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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
VOL. 17, NO. 47.
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, October 15, 1937.
FIVE CENTS
1,483 AIR MAIL
LEHERS SENT OFF
FROM SANDHILLS
Several Hundred Witness First
Despatch of Bags by Plane at
Knollwood Airport
SEE IMPROVED FIELD
Dies in New York
In spite of the late date ■ of the
announcement of the time of arrival
of the "First North Carolina Air
Mail Flight” plane, several hundred
persons from every section of the
Sandhills were on hand at Knollwood
Airport Tuesday afternoon to wel
come Captain Dick Fell and his
"pick-up” plane.
Although the plane was not sche
duled to arrive until 2:50 p. m. the
throng started to gather at about
2:15 and waited patiently until the
scheduled hour for the history-mak
ing event.
Promptly on the dot of the appoint
ed time Captain Fell’s orange and
white striped plane appeared on \the
southern horizon, circled the field
once to determine the direction of
the wind and then landed and taxied
vip to the hangars where Postmasters
Buchan and Currie and the Air Mail
Week committees from Southern
Pines and Pinehurst were awaiting
his arrival along with the throngs of
people who had come out to witness
the event.
Adhering strictly to his schedule.
Captain Fell stayed at Knollwood
only long enough to ^xchange a
few words with the two postmasters
and then took off for Maxton, his
next scheduled stop. Katherine Buch
an and Dwight Hoskins, piloted by
Airport Manager Harold Bachman,
took off in Mr. Bachman’s plane just
before Captain Fell arrived, flew
around the field while he picked up
the mail, and escorted him out of
sight when he took off for Max
ton.
Two Pouches Put Aboard
There were 1,483 letters in the two
pouches that kft Knollwood Airport
on the special flight. Of this num
ber 875 were sent from Soutliern
Pines and 608 from Pinehurst.
The occasion Tuesday also provid
ed the majority of the crowd with
their first opportunity of seeing the
newly completed $50,000 improve
ments that have been made at the
airport; the fine Bermuda grass run
ways and the lengthening of those
same runways to approximately 3,-
500 feet each—improvements that
recently inspired a high official of the
Bureau of Aeronautics, Department
of Commerce, to state that Knollwood
Airport was the finest field north of
Florida and south of Washington,
with the sole exception of Charles
ton, S. C.
OGDEN L. MILLS
Ogden L. Mills, former Secretary
of the Treasury, died at his home
in New York at noon on Monday af
ter an illness of two weeks. Mr.
Mills, who was 53 years old, has
been a frequent visitor to Pinehurst
where his father-in-law, Philip S. P.
Randolph, maintains a winter home.
Mr. Mills married Mrs. Dorothy Ran
dolph Fell in 1924. His previous mar
riage to Miss Margaret Stuyvesant
Rutherford, daughter of Mrs. W. K,
Vanderbit, Sr., ended in divorce in
1920. Mr. Mills has long been one of
the leaders of the Republican party,
and was an opponent of A1 Smith for
Governor of New York prior to his
appointment to Mr. Hoover’s cab
inet.
Tufts Tak^s Kiwanians
To The Pacific Coast
LAURENCE BODINE
DIES AT fflS HOME
IN PHILADELPHIA
Prominent Manufacturer and
Sportsman Had Spent Past
Several Winters Here
GLASS INDUSTRY PIONEER
Harrington Accepts City Offer
For Property For Civic Center
Price of $9,000 is Subject to!
Confirmation by Mayor and
Board of Commissioners
Tells Club of His Summer Trip
to National Amateur Golf
Tournament
Airport Development
is Lauded by Currie
Fine Advertisement For Today
and Essential Utility for Fu
ture, Says County Chairman
Because Captain Dick Fell, the air
mail pilot who picked up Sandhills
mail here Tuesday on the occasion
of Air Mail Day, had too fast a sche
dule to permit of ceremonies, the
program at the Knollwood Airport
was called off. Wilbur H. Currie,
chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners, was to have made a
brief talk.
Agked by a Pilot interviewer what
he would have said, Mr. Currie paid
trib.ite to Moore county "in having
citizens who are far-sighted and civ
ic minded enough to provide us with
an airport comparable with any, one
cspecial credit for their efforts, as a
for the Sandhills for today but an
e:isentlal utility far into the future.”
He inentioned Mayor D. G. Stutz
and City Clerk Howard Bums of
Southern Pines, Richard Tufts and
Gordon Cameron of Pinehurst, S. H.
Miller of Carthage and L. R. Rey-
nofds of High Falls as deserving of
"Th county is proud and glad to
committee for air port development,
in the extension and development of
the local field.
"The county is proud and gllad to
have contributed to this worthy and
worthwhile project," said the coun-
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Richard Tufts told the Sandhills Ki-
wanis Club about his trip through
the Canadian Rockies to Washing
ton, Oregon and California this sum
mer, at the weekly meeting of the
club held Wednesday noon in the log
cabin of the Carthage Presbyterian
Church. Mr. Tufts went to Portland,
Oregon to play in the national ama
teur golf tournament.
He was deeply impressed by Banff,
the famous Canadian resort, describ
ing the scenery as glorious, the golf
course one of the finest he played
on his journey. He told of the at
tractions of Vancouver, Victoria and
Seattle, where he and Mrs. Tufts
stopped en route, and of Portland
where he spent eight days during the
big golf event in which he failed lo
qualify by a narrow margin. ‘‘The
Alderwood course was a set-up for
Johnny Goodman,” he said, the
course requiring a game based on
accuracy, which is Johnny’s forte,
rather than length.
The Tufts visited San Francisco
and its famous Chinatown, Los An-
gelles, where Mr. Tufts qualified in
the Westen. Open tournament, but
lost out in the first round; Holly
wood, Monterey Penisula, Del Monte,
Pebble Beach and Carmel in Califor
nia. They looked Reno over, “only
from curiosity,” he said, and found
it a most amazing town with gamb
ling houses and saloons all over the
place and everything open 24 hours
a day. Mr. Tufts paid a visit to the
Governor of Nevada at Carson City,
which town he described as about
half as large as Aberdeen.
It was announced at the meeting
that Captain Charles D. Farmer of
the State Highway Patrol would
speak to the club at next week’s
meeting in the Southern Pines Bap
tist Church.
DR. OVERCASH SPEAKER AT
STATE MEDICAL. SOCIETY
S. Laurence Bodine of Philadelphia,
who has spent the past several win
ters in Southern Pines, died on Oc
tober 1st at his home, "Greenbank
Farm,” Newtown Equare, Pa., ac
cording to news which reached the
Sandhills this week. He was 73 years
of age.
Mr. Bodine in his younger days was
one of the prominent sportsman of
the country. He hunted with the
Radnor, Rose Tree and Cheshire
hounds in the Philadelphia country,
and was M. F. H. of the Radnor Hunt
from 1917 to 1921. He played polo
with the Philadelphia Country Club
team. It was Mr. Bodine’s interest in
hounds and hunting that brought him
to Southern Pines. During the last
two winters he and Mrs. Bodine have
occupied the home of Struthers Burt
here.
Mr. Bodine was the grandson of
Samuel T. Bodine, one of the first
directors of the Pennsylvania Rail
road. He himself entered the glass
manufacturing business after gradu
ation from the Um/ersity of Penn
sylvania in 188", and rose to the
chairmanship of the American Win
dow Glass Company of Pittsburgh.
Under his guidance the company de
veloped for the first time in the
United States the manufacture of
window glass by machinery, an im
portant contribution to American in
dustry. He retired in 1926 to become
vice president of the Jefferson Fire
Insurance Company in Philadelphia.
From 1913 to 1917 he was receiver
for the Standard Roller Bearing
Company.
He gave up business in 1917 and
volunteered his services to the gov
ernment. He was connected with the
purchasing department, buying war
materials.
In 1922 Mr. Bodine married Helen
dePeyster Koues, an editor of Good
Housekeeping magazine, who sur
vives.
On Tuesday evening of this week
Dr. W. E. Overcash, medical direc
tor of Pine Crest Manor Sanatorium,
was the gxiest of the State Medical
Society at its regular monthly din
ner and business meeting at Win
ston-Salem. He addressed the gath
ering on the subject, "The Treat
ment of Tuberculosis by Pneumo
thorax.”
Pine Needles Inn To
Open on November 19
Emmett E. Boone Will Again
Manage Knollwood Heights
Hotel.—Many Improvements
The Pine Needles Inn will open for
mally November 19th.
Emmett E. Boone, who has man
aged this hostelry with marked suc
cess since its opening in 1935, has
arrived with his organization to "red
up the rooms” and “polish up the
handle on the big front door” prepar-
atory to throwing wide the portals
for the season of 1937-38.
Retuming guests will find many
gratify.ng improvements to add to
their comfort, enjoyment and couven-
ieiice. The new sprinkler system on
the golf course works to perfection
and both fairways and putting greens
are as brilliantly verdant as a New
England lawn in June. Nature has
helped too with a bountiful supply
of rain at just the right time to
make the grass fairly pop on the
area west of the hotel, cleared and
seeded for the first' time this fall.
A much needed invaluable addition
to buildings will be the dormitory for
colored maids and chauffeurs, which
is progressing rapidly and will soon
be completed.
But best of all is the enlargement
and rearrangement of parking spaces
to provide more than ample room
for all cars within a few steps of the
hotel and club house doors, where
they will not obstruct interesting
vistas and beautiful views, and where
cars may be easily driven in and
out without risk of defacing fenders
and decapitating • tail lights, a fre
quent annoyance at many hotels.
In a letter received last week from
Littleton, N. H„ and signed by J. J. i
Harrington, the Southern Pines ‘
Board of Town Commissioners was
advised that Mr. Harrington had ac- j
cepted the board’s compromise of- i
fer of $9,000 for the Harrington 1
property located on West Broad j
street between the postoffice site and '
the Mudgett Building, which has j
long been under consideration as a '
sile for the proposed new Civic Cen- i
ter. ;
Although Mr. Harrington has ac
cepted the board’s offer as transmit- I
ted to them through the medium of)
a letter from City Clerk Howard ]
Burns, he stated in his letter that
the acceptance was contingent upon
his receipt of a letter of confirma- j
tion from Mayor D. G. Stutz and the .
members of the Board of Commis-1
I
sioners. The next board meeting will
be held this coming Wednesday even
ing, October 20th, and it is expected
that the confirming letter will be
prepared and despatched at that
time.
This development is the culmina
tion of a long series of overtures
made back and forth between Mr.
Harrington and the Southern Pines
Board of Commissioners ever since
the subject first came up for serious
consideration in town meeting last
spring. At that time A. B. Yeomans
presented to the townspeople his ar
tist’s conception of what the Civic
Center should look like and the meet
ing voted to go on record as approv
ing the proposed project in princi
pal.
First Offer Rejected
Shortly thereafter the board re
jected Mr. Harrington’s original
selling price of $14,000 and submitted
an offer considerably lower, which
was rejected by Mr. Harrington in
turn. Since that time the proposition
has been a regular matter for con
sideration at successive board meet
ings, but nothing definite had devel
oped until the arrival of Mr. Har
rington’s letter last week.
In its proposed completed form the
Civic Center will comprise a library,
City Clerk’s office. Police Depart
ment and jail, vaults, out-door read
ing rooms, lawns and various other
features all grouped together on the
site between the Post Office Building
and the Mudgett Building, but the
erection of the building there wfll
not come up for consideration for
some time to come.
The Civic Center site is approxi
mately 122 feet fronting on West
Broad street and runs back to the
property line of the Southern Pines
Laundry.
Called For 10th Year
Rev. J. Fred Stimson’s Reelec
tion as Pastor of Baptist
Church is Unanimous
The membership of the South
ern Pines Baptist Church, at a
meeting held after services last
Sunday morning, voted unani
mously to retain the Rev. J. Fred
Stimson as its pastor for the
tenth consecutive year. Mr. Stim
son will announce his decision on
the call at the morning service
on Sunday.
SCALE OF PRICES
ANNOUNCED FOR
FALL FESTIVAL
Season Tickets for Four Per
formances Sponsored by Cham
ber To Be One Dollar
John McCrimmon, Jr., of Carthage
has been elected president of the
freshman class at Campbell College.
McCrimmon, a ministerial student,
was srraduated from Carthage High
Schocd last spring as salutatorlan.
Chamber Votes $50.00
Toward Horns for Band
Gift Contingent Upon Similar
Ones From Town of South
ern Pines and School District
If the Town of Southern Fines and
the Southern Pines School District
each match the $50 contribution of
the Chamber of Commerce, we’re go
ing to have a real band. We have
the nucleus now, as those who at
tended the first concert of the high
school youngsters will attest, but
two of those big horns that ■ loop
around your neck are needed, and
they’ll cost about $150.
At its directors’ meeting Tuesday,
held in the Park View Hotel, the
Chamber voted $50 contingent upon
similar gffts from the town and
school district. All those present, and
it was a big meeting, voiced the
opinion that a real band would be
a distinct asset to Southern Pines.
SOUTHERN PINES DEFEATS
PINEHURST AT TENNIS
Wednesday afternoon the Southern
Pines boys tennis team atoned for
the defeat it suffered Monday after
noon at the hands of Rockingham,
and white-washed Pinehurst 7-0. The
^atch was scheduled to comprise six
singles matches and three doubles
contests but rain interferred before
the doubles could get under way.
Prices within everyone's reach
were established by the Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce this
week for the four weekly events to
be put on here by the Collins Festi
val of Rochester, N->w York, one of
the outstanding entertainment ser
vices of the country. The series is to
open on Saturday, October 30, wHh
a matinee and night performance,
and will continue on successive Sat
urdays for four weeks
The scale of prices will be as fol
lows:
Season tickets, good for either mat
inee or night—$1.00.
Individual performance tickets—
Matinees, Adults, 35 cents; Children,
10 cents; Nights, Adults, 50 cents;
Children, 25 cents. Season tickets will
be on sale next week at downtown
stores. All performances will be giv
en in the High School Auditorium,
and will begin at 2:30 and 8:15
o’clock.
The Festival will bring here the
following presentations:
Saturday. Oct. 30—King’s Ambas
sador Quartet.
Saturday, Nov. 6—Harold D. Eide
with his dramatic story of Arctic
exploration and adventure, illustrat
ed.
Saturday, Nov. 13—Lucille Elmore
and Company in up-to-date music
and comedy.
Saturday, Nov, 20^—“The Myster
ious Mr, Mason,” a comedy of high
finance.
The proceeds of the entertainments
are to be used for an extensive plant
ing and beautification program here.
An Evening of Music
King’s Ambassadors comprises four
splendid male voices blended in an
evening of harmony and entertain
ment, with the chiming of a finely
tuned set of bells forming one of
the most delightful parts of the pro
gram. Audiences everywhere welcome
the harmony of male voices, and a
good quaret always provides a happy
musical evening. This particular
group is organized and managed by
Lloyd King, bariton<v and shows en
tertainment versatility as well as mu
sicianship.
Lloyd King himself comes from a
family with a long musical tradi
tion. His uncle, J. F. King, was the
well-known march composer, and en
couraged his musical education under
Madame Dresser and later with Sad-
lier, Bonamo and Chapel. His pres
ent quartet is the finest he has ever
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TRAVEL GROUP TO
BE GUESTS HERE
SUNDAY MORNING
Reception and Luncheon For
Visitors on Tour of State
at Highland Pines Inn
SOME SEVENTY IN PARTY
Upwards of 7o travel executives,
on tour of North Carolina to see
what we have to offer in this “Varie
ty Vacationland,” are due to arrive
in Southern Pines this Sunday morn
ing at 11:15 o’clock, coming over
from Pinehurst after a look around
there. They will be guests at a re
ception and mid-morning lunch at
the Highland Pines Inn as soon as
they’ve been escorted through town.
The tour, sponsored by the Grov-
ernor’s Hospitality Committee of the
Department of Conservation and De
velopment, with the cooperation of
the Caj>olina Motor Club, started in
Asheville last Sunday and since then
the northern visitors, representatives
of tourist agencies, travel bureaus,
tourist magazines, metropolitan news
papers and automobile clubs, have
been doing the mountain country and
the piedmont section. They break
fast in Winston-Salem at :30 o’clock
Sunday morning, and don’t have lunch
until they arrive in Fort Bragg at
2:00 in the afternoon, so it seemed
to the Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce they might be hungry
when they reached here. Hence the
preparations for a snack at Mr.
Turner’s attractive Weymouth
Heights hostelry, Mr, Turner, by the
way, is generously opening up the
hotel for those 30-odd minutes they
will be here, for it isn’t due to open
for the winter until December.
Reception at Inn
The Chamber of Commerce here is
sending a delegation over to Pine
hurst to act as guider. for the trip
here, pointing out the steeplechase
course, the Pine Needles Inn and goif
course, the Mid-Pines Club and
course, and so forth. They will take
the busses and private cars through
a portion of the business and re&i-
dential section of town en route to
the Highland Pines.
At the inn will be waiting a
group of Chamber of Commerce di
rectors headed by President Robert
L. Hart and Dr, G. G. Herr, and
with them the following to act a.3
hosts to the party while here: Mayer
D. G. Stutz, Dr. W. C. Mudgett.
Charles Macauley, Roscoe Potts,
James Boyd, Paul Barnum, Dr, James
Milliken, Dr, Greer Stutz, Robert
Hayes, Dr, E. Levis Prizer, Frank
Webster, Duncan Matthews, Eugene
Woodward, Dr. E. M. Daniels and
Frank Welch. Mayor Stutz will
make the address of welcome.
A number of ladies will be in
charge of the buffet luncheon and re
freshments and serve as hostesses to
the large number of ladies who are
in the vifriting delegation.
The caravan is due to remain here
half an hour before departing for
Fayetteville and Fort Bragg. Sunday
night Governor and Mrs, Hoey are
tendering the visitors a dinner and
reception in Raleigh,
•VLBERT L. ADAMS PRESIDENT
OF BAPTIST MEN’S CLUB
Albert L, Adams was elected pres
ident of the Southern Pines Baptist
Men’s Club at the annual meeting
held last Friday night. Others offi
cers chosen were Louis Scheipers,
vice-president: H. G. McElroy, secre
tary and George Draughn, treasur
er.
The club plans an active year in
church and civic affairs, and although
sponsored by the meA of the church,
invites others to join in its meeting
land activitiM.
“Big Apple” and Debate
Feature Stunt Night
Eighth Grade and Seniors Take
Major Honors in Entertain
ment at School
Before a near capacity crowd, the
Southern Pines school presented its
annual Stunt Night on Tuesday even
ing at the High School auditorium
and the audience of parents, rela
tives and friends was royally enter
tained.
Individual acts and group skits
presented by the various Grammar
School and High School grades com
prised the program, with the honors
going to the Eighth Grade end to
the High School Senior Class.
The Eighth Grade’s contribution
to the evening’s hilarity was a "Big
Apple” demonstration, and the High
School Senior Qaas brought down
the house with a humorous debate
anent the advantages and disadvan
tages of a IS-mcHith calendar.