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May 00 15, MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding aAOLB dPAINCS MAHUKY JACKSON apRIHO» SOUTMeRH pinss yplMEBLUFP FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION ft ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Terth v of North Carolina VOL. 18, NO. 24. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, May 27, 1988. FIVE CENTS CANDIDATES REACH HOME STRETCH ON POLITICAL TRACK You Hear All Kinds of Predic tions For Congress and Other Ofhces PRIMARIES WEEK OFF Mrs. Gregory Here To Launch , GOVERNOR HOEY TO Robin Hood Farm Movement GRADUATION TALK TO SENIORS Daughter of Late Senator Ov erman Outlines Plans For Vocational Project Women’s Chairman They’re coming down the home stretch in the political campaign. With the primaries but a week off, the boys arc shaking hands as fast as they can get around the county, and the cigar bills are mounting. The main questions you hear on the street corners—and it depends upon the speakers what answers you hear —are these; Will Frank Hancock give “Bob” Reynolds any kind of a run for the Democratic Senatorial nomination? Moore county looks safe for Sena tor “Bob” but you never can tell- Anyway, the genial Ashevillite isn’t •worrying. He even cancelled some speaking engagements this week to stay in Washington. Who will be in the second pri mary for the Democratic nomination for Representative in Congress to succeed Walter Lambeth? You hear all kinds of talk- Some say Deane and Burgin; some say Burgin and Beasley; a few think George Ross ■will make the grade; a few predict Deane and Beasley. And still others say Newton is a “dark horse” and •will surprise. It’s anybody’s guess. Wiseacres among the politics think Moore county will be pretty well split up between Ross, Beasley and Deane. Deane seems strong in the lower end of the county. Rosa has ■been hurt by folks who say he isn’t really a resident of Moore county any more, that he lives in Raleigh. But George has never abandoned Jackson Springs as his voting resi dence, and has always called it home. Will any of the three candidates for ‘Mose” Boyette's job as county solicitor “get in” on the first pri mary? We’ve heard it predicted that Leland McKeithen may, but Broth ers Burns and Scott of Carthage laugh at the assertion. It’s a pretty fight anyway, the prettiest in the county. Will the Democratic voters return Judge Vance Rowe to the Recorder’s Court? You hear all over that Sam Hoyle, who has presided over this court himself, going great guns and may upset the dope. There's no ^oubt the Aberdeenian will get a heavy vote in this end of the coun ty, and he's been assured support in all sections. But so has Carthage Sam. Another pretty racv Will the Board of County Com missioners remain “as it?” There’s only one contest, that between Com missioner Gordon Cameron and W. H. McNeill of Aberdeen. At this writing it looks like Gordon, who’s been on the board for some time and through a periotl when the coun ty has made splendid progress. His friends say they can see no reason wliy the electorate should throw him out, even though he has a good man running against him. Will the next Coroner be a Fry, a Frye or a Hill. The candidates are the present incumbent, D. Carl Frye; R. G. Frye, Jr. and M. A. Hill. The Fry without the “e” appears to be in the lead. Anyone who can answer these questions can make some money be tween now and Saturday, June 4th VACATION BIBLE SC^HOOL AT PINEHURST OPENS MONDAY The annual Vacation Bible School i3f the Pinehurst Community Church will begin its two weeks session Mon day morning. May 30- ChUdren be tween the ages of 4 and 15 yoars in clusive are eligible to attend. They will be divided into four departments. Beginners, Primaries, Juniors «nd Intermediates. These departments will be in charge of three or four teachers each. The daily sessions will be three hours- Parents of children in and around Pinehurst are cordial ly invited and urgdd to enroll their children promptly on the first day of the gchool. The school will be under the supervision of Mrs. W L. Cun ningham who will gladly furnish Information. Mrs. Edwin Clarke Gregory, of Sali.sbury, a daughter of the late distinguished United States Senator from North Carolina, Lee S. Over man, is a guest at the Highland Pines Inn, Southern Pines. Mrs. Gregory is here in the interest of a project dear to her heart, the launching of the Robin Hood farm movement at the Manice farm, a few miles from Pinehurst. Appointed last week by the State Executive committee of the Robin Hood Farms as chairman of the Wo man’s Committee assist in rais ing funds, Mrs. Gregory came to Southern Pines on Monday and es tablished temporary headquarters at the Inn. Her background and exper ience ideally fit her for the task of interesting the people of North Carolina in an estimable undertak ing, that of providing vocational training for deserving Tar Heel boys and girls above high school age and without financial means for further education. Practical training and ex perience in farming operations will be provided these youths. Mrs- Gregory is president of the Salisbury Woman’s Club and chair man of the Colonial Dames Society of Rowan county. She is also North Carolina director for the Robert S. Lee Memorial Foundation. She has held important offices with the Dau ghters of the American Revolution, including State Regent, Vice-Presi dent of the National Society and Vice-Chairman of the National De fense Committee for the South. Decorated by Wilson President Wilson decorated Mrs. Gregoi-y with the World War Service Medal for Red Cross service. Presi dent Coolidge conferred upon her the Cross of Honor Medti’. President Coolidge, Chief Justice Taft and Chief Justice Hughes sent her on the American Flag good-will tour of the world. Mrs. Gregory has served as trus tee for the TTniversity of North Car olina. Daughter of the late Senator Overman, she is a granddaughter of the late State Chief Justice Augus- tus Summerfield Merrimon. Her son, Lee Overman Gregory, was recently appointed State Assistant Attorney General. Her husband, Edwin Clarice Gregory, served in the State Senate in 1937, and was nominated with out opposition for the 1939 Senate. “I know of no other person in the state so well qualified to act as chair man of the Women’s Committee for Robin Hood Farms. Mrs. Gregory realizes deeply the need for helping deserving Tar Heel boys and girls to become self-supporting, respectable North Carolina citizens,” said Secre tary of State Thad Eure, in com menting on the appointment. The Farm Movement In an intezview this week, Mrs. Gregory told The Pilot something about the aims of the Robin Hood Farm movement. It is propose^l, she said, to furnish w’ithout charge a school where boys of 16 to 20 years may learn practical farming, dairy, ing, animal husbandry, carpentry, honey making, poultry raising, truck gardening, soils selection, pig rais ing, mushroom culture, care of farm machinery, use of fertilizers, com mercial canning and rotation of crops- Girls, to be admitted later, may learn to cook, sew, make butter, can food and do general hou-sekeep- ing in a practical way. There will be no expense whatever to the students to be very carefully selected for this thorough training. FXjod, clothing, housing, tools and a small amount of spending money will be furnished to each student. It is believed the commercial sale of farm products they raise while learning, ultimately will cover ac tual living expenses and thus make the school largely self-supporting. It is proposed to start at some time before fall, when the premises are ready, with about 50 boys. As the projects develop»s, it is planned to eventually have 500 boys and g^ls on the farm when the necessary fa cilities are provided. “I feel sure that every earnest, (Pleate tum to page four) Commencement Exercises of Southern Pines Sth«M)l Begin on Sunday Evening 2() IN GRADUATING CLASS ]\IRS. EDWIN GKEGOKY SPECIAL ELECTION ON CIVIC CENTER SET FOR JULY 19 Registration Books To Be Open on Four Saturdays Preceding Day for Balloting DECIDE ON BOND ISSUE The special election in Southern Pines, to decide the question of pur chase of the Harrington property, adjoining the new postoffice on West Broad street, has been set for Tuesday, July 19, with books op^n for a special registration on the four .Saturdays preceding the election. An advertisement calling for this reg istration and election appear^ in another column of this issue of The Pilot. The advertisement says, in part: “A special election will be held on Tuesday, July 19, 1938 for the pur pose of authorizing the issuance and sale of $9,000.00 in Town of South ern Pines bonds for the purpose of purchasing x x x the balance of the Harrington property on West Broad street, adjoining the new United States Postoffice Building and the voters will vote 'For Bond Issue’ or 'Against Bond Issue,’ and if a ma jority of the qualified voters shall vote ‘For Bond Issue,’ the said bonds totalling .?9.000.00 will be issued and nold and the money used for the pur chase of the aforesaid lot of land. If a majority of the qualified voters shall vote ‘Against Bond Issue,’ the said bonds will not be issued and the Town will not purchase the said lots of land.” Commencement exercises of the Southern Pines High School will be gin with ■ the baccalaureate ser mon this Sunday evening. May 29, at the Church of Wide Fellow ship at 8:15 o’clock. The graduation exercises will be held at the High School auditorium at 8:15 p. m. Wednesday, June 1st. The Class Day exercises will be held in the audi torium at 11:00 o'clock on the morn ing of Wednesday, June 3rd. The Rev. J. Fred Stimson, pastor of the Baptist Church of Southern Pines, will preach the baccalaureate sermon; Governor Clyde R. Hoey will give the commencement address. The personnel of the Senior class is Petria Ernestine Bailey, Gertrude Rogalin Baker, Edith B. Blake, Frank Walker Buchan, Eleanor Blanche Cameron, Herbert Alexan der Cameron, Mary Louise Cameron, Alfred G. Chiswell, Peggy W^inboume Graves. Lucy Clara Hall, Catherine Elizabeth Hilderman, John Boyd Jones, Evelyn Louise Kellia, Robert West Kolb, Ollie Christine Maples, Jessie Rebecca McDonald, James Shepard Milliken, Jr., Colin Porter Osborne, Jr., Edgar A. Parker, Char les A. Speas Phillips, Edward Levis (Please tm-n to page sex<en) Dewberry Season Opens at Vass and Cameron Prices Satisfactory But Crop Short.—Tate Handling Vass Sales P. O. Officials SMITH PURDUM PAUL. K YOUNTS Dewberries are on the market, but owing to the dry weather for so long a period the crop in this section is I’eported as unusually short, and the fruit has not reached its usual size. Shipping began last week, the ear liest in history, according to R. C. Thomas, who has been growing dew- beriies for 42 years. The berries are moving rapidly, at a fair price. The Vass Auction Market, under the management of the Chadbourn Marketing Company, opened official ly on Monday, but several hundred i orates of dewberries were handled j through the market on Thursday, | Friday and Saturday of last week. i To date, prices have been t very j satisfactory, running as high as $3.40 | Legion Memorial Day Services Here Sunday Veterans To Meet at Southern Pines Postoffice.—Decorate Graves in Afternoon Shields Cameron, Commander of Sandhills Post of the American Le gion, annoimces that the annual Me morial Day service of the Legion will be held at the Church of Wide Fellowship in Southern Pines on Sun-j day morning. May 29th at 11:00 a. | m. Veterans of all wars, whether members of the Legion or any other organization, are invited to meet for this service. The ladies of the Auxiliary are to attend the .service Notables Here For Dedication Of Postoffice Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Purdum To Be Intro duced by Con. Lambeth CEREMONIES SATURDAY Smith W. Purdum, Fourth Assist ant Postmaster General of the United States, will officially dedicate the new Southern Pines postoffice tomor row morning, Saturday, the ceremon- ies starting at 11:00 o’clock. Mr. Purdum w’ill be introduced to the assemblage by Congressman Walter Lambeth, and also on the program will be Paul R. Younts, postmaster of Charlotte and executive chairman of National Air Mail Week- All res idents of Southern Pines and vicin ity are invited to the dedication, and it is expected that the stores In town will close between 11 :G0 and 12:00 o’clock, on request of Mayor Stutz. With Postmaster Frank Buchan acting as master of ceremonies the program will open with the invoca tion by the Rev Voight O. Taylor of the Church of Wide Fellowship. The Higli School qiee Club will sing “America,” after which a dele gation of Boy Scouts will raise the American flag on the new flagpole in front of the building. Mayor Stutz will welcome the guests, to be followed by a few words by Post, master Younts. Congressman I^mbeth will then present the dedication speaker, Mr. Purdum, to which Southern Pines owes a deep debt of gratitude for his interest and aid in secui-ing the new building. The program will close with the playing of the “Star Span gled Banner” by the High School band. Postal Clerks of State Here For Convention Assistant Postmaster General and Congressman to Attend Annual Session Southern Pines will play host to- mcvrow, Saturday to the North Car olina division of the Association of Postal Clerks, with Fourth Assist ant Postmaster General Smith W. Purdum, Congressman Walter Lam- for 21-quart crates, with the aver age well over §2.00. C. Lacy Tate, who has been man ager of the market for several years. Only persons who shall specifically j expressed the opinion that the price register for this election will be au-; even better than at pres- j thorized to vote. Those who legally ] when the strawberiy season j vote in Southern Pines are eligible {the eastern shore comes to ^ to register, but unless registered for Delaware crop i.s said j to be short and with the local wea- , beth, Postmaster Paul R. Younts of and special seating arrangements: charlotte and other notables in at- have, been made for them. j tendance. Among those on the con. ■^terans of the World War, Span-i vention program are National Sec- ish War and representatives of theji.ptary Barrett Bussier of the Clerk.*?’ Civjl War organizations will assem-, organization. State President Marvin KlJis of Mount Aii-y, State Secretary J. L. McCracken, and Mrs. Avery this particular election they may not vole. The books will be open at the City Hall on successive Saturdays from June 25th through July 16th- Hiram Westbrook will be register and ther conditions causing the dewber ries to ripen slowly, the outlook ap pears to be most favorable. How- A. S. Ruggles and Mrs. J. H. Tilgh- man judges. Mrs. Svendsen Calm as Son Goes on Trial Buoyed by a mother’s undying faith and confidence in her boy, Mrs. Svendsen of Boston, Mass., sat calm ly through the tedius hours required for selecting a jury to decide the fate of her son, Robert, 18, and Jean Baptiste Caron, several years his senior, who are charged with the first degree murder of J. E. Carra- way, operator of the Connecticut Tourist Camp, last August . “I know he is innocent,” the mo ther averred. “Robert was never a bad boy.” A special venire of 50 men was summoned Tuesday, and on Wednes day morning at 10:45 the case was called. Names were drawn by five- year-old Bertha Mae Freeman, and when court adjourned for lunch only one man had been accepted by the defense for jury service. The work of selecting a jury was resumed when court re-convened, and consumed the entire afternoon ses sion. than for several years. J. G. Graves of Keysville, Va-, is auctioneer, and the market is being run as in previous years with an of fice on the grounds where payment for the berries is made daily. C.\NDII>.\TKS SOI OUT FOR ( SOFTB.ALL LEAGUE TE.VM Softball, which has taken a firm footing throughout the country, is in the offing in the Sandhills. There is considerable talk of a league here this summer, with teams in Aber deen, Pinehurst, Southern Pines and possibly other towns participating. Pinehurst already has a team. Those in Southedn Pines interest ed in the game are requested to give their names to Charlie Parker or Lew Fields at the Masonic Tem ple Barber Shop prior to Wednes day of next week,, after which can didates will try out for positions on the local team at the baseball park Secretary of State Thad Eure and John A. Park, publisher of the Ral eigh Times, will speak at the meet ing of the Southern Pines Rotary Club at Jack’s Grill this noon on the Iwbin Hood Farm movement near Pinehurst. ble in front of the new Southern Pines postoffice at 10:30 a. m. Le gion caps are to be provided for those not having them- The organi zations will then parade to the church where they will be met by the Auxiliary and Boy Scout repre- .sentatives. The Squadron of Sons of the Legion now being formed, will march in the parade. The Rev. Voight O. Taylor will preach the memorial sermon. jin the afternoon Legion and Aux iliary committees will decorate the graves of the veterans in the various cemeteries of the Sandhills, under the leadership of the following: Southern Pines, Mr; and Mrs. L. V. O’Callaghan and Mr. and Mrs, Hugh Betterley; Bethesda, Mrs. Rob ert SN. Page, Sr. Mr. and Mr.s. Dan R. McNeill and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Creel; Lakeview, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Woolley; Vass, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Dwight; Union, J. M. Davis; Cameron, • Mrs. J. Mitchell Guthrie; West End and Bensalem. J. Hawley Poole, J. F. Sinclair and Mrs Donald Elfort. The Decoration committees In most cases plan to visit the cemeteries on Saturday and see that the g^ave* of veterans are clear of weeds and grass. They will probably call upon other Legion and Auxiliaiy members for help in this clean-up. If you have flowers or evergreens that can be used in decorating the graves please give them to members of the com. mltte or tak« them to the cemetery nearest you on Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock- Baker, State President of the Ladies' An.xi'^ii-y. The delegates will register at the Baptist Church between 12:00 and 1:00, immediately following the ded ication of the new postoffice, and will be served lunch by the ladies of the church, which will be convention headquartei-s. Before the business session all afternoon there will be a brief program during which ITrs. R. T. Mills will sing a solo and Miss Katherine Buchan and W. P. Whit- lock a duet. Mrs. Ola W. Thomp son is chairman of the Program committee. After the invocation by the Rev. E. L. Barber, the Rev. J. Fred Stimson will welcome the dele gates and Preston T. Kelsey will tell the visitors something about South ern Pines and its history. On account of the convention, the postoffice will close for business at n :0C '•’clock tomorrow morning, but the stamp and general windw's will be opened from 4:00 to 6:00 In the afternoon, Postmaster Buchan an nounces. The ladies of the Civic Club are keeping open house for members of the Postal Clerks’ Woman’s Auxil iary during the day. B.4NKS CliOSE MONDAY Banka in Moore county will be closed all day on Monday, Decora^ tion Day, The Southern Pinea post- office will open its st^unp and general delivery window until 10:0# a. m.