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NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina. Friday, Juy 21, 1939
FIVE CENTS
BIG CROWD HEARS
CONCERT BY 113TH
REGIMENTAL BAND
State Militiamen Encampment
Here Sunday Enroute To
Fort Bragg
Names Faculty
MUNICIPAL PARK JAMMED
Southern Pines was host to the
113th Field Artillery of the North
Carolina National Guard last Sun
day, but it was the visitors who
furnished the entertainment. The
regimental band, sent over from
Fort Bragg for the occasion, played
Sunday night in Municipal Park to
the largest crowd assembled here in
some time. Cara were parked for
blocks, and the park jammed with
folks from all parts of the Sandhills.
The concert wa« greatly enjoyed.
Postmaster Frank Buchan, the
Rev. Voigt O. Taylor of the Church
of Wide Fellowship, and Chan Page,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, made brief addresses of wel
come to the militiamen who, several
hundred strong, encamped for the
night on U. S. Highway No. 1 oppo
site “The Skyline.” Under command
of Col. Godfrey Cheshire, the regi-
m,ent made this a stop on its move
from various parts of the state to
Fort Bragg where It is having its
annual maneuvers this week and
next.
The 113th Field ArUllery is made
up of units from Dunn, Smithfield,
Youngsville, Wake Forest, Washing
ton, Greenville^ Kinston, Louisburg,
Sanford, Monroe. Lenoir and New
Bern. Headquarters are in Raleigh.
Thirty pieces comprised the band
which made a special trip here from
Fort Bragg, the members not hav
ing accompanied the regiment on its
march to the post, reporting there
directly.
SANDHILLS PEACH
CROP ON MOVE,
42 % OF NORMAL
! Prices From $2-00 to $2.50 for
I Elbertas, Georgia Belles
I and Hileys
i
SIZE OF FRUIT EXCELLENT
Electric Storm, High Wind 'FIVE RESIDENCES
Do Heavy Damage Here IN SOUTHERN PINES
SOLD IN MONTH
Houses in Aberdeen and South
ern Pines Struck, Vail Barn
in Pinehurst Burns
J. W. HARBISON
Faculty Announced
For Pinehurst Schools
The Sandhill peach crop is on the
move in earnest. Up to Monday grow
era in this section had shipped 43 cars
to market compared with 32 cars
j during the same period a year agq,
and truck shipments were heavy.
1 This despite the fact that only from
30 to 40 percent of a normal crop is
expected, indicating an early season.
Only a few orchards have practically
a normal crop, while many report to
tal loss from freezes and hail.
Price quotations were $2 lo $2.50 | struck.
Suoerintendent J. W- Harbison
Names 1939-40 Teachers.
Term Starts September 6
The electrical storm and heavy!
winds of Wednesday night left ruin
in their wake in the Sandhills. i
Lightning struck the new residence
of Hilton Walker on the highway be
tween Southern Pines and Aberdeen,
setting fire to the house and badly
damaging one side.
The large bam on the estate of
George Vail on Linden Road outside
of Pinehurst was struck by light
ning and burned to the ground. The
Vail property adjoins the estate of
Verner Z. Reed, Jr.
The summer house of Mrs. M. G,
Nichols in the Weymouth Heights
section of Southern Pines was dam-
I eged by a falling tree which had been
Picquet Says Neely
Bill Would Be Ruinous
Measure Which Passes Senate
Involves Too Great Expense
For Smalt Theatres
The Neely Bill, which last week
passed the Senate and was sent to
the House at Washington, would, If
passed, ruin the small town motion
picture exhibitor, in the opinion of
Charles W. Picquet, manager of the
Car.)lina Theatres In Pinehurst and
Southern Pines. The bill does away
with block booking, the present sys
tem under which an exhibitor sub
scribes for films from a producer
and must take all or none. It also
requires every exhibitor to view a
picture before ordering same^ with
heavy penalties for failure to do
so.
Mr. Picquet says the expenses in
volved, under the provisions of the
bill, would be too great for any
small town exhibitor to survive. H*?
quoted Senator Smith of South Car
olina, who said in the Senate:
"I do not think that any greater
calamity could befall the most mar
velous industry of modern times than
the passage of this bill at this
time.’
He went on to say that the com
mon sense and inherent decency of
the people can be relied upon to ifn-
prove the quality of pictures.
“I do not see any need,” Smith
said, “to burn down the house to
get rid of a rat.”
As to block booking, Smith told
the Senate, “When you have a com
plete understanding you applaud it
rather than denounce it.
‘T beg of you to leave the producer
and distributor and the public to solve
this problem rather than to Inject
into It our views of what would be
l)est for the second greatest industry
in America.”
Superintendent J. W. Harbison of
the Pinehurst Schools announces the
faculty for 1939-40 as follows: Miss
Annie Marie Choate, Music; Miss
Dorothy Elhrhardt, Miss Edna Gen
try, Miss Lillian Moore, and Miss
Evelyn Sloan, Primary teachers;
Mrs. Edla Best Wicker, Miss Hassle
Sherrill, Miss Ruth Lilly, Grammar
school teachers, and W. P. WUson
Elementary principal.
The High School faculty will com
prise Edwin Collette, Mathematics
and Science; Shelby Horton, Jr.; Eng
lish and History; Miss Eloise Sum-
merford. Commerce and History:
Miss Bess Arnold Tillman, English
and French; Miss Jane Gibbs, Home
Economics and Science; J. W. Har
bison, Science and Mathematics.
The schools will open on Wednes
day, September 8th.
for 2 1-4 inch minimum Elbertas and
Georgia Belles, $2.25 to $2.50 for
Hiley Belles and $2 to $2.25 for Hales.
Five State-Federal inspectors are
working in the Candor-Ellerbe section
and three at Hamlet.
North
The former home of the late Mr.
and Mrs. J. McN. Johnson on Poplar
street in Aberdeen was hit by the
lightning and damaged, as was ano
ther house owned by J. Talbot John
son, near his own residence.
A dog belonging to Police Officer
Carolina’s fruit crops are, Edward Newton of Southern Pines
considerably short of full crop prom- j was shocked by the lightning and
ises. This especially applies to j rendered unconscious but was revlv-
peaches, says the Department of | ed. Mr. Newton’s family, nearby, was
HOFFMAN PROJECT
COHAGES READY
FOR VACATIONISTS
State Takes Over Sandhills
Land Use Development, Re
opens Recreation Area
COMPLETELY EQUIPPED
REYNOU>S IN ASHEV1LL.E;
MOTHER STILL VERY ILL
Senator Robert R. Reynolds re
mains in Asheville on account of
the critical Illness of his mother. It
was thought Sunday and Monday
t^^lt she could not survive her present'
illness, but now it Is reported by the
senator's son Robert, Jr., that hU
grandmother is slightly better.
Ten completely equipped vacation
cottages in the Indian Camp recrea
tion area in the Sandhills Land Use
Development near Hoffman, are now
ready for use and the cottages may
be rented either by the week or by
the day, it was announced this week
by Thomas W. Morse, superintendent
of State Parks for the Department
of Conservation and Development.
The Indian Camp recreation area and
the ten vacation cottages are n<^w
under the administration of the Ccm-
servation Department since the en
tire Sandhills Development was leas
ed by the Federal government to tlie
Department early in the year.
The ten cottages are grouped
around a small lake, with a sand
bathing beach, both the lake and
beach being reserved for the occu
pants of the cottages. The lake Is
near enough to all the cottages so
I that bathers may dress and undress
I in their rooms.
I Each cottage has the equivalent of
I five rooms with a combination llv-
j ing and dining room, kitchen^ bath
and two screened bedrooms and is
completely equipped, including bed
ding, bed linens, dishes, kitchen equip
ment and silver. Each cottage also
has running water, modern bathroom
and electric water heater. There are
sleeping accommodations for six per
sons in each. The ten cottages are
identical in size and equipment and
are built of wane-edged siding, stain
ed brown with creosote.
EJach cottage rents for $15 a week
' or 13.50 a day except on Saturdays,
] Sundajn and holidays, when the ren-
[tal is $5 a day. Occupancy of any
(PUa$0 tun* to pag* five)
ter than the 10-year average.
Mrs. George C. Graves
Passes in Carthage
Funeral Services Held Yester
day for Prominent Resident
Who Died on Tuesday
Funeral services were held yester
day morning in the Carthage Pres
byterian Church for Mrs. George C.
Graves, a native of Carthage and
one of Its most highly esteemed res
idents. Mrs. Graves passed away
Tuesday night after an illness of sev
eral weeks. Her husband for many
years a leading merchant in Carth
age and prominent throughout the
County, died severl years ago.
Mrs. Graves was a graduate of
Peace Institute and attended the an
nual alumni banquet In Raleigh this
year. Surviving are: two sons
George C. Graves of Asheboro and
Henry L. Graves of Charlotte; six
daughters, Mrs. W. G. Brown, Mrs.
Margaret Penn, Mrs. C. T. Grier, of
Carthage; Mrs. George Helnlsh of
Fayetteville; Mrs. Robert K. Page,
Jr., of Aberdeen, and Mrs. Worth
Miller of KinsLui4. She is also surviv
ed by a brother, George W. McNeill
and by Mrs. Evaline Blue and Mrs.
Herbert F. Sea well Sr., sisters.'
On New Destroyer
Lawrence Johnson, Aberdeen,
Guest of Uncle, Commander
of U. S. s. Lang, on Cruise
Lawrence Johnson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson of
Aberdeen, has joined the Navy—
temporarily. He is enjoying a
cruise on the new destroyer, the
U. S. S. Lang as the guest of his
uncle. Commander Felix Leslie
Johnson, in command of the ves
sel. from New Orleans, La., to
the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Commander Johnson has had
the Lang on its “shake-down”
cruise, during which the ship has
visited Norfolk, Va., Jacksonville,
Fla., Guantanamo, Cuba, San Juan,
Porto Rico, Martinique, Nassau,
Galveston, Tex.^ Key West, Fla.,
and New Orleans where 16-year
old Lawrence joined the ship the
forepart of this week. While In
New York Lawrence will visit his
sister, Miss Miriam Johnson, chief
hostess of the North Carolina ex
hibit at the World’s Fair.
Miss Ruth Burr! Sanborn Buys
Home.—MacPherson Coun*
try Club House Sold
BUILDING ALSO ACTIVE
Agriculture. | badly frightened by the proximity
Only 42 percent of a full crop | the bolt,
peach production is expected this | Some damage to crops was re
year in comparison with 72 percent j ported, and many trees were blown
of a year ago. The commercial peach | down throughout the .section. As far
area, the Sandhill counties, has only, as The Pilot could ascertain no one
about a third of a crop. The size of | was injured during the storm. Both
the fruit, however^ is expected to be I the Carolina Pow^ and Light Com-
exccllent. The general farm crop is I pany and the Central Carolina Tele-
about h'tflf 'T>f a normal production, phone Company were kept busy main-
Contrary to North Carolina’s pros- j tainlng service.
pective production, the national crop j
is estimated at 19 percent more than I w ftaSOline
last year’s crop with a nine percent ^ ®
better condition than was reported TrUCKS Waging In otatC
twelve months ago. Georgia’s crop is |
considerably le.ss than last year but Outlawing of Tankers by San-
not nearly as short as in this state. ford Touches Off Fireworks
Peaches are now moving to market, j in Both Carolinas
The apple prospects are for 47 per-
cent of a normal production. Of this • Aberdeen is watching with inter
farm crop, the commercial orchards est the war declared on oil tank
in the mountain counties vary widely trucks in various parts of the state,
from failure to excellent crops. I'he j There is probably no town in the
present prospects are better than last j state through which pass more of
year but less than the 10-year aver- j these monster vehicles than Aber-
age. The national crop is considerably | deen, which catches the traffic from
better than last year or the usual the big storage tanks at Wilmlng-
productlon. ; ton through to Greensboro, High
Grapes show about an average con-1 Point, Winston-Salem and such dis-
dition this year, both in relation to j tribution points. And Aberdeen has
last year and to the usual condition had one truck crash in the heart of
reported foj .Tulv 1. However, the; town which might have proved ser-
final crop that was harvested last | jous had the contents exploded,
year was short of the earlier expec- j lambasting the /jasoline tan>k
tations, making the present prospect j trucks which Sanford has practically
21 percent better than was harvest- j outlawed by means of an ordinance
ed last year. The national production | with jaw-teeth, Dr. B. W. Williamson,
is slightly less than last year, al- j mayor of Hamlet, last month was
though the present prospect is better: quoted with the frank declaration
than J. year ago and appreciably bet- ^hat municipalities “are going to have
to take steps to curb these menaces
in order to protect our own welfare.”
North Carolina State Fire Mar
shal Sherwood Brockwell, addressing
fire chiefs at Durham last month,
echoed the thought by suggesting leg
islation for the limitation of loads
and routes in handling gasoline. He
asked that limitations be more rigid
m municipal fire districts.
Meanwhile, Sanford aldermen lis
tened to pleas of nine long-haul gas
oline transport companies and re
pealed the part of the anti-tanker
ordinance which requires flagging at
intersections.
No new anti-gas truck ordinances
in North Carolina other than San
ford’s had come to light late last
month. The Sanford act also limits
the trucks to a 10-mile speed. The
fine is $25 or 10 days in jail for each
offense.
BuBt in South Carolina, York’s
recent anti-tanker ordinance prohib
iting transportation of more than 1,-
350 gallons was upheld by a South
Caroltaa court.
North Carolina’s Attorney General
Harry McMullan has Intimated that
validity of the Sanford ordinance is
“conceivable.” Ordinsoices of the
same type have been upheld by the
.^".preme Court of Kansas.
Two more tanktruck fires were
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BASEBALL SERIES
WITH ROCKINGHAM
TIED IN A KNOT
Ralfci Halts “Rubber” Game Be
tween Sandhills and Cubs,
with Score 3-3
The issue between the Sandhills
Baseball Club and the CoEn Cubs of
Rockingham remains unsettled. Each
team has won two games^ and rain
ended the “rubber” on Wednesday
afternoon on the Southern Pines dia
mond with the score at 3 to 3.
At Rockingham last Saturday the
Sandhills evened things up by shut
ting out the Cubs 5 to 0. Turnely
kept the hits well scattered and his
teammates bunchcd hits in the sec
ond, fifth and eighth innings which,
with one scored on errors in the
third, netted the five run margin. Up
to then Rockingham had led two
games to one.
Ed Newton was the heavy hitter i
for Sandhills Saturday, getting a|
home run, triple and single in his ‘
four trips to the plate. He got on |
the bases every time up and scored j
two of the five runs. Joe Matthews had j
a single and a double to his credit.
Turnely struck out seven of the Cubs
and drove in a run with a timely sin
gle in the eighth. Morse and Mc-
Caskill. who pitched for the Cubs,
mowed down an even dozen of the
Sales by Mrs. Lena R. Sweezy
featured unusual activity in the
Southern Pines real estate market
during the past month. Mrs. Sweezy
reports the following sales sines
June 1st.
The Vittum house on Connecticut
avenue and the two Vittum lots and
garage on May street to U. W. Suth
erland of Canandaigua, N. Y.
The Vittum lot on the Country
Club estate to J. D. Arey.
The Frederick Stanley Smith house
on the corner of May street and New
Hampshire avenue to Mrs. Carrie
Baxter of Toledo, Ohio.
I The attractive home owned by
; Mrs. Charles Smith and Misb E31ia
j on Dogwood Road, Weymouth
j Heights, to Miss Ruth Burr Sanbom,
j writer.
I The J. W. MacPherson house on
I the Country Club estate to Jamea
Denholm of Durham, who occupied
the McQueen hou.se on May street
last season.
Mrs. Sweezy has also leased the
Dr. Ramsey house on Ridge street to
Murray Smith of Willlamstown,
Mass,^ who occupied the Schwarberg
house last winter, and the Milton
Engstrom house on Ridge street to
Mrs. Ivy Martin of South Paris,
Maine.
R. L. Potts has sold his new hom«s
on East Vermont avenue to Miss
Florence Swan of Dorchester, Mass.,
who takes possession November 1.
Ground has been broken for the new
residence for Clifford Sloan of New
York near the Pine Needles Inn on
Knollwood Heights, and there is oth
er activity in Knollwood property.
E. C. Stevens is completing plans
for remodeling and enlarging the
building he recently purchased on
West Broad street, between the P.
T. Barnum offices and the Broad
Street Pharmacy, and work is expect
ed to get under way early this fall.
Blue and Worsham are enlarging
their Modern Market on East Broad
street.
Tobacco Market in
Aberdeen Opens SepK 7
Falk Carter To Operate Biff
Brick Warehouse, Clarence
Smith the Other
With Falk Carter operating one
warehouse, and Clarence Smith, for
the past two years a buyer here for
some of the big companies, the oth
er the Aberdeen tobacco market
Sandhills batters by the strikeout ‘ will open on September 7th. Carter
route, Morse getting three in a row j will run the big brick warehouse
the first inning, two more in which he acquired last year,
the second and two in the third. Smith will have associated with
Rockingham had five hits Sandhills i him at the Aberdeen Warehouse for-
six.
mer Sheriff D. Al Blue of Southern
Pines, and Buster Buffkln of Aber
deen. Gene Maynard will again be
the auctioneer for both houses.
The crop in this section never look
ed better than It does at the pres
ent time, and with the earlier open
ing Aberdeen is looking forward to
a highly successful season.
Sandhills looked bad in the game
here Wednesday until they were three
runs down in the seventh inning. They
had been unable to solve the speed
and curves of Pitcher Jenkins till
then, but the barage started In the
sixth. L. McNeill, first up, got a
single, followed by Ed Newton.
Turnely doubled, and Buffkln, next
up, tripled, accounting for three
runs and tying up the game. Then
things looked bad again in the first j A large number of people from
of the seventh, Oliver of Rocking-1 the Sandhills motored to Wilming-
ham tripling with only one out. But ton during the week-end to visit the
new'est of United State’s Navy de-
MANY
FROM SANDHILLS
\TEW NEW DESTROYER
the wind and rain came and the game
was called off then and there. L. Mc
Neill and Turnely each had two hits.
Jenkins had six strike-outs to his
credit, Turnely two. and neither pit
cher Issued a b€tse on balls.
The artillery team from' Fort
Bragg, which was to have played here
yesterday afternoon, was unable to
make the trip, and this gamewill be
played at a later date.
The Sandhills team will go to
Rockingham tomorrow^ Saturday for
another “rubber” game to settle the
question of supremacy between these
two nines.
stroyers, the Anderson, named for
Rear Admiral Edwin Alexander An
derson, a native of North Carolina
who was active in both the Spanish-
American and World wars. He died
in 1933.
The new ship is the first stream
lined destroyer in the Navy,| was
launched in February. It ia 348 feet
overall, with an extreme bean of 36
feet It carries five five-inch guns in
Its main battery, and has three tor
pedo tubes. The ship carries seven
officers and 180 mea. It co.st $4,-
267,00