,
racing secretary of the association
said yesterday when entries started
coming in from Aiken, Camden and
other points as well as Pinehurst and
Southern Pines. Mr. Wallach stated
that Carroll K. Bassett, well known
rider and t t'ner who manages the
stables of Mrs. Randolph Scott of
Montpelier, Va., and Camden, had en
tered eleven horses, and that other
entries included horses owned by
Louis Stoddard, Jr., of Aiken, Mrs.
G. H. Bostwick of Westbury, L. I.,
E. G. McVitty of Garden City, L. I.,
Mrs. George Watts Hill of Durham,
Mrs. Simon Patterson of Pittsburgh,
Mrs. Verner Z. Reed, Jr., of Pine-
huiist, Geoffrey Laing and Will J,
Stratton of Southern Pines.
Mr. Wallach has entered Chario
teer, the timber horse which won the
first Sandhills Cup here two years
ago. Entries are also expected from
James E. Hyan, Richard K. Mellon,
Alvin Untermyer, Mrs. Lenls A.
Park, Raymond Woolfe, Mrs. Marion
T. Gibson and others.
Among them all will be many of
the leading timber, brush and hurdle
hoises of the country.
Officials of Races
Officials selected for the races in
clude the following:
Stewards: Harry D. Kirkover and
Burleigh Cox of Camden and S. A.
W. Baltazzi of Aiken.
Judges: Jackson and James Boyd,
Southern Pines; Brig. Gen. Manus
McCloskey, Fort Bragg, and C. W.
Middleton, Pinehurst.
Starter: James Mahoney , New
York City.
Paddock Judge: William A. Lrgng,
Amisaville, Va., and Southern Pines;
assistant, N. S. Hurd, Pinehurst.
Patrol Judges: A. Corbett Alex
ander and W. V. Slocock, Pinehurst;
J. Watson Pomeroy, Camden and W.
J. Stratton, Southern Pines.
Clerk of Scales; Sam Parks, New
York City; assistant, William E. Ba
ker, Providence, R. I.
Clerk of Course, Col. George P.
Hawes, Pinehurst.
Timer: Ernest I. White, Syracuse,
N .Y., and Southern Pines.
Veterinarian: Dr. J. I. Neal, South
ern Pines.
The $5.00 reserved parking spaces
went on sale yesterday and are re
ported at the office of Col. Ha^es,
secretary of the Sandhills associa
tion, as in great demand. These
spaces along the home stretch are
limited and are being assigned in the
order of the receipt of applications.
Applications should be made at CoL
Hawes’ office in Pinehurst. The
parking space charge Is $5.00 and
the tickets for occupants^f the car
are $1.50 each.
Next Week’s Gymkhana
To Be Held on Tuesday
Hunter Trials Over Outside
Course To Feature Program
in Southern Pines
Because the regularly scheduled
date of the n^t gymkhana at the
Southern Pines Riding JFHng, jFri-
day of next week—is the day before
the Sandhills Steeplechase and Rac
ing Association meeting at the Bar
ber Estate coutise on the Midland
Road, J. Fred Stlmson, chairman of
the Gymkhana committee, has put
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