t MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY XHl£ A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 18, NO. 21. cakthaoe VASS 'WtST I j^ai.'S'^/Lakevisw £NO I " ^CXSOH ^ -MANLEY 9PPIH06 1 ll50UTHeRH PINCS ASHLCV M6.IGHTS PlMEBUiPIK PIB- APR 2 3 19:>u FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, April 22, 1938. FIVE CENTS HOPE IS REVIVED FOR FEDERAL AID FOR NURSES’HOME Hospital Project on Approved List If Congress Meets President’s Request $31,440 ALLOCATED Passage by Congress of the new Public Works Administration appro priation measure requested by Pres. Ident Roosevelt would revive hope here for federal funds toward a Nurses’ Home for the Moore County Hospital. Among 72 projects in North Car olina, involving a cost of $10,009,043, which had been approved before PWA expenditures were cut off some time ago there was an allocation of $31,440 for the proposed new build ing near the hospital at Pinehurat. “Presumably," says a despatch from Washington, “all of these projects, if still desired by the sponsors, will receive immediate allotment in the event of the passage of the new PWA appropriation." The President has recommended an appropriation of one billon dollars for projects that can be constructed vdthin a year. The Moore County Hospital recently acquired through gifts from Curtis Wigg and Pine- hurst, Incorporated, sufficient land across the road from the hospital for a site for its much needed home for nurses, and is prepared to proceed with its erection upon completion of financing arrangements. The loosing oi funds for North Carolina projects which had been approved but which have lain dormant for want of ap propriations may now make it pos sible for work to start this summer. It all depends upon Congress. The Nurses’s Home project is the only one for Moore county on the PWA’s approved list. Hospital offi. cials state the proposed buUding in volves an expenditure of some $40,- 000. Private donations are expected to make up the difference between the federal grant, should it be forth coming, and the total cost, If the federal grant is not forthcoming, the entire amount may have to be raised through benevolent channels. ^‘Sawing Themselves Poor,” Says Frye of Moore County Farmers Pleads For Trees HAYWOOD FRYE G.O. P. CONVENTION NAMES TICKET AT RECORD MEETING Republicans Turn Out in Great- w Number Than Ever For Off-Year Session Dr. Shields, Pioneer in Medicine Here, Passes Oldest Resident of Carthage Was Practicing Physician for 45 Years Dr. H. B. Shields, 85, the oldest resident of Carthage, died at his home there last Friday. He was bom near Hemp on March 25, 1853, a son of the late John W. and Martha Stutts Shields. The dpnth of Dr. Shields, which came a'ter a year of declining health, removes another of the venerated old-time physicians. He practiced medicine 45 years, and wore out sev eral horses and buggies and one au tomobile. He performed the first ap pendicitis operation ir. Moore coun ty and was famed far and wide for his work with typhoid fever. Another record of which he was proud was the fact that, during his long years of practice, he never lost a mother or baby as he helped to bring a new life into the world, though he jok ingly remarked that he came very near losing several fathers upon these occasions. Dr. Shields was a self-educated man. He received the meagre public schooling available when he was a boy, and when he had advanced suf ficiently he began teaching school in order to earn money to pay his way through college. Thus it was that he was able to attend the old Atlan ta Medical College and study medi cine. Among his pupils when he was a teacher, were Mrs. Hugh McPherson of Cameron; Mrs. Janie Muse of Cameron and the late J. McN. John son of Aberdeen. Dr. Shields lived a long, useful and interesting life. His reminis- cences ran for more than a year in his local paper, and were widely read and enjoyed until his illness forced Jiim to cease hia writings. He retired from active practice at (PUatt turn fo p