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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<iffe five) Republicans of Moore county, in greater numbers than had ever be fore assembled at an off-year con vention, met in the courthouse in Carthage last Friday evening at the call of the county chairman, Herbert F. Seawell, Jr., to pick a slate of candidates for the November elec- tion. Much enthusiasm was evidenc ed in the meeting and leaders feel that the ticket nominated is one of the strongest in the history of the party in Moore county. The Republican slate includes: For County Commissioners, George W. Case of Southern Pines, Henry B. Fry of Pinehurst, Cleveland Ca gle of Carthage, Ben Powers of High Falls and Q. A. Williams of Eagle Springs R. F. D. Register of Deeds, A. B. Atkins of Cameron. Judge of Recorder’s Court, O. H. Trotter of Hemp. Solicitor of Recorder’s Court, W. Clement Barrett of Carthage. Surveyor, D. K. McKenzie of Car thage R. F. D. Coroner, Dr. J. W. Willcox of West End. For the Legislature, H. F. Seawell Jr., of Carthage. Sheriff, Coy Lewis of Hemp. The convention was called to or der by County Chairman H. F. Sea well, Jr. and Charles Macauley of Southern Pines was elected chairman of the convention. Mr. Seawell was unanimously ree'ected County Chair man, and the following elected to the Executive committee; L. C. Thomas, Cameron; W. P. Copeland, Eagle Springs: O. D. Wallace, Car- thage; H. A. Lewis, Southern Pines; D. K. McKenzie, West End R. F. D.; Claud Williams, Hemp and R. B. Rey nolds, Leaman. W, Clemeijt Barrett was elected Secretary. The Platform committee recom mended that the County Republican committee adopt the State platform in its entirety, which was approved. Speeches were made during the meeting by Mrs. H. F. Seawell, Jr. and others and after a general dis cussion of party activities the con vention adjourned. MISS INEZ CtJUBRETH WEDS “TOMMY” RULLAR Little Good Timber Left, Sur veyor Tells Kiwanis in Plea For Conservation Those property owners of Moors county who are cutting down their trees and selling the lumber at a small price would be better off had they heeded the advice of Blon H. Butler, J. McN. Johnson and Henry A. Page, Sr. several years ago, and will still be better off In the long run if the State Legislature enacts a stumpage law. Three-quarters of the trees of the county are being destroyed. There are 35,000 acres of pinelands and In them are some 32 sawmills. The owners, mostly men with but 50 to 100 acres, are cutting down to stumps of five and six feet. They need to be protected against them selves, and the county against de nuding of so ‘ much acreage. These points were brought out in an able talk made to the Sandhills Klwanls Club yesterday by Haywood Frye, County Surveyor, who know.s his county probably better than any other resident. He appealed to mem bers of the club, whom he termed “pioneers In the field of thought,’’ to keep these people from “sawing themselves poor.” He told of warn ings issued by Messrs. Butler, John son and Page a number of years ago, and stated that Mr. Page, whose family were pioneers In lumbering In this section, spent his latter years regretting the wastefulness and neg lect of our natural resources here. Little Good Timber Left There is always much opposition to the good things that are pioneer, ed, Mr. Frye said, citing the good I roads movement engineered by Leo- ! nard Tufts many years ago. But the ones who object are the ones eventually most benefltted, and this, he said, was particularly true of those who are cutting imma ture trees now and selling the lum ber for a small return. He said there Is practically no good lumber left in the county, except is the protected areas of the Sandhills sec tion where owners take pride in their trees. He recommended the amendment of State Forest Fire laws, the enactment of a stumpage law. “Better that we be caretakers now than that our children be salvagers later,” he said In urging the club to “assist the people who need it most.” SPEAKERS NAMED FOR VOCATIONAL TALKS MONDAY Ten Schools of County to Send Over 300 Pupils for Kiwanis Club’s Annual Affair TO HEAR 25 SUBJECTS First Postmaster of Ashley Heights Dies D. H. Johnson, Prominent To bacco and Peach Grower, Victim of Heart Attack Pupils from ten high schools of Moore county will gather Monday morning for the Sandhills Kiwanis Club’s annual Vocational Guidance Day at the Southern Pines High School, and more than 300 of them are expected to hear some 25 sub jects discussed by leaders in their vocations In the county. The program starts at 9:00 o’clock with a talk to the entire group by Dr. T, A. Cheat ham of Pinehurst. The high schools sending all their Seniors and some Juniors are Aber deen, Cameron, Carthage, Eureka, Hemp, High Falls, Pinehurst, South ern Pines, Va.ss-Lakevlew, West End. The schedule for the morning calls for the following subjects from 9:20 to 10:20, with the speaker: Library Work, Miss Lucille Pal mer; Journalism, Howard Weston; Stenographic Work, Mrs. Simms Cochrane: Building Trades, C. L. Austin; Nursing, Miss Grace Lind say; Pharmacy, Robert L. Hart; Civ il Engineering, James Swett; Real Estate and Insurance, E. C. Ste vens, Farming and Dairying, E. H. Garrison, Jr. From 10:25 to 11:25 the schedule is: Medicine, Dr. Clement Monroe; Banking, F. Shelby Cullom; Beauty Culture, Miss Helen Hartgrove; Ho tel Work, E. E. Boone; Music, Fred erick S. Smith; Plumbing and Heat ing, L. V. O’Callaghan; Electrical lOnglneering, J. N. Steed; Social Work, Mrs. James Swett. From 11:25 to 11:40 there will be a recess during which time Ice cream and cake will be served the students In the auditorium, through the cooperation of the Klwanls Club, the Buttercup Ice Cream Company, National Biscuit Company and the Loose-Wlles Company. From 11:45 to 12:45 the schedule calls for the following: Home Eco nomics, Mrs. Neill S. Buice; Account ing, Paul Dana; Power Utility, M. T. Dunlap; Teaching, R. F. Lowry; Auto Mechanics, V. P. Clark; Veterinary Medicine, Dr. J, I. Neal; Law, J. Vance Rowe; Forestry, R. U. Ti tus Chairman John Howarth of the Klwanls Club’s Vocational Guidance Committee also hopes to arrange for speakers on the subjects of Inter ior Decorating and Commercial Art Cosmopolitan Four Countries, 23 States Represented in School En rollment Here Four counties and 23 states of the United States are represent ed among the pupils of Southern Pines School. The countries are Germany, with two pupils; China and Panama, each with one, and the United States. State represen tation is as follows: Massachusetts 11, New Jersey 6, New York 11, Pennsylvania 7, South Carolina 9, North Carolina 393, New Hampshire 6, Maine 4, Florida 6, Arizona 1, Georgia 1, Maryland 3, Ohio 3, Virginia 7. Illinois 2, Kentucky 1, District of Columbia 3, Iowa 1, Missouri 2, Connecticut 1, West Virginia 2, Rhode Island 1 and Minnesota 1. OFFICIALS NAMED FOR PRIMARY IN COUNTY IN JUNE FEW CANDIDATES TO BE OPPOSED IN PRIMARY IN JUNE Boyette Officially Announces for Senator.—Commissioners Have Field to Themselves CLEGG TO FIGHT POOLE Registrar and Judges For Each Voting Precinct Announced by Election Board The County Board of Elections met in the courthouse last Saturday and appointed election officials to sei’ve for the next two years. The three first named under each voting precinct were appointed as Demo crats, the first named as registrar and the other two as judges or poll holders. The last person named un. der each voting precinct will serve as Republican judge in the primary on June 4th in the event the Re publicans enter the primary. In case the Republicans enter the primary on June 4th, the third person named under each precinct will not serve as an election official. The officials appointed are as fol lows: East Carthage: R. W. Pleasants, J. E. Womble, M. G. Dalrymple, John Adams, all of Carthage. West Carthage: Sam Riddle, Henry Lawhon, D. H. Parks, J. R. Shef field, all of Carthage. Bensalem: John Campbell, Ebbie Kelly and E. C. Matheson of Eagle Springs and D. E, Cole of Biscoe Spies: W. J. Baldwin, Spies; Jason Freeman, Star; Fulton Monroe, Star; W. T. Brown, Hemp, R. F. D. Spencerville: Dan Dunlap, Hemp R. F. D.; A. L. Kennedy, Steeds; P. D. Spinks, and J. E. Britt, Hemp, Route 2. (Please turn to page five) Miss Inez Culbreth of Stedman and Thomas A. Millar of Southern Pines were married last Thursday at the Southern Pines Baptist Church, the Rev. J. Fred Stimson officiating. Miss Culbreth is a popular member of the nursing staff, of the Moore County Hospital, and Mr. Millar is connected with the real estate and in surance office of E.,C. Stevens here. He is a former member of the Southern Pinea baseball team in the Moore County League, and a grad uate of the local high school. D. H. Johnson, first postmaster of Ashley Heights, died at his home there last Saturday morning of a heart attack. He was 50 years of age. Mr. Johnson was the senior partner of Johnson and Sinclair, among the most prominent and in fluential pef,ch and tobacco growers In Hoke county, and well known throughout Moore county. Funeral services were held la at Sunday afternoon at Chiloh Church in Montrose, with his pastor, the Rev. A. D. Carswell officiating, as sisted by the Rev. E. L. Barber of Aberdeen. Mr. Johnson, with B. B. Saunders and N. F. Sinclair, began farming, peach growing and merchandising on a high hill they named “Ashley Heights” in Hoke county 20 or more years ago. Saunders sold his inter est in the business several years ago, the other two continuing and were succeeding in all three branches of the business to an unusual de gree, when the senior member of the firm suddenly succumbed to a heart attack Saturday. He was a son of the late Henry Johnson and his wife, v/ho before marriage was a Miss Priest. Both were natives of Icwer Moore coun ty, who settled near Eagle Springs where Duncan was bom and rear ed. In early manhood he moved into Hoke county. Surviving are his widow, who was Miss M’’?tle Riley; two daughters, Miss Mlralyn and Miss Marjorie (Pltcue turn to page four) Noted Organist To Give Concert At Pinehurst Church on Sunday Organ Soloist DR. MINOR C. BALDWIN CONTRACT AWARDED FOR NEW PINEHURST RESIDENCE The Reinecke-Dillehay Company of Southern Pines has been award ed the contract for and has started work on a new residence in Pine hurst for Mrs. Helen W. Rivis of Rochester, N. Y. '. i J, v, «i . Dr. Minor C. Baldwin, Soloist at World Expositions, To Play Ramage Memorial Organ Dr. Minor C. Baldwin, world fa mous concert organLst, will give a sacred concert at the Pinehurst Community Church at 8:00 o’clock Sunday evening. This appearance of Dr. Baldwin will be a rare opportun ity to the music loving public to hear a great organ, the Alfred Hull Ramage Memorial Aeolian organ, un der the touch of a great artist. Dr. Baldwin has been solo organ ist for the following expositions In America: Chicago, St. Louis, Phila delphia, Charleston, Pan-American, Omaha, and for the Brooklyn Insti tute of Arts and Sciences. He has made many appearances abroad in cluding engagements at the Royal Albert Hall, London; Bruxelles, Ant werp, Lucerne and Paris. He Is avail able for the concert In Pinehurst, being en route from Florida to the North. This is Dr. Baldwin’s third con cert at the Community Church, his last about five years ago. Those who heard him at that time speak en thusiastically of the ease of his manipulation, the variety of effects and tone color which he achieves at the manual. All are cordially invit ed to hear this remarkable and sat isfying performance of which they are assured. With but a few hours to go be fore the time for filing for the June primary closes, it appears that there will be few contests among the Democrats for county offices. With but one exception, members of the Board of County Commission ers apparently will be returned with out a fight, and until the announce ment this week that W. D. Shannon of Plnebluff was a candidate, it look ed r.s if the entire board would be unopposed. The board comprises Wil bur H. Currie of Carthage, chairman; Gordon Cameron, Pinehurst; Frank Cameron, Cameron; D. D. McCrim- mon, Hemp, and L. R. Reynolds, Highfalls. Moses G. Boyette, County Solici tor and chairman of the Democratic County Executive Committee, formal ly announced his candidacy for the nomination for State Senator from this district this week, and appears to have no opposition. In a state ment issued to the press Mr. Boy. ette said: Mr. Boyette’s Statement "As the county papers have here tofore reported, I am a candidate for the State Senate from the Twelfth Senatorial district, subject to action of the primary on June the 4th. I sin cerely believe that my training and experience In public service quali fies me to represent the best inter est of my constitutents in the Sen ate In 1939. If 1 am honored with membership In the Senate, I will at all times undertake to conduct my self In such a way as to reflect cred it upon myself and the high office of a Senator. I shall at all times give careful consideration to all pro posals of legislation which may come before the Senate, and I will ever exert my best efforts to serve my constitutents honestly, ably, fairly and impartially. “In becoming a candidate for the State Senate, it is necessary for me to retire as County Solicitor at the end of my present term, and I wish to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to the people of my county for the fine coopera tion which they have given me in the discharge of my duties as Solic itor since I was appointed as such In 1925. I have at all times received the very finest cooperation from the Judges of the Recorder’s Court as well as the Sheriff’s office and all law enforcement officers of the County. “I sincerely hope that my record of public service may receive the approval of the citizenship of Moore county to such an extent that I may be honored with membership In the State Senate where I hope to be ab?e to render to the people of my county, state and district a larger and better service. I shall ever be grateful to all who support my can- didacy for the Senate." Many Unopposed Others not expected to be opposed In the Democratic primary are Char les J. McDonald for Sheriff, Miss Bess MrCasklll for Register of Deeds, Haywood Frye for Surveyor, and John Willcox for Clerk of Court. Russell Clegg of Carthage, former Representative, has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nom ination for Member of the Legisla ture, in opposition to the present in cumbent, J. Hawley Poole. This pair had a pretty race for Moore county’s seat in the lower house two years ago. Other contests include the three- cornered race for Mr. Boyette’s So licitor job, the contestants being W. ^ A. Leland McKeithen of Pinehurst, E. J. Bums of Carthage and J. H. Scott of Carthage; and the scrap between J. Vance Rowe of Aberdeen, Incumbent, and S. R. Hoyle of Car thage for Judge of the Recorder’s Court. The time for filing expires at 6:00 o’clock tomorrow, Saturday, night. Also at the Hth hour, R. Q. Frye, ("Pltuae turn to page fivt)