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VOL. 19, NO. 52.
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday. November 24» 1939.
FIVE CENTS
BEHERLEYSHURT
IN AUTO COLLISION
IN PfflLADaPHIA
Injured
Southern Pines Commissioner
Suffer*? Broken Knee Cap. Mrs.
Betlerley Arm and Ankle
"CONDITION SATISFACTORY’
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Betterley of
Southern Pines are In Frankford Hos
pital, Philadelphia recovering' from
injuries received in an automobile ac
cident in that city last Thursday eve
ning.
Mrs. Betterley suffered fractures!
of the forearm and ankle, head andj
chest injuries and scalp wounds. Herj
condition was reported yesterday as ^
satisfactory, and she was able to be
up in a wheel chair. Mr. Betterley,
president of Southern Pines Ware
houses member of the Board of Com
missioners of Southern Pines and |
secretary of the Chamber of Com-'
merce, suffered a broken knee cap
and other injuries, and was operated
upon successfully on Tuesday. His |
condition is reported also as satis-,
factory by hospital surgeons.
Head-On Collision .
Accordiing toadvice.s fiom Phila- Head-On Collision Near Aber-
xielphia. the Betterley car was pro- Tuesday Sends Ten
ceeding south on one of the main Hospital
FASTER AIR MAIL !
SERVICE HERE IF i
PLAN APPROVED
These Doors Opened Ten Years Ago
Sanford on Proposed Drop and
Pick-Up Route Serving This
Section of State
HUGH J. BETTERLEY
ELEVEN INJURED
DURING WEEK IN
MOTOR CRASHES
highways. On signal from a north
bound driver that he intended to' PINEHURST BANKER HURT
turn off the road, Mr. Betterley!
stopped. When he did so, the c.ar| Ton persons were rushed to the
behind the man who had signaled j Moore County Hospital Tuesday
shot out into the highway and crash- ] night, the result of a head-on collis-
ed head-on into the Betterley car. j ion of two automobiles on U. S.
The occupants of the other car as. Highway No. 1 just north of Aber-
well as the Betterleys were rushed | deen. Though no one was seriously
to the hospital, but their injuries hurt, all required treatment for cuts,
were reported as less serious. j bruises, dislocations or other injur-
Mr. and Mrs. Betterley left here i jpg.
on Saturday, November 11th forj a car owned by E. L. Wolfe of
Brattleboro, Vermont to attend the; Camden, S. C., and driven by John
funeral of a relative, and were en- j Lakis, also of Camden was enroute
route home when the accident hap-1 north with Frank E. Fasci and A1
pened. It is not known here just, Broussard of Camden as additional
when they will be able to complete passengers, all bound for Thank.sgiv_
their journey. j ing in Cambridge, Mass. The other
The names of those in the car \ car, southbound, was driven by
which collided with the Betterley'
car are not known here.
FEEDER FOR TRUNK LINES
Air mail service to and from the
Sandhills will be greatly expedited if I
a proposed pick-up service giving di-|
reot plane connections with major'
air mail lines is installed at Sanford,
as proposed. Says an article in Mon
days Sanford Herald:
According to a feeder pystem pro.
jected by All-American Aviation,
Inc., Wilmington, Del., Sanford
would be placed on a pick-up route
running between Raleigh and Char
leston, S. C. This route would be
one of seven in the "Greensboro
Area" serving North and South CJar-
olina and parts of Virginia and Geor
gia. Coordinated with trunk line
stops at major cities, the pick-up
system would make it possible to
send airmail from Sanford to al_
most any point in the United States
in only 24 hours. Air mail from the
Sandhills would be de.spatchod to
Sanford.
The pick-up system, which is being
considered on a nation-wide scale,
was developed by 'Richard C. duPont^
president of All American Aviation,
Inc., ard an aviation authority. The
system is already working success
fully in Pennsylvania, West Virgin
ia, Ohio and Delaware.
Proposed Route
Other towns included on the Ral-
eigh-Charle?ton route would be
Dunn, Fayetteville, Lumberton,
Chadbourn, Whiteville, Wilmington,
Southport, Myrtle Beach, S. C., Con.
way, S. C., and Georgetown, S. C. t
Sanford would be the only town inj
this inunediate section of the state!
to get the proposed service. j
Planes would not land at towns
TUBERCULOSIS ON
WANE, THANKS TO
CHRISTMAS SEALS
j Fewer Incurable Cases in Coun-
j ty Today Than at Any Time
in Six Years
Entrance to the Moore County Hospital
Moore County Hospital
Observes 10th Anniversary
Kiwanis Speaker
and cities on the feeder routes but i
Memorial at Samarcand
To Miss MacNaughton
Oround Broken for “Bonnie Brae
dardens” Honoring For
mer Superintendent
At the meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Board of Managers
on Friday^ November 10, plans
were completed for establishing
“Bonnie Brae Gardens” as a perma
nent memorial at the school to the
memory of Agones B. MacNaughton,
who had served so faithfully for 16
years aa the executive head of the
institution.
Appropriate outdoor exercises
were held at 1 ;00 p. m. on Thursday,
November 16, in which the entire
faculty and the student body took
part. Jtrs. J. R. Page of Aberdeen,
member of the board since its estab
lishment, and the Rev. R. G. Mathe-
son, Presbyterian Chaplain since the
pioneer days, assisted in formally
breaking ground for the foundation
of a gateway to the pooled garden.
Later, a bronze plaque, suitably in
scribed, will be attached to the ma-
sirjnry wall.
The'unveiling exercises will be in
corporated with the Flower Pageant
at the May Day Festival next
spring.
Leon Grover Cavines.s, 16 years old,
of Lakeview, who had as passengers
Joseph Caviness, Paul Thomas, Jew
ell Smith, Juanita Thomson and Ra
chel Smith.
According to Aberdens night pa
trolman^ Lamar Smith, and A. B.
C. officer J. A. Lawrence, who in
vestigated the accident, young Cav
iness turned into the middle of the
road to pass a car ahead of him.
In so doing, he crashd into the on.
coming Camden car. Both cars were
badly damaged, and all Oi’cupants
violently jolted, with smashed win
dows causing cuts. Broussard suffer
ed a dislocated shoulder, and one
of the young ladies in the Lakeview
car lost several teoth.
Another accident which occurred
last Saturday morning on Midland
Road between Southern Pines &nd
Pinehurst resulted in minor injuries
to F. Shelby Cullo<n, vice-president
of the Bank of Pinehurst. His car
collided with that of W. M. MarUn
of Aberdeen near th« W. C. Fownes
residence. The Martin car overturn
ed, but the driver escaped without
injury. Mr. Cullom was given first i
aid treatment at the Moore County j
Hospital for cuts and bruises. I
would drop mail and pick it up by
a recently-developed system. |
It is thought the advantages of)
the feedei' .system would be so great'
that the expansion in air mail busi-
ness would make the system self-sjis-
taining within a short time. i
Airmail dispatched from Sanford j
and the Sandhills under the present)
system goes to either Raleigh or I
Greensboro by train and may liej
over in these terminals for several j
hours before transcontinental air- |
mail planes pick it up. |
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More Than 12.000 Persons Have
Occupied Beds Since
November. 1929
GEORGE W. CKONE
“MAJOR BLOWS” AMAiaUJR ,
HOUR HERE DECEMBER 8
“BRIAR HOPPER BOYS” IN
ABERDEEN NEXT TUESDAY
To fill its Christmas baskets for
needy children and grown-ups of the
community, the Southern Pines Ro
tary Club is putting on an Amateur
Hour on Friday night, December
8th at the High School auditorium.
The stage will be set as a radio
studio, and "Major Blows” will put
his amateurs through their stunts.
The amateurs will all be local tal
ent, among the featured ones being
little Miss Arls Mlrznahoff of South
ern Pines and Washington, D. C.,
who charmed a local audience a few
weeks ago with her tap dancing. She
will do several Russian novelty
numbers.
Other acta are being worked ”P
for “Major Blows’ ” attention. Tick
et? are on sale at 35 cents each, and
Uie net pioceeds will be used to pur
at the affair. Tickets are being sold chase things to make Chrlstmu a
for 15 and 25 cents, and everyone happier one for the underprlvllc|,c'l
Is welcome. and needy.
John McAllister’s “Briar Hopper
Boys" of the radio, featuring Mil
dred and Floyd and Hank and Pappy,
are going to be in Aberdeen next
Tuesday night, November 28th at
8:00 o’clock for a performance in
the Grammar School auditorium. The
Aberdeen Fire Department is spon
soring the entertainment, which is
for the benefit of less fortunate chil
dren of the community.
In addition to the program of the
Briar Hopper Boys, some 50 prizes
are to be given away to lucky ones
Opening Golf Event at
Pine Needles Monday
Thanksgiving Tournament Ex*
pected To Attract Big Field.
Ted Turner Rack
A Thanksgiving golf tournament
over the Pine Needles course will
start Monday the 27th and run four
days ending the second official
Thanksgiving Day, with the qualify
ing round Monday, the finals at 18
holes on Thursday. Sterling silver
trophies will be awarded for the best
qualifying score and for winner and
runner-up in each division.
The golf committee, George T.
Dunlap, Jr., Clifford Sloan, Ted Tur
ner and Emmett EX Boone report the
Pine Needles golf course in the best
.shape It has ever been, and to judge
from the Interest already evinced In
the coming golf schedule, a large
field is to be expected for the open
ing tournament.
Ted Turner, Pine Needles golf
professional, has just returned to
take up his duties after a success
ful season at the Pine Valley Coun
try Club In New Jersey. He will be
assisted at the Pine Needles club by
Johnnie Capello of Hyaiaisport,
Maine.
Kiwanis Hears of Value
of B. & L. Associations
George W. Crone, Deputy State
Insurance Commissioner,
Addresses Club
SEALS FINANCE WORK
One harbinger of the Yuletide sea
son each year is the appearance of
the little Christmas Seal which des
pite its size means so much in the
cause of health throughout the coun.
try. For through the sale of these
stamps the fight against tuberculosis
is carried on, a fight which is stead
ily gaining ground and is therefore
worthy of the support which is ac-
corf^ed it.
The annual report of the treas
urer of the Moore County Tubercu
losis Association gives an impressive
idea of the work that has been done
by a group of efficient workers and
nurses here throughout the past year.
Eighteen cases have been treated at
the State Sanatorium, and of these,
I eight have been s ent home as ar-
, rested or cured. Six patients are
1 now receiving treatment, and five
I are on the waiting list. There are
I fewer incurable cases in Moore coun
ty today than at any time In sik
years.
Preventive Work
A study of tlie report shows how
. faithfully the association is doing
' the preventive and follow-up work.
^ ‘ Any person found to have been ex-
Ten years old on November 2oth! posed to the disease is at once tak-
This week the Moore County Hospi- Sanatorium for examina-
tal finishes the first decade of ser- about 75 percent of the
vice to all the people of this section, | important fea-
and begins another, and even bus- work. The association is
ier. ten years. i county-wide, busy throughout the
On November 25, 1929, the Hos- year, and has the distinction of be-
pital opened its doors. The smell of ing one of the most efficient in the
fresh paint lingered in the corridors, state. Its finances comes from its
and the grounds outside were just share in the annual Christmas Seal
bare sand, instead of the trim green Sale, which runs from Thanksgiving
lawns of today. ; until Christmas, and its ability to
C. E. Williams, of Pinehurst, was serve in its worthy cause is limited
the first patient. Then, os now, Dr. only by the funets made available to
Clement R. Monroe a native son of it by a generous public.
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Moore county, was resident surgeon., The report of the treasurer. Dr.
There were 34 beds and six bassi.' (Please turn to page Ten)
nets. Everybody knew a hospital was
needed but nobody knew whether it Govemor Here Mondav
could be properly supported. I mTiJ? ajj
To make the building possible ^ Or Weltare AddreSS
there had been many contributions, ’
large and small. The Duke Endow- Will Be Feature Speaker on Pro-
ment gave advice and money. Lead-' gram of District Conference
ers in the religious, professional and | in Carthage
business life of the County assisted'
in every way they could. S. B. Chap- Govemor Clyde R. Hoey will be
in, of New York and Knehurst, j feature speaker at the central
, headed the Board of Directors, and ®*®trict annual welfare conference at
1 served so ably as President that af-, ^^rthage, November 27 when he
ter he retired in 1933 he was made/*^^^® county officials, welfare
Honorary President. Pworkers and board members on the
T toon . It „ -''conference theme “Public Welfair
in 1030. the first full year of|
George W. Crone, deputy insur
ance commissioner of North Caro
lina, on Wednesday informed the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club at its meet
ing at the Berkshire in Pinehurst
that the Building and Loan associa
tions of the State were playing a
prominent part In the biilldlng of
communities in North Carolina. He
staged the 855 associations of the
state financed the building of 13,000
homes during the past year and
pointed out what a vast sum this
meant in expenditure for building
materials as well as making for big
ger and stronger communities. He
said the Building and Loan Associa.
tion had assets totalling $39,000,000,
operated at less than 1 percent their
capital stock, and were among the
few financial institutions that with
stood the depression. In 855 associa-
year
operation, there were 766 In-patlents.
In 1938 there were 1834 In.patlents.
During the ten years over 12.000
A Public Service.” Introduced to the
•assembly by former State Senator
U. l<. Spence of Moore county, the
uurmg me ten years over ...
people have occupied beds in talk in the Methodist
Moore County Hospital. To put where meeUngs of the con-
Terence will be held.
Miss Mary Robinson, pre^dent of
'the State Association of . Welfare
Superintendents, Is scheduled to pre-
xA.wvr, ■
treat-1 annual message from that
•organization to the members of the
The New Wing i district conference. Dr. Roma Saw.
In 1936 the insUtuUon was so'y®*- e“C“«ve secretary of
overcrowded that a new wing was,"^*'^ State Commission for the Blind,
added, raising the capacity to 65 e*P«cted to attend.
another way, the total number of In
patients has been equal to two-flfths
of the county’s population. And dur
ing the same period another 12,000
out-patients have received
ments.
btds and ten bassinets. In April,
1939, the Hospital proudly opened its
Nurses’ Home, one of the best-plan
ned buildings of Its type In the
South, where comfort and economy
are both achieved.
The doctors of the county deserve
much credit for the success of the
Mrs. W. T. Bost, S^3te welfare
commissioner, will speak at 10:30 on
“The Job Itself," and an open forum
ton “Service Through the County
•Boards’’ will be directed by George
Lawrence of the University of North
Carolina.
John Lang, State NYA director.
stood the depression, in »oo assocm- .
tlons, he said, the stock Is owned by hpspltal. They constitute the Medical,Pr‘2side at a p^el discussion on
’ - . Service to Youth” aided by T. L.
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M.ARK HOFFMAN TO GIVE
LECrrURE RECITAL AT ARK
14TH YEAR OF SANDHILLS
DAILY NEWS STARTS SUNDAY
The first issue of the Sandhills
Dally News, the recogrized mo,.’’}iig
paper of the Sandhills section for
past 13 years, will be publishoil
this comlAg Sunday morning by The
Pilot, inc.
Mark Hoffman of Greensboro will
present “Haens^l and Gretel” and
“Das Rhein‘?old” in a lecture.recital
at The IS a School on Wednesday
morning, November 29th, a 11:80
o’clock.
A limited number of tickets, for
the benefit of the Southern Pines Li
brary may be obtained from the li
brarian. E^arly application is request
ed.
Staff, and are called on to advise ■ to Youth” aided by T. L.
the directors in regard to profession-' "Grier, State CCC selection supervis-
al problems. Besides caring for their* o’*; W. C. Ezell, director of the State
private patients at the institution,['Welfare Department Institutions dl-
they assist with the care of indigent Miss Klen Trigg of the
patients, and hold frequent meet-i-'cbild welfare division; H. Lee Thom-
ings for the discussion of case rec- as, Moore county school superintend-
ords. The Chief of Staff is elected an-) ent; John Willrox, clerk of the
nually by the doctors themselves, | Moore county Superior court; Charles
and he coordinates their work. W. E. j Warren State director nf vocational
Overcash, M D. of South jm Pines, rehabilitation^ and Mrs. Wilbur H.
is the present Chief of Staff. Currie of Carthage.
D’lHng the ten years 741 babies County commissioner^, auditors,
have kicked and slumbered behind legrislators, State and county offi-
the plate glass windows of the nur-^cials and Social Security Board rep_
(Plw0 turn to p»g* four) (Ptta$» twn to pag» ftmr)