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PILOT
MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
VOL. 19, NO. 26.
Southern Pines and ^Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, May 26, 1939.
FIVE CENTH
PINEHURST fflGH
TO GRADUATE 19
TUESDAY EVENING
School’s Commencement Exer
cises Open Tonight With Re
cital by Pupils
BACCALAUREATE SUNDAY
With 19 Seniors to be awarded
their diplomas, the 15th annual Com
mencement exercises get under way
in the Pinehurst public school this
evening, Friday^ with a music recital
opening the program, the baccalaur
eate sermon on Sunday morning, Sev
enth grade exercises Monday and
the high school graduation program
Tuesday evening. Tonight, Miss An
nie Marie Choate presents her pu
pils in their final recital, which will
take the form of a birthday party
to which all parents and friends of
the school are invited.
The following program will be giv
en:
June Caprice, Piano Duet by Bobby
Dupont and David Lyon; In Sylvan
Shadows, Geraldine McKenzie; Dance
of the Sunbeams, Elizabeth Anne
Frye; Leaflet in the Wind, Evelyn
Black; First Daffodil of Spring,
Virginia Garner; Lily Pads, Mary
Jane Colue; Spring Blossoms, Flora
Ellen Cameron; Poem, Margaret Mc
Kenzie; ^Gondoliers, Piano Duo by
Betty Smith and Margaret McKen
zie; Reflections, Helen Fields; Scarf
Dance, Junior Sinith; One Happy
Day, Jessie Lee Hartsell; Playing
Hopscotch, Mary Frances Shaw;
Musette, Jackie Homer; The Princess
Dances, Anita Gold; A Garden Party,
Doris McDonald; Balloons in the Air,
Patsy Shaw; Forget-Me-Not, Piano
Duo by Phyllis Hensltey and Anita
Gold; Waltz, Betty Smith; Prelude,
Bill Viall; Star Eyes, Vocal Solo by
Helen Fields; Polonaise in A. Major,
Piano Quartet by Junior Smith, Bill
Viall, E>velyn Black, Miss Choate;
■Creole Love Song, Ekigar B. Smith,
Girls Glee Culb,
Rev Brantley Preacher
The baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered Sunday onorning in the
Community Church at 11:00 o’clock
by the Rev. A. P. Brantley, pastor
of the Methodist Church of Sanford.
On Monday morning at 9:3(X o’clock
■exercises will take place in the aud
itorium when the pupils of the Sev
enth grade will receive certificates
-which are required for their en
trance into high school next fall.
The grade will give a special musi
cal number and a short talk will be
made by J. Vance Rowe of Aberdeen.
Monday evening at 8:00 the seniors
ivill present as their class program,
•“A Class Circus” in the auditorium.
The final graduation exercises will
take place Tuesday evening in the
auditorium at 8:00 o’clock when ath
letic and scholastic awards will be
made and an address gflven by Guy
phillips, Professor of Education at
the University of North Carolina
The following are members of the
■high school graduating class: Mad
eline Jean Marie Martin, Mary Jose
phine McKenzie, Mabel Perry ^le,
Edgar Marvin Lewis, Annie
Vick, Leonard Graham Whltesell,
Mary Elolse Wicker, Arthur S. Du
pree, Katherine Phillips Sledge, Aaron
P. Solomon, Harold John Martin,
James Bari Monroe, Marjorie Marie
Currie, Ruth Holland Maples, Martha
Jane Richar<Json, Ralph La Mont
Homer, Donald Archibald Currie, Jr.,
Dorothy Louise Rrtter
Ruth Wicker.
Commencement Speakers
HUBERT
POTEAT
«BI8HOP EDWIN A. PENICK
Southern Pines High School
To Graduate Record Class
Thirty-Eight Seniors To Hear
Bishop Penick and Dr. Hubert
Poteat Next W'eek
and Helen
MISS 1X)UISB RLUE WINS
READER’S DIGEST Al^ARD
Frank W. Webster, superintend
ent of schools, announces that the
Reader’s Digest award for Scholastic
Achievement has bean won by Miss
Louise Blue, valedictorian of the
class of 1939, Southern Pines High
School. She will receive an engross
ed parchment certificate upon grad
uation. ,
The Reader’s Digest confers this
annual award as encouragement to
voung men and women throughout
the nation who, by their scholastic
achievement, give promise rf
into leadership in their communities
Commencement exercises for the
largest graduating class in the his-'
tory of Southern Pines High School'
will open with the baccalaureate ser-;
mon this Sunday evening. May 28, j
at the Church of Wide Fellowship |
at 8:15 o’clock. The Commencement i
exercises this year are dedicated to I
the late Dr. E. Levis Prizer, former |
member of the Southern Pines School ■
Board. '
The graduation exercises will be i
held at the High School auditorium j
at 8:15 p. m. Thursday^ June 1st. ^
The Class Day exercises will be held
in the auditorium at 8:15 o’clock
p. m. Wednesday, May 31st.
The Rt. Rev. Edwin A. Penick D.
r
D., Episcopal Bishop of North Car
olina, will preach the baccalaureate
sermon; Dr. Hubert M. Poteat, pro
fessor of Latin at Wake Forest Col
lege, will give the Commencement
address.
The personnel of the Senior class
is Mary Henrietta Andrews, Carolyn
Elizabeth Backer, Douglas Keith
Bailey, *Sara Jane Barnum, ♦Hen
rietta Louise Blue, Virginia Lee
Broome, Helen Cameron, ‘Louise
Amelia Crain, *Mary Katherine
Crain, Dorothy Dora. Sybil Eugen
ia Eppb, Jtahn Moore Goldsmith,
Joseph R. Hartgrove, ‘'Phyllis Ann
Harwell^ Frank H. Kaylor, Jr., Rob
ert Bruce Lewis, Jane Grt.nt Mann,
Paul P. McCain, Jr., Jeanette Mc
Donald, Sue Ann Milliken, ‘Rebec
ca Womble Neal, Marguerite Os
borne, Arthur Leo Pate, James Ed
ward Pate, Richard Bliss Pethick.
Barbara Plumer, Wilma Mary Rorie,
Margaret Ann Roth, Leroy A. Snipes,
•Muriel Spaeth, S. J. Starnes, Jr.,
Edith Amllia Stephenson, Dovid
North Stone, *Mary Alice Tate, *Ann
Hutchinson Walker, ‘Elizabeth'Agnes
Watson, Laura Marie Woods and
‘Nancy Vestal Wrenn. Those with
asterisks before their names have
averfiged 85 or better during their
school years. This is the largest class
ever graduated from the Southem
Pines High School, numbering as It
does twelve more than the class of
1938.
The program for Sunday evening
opens with an organ prelude, Men
delssohn’s “War March," followed by
the Doxology; Invocation by the Rev.
E. L. Barber of the Brownson Me
morial Presbyterian Church; Anthem,
‘Now Thank We All Our God,” by
■the Glee Club; Scripture reading, by
the Rev. Craighill Brown, of Em
manuel Episcopal Church; Prayer by
the Rev. Volght O. Taylor, of the
Church of Wide Fellowship; Sermon,
by Bishop Penick; Anthem, “Now the
Day is Over,” by the Glee Club; Ben
ediction; Organ postlude, “March in
G,” by Mrs. Charles M. Grey.
Graduation Program
The graduation exercises program
will be: Processional, Miss Selma
Stegall; Invocation by Father T. A
Williams; Song “God of All Nature
by the Girl’s Glee Club; Pres
entation of the speaker by the
Rpv. J. Fred Stimson; Commence-
,ment address of Dr. Poteat; Song,
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Hail, Louisiana!
Huey Long’s State Finds
James Boyd’s Book, “Long
Hunt,” Unfit for Youth!
Hail, Louisiana!
Ten years after its publication, the
state of the late Huey Long has read
James Boyd's "Long Hunt,’’ one of
the best novels among the numerous
written by the Southern Pines au
thor.
FLASH—by United Press: Louis
iana schools have been ordered to re
move copies of “Long Hunt” by
James Boyd from their libraries and
burn them at once. Thomas H. Harris;
State Superintendent of Schools, who
issued the bider yesteV^ay, said the
book “is probably vicious in its in
fluence upon the minds of young
high school boys and girls.”
_ Louisiana, here we come: James
Boyd was Invited to address the
graduating class of Southem Pines
High School this week. He had con
ferred, upon him an honorary degree
by the University of North Caro
lina last year. This is the first ob
jection by any authority to the
book. Nor has there been any com
plaint from any Individual reader.
“No responsible writer ever writes
a book with the intention of demor
alizing his readers,” says Mr. Boyd.
PRESBYTERIANS TO
WORSfflP IN NEW
EDIFICE JUNE 11
Rev. E. L. Barber of Brownson
Memorial Announces First
Service in May Street Church
$25,000 DAMAGE
SUIT FILED HERE
BY MRS. GRAVES
Carthage Resident Seeks To Re
cover For Injuries in Char
lotte Auto Accident
J. H. MUSE DEFENDANT
Alleging that she has been perma
nently injured through the careless,
an automobile without proper brakes
by J. H. Muse, acting for Mack-San-
ders Motor Co., Inc. of Charlotte,
Mrs. Gladys Dunlop Graves, wife of
Henry Graves of Corthage, has start
ed suit in Moore County Superior
Court against the firm and Mr. Muse
to recover damages in the amount of
$25,000.
At the time of the accident which
occurred April 8th of this year, the
plaintiff alleges that she was work
ing in Charlotte; that Muse, who
was trying to sell her a car, took her
out to demonstrate one and reckless
ly tried to drive past a green light
before it turned red; that the light
changed before he reached the cor
ner and he was unable to stop; that
he drove through a red light and
again.st another car, with the result
that she was thrown violently against
the front end of the car and serious
ly injured.
One knee cap was shattered in
three places and her left angle and
back were injured, the plaintiff al
leges. It was necessary for her to
undergo an operation and her entire
leg was placed in a solid cast with
instructions that the cast could not
be removed for at least eight weeks,
she further states. Prior to the in-
jiiry, she was in fine physical condi
tion, able to work, and was naming
a good yvelihood, and now hse Is
permanently Injured, the plairttiff
sets forth. Seawell and Seawell are
her attorneys.
North Carolina Peach
Crop Off 37 Percent
Estimated Total of 1,395,000 Bu
shels Compares With 2,232,000
Last Year
The congregation of the Brown
son Memorial Pregbyterian Church,
which has been meeting in the Car
olina ’Theatre, Southem Pines, will
have its first sel^ice in the new
edifice at the corner of May street
and East Indiana avenue on Sunday
morning, June 11th, the Rev. Emest
L. Barber, pastor, announced yester
day.
Although the church building is
not complete, it will be ready for
occupancy on that date two weeks
from this Sunday, and the public Is
Invited to worship with the mem
bership on their first day in the new
home.
“Benches will be provided for those
In the congregation, as the pews will
not be Installed by then,” Mr. Bar
ber said, and added:
“I would suggest that those de
siring to be more comfortable bring
their ow5i chairs.”
A. M. CALHOUN RESIGNS AS
VASS-LAKEVIEW PRINCIPAL.
At a meeting of the Vasa-Lakevlew
School Board held on Thursday
night of last week, A. M. Calhoun
tendered hia resignation to the board
Mr. Calhomn has served as principal
of the school for the past several
years and for some time prior to
his elavatlon to the princlpalship was
a member of the high achol faculty.
Prospects for tfie state’s peach
crop declined 19 percent during April,
and the commercial peach crop Is
decidedly shorter than usual, the
the Federal-State Crop Reporting
Service states. The later winter
freeze did heavy damages, but for
tunately left the remaining fruit
reasonably well distributed on trees.
Freezes, hail storms and low temper
atures since April 1 also damaged
the fruit appreciably. With the moun
tain counties reporting almost a com
plete failure, and spotted low esti
mated through Ihe piedmont and
eastern sections, an average condi
tion of 41 per cent was reported for
the state, this being 19 percent be
low last year and 25 percent below
the past ten years average as of May
A total production of 1,395,000
bushels i.s estimated for harvest com
pared with 2,232,000 bushels har
vested last year, and a ten year av
erage crop of 1,909,000 bushels.
The production Indicated when
compared with last year shows: or
North Carolina 37 percent less; South
Carolina, 16 percent less; Georgia, 12
percent less; lorida. 57 percent less;
Alabama, 5 percent more; Mississ
ippi, 6 percent more; Arkansas, 14
percent more; Louisiana, 24 percent
more; Oklahoma, 29 percent more;
and Texas. 108 percent more.
Currie County’s
Finances,Reduced
Tax Rate in «to Years
Take Your Turn!
JUIMSE F. DOX.VLn PHILLIPS
JURY mSWF A
DUTY, PHILLIPS
TELLS KIWANIS
Pleads For Public Support of
Courts and Police in
Kiwanis Talk
Profit of ABC Stores Now Go
ing To Support of Extended
School System
BIG DEBT REDUCTIONS
DANEEl. F. DAVIS, FORMER
DRUGGIST HERE, PASSES
A plea for public support of law
and order that personal liberty and
property rights may be safeguarded
was made before members of the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club on Wednes
day by Superior Court Judge F. Don
ald Phillips of Rockingham^ who is
holding court in Moore county this
week. His especial plea was for jury
service.
“Men of responsibility and high
moral character are needed on our
juries, but it is this type which, plead
ing stress of business duties, en
deavors to dodge service. If you
want to be tried by men of intelli
gence; it is your duty as a man of
intelligence to take your turn in
passing judgment on others.”
Judge Phillips explained the ju
dicial system of North Carolina, the
rotation of Judges throughout the
state, the duties of citizens toward
the courts which “stand ^'!tween the
strong and the weak, and told a
number of amusing stories in stress
ing his points. One was of stopping
his car up in the mountain section
where he was holding court to con
verse with an interesting looking ne
gro standing beside the road. They
chatted for a while when suddenly
the negro asked:
“Say, who’s the damned old judge
Holding court here this week?”
Rowland S. Pruett, solicitor of this
judicial district, also spoke briefly
along the lines of Judge Phillips. The
meeting was held in the Carthage
Methodist Church.
Pruette Speaker at
Baptist Church Dinner
One Hundred Seventy Persons
Enjoy Program at Southern
Pines Country Club
Daniel F. Davis, brother-in-law of
Mrs. M. H. Grearson of Southem
Pines, and who was affiliated with
the late R. E. Wiley and with H. E.
Thrower in drug stores here for sev
eral years, died at his home In Wind
sor, Vermont, on May 13th, according
to InformHtioi’ rev'^ived here this
week. He had been ill some time.
Mr. Davis was 78 years old.
A picked team of Southern Pines
bfiseball players defeated a similar
team for Aberdeen on Wednesday, 12
to 2.
A hundred and seventy people en
joyed the fried chicken, music and
speeches of the Southern Pines Bap
tist Church banquet at the Southem
Pines country Club |ast Tuejsday
night. The banquet was opened with
invocation by the Rev. Volght Tay
lor of the Church of Wide Fellow
ship. The pastor, the Rev. J. Fred
stimson, acted as toastmaster, assist
ed by W. E. Klvette, chairman of the
Program committee. Mr. Klvette
presented a Negro quartet who sang
to the accompaniment of the clatter
of knives and forks. When the crowd
was silenced with a sufficiency of
food Mr. Klvette presented Dr. C. L
Gray, tenor soloist of Sanltorium
His selections were received with en
cores by the many music lovers pres
ent.
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That the citizens of Moore county
may have a better understanding’ of
their county government and of the
county’.s present financial condition,
Wilbur H. Currie, chairman of the
Board of Commissioners, this week
released the following statement to
the press:
In writing an article pertaining to
Moore county affairs I have done
so with the feeling that possibly some
issue or point will be misunderstood,
but the Commissioners feel that the
people of Moore county should have
the information which will be given.
We want to deal with facts and fig
ures pertaining to the county since
the year 1930 as far as possible, to
deal with facts and figures In such a
way that everyone can understand.
In 1930, Moore county owed $686,-
575.00. Since 1930 and including
1938-1939^ $241,475.00 in bonds have
been paid. During this time only
$40,000.00 in- bonds have been issued.
Of this $40,000.00 bond issue, $10,-
000.00 was purchased by the county
for its ow'n Sinking Fund. There is
at present in the Sinking Fund, Moore
county bonds and other good secur
ities of the value of $50,000, leaving
a net bonded indebtedness of $435,-
100.00.
This is approached to show that
while the average taxpayer has a
feeling that possibly we will never
get through paying bonds^ that Is not
the case In Moore county. Moore
county’s bonded indebtedness is at
present among the very lowest in
North Carolina. The percentage of
net debt to assessed value being
2.4 percent in comparison with a
statewide county average of 8.9 per
cent. At the present rate of retire
ment, twelve years from now Moore
county will have practically all bonds
paid.
Debt Reductions
So that while we have carried on
the county business, we have made
rapid reductions in the bonded indebt
edness of the county, and thei’e most
assuredly is a very bright future, in
that, once the bonds are all paid, un
less we have a seige of spending
which at present does not seem pos
sible, within a very short time Moore
county will operate absolutely on a
cash budget.
In 1930 the property valuation of
Moore county was $27,187,127.00 and
.since that time the appraised valua
tion of real property and particularly
farm property has been decreased,
thereby decreasing the tax levy of
the county. We have given considera
tion to valuations on various farm
properties In the county and listed an
average and we find that there has
been a reduction in valuation of all
farm property, and that the average
is more than 33 1-3 percent. We find
that in 1930 the total property that
was paying $285,464.83 In county
taxes Is in 1938 paying only $185,-
356.51 in county taxes. What does
this mean? It means that the valua
tion has been reduced tremendously
and with that a big reduction In the
tax rate, the tax rate now being 89
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MISS LUCILLE PALAfER AND
RICHARD Lu SUGG M.\RRIED
Miss Lucille Palmer, librarian of
the Southem Pines High School, and
Richard L. Sugg of Southern Pines
were married last Sunday in Rae-
ford, the announcement being made
on Wednesday evening at a bridge
party given by Miss Paulihe Poe. Mrs.
Si^g was a resident of Palmyra,
Virginia before coming here to join
the school faculty. Mrs. Sugg, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Sugg, is
a graduate of Southem Pines High
School and an alumnus of the Unl-
V‘ ity of North Carolina.
He is owner and operator of the
Osco Farms Dairy.