♦♦ #♦ n n ♦♦ H ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦# ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ s ♦♦ « ♦♦ n ♦♦ ♦♦ n ttttt 1 I first in NEWS AND ADVERTISING THE PILOT AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY. Is VOL. S, NO. 49. a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of Nor|J^ Carolina ' ^— = FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1928 ^ - VASS, N. C. OPPOSITION TO TOWN MANAGER PLAN IS STRONG Business of So. Pines Does Not Warrant Outlay, Says D. G. Stutz. N. York Congressman Opens Highland Pines Empire State’s Representative Rests in Sandhills After Hoover Campaign. CITES FIXED EXPENSES. The plan advocated by Dr. W. C. -ludgett for a town manager for Southern Pines, as announced in last week’s Pilot, has been running the jramut of discussion during the past week, and that there is “much to be s^aid on both sides” seems to have been proven. Vigorous opposition ap peared from several quarters. Interviewed by the paper early in the week, D. G. Stutz stated that he is opposed to the plan for the strik ing reason that the town has not the money to pay a man the salary re quired, and that the business of the tow^n is not sufficient to warrant the t-utlay if the money could be obtained. Mr. Stutz says the greatest outlay of town money is in the payment of fixed sums, such as interest charges, sinking fund, police and fire expenses, and things of that sort that cannot be changed by the most skillful man ager in the world, for the corporation operates on a budget system, and the big task is to make the income of the town equal the demands on it. Until the bonded debt is reduced materially the amount that must be paid at certain dates in the future are fixed irrevocably by the amounts of the bonds and the fixed charges for ^uch current operations as must be carried on, and on which small saving could be made if any at all. On most of these no saving could be made by the most efficient manager in the world, for nothing can change the figures on the bonds, Mr. Stutz says. The current expenses of the town could be reduced in so few cases that It would de impractical, according to Mr. Stutz, to incur any great cost in the hope of securing greater efficien cy or greater economy. He seems to think that the only way management can be secured is as now, through the free service of the mayor and the council, and he fears that it will be some time in the future before the town can grow up to an income that will meet comfortably the demands that are always increasing in any growing community. Opposes Fund for Park. Mr. Stutz’ attitude toward a park is about the same, as he says he can see no place from which to procure the funds necessary to either buy the property or to maintain it, and he does not favor bonds for the purpose as he says the town is so near the limit of the bond maximum allowed by law' that it would be dangerous to incur at this time any increase, for a case of emergency might arise that would call for a bond increase more pressing than anything does now. Other members of the Board of Commissioners talk in the same tone, and indicate that they would prefer to do what work they are doing now at no cost to the town than to hire some one to do it for a salary which might be embarrassing to the town when the money to pay has to be dug up. And the argument that the op ponents in either case boil down to is, “Where is the money to come from?” The Highland Pines Inn had some what more of an “official” opening than it realized. Not scheduled to receive guests until Tuesday, the 20th, a young man entered the hotel Sun day morning the 18th and asked if he might have a room. “We can give you a room if you don’t mind g;oing downtown to vour FIRE CAUSES DAMAGE TO FOUR HOMES Two Residences in County Burn ed to Ground; Others Threatened. Plnklewaite, Ab and Davy Seem Satisfied With the Election Results Gin House Forum Holds Post-Mortem and Decides County’s All Right if Folks Don’t Crowd the Commissioners’ Office on Budget Day. MILLION DOUAR HOTEL IS PRO.JECTEI) There was furnaces during the cold spell which hit the section during the past week, I an epidemic of fires broke out which meals for two days,” he was informed. | considerable damage in vtiriou5 He didn’t mind, and was comfortably j parts of the county, provided with a suite on the second' Two houses were burned to the floor. He thought things seemed ground and two others were damaged pretty quiet, and soon learned that he and Mr. and Mrs. Emmett French comprised the entire patronage of the inn. He was a quiet, unassuming young man of about 40 summers, and he spent most of his time sitting about reading, with an , occasional golf game in the afternoon. No one knew anything about him, but when there The Gin House Forum held a social meeting Tuesday as the wagons were waiting their turn for the unloading chute, and the progrram was com- Due principally to the starting of! "^^J^ced when Pinklewaite Jukes asked Ab White how he liked the election. SPARKS START EPIDEMIC. to a considerable extent, also a heavy cotton loss. The home of Clem Everett just north of Lakeview was burned to the ground last Friday afternoon. After getting their six children safely out of the burning building, there was no time left for Mr. and Mrs. Everett to save any of their personal belongings and theirs was a total property loss, are three guests in a hotel, there is | Outside of the fact that the fire start- a natural curiosity as to who they ed upstairs, nothing is known of its are. origin. The Everett family are tem- And it developed that this particu- porarily making their home with Mrs. lar young gentleman was the young- Everett’s father, Dunk Mclnnis. est member of Congress from New York, a leader of the Republican party in the state, and prominently talked of as the Republican candidate for Governor in the last election. His name was Clarence E. Hancock; his home, Syracuse, N. Y. He came to Southern Pines for a rest after the strenuous campaign for Mr. Hoover in the Empire State. “Suits me fine,” said Ab. “Voted her straight all but Jim Johnson and Seawell and Hoover and the Indian. Didn’t reckon Johnson or Seawell would git there, but I like old Jim Johnson and just gave him a shot be cause he is a good neighbor if he is a Republican. And Bert Seawell too. An’ I swan if I can see it hurts your feelings much to vote the Republican ticket once in a while. Kind o’ like taking a bath every so often. Gits something out o’ your system. Still, I didn’t vote the Republican ticket as you might say. I just voted agin Smith. I voted the straight ticket from George Humber down to some fellows I don’t even remember the names of.” “I was glad to see that young chap McDonald elected sheriff,” suggested Old Davy McGillicuddy, from DeviPs creek ford. “Made a good road mas ter, and I’m saying if we stand by him he’ll make a good sheriff.” “Got to stand by. Got to,” said White. “Aint no politicain, that boy, and he just elected himself. Don’t NEW HOSPIT AL FOR MOORE CO. IS UNDER WAY On Tuesday afternoon the old Dan iel McNeill home on the Vass-Carth- age road was burned to the ground. The occupants of the house, Calvin Caddell and his family, were unable to save anything .except a few pieces of furniture. The Caddells have been i-unning the farm for Mrs. McNeill I I ~ Z ^ ITIl T j" Johnson Elected Neill at Lakeview. Fownes Home Threatened. The day after the family of Wil-1 owe nobody no political debts, and when he goes into office he can do what he pleases He can appoint his own deputies, and his own force, and if we encourage him and stand by him and let him alone I think he is going to have some good officers and enforce the laws, and get the confi dence of the people.” New Sheriff O. K. “Got that confidence,’^ said Jukes. “When a young fellow starts in about two months before election and runs away with the whole works he’s got the confidence. Folks is looking for him to make a good sheriff, and we got to encourage him to go ahead and run things his way, and if he does as good with that as he does with the roads you know he’ll be all right.” “I was plumb glad to see Dan Mc- Lauehlin and Mose McDonald and ’Vander Matheson come across,” said l?sham Pogue. “They got a new start now, and with the new law and a new slate if they want to make one they ought to give Moore County the best service it ever had. If anybody has anything to say about the way things runs in this county now’s the time to say it, for when the old board of com- Need of Additional Facilities in Southern Pines Cited by Hotel Men. CITIZENS BEHIND MOVE. (Please turn to Page 8) President of Kiwanis Club Ham C. Fownes had moved their fur- | Citizens Urged to Officers and Directors Chosen niture into the newly acquired home they are to occupy this winter on the Pinehurst-Southern Pines road, fire j of unknown origin broke out in the j south side of the house near the lire- Contractors Break Ground for I place chimney and before it could be Building on Carthage>Pine- hurst Road. T J ^ 1 and Reports Read at An Join Red Cross 1 „uai Meeting. That there is immediate need for increased hotel facilities in Southern Pines was the consensus of opinion voiced at an informal meeting of prominent residents of the community held early in the week in the office of S. B. Richardson. Just what the outcome of this dis cussion may be is problematical, but from the enthusiasm shown fat the meeting there is every likelihood of a new million-dollar hotel in the village in the near future. Last winter before the season at the Highland Pines Inn was near its finish, Andrew Creamer remarked frequently as to the need for another big hotel in the Sandhills. This fall as Creamer & Turner are opening the Inn for the winter just ahead they are realizing again that if increased fa cilities were available for handling more people, the people would be at hand. In discussing the matter with the group of active citizens in Mr. Richardson’s office Mr. Creamer said that a two-hundred room hotel, to cost probably a million dollars, prop erly built and equipped and with the proper management could find a pat ronage without much effort which would put it on a dividend basis in a short time and keep it there. Another Hotel Needed. “At certain seasons of the year,” said Mr. Creamer, ^‘^every hptel in the Sandhills has to give every effort of ; which it is capable to care for the Murdoch Johnson, of Aberdeen, was j traffic that offers. The Sandhills FUND CAMPAIGN ON. No time was lost by the contrac-; ately no other outside damage suffer- tors, the Jewell-Riddle Company, of ,ed. Some of the members of Mr. Sanford, in starting work on the new Moore County Hospital after the let ting of the contract a week ago. Ex cavation work has already started on Fund Depleted by Catastrophes ^ Must Be Swelled by elected President of the Abe*-deen Ki-jhave a resouive that is n and tax payers of the town of ' iithern Pines having great confi- Gtnce in the future growth and ex- i'ansion of the town, and realizing the advantages and benefits that would i'ure from the establishment of a public park, and believing that sec- ‘i'n of land around Boiling Springs the new Knollwood lake to be an '<;eal location for the establishment of municipal park, do respectfully potition the Honorable Board of the 'Town Commissioners to call a special ^* te, with respect to purchasing ap proximately thirty acres of land to ' <^‘lude the said Boiling Springs, the for the completion of the building and for providing the necessary equip ment have had frequent meetings dur ing the past ten days and the cam paign is well under way. S. B. Rich ardson announced on Tuesday that he had arranged for a speaker in every church in Moore County next Sunday, November 24th. These men will tell the various congregations of the need of the hospital in the county, explain ing that it is an institution to serve the entire county and not just Pine- The crop was covered by'Barron, Mrs. Halbert J. Blue, Mrs.nual reports, Paul A. Dana thanking ^ Lucy Cameron, Mrs. Coursey, Miss the club and his committees for their j the crowds. The same is_ true Ruth M. Field, Mrs. E. E. Cady, Miss co-operation in the work done by thei®. ® ighway traffic, and it will be Doris Eddy, Mrs. Charles Grey, Miss' club during the past year. He enum-! e hipihways come to be Mary Dell Hayes, Mrs. Robert Mont- erated the numerous campaigns sue-, ® peop|e. gomery, Mrs. W. C. Mudgiett, Mrs. G. Icessfully launched by the club during 1 Prospective Sites. W. Munroe, Mrs. E. V. Perkinson,'the year, among them the improve-’ ^^e Country Club grounds at Mrs Roy Pushee, Mrs. S. B. Richard- ments to the Southern Pines-Pine- j Southern Pines a hotel site has been son, Miss Mary Richardson, Mrs. hurst road, the traffic signal system | designated, and a road is graded out at Aberdeen, the care of under-priv- j t^at way. Other prospective sites FOREST PROTECTIVE ASS’N. TO MEET ON TUESDAY. House on Tuesday, Nov. 27th, at 2:30 Ri^i^^rds, Mrs. V. T. Wiley. o’clock. It is sincerely hoped that all landowners in Moore county will at tend. The first meeting was post poned until this date because C. H. Flory, the State Supervisor, was un able to be present on first meeting, L. L. Biddle, 2d, an nounced. the date of the appreciated by The work of these women and the children in the county, the; have been suggested along the Wey courteous co-operation of The pUot,‘rophy donated for school attendance,' mouth Ridge, and even on the ridge and of Charles Picquet in giving pub- ‘he club’s loan fund to aid young peo- next beyond to the east. But of licity to the cause is very genuinely t*>e county in acquiring an edu-iCOurse nothing, that is positive as to ' cation, the vocational training plan lo<‘ation has been done. The senti- THE COMMITTEE. FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT ON PINEHURST-ABERDEEN ROAD (Please turn to Page 8) PICQUET TO PROTEST NATIONAL CENSORSHIP. Charles W. Picquet, manager of the Carolina Theatres and vice president of the National Theatre Owners as sociation, leaves Sunday to attend | the Coroner’s jury for for the future guidance of young peo-1 i^^cnt is that somewhere on that high pie in the schools, the fostering of ^ territory, in easy reach of the Sea- iiTxifr^D GWRvirw fWAriTW savings plans by the youth of the | board and in easy reach of the high- JUNIOR S county, planting* along the highway way, a new hotel should be built, and OF SOUTHERN PINEIS ELECTS, through Southern Pines and Aberdeen, [ early date. When Creamer & - p T • o • ^*^d the sponsoring of a State police! Turner say that further hotel capac- j At a meeting of the Junior Service j^y is needed in the Southern P pcs Henry Richardson, co ored was m-. League of Emmanuel Church, South- Shamberger, retiring vice section, it may be taken as a fa^t, stantly killed in an automobile acc- pi„es, the follow ng officers were ^ for if they did not have suffi .i^m dent on the road between P'^fhur. elected: President, Eleanor Barron. activities of 'he club’s vari- business to keep their house full and Aberdeen last Sunday nig t. e | vice president, Clemson Wren; secre- committees, and Dan McKeithen would not be recommending the build- was riding m a car w^th George tary, Mary Swett; treasurer, William ,„„jher house to take their Moultrie Moore. treasurer. Jerry Healy, re-. trade. Some determined Dockens, also colored, when the car left the road and after plunging into a field, turned over, pinning Richard son under it. Dockens has been or- (Please turn to Page 8) trial. COAL MAGNATE LEASES HOME IN PINEHURST. hearings before the Judiciary Com mittee of the House of Representa tives in Washington on a proposed bill to establish national censorship of motion pictures. Mr. Picquet stat- j i. i. « ed that his association and all moving! W. B. Marion, of Pittsburgh, Pa., picture interests in the country were (has leased the house known as After- ^Dosed to any national censorship of! glow” in Pinehurst for the season pktXs, asTmeans the injecting of through L. L. Biddle, 2d. Mr. Manon politics into the industry and because they do not feel that there is any need of such a censorship. Mr. Picquet will appear before the committee on Tuesday and give his views on the subject. is a coal mine operator, one of the independents who fought successful ly through the recent strike at great personal loss, employing “scabs” to operate his mines and organizing his own police force for their protection. men are The meeting^ are held on Sundays tiring trustee, reported on Kiwanis urging the need of such a new hotel, at 5:30 o’clock under the leadership affairs in general in this section. and their argument is that the Sand- of Mrs. James Swett, Mrs. Moultrie Richard Tufts Retires. | hills have become so well and so Moore and Mrs. Eugene Baritean.' the ointment of the an-1 widely known, and so favorably re- The service program is based on the meeting came in the form of the ceived, that hotel capacity greatei? necessity of developing a feeling of announcement by Richard Tufts that | than the demand is a thing not likely friendship towards all people through pressure of business would no longer 1 to be seen for a long time. The in prayer, study, work, gifts and fellow- permit his serving as secretary of the creasing patronage, it is argued, wil! ship. The firet gift to the world takes organization. The brunt of the work | keep coming this way to fill every inn the form of a Christmas box contain- j Kiwanis here has fallen upon the j that can be built far into the future, ing useful and fancy gifts for 30 shoulders of Mr. Tufts for several: Much has been said about new ho- adults in Porto Rco. The ibox will years, and his announcement fell as ‘ tels, and gradually new hotels have be dispatched by December 1st. Any ^ distinct blow to the members. To donations towards the treasury for' familairity with the work and the this box will be gratefully accepted, enthusiasm which he has put into it Boys and girls of 12 and over will be; been attributed much of the club’s heartily welcomed as members of this. league. (Please turn to Page 8) been building in the Sandhills area, but every one is filled as soon as it is open, and this talk seems to be seri ous enough to foreshadow what may be one of the foremost hotels of the Central South.