MOOKE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 17, NO. 85.
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CIRCULATION &
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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen,
Carolina. May 14, 1937.
CITY BOARD VOTES
EXTENSIVE ROAD
IMPROVEMENTS
To Proceed at Once With Work
on Broad St.. Conn., Pennsyl
vania and N. Y. Avenues
TARVIA FOR BENNETT ST.
Twenty Awarded Diplomas
at Pinehurst High School
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FIVE CENTS
Dr. Derthick Graduation Speak-
Many Prizes and Medals
Are Presented
Alumni President
At a special meeting of the South- j
ern Pines Board of Commissioners
called Tuesday afternoon at the Mun
icipal Building and attended by Com
missioners Stevens, O’Callaghan,
Patch and Betterley, it was unani
mously decided to proceed at once
with the following street projects
within the town limits:
Reconditioning and the application
of a seal coat on Broad street from
Pennsylvania avenue to Covmectlcutt
avenue; on Connecticut avenue from
West Broad street to Page street and
on Pennsylvania avenue for 400 to 500
yards on either side of the branch,
as may be deemed necessary by the
engineers.
The application of a new tarvia
surface on New York avenue from W.
Broad street to Bennett street and i
the application of a like surface on j
Highland road from Massachusetts |
avenue to Indiana avenue. |
The foregoing projects have been j
u.ider consideration at previous meet
ings and awaited only the settling
of a few minor details before pas
sage.
Two new matters that came up for
consideration, and that passed unan
imously, were the application of
tarvia surface on Bennett street from
Massachusetts avenue to Wisconsin
avenue and on East Broad street from
Massachusetts avenue to Wisconsin
avenue with the proviso that the Blast
Broad street project be held up pend- j
Ing the receipt of a petition of the \
fronting property owners agreeing to
an assessment coveri»ig their propor
tionate share of the cost of the work.
Work on the above Improvements
is to be started at once and the ap
proximate date of completjion has
been set at June fifth.
Music Festival Scores
Hit at High School
All Grades Take Part and Raise
$75.00 Toward School’s Mus
ic Library
With an attendance of nearly 300
enthusiastic patrons who roundly ap
plauded the all too short program,
the music pupils of the Southern
Pines High School presented their
fifth annual Music Festival In the
high school auditorium last Thurs
day night and raised an estimated
sum of $75.00 with which to augment
the school’s music library.
Frederick Stanley Smith and Miss
Selma Stegall prepared and dlrected-
the program and they deserve no
end of praise for the thorough man
ner in which they have trained the
students and the deftness with which
the program wa^ presented.
Every grade in the school, from
the first of the primary school to
the high school glee club and the
mixed chorus, had a part in the pro
gram and, although the well trained
older groups provided the high spots
of the evening with their masterful
performance, the audience was amaz
ed at the harmony and unity of the
work of the youngsters in the lower
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On Summer Schedule
Stores in Southern Pines To
Close Wednesday Afternoons
Effective Next Week
Merchants of Southern Pines. *
with the exception of druggists
and restaurant owners, have sign
ed a petition for Wednesday after
noon closing during the summer
months, and starting next Wednes
day, May 19th, the half-hollday
program goes into effect. Aber
deen stores are expeccov^ to close
Wednesday afternoon, but will not
inaugurate their summer schedule
until later.
The Commencement exercises of
the Pinehurst Public Schools closed
with the graduation of twenty sen
iors last Friday night. Dr. H. J. Der
thick of Milligan College made the
address of the evening. He was in
troduced by the Rev. Dr. T. A. Cheat
ham of the Village 1,'hapel.
The programs began with the Jun
ior-Senior banquet at the Carolina
on Friday evening, April 27. The
baccalaureate sermon was delivered
on Sunday morning. May 2 in the
Pinehurst Community Church by the
Rev. James Appleby of Maxton.
The music recital was given under
the direction of Miss Mary Rawlln-
son on Wednesday evening in the
studio of the high school building.
The seventh grade exercises follow
ed on Thursday morning, Dr. D. E,
Earnhardt of Louisburg College mak
ing the address to the members of
the class. Clarice Richardson won the
prize as the best girl speaker and
Watson Smith. Jr. as the best boy
speaker.
The Senior Class-Day program un
der the direction of Miss Mildred
Petway was one of the high light of
Commencement week. Melvin Wicker,
presiJent of the class, presided. The
isalutatory address on graduation
night was given by James Black and
the valedictory was delivered by Wil
lie Kennedy. Miss Sammie Farlow,
class musician, gave "Venetian Love!
Song” as her piano selection, Joe i
Montesantl, Jr., class orator, “The
Nation’s Need of Men" as his ora
tion.
Prizes and Medals
Prizeis and medals were award
ed by W. L. Cunningham and Supt.
W, P. Morton as follows;
For most improvement in writing
by boys of the eighth grade, won by
Lewis Gold and Willie Martin; the
Dunlop cash prizes for the highest
grades made by pupils of the eighth
grade, Billy Viall and Esther Moore:
cash prize of $5.00 given by a friend
of the school to the member of the
Senior class who made the highest
grade in English for the four years,
Miss Sammie Farlow; cash prize of
$5.00 given by the same friemd of
the school to the member of the
Senior class who made the highest
Latin grade for two years, Willie
Kennedy. The American Legion Cit
izenship medal also went to Willie
Kennedy.
The honor of having their names
placed on the Intra-mural Sports
school placques want to Bertie Black
and Billy Tate of the Elementary
school and to Juanita Currie and
Junior Montesantl of the High School.
This distinct honor also went to the
third grade of the Elementary School
and to the ninth grade of the high
school. James Black and Flora Mae
McKenzie won the Gertrude W. Tufts
books for receiving the second high
est loyalty votes. The Leonard Tufts
loyalty medals were won by Sammie
Farlow and Joe Montesantl, Jr.
The Rev. A. J. McKelway present
ed diplomas to the following mem
bers of the Senior class: Juanita Cur
rie, Sammie Farlow, Jeanette Frye,
Louise Lewis, Flora Mae McKenzie,
Betsey Oglesby, Elsie 'Thomas, Mettle
Tucker, Melba Wicker, Roderick Bal
lard, Jr., James Black, Edgar Du
pree, Paul Garrison, Willie Kennedy,
Wellons McKenzie, Joe Montesantl,
Jr., Henry Solomon, George Stuart,
Chris Wallace and Melvin Wicker.
MORTON
Presiding over the annual lunch-1
eon of the North Carolina Peabody j
College Alumni Association, held re- j
cently in the Washington-Duke Hotel I
in Durham, was Pinehurst’s W. P. I
Morton, president of the organiza- i
tion during the past year, Mr, Mor-
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WORK STARTS ON
NEW POSTOFFICE
MIDDLE OF JULY
Construction Bids To Be Opened
by Treasury Department
on Friday, June 11
HEMP MAN FATALLY
INJURED IN AUTO WRECK
Fletcher Brown, 37, of Hemp, died
early Wednesday morning in Hlgh-
smith Hospital from Injuries sustain-
ed in an automobile accident last
Sunday afternoon when his automo
bile left the road and turned over
three and one half miles west of
Fayetteville. He was thrown through
the top of the car and sustained se
vere head and chest Injuries.
Miss Thelma Hinson of Aberdeen,
who was riding with him, escaped
serious injury and was not detained
at the hospital.
Word was received early this week
from the office of S. W. Purdum,
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gener
al, that bids for the construction
of the proposed new Southern Pines
Post Office building were now be
ing advertised throughout the area
and that all bids received would be
opened In the office of the Procure
ment Division of the Treasury De
partment on Friday, June 11.
P. Frank Buchan, Southern Pines
Postmaster, stated that the contract
would be let Immediately following
that date and that construction work
should begin soon after the middle of
July.
Li^htnin^ Hits Houses
in Southern Pines
Fire Department Answers Alarm
From John Y. Boyd House.
Mrs. Kennedy Slightly Burned
“JOE” DEBERRY,
EX-BIG LEAGUER,
TO COACH HERE
With Legion Junior Team Al
most a Certainty, He and
McMillan Are “Signed”
ASHEBORO HERE MAY 19
By BEN BOWDEN
With funds for the support of the
American Legion Junior Ba.seball
team coming in slowly but surely
to Treasurer E. Levis Prizer, the
committee of representatives of the
sponsors of the movement are going
ahead with their plan.s to put such a
team in the field to represent the
Sandhills and have simultaneously
announced that they have secured
the services of Joseph G, (Joe) De
Berry and Vance McMillan as coach
es of the team and that on Wednes
day, May 19, they will assemble all
prospective Sandhills candidates at
the Southern Pines ball diamond for
a practice game against the Junior
Legion team from Asheboro.
Last Saturday afternoon the first
practice game of the season brought
together a Lakeview-Vass-Southern
Pines combination opposing Pine
hurst and West End representatives.
The former team won by a score of
6 to 1 and the game gave observers
a good working knowledge of the
abilities ot the various candidates.
The game against Asheboro, how
ever. will be stronger fare for the
spectators. Asheboro has had a
Junior Legion team for several years
and It has always figured promin
ently in the title race.
In 1935 Asheboro was the only
team to defeat Gastonia, the team
that later went on to win the na
tional championship, and last year
Asheboro reached the finals of the
Central district play only to be de
feated there by High Point. The
game next Wednesday, then, bids
fair to be something in the nature
of a nip and tuck affair and will
certainly serve as a measuring stick
for the pre-season chances of the
local combination. After next Wed
nesday Coaches DeBerry and Mc
Millan should have an excellent Idea
of the calibre of their squad and
know just what to expect from them
as the season progresses.
Biff LeagiFii Coach
Joe DeBerry, who is now employed
by the American Tobacco Company,
yind a long and colorful career in
baseball. After he was graduated
from North Carolina State in 1920,
he went directly up to the St. Louis
Americans where he was the Bob
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Resigns Pastorate
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.R. RAYMOND
1)K. C. KEXFORD KAY.MOND
WORK PROGRESSES
RAPIDLY ON GOLF
COURSE CHANGES
A freakish electrical storm, the
first of the season and the sharpest
for many years, swept out of the
southwest and over Southern Pines at
8:00 o’clock Wednesday evening. Dur
ing the short duration of the storm
the driving sheets of rain were illum
inated by vivid flashes of lightning
and the sparkle of wires.
Several houses were struck, for
tunately without serious damage ex
cept to nerves. A bolt glancing from
a la'! pine struck the gable end of
the Mrs. John Y. Boyd house now
occupied as the Southern Pines
School for Girls. The services of the
fire company responding to a still
alarm were not needed. The home of
Mrs. Winona Goodwill on Orchard
Road was struck as was that of
George Watson on Indiana avenue.
A flash entering the living room of
the Ted Kennedy house on Ashe
street slightly burned Mrs. Kennedy.
Another bolt struck the home of Mrs.
J. N. Mills on West Broad street, and
■still another flashed into the kit
chen of the Olive restaurant.
DR. E, W. BUSH NAMED TO
STATE POST BY GOVERNOR
45 CRIMIN.4L CASES ON
CALENDAR HERE NEXT WEEK ]
Governor Hoey announced Tuesday
the appointment of Dr. Ernest W.
Bu^ of Southern Pines to the State
Board of Obteopathlc E2xamination.
Dr. Bush succeeds Dr. A. H. Healy of
Goldsboro.
The May term of the Moore Coun
ty Superior court, Hon. Wilson War-
lick, presiding judge, opens on Mon
day, May 17, at the courthouse In
Carthage, with 45 criminal cases set
for trial through Thursday, the 20th.
Outstanding on the calendar ar«
four murder cases to be tried against
Fred Freeman, Ollie Bean, Henry Mc
Cormick and Dan Williams respec
tively. Manslaughter cases include
those against James Horner, Luke
Pearson, Clarence Harvell, Curtis
Sheffield, Everett Sheffield and O.
C. Blackwood,
Last week The Pilot pointed out
the dangerous rate of increase In
drtmken driving cases in Moore
county and the criminal calendar of
this term of the Superior court lists
ten previously undisposed of cases
involving reckless and drunken driv
ing.
MOORE IN 6TH DISTRICT OF
STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM
The recently appointed State High
way and Public Works Commission
adjourned last Wednesday afternoon
at Raleigh after dividing the state
into ten maintenance districts. Moore
county was assigned to the sixth
district along with Randolph, Hoke,
C3iatham, Lee, Harnett, Scotland and
Robeson.
The new highway system will be
come effective July 1.
New Grass Greensi I‘ut Down on
Pinehurst’s No. 1; 60 Men
Busy at Pine Needles
NEW WING A YEAR Ob F
Hardly waiting for the last of the
winter season golf enthusiasts to
pouf the sand out of their shoes and
depart for the north, two of the
Sandhills golf courses are already
well along in their transition from
sand greens to grass greens.
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At Pinehurst Country Club, Don
ald Ross and Frank Maples have had
several squads of men working on
the No. 1 course for nearly a month
and the sand greens have been torn
up, the new greens have been put
down and rolled and graded, and the
Beimuda grass base has been plant
ed. From now on it's only a ques
tion of allowing the Bermuda base
to grow throughout the summer and
planting a rye grass putting surface
early in the fall. Pinehurst’s No. 1
will be in readiness for the van
guard of next season’s golfers.
The Pine Needles in Knollwood is
also making the change from sand
greens to grass greens and within
the last week 60 men have gone to
work on the course under the direc
tion of Angus Maples. The problem
at Pine Needles is somewhat more
complex than it is at Pinehurst in
asmuch as it calls for the installa
tion of a complete watering system
to properly care for the grass greens j
once they are constructed. i
At the present writing all of the!
sand greens have been torn up and j
the work of grading and rolling the |
new putting surfaces is progressing l
apace with the Installation of Ll.c
pipe fines around the course. The
water supply system will be com
pleted some time around the middle
of June, at just about the same time
that the new greens are ready for,
their Bermuda base planting, and
that will leave plenty of time to
have the new grass greens at Knoll
wood in readiness for the first of the
Pine Needles guests next fall.
Latest advices from the Patuxent
Corporation, owners of Pine Needles,
are to the effect that the proposed
addition of the new wing and the
separate dining ir>om to the present
building will be postponed until next
spring. Plans for these additions
have not been finally approved ana
it is thought that the work could
not be completed In time this year
to avoid annoyance to gyests at Pine
Needles next fall.
TO RETIRE FROM
ACTIVE MINISTRY
Submits Resignation as Pastor
of Church of Wide Fellow
ship in Southern Pines
ELIGIBLE FOR ANNUITY
The Rev, Dr, C. Rexford Raymond
last Sunday announced to the con
gregation of the Church of Wide Fel
lowship, Southern Pines, his resigna
tion as pastor of the church. A spec
ial meeting of the church has been
called for Wednesday. May 19th to
take action and if the resignation is
accepted plans for securing a suc
cessor will be formulated at that
time.
Dr. Raymond assumed the pastor
ate of the local church nearly three
years ago, succeeding the Rev, El
mer Willis Seri. During his residence
here he has been actively interested
in civic as well as religious affairs
and has been a vital force for good
in the community. Deeply regretted
as is his decision to retire from the
active pastorate of the church, his
■Statement that he plans to continue
his residence here is pleasant news to
the neighborhood.
In his announcement on Sunday
Dr. Raymond said:
“September 1st will mark the end
of my third year of ministry among
you. This year also marks the time
when my ministerial annuity begins
because of my annual payments to
the Annuity Fund and the comple
tion of the required number of year.s
of ministerial service. Counting mv
three years of st’dc-nt service as
pastor and assistant pastor and the
years spent as a teacher of religion
in college, this is the 40th year of
my ministry. I am deeply grateful to
God for His goodness in perimttin'?
me to serve these many years and to
enjoy the fellowship of so many loy
al workers in His kingdom. Your fi
delity to the ideals of Christian ser
vice and the love which so many of
you have shown me and my family
will ever make these last three years
happily memorable.
40 Y'ears of Service
“After consuiimg my family and
advising with ministerial friends and
the official heads of our denomina-
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Kiwanis Hears Talk
By C. P. & L. Official
Club Votes to Petition For
Change of Name to Kiwanis
Club of the Sandhills
(iENE TUNNEY HERE IN
HOMER CUMMINGS’ P.\RTY
Gene Tunney, retired undefeated
heavy-weight champion of the world,
is spending a week at the Carolina
Hotel in Pinehurst as the guest of
U. S. Attorney General Homer S.
Cummings. The Attorney General’s
party arrived by plane at the Knoll
wood airport on Monday and will re
turn to Washington the first of next
week.
Thomas Dunlap of Raleigh, direc
tor of Employe Welfare of the Caro
lina Power and Light Company, made
an inspirational talk on the subjec-
of “The Principle of Service” befo.'e
the Kiwanis Club at its weekly meet
ing held in the Aberdeen Cwimu.. ■
ity House last Wednesday. He was ir-
troduced by John Howarth.
J. Talbot Johnson, a charter mem
ber of the Kiwanis Club and a p
president, proposed at this week'.5
meeting that the official name of the
club be changed from tiu "Kiwa.i
Club of Aberdeen” to the Kiwanis
Club of the Sandhills, inasmuch a3
it Is an organization of all the San:'-
hllls towns rather than exclusivelv-
Aberdeen. He pointed out that at the
time of organization Kiwanis Inter
national required that the nani
one town be designated, but that it
was his opinion this could now be
changed to make the official desig
nation more fitting. His motion
seconded by three other Aberdeer,
members, J. Vance Rowe, Dr. E. M.
Medlin and O. Leon ....eymoui,
passed. The club Is to p.t;tion ...-
ternational body for t.ic chan j
name.
Col. G. P. Hawes at Wednesday’s
meeting made a plea for action by
the club to save the young long leaf
pines planted around the SanUhills,
stating that they were being mutilat
ed and pulled up by tourists and oth
ers. It was suggested that .
rlous town authorities In the s c.ija
be asked to put up signs warn
pie against such deprp.iaviona. .a
that fines be imposrd.