MOOKE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWSWEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 17. NO. 25.
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, Nort h Carolina. April 30, 1937.
of the Sandhill Ter’rif*<^;v of North Carolina
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FIVE CENTS
BEST SEASON IN
YEARS ENJOYED IN
SANDHILLS AREA
Hotel and Recreation Facilities
Have Been Taxed to Limit
to Meet Demands
Twenty to Receive Diplomas at
Pinehurst School on Thursday
Dr. H. J. Derthick Commence
ment Speaker. — Baccalaur
eate Sermon Sunday Morning
To Address Seniors
REAL ESTATE ACTIVE
With the Sandhills vacation season
nearly at an end it seems fitting
that a quick survey be made of the
situation that is responsible for a
great proportion of this resort area s
annual income.
From every quarte«’, during the
past month, have come nothing but
the most encouraging reports of the
volume of business enjoyed by the
local shops and the resort enterpris
es in Southern Pines and Pinehurst
and observation would lead to the
same conclusion.
This year, for the first time since
1929, hotels all over the area were
forced to turn away prospective
guests for protracted periods. “Res
ervations in advance” was a wise
precaution to take.
Some estimates of the total volume
of business for the season in our
two adjoining communities have run
as high as fifty per cent above the
last three years and considerably
above the 1929 volume. And that in
spite of the fact that this past seas
on was somewhat shorter than in by
gone years.
Golf, the principal diversion here
abouts, has enjoyed an almost unpre
cedented boom. The Pine Needles
season was so successful that it was
thought that the installation cf grass
greens on the Donald Ross golf course
there was an advisable improvement
for next season, and the hotel, itself,
will be enlarged within the next two
years. Tentative plans for that work
are already under consideration.
More Grass Greens
At Pinehurst CouVitry Club fre
quent comparisons cf this year’s
guest registrations with similar pe
riods in the past years have revealed
nothing but increases, and large
ones at that, and there, too, grass
greens are being installed on No. 1
course and preparations made to op
en another of the courses for next
season's anticipated further increas
es.
Southern Pines Country Club has
enjoyed a prosperous year and the
major golf tournaments all over the
area have drawn larger and finer
fields than for several years past.
The horse, too, has come into his
own again. This year has seen a
large increase in the number of
horses in the area and all of the e-
vents, from the winter training rou
tine at the Pinehurst Race Track to
the steeplchase meeting, enjoyed the
most prosprous season in years.
But one of the most encouraging!
features of the entire year has been | Each Grade To Take Part
the demand for cottages and real es-1 Interesting Program in
tate in general in the area. And it has Local Auditorium
been a seller’s marke^. More homes
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The Pinehurst Public Schools will
begin their Commencement program
this Sunday morning, May 2, when
the baccalaureate sermon will be de
livered in the Pinehurst Community
Churc.i by the Rev. James Appleby
oi Maxton. On Wednesday morning.
May 5, at 10:00 o’clock the seventh
grade will present a play, ‘‘Ultra-
Modern School.” On Thursday morn
ing, May 6, the seventh grade will
receive their certificates. Dr. D. E. i
Earnhardt of Murphersboro will
make the address. Before Dr. Earn
hardt’s address there will be a Read- i
ing and Declamatory contest by a
group of boys and girls of, the sev
enth grade. The certificates will be
awarded by a member of the School
board.
The Senior Class Day program will
be given on Thursday evening, May
6. This program is under the direc
tion of Miss Mildred Petway, the
senior class sponsor. On Friday even
ing, May 7 the Commencement ad
dress will be made by Dr. H. J. Der
thick, president of Milligan College in
Tennessee. Prizes, metals and diplo
mas will be awarded. There are twen
ty members cf this years senior
class who expect to receive their di
plomas.
The public is cordially invited.
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR JUNIOR TE.4M
IN LEGION LEAGUE
HOSPITALIZATION
FOR TWO CENTS A
DAY IS EXPLAINED
Kiwanis Hear of Group Plan For
ISudgeting Their Possible
Casualties
(iRISETTE IS SPEAKER
His Pupils Win
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Si':indhills Youngsters To Com
pete in National Race For
Baseball Honors
Last night at a meeting attended
by the appointed representatives of
the combined civic organizations of
Southern Pines, sitting with the
American Legion Committee on the
Junior Baseball Program, plans were
virtually completed to place an Amer
ican Legion Junior Baseball team In
the field to represent the Sandhills.
There are still a few details to be
settled before the completed plans
are announced but the joint commit
tee expressed itself as well pleased
with developments to date and is con
fident that the local Junior Legion
team will give a good account of it
self in the forthcoming campaign.
The American Legion Junior Base-
(Please ttini fa page eight)
Music Festival Next
Thursday in S. P. School
PINEHURST VOTES
SUPPLEMENT FOR
9-MONTH SCHOOL
Overwhelming Majority For Ad
ditional Tax Assessment
Voted in District
LEVY IS 15 CENTS PER $100.
At the special election called last
Thursday at the Pinehurst Commun
ity House, V ters in the Pinehurst
School District voted 358 to 98 in
favor of the proposed additional
school tax assessment of 15c per
$100.00 of property valuation for the
purpose of improviii<? the existing
school facilities and the lengthening
of the school year.
Previous to the election Pinehurst
has been committed to an eight
months school year, but the outcome
of last Thursday’s balloting provides
for a nine months term. According
to Superintendent of Schools W. P.
Morton, the school term next year
will start one week earlier than in
previous years, Christmas vacation
will be curtailed by one week and
two weeks will be added at the end
of the regular school year. In that
way the additional month will be
made up.
The increased school tax assess
ment of 15c per $100.00 of property
valuation will, it is estimated, make
about $4,000.00 of additional funds
per annum available to be used to
meet the additional running expenses
that will be incurred through the ex-
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The two cents a day plan to take
care of hospital bills was explained
to members cf the Kiwanis Club of
Aberdeen Wednesday noon in the
Crystal Room of the Carolina hotel
in Pinehurst by Felix A. Grisette,
executive director of the Hospital
Saving Association of North Caro
lina, Inc. After telling the Kiwanians
that Noith Carclina was the first
state in the union adopting the plan
as covering the whole state, Mr.
Grisette told how it worked and so
interested the members that they
threw questions at him for half an
h ur after his talk had ended.
It seems that the plan originated
in the Carolina hotel, from a sug
gestion made by Dr. I. H. Manning
of Chapel Hill at a medical society
tUCUS TONIGHT
TO NAME MAYOR,
KKKI)KUK’K ST.ANLKY SMITH
Once again the Southern Pines
High School Glee Club has won first
place in the annual State Music con
test, held in Greensboro. The South-
No Opposition Seen For Stutz
for Reelection; Several in
Field for Board
ELECTION NEXT Tl ESDAY
With Election Day only four days
away, the voters of Southern Pines
will meet in town caucus tonight at
the high school auditorium to nomi
nate candidates for Mayor and Town
Commissioners, from which list of
nominees the offices will be filled a3
a result of the balloting scheduled
foi' Tuesday. May 4th.
Only qualified voters may partici
pate in the elections and, with the
registration b oks now open at the
office of the City Clerk. Howard
Burns, in the Municipal Building, all
persons who are qimlified to vote
should see that they are properly reg
istered.
The election will be held on Tues-
aay at the Municipal Building on
East Broad street and at that time
convention several years ago. Now it nr r' • i.
• * u .1, Pines club rightfully belongs in a Mayor and five Commissioners will
has grown to a point where there ®
Or/VA/A 1. . IVT .1 r. the list of Class C schools as it has; be elected from the hst of ncmmees
are 25,000 members in North Car- \ ' ■ ^
, ,, I a pupil enrollment of less than two i the caucus tonight,
olina al ne, more than one million ^ ' i i-v • ^ i
.. A 1 XT' 1 » ' hundred. Per the past two years, | During the last few days there has
in the nation. A Duke Endowment; * k • i ui i ••
' -fciT... Ji.»_ t 1 oi HI a rnA
gi ant helped to get it started and it's,
however, Mr. Smith has been hav-1 been considerable discussion on the
in
Dr. Graham Speaker
at Elise Graduation
Commencement Program^ for
Hemp School Opens With
Debate on May 5
.\MERIC.\N LEGION DRIVE
FOR MEMBERS UNDER W.\Y
for
an
The Commencement program
Eiise Academy, at Hemp was
nounced this week as follows:
Wednesday, May 5, 8:00 p. m.—
Debate, "Resolved: That the govern
ment should own and operate all elec
tric light and power utilities.”
Friday, May 7, 8:00 p. m.—Musi
cal Recital; Sunday, May 9, 11:00 a.
m.—Baccalaureate Sermon, the Rev.
W. S. Golden, Carthage; 8:00 p. m.
—Annual sermon before the young
people by the Rev. R. G. Mathescn,
Jackson Springs; Monday, May 10,
8:00 p. m.—Class Day Exercises,
‘‘The Open Road;’’ Tuesday, May 11,
10:30 a. m.—raduation Exercises, Ad
dress by Dr. Frank GraJiam, presi
dent of University of North Caro
lina: 2:00 p. m.—^Baseball Game,
Elise Academy vs. Southern Pines
High School; 8:00 p. m.—Annual
Senior Play, "Anything Might Hap
pen.”
The Music Festival given annually
by the pupils of the Southern Pines
Schools will take place in the school
auditorium next Thursday evening.
May 6 at 8:15 o’clock. Under the
direction cf Frederick Stanley Smith,
the public school music supervisor,
an interesting program has been pre
pared. Each grade from the first
through the high school will contrib
ute its share.
The program will consist of songs
in costume, action songs, rhythmic
drills, and melodic drills by the pu
pils of the primary grades; folk
songs, art songs, and rote songs in
two parts by pupils in the pre-high
school grades. The seventh grade
chorus will sing several three part
songs. The girls’ glee club and the
mixed chorus will sing numbers from
the works of Palestrina, Le Hale,
Bach, Brahms, and some Russian and
German folk songs. Some of the pri
mary grades will be accompanied at
the piano by pupils of Mr. Smith.
There will be a small admission
charge for this concert. Heretofore
these programs have been given free
to the public, but this year it is
hoped to realize a sum sufficient to
purchase new music books. The pro
ceeds of the concert are to go tO' this
fund.
On last Saturday, April 24th, Sand
hills Post No. 1344 of the American
Legion entered upon an intensive
membership drive aimed at increas
ing the post’s membership by about
one-third of its present number.
Commander Rassie Wicker of Pine
hurst has set a quota of three renew
als of membership or new members
per Legionnaire and each one who
makes his quota will receive a pair
of membedship wings, to be worn on
his Legion cap, to signify that
he has done his share in the cam
paign for new members. Statistics
show that approximately one-third
of the present American Legion roles
consist of a turnover imembership
and this campaign is aimed at cor
rection of that condition.
The campaign will conclude with a
meeting at Legion Hall, Maine ave
nue and Broad street. Southern Pines,
on Thursday evening. May 13th, at
8:00 o’clock. The entertainment com
mittee iu charge of this meeting will
consist of L. V. O’Callaghan, L. L.
Woolley and F. M. Dwight, and Com
mander Wicker and the committee
expect this to be the best meeting of
the season..
Dues'for new memberships and re
newals can be mailed or given to
Finance Officer O'Callaghan or Ad
jutant L. D. Williams.
been a snowball since. i
The idea is that organized groups j
of workers in plants, or clubs, or |
churches, may subscribe to the plan,
pay 60 cents a month and insure |
themselves against hospital bills. |
Any group is eligible as l-.ng as 501
percent of the group subscribes.
There is a 65-year old age limit,
however, but if you enroll before you
are 65 you keep on being covered af
terwards. If you have to go to a hos
pital, your bill for treatment is taken
care of for 21 days. You just give the
hospital manager your membership
card and he sends his bill to the as
sociation.
The plan helps the individual, the
hospital (through simplified collec
tions) and the doctors, the latter in
directly. For many doctors previous
ly have found that patients paid
their hospital bills and forgot to pay
them. Now they can pay the doctor
because they have already provided
fcr their hospitalization.
The Kiwanians were so interested
they are talking about taking out
membership as a group. The Moore
County Hospital, like practically all
hospitals in the state, are members
of the association—that is, they ac
cept the terms of the association and
bill the association for the members.
It was announced at the Kiwanis
meeting Wednesday that W. Kerr
Scott, State Commissioner of Agri
culture, would be the speaker at next
week’s meeting, to be held on Wed
nesday in the Community House at
Aberdeen.
ing the club compete with Class B; street regarding possible candidates.
j It appears, at the present thime, that
' there will be no opposition to the re-
I election of Mayor Dorsey G. Stutz.
It is understood, however, that he is
I making no intensive campaign for
I re-election. Mayor Stutz has been sit-
i ting with the Board of Commissioners
for 18 years, either as Mayor or
Commissioner.
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BURT SEES LACK
OF COOPERATIVE
EFFORT IN CITY
j Competition for Board
Old Spirit of Pulling Together: From reputable sources it has been
fcr Common Good Lacking, I learned that there will be strong com-
Author Tells Chamber petition for the Board of Commission-
I ers. The present incumbents, L. V.
Lack of the spirit of cooperation O'Callaghan, Charles T. Patch,
for the good of the community was George W. Case, Eugene C. Stevens
vociferously lamented by Struthers, and Dr. L. M. Daniels, will undoubt-
Burt at the meeting of directors of edly all stand for re-election and the
the Chamber of Commerce of Sou-[ following names are expected to be
HOMER J. FORSYTHE DIES
IN MOORE CO. HOSPITAL
Failing to rally from an operation
after peritonitis had set in. Homer J.
Forsythe of Montclair, N. J., and a
winter resident at Pinehurst for many
years, died yesterday afternoon in
Moore County Hospital. He was 52
years old.
Mr. Forsythe, a prominent member
ef the Tin Whistles Club at Pine
hurst Country Club, came to Pine
hurst about six weeks ago and has
been a guest at the Carolina Hotel.
Mr. Forsythe had been an execu
tive of General Motors Corpr'-ation
for the past 16 years.
Mrs. Forsythe and his daughter
were with him at the time of his
death.
Burial will be at Montclair, N. J.,
on Saturday.
them Pines. Mr. Burt stated that
when he first came here one of the
things that most impressed him was
the pulling together of all factions
for the common good. He says this
no longer seems to be the spirit of
the citizens, and he made a stirring
put in nomination in caucus th^s
evening: Robert L. Hart, Paul T.
Barnum, Alfred B. Yeomans, Herbert
N. Cameron and Hugh Bctterley.
While it is understood that the last
named group have signified their
willingness to allow their names to
plea for united effort, “one for all 1 jjg put in nomination for the Board
and all for one.”
The Chamber entertained as its
guests on Tuesday several citizens
prominent in horse and hunting activ
ities here, James and Jackson Boyd,
Almet Jenks, Mrs. W. O. Moss, Will
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Mrs. Heyward, Early
Settler Here, Passes
of Commissioners, there is an im-
penetratable atmosphere of secrecy
surrounding the situation and it is
improbable that any of them will def
initely commit themselves until the
caucus meets tonight.
As to policy, that of the present
Board is already well known and'it is
expected that other nominees will
make their pcsition clear between to
night and Tuesday morning,
j It is also possible that the matter
Was Charter Member and One of acquiring the prdperty adjoining
Time President of Civic Club i (piease fvn to page four)
in Southern Pines
200 Attend Annual
Thistle Club Picnic
Funeral services conducted by the
Rev. J. Fred Stimscn were held in
the Clark Funeral Home at 4:00
Wednesday afternoon for Mrs. An
nie Valentine Heyward, widow of the
late Charles P. Heyward. Ill for sev
eral months, Mrs. Heyward died
Wednesday morning at the New
England House, Southern
Bridge Follows Luncheon at
Country Club.—Mrs. Spaeth
Elected I^esident
The annual picnic of the Thistle
Pines I Club was held at the Southern Pines
C.\RL THOMPSON, JR., JOINS
NEWS & OBSERVER STAFF
Carl Thompson, Jr., of Southern
Pines, who has been managing edi
tor of the Sanford Herald for nearly
two years, has accepted a position on
the editorial staff of the Raleigh
News & Observer. He takes a place
made vacant by the resignation of E.
C. Daniel, Jr., of Raleigh who has
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where she had spent the winter.
Born in Freeport, N. Y., in 1855,
the daughter of Valentine Bergen,
and Elizabeth Carman Bergen,
prominent descendants of early set
tlers of Long Island, Mrs. Heyward
came to Pinehurst with her husband
at the turn of the century, and fol
lowing a few seasons there, to the
old Piney Woods Inn in 1904. In 1910
they built a home in a then undevel
oped section, at Massachusetts ave
nue and Weymouth Road, residing
there until 1928 when they built a
new home on Kensington road.
As a charter member of the Civic
Club Mrs. Heyward was active in its
affairs for many years, holding the
office of president, treasurer and va
rious chairmanships. A daughter,
M«. Florence Herr, of Bt*ston sur
vives.
Interment will be In the family
plot In Greenfield cemetery, Hemp
stead, N. Y.
Country Club on Wednesday of this
week with over two hundred pres
ent. This is the occasion when this
otherwise feminine organization lets
the bars down invites husbands and
friends as its guests. After Itmcheon.
thirteen tables of bridge were in play
with prizes for high score going to
Mrs. Earl Merrill, Mrs Jr^mes S.
Milliken, Mrs. Warren Cummings,
Mrs. Qteorge Proctor, Mrs. C. L. War
ner, Mrs. Elmer Davis, Mrs. Rachel
Richards, Mrs. E. V. Perk'ns, Mrs.
Walter Spaeth, Mrs. A. B. Bruce,
Mrs. Walter Ives, Mrs. E>nest Mor
rell and Miss Erma Fisher.
At the Thistle Club’s annual bu'!-
iness meeting a week ago, the fol
lowing officers were elected f r the
coming year. Mrs. Walter Spaeth,
president; Mrs. Harry Gage, vice-
president; Mrs. Charles Warner,
treasurer: Mrs. Greer Stutz, secre
tary; and Mrs. George Proctor, cor
responding secretary.