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VOL. 17, NO. 42. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Fridav, September 10, 1937. ‘’'V/%^ FIVE CENIS
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SEABOARD’S GOLF
OUTING ATTRACTS
RECORD NUMBER
Bishop To Open Notre Dame Academy
Members and Guests Here For
11th Annual Tournament
Total 275
HARTLEY TRIPLE WINNER
With the exception of a passing
shower shortly after 1:00 o’clock
Monday afternoon, just as their tour
nament was drawing to a close, the
Seaboard golfers were favored with
their usual perfect September weath
er for the annual tournament played
over the links of the Southern Pines
Country Club on Saturday, Sunday
and Labor Day.
The contestants and the* friends
met in greater numbers than ever be-
fore, the membership of the associa
tion and their guests registering a to
tal of 275, all thoroughly enjoying
every minute of their stay.
Among the ranking officers of the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad present
were L. R. Powell, Jr., Receiver; C.
E. Bell, Passenger Traffic Manager;
H. A. Benton, General Manager; G.
R. Carlton, Assist. Gen’l. Manager;
T. W. Parsons, Ass’t. Gen’l. Manager;
J. C. Wroton, Gen’l. Supt. Trans
portation; G. B. Rice, Chief Freight
Traffic Officer; E W. Long, Ass’t.
Fieight Traffic Manager; C. E. Mul
ler Freight Traffic Manager; C. H.
Gattis, Ass’t. Passenger Traffic Man
ager and W. D. Simpson.
Prominent among the guests were
Harvey Wilson, of the Chamber of
Commerce, Savannah; W. P. Veit and |
O. W. Snoddy of Philadelphia; A. W.
Carey, Barney Ireland, Harry Knight,
K. Landgrebe, Fred Owens, and G. A.
Mattison, all of Birmingham; W. T.
Gill, Charlotte; H. C. Avery and M.
J. King of Jacksonville; O. O. Mills.
Washington, D. C.; A. F. Duckett,
Durham, and A. M. Smith, Richmond.
Va. Many officers of the R. F. & P.
R. R. were present, including W. A.
Aiken, W. C. Carrick and J. B. Mor
decai of Richmond.
Cup Winners
The three principal cups, “Powell,”
"Bagwell,” and “Southern Pines
Country Club” w«re presented at the
general meeting at 4:00 o’clock Mon
day afternoon, the Powell cup to J.
C. Bennett of Hamlet, and the Bag-
well and Country Club cups to B. C.
Hartley of Charlotte. Hartley also
won the putting contest. E. L. Cook of
Norfolk, Va., won the Association
Championship cup, and W. Call of
Richmond, Va., the Visitor’s cup. Over
80 other prizes were presented to
flight winners and runners-up among
the 200 contestants.
Concluding the general meeting in
the Highland Pines Inn came the elec.
tion of officers for the coming year,
W. D. Simpson being elected presi
dent, C. H. Gattis first vice president,
and J. C. Brady secretary and treas
urer. As last season, the Inn was
general headquarters for the major
ity of the membership and their
guests. About 60 were accommodated
in the Park View, and a smaller num
ber In the Belvedere. Alfred Grover,
assisted by Richard Sugg, officiated
at the club and kept the event run
ning as scheduled for the visitors.
NEW VETERINARY
HOSPITAL TO BE
BUILT THIS FALL
Dr, J. I. Neal Acquires Property ,
on Midland Road for Treat
ment of Animals
Two Warehouses, Under New
Management, Prepared For
Influx of Briglif Leaf Crop
! TO BREAK GROUND SOON
New School on Youngs Road To Be Formally Opened Sunday
With Speeches by Bishop Hafey, Mayor Stutz
and Sup’t. of Schools Webster
On next Sunday, September 12, at
1:00 o’clock, there will take place at
Notre Dame Academy, Southern
Pines the ceremony of the Blessing
and Formal Opening of the school, at
which the Moat Rev. William J. Hafey,
D. D., Bishop of Raleigh, will pre
side. Other speakers for the occaion
will be Mayor Dorsey G. Stutz and
Superintendent of Schools Frank W.
Webster of Southern Pines.
Residents of Southern Pines are ac
quainted, with the attractive grounds
of the new Academy which offer fa
cilities for various school activltle3.
There are, besides the swimming pool,
courts for tennis and other field
games, a lake for boating, and beau
tiful bridle paths.
The original dwelling will be the
Administration Building, while nearoy
there have been erected an attrac
tive auditorium and an eight-room
school-house with classrooms and
laboratories for grammar and high
school grades. A school bus will con
vey all pupils desiring transportation
to and from their homes.
The new school, w’hich occupies the
former winter residence of Mr. and
^ Mrs. Walter S. Halliwell, is expected
; to become a center from which much
; good will come to the people of the
I Sandhills.
Eatman Tells Kiwanis
of Sandhills Project
Gives Interesting Picture ofj
Land Utilization Program on j
63,000 Acres Near Hoffman
Many Improvements in
Aberdeen During Year
Children’s Playground, Lake
Shore BeautiHcation Are
Among New Civic Assets
JUl>OE STACK, PREDECESSOR
OF DON PmiXIPS, DIES
Judge A. M. Stack, former Superior
Court judge, who has presided in this
county on numerous occasions, died
last Thursday. He was one of the
most popular judges in this district
and was known as a fearless jurist.
As a young man, he practiced law
in Monroe. At one time, he was the
partner of Judge John J. Parker, now
a Judge In the federal courts. He
served aa solicitor before he was
elected to the bench to succeed Judge
Walter Brocke, of Wadesboro and
Asheboro.
In 1934, Judge Stack retired from
the bench and was succeeded by
Judge Don Phillips of Rockingham.
Since that time, he has done private
practice In his home town of Mom-
roe.
Frank W. Eatman, In charge of the
Lend Utilization project at Hoffman,
told members of the Kiwanis Club of
Aberdeen on Wednesday what the
government Is attempting to accom
plish there, and invited them to hold
one of their future meetings on the
grounds to “see for yourselves” the
extent of the work done and to be
done.
Terming the main idea In the pro
gram “the wise and better use of
land,” Mr. Eatman went into the
various phases of the project which
iBvolves the development of 63,000
acrcs of land. He told of the forest
nursery which has produced 12,000,-
OOO plants this year, of the fish hat
chery which will eventually mean
from two to 3,000,000 fish a year, of
the game farm which Is expected
to produce 5,000 quail and 1,500 tur
keys annually, of plans for the o|ily
wild life research laboratory In this
part of the country, of the game re
fuge area which will eventually mean
shooting privileges in the vicinity
“and should prove to be a hunter’s
paradise;” of the building of seven
lakes for fishing; of the ten cabins,
fully furnished and equipped and now
available for use by tourists or oth-
eis; of the extensive reforestation
program, and of the plans for the
group camp which will provide fa
cilities for encampments, outings,
etc. for 4-H clubs. Boy and Girl
Scouts, agricultural groups and such.
The Kiwanians left their weekly
meeting, held at the Plnehurst Com
munity Church, with a real concep
tion of the Sandhills project, and .with
plans in the making for holding a
meeting there In the near future.
STATE LANDSCAPE ENGINEER
A SOUTHERN PINES GUEST
Aberdeen will have many improve
ments to show the visiting tobacco
farmers when they start their visita
tions to market next week. Since the
market closed last winter a cam
paign of beautification has been wag
ed, with splendid results. Eyesores
have been removed in the business
section, a playground for children
laid out, a new filling station and
restaurant established on the site of
the former Carolina Discount Corpor
ation offices, a new plant construct
ed for the Taylor Chemical Com
pany, new sidewalks laid on the prin
cipal streets, several new homes
built, a few new business establish
ments opened up, and the shores of
the Aberdeen Lake transformed into
a real bathing and recreation park.
It has been a progressive year for
the tobacco town, and the present
city administration, with the coop
eration of civic groups, is not through
with Its program yet. Still further im
provements are contemplated, their
nature as yet unannounced.
Aberdeen Is efficiently governed at
present by Mayor Frank D. Sham-
burger and the following Board of
Commissioners; W. D. Caviness, J. D.
McLean, H. A. Gunter, W. H. Me
NeiU and C. L. Guion. Mrs. E>elyn H.
Pleasants is clerk and accountant;
K. G. Deaton chief of police, C. E.
Brasington fire chief and E, O. Free
man building inspector. The city’s at
torneys are Johnson & McCluer.
OFFICIAL NAME OF LOCAL.
KIWANIS CLUB IS CHANGED
F. H. Brant, of Raleigh, Land
scape EJngineer of the State High
way and Public Works Commission,
was a guest of t)r. G. G. Herr, yes
terday. Mr. Brant met with the
Planting and Beautification Com
mittee of the Southern Pines Cham
ber of Commerce, and spent some
time surveying the streets and eve*
nues of Southern Pines.
The name of the Kiwanis Club of
Aberdeen has been officially changed
by Kiwanis International to the Ki
wanis Club of the Sandhills. The ap
plication for a change of name waa
made recently by the local organiza
tion which, though it was launched in
Aberdeen In 1922, has since become
more of a county-wide club. The mem
bership embraces Aberdeen, Carthage,
Plnehurst and Southern Pine*.
A modern veterinary hospital is to
be provided f'lr the Sandhills this
winter.
Dr. J. I. Neal, prominent Southern
Pines veterinarian, has acquired fivp
acres of land adjoining the course
of the Sandhills Steeplechase & Ras
ing Association on the Midland Road
and has plans in preparation for a j
building for the care and treatment
of horses and dogs. He expects to
break ground early this fall and hopes
to have the building in readiness for
the winter season. The land was ac
quired recently from Jackson H,
Boyd.
Dr. Neal has just returned from a
trip through several states where he
inspected veterinary hospitals with
an idea to incorporating in his hos
pital here the very latest arrange
ments and equipment. He visited
some of the leading institutions of
the kind In the horse breeding cente''
of America, around Louisville and
Lexington, Kentucky.
The increasing popularity of tho.
Sandhills aecUoii for horse activities
has brought about Dr. Neal's decis
ion to provide a hospital. It is esti
mated that there were close to 400
horses here last season, with some
of the leading trotting stables of the
country represented as well as the
numerous saddle horses, hunters and
polo ponies in both Plnehurst and
Southern Pines.
The site selected for the building is
convenient to both Plnehurst and
Southern Pines. Next Spring Dr. Neal
also plans to build a home on the
property.
Rev. V. O. Taylor New
Wide Fellowship Pastor
Native of Newberry, S. C., To
Serve Local Congregation
For Coming Year
Following a summer spent in evan
gelistic work In the Salisbury district
of North Carolina, the Rev. Voight O.
Taylor, who last year held the post
of Student Pastor at The Church of
Wide Fellowhip, has returned to
Southern Pines as pastor there, filling
the vacancy left by the retirement of
Dr. C. Rexford Raymond.
Mr. Taylor received his A. B. de
gree from Ne\vb<>rry College, at New
berry, S. C., in 1929 and for the next
six years was high school principal,
athletic director and Instructor in
mathematics at Lakeland, Ga., Au
burn, Ga., and Ocllla, Ga., successive
ly. During the summers of 1931 anl
1934 he studied further at the School
of Administration of the Teacher’s
College at Columbia University in
New York City.
In 1^36 Mr. Taylor decided to de
vote his life to the ministry and en
tered the Duke School of Religion,
from which he was graduated this
spring. In the meantime, however, he
had been coming to Southern Pines
every week-end in the capacity of
student pastor, to assist Dr. Raymond
and when Dr. Raymond’s retirement
made necessary the choice of a suc
cessor, Mr. Taylor was chosen for the
coming year.
The new pastor is a native of New
berry, S. C. During his service in
Southern Pines he has made a mul
tltude of friends here and Is looking
forward to a pleasant year at The
Church of Wide Fellowship.
Aberdeen Bids
You Welcome
Let me take this opportunity
through The Pilot to extend a cor
dial welcome to the many tobacco
growers in this section who will
start carrying their crops to the
Aberdeen market on the opening
day next Thursday.
Abei-deen looks forward each year
to the opening of the market be
cause it gives our citizens an op
portunity to meet our agricultural
neighbors. It is a pleasure to have
them with us, and we hope they
will visit us regularly throughout
the marketing season.
Aberdeen bids you w'elcome.
FRANK SHAMBURGER,
September i>, 1937. Mayor.
Covington To Operate Former
House of Saunders, “Tom”
Smith the Aberdeen House
FIRST SALES ON THURSDAY
ENROLLMENT IN
SCHOOLS UP 44
Opening Day Figures a Surpris",
With 272 in Grammar Grades,
142 in High School
NO FORMAL EXERCISES
FOB FAIX SOWING
The Town of Southern Pines ha*
ordered two carloads of cottonseed^
meal and Italian rye grass for the
fall sowing program in the city.
SUCCEEDS GEORGE ROSS
Dan M. Paul, native of Pantego
and for the past six years county
farm agent of Granville county, was
this week appointed alumni secretary
rtf State College at Raleigh. He sue
ceeds George R. Ross of Jackson
Springs.
With an enrollment of 414 pupil.‘»,
44 more than on the first day last
year, the Southern Pines Schools op
ened for the Fall term promptly at
8:15 o'clock Wednesday morning. No
formal exercises w'ere held, the us
ual routine classifying pupils accord
ing to grades and subjects and the
distribution of free text beeks
through grades numbers 1 to 7, occu
pying the morning hours. In all, 3,-
000 books aro available for the
grades. Distribution of books under
the rental system for the High School
students began Thursday morning.
The opening day enrollment figures
were somewhat of a surprise to the
school authorities and reflect the
growth of Southern Pines during the
past year. The total for the grammar
and high schools was 414 as against
370 on the first day last fall. Th?
grammar, or elemtary grades, enroll
ed 272 as against 265 a year ago, and
the high school listed 142, which was
17 more than last September when
125 enrolled.
Superintendent Frank W. Web
ster calls special attention to the
State law governing the admission of
flrSv year pupils. “No pupils not six
years of age by October 1st, wH be
enrolled, and those over six years
must be enrolled by October 1st.’’
The faculty for the term is as fol
lows:
Frank W. Webster, superintendent;
Miss Sarah L. Ellis, English; Miss
Pauline Miller, English; M’*r.. Ruth
W. Warner, Commercial; Miss Aline
Todd, Mathematics and Physical Ed-
vjcation; Miss Jessie Mecum, Latin
and Mathematics; N. M. Hunter, Sci
ence and Mathematics; D, W. Gam
ble, French and Social Scinece; Amos
C. Dawson, physical director, and
Miss Lucile Palmer, librarian.
The grade assignments are the
same as last year: Mrs. Jessie W.
Dwight, 1st grade; Miss Emilie Mae
WUson, 1st, and 2nd grades; Miss So-
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CARTHAGE PREPARES FOB
TOBACCO MARKET OPENING
Next Thursday, September 16th,
under the auspices of the Aberdeen
Tobacco Board of Trade, the Aber
deen tobacco market will open for its
19th season since B. B. Saunders op
ened the first tobacco warehouse in
the fall of 1918 on the site of what
is now the Doub Supply Company.
This year, however, Mr. Saunders
will be missing from the local scene,
having disposed of his warehouse to
devote all of his time to his Border
Belt interests. The big brick ware
house that he formerly operated has
been sold to Claude W. Covington
who, with G. E. Crutchfield of White-
ville, Goebel Bond of Carrollton, Ky.,
L. C. Murray of Lynchburg, Va., J. F.
Buffkin of Ashley Heights, Bill Cam
eron of Raeford and Mrs. Weaver of
Aberdeen, will operate it as Coving
ton’s Warehouse.
The Aberdeen Warehouse has been
leased to T. J. “Tom” Smith of Lum-
berton and he will have as his asso
ciates there Tom W’oods of Clark-
ton and Bill Maurer and Gene May
nard of Aberdeen.
At 9:00 o’clock Thursday morning
both warehouses W'ill be filled to ca
pacity with the first of some 5,000,-
000 pounds of tobacco that it is ex
pected will pass over the Aberdeen
auction floors this season, and the
two warehousemen will toss a coin to
determine which house will have the
first sale.
Big Companies Represented
This year, as always, all of the large
manufacturers will have buyers at
Aberdetn, and in addition many of
the .^mailer companies and' jobbers
will also be represented. L. T. Avery
will buy for Liggett & Myers. Jim
Crawford will represent R. J. Rey
nolds. The Imperial Tobacco Com
pany will have Ivey Winston on the
scene and John Graham Webb will
repre.sent the Export Tobacco Com
pany. The following companies wiil
also have buyers at Aberdeen, al
though it is not definitely known just
who they will be; P. Lorrllard & Co.,
J. P. Taylor & Co., Dibrell Brothers.
A. C. Monk & Co., Garrett Tobacco
Co., Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Co., R,
T. Burton & Co., and Bohannan &
Co.
Several of the buyers and repre
sentatives of both of the warehou.<ies
in Aberdeen have been contacting tho
tobacco farmers all throughout the
Middle Belt for the past several
weeks and they are unanimous in
stating that the crop this year is one
of the largest and best in many
years. The last time that a compara
ble crop was raised, they say, was m
1934. This year the Middle Belt will
have ”0 suner-fine tobacco but there
is d good working crop—good grain
and open-faced leaf of a high average
quality—that will be bound to bring
attractive prices.
Already Border Belt and Bright
Belt markets have established a high
average price for tobacco, and prices
have been rising gradually on these
same markets In recent days. That,
plus the fact that the Aberdeen mar
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Ciu-thage Is preparing a cordial wel
come for the tobacco farmers when
the market opens there next Thurs
day. Both large warehouses will be
in operation this year and with much
tobacco reported in that section of
the county one of the best seasons in
some time is anticipated.
BAND PUPILS TO GIVE
CONCERT HERE MONDAY
Pupils of E. J. Lacock, former
bandmaster at Fort Bragg, are going
to attempt to demonstrate on Monday
morning what they have learned dur
ing their summer course. The con
cert will take place in the Southern
Pines High School auditorium at
11:30 o’clock. Mr. Lacock is enrolling
students now for his winter classes,
and hopes in the near future to
vide a real student band for South
em Pines,