WOORE COUOTrS
LEADING
JVEWS-WEEKLY
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
vol.. 19, NO. 18.
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FIRST IN NEWS.
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Terr% ry of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday. March 31, 1939.
SEAFARIN DAN
FAVORITE FOR
CAROLINA CUP
Local Horse Looks Best of Field
In Feature Race at Camden
Tomorrow
MANY GOING FROM HERE
Seafarin Dan, winner of the $1,000
feature brush race over the Sandhills
course at the recent steeplechase
meeting here, will go to the post as
one of the favorites in the big brush
race on the card ot the Carolina Cup
event at C.TnuJen, S O, tomorrow,
Saturday, carrying the colors of Capt.
Ewart Johnston of Washington, Dan’s
ti'ainer, Geoffrey A Laing of South
ern Pines, is sending tlie horse, along
with four others, to Camden today
ready for tlie six-card program there
Saturday.
Laing's other entries includi; his
own Captain Bill in tlie foatuure
timber race, the Carolina Cup; his
own Lynx Eye, which ran here and
will start there in the flat race, and
Rufus C. F'inch's Jolie Knight, second
here in the maiden brush race, but
starting in Camden in one of the
hurdle events.
N. T. Mayo of Pinehurst is taking
Mrs. Mayo’s Devil Dancer, trim bay
gelding, to Camden for the flat race
and Walter T. Northgrave is running
one of the horses he has in train
ing here in Pinehurst this winter in
f. hurdle event.
So with six starters from the
Sandhills, the Camden meeting prom
ises to draw a big crowd from this
section. Harry D. Kirkover, boss man
of the Carolina Cup event, informs
The Pi'ot that every race on the
card is filled, that the famous Spring
dale course is in A-1 condition, and
that he looks for a grand afternoon
of sport. The first race is scheduled
for 2:00 o'clock. There will be two
hurdle races, two over bru.sh, one
flat race and the feature timber
event, three miles over timber for
the historic Carolina Cup.
Robert Leatham, 6^
Dies at Home Here
Native Here Since 1935 Suc
cumbs After Lingering
Illness
In failing health for several years
Hobert Leatham 68, died in his home
on Manly avenue, Southern Pines,
Monday night.
Born in Glasgow', Scotland on
March 6, 1871, the son of Robert
Leatham and Elizabeth Weir Lea
tham, he was for many years Sup
erintendent of the Pembroke Mills,
Lawrence, Mass., going from there
to their Markel Mill, Batesburg, S.
C., where ill health forced his res
ignation and removal to Charlotte,
from which city he came to South
ern F^nes in 1934.
Funeral services were held in the
Powell Funeral Home at 3:30 o’clock,
Wednesday afternoon, the Rev.
Voight O Taylor of the Church of
Wide Fellowship officiating.
Mr. Leatham is survived by his
widow, the former Miss Lillian
Gaines, and a sister. Miss Elizabeth
Leatham of Lowell, Mass.
Junior Horse Show
Here This Afternoor
Conte.«(anls and Officials All
Muse Be Under 18 Years.—
Susan Fuller In Charge
The youth of the Sandhill*? are put
ting on a horse show of their own
this aftem'ion, Friday in the show
Ting t’ Southern Pinas Coiiutry
Club. It’s strictly a junior alfair,
and takes the pla-'e "" the ^rTnWuina
whi .-h haP * ^en scheduled for thi^
woe!;. III. s '^usan Fuller is mirn ar
of the (omniittec charg? and .'■n-
nfi inted : 'steri’ .y thit no one will
V elir'ble to enter the vpi'ous < vents
rnle&‘’ Ve is ''*5 or under. Thf ihow
rin? of'icials. the ju<^ge3. ever^'onp
connected w.h shc v %viil be 18
or undci. '•he sayt., T1 grv,wi -ups
aren’t going to be alio ved to do
anything ‘'xcert look m.
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George H. Maurice Is Re-Elected
Moore County Hospital President
FIVE CEN1>i
Officers Elected for 1939 at
Annual Meeting Held
Last Night
At Civic Club Today
TWO NEW DIRECTORS
George H. Maurice of Eagle Springs
wa.s re-elected president of the Moore
County Hospital at the annual meet
ing of directors held at the hospital
last evening. Other officers re-elect
ed were as follows:
Honorary President, Simeon B.
Chapin; vice-Pre.^ident.s, Mrs. James
H. Andrews of Southern Pines and
G. C. Seymour of Aberdeen; secre-
tary-treasurer, Paul Dana, Pinehurst;
assistant treanirer, George P. Hawes,
.Jr., Piiifhiirst.
Frederick H. Lesli of Pinehurst and
W. P. Saundei’s of Honip were new
members elected to the board of
directors; one to succeed the late
James H. Walker, the other to fill a
vacancy on the boaril which has exist
ed for some time. Directors re-elect
ed were as follows:
The officers anil L. L. Biddle, II,
Mrs. Paul Dana, Mrs. John L. Given,
Verner Z, Reed, Ji\, S. Donald Sher-
rerd and Richard Tuft®, all of
Pinehurst; Jackson H. Boyd, James
Boyd. Struthers Burt, Nelson C.
Hyde, Dorsey G. Stutz and Kenneth
B. Trousdell, all of Southern Pines;
John Fiddner of Pinebluff; John
Currie of Highfalls; Mrs. E. C.
Keating of Knollwood; M. C. McDon
ald of West End; Leighton B. Mc-
Kethen of Cameron; Arthur S. New
comb of Lakeview, Wilbur H. Currie,
Clyde B. Shaw and U. L. Spence of
Carthage; G. C. Seymour and Frank
Shamburger of Aberdeen.
The board heard annual reports of
officers of the financial condition of
the institution, and discussed plans
for completing the financing of the
nurses' home and other business.
Kiwanians Hear Talk
By U. S. Army Chaplain
Harry C. Frazier, Stationed at
Fort Bragg. Speaks On
Vocational Guidance
DUKE ENDOWMENT
ALLOTS $7,164 TO
COUNTY HOSPITAL
Trustees Appropriate Close To
Million Dollars For Charity
in Caroiinas
Hunting, Jumping Classes
Feature Horse Show Here
ORPHAN HOMES AIDED
DU. I
(•liCKil
DR. I. G. GREER
jjr.
Harry C. Frazier, United States
Army Chaplain stationed at Fort
Bragg made a very interesting ad
dress on the subject of vocational
guidance Wednesday at the Kiwanis
Club luncheon at the Southern
Pines Country Club.
Preceding the address John Ho-
warth, chairman of the committee
on vocational guidance for the club,
awarded prizes to students making
outstanding study in this work. The
awards were Miss Laura Wood, Sou
thern Pines, first prize for her study
in accounting, Anne Jane Vick,
Pinehurst, for study of Nursing and
Miss Isabel McKeithen, Cameron, for
study in music.
Mrs. Robert Kenney played a num
ber of piano solos for which she re
ceived warm applause.
Jay-Cees Jo Sponsor
Golf Tournament Here
Invitations Mailed Out For 36-
Hole Medal Play Event on
May 6 and 7
Trustees of the Duke Endowment
i at their meeting in New York this
week appropriated $959,724.81 for |
109 hospital^ and 43 orphan homes
in the two Caroiinas. Hospitals re
ceived $861,596 and orphan homes
?95,128.81. I
The Mooie County Jio.spita! ’.va.‘^
allotted S7,1G1, one dollar pur day
toward the expense of chaiity pa
tients in the insti' '' n c’ lii.ij; 19jS.
The tru.stee.s ri, a t;,! II.. t wlivn
the endo\\'iiK'nt on'
Deren'iber 11, 1921, the group of
non-prolit hu?i,itals in the Caroiinas
numbered 18 and they averaged ap
proximately 500 free p'tients a day
in 1921. l i 1938 liie >;roup of non
profit hw.ipitaU' haJ inetea.sed to 129
. ^ ¥ ira and they averaged 2,,)90 free pa-
A1 U Vit llUB
asked to pay !j>l a free day for each
patient.
The 43 orphan homes reported 1,-
: 789.931 days of care of orphans and
Renowned Interpreter of Folk half orphans during 1938, which was
Music To Present Program I 87 per cent of the total days of
and Lecture at 8:00 P. M. I care. The institutions cared for 5,-
I 747 orphans and half orphans.
One of the outstanding events of, approj’riation announced this
the Southern Pines Civic Club’s seas- | week brought to $14,392,864 the sum
ons program will take place there! given to hospitals and orphan homes
tonight, Friday, at 8:00 p. m. when [ by the endow ment since it was e«-
Dr. and Mrs. 1. G. Greer bring a) tablished.
noted collection of North Carolina —
Folk music to a Southern Pines aud'
ience. Dr. Greer, a native North Car
olinian, is an authority on folk mus
ic and has one of the most complete
collections ever assembled in the Southern Pines Girl Elected To
state. Born and readed in the rugged Honorary Society at W. C
mountain country, he acquired a
natural acquaintance of folklore that
enveloped his hilly country, and for
over 20 years he has collected bal-
HERE TO.NIGHT
Miss Carolina Lewis
Named Phi Beta Kappa
U. N. Cm Greensboro
Count Peacock Wins Ribbon In
Saddle Horse Division.—Orat
ion Is Hunter Champion
tony wins open AGAIN
Featured by as line a showing
of hunters as any in the country
fehoit of the National at Madison
Square Garden, and with quality if
not quantity in all other classes, the
22nd annual horse show here came
to a close Wednesday afternoon in
I ti.e Pinehurst show ring with the
I Clowning of the champions. Count
I 1 tacock, consistent performer
throughout the two-day event, car-
' lie't off the cnamplonship ribbon in
the throp-giiiiod ca ldle horse classi-
f:oifion f(,r hi:-; owner, Nathan Ayers
o‘- Civf'npb' ro; Goode Watkins’ Bour-
' )'-n rv.Tothcr.rt v.as adjudged five-
gaited champion and Oiation, hand-
i .some (jh,'.«tnut owned by Ernest I.
White of Syi-acuse, N .V., won the
' hunter cluunpionship.
IL wa.s a fine show throughout,
i b:it (ho hunting and jumping featur
ed, and you couldn't ask for better
f'las.ses anywlit-re in these events.
Judge Enrman B. AJitcliell, M. P’. H.
of Hai risburg, Pa., was hard put to
it to adjudge the winners of many
of the hunting classes and when the
proclaiming of the show’s hunter
chanipion became necessary, it was
so near a toss-up between Mr. White's
Oration and the Dodsborg Farms’
Demopolis, bay gelding shown by
T. M. Dodson, Jr., of Charlottesville,
I Va., that Mr. Mitchell mounted each,
, T , them about the ring, and had to
The annual report of tehx A. , ,
make the ward on personal prefer-
Grissette, executive director of the' gn^e
Hospital Saving Vssociatlon of North * .Saddle Classes
Carolina, released this week, reveals i In the saddle hor^e classes the
that the net number of members in | Soing was not quite as close, Nathan
force at the end of 1938 was 83,436, Peacock scoring pretty
^ A I consistently in the three-waited
a gam of 46,518 during the year. As: , 1 ^
I classes and Goode Watkins’ Bourbon
Sigrhtseeing*
Beauty Spots To Visit In
Sandhills at this Season
of the Year
With the Sandhills section now
in its prettiest stage of the .sea
son, The Pilot recommends to vis
itors sightseeing trips to the fol
lowing places:
Bethc.sda Cemetery, Aberdeen,
and liie gioive of Walter Hines
I’age. \* orid Ambassador to Great
Britain.
Flora Mnidonali! Coiloge Cam-
i us at Red .‘^ni-ir'T.s.
Pin'-'-'Ui-wt lV''(>h C-mp.-'ny apple
orchards nt West E*id.
Pinehurst Vill;ige, privnte g;>r-
lU-ns and “Central Park.'’
Southern Pines private gardens
and a drive through Weymouth
Heights.
Watson’s Lake.
Cf\’St:d Lrike at Lakeview.
N. C. HOSPITAL
SAVING ASS’N.
REPORIS GAIN
;>loore
1750.-
County Membership is
Paid In Coun
ty for 287 Hospital Bills
, The Woman’s College Chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa announced the elec- ;
lads as a hobby. Dr. Greer will sing tion of 22 new members to the fra-:
a number of these old songs, ac- ternity Tuesday noon at the weekly |
companied by Mrs. Greer on the dul- convocation. One convocation prog- j
cimer, one of the most ancient of is set aside annually foi the an- j
musical instruments. nouncement of elections, and it wdll ^
Dr. Greer’s collection of ballads followed this year on April 14 y |
have not only attracted attention in the Phi Beta Kappa initiation. Dr. j
the State but have brought nation- Francis P. Gaines, president of Was - ,
w’ide notice. Dr. and Mrs. Greer were ington and Lee University will deliv-,
joint artists in Constitution Hall last pi the address that evening, follow |
May when the Fifth National Folk ing the initiation banquet.
Festival was celebrated in Washing- The 22 new members, 19 of them j
ton. The Greer performance promises seniors, two juniors, and one ^
to be one of the interesting affairs alumna, were announced by
of the entire season. The admission L. Barkley, secretary of the o
price is 35 cents, and the presump- man’s College Chapter. Miss or-
Uon is that a full house will turn out ence Schaeffer, president of the
to hear the Greers in joint recital, i chapter had charge of the exercises.
Impressively arrayed in caps and
of the present date the net total is;
in excess of 90,000.
The membership is scattered
throughout 91 different North Caro
lina counties, approximately 1,750
Sweetheart in the five-gaited events.
Mrs. Reed A. Albee of Larchmont,
N. Y., judged the saddle classes with
apparent satisfaction.
Young Shirley Laasing of South-
Mrs. Dorothy Adams Is
Married In Honolulu
Invitations to play in the First An
nual North Carolina Jay-Cee Golf
Ch'tmpionship, to be hcid over the
famed No. 1 course »>f the Southern
Pines Country Club on May 6 and 7,
have beer mailed out by the spon
soring Southeru Pir^g Club and -’re
receiving an enthusiastic reception
by Jay-Cees all over the country.
From all indications a field of more
than 100 golfers will be on hand
when the 36-hole medal p’ ly e'-ent
get.=i under way. ■
Any memoei, .acli ’e or honorary,
of rny n-emb'" org'inizaticn of the,
TTritei .'Uites Jun’or Oair’'"‘r o'" j
Commerce it oUglbl'- to nmpcte iu!
this tcuraament and the spi>nsors f --
prct a good manv represent'ti>e3 4
cluu:» In other states wii' bo on h; iid
fi ' t.htH eve-it
lEh’ery'^^hing tha; e done Lj
- nte '.air the isitir ao'f^'TS WjII
be done ly ♦,h- Sou ■l'•r^ ine.'j chib.
^ small ' ^et-i‘quai d dance is
being planr.jd lor Sat. lay Jdght,
(Please thr.i to j- j/t ‘our}
gowns, the 19 new senior members
took their places on the platform
beside the one student member, Miss
Jane Dupuy, of Greensboro, who was
Weds Major Joseph H. Walton., taken in as a junior last year. The
Will Remain There seniors were followed by the two
Indetinitely ' new junior members, whose class
I lank did not allow the wearing of
News of the announcement of the cap and gown,
marriage of Mrs. Dorothy Adams to New members of the present sen-
Major Joseph H. Walton, which took ior class include: Misses Carolina
place February 23rd, in Calvary Bap- Lewis, Southern Pines; Selma Dunn,
tist Church. Honolulu, Hawaii, has Winston-Salem; Esther Ann Quinn,
been i.!ceived here. Shelby; Phyllis Keister, Greensboro;
\r;-s. 'Valton is the daughter of wilma Levine, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Flor-
Mid. Lelia M. Bass and the late G. cnee Albright, Ro.selle, N. J.; Sophia
\V. Bass, formerly of Manly, who, Taplin, liigh Point; Mamie Patrick, j
for ti e past two years has made ' Durham; Edna Cartwright, Baltimore,,
her home iu Southern Pines with her Md.; Margaret Woodson, Salisbury;
daughter, Mrs. James T. Wilson, un-; Claudeline Lewis, Enfield; Gertrude ’
til her recent departure for Hawaii.: Hainey, Martinsville, N. J.; Dciothy'
Major and Mrs. Walton expect to Truit, iGreenisboro; Adelaide Love,'
remain in Honolulu indetinitely.
of whom reside in Moore County. The , crn Pines won the right to compete
activities of the Association in Sou- | in the Championship A. S. P. C. A.
them Pines and vicinity are under; Horsemanship class in next Novem-
the direction of Rev. W. L. Dawson, I ber's National Horse Show in Madi-
of Hemp. j fon Square Garden, New York with
During the three years of its op-1 victory in the Horsemanship
erations the Association has paid children not over 17. Seven
the hospital bills of 9,425 of its mem-1 children appeared for this event, and
bers for a total saving to those | judged for guidance and con-
niembers of $394,759.00. Moore Coun-! of horse over eight jumps not
ty members have been saved $9,668,00 i <^ver three feet high. Miss Peggy
in payment of 287 hospital bills. ! ^udd of Greenwich, Conn., was sec-
The Chapel Hill Association is the t ^usan Fuller of Durham
state-wide, non-profit group payment placed third,
plan for hospital bills operated joint- ^s usual, the crowd thoroughly
ly by the North Carolina Medical So- ^he showing of the 75 mm.
ciety and the North Carolina Hospi- &uns by three batteries of the 83rd
atl Association. It is one of 55 such | Artillery, thrilling at the speed
recognized associations operating in - accuracy shown by man and
the United States with a total mem-'; as the big cannons were nau..
ed through narrow posts set up in
the show ring. Battery D was award
ed the blue over E and F batteries
by Col. John P. Lucas, who judged
the military classes. Brig. Gen. Wil
liam Bryden, commanding officer at
Fort Bragg, awaided the ribbons fol
lowing this event. One of the biggest
mobile guns at Fort Bragg w^as also
on exhibition on Wednesday and at
tracted considerable interest.
The Summaries:
Tuesday i ,
Two-Year-Old Trotters—1, Peerless
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S. P. HI< SCHOOL BALL
Greensboro; Bet.^ Wharton, Greens-1
boro; Maxine Garner, Liberty; Mar
tha Eleanor Floyd, Fairmont; Dor- j
C'T.l'B WINS 2Nn STRAIGHT I „thy Kolman. Pittsfield, Mass.; rnd
!'or'thy Kjsseland, Short Hills, N. Z
Givinfr up only three hits over tha phe two m*'mbers from tac ilpss tf
nine-iniunp' routf*, .-vrth. r Pate nit- 1940 are: Misses M ugaret Wya’cto.
t..ied t'ie Southern P.me,’ Figh School: of Mebani, ..nd M trtha Murt'n, Mn-
ba.seball cl jb 1o a 7-C shut o; over j joj.
Cam ron ye.iterday afternoon. | Alumnn from the clas: of l^^'S, Dr
This was Lhe localitss v?oi. 1 winjLorna Thigpen, \ss<'Ci;i^e Profess->r
in as many starts, and Pate’s big-j of Ge loticf-, Connecticut State- C
time hurling Icnka like tiie t am’.s | icge, Storrs, Ci un.
answer to theii* hopes of - a <rtand Principal speaker for the coiivoca-
out season. j tion was Dean R. B. Houpo, dean of
The next game wih be played on administration at the Chapel Hill unit
Monday against Hoffman. 1 of the University of Not th Carolina.
bership of more than 3,000,000 peo
ple.
The membership of the Association
represents a true cross-section of the
entire jx)puIation of the State, rang
ing all the way from Governor Clyde
R, Hoey and the members of his fam
ily to thousands of citizens in hum
ble circumstanceis, many of whom
could ill afford to pay the expenses
of an unexpected hospital bill ex
cept through some such prepayment
method. Among the total are 3,570
negroes.
Diseases of tonsils and adenoids
required more hospitalization than
any other one ailment, according to
Mr. Grisette’s renort, 13.49 per cent
having been hospitalized for this pur
pose. Following in close order were
uppendicitiB, 13.33 per cent; Ji.seases
of female genital organs, 8.29 per
cent; and maternity cases, 7.09 per
cent.. As m.ght De e-pectcd, women
members rcqu. ed > - ut double tht
f. 'iount of hudpitalization required by
men.
Want Local Team in
Tobacc(» State ^easrue
Meetinpr To Or)>anize Fandhilh
Club To Be Held in Southern
Pines Next Monday
A meeting will be held Monday
eveni iS', Apiil 3rd, at 8 00 j m. at
lhe Scout lodge in Sout'^rn ’^i.nt ^
to a'teinpt to organi i a Saii ihilla
baseball team to cnfer he TobacT
'^tate Lea. ui, this buriimer.
The <e.^m will prove t ) bo a .jreat
^ I booiitei for the Sandhills and e\erv-
The ^mj'zi.s cf Cj.i los Au Leod for-j jtuertsu i is urged to be 1; ps-
mer Cartb. je T>"St;‘taster and 0''0
t'-ne inlue.itial i.i Moon '^vmty pci-, j., eas.,nal =1 will ^o on ..r *
i<ics, wtre inter^d Vonlay in thf.- accoidin,; to wfficials
Carthage P-^bjterian cem.'>"y i ^^ant ad-.iissio.i to 30 i.s.
r \KIX)!> McLl A l» DITO
low'ing funeral .service^! held fiom li.-
home in Sanford, where he di^d
I games.
un- This meeting will be held jo u
day morning fallow mg a heart at- ^vith the Junior ChamV'r of (. •
tack. H<‘ ^v1l3 68 years of t ge. .me’ i.e of Soufnorn Pines.