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>L. 19, NO. 36.
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Southern I’ines and Aberdeen,
of the Sandhill Terri tory of North Carolina
Friday, August 4, 1939.
FIVE CENTI^
’39-’40 LICENSES
FOR HUNTERS AND
FISHERMEN READY
Combination Permits Available
Here. State Announces Ntew
Open Seasons
RULES, REGULATIONS
The 1939-1940 hunting and fishing
licenses are now available here for
those desiring the combination li
censes. All licenses are null and void
after July 31st, except the State
fishing license which runs the cal
endar year. Hunting licenses will ar
rive here later and will be placed
on sale in ample time for sportsmen
to obtain them before the opening of
the hunting season. The agency for
licenses In Southern Pines Is the
Hardware and Electric Company on
East Broad street.
Buttons are eliminated this time,
and It will be necessary for each hun
ter or fisherman to have his license
on his person at all times while hunt
ing or fishing.
Below Is a summary of the open
season, bag limits, and other changes
made at the July, 1939 meeting of the
State Board of Conservation and De
velopment. Complete fishing and
game law booklets will not be print
ed by the State until It receives the
Federal regulations for the comkig
hunting season.
geattonH, Bag Limits
,Bear, October 1 to January 1; 2 a
day 2 a season. Exceptions: Alle
ghany, Wilkes, Caldwell, Burke,
Rutherford, and all counties west of
these, October 20 to January 1.
Deer (male), October 1 to Jan
uary 1; 1 a day, 3 a season. Excep
tions: Alleghany^ Ashe, Surry, Wil
kes and Yadk.n counties, no open
season; Sampson county, November
1 to November 30; Avery, Caldwell,
Cherokee, Clay, Macon Counties and
north and east of Highway No. «4
in McDowell, Swaln^ Watauga and
Yancey counties, November 1 to No
vember 15.
Oppossum, Raccoon (with gun or
dogs only), October 1 to February
15; no limit.
Opossum,, Raccoon, Mink and
Muskrat, (trapping)^ November 1 to
February 15. Exceptions: Camden,
Currituck and Dare counties trapping
December 1 to March 1. Exceptions:
Counties closed to trapping: Bladen.
Columbus, Craven, Duplin, Graham,
Green, Haywood^ Hoke, Pender,
Robeson Sampson, Wayne and Wil
son, except on own premises for pro
tection of domestic fowl or crops;
and in all counties west of Surry,
Wilkes, Alexander, Catawba, and
Cleveland except that such steel
traps may be set for muskrat and
mink In the water and along streams
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Valuation Up
Increased in Four Townships
of County, Decreased in
I Fire Over 1938
Property valuations in Moore
county have increased in four
townships^ decreased in five, over
1938. Here are the figures:
Increases—Sheffield to |1,258,-
096, up $16,530; Carthage to $2,-
012,149, up $12,599; McNeill to
$4,498,775 up $16,508, and Miner
al Springs to $5,383,396, up $10,-
566.
Decreases—Bensalem $1043,731,
off $2,536; Ritter $540,736, off
$161; Deep River $751,180, off $4,-
293; Greenwood $751,180, off $2,-
747, and Sandhll’s $3,174,022^ off
$28,132.
Present total valuation for the
county is $19,078,121, an increase
of $18,334 over 1938 valuaitons.
IN, LANG
TO ADDRESS HEM?
LIVESTOCK SHOW
CITYOFFiaALSOF
STATE TO GATHER
AT WRIGHTSVILLE
Southern Pines To Be Repre
sented at League of Munici
palities Conference
Donkey Ball Game Has
Big Crowd Hilarious
Plenty of Thrills and Bxcitement
at TjCgion’s Game in Aber
deen Ball Park
The largest crowd to gather to
gether in Aberdeen in some time was
furnished with laughs aplenty last
Friday night Iri the baseball park
when two teams met on the dia
mond in a game of donkey baseball.
The attempts of the batters to mount
recalcitrant burros for the trip to
first base, the struggle of infielders
to get their mounts somewhere near
the batted ball for the purpose of
fielding it, and County Prosecutor
Leland McKeithen’s baserunning In a
horizontal position atop his mount, a
position from which he appeared
unable to aright himself—these plus
the numerous spills kept sides split
ting.
One of the teams won the game,
4 to O~you’ll have to find out some
where else w'hlch. Despi*^ the flood
lights, it wasn’t quite light enough
for your reporter to ascertain who
was on which side; in fact It was
pretty difficult to tell when a team
scored a run. Anyway, it was a
good party, a^d the Aberdeen Post of
the American Legion, which sponsor-,
ed it. made some money.
City Treasurer Howard Burns and
either the Mayor or one of the mem
bers of the Board of Commissioners of
Southern Pines plan to attend the
30th anniversary convention of the
North Carolina League of Municipal
ities, to be held at the Ocean Ter
race Hotel, Wrlghtsvllle Beach, Au
gust 17-19. Mayors, aldermen, com
missioners, town clerks, attorneys and
other officials from 200 North Caro
lina towns will attend.
The aftnual state-wldo conference
f
of the league gives officials an op
portunity to get new Ideas for the
Improvement of their own municipal
government administrations by ex
changing experiences and Informa
tion with officials of other towns
and cities and by hearing outstand
ing experts present late'^l. information
on the pressing municipal problems
of the day.
Climax of the convention will be
the annual banquet the night of Au
gust 19, at which John M. Carmody,
Administrator of the new Federal
Works Agency, will be principal
speaker. Senator Robert R. Reynolds
will be toastmaster.
Beginning informally the night of
August 17 with a pre-ronventlon din
ner meeting, the conference will open
formally the next day. Four main
subjects will be discussed that morn
ing, including the new tax collection
and foreclosure law, extending muni
cipal fire service outside the cor
porate limits, town and city sharing
in State-collected highway funds for
municipal streets, and town and city
planning and zoning. An outstanding
speaker will discuss each subject, af-
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Charles Everest Said
To Be Out of Danger
Youth Injured in Accident in
Which Sister Lost Life
Recovers Consciousness
Good Entries and Record.Crowd
Expected at Exhibition
Saturday, Aug. 12
COMMITTEES APPOINTED
A week from Saturday, August
I2th, will be another big day for
the county. At this time ^he Ai\nual
Live.otock Show will be held at Hemp,
Two good speakers have be.3n secur
'd for the occasion, J. VV. Hajrelson,
lean of the School of Agriculture a1
^iatfc College^ and J. A. Lang, direc-
or of N. Y. A. work in North Car
olina. Dean Harrelson is one of the
outstanding men of the state. Mr.
Lang is a Carthage boy who has ren.
dered splendid service in the position
which he now occupies.
I am sure that all who hear these
‘:wo men will be well repaid for at
tending on this occasion.” .nays E.
H. Garrison, Jr., county agent.
"Speaking will start aro\UKl 11:00
)'clock in the grove where the show
is to be held. Interest this year is
much greater and we are expecting
stock from all over this county and
from some of the adjoining counties.
Most of the colta were small last
year and not nearly so many as we
have to go on exhibition this time. The
committees are busy at this time
getting all of this lined \ip and get
ting them ready to be brought out.
The crowd last year was estimated at
from two to three thousand. With
Interest as It Is now I feel we shall
have a much larger crowd this
year."
The show this year will be held
at the same place, In the grove on the
left of the road beyond the Standard
filling station.
Committees for the livestock show
are are follows:
Grounds—Stacy Brewer, Edgar
Hussey, Marvin Ritter, Coy Lewis
and W. C. Garner; Entertainment,
W. S. Evans, C. A. Hussey, G. E.
Walker, Mrs. C. C. Fry and E. A.
West; Livestock and Publicity—
Mack Brewer, Lewis Hussey, W. S.
Evans, C. A. Hussey, D. A. Dunlap,
Bud Corner^ Tom Ray, B. H Powers,
George Purvis, O. U. Alexander, A.
H. Trotter, T. G. Ragsdale, Walter
McCaskill and John Wilteox; Finance
Committee—Dan McCrlmmon, G. E.
Walker and Mack Brewer.
Dupont Moves To Make
More Room For A. & P.
To Occupy Former Ferrebee
Shop in Village Court. Sco
field Building Nearly Ready
Steals Luynber His Granddad
Was Saving For His Coffin
I,;iciiing Capital of His Namesake, J. P. Morgan, !(}, of Near
Hemp, Builds Boat From Ill-Gotten (iains.—Swiped
Jiicycle For l..and Transportation
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To the n.ind of Youth, a worthy He gave notice of appeal to the Su-
raft for sailing the seven aeus—or! court and bond for the two
dt least the nearby creek—is more
.0 be desired and more important
:han one suitable <
‘Crossing the Bar.”
cases was fixed at $500.
Wii:ie Ratliff, colored, plead guilty
1 « . ■ to a charge of as.saulting Lulu Col-
uhan one suitable only for use mi.
lins with a bottle. Her 30-day jail
_ .sentence was to be suspended pro-
That explains, perhaps, why 16- p^y Tula's
/ear-old J. P. Morgan^ white, of
ibove Hemp, stole and used for mak-,
;ig a boat lumber which his more I . i. j -ii. ...u i « i
1 route 1, charged with the unlawful
nan three - score - and-ten-year-old - » „ « *
^ I possession of wares for manufactur-
,ian fat ei, N. R. Moigan, has had whiskey and with conspiracy to
:toi^-d away for twenty-three years ^he prohibition law, plead
doctor bill.
William Ritter, white, of Hemp
.0 be used for making his coffin-
iood, heart pine, fourteen inches
wide by twelve feet in length.
i guilty. His three-month sentence was
to be suspended upon payment of a
j fine of $25 and the costs and upon
One of the county law enforcement j condition of good behavior for two
officers said that chickens and eggs j
Claude Brown and Fred Garner,
white, were found guilty of possess
ing wares for manufacturing whiskey
and were given 60-day sentences, to
be suspended upon payment of a
fine of $25 and the costs and good
behavior for two years.
In another case Brown was found
guilty of unlawful possession and
transporting of illegal whiskey. He
drew 30 days, to begin at the expir
ation of the other sentence, this to
be suspended upon payment of the
Costs.
Roy Locamy, white, plead guilty
of drunken driving. His license was
revoked for a year and he wjo given
a 30-day road sentence, to be sus
pended upon payment of a fine of
$.'50 and the costs.
were stolen and carried to a store
.o obtain nails for building the boat
md a log chain was stolen from a
leighbor for use in fastening it. The
boat was found at a creek by the
3wner of the chain.
Young Morgan plead guilty of the
arceny of the lumber in Recorder’s
;ourt Monday. There were two other
Jefendants in the case, Ascai Shef-
.'leld, who was found not guilty,
and Herbert Sheffield, whose case
was remanded to juvenile court, he
being under sixteen years of age.
Evidently desiring to be equipped
for travel by land and water, young
Morgan admitted the theft of a bi
cycle from Odell Harmon. In each of
the two cases he was given four
months at Jackson Training School.
EXPLAINS
Io-Ca:, .FINANCES
TO ROi'ARY CLUB
Chairman of Commission Tells of
Decreased Assessmenlts and
Tax Rate
ASKS ADVICE OF CITIZENS
Motor Vacationing To Reach
New Record High During Year
Quins Coming!
Will Be Added Attraction at
Southern Pines Theatre
Saturday
As a distinctly added attraction
at the Southern Pines Theatre to
day, Friday, and Saturday, August
4, 5_ with a Saturday matinee.
Manager Picquet announces the
new Two-Part Special pictures of
the Dionne Quintuplets taken on
their fifth birthday, titled ‘‘Five
Times Five.”
To make room for the expansion
of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
Company’s Pinehurst store, Frank
Dupont, whose newsstand and novelty
shop is a landmark in Pinehurst re
gardless of where It may be located,
is moving to the Village Court Build
ing, In the store occupied during the
past two seasons by the Ferrebee Shop.
This will be Mr. Dupont’s first loca
tion off Market Square, where he has
attracted resident and visitor alike
for many years.
The A. & P. company will begin
at once the necessary alterations to
the newly acquired store for their
needed additional floor space, and!
Hospital Administrators
Pay Visit to Moore Co.
Program at Local Institution
Led by Edwin T. McKeithen
and Mrs. Paul Dana
Hospital administrators attending
a two weeks institute at Duke Uni
versity paid the Moore County Hospi
tal a visit yesterday for a study of
mechanical plant and maintenance
features, and to ascertain the se
crets behind the success of the
Moore County Hospital Auxiliary.
Edwin T. McKeithen, business man
ager of the local Institution was In
charge of the program on plant and
maintenance, and Mrs. Paul Dana,
president of the auxiliary, explained
the workings of her organization.
Seventy-six repre.sentatlves from
Unprecedented PMve Billion Dol
lar Total Produced by
Auto Association
Word was received here during
the week that Charles Everest, Jr., when completed will have a thorough-116 states enrolled in the first Sou-
injured in the automobile accident in j ly modern plant. Mr. Dupont is also j them Institute fo!’ Hospital Adminis-
whlch his sifter Eloise'was killed j^t work arranging his new store tojtrators, spending the week at Duke
two weeks ago in Wyalusing, Pa., had j suit his needs. j University^ Duke Hospital and vis-
regained consclou.sness and that] Work is nearing completion on the ■ iting a number of other institutions
there was every hope bf his recov- old Pinehurst bank building for j in the state for demonstrations in
ery. Though he .suffei ed several' Mrs. Pri.<jcilla B. Scofield, decora- ho.«pital techniques. Mr. McKeithen
broken bones and a concussion of th>? | tive designer and antiques. This | is among the admini.strators attend-
brain, there was said to be no skull, building has been completely remod-1 ing the Institute, and brought a large
fracture nor internal injuries.
I eled and enlarged and is now one ! group here with him yesterday.
Funeral services for Eloise, known | of the most attractive in Pinehurst.'
to all her friends here as “Tootie,”
were held/ on Tuesday of last week
in Wyalusing^ and according to word
received by The Pilot, ‘the sorrow of
her many young a.'ssoclatcs and the
sympathy of the friends of the fam
ily were manifesetd in the large as
semblage and the profusion of beau
tiful floral tributes.” MlSt; Mildred
Hatfield of Southern Pines was
among those attending the aervicea.
Mrs. Leroy Gates of. New York LO(’.\L riKKMEN TO -X’TTEND
spent last week-end in Pinehurst STATE t'ONVKNTION .\U«. 7
supervising the addition of a conser-
vatory to her home on Linden Road.! Chief L. V. O’Callaghan^ Assistant
—- j Chief A. L. Adams, Oscar Michaels
and Elmer Renegar of the Southern
Pines File Company are planning to
attend the 52d annual convention of
tl^e North Carolina State Firemen’s
Association to be held at Carolina
Beach August 7th to 10th.
Motor vacationing this year is
moving towards a new record high
expenditures by automobile tourists
probably will reach an unprecedented
$5,000,000,000 total, according to the
American Automobile Association.
Gasoline sales already are 11 per
cent higher than for the same per
iod last year and the number of
persons visiting national parks sur
pass the 1938 figure, ihf AAA said.
A large percentage of the in
creased traffic, the AAA believes,
:an be attributed to interest in the
Mtw York and San Francisco World'.i
Fairs. The association said a poll of
AAA members throughout the coun
try revealed that about 75 per cent
were planning to visit one of the fairs
and that 8 per cent were planning tc
see both.
Th AAA predicted an increase in
motoring vacations earlier this year
but the gain failed to materialize un
til recently. AAA touring counsellors
explained that many motors delayed
their vacations until cl(|'>ing of
schools so that the entire family could
make the trip.
With schools closed the AAA said
routings handled by motor clubs have
'swelled to record-breaking propor
tions” and long distance tiip-"* are
‘‘far ahead of anything .seen before
in motor club history.” As a result
the AAA has increased Its staff by
40 per cent and is working at max
imum capacity both day and nignt.
A feature of this year’s motor tra
vel, the association said, is the in-
■'•reased number of foreig:n cars on
American highways. The AAA attri
butod the gain to success of the re
cent convention of the international
association of recognized automobile
clubs which met in the United States
for the first time.
‘‘Thus motor clubs throughout the
wor' J are spreading the advantages
of the U. S. as travel objective.”
Wilbur Currie, chairman of the
Board of Moore County Commission,
ers and prominent Carthage busi
ness man, spoke to the Southern
Pines Rotary Club at last Friday’s
regular meeting. Mr. Currie’s sub
ject was “You and Your County
Government.” He prefaced his re
marks with the observation that the
new highway from Southern Pines to
Carthage would^be paved In the next
60 days and that it promised, by
bringing the two cities closer to
gether, to add to the already friendly
relations of the two towns. With ref
erence to one’s part in county gov
ernment, Mr. Currie said that he
hoped that more Southern Pines cit
izens would find the time to go over
to Carthage and sit In with the com
missioners at their regular meetings.
In that way^ mutual problems of
county government, the handling of
which, at a distance, may not be un
derstood, appears in a different llghl.
In addition, he said one’s criticism
and comments can prove of immeas
urable advantage to the board in
formulating and carrying out poli
cies that will accrue to the benefit
of all.
Mr. Currie dwelt at length on
taxes and the disposition of tax mon-
•y, He pointed out that Moore
county’s assessed value of taxable
property has decreased appreciably in
the past several years and till more
favorable was a lower tax rate, much
lower than the average.
Mr. Currie was presented to the
club by June Phillips^ chairman of
the Program committee. Guests from
Carthage were Fred Underwood and
Newton Clegg. Other guests present
were Rotarians H. P. Rogers of San
ford and W. P. Morton, former super
intendent of schools in Pinehurst, of
Pulaski, Tenn.
This week Harry Pethick will ad
dress the club on the situation in the
Orient, with particular regard to the
state of affairs leading up to the
abrogation of the United States Trade
treaty with Japan and the possible
future result of this action.
CROWD ENJOYS C:ONCERT
A large crowd enjoyed the con
cert given by the 113th Field Artil
lery Band In Municipal PaPrk, South
ern Pines, last Thursday night.
Raleiefh Jay-Cees Here
Sunday for Golf Match
To Seek Revenge on Southern
Pines Jr. Chamber for De
feat at Capital *
The golf team of tlvj Raleigh Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce will jour
ney to Southern Pines Sunday to seek
revenge on the local Jay-Cees for
the defeat administered the Capital
City boys when the two teams met
there several weeks ago. The Raleigh
Jay-Cees were due here last month
for this return match but It was
postponed at the last minute. Some
25 are expected Sunday, w'lth ten
taking part in the match, to be play
ed at the Country Club.
Ten matches will be played, three
points to a match under the Nassau
system of scoring. Heading the visit
ing team will be the Jay-Cee state
champion, Wyatt Taylor. Among
those expected to play for Southern
Pines are Herrman Grover, Entmett
Golden^ ’R. F’. Tarlton, Jerry Hall,
Tommy Millar, Dante Montosanti,
Dr. Creer Stutz, J. D. Arry and Paul
Butler.
CHAIRM.VN Cl’RRlE TO
ADDRESS KIWANIANS
4-H CLIB TO CAM!* AT
JUNIPER LAKE AVO. 14-18
Wilbur H. Currie^ chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners, will
be the speaker at next Wednesday’s
meeting of the Sandhills Kiwanls
Club. Mr. Currie will discuss affairs
and finances.
1
The 4-H Club Camp will be held at
Juniper Lake on August 14th to
ISth. Army tents and c6ts will be
used. A junior and senior life saver
will be in camp for swimming in
struction and protection and lessons
on health and handicraft will be
given. The cost will be $3.00 or 50c
in cash and the rest in food. Miss
Mora McDonald, Home Agent, will
have charge of the camp,
— ■.master at Vaas.