North Carolina Newspapers

iAY t i* C/.PC>L!NA ROOM MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 17, NO. 27. Jr >^arthaoe VASS evicw MAMUCY W»8T tHO I _ ,9^^ JAO<«<M SPRINOS 1 vaOUTHBRN Pines yplNBBLUFIt PILOT FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCl'LATION & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill ’ of North Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, May 28, 1937. KN, tj, ‘Oj, -“'Ar FIVE CENTS “JUNEBUGS”TAKE SECOND STRAIGHT FROM ASHEBORO Sandhills Win in lOih in Game Featured by Heavy Hitting and Errors TROY PLAYS HERE TODAY By BEN BOWDEN Combining singles by Bob Richard son and Leon Meivin and a scream ing double by Bill White in its half of the 10th, the Sandhills Junior American Legion team broke the | 10-10 deadlock that existed at the j end of the regulation nine innings,! and won, 12-10, over Asheboro’s Jun ior Legionnaires at Asheboro Tuesday afternoon to make it two in a row over Randolph county’s representa- j tives. Joe DeBeri'y’s "Junebugs” won | 8-7 at Southern Pines last Wednes-1 day. It was a game replete with er-; rors- 17 in all—but they came in; bunches and, except for the two in-1 nings w’hen the majority of the ‘ blunders occurred, it was a nip and. tuck ball game. | The game started off on a sour note and Sandhills Pitcher Alex Smith found himse'lf in back of the eight ball before he had the first op ponent out. I Dameron walked to open the In- j ning for Asheboro and Ellis was I safe on Huntley's error at second, • but Dameron, who had gone to third | on the play, tried to get home and! was run dowTi between third and | the plate. Bolton walked. Lowder- j milk bunted down the thind base, line and the throw to the plate toi cut off Ellis was wild. Ellis scored i and Bolton followed him across. Low- dermilk had gone to second on the wild throw to the plate and when Crews singled past second he came across with Asheboro’s third run of the inning. Haithcock walked, ad vancing Crews, an I f'rank Wright dropped a Texas leaguer in back of. first that scored Crews and sent j Haithcock to second. Then Fred Hen- ] ley doubled over second base and j scored Haithcock and Wright. ' At this point Smith’s cause looked! completely hopeless. Only one out and j six runs In. Many a lesser man, would have thrown In the sponge but Smith took a hitch in his trous ers, pitched a wide one to Catcher Curtis Wall who nipped Henley try ing to steal second, and then forced Dameron, up for the second time in the inning, to ground weakly to short and retire the side with six runs and five hits. Smith Settles Down Sandhills picked up t'vo runs in its half of the second when Neil Mel vin bounced one off the shortstop’s glove that was too hot to handle. Bill White was safe on an error at short, and Wall tripled lustily to right (Please turn to page four) Mrs. Page Named To County Welfare Board To Aid in Determining Allot- mentl of Social Security As sistance to County Residents At a special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners held last week, Mrs. J. R. Page of Aberdeen was appointed a member of the Moore County Welfare Board. M. G. Boyette of Carthage had previously been appointed by the State board, and accordiag to the State plan of organization, these two members will name a third member to complete the county board. The board will sit with the county commissioners and the county wel fare officer to decld<* the allotment of social security assistance to county residents. North Carolina’s Social Security law becomes effective July 1, and in order to calculate the State’s share of the federal appropriatdons, the Board of Allotments must be furn ished estimates from each of the 100 counties showtng the amount ot money desired for aged needy and for dependent children. JOHNL McKINNEY DIES AT HOME IN TITUSVILLE, PA. Southern Pines W'inter Resident, Pioneer in Oil Industry, Passes at 94 LEFT HERE RECENTLY Graduating: Class of Southern Pines Hig-h School John L. McKinney, of Titusville, Pa., and Southern Pines, one of the earliest and most successful Independ ent oil producers in Pennsylvania, a founder and director of the Ameri can Radiator Company and former president of the Commercial Bank of Titusville, died at his home in Titus ville last Friday. He was 94 years old. Mr. McKinney, ill here this win ter, was carried aboard a private car in Southern Pines recently and take nto his northern home. Mr. Mckinney was born in Pitts field, Pa., one of seven sons of James McKinney, a pioneer in northwestern Pennsylvania. His father owned large tracts of timber and farm land in Pennsylvania. land which became val uable after 1859 when the famous Drake well was drilled, blazing the way to extensive oil production in this country. In 1861 Mr. McKinney, then 19, entered the oil business. Four years later he was joined by a younger brother, the late J. C. McKinney. To gether they organized the firm of McKinney Brothers, which became one of the largest oil-producing firms In the early Pennsylvania fields. A few years later McKinney Bros, merged with the Union Oil Company, and in 1889 the Union Oil Company accepted an attractive offer from the Standard Oil Company. Mr. McKin ney and his brother spurned cash for their investment, and Instead took stock of the old Standard Tru.st from John D. Rockefeller and his asso ciates. Mr. Rockefeller put them at the head of his Pennsylvania produc ing Interests. The Rockefeller inter ests were combined in the South Penn Oil Company, and Mr. McKin ney remained its director for 25 years. When he resigned In 1918 he was vice-president of the company. Headed Oil Exchange Mr. McKinney was Interested early in efforts to stabilize the oil indus try. In this work he helped form the Titusville Oil Exchange in 1880. The exchange was the first clearing house designed specifically as a stabilizer. Mr. McKinney was Its president for years. In 1882 he aided in organizing the Commercial Bank of Titusville and became Its first president, remaining in that post 35 years. Mr. McKinney's affiliation with the American Radiator Company result ed from his part-ownership of the old Titusville Iron Works. In 1889 he and other Iron producers, including John B. Pierce and Clarence M. (Please turn to page four) i o. P. COUNTRY CLUB OFFERS TO LEASE COURSE TO TOWN Submits f’roposal P’or Consider ation of Mayor and Board of Commissioners BETTERLEY PRESIDENT Hugh J. Betterley was elected president of the Southern Pines Country Club at the annual meeting of stockholders held at the clubhouse last Friday afternoon. He succeeds M. G. Nichols, who declined to run for re-election. Vice - presidents elected were Struthers Burt, Southern Pines and Frank Shamburger, Aberdeen. James B. Swett was elected secretary and treasurer, succeeding J. C. Barron, who desired to retire from the ar duous duties he has performed in this post for several years. The following Executive Committee was elected; Mr. Nichols, Mr. Betterley. Mr. Bar ron, N. L. Hodgkins and Nelson C. Hyde. At a meeting of the Executive Committee held on Monday of this week, the members drafted a propos al to the Mayor and Board of Com missioners of Southern Pines for the Front Row—Harry Giles Adams, Sybil Brabble Rumley, James Henry Johnson, Mildred Elizabeth Pow ell, Robert Fred Arey, Mary Louise Chisholm, Carlyle McLeod Cameron, Dorothy Lucille Doub; Second Row- Charles Wesley Boney, Jr., Albertine Edith Maier, Joseph Patiick O’Callaghan, Claribel Margaret Williams, John '^“asing of the golf course and club- David Stephenson. Sarah Edith Matthews, Richard Emerson Lowell, Jane Armsby Kelley, John Dennis, Sitter-; house to the city. The matter will be son, Jr.; Third Row—Thomas Chandler Hardwick, Chailton H’mter Ross, Jr., Margaret Josephine Mulholland, i discussed at the next meeting of the Alexanc’er Poe Fields, Edythe Roselle Smith, James Edwin Newton, Winifred Baxter Kelley, Robert Sw(ann i ^^^n board. Brown. Twenty-Five in Graduating Class of Southern Pines High School Rev. Donald Stewart of Chapel Hill To Deliver Commence ment Address to Seniors Kiwanis Hears Spirited Talk by Dr. Cheatham Tells Members His Philosophy of Life and Pleads For Sand- | hills Solidarity Dr. Thaddeus A. Cheatham of Pinehurst told members of the lo cal Kiwanis Club, of which he was a charter member, his philosophy of life at their meeting Wednesday in the Community House at Aberdeen. “Work hard, but cheerfully and hap pily,” was Point No. 1, and ‘‘Don’t poison the Inner sources with ill will, with grudges, wrong kinds of stand ards and Ideas,” his second point. He pleaded for a Sandhills solidarity in spirit and action, rather than inter town jealousies and intrigues, and he praised the Kiwanis Club for what It has done and is doing along this line. Dr. Cheatham told the Klwanians that he had Just completed his 29th year as rector of the Village Chapel In Pinehurst,” and the longer I stay in the Sandhills the more I love it here,” he said. President Picquet aimounced a meeting of Kiwanis directors next Tuesday evening at 6:30 o’clock in Jack'a Grin. Commencement exercises of the Southern Pines High School will be gin with the baccalaureate sermon this Sunday evening. May 30, at the Church of Wide Fellowship at 8:15 o’clock. The Class Day exercises will be held at the High School auditor ium at 11:00 o’clock Thursday morn ing, June C!rd. The graduation exer cises will be the same evening in the auditorium at 8:15 o’clock. The Rev. F. Craighlll Brown, pas tor of Emmanuel Church, will preach the baccalaureate sermon; the Rev. | Donald Stewart, pastor of the Pres byterian Church of Chapel Hill, will give the commencement address. The personnel of the Senior Class is: Harry Giles Adams, Robert Fred Arey, Charles Wesley Boney, Jr., Robert Swan Brown, Carlyle McLeod Cameron, Mary Louise Chisholm, Dorothy Lucile Doub, Alexander Poe Fields, Thomas Chandler Hardwick, James Henry Johnson, Winifred Bax ter Kelley, Jane Armsby Kelly, Rich ard Emerson Lowell, Albertine Edith Maier, Sarah Edith Matthews, Mar garet Josephine Mulholland, James Edwin Newton, Joseph Patrick O’Cal laghan, Mildred Eli^^beth Powell. Charlton Hunter Ross, Jr., Sybil Brabble Rumley, John Dennis Sit- terson, Jr., Edythe .Roselle Smith, John David Stephenson, and Clari bel Margaret Williams. Of the 25 graduates, four more than the class of 1936, eleven are from Southern Pines, five from Manly, three from Pinedene, three from Nia gara, two from Aberdeen, and one from Pinebluff. The program for Sunday evening opens '.vith an organ prelude, “Sonata in D” played by Frederick Stanley' Smith. Following the Doxology, the' Rev. J. Fred Stlmson will give the invocation. A song, ‘‘Glory to God” by the High School Glee Club, and a Scripture reading by the Rev. Dr. I C. Rexford Raymond will be follow ed by prayer by the Rev. E. L. Bar- j ber. ‘‘EJaster Folk Song” will be sung by the Glee Club, with the sermon' by the Rev. Mr. Craighlll Brown to follow. The program for Class Day will be | as follows: Address of Welcome, j Charles Ross; Class Historian, Mil dred Powell; Class Statistician, Thomas Hardwick; Song, "Little David,” by the Glee Club; Address by J. D, Sitterson, ‘‘One HundrcW Years of Secondary Education In North Car- (Please turn to page four) 5 Kittedjn 1937 Since January 1st five persons have been killed and three serious ly injured in automobile accidents in Moore county. Three of the deaths and all of the Injuries oc curred In colllsslons between au tomobiles and the other two fa talities were the result of car.i striking pedestrians on the road. On February 7, Charles C. Mi lam and William Milam, Jr., of Southern Pines were killed and Truman Fowler of Southern Pines was seriously injured in an acci dent just south of Pinebluff. On March 5, Tommie Matthews, colored, was killed when struck by a passing car as he alighted from the car in which he had been riding. On April 6, John Teague of Hemp died shortl;* after being run down on the highway by a truck. And last Saturday Shonls Soh- ners of Brooklyn, N. Y., met his death and P. K. Andrews of Car- dolis, Pa., and Albert Gaunt of Wilmington, Del., were seriously injured when two cars collided on a curve at Lakevlew. N. Y. Manufacturer Killed in Auto Crash Shonis Sohners of Brooklyn Dead, Two Seriously Injured in Head-On Collision One man was killed and three were injured, two seriously, when a road ster driven by P. K. Andrews of Car- dolis. Pa., representing a Philadel phia tourist agency, and carrying Al bert Gaunt, Wilmington, Del., hitch hiker as a passenger, crashed into a panel truck belonging to the Trian gle Jobbing Corp., 120 E. Broadway, New York City on a sharp curve in Lakevlew, seven miles north of South ern Pines early last Saturday after noon. Shonis Sohners, 41, of 523 Cleve land Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., one of the partners in the Triangle Jobbing Company, was instantly killed and David Gouldln, son of another part ner and the driver of the truck, es caped with only slight Injuries. Both Andrews and Gaunt are In Lee County Hospital at Sanford, N. C., where doctors describe their con dition as serious but not critical. An- (Please turn to page eight) CARTHAGE, HEMP, WEST END NEED BIGGER SCHOOLS Grand Jury Finds Crowded and Unhealthy Conditions in Three Towns Big- Reduction in Cost of School Books Here LESS RECKLESS DRIVING New Law To Save Pupils in Elementary Grades An Aver age of $1.25 Each The Hemp graded school, the West End school and the Carthage graded school should all be renovat ed and enlarged, according ot a rec ommendation of the Grand Jury to Judge Wilson Warlick, who presid ed at the May 17th term of Super ior Court in Carthage. Other rec ommendations Included a new’ build ing for Eagle Springs colored school, continued improvement in school buses, better janitor service and im proved sanitary conditions in the county court house. One paragraph of the report reads; “We have had numerous Incidences called to our attention of reckless driving while under the influence of liquor and further evidence is seen; by the number of cases presented to us. It Is gratifying to learn that the | Recorder’s docket shows a marked i Improvement In the number of such | cases during the past two months.” i The Grand Jury’s report, signed by I (Please turn to page four) j Parents nad guardians of school children in Moore county during the term 1937-38, beginning next Septem ber, will enjoy an average reduction in school book cost for the year of $1.25 per pupil for the elementary grades 1-7. This is made possible be cause the State Legislature of 193T enacted a law providing for free ba sal textbooks for pupils in the elem entary grades below the high school. It does not Include supplementary readers. It will be necessary to charge rent for these as In the past. The high school rental fees will the same as last year. The following table will show the rental fee charg ed last year for both basal and sup plementary books, and the rental fee for next year for supplementary books only. The net reduction in cost as a result of the free basal text book law is shown by deduction: Grade Cost All Cost Suppleniea- Booka 36-<37 1.10 1.10 1.80 1.80 2.40 2.40 2.40 tary Books Only. 1936-37 .50 .50 .60 .60 .60 .70 .70 Rev. Stimson’s Mother Dies at Lenoir Home Local Pastor, at Her Bedside as End Came, Conducted the Funeral Service Seriously ill for the past few weeks, Mrs. Charles C. Stimson, aged 7V years, mother of the Rev. J. Fred Stimson, pastor of the Southern Pines^ Baptist church, died in her home at Lenoir Tuesday afternoon. The home was banked with floral offerings from many friends of the beloved woman as her son conducted the fun eral sei-vlces Wednesday afternoon. She is survived by two sons, Mr. Stimson and Clary C. Stimson of Le noir, and a sister, Miss Clara Powell, also of Lenoir. Mr. Stimson, who has been at his mother’s bedside during her Illness, has the deep sympatliy of hla con gregation In Southern Pines and a host of friends In the Sandhills. The Kiwanis Club of which he Is a past president, passed resolutions of sym pathy at Its meeting on Wednesday. Since there will be approxiiriately 5,000 elementary children enrolled in the Moore county schools next year, this will amount to a reduction in cost for all the patrons of the county of $6,250.00 annually. Counties that did not install the rental system will (Please turn to page f'r<>) MBS. MARKIJ:, MOTHER OF MRS. WILSON, DIES HEKE AT 88 Mrs. ESmlly Markle, aged 88 years, died in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emile Allen Wilson, on Orchard Road, Southern Pines early Tues day morning. Born In Pottsville, Pa., on January 27, 1849, the daughter of Isaac May and Mary Sterling May, Mrs. Markle, the widow of Martin Markle, came from Shamokin, Pa., t> Southern Pines six years ago. Following the ancient custom of the church, Mrs. Markle’s body rest ed in St. Anthony's R. C. Churcl'. from Wednesday evening until the ceremonial burial mass performed by the Rev. T. A. Williams at 10:30 o’clock yesterday morning. Mrs. Markle Is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Emile Allen W'llson; one granddaughter, Emllle May Wil son, both of Southern Pines, and two grandsons, Neville and Richard.