Friday, May 8, 1931.
THE PILOT, a I^er With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina
Care Will Reduce Higfh
Infant Mortality Rate
Vaccination of ChildH^n Under
Six Important Preventative
of Diphtheria
By Dr. J. Symington,
Public Health Officer
With the beginning of the month of
May the deaths reported throughout
■;e state of babies under one year of
P_e begin to increase. The months of
rJay, June and July always record a
. niparatively large number of such
,;.-aths in comparison to nearly all of
months of the year.
1930, 5,998 deaths of infants
■iiring their first year occurred in
the j'tate. These figures are based on
provisional reports. Additions may be
rnade which will run the number a
little higher. This compares with 6,112
ceatlis the preceding year, showing,
with the slightly larger population
and the 114 fewer deaths recorded,
that the rate for 1930 will look a lit
tle better. Nearly all the other states
’■lade some progress, and therefore
+he relative standing of North Caro
line as having a high infant death
rat^ remains about the same.
Every agency—public, private, offi-
-^^ial or professional—should be utiliz-
cd at the beginning of the month of
May to endeavor to reduce the num-
^■er of such needless deaths this year.
Here are some of the diseases which
"ause this needless high infant death
•jortality:
Diphtheria which is especially fatal
+0 children under six years of age; it
is very important that all children be
tween the ages of six months and six
years of age be vaccinated against
■phtheria. Measles is more fatal
among children under five years of
age than among older children; a
?ood
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Gradaation Class of Aberdeen Higrh School, 1931
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eSa urst F^aragrapHs
An unusually interesting commen- Fraser, president of Queens-Chicora
cement season in the Pinehurst schools College, made the address which was
began with the Junior-Senior banquet ; greatly enjoyed by his large audience,
at the Pinehurst Country Club on : Following is the class roll: Robert
Wednesday evening, April 22. This Barrett, Ester Mae Campbell, Marjor-
delightful affair was a success in ie Cole, Paul Cole, Joseph H. Frye,
every way and was an auspicious oc- Orene F. Frye, Emma Mae Maples,
casion to the girls and boys in these Ollie M. McDonald, Ralph E. McKen-
classes. zie, Vera Lois Moore, Ada Reeves
The operetta, “Under the Sugar Oglesby, Grady Primm, Donald Quale
Plum Tree,’^ was given Tuesday and Verland Smith,
evening, April 28 and proved a great This exercise brought to a close
success. the most successful year in the his-
The annual declamation and reading tory of the school and the Community
contests were held Thursday evening appreciates the fine, constructive work
with six boys and eight girls compet- done by Mr. W. P. Morton and his ex-
ing for honors. The entire presenta- cellent corps of teachers. Members of
tion was unusually fine and the mar- the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Com-
gin of difference even less than usual munity Church especially ap|preciate
as the decision in the declamation con- the spirit that prompted Mr. Morton
test resulted in a tie between McLeod to so arrange the Commencement pro-
Freeman and Donald Quale. In voting gram as not to have any exercises at
off the tie, the former received first the school on Tuesday evening, giving
place. , way to the night session of the Pres-
In the recitation contest Miss Cath- byterial on that date.
erine Sullivan received first honor and i
Miss Wilma Maples second. ■ Mrs. E. G. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Charles
In the Community Church on Sun- W. Picquet, Mrs. James Quale, Mrs.
day morning the Baccalaureate sermon
was preached by the Rev. John Arch
McMillan, an outstanding minister in
the Baptist church and who is, at the
present time serving the Mills Home i north to spend the summer, was pre
sented an honor guest prize.
Reading from left to right, standing: Katherine Mdvin, Dan Farrell, Elizabeth Ferree, Win
fred Smith, Walter Cook, Marvin Rhyne, Harry DuMeer, Gus Rose, Jack ohnson Alwin Folley,
Georgia Wicker, Mabel Brooks and Margaret Miller. Front row, seated: Frances Wimberly, Betty
Blue, Marie Adcox, Julia Weaver and Laura Giggee. Second row, seated: Edith Wicker, Myrtle ^ ^ ^ ^
Jordan, Mildred Brooks, Josephine Peele, Fay Lampley, Jessie McCaskill, Eula Lucas and fwm this text children Marjorie and Buddy, left
I. C. Sledge and Mrs. W. L. Dunlap
were guests of Mrs. Harry Vetterlein
on Friday afternoon for contract. Mrs.
Quale, who will soon leave for the
Church in Thomasville. Mr. McMillan
chose for his text I Thess. 2:21:
“Prove all Things; Hold Fast That
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Jellison and
Wallace.
Interest of Young People in Section Local Men To Start
and Popularity of Horse Featured
1931 Season Here, Says H.B. Emery
Northern Magazine
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Hotels Enjoyed Good Winter and
precaution would be to have I Much Land Was Sold for De
velopment of Country Estates
YOUTH PLANTS HIS FEET
•hem injected w^ith convalescent par
ents’ blood or serum and thus reduce
^he deaths and even the occurrence
of the disease among children of this
ajre. Summer diarrhea; be careful Bion H. Butler
about the water supply and if from The other day I asked H. B.
an open well have it boiled before giv- Emery at Pinehurst what his gauge
ing to the child. Be careful about of the winter season just finished is.
milk. Have the milk also boiled before j He said, Good. The hotels have had
letting the child drink it or take it ' a good business. More interest has de-
on their food. As flies carry disease ! veloped, especially in horses, and the
protect all food against flies by keep- | bridfe path has pushed its way to the
in^ the food screened and also by hav- front until it is one of the major
ing the doors and windows of the i attractions. The sales of property to
hou?e screened. By attending to those ^ people interested in winter homes in
things we feel that this high death the Sandhills has been quite satisfac-
rate can be greatly decreased. , tory and with the volume of sales is
I a feature that is of vast significance.
R. J. REYNOLDS CO. ELECTS | Younger folks are becoming more in-
CLAY WILLIAMS PRESIDENT dined toward this section. Earlier in
the history of Pinehurst many of the
homemakers were persons who had
been attracted this way as a place
v/herein they might find quiet and re
tirement. But this winter younger
men with their families have been
more prominent than previously,
showing that here is not only a
place to establish a rest-haven for
advancing years, but an exceedingly
S. Clay Williams, former vice-pres
ident of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, w’as elected president of
that company Wednesday at the an
nual meeting of the board of direc
tors.
Bowman Gray, retiring president,
was named chairman of the board of
directors, succeeding W. N. Reynolds
who, at his own request, retired from j attractive spot for all the activities
that position and was elected chair
man of the executive committee.
Vice-presidents elected were James
A. Gray, T. H. Kirk, R. E. Lasater
and C. W. Harris. Other officers were
re-elected.
Mr. Williams, the new president,
has. been with the company since 1917.
He is a native of Mooresville, a grad
uate of Davidson College and also of
’he law
Irginia.
OVER FOUR MILLION
APPLE TREES IN STATE
Your $25,000?
Prize Winners in Big Cigar
ette Contest To Be An
nounced Next Week
Prize winners in the Camel cig
arette $50,000 cash prize contest
wnll be announced next week, say
officials of R. J. Reynolds Tobac
co Company. The contest judges
and their staff, w’ho have been
carefully reading the approxi
mately 1,0(K),000 entries, have com
pleted their work and plans are
now being completed for the ac
tual awarding of the checks.
Thirty-eight prizes, including a
first prize of $25,000, are to be
awarded for the best letters on-
how the new cellophane moisture-
proof wrappers on Camel cigar
ette packages benefit smokers.
Second prize will be $10,t)00, and
third prize $5,000. There will be
five awards of $1,000 each, five
awards if $500 each and 25 awards
of $100 each.
Judges of the contest are Roy
W. Howard, of the Scripps-Howard
League of Newspapers; Charles
Dana Gibson, famous artist and
publisher of Life Magazine, and
Ray Long, Editor of Cosmopolitan.
delivered an exceedingly fine dis- . Sunday for Bethlehem, N. H., where
course, holding the close attention of they will spend the summer.
his large congregation, including the •
girls and boys of all the grades who i Miss Lerona Sally, student at N.
are not particularly interested in ser- j C. C. W., came home for the week-
mons. j end. She had as guests Miss Loula
Tuesday morning at 10:00 o’clock ; Mae Webb, Edenton and Miss Mary
the seventh grade program was giv- ! Alexander, Blowing Rock, who are
en and certificates of promotion also N. C. C. W. students,
awarded the large class of thirty-six. j After spending the winter here,
The graduation of seniors took place |
Wednesday evening at 8:30. John F. ; Mrs. Fred Now left Monday for Pitts-
make its appearance in Bethlehem, N. | Taylor, chairman of the school board | burgh where she will spend the sum-
Robertson and Jellison of Pine
hurst Outlook to Run Week
ly at Bethlehem, Pa,
The White Mountain Outook will
and the development of southern
homes, with all that pertains to
homes for all periods of life.” !
Mr. Emery cited several cases of ously, and not only in population, but
younger men securing substantial facilities and utilities that
holdings in the Sandhills during the niark the bounda’iy between village
winter, some in the villages, some in city. Schools, churches, homes,
the vicinity where acreage has been streets, adornment, mercantile estab-
the purpose, some farther out where lishments, sports, theaters, roads,
country states are projected, but m railroad service, telegraph, telephone,
hool of the University of j nearly all cases th'e energy of young service and everything are com-
blood is indicated, and the dream of With the growth comes that pro
development seems to be a factor, nounced attempt to introduce a more
Mr. Emery ha? been acquainted with comprehensive scheme of landscape
the progress of this section from the ^ work, and in this respect the new-
early days and is an analytical au- comers are strikingly conspicuous,
thority on the trend of affairs. He is I ^h© new projects along the Midland
firm in the belief that broader foun- road are especially prophetic. Burrell
dations have been laid during the White on the place he bought from
past winter for a far greater advance , Barber, Judge Way on his new clear-
There are 4,539 apple trees plant-
in the commercial and home or
chards of North Carolina according
^0 an estimate made by the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture. This esti-
ato is based on reports from 1,113
apple growers and takes in all trees
planted up to January 1, 1928.
“Of the total number listed, 7.2
per cent, or 326,844 trees, are not
■Vf?- three years old,” says H. R. Nis-
w.!n[>’er, extension horticulturist at
tale College. “The largest number of
are from 4 to 33 years old with
’■ii age having 3,676,995 trees or 81
percent of the entire planting while
hf smallest number of 9,079 trees,
.2 percent, are 74 years and older.
VIJFORNIA MAN NEW-
PRESIDENT OF KIWANIS
in the immediate future, for a right
ings. which he is making on his or-
William O. Harris of Los Angeles,
al., was elected president of Ki-
^vanis International at the annual
convention held this week in Miami,
Florida. He succeeds Raymond Cross-
•^an of Omaha, Neb. Tom Pruitt,
governor of th€ Oarolinas district,
told the 4,000 delegates and visitors
of tTie splendid work done by the or
ganization in his states, in which
there are 62 clubs.
Attending the convention from the
Sandhills club were Frank Sham-
burger of Aberdeen, Herbert Vail^pf
Pinehurst and R, L. Hart of Southern
Pines.
general sentiment among the winter chard tract, the Barber improvement
population has been that as the coun- over near the airport where Joe Fuller
try emerges from its financial quiet , jg execising his ingenuity, the ad
it will peg forward in its industry j vances the airport is making, and on
and progress. The wider acquaintance | same basis in all directions, the
that comes each winter to the Sand- ; signs are bearing out the views of
hills brings more people this way all Emery, that the newcomers are
the time, and a proportion of them are exerting an influence of the great-
pleased to the extent that they estab- gg^.
consequence,
lish themselves somewhere in the | Emery says he thinks the sen-
sction. timent that has been kindling this
Territory Widens
Deep River, although not in the 'in the coming fall and winter, and in
sandy belt, has been brought into increasing manner indefinitely into
the region of Sandhills influence, the future.
Another year or two promises to see :
strong hands gathering in holdings HOSPITAL AUXILIARY TO
in that part of the county, while over | MEET NEXT WEDNESDAY
toward Overhills a tie appears to be j The 'regular monthly meeting of
developing that will draw that neigh- i the Pinehurst branch of the Woman^s
borhood and this one closer together. ; Auxiliary of the Moore County Hospi-
Drowning Creek gives signs of flank- . tal will be held at 3 o’clock Wednes-
ing the farther’ east and becoming a day afternoon. May 13th, at the
definite portion of the general com- Community Church in Pinehurst.
munity. Southern Pines and Aberdeen
H., on July 11, and will be published
weekly thereafter for two months.
The new magazine will be edited by
A. H. Robertson, Jr., editor of the
Pinehurst Outlook, printed by the
printer of the Pinehurst Outlook, S.
B. Jellison. It will be similar to the
local resort magazine in its general
design and contents. The entire re
sort region of the White Mountains, j
i
which includes a score of leading re- i
sorts and golf courses, will be cov
ered.
Sports, society, and a guide to the
weekly resort activities of the region
will be featured. The White Mountain^
Outlook is the first publication of its
sort in this field, and its purpose from
the start will be to draw more of the
better class of guests to the New
Hampshire mountain playground, as
well as to entertain those who are
already there. The publishers prom
ise a minimum circulation of two
thousand weekly.
presented the diplomas. Dr. W. H. (mer.
SAMARCAND GIRLS STAGE
RIOT IN CARTHAGE JAIL
Those Samarcand girls, housed at
present in the County jail at Carthage,
staged a riot up there last Thursday
afternoon and it took ,a fire hose to
quiet them. Five of the six youngster^
apparently sick and tired of doing
nothing in their barred room, set fire
to their bunks, broke windows and
raised a rumpus generally until lo
cal and county authorities subdued
them. “Clint” McCaskill was cut in
the proceedings, but not seriously.
Six former inmates of the Samar
cand State school for delinquents are
being held at Carthage for the next
term of Superior Court, where they
must face charges arising from the
burning of two buildings at Samar
cand. They were transferred to Car
thage from the Montgomery County
jail, after they had endeavored to set
fire to that institution. One of the
six was 'not in the excitement at Car
thage, having been operated on for
appendicitis the day before.
APRIL WEATHER
are pushing their frontiers out to
ward the boundary of Fort Bragg all
the >vay from the Ashley Heights
Road to the south side of Little River, i 3 o’clock by the regular pastor, the
Little River is moving forward, from | Rev. R. H. Weaver of Sanford, and
the Hoke county line to the Carthage I at 8 p. m. the Rev.' W. P. Hancock
and Pinehurst road. j will preach. Everybody is cordially in-
The villages are growing prodigi- | vited to come.
April was as freakish as usual,
winter will be felt in a decisive way | rain on the four Saturdays of the
month affecting business, though the
into heaviest rainfall, 1.89 inches came on
Sunday the 19th. In all 6.52 inches
fell, 3.18 inches more than normal
and 3.87 more than last April. The
surplus was 16.34 inches for the first
four months of the year as against
the normal of 14.75 inches. Tempera
tures were also freakish, the month
recording a maximum of 75-2; mini
mum of 43-2 and average of 59-2 as
against an average maximum of 73-6;
minimum 48-9 and average of 61-3,
the maximum being higher than us
ual and the minimum lower, reduc
ing the average monthly temperature
2-1 degrees. The warmest day gave
a temperature of 86, nine degrees less
than the warmest day of last April,
the coldest days of the two months
being the same, 34.
SERVICES AT SUMMER HILL
There will be serrices at the Sum
mer Hill Baptist Church Sunday at
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