FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 20, NO. 1 Str ^>i^ARTHAOB ^ eACue SP«INCS LAK EVIEW .WB.3T END MANI.KV SOOTHERH P«NG8 I PINeBLUPr «• C. Unfv#r«lty IJVtMtf LOT MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina COTTON FARMERS VOTE DEC. 9 ON 1940 MARKETING Keferendiim To Determine Whether Quotas Shall Be In Effect Next Year ^thernj^es^ Abeij^ Carolina. Friday; December 1. 1939 First Photograph of New Brownson Church POLLING PLACES LISTED A mass meeting of cotton growers ■was held in Carthage courthouae Tuesday afternoon and J. M. Hen ley from the State Office at Raleigh ■was the principal speaker. Mr. Hen ley explained the cotton marketing referendum, which will he held Sat urday, December 9th and outlined the cotton situation aa it ig today. The cotton referendum to he held on December 9th is being conducted so that it may be determined wheth er or not cotton marketing quotas will be in effect during the 1940-41 marketing year. All growers of cot ton in 1939 are eligible to vote. No •cotton farmer (whether an indivi dual, partnership^ corporation, firm or association) shall be entitled to more than one vote in the referen dum even though he may have been engaged in 1939 in the production of cotton on two or more farms or in two or more communities, coun ties or states. - There shall be no voting by mail, proxy, or agent, or in any manner except the eligible voter personally depositing his ballot marked by him in the ballot box, but a duly author ized officer of a corporation, firm, association, or other legal entity, or duly authorized member of a part nership, may cast its vote. In case several persons^ such as "husband, wife, and children, partici pated in the production of cotton in 1939 under the same rental or crop ping agreement or Ica.se, onlj the j)erson or persons who signed or en tered into the rental or cropping agreement or lease shall b<» eligible to vote. In the event two or more persons engaged in producing cotton in 1939 not as members of a partnership but as tenants in common or joint ten ants or as owners of community property, each such person is entit led to vote. THREE HELD FOR PASSING BOGUS $10 BILLS HERE Charlie Olive. Durham, and Two Negroes Caught After “Working” Aberdeen HEARING AT ROCKTNr”*' FIVE CENTS A Durham white man and two negroes were given a hearing before tr. S. Commiijsioner Carl McLean in the federal ouilding at Rocking ham Monday afternoon and weyre bound over to Federal Court on charges of possessing and passing counterfeit $10 bills. The white man, Charlie Olive is being hold under $3,000 bond and: the negroes, Andrew Williams andj William King under $500 bond each. Chief of Police R. H. Beck of Aberdeen, where the bills were pass ed, and the two negroe.s testified at the hearing. The negroes said they were ridden from Durham to Aberdeen by Olive and that he gave them four or five bills each and told them to buy groc eries and return with the change. King was successful in passing the bills but Williams was arrested by Chief Beck on his first try at passing the bogus money. Williams is alleged to have made a confession implicating Olive ard Goerch Coming The State Editor To Address Alumni—Ladies Meeting of Kiwanis Carl Goerch, editor of The State magazine, will be the principal speaker at the annual Alumni meeting and ladies' night of the Sandhills Kiwiinis Club, to be held at the Mid-Pines Club on Tuesday evening, December 12th, it was an nounced at yesterday’s Kiwanis meeting In addition to Mr. Goerch, former Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus has accepted an invi tation to be present and say a few words. All alumni of Kiwanis and their ladies are invited to this annual get-together of present and for mer members. WEBSTER TELLS I OF WINNING WAR I ON TUBERCULOSIS Tells Conference Here Too Many Youths Are Being Sent To Prison VALUE OF SEAL SALE Presbyterians Turn Another Milestone In Their Meteoric Career in Southern Pines With Institution of New Heating Plant in I Arrests Negro Ol_ _1 171 FIRST GYMKHANA OF SEASON FRIDAY INSOUTHERNPINES Six Events on Opening Day Pro gram at Show Ring at Coun try Club COMMITTEE IS ELECTED May Street Edifice Plans for the season’s gymkhana horse show and hunter trial events 4. AK-f ! in Southern Pines were formulated Williams was arrested in Aber-|_^ Another milestone was reached this week in the progress of the three-year old Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church of Southern Pines, three years which have seen - wcxc lurmuiaceci ldecnSaturday'nig“htand'alter Secret! at a meting held Monday after- * I. J Tintifiprt the office of City Clerk Sei"vice Agents had been notified s-*- j tt. j iv, in- entire building. The furnace was pur-! ® OoeraUve E N Rlten-! Howard F. Burns, and the committee chased from and installed bv C, J ■; fn Durham and arrested j to an-ange for- the vsrtous i our Durham ana j Olive Sunday a ernoon. j Friday at the Horse Alter the testimony had ’a^en^giv-; ... ■ - - Wiggs, heating contractor of Fay etteville at a cost of approximately $2,000. Few milestones are left to bring I * cw iiiiicotuiics are leit 10 Dring not only the organization of the | to completion the new home of the church but the erection of a hand some edifice on South May street. A new heating plant has been in stalled during the past week and cally-controlled oil burning, hot air I niodel, made by the Lenox F*umace Polls will be opened at 8:00 a. m. Syracuse, N. Y., said Saturday morning. December 9th manufactur- Presbyterians. The pressing needs are plastering the walls and overhead, hardwood floors throughout, comple tion of chancel, installation of pews, . I and a concrete floor for the base- will be ready for use this coming | Sunday, the Rev. Ernest L. Barber. The church is in a healthy condi- pastor, announced yesterday. The tion, as week-by-week reports show plant is a modem, automatic, eljctri- a decided gain over last year and re- pniiv-f'nnf-rr.nofi /^ii V..."‘-I veal that much Is being accomplished. If the congregation can show as en against him. Olive spoke to Com missioner Mcljean and asked len iency but apparently the judge placed little belief in the white man’s claim that the negroes were “telling plain lies.” Olive admitted that he had been and will be closed at 5:00 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The following places in each township have been dfHlgnategl for voters to cost their ballots. All voters are requested to vote in township in which they re side. Carthage towoishlp, Carthage courthouse; Deep River. Mrs. W. J. Harrington’s; Greenwood Towmship, Cameron; McNeill Township, Eureka School; Mineral Springs, West E3nd; Sandhill Township, Pinebluff; Rit ters Township, McConnell; Sheffields Township, Moody school house. Dr. Herr Broadcasts Southern Pines Talk Tells WBIG Radio Audience Why We Are Growing in Popularity Referring to its as a "village which is rapidly becoming one of Americas well’ known winter resorts,” Dr. George G. Herr told a radio aud ience from Station WBIG at Greens boro all about Southern Pines at 1 ;30 o’clock on ’Tuesday afternoon. He proved himself an excellent broad caster. Dr. Herr gave 15 minutes of inter esting facts about why Southern Pines is growing in popularity, about its climate,' its facilities for golf, rid ing and other sports, about its schools, its attractive building and homes, and quoted Dr. Luther Little of Charlotte who a few years ago referred to the town as "the bouquet city of North Carolina.” ing firm in the country. The furnace will have ample capacity to heat the I dealing in pin-ball machines much development in the next feW| years as it has in the past three i or four, it shall have every reason, TkT i to be thankful | Govcmor Sees Need Show grounds of the Country Club. Frederick H. Burke was elected chairman of the committee, with the following aides; Mrs. Ralph K. Trix, Miss Ellen Vale^ Miss Nancy John-1 son, W. O. Moss, the Rev. J. Fred Stimsoh, Nelson C. Hyde, Howard arrested before on a federal liquor Scheipers, Eugene charge and that he had been out on j Stevens and Will J. Stratton. probation on that count. ; following events were sched- rm, u * .J J * * I^iday’s gymkhana: 1st, The white defendant operates v, • ^ .... ^ ^ . 1 Class for beginners, the youngsters slot machine busmess out of Durham. t • _ t • , ..... ... , 2nd, Junior Jumping, for the young dealine- m nin-ball machmps and , ..i. . I to be judged for their riding ability; [ people old enough to take mounts I over small obstacles; 3rd, Bgg and ' Spoon race_ an event which alw’ays Seal Sale Chairmen | E. S. Blodgett Heads Named; Goal, $2,000 Pinehurst Chamber County Tuberculosis Committee OfElelt~ed^ at Annual Hopes f